XtremIO X2: The Journey Continues… · • Currently utilizing XtremIO Snapshots, RecoverPoint Replication, and D@RE in addition to the built in, ... – AIX running on native physical

XtremIO X2: The Journey Continues…Ronny Vatelmacher, Product ManagerArindam Paul, Product Marketing

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Competitive AFA’s XtremIO


Architecture matters

Use Flash

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IT’S ABOUT THE RIGHT ARCHITECTURE

IT UNLOCKS UNIQUE BUSINESS VALUE

Get SmartGo Faster Business Agility

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RAM

Unique characteristics of XtremIO architecture

Scale-Out Metadata

Content-Aware Metadata

100% In-Memory

Inline Data Services

DATA

Solving the IO Dilemma


Most IOs are small < 8KB

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READ WRITE

XtremIO IO block size histogram Entire Install Base


But big block IOs drive the most data transfer

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XtremIO data transfer size histogram Entire Install Base


Brute force leads to forced tradeoff

Small block IOs: Latency sensitive Large block copy IOs:

Bandwidth hungry


CONVENTIONAL VM Cloning With VAAI XCOPY

XCOPY Command

Storage Array

VM VM

Array offloads the hostStill brute force copy on the arrayMassive disc IO and performance hog

APP OS

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VMware

seconds hours FLASH


XtremIO efficient VM Cloning with in-memory metadataCloning a VM (or 1000s) With XtremIO in-memory metadata• Instant VM copies• Metadata only operation; no storage IOs• No capacity or performance overhead

XCOPY Command

RAM

FLASH

In-Memory Metadata

Unique Compressed Data on Flash

APP OS

APP OS

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VMware

seconds hours


Elegantly solved

Bandwidth for Large Block IOs Latency for Small Block IOs

✔ Solved by elegant metadata design ✔

Controllers freed up and dedicated to accelerating small block IOs

Managing Copies…


Traditional REDIRECT-ON-WRITE Snapshots

Production Snapshot

METADATA

DATA ON DISK

Full Metadata Copy


Let’s see how it works

Production XVC

METADATA

DATA ON DISK

Production MD

A Virtual Copy is createdIT ONLY INVOLVES ALLOCATION OF AN EMPTY CONTAINER

Shared MD Snapshot MD


Production XVC

METADATA

DATA ON DISK

Production MD

Metadata management is efficientALLOWING FOR A LARGE NUMBER OF CONCURRENT VIRTUAL COPIES



Production XVC

METADATA

DATA ON DISK

Production MD

Metadata management is efficientNO DUPLICATION OF METADATA


Modify Data B @ Block 1


Production XVC

METADATA

DATA ON DISK

Production MD

Writing to copies is same as writing to physical DB


Add Data B @ Block 5


Production XVC

METADATA

DATA ON DISK

Production MD Shared MD

XVC COPIES ON XTREMIOINSTANT, EFFICIENT, ELEGANT


RESULTS

RESULT: ACCELERATED DEVELOPMENT

Transformation of IT workflow

Confidence in backups leveraging snap on snap

16xLandscape space reduction via snapshot savings and compression

100%All non-prod SAP Landscapes run on XtremIO copies of SAP PROD (excluding Dev)

75%Reduced time in provisioning a landscape (Long hand, non-automated, monthly system copies – QA, SBX) ½ Day vs. 2 Days

75% 100%Faster self-service and fully automatic copies of production (now 2 copies!)

Introducing X2The next step of the journey


Take the next step in the journey we envisioned when creating X1

Inherit the best of X1 and make everything better

Turn actionable insights from our install base into customer value

X2 Design Goals


X2 :Flash optimized AFA with multi-dimensional scalability

New Multi-Dimensional Scalable HW

Software-driven Performance/

Efficiency Improvements

iCDM Use Case Enhancements

New Simple HTML-5 UI

New Metadata-Aware Native Replication

HTML

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New Multi-dimensional Scaling Hardware Platform


Multi-dimensional Scaling Hardware Platform

Active ControllerActive Controller

SSDFLASH

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SSDFLASH

Scale-up X-Brick to

138TB


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Scale-out a cluster to 8 X-Bricks of

1.1 PB

Up to 5.5PB of effective capacity

Assumes 6:1 data reduction


X2 improvements

X1 X2 improves CommentsScaling RESOLVED Scale up & Scale out & growth granularity

BBU REMOVED BBUs replaced with NVRAM

Cabling RESOLVED Less cables

Density RESOLVED Up to 100TB/U effective

16G RESOLVED Natively supported on X2

Cost RESOLVED Up to 1/3 $/GB effective

Software-Driven Performance and Efficiency Improvements


Extreme Performance

2X Faster VM Copy80% Better

responsetimes

All withoutcompromising efficiency,

only possible with elegant software design


X2: more copies, faster, elegantlyMetadata-awareness enables amazing performance => 5x (!) of physical host connectivity

80GB/s bandwidth from a dual X-Brick!

