Bob Napaa, Senior Director, Product and Strategic Planning, Samsung Memory and Storage

1. Performance Intensive Workloads
with Samsung NVMe SSD & RedHat
Red Hat Storage Day, Oct 20, 2016
Bob Napaa
Senior Director, Product and Strategic Planning
Samsung Memory and Storage
r.napaa@samsung.com

2. ConfidenNal
Samsung NVMe and RH Ceph Reference Architecture
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CreaNng a performance Ner using Ceph storage
and NVMe SSDs in OpenStack environments
Ceph as
Capacity Tier
Ceph as Capacity Tier
AND a Performance Tier

3. ConfidenNal
RedHat Ceph Storage and NVMe Reference Architecture
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+
Ideal for OpenStack
24 x NVMe SSD
q The most widely used OpenStack Block Storage
q 45% of OpenStack Block Storage runs on Ceph
q Hardware available from Stack Velocity & System
Integrators / VARs
Ceph
NVMe Ref. Architecture
q A reference design to enable NVMe all-flash development
for scale-out & high performance applicaNons
q PlaXorm enables customizaNon and opNmizaNons around
Samsung NVMe PCIe SSD features
q SoZware validaNon and Proof of Concept for Quick
Time-to-market
Open Reference Architecture

4. ConfidenNal
Samsung NVMe Reference Architecture
• 2x Intel E5-2600v3 (up to 145W per
CPU)
• 24x 2.5” hot swap Samsung NVMe
SSDs
• 16x DDR4 2133MHz L/RDIMM & up to
1024GB
• 2x 16-lane PCIe Gen3 slots
• 2x dual 40 GbE NICs (with 100 GbE
opTon)
• EIA 310-D 19” in 2U
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The Right Balance of CPU, Memory, Storage and Networking to Maximize Ceph Performance

5. ConfidenNal
Extending OpenStack to New Use Cases
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Fast pool of storage for
Private & Public clouds
AnalyNcs Workloads
MulNple Distributed
Databases (DBaaS)
Telco edge network
services
Financial service
workloads
High Performance and IO Intensive Workloads are NOW Possible in OpenStack
Network DVR for fast
retrieval of long tail content
Rapid Test & Development
Deployment & Teardown

6. ConfidenNal
3-Nodes Samsung Ceph Reference Architecture Cluster
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7. ConfidenNal
Ceph Performance on 3-Nodes Cluster
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Seq. Read (1 MB) = 28.5 GBps Seq. Write (1 MB) = 6.2 GBps
Random Read (4 KB) = 693 KIOPS Random Write (4 KB) = 87.8 KIOPS
High Performance that Scales with AddiNonal Nodes
2x replicaTon factor

8. ConfidenNal
NVMe SSD Performance Advantages
• Samsung’s 3rd GeneraTon NVMe
SSD
• High Performance with
Serviceability
• >7x Performance vs. SATA 6 Gbps
– 750,000 Random 4k IOPS per drive
– 3 GBytes/second SequenTal Read
• Single Root I/O VirtualizaTon (SR-
IOV)
• Very large Capacity per SSD
• Power Loss ProtecTon
8
0
2000
4000
SATA 3.0 PCIe Gen 3 x4
Bandwidth (MB/sec)
0
5
10
SATA 3.0 PCIe Gen 3 x4
Latency (us)
PCIe = 70% lower Latency PCIe = 6x Bandwidth

9. ConfidenNal
Samsung and Red Hat Ceph Reference Architecture
Benefits
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High Performance and Fully opTmized around high speed Samsung
NVME PCIe SSD
100% Open SoluTon. No Vendor lock-in. No proprietary HW or SW
Complete SoluTon and Large Capacity in 2U. No MulTple Pieces
Easy to Deploy and Scale to large clusters and nodes

10. ConfidenNal
More informaNon
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hep://www.samsung.com/
semiconductor/support/tools-
uTliTes/All-Flash-Array-
Reference-Design/
q SoluTon Brief
q Whitepaper & Technical Brief
q Hardware available through StackVelocity
q Contact us
SoluNon Brief Whitepaper

11. ConfidenNal
Next Project: Gluster
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12. ConfidenNal
GlusterFS with NVMe
• First All-Flash GlusterFS reference design
– Samsung NVMe Reference Design
– Red Hat Gluster Storage
– Samsung NVMe SSDs
– High-performance NICs
• Unleash performance for various workloads
• CollaboraTng with Red Hat; Target: 2017
Samsung NVMe Reference Design
Red Hat Gluster Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
x86
CPU
x86
CPU
RAM
RAM
RAM
40GbE/
100GbE NIC
Containers Rich Media Big Data

13. ConfidenNal 13