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Next Generation Software-Defined Storage
The document announces the launch of Stormagic SVSAN 6, a next-generation software-defined storage solution that enhances flexibility, efficiency, and performance for IT modernization. Key features include eliminating costly physical SANs, centralized management, high availability, and SSD caching options, all aimed at reducing operational costs and improving application performance. The solution is designed to meet the demands of virtualized environments while supporting various storage types across different server vendors.
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- 1. Announcing SvSAN 6 NextGeneration Software-Defined Storage Unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT John Glendenning – SVP Sales & Marketing Luke Pruen – Technical Services Director
- 2. StorMagic: Established aProven Platform 2
- 3. StorMagic: Focused onSolving Customer Challenges 3 Ensure application uptime Delivering application performance Simplify & centralize management Reducing cost and complexity
- 4. 4 SvSAN: No MorePhysical SAN Costly & Complex Single point of failure Affordable & Simple Highly available
- 5. SvSAN: How itworks and what you get Key benefits are: • Lowering costs by eliminating physical SANs and deploy on only 2 servers whilst not compromising performance. • Improved management and support though rapid deployment and centralized management. • High availability out-of the box whilst eliminating a physical SAN single point of failure. SvSAN turns the internal/direct attached disk of 2 servers into highly available shared storage
- 6. SvSAN 6: ThePerfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges 6 StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT Flexibility Any storage in any server on vSphere or Hyper-V Efficiency Save time, money and reduce your carbon footprint Performance Always meet your application demands I/O Performance statistics Crucial I/O statistics now at your finger-tips to better understand your workloads. Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade Deploy and upgrade multiple VSAs through a single wizard and Out-of-the-box Experience PowerShell Auto-script generation Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically generate a custom PowerShell script. SSD Read/Write caching Enable hybrid storage configurations combining the performance of SDDs with the capacity of HDDs. Memory-based read caching Blazing fast for most common reads. Modes: most frequently used, read ahead and data pinning. Intelligent auto-tiering Data dynamically moved between storage tiers depending on frequency of access.
- 7. SvSAN 6: ThePerfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges 7 StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT Automatically tier the ideal balance of disk, flash and memory Tune for raw performance, high capacity and the smallest footprint Configure for today’s needs and easily adapt for future demands Leverage advanced storage auto-tiering to configure the lightest server and storage footprint Reduce CAPEX and OPEX through a smaller footprint, lower MTBF and centralized management Reduce space, power and cooling to contribute to your green credentials Flexibility Any storage in any server on vSphere or Hyper-V Efficiency Save time, money and reduce your carbon footprint Performance Always meet your application demands Configure for Increased IOPS and reduced latency to meet the SLAs for performance sensitive applications Remove dependency on costly and complex storage arrays Protect your mission critical services with out-of-the-box high availability
- 8. SvSAN 6: Standard& Advanced Editions Synchronous Mirroring/High Availability ✔ Stretched/Metro Cluster Support ✔ Volume Migration ✔ VSA Restore 1 ✔ VMware vSphere Storage API (VAAI) Support ✔ Centralized management and monitoring ✔ Remote shared quorum ✔ I/O performance statistics ✔ Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade ✔ PowerShell Shell script generation ✔ SSD Caching - Memory-based caching - most frequently used mode - Memory-based caching - read ahead mode - Memory-based caching - data pinning mode - Intelligent automated tiering - ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ 1 Vmware vSphere only Increased Capacity • 2TB • 6TB (increased from 4TB) • 12TB (increased from 8TB) • Unlimited TB (increased from 16TB) Availability • General Availability - Calendar Q3 • Tech Preview available soon Promotion • Announced at the end of the webinar
- 9. SvSAN: Enabling AllMajor Server Vendors for HCI 9
- 10. SvSAN: Pre-Configured fromCisco and Lenovo 10 Lenovo x3250 + StorMagic SvSAN Lenovo x3550 + StorMagic SvSAN Lenovo x3650 + StorMagic SvSAN UCS E-Series + StorMagic SvSAN UCS Mini + StorMagic SvSAN UCS C-Series + StorMagic SvSAN
- 11. SvSAN: Global PartnerNetwork 11
- 12. SvSAN: Meeting andExceeding Customer Expectations 12 “Our old storage platform was a poor fit, troubling us with low performance and reliability issues - so we chose SvSAN. We're happy with SvSAN and will be deploying SvSAN in other projects.” Will Turner Merit Network “Previously we had a Dell Physical SAN but when our support ran out we looked at other options. We looked at other virtual SAN solutions, but unlike the others StorMagic SvSAN ticked all our boxes: low support cost, low outlay cost and reliability. We’re very happy with StorMagic SvSAN and are now looking at deployment into our other offices.” Barry Nelson, I.T. Manager Adam Equipment Company “We were looking to modernize our IT infrastructure, but with a small IT budget to invest in new solutions. We needed a solution that worked within our existing VMware environment and provided highly available storage. StorMagic SvSAN eliminated single points of failure and displayed good performance.” Jan Valenta, Network Administrator Technické služby města Mostu a.s.
