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VMAX AFA and XtremIO

Internal Use - Confidential

VMAX All Flash

15.4TB SSD for HighestIOP/TB/Floor Tile Density

LatencyDensity

Simplicity

Engineered

Performance numbers based on 8 V-Bricks, 8k RRH

6+M IOPS, <0.5ms Latency150GB/s Bandwidth

Appliance-Like PackagingSoftware Included

Simple, Simple, SimpleOne Tier, Any Skew, No HDDs

The VMAX All Flash Family

Software Package Highlights

SnapVXCompression

F SOFTWARE

FX SOFTWARE Above +

ViPR SuitePowerPath/VEand more…

SRDFD@REeNAS

1M IOPSRRH-8K

1PBe Capacity64 FC/iSCSI Ports1 to 2 V-Bricks

6.7M IOPSRRH-8K

4PBe Capacity192 FC/iSCSI or 256 FICON Ports1 to 8 V-Bricks

VMAX 950FVMAX 250F

VMAX All Flash 950F/FX configuration details

• V-Bricks in single increments– Redundant dual director engine design– 72 Broadwell CPU cores @ 2.3GHz (+ Turbo)

• Up to 3 I/O module pairs per V-Brick– Each 4x 16Gb FC, 16Gb FICON, or 10Gb iSCSI– eNAS 10Gb IP

• 2 DAEs per V-Brick– 240 x 2.5” flash drives per V-Brick

• RAID 5 (7+1) or RAID 6 (14+2)

VMAX All Flash 250F/FX Configuration Details

• V-Bricks in single increments– Redundant dual director engine design– 48 Broadwell CPU cores @ 2.2GHz

• Up to 4 I/O module pairs per V-Brick– Each 4x 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI

› NO mainframe (FICON) support

– eNAS 10Gb IP

• 2 DAEs per V-Brick (12Gb SAS)– 50 x 2.5” flash drives per V-Brick

• RAID 5 (3+1, 7+1) or RAID 6 (6+2)

VMAX All Flash 250F/FX sample configuration

• Dual V-Brick system– 96 cores, 4TB cache– 80 active drives (+2 spares)– Up to 64 host ports– Up to 4 eNAS Data Movers

• 80 x 7.7TB flash (7+1)– ~500TB writable– ~1PB effective (2:1 compression)– ~1.3PB host visible capacity (thin/allocated)

• <5 kVA, <600 lb. (w/o rack)

VMAX All-Flash Technology Refresh Example800TB usable

VMAX 20K 9 bay system

VMAX All FlashSingle bay system

10X MorePerformance

40% LowerTCO

87% LessEnergy

92% SmallerFootprint

98% Fewer driveReplacements

VMAX All-FlashEnterprise Data Services

VMAX All Flash Enterprise Data ServicesEXTENSIVE

ECOSYSTEMPROVEN

PROTECTIONMANAGEMENTAUTOMATION

MASSIVECONSOLIDATION

ENASBLOCK & FILE

VMWAREVAAI & VVOLS

MICROSOFTHYPER-V & ODX

OFFLOAD

BROADEST OS, SERVER/DB,

CLUSTER SUPPORT

LOCAL REPLICATION

AT SCALE

MULTI-SITEREMOTE

REPLICATION

SRDF/METRO:ACTIVE/ACTIVE

PROTECTPOINTAPP RECOVERY

EMBEDDEDUNISPHERE

UNISPHERE360

200 ARRAYS

APPSYNCAPP & DB

INTEGRATION

VIPRSTORAGE

AUTOMATION

SCALE UPSCALE OUT

64 PORTS64,000 LUNS

PRIORITY I/O CONTROL QOS

CLOUD ARRAYOBJECT / CLOUD

INTEGRATION

VMAX All-Flash Online Code Updates: True NDUUnique in the industry

• < 10 second array OS upgrade

• No component downtime– No rolling outage upgrade– No Failover/Failback processes involved – No switching LUN ownership/trespass required

• Ports never drop light– Servers never see logout/login (no fabric RSCN)

• Online downgrades work the same way

• Historical feature going back many generations

DOWNTIME COST

$1.8 millionper day

$45,000 per hour

$750 per minute

“Thank you VMAX for giving me back my weekends”

“VMAX NDU is the gold standard for upgrades”

“Nobody knows its happening – it just works”

Remote Replication Gold Standard – SRDF

Synchronous AsynchronousMetro

Zero data loss High performance

Scalable consistency

Extended distanceMulti-cycle mode

Remote link resiliency

Active/activeAutomated failover/back

Non-disruptive migrations

2-site, 3-site, and 4-site replication

Simple: <2 minutes to configure

Up to 100km

1

42

3

Unlimited Distance

1

23

Witness

Up to 100km

VMAX Non-disruptive Migration (NDM)Migrations simplified

• Three simple steps:– Create, Cutover, Commit

• Customer usable & free of charge

• Application-level migrations– Large scale migrations

• VMAX VMAX All Flash– Broad host support matrix

• Maintains existing replication– Snapshots & SRDF

Source VMAX (5876)

SRDF technology

MultipathingSW

Host(Single or Cluster)

Metro Distances

SRDF Technology

Target VMAX All Flash

(5977)

TimeFinder SnapVX

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UP TO 256 SNAPS PER SOURCEUP TO 1024

LINKED TARGETS PER SOURCE

INCREASEDAGILITY

USER-DEFINED NAMES/VERSIONSCREATE GROUP

SNAPS IN ONE CLICKAUTOMATIC EXPIRATION

EASEOF USE

TARGET-LESS SNAPSHOTS

REDUCED IMPACT

PRODUCTIONVOLUME

LINKED TARGET

SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT

SNAPSHOT

ProtectPoint Storage-integrated ProtectionDramatically faster backup and recovery

Faster backup & recovery

Eliminateapplication impact

Reduce cost and complexity

20x Faster Backup

10x Faster

Recovery

VMAX All-Flash Storage EfficiencyReduces TCO

I n l i n e c o m p r e s s i o n

S n a p s

T h i n p r o v i s i o n i n g

Z e r o s p a c e r e c l a i m

4:1S t o r a g e E f f i c i e n c yC o m p r e s s i o n

2:1*

* Compression rates vary depending on customer applications and environments. 2:1 compression ratio is expected for typical OLTP workloads.