NEW 2X improved in X2

BW

80.55GB/S


VDI: 2,500 Knowledge Workers

LOGINVSI – Industry standard benchmark utility

• XtremIO X2 vs. XtremIO X1 comparison under same VDI workload

• 2,500 Knowledge Workers (concurrent)

• Login Storm & Steady State for 45 minutes

X2: Latency: ~ 0.21ms

X1: Latency: ~ 1ms

80%Better Latency


100TBEnvironment

25TB on X14:1 Reduction

20TB on X25:1 Reduction

Unmatched Storage Efficiency

25better data reduction(average)

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Xpanded iCDM Capabilities


iCDM IS POPULAR : 1.5M XtremIO Virtual Copies at work A majority of XtremIO Virtual Copies are writeable!

54%46%Read-only copies used for protection, gold master etc.

Writeable copies used for test/dev

Source: XtremIO XVC type in Entire Install Base


XtremIO Virtual Copies are busy !XtremIO Virtual Copies handle ~40% of IO workload

41% 40%

59% 60%

Total Read IOs Total Write IOs

IOs to XVC IOs to Volumes

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


2Xthe number of

XtremIO Virtual Copies

“Metadata-aware” Native Replication


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

FUTURE

Replication is…

also a copy problem!


Brute force leads to forced tradeoff


The XtremIO difference: elegance, not brute force

WAN or LAN

XtremIO X2: Primary

A B C D

New Block written & deduped

XtremIO X2: DR

A B C D

Only finger prints replicated.

FUTURE


Replication savings = DRR=4:1 (75%)

WAN or LAN

XtremIO X2: Primary

A B C D

New Block written & deduped

Only finger prints replicated.

XtremIO X2: DR

A B C D

4x faster !

• Only unique changes are replicated– Data is deduplicated at, source, destination & the WAN

• Arrays at both end must transmit and receive only deduplicated data

• WAN bandwidth must be sized to account for only unique data

• No need to deploy any WAN accelerators

FUTURE


Global dedupe = Global savings Site 1

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Target Site 5

Up to99% WAN Savings !

Up to38% Target

Capacity Savings !

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XtremIO replication v/s traditional replication

Metadata aware replication versus traditional replication

XtremIO Traditional

Global dedupe: Up to 38% less storage required at DR site ✔ ✗

Up to 3/4th less data to replicate ✔ ✗

Up to 4x quicker replication ✔ ✗

Reduced WAN infrastructure costs ✔ ✗

XtremIO Replication meets your requirements for both Cost AND RPO/RTO Mandate

FUTURE


Global dedupe = Global Savings

Many to one replication Global storage savings (DR site)

4:1 Up to 38%

8:1 Up to 44%

16:1 Up to 47%

FUTURE


Business benefits: Free the WAN

Reuse the freed up WAN bandwidth for other workloads e.g. protect/replicate incrementally more workloads with the same WAN costs

OR

Reduce WAN costs while still replicating at the same level of protection

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-75% to -99% WAN Bandwidth

FUTURE


SLA Management with QoS

Burst

QoS

Normal• Max IOPS or BW for every volume or

consistency group• Protect workloads based on

importance eg critical applications and multi tenant environments

• Burst mode gracefully handle applications that temporarily exceeds max IOPS

FUTURE


X2: Better iCDM with QoSManage workloads based on the importance

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Reporting

Exchange

Guaranteed service for production & important workloads

Noisy Neighbor

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Tools to control and guarantee performance in a multi-tenant environment1

Service Provider

FUTURE

1Future release

New Simple HTML-5 UI


Simple, Smart Management

Access• No more Java• Faster and better user

experience

Simple and intuitive UI• Easy drill-down & navigation• Intelligent reports• 1-2-3 Provisioning


