StorMagic have announced a major new release of SvSAN bringing unprecedented flexbility, efficiency and performance to our customers and partners.
Join John Glendenning (SVP Sales and Marketing) and Luke Pruen (Technical Services Director) to learn more about how SvSAN 6 can modernize your IT infrastructure and take advantage of next generation software defined storage built on a proven platform.
StorMagic SvSAN 6 is available to purchase now and is available through StorMagic’s Preferred Partner Network and via the company’s global OEM agreement with Cisco. Order your free trial now by visiting http://stormagic.com/trial/
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Next Generation Software-Defined Storage
1. Announcing SvSAN 6
Next Generation Software-Defined Storage
Unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT
John Glendenning – SVP Sales & Marketing
Luke Pruen – Technical Services Director
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SvSAN: No More Physical SAN
Costly & Complex
Single point of failure
Affordable & Simple
Highly available
5. SvSAN: How it works and what you get
Key benefits are:
• Lowering costs by eliminating physical SANs
and deploy on only 2 servers whilst not
compromising performance.
• Improved management and support though
rapid deployment and centralized
management.
• High availability out-of the box whilst
eliminating a physical SAN single point of
failure.
SvSAN turns the internal/direct attached disk of 2 servers
into highly available shared storage
6. SvSAN 6: The Perfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges
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StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility,
Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT
Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Always meet your
application demands
I/O Performance statistics
Crucial I/O statistics now at your finger-tips to better
understand your workloads.
Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade
Deploy and upgrade multiple VSAs through a single
wizard and Out-of-the-box Experience
PowerShell Auto-script generation
Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically
generate a custom PowerShell script.
SSD Read/Write caching
Enable hybrid storage configurations combining the performance
of SDDs with the capacity of HDDs.
Memory-based read caching
Blazing fast for most common reads. Modes: most
frequently used, read ahead and data pinning.
Intelligent auto-tiering
Data dynamically moved between storage tiers depending on
frequency of access.
7. SvSAN 6: The Perfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges
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StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility,
Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT
Automatically tier the ideal
balance of disk, flash and
memory
Tune for raw performance,
high capacity and the
smallest footprint
Configure for today’s needs
and easily adapt for future
demands
Leverage advanced storage
auto-tiering to configure the
lightest server and storage
footprint
Reduce CAPEX and OPEX
through a smaller footprint,
lower MTBF and centralized
management
Reduce space, power and
cooling to contribute to your
green credentials
Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Always meet your
application demands
Configure for Increased IOPS
and reduced latency to meet
the SLAs for performance
sensitive applications
Remove dependency on
costly and complex storage
arrays
Protect your mission critical
services with out-of-the-box
high availability
8. SvSAN 6: Standard & Advanced Editions
Synchronous Mirroring/High Availability ✔
Stretched/Metro Cluster Support ✔
Volume Migration ✔
VSA Restore
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VMware vSphere Storage API (VAAI) Support ✔
Centralized management and monitoring ✔
Remote shared quorum ✔
I/O performance statistics ✔
Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade ✔
PowerShell Shell script generation ✔
SSD Caching -
Memory-based caching - most frequently used mode -
Memory-based caching - read ahead mode -
Memory-based caching - data pinning mode -
Intelligent automated tiering -
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1 Vmware vSphere only
Increased Capacity
• 2TB
• 6TB (increased from 4TB)
• 12TB (increased from 8TB)
• Unlimited TB (increased from 16TB)
Availability
• General Availability - Calendar Q3
• Tech Preview available soon
Promotion
• Announced at the end of the webinar
12. SvSAN: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations
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“Our old storage platform was a poor fit, troubling us with low performance and
reliability issues - so we chose SvSAN. We're happy with SvSAN and will be
deploying SvSAN in other projects.”
Will Turner
Merit Network
“Previously we had a Dell Physical SAN but when our support ran out we looked
at other options. We looked at other virtual SAN solutions, but unlike the others
StorMagic SvSAN ticked all our boxes: low support cost, low outlay cost and
reliability. We’re very happy with StorMagic SvSAN and are now looking at
deployment into our other offices.”
