2. Company Overview
Founded in 2010
NexGen delivers next generation hybrid storage systems
– Designed for affordable, high performance virtual infrastructure
– Lowest combined $/IOPS AND $/GB
– Storage QoS guarantees application performance
“Storage systems can be a major stumbling block to “Enterprise customers are challenged to deliver the
achieve best practice virtualization. Solid-state quality of service and performance required in many
helps, but it’s the storage management software that business critical applications.”
really matters. ”
Jeff Janukowicz, IDC
Neil Carson, Fusion-io Research Director for Solid-state “NexGen Storage is lightning fast, I can
CTO actually work now.”
Jim Gunnarson
IT Manager, KMK
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3. The next generation hybrid
2006 - 2008 2008 - today
NexGen hybrid
Unlocks solid-state potential
• Designed for solid-state
Legacy hybrid AND all-SSD
• Provision performance
SANs for virtualization
Add incremental performance • Prioritize workloads
Enable production VMs • Accelerate virtualization
• Simple scalability • Reduce capacity footprint
• All-inclusive features
Hybrid 1.0 All-SSD
Architectural Roadblocks
Legacy hybrid: SAS/SATA backplane redesign
All-SSD: Expensive $/GB and data migration
New Customer Problem
Disk SSD Disk SSD Everyone: Delivering consistent performance
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4. The future of solid-state
Working Members
NVME Work Group
– “The goal is to enable the broad adoption of SSDs using the PCIe interface.” more
EMC Press Release
– “Putting Flash drives (SSD’s) into the storage array achieved… faster data access than 15K HDD.”
– “Now, placing Flash technology on a PCIe card can accelerate performance up-to… 4000X faster data access than 15K
HDD.” more
Gary Kotzur, Distinguished Engineer, NGCS Storage Advanced Engineering, Dell
– “PCIe versus SAS SSD: 4X to 5X more bandwidth, 3X to 6X more IOPs, 2X to 3X lower latency.” more
– “SAS/SATA solid-state device performance can be limited by the latency and bottlenecks inherent in the driver stack.”
– “Close proximity and direct connection to the processor provides an access mechanism with much lower latency.”
Jim Handy, Director of Market Research, Objective Analysis
– "Some companies are cobbling something together that combines an HBA or RAID controller with a couple of off-the
shelf SATA SSDs on the same board, that works and brings a lot of speed, but it isn't as good as PCIe SSD.“ more
– The key to the higher performance of a PCIe SSD lies in the number of channels a vendor is able to run data through.
According to Handy, the fastest SATA-based SSD is Intel's 10-channel controller. Meanwhile, Fusion-io's PCIe SSD
devices have 25 internal channels
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5. Product overview
NexGen n5 Storage Systems
IOPS: 50,000 – 300,000
System Capacity*: 16 TB – 192 TB raw
ACCELERATE application workloads PCIe Solid-state: 2X or 4X per n5
HDD: 16X NL SAS in 2X RAID6 sets
Rack Units: 3U (base units)
Software: Included, no add-ons
Connectivity: iSCSI
NexGen delivers iSCSI hybrid SANs integrated with disk
CONTROL storage performance Data Ports:
Mgmt Ports:
(4) 10GbE, (8) 1GbE
(4) 1GbE
Support: Base unit covers all future expansions
*Data reduction improves utilization
Quality of Service
Service Levels
GUARANTEE solid-state ROIDynamic Data Placement
Phased Data Reduction
Data Protection
Enterprise, active-active architecture Purpose-built for QoS
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6. ACCELERATE: The need for speed
New, demanding workloads
VDI spikes will impact other workloads
Database consolidation needs extreme random I/O
Business intelligence/analytics require high
throughput and high random I/O
"Storage performance remains the biggest
obstacle to wide scale server virtualization
deployments. Retrofitting old architectures
won't work as a long term solution.”
Higher VM density leads to storage sprawl Steve Duplessie, ESG
Founder and Senior Analyst
Adding more disk drives means:
– Excess capacity consumes more rack space
– Higher power and cooling expenses
– Higher maintenance costs
Higher maintenance costs consume budget
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7. ACCELERATE: Faster AND lower cost
NexGen uses Fusion-io to accelerate workloads
Solid-state at computer bus speeds
“The high performance NexGen SAN
HDD slots are not wasted on SSD means more capacity requires only 3U of rack space compared
to the 20U required for the previous
Customers achieve 85% lower OPEX SAN, improving power, cooling, and rack
space efficiency by 85%.”
Kamran Qamar
IT Manager, WJ Deutsch
Active-active means resources aren’t idle
Read/Write solid-state delivers high performance for all workloads
“NexGen’s raw performance along with QoS
Active-Active for always-on performance capabilities gave us the confidence that
NexGen could not only handle the VDI
50% lower $/IOPS from more efficient resource utilization workload spikes, but deliver consistent
performance to other application workloads
simultaneously.”
