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Gain Storage Control with SIOC and Take Performance Control with QoS from SolidFire
1. Gain Storage Control with SIOC and
Take Performance Control with QoS
Sergey Omelaenko | Solutions Architect | 0414 912 437 | sergey.omelaenko@solidfire.com
3. High performance storage systems designed for
large scale infrastructure
Industry Leading
Quality of Service (QoS)
Scale-Out Architecture
• 4 – 100 nodes
• 35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity
• 200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS
Simple all inclusive
pricing model Direct Tier 3 Support
for every customer
Industry-standard hardware
• 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC
4. Proven in the World’s Most Demanding Data Centers
Service Providers Large Enterprise
7. All-flash storage platform
for the next generation data center.
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Complete
System Automation
In-Line Data
Reduction
Self Healing
High Availability
8. Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration
10. Self Healing High Availability
SolidFire Helix™
Cluster wide RAID-less data protection
• No single points of failure
• Automatic self-healing – restores
redundancy after failure
• Maintains all QoS settings regardless of
failure condition
• Non-disruptive hardware and software
upgrades
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11. Self Healing High Availability
SolidFire Helix™
Cluster wide RAID-less data protection
• No single points of failure
• Automatic self-healing – restores
redundancy after failure
• Maintains all QoS settings regardless of
failure condition
• Non-disruptive hardware and software
upgrades
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12. Enterprise class, full featured
Efficiencies built into replication
Data across the wire is automatically de-
duplicated, compressed and thin-provisioned
Eliminates the need for WAN optimizers
Clusters are paired with up to four other
clusters
Volumes are paired 1:1
Clusters can replicate in either direction
Provides for easy fail over and fail back
Real Time Replication
13. Combine SRM with QoS -
only with Solidfire!
Storage Replication Adapter for SRM
14. SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional
performance related storage problems - ESG 2015
Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee
storage performance independent of capacity
Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings
for each application / volume
16. Impact of a Noisy Neighbor
Decreased performance
across multiple apps
Trouble Tickets
Data Migrations
Upset Customers
Root cause analysis
Performance tuning
Load balancing
New hardware procurement
Over Provisioning
Impact to Productivity / Revenue
Storage Platform Redesign
Churn
19. Empower Enterprise IT to deliver greater strategic value to the business
• Native REST-based API
• Deep integration with management & orchestration platforms
• Support development of user-facing storage controls
• Reduce risk of human error and associated with complex administrative tasks
• Enables rapid deployment of applications & services
Complete System Automation
“By automating the resolution of performance issues, QoS can
save end-users nearly a Full Day of productivity” – ESG 2015
“SolidFire Automation helps lower
operating expenses by up to
– ESG 2015
20. • Performance tuning, caching or load balancing
• Tiering, prioritisation or caching to manage
• Short Stroking or over provisioning
• RAID group or spare drive management
• Fire drills to replace failed disks, shelves, or controllers
• Generational upgrades or platform migrations
Complete System Automation
NO MORE:
21. Solution Benefits
• Cloud – De-Duplication typically scales with capacity
• VDI – Enables full-clones saving on compute
• Databases – Enables Test/Dev spinoffs and replica sets
Drives cost below the price of disk
In-line Data Reduction
5 – 10X Data Reduction
Always-on Deduplication, Compression and Thin Provisioning
23. • Real-Time Replication
• Integrated Backup and Restore
• Encryption at Rest
• Snapshots and Clones
• Consistency Group Snapshots
• VLAN tagging / Multi-tenant Networking
• SNMP Monitoring
• VAAI, VASA, VVOLs, SIOC, Horizon View, and vCenter Plug-In
• Simultaneous Multiprotocol Support (FC / iSCSI)
All Inclusive Feature Set
24. Support Criteria SolidFire Competition
Level 3 engineer support on the first call.
