Software Defined Agility for IBM FlashSystem V9000

Software Defined AgilityCatalogic ECX and IBM FlashSystem V9000

Philip Clark, Sr. Offering Manager, IBM FlashSystemElias Pinto, Sales Engineer, Catalogic SoftwarePeter Eicher, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Catalogic Software

Agenda

• IBM FlashSystem V9000• About Catalogic ECX• Catalogic ECX Use Cases• Live Demonstration• Questions

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| 3IBM FlashSystem © 2016 IBM Corporation

• Leverage IBM FlashCore technology to combine high performance, ultra-low latency, cost-efficiency and extreme reliability with a rich set of storage features found in Tier 1 storage solutions

• Optimize superior data economics by accelerating time to value through agile, easy-to-implement, fully integrated solution architectures

• Deliver a feature-rich, software-defined storage layer with virtualization to extend functionality to all managed storage

• Enable dynamic data migration to manage and scale storage capacity without disrupting applications

• Increase effective capacity of Flash storage systems up to five times, helping to lower costs, floor-space requirements, power and cooling with IBM Real-time Compression

• Easily integrate with VMware, OpenStack and Microsoft platforms

Flash optimized array for virtualizing

the tiered data center

IBM FlashSystem V9000: All-flash arrays offering versatile performance, agile integration and enduring economics

Versatile Performance for mixed workloads

IBM FlashSystem V9000


FlashSystem V9000 options for deployment

• Great for database and critical applications

• Accelerate, migrate, tier, clone, snapshot, replicate, compress existing storage

• Up to 630K IOPS, 200µs• Up to 57TB usable, 285TB

Effective

Small Data Center/App Accelerator

• Great for multiple mixed workloads that drive huge I/O

• Replacement for tier 1 disk• Scale out for more all flash

capacity, IOPS and bandwidth• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs• Up to 456TB usable, 2.2PB

Effective

Mixed Workload Accelerator

• Great for data centers with heterogeneous storage

• Extends core feature set to other storage arrays

• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs• Up to 32PB virtualized by a

single FlashSystem V9000

Virtualized Data Center


Flexible volumes

Generic – fully allocatedThin-Provision – space consumed on-demandMirror – two copies of volume

Migrate between pools or change volume typePreferred read mirror between flash and legacy storage (all reads from flash)

Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thinCompressed – volumes utilizing Real-time Compression


Mixed workload consolidation

ERP / SCM

Transaction

Big Data

Virtualization

Cloud

Qualities needed for mixed workloads: • Capacity scaling• Performance scaling• Automatic tiering• Quality of service• Strong mixed R/W

performance


Fully integrated system management

• Improve workforce productivity

• Simplify management

• Single name space


Real-time Compression

Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismic VirtualServersJPEG/ZIP

80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression Rate

TraditionalStorage

Average of65% Compression

Real-time Compression EfficientHalf the Data Storage


Full set of disaster recovery tools

Metro Mirror – Synchronous– Updates are committed to both sites

before acknowledged to server– Supported up to 300 km, adds

additional latency to hosts

Global Mirror – Asynchronous– Server update acknowledged in

parallel to update to remote site– Supported up to 80ms of round-trip

latency, distance dependent upon network quality

FlashCopy Options• Full or “thick”• Thin nocopy• Incremental• Cascading• Multi-target• Consistency groups• Reverse

Snapshot – Instant space-efficient, thin provisioned copy, capture state of volume before a change

Clone – Creates a complete one-time replica of source, testing data or attaching to other servers

Backup – Complete point in time replica that can be incrementally refreshed


7 year 24x7 Support:Up to 7 years support available with optional price protection and flash media retention offerings

Enterprise Class Services

Data Reduction:Flexible – up to 5:1 storage efficiency savings, based on Comprestimator results

Estimate-free – sight unseen 2:1 guarantee for rapid workload deployment

Endurance:MicroLatency modules will be covered for read/write endurance while you are under warranty or maintenance

Peace of Mind:No Charge, complimentary IBMservices for Tier 1 opportunities

IBM FlashCore™ Forever program: New controllers included with 3 year maintenance extension

Performance:IBM MicroLatency™ performance

IBM FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

Catalogic ECX Copy Data Management

All-Flash vs. Hard Disk Drives• Because of performance constraints, HDD systems require full clones, to

move data to other spindles. Flash does not have this limitation, so one copy does the work of many HDD copies.

