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IBM Flashsystem A9000 and A9000R • IBM XIV • IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family: • IBM Flashsystem V9000 • IBM SAN Volume Controller • IBM Storwize Family • Versastack FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 Technical Update Craig Gordon, Lisa Martinez, Brian Sherman – IBM Storage ATS - Washington Systems Center Steve Solewin – IBM Corporate Solutions Architect © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. Washington Systems Center - Storage Accelerate with IBM Storage Webinars The Free IBM Storage Technical Webinar Series Continues... Washington Systems Center – Storage experts cover a variety of technical topics Audience: Clients who have or are considering acquiring IBM Storage solutions. Business Partners and IBMers are also welcome How to sign up? To automatically receive announcements of upcoming Accelerate with IBM Storage webinars, Clients, Business Partners and IBMers are welcome to send an email request to [email protected]. Information, schedules, and archives: Located in the Accelerate with IBM Storage Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/accelerate/?lang=en Upcoming Webinars: Recent Webinars: Dec 5th FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R Update Nov 30th LTO8 Drive and related updates to IBM tape products Dec 12th IBM DS8000 R8.3 DSGUI Live Demo Nov 16th VersaStack - IBM’s On Premise Cloud Solution Jan 9th IBM DS8880 Easy Tier Nov1st Spectrum Control Capacity Planning Oct10th z14 IO and Infrastructure Modernization Oct 3rd GDPS Update Sept 14th DS8000 R8.3 Update Sept 7th Utilizing the BVIR VEHSTATS Reports to Monitor Your 2 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. TS7700 Environment Washington Systems Center - Storage Agenda • Overview of what’s new with R12.2 • Container support and scalability enhancements • FlashSystem Hardware enhancements • Cross generation replication update • HyperScale Mobility update • HyperSwap Update • HyperScale Manager R5.3 enhancements • Additional functions © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 3 Washington Systems Center - Storage FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – Overview of what’s new © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 4 Washington Systems Center - Storage IBM Systems Flash Storage Offerings Portfolio Storwize V5030F Storwize V7000F FlashSystem V9000 FlashSystem A9000 FlashSystem A9000R Elastic Storage DS888xF Server Entry Storage Midrange Storage Highest Performance Virtualization Virtualization Line of Business & MSP Consolidate at scale Big Data Business Critical • z/OS | AIX • Radically simple & autonomous design • Simplified management • Consolidates file & Power HA for Cloud Economics & Operations • Flexible consumption model object workloads Power i HA • Capacity & performance optimized • Virtualized, enterprise-class, flash-optimized, modular storage • Faster data • Business critical, configurations • Enterprise class heterogeneous data services and selectable data analysis deepest integration • All-flash with full inline data reduction reduction • Global sharing with IBM Z / Power • Enterprise features & reliability • Superior performance & VersaStack reliability • Three-site / Four- Flexible site replication Enhanced data storage functions, economics FlashSystem 900 Converged • DS8884F SVC • Extreme performance and flexibility with sophisticated virtualization Application acceleration Infrastructure DS8886F • Targeting database acceleration with power of DS8888F & Spectrum Storage booster Storwize V5030F and Spectrum IBM FlashCore™ Technology Optimized Scale © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 5 Washington Systems Center - Storage A9000 / A9000R – What’s New in R12.2 Dates: • New FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R model 425 10/24/2017 Announcement • New 3D TLC NAND MicroLatency® modules 11/24/2017 General Availability • Cross generation Asynchronous mirroring between XIV Gen3, A9000 and A9000R • HyperScale Mobility new configurations • Migrate amongst any A9000 and A9000R systems, over fibre-channel • IBM Storage Enabler for Containers • Increased A9000 and A9000R scalability limits • 24K volumes and snapshots • 1024 consistency groups for snapshots and mirrors • 512 volumes in a consistency group • HyperScale Manager Improvements • Snapshot scheduler – by pool • Filter using wildcards • Save Preferences by user © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 6 Washington Systems Center - Storage FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – Container and scalability enhancements © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 7 Washington Systems Center - Storage IBM Storage Enabler for Containers • Unified solution across IBM storage portfolio • Allows IBM Storage to provide persistent storage for Docker container environments • Communication with IBM block storage systems through IBM Spectrum Control Base Edition (SCBE) • SCBE creates a storage profile (for example, gold, silver or bronze) and makes it available for Docker or Kubernetes plugins • Orchestration using IBM Cloud Private and Kubernetes • Following IBM block