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- 1. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System Sales Presentation September 2011 1
- 2. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Seamless IntegrationSeamless Integration Highest PerformanceHighest Performance Most EfficientMost Efficient Most SecureMost Secure − Oracle applications auto-provision and tune Oracle Storage − Oracle Database dynamically exchanges I/O requirements with Oracle Storage − Data compression without rehydration from database to disk to tape − Encryption keys auto-generated from application, database, and storage − Oracle unified security key management across apps, database, disk and tape − Database query pre-fetch and off-load with optimized data caching − Seamless automated backup and recovery across the entire Oracle stack − End-to-end data transport with zero buffer copies over InfiniBand fabrics − Single system interface for all statistics, alerts, faults, analytics, provisioning − Dynamic and deterministic QoS driven by Oracle applications − Automated, policy-based tiering across flash, disk and tape Oracle’s Storage Vision Engineered for Oracle Software / Best of Breed for Mixed Environments
- 3. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential SAN 2x More Efficient than EMC NAS 2x Faster than NetApp Tape 2x More Scalable than IBM Oracle Storage Investing in Best of Breed Platforms
- 4. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Oracle Storage Only Storage Engineered for Oracle Software Oracle Software Runs Fastest and Most Efficiently on Oracle Storage
- 5. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential • Easy to Use Enterprise Storage: Data and storage services that can be promoted or demoted “on the fly” to increase or decrease performance and priority as business and application priorities change. • Scalable and Elastic: Ideal storage platform for virtual infrastructure projects, IT data center consolidation projects, Oracle deployments, and bringing business-critical applications, such as financial and OLTP, online with the highest levels of performance without tradeoffs for capacity utilization. • Industry leading Efficiency: Utilization, Performance, and Protection – tied to unique service levels. Consolidate your applications on a single storage platform. Pillar Axiom 600 : Oracle’s Axiom lowers IT costs and speeds up ROI with advanced Quality of Service, simple data management, and industry leading utilization and scalability. Introducing the Pillar Axiom 600 The Core Value Propositions
- 6. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Pillar Axiom 600 enables IT Administrators to utilize 80% of storage capacity without performance degradation – twice the industry average Source: Gartner Dataquest , 2010
- 7. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential EMIS: (EMIS, AIM London Stock Exchange) Egton Medical Information Systems Ltd (EMIS) is a leading primary healthcare service provider in UK with more than 40 million patient records entrusted to its systems. EMIS has deployed 9 Axiom SAN systems in a replicated infrastructure. The Axiom SAN solution is used for data retention compliance, backup and Web services. An Axiom customer for over 3 years. Won against EMC. Rona Inc (RON.TO, $4B): The biggest hardware, home improvement and gardening products retailer in Canada is displacing all of their IBM storage with Axiom. Rona was a complete “all blue” shop prior to Axiom breaking through. The Axiom solution features a unified storage NAS and SAN solution with copy services. Won against IBM. BlackRock (BLK, $4.4B): one of the world’s preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of global investment management, has run their quantitative and fundamentals analysis on the Axiom solution for over 3 years. Won against HDS. Customers Making the Switch to Axiom
- 8. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Storage Controllers – Slammer (1 to 4 per Axiom) • Active-Active SAN or NAS control units • 48GB Cache • SAN: 4x 8Gbps FC, 4x 4Gbps FC, 8x 1GbE iSCSI • NAS: 4x 10GbE, 8x 1GbE • Redundancy for High Availability Storage Enclosure – Brick (1 to 64 per Axiom) • Dual RAID controllers • Embedded RAID-5 and RAID-10 • SATA, Fibre Channel and SSD drives • Built in hot spare • Hot-swappable drives and RAID Controllers Management Controller - Pilot (1 per Axiom) • Dual control units • Active/Standby - High Availability Cluster • (2) Hard drives for Configuration and Log Cache • (6) 10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet Axiom 600 Terminology 8
