Stopping Storage Hardware Sprawl

Stopping Storage Hardware Sprawl

The risks of application/workload specific storage hardware

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Today’s Agenda

● Company Backgrounds

● What is Storage Hardware Sprawl?

● Designing A Single System To Eliminate Storage Hardware Sprawl

● A Product Example

● Questions and Answers

Our Speakers

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, whitepapers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking. He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

Andy is an established researcher in computer systems, specializing in storage, virtualization, and security. At Coho Data, Andy leads the technology vision and directs the engineering team in building elegant and functional systems that enable customers to focus on the data and applications instead of the underlying infrastructure that drives them.

Polling Question – What is your largest storage pain?

❏ Scalability❏ Sprawl of different storage products

for different apps❏ Complex performance mgmt/lack of

performance❏ Expensive rip & replace

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Polling Question – What is your largest storage pain?


Background

● Analyst firm focused storage, cloud and virtualization

● Knowledge of these markets is gained through product testing and interaction with users and suppliers

● The results of this research can be found in the articles, videos, webinars, product analysis and case studies on our web site:

○ http://storageswiss.com

Founding Team

Keir FraserCHIEF ARCHITECT

Andy WarfieldCTO

Ramana JonnalaCEO

Polling Question – How much storage do you manage for your VMware Environment?

❏ < 10TB❏ 10-50 TB❏ 50-100 TB❏ 100 TB+❏ N/A – no VMware storage


Polling Question – How much storage do you manage for your VMware Environment?


What is Storage Hardware Sprawl?


What is Storage Hardware Sprawl?

● The addition of multiple storage hardware arrays to address a specific shortcoming in others including:

● Performance

● Capacity

● Reliability

● Connectivity

● Universal Problem

● Sprawl is happening in data centers of all sizes from the largest to the smallest


Storage Hardware Sprawl is Getting Worse

● Variety of Workload Types is Increasing

● Server Virtualization

● Desktop Virtualization

● Increased Fileshare Size

● Data Analytics (Big Data)

● Media Archives

● Traditional Archives

● Backup Storage


● Variety of Components “Solve” Problems

● All-Flash Arrays

● Hybrid Arrays

● Traditional Storage Systems Retro-fitted with Flash

● Traditional Hard Drive Storage Systems

● Disk Archive / Disk Backup


Storage Hardware Sprawl is Getting Worse

● Storage Administrators Job is Getting More Complex

● Performance Tuning a Constant

● Data Migration Between Silos Desired, but difficult

● Admins need a Single System that can adapt to handle a mixture of workloads

● Costs Are Breaking IT Budgets


What is The Impact of Storage Hardware

Designing A Single System To Eliminate Storage Hardware Sprawl


● Providers like Google and Amazon have done this

● Single cost effective highly scalable architectures that service a variety of workloads

● Example: NetFlix runs on Amazon and we’ve seen vendors report 1M IOPS performance benchmarks

● BUT…They have massive scale

● We need to work this “cloud thing” into a 2-3U experience for the mid-range data center


We Can Learn Some Lessons From The Cloud


Time To Re-Think Storage

● The Compute Layer is Fast Enough

● And Can Generate I/O Demand

● The Storage Layer is Fast Enough

● Thanks to Flash

● Change The Network

● Use Software Defined Networking in the Storage System

● Allows the Storage System to Adapt Instantly to Inbound Data

● Coho is an Excellent Example of the Technique


Time To Re-Think Storage

Fast, Amazon-style Storage for Your Datacenter

Private CloudCUSTOM HARDWARE & HARD TO SCALE

◉ HIGHER PERFORMANCE

◉ SECURITY

◉ SUPPORT FOR ENTERPRISE APPS

Public CloudLOW PERFORMANCE & LACK OF CONTROL

◉ COMMODITY HARDWARE

◉ SCALE-OUT

◉ DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM

Scale-out Flash + HDD

Solution #1: Scale Down to Scale-out with the COHO MicroArray

Confidential & Proprietary

Problem: Scale-Out Latency

Industry Standard SDN-enabled Switches

Solving Scale-out LatencyINJECTING STORAGE INTELLIGENCE INTO THE NETWORK

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Problem: Scale-Out Latency

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Industry Standard SDN-enabled Switches

Solving Scale-out LatencyINJECTING STORAGE INTELLIGENCE INTO THE NETWORK

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180K IOPS

STORAGE FOR THE CLOUD GENERATION

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Stopping Storage Hardware Sprawl