Shared the stage with Stanley Zaffos, Reasearch VP at Gartner Ashish Yajnik, Director, Product Management at Symantec Discussed the role of Server based Flash and why it absolutely a must for the efficient data-centers of tomorrow. ioMemory from Fusion-io and Symantec Storage Foundation create some pretty compelling value for these Data-centers.

1. IA B20: Why Host Based Flash is critical for SLA in
Mission Critical Datacenters
Gene Ruth – Research Director, Gartner
Sumeet Bansal - Principal Solutions Architect, FusionIO
Ashish Yajnik, Director, Product Management, Symantec
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2. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Agenda
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Market Trends & Analysis on Flash
FusionIO Flash Overview & Use-Cases
Symantec focus on In-Server Flash
Summary
Q&A

3. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Flash Storage Market Trends – Gene Ruth
CFS Scale Out Performance 3

4. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
By 2015 every enterprise storage
environment will use some form of
solid-state flash technology.
Strategic Planning Assumption
Reasons why SPA will be false
SSD pricing remains high
No consensus on placement of
SSD in the storage stack
Poor data management
software optimization
Reasons why SPA will be true
SSD price decline and margin
compression
A consensus on the best
practice placement of SSDs by
the industry
Better awareness of SSD
benefits by IT organizations
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5. Transactions
Second
Latency
100s
100,000s
100,000,000s
1,000,000,000s
Picoseconds Nanoseconds Microseconds Milliseconds Seconds
Storage
SSD HDD
DRAM
CPU
• Performance, latency, and bandwidth abilities
can be transformational
• For certain application workloads TCO
can be considerable
• Operational expenditure benefits: Server
consolidation, power, cooling, space savings
• Massive competition driving innovation UP
and prices DOWN
PCIe
SSD
Data Center Computing Trends:
The Solid-state Opportunity
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6. SSD Placement Pros and Cons
• General workloads
• Existing
infrastructure
• Universally
available
Storage
Array
• Dedicated
workloads
• Dedicated
infrastructure
• Startup community
SSD
Appliance
• App specific
workloads
• Disruptive to
architecture
• Limited vendor
selection
In-Server
Blended capacity
and performance
Non-specific high
performance
Application specific
performance
Infrastructure Disruptionlow high
IBM
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7. Server based SSD
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Challenges
• Expensive
• Cache coherency
• Cache hinting
• Shared resources
• Functional coordination
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Hypervisor
VM VM
App App App App
Cache
Benefits
• High performance
• Improved server utilization
• Virtualize backend storage
Storage array

8. Data Center Customer Deployment
Trends
44%
56%
2012 SSD Shipments
5.99M Units
Progressive
Traditional
32%
68%
2016 SSD Shipments
18.01M Units
Progressive
Traditional
• Progressive Data
Centers Lead
• Inexpensive Solutions
• PCIe SSD, PC
SSD, and SSD
Appliances
• Traditional Data
Centers Rally
• Data Efficiency
Management Software
• Support and Services
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9. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
FusionIO – Designed for High Performance in Server
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10. 37% OF SERVER S ARE UNDE RUT I LI ZE D 1
Data Supply Problem
10
▸ Processing performance doubles every 18 months
▸ But storage performance has not kept up
1 Source: IDC's Server Workloads 2010, July 2010
2 Source: Taming the Power Hungry Data Center, Fusion-io White Paper
Server is idle
80% of the time
CPUs
Memory
Storage
RelativePerformance
2000 20051985 1990 1995 2010
PERFORM A N CE GAP CONT INUE S T O GROW
Growing
performance
gap²
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11. 7, 11
The Solution
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NAND Flash Chips
LED Indicator Lights
PCI-e Carrier Card
Fusion-io Data-Path Controller
Controller
Embedded
Switching
Hundreds
of
Flash
Memory
Die

12. 7, 12
Cut-through Architecture and VSL
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▸ Sophisticated architecture
• maximum performance
▸ Intelligent software
• advanced features
Kernel
File System
Virtual Storage Layer (VSL)
ioMemory
Applications/Databases PCIe
DRAM /
Memory /
Operating System and
Application Memory
ioMemory
Virtualization
Tables
Channels Wide
Banks
ioDrive ioMemory
Data-Path
Controller
Commands
Host
Virtual Storage Layer
(VSL)
DATATRANSFERS
CPU and cores

13. Traditional Centralized Architecture
13
Application
CPU and
Memory
HBA Switches
Target
Adapters
CPU and
Memory
RAID
Controllers
HDD/SSD
SERVERS
Active and
Archive Data
STORAGE (Performance Optimized)NETWORK
Milliseconds
Databases
Virtualization
Web-scale
Latency and Processing TimeActive Data
Application CPUs NAND Flash Raid Controller HDD/SSD
SERVERS
Latency and Processing Time Archive Data
Microseconds Milliseconds
Databases
Virtualization
Web-scale
Shared Data Decentralization

14. ioDrive2 – Designed for the
Enterprise
CAPACITY
▸ 365 GB - 3.0 TB per single
PCI-e slot
▸ Over 30TB per many
commodity servers
PERFORMANCE
▸ Up to 3.0 GB/s throughput
▸ Up to 1.1 Million IOPS
▸ Write latency of 15 µs
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15. Acceleration Solutions
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Max Acceleration Max Interoperability Max Scalability
• Lowest latency
• Smallest footprint
• For I/O intensive
applications
• Drop-in SAN/NAS
acceleration
• Storage workload
reduction
• Greater VM density
• Multi-protocol
• Platform independent
• For clustered
architectures
DIRECT CACHING SHARED
x2 x2 x2 x2
x2

