EMC XtremSW Cache XtreamSF Performance. Intelligence. Protection. Ron Schaffer EMC Partner Systems Engineer

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The Performance Gap

Xeon E7-4800

CPU performance increases 100x every decade Hard disk drive performance has stagnated Pentium Pro

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I/O Gap

2012

Hard Disk IOPS/Spindle Drive 2

An Order Of Magnitude Better Performance 2000 IOPS/GB

4000X FASTER THAN

HARD DRIVES 0.5 IOPS/GB

150 IOPS/GB

Hard Disk Drive

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Array Flash

PCIe Flash

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EMC XtremSW Cache Performance

Dramatic improvements in latency and throughput

Intelligence

Extends EMC FAST architecture into the server

Protection

Backed by intelligent, resilient, highly available storage

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XtremeSF Portfolio (R/W, 8K)

IOPS*

Read Throughput

Write Throughput

NAND Type

169.5k / 24.8k

2.6 GB/s

1 GB/s

25 nm MLC

170k / 44.7k

3 GB/s

450 MB/s

25 nm MLC

700GB

170k / 44.7k

3 GB/s

450 MB/s

25 nm MLC

550GB

169.5k / 24.8k

1.3 GB/s

500 MB/s

25 nm MLC

Product Name

Capacity

XtremeSF 2200

2.2TB

XtremeSF 1400

1.4TB

XtremeSF 700

XtremeSF 550

All devices are half height / half length standard PCIe cards *Queue Depth = 32

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Configures in minutes Zero planning, zero tuning

Step 1: Create Volumes

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Step 3: Map Volumes to Initiator Groups

Step 2: Create Initiator Groups

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Supercharged Application Performance  Server-side Flash caching for maximum performance  Dramatic improvement in application performance for readheavy workloads

REDUCED RESPONSE TIME (LATENCY) Baseline XtremSW Cache

INCREASED THROUGHPUT (IOPS) Baseline XtremSW Cache

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Automated Intelligence Extending the FAST Architecture

Data Activity

“Hot” High Activity

Ultra-Performance Tier

PCIe Flash

Hottest data resides on PCIe Flash

Array Flash

Performance Optimized

FC / SAS

Apply different technology as data cools

SATA / NL-SAS “Cold” Low Activity

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Age of Data

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Total Protection  Write-through caching with acknowledgement  Shareable and scalable, no stranded storage

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Use Cases CRM ERP OLTP Email Web Servers Reporting Analytics

Small

Working Set

Temp tables External sorts Working files Write-intensive workloads with small working sets

Read-intensive workloads with small working sets

Write-intensive workloads with large working sets

Read-intensive workloads with large working sets

Backups Write journals Oil & gas Data dumps Image capture

Big Data Streaming Genetics studies

Large Mostly Writes

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Workload

Mostly Reads

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Traditional Architecture Server Application

Network CPU

Switch

1

2

Storage Storage Array

3

SSD/HDD

4 Flash FC / SAS

8

7

6

5

SATA / NL-SAS

Reads (latency: 500 μs – 10 ms) Writes

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XtremSW Cache Advanced Architecture Server Application

CPU

Network PCIe Flash Card

1

2

Switch

3

Storage Storage Array

SSD/HDD

4 Flash

5 9

8

7

6

FC / SAS SATA / NL-SAS

Reads (latency: