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1. > Open Source Impact in Storage
Amber Road: The Storage Revolution started
George Mitropoulos
Global Systems Engineering Leader
Sun Microsystems
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2. Agenda
• Sun today
• Open Storage / Unified Storage
• Sun 7000 (aka Amber Road)
• Open Solaris = Unique advantages
• What's in it for you
• Quiz
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3. SPARC 64
ECO Servers & Desktop Software
Open Network Computing
Open Services Storage
Innovate
Choice
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4. Sun Storage Portfolio

5. Sun 7000 Series:
Open Unified Storage
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6. What is Open Storage?
standard HW + Open SW + Passionate Community
Open Storage Architecture
3rd Party
NetApps, EMC Application
(ISV)
Proprietary Software
Community Functionality
Proprietary OS
Open OS
Proprietary Hardware
(controller, disks) Generic Hardware
Investment = $$
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7. What is Unified Storage?
A solution that brings storage functionsOpen Storage Architecture
together
• Integrated HW & SW
Solutions or Appliances
• Supports block and file
level storage
• Common mgnt console
for all storage functions
• Advanced SW features
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8. Sun Open Unified Storage 7000
Sun's implementation of Open Storage
• generic x86 Server head
• Low cost SATA HDDs
• Hi-perf SSDs
• Open Solaris
• FISHworks
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9. Focusing on biggest challenges
Sun's implementation of Open Storage
• Data growth requires...increased capacity
• Faster Systems require...enhanced performance
• Economy requires...reduced cost
• Organisations require...eliminate complexity
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10. Focusing on biggest challenges
Sun's implementation of Open Storage
Focusing on...
• Outstanding performance
• Substantially reduced cost
• Eliminate complexity
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11. Focusing on biggest challenges
Sun's implementation of Open Storage
Focusing on...
• Outstanding performance
• Substantially reduced cost
• Eliminate complexity
Analysts &
Customers agree!!
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12. Sun Storage 7000 Storage Systems
Bringing Simplicity to Enterprise Storage
Performance
Sun Storage 7410
Sun Storage 7410 Cluster
Sun Storage 7210 16GB, 64GB and 128 GB 32GB, 128GB and 256 GB options
options Up to 576 TB
32GB and 64GB options
Sun Storage 7110 Up to 44 TB
Up to 576 TB Includes cluster software
8GB RAM Hybrid Storage Pool I/O Hybrid Storage Pool I/O
Hybrid Storage Pool I/O Acceleration
14x146GB SAS 10K Acceleration Acceleration
RPM Drives Read/Write Flash/SSD options Read/Write Flash/SSD options for
Write Flash/SSD options for higher performance
Up to 2 TB for higher performance higher performance (2x 7410)
2RU package
Provides support for unified file and block data protocols,
including a rich set of data services
Capacity
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13. Innovation to work with OpenSolaris
• Hybrid Storage Pool
Architecture to use mixed
storage resources
• Analytics
Innovative Management
Platform
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14. Architecture for efficient
Data Management
Hybrid Storage Pool
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15. The memory latency levels
L1 Cache
L2 Cache
Pico Sec.
L3 Cache
Nano Sec, RAM
Micro Sec.
FLASH
Milli Sec.
Disk
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16. Hybrid Storage Pool explained
Architecture for efficient Data Management
• ZFS automatically :
> Writes new data to a very fast SSD
pool used as Write Cache
> Determines data access patterns
and stores frequently accessed
data in the SSD Read Cache
> Bundles IO into sequential lazy
writes for more efficient use of low
cost mechanical disks
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17. ZFS Hybrid Pool Example
• 32GB FB DDR2 ECC DRAM
• OpenSolaris with ZFS
Configuration A: Configuration B:
(1) 32G SSD ZIL Device
(1) 80G SSD Cache Device
(3) 1000GB 7200 RPM SATA Drives
(14) 146GB 10,000 RPM SAS Drives
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18. ZFS Hybrid Pool Example
3.2x
2x
1.1x
1/5
Read IOPS Write IOPS Power Raw Capacity
Hybrid Storage Pool
Traditional Storage Pool
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19. Focus: Cost Effective Performance
SSDs are 200X more cost effective for IOPS
Enterprise 15KRPM 7000 Series Write 7000 Series Read
Hard Disk Drive Optimized SSD Optimized SSD
Write IOPS 180 10,000 N/A
Read IOPS 320 N/A 20,000
Capacity 146GB 18GB 100GB
Power Usage ~18W 2.4W (0.04W idle) 2.4W (0.04W idle)
Latency 3,500µs 70µs 70µs
MTBF 1.5 million hours 2 million hours 2 million hours
$ per Write IOPS $9.97 $0.05 N/A
$ per Read IOPS $5.60 N/A $0.025
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20. Advanced troubleshooting
& diagnostics
Analytics
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21. Integrated Management Platform
Root Cause Issues discovered in Minutes Not Hours
Fully
+ =
Integrated
Software &
Hardware Analytics
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22. Focus: Reduce Complexity & Cost
Root Cause Issues discovered in Minutes Not Hours
• Quick to install and
configure
• Easy to analyze and
optimize
• Rapidly diagnose,
troubleshoot and resolve
issues
• Most comprehensive
self-healing
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23. FISHworks + Analytics
Unprecedented real-time observability
• Decisions based on factual
data, not estimates
• “What is CPU and Memory
Utilization?”