- 9. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential S7420 Pillar Axiom 600 – ONE model that linearly scales both capacity and performance Up to 4 ACTIVE-ACTIVE SLAMMERS with 64 Bricks 8 Control Units Up to 832 drives Up to 1.6PB Capacity 192GB Cache 128 RAID Controllers SATA, FC, or SSD Storage Classes SINGLE ACTIVE-ACTIVE SLAMMER with ONE BRICK 2 Control Units 12 Drives 3.6TB Capacity 48GB Cache Features include… Patented Quality of Service (QoS) Feature Protocols: FC, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS Management: Multi-Axiom Management, Application Profiles, Thin Provisioning, Storage Domains, Path Management Software Data Protection and Mobility: Replication, Volume Copy, Clones Engineered integration with Oracle software: HCC, OEM, ASM, SAM, Oracle VM 9 Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System
- 10. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Feature Function Benefits Quality of Service Application prioritization and contention management that enables multiple applications to efficiently co-exist on the same storage system Applications are assigned I/O resources according to their business value and not relegated to ‘first come first served’ Increases overall efficiency and utilization of the storage system Modular Architecture Ability to dynamically scale both performance and capacity by independently adding Slammers (up to 4) and Bricks (up to 64) Maximum performance/utilization regardless of size of configuration. Ability to grow and rebalance the storage pool based on changing business environments Distributed RAID Achieves superior scalability and performance even during drive rebuilds by moving RAID local to storage enclosures Ensures predictable performance scaling with capacity add. Higher reliability by localizing the drive rebuild process to the storage enclosure and reducing RAID rebuild window Top Technology Differentiators
- 11. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Business Class Tier 2 First Class Tier 1 Coach Tier 3 QoS is more than where you sit, it’s also the priority and class of service you get How fast you board and exit The number of attendants per passenger The seat size and leg room The entertainment selections Quality of Service Model
- 12. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Virtual Server Virtual Machine 2 Virtual Machine 1 Virtual Machine 3 FIFO Queue Virtual Server Virtual Machine 2 Virtual Machine 1 Virtual Machine 3 1 3 9 4 5 8 10 7 2 6 Premium Priority Queue Medium Priority Queue Low Priority Queue Premium Medium Low Premium Medium Low TypicalTypical Multi-Tier ArrayMulti-Tier Array Axiom Architecture Prioritizing the I/O Queue; Breaking the FIFO Model 4 5 8 10 1 3 7 9 2 6 Align The Business Value Of The Application To I/O Performance Levels
- 13. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Web AppsWeb Apps Best Storage Utilization with QoS Enables EmailEmail DatabaseDatabase Increases Utilization 13
- 14. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential The Axiom can be tuned to support specific data work loads for: Each LUN or filesystem Each point-in-time Clone Application aggregates for multiple applications Maximizes use of Axiom system resources: • CPU • Cache • Capacity Application Priority Ability to promote and demote application priority based on SLA policy IO Priority (Premium to Archive) CPU + Cache usage Drive Type SSD, FC, SATA Number of RAID Groups (drives) Stripe Width RAID Type (5,10) Access Pattern Sequential, Random, Mixed IO Bias Read, Write, Mixed QoS exploits the multiple capacity/performance choices by managing the overall system resources. Automated resource selection to best meet dynamic application requirements. 14 Selecting the Correct QoS Settings Using Application Profiles
- 15. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Data Type Storage Class LUN Performance Profile Priority Access Bias I/O Bias Control files SSD or FC High / Premium Mixed Mixed Database Index SSD High Mixed Mixed Database Tables SATA Medium Mixed Mixed Temporary files SATA Medium Mixed Mixed Online Redo Log Files FC High Sequential Write Archive Log Files SATA Low Sequential Write Application Aware Profiles Oracle Database Platform Example 15
