The document discusses the next generation data center, highlighting the shift towards all-flash storage solutions that offer faster application deployment, enhanced performance, and automated operations. It emphasizes the integration of cloud computing, specifically with OpenStack, enabling enterprises to achieve agility and scalability while managing IT services more effectively. Key features of the all-flash storage platform include guaranteed quality of service (QoS), self-service automation, and simplified management, catering to diverse workloads in modern data center environments.

1. Hello

2. The All-Flash Array for the
Next Generation Data Center

3. § Deploy new applications and services faster
§ Provide more agile and scalable infrastructure
§ Increase application performance and predictability
§ Enable automation and end-user self-service
§ Raise operational efficiency and reduce cost
The IT
Innovation
Imperative
…driving the transformation of Enterprise IT globally

4. Public Cloud
Has Raised
the Bar
“The very nature and role of the corporate
IT function is being questioned, evaluated
and debated in a way that we haven't seen
in a very long time.”
- Chuck Hollis, VMware

5. Regardless of the name, desired outcomes are the same
“The
demands
of
this
NGDC-­‐
approach
are
now
being
felt
strongly
by
IT
organiza>ons
of
all
types;
so
much
so
that
one
can
see
data
centers
in
the
next
few
years
either
embracing
such
a
move
themselves,
or
buying
their
IT
services
from
someone
that
does.”
Mark
Peters,
ESG
Next
Genera*on
Data
Center
SoKware
Defined
Data
Center
Infrastructure
2.0
Cloud
Compu>ng
Private
Cloud
IT
as
a
Service
Agile Scalable Automated Predictable

6. Legacy Data Center
Single Tenant
Isolated workloads
Dedicated Infrastructure
Scale-up
Pre-provisioned capacity
Hardware defined
Project Based
Manual Administration
Next Generation Data Center
Multi-tenant
Mixed workloads
Shared infrastructure
Scale-out
Capacity on demand
Software defined
Self service
Automation
Addressing a new set of challenges…

7. High performance storage systems designed for
large scale infrastructure
Industry Leading
Quality of Service (QoS)
Scale-Out Architecture
• 4 – 100 nodes
• 35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity
• 200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS
Simple all inclusive
pricing model Direct Tier 3 Support
for every customer
Industry-standard hardware
• 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

8. All-flash storage platform
for the next generation data center.
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Complete
System Automation
In-Line Data
Reduction
Self Healing
High Availability

9. Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration

10. SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional
performance related storage problems - ESG 2015
Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee
storage performance independent of capacity
Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings
for each application / volume

11. Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
Decreased
Performance
Noisy Neighbor
SolidFire QoS in Practice
500 IOPS
1000 IOPS
1200 IOPS
8000 IOPS

12. Empower Enterprise IT to deliver greater strategic value to the business
• Native REST-based API
• Deep integration with management & orchestration platforms
• Support development of user-facing storage controls
• Reduce risk of human error and associated with complex administrative tasks
• Enables rapid deployment of applications & services
Complete System Automation
“Spin up virtual machines up to 81% faster
than traditional storage” – ESG 2015
“SolidFire Automation helps lower
operating expenses by up to
– ESG 2015
Create
Volume
API
Call
{
"method":
"CreateVolume",
"params":
{
"name":
"<Volume
Name>",
"accountID":
1,
"totalSize":
10000,
"enable512e":
false,
"aXributes":
{},
"qos":
{
"minIOPS":
100,
"maxIOPS":
200,
"burstIOPS":
300
}
},
"id":
1
}

13. • Performance tuning, caching or load balancing
• Tiering, prioritization or caching to manage
• Short Stroking or over provisioning
• RAID group or spare drive management
• Fire drills to replace failed disks, shelves, or controllers
• Generational upgrades or platform migrations
Complete System Automation
NO
MORE:

14. • Platform Compatibility Guarantee
– Ensures that all future software &
platforms from SolidFire will interoperate
with existing infrastructure
• Unlimited Drive Wear Guarantee
– Eliminate concerns around flash
endurance
– No restrictions on use-case or workload
Never Obsolete
Unparalleled
Investment Protection
No more forklift
upgrades

15. § SolidFire Cinder driver enables all OpenStack
block storage features
§ Ability to set and maintain true QoS levels
on a per-volume basis
§ Create, snap, clone and manage SolidFire
volumes directly
§ Run OpenStack instances on a SolidFire volume
§ Eliminates arduous management layers between
OpenStack and the storage system
§ SolidFire driver fully integrated into OpenStack -
no additional features / licenses required
Customer SuccessDeep OpenStack Integration Validated Interoperability
The Block Storage Choice for OpenStack

16. Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux
OpenStack
Pla=orm
λ It
is
dependent
on
the
underlying
Linux
λ Op>mized
and
Co-­‐Engineered
with
Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux

17. From
Community
to
Supported
Product...
Enterprise hardened
Red Hat OpenStack
technology
optimized for
and integrated with
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Red Hat Support
Red Hat ecosystem
certifications
3 year lifecycle
Bleeding edge upstream
OpenStack source code
Unstable community Linux
No certifications
Community support
Six month lifecycle
Bleeding edge upstream
OpenStack packaged as
RPMs
Enterprise Linux distros
(CentOS, RHEL, Fedora)
No certifications
Community support
Six month lifecycle

18. OpenStack
Release
Cadence
λ Upstream
λ Source
code
Only
λ Releases
every
6
months
λ 2
to
3
'snapshots'
including
bug
fixes
λ No
more
fixes/snapshots
aKer
next
release
λ RDO
λ Follows
upstream
cadence
λ Delivers
binaries

19. OpenStack
Release
Cadence
Red
Hat
Enterprise
Linux
OpenStack
Plaeorm
λ 6
Month
cadence
λ Roughly
2
to
3
months
AFTER
upstream
λ Time
to
stabilize,
cer>fy,
backport
etc.
λ 3
year
“produc>on
phase”
lifecycle
λ e.g.,
Support
for
Juno
ends
at
the
“P”
release
λ Will
con>nue
to
increase
lifecycle
over
>me
λ Based
on
upstream
stability
and
resources

20. RHEL
OpenStack
Pla=orm
6:
Tech
Preview

21. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6
λ Based on OpenStack “Juno” release
λ Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7
λ Full Graphic Installer
λ 3 year “production phase” lifecycle
λ Major Features
λ IPv6 Support
λ SR-IOV Networking
λ Node Evacuation Scheduler
λ Cinder Volume Replication
λ Multi backend Keystone
λ VRRP Networking HA
λ Sahara data processing
λ Tech Previews
λ TripleO
λ Ironic
λ Distributed Virtual Routing
λ Database as a Service (Trove)

22. Red
Hat
Community
Contribu*on
Source: Bitergia http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scm-companies.html?release=juno
Stakalytics http://stackalytics.com/?release=juno&company=red%20hat
Top Contributor to Juno Release (incl. Inktank & eNovance)
Overall commits per
company (aggregated)
Red Hat community
contributions to projects
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
Red
Hat
HP
IBM
Miran>s
Rackspace
SUSE
OpenStack
Founda>on
VMware
0.2092
0.1848
0.2398
0.0676
0.2486
0.2735
0.0738
0.0544
0.1578
0.0539
Nova
Horizon
Heat
Neutron
Ceilometer
Sahara
Keystone
Cinder
SwiK
Glance

23. OEMs
and
IHVs
ISVs
Cloud
Service
Providers
System
Integrators
Channel
Partners
Managed
Service
Providers
λ Over
275+
members
since
launch
in
April
2013
λ Over
900
cer>fied
solu>ons
in
partner
Marketplace
λ Over
4,000
RHEL
cer>fied
compute
servers
λ Over
13,000+
applica>ons
available
λ Red
Hat
OpenStack
Cloud
Infrastructure
Partner
Network
World's
Largest
OpenStack
Partner
Ecosystem

24. Red
Hat
Leads
Through
Open,
Community
Innova*on

25. SolidFire Agile Infrastructure
▪ A series of pre-validated converged
infrastructure reference designs
▪ Modular design focus at all levels
▪ Built for dynamic IT-as-a-Service
consumption model
▪ Accelerating time-to-value for operators and
administrators deploying a functional cloud
infrastructure
▪ Supported by a complete ecosystem of
vendors, partners and community
Compute
/
Networking
Cloud
Management
Stack
Orchestra>on
Layer
Applica>ons

26. SolidFire Agile Infrastructure
for for

27. Software Defined pools of compute, networking & storage
Operational Benefits of AI
Agile
<30 minutes to provision from bare metal to OS
<30 minutes to install and configure OpenStack
Automated
Linear Scalability of compute & storage nodesScalable
Maintain consistent performance via guaranteed QoSPredictable
Integrated Efficiency with cluster wide dedupe & compression
27U rack footprint - 360 cores, ~1000 vCPUs, 250k IOPS, 40TBs
Efficient