Barry Nelson, I.T. Manager
Adam Equipment Company
“We were looking to modernize our IT infrastructure, but with a small IT budget
to invest in new solutions. We needed a solution that worked within our existing
VMware environment and provided highly available storage.
StorMagic SvSAN eliminated single points of failure and displayed good
performance.”
Jan Valenta, Network Administrator
Technické služby města Mostu a.s.
13. SvSAN 6: The Perfect Storm
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Intel Xeon Cores
2-16
(Hyper-threaded)
Intel Xeon Cores
2-24
(Hyper-threaded)
Intel Xeon Cores
2-24
(Hyper-threaded)
Intel Xeon Cores
2-30
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
99c
SSD price per GB
68c
SSD price per GB
55c
SSD price per GB
39c
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon
Computerworld article (http://bit.ly/1RqPSeS)
SvSAN Workloads
1-16
SvSAN Workloads
1-24
SvSAN Workloads
1-24
SvSAN Workloads
1-30
Max HD capacity
3TB
Max HD capacity
5TB
Max HD capacity
8TB
Max HD capacity
10TB
Intel Xeon Cores
2-44
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
24c
SvSAN Workloads
1-44
Max HD capacity
16TB
14. SvSANSvSAN 6 Standard
SvSAN 6: More for less and widening the reach
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SvSAN 6 Advanced
Intel Xeon Cores
2-44
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
24c
SvSAN Workloads
1-44
Max HD capacity
16TB
Performance & Capacity
Cost
Quantity of
VMs
Cost of 2 Server
SvSAN Solution
$5000
$10,000
$15,000
$20,000
5 10 20 40
15. SvSAN 6: More from less
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Intel Xeon Cores
2-44
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
24c
SvSAN Workloads
1-44
Max HD capacity
16TB
16. SvSAN 6: What’s under the covers?
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Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Designed for the most
demanding applications
The design principle:
• Leveraging all available storage types
• Designed for virtualization and optimize read/write where it counts
• Based on data from real-world customer environments
• Deliver improved management through extended automation
What you can expect:
• Lower cost servers and storage to save CAPEX
• Lower operating costs to save OPEX
• Smaller footprint with lower power consumption to save OPEX lower CF
• Higher performance for most demanding applications
17. SvSAN 6: All storage is not equal
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Magnetic drives provide poor random performance
• SATA 7.2k rpm 75 – 100 IOPS
• SAS 10k/15k rpm 140 – 210 IOPS
• Lower cost per GB
• Higher cost per IOPS
• Flash and SSDs have good random performance
• SSD/Flash 8.6K to 10 millions IOPS
• Lower cost per IOPS
• High cost per GB compared to magnetic
• Memory has even better performance
• Orders of magnitude faster than Flash/SSD
• Much higher cost per GB compared to SSD/Flash
• Memory is volatile and typical low in capacity
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive
18. SvSAN 6: The importance of caching
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Virtualized environments suffer from the ‘I/O blender’ effect
• Multiple Virtual Machines sharing a set of disks
• Resulting in predominantly random I/O
• Magnetic drives provide poor random performance
• SSD & Flash storage ideal for workloads but expensive
Working sets of data
• Driven by workloads which are ever changing
• Refers to the amount of data most frequently accessed
• Always related to a time period
• Working sets sizes evolve as workloads change
Caching
• Combat the I/O blender effect without the expense of all Flash or SSD
• Working sets of data can be identified and elevated to cache
19. SvSAN 6: SSD/Flash caching
SSD/Flash Caching
• Significantly Improves overall I/O performance
• Reduces the number of I/Os going directly to disk
• Dynamic cache sizing read/write ratio
Writes operations
• Data is written as variable sized extents
• Extents are merged and coalesced in the background
• Data in cache is flushed to hard disk regularly in small bursts
Read operations
• SvSAN algorithm identifies and promotes data, based on access patterns
• Frequently accessed data blocks are elevated on SSD/Flash
• Least frequently access blocks are aged out
20. SvSAN 6: Memory based caching
Modern servers now have vast amounts of memory
• Additional memory can be used to dramatically improve
storage performance
• Frequently read data is cached in memory
• Read operations are served from memory without ever
accessing a disk drive
Read-ahead mode
• Detects sequential read streams to allow read ahead
• i.e. when this block is read it is highly likely adjacent