B l o c k

F i l e

Introducing XtremIO X2

Why XtremIO?

Consistent Performance Inline, all the time data services with no performance impact

App Integrated CopiesRich Application Integration. No Compromise Copy services.

Unmatched EfficiencyMaximize Efficiency with Deduplication and Compression.

Flash Optimized w/ Multi-Dimensional Scalability

New Multi-Dimensional Scalable HW

SW-driven Performance/

Efficiency Improvements

iCDM Use Case Enhancements

New Simple HTML-5 UI

New Metadata-Aware Native Replication

HTML

5M

id -2018

Thin Provisioning

All volumes

thin; optimized for data saving

Deduplication

Inline –block

written once

No post-process

XtremIO Virtual Copies

Super efficient –in-memory meta data

copy

Compression

Inline –compressed blocks only

No post-process

D@RE

Always-on Encryption

with no perf impact

XtremIOData Protection

Single “RAID model” double

parity w/ 89%

usable

XtremIO In-Line, All-The-Time Data Services

XtremIO Scale Out CapabilitiesScale-up X-Brick to

138TBScale-out a cluster

to 8 X-Bricks of

1.1 PBu

Assumes 6:1 data reduction

Active ControllerActive Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

Active ControllerActive Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

Active ControllerActive Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

….........

Up to 5.5PB

of effective capacity

100TBEnvironment

25TB on XtremIO4:1 Reduction

20TB on X25:1 Reduction

Increased Storage Efficiency

25 better data reduction(average)

%

PCIe NV-RAM UnitReplaces BBU in X1

• Used for data and metadata vaulting

• Increased reliability

• Reduced complexity

• Reduced cabling

• Reduce overall cluster RUs

• Leverages super capacitor

• Allows odd X-Brick supportSuper-Cap

XtremIO Virtual Copies Are Busy !XTREMIO VIRTUAL COPIES HANDLE ~40% OF IO WORKLOAD

41% 40%

59% 60%

Total Read IOs Total Write IOsIOs to Snapshots IOs to Volumes

XtremIO Virtual Copies v/s Volumes: IOs from Entire Install Base

XtremIO Metadata-aware native replication

• Uses XtremIO in-memory snapshots

• Wizard based

• Full operational disaster recovery

• RPO as low as 30 seconds

• Immediate RTO

• Up to 1000 recover points

• “Fan-in” configurations

• Supports XtremIO High Performance

• Efficient Metadata-aware Replication

• Efficient replication - Compression aware

Easy Operation Best Protection Superior Performance

XtremIO native replication

75%Data reduction

RPOsas low as

30seconds

=S1S2

DELTA(S1, S2)

222

Primary Site DR Site

Deduplicated and net new blocks transferred

Just pointerupdates for

existing blocks

With up to…

4000Virtual Desktops hosted

per X-Brick

33%Lower $/desktop

25%Faster Boot Times

Up to

40%More VDI Users

80%Better application latency

2XBetter copy operations

25%Better data reduction

2X# of XtremIO Virtual Copies

4Xbetter rack density

ImprovedPerformance

TCO SavingsPer X-Brick

ImprovedEfficiency

1/3rdLower $/GB

Up to

Why XtremIO X2?

NVMe

Emergent Non-volatile Media ImpactAddresses memory/storage latency/capacity gaps

10ns 1us 10us1ns 100ns 100us 1ms 10ms

HDD

Medium NV Media(DRAM)

(ProcessorSRAM)

Memory access semantics

IO block access semantics

Low Speed Storage

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Capacity/Latency Gap Fill

Faster NV Media

$$$$ $$$ $$ $ < $ << $

Emergent Memory Domain

MLCSLC

TLCQLC

High Speed Storage(NAND Flash)

Slower NV Media

NVM Express and I/O Latency

Source: Storage Technologies Group, Intel. Comparisons between memory technologies based on in-market product specifications and internal Intel specifications.

Latency

HDD+ SAS

NAND+ SAS

NAND+ NVMe

Drive Latency Controller Latency(i.e. SAS HBA)

Software LatencySCM+ NVMe

NVMe drives down connection latency

Storage-Class Memory technology offers ~10xlatency reduction versus NAND

NAND technology offers ~100x latency reduction versus HDD

Slide credit: Intel and NVM Express

Dell EMC Storage Technology Evolution

Dell EMC is working closely with NVMe and Storage-Class Memory suppliers and will be a leader in integrating, optimizing, and delivering next generation flash solutions

SCSI + HDD

1988

Industry’s first Intelligent Cached Disk Array combining cache and commodity HDDs

SAS + SLC

2008

Industry’s first Enterprise Array to

support SSD Flash and automated tiering

NVMe + NAND

Next

Leadership for Enterprise Array delivering NVMe-connected SSDs

NVMe + SCM

Future

Leadership for Enterprise Array delivering NVMe-connected SCM

~15->1 ~1.2->1 ~5->1

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