• “How much storage is being
utilized?”
• “How is disk performing?
How many Ops/Sec?”
• “What Services are active?”
• “Which applications/users
are causing issues?”
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24. Software Features
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25. Focus: Reduce cost with OpenSW
Included with the System at No Additional Cost
Data Protocols Data Services Management
• NFS v3 and v4 • Remote Replication • DTrace Analytics
• CIFS • Snapshots • Dashboard
• ISCSI • Clones • Role-Based Access
• HTTP • Flash Hybrid Storage Pool Control
• WebDAV • RAID-Z (5) • NIS LDAP & AD Alerts
• FTP • RAID-Z DP (6) • Phone Home
• NDMP v4 • Mirroring • SNMP
• Striping • Scripting
• Active-active Clustering • Upgrade
• Compression • Hardware View
• Thin Provisioning • Advanced Networking
• End-to-End Data Integrity
• Multi-Path I/O
• Antivirus via ICAP Protocol
• Fault Management
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26. So what's in it for you?
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27. Outstanding performance economics
How? ✔ 75% cost savings
> Hybrid storage pools
− Optimized SSD pools ✔ Better performance
− Generalized storage pools
> Analytics
✔ 4x less power
− Reduced install/admin time
− Window to system issues
> Open Source SW
✔ Up to 33% less space
− All functionality included
− No capacity based license fees
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28. Sun Storage 7000 Storage Systems
vs. the Competition
Sun Storage NetApp
EMC NS80
7410 FAS 3170
Data Services* Included Fee Based Fee Based
Flash Optimized Yes Not Available Not Available
DTrace Analytics Yes Not Available Not Available
Power Consumption 2524W 6426W 6975W
RAID Rebuild Minutes Hours Hours
Space 12RU 45RU 43RU
Grand Total $221,000 $894,000 $554,000
Comparison based on 46TB configurations at list price, end user pricing may vary
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29. Amber Road Key Differentiators
• Open Platform
➢
Open protocols, open data formats
➢ Based on Sun’s core Open Storage platform
• Industry-leading Innovation
➢ Hybrid storage pool with Logzilla and Readzilla Flash
accelerators
➢
DTrace Analytics for Storage
• Game-changing Economics
➢
Sun is not charging for the individual software features and
protocols
➢
Hybrid storage pool delivers best $/G, $/IOP, $/MB/s, W/IOP,
W/MB/s
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30. Learn More
• Get Informed! Look at what the analysts say!
• Visit sun.com/unifiedstorage and sun.com/flash
Download and experience the virtual versions of the Sun Storage 7000
Unified Storage Systems and test drive for yourself
• Take the Sun Savings Challenge at
http://www.sun.com/sunsavingschallenge
• Join the Open Storage Community at
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage
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31. I have t-shirts
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32. Can't take t-shirts
back home
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33. so... questions!
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34. Sun offers great...
(1)Servers only
(2)Storage only
(3)Software only
(4)All of the above plus Services!
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35. 7000 Series is implemented on...
(1)Solaris
(2)Open Solaris
(3)Windows
(4)Choice is yours
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36. FISH in FISHworks stands for...
(1)Fully Integrated HW & SW
(2)First Implementation Solaris Hardware
(3)Just fish – we liked the idea!
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37. 7000 unique characteristics are...
(more than one)
(1)Hybrid Storage Pool
(2)Analytics
(3)All Software functionality included in
the price
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38. Sun 7000 Unified system changes
economics by....
(1)enhanced performance at a lower cost
(2)lower power and space requirements
(3)reduced management complexity
(4)all of the above
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39. And last: Hybrid Storage Pool is...
(1)An architecture that integrates SSDs
as a cache-tier, with capacity-optimised
HDD
(2)A set of tools for understanding and
observing what the storage system is
doing
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40. Thank You.
George Mitropoulos
Global Systems Engineering Leader
Sun Microsystems
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