FlashSystem February 2017

The Smarter Storage Approach
The IBM FlashSystem Portfolio
Joe Krotz
IBM CTS – Cloud and Storage Systems

IBM Storage & SDI
IBM Flash Awards and Recognition
IBM FlashSystem
2015 - 2016
A Major Player in All-
Flash Array by IDC
MarketScape2
IBM All-Flash Arrays
2014
#1 Market Share
Canada3
IBM FlashSystem
2014 - 2016
A Leader:
Magic Quadrant for Solid State
Arrays1
IBM FlashSystem 900
2016
Best of Show
Most Innovative Flash Memory
Enterprise Business Application
IBM FlashSystem
900/V9000
2015
Top 10
Coolest Flash Products
IBM FlashSystem
A9000/A9000R
2016
Top 10
Coolest Flash Products
IBM FlashSystem
2015
France CRIP IT Innovation
Forum Winner: Cloud,
Infrastructure & Storage Category
IBM FlashSystem A9000
2016
Tech Innovator Award
Finalist
Storage Category
2016
Product of the Year Finalist:
All-flash Systems
IBM FlashSystem A9000R
2016
All-flash Systems
IBM Storwize V7000F
2016
All-flash Systems
IBMCloud Enabled Flash Solutions

IBM FlashSystem accelerates your route to success
Introducing the IBM Storwize Flash
Solutions

The IBM Storwize Family
• Over 36,000 systems purchased
• Over 80,000 total enclosures
deployed
• Over 1.6 exabytes of capacity
• Extraordinary reliability –
Delivering 99.999% availability
Field proven, highly efficient
and super reliable
IBM Spectrum Virtualize with Storwize
IBM is the world leader in
Software Defined Storage
Environments.
With the ability to virtualize
over 400 different backend
storage platforms as well as
offer our own V5000 and
V7000 platforms, IBM is the
obvious choice for your storage
and virtualization needs!
5x more data in the same space
3x performance with only 5% flash
47% less management effort
30-60% lower storage growth with
RTC and Thin Provisioning!
Enabling clients to do more with less!

IBMSpectrum Virtualize with Storwize
Introducing the IBM Storwize V7000F!
More powerful hardware platform with new
processor and additional cache
The IBM Storwize V7000F all-flash arrays offer increased
performance and connectivity, integrated compression
acceleration, and additional scalability with the following
features:
• 128 GB cache (per system)
• Integrated hardware-assisted compression acceleration
• 16 Gb Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gb iSCSI / Fibre Channel
over Ethernet (FCoE), and 1 Gb iSCSI connectivity options
Storwize V7000F is designed to support the complete range of
data storage requirements, from highly utilized applications to
high-capacity, low usage applications.
• The following flash drives are now available: 400 GB, 800
GB, 1.6 TB, 3.2 TB, 1.92 TB and 3.84 TB
• 2U, 19-inch, rack-mount enclosure with a three-year
warranty with customer replaceable unit (CRU) and
on-site service
Storwize V7000F scales up to 504
drives with the attachment of 20
Storwize V7000F expansion
enclosures. Storwize V7000F
systems can be clustered to help
deliver greater performance,
bandwidth, and scalability.
A Storwize V7000F clustered
system can contain up to four
Storwize V7000F systems and up
to 1,056 drives. Storwize V7000F
systems can be added into
existing clustered systems that
include previous generation
Storwize V7000 systems.

IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software Defined Storage Solutions
Resilient Open and Accessible Virtualized
Works seamlessly with IBM SmartCloud Storage Access and IBM Cloud
Manager with OpenStack for self-service provisioning.
99.999%
5 9’s Availability with over 1.6
Exabytes of install base
3x better network utilization
with native SanSlide integration
Supports OpenStack
deployments with Easy Tier and
compression enabled
Users provision storage on
demand in seconds, without
administrator involvement
Virtualize files globally across
various IBM and non-IBM disk
systems
Up to 128 processor cores and
512Gb of cache in an 8 node
cluster
Scalable
Scales up to 32PB of
usable capacity without
disruption
IBM RTC can reduce
your disk utilization by
up to 80% and reduce
costs by up to half
Efficient
Built-in virtualization,
thin provisioning
increases disk utilization
by 30%
Embedded IBM EasyTier
provides up to 3x
performance with only
5% flash storage usage
IBM is the World Leader in Software Defined Storage!

