FlashSystem Portfolio Overview April 2016 w/ A9000

The Smarter Storage Approach
The IBM FlashSystem Portfolio
Joe Krotz
IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

IBM
FlashSystem
2014 & 2015
Magic Quadrant
Leader:
Solid State Arrays
IBM FlashSystem
2015
Leader: Price, Reliability
& Support
All Flash InfiniBand
Arrays
IBM FlashSystem
2014
#1 in Units & Capacity
Shipped for Solid-State
Arrays IBM FlashSystem
2015
Leader: Innovation &
Reliability
All Flash Fibre Channel
Arrays
IBM FlashSystem 840
2014
Product of the Year Finalist:
Enterprise All-Flash Storage
Systems
IBM FlashSystem
900/V9000
2015
Top 10 Coolest Flash Products
IBM FlashSystem
2015-2016
Major Player: All-Flash
Array Marketscape
IBM FlashSystem
2015
France CRIP IT Innovation
Forum Winner: Cloud,
Infrastructure & Storage
Category
IBM FlashSystem
V9000
2015
Product of the Year Finalist
All-Flash Systems
IBM FlashSystem
V9000
2015
Tech Innovator Award –
Storage Category
(Runner Up)
IBM FlashSystem Awards and Accolades
IBMCloud Enabled Flash Solutions

The Benefits of Flash
• Ultimate performance for your high I/O workloads
• Massive performance with 5x9’s reliability in a 2U chassis
• By moving your high I/O workloads to Flash, you’ll free up
iOPS/bandwidth/space on your current arrays, extending the life of a
customer’s current solution
• Massive benefits for databases, OLTP, high transaction workloads
• Huge benefits to end user VDI experience with consistent FlashSystems
performance with the new A9000
• With the V9000 and A9000, data optimization such as deduplication and
compression can save customers a significant amount of storage space
• No limit to the utilization of a FlashSystems array. Customers can move
away from the 3 year rip / replace cycle of upgrades!

It’s here
today!
2016
FlashSystem
V9000
Real Time
Compression
FlashSystem
900
57Tb usable
in 2U
Market
Leader
2015
FlashSystem
V840
Backed by
IBM SDS
FlashSystem
840
IBM Data
Engine for
NoSQL (CAPI)
2014
$1B IBM
Flash
Investment
FlashSystem
820/720,
810/710,
#1 Market
Share*
2013
Acquired
Texas
Memory
Systems
(TMS)
19th TMS
RamSan
product
generation
2012
IBM FlashSystem: Keeps getting better!

IBM’s premier, fully-integrated, all-flash offering
•New record in raw capacity shipped –
over 160PB for the year, and over 70PB
for 4Q. More than 160% YoY growth
(2.6x)
•FlashSystem V9000 made up 25% of
FlashSystem capacity shipped by 4Q
2015
•First customer installation with more
than 100 FlashSystem units, amounting
to over 5PBs of flash capacity
•Now have multiple PB+ customers,
with more than 2100 unique customers
in over 70 countries.
It just keeps growing!
Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped
IBM FlashSystems Raw Capacity Shipped
70
60
50
40
30
20
10

IBM FlashSystem Portfolio
• All Flash + Software Defined Storage
• FlashSystem 900 as a storage enclosure
+
Active/Active Virtualization Controllers
• Embedded SAN services
• Standalone all flash array
-or- as building block
• Pass off features that increase latency, bottleneck
IOPS or cap bandwidth
• Promote use of application-level services
IBM FlashSystem V9000IBM FlashSystem 900
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Absolute Tier 0 SAN Performance Enterprise Tier 1 SAN storage

Introducing IBM FlashCore
IBM uses tools and technologies to drive a robust solution…
Industry Standard Interface Technology
Powered by
IBM FlashCore Technology
IBM MicroLatency Module
Hardware Accelerated I/O
Advanced Flash Management
Industry Standard Chip Technology
IBM Enhanced
Micron Technology

• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS
• FC, iSCSI, FCoE & Infiniband connectivity
• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret sauce
Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips
• IBM enhanced flash technology
• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee
Improved integration with VMware
‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI
Performance at-a-glance (57TB config)
Minimum latency
Write 90 µs
Read 155 µs
Maximum IOPS 4 KB
Read (100%, random) 1,100,000
Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000
Write (100%, random) 600,000
Maximum bandwidth 256 KB
Read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s
Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/Best economics & performance!
IBM FlashSystem 900
Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 0 storage
Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB
Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12
RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0
Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5

FlashSystem data protection schema
Improving Availability and Serviceability
• Two-dimensional Flash RAID
• IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM
• Higher resilience
• Higher storage efficiency
• Higher rebuild performance
• Lower set uptime
• System-level RAID 5
• Non-disruptive (concurrent) code load
• Management features
• Call home
• Detailed logging
• Remote power on
• Fully redundant and hot-swappable
components
– Flash modules
– I/O interfaces
– RAID controllers
– Management controllers
– Power supplies
– Batteries
– Fan modules

Form Factor SSD
• Flash failure = Disk failure
• Requires top-level RAID
• Relatively frequent hot-swaps
Enterprise Flash Drive or Memory Module
• Flash failure = Degraded state within module
• Performance impact on RAID set
• Hot-swap to resolve
FlashSystem with Variable Stripe RAID
• Preserves Flash life
• Preserves performance
• Re-parity data in microseconds
Parity
Parity
No Parity
Less maintenance touches while
still preserving the life,
protection, and performance of
the Day-1 experience
Value of Variable
Stripe RAIDTM
IBM Variable
Stripe RAID
(VSR)

•Patented Variable Stripe
RAID allows RAID stripe
sizes to vary
•Maximum level of flash
module data protection
•Maximum wear life
Variable Stripe RAID™
Advantages:
•Protects data from a chip failure
•Dynamically re-stripes data at a sub-chip level
•Preserves life, protection and performance
IBM VSR™ protected flash modules:
Now we can build our system using far
more advanced technology than SSDs
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2
3
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FC-1
MC-2MC-1
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XBAR 0 XBAR 1
Two-dimensional VSR RAID
• IBM Variable Stripe RAID is 1st level of
protection (module-level)
• System-level RAID protects against
flash controller failure (abrupt module
failure)
• RAID 5 across modules, hot
swappable from front of chassis
• Two independent crossbar (XBAR)
controllers
• Interface controllers stripe across
XBARs
• Granular capacities configurable with
4, 6, 8, 10 or 12 flash modules

Flash Module Reliability – Safety Beyond Compare
• When Vendors sell flash storage, based on SSDs, it is critical those systems be able to survive double drive
failures. Customers would like to be able to survive more than two failures, but are left with no option other
than to take what they can get.
• IBM wasn’t satisfied with the limitations of off-the-shelf SSDs. We designed “true” flash systems where we
work directly with the flash chips. IBM created dedicated flash modules to provide customers with greater
performance and reliability.
In a 5.7TB FlashSystem module, a quarter of the flash chips on the module can fail before it needs to be replaced.
• 10 of the 64 flash chips in a module can fail without issue.
• If the 11th chip fails, the module will issue a warning, but continue to function
• If the 17th chip fails, the module is halted and the hot spare is brought in.
At this point, the system is still online and rebuilding the parity protection
It would take another 17+ chip failures on a different single module to see a dual drive failure
Safety beyond compare!

Health Binning and Heat Segregation – at the SUB-chip layer
Most SSD providers wear all flash blocks the same
• Weaker blocks wear out faster, eating into overprovisioning and resulting in earlier replacement
FlashCore Technology continuously monitors the health of each block
• FlashCore uses several sophisticated parameters to determine health
• Hotter data is put in healthier blocks!
• FlashCore writes data together that has the same approximate access heat
• If FlashCore detects a relatively large # of stale pages for the same address, those pages get isolated into a separate
set of flash blocks to reduce write amplification
• Heat bins get moved around, keeping blocks within 5% of wear
This asymmetrical wear leveling and sub-chip tiering work in conjunction
• Health binning: up to 57% improvement in endurance!
• Heat segregation: up to 45% reduction in write amplification!
Asymmetrical wear leveling results in significantly higher endurance in real life workloads!

IBM MicroLatency Modules (12)
RAID Controllers (2)
Battery Packs (2)
Power Supplies (2)
Fan Packs (4)
Interface Modules (4)
Management Modules (2)
Canisters (2)
IBM FlashSystem 900 components

Protecting business’s
most valuable asset
IBM FlashSystem tier-0 built-in encryption
• Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by
most leading compliance regulations such
as HIPAA and FIPS
• Data-at-rest design
• Local key management

• Modern design
• Icon-based navigation, informative
graphics, and visualizations
• Industry award winning interface
• CLI output for administrative tasks
• Reduce complexity
• Improve efficiency and productivity
• Neighborhood Management
• 300 days of performance history
Easy to use GUI for management!

Easily integrated into any environment
• 2U Chassis
• Less power utilization than a hair dryer!
• 8Gb or 16Gb Fibre Channel
• 10Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
• 40Gb InfiniBand
• 10Gb iSCSI

IBM FlashSystem V9000
IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system
Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage
• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire
infrastructures
• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency
• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456
TB usable (2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U
• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data
Virtualization, Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression
• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee
Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics
Powered by IBM FlashCore™
Technology

• Scalable to 2.2 PB effective capacity
• Flash for less than the cost of disk with
IBM Real-time Compression
• Low power and cooling requirements
• Virtualize storage
• Flash wear warranty
• Infrastructure continuity with space
efficient snapshots, cloning and
replication
• Fully integrated system management
• Application-aware data services
• AES, data at rest encryption
• Tier or mirror to existing storage
• Mixed workload consolidation
• Non-disruptive data migrations
• Concurrent code load
• Scale-up or scale-out
• Scalable to 2.5 million IOPS
• Scalable to 19.2 GB/s bandwidth
• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™
• Quality of Service
FlashSystem V9000: paradigm shift in enterprise storage
Dimensions of Value
Scalable
Performance
Agile
Integration
Enduring
Economics

Maximum Performance Scaled
Out
(100% Read, 4 Building Blocks)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 2,520,000
Bandwidth (128K) 19.2 GB/s
Maximum Performance Scalable
Build Block
(100% Read, Cache Miss)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 630,000
Maximum Performance
Fixed Build Block
(100% Read, Cache Miss)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 526,000
Two-dimensional scaling
Scale-up
(add capacity)
Scale-out
(add capacity
and performance)

Storage virtualization
Enduring Economics
Preserve your existing
investment in storage
Manage
Tier
Protect
Compress with Real-time Compression
Optimized performance at lower overall cost
IBM Easy Tier®
flash storage management
n Provisioning


Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated
space is reserved whether the
application uses it or not.
With thin provisioning, applications can
grow dynamically, but only consume space
they are actually using.
Dynamic
growth


Hot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.
Automatic
Relocation
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
M Easy Tier SSD Management
Flash FlashHDDs HDDs
Enduring
Economics

V9000 virtualizes almost any block storage!
Gold = IBM FlashSystem
0.4ms response time, > 100k IOPS
Oracle & SQL
Silver = IBM V7000
1ms response time, ~ 30k IOPS
Exchange / VMware
Bronze = EMC disk
5ms response time, ~ 10k IOPS
General Purpose
(FC, FCoE, iSCSI)
Block (SAN) storage
V9000 Tiers
IBMEasyTier

Quality of Service (QoS)
Scalable Performance
• Help alleviate performance
contention
• Give your application the
performance it needs
• Ability to cap IOPS or bandwidth
on a per volume basis
Scalable
Performance

Flexible volumes
Agile Integration
• Generic – fully allocated
• Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand
• Mirror – two copies of volume
• Migrate between pools or change
volume type
• Preferred read mirror between flash
and legacy storage (all reads from flash)
• Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thin
• Compressed – volumes utilizing Real-time Compression
Agile
Integration

Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismic
Virtual
Servers
JPEG/ZIP
80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression
Rate
Traditional
Storage
Average of
65% Compression!
Real-time Compression Efficient
Half the Data Storage!
Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data Enduring
Economics

Mixed workload consolidation
Agile Integration
Performance Scaling
Strong Mixed
R/W Performance
Quality of Service
Automatic Tiering
Capacity Scaling
ERP / SCM Transaction Big Data Virtualization Cloud
Agile
Integration

