Michel Bakker

Disruptive Forces Affecting the Future

proof to the POWER8 architecture leadership

What new innovation? Can’t you see I’m too busy?

Semiconductor Scaling: No More Moore

2016: TrueNorth

2.5 W

2017

2.5-inch eMLC SSD: 2011 2016

2.5-inch

SFF

IO Operations Per Second

(IOPS)

Capacity Random Read Random WriteRandom mixed

Read/Write

177GB 15 k 4 k11 k

(70%-30%)

387GB 39 k 22 k24 k

(70%-30%)

387GB

775GB90 k 56 k

64 k

(60%-40%)

387GB

775GB

1550GB

100 k 90 k105 k

(60%-40%)Gen 4 2016

Gen 1 2011

Gen 2

For grins …

15k rpm HDD 0.12 - 0.4 k 0.12 - 0.4 k 0.12 - 0.4 k

Gen 3

5 years

8 x bigger 6 x more 22 x more 9 x more

AIX ecosystem

Live kernel update (7.2)

Server caching of SAN storage (7.2)

AIX 5.3 support for POWER8

IBM i ecosystem

FLASH-OPTIMIZATION

deduplication and

compression

Built with

Only IBM can integrate best-in-class resources to solve customers’ most critical

hybrid cloud challenges

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FlashSystem A9000 & FlashSystem A9000RPurpose-built for the cloud

IBM FlashCore™

TechnologyDifferentiate your

offering

Data ReductionOptimize capacity for

any workload

Secure

Multi-TenancyKeep your tenants

happy

Grid-Scale &

Hyper-ScaleScale & grow with your

customers

Enterprise

ServicesGain peace of mind for

you and your tenants

Quality of

ServiceEliminate the impact of

noisy neighbors

Cloud IntegrationIntegrate easily with what you have,

and what’s to come

• Microsoft

• VMWare

• OpenStack

• REST API

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1Based on a 5.26 to 1 data reduction ratio; 270/30 read write

Flash Enclosure-60 Flash Enclosure-150 Flash Enclosure-300

Effective Capacity 1 60 TB 150 TB 300 TB

IBM MicroLatency®

modules12 x 1.2 TB 12 x 2.9 TB 12 x 5.7 TB

IOPS2 Up to 500,000

Host interface8 or 16 Gb Fibre Channel + 10 Gb iSCSI,

or 10 Gb iSCSI

Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000Simply efficient, simply consistent, simply reliable

• 8U modular offering

• Composed of 3 grid controllers & 1 flash enclosure

• Scales via IBM Hyper-Scale Manager

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Number of

grid elements900 TB configuration 1.8 PB configuration

2 300 TB 600 TB

3 450 TB 900 TB

4 600 TB 1,200 TB

5 750 TB 1,500 TB

6 900 TB 1,800 TB

1 Based on a 5.26 to 1 data reduction ratio; 2 70/30 read/write

FLASH

ENCLOSURE

GRID

CONTROLLERS

GRID

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE AT SCALE2

IBM FlashSystem A9000RSimply efficient, simply consistent, simply reliable

IBM MicroLatency™ modules per flash enclosure

IB SWITCHES

PDUS

Minimum

Latency250 µs IOPS Up to 2M

EFFECTIVE CAPACITY1

Host interface8 or 16 Gb Fibre Channel + 10 Gb iSCSI,

or 10 Gb iSCSI

Dynamic Performance for data at scale

IBM FlashSystem A9000R

Dynamic Performance for data intensive workloads

IBM FlashSystem A9000

Versatile Performance for mixed workloads

IBM FlashSystem V9000

Extreme Performance for critical application

acceleration

IBM FlashSystem 900

Designed for

hybrid cloud

Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000: A highly parallel all-flash solution for the cloud-scale business

microsecond latency : 250 200 90-155

Technology Enabled Microarchitecture: Capacity & Bandwidth

Cognitive computing

Cognitive computing aims to emulate the human brain’s abilities for perception,

action and cognition.

The neurosynaptic chip, designed to emulate the neurons and synapses in the

human brain, breaks path with traditional architectures used for the last 70 years.

2016

16 million

4 billion

2016: TrueNorth

270 W

2.5 W

FlashSystem A9000 & FlashSystem

A9000RFlashSystem V9000

Cloud

EnablementQoS, Secure multi-tenancy, data deduplication,

VMware, OpenStackQoS, VMware, OpenStack

Data reductionAlways on – Inline pattern removal, deduplicationand compression

Optional - Selectable compression (RtC)

Storage ServicesSync & async replication, redirect on write

snapshots, thin provisioning, IBM Hyper-Scale

Sync and async replication, Hyper Swap, copy on

write snapshots, IBM Easy Tier, thin provisioning

Virtualization Data migration from other IBM or 3rd party storage

Non disruptive migrations and external virtualization

to apply storage services to other IBM or 3rd party

storage

Capacity

FlashSystem A9000: 3 configuration options,

60, 150, & 300 TB effective capacity

FlashSystem A9000R: 10 configuration options,

300 TB – 1.8 PB effective

1000s of configuration options: 2.2 TB to 57 TB

physical capacity per enclosure; fully scale up and out

for over a PB effective capacity

Workload

balancingGrid architecture provides automatic workload

rebalancing; consistent performance without tuning

Dual-controller base with scale up and scale out. Two

active controllers per IO-group. Up to four IO groups.

Performance250 microsecond latency (300 µs cache miss)

with full time data reduction; up to 2M IOPS (1M IOPS

cache miss)

200 microsecond latency and up to 2.5 million

IOPS without data reduction (cache miss)

Mgmt interfaceNew GUI is easy enough for non-administrator

tenants to use but powerful enough for a storage admin

Integrated GUI consistent with SVC and Storwize

family products

ScalabilityIBM Hyper-Scale (FlashSystem A9000)

Grid-scale & IBM Hyper-Scale (FlashSystem A9000R)Traditional scale out and scale up

64

Threads

Cache

Memory bandwidth

2 2

=

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DS8880

FlashSystem

A9000

IBM FlashSystem in the IBM Systems Enterprise Storage Portfolio

IBM FlashCore™ Technology Optimized

FlashSystemA9000R FlashSystem

V9000StorwizeV7000

All flash array for

virtualizing the hybrid DC

• Best performance with

storage services &

selectable data reduction

• Targeting database/

analytics workloads

Mid-Range

• Extreme performance

• Targeting database acceleration &

Spectrum Storage booster

All flash array for cloud

service providers

• Best performance with

full time data reduction

• Targeting VDI,Vmware,

and hybrid cloud

FlashSystem 900

All flash array for application acceleration

Storwize V5000

XIV Gen3

High End

Capacity

Optimized

Entry /

Mid-Range

All flash array for large

deployments

• Best performance with

full time data reduction

• Targeting mixed

workloads & hybrid

cloud

SVC

High End Server

-Mainframe

-Power

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore

Twilight of Moore’s Law: economics