Introducing the IBM FlashSystem
Solutions

IBMSpectrum Virtualize with Storwize
Introducing IBM’s premier all-flash offerings!
• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million
IOPS
• 40% greater capacity compared to
previous generation
• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret
sauce
Technical collaboration with Micron
Technology – flash chips
• IBM enhanced flash technology
• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear
Guarantee
Improved integration with VMware
‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI
IBM FlashSystem V9000
The next generation in our software
defined storage offering
IBM FlashSystem 900
The Foundation in our lowest latency
offering IBM FlashSystem A9000
The next generation in our grid
architected storage offering
• Scalable all-flash architecture
accelerates applications and entire
infrastructures
• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS!
• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective
capacity) in only 6U and scales to
456 TB usable (2.28 PB effective
capacity) in only 34U
• New licensing structure to simplify
ordering and planning for Data
Virtualization, Replication and RTC
• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee
• Two Models – Pod and Rack
• Rack is a Scalable grid architecture
• Scalable from 2 to 6 building
blocks
• Each building block consists of
2 compute nodes & 1 Flash
drawer
• Capacity scalable from 29TB to 342TB
• Effective capacity is 1.7PB
(using 5X data reduction)
• Fully redundant without SPOF –
Including Flash
• All enclosures have dual redundant
BBUs

• IBM MicroLatency with up to 1.1 million IOPS
• FC, iSCSI, FCoE & Infiniband connectivity
• IBM FlashCore technology, our secret sauce
Technical collaboration with Micron Technology – flash chips
• IBM enhanced flash technology
• MLC NAND flash offering and Flash Wear Guarantee
Improved integration with VMware
‘Neighborhood’ management in GUI
Performance at-a-glance (57TB config)
Minimum latency
Write 90 µs
Read 155 µs
Maximum IOPS 4 KB
Read (100%, random) 1,100,000
Read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000
Write (100%, random) 600,000
Maximum bandwidth 256 KB
Read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s
Write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/Best economics & performance!
IBM FlashSystem 900
Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 0 storage
Module type 1.2 TB 2.9 TB 5.7 TB
Modules 4 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12 6 8 10 12
RAID 5 capacity 2.4 4.8 7.2 9.6 12 11.6 17.4 23.2 29.0 22.8 34.2 45.6 57.0
Raw Capacity 7.1 10.7 14.2 17.8 21.4 26.3 35.1 43.9 52.7 52.7 70.3 87.9 105.5

FlashSystem data protection schema
Improving Availability and Serviceability
• Two-dimensional Flash RAID
• IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM
• Higher resilience
• Higher storage efficiency
• Higher rebuild performance
• Lower set uptime
• System-level RAID 5
• Non-disruptive (concurrent) code load
• Management features
• Call home
• Detailed logging
• Remote power on
• Fully redundant and hot-swappable
components
– Flash modules
– I/O interfaces
– RAID controllers
– Management controllers
– Power supplies
– Batteries
– Fan modules
http://www.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/

•Patented Variable Stripe
RAID allows RAID stripe
sizes to vary
•Maximum level of flash
module data protection
•Maximum wear life
Variable Stripe RAID™
Advantages:
•Protects data from a chip failure
•Dynamically re-stripes data at a sub-chip level
•Preserves life, protection and performance
IBM VSR™ protected flash modules:
Now we can build our system using far
more advanced technology than SSDs
1
2
3
P

Flash Module Reliability – Safety Beyond Compare
• When Vendors sell flash storage, based on SSDs, it is critical those systems be able to survive double drive
failures. Customers would like to be able to survive more than two failures, but are left with no option other
than to take what they can get.
• IBM wasn’t satisfied with the limitations of off-the-shelf SSDs. We designed “true” flash systems where we
work directly with the flash chips. IBM created dedicated flash modules to provide customers with greater
performance and reliability.
In a 5.7TB FlashSystem module, a quarter of the flash chips on the module can fail before it needs to be replaced.
• 10 of the 64 flash chips in a module can fail without issue.
• If the 11th chip fails, the module will issue a warning, but continue to function
• If the 17th chip fails, the module is halted and the hot spare is brought in.
At this point, the system is still online and rebuilding the parity protection
It would take another 17+ chip failures on a different single module to see a dual drive failure
Safety beyond compare!