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Hard Disk LUN

Snapshot Workload

Workload

Full Clone

Workload

Workload

Workload

Full Clone

Workload

Workload

Workload

All-Flash LUN

SnapshotWorkload

Workload

Workload

Workload

Workload

Workload

Workload

Workload

Two Required Storage Functions

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Making Copies Using Copies• Snapshots• Replicas

• Local recovery• Remote recovery• Disaster Recovery

• Test/Dev• Cloud

• Reporting, analytics• DevOps

• Forensics• And so on…

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But successfully managing multiple copies requires automation, governance, insight and control…

…which is just what Catalogic ECX provides.

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What Catalogic ECX Does…• Creates copies• Tracks copies• Lets you use copies• Refreshes copies• Transitions copies, e.g. test to production• Deletes copies when they aren’t needed

One ECX user protected 8 TB of data in 11 seconds. “Copies at no cost, no impact and in no time.”

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How Catalogic ECX Works…• Leverages – but does not replace – array copy

processes (snaps, replication)

• Talks directly to storage array and hypervisor

• Catalogs all copies

• Uses template-based workflow model

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Catalogic ECX Push-Button Recovery

Recovers LUNS/Volumes Recovers SystemsMap Snapshot(s) to System(s)

Automated or Ad Hoc

IT controlled or Self-service

VM

Spin up full systems

Automated or Ad Hoc

IT controlled or Self-service

Let’s see how that works in the real world…

ECX Use Case: Disaster Recovery without Complexity

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Automates Replication

• Replication schedules• Data retention

VM VM

LUNs, VMs LUNs, VMs

DR SiteData Center

Array Replication

Automates Recovery

VM

LUNs, VMs

DR Site

PushButton

• Recover systems in sequence• Uses latest good copyVM-1 VM-2 VM-3

AutomatesTesting and Refresh

VM-1 VM-2 VM-3• Recover systems in sequence• Recover in fenced-off network

VM

LUNs, VMs

DR Site

PushButton

Schedule

ECX Use Case: DevOps and Test/Dev

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Access rules

Test/Dev• Storage-centric• Self-service via ECX GUI• Fully automated

DevOps• API-centric• Self-service via API calls• Fully automated

Copies of Production Data and/or VMs

Data Center,Remote Site or Cloud

VM VM VM

• On request• Scheduled

Provision access to data or systems in minutesOne user reduced Test/Dev infrastructure management from 60 hours a

month to 3 hours, a 95% productivity gain

DevOpsAutomation Tools

ECX Use Case: User Self-Service

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Storage Team

• Sets policies• Defines access• Creates templates

SLA Templates• Gold• Silver• Bronze Access

rules

“We can access data on our own now!”

“Our team is more productive than ever!”

“No more reporting on stale data!”

Dev team

Business team

Reporting team

“IT organizations are experiencing a cultural revolution… They want to empower users with self-service and enable them to make value-based consumption decisions.”-- VMware report, The State of IT Transformation

ECX Use Case: Leverage Cloud Compute

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Make use of Cloud compute on enterprise dataAutomatically spin-up and spin-down workloads

Limitless Cloud Compute

Equinix Storage Hosting

System of Record Data

Data Center Native Array

Replication

Catalogic ECX Orchestration & Automation

SoftLayer Cloud

Cloud Use Cases

Test/DevDevOps

Automated DRReportingAnalytics

Live Demonstration

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Catalogic Software Resources and Contacts

Key Resources• For enablement and client materials:

Data.CatalogicSoftware.com/IBM• To reach out directly please email:

[email protected]

Private Demos on Request• [email protected]

Webinar Schedule• catalogicsoftware.com/en/about/webinars/

IBM Whitepaper: Catalogic ECX and IBM FlashSystem V9000: Software-defined Agility

IBM Redbook: IT Modernization using Catalogic ECX Copy Data Management and IBM Spectrum Storage

These and other resources: Data.CatalogicSoftware.com/IBM

IDC Report: Solving the Copy Data Problem with In-Place Copy Data Management: IBM Focus

Questions

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Software Defined Agility for IBM FlashSystem V9000