The webinar discusses how NVMe will change flash storage by providing faster performance compared to SAS/SATA and proprietary PCIe flash. It will explain what NVMe is, its advantages over other interconnects, and how to get started with NVMe. Attendees will learn about NVMe from representatives of OCZ Storage Solutions and analyst firm Storage Switzerland. OCZ will also showcase its new Z-Drive 6000 SSD series designed for the NVMe standard.

1. Available On Demand:
How will NVMe Change Flash Storage?
Join us as we explain:
1. What is NVMe?
2. Why NVMe Flash is superior to SAS/SATA
Flash
3. Why NVMe Flash is superior to
proprietary PCIe Flash
4. How to get started with NVMe
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/OCZNVMe

2. Our Speakers
Ilya Cherkasov is Product Manager at OCZ Storage Solutions. He has a strong background in SSD
performance characteristics and in SSD architectures. He is well-versed with both SATA and PCIe
SSDs and has been instrumental in conducting performance analysis and testing at OCZ. As the Z-
Drive 6000 Series product manager, he works directly with customers regarding product issues,
competitive analysis, technical collateral, internal product alignment and cross-communications. He
will be covering the benefits of NVMe and OCZ’s Z-Drive 6000 Series capabilities and benefits in this
webinar.
George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on the
subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data protection. He is
widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current approaches as all-flash
arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup appliances, and storage networking.
He has 25 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US.

3. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Who Is Storage Switzerland?

4. OCZ Storage Solutions is…
…a leading solid-state storage provider
that addresses client and enterprise
storage challenges
…a Toshiba Group Company
…a fully-integrated technology company
whose sole mission is to deliver best-in-
class SSDs
» PROVEN IN-HOUSE TECHNOLOGY
Multiple award winning product generations feature
proprietary controller/firmware
» BROAD MARKET EXPOSURE
100s of reseller, distribution, enterprise & OEM
customers
» GLOBAL BRAND RECOGNITION
1000s of rave product reviews from around the world
OCZ delivers intelligent and optimized approaches to how your data is
captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged in today’s data-driven
era.

5. Polling Question
What Are You Looking For Next From Flash?
A) Higher Performance
B) Consistent Performance
C) Lower Latency
D) Greater Density
E) Reduced Costs

6. Polling Question
What Are You Looking For Next From Flash?

7. The State Of Flash Storage
• Phase 1 - 2010: Flash Performance Problem
Solver
• Phase 2 - 2014: Flash As General Purpose
Storage
• Phase 3 - 2016: Flash Focuses on Interconnect
Architectures (High Performance Networks,
Memory Bus, NVMe)

8. The Flash Challenges
• Performance Euphoria is Over
• Phase 1 and 2 were competing
against HDD (most success stories
tell how much faster the new flash
array is than the old HDD array)
• Next Generation is competing
against Phase 1 and Phase 2 flash

9. How Can Flash Performance
Improve?
• Increase Predictability
• Decrease Latency

10. Addressing Predictability
• Increase Over-Provisioning
Ratios (Expensive)
• Increase Flash Controller
Performance (Hard)
• Give Storage Systems or
Operating Systems Control
(garbage collection on-demand)

11. Addressing Latency
• The connection
between CPU and
Flash (network) is the
biggest cause of
latency

12. Addressing Latency
• Solutions have appeared
to reduce
PCIe Flash (proprietary
drivers that circumvent OS,
have OS specialties)
Memory Bus Flash (requires
new motherboard and ROM
Bios)
Enter NVMe...

13. What Is NVMe?
• NVM Express
Universal Software Designed
for PCIe Flash
Works on Current Hardware
Improves Performance vs.
SAS/SATA

14. How Are Vendors Adopting NVMe?
• Step 1
Adherence to
Standard
• Step 2
Innovating within
the Standard

15. Introducing the OCZ NVM Express™ Z-Drive 6000 SSD Series
The Future of Enterprise Storage is Here.
CONFIDENTIAL

16. Data Succeeds Closer to the Application
• PCIe physical interface, NVMe
software stack
• NVMe provides the maximum benefit
for flash
• Obviates the need for layers of
translation and context switches
• Optimizes applications access to flash
– more like memory than storage
• Maintains block device representation
of flash for application compatibility
• Broad compatibility with existing and
nextgen PCIe infrastructure
Application Layer
Flash Media
Flash Controller
SATA Controller
SATA Driver
Software RAID
DistancetoApplication
Latency
Flash Media
NVMe Driver
Distance
Latency
DATA DATA
CONFIDENTIAL

17. Why Choose NVMe?
• Optimal I/O
handling for
virtual
machines
• Multiple
queues
• Each up to 64k
outstanding
commands
Scalable
Queues
3
CONFIDENTIAL
• Optimized SW
stack reduces
latency, caters
to multi-core
environment
• Focus on
parallelism,
performance,
and low power
operation
Parallelism
and
Concurrency
• Commands
can be
assigned
different
priorities
• Admin
commands are
high priority to
help manage
SLAs
Command
Arbitration
>_
• Three required
I/O commands
• Optimized data
placement
resulting in
smart wear
leveling &
garbage
collection
Data
Management

18. Z-Drive 6000 Series Highlights
CONFIDENTIAL
PCI
Express
Gen 3.0
x4
800GB,
1.6TB
and
3.2TB
2.5” x
15mm
HHHL
1 – 3
DWPD
2900 MB/s
Seq. Read
1900 MB/s
Seq. Write
700K IOPS
Random
Read
160K IOPS
Random
Write

19. Z-Drive 6000 Series Summary
Z-Drive 6000 offers tight latency and
performance envelopes
High data availability with no
compromises
in performance or latency
High throughput and low latency by
residing closest to the CPU and
memory
Positioning
Alleviates I/O bottlenecks in latency-
sensitive mission-critical applications
Affinity for random read workloads but
offers solid performance in random
write workloads
Superior scaling under lighter loads,
which is beneficial in bursty
environments
Benefits
Packs Incredible Speed and NVMe Goodness
into SFF U.2 and AIC MD2 Form Factors
CONFIDENTIAL

20. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
StorageSwiss on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/storageswiss
StorageSwiss on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/storageswiss
OCZ
http://www.ocz.com
OCZ on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/OCZStorage

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NVMe Change Flash Storage?
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