EMEA TechTalk – The NetApp Flash Optimized Portfolio

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EMEA TechTalk

The NetApp Flash Optimized Storage Portfolio

October 7th, 2014

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Speakers Panel

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Anthony Tyrell Peter Mason Andrew Ashton


Flash Leadership

Hybrid Arrays

All Flash Arrays

EF-Series

All-Flash FAS

Looking Ahead - FlashRay

NetApp Flash Leadership Metrics through July 2014


hybrid systems shipped all-flash systems shipped flash shipped in last two quarters

111 PB 200 ~ flash-related patents flash shipped

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Impact of Flash


Flash can:

• Deliver higher application performance

• Reduce costs

• Enable green IT

• There is no one-size-fits-all flash solution

Enterprise customers require hybrid and all-flash

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All Flash Hard Drives

with Flash Acceleration

Traditional Hard Drives

The Right Solution Balances Performance and Capacity

Perf

orm

ance

Capacity

Best $/GB

Best mix of $/GB and $/IOPS

Best $/IOPS


Hybrid storage: leverages flash media to provide good average latency

Latency Also Plays a Key Role

All-flash storage: utilizes flash media to provide consistent, predictable low latency


All-flash storage eliminates this bump

average

everything under 1ms

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Flash Storage Media Trends vs. SATA


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SLC

eMLC

cMLC

TLC

SATA-HDD

* SATA is the baseline YOU ARE HERE

Cheapest Flash (TLC) vs. HDDs – Bye Bye SAS


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10,00

100,00

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

TLC

SAS-HDD

SATA

* SATA is the baseline YOU ARE HERE

Flash-Accelerated Storage

Hybrid Array

Best mix of $/IOPS and $/GB

Speed of flash with capacity of disk

Perfect fit for most workloads


Flash Only

Flash + HDD

The new normal

All-Flash Arrays

Predictable ultralow latency

Extreme IOPS and throughput

Ideal for performance-driven apps

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Why Customers Achieve Success with NetApp

Consistent, sustained low-latency performance plus

Proven technology with enterprise RAS

Industry-leading functionality

Seamless application integration

Replication between all-flash and hybrid systems

Warranty and global enterprise support

Comprehensive portfolio provides options

SAN and NAS flash solutions


Polling Question # 1

What typical workloads would you most likely consider for hosting on on an All Flash Array ?

Database OLTP

Large Scale VDI

Web Enablement

Big Data Applications

General Purpose


Hybrid Arrays


Data should be

fast when hot

and low cost

when it’s cold

Objective

Intelligently place “hot” data on

the highest performing media

Primary Storage Pool

All data: hot and cold

Data Placement Challenge


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Virtual Storage Tiering: Hybrid Storage for Data ONTAP

Data driven Real time Self managing

Virtual Storage Tier Intelligently place “hot” data on the

highest performing media in real time

HDD Storage

Array Flash Efficient use of flash

Simple to install

Self managing

Automatic promotion of hot data

Real-time responsiveness


Virtual Storage Tier Offerings


PCIe flash card

Acts as a cache

for all data

Improves response time

for repeat random reads

Simple to use: no administration needed

Not available for low-end controllers

Flash Cache

Hybrid aggregate

of HDDs plus SSDs

SSDs act as a

cache for all volumes

provisioned on aggregate

Accelerates random reads and writes

Stays ‘hot’ in the event of a controller

failover

Available for any FAS controller

Flash Pool

Use Automated Workload Analyzer (AWA) to size the correct amount of cache

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Benefits of Hybrid Array – the new ‘normal’

Cost/efficiency impact

34% lower cost per TB

40% lower cost per IOPS

40% less power

Flexibility impact

28% more IOPS

17% more storage capacity

18% improvement in average response time

Before

144TB system

240 x 600GB 10k rpm disks

After

168TB system

168 x 1TB 7200 rpm disks

1TB Flash Cache™


All-Flash Arrays


Primary Drivers for All-Flash Arrays

Application Acceleration

Business-critical app looking for consistent, predictable, submillisecond responsiveness

I/O Efficiency

Eliminate overprovisioning through IOPS density and dramatically reduce costs

I/O Offload

Free core storage of I/O-intensive workloads that consume valuable shared resources


Leveraging All Flash Where It Counts

Latency-sensitive workloads

Transactional workloads (OLTP)

Analytics (OLAP)

Decision-making systems

Reservation/customer service systems

Virtual desktop infrastructure

Web services

Technical computing


Two Distinct Requirements in All-Flash Segment

Balance performance and features

Robust data management with

built-in efficiencies, protection

Larger footprint, higher power

Designed to scale out

Focus on low-latency performance

Lightweight data management with

application integration (plug-ins)

Small footprint, low power usage

Designed to scale up

Leverages application-level

data management

Delivers array-based

data management

Optimized for Price/Performance Optimized for Rich Functionality


NetApp All-Flash Storage Portfolio Enterprise-Class Storage for Performance-Driven Applications


Performance plus robust management,

built-in efficiencies, integrated data

protection, scale-out, and NDO

Optimized for raw performance, price/performance, extreme

low latency, and IOPS density

EF-Series All-Flash FAS

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Maximize Application ROI with Consistent, Low-Latency, High-Speed Data Access