• Improve workforce productivity
• Simplify management
• Single name space
Fully integrated system management
Agile Integration

FlashSystem + VMWare®
: an ideal fit
Agile Integration
• Redefine Tier 1 performance for
workloads with diverse I/O
patterns
• Optimize your data tier with
thin provisioning, snapshots, and
real-time compression
Area Integration Value
Management vCenter plug-in • Storage visibility
• Self-service provisioning with controlled delegation
Business
Continuity
SRA for Site
Recovery Manager
• Automated Storage and Host
•Failover
•Failover testing
•Failback
Performance VAAI • Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration
• Hardware accelerated VM initiation
• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)
Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility
& scale in virtualized environments
Agile
Integration

Metro Mirror – Synchronous
–Updates are committed to both sites
before acknowledged to server
–Supported up to 300 km, adds
additional latency to hosts
Global Mirror – Asynchronous
–Server update acknowledged in
parallel to update to remote site
–Supported up to 80ms of round-trip
latency, distance dependent upon
network quality
FlashCopy Options
• Full or “thick”
• Thin nocopy
• Incremental
• Cascading
• Multi-target
• Consistency groups
• Reverse
Infrastructure continuity
Enduring Economics
• Snapshot – Instant space-efficient, thin
provisioned copy, capture state of
volume before a change
• Clone – Creates a complete one-time
replica of source, testing data or
attaching to other servers
• Backup – Complete point in time replica
that can be incrementally refreshed
Full set of disaster recovery tools:
Enduring
Economics

IBM FlashSystem accelerates your route to success
Flash Everywhere:
Introducing the newest addition to
the FlashSystem family

• Intuitive user interface
• Redirect on Write Snapshots
• Asynchronous Replication
• Synchronous Replication
• VMware integrated
• Linked to OpenStack and SoftLayer
• REST API
FEATURE RICH
• Flash-optimized data deduplication and
compression lower TCO
• Thin provisioning and snapshots maximize
storage efficiency
EFFICIENT
• IBM FlashCoreTM technology
• Consistent low latency even with full-
time data reduction
FAST
Purpose-built for the cloud
• Hyper-Scale framework
• QoS supports mixed workloads
• Multi-tenancy
• Modular
CLOUD OPTIMIZED
SECURE
• IBM FlashCore technology with IBM
Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection
• Non-disruptive upgrades
• Five 9’s availability
• Survive controller failures without
performance degradation
Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000
A highly parallel all-flash platform for the cloud-scale business
IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator

• Scale out to multiple petabytes to
quickly accommodate your growth
• Scale capacity and performance
FEATURE RICH
SCALABLE
EFFICIENT AUTOMATED
FAST
SECURE
• Flash-optimized data deduplication and
compression lower TCO
• Thin provisioning and snapshots maximize
storage efficiency
• IBM FlashCoreTM technology
• Consistent low latency even with
full-time data reduction at scale
• Intuitive user interface
• Redirect on Write Snapshots
• Asynchronous Replication
• Synchronous Replication
• VMware integrated
• Linked to OpenStack and SoftLayer
• IBM FlashCore technology with IBM
Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection
• Survive controller failures without
performance degradation
• Grid-scale automatically redistributes
across all resources available
• No hot spots, zero tuning
Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000R
A grid-scale, all-flash storage platform designed to drive your business into the cognitive era

Architecture & Building Blocks
 Two Models – Pod and Rack
 Rack is a Scalable grid architecture
 Scalable from 2 to 6 building blocks
 Each building block consists of 2 compute nodes & 1 Flash drawer
 Capacity scalable from 29TB to 342TB
 Effective capacity is 1.7PB (using 5X data reduction)
 Fully redundant without SPOF – Including Flash
 All enclosures have dual redundant BBUs
• System x3650 M5
• XIV Flash-Optimized SW stack
• IBM FlashSystem 900
• 2D RAID5
• 12 x 2.9TB or 12 x 5.7TB
• FlashCore Enhanced MLC Flash
• Redundant Infiniband switches
• FDR 56Gbps
Cloud-Scale Infrastructures
OLTP Databases
Virtual Infrastructures
Analytical Apps/OLAP
HPC
Computational
Applications

