Software Defined Storage
Storage Built for the Virtualized Data Center
Kelly Murphy
Founder / CTO
Gridstore
Overview
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Context - The Software-Defined Data Center
What problem is SDS trying to solve
SDS is a new architecture for storage
How Gridstore Delivers SDS Today
Software Defined Data Center
Management & Orchestration
Compute
Network
Storage
Virtualization –
Logical networks –
Built for virtualization.
Increased availability,
flexibility and utilization.
Defined in minutes and
bound to workloads.
Reduce cost and
complexity – increase
performance and
scaling.
Virtualization Changes Everything and Nothing
New Container - VM
Virtualized Resource Pool
Nothing above or below the hypervisor knows anything changed
“Virtualization Breaks Traditional Storage”,
Top Virtualization Issues
#1 – Application performance (57%)
#2 – Capital cost of storage (38%)
#3 – Storage complexity (36%)
Gridstore Survey, May 2013, ESG Report 2013, Taneja Report 2013
Problem: You can not optimize many-to-one
Poor Performance
Unpredictable. No visibility. No Resolution.
many-to-one
Complexity
Manage LUNs not VMs. Bloated data services.
Costs Explode
Overprovision servers, storage, data services.
SDS is Built for Virtualization
many-to-one
SDS is Built for Virtualization
many-to-one
New Container
SDS is Built for Virtualization
many-to-one
SDS is Built for Virtualization
Virtual Storage Stacks
Predictable — optimized performance.
Manage VMs not LUNs
Simple, efficient, visible.
Virtualized Storage Resources
Simple, scalable resource pools.
Purpose Built Storage for Hyper-V
Patented Server-Side Virtual Controller Technology
Purpose Built Storage for Hyper-V
Patented Server-Side Virtual Controller Technology
Only available from Gridstore
Gridstore Building Blocks
1U appliance that racks and stacks
H – Class Nodes
C - Class Nodes
High Performance IOPS
High Performance Streaming I/O
Hyper V, Database, Demanding I/O apps
D2D backup, Archive & Less I/O-demanding apps
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PCIe Write-back Flash Cache + 12TB HDD
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4 x 3TB Hot swap HDD
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2 x 10 GbE / 4 x 1GbE
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2 x 1 GbE / 4 x 1GbE NICs
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32GB RAM, 4 Xeon Cores
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32GB RAM, 4 Xeon Cores
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Dual hot swap PSUs
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Dual hot swap PSUs
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Next day service standard / 4hr available
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Next day service standard / 4hr available
GridScale - Built for Massively Parallel Scaling
Nodes
Capacity
3
C-Class
H-Class
MB/S
8K random
IOPS
36TB
1,300
40K
6
72TB
2,600
80K
9
108TB
3,900
125K
90
1PB
39,000
1.2M
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3PB
120,000
3M
250
250 Nodes Per Pool:
1000 Xeon Cores, 8 TB RAM, 100 TB Cache, 5 TB Bandwidth, 3 PB Capacity
ESG Lab tested a virtualized tier-1 application workload that was designed to emulate the database activity of a
typical online brokerage firm. Thirty-three percent of the I/O were writes (emulating database updates), and the
remainder were reads. In all cases, the workload generated a high level of I/O activity with small access sizes. This,
combined with a large cache resident working set, created a workload that was well suited for evaluating the
efficiency and scalability of our tested storage solutions.
Independent Validation –
Price/Performance
ESG Lab measured the performance of each of the storage solution scenarios by calculating the sum of the number
of transactions processed per second as the virtual machines scaled from two to four. The OLTP workload and
concurrent user counts remained constant for each test and each configuration. The results are summarized in
Lab Validation: Gridstore Storage 3.0
Figure 19 and Table 2.
Figure 19. Storage Configuration Performance Comparison
Figure 21. Storage Configuration – Total Cost per GB
$/GB Cost of Acquisition Analysis
Storage Configuration Performance Comparison
(OLTP Workload, Windows Server 2012)
4,500
$3.05
$3
4,000
3,500
$3
3,000
$2
$/GB
Traansactions/Sec
(36TB of raw capacity)
$4
2,500
2,000
$1.80
$2
$1.15
$1
1,500
1,000
$1
500
$0
iSCSI/FC SAN Average
0
2
Gridstore Capacity
4
Number of Wrokload Generators
iSCSI SAN
Gridstore Hybrid
FC SAN
Gridstore
Though
i ESG Lab d d n t factor in the cost of management ad maintenance, the advantages of u
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r i ng Gi ds
storage solution approach compared with a SAN is quite clear. Many organizations have Microsoft and W
experts, as well as storage experts. Many SAN IT vendors require vendor-specific storage specialists to pro
manage, and monitor the storage infrastructure. Gridstore eliminates that need by moving the storage
management to Windows Server 2012. After installing the Gridstore virtual controller, the storage appea
locally attached disk, and grid and node management is performed through an intuitive and simple user i
allowing Microsoft and Windows administrators to quickly and easily manage their applications and stora
8X Price / Performance
Why This Matters
© 2014 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
For the past three years, cost reduction has been consistently the most-cited factor affecting IT spendin
decisions at respondent organizations.7 Affordability remains a top priority in the decision process whe
implementing new technology solutions. The expenses of storage and management software are impor
cost-related factors and, when combining the high costs and complexity of a SAN, administrative heada
Built for Hyper-V™
vmOptimized™
TrueQoS™
GridScale™
Dynamically accelerates Guarantees performance Simple scaling with
all VMs without manual for your most important massively parallel
performance.
tuning.
VMs.
Accelerate your VMs.
Thank You.
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