EF-Series: Extreme Performance, Density, and Reliability

Extreme performance for latency-sensitive data

Response times only possible with all flash

Equally adept at IOPS and bandwidth

Expand to 120 SSDs, 192TB raw per system

IOPS density eliminates overprovisioning

Fully redundant, full-performance 2U system

The performance of over 1,000 HDDs

The right choice for peace of mind

Proven in enterprise database workloads

Delivers >99.9999% uptime

450,000 sustained IOPS

Sub-1ms latency

12GB/s bandwidth


SANtricity Software

EF-Series: Simplified Array Management

Highly configurable to optimize performance

Data is always available, protected, secure

Online configuration, expansion, maintenance

Advanced monitoring and diagnostic features

Fully integrated Snapshot™ and remote mirroring

Intuitive GUI simplifies administration

Seamless application integration

Plug-ins for VMware®, Oracle®, Microsoft®


EF-Series Customer Successes


OLTP Database

• 20x improvement in latency

• 75% reduction in rack space

Real-Estate Analytics

• Quadrupled the number of daily valuation reports

to customers

SQL Analytics of Oil Rig Data

• Reduced ingest rate from 1 minute to 1 second,

providing real-time visibility to drilling data

Oracle Database

• 12x improvement in average response times

• Processing 10 million data records in half the time

Engineering Application

• 2.5x improvement in end of day reporting

SQL Server Database Queries

• 10–20x reduction in latency during peak workloads

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What concerns you the most about All Flash Array technology ?

Interoperability with the rest of your environment

High cost

Limited features/capability

Life expectancy of the SSD hardware

Immature technology


All-Flash FAS


All-Flash FAS: Unmatched Flexibility


Standalone

Feature-rich storage for application-specific deployments

Scale out up to 4 million IOPS and 5PB of capacity

Scale Out

Transparently balance workloads between all-flash and hybrid

nodes as requirements change

Cluster Node

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Any FAS can be All-Flash FAS (AFF)

To be an all-flash FAS, you need:

FAS

SSD shelves

No HDDs for data

FAS8040 FAS8020 FAS8060

FAS/V6220

FAS/V3220 FAS/V3250 FAS2240 FAS2220

FAS/V6250 FAS/V6290

FAS8080 EX FAS2500


Flexible Scaling: VDI at High Performance & Consistent Low Latency with AFF

* 20 IOPS per user; no performance degradation upon storage node failover

IOPS

(80% writes; avg.

12K block size

~1ms latency)

FAS8020

FAS8040

FAS8060

FAS8080

1,300 users

1,700 users

3,000 users

4,000 users

54000

IOPS

68000

IOPS

120000

IOPS

160000

IOPS


Flexibility – AFF Deployment Flexibility

Hybrid AFF

Non-Disruptive Operations

Workload Data Mobility

AFF Cluster AFF

Non-Disruptive Operations

Grow with your business needs

Manage your entire FAS estate in the same way – same tools, same features for AFF and Hybrid


All-Flash FAS Customer Successes

Clinical service provider

• Faster EHR leads to better patient care and

enables them to see more patients per day

Real-time reservation system

• Maximizing occupancy without overbooking

– Improving revenues

SQL Server data warehouse

• Reduced ingest times without sacrificing data

management functionality: clones, DR copy

VDI power users

• Combines all-flash performance with robust data

management and nondisruptive DR testing


UK High Street Banking Institution

• Primary website and customer portal requiring

consistent low-latency access

SAP business warehouse

• Deployed all-flash FAS as performance node

in larger Data ONTAP® cluster

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NetApp SSD Technology

Meets our customers’ endurance and performance expectations

Unconditional warranty up to 5 years

3 years standard, upgradable to 5

Life expectancy well over 5 years

Integrated flash technologies

Wear leveling, garbage collection, etc.

Designed to eliminate “write cliff”

Lifetime

(Years)

64kb_seq_wr_qd16 7.75

4kb_rnd_7030_qd16 8.57

8kb_rnd_6030_qd16 9.97



For your environment today, which areas of Flash technology interest you the most ?

Server captive Flash for application performance acceleration

Hybrid Flash and HDD balanced performance and capacity

All-Flash for consistent acceleration of specific, niche workloads

All-Flash for consistent acceleration of all workloads


Looking Ahead


Award Winning All-Flash Portfolio


EF-Series All-Flash FAS

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Scale-out architecture for

changing application needs

FlashRay Storage with Mars OS Designed from Ground Up to Maximize Benefits of Flash (Current and Future)


Reduced footprint through

no-compromise inline efficiencies

Faster applications through

write-optimized, low-latency performance

Performance

Efficiency

Minimize disruptions with enterprise

RAS and integration with Data ONTAP®

Enterprise

class

Scale

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Phase 1 (not GA) characteristics, demonstrations available at main NetApp locations

FlashRay – Adaptable Low-Latency Performance

250,000 IOPS @ 0.5 ms on 8K I/O

8GB/s on large-block I/O

Key features:

Variable length block layout is equally adept at different I/O sizes

Flash-optimize I/O stack keeps latency ultralow

Inline dedupe, compression

Easy set-up, GUI with real-time performance and latency


Summary


Flash Strategy


The “new normal”

Continue to optimize our

tiering approach to scale

and efficiently utilize flash

Expect to see significantly

higher amounts of virtual

storage tier supported

Hybrid All Flash

Continue developing our core

platforms to further drive the

extreme performance

capabilities of flash

Develop a new architecture

to address future variants

of solid state media and

new/emerging applications

Leverage advances in

technology of flash foundries

Enables us to accelerate time

to market of new technology

Solid State Media

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Thank You


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