Intellistack: One Flash Platform Any Oracle Workload
Ramesh Chitor, Tegile Systems
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Tegile at a Glance
Our Mission
Global Presence
Transform Our Customers’ Businesses by
Transforming Their Storage
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Founded: 2010
Leadership team of storage industry veterans
Backed up major investors:
Industry Recognition
Tegile Named “Visionary”
in MQ for GP Disk Arrays
Storage Company of the
Year
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Employees across major continents
Global business partners
Diverse base of enterprise customers with systems deployed
across a broad range of business applications
Technology Partners
Tegile Named “Visionary”
in MQ for Solid-State Arrays
Storage Hardware
Product of the Year
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Brief Overview of Tegile
- Pioneers in the AFA (All Flash Array) and Hybrid Storage Array Market
- Our Competitors use All Flash by adding Flash Software to Disk based architecture.
- Flash as a media needs to be treated very differently from Disk.
- Built an Architecture from Ground Up – This is why Oracle DBAs like the consistent performance (no
spikes. Drops in performance)
- An Architecture Optimal for Oracle Database Performance
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Focused on Databases – SQL, Oracle.
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Key Design Principle – Resiliency (We do not tolerate downtime), In-Line Deduplication, and
MetaData Separation, DR & Backup
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One Flash Platform. Any Oracle Workload.
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All-Flash
Block
Compression
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Hybrid
File
Dedupe
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Why Tegile works with Cisco UCS
Only Reference Architecture Tegile Supports is with Cisco UCS - Intellistack
 UCS Enables Immense Scalability for Mission Critical Workloads.
 Tegile Integration with UCS is simple with a single XML file.
 Service Profiles make deployment of applications running on Oracle RAC 5x easier.
 Tegile runs on Cisco Datacenter products, and Oracle applications for all in-house tests and production.
 Cisco UCS supports all networking protocols (FC, FCoE, and Ethernet), Tegile natively supports Block and File
Protocols ( iSCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS/SMB 3.0)
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Why Oracle DBAs Love Tegile?
 Data Reduction & Cost Reduction by 35% on an average (That pays for the Array itself)
 Time back to DBAs – What does 25hrs/week in time savings mean to DBA (Go explore new platforms, upgrade skills)
 Backup (15x reduction in time to run Backups and Recovery)
 Truly Flexible Architecture
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Only Tegile Supports Multi-protocols (iSCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS/SMB 3.0)
Intellistack focuses on Flexibility, without compromising on performance
Example: Oracle recommends 8K block size , we manage data differently. We can have 64k, 4K, or any size.
Performance is not a function of block size. Whether it’s ASM or FileSystem, works well on Intellistack
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Tegile IntelliFlash™
Metadata Acceleration
Tegile Arrays
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Traditional Storage
Metadata
Metadata
Data
Data
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 Metadata is interspersed with data
 Metadata automatically separated from data
 Over time, with data being modified, deleted, and
rewritten, metadata becomes very fragmented
 Accelerates I/O as well as data services (dedupe, compression,
snapshots, etc.)
 I/O performance gated by metadata access
 50% - 70% faster drive rebuilds
 Performance penalty for deduplication on HDD
 Writes are prioritized ahead of garbage collection
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Tegile IntelliFlash™
Compression & Dedupe
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Acts as performance multiplier
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Only unique blocks stored in cache
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Maximizes the amount of data kept in flash
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Increases cache hit ratio
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Inline
Compression
Inline
Dedupe
Databases
 Crush database latency at a lower cost than traditional storage
 Instantly provision volumes tuned for databases
Certifications
 Compress your databases by 2x – 5x
 Take application-consistent (VSS) snapshots for instant recovery
Validated Configuration
 Create multiple R/W clones without taking up additional space or
incurring a performance hit
Linux | VM Certification
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Tegile
✓
✓
✓
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Tegile IntelliFlash™
Shrink Your Storage Footprint
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Store more VMs
and virtual
desktops per TB
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Use Cases
Server Virtualization
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Desktop Virtualization
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Databases
NHL Team Prepares for Future Technologies
with Cisco UCS and Tegile
Intellistack Reduced Data from
42TB to 17TB; Support Costs went
down by 43% over competition.
Minnesota Wild supports fast-changing
entertainment services by deploying
Tegile & Cisco (UCS)
“Since implementing Cisco UCS and
Tegile, our IT staff is spending less time
fixing system issues and more time
addressing customers’ needs. We’re
saving 43 percent on equipment and
personnel support costs over previous
years.”
Jim Ibister VP Facility Administration
Minnesota Wild
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Community College Enhances Learning
with Collaborative Technologies
MiraCosta College deploys Tegile and Cisco UCS for virtualization technology to expand access to learning resources
and applications.
Challenges
 Increase students’ mobile access to classroom resources
 Manage overwhelming student traffic to MiraCosta College’s computer
Solutions
 Leverage VXI technology to enable a virtualized distance computer lab and virtualize server management
 Improve access to on-campus wireless Internet network
Results
 Virtualized close to 95 percent of campus servers, improving IT management
 Virtualized primary computer lab, solving access problems
 Enabled flexible learning for MiraCosta College student
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Data Silos Add Cost & Complexity
Backup
Copies
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Communication &
Collaboration
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Business processing
Analytics
Virtualization
Financial transactions
E-commerce applications
OLTP
Other Vendors Only Solve Part of the Problem
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Backup
Copies
Communication &
Collaboration
Business processing
Analytics
Virtualization
Financial transactions
E-commerce applications
OLTP
Low-Cost Media
Legacy Arrays
Hybrid Arrays
All-Flash Arrays
(Block or File)
(Block Only)
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(Block Only)
Meet the Needs of Your Entire Business
Backup
Copies
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Communication &
Collaboration
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Business processing
Analytics
Virtualization
Financial transactions
E-commerce applications
OLTP
Only Tegile Offers…
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All-Flash &
Hybrid
Multi-Protocol
Support
Scale up in performance AND capacity to
accommodate your future needs
Native support for block AND file protocols
(iSCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS/SMB 3.0)
Superior
Data Reduction
Affordable
Disaster Recovery
Inline compression AND
deduplication
Replicate between all-flash AND
hybrid configurations
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 Joint Customer Wins
 25% UCS attach rate on all deals last quarter (MS SQL, and Oracle makes 48% of these
wins). ≈ 100 Joint Customers
 Technology
 Optimize for Capacity and Performance
 Multi-Protocol: FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, SMB 3.0
 In-Line data reduction (Dedupe and Compression) without overhead
 UCS and Tegile Collateral
 1000 seat joint VDI reference. Posted on Cisco website
tp://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/unified-computing/whitepaper_C11-727638.html
 Oracle on UCS and Tegile Reference Architecture
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 Optimize compute, network and storage resources as necessary for any workload
 Provide a solution for non-virtualized applications
 In-line, all the time, for dedupe and compression with no performance overhead
 Any protocol for any use case, FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, SMB 3.0
 Optimize for capacity (hybrid) or pure performance (all flash)
 Add costs and resources where they are needed in modular amounts
 CPU, storage, etc. vs. buying everything every time
 Upgrade the tier of the solution that needs it, non-disruptively
 Why upgrade every node? You can mix and match OS patches with 10x data
reduction.
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