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Dell Fluid Data Architecture
Ease Of Use & TCO Benefit
Ondřej Bačina
Enterprise Brand Manager
@OndrejAtDell
Storage Pains identified by Compellent Customer Council (2002)
Out of control
data growth
Wasted capacity
80%
Inactive data
Forklift upgrades
& obsolescence
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FLUID DATA TCO DELIVERS
FINANCIAL SAVINGS
WITH BREAK THRU ARCHITECTURE
Fluid Data Ease Of Use
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„OLD SCHOOL“
STORAGE
DESIGN
VS.
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Fluid Data
New way of
using storage
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Sizing of „Old School“ model ?
I will make for You
sophisticated „crystal
ball“ guess !
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Issues with „Old School“ sizing
Pick the right box
How much HDDs do i need now and in future ?
Typical „Old School“ Architecture Lock-in on HDD scale-up
DATA
XS
~10s HDD
Enteprise High-End
Mid-Range
Entry
Level
S
~200 HDD
$$
L
M
~800 HDD
XL-XXL
1000s HDD
~400 HDD
$$$
$$$$
$$$$$$
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Issues with „Old School“
Storage Growth
How do I Grow out of the box ? How i can protect my investment ?
Typical „Old School“ Architecture Lock-in on HDD scale-up
~10s HDD
S
~200 HDD
$$
L
M
DATA
XS
Enteprise High-End
Mid-Range
Entry
Level
~800 HDD
XL-XXL
1000s HDD
~400 HDD
$$$
$$$$
$$$$$$
201`s HDD
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Fluid Data : One Consistent Storage
One platform from TBs to PBs
NO Rip&Replace & NO Fork-Lift Upgrades
One Management tool
One Virtual Storage
Storage
SCALE UP
DATA
Disks
DATA
Disks
Storage
Storage
Disks
Disks
Disks
Disks
DATA
SCALE OUT
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DATA
Issues with „Old School“ sizing
Pick the Right Plug
Storage offers plenty of connectivity options with pros/cons
Legacy, current and in development (within storage lifecycle applicable)
connectivity options that we need to consider
BACK END
Fibre Channel
FRONT END
Network tech.
Protocol
FCP
FCoE
SAS 2.0
STORAGE
FUTURE ? SAS 3.0
iSCSI
CIFS
Fibre Channel
DCB Ethernet
NFS
FUTURE ?
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„Old School“ Approach :
Pick the right holes
What Front End connectivity type do i need now and in future ?
What Back End connectivity is used for now and are possible future
upgrades ?
IS YOUR STORAGE READY FOR FUTURE ?
BE
FE
BE
FE
FC
FC
SAS
2.0
„Old
School“
STORAGE
„New
School“
STORAGE
FC
SAS
2.0
FCoE
UNIFIED
STORAGE
iSCSI
CIFS
NFS
FC
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Fluid Data : Technology Upgrade
Investment protection with Back End compatibility
Freedom of choice in frontend connectivity
ONLINE NON DISRUBTIVE NO FORK-LIFT UPGRADE
BE
BE
FE
FE
SAS 2.0
Value
Proposition
SAS 3.0
EqualLogic
CIFS/NFS
SAS/SATA
iSCSI
Ethernet
1GBit
FC
10Gbit
SAS 2.0
40Gbit
Future
FC FC
FCoE
FCoE
Freedom of
choice
Compellent
iSCSI
CIFS
CIFS
NFS
NFS
Future
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DATA
Issues with „Old School“ sizing
Application placement
How important the application is to business ?
Horizontal Tiering is very complicated in „Old School“
Application
T1
SAN
Storage
•
•
•
•
•
Focus : Perf.&Resiliency
SLA : Minutes
Connectivity : FC
Capacity : Low
Cost : High
T2
SAN
Storage
•
•
•
•
•
Focus : Cost/Perf.