Create Volumes

Create new Initiator Group Map

Map to existing Initiator Group

Add to new Consistency

Group

Map to new Initiator Group


Create a protection scheduler

Create Volumes

Create new Initiator Group


Add to new Consistency

Group

Flexible provisioning flowsNext step suggestions

Create Volumes

All X2 goodness…


Metadata-aware architecture extends SSD longevity

~100%Remaining

93-97% 98%

99%Remaining

< 93% Remaining = 0%!We have no arrays with projected endurance of less than 19 years

Source: XtremIO SSD Endurance Remaining Entire Install Base


1/3$/GB effective of X1


4Xbetter rack density

Customer Experience


FNTS History with XtremIO

• First National Technology Solutions (FNTS) is a hosted and remote managed services and cloud provider for enterprises nationwide

• FNTS was an early adopter of EMC X1 platform (December 2013) – Today, FNTS has multiple X1 XtremIO Clusters in two data centers.

• Currently utilizing XtremIO Snapshots, RecoverPoint Replication, and D@RE in addition to the built in, always-on, inline dedupe, compression and thin provisioning.

– Other Dell/EMC storage includes: VMAX, VNX (Block only and Unified), Isilon, ECS, VPLEX, RecoverPoint

• FNTS has the following host types using XtremIO technology– VMware vSphere ESXi– AIX running on native physical LPARS– AIX VIOS with virtual LPARs connected via NPIV


FNTS XtremIO Uses Today• Mixed customer workloads running on XtremIO.

– Multiple customers running Exchange, SQL, Oracle, DB2, SAP HANA database workloads in various configurations.

– Many customers with custom written applications utilizing traditional 3 tier architecture (Web, App, DB)– Cloud Native Apps running on Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS environments– Few VDI environments. Majority of workloads though are the above three.

• What we’ve seen with X1 platform today.– Data Reduction Ratio (Inline Deduplication and Compression) ranges between 2.1:1 to 2.9:1 on different

clusters.– Overall Space Savings Efficiency Ratio (combined Thin Provisioning, Compression, Deduplication savings)

ranges from 4.9:1 to 5.1:1 on different clusters– Consistent sub millisecond read/write latency even in peak IO periods.– 100% uptime to date. This is huge as a Service Provider.

• Customers benefit from XtremIO not only with high IO Applications or DB environments.– Consistently see improvements with all customer workloads as soon as we move them to XtremIO platform

due to consistent low latency. – Not necessarily all about high IO or throughput, more about consistent low latency that drives a better user

experience.


What’s great about X2 Platform from FNTS perspective• Little history…We have been participating in the X2 testing for the past couple months.

• What we experienced as great new features in testing with X2 are…– X2 X-Bricks much greater density in same footprint. (max 72 SSDs per X-Brick now vs 25 SSDs in X1)

› As a Service Provider this is critical. The more capacity we can fit into a smaller footprint the better. – New HTML5 GUI is AWESOME. Much faster and very user friendly to navigate. No more waiting for Java

components to load or issues with Java updates, etc. – Online Scale-Up in addition to Scale-Out capabilities are great. Allows to start out small and grow

incrementally as needed. – Increased overall performance of Snapshots. Less CPU overhead on Snapshot consolidation.

› Snapshot Management (Snapshot creation, scheduling, restoration) with new GUI is a breeze– Increases in Snapshot limits, Initiator Limits, CG Limits, Volume Limits – Increasing throughput by upgrading Fibre Channel connectivity from 8Gbps to 16Gbps per port. – Reporting in new GUI

Putting it altogether…


Unique architecture unlocks amazing value

• Balanced resource allocation to avoid hot spots and resource contention

• Speeds up VM/DB copy operations• Increased virtual back-end

bandwidth

• 84% usable:raw efficiency• 1/3 $/GB effective• Inline thin provisioning,

deduplication, compression • XVC for instant space-efficient

data set copies, • Space-efficient VM copy

operations (VAAI, ODX)

• Vastly simple deployment• Easy troubleshooting and

operational mgmt.

Amazing Efficiency Amazing SimplicityAmazing Performance


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XtremIO X2: The Journey Continues… · • Currently utilizing XtremIO Snapshots, RecoverPoint Replication, and D@RE in addition to the built in, ... – AIX running on native physical