© PernixData. All rights reserved.

Frank Brix Pedersen

Systems Engineer

frankbrix@pernixdata.com - Twitter: @frankbrix – www.vfrank.org

Proprietary and confidential

Re-Think Storage

Decouple Storage Performance From

Capacity with PernixData FVP™ Software

Traditional Storage Can’t Keep Up with Virtualization

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 2

Limited network bandwidth

Storage controller

cycles not proportional

to capacity growth

Increased application density;

More random I/O

70% of VM Performance Issues Due to Storage Bottlenecks

• • •

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

Time for Change

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 3

Current State

High storage costs (expensive refreshes)

Wasted capacity

Storage not optimized for VMs

Desired State

Scale-out performance

Predictable costs

VM-aware

No change to existing data services

But, how?

Capacity

Performance

Data Services

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

PernixData’s Mission: Leading a New Era of Server Side Storage Intelligence

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 4

Increase application performance without buying new storage…

…through revolutionary architecture that decouples storage performance

from storage capacity

Virtualize more with the infrastructure you already have

Performance Performance

Capacity

Data Services

Performance

It as all about location

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 5

Let’s take the scenic route

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 6

Insert

Flash

Here

Or Insert

Flash

Here

Or use

RAM!

Location is key to performance

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 7

This virtual machine experiences 0,08 millisecond latency for read

and write!!

0,08 ms

latency for

reads and

writes!!

Hypervisor

Performance

Hypervisor Hypervisor

• • •

A Strategic Infrastructure Platform

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 8

Performance

Capacity

Data Services

FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS

Scale-Out

Performance

I/O

closer

to VMs

Hypervisor

Aggregate server RAM & flash into a data acceleration tier

Dramatic performance gains with existing environment

PernixData at a Glance

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 9

Founded by storage and virtualization experts – Poojan Kumar, CEO (Exadata co-founder; head VMware data group)

– Satyam Vaghani, CTO (VMware Storage CTO; creator of VVOLS, VAAI, VMFS)

Head Quarters in San Jose California.

– Silicon Valley

¨

HOW IS THIS

POSSIBLE?

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 10

Hypervisor

100% Non-Disruptive

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 11

No reboots, application rewrites or process changes

No changes to

VMs

Transparent to

storage

Any Server

Any Flash/RAM

Any Storage

FVP Software Overview

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 12

FVP Host Extension – Kernel Module

– vSphere 5.0, 5.1, 5.5

(Soon 6.0)

– Works with any

vSphere license edition

FVP Management

Server

– Windows 2008 or 2012

64bit

– MS SQL Database

FVP Plug-In for

– vSphere Client

– vSphere Web Client

Install in minutes

No change to existing infrastructure

Deploying PernixData FVP Software

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 13

”We had our college intern install

FVP in just minutes. Shortly

thereafter, we were seeing a 6x

improvement in IOPS.”

”Wow, this @#% is really plug

and play... I did not have to

modify my VMs, storage or

network in any way.”

Flash & RAM Clustered Across Hosts

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 14

Seamless VM operations – vMotion

– DRS

– HA

– Snapshot

– vCloud Director

– SRM

Resilient and elastic layer of I/O acceleration

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Fault Tolerant Write Acceleration

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 15

Improve performance of any application with full data protection

Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor

Data Write

Copy 1 Copy 2

Write Back

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 16

ITALIAN

CUSTOMERS

Cloud Italia

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 17

Cloud Italia – Decoupling Heaven

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 18

VM

Observed

latency

Datastore

latency

Customer Case F.LLI Campagnolo

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 19

Challenge

– High storage latency for virtual servers

Requirements

– Low storage latency

– Future Proofed

– Not another box in the datacenter

– Works with existing storage array and future

– VMware – aware solution

– Scalable

Campagnolo – Flash Cluster Overview

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 20

More than 100

million IOPS

saved from

datastore

Offloading IOPS from the array to local flash

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 21

802 IOPS served from flash and 18 IOPS served from datastore!

Datastore

IOPS 18

Local

acceleration

IOPS 802

Predictable Performance low latency

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 22

VM

Observed

latency

Datastore

latency

Customer Case Campagnolo

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 23

The Solution

– FVP Software on all hosts in the cluster

– Flash: Micron p420m, 700GB PCI-Express in each ESXi host

The Result

– Low read and write latency for all virtual machines

– More than 500.000 IOPS available

– Decoupled performance

DEMO

© PernixData. All rights reserved. 24

© PernixData. All rights reserved.

RE-THINK STORAGE

@PernixData