In this session, learn about the growing reliance on Solid State Drives to optimize storage environments, discuss the benefits and risks, and examine best practices.

1. Host Based Flash in Data Centers 1
Why Host Based Flash is critical for SLAs in Mission
Critical Datacenters
Ryan Jancaitis – Product Management
Arun Balakrishnan – Product Marketing
Mike Reynolds – Product Marketing

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3. Agenda
Host Based Flash in Data Centers 3
Market Trends & Analysis on Flash
Symantec focus on In-Server Flash
Summary

4. Processing Power
• Client sprawl strains shared
storage infrastructure
• Concurrent & blended IOs
aggravate the I/O bottleneck
• 8% of all data requires low
latency, high IOPS
• NextGen applications are
designed for low latency
Data Processing Challenges – Data centers need to
evolve
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Substantial Data Growth
• Data is increasingly more
decentralized/compressed/d
eduped
• Tiering data is a focal point
• Big Data analytics require
temporary data moves
• Network latency is no longer
acceptable
Mixed Workloads
• Tier 1 I/O competes with Dev
and Test workloads
• Majority of start-up market is
focused on virtualization
acceleration
• Increase in virtual storage
appliances adoption
Time
Capacity
Time
Performance
CPU
HDD
Time
Demand

5. Flash storage solutions provide significant improvements
over current technologies
Fibre channel SAN
(7 ms)
FAST FASTER FASTEST
SSD Arrays
(0.1 ms)
PCIe Flash
(25 µs)
• Moves active data closer to the
CPU
• Increased server consolidation
• 5-10x increase in per machine
VM density
• Spike-free low latency and
balanced read/write
performance
• Consumes 80% less space and
power than HDD performance
storage
• 15,000 RPM disk provides only
~150 random IOPS
• High access time delays
• Increased failure rates due to
moving parts and wear and
tear.

6. In-server Flash poses new challenges for enterprises
Challenges
• Expensive
• Cache coherency
• Cache hinting
• Shared resources
• Functional coordination
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Cache
Benefits
• High performance
• Improved server utilization
• Virtualize backend storage
Storage array
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7. • Traditional Data
Centers Rally
• Data Efficiency
Management Software
• Support and Services
• Progressive Data
Centers Lead
• Inexpensive Solutions
• PCIe SSD, PC SSD,
and SSD Appliances
Data Center customer deployment trends
44%
56%
2012 SSD Shipments
5.99M Units
Progressive
Traditional
32%
68%
2016 SSD Shipments
18.01M Units
Progressive
Traditional
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1 Source: Gartner Data Center conference, Dec 2012

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9. Business value of in-Server Flash:
Leverage commodity storage in backend
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FC
…
$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$$$$$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
Without in-server Flash --> High Cost, low performance
FC/IB
…
$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
Symantec Stack
Tier 2/3
High
Density
With software + Server Flash + Cheap SAN Storage

10. Oracle 11gR2
1.4 TB Data Files
2000 Warehouses
100 Users
Management software + Best-in-class hardware:
Managed Performance
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512GB
80 Cores
Data Volumes: 8k
3-way Stripe
3700 Series
800 GB
Redo Logs: 4k
Storage Foundation
4.5x SAN performance
20% SAN Cost*
* Pro-rated cost for EMC VMAX 20K using 1/5th of Available Capacity
But…
What about redundancy?
What about high availability?
What happens if hardware fails?

11. Data Volume: 8k
3-Way
Stripe/Mirror
Redo Logs: 4k
Mirrored
Management software + Best-in-class hardware:
Managed Performance
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IB
Cluster File System
Oracle 11gR2
1.4 TB Data Files
2000 Warehouses
100 Users
With…
Full Data Redundancy
Fast-failover capabilities
Disaster Recovery
App/Server Administrator Control
4x SAN performance
22% SAN Cost*
* Pro-rated cost for EMC VMAX 20K using 1/5th of Available Capacity

12. Oracle Exadata
Large financial replaces Exadata with Cluster File System
and Violin Memory array
Veritas Cluster File System and Violin V3000
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• Storage Saturation
• No flexibility
• Oracle Exadata acquisition
costs
• HA/DR overhead
• Expensive snapshots
• Not optimized for Online
transaction processing (OLTP)
• 2x performance improvement
• 66% cost reduction
• No SSD saturation
• No HA/DR overhead
• Space-optimized, cost-
effective snapshots

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14. Come see us at vmworld in San Francisco!
Symantec Booth #1537
Monday 26 August
• 1.00-2.00 - VSVC5675 - Scaling the Cloud Using Vmware
• 3.30-4.30 - OPT5697 - Symantec’s Real-World Experience with a
VMware Software-Defined Data Center
Wednesday 28 August
• 3.30-4.30 - BCO5851 - VMware Backups That Work

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