The Next Leap Forward LTO-7 - Spectra Logic

The Next Leap ForwardLTO-7

Bob ConeProduct SpecialistSpectra Logic

• Over 3 Decades of Technology Innovation– Privately held corporation founded in 1979– Debt free since inception– 100% employee owned

• Storage Industry Leadership– Founding member: Active Archive Alliance– Founding member: Tape Council – Standard member: SNIA– Standard member: Object Storage Alliance

• Worldwide Presence– HQ’s located in Boulder, CO – Bracknell, UK – Melbourne, AUS– Over 450 employees in 11 countries– Over 20,000 libraries installed in over 50 countries

Partnering with Spectra

A Long and Trusted Roadmap: LTO Ultrium

The industry standard for tape technology

Spectra Logic Estimated LTO Roadmap based upon best available market information.

• Target Availability Calendar Q4 2015

LTO-7 Specifications

Native Capacity 6 to 6.4 TB*

Compressed Capacity Up to 16 TB

Native Transfer Rate 300 to 315 MB/sec*

Compressed Transfer Rate Up to 788 MB/sec

Read/Write Compatibility Read/Write Compatible with LTO-6, Read compatible with LTO-5

Channel Interfaces Fibre Channel 8 Gb/sec, SAS 6 Gb/sec

Tape Head 32 Channels

Media BaFe Formulation

*Spectra Logic estimated specifications based upon best available market information

LTO-7 Specs Compared to Previous Generations

Generation LTO-2 LTO-3 LTO-4 LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-7

Year 2002 2004 2007 2010 2012 2015

Max Data rate (native)

35 MB/s 80 MB/s 120 MB/s 140 MB/s 160 MB/s 315 MB/s

97% increase

Capacity (native)

200 GB 400 GB 800 GB 1.5TB 2.5TB 6.4TB

156% increase

Data Rates: Up 125% Over LTO-5Up 97% Over LTO-6

Capacity: Up 327% Over LTO-5Up 156% Over LTO-6

LTO Capacity by Generation

LTO-4 LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-70

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

0.81.5

2.5

6

1.6

3

6.25

15

Capacity Comparison

NativeCompressed

Terabytes

Note: This is based on compressed capacity of 15 TB capacity.

LTO Transfer Rate by Generation

LTO-4 LTO-5 LTO-6 LTO-70

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

800

120 140 160

300

240280

400

750

Transfer Rate Comparison

NativeCompressed

MB per second

7

Note: This is based on compressed performance of 750 MB/sec.

What Do the Numbers Mean?Move 100 terabytes of data within 8 hour window:

8

13 tape drives and 34 cartridges needed

Note: This is based on compressed performance of 750 MB/sec and compressed capacity of 15 TB. Compression on LTO-5 is 2:1. The ratio for LTO-7 is estimated at 2.5:1 .

LTO-5 LTO-7

Only 5 drives and 7 cartridges needed

OR, with the same number of drives the 8 hour window could be cut to under 2 hours 51 minutes!

= Drives= Cartridges

LTO-7 Leapfrogs Oracle T10000 D

LTO-7 T10000D0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

6.4

8Capacity TB

LTO-7 T10000D0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

315252

Performance MB/Sec

LTO-7’s New Head Technology• LTO-6 worked with a 16 channel head• LTO-7: 32 channel TS technology head actuator

– Much higher data rates – Time reduction of ~ 50% to write/read a cartridge– Reduced head and tape wear

New Media for a New Generation• Metal Particle – Generations 1 through 6• BaFe provides greater linear density because:

– smaller particle size – higher Signal-to-Noise ratio

• Oxidation

How can we use abigger, faster tape?

Consider the Archive…

• Large volumes of data coming from primary storage• “Active Archives” keep data available though the

primary storage pool even though they’re on tape

Media Server orArchive Product

Primary Storage

Tape Disk

Primary or Secondary Storage

Consider the Cloud…

• Key elements:– HTTP & Object Storage

• The beauty of https://www• REST Architecture• RESTful API’s

• GET• PUT• LIST• DELETE

Created by Amazon, S3 simplifies web storage - Proven technology and wide adoption (2+ trillion objects)- Many clients and client developers

S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Building a RESTful API for Tape

+Sequential

Media Support

+Removable

Media Support

=Deep

Simple Storage Services

Tape & Disk Storage Domain

DiskStorage Domain

Simple Storage

Services

Object Store Attributes

• Flat Structure• Identified by Unique Object ID• Metadata can be Enhanced by User or Application• Metadata and Physical Data are Separated

ID 2ID 1 ID 3 ID 4 ID 5

Tape as a Private Cloud Storage

Buckets

DS3 EnabledApplications

https

10 – 100† GigE

On Premise or Remote

Objectsto

DeepStorage

The Roadmap is Larger Than You Think

• Fujifilm and IBM Announcement– May 19th, 2014– Approximately 62 times more capacity than LTO-6– Increased density of 85.9 Gb/in² compared to 2 Gb/in²

with LTO-6– Demoed a 154 TB tape – Expected availability 2024

Spectra’s LTO-7 Pre Purchase Program

• Announced: 3/2/2015• A Spectra exclusive: Buy LTO-6 today… Free upgrade to LTO-7 at GA

– Small premium for pre-purchase option when you buy LTO-6 today

– When LTO-7 becomes available, get new drives with no additional cost

– Manage a single budget/purchase cycle approval – no paperwork for LTO-7

– Migrate earlier LTO-5 data with no additional drive cost

20

Library Native CapacityTB

NativeThroughput

TB/HrT50e 320 4.5

T120 768 11.3

T200 1,280 9.1

T380 2,432 13.6

T680 4,288 13.6

T950 65,280 136.1

TFinity 320,640 136.1

Capacity calculated at 6.4 TB and performance at 315 MB/sec

QUESTIONS?

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