04.technical Overview For FlashSystem A9000 & A9000R

Technical Overview
FlashSystem A9000 and

FlashSystem A9000R_v4.7 July 26, 2016
Technical Overview
Firat Ozturk
IBM MEA Flashsystem Technical Sales Leader
Firat@ae.ibm.com
06.12.2016, Riyadh
IBM FlashSystem in the IBM Systems Enterprise Storage Portfolio
IBM FlashCore Technology
Optimized
FlashSystem DS8880
FlashSystem A9000R FlashSystem
A9000 V9000
XIV Gen3 Storwize
V7000 Storwize DeepFlash
V5000
150
All flash array - virtualizing

All flash array for cloud All flash array for the hybrid Data Center
service providers large deployments High End
Best performance with Entry /
storage services &
Mid-Range Server All-Flash for
Best performance with Best performance Mid-Range
selectable data - Mainframe Big Data
full time data reduction with full time data
reduction reduction - Power
Targeting VDI and High capacity
Targeting mixed Targeting database/
VMware High density
High End workloads analytics workloads Extreme
reliability and
Capacity
replication
Optimized Available in All
Extreme performance
FlashSystem 900 Flash & Hybrid
Targeting database acceleration SVC configurations
All flash array for application acceleration & Spectrum Storage booster
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Custom Designed Flash Media With Field Proven Architecture
The Right Systems For The Right Environments
All IBM FlashSystem Products Share A Consistent Core Architecture

IBM MicroLatency Flash Modules delivering industry leading performance
IBM FlashCore Technology with IBM Enhanced MLC Flash
Non-blocking Crossbar Switch
Hardware Only Data Path
Concurrent Code Lode and Concurrent Maintenance
High Availability Flash Enclosure with dual canister design
Integrated Data Integrity Checking
Two-Dimensional RAID
FlashSystem A9000 & FlashSystem A9000R
FlashSystem A9000
FlashSystem A9000R
8U, complete offering
Ideal building blocks for cloud storage Integrated 42U rack offering
60TB-150TB-300TB effective capacity Pre-integrated
Up to 500K IOPS White gloves experience
250s minimum latency Scale-out grid architecture
Ideal for larger enterprise
environments
300TB 1.8PB effective capacity
Up to 2.0M IOPS
250s minimum latency
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FlashSystem Spectrum Accelerate Enterprise
Software Stack
Hallmark ease of use with superior out-of-the-box experience
Enterprise cloud storage in minutes leveraging highly resilient hardware
Rich data services, integration and automation
Hotspot-free consistent performance and QoS without manual or background tuning
Highly parallel design
Scale-out grid architecture (A9000R) HAK
HAK GUI
GUI MSMS
MSMS Sync
Sync Async
Async
Up to 2M IOPs per FlashSystem A9000R REST

REST Multi-
Multi- Mirroring
Mirroring
DM
DM
Minimum Latency of 250s

Tenancy
Tenancy
OLVM
OLVM
VVOL
VVOL
Advanced remote replication, role-based Data
Data
Mgmt
Volumes
Volumes
Snapshots
Pool
Pool
CG
VAAI Cluster CG
security, and multi-tenancy VAAI Cluster
Mgmt
Mgmt
Mgmt Snapshots
FC
Hyper-scale management of dozens of PB FC
iSCSI
Resilience
Resilience Data
Data Path
Path IB/SM
IB/SM
Virtualization and automation with VMware, REST, and OpenStack

iSCSI
Hardware
Hardware Interfaces
Interfaces QoS
QoS
Single management environment on premise or on the cloud
Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000
A Highly-Parallel All-Flash Platform For Cloud-Scale Business
FAST CLOUD OPTIMIZED