- 16. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Data Type Storage Class LUN Performance Profile Priority Access Bias I/O Bias Control files SSD or FC High / Premium Mixed Mixed Database Index SSD Medium Mixed Mixed Database Tables SATA Medium Mixed Mixed Temporary files SATA Medium Mixed Mixed Online Redo Log Files FC High Sequential Write Archive Log Files SATA Low Sequential Write 1. An Administrator considers provisioning storage for an application 2. Launches the Axiom Storage System Manager 3. Selects the Application Profile for the application 4. Storage is provisioned at a Sub-Application Level based on the Storage Class and Priority of the data set by the Application Profile Provisioning a Data Repository Using an Application Profile 16
- 17. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Manage Application Priority Temporarily or Permanently Permanent QoS Migration = Controls I/O Priority CPU, Cache and Capacity • Optimize the Slammer CPU/Cache allocation across I/O queues • Re-provision storage pool to optimize IOP capability. Temporary QoS Migration = Controls I/O Priority CPU and Cache (does not move data) • Modify the Slammer CPU/Cache allocation for the I/O queues Reset QoS Within the Same Storage Class Without Interruption to Application IO 17
- 18. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Permanent QoS Migration = Controls I/O Priority, CPU, Cache and Capacity •Optimize the Slammer CPU/Cache allocation across I/O queues •Moves data to a new Storage Classes •Can change RAID mode Manage Application Priority Permanently 18 Reset QoS Across Storage Classes Without Interruption to Application IO
- 19. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Domain2 Domain1 Domain3 Create up to 64 Physical Domains in a Single Axiom • Refresh Legacy or Aging Bricks without Disruption Easily and non- disruptively evacuate old drives • Isolate Application Data or Workloads to Physical Location Secure a workload to a domain - No co- mingling of data across media • Separate User Groups or Departments to Physical Location Secure department or user type/role data to a domain • Separate Protocols Isolate SAN and NAS workloads – they can be very different. Extending QoS w/ Storage Domains 19
- 20. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Replace aging hardware; increase reliability of the system Increase usable capacity of the system; reduce power and cooling costs on a per TB basis Old Domain New Domain Premium VLUN Medium VLUN Premium VLUN Medium VLUN SATA–250GB High VLUN SSD SATA–2TB 1. Create a domain with new drive enclosures that you want to replace 2. Move storage classes you want to continue to use from the old domain to the new domain 3. Move LUNs from the old domain to the new domain 4. Remove the old domain Use Case: Retiring Legacy Bricks 20
- 21. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential High VLUN User Group 1 Domain User Group 3 Domain Premium VLUN Premium VLUN Medium VLUN Medium VLUN Archive VLUN Archive VLUN High VLUN User Group 2 Domain SATASSD SATA FCSSD Allows User Group application data to be isolated to specific bricks, thus eliminating any chance of inter-application I/O contention and provide charge- back capabilities. User groups = Departments in an internal cloud environment Customers in an external cloud environment Use Case: User Group Segregation
- 22. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Pilot Slammer Slammer Bricks Modular Scaling with Modular Components
- 23. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Linear scaling of bandwidth and performance by adding Slammers Linear scaling of performance and capacity by adding Bricks Linear scaling of bandwidth and performance by adding Slammers Linear scaling of performance and capacity by adding Bricks Scale-up and Scale-out Design 23
- 24. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Competitor System The power of Distributed RAID is very clear: • Linear Scale • Fast and non-intrusive rebuilds Distributed RAID Technology 24 S Axiom Storage System S
- 25. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Managing Multiple Axioms Axiom 1 Axiom 2 Axiom 3... AxiomONE™ MaxMan (Multiple Axiom Manager) simplifies the management of multiple Axioms. The streamlined GUI allows management of the Axiom storage array from anywhere in the world. With greatly enhanced reporting and trending capability, MaxMan provides customers the ability to easily manage their entire Axiom global infrastructure. MaxMan 25
