IBM Spectrum Accelerate is software that extends the capabilities of IBM's XIV storage system, such as consistent performance tuning-free, to new delivery models. It provides enterprise storage capabilities deployed in minutes instead of months. Spectrum Accelerate runs the proven XIV software on commodity x86 servers and storage, providing similar features and functions to an XIV system. It offers benefits like business agility, flexibility, simplified acquisition and deployment, and lower administration and training costs.

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IBM Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Spectrum Accelerate
XIV as Software
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Title
email
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Objectives:
 Understand what Spectrum Accelerate is, licensing options and support
 Understand Spectrum Accelerate value and positioning
 Describe the architecture and use cases

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Hybrid
Cloud
Changing Nature of Business and Data
Free data from constraints of hardware and realign with
new business processes and applications
Business
Pressures
New
Applications
Data
Growth

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Traditional Workloads New Workloads
Transactional Systems
Email, Supply Chain, HR
Virtual Servers and
Desktops
Social and Media
Mobile Applications
Big Data & Analytics
Optimal
business value
Systems of Engagement
Require massive scale and rapid
pace
Accelerate business insights
Rely on data elasticity, supporting
diverse hardware
Systems of Record
Benefit from simplified
infrastructure
Require cost efficiency through
improved virtualization and
automation
Drive controlled data growth
These Market Shifts Introduce Different Data Economics

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Blindly adding capacity
Data trapped in storage silos
Data duplication and more silos
Extending refresh cycles
Ad hoc cloud usage
Business SLAs Challenging Traditional Storage Approaches
Complexity
Cost
Inflexibility

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Flash SystemsAny Storage
Private, Public
or Hybrid Cloud
Control
Virtualize Accelerate Scale
Family of Storage Management
and Optimization Software
Protect Archive
IBM Spectrum
Control
Analytics-driven data
management to reduce costs
by up to 50 percent
IBM Spectrum
Protect
Optimized data protection to
reduce backup costs by up to
38 percent
IBM Spectrum
Archive
Fast data retention that
reduces TCO for active archive
data by up to 90%
IBM Spectrum
Virtualize
Virtualization of mixed
environments stores up to 5x
more data
IBM Spectrum
Accelerate
Enterprise storage for cloud
deployed in minutes instead of
months
IBM Spectrum
Scale
High-performance, highly
scalable storage for
unstructured data
IBM Spectrum Storage Family Naming

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Flash SystemsAny Storage
Private, Public
or Hybrid Cloud
Control
Virtualize Accelerate Scale
Family of Storage Management
and Optimization Software
Protect Archive
IBM Spectrum
Control
TPC and Management layer of
Virtual Storage Center (VSC)
IBM Storage Integration Server
IBM Spectrum
Protect
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)
IBM Spectrum
Archive
Linear Tape File System
(LTFS)
IBM Spectrum
Virtualize
SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
IBM Spectrum
Accelerate
XIV as Software
IBM Spectrum
Scale
Elastic Storage - GPFS
IBM Software Defined Storage Family - What you may remember …

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IBM Spectrum Storage Family – Control and Data Plane
Storage and Data Control
Data access
Flexibility to integrate and interoperate with Storage or Cloud Services
Flexibility to use IBM and non-IBM Servers and Storage Devices and storage on the cloud
IBM Storwize, XIV, DS8000, FlashSystem and Tape Systems
Non-IBM storage – including common building block servers and media and non-IBM clouds

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XIV Gen3 integrated systems is …
Optimized, high performance grid hardware XIV Software (5639-YYB)
+
Integrated, factory tested, ready to use, 24x7 complete service

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IBM Spectrum Accelerate - XIV as Software
Redefining Economics of Storage Systems
Overview
Software based on IBM XIV storage that extends XIV enterprise
capabilities, such as tuning-free consistent performance, to new
delivery models needed by next-generation application environments
Key Capabilities
 Enterprise cloud storage in minutes, leveraging commodity hardware
 Hotspot-free performance and QoS without any manual or background
tuning needed
 Advanced remote replication, role-based security, and multi-tenancy
 Deploy on premise or on the cloud
 Hyper-scale management of dozens of Petabytes of storage
 Best in class VMware and OpenStack integration
Benefits
 Similar features and functions as an XIV integrated system
 Compatible with XIV system for management and replication
 Enterprise-class function and data availability
 Maximized business agility and flexibility
 Simplified acquisition and rapid deployment
 Minimized administration and training costs
 Exceptional ease of use
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XIV Software Defined Storage is …
XIV Software X86
server
X86
server
X86
server+
3 to 15 Storage Nodes
Client provided

