Memory Accelerated FlexPod - Cisco...Digital Transformation Modern Applications Demand More Performance Businesses such as financial services use real-time analytics to make fast decisions

Memory Accelerated

FlexPodJohn George – Cisco

Chris Gebhardt - NetApp

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Digital Transformation

Modern Applications Demand More Performance

Businesses such as

financial services

use real-time

analytics to make

fast decisions

Need to accelerate

data gathering and

analysis for enable

more responsive

decisions

All applications

benefit from low-

latency, high-speed

performance

E-Commerce Data Warehouse Real-time analytics Mixed, virtualized

workloads

E-commerce needs

rapid analysis and

action for to

customize user

experiences


Persistent Memory Shows Promise

High Media

Costs

(vs Flash)

Unproven

solution

architecture

Application

rewrite

required

Incomplete

data

protection

Amazing performance but with limitations:


• NetApp AFF A300 / ONTAP 9.5P4

• Cisco Nexus 93180YC-EX Ethernet

switch in NX-OS mode- 7.0(3)I7(6)

• Cisco 3rd Generation Fabric

Interconnect- 6332-16UP running

UCSM 4.0(4b)

• Cisco B200 M5

• Intel Xeon 2nd Generation Platinum

8280 Scalable Processors

• Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory

Modules

• Cisco MDS 9132T FC switch

• 16G Fibre Channel

• NX-OS release 8.3(2)

FlexPod Validated MAX Data Infrastructure

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NetApp AFF A-Series and NetApp FAS Series storage

family

Cisco Nexus and Cisco MDS switch families

Cisco UCSfamily

AFF A-Series AFF 8000 Series FAS 9000 FAS 8200 FAS 8000 Series FAS 2700 Series And more

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Cisco MDS And more

Cisco UCS 6454 Cisco UCS 6300 Series Cisco UCS 6200 Series Cisco UCS 5108 Cisco UCS 2204/2208/2304 Cisco UCS B-Series Cisco UCS C-Series And more

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• Cisco B200 M5 blades w/ 80Gpbs

bandwidth between chassis and FI

• Cisco 6332-16UP Fabric

Interconnect (FI)

• Nexus 93180YC-EX with 40Gbps

Port Channels to FI

• MDS 9148S - 16Gbps Port Channels

to FI

• Redundant 16Gbps FC links to A300

and MDS FC switch

FlexPod Validated MAX Data Infrastructure

Topology


Memory Accelerated FlexPod Validated Infrastructure

Cisco UCS Create Persistent Memory Policy

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Memory Accelerated FlexPod Validated Infrastructure

Cisco UCS Assign Persistent Memory Policy to Service Profile Template



MAX Data

• First SAN solution near memory speed

• Software installed on bare metal server or

virtual machine

• Tiered filesystem comprised of memory &

storage

• Memory Tier – DRAM or Intel® Optane™

DC Persistent Memory (DCPMM)

• Storage Tier - NetApp AFF provides data

protection to Optane™ DC Persistent

Memory (DCPMM)

• Application plug and play

Memory TierStorage Tier

LUN

ONTAP ®

MAX DATA (MAX FS)

Application Server VM

PMEM Datastore

Virtual HW

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3x better VM performance to power your most demanding workloads

2x higher VM densityto reduce infrastructure costs

#1 trusted CI platformto deploy with confidence

Turbo charge VMware AppsTriple VMware performance with half the

resources

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Bare metal Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS or VMware

Guest Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS

Memory Accelerated FlexPod



Power Your Most Demanding Workloads

3X more IOPS

260K IOPS for VMware workload

12X more responsive

<80𝜇𝑠 latency

A better experience

More transactions/sec for key applications

Both bare metal and virtualized apps

Relational and NoSQL Databases

Better user experience for end customers

Hard Disk

Memory Accelerated

<80𝜇𝑆

All Flash

<1ms

<10m𝑠

IOP

S

260K

90K

A300, VMware workload

Latency


Reduce Infrastructure Costs

Control storage costs Tier data to lower cost flash storage

Active data kept in performance tier, writes always accelerated

2x less resources per VM Control CPU and memory costs

Shrink license costs

More VMs per core, fewer licenses

Automatically tier data

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Deploy with Confidence

Plug and Play - no application rewrites Optane DCPMM presented to application as

standard storage

Validated by industry leaders Full stack solution with comprehensive validation

#1 CI Stack by revenue and capacity

Top rated and reviewed CI platform

Integrated enterprise-class data protection Protect critical data on Optane DCPMM with built in

backup and DR

MAX Data


MAX Data Evaluation

NetApp® Memory Accelerated Data (MAX Data) software automatically enables you

to use Intel Optane DC persistent memory just like enterprise storage.

• Leverage your existing FlexPod

investment.

• Evaluate with DRAM, upgrade

to Intel Optane DCPMM

• Evaluate workloads to measure

benefits

• 90-Day Evaluation

https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx

https://www.netapp.com/us/products/data-management-software/max-data.aspx

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Memory Accelerated FlexPod - Cisco...Digital Transformation Modern Applications Demand More Performance Businesses such as financial services use real-time analytics to make fast decisions