- 26. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential • Different topologies with a single easy to use interface • Synchronous Replication • Asynchronous Replication • 1-to-many, Many-to-1 System Replication • Multi-hop Replication • Application Consistent Recovery • Microsoft Applications • Oracle Databases • Virtual Server environments • Local or Remote Continuous Protection and Recovery • Sparse Application Consistent Retention • WAN Optimization Features • Bandwidth Throttling • Encryption • Compression MaxRep for SAN Offers … 26
- 27. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Oracle Databases • The Pillar Axiom 600 supports Hybrid Columnar Compression and can increase performance and reduce capacity by 10x • Application Profiles allow you to quickly provision your database and promote/demote the priority when business criticality changes. Oracle VM • Pillar Axiom 600’s Storage Connect plug-in allows you to manage Axioms and the Virtual Server Infrastructure from the OVM UI Oracle SAM-QFS • The Axiom’s multiple storage classes and QoS settings can be aligned perfectly with the Storage Archive Manager (SAM) tiers – All in a single system. Additionally, Storage Domains can isolate critical or audit sensitive data to dedicated Bricks. Oracle Enterprise Grid Control • Provision, monitor, manage and protect the entire Oracle infrastructure and the Pillar Axiom 600 from a single pane of glass. Oracle on Oracle
- 28. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Oracle’s Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) Up to 50x Data Compression Ideal for: Database & Data Warehouse Archiving, ILM, HA/DR Up to 50x Data Compression Ideal for: Database & Data Warehouse Archiving, ILM, HA/DR HCC Compresses Databases Exadata Pillar Axiom ZFSSA EMC and NetAPP Require 3 to 5x more disk space 3 to 5x more power 3 to 5x more purchase price 3 to 5x more $ to run Than Oracle’s • Exadata • ZFS Storage Appliance • Pillar Axiom 600
- 29. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential Example: SAM with Axiom Complete Solution with Oracle WebCenter Content Performance Disk Tape Systems WebCenter Content Servers SAM PoliciesSAM Policies QFS File SystemQFS File System Offsite SAM Copies Offsite SAM Copies Metadata Server SAM Tape Archive Copy SAM Tape Archive Copy Remote Systems MetadataMetadata SSD Primary File System Primary File System FC SAM Disk Archive Copy SAM Disk Archive Copy SATA SAM Copy 1 & 2 SAM Copy 3 • Thousands of SAN clients • Hundreds of file systems • Billions of files • Petabytes of disk cache • Exabytes of archive • Thousands of SAN clients • Hundreds of file systems • Billions of files • Petabytes of disk cache • Exabytes of archive Capacity Disk
- 30. © 2010 Oracle Corporation – Proprietary and Confidential
Editor's Notes
- Oracle’s strategy is to deliver a complete suite of storage products, engineered to run Oracle software faster and more efficient than traditional storage products. This means that customers can expect Oracle’s application, database, middleware, and operating system software to operate best and deliver their greatest customer value when running on Oracle Storage systems.
- Oracle’s storage portfolio delivers performance, efficiency and scalability unparalleled in the market – and will continue to innovate and extend its capabilities to deliver best of breed products solving many of the customer’s critical data requirements.
- While Oracle deliver’s best of breed products for all applications – Oracle storage solutions run Oracle Software faster and more efficiently than other storage products.
- Pillar Axiom has 3 broad “value” differentiators that drive both lower TCO and faster ROI. It is very easy to use, yet it is enterprise class. Data and storage services can be changed dynamically, as the IT environment changes and application importance changes. QoS manages prioritization based on application profiles even when multiple concurring requestors hit the system for resources. You can schedule QoS level changes when you know certain processes are running such as end of quarter financials or even nightly backups - and do so permanently or temporarily. Its scalable and elastic. You don’t have to trade off capacity for performance or v.v. You can linearly scale capacity and performance. The Axiom is a natural choice for data center consolidation projects because you can scale for new workloads and you can bring new technology into a system (like SSD) WITHOUT disrupting operations. This means longer system useful life and yet lower costs. Industry leading efficiency. This claim is validated from our own customers who routinely see 80% utilization of their system capacity – WITHOUT performance degradation. Twice the industry average according to Gartner Dataquest. This is unique.
