next generation software-defined storage

Announcing SvSAN 6Next Generation Software-Defined Storage

Unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT

John Glendenning – SVP Sales & MarketingLuke Pruen – Technical Services Director

StorMagic: Established a Proven Platform

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StorMagic: Focused on Solving Customer Challenges

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Delivering application performance

Simplify & centralize management

Reducing cost and complexity

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SvSAN: No More Physical SAN

Costly & Complex

Single point of failure

Affordable & Simple

Highly available

SvSAN: How it works and what you get

Key benefits are:

• Lowering costs by eliminating physical SANs and deploy on only 2 servers whilst not compromising performance.

• Improved management and support though rapid deployment and centralized management.

• High availability out-of the box whilst eliminating a physical SAN single point of failure.

SvSAN turns the internal/direct attached disk of 2 servers into highly available shared storage

SvSAN 6: The Perfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges

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StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT

Flexibility

Any storage in any server on vSphere or Hyper-V

Efficiency

Save time, money and reduce your carbon footprint

Performance

Always meet your application demands

I/O Performance statisticsCrucial I/O statistics now at your finger-tips to better understand your workloads.

Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgradeDeploy and upgrade multiple VSAs through a single wizard and Out-of-the-box Experience

PowerShell Auto-script generationDeploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically generate a custom PowerShell script.

SSD Read/Write cachingEnable hybrid storage configurations combining the performance of SDDs with the capacity of HDDs.

Memory-based read cachingBlazing fast for most common reads. Modes: most frequently used, read ahead and data pinning.

Intelligent auto-tieringData dynamically moved between storage tiers depending on frequency of access.

SvSAN 6: The Perfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges

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StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT

Automatically tier the ideal balance of disk, flash and memory

Tune for raw performance, high capacity and the smallest footprint

Configure for today’s needs and easily adapt for future demands

Leverage advanced storage auto-tiering to configure the lightest server and storage footprint

Reduce CAPEX and OPEX through a smaller footprint, lower MTBF and centralized management

Reduce space, power and cooling to contribute to your green credentials

Flexibility


Efficiency


Performance

Always meet your application demands

Configure for Increased IOPS and reduced latency to meet the SLAs for performance sensitive applications

Remove dependency on costly and complex storage arrays

Protect your mission critical services with out-of-the-box

high availability

SvSAN 6: Standard & Advanced Editions

Synchronous Mirroring/High Availability ✔

Stretched/Metro Cluster Support ✔

Volume Migration ✔

VSA Restore1 ✔

VMware vSphere Storage API (VAAI) Support ✔

Centralized management and monitoring ✔

Remote shared quorum ✔

I/O performance statistics ✔

Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade ✔

PowerShell Shell script generation ✔

SSD Caching -

Memory-based caching - most frequently used mode -

Memory-based caching - read ahead mode -

Memory-based caching - data pinning mode -

Intelligent automated tiering -

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Increased Capacity• 2TB• 6TB (increased from 4TB)• 12TB (increased from 8TB)• Unlimited TB (increased from 16TB)

Availability• General Availability - Calendar Q3• Tech Preview available soon

Promotion• Announced at the end of the webinar

SvSAN: Enabling All Major Server Vendors for HCI

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SvSAN: Pre-Configured from Cisco and Lenovo

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Lenovo x3250 + StorMagic SvSAN



UCS E-Series + StorMagic SvSAN

UCS Mini + StorMagic SvSAN

UCS C-Series + StorMagic SvSAN

SvSAN: Global Partner Network

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SvSAN: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations

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“Our old storage platform was a poor fit, troubling us with low performance and reliability issues - so we chose SvSAN. We're happy with SvSAN and will be deploying SvSAN in other projects.”Will TurnerMerit Network

“Previously we had a Dell Physical SAN but when our support ran out we looked at other options. We looked at other virtual SAN solutions, but unlike the others StorMagic SvSAN ticked all our boxes: low support cost, low outlay cost and reliability. We’re very happy with StorMagic SvSAN and are now looking at deployment into our other offices.”Barry Nelson, I.T. ManagerAdam Equipment Company

“We were looking to modernize our IT infrastructure, but with a small IT budget to invest in new solutions. We needed a solution that worked within our existing VMware environment and provided highly available storage.StorMagic SvSAN eliminated single points of failure and displayed good performance.”Jan Valenta, Network AdministratorTechnické služby města Mostu a.s.

SvSAN 6: The Perfect Storm

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Intel Xeon Cores2-16

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SSD price per GB99c

SSD price per GB68c

SSD price per GB55c

SSD price per GB39c

Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeonComputerworld article (http://bit.ly/1RqPSeS)

SvSAN Workloads1-16

SvSAN Workloads1-24

SvSAN Workloads1-24

SvSAN Workloads1-30

Max HD capacity3TB

Max HD capacity5TB

Max HD capacity8TB

Max HD capacity10TB


(Hyper-threaded)

SSD price per GB24c

SvSAN Workloads1-44

Max HD capacity16TB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon

http://bit.ly/1RqPSeS

SvSANSvSAN 6 Standard

SvSAN 6: More for less and widening the reach

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SvSAN 6 Advanced

2016


(Hyper-threaded)

SSD price per GB24c

SvSAN Workloads1-44

Max HD capacity16TB

Performance & Capacity

Cost

Quantity ofVMs

Cost of 2 ServerSvSAN Solution

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$10,000

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SvSAN 6: More from less

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2016


(Hyper-threaded)

SSD price per GB24c

SvSAN Workloads1-44

Max HD capacity16TB

SvSAN 6: What’s under the covers?

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Flexibility


Efficiency


Performance

Designed for the most demanding applications

The design principle:

• Leveraging all available storage types

• Designed for virtualization and optimize read/write where it counts

• Based on data from real-world customer environments

• Deliver improved management through extended automation

What you can expect:

• Lower cost servers and storage to save CAPEX

• Lower operating costs to save OPEX

• Smaller footprint with lower power consumption to save OPEX lower CF

• Higher performance for most demanding applications

SvSAN 6: All storage is not equal

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Magnetic drives provide poor random performance• SATA 7.2k rpm 75 – 100 IOPS• SAS 10k/15k rpm 140 – 210 IOPS• Lower cost per GB• Higher cost per IOPS

• Flash and SSDs have good random performance• SSD/Flash 8.6K to 10 millions IOPS• Lower cost per IOPS• High cost per GB compared to magnetic

• Memory has even better performance• Orders of magnitude faster than Flash/SSD• Much higher cost per GB compared to SSD/Flash• Memory is volatile and typical low in capacity

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive

SvSAN 6: The importance of caching

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Virtualized environments suffer from the ‘I/O blender’ effect• Multiple Virtual Machines sharing a set of disks• Resulting in predominantly random I/O• Magnetic drives provide poor random performance• SSD & Flash storage ideal for workloads but expensive

Working sets of data• Driven by workloads which are ever changing• Refers to the amount of data most frequently accessed• Always related to a time period• Working sets sizes evolve as workloads change

Caching• Combat the I/O blender effect without the expense of all Flash or SSD• Working sets of data can be identified and elevated to cache

SvSAN 6: SSD/Flash caching

SSD/Flash Caching• Significantly Improves overall I/O performance• Reduces the number of I/Os going directly to disk• Dynamic cache sizing read/write ratio

Writes operations• Data is written as variable sized extents• Extents are merged and coalesced in the background• Data in cache is flushed to hard disk regularly in small bursts

Read operations• SvSAN algorithm identifies and promotes data, based on access patterns• Frequently accessed data blocks are elevated on SSD/Flash• Least frequently access blocks are aged out

SvSAN 6: Memory based caching

Modern servers now have vast amounts of memory• Additional memory can be used to dramatically improve

storage performance• Frequently read data is cached in memory• Read operations are served from memory without ever

accessing a disk drive

Read-ahead mode• Detects sequential read streams to allow read ahead• i.e. when this block is read it is highly likely adjacent

blocks will be read• Enable for targeted workloads

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Most frequently used mode (default)• SvSAN algorithm identifies and stores data based on

access patterns• Frequently accessed data blocks are stored in memory• Default mode benefits all workloads

Data pinning mode• Enter learning to create identical access pattern• Delivers most efficient read performance• Enable for targeted workloads