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XIV Software Defined Storage
 Built with mature, proven, XIV software stack
• Adapted to run on client provided x86 server
hardware
• Similar features and functions as an XIV integrated
system
• Compatible with XIV system for management and
replication
• Client installed
 Complements XIV Integrated System
• Lower capacity and cost point solutions
• Rapid build-out of test and dev environments
• Lower cost DR targets
• Remote-office and Branch-office solutions
• and more…
10GbE
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SW
iSCSI
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SWiSCSI
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SWiSCSI
.
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Spectrum Accelerate – Value

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What’s the Value of Spectrum Accelerate?
Easy to use, with proven architecture and features
• Zero performance optimization needed; tune-free
scaling
• Consolidated management; enterprise features
• Capacity planning, monitoring, reporting
externalization
• Same user experience across any deployment
model
Easy to acquire, license and deploy
• Download from IBM site; get up and running fast
• Licensing flat and flexible: per usable TiB,
perpetual, fixed monthly, or both; transferrable;
functions included; no hidden costs;
Low TCO
• Drive self service automation and private cloud
deployment
• Drive down costs of acquisition and maintenance
• High end storage at lower entry point – 3 nodes
Value point Spectrum
Accelerate
Guaranteed consistent performance for all
workloads with zero tuning

Enterprise features: advanced snapshots,
consistency groups, remote mirroring, multi-
tenancy and more

Proven resiliency and robustness at some of
the world’s largest firms; protects data
through multi tenancy, self-healing, super-fast
rebuilds

Low touch ease of use; Hyper-Scale
Manager, GUI, CLI; Mobile apps; OpenStack
cloud integrations

Powerful QoS 
Full automation via REST 

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Spectrum Accelerate is viable in many new scenarios
 Deploy with choice across hardware, software, cloud, or a mix
 Standardize operations and services; reduce procurement
 Extend data center resources or converge them into a single appliance
 Run ad hoc projects and repurpose hardware when done
 Rapidly deploy an “application sandbox”
 Run a diversity of traditional storage OLTP and new workloads
 Deliver high end storage to Tier 1/2/3/4 applications
 Store cold data or basic workloads on existing data center storage
 Accommodate cloud and analytics workloads with guaranteed SLAs
 Deploy consistent HA storage to smaller or distributed organizations (banks, schools,
remote offices), while using lower-cost servers and drives
 Provide DR and other advanced solutions to branch organizations
Flexible
operations
Remote office/
Branch office
Application
environments
Disaster recovery
and backup
 Mirror to the cloud or a system running Spectrum Accelerate
 Execute server-based on premise backup solutions
 Perform cloud-based backup, recovery, archiving to data center servers
 Run across an on premise XIV system and off-premise cloud like SoftLayer
 Perform cloud-based backup, recovery, archiving to data center servers
 Out-of-the-box integration with any product based on XIV technology
Hybrid & SoftLayer

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Why choose Spectrum Accelerate?
 One continuous environment from XIV system to Spectrum
Accelerate
 Derived from a proven architecture - thousands of systems in
production at the world’s largest companies, across all sectors
 Enterprise proven reliability, agility, consistent performance at
any scale, and management simplicity
 Consistent, predictable performance for large data capacity
without management overhead and need for expensive storage
skills
 Exceptional management flexibility
• Hyper-scale management, GUI, CLI
• Mobile apps
• Cloud integration
• Orchestration via REST

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Spectrum Accelerate – Pricing

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Spectrum Accelerate Pricing
 Priced per BINARY (TiB) of usable hard capacity
• Level, predictable pricing
• Affordable to start small and grow
• Not tied to any specific hardware configuration
– E.g. 200TiB license could be deployed various ways
– One 200TiB instance
– Two 100TiB instances
– Four 50TiB instances
– …or any other combination (up to 200TiB in this example)
• Based on the hardware configuration, formatted XIV usable capacity – not how much is consumed
 Offered two ways:
• Perpetual license - includes one year of subscription and service (S&S)
– Paid up front
– S&S renewal will be 20% of entitled price
– There is a charge for renewing a lapsed S&S agreement
• Monthly license - includes S&S
– Payable: monthly, quarterly, annually
– Automatic renewal

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Spectrum Accelerate – Architecture

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Spectrum Accelerate Overview
 XIV software stack in a Virtual Machine (VM)
• ESXi 5.5 hypervisor, non-cluster, per server
 The SW aggregates locally-attached HDD storage into a
consolidated storage grid:
• Data is spread across all nodes and all HDDs in the grid using the
XIV Gen3 proven data distribution
• Each 1MB piece of data is mirrored on two different nodes for
data protection
• No server RAID, data is protected by the XIV algorithms
• SSD and RAM used as cache for performance
• Supports XIV features available in 11.5.0 release
• Managed through XIV GUI and Hyper-Scale Manager
 Additional considerations
• Today: 1xServer -> 1xHypervisor (ESX) -> 1xXIV-VM
• 10GbE iSCSI for interconnect and host connectivity
• All nodes act as interface nodes
• X86 server support
• Homogeneous server configuration across the grid
 Between 3 to 15 nodes for first release
10GbE
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SW
iSCSI
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SWiSCSI
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SWiSCSI
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Spectrum Accelerate configuration
SSD / HDD Assignment
CPU Cores Assignment
Memory Pinning
Hypervisor
Shared 10 Gig Ethernet ports
For iSCSI and XIV grid