- One of the biggest Axiom values is you get to use a large percentage of the capacity you pay for as a user. 80% without performance degradation. This is twice the common competitor’s 35-40% utilization per Gartner Dataquest. Higher utilization means lower TCO and faster ROI when you load up a system with multiple workloads. Axiom customer call home logs validate this utilization claim.
- Here are 3 examples of customers that made the switch to Axiom from EMC, IBM, and HDS. EMIS (Egton Medical Information Systems) in the UK is a managed service provider of more than 40M patient records in the UK National Health Service. They have 9 Axioms and run their entire service using Pillar Axiom. Axiom won over EMC. Rona is Canada’s largest home improvement retailer. Previously an “all blue” IBM shop, Rona chose Pillar to run house of their data for inventory, dispatching, and CRM systems. Both Pillar Axiom NAS and SAN form a unified solution for Rona. Blackrock is one of the world’s premier asset management firms. They run all of their quant and fundamentals analysis on the data housed on the Axiom, leveraging QoS. Axiom was chosen over HDS 99xx.
- This slide describes the hardware components of the Axiom architecture. Be sure to point out that the competition does not do any of this. They have “two controllers do it all” architectures (except 3Par. They can scale to 8). This is the slide to start focusing on the large amounts of cache and the distributed RAID Be sure to point out that the Axiom is 5-9’s architected. There is no single point of failure. Every other vendor (ex. EMC, HP, NetApp, Dell Equallogic) makes the 5-9’s claim. We have the same level of redundancy, if not better, than they do.
- The Pillar Axiom is highly scalable and modular. Tried and tested, it is now in its 5th generation of software so quality has been honed through the development and delivery process. Its modularity is built on 3 basic hardware components – all within a single “model” – you don’t need to buy another model as you scale hardware. You can start with as small a system as 1 Slammer, 1 Brick, and 1 pilot. But you can scale to as much as 4 Slammers (8 active-active control units) and 64 bricks (832 drives or 1.6PB of capacity) with 1 pilot. You can intermix SATA, FC or SSD storage classes. The Axiom is only one model that scales from 12TB all the way to 1.6PB. You don’t need to do forklift upgrades to new models since the system is built on a common modularity, a common software base, and a common storage pool. Axiom technology upgrades can be done non-disruptively in almost all cases – i.e. you can add capacity or upgrade technology without losing access to your data.
- The “business value” differentiators are driven by technology differentiators built into the Pillar Axiom. Pillar’s QoS (Quality of Service) is patented. It prioritizes application IO fulfillment and provides unique contention management that enables consolidation and co-existence of multiple application data types and workloads associated with Axiom storage. This translates to big benefits. QoS breaks the age-old FIFO paradigm - finally. Storage I/O resources are assigned according to the associated application’s business value – not “first come, first served”. Axiom’s QoS is a system-wide approach from I/O request to data placement striped across drives, RAID levels, and even down to the disk spindle level (inner band versus outer band on HDDs). Modular “modern” architecture. The Axiom is modular, not monolithic. Because it is modular, you can scale without having to do “fork lift” upgrades that are highly disruptive. Capacity scaling from 12TB to 1.6PB. You can grow and rebalance your Axiom system storage pool based on your changing environment. Provides flexibility and elasticity. Unique. Distributed RAID. Linear scaling of performance and capacity is achieved via unique distribution of RAID controllers – 2 in every brick – up to 128 in a system. Extreme performance even when drive rebuilds take place, since the system is architected to provide RAID controller rebuild power on a ratio of 1:6 drives. Other competitors use an archaic “2 controller” architecture across their entire system. When rebuilds occur, this old architecture can topple a competitor system. Not so with Axiom.
