Presentation by John Flisher of eGroup and Charlie Gautreaux of Pernix Data on the Commoditization of Hardware and the Software Defined Millennium

1. Charleston
VMUG
John Flisher
Technical Consultant Manager
eGroup
john.flisher@egroup-us.com
@hsilf
August 14, 2013

2. Agenda
 Commoditization of Hardware and the
Software Defined Millennium
 Virtual Environment Storage Design
Considerations
 The Worlds First Flash Hypervisor
 FVP Demo – Charlie Gautreaux
 Questions and Answers

3. Rate of Technology Change
 Ray Kurzweil
 Author of The Singularity is Near

4. Moore’s Law

5. Cost per Transistor Cycle

6. Kryder’s Law

7. VMware
 Founded in 1998
 Still the leader in Virtualization because it
was first to innovate in their space.

8. Data Domain
 Founded in 2001
 Proprietary Software Algorithm for target
based Deduplication appliances
 Acquired by EMC in 2009
 According to IDC, EMC in 2010 captured
64.2% share of the market for purpose-built
backup devices worldwide, including
mainframes.

9. Storage Design Considerations
for Virtual environments
 What problem are we trying to
solve?
Capacity
Performance

10. Storage Short Stroking
8 + 1 RAID
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8 + 1 RAID
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8 + 1 RAID
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11. A different way to think about storage
Flash Virtualization Platform

12. What is FVP?
FVP is software to aggregate server-side flash
into a scale out data acceleration tier to provide
dramatic storage performance to unmodified
applications over existing storage systems
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13. FVP Design Considerations
 It must be truly clustered and
compatible with cross-host functions
like vMotion, DRS, HA, etc.
 It must support write
acceleration, and in a manner that
doesn’t incur data loss on host
failures.
 It must not be a virtual
appliance.

14. FVP Design Considerations
 It must not require in-guest or
application level changes. This is
operationally un-scalable
 It must be flash technology
agnostic!
 It must work on per VM basis

15. Seamless Solution
 Application agnostic
 No drivers or changes to applications/VMs
 Not a static partitioning of server flash
 Storage infrastructure agnostic
 No change to existing underlying storage
infrastructure
 Compatible with existing storage-side data
services like snapshotting, replication, etc
 Flash technology agnostic
 Compatible with both SSD and PCIe flash, and
allows heterogeneous hosts
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16. Say hello to a brand new data tier
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DATA-IN-MOTION TIER
+ +PernixData
FVP
DATA-AT-REST TIER
+Data Services

17. PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform
1. Non-intrusive data acceleration
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HypervisorHypervisor
PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP)
Storage system
Flash
Cluster

18. PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform
2. Transparent remote data access on VM
migration
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HypervisorHypervisor
PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP)
Flash
Cluster
Storage system

19. PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform
3. Fault tolerant write acceleration
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HypervisorHypervisor
PernixData Flash Virtualization Platform (FVP)
Delayed writes
{0, 1, 2} x data replicas
Flash
Cluster
Storage system

20. Existing Flash Solutions
 Traditional Array Based
 Many are rip-and-replace solutions
 Array flash is simply too far across the network
 Loss of application/VM identity
 Higher cost, lower scalability
 Virtual Appliances
 Significant operational overhead
 Limited to single host read only cache
 Higher latency: Inherent virtual machine overhead
 Virtual Machine Drivers (guest based)
 Need custom applications or in-VM changes
 Not clustered, typically breaks cross-host hypervisor functions
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21. FVP 1.0 Datasheet
Get Pernix’d now – Trial signups at
pernixdata.com
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Supported Hypervisors Any version of vSphere 5.0, vSphere 5.1
Supported Storage All FC, FCoE, iSCSI storage platforms on vSphere
HCL
Supported Flash Enterprise class PCIe and SSD flash devices
Supported Servers Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, and others on vSphere HCL
Supported Modes Write-through
Write-back (includes fault tolerance for High
Availability)

22. Scale out
Does PernixData FVP scale linearly with hosts?
Yes! It beats SAN IOPS even in small host clusters
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0
50000
100000
150000
200000
250000
300000
350000
2 host 4 host 6 host
SAN only
FVP + SATA2
SSD + SAN
FVP + SATA3
SSD + SAN
IOPS

23. FVP Latency advantage
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0 1000 2000 3000 4000
Flash virtual appliance
8Gb FC SAN, NVRAM
8Gb FC SAN, all flash
FVP+remote flash/10GbE
FVP+Local flash
4KB read latency (us), no load

24. VDI with Write-through
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10 write-through Win 7 Linked Clones running 80% Read, 80% Random
for 6 minutes [including boot up and shut down]

25. Database in Write-back
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26. Summary
 PernixData’s Flash Virtualization Platform
provides enterprise-class, scale-out storage
performance in any virtualized datacenter
 Complimentary to existing or new storage
investment
 Can be deployed within minutes
 Provides instantaneous ROI
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27. Demo
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28. References
eGroup Blog – Software Defined Storage, A game Changer
http://www.egroup-us.com/2013/04/software-defined-storage-
a-game-changer/
PernixData Back Story – Building the worlds first Flash
Hypervisor
http://blog.pernixdata.com/the-pernixdata-backstory-building-
the-first-flash-hypervisor/
CRN – PernixData FVP clusters server flash to increase
storage performance in virtualized environments.
http://www.crn.com/news/storage/240159476/pernixdata-fvp-
clusters-server-flash-to-add-performance-in-virtualized-
environments.htm

29. Thank You