No tiered support
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Single case owner from opening to
resolution
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In-house, regional support centers ✔ ✗
Industry standard parts depot support ✔ ✔
Simple architecture resulting in simplified
part replacement and faster support
resolution
✔ ✗
Active Support
World Wide
Direct Tier 3 support to
every customer3
Real-Time telemetric data
and trending analysis
25. ● SolidFire Element OS, delivered as software
● Supported on pre-validated hardware configurations
o Initially, Dell R630 and Cisco UCS
o Additional platforms based on customer demand
● Targeted exclusively at Hyperscale Web & Service Provider customers
● Includes Tier 3, first-call support for all storage issues
o Plus comprehensive support training for customer DC operations
Solidfire Element X Program
SolidFire provides the flexibility and adaptability required to drive large scale VDI environments. SolidFire’s guaranteed performance QoS controlls unpredicable workloads, allowing an administrator to isolate and guarantee performance to each application, eliminating the need to use dedicated storage system for a resource hungry workloads like VDI.
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Comcast
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Internap / hosting / datapipe
BNPP
Lockheed Martin
Better mix of ENT customers
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Would not break the Element OS off of the HW
Use Element as a wrapper / bonding agent that guides the interworkings
Rapid Response
Increase Productivity
Managing Real time (add and subtract)
Decouple of performance and capacity – managing as a resource pool
No end of life, end of sale phenomenon that has plagued this industry for years… don’t have to think about it
Walk though the bullet points and slide build focusing on failure isolation, self healing and the idea that we don’t depreciate system performance as done within traditional disk based systems leveraging RAID.
Be able to discuss and WB Shared Nothing Vs. Shared Disk Architectures, why it is superior and why eBay made the decision to go with SF over other storage systems because of this capability. And why it is a valuable and key requirement for systems at scale
Be able to handle the following questions:
No RAID!? How do you do that, and why?
Why did you implement RAID-less, and why does “shared nothing” matter?
NSPOF
Non-controller based
How do you get faster rebuilds at scale?
What does it mean to Isolate failures
How is Helix data replication different/better than traditional RAID?
How does Helix facilitate non-disruptive outages and upgrades?
Speaker Notes
3Par has it…
Yes they have it
Diff = guarantee, 3Par = best effort
All bets off if disk fails, node fails etc…
To come close you need an 100% SSD platform
Why are you not guaranteeing Latency
It is about getting what you want out of the system = customer sat
Dialing in a satisfaction….
To deliver predictable and guaranteed storage performance, SolidFire leverages a technology called Performance Virtualization which virtualizes performance resources in very much the same manner that capacity is virtualized today.
Patented by SolidFire, this technology allows administrators to manage storage performance separately and independently from storage capacity.
With SolidFire IT managers have unprecedented control over their storage system, and are able to deliver predictable storage performance to thousands of applications within a shared infrastructure.
Because performance and capacity are managed independently, you can create small volumes with extremely high performance, and very large volumes with very low performance. This allows you to provide predictable storage performance to a very broad number of applications.
On the right is a view of how volume level performance is set within the SolidFire storage system
Settings can be established for Min, Max, and Burst ensuring that applications get exactly the performance they require
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Before / after list
Trad mgt tasks
Floor space = key issue
Consolidate 4 racks of Vmax and pull it down to one floor tile
Power and cooling
Executed across entire Data Set
As system grows becomes more efficient, increses overall
Decreasing cost / gb
Doing more with less
Running test dev spin off right next to production
Takes up no space
Include the visual comparison slide and % to tell the floor tile reduction story
Driving cost parity and advantage over disk
What the efficiency values actually are… 5 – 10 efficency
Proven 7.8x in the field
(over 2 million API calls per day are being made and growing
Do not talk about these 5 elements
SolidFire was born out of large scale cloud computing at Rackspace
Solving a specific problem
Informed our target customer
Informed our featured set…
1.4PB. 3M IOPS
Dave Wright history, born from the cloud
Storage array not built by storage people, but built by cloud people.
New storage architectures driving changes in storage demands – reacting to the demands driven my changes in compute
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Not having to choose what applications go on what storage platforms… simplicity
Moving away from Silos and the way that it has been done before
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Hybrid Array Defense – throwing the sex offender into general population
Chris / Fujitzu example