storage systems are available: • IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family: • IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R • IBM XIV • IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family: • IBM FlashSystem V9000 • IBM SAN Volume Controller • IBM Storwize Family • VersaStack © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 8 Washington Systems Center - Storage R12.2 A9000 / A9000R Scalability improvements • Scaled-up FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R limits • Increase in the number of volumes / snapshots • Increased from 16K to 24K volumes and snapshots • Increase in the number of volumes per consistency group and number of consistency groups supported • Number of volumes in a consistency group increased from 128 to 512 • Number of consistency groups increased from 512 to 1024 for snapshots and mirrors © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 9 Washington Systems Center - Storage IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights Foundation Dates: 10/24/2017 Preview Announcement • Holistic management, optimization and support experience Beta Available • Anonymous collection of metadata to create a data ocean for AI technologies to exploit IBM Spectrum Control Storage Insights • Empowers both storage admins and IBM support to deliver Foundation better storage outcomes Beta Program: ibm.biz/FoundationPilot © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 10 Washington Systems Center - Storage Storage Insights Foundation Vision Near real-time view to IBM Support of the client storage environment, including performance, capacity and health Call Home Deep log + IBM IBM Spectrum packages Flash IBM IBM Storage Insights Storwize Control Systems DS8000 Meta Data collector are self-serve for Storage Insights support Select Select Switches Hypervisors IBM predictive analytics mine historical and live telemetry data for insights Future © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 11 Washington Systems Center - Storage FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – Hardware update © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 12 Washington Systems Center - Storage Custom Designed Flash Media With Field Proven Architecture The Right Systems for the Right Environments • All IBM FlashSystem products share a Consistent Core Architecture • IBM MicroLatency™ Flash Modules delivering industry leading performance • IBM FlashCore™ Technology with IBM Enhanced 3DTLC Flash • Consistent low latency performance with Compression always on • Non-blocking Crossbar Switch • Hardware Only Data Path • Concurrent Code Load and Concurrent Maintenance • High Availability Flash Enclosure with dual canister design • Integrated Data Integrity Checking • Two-Dimensional RAID © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 13 Washington Systems Center - Storage FS900 System Block Diagram Maximize Business Uptime • Engineered for Flash • Low latency NVM data bus • Hardware RAID • Fully redundant with no single point of failure V • Data path is entirely independent of the S R control path • Full Active-Active design NVMe over Fabric (NVME-oF) ready • Fine Grain Grid architecture 2-Dimensional RAID5 (10+P+S) © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 14 Washington Systems Center - Storage Introducing the new IBM FlashSystem 900 3x higher density with IBM enhanced 3D TLC MicroLatency® modules • First array in the industry with custom 3D TLC flash modules • Traditional 2D NAND has reached the physical limits of scalability • Shrinking flash cells and more bits per cell cause lower endurance, heavy error correction, and degraded latency • 3D NAND flash enables greater scalability • Increases density without compromising latency or endurance 3D TLC Flash • Stacks NAND cells vertically instead of shrinking size of each cell • Allows increased lithography size Endurance Gain = 3.8X • Next generation FlashCore technology improves on native flash chip endurance over 3.8x © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 15 Washington Systems Center - Storage IBM FlashSystem 900 Flash without compromise • 3X capacity with new IBM enhanced 3D TLC in 2U • Inline hardware compression with no performance penalty • Up to 220TB effective capacity for compressible workloads • Next generation FlashCore technology • Consistent response time; latency as low as 95 microseconds • Enhanced user interface with new dashboard view • Centralized encryption key management; SKLM • 7-year flash wear guarantee 3.6TB 8.5TB 18TB Qty 6 8 10 12 8 10 12 8 10 12 Usable 14.4 21.6 28.8 36.1 51.3 68.4 85.5 108 144 180 Maximum Effective 44 66 88 110 132 176 220 132 176 220 © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 16 Washington Systems Center - Storage FlashSystem 900 Technical Foundation FlashSystem 900 R2 FlashSystem 900 R3 Flash media MLC 3D TLC Capacity points 13 10 Minimum Usable Capacity (TB) 2.2 14.4 (3D TLC) Maximum Effective Capacity (TB) 57 220 Native compression No Yes RAID RAID 5 + Hot spare RAID 5 + Hot Spare Latency: write 90µs 95µs Latency: read 155µs 155µs IOPS: read (100%, random) 1,100,000 1,100,000
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