- This is an example of how QoS should work in practice. In this example of a journey you might take on a plane, the more money you are willing to pay – because you deserve it – the more “service” you are going to get. It’s not just where you sit on the plane – which can be like using SSD (first), FC (business) or SATA (coach), but the other privileges you get in terms of how quickly you board and exit, seat comfort, number of attendants etc.
- Similar to the QoS example seen before, the Axiom storage system provides a QoS model that not only allows you to optimally place data on drives, but allows you to provide the adequate resources to service the critical business application data. The animation on the left shows how other vendors typically process I/O. Note that the important application (RED) IO will have to wait for other applications to receive their IO. The Axiom prioritizes IOs via multiple queues with 5 priority levels. This means important applications receive IO service at higher rates since QoS allows higher priority IOs to be processed ahead of others. The Axiom will reduce IOs to lower priority applications so higher priority applications will get up to 6x more IOs executed over time.
- With QoS, you are allowed to have multiple service levels – just like the plane. If everyone was equal - like a low budget airlines – your service level (and your performance) suffers – but you expect it. QoS enables multi-tenancy or the ability to provide multiple service levels. So, you can have a Tier 1 OLTP application, a business critical Exchange environment and a tertiary archive application all on the same storage system – with distinct QoS or performance levels. The ability to store multiple application data on the same storage system (without storage silos) allows you to increase the utilization of the system – get all the seats full. This allows you to reduce you CapEx (less storage to buy) and OpEx (less storage to manage – administer, power, cooling) in the process.
- The Pillar Axiom product provides pre-define application workload profiles that simplify real-world storage configuration and supports best-practice; different apps have varying data performance characteristics and profiles helps customers understand how various storage components should be setup to best support their application needs. i.e. different read/write intensive, large vs. small blocks, can change on the fly without changing storage infrastructure.
- An example of the application profile – where an application can have different LUNs for different type of data within an application, but need to work in concert.
- Provisioning is as simple as launching the UI, selecting the profiles and confirming your selection.
- What if you pick the wrong settings Axiom’s patented QoS can reset QoS and performance levels without interrupting application data access. As shown on the above chart, the QoS priority can be reset within the same storage class to promote or demote the importance of the LUN or FS. This can be done on a temporary or permanent basis. If you choose to do a temporary QoS change for a short period of time, say for instance to complete a backup job in a particular time window, the system increases the CPU and Cache usage for that time period. Later, it can be throttled back to its original performance level. No movement of data occurs In a permanent QoS migration, maybe because the LUN or FS in question is under performing, the extents or data segments of the LUN/FS are spread across more drives to boost performance in additional to the performance boost from the CPU+Cache. The IO and access biases can also be changed depending on the variation of the data patterns
- Example of a “Permanent” change with physical data movement. Note that RAID layouts can also change when data is promoted or demoted across tiers based on I/O bias settings. In this case, you are making a permanent QoS movement to a different storage class to increase/decrease the performance. In this movement, you can change the priority, which changes the CPU+Cache allocation, the stripe width, the RAID type etc. This is essentially, predictive data tiering across different storage classes – all done without IO interruptions to the application.
- Axiom’s Storage Domains enables you to isolate data to the physical brick level. Since you can have up to 64 bricks in a system you can have up to 64 domains. Competitors co-mingle data and say they can virtually secure it down; in many use cases virtual is unacceptable for regulatory compliance - it needs to be physically isolated. That’s what Axiom’s Storage Domains can do – physically isolate data to the drive level. This is a BIG differentiator in selling to Managed Service Providers and prospects building private cloud infrastructures. There are 4 basic use cases you can highlight depending on the type of customer you are selling to: We think this is the one most differentiated. You can refresh new drive technology in an Axiom without disrupting operations. Create a new domain with new drives (e.g. SSD); Move data from old technology (e.g. 300GB FC) domain. Remove old technology bricks. You have just upgraded without disruption. Security purposes – especially good for Public Sector – you can isolate a workload and not have any data co-mingled with other data. For Utility Computing/Grid or chargeback scenarios, you can lock down a user group or department to a drive domain to monitor and manage and possibly chargeback for usage or services In Unified (NAS and SAN) configurations, you can isolate protocols since the data structures associated with NAS versus SAN can be quite different. This is a feature that ships with the system but if used is chargeable. Consult your price list.