blocks will be read
• Enable for targeted workloads
Read Operation
Data Blocks
Data read
from disk
Data pre-fetched
from disk
…
Data not yet requested
Sequential data access
pattern identified
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Most frequently used mode (default)
• SvSAN algorithm identifies and stores data based on
access patterns
• Frequently accessed data blocks are stored in memory
• Default mode benefits all workloads
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
VM Count)
Boottime(seconds)
Time to Boot VSAs (machines booting simultaneously)
No caching (max)
No caching (avg)
Read data pinned (avg)
Data pinning mode
• Enter learning to create identical access pattern
• Delivers most efficient read performance
• Enable for targeted workloads
21. SvSAN 6: Intelligent automated read caching & tiering
Intelligent read caching algorithm
• All read I/Os are monitored and analyzed
• Most frequently used data – “Hot” data
• Cache tiers are populated based on access frequency
Tiering
• RAM: Most frequently accessed data
• SSD/Flash: Next most frequently accessed data
• HDD: Infrequently accessed data – “Cold” data
Sizing
• Assign cache sizes to meet requirements
• Grow caches as working sets change
• Use any combination of Memory, SSD/Flash and Disk
Play to the strengths
• Play to the strengths of all mediums
• Memory Highest IOPS
• SSD/Flash Magnetic drives providing low price per GB
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22. SvSAN 6: Management
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Multiple VSA GUI deployment
̶ Deploy multiple VSAs through a single wizard
̶ Incremental naming and IP addressing
Automatic PowerShell Shell script generation
̶ Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically generate a custom
PowerShell script
̶ Script variables clearly marked to enable easy editing
̶ Scale custom scripts for mass deployments
VSA OOBE (Out-of-box Experience)
̶ Stage VSA deployments on hardware
̶ Configure VSAs when installed onsite
̶ Configure through GUI or scripting
Upgrade multiple VSAs through GUI
- Use a repository for VSA firmware's
- Select multiple VSAs through the StorMagic dashboard for upgrading
- Upgrade VSAs immediately or stage firmware for overnight upgrade
- StorMagic handles VSA health check to not impact environment
23. SvSAN 6: Built on real-world customer data
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Throughput I/Os
Total per day 1TB ~45 Million
Read per day 733GB ~28 Million
Write per day 261GB ~17 Million
Average 12 MB/s 515 per second
Read/Write Ratio 67/33 61/39
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
16,000,000
18,000,000
Block Size Distribution
Write
Read
Count
Block Size
• Example customer daily I/O profile
• Example I/O characteristics:
̶ 1 TB read per day
̶ 200-300 GB written per day
̶ Average read IOPS around 800
̶ Average write IOPS around 200
̶ Occasional peak IOPS up to 3 – 4000
̶ Average read size ~24 KB
̶ Average write size ~27 KB
24. SvSAN 6: Customer data analysis
Real life data
• Real customer data collected and analysed
• Exact data patterns simulated and replayed
• Accurate expectations of caching/tiering
Results
• Average customer would significantly benefit from caching/tiering
• Example customer would greatly benefit from 8GB Memory &
250GB SSD/Flash
• Could see as high as 70% of I/O being satisfied from read cache,
100% from write cache
Benefits
• Lower cost servers, with a small number of large capacity HDDs
• Smaller rack unit servers
• Less disks required to meet capacity and performance
• Less disks mean a significant reduction in Mean Time Between
Failures (MTBF)
25. SvSAN 6: Existing Customer and External Array Comparison
Estimated CAPEX and power
savings over 5 years
1000 sites
$9.2m
2 x Commodity Servers
with SvSAN 6 Advanced
2 x Commodity
Servers with
External Arrays
Storage - 1 x SSD
- 4 x SATA
15 x SAS
Power Saving
on total system
1,176W 1,628W
Capital Saving
per site
$6,836 -
2 x Commodity Servers
with SvSAN 6 Advanced
Commodity Servers
with SvSAN 5.3
Storage - 1 x SSD
- 4 x SATA
12 x SAS
Power Saving
on disk
74W 224W
Capital Saving
per site
$2,546 -
External ArraySvSAN 5.x Customer
Estimated CAPEX and power
savings over 5 years
1000 sites
$4.1m
26. SvSAN 6: Built on Customer Data and a Proven Platform
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Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Designed for the most
demanding applications
Proven Platform:
• Deployed globally in 72 countries
• Only company singularly focused on a 2 server solution
• Only 2 server solution with all storage tiers supported
Built on real customer data
• Not in the lab!