David Blaisdell
IT Director, Colby-Sawyer College
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8. CONTROL: The performance management gap
Storage system performance is configured, not managed
System performance defined by system configuration
All workloads contend for performance resources
System performance is always unpredictable
“Enterprise customers are challenged to
deliver the quality of service and
performance required in many business
critical applications.”
Jeff Janukowicz, IDC
All workloads are treated equally Research Director for Solid-state
When one application spikes, all others are impacted
Low priority workloads impact high priority ones
Performance is a free-for-all
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9. CONTROL: Take ioControl
Guarantee minimum levels of performance with QoS
Provision performance just like capacity “We liked the performance boost that
comes with NexGen’s PCIe solid-state
Understand how much performance is available architecture. The QoS capabilities and the
ability to allocate IOPS per volume was also
Know exactly when to scale and by how much a big selling point for us.”
Chris Luersen
IT Admin, Whitely Penn
Prioritize mission-critical workloads with Service Levels
“A well-known competitor took 16U to provide
Define outcomes before they occur the number of spindles I needed for just my VDI
deployment. The name brand offered 7,500
Guarantee high priority applications get required performance IOPS for the same price as NexGen’s 100,000
IOPS. That’s over a 10x performance
Eliminate user complaints with predictable application performance improvement for the same price.”
Brian Michalski
IT Admin, ROCORI School District
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10. ioControl: How it works
Quality of Service Service Levels
Set QoS based on each application’s need Prioritized performance during degraded mode operation
TOTAL SYSTEM
100,000 IOPS
REMAINING
100,000 IOPS
45,000
50,000
70,000
Mission- Business- Non-
Capacity 250 GB 500 GB 900 GB Critical Critical Critical
Performance 30,000 IOPS 20,000 IOPS 5,000 IOPS
30,000 IOPS
20,000 IOPS
Performance
Guaranteed
5,000 IOPS
Minimum Mission- COMPONENT FAILURE!
Performance Critical SYSTEM UPGRADE!
Floor
Business-
REBUILD PROCESS!
Critical
Floor
Non-
Critical
Floor
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11. ioControl: In action
TM
Predictable Performance
Mission Critical and Business Critical
applications performance maintained
Even during a VDI boot storm
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12. QoS manages all ioControl features
ioControl Quality of Service Engine
TM
Dynamic Data Placement Phased Data Reduction
Data moves real-time between Data written is reduced w/out
solid-state and disk impacting performance
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13. GUARANTEE: Dealing with storage uncertainty
Is the architecture purpose-built for solid-state?
Will it accommodate emerging solid-state standards?
Are you getting locked in to a dated design?
Most vendors can’t commit to solid-state performance levels. “The problem of too much choice has started
to appear in the disk storage market,
especially when customers need to purchase
primary storage arrays.”
Valdis Filks, Stanley Zaffos
Gartner, Inc. , September 2011, “How Much and What
Type of Disk Storage Do IT Departments Need?”
Is your storage investment protected?
Do you have the right features needed for future projects?
What type of components make up the system?
Are you exposed to rip and replace upgrades?
Can you scale performance and capacity independently?
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14. GUARANTEE: NexGen’s approach
Ready for the next generation of solid-state today “NexGen’s use of PCIe solid-state has
optimized their implementation. During our
Designed for PCIe solid-state evaluation, we were also impress with the
ability to guarantee performance of our
No re-architecture required priority applications with QoS.”
Jim Gunnarson
IT Manager, KMK
Guaranteed investment protection
Scale capacity and performance independently
No rip and replace upgrades
Enterprise-class components “The QoS feature guarantees IOPS to volumes
based on the importance to our business.
When we added in their performance in a
virtualized environment and the extremely
Guaranteed faster performance clean and efficient UI, we made the decision
to go with the N5 storage system.