IBM MicroLatency Modules (12)
RAID Controllers (2)
Battery Packs (2)
Power Supplies (2)
Fan Packs (4)
Interface Modules (4)
Management Modules (2)
Canisters (2)
IBM FlashSystem 900 components

Protecting business’s
most valuable asset
IBM FlashSystem tier-0 built-in encryption
• Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by
most leading compliance regulations such
as HIPAA and FIPS
• Data-at-rest design
• Local key management

• Modern design
• Icon-based navigation, informative
graphics, and visualizations
• Industry award winning interface
• CLI output for administrative tasks
• Reduce complexity
• Improve efficiency and productivity
• Neighborhood Management
• 300 days of performance history
Easy to use GUI for management!

IBM FlashSystem V9000
IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system
Introducing IBM’s choice for open system Tier 1 storage
• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire
infrastructures
• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency
• Up to 57 TB usable (285 TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to 456
TB usable (2.28 PB effective capacity) in only 34U
• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data
Virtualization, Flash Copy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression
• FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee
Scalable Performance Agile IntegrationEnduring Economics
Powered by IBM FlashCore™
Technology

• Scalable to 2.2 PB effective capacity
• Flash for less than the cost of disk with
IBM Real-time Compression
• Low power and cooling requirements
• Virtualize storage
• Flash wear warranty
• Infrastructure continuity with space
efficient snapshots, cloning and
replication
• Fully integrated system management
• Application-aware data services
• AES, data at rest encryption
• Tier or mirror to existing storage
• Mixed workload consolidation
• Non-disruptive data migrations
• Concurrent code load
• Scale-up or scale-out
• Scalable to 2.5 million IOPS
• Scalable to 19.2 GB/s bandwidth
• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™
• Quality of Service
FlashSystem V9000: paradigm shift in enterprise storage
Dimensions of Value
Scalable
Performance
Agile
Integration
Enduring
Economics

Maximum Performance Scaled
Out
(100% Read, 4 Building Blocks)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 2,520,000
Bandwidth (128K) 19.2 GB/s
Maximum Performance Scalable
Build Block
(100% Read, Cache Miss)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 630,000
Maximum Performance
Fixed Build Block
(100% Read, Cache Miss)
Latency (4K) 200µs
IOPS (4K) 526,000
Two-dimensional scaling
Scale-up
(add capacity)
Scale-out
(add capacity
and performance)

Storage virtualization
Enduring Economics
Preserve your existing
investment in storage
Manage
Tier
Protect
Compress with Real-time Compression
Optimized performance at lower overall cost
IBM Easy Tier®
flash storage management
n Provisioning


Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated
space is reserved whether the
application uses it or not.
With thin provisioning, applications can
grow dynamically, but only consume space
they are actually using.
Dynamic
growth


Hot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.
Automatic
Relocation
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
M Easy Tier SSD Management
Flash FlashHDDs HDDs
Enduring
Economics

V9000 virtualizes almost any block storage!
Gold = IBM FlashSystem
0.4ms response time, > 100k IOPS
Oracle & SQL
Silver = IBM V7000
1ms response time, ~ 30k IOPS
Exchange / VMware
Bronze = EMC disk
5ms response time, ~ 10k IOPS
General Purpose
(FC, FCoE, iSCSI)
Block (SAN) storage
V9000 Tiers
IBMEasyTier

Quality of Service (QoS)
Scalable Performance
• Help alleviate performance
contention
• Give your application the
performance it needs
• Ability to cap IOPS or bandwidth
on a per volume basis
Scalable
Performance

Flexible volumes
Agile Integration
• Generic – fully allocated
• Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand
• Mirror – two copies of volume
• Migrate between pools or change
volume type
• Preferred read mirror between flash
and legacy storage (all reads from flash)
• Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thin
• Compressed – volumes utilizing Real-time Compression
Agile
Integration

Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismic
Virtual
Servers
JPEG/ZIP
80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression
Rate
Traditional
Storage
Average of
65% Compression!
Real-time Compression Efficient
Half the Data Storage!
Real-time Compression, for active and inactive data Enduring
Economics