SvSAN 6: Intelligent automated read caching & tiering

Intelligent read caching algorithm• All read I/Os are monitored and analyzed• Most frequently used data – “Hot” data • Cache tiers are populated based on access frequency

Tiering• RAM: Most frequently accessed data• SSD/Flash: Next most frequently accessed data• HDD: Infrequently accessed data – “Cold” data

Sizing• Assign cache sizes to meet requirements• Grow caches as working sets change• Use any combination of Memory, SSD/Flash and Disk

Play to the strengths • Play to the strengths of all mediums• Memory Highest IOPS• SSD/Flash Magnetic drives providing low price per GB

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SvSAN 6: Management

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Multiple VSA GUI deployment� Deploy multiple VSAs through a single wizard� Incremental naming and IP addressing

Automatic PowerShell Shell script generation� Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically generate a custom

PowerShell script� Script variables clearly marked to enable easy editing� Scale custom scripts for mass deployments

VSA OOBE (Out-of-box Experience)� Stage VSA deployments on hardware� Configure VSAs when installed onsite� Configure through GUI or scripting

Upgrade multiple VSAs through GUI- Use a repository for VSA firmware's- Select multiple VSAs through the StorMagic dashboard for upgrading- Upgrade VSAs immediately or stage firmware for overnight upgrade- StorMagic handles VSA health check to not impact environment

SvSAN 6: Built on real-world customer data

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Throughput I/Os

Total per day 1TB ~45 Million

Read per day 733GB ~28 Million

Write per day 261GB ~17 Million

Average 12 MB/s 515 per second

Read/Write Ratio 67/33 61/39

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• Example customer daily I/O profile• Example I/O characteristics:

@ 1 TB read per day@ 200-300 GB written per day@ Average read IOPS around 800@ Average write IOPS around 200@ Occasional peak IOPS up to 3 – 4000@ Average read size ~24 KB@ Average write size ~27 KB

SvSAN 6: Customer data analysis

Real life data• Real customer data collected and analysed • Exact data patterns simulated and replayed• Accurate expectations of caching/tiering

Results• Average customer would significantly benefit from caching/tiering• Example customer would greatly benefit from 8GB Memory &

250GB SSD/Flash• Could see as high as 70% of I/O being satisfied from read cache,

100% from write cache

Benefits• Lower cost servers, with a small number of large capacity HDDs• Smaller rack unit servers • Less disks required to meet capacity and performance• Less disks mean a significant reduction in Mean Time Between

Failures (MTBF)

SvSAN 6: Existing Customer and External Array Comparison

Estimated CAPEX and power savings over 5 years

1000 sites

$9.2m

2 x Commodity Servers with SvSAN 6 Advanced

2 x Commodity Servers with External

Arrays

Storage - 1 x SSD- 4 x SATA

15 x SAS

Power Saving on total system

1,176W 1,628W

Capital Saving per site

$6,836 -

2 x Commodity Servers with SvSAN 6 Advanced

Commodity Servers with SvSAN 5.3

Storage - 1 x SSD- 4 x SATA

12 x SAS

Power Saving on disk

74W 224W

Capital Saving per site

$2,546 -

External ArraySvSAN 5.x Customer

Estimated CAPEX and power savings over 5 years

1000 sites

$4.1m

SvSAN 6: Built on Customer Data and a Proven Platform

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Flexibility


Efficiency


Performance

Designed for the most demanding applications

Proven Platform:• Deployed globally in 72 countries• Only company singularly focused on a 2 server solution• Only 2 server solution with all storage tiers supported

Built on real customer data• Not in the lab!• Benefit immediately whatever the workload

Perfect Storm:• Continued increase in Intel processor density• HD Capacity is going through the roof• Flash prices are dropping through the floor

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SvSAN 6 Promotion

Free upgrade to SvSAN 6 Advanced

Offer open to all SvSAN 5.3 Orders

Orders placed from 1st May to 31st August 2016 *

Contact us today – [email protected]

* Upgrade to be redeemed by 31st December 2016

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Q&A and Next Steps

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Product Options

SvSAN license 2, 4, 8, 16, unlimited TBs

License entitlement 2 mirrored servers

Maintenance and support Platinum - 24x7 / Gold - 9x5

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SvSAN 6 White Paper - http://stormagic.com/svsan-6/

Resources - http://stormagic.com/resources/

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