- 13. SvSAN 6: ThePerfect Storm 13 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Intel Xeon Cores 2-16 (Hyper-threaded) Intel Xeon Cores 2-24 (Hyper-threaded) Intel Xeon Cores 2-24 (Hyper-threaded) Intel Xeon Cores 2-30 (Hyper-threaded) SSD price per GB 99c SSD price per GB 68c SSD price per GB 55c SSD price per GB 39c Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon Computerworld article (http://bit.ly/1RqPSeS) SvSAN Workloads 1-16 SvSAN Workloads 1-24 SvSAN Workloads 1-24 SvSAN Workloads 1-30 Max HD capacity 3TB Max HD capacity 5TB Max HD capacity 8TB Max HD capacity 10TB Intel Xeon Cores 2-44 (Hyper-threaded) SSD price per GB 24c SvSAN Workloads 1-44 Max HD capacity 16TB
- 14. SvSANSvSAN 6 Standard SvSAN6: More for less and widening the reach 14 SvSAN 6 Advanced Intel Xeon Cores 2-44 (Hyper-threaded) SSD price per GB 24c SvSAN Workloads 1-44 Max HD capacity 16TB Performance & Capacity Cost Quantity of VMs Cost of 2 Server SvSAN Solution $5000 $10,000 $15,000 $20,000 5 10 20 40
- 15. SvSAN 6: Morefrom less 15 Intel Xeon Cores 2-44 (Hyper-threaded) SSD price per GB 24c SvSAN Workloads 1-44 Max HD capacity 16TB
- 16. SvSAN 6: What’sunder the covers? 16 Flexibility Any storage in any server on vSphere or Hyper-V Efficiency Save time, money and reduce your carbon footprint Performance Designed for the most demanding applications The design principle: • Leveraging all available storage types • Designed for virtualization and optimize read/write where it counts • Based on data from real-world customer environments • Deliver improved management through extended automation What you can expect: • Lower cost servers and storage to save CAPEX • Lower operating costs to save OPEX • Smaller footprint with lower power consumption to save OPEX lower CF • Higher performance for most demanding applications
- 17. SvSAN 6: Allstorage is not equal 17 Magnetic drives provide poor random performance • SATA 7.2k rpm 75 – 100 IOPS • SAS 10k/15k rpm 140 – 210 IOPS • Lower cost per GB • Higher cost per IOPS • Flash and SSDs have good random performance • SSD/Flash 8.6K to 10 millions IOPS • Lower cost per IOPS • High cost per GB compared to magnetic • Memory has even better performance • Orders of magnitude faster than Flash/SSD • Much higher cost per GB compared to SSD/Flash • Memory is volatile and typical low in capacity *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive
- 18. SvSAN 6: Theimportance of caching 18 Virtualized environments suffer from the ‘I/O blender’ effect • Multiple Virtual Machines sharing a set of disks • Resulting in predominantly random I/O • Magnetic drives provide poor random performance • SSD & Flash storage ideal for workloads but expensive Working sets of data • Driven by workloads which are ever changing • Refers to the amount of data most frequently accessed • Always related to a time period • Working sets sizes evolve as workloads change Caching • Combat the I/O blender effect without the expense of all Flash or SSD • Working sets of data can be identified and elevated to cache
- 19. SvSAN 6: SSD/Flashcaching SSD/Flash Caching • Significantly Improves overall I/O performance • Reduces the number of I/Os going directly to disk • Dynamic cache sizing read/write ratio Writes operations • Data is written as variable sized extents • Extents are merged and coalesced in the background • Data in cache is flushed to hard disk regularly in small bursts Read operations • SvSAN algorithm identifies and promotes data, based on access patterns • Frequently accessed data blocks are elevated on SSD/Flash • Least frequently access blocks are aged out