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VM resources configuration range at GA
VM resources Min Max
Data HDD count 6 12
Data HDD capacity 1 TB 4 TB
Hypervisor boot device 1 1
SSD count 0 1
SSD capacity 500 GB Capped at 800 GB
RAM 32 GB 48 GB
CPU 4 cores 16 cores
Network 1 to 6 x 10GbE
X86 servers (“nodes”) 3 15
Additional resources need to be available in the server to support
the Hypervisor

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ESXi Host Server Requirements
 At least 3 (up to 15) ESXi 5.5 host servers should be pre-configured with:
• Six to twelve like capacity HDD’s for Spectrum Accelerate use plus an additional HDD that contains
one datastore with a minimum of 250 GB of free formatted space for storing the Spectrum
Accelerate image
• CPU with at least 4 physical cores
• At least 32GB of RAM
• Any RAID function of the disk controller should be disabled (all HDDs should work in JBOD mode)
• A public IP address for management
• One or two public IP addresses for iSCSI connectivity
• SSH access enabled (can be disabled after the deployment is completed)
• One, two or three vSwitches with corresponding port groups defined to support the management,
interconnect, and iSCSI networks
– Note: as a best practice, the same port group names should be predefined on all XIV designated
ESXi hosts
• Interconnect network must match the bandwidth of the iSCSI network (10 GigE)
– Consist of a dedicated broadcast domain, which can be implemented using a private VLAN that
includes:
– Two private subnets (IP range examples 172.16-31.x.x or 192.168.0-254.x)
– End-to-end MTU setting of 9000 if 10 GigE is used
 ESXi hosts can be connected to a vCenter server, although it is not a requirement
• If a vCenter server is used, Spectrum Accelerate and disk resources can be visually monitored through
vSphere Client
 A single VM will be created for each Spectrum Accelerate node

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Managing Spectrum Accelerate
 Managed with existing XIV interfaces
• GUI and Hyper-Scale Manager
• Scriptable XCLI
• Mobile apps + push notifications
 Enabling customer orchestration software via RESTful API
• Provisioning
• Monitoring
…

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Monitoring Spectrum Accelerate
 Health monitoring and event reporting
 Disk performance collection and reporting
 Disk SMART monitoring
 Power
• Customer provides reliable power through the Data Center's UPS and generator
– All ESXi servers and networks must be protected
• XIV provides an interface to start a graceful shutdown

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Network connectivity for Spectrum Accelerate
 Host application server connectivity is via iSCSI
• Host Attachment Kit (HAK) provided to simplify
iSCSI management
• Spectrum Accelerate function resides on every
node - all modules are interface modules
 Ethernet based interconnect
• Using Data Center’s existing infrastructure
• iSCSI and interconnect infrastructure can be
shared
• Recommendations
– 10GbE Infrastructure
– VLAN + QoS enabled interconnect
– Multiple network ports for higher resiliency and
throughput
10GbE
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SW
iSCSI
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SWiSCSI
OS / Hypervisor
XIV
SWiSCSI
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Spectrum Accelerate Deployment
 Six easy steps
1. Download deployment bundle – distributed as a software package
2. Install ESX
3. Configure networking
4. Complete deployment configuration xml
5. Deploy
• Linux cli (as depicted) or
• Windows cli or XIV GUI
6. Configure XIV

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Spectrum Accelerate – Use Cases

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Remote and Branch Offices
 High Availability (HA) storage for smaller environments
• Keep branches up and running
• Have reliable, secure backup and recovery processes
• Affordable disaster recovery
 Leverage current server infrastructure at remote offices
• Typically lack the specialized IT resources needed
• Space and power footprints are often limited
 Centralize management
• Reduce staffing costs
• Creates a single storage solution for all locations

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Scalable and modular building block
 Consolidate storage and compute resources into a single
appliance
• Enables the IT administrator to singlehandedly manage the
entire data center stack
• Allows standardization of network, compute, power and
environmentals
• Leverage existing Data Center services and maintenance
contracts
 Simplifies the architecture when lacking specialized, domain-
specific skill sets
Flat & Simple DC

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Bridge to Hybrid Cloud
 Backup to and recover from the cloud
 Replicate to the cloud (intermediate DR)
instead of host based replication
 Easily adapt to changing customer
demands
Create ad-hoc test environments
 Enable Cloud Service Providers to provide
advanced XIV storage features