28. Leading Converged Performance & Economics
Modular Design Extreme Density Operational Efficiencies
▪ 70 vCPUs per
compute node
▪ 15 compute / 5
storage nodes
▪ 1.5 CPU over
subscription rate
▪ 40TB capacity /
250,000 guaranteed
IOPS
• 50% lower cost
• 80% less footprint
• 3.5X IOPS per GB
• 100% API-enabled
• Native Multi-Tenancy
• Cloud-Scale

29. AI for OpenStack
Logical Framework
▪ Modularity at every level
▪ Built on vendor and
community best
practices
▪ Deep integration up the
management stack
▪ Support for 3rd Party
Tools

30. 5 Networks to segregate traffic
and provide security:
• Administrative Network
• Data Center Network
• OpenStack Service Network
• Storage Network
• Private network
AI for OpenStack Network Topology

31. Physical Network Layout to
Allow Scalability in Any Vector
• Add OpenStack Nodes
• Add SolidFire Nodes
• Add Upstream Bandwidth
• Add Racks
• Add Data Centers
AI for OpenStack Network Topology

32. Optimized for Mixed Workloads
Software Development Lifecycle • Test / Development
• QA, Staging, Production
• 3-Tier Apps
• Example: LAMP stacks
Large Scale Web Applications
Persistent Block Storage
Databases
• On Premise Versions of Amazon Elastic Block Storage
• Provisioned IOPS (e.g. pIOPS)
• Database Consolidation
• Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS)
Sample Use Cases Examples

33. • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Certification Test Suite
• Tempest Test
• Deployment
– Provision from bare metal to operating system 17 nodes within 30 minutes
– Install and configure OpenStack on the same 17 nodes in less than 30 minutes
• Scalability
– Verify the ability to scale block storage and compute instances
– Dynamically add compute nodes into the environment
• Resource Agility
– Time to deploy 1000 Instances: 2.5 hours
– Time to delete 1000 Instances: 11 minutes
– Time to boot 1000 volumes as new Instances: 2.25 hours
– Time to delete 1000 instances and volumes: 17 minutes
Validated and Tested Use Cases

34. • Quality of Service (QoS)
– Demonstrate the QoS merits of the SolidFire storage system by showing multiple
applications running in parallel on the same shared storage infrastructure
• database
• file/web server
• general operating system IO
• readonly
• writeonly
• 80/20 mixed read/write
– Allow users to specify the IO requirements for a volume at create time
Validated and Tested Use Cases (Cont.)

35. SolidFire Agile Infrastructure
Self Service Converged Infrastructure for Dynamic IT Environments
• Best-of-Breed Design
– Leading technology across all layers of the stack to deliver a fully featured cloud
infrastructure solution
• True Scale-Out
– Allows for a more flexible and cost effective design as infrastructure expands
• No Lock-In
– Modularity at each layer of the stack eliminates threat of hardware or software lock-in
• Accelerated Time to Value
– Pre-validated solution drastically reduces complexity of adopting self-service cloud
infrastructure
• Guaranteed Performance
– With SolidFire’s unique QoS controls, AI can easily accommodate mixed workload
environments without compromising performance to any one application

36. • For more on building an OpenStack-powered cloud
infrastructure visit SolidFire.com/OpenStack
• For more on accelerating your OpenStack adoption with Agile
Infrastructure visit Solidfire.com/AI
• To see OpenStack and SolidFire in action, request a demo --
SolidFire.com/Get-Started
Want to learn more?

37. Powering the World’s Most Demanding Data Centers
The Most Complete AFA Feature Set
• Scale-out Architecture
• Self Healing High Availability
• Guaranteed QoS
• Complete System Automation
• In-line Data Reduction
• 3rd Generation of Hardware
• 7th Generation of Software
Innovative
Sales, Marketing, and Support :
• Over 320 Employees
• HQ: Boulder, Colorado
• North America
• EMEA
• APJ
Global
Enabling Customer Success
• Founded 2010
• Funding $150M, Series D
• GA Product since Nov 2012
• Over 2500 nodes shipped
• More than 45PB under mgt
• Fueling over 58,000 business
Proven
#1 ALL-FLASH ARRAY
CC 2014
Updated 1/30/15

38. • Real-Time Replication
• Integrated Backup and Restore
• Encryption at Rest
• Snapshots and Clones
• Consistency Group Snapshots
• VLAN tagging / Multi-tenant Networking
• SNMP Monitoring
• Simultaneous Multiprotocol Support (FC / iSCSI)
All Inclusive Feature Set

39. Platform Building Blocks
2405 • 8.6TB effective capacity
• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
4805 • 17TB effective capacity
• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
9605 • 35TB effective capacity
• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
9010 • 35TB effective capacity
• 75,000 guaranteed IOPS

41. Thank You