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Storage Quality of Service with the Pillar Axiom

Adrian Groeneveld

Oracle Storage Topics

• Storage Market & Challenges

• Oracle Vision

• Oracle Storage: Strategy

• Oracle Storage: Product Lines

• Oracle Storage: Pillar Axiom 600

• Oracle Storage: Quality of Service

• Hardware and Software Engineered for Value

Storage Needs Are Growing

Application Requirements Drive Greater Capacity and Performance

2010 New Digital Data

1,200 Exabytes

2020 New Digital Data

35,000 Exabytes

29X Growth

The New Approach to IT

• IT as a Service

• Consolidated virtualised infrastructure

• Pooled server, storage and network resources

• Rapid, on demand allocation to new applications,

business divisions etc.

• Blend of insourced and outsourced IT

Impact on Storage

• Storage is central

• All applications, databases, files require storage

• Storage takes space

• Storage uses power

• Storage impacts performance

• Requires high level of expertise

• Done poorly can be very expensive

• Comes in different flavours

– SAN, NAS, FC, iSCSI etc

Oracle’s VisionHardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together

• Open and standards-based

• Optimized, integrated and extensible

• Better performance, reliability, security

• Shorter deployment times

• Easier to manage and upgrade

• Lower cost of ownership

• Reduced change management risk

• Integrated support

Oracle Storage Strategy

Engineered for Oracle Software / Best of Breed for Mixed Environments

Oracle Software

Runs Fastest and Most

Efficiently on

Oracle Storage

Oracle’s Storage Vision

Engineered for Oracle Software / Best of Breed for Mixed Environments

Seamless Integration

Highest Performance

Most Efficient

Most Secure

− Oracle applications auto-provision and tune Oracle Storage

− Oracle Database dynamically exchanges I/O requirements with Oracle Storage

− Data compression without rehydration from database to disk to tape

− Encryption keys auto-generated from application, database, and storage

− Oracle unified security key management across apps, database, disk and tape

− Database query pre-fetch and off-load with optimized data caching

− Seamless automated backup and recovery across the entire Oracle stack

− End-to-end data transport with zero buffer copies over InfiniBand fabrics

− Single system interface for all statistics, alerts, faults, analytics, provisioning

− Dynamic and deterministic QoS driven by Oracle applications

− Automated, policy-based tiering across flash, disk and tape

Oracle NAS and SAN Storage: Positioning

ZFS Storage Appliances

Best Products for NAS

Environments

PillarAxiom 600

Best Product for SAN

Environments

Strategic NAS and SAN Platforms

• Easy to Use Enterprise Storage: Data and storage services that can be promoted or

demoted “on the fly” to increase or decrease performance

and priority as business and application priorities change.

• Scalable and Elastic: Ideal storage platform for virtual infrastructure projects, IT

data center consolidation projects, Oracle deployments,

and bringing business-critical applications, such as financial

and OLTP, online with the highest levels of performance

without tradeoffs for capacity utilization.

• Industry leading Efficiency:

Utilization, Performance, and Protection – tied to unique

service levels. Consolidate your applications on a single

storage platform.

Pillar Axiom 600 : Oracle‟s Axiom lowers IT costs and speeds up ROI with advanced Quality

of Service, simple data management, and industry leading utilization and scalability.

Introducing the Pillar Axiom 600The Core Value Propositions

Storage Controllers – Slammer

(1 to 4 per Axiom)

• Active-Active SAN or NAS control units

• 48GB Cache

• SAN: 4x 8Gbps FC, 4x 4Gbps FC, 8x 1GbE iSCSI

• NAS: 4x 10GbE, 8x 1GbE

• Redundancy for High Availability

Storage Enclosure – Brick

(1 to 64 per Axiom)

• Dual RAID controllers

• Embedded RAID-5 and RAID-10

• SATA, Fibre Channel and SSD drives

• Built in hot spare

• Hot-swappable drives and RAID Controllers

Management Controller - Pilot

(1 per Axiom)

• Dual control units

• Active/Standby - High Availability Cluster

• (2) Hard drives for Configuration and Log Cache

• (6) 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet

Axiom 600 Terminology

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S7420

Axiom 600 – one model that linearly

scales both capacity and performance

Up to 4 ACTIVE-ACTIVE

SLAMMERS with 64 Bricks

8 Control Units

Up to 832 drives

Up to 1.6PB Capacity

192GB Cache

128 RAID Controllers

SATA, FC, or SSD Storage Classes

SINGLE ACTIVE-ACTIVE

SLAMMER

with ONE BRICK

2 Control Units

13 Drives

12TB Capacity

48GB Cache

All models include…

Patented Quality of Service (QoS) Software

All Protocols: FC, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS

All Management Software: Multi-Axiom Management, Application Profiles, Thin

Provisioning, Storage Domains, Path Management Software

Data Protection and Mobility Software: Replication, Volume Copy, Clones

Engineered integration with Oracle software: EHCC, OEM, ASM, SAM, Oracle VM

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Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System