3X more performance per rack U than any other hybrid Kevin Smith
Director Systems Administration, IHM
If not, NexGen pays for a performance upgrade
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16. NexGen n5 Storage Systems
TM TM
n5 Series Included Features Support
Models: n5-50, n5-100, n5-150 Features: • Software updates
Quality of Service • All future hardware upgrades included
Solid-state Capacity: 730 GB - 4,800 GB • Proactive phone-home monitoring
• Single support contract
Raw Capacity: 16 TB -192 TB (RAID 6)
• White glove storage engineer service
Performance Rating: 50,000 – 300,000 IOPS Service Levels
TM
Offerings: • 7 day x 24 hour phone support with
Scalability Performance packs; 730 GB, 1,570 GB, 2,400 GB onsite parts
Capacity packs; 16 TB, 48 TB • 7 day x 24 hour phone support with next
business day parts
Storage Processors: Dual Active-Active Dynamic Data Placement • 5 day x 9 hour phone support with next
business day parts
RAM: 48 - 96 GB
Network Interfaces: Data: (4) 10GbE iSCSI + (8) 1 GbE iSCSI The lowest support TCO in the industry
Management: (4) 1GbE HTTP Phased Data Reduction
As low as 1% of MSRP per year
Hardware Redundant Storage Processors Support contract for base unit covers all future
Availability: Redundant Fans hardware upgrades
Redundant Power Supplies
Data Protection
Redundant Network Connections TM
Dual Port SAS drives
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18. Endorsed by both analysts and customers
Industry Analysts NexGen Customers
Editor’s Choice Award On performance
Cloud Storage “We liked the performance boost that comes with
Virtualization Review NexGen’s PCIe solid-state architecture”
Chris Luersen
Chosen over:
IT Administrator, Whitley Penn
Nimble Storage NexGen Case Study Blog 12/20/2012
Tegile
Whiptail On Control
Pure Storage
“The QoS feature guarantees IOPS to volumes based
on their importance to our business”
Enterprise Storage Product of the Year Kevin Smith
SearchStorage.com Director of IT, Institute for Health Metrics
NexGen Case Study Blog 12/31/2012
Chosen over:
Nimble Storage On ROI
Tintri “The lowest $/IOPS and $/GB on the market to date.”
Pure Storage
James Gunnarson
Whiptail
Systems Administrator, Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL
EMC VMworld Blog 1/31/2013
NetApp
19. Introducing ioControl 2.1
End-to-end virtual infrastructure quality of service with world-class performance
TM
intelligence, storage QoS for VMware data stores, and efficiency reports.
World-class performance intelligence
• Block size, queue depth, system response time
• Per volume, QoS policy, service level
• Block size and latency histograms
Storage QoS for VMware data stores
• Managed in VMware vCenter
• QoS policy and provisioning
• Data store to virtual machine mapping
Additional Features
• QoS managed snapshots Dashboard efficiency reports
• Phone home support • Enhanced capacity reporting
• Improved performance • I/O efficiency, SSD usage
• View I/O from each tier
• Windows CLI
• 770 GB, 1.2 TB perf packs
• 48 TB capacity packs
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20. Virtualize more with NexGen
Spend less on storage
Lowest combined $/IOPS & $/GB
Avoid rip and replace upgrades
85% lower OPEX
Guarantee datastore performance "Our virtual machines are running much
better sitting on the NexGen SAN. Microsoft
Exchange is much faster and more responsive.
Provision datastore performance with QoS I've also reduced my backup window from 5
hours down to 1.5 hours.
Prioritize datastore performance with Service Levels
Eli Jaramillo
IT Manager, Granada Hills Charter Schools
Happy, satisfied end users
Eliminate storage sprawl
5X more performance in 80% less rack space
Consolidate virtual and physical
100s of TB’s in less than 12U infrastructure with QoS.
Best-in-class VM density
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21. Justify VDI with NexGen
Improve the desktop experience
81% faster client boot operations
Solid-state performance for reads AND writes
End users prefer VDI on NexGen over PC/laptops
Reduce storage cost per user “NexGen’s raw performance along with QoS
capabilities gave us the confidence that
NexGen could not only handle the VDI
30X more IOPS per rack U workload spikes, but deliver consistent
performance to other application workloads
Lowest $/desktop for 100s - 1,000s of desktops simultaneously.”
David Blaisdell
$28 storage cost per desktop IT Director, Colby-Sawyer College
Avoid VDI storage silos
Provision performance for boot storms/virus scans
Run VDI on the same SAN as
Eliminate impacts on other applications mission-critical apps with QoS.
Consolidate VDI with other applications
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22. Streamline business intelligence with NexGen
Accelerate database applications
PCI-e solid-state delivers 22X more IO than SSD drives
Solid-state on the PCIe bus means 50% less latency
Reduce processing time for reports
“The high performance NexGen SAN
Control impact on other workloads requires only 3U of rack space compared
to the 20U required for the previous
Prioritize each database with Service Levels SAN, improving power, cooling, and rack
space efficiency by 85%.”
Consolidate mixed workloads with confidence Kamran Qamar
IT Manager, WJ Deutsch
Simplify infrastructure management
Guarantee end user satisfaction
Always online and accessible
Consistent end user experience
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23. The NexGen hybrid
ACCELERATE application workloads Virtualize more
Justify VDI
Streamline Business Intelligence
CONTROL storage performance
GUARANTEE solid-state ROI
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