• Improve workforce productivity
• Simplify management
• Single name space
Fully integrated system management
Agile Integration

FlashSystem + VMWare®
: an ideal fit
Agile Integration
• Redefine Tier 1 performance for
workloads with diverse I/O
patterns
• Optimize your data tier with
thin provisioning, snapshots, and
real-time compression
Area Integration Value
Management vCenter plug-in • Storage visibility
• Self-service provisioning with controlled delegation
Business
Continuity
SRA for Site
Recovery Manager
• Automated Storage and Host
•Failover
•Failover testing
•Failback
Performance VAAI • Hardware accelerated VM copy/migration
• Hardware accelerated VM initiation
• Accelerate VMFS (no SCSI reservation)
Driving efficiency, performance, flexibility
& scale in virtualized environments
Agile
Integration

Metro Mirror – Synchronous
–Updates are committed to both sites
before acknowledged to server
–Supported up to 300 km, adds
additional latency to hosts
Global Mirror – Asynchronous
–Server update acknowledged in
parallel to update to remote site
–Supported up to 80ms of round-trip
latency, distance dependent upon
network quality
FlashCopy Options
• Full or “thick”
• Thin nocopy
• Incremental
• Cascading
• Multi-target
• Consistency groups
• Reverse
Infrastructure continuity
Enduring Economics
• Snapshot – Instant space-efficient, thin
provisioned copy, capture state of
volume before a change
• Clone – Creates a complete one-time
replica of source, testing data or
attaching to other servers
• Backup – Complete point in time replica
that can be incrementally refreshed
Full set of disaster recovery tools:
Enduring
Economics

Introducing the newest addition to
the FlashSystem family
The A9000/R

• Intuitive user interface
• Redirect on Write Snapshots
• Asynchronous Replication
• Synchronous Replication
• VMware integrated
• Linked to OpenStack and SoftLayer
• REST API
FEATURE RICH
• Flash-optimized data deduplication and
compression lower TCO
• Thin provisioning and snapshots maximize
storage efficiency
EFFICIENT
• IBM FlashCoreTM technology
• Consistent low latency even with full-
time data reduction
FAST
Purpose-built for the cloud
• Hyper-Scale framework
• QoS supports mixed workloads
• Multi-tenancy
• Modular
CLOUD OPTIMIZED
SECURE
• IBM FlashCore technology with IBM
Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection
• Non-disruptive upgrades
• Five 9’s availability
• Survive controller failures without
performance degradation
Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000
A highly parallel all-flash platform for the cloud-scale business
IBM FlashSystems Application and Cloud Accelerator

• Scale out to multiple petabytes to
quickly accommodate your growth
• Scale capacity and performance
FEATURE RICH
SCALABLE
EFFICIENT AUTOMATED
FAST
SECURE
• Flash-optimized data deduplication and
compression lower TCO
• Thin provisioning and snapshots maximize
storage efficiency
• IBM FlashCoreTM technology
• Consistent low latency even with
full-time data reduction at scale
• Intuitive user interface
• Redirect on Write Snapshots
• Asynchronous Replication
• Synchronous Replication
• VMware integrated
• Linked to OpenStack and SoftLayer
• IBM FlashCore technology with IBM
Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection
• Survive controller failures without
performance degradation
• Grid-scale automatically redistributes
across all resources available
• No hot spots, zero tuning
Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000R
A grid-scale, all-flash storage platform designed to drive your business into the cognitive era

Architecture & Building Blocks
 Two Models – Pod and Rack
 Rack is a Scalable grid architecture
 Scalable from 2 to 6 building blocks
 Each building block consists of 2 compute nodes & 1 Flash drawer
 Capacity scalable from 29TB to 342TB
 Effective capacity is 1.7PB (using 5X data reduction)
 Fully redundant without SPOF – Including Flash
 All enclosures have dual redundant BBUs
• System x3650 M5
• XIV Flash-Optimized SW stack
• IBM FlashSystem 900
• 2D RAID5
• FlashCore Enhanced MLC Flash
• Redundant Infiniband switches
• FDR 56Gbps
Cloud-Scale Infrastructures
OLTP Databases
Virtual Infrastructures
Analytical Apps/OLAP
HPC
Computational
Applications