Axiom ArchitectureCore Data Services

• MaxMan: Single Pane of Glass management

• MaxRep: Fully featured replication

• Copy Services

• Clone-Lun, Clone-FS, Volume Copy, Snap-FS

• Axiom Data Protection Manager

• Thin Provisioning

• Storage Domains

• QoS Cross-Tier data migration

• Axiom Path Manager

• Axiom Secure WORMfs

Managing Multiple Axioms

Axiom

1

Axiom

2

Axiom

3...

Axiom ArchitectureMaxMan: Single Unified Storage Administration

• Axiom Architecture• MaxRep: A Comprehensive Data Protection & Mobility Suite

• Heterogeneous Storage Protection

• One-to-many System Replication

• Many-to-One System Replication

• Multi-hop Replication

• Local or Remote Continuous Protection

• Sparse Application Consistent Retention

• Consistency Groups

• Bandwidth Throttling

• Compression and Encryption

• Application Consistent Recovery

Breaks the traditional FIFO model of storage access.

The Axiom Storage System provides IO Prioritization

and aligns the Business Value of the application to IO Performance levels

Axiom ArchitectureSystem Wide QoS Control Points

Virtual Server

Virtual Machine 2

Virtual Machine 1

Virtual Machine 3

FIFOQueue

Virtual Server

Virtual Machine 2

Virtual Machine 1

Virtual Machine 3

1 3

9

4 5

8

10

7

2 6

Premium Priority Queue

Medium Priority Queue

Low Priority Queue

Premium Medium Low Premium Medium Low

Typical Typical MultiMulti--Tier ArrayTier Array

Axiom ArchitecturePrioritizing the I/O Queue; Breaking the FIFO Model

4 5

8

10

1 3

7 9

2 6

Do

ma

in 2

Do

ma

in 1

Do

ma

in 3

Create up to 64 Physical Domains in a Single Axiom

• Refresh Legacy or Aging Bricks without DisruptionEasily and non-disruptively evacuate old drives

• Isolate Application Data or Workloads to Physical LocationSecure a workload to a domain - No co-mingling of data across media

• Separate User Groups or Departments to Physical LocationSecure department or user type/role data to a domain

• Separate ProtocolsIsolate SAN and NAS workloads – they can be very different.

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Axiom ArchitectureExtending QoS w/ Storage Domains

Axiom ArchitectureDistributed Intelligence: Adding Capacity Adds IOPS

Linear scaling of bandwidth and performance by adding Slammers

Linear scaling of performance and capacity by adding Bricks

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Scale-up and Scale-out Design

Key Differentiator: Scalable and Elastic

The Axiom can be tuned

to support specific

data work loads for:

Each LUN or filesystem

Each point-in-time Clone

Application aggregates

for multiple applications

Maximizes use of Axiom

system resources:

• CPU

• Cache

• Capacity

Application PriorityAbility to promote and

demote application priority

based on SLA policy

IO Priority

(Premium to Archive)CPU + Cache usage

Drive TypeSSD, FC, SATA

Number of RAID

Groups (drives)Stripe Width

RAID Type (5,10)

Access PatternSequential, Random,

Mixed

IO BiasRead, Write, Mixed

QoS exploits the

multiple

capacity/performance

choices by managing

the overall system

resources.

Automated resource

selection to best meet

dynamic application

requirements.

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Key Differentiator: Easy to UseApplication Profiles

Manage Application Priority

Temporarily or Permanently

Permanent QoS Migration = Controls I/O Priority CPU, Cache and Capacity

• Optimize the Slammer CPU/Cache allocation across I/O queues

• Re-provision storage pool to optimize IOP capability.

Temporary QoS Migration = Controls I/O Priority CPU and Cache (does not move data)

• Modify the Slammer CPU/Cache allocation for the I/O queues

Key Differentiator: Easy to UseReset QoS Within the Same Storage Class

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Permanent QoS Migration = Controls I/O Priority, CPU, Cache and Capacity

• Optimize the Slammer CPU/Cache allocation across I/O queues

• Moves data to a new Storage Classes

• Can change RAID mode

Manage Application Priority

Permanently

Reset QoS Across Storage Classes

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Key Differentiator: Easy to Use

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Scale-up and Scale-out Design

Performance: Bandwidth

I/0 Type 2X16 15K FC 1X8 15K FC 2X20 15K FC Type

128K Sequential

Read

2457 (4 GB FC)

2900 (8 GB FC)

1280 (4 GB FC)

1280 (8 FB FC)

2546 (4 GB FC)

2900 (8 GB FC)

MB/Sec

.