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Business motivators
 Avoid “forklift” upgrade situations
• Add advanced data services into the environment without a
heavy uplift
 Enterprise storage within financial reach
• Mid size firm without large investment in IT
• Start small and grow
 Try and Buy
• Existing SW maintenance is high? Become familiar with XIV
 Server investment protection
• Create a modern storage system from existing servers

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New storage model for disk-based backup and archiving
 TV Broadcasting:
• Digitalize TV shows and offer an online service
• Need to increase content 10x, reduce cost by 4-
5x
 Banks
• Allowed to store only part of backups in the
cloud
• Looking for a server based solution on premise
 Telco Regulation compliance:
• Need to save raw data
• Finer resolution than tape
 Governmental :
• “For us, it means cheap, simple to manage
storage, for applications that don't require high
SLA”

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Spectrum Accelerate: Key Stakeholder Benefits
 Enterprise CIO: can dynamically scale storage for new CAMSS
applications without significant up-front investments and at a reduced
50% operational cost
• Reduce capital expenses by utilizing existing infrastructure for
storage rather than investing in scale-up storage solutions designed
for peak performance
• Reduce operational expenses by enabling self-service storage
 Storage Administrator: can guarantee enterprise-level SLAs for
CAMSS workloads storage-provisioned automatically in a self-
serviced manner
• Realize continuous high enterprise-level performance and reduce
service time by allowing for hardware replacement without requiring
external technician involvement
 Cloud Administrator: can self-deploy a complete elastic storage
solution on demand in less than a day - as easily as deploying virtual
servers
• Easily order and deploy a storage solution online
• Accommodate the most appropriate storage capacity size in the most
cost-affordable manner by easily adding a new node to the grid when
needed and even re-purpose storage without being restricted by rack
physical constraints

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Spectrum Accelerate – Support and Services

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Spectrum Accelerate Service and Support Strategy
 Customers have the responsibility of downloading, installing, upgrading and maintaining
the Spectrum Accelerate Software
 Hardware maintenance and troubleshooting actions will be carried out by the customer
 SWMA base entitlement will include
• Sev1: 24x7 30 min response, 24x7x365, including live support
• Sev2: 2 hours response, 24x7x365
 XIV-as-Software portal
• Best Practices Community and Technical Forum
• Customer Knowledge Base
• Blog – Market trends, announcements and white papers
 TA support and scope is being reviewed
 Storage Lab services offering will include standard Fee Based Services and advanced
services such as integration with Orchestration Systems
Fi/ kl
Self Service Portal
Technical
Forum for
technical
Discussions and
Questions
Blogs
IBM and
Client’s content
Expert Sessions and Webinars

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Lab Services Offerings
Offering Scope of Services Summary
Architecture and
Consulting Service
• Architect and Consulting minimum of 8 hours, max of 80 depends on
complexity
• Partner with the client to develop the solution architecture specific to
the client business and IT goals
Proof of Concept (POC) • POC estimated at 5 days minimum
• Assist the client with end-to-end deployment
• Execute a standard test script, work with client to define additional
tests and execution
• Customer debrief at the conclusion of the engagement
Quick Start • Quick Start estimated at 5 days
• End-to-end deployment in customer environment
• Standard implementation of the cluster including ESXi server; set up,
configuration, and pools/volumes/connectivity
Custom Quick Start
Implementation
• Includes the Quick Start services plus:
• Typically will include integration into a customer production
environment
• Replication services
• Host validation and migration services
• Skills transfer

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WW Lab Services experts
 Aligned to help position, scope, estimate and assure delivery
 WW Management Contacts:
• Nathan Bufalini – Delivery Manger – STG Systems Lab Services – NA
• Bob Xu
• Pen Reng
 Technical WW Contacts:
• Don Mathisen – Americas
• Dong Hai Yu – GCG
• Stephan Weyrich -EMEA
 Opportunity Manager WW Contacts:
• Will be named in Q1
 Funding:
• Post Sales Funding
• SDE Care
• Migration Factory
• CIFS
• Customer

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Sizing tool: TCA/TCO, capacity and performance
 Excel based tool
 TCA/TCO model
 Solution Capacity sizing based on system components
 Solution Performance range estimates
 Will be made available after announcement dates
 Dedicated training session

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Spectrum Accelerate – Demo

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Suggested Resources/Contacts Section

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Resources
 FindIT for latest Education, Assets, Enablement and Client Materials
• https://findit.cloud.dst.ibm.com
 Know on the Go for CAMSS, Software Defined Infrastructure and IBM Spectrum
Storage Conversations and materials
• https://ibm.01click.net/web/index.html?hp_id=257
 XIV Knowledge Center
• http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STJTAG/com.ibm.help.xivgen3.doc/xiv_kc
welcomepage.html

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