16. Comprehensive Customer Success
16
50+ case studies at www.fusionio.com/casestudies
May 22, 2013
FINANCI AL S
MANUFA CT U R I NG/
GOVERNME NT
W EB T ECHNOLOGY RET AIL
FASTER DATA
WAREHOUSE
QUERIES40x
FASTER
UPDATE
QUERIES20x
FASTER
DATABASE
REPLICATION30xFASTER DATA
ANALYSIS5x FASTER
QUERIES15x

17. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Symantec Storage Foundation – Optimized for In-Server Flash
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18. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Storage Foundation Flash Strategy –
Achieve the right $/IOPS with Flash/SSD
Storage Foundation Roadmap & Strategy 18
Optimize SSD
• App aware Storage Tiering
• Optimize Storage with
Compression & Deduplication
• Migration to ANY storage
DAS - Eliminate SAN
SSD closest to CPU
Avoid SAN
Server Flash as Cache
Lower latency
SAN for efficiency
Optimize R+W Perfomance
• Remove logjams in SAN
• Rely on commodity SAN storage
• Optimize Read & Writes
Enable True DAS
• Mix of SATA & Flash for SLA
• Benefits of SAN in DAS
• Linearly scale as need grows
Server Flash as Tier
Application Driven
SAN for efficiency
Storage Foundation Optimizes Flash/SSD in ANY form factor
Futures Futures

19. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Optimized for Server based Flash:
Accelerate I/O Performance with Storage Foundation
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Read I/O Acceleration
Write I/O Acceleration
• Write-back Caching for low latency
• Clustered Cache Coherency & Warming
• High availability with reflected cache
• Read I/O Acceleration with Caching
• Pin files for proactive acceleration
• Application aware heuristics
Storage Foundation SmartIO
PCIe
Flash
Application
Transparency & Heterogeneity
• Transparent setup, discovery of Flash
• Optimized for each flash vendor
• Less reliance on Tier1 storage
FS/CFS Caching
PCIe
Flash
CFS/SFHA Distributed Caching Layer
Futures
Latency HDD SSD
Reads 3-10ms ~100µs
Writes 3-10ms ~200µs ANY SAN Storage
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AcktoApp
AcktoApp

20. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Optimized for Server based Flash:
Accelerate I/O Performance with Storage Foundation
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Read I/O Acceleration
Write I/O Acceleration
• Write-back Caching for low latency
• Clustered Cache Coherency & Warming
• High availability with reflected cache
• Read I/O Acceleration with Caching
• Pin files for proactive acceleration
• Application aware heuristics
Storage Foundation SmartIO
PCIe
Flash
Application
Transparency & Heterogeneity
• Transparent setup, discovery of Flash
• Optimized for each flash vendor
• Less reliance on Tier1 storage
FS/CFS Caching
PCIe
Flash
CFS/SFHA Distributed Caching Layer
Futures
Latency HDD SSD
Reads 3-10ms ~100µs
Writes 3-10ms ~200µs ANY SAN Storage
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AcktoApp
AcktoApp

21. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Business Value of SmartIO + In Server Flash:
Leverage commodity storage in backend
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FC
…
$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$$$$$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
Without SmartIO + Flash --> High Cost, low performance
FC/IB
…
$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
Symantec SmartIO
Tier 2/3
High
Density
With SmartIO + Server Flash + Cheap SAN Storage

22. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Enable DAS with Cluster File System
High performance & Increased Agility
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$/GB
$$
$/IOPs
$
IOPs Today
c
IOP Futures
“Shared Nothing” Architecture High Performance & Appropriate SLA
Increased Agility
• Enable DAS with SAN features
• No lock-in to SAN infrastructure
• No functional coordination required
• Mix of Flash + SATA for optimal cost
• Low latency with no SAN
• High IOPS with distributed CFS
Low Cost
• Time to provision applications: Low
• Scale linearly for low cost
• Less reliance on Tier1 storage
CFS Global Namespace
Internal Storage: Flash + SATA
Futures

23. SYMANTEC VISION 2013
Summary
Promise of Flash with Optimal Software Stack
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Promise of In Server Flash + Optimal S/W Stack
Traditional Storage Arrays & Appliances
VM VM VM Unix WinLinux
Poor SAN
Utilization
Application
SLAs unmet
Storage
Bottleneck
ANY Workload, ANY OS, ANY Virtualization
I/O Bottleneck
• Performance bottleneck with traditional
storage arrays
• Low latency needs for Apps on the rise
• Reliance on Tier1 storage can increase $$$
• High availability of data essential with Flash
Unmet Performance & SLA needs
• FusionIO Cards provide upto 3GB/sec throughput
• >1.1m IOPS with in-server flash
• SF SmartIO designed to boost read & writes
• High availability of data with data reflection
• Reporting, Visibility of Performance & characteristics
Fusion IO & Storage Foundation SmartIO & Flexible Storage
Storage Foundation

24. Thank you!
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