• Benefit immediately whatever the workload
Perfect Storm:
• Continued increase in Intel processor density
• HD Capacity is going through the roof
• Flash prices are dropping through the floor
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SvSAN 6 Promotion
Free upgrade to SvSAN 6 Advanced
Offer open to all SvSAN 5.3 Orders
Orders placed from 1st May to 31st August 2016 *
Contact us today – sales@stormagic.com
* Upgrade to be redeemed by 31st December 2016
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Q&A and Next Steps
Learn more
Trial SvSAN
Buy SvSAN Now
Product Options
SvSAN license 2, 4, 8, 16, unlimited TBs
License entitlement 2 mirrored servers
Maintenance and support Platinum - 24x7 / Gold - 9x5
Contact StorMagic
sales@stormagic.com
http://www.stormagic.com/contact/
SvSAN 6 - http://stormagic.com/svsan-v6-launch/
Videos - http://stormagic.com/resources-page/rescources-videos/
http://www.stormagic.com/trial/
SvSAN 6 White Paper - http://stormagic.com/svsan-6/
Resources - http://stormagic.com/resources/
Notes de l'éditeur
Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity
Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure.
Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime
IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability.
Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance
Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter.
Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time
Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality.
Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management
ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
Slide objective:
Deliver a crystal clear message of the value of SvSAN vs a physical SAN as a simple summary after the Dave and Larry video or on its own if the video is not shown.
Link statement:
“I trust the message from the video is clearly understood. In summary, a Physical SAN is costly, complex and a single point of failure; whereas SvSAN is affordable, simple and highly available.”.
Key messages to deliver:
A physical SAN adds a 3rd piece of highly complex and costly infrastructure to the deployment.
By leveraging the internal disk of a server SvSAN delivers a more affordable, simple and highly available solution.
Built from the ground up for lean IT spaces.
Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity
Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure.
Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime
IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability.
Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance
Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter.
Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time
Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality.
Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management
ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
Storage link aggregation – Team multiple network links to aggregate network bandwidth for SvSAN mirror traffic
vCenter Dashboard – centalized monitoring
vCenter event forwarding – centralized monitoring
Microsoft System Center Operation Manager Management Pack – Centralized monitoring
Cisco UCS Director integration – Centralized management
Heterogeneous storage – the ability to use any storage type
Monitoring options – SNMP & SMTP (email) events – Centralized management
Working sets are driven by the workload, the applications driving the workload, and the VMs that they run on. Whether the persistent storage is local, shared, or distributed, it really doesn’t matter from the perspective of how the VMs see it. The size will be largely the same.
Working sets are always relate to a time period. However, it’s a continuum. And there will be cycles in the data activity over time.
Working set will comprise of reads and writes. The amount of each is important to know because reads and writes have different characteristics, and demand different things from your storage system.
Working set size refers to an amount, or capacity, but what and how many I/Os it took to make up that capacity will vary due to ever changing block sizes.
Working set sizes evolve as workloads change.
I/Os
27,887,207 Read
16,732,160 Write
44,619,367 Total
Current
300GB 15k SAS $579 (652611-B21) Total $8,106
New
SSD $1,439 (816909-B21) Total $1,439
2TB 7.2k $1,059 (765455-B21) Total $4,236
Total old drives $8,106
Total new drives $5,675
Total saving per server $2,431
Total saving per site (2 servers) $4,862
Total sites saving $10,696,400