EMC Symmetrix V-Max Symmetrix V-Max Series Purpose-built for the virtual data center ... 10 TB ESX 2 10 TB ESX 1 10 TB 3 TB 4 TB Physical allocation 3 TB Common Storage Pool

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EMC Symmetrix V-Max

Tiered Storage Solutions for the High-End

EMC – Mark Dittrich, Infrastructure Manager

Precise – Chuck DeLouis, Director Product Management


EMC Symmetrix V-Max Series

Purpose-built for the virtual data center

– Combines high-end capabilities with unmatched levels of scale, “ease of use,” and automation to enable virtual environments

Lowest cost of ownership– Reduce costs and deliver higher service

levels via scale-out and tiering

Unprecedented performance and scale

– Start small and scale out resources to provide performance on demand with predictable service levels

Unmatched application availability– Provide 24x 7 operations across all

storage tiers

Secure information infrastructure– Built-in capabilities to meet security and

compliance requirementsThe world’s most trusted storage platform

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Symmetrix V-Max Engine Building Block

Integrates industry standard components with uniqueSymmetrix technologies and capabilities

Host & Disk Ports

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Host & Disk Ports

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Single, flexible

building block

Symmetrix V-Max Engine


New Virtual Matrix Architecture Revolutionizes High-End Storage Capabilities

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A high-availability Symmetrix director pair provides the base configuration

Additional Symmetrix director pairs can be added to scale-out system resources

Virtual Matrix architecture enables CPU, memory, disks, and host ports to be shared across all directors


V-Max is Storage for Private Cloud

Hundreds of V-Max engines

Hundreds of TB of memory

Hundreds of PB of storage

Thousands of ports

Tens of thousands of disk drives

Tens of millions of IOPs

Spanning multiple locations

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One Virtual Matrix…One Single Enterprise Array


Physical/Legacy

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Today’s Data Centers: Mix of Physical and Virtual Technology

To Providing Infrastructure Services

Provide right level of service at the right cost

Manage policies

Nondisruptive operations across all tiers

From Managing Infrastructure Technology

Trade-off between cost and functionality

Manage physical devices

High availability for critical Tier 1 applications

Transition to Virtual Environment

Reduce capital and operational expenditures

Increase flexibility to be more responsive to the business

Improve service levels


Solid Sate Disk Shatters Performance Barriers

30x IOPS improvement

10x faster response time

38% less power per drive

98% less power per IO

No moving parts for high reliability

Unprecedented Application Performance Characteristics

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Identifying Flash and SATA drive targets

Lower Costs and Optimize Service Levels

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Device Activity Reports Identify Target Devices for Flash and SATA Drives


Lower Costs and Optimize Service Levels

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And more aligned with workloads

384 fewer drives

144 Flash drives plus Fibre Channel drives

plus SATA drives versus 528 Fibre Channel

drives

32 percent less power and cooling

And more efficient use of space

17 percent lower storage costs

And reduced maintenance and

software costs


A history of partnership and innovation


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The Economics of Storage Tiering

Storage Type Performance Cost PracticalMix

EFD Very High $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 10%

FC Medium $$$ 30%

SATA Slow $ 60%



Use Case

“How Can I Accelerate Financial Close?”

Identify critical but slow activities, based on historic views

Predict performance impact of storage tiering

Optimize storage for performance and cost

Precise answers…

SATA EFD

BSOPrecise for SAP

VF04: 62.3% faster on EFD


Virtual LUN for Transparent Volume Migrations

Virtual LUN Technology

Executes and monitors migrations across all drive and RAID types

No disruption to data protection, replication, or application availability during migration

Enables further tiered storage consolidation

Optimize back-end layout for performance

Continuous operations during migration

FlashAny RAID Type

FibreChannelAny RAID Type

SATAAny RAID Type

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FAST: (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) Automatically Optimizes Application Performance

FAST elements

Storage type: A shared storage resource with common characteristics

FAST Policies: Policies that manage data placement and movement across storage types

Storage Group: A logical grouping of devices for common management

Storage Type FAST Policies Storage Groups

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200 GB Flash

RAID 5 (3+1)

Type 2

146 GB 15K FC

RAID 1

Type 3

1 TB SATA

RAID 6 (14+2)


Space-Efficient, Easy-to-Manage Capacity

Improves storage utilization

Reduces risk and increases availability

Reduces storage provisioning complexity and overhead

Symmetrix Virtual Provisioning provides space-

efficient, easy-to-manage capacity on demand

New automation to easily grow and reclaim storage

Drain physical devices to shrink storage pools

Automatic pool rebalancing

White-space reclamation

Thick to thin non-disruptive migrations

Virtually provision all tiers and RAID levels

ESX 310 TB

ESX 210 TB

ESX 1 10 TB

3 TB

4 TB

Physicalallocation

3 TB

CommonStorage Pool


Enables the use of the latest drive technologies

Optimizes both performance and cost

Unique EMC capability for high end

FAST for Virtually Provisioned VolumesSub-LUN Optimization

SATA

FibreChannel

Flash

Tiered StorageAutomates movement and placement of data based changing needs


FAST “Small” and “Green”

Reduce capacity and power by more than 30%

Efficiency technologies reduce storage capacity:

Deduplication + Compression + Spin Down

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Future Capability


Archive Cloud Delete

FAST “Gone”

API and application stack integration for policy-based data lifecycle management

Manage more information

with less capacity and fewer resources

Future Capability

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Databases

SAP, ORCLOrder Entry

Closing Books

Best Candidates for FLASH

LUNs

Business Critical

Transactions

Disk Group

Disk Group

Disk Group

FAST Tier

FAST Tier

FAST PolicyStorage Group

Business Critical

FAST

App Optimization

Custom, Packaged, DB

Java, .Net,Middleware

Precise & EMC: Integrated Tiering Process


Use case

“Why can’t we close books on-time?”

Period 5 Period 6 Period 7

Precise answers…

Full visibility across historic closing activity performance

Automated bottom-up analysis of impacted users and location

Automated top-down root cause analysis




Precise & FAST: Push button simplicity


Transaction Response: Before & After

VF04 improved response time by 62% when data migrated to Flash


Optimize Storage Performance for Business

Utilize EFD where & when it matters

Optimize storage cost/performance

Seamless integration

Full tiering automation

Push-button simplicity


Efficient Management of Information Growth

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Fully automated storage tieringOptimize performance and capacity

Virtual Provisioning Allocate capacity on demand

Deduplicate, compress, spin downEfficiency to store more with less

Archive and deletePolicy-based lifecycle management

Federate to the cloud Public and private cloud integration

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EMC Symmetrix V-Max Symmetrix V-Max Series Purpose-built for the virtual data center ... 10 TB ESX 2 10 TB ESX 1 10 TB 3 TB 4 TB Physical allocation 3 TB Common Storage Pool