Presentazione PernixData @ VMUGIT UserCon 2015

Always Perfect Storage

Optimize Storage Performance, Management

and Cost in Every Data Center

Frank Brix Pedersen

Systems Engineer

[email protected]

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Why is storage so challenging?

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Management

Limited visibility, predictability

and control

Performance

Storage bottlenecks cause 70%

of VM performance issues

Cost

Overprovisioning. Constant refreshes.

High operations costs.


Is the storage industry solving the problem?

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Flash (10 to 100 µs)

HDD (1 to 10 ms)

Adoption of

faster media

Optimized data

placement and

contextual awareness

RAM (100 ns)

Legacy Hybrid Array

All-Flash Array

Hyper-converged

Storage

Server

Hypervisor

Application

You want to

be here!!


What is really needed?

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Smart Storage

Application intelligence (VM-aware)

Fast Storage

I/Os close to the application

Cost-effective storage

Scale-out with demand

Our Mission: Build the perfect storage for your virtualized data center


Experienced founders

Poojan Kumar, CEO (Exadata co-founder; head VMware data group)

Satyam Vaghani, CTO (VMware Storage CTO; creator of VMFS and VVOLS)

Engineering experts from VMware, Oracle, NetApp, EMC, etc.

Top backers (Marc Benioff, John Thompson, Mark Leslie, ..)

PernixData: Storage and virtualization experts

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Always perfect storage

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Smart Storage


Fast Storage




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Eliminate the guesswork

Real-time VM and storage analytics

Predictive design recommendations

100% hardware agnostic

PernixData Software

VM

intelligence

Infrastructure

intelligence

Holistic VM and Storage Management

Any shared storage


Turn big data into big knowledge

Accurately understand workload behavior (read/write, block sizes)

Accurately size storage for performance

Which VMs are performing poorly? Why? How do you fix permanently?

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Optimize storage for application

rollouts and upgrades

Eliminate troubleshooting

headaches

Avoid overprovisioning costs


What is PernixData Architect

VM intelligence

Infra intelligence

Architect Agent Architect Agent Architect Agent

Architect Data System and Analytics

VM metadata

Infra metadata Actions

Architect User Console

Design Operate Optimize


Predictive Analytics Ensure Proper Storage Sizing

Remove the guesswork (e.g. How much flash is needed?)

Avoid unnecessary storage hardware purchases

Ensure storage will meet application performance requirements

THEN

Vendor Sizing Tool

NOW

Architect – Working Set Estimate


Read / Write mix

example 40% read 60% write

Read / Write IOPS

Example 8.000 read IOPS and 12.000 write IOPS

Block size distribution of IOPS

Example 4K blocks 25%, 8K blocks 35%, 64K blocks 40%

Working Set size (hot-data)

Example a total of 20TB data, but how much is HOT, could be

anything from 1TB to 20TB

What do we need to design storage?


Architect Screen Shots


Prescriptive analytics provide detailed recommendations

Avoid problems before they happen

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With Architect you will go full circle

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You want to be here…

Design

Deploy

Monitor

Optimize



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Smart Storage


Fast Storage





Obey the laws of physics

Turn any SAN into an all flash array

Infrastructure level in-memory computing

10x faster than storage alone

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Any shared storage

PernixData Software

Low latency reads

and writes using

server flash / RAM


It is all about location


Where to use flash

Insert

Flash

Here

Or Insert

Flash

Here

Or use

RAM!


Virtualization breaks storage performance

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Expensive storage upgrades & over provisioning

• • •

Random I/O patterns create storage

bottlenecks (“blender” effect)

Not enough storage

controller cycles Performance


FVP - Decouple storage performance

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Hypervisor

Capacity

Design & Management

Performance

Data Services


FVP Innovation #1: 100% Non-disruptive

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Hypervisor

No reboots, application rewrites or process changes

No changes to VMs

Transparent to storage

Any Server

Any Storage

Any Flash/RAM

PernixData FVP Software


FVP Innovation #2: Flash & RAM clustered across hosts

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Seamless VM operations – vMotion

– DRS

– HA

– Snapshot

– vCloud Director

Resilient and elastic layer of I/O acceleration

Hypervisor Hypervisor



A Strategic infrastructure platform

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Aggregate server RAM & flash into a data acceleration tier

Dramatic performance gains with existing environment

Hypervisor

Performance

Hypervisor Hypervisor

• • Scale-Out

Performance

I/O

closer to

VMs

Hypervisor

Performance

Capacity

Data Services



Over 300,000 enterprise applications accelerated

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0% 20% 40% 60% 80%100%

VDI - Other

Oracle Applications

VDI - Citrix

Custom

Oracle Database

Software Development

Other Database

VDI - Vmware

MS SharePoint

MS Exchange

Web Apps

General Infrastructure

MS SQL



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Smart Storage


Fast Storage





Any shared storage

Add performance and management as needed

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PernixData

SAN only

PernixData Software

Demo of Architect and FVP


What can PernixData do for your business?

Optimize strategic business operations

Maximize IT efficiency

Save substantial money (hardware + operations costs)

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First storage hosting service with

guaranteed latency and IOPS

Avoid 2x expansion of SQL

cluster

Every work shift now has up to

date production data

Saved 62% on new SAN,

got 92% more performance

Avoided SAN upgrade,

saved $200,000

Avoided €250,000 in storage

overprovisioning costs

Upgraded MS Exchange

without a hitch

First storage hosting service with

guaranteed latency and IOPS


FVP Freedom:

Success comes from being bold

A FREE version of FVP

Unlimited hosts and VMs (limit to one vSphere Cluster)

Write through acceleration using RAM (limit 128GB RAM)

Community supported

For everyone. Forever.

Download Freedom at www.pernixdata.com today!

Download a free 30 day trial version of Architect and FVP Enterprise at

www.pernixdata.com today!

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Think outside the storage box

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Capacity

Design & Management

Performance

Marry VM and storage intelligence

Turn big data into big knowledge

Manage the entire IT lifecycle

PernixData Architect Software

VM-aware performance

10x faster applications (lower latency)

Predictably scale-out IOPS with compute


Data Services

Any shared storage

Stay Tuned!

Stay Tuned


Q&A

http://www.pernixdata.com/trial


Thank you

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Presentazione PernixData @ VMUGIT UserCon 2015