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

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• 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

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FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – Overview of what’s new

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© 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

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• 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

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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

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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

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Near real-time view to IBM Support of the client storage environment, including performance, capacity and health

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Select Select Switches Hypervisors IBM predictive analytics mine historical and live telemetry data for insights

Future

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FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – Hardware update

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Custom Designed Flash Media With Field Proven Architecture The Right Systems for the Right Environments

• All IBM FlashSystem products 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

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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 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

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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 IOPS: read/write (70%/30%, random) 800,000 900,000 IOPS: write (100%, random) 600,000 600,000 Bandwidth: read (100%, sequential) 10 GB/s 10 GB/s Bandwidth: write (100%, sequential) 4.5 GB/s 4.5 GB/s Encryption Local key management Local key management, SKLM Interfaces 18 x 16Gb FC 18 x 16Gb FC 6 x 8Gb FC 6 x 8Gb FC 8 x 40Gb QDR InfiniBand 8 x 40Gb QDR InfiniBand Remote support No Yes

Warranty© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 1 year or 3 year 1 year or 3 year 17 17 Washington Systems Center - Storage

IBM FlashCore™ Technology The DNA of the FS900/V9000/A9000 family Engineered for Flash • Hardware RAID • Hardware inline compression • Non-blocking Crossbar Switch • Hardware Only Data Path Industry Standard Interface Technology • Single Box Highly Available Architecture • Concurrent Code Load & Maintenance Powered by IBM Engineered IBM FlashCore™ Technology • Massively Parallel Design • FPGAs in the Data Path Hardware Accelerated I/O • Distributed RAM • High Speed Interface IBM MicroLatency Module™ • Line Speed Data at Rest Encryption Advanced Flash Management • IBM Variable Stripe RAID™ • IBM Engineered ECC Industry Standard IBM Enhanced • IBM Optimized Overprovisioning • Health Binning and Heat Segregation Chip Technology • Write Buffer and Hardware Offload • IBM Optimized Garbage Collection

Forget about it Endurance

Consistent predictable performance for life

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• Built in, always on hardware based compression • No added latency • Innovative ECC algorithm corrects very high bit error rates (does not require additional reads) • Latency does not degrade as parts age • Health binning and heat segregation Results: • FlashCore technology continually assesses health by monitoring several key parameters •Large endurance gains w/o latency • Hotter data placed in healthier blocks – penalty Up to 57% improvement in endurance! •Asymmetrical wear leveling results • Write Amplification reduced by up to in higher endurance in real life 45% by grouping like heat levels workloads! • The IBM and Micron collaboration provides special access to the •As the part ages and we determine Flash the health of each block, the ideal • Extensive characterization determined optimal read offsets to set as block voltage levels are set in order to ages minimize errors! • Powerful checks on entire data path, including inside the flash •Outstanding data reliability and modules improved endurance • Variable Stripe RAID delivers two dimensions of data protection •Consistent low latency performance!

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FlashSystem A9000 FlashSystem A9000R

• 8U, complete offering • Pre-integrated 42U rack offering • IBM Installation, service and support • IBM Installation, service and support • Ideal building blocks for service providers • Scale-out grid architecture • 110TB – 900TB effective capacity* • Ideal for larger enterprise environments • Up to 900K IOPs • 360TB – 3.6PB effective capacity* • 250µs minimum latency • Up to 2.4M IOPs • 250μs minimum latency

*Note: Effective Capacity assumes 5:1 Data Reduction ratio © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 20 Washington Systems Center - Storage

A9000 and FS900 R3 – Truly Capacity and Cost Optimized IBM FlashSystem™ A9000 and IBM FlashSystem™ A9000R

• 8U with cable bundle and fully self contained • All Grid controllers and the single flash drawer interconnected with InfiniBand (IB) • A9000/R exploits FS900 hardware compression for metadata • A9000 Grid Controller exactly the same as the A9000R grid controller • 384GB DRAM • Same Processor complex as A9000R

• Next Generation X86 processors to further improve performance IBM FlashSystem A9000 • The FS900 drawer adds 3D TLC!

• Usable capacities increase to 22TB, 36TB, 85TB and 180TB

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Capacity Accelerate line-of-business workloads Optimized ✓ Accommodate fast-growth of data-intensive applications

✓ Support real-time data-driven business decisions 900K IOPS ✓ 3X Capacity increase ✓ 66% Power and space reduction Balanced ✓ Cost-competitive with Hybrid Arrays

Performance Optimized 900K IOPS 900TB900TB*

900K IOPS 425TB* IOPS results represent random IO, 80/20% read/write 900K IOPS * Capacity information is Effective, assuming 5:1 data reduction 180TB* 110TB*

MicroLatency Module usable capacity 3.6TB (X8) 3.6TB 8.5TB 18TB

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A9000R integrated with FS900 R3! IBM FlashSystem™ A9000 and IBM FlashSystem™ A9000R

• A9000R interconnect to FS900 is unchanged • RDMA over InfiniBand

• A9000/R exploits FS900 hardware compression for metadata

• Next Generation X86 processors to further improve performance

• A9000 and A9000R have same high performance grid controllers

• The FS900 drawer adds 3D TLC! • Usable capacities increase to 36TB, 85TB and 180TB IBM FlashSystem A9000R • A9000R scales from 2 to 4 grid elements • Grid element consists of 2 grid controllers and one FS900 storage enclosure

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 23 Washington Systems Center - Storage FlashSystem A9000R Model 425 Configurations Consolidate with Confidence Capacity Optimized ✓ Leverage declining cost of flash media ✓ Dramatically reduce footprint vs HDD storage 2.4M IOPS ✓ Dramatically reduce power consumption ✓ Dramatically improve data center utilization Balanced

1.8M IOPS 3.6PB*

Number of Grid-Elements 2 3 4

1.2M IOPS Performance 2.4M IOPS 2.7PB* Optimized 1.8M IOPS 1.7PB*

1.2M IOPS 2.4M IOPS 1.28PB*

IOPS results represent random IO, 80/20% read/write 1.8M IOPS * Capacity information is Effective, assuming 5:1 data reduction 1.2M IOPS 720TB* 540TB* 360TB* 850TB* 1.8PB*

MicroLatency Module usable capacity 3.6TB 8.5TB 18TB © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 24 Washington Systems Center - Storage A9000 / A9000R Building blocks: Server

Lenovo M5 Server

Same Server for A9000 / A9000R • Dual socket Xeon Processor E5-2650 v4 12C 2.2GHz 30MB 2400MHz (Broadwell) • 384GB RAM - 8 x 32GB 8 x 16GB DDR4 Memory 2400MHz LP RDIMM • 2 x HDD (600GB) , 2 x SSD (400GB) • Internal battery solution – BBU Kit

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• Two configurations (Host connection) • iSCSI over 10GE - Based on MLX ConnectX-3 Pro • FC – Based on Qlogic QLE2662 • InfiniBand (IB) Interconnect – Based on MLX Connect-IB • Server to Server and Server to Flash • Compression card – Coleto Creek

A9000 A9000R

ATTENTION ATTENTION Power supply filler is AC Power supply filler is AC 1 6 required for system cooling 1 6 required for system cooling PCI PCI Remove only when DC PC I PC I Remove only when IB Compression Card installing2 nd power supply IB Compression Card installing2 nd power supply DC 750w AC AC

2 7 PCI PCI 2 7

F PC I PC I 10GE 2 FC 10GE 2 C B I 1 1 AC AC 3 8 3 8 PCI Compression Card PCI FC PC I PC I Fiber channel DC Compression Card FC DC 750w 750w AC AC

iSCSI over 10GE configuration A9000 A9000R

ATTENTION ATTENTION Power supply filler is AC Power supply filler is AC 1 6 required for system cooling required for system cooling Remove only when 1 6 PCI PCI DC PC I PC I Remove only when IB Compression Card installing2 nd power supply IB Compression Card DC 750w installing2 nd power supply AC AC

2 7 PCI PCI 2 7 10GE 2 PC I PC I 10GE 2 B I 1 AC 1 3 8 AC PCI PCI 3 8 Compression Card 10GE DC PC I PC I Compression Card 10GE DC 750w AC 750w AC

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Host Port Connections * Host Port Connections * Option 1 Option 2 A9000 12x16Gb FC + 6x10Gb iSCSI 12 x 10Gb iSCSI A9000R with 2 Grid Elements 16x16Gb FC + 8x10Gb iSCSI 16 x 10Gb iSCSI A9000R with 3 Grid Elements 24x16Gb FC + 12x10Gb iSCSI 24 x 10Gb iSCSI A9000R with 4 Grid Elements 32x16Gb FC + 16x10Gb iSCSI 32 x 10Gb iSCSI

* Host port connections must be identically configured (100% Option 1 or 100% Option 2) in each of the grid controllers

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FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R Choice of financial and licensing models

✓ Own: Perpetual license

✓ Reuse: Transferable

✓ Consume: Storage Utility Offering*

Available as VersaStack integrated offering Baseline subscription

* Storage Utility Offering for A9000/A9000R model 425 available initially via RPQ with standard support planned for 1Q/18

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Read Bandwidth Per Module GB/s

3 GB/s 3.25 GB/s 2.3 GB/s 1.25 GB/s

12.0 12.0.3 12.1 12.2

Maximum IOPS Per Module - Read Hit 4K

0.50 MIOPS 0.33 MIOPS 0.37 MIOPS 0.27 MIOPS

12.0 12.0.3 12.1 12.2

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1.10 Response Time (ms) / Throughput (IOPS) Curve

1.00

0.90

0.80 A9000R 0.7 ms 0.70 2 MIOPS @ 0.5 ms

0.60

0.50 0.4 ms 0.40 0.3 ms 0.3 ms 0.30 0.3 ms 0.2 ms 0.2 ms 0.20 307,000 615,500 923,000 1,230,000 1,538,000 1,846,363 2,154,000

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FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – Cross gen Replication

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 31 Washington Systems Center - Storage Cross-generation Asynchronous mirroring

• Asynchronous mirror between A9000/A9000R and XIV Gen3 • Supported versions: • XIV Gen3: 11.6.2.a only • A9000/R: 12.2.0 and above • Bi-directional mirror is supported • FC or iSCSI • XIV Gen3 - only uncompressed volumes can be mirrored with A9000 • All Async mirror functionality is supported: change role, switch role, mirrored snapshots, etc. • No change in XCLI

Asynchronous mirror

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• Limitations always according to the more strict limit (Gen3) • Volume sizes: • Max volume size that can be mirrored cross-gen: 161TiB (Gen3 limit) • The volume size in blocks must be identical. Rounding up rules may be different and result in different volume size in GB, but that does not matter • Max CG size: 512 volumes • Cross-generation limited to 128 volumes per CG due to XIV limit • Max mirrors: 512 (XIV limit) • Max targets 10 • Min interval – 1 minute with HSM, 30 seconds with xcli • Min RPO – 2 minutes with HSM, 60s with xcli • Interval must be less than the RPO

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FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – HyperScale Mobility

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Simplify management with non-disruptive data mobility Agile integration 10101001101 IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility enables seamless data migration across FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R systems:

• Maximize utilization across systems HOST • Simplify data movement with an Automatically redirects to the new location

automated, non-disruptive process

1110110101 1110110101 • Eliminate interruptions to host applications • Balance workloads without downtime for 11101010101 better performance

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FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – HyperSwap

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• IBM has long understood the critical requirement to always have access to data and first introduced HyperSwap technology on IBM Storage for IBM Z in 2002 • Data is replicated between two systems using sync mirror technology Host A • Volume exists on both systems simultaneously • The hosts connect to a HyperSwap volume through both systems in an active-active configuration • Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) utilized to optimize paths between host and storage • Hosts I/O is maintained through failures by high-availability logic using a third site Quorum Witness (QW) • Existing sync relationships can be converted to HyperSwap and vice Primary Secondary versa Data center A Data center B • If the host experiences a planned or unplanned failover, there is a change in the state of its paths with no impact to applications and no manual intervention Quorum Witness

Site C

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IBM Hyper-Scale Manager

FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R R12.2 – HyperScale Manager

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 38 Washington Systems Center - Storage Hyper-Scale Manager 5.3 – What’s New Summary

• Support for the 425 model • Snapshot Scheduler (defined at a pool boundary) • Flexible Layout • Saving user preferences • Improved Host Awareness • Filtering with wildcards: “ * “ and “ , “ • Management server updates • Latency • Restart • Perform actions on a mass of volumes • i.e. Activate mirror • Create a host cluster on multiple systems

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© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 40 Washington Systems Center - Storage HSM R5.3 - Snapshot Scheduler

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 41 Washington Systems Center - Storage HSM R5.3 – Flexible Layout – Save user preferences

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➢ Smart Filtering: ▪ Search anything in your environment in seconds by any parameter or condition ▪ Use smart filtering for policy control to find non-valid objects by searching ▪ Additional wildcard filtering using * or OR/,

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FlashSystem A9000 / A9000R – Additional functionality

© Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 46 Washington Systems Center - Storage A9000/A9000R Data Reduction Processing (Host Write)

• 8KB pattern detection • Deduplication • Compression Pattern Matching

Known 64KB patterns Duplicate Removal Host Write found Dedupe Compression 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB Match found 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB 8KB

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VMware, Microsoft and Container integration CLI REST API IBM Spectrum Control Base

OpenStack Cinder Python Library

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Monitor A9000/R health with vRealize Operations

vRealize Orchestrator Easily automate A9000/R operations with & vRealize Automation Provide A9000/R Visibility & Self service provisioning vSphere to vCenter administrators with vCenter Web Client Plugin Enable A9000/R Storage Policy Based Management vSphere VASA (SPBM) & Virtual Volumes (VVOL’s) with

Orchestrate A9000/R & ESXi hosts Disaster Recovery with vSphere Site Recovery Manager

Leverage A9000/R performance efficiencies vSphere VAAI to increase ESXi VMFS scalability, with

Backup vSphere virtual machines on A9000/R with IBM Spectrum Protect Plus

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Monitor A9000/R health with

Enable A9000/R self-service provisioning for System Center Virtual Machine Manager administrators Orchestrate A9000/R & Hyper-V Azure hosts Disaster Recovery Site Recovery Azure Site Recovery Backup Hyper-V virtual machines on IBM Spectrum Protect Plus A9000/R with

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Industry standard AES-XTS 256 Encryption MicroLatency™: Hardware-based Hot encryption activation and data at rest encryption re-keying

Key management A9000 and A9000R • External key management • IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager (SKLM) • Safenet KeySecure • Thales • Other KMIP compliant solutions via RPQ • Internal key management

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp5402.pdf © Copyright IBM Corporation 2017. 51 Washington Systems Center - Storage Protecting data in the cloud with Multi-Tenancy

• Multi-tenancy restricts the objects the user can access • Provide the ability to serve multiple clients/organizations (tenants) in a single system • Each tenant’s storage admin can manage their allocated storage without knowing (or caring) about others • A Domain is a subset of the system’s resources • Users, pools, hosts and clusters • Restricts the resources a user can manage • No visibility between domains • Two storage administrator types • Global Admin (access to the entire box and creates domains) • Domain Admin (associated with one or more domains, access to resources only within the domain(s)) • Use in conjunction with Quality of Service as required

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• Optional – to ensure performance for critical applications by limiting performance of lower priority hosts or applications (e.g. Test/Dev) accessing the same A9000/A9000R/XIV system • Performance class limiting IOPs, MBs or both is created • Type of classes: • Hosts • Pools/Domains • Volumes • Maximum IOPs/BW for class can be independent or shared • Objects outside performance classes are not limited by QoS • Immediate, dynamic changes • Movement into/out of a performance class • Maximum IOPs and/or BW specifications for performance class • An I/O is limited by the maximum limit

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Software Defined method of deploying a Storage Infrastructure • Field proven enterprise storage software • Repurpose x86 infrastructure at will • Co-locate compute and storage for a converged solution • Scale-out private Cloud with full enterprise storage capability

All-Flash Converged Infrastructure: VersaStack

Storwize V5030F Storwize V7000F SVC FlashSystem V9000 FlashSystem A9000

Entry Midrange Virtualizing the DC Enterprise Cloud service providers

www.ibm.com/versastack www.cisco.com/go/versastack http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/versastack-solution-cisco-ibm/index.html#~cvds

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Tier 1 Guarantee IBM FlashSystem A9000 and IBM FlashSystem A9000R

Performance: High Availability Endurance: IBM MicroLatency™ Exceed the built in FlashCore ensures that performance with full- 99.999% uptime with will be time data reduction active-active data access covered for read/write enabled by endurance while you are HyperSwap® under warranty or & High-Availability maintenance Guarantee Data 7 year 24x7 Peace of Mind: No charge IBM services, Reduction: Support: incl. training, Effective capacity Up to 7 years support configuration, & guaranteed 3 different available with optional consultation, for all tier 1 ways: sight unseen, price protection and offerings measured estimates & a flash media retention competitive match offerings Deduplication, Enterprise Class Support Perpetual Licensing with Compression, IBM Spectrum Accelerate / & Pattern removal IBM Spectrum Storage Suite

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