IBM FlashCore technology
TM Hyper-Scale framework
Consistent low latency even QoS supports mixed workloads
EFFICIENT with full-time data reduction Secure multi-tenancy
Flash-optimized data deduplication
and compression lower TCO SECURE
Thin provisioning and snapshots IBM FlashCore technology with
maximize storage efficiency IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM
protection
FEATURE RICH Five 9s availability
Survive controller failures without
Intuitive user interface performance degradation
Redirect on Write Snapshots Hardware-based data at rest
Asynchronous Replication Purpose-built for the cloud
encryption (SKLM / KMIP)
Synchronous Replication
VMware integrated
Linked to OpenStack
REST API
Simply Efficient, Simply Consistent, Simply Reliable
IBM FlashSystem A9000:

8U modular offering
Composed of three grid controllers & one flash enclosure
Scales via IBM Hyper-Scale Manager
3 capacity options are available, each with full data
reduction enabled
Performance
Flash Enclosure - 60 Flash Enclosure - 150 Flash Enclosure - 300
Effective Capacity 1 60TB 150TB 300TB

Maximum IOPS 2 500,000
Minimum Latency 250s w/ Pattern Removal, Deduplication & Compression
1
Assuming 5.26:1 data reduction ratio; 2
70% Reads & 30% Writes
Simply Efficient, Simply Consistent, Simply Reliable
FlashSystem A9000 grid controllers:

Three-way active grid control enclosures
Each grid controller contains 16 CPU cores
48 CPU cores in FlashSystem A9000
Each grid controller contains 192GB DRAM cache
576GB total DRAM in FlashSystem A9000
Grid controllers run IBM Linux MCP software
Introducing IBM FlashSystem A9000R
A Grid-Scale, All-Flash Platform Designed To Drive Your Business Into
The Cognitive Era
FAST SCALABLE
IBM FlashCoreTM technology Scale out to multiple petabytes to
Consistent low latency even quickly accommodate your
with full-time data reduction growth
EFFICIENT Automated
Flash-optimized data deduplication Grid-scale automatically redistributes
and compression help lower TCO across all resources available
Thin provisioning and snapshots No hit spots, zero tuning
maximize storage efficiency
FEATURE RICH SECURE

Intuitive user interface IBM FlashCore technology with IBM
Redirect on Write Snapshots Variable Stripe RAIDTM protection
Asynchronous Replication Five 9s availability
Synchronous Replication Survive controller failures without
VMware integrated performance degradation
Linked to OpenStack Hardware-based data at rest
encryption (SKLM / KMIP)
FlashSystem A9000R Architectural Grid Elements
Scalable grid architecture Grid Controller

Effective capacity scalable from as small as System x3650
300TB to as large as 1.8PB* 2U 2S x86 Server with 20 total CPU cores
Fully redundant system 4x16Gb FC + 2x10Gb iSCSI, or 4x10Gb iSCSI
New power distribution & protection 384GB DRAM cache each
Flash-Optimized software stack
IBM Flash Enclosure InfiniBand Interconnect

Two-Dimensional RAID
FDR 56Gbps
Variable Stripe RAID + System-Level RAID
12 x 2.9TB or 12 x 5.7TB MicroLatency modules
* 5.26:1 data reduction
FlashSystem A9000R Architectural Grid Elements
Entry Configuration Includes:
Mellanox 36 port InfiniBand Switch FDR 56Gbps
Internal redundant BBU solution
Management Module
Custom design 20KW PDU
Cascade control connectors
Four 2U Grid Controllers (each server has 20 CPU cores)
4 x 16Gb FC + 2 x 10Gb iSCSI (48 16Gb FC + 24 10Gb iSCSI)
or 4 x 10Gb iSCSI (48 10Gb iSCSI)
384GB DRAM cache ( for a maximum of 4.6TB DRAM cache)
Two 2U Flash Enclosures
300TB effective capacity up to 1.8PB effective capacity
Expansion (Grid Element):

Two 2U Grid Controllers + one 2U Flash Enclosure
Grid Elements Effective Capacity & Performance
Number of Flash Enclosure Flash Enclosure Minimum

IOPS 6
Grid Elements 150 