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Simplifying & Optimizing
The SAN Environment
Virtualization Performance
Measurements
Nick Tabellion
Simplifying
Data Storage
Chief Technology Officer
Delivering on the SAN Promise
As you migrate from direct-attached storage, or
expand your existing SAN environment, Softek
SAN solutions can simplify and optimize the
management and implementation of your SAN
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Highest performance
Greatest flexibility
High-availability
Least cost
Least complexity
Least impact to your environment and operations
Substantial ROI
Lower TCO
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How Softek Virtualization Works
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Centralizes Storage Management
Controls and monitors the
virtualized storage pool under
a consolidated, intuitive,
graphical interface
Centralize mapping of virtual
volumes, replication and
business continuance
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Softek Virtualization
Virtualization Simplifies Provisioning to a
Drag-and-Drop
Multivendor
Network
Storage
Pool
Hosts
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Centralize Business Continuance and
Disaster Recovery in One Tool
N+1 Availability
Alternate pathing
Mirroring
Point in Time
Replication
Snapshot
Asynchronous on-site
and off-site IP Mirroring
Linear scaling
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Dramatic Asset Utilization Improvements
 Disk Utilization*
 GB Managed / Admin*
Direct-Attached
Storage
Virtualization
Storage Pools
30% – 50%
300 – 600 GB
80% +
8,000 – 15,000 GB
Substantial ROI and Lower TCO
derived from deploying
Virtualization
*Source: Gartner Dataquest
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Performance Benchmark Results
104,000 I/Os per second
– Many, frequent transactions
– Small block size, 512 bytes
– Example: database applications
560 MB/sec Throughput Rate
– Few, continuous streams of data
– Large block size, 1MB
– Example: streaming video
208,000 I/O’s per second and 1.12 GB per
second in minimum Softek configuration
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Competitive Comparisons
Softek Can Improve the Performance of Leading
Hardware Based Competitors by 2x or More
Softek Virtualization Can Extend the Life of Existing
Hardware by Sitting Between It and the SAN
Softek Virtualization Can Provide the Magnitude Greater
Performance for Less on Alternative Hardware
SYSTEM
Typical PC w/ HDD
Server w/ RAID Controller and DASD
AUSPEX NAS File Server - Record
EMC Symmetrix (sans software)
HDS 9910 (sans software)
SOFTEK Virtualization (Complete (2) SDS, 1TB SAN)
Sources:
Ideas International Limited, Competitive Profiles
Robert Frances Group Report referenced by the 451.com
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COST
IOPS
$1,000
low
$4,000
10,000
$86,100
20,000
$240,000
50,000
$300,000
85,000
$151,000 208,000
MB/S
20-40
75
40
180
100
1,120
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Softek Delivers An Industry Leading
1TB SAN For $150K
Configuration Quantity
Description
Unit Cost
Extended Cost
Network
2
12
$
$
3,500
1,200
$
$
$
7,000
14,400
21,400
$
$
24,700
10,500
$
$
$
49,400
21,000
70,400
$
91,800
$
60,000
Mimimum Network and Storage Subsystem Total $
151,800
2
2
SDSs
HBAs
Hardware Subtotal
Softek Virtualization
Network Edition
Network Mirroring
Software Subtotal
Network Subtotal
Storage
Subsystem
1
Storage Subsystem 1TB $
60,000
Scales Linearly
High availability, excludes switches, application servers, and HBAs.
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Benefits of True Virtualization
Improves ROI and lowers
TCO
Eliminates underlying
complexities
Expands storage without
disrupting applications
Eliminates hardware
dependence
Offers scalability and high
availability at the least cost
Centralized Disaster
Recovery in one tool
Extends life of existing
assets
Delivers the highest
performance
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Performance Benchmark Summary
Performance on Scale or Better than
Competition
– Highly scalable
Priced at a Fraction of the Cost
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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)
“You are in the data path”
– EMC, IBM, HDS and every storage controller of merit recognizes the
value of being in the data path
– Provide multiple ways (N+1 architecture, Snapshot, Alternative
Pathing, Replication/Migration, AIM) to ensure business continuance
and disaster recovery
• No single point of failure
• Multiple white papers and technical briefs are available
– Improve I/O and application throughput performance through
advanced caching algorithms
• Unprecedented performance with 208,000 IOPS and 1.12
GB/sec throughput rates for our minimum SAN configuration
• Softek Virtualization can boost the performance of any storage
subsystem in the network storage pool
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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)
“What is the real-life performance?”
– Real-life performance depends on the customer’s application and
environment
– As with any testing, we maximized our system to attain the highest
performance numbers possible
– Our recently completed benchmark disproves any theory that an in-band
virtualization solution negatively impacts performance, in fact, it can boost
performance to unprecedented levels for systems such as EMC, HDS
– Our competency center is designed for customer demonstrations, testing, and
benchmarking
• Fujitsu Softek encourages any customer to bring in their own application
servers, storage subsystems, and business applications and test the
performance in our center under real-life conditions
– Softek Virtualization’s performance will continually increase as technology
advancements are made in the network hardware such as HBAs, processors,
etc.
• Instead of replacing large, expensive storage subsystems like EMC or
HDS (costs range from $250K to over $1M) in order to take advantage of
the latest technology and performance, Softek Virtualization only requires
a minimal asset investment (replacing the HBAs will cost $7K)
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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)
“Why a QLogic Card?”
– QLogic makes a significant contribution to the
performance benchmark
– As QLogic (or another company) releases the next
generation of HBAs and switches, Softek
Virtualization will immediately be able to take
advantage of the performance increases for
minimal cost
120,000
104,000
100,000
80,000
I/Os per
second
60,000
40,000
23,500
20,000
0
1
6
# of HBAs
QLogic 2310 HBAs
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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)
“You use NT servers for storage management”
– Actually, Softek Virtualization uses NT for the management console
GUI interface platform
– The technology to manage zoning, I/O, application throughput,
mirroring, etc. is a custom application
– NT is a proven commercial operating system, with advances being
made everyday
• First to market with all the latest, best and relatively inexpensive
hardware
• No vendor lock-in to a proprietary platform
• Price/performance continuously advances
• Wealth of qualified I/O, networking interfaces, and 3rd party
software
– Like all networks, customers must build in redundancy
• Implement data, path, and platform replication through
independent storage control nodes running asynchronous to
each other with N+1 redundancy
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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)
“Why an Intel Chip?”
– Intel is a great chip in the market
– Many of the world-class storage providers,
including Hitachi’s Lightning are running Intel chips
in both the front-end (channel adapters) and backend (device adapters)
– Softek Virtualization will immediately be able to take
advantage of the new advances in Intel technology
and performance for a minimal cost
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Softek SANView
I Have A SAN - I Need to See My Assets in
Order to Manage Them
SANView is designed for customers who need
to visualize, monitor and manage Storage Area
Network assets
SANView is a SAN management product that
provides:
– a topology view of the SAN
– the most information for proactively monitoring and
managing SAN performance, communication, and
connectivity.
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SAN Problems
Today’s SAN is Difficult To Manage
It is difficult to
trouble shoot and
pinpoint
performance &
connectivity
problems
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Solution to SAN Problems
Real-time & Historical Performance Statistics
Detailed port I/O
performance
statistics
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Solution to SAN Problems
Rapid Problem Resolution
Beacon a port
to assist in
diagnosing
problems
Port blinks
on screen
and at the
switch
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