Introducing FlashSystem Advanced Grid Storage
• Superior ease of use and out of the box experience!
• Designed for best and Fastest Data Reduction
• Deduplication and Compression
• “Tuning – Free” Consistent Performance with Micro Latency!
• Up to 2M IOPs WITH Data Reduction on!!!
• Sub mS response time WITH Data Reduction on!!!
• Combines XIV Grid scale with Flash Fine Grain Grid architecture
• Enterprise grade High Availability and Security
• Building off a legacy of high RAS from both products
• Hardware Acceleration with FlashCore Technology
• Rich set of Tier 1 proven advanced function
• Rich set of Multi Tenancy functions for Cloud functionality!
IBM FlashSystem A9000R
Up to 2PB Capacity
IBM FlashSystem A9000
Up to 342TB+
8U standalone with no
switches needed
Planning to deploy first time in GA!

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ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
Enclosure Level Raid 5
Incoming IO triplicates
across cache for maximum
resiliency
2D RAID provides
baseline protection
Patented per module
protection
A9000 Redundancy at multiple levels protects like no others can
IBM Variable Stripe RaidTM

• Ships as fully integrated rack
• Scalable grid architecture
• Capacity scales from 300 TB to 2 PB (using up to 6X data
reduction)
• Flash Optimized XIV software stack
• Next Generation Server is disaggregated from storage
•Larger Caches, Innovative tiered cache structure
•Server failure takes out no flash cards
• Flash enclosure with code to enable seamless integration
• IB Network with RDMA for fast message and data passing
FLASH ENCLOSURE
GRID CONTROLLERS
IB SWITCHES
PDUs
MGMT. MODULE
IBM FlashSystem A9000R

Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress
Restore 1.03:1 5.6:1 5.7:1
Restore + Test 1.02:1 4.2:1 4.2:1
Dedupe Effectiveness - Database
• TPCC benchmark
• DB restore stage (1.2TB written data)
• TPCC Test (~0.5TB written data)
* Dedupe will be found if a DB is copied
Dedupe Effectiveness- VDI
• VMWare View Planner
• 100 VMs deployment
• VM size is ~16 GB
• Includes the VM creation phase and the performance benchmark
Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress
Creation 25:1 2:1 50:1
Creation + Performance 16:7:1 2:1 33:1

IBM FlashSystem tier 1 guarantee
Performance: IBM MicroLatency Flash Modules provide world class performance!
Endurance: Flash memory will be covered for read/write endurance as
long as you are under warranty or maintenance.
7 year 24 x 7 Support: Up to 7 years support available with optional price
protection and flash media retention offerings.
Peace of Mind: No Charge, Complimentary IBM services for all Tier 1
opportunities: 40 hours for 228+ TB solutions up to 556 TB, or 80 hours for
556+ TB solutions, Lab Services delivery in 2015.
IBM FlashSystem – GUARANTEED!!! http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
Data Reduction: The eligible machine, using compression, will achieve a system
level storage efficiency savings rate of at least 3:1, based on Comprestimator
performance modeling results, within the guarantee period.

Improve storage uptime and simplify support efforts with
personalized assistance
Complex storage issues can cause downtime. And that can
obstruct your business operations. How do you efficiently
resolve these costly and high-impact problems?
Of course, your storage device service agreements with IBM
enable you to access robust support to help resolve high-
severity storage challenges. But without a technical advisor,
your staff still needs to know how to access help and determine
the issue.
With a technical advisor for storage from IBM, you can gain
continued technical support for critical issues—as well as
proactive advice for problem prevention.
• Improve uptime
Continued assistance from one specialist can
resolve high-severity problems more quickly
• Enhance efficiency
Work with IBM to promote staff productivity
through support protocols and critical-
problem management techniques
• Avert problems
Your consultant can offer
time-tested methods to
help you prevent outages
and use IBM support more
effectively
Scalable
Performance
Agile
Integration
Enduring
Economics
IBM Technical Advisor for Storage
Now included with FlashSystems!

Websites:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/
Product Pages:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/storwize/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/
IBM RedBooks
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
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Thank you!

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