Introducing FlashSystem Advanced Grid Storage
• Superior ease of use and out of the box experience!
• Designed for best and Fastest Data Reduction
• Deduplication and Compression
• “Tuning – Free” Consistent Performance with Micro Latency!
• Up to 2M IOPs WITH Data Reduction on!!!
• Sub mS response time WITH Data Reduction on!!!
• Combines XIV Grid scale with Flash Fine Grain Grid architecture
• Enterprise grade High Availability and Security
• Building off a legacy of high RAS from both products
• Hardware Acceleration with FlashCore Technology
• Rich set of Tier 1 proven advanced function
• Rich set of Multi Tenancy functions for Cloud functionality!
Up to 2PB Capacity
Up to 342TB+
8U standalone with no
switches needed
Planning to deploy first time in GA!

Scalable Grid
Performance
Enterprise
Integration
Tuning Free
Storage
• Fully integrated system management
with new neighborhood GUI
• Complete VMWare integration
• AES, data at rest encryption
• Mixed workload consolidation
• Concurrent code load
• Scale-up and scale-out!
• XIV Flash Optimized Software stack
• Rack is a Scalable grid architecture
Scalable from 2 to 6 building blocks
• Up to 2 million IOPS
• Scalable to 18 GB/s bandwidth
• Sustained IBM MicroLatency™
• Quality of Service
data reduction)
• Flash for less than the cost of disk with
IBM RTC and Deduplication
• Capacity scalable from 29TB to 342TB
Effective capacity is 1.7PB (using 5X data
reduction)
• Self tuning Grid Architecture
• Flash wear warranty
• Infrastructure continuity with space
efficient snapshots, cloning and
replication
FlashSystem A9000/R: Grid Architecture Simplified
Dimensions of Performance
• Target workloads include VDI, Server
Consolidation, OLTP, Cloud Scale and
HPC

• Ships as fully integrated rack
• Scalable grid architecture
• Capacity scales from 300 TB to 2 PB (using up to 6X data
reduction)
• Flash Optimized XIV software stack
• Next Generation Server is disaggregated from storage
•Larger Caches, Innovative tiered cache structure
•Server failure takes out no flash cards
• Flash enclosure with code to enable seamless integration
• IB Network with RDMA for fast message and data passing
FLASH ENCLOSURE
GRID CONTROLLERS
IB SWITCHES
PDUs
MGMT. MODULE

Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress
Restore 1.03:1 5.6:1 5.7:1
Restore + Test 1.02:1 4.2:1 4.2:1
Dedupe Effectiveness - Database
• TPCC benchmark
• DB restore stage (1.2TB written data)
• TPCC Test (~0.5TB written data)
* Dedupe will be found if a DB is copied
Dedupe Effectiveness- VDI
• VMWare View Planner
• 100 VMs deployment
• VM size is ~16 GB
• Includes the VM creation phase and the performance benchmark
Trace Dedupe Compression Dedupe + compress
Creation 25:1 2:1 50:1
Creation + Performance 16:7:1 2:1 33:1

Improve storage uptime and simplify support efforts with
personalized assistance
Complex storage issues can cause downtime. And that can
obstruct your business operations. How do you efficiently
resolve these costly and high-impact problems?
Of course, your storage device service agreements with IBM
enable you to access robust support to help resolve high-
severity storage challenges. But without a technical advisor,
your staff still needs to know how to access help and determine
the issue.
With a technical advisor for storage from IBM, you can gain
continued technical support for critical issues—as well as
proactive advice for problem prevention.
• Improve uptime
Continued assistance from one specialist can
resolve high-severity problems more quickly
• Enhance efficiency
Work with IBM to promote staff productivity
through support protocols and critical-
problem management techniques
• Avert problems
Your consultant can offer
time-tested methods to
help you prevent outages
and use IBM support more
effectively
Scalable
Performance
Agile
Integration
Enduring
Economics
IBM Technical Advisor for Storage
Now included with FlashSystems!

For more information:
Websites:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/
http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/us/en/
Product Pages:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/flash/
http://www-
03.ibm.com/systems/storage/storwize/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/xiv/
IBM RedBooks
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
Thank you!

FlashSystem February 2017

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