- You can start really small (1 Slammer and a few Bricks) and scale the system as the need for capacity and performance grows with your business.
- Unlike most storage systems out there, the performance and capacity scale is linear as you add these modular components. You increased bandwidth, IOPS and ports by adding Slammers. You increase IOPS and capacity by adding Bricks
- This slide really shows the differentiation between us and all the “Two controllers do it all” companies. This is the slide where the customer’s light bulb goes off. They really see the difference in the basic architectures between us and everyone else. Any customer who is looking to scale beyond a few bricks should see the advantages of our architecture. Point out: -- we put two RAID controllers in each bick and have a 6:1 drive to controller ratio no matter how many drives we have. The competition will scale to hundreds of drives per controller. Some as many as 500 drives per RAID controller -- use this slide to point out our drive rebuild scheme. It’s clear to see how we isolate the rebuild within a brick while the competition has to use 50% of their controllers to rebuild a drive -- also point out that if a SATA drive fails, since the rebuild is isolated within that SATA brick, the performance of the LUNs residing on FC drives is not impacted. With the competition, a SATA failure is handled by one of the controllers (50% of the controllers). That controller probably owns 50% of the LUNs in that system which means that for the hours or days that the rebuild takes, all of the LUNs associated with that controller have degraded performance. It doesn’t matter if they’re FC or SATA LUNs
- For all Oracle databases, HCC should be leveraged along with Axiom’s Application Profiles which are pre-built management profiles for Oracle applications. OVM 2.0 is fully supported with a Storage Connect plug-in to allow you to manage Axioms and virtual server infrastructure from the same user interface. Oracle Enterprise Manager can be used to manage Axioms using the plug-in developed by Axiom.
- An example of how this vision translates to value is seen in Oracle’s Hybrid Columnar Compression which originated in the Exadata product and is now available in both ZFSSA and Pillar Axiom. Early benchmarks are projecting 3-5x faster plus clear efficiency gains versus primary competitors, NTAP and EMC. HCC only works with Oracle storage, a distinct differentiator and a clear example of the value of integration.
- Simple multi-site, multi-tier scenario shown, without shared QFS clients Local site SAM QFS MDS creates a local disk archive (1) and tape archive (2) copy and uses a file transfer feature to create remote disk archive (3) and tape (4) archive copies This basic architecture can scale to thousands of SAN clients, hundreds of file systems , billions of files, PB of disk cache, and most importantly, unlimited archive capacity Next, we’ll take a look at core SAM functionality ---------------------------------------other notes if needed--------------------------------- Any 3rd party disk that is supported in Solaris can be used as a disk cache or disk archive Similarly, many 3rd party tape drives and optical disk drives have been tested and qualified to serve as archive targets behind SAM Many customers use 3rd party tools to move data (i.e., rsync - only replicates changed blocks) and parallel FTP to replicate disk cache across WAN, where it is ingested into remote site QFS file system like a new application workload (DR) Remote Site (not SAM Remote) QFS servers talking to each other using SAM-RFTD feature – Transfers only TAR file Export SAMFSDMP for DR / full QFS file system restore Requires remote file system only to enable transfer (for daemon to start up) and cache SAM running on remote server to archive to tape Works on 2 MDS and creates pipe between them NFS across network using parallel FTP to remote server (multithreading) Over IP wire performance issues? Have throttling controls. Local site can only see one copy at remote site Remote site makes own copy to tape archive (local site doesn’t know about remote tape archive)