128K Sequential

Write

1447 850 1424 MB/Sec

.

• A 4 Slammer system should be approximately 2X faster - More bricks will be needed

• 16 Bricks needed to saturate system• High Throughput QoS profile used

- Stripes across all drives

Oracle Databases

• The Pillar Axiom 600 supports Hybrid Columnar

Compression and can increase performance and reduce

capacity by 10x

• Application Profiles allow you to quickly provision your

database and promote/demote the priority when business

criticality changes.

Oracle VM

• Pillar Axiom 600‟s Storage Connect plug-in allows you to

manage Axioms and the Virtual Server Infrastructure from

the OVM UI

Oracle SAM-QFS

• The Axiom‟s multiple storage classes and QoS settings can

be aligned perfectly with the Storage Archive Manager (SAM)

tiers – All in a single system. Additionally, Storage Domains

can isolate critical or audit sensitive data to dedicated Bricks.

Oracle Enterprise Grid Control

• Provision, monitor, manage and protect the entire Oracle

infrastructure and the Pillar Axiom 600 from a single pane of

glass.

Oracle on Oracle

HCC

Compresses

databases

3-5x (or more) faster and more efficient

than NetApp or EMC in Oracle Database storage

ZFSSA

Axiom

Hybrid Columnar CompressionOnly Works with Oracle‟s Strategic SAN and NAS products

Managing Database Data GrowthDatabase Partitioning with Axiom 600 QoS Delivers Unique Value

5 percent Hot Data50 percent Less Active

ORDERS TABLE (7 years)

SSD

2004-2009 2011

High Performance HDDs

2010

Lowest cost HDDs

45 percent Active Data

Feature Function Benefits

Quality of

Service

Application prioritization and

contention management that

enables multiple applications to

efficiently co-exist on the same

storage system

Applications are assigned I/O

resources according to their

business value and not relegated to

„first come first served‟

Increases overall efficiency and

utilization of the storage system

Modular

Architecture

Ability to dynamically scale

both performance and capacity

by independently adding

Slammers (up to 4) and Bricks

(up to 64)

Maximum performance/utilization

regardless of size of configuration.

Ability to grow and rebalance the

storage pool based on changing

business environments

Distributed

RAID

Achieves superior scalability

and performance even during

drive rebuilds by moving RAID

local to storage enclosures

Ensures predictable performance

scaling with capacity add.

Higher reliability by localizing the

drive rebuild process to the storage

enclosure and reducing RAID

rebuild window

Top Technology Differentiators

• Customer Background Repository for all Medical Records in the UK

and provider of EMIS-WEB: Online patient management system for GP‟s, Health Trusts (Clinics) and Hospitals

• Storage Requirements

7x24 availability: system simply cannot be down, as access to medical records can be a matter of life or death

Performance under any (unpredictable) load conditions. Performance cannot degrade; doctors have zero patience, nor do sick patients

High capacity utilization and a scale up/scale out system

Rapid provisioning and ease of management

• Solution

There are nine Pillar Axiom 600 Storage Systems with 1PB total capacity under management

Case Study: Business ValuesEgton Medical Information Systems (EMIS)

• High Utilization• The Axiom‟s patented Quality of Service (QoS) technology allowed EMIS to provide

application prioritization and contention management to their data increasing

efficiencies within the data center

• EMIS consolidated all tiers of applications (Tier 1 application data and backup data) on

the same storage system – vastly reducing CapEx

• Investment Protection• Axiom‟s modular component architecture enabled EMIS to dynamically scale

performance and capacity without application downtime – ensuring availability of data

at all times

• The comprehensive Data Protection and Data Mobility solution allows EMIS to protect

themselves against unplanned data center outages and recover data from accidental

data loss.

• Ease of Use• Application oriented provisioning and management of all Axioms from single pane

enabled EMIS to reduce OpEx by streamlining data management

• Self-guided maintenance utility

Key Customer Business Values Actual Benefits Realized by a EMIS - Applicable to All Customers

Summary: Key Takeaways

Oracle software runs faster and more efficiently on Oracle storage

SAN = Axiom NAS = ZFSSA

Pillar Axiom 600 is a best-of-breed, new generation storage system with higher flexibility and scalability

QoS Modular Distributed

Pillar Axiom 600 is the obvious choice for consolidation of application data in a multi-tenant

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