Supercharge your Applications using a Flash-first strategy with EMC VNX

FLASH 1st Supercharge your Applications With EMC’s Flash 1st Strategy Simon Painter Unified Product Specialist October 2011the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 1

Total Data Management and Protection Peace of mind without the complexity Total Total Total Total Protection Value Protection Efficiency FAST Suite Performance and capacity self-optimization Security and Compliance Suite Version integrity and audit readiness Local Protection Suite File and block snapshots Remote Protection Suite Disaster recovery and business continuity Application Protection Suite Application-driven data protection Software Suites Software Packsthe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 3

VNX Fast Suite Designed for Flash!  FAST Cache continuously ensures that the hottest data is served from high-performance Flash SSDs  FAST VP optimizes storage pools automatically, ensuring only active data is being served from SSDs, while cold data is moved to lower-cost disk tiers  Together they deliver a fully automated FLASH 1st storage strategy for optimal performance at the lowest cost attainablethe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 6

Lightning – A Server Flash Cache Extending FAST into the Server • Transparent application acceleration via server-side caching  Intelligent SW manages frequently used data  PCIe flash provides low-latency & high throughput • Dramatic improvement in read Storage Network IOPS and application response time • No comprises; 5-9’s data availability  Full data protection and durability by persisting writes through to the array  Full complement of enterprise data services (e.g. HA, snapshots, replication)the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 7

Automate Applications More productivity, less time, lower costs Without With FAST VP FAST VP Analyze 4 hours Automated Design 4 hours 1 hour Implement 4 hours 2 hours Manage 4 hours Automated Totals 16 hours 3 hours Source: EMC Proven: “Tuning Storage for SQL OLTP” report Replace lengthy manual processes with FAST VP and dynamically tune application workloads in 80% less timethe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 8

Comparing Associated Costs Which technology is the most efficient? Capacity Acquisition Cost Capacity Power Cost $- $10 $20 $30 $40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 15K HDD 15K HDD 7200 HDD Lowest Capacity Cost 7200 HDD FLASH FLASH FLASH 7200 HDD 15K HDD FLASH 7200 HDD 15K HDD $/GB $34.80 $0.43 $1.63 mWatt/GB 25 6 28 Transaction Acquisition Cost Transaction Power Cost $- $2 $4 $6 $8 $10 $12 0.0 50.0 100.0 150.0 15K HDD 15K HDD 7200 HDD 7200 HDD FLASH Lowest Transaction Cost FLASH FLASH 7200 HDD 15K HDD FLASH 7200 HDD 15K HDD $/IOPS $1.99 $9.56 $5.44 mWatt/IOPS 1.4 133.3 94.4the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 9

Gaining Economic Efficiency FLASH SSDs for active transactions & 2TB HDD for overflow 0.6 • FLASH SSDs offers highest transaction efficiency 0.5 FLASH SSD • Large capacity HDD offers 0.4 highest capacity efficiency • High RPM HDDs are not IOPS per $ 0.3 FAST capacity-efficient nor are they 0.2 performance-efficient • FAST automatically and 0.1 15K HDD 2TB seamlessly optimizes data 0 HDD across all disk technologies 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 GB per $the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 10

Most Data Will be Stone Cold While we increasingly can’t erase data, we can store it better 37.5 4,123 GB GB 100 X 2011 2021 Hot Warm Cold Evolution of 50 GBs in 10 Yearsthe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 11

How Much FLASH? Used dynamically with FAST Size of FLASH • Data follows a predictable decay in activity Amount of Data being created daily • Older data is constantly being replaced by new highly active data • The amount of FLASH FLASH Capacity required is determined by: – The amount of data created each day, and Number of Days of – The period of time it takes High Data Activity to coolthe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 13

How Much FLASH? 3 fundamental business questions • How much data is under management today? 50 TBs • How much is your data growing each year? 50% YoY • How long does your data stay hot? 60 daysthe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 14

Calculating Net New Data Net new is a function of amount of “starting data” and “growth” 50% growth rate 80 • 50% of 50TB is 25TB 60 25 • The average amount of data 40 generated each day: 50 50 – 25 X 1024 GB / 365 = 20 70 GB per day 0 Start Year 1the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 15

Calculating Needed FLASH SSD tier only needs to be large enough to hold hot data • FLASH Capacity: 50% growth rate – 60 days X 70 GB = 80 4,200 GB 60 25 • FLASH Percentage: 40 – FLASH Capacity/Total 20 50 50 Capacity – 4,200 GB/(75 X 1024) GB X 0 100: Start Year 1 6%the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 16

How Long Does Data Stay Hot? Depends on business model, applications and workload Daily Hot Days cooling rate @ 80% 30 5.2% Hot 60 2.7% 90 1.8% 120 1.4% Cold 30 days 60 days 90 days 120 days Days of high data activitythe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 17

Examples of IO Skew Driven by Data Growth and Business Models Very Growth: 60% Std. Growth: 50% High Days Hot: 10 Days Hot: 60 Skew 1% of data = 80% of IO Skew 5.5% of data = 80% of IO Growth: 100% Growth: 50% High Days Hot: 30 Low Days Hot: 90 Skew 4.2% of data = 80% of IO Skew 8.2% of data = 80% of IOthe competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 18

New FLASH 1st Data Strategy Hot data on fast FLASH SSDs—cold data on dense disks “Hot” high activity Highly active data As data ages, activity is stored on falls, triggering automatic FLASH SSDs for movement to high fastest capacity disk drives for response time lowest cost Data Activity FLASH High Cap. SSD HDD Movement Trigger “Cold” low activity Data Age (5 years)the competitive edge... © Copyright 2011 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. 19

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