SLA : Hours
Connectivity : FC/iSCSI
Capacity : Medium
Cost : Medium
T3
SAN/NAS
Storage
•
•
•
•
•
Focus : Capacity
SLA : NBD
Connectivity : iSCSI/NFS/CIFS
Capacity : Large
Cost : Low
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Fluid Data : Tiering IN&OUT the box
Best-in-class Tiering on block level
Vertical Tiering among various Disk types. RAID worry free
Horizontal Tiering among various storage
T1
Storage
T1:SSD
T3:SATA
Vol.1
Volume 1
Vertical Tiering
One Virtual Storage
T2
Storage
T3
Storage
T2:15K
T3:SATA
T3:SATA
T3:SATA
Horitzontal Tiering
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DATA
Issues with „Old School“ sizing
Disks & RAID & Volumes
Data are bound to RAID Group created on Disk Type & Capacity
NO Data migration between Tiers
NO Volume expansion on different Disk Capacity & Type
Complicated upgrades as capacity of disks is gowing
Storage Controller(s)
Perf. RAID
T1
SSD Vol.1
x200GB
Perf. RAID
T2
Vol.2
SAS@15K
x146GB
Cap. RAID
T3
Vol.4
Capacity RAID
Vol.3
Archive RAID
SATA@7,2K
x1TB
Vol.5
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Issues with „Old School“
Performance or Capacity Upgrade
Data are bound to RAID Group created on Disk Type & Capacity
NO Data migration between Tiers
NO Volume expansion on different Disk Capacity & Type
Complicated upgrades as capacity or performance of disks is gowing
Storage Controller(s)
Perf. RAID
T1
SSD Vol.1
x200GB
Perf. RAID
T2
Vol.2
SAS@15K
x146GB
Cap. RAID
T3
Vol.4
Capacity RAID
Capacity RAID
Vol.3
Vol.6
SAS@15K
Vol.3
x300GB
Archive RAID
SATA@7,2K
x1TB
Vol.5
Archive RAID
Vol.7
SATA@7,2K
x3TB
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Fluid Data :
Performance and/or Capacity Upgrade
Online Non Disrubtive Upgrades
In case of performace increase add T1 Drives
In case of capacity upgrade add T3 Drives
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Fluid
Storage
T1:SSD
T3:SATA
Volume 1
Vertical Tiering
One Virtual Storage
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DATA
Issues with „Old School“ sizing
Volume Size
When crating Volume we are adding future grow
Some volumes i.e. Database or VMFS contains ZERO blocks
How much capacity do you need and how much do you pay ?
Lets look at one example 100GB Database with 30% YoY Growth rate
Database
Volume
$ 370GB
„Old School“
Storage
5 Years Reserve
30% YoY Grow
270GB
Actual DB Size
100GB
Do you really
want to pay for
unused Capacity
?
ZEROs 55GB
Real Data 45GB
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Fluid Data : Get Thin & Pay-as-You-Grow
Focus on current needs & lose storage
weight
Size new storage on Real Data and save $
Get 5 Year Capacity with Pay-as-You-Grow
Database
Volume
370GB
Fluid Data
Storage
5 Years Capacity Reserved
but not consumed
30% YoY
270GB
Actual DB Size
100GB
Show 370GB but
consume 45GB
ZEROs 55GB *
Real Data 45GB
* Zero Blocks are at this time Compellent only feature
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Fluid Data : Sizing
Fluid Data sizinig is the
done the same mechanism
as sizing for server
virtualiziation. You need to
measure.
How much USED SPACE
(NOT RAW) do you need ?
How many TOTAL IOPS do
you need ?
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FLUID
DATA
FREE
Dell Performance
Analysis
Collection Kit
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Fluid Data
Walk The Talk
Dell Guarantees
Performance &
Capacity For
Sized Solution
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Leverage the strength
of our comprehensive storage portfolio
“Think of Dell as a storage portfolio player.”
– John Webster, Evaluator Group, CNET News, March 22, 2011
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ISLEFLUID
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