Hybrid Storage: The Proof is in the Performance Copyright © 2014 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved. January 23, 2014
Hybrid Storage: The Proof is in the Performance
Copyright © 2014 Fusion-io, Inc. All rights reserved. January 23, 2014
Agenda
▸ Introductions
• John Tolly, Director of Engineering, The Tolly Group
▸ ioControl Hybrid Storage overview
▸ Tolly Group test results
▸ ioControl SPX test results
▸ Housekeeping
• Use the Chat feature to ask questions throughout
Fusion ioControl Hybrid Storage
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iSCSI Hybrid Solution
ioControl Software
Data Reduction
Data Protection
Dynamic Data Placement
Service Levels
Quality of Service
PERFORMANCE 10x
DATA CENTER FOOTPRINT 1/3
CAPACITY 2x Active-Active HA
ioMemory and Disk Drives
Up to 300,000 IOPS
Up to 192 TB CAPACITY
Transformational Hybrid Design
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Incremental Innovation
• Active-passive • Sacrifice capacity for performance • Performance is bottlenecked by RAID controller • Solid-state for reads only
Other Hybrids Architectural Leap
• Active-active • ioMemory runs at CPU and RAM speeds • Capacity is maximized • ioMemory for reads and writes
85% lower OPEX
50% lower $/IOPS
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Provision Performance With QoS
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Eliminate Contention with QoS
Manage Performance
Capacity 250 GB 500 GB 900 GB Performance 4 ms 10 ms 50 ms
10 Gb/s 4 Gb/s 2 Gb/s
30,000 IOPS 25,000 IOPS 5,000 IOPS
Guaranteed Minimum
Performance Mission Critical Business
Critical Non-
Critical
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Prioritized Performance in Degraded Mode
Impose Service Levels
Guaranteed Minimum
Performance
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Mission Critical
Business Critical
Non-Critical
No Impact
Impact is prioritized
Intelligent Read and Write Caching
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Dynamic Data Placement
High Priority Data
Low Priority Data
Execution Queue
Real-Time Data Path Decisions Mission Critical
Business Critical
Non- Critical
I/O Blocks
Prioritize Mission Critical I/O
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End-to-End Scalability
Max Host Acceleration • Lowest latency • Directed performance boost
Max Shared Performance • Double shared performance • Zero footprint increase
Max Capacity • Scale in 48TB increments • Online expansion
Scale Host Performance Storage Capacity Storage Performance
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Hybrid Hybrid
Test Overview Fusion-‐io ioControl n5 Hybrid Storage Architecture
Ê Fusion-‐io commissioned Tolly to evaluate the performance of its ioControl Hybrid storage approach against a similarly-‐equipped conventional NVRAM+SSD+Disk hybrid solution.
Ê Tolly found the Fusion-‐io solution to offer high performance and scalability. In block level access tests, Fusion-‐io provided up to 700% better performance than the conventional NVRAM+SSD+Disk solution under test.
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Fusion ioControl n5 Random Read/Random Write Performance vs. Conventional Array
Fusion ioControl n5 Simulated VM Density and Latency vs. Conventional Array
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Notes: Testing consisted of 2x Spirent 10GbE ports, each generating 5 Gbps of Layer 3 traffic. Test runs lasted 5 minutes.
Fusion ioControl n5 Aggregate VM Read Throughput
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Fusion ioControl n5 VDI “Boot Storm” VM Ready Time
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Fusion ioControl n5 Test Bed Topology
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Summary
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The Fusion ioControl n5 Hybrid Storage Architecture:
Ê Provides, on average, 160% higher virtual machine (VM) density, with 60% less latency than conventional arrays
Ê Delivers, on average, 740% more 64K random read IOPS and 53% more 64K random write IOPS
Ê Leverages “Active/Active” PCIe flash architecture to provide high bandwidth to applications
Ê Provides in excess of 1500MBps of read throughput to I/O-‐intensive activities such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) “boot storms”
Thank you!
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Read the Fusion ioControl n5Test Report in its entirety at:
ABOUT TOLLY Currently in their 24th year, Tolly is a leading global provider of independent, third-party validation services for vendors of IT products, components and services. Due to Tolly’s unique visibility into the industry, we also provide consulting on product design, quality assurance and Alpha/Beta Testing. For more information, visit www.tolly.com or e-mail [email protected].
New ioControl n5-SPX Solutions
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• Server Performance eXtension solutions deliver ~5x more VMs with same footprint • The first hybrid solution to include server caching • End-to-end (host-to-storage) memory-attached flash infrastructure • 1 part number, 1 vendor, 1 support organization, pre-tested, pre-sized for simplicity
• 3.9 TB flash (1.5 TB in 2 servers, 2.4 TB in hybrid) • 48 TB ioControl shared storage • ioCache Direct for 2 servers • Simplified, single part number HA for application clusters • 3 or 5 year 24x7 support included
• 4.7 TB flash (2.3 TB in 3 hosts, 2.4 TB in hybrid) • 48 TB ioControl shared storage • ioCache Virtual for 3 servers • vMotion, VMware FT, VMware HA, managed by vCenter • 3 or 5 year 24x7 support included
n5-SPX for 2-Server Application Clusters n5-SPX for 3-host VMware Clusters
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Hybrid Storage
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Server Cache
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Hybrid Storage
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Server Cache
Virtualization Performance Results
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VM Workload (64k, 50% random, 50% read)
Other Hybrid n5 SPX
Conventional Hybrid
(NVM+SSD+Disk)
ioControl n5-100 (PCIe+Disk)
ioControl n5-SPX (Server Cache+PCIe+Disk)
Virtual Machine Workload 360% More IOPs
vs Conventional Hybrid
170% More IOPs vs Conventional Hybrid
Database Performance Results
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Database Workload
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Database Workload (8k, random, 80% read)
Other Hybrid n5 SPX Other Hybrid n5 SPX
380% More IOPS vs Conventional Hybrid
250% More IOPS vs Conventional Hybrid
Learn more: Download the full Tolly report: http://get.fusionio.com/iocontrol-tolly-white-paper Join our live webinar/demo: http://www.fusionio.com/learn/iocontrol/
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