- 20. SvSAN 6: Memorybased caching Modern servers now have vast amounts of memory • Additional memory can be used to dramatically improve storage performance • Frequently read data is cached in memory • Read operations are served from memory without ever accessing a disk drive Read-ahead mode • Detects sequential read streams to allow read ahead • i.e. when this block is read it is highly likely adjacent blocks will be read • Enable for targeted workloads Read Operation Data Blocks Data read from disk Data pre-fetched from disk … Data not yet requested Sequential data access pattern identified 20 Most frequently used mode (default) • SvSAN algorithm identifies and stores data based on access patterns • Frequently accessed data blocks are stored in memory • Default mode benefits all workloads 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 VM Count) Boottime(seconds) Time to Boot VSAs (machines booting simultaneously) No caching (max) No caching (avg) Read data pinned (avg) Data pinning mode • Enter learning to create identical access pattern • Delivers most efficient read performance • Enable for targeted workloads
- 21. SvSAN 6: Intelligentautomated read caching & tiering Intelligent read caching algorithm • All read I/Os are monitored and analyzed • Most frequently used data – “Hot” data • Cache tiers are populated based on access frequency Tiering • RAM: Most frequently accessed data • SSD/Flash: Next most frequently accessed data • HDD: Infrequently accessed data – “Cold” data Sizing • Assign cache sizes to meet requirements • Grow caches as working sets change • Use any combination of Memory, SSD/Flash and Disk Play to the strengths • Play to the strengths of all mediums • Memory Highest IOPS • SSD/Flash Magnetic drives providing low price per GB 21
- 22. SvSAN 6: Management 22 MultipleVSA GUI deployment ̶ Deploy multiple VSAs through a single wizard ̶ Incremental naming and IP addressing Automatic PowerShell Shell script generation ̶ Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically generate a custom PowerShell script ̶ Script variables clearly marked to enable easy editing ̶ Scale custom scripts for mass deployments VSA OOBE (Out-of-box Experience) ̶ Stage VSA deployments on hardware ̶ Configure VSAs when installed onsite ̶ Configure through GUI or scripting Upgrade multiple VSAs through GUI - Use a repository for VSA firmware's - Select multiple VSAs through the StorMagic dashboard for upgrading - Upgrade VSAs immediately or stage firmware for overnight upgrade - StorMagic handles VSA health check to not impact environment
- 23. SvSAN 6: Builton real-world customer data 23 Throughput I/Os Total per day 1TB ~45 Million Read per day 733GB ~28 Million Write per day 261GB ~17 Million Average 12 MB/s 515 per second Read/Write Ratio 67/33 61/39 0 2,000,000 4,000,000 6,000,000 8,000,000 10,000,000 12,000,000 14,000,000 16,000,000 18,000,000 Block Size Distribution Write Read Count Block Size • Example customer daily I/O profile • Example I/O characteristics: ̶ 1 TB read per day ̶ 200-300 GB written per day ̶ Average read IOPS around 800 ̶ Average write IOPS around 200 ̶ Occasional peak IOPS up to 3 – 4000 ̶ Average read size ~24 KB ̶ Average write size ~27 KB
- 24. SvSAN 6: Customerdata analysis Real life data • Real customer data collected and analysed • Exact data patterns simulated and replayed • Accurate expectations of caching/tiering Results • Average customer would significantly benefit from caching/tiering • Example customer would greatly benefit from 8GB Memory & 250GB SSD/Flash • Could see as high as 70% of I/O being satisfied from read cache, 100% from write cache Benefits • Lower cost servers, with a small number of large capacity HDDs • Smaller rack unit servers • Less disks required to meet capacity and performance • Less disks mean a significant reduction in Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
- 25. SvSAN 6: ExistingCustomer and External Array Comparison Estimated CAPEX and power savings over 5 years 1000 sites $9.2m 2 x Commodity Servers with SvSAN 6 Advanced 2 x Commodity Servers with External Arrays Storage - 1 x SSD - 4 x SATA 15 x SAS Power Saving on total system 1,176W 1,628W Capital Saving per site $6,836 - 2 x Commodity Servers with SvSAN 6 Advanced Commodity Servers with SvSAN 5.3 Storage - 1 x SSD - 4 x SATA 12 x SAS Power Saving on disk 74W 224W Capital Saving per site $2,546 - External ArraySvSAN 5.x Customer Estimated CAPEX and power savings over 5 years 1000 sites $4.1m
- 26. SvSAN 6: Builton Customer Data and a Proven Platform 26 Flexibility Any storage in any server on vSphere or Hyper-V Efficiency Save time, money and reduce your carbon footprint Performance Designed for the most demanding applications Proven Platform: • Deployed globally in 72 countries • Only company singularly focused on a 2 server solution • Only 2 server solution with all storage tiers supported Built on real customer data • Not in the lab! • Benefit immediately whatever the workload Perfect Storm: • Continued increase in Intel processor density • HD Capacity is going through the roof • Flash prices are dropping through the floor
- 27. 27 SvSAN 6 Promotion Free upgrade to SvSAN 6 Advanced Offer open to all SvSAN 5.3 Orders Orders placed from 1st May to 31st August 2016 * Contact us today – sales@stormagic.com * Upgrade to be redeemed by 31st December 2016
- 28. 28 Q&A and NextSteps Learn more Trial SvSAN Buy SvSAN Now Product Options SvSAN license 2, 4, 8, 16, unlimited TBs License entitlement 2 mirrored servers Maintenance and support Platinum - 24x7 / Gold - 9x5 Contact StorMagic sales@stormagic.com http://www.stormagic.com/contact/ SvSAN 6 - http://stormagic.com/svsan-v6-launch/ Videos - http://stormagic.com/resources-page/rescources-videos/ http://www.stormagic.com/trial/ SvSAN 6 White Paper - http://stormagic.com/svsan-6/ Resources - http://stormagic.com/resources/
Editor's Notes
- #4 Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure. Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability. Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter. Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality. Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
- #5 Slide objective: Deliver a crystal clear message of the value of SvSAN vs a physical SAN as a simple summary after the Dave and Larry video or on its own if the video is not shown. Link statement: “I trust the message from the video is clearly understood. In summary, a Physical SAN is costly, complex and a single point of failure; whereas SvSAN is affordable, simple and highly available.”. Key messages to deliver: A physical SAN adds a 3rd piece of highly complex and costly infrastructure to the deployment. By leveraging the internal disk of a server SvSAN delivers a more affordable, simple and highly available solution. Built from the ground up for lean IT spaces.
- #6 Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure. Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability. Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter. Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality. Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
- #9 Storage link aggregation – Team multiple network links to aggregate network bandwidth for SvSAN mirror traffic vCenter Dashboard – centalized monitoring vCenter event forwarding – centralized monitoring Microsoft System Center Operation Manager Management Pack – Centralized monitoring Cisco UCS Director integration – Centralized management Heterogeneous storage – the ability to use any storage type Monitoring options – SNMP & SMTP (email) events – Centralized management
- #19 Working sets are driven by the workload, the applications driving the workload, and the VMs that they run on. Whether the persistent storage is local, shared, or distributed, it really doesn’t matter from the perspective of how the VMs see it. The size will be largely the same. Working sets are always relate to a time period. However, it’s a continuum. And there will be cycles in the data activity over time. Working set will comprise of reads and writes. The amount of each is important to know because reads and writes have different characteristics, and demand different things from your storage system. Working set size refers to an amount, or capacity, but what and how many I/Os it took to make up that capacity will vary due to ever changing block sizes. Working set sizes evolve as workloads change.
- #24 I/Os 27,887,207 Read 16,732,160 Write 44,619,367 Total
- #26 Current 300GB 15k SAS $579 (652611-B21) Total $8,106 New SSD $1,439 (816909-B21) Total $1,439 2TB 7.2k $1,059 (765455-B21) Total $4,236 Total old drives $8,106 Total new drives $5,675 Total saving per server $2,431 Total saving per site (2 servers) $4,862 Total sites saving $10,696,400