What’s Your Path to NVMe?

In this webinar you will learn:

1. Where are we RIGHT NOW with NVMe?

2. How will NVMe and NVMe Over Fabrics

impact the data center?

3. What will be the path to a full NVMe over

Fabric data center?

For audio playback and Q&A go to:

http://bit.ly/NVMePath

Our Speakers

Rob Commins has been instrumental in the success of some of the storage industry's most

interesting companies over the past twenty years including HP/3PAR, Pillar Data Systems,

and StorageWay. At Tegile, he leads the company's marketing strategy, product marketing,

press/analyst activities, as well as competitive analysis.

George Crump is the founder of Storage Switzerland, the leading storage analyst focused on

the subjects of big data, solid state storage, virtualization, cloud computing and data

protection. He is widely recognized for his articles, white papers, and videos on such current

approaches as all-flash arrays, deduplication, SSDs, software-defined storage, backup

appliances, and storage networking. He has over 25 years of experience designing storage

solutions for data centers across the US.

What’s Your Path to

NVMe?

Welcome NVMe

● What’s NVMe?

● What’s NVMe over Fabrics?

● Why is it Important?

The Impact of NVMe on

the Data Center?

● Internal to Servers and Storage

● Reduced Latency (PCIe)

● Increased command set

Do Servers Need It?

In the Mainstream - No

● Most single servers can’t generate

enough IO to justify performance

advantages over flash

● Those that can (Hadoop, Spark, Splunk)

are part of a clustered network which

adds the latency back in

● Exception, scale-up, single server

database

Do Storage Systems Need

it - Yes (mostly)

● There is clearly a mainstream use case for

a percentage of the data

● All IO Channels down to a single storage

system - having that system leverage

NVMe makes sense

● But the reality is that this dataset

(immediately active IO) is relatively small

● And...NVMe is still a premium over SAS

The Impact of

NVMe-F on

the Data

Center

● A Network for scale-out storage

○ Large command queuing

○ Essentially a PCIe connected cluster of

storage nodes

● Most host attachments won’t need

(high speed FC or IP is good

enough)

● Should allow for much great scale of

scale-out architectures

The Path to the

NVMe Data Center

● Avoid NVMe in the server

● Buy NVMe All-Flash Arrays

Now

● Look for all-flash arrays that

can support a mix of NVMe

and SAS

● Look for vendors with a scale-

out via NVMe Strategy

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SYSTEMS

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If Storage Media Were Sprinters…

In the time it takes a HDD

to sprint the length of the

basketball court…

…NAND could finish a

marathon…

…and PERSISTENT MEMORY

could circle the globe.

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…But Speed Comes at a CostC

OS

T

1x 5x 20-25x 100x

CA

PA

CIT

Y

4-16TB 512GB-4TB 128GB-1TB 16-128GB

HARD DISK

DRIVES

FLASH PERSISTENT

MEMORY

DRAM

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You need a Storage Platform that delivers

WARM DATA

(Sporadic Access)

HOT DATA

(Read/Written Frequently)

HIGHER

PERFORMANCE

LOWER

COST

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Run Every Workload at the Speed of Memory

Performance

Tier

Capacity

Tier

▪ Get the affordable capacity you need

for your business-critical applications

▪ Get the high IOPS and low latency you

need for your top-tier applications

NVDIMM

Flash

Memory

HDD

or

Dense

Flash

100s of MICROSECOND

RESPONSE TIMES

10-20x FASTER

THAN LEGACY STORAGE

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ALL-FLASH

HD

HYBRID

Award Winning Portfolio

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The Future – Open NVMe Fabric

Open

NVMe Fabric

Applications, VMs, Containers

Tegile Capacity Enclosures

Tegile

Storage

Controllers

Tegile

Storage

Controllers

Thank you!

Storage Switzerland

http://www.storageswiss.com

georgeacrump@storageswiss.com

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What’s Your Path to NVMe?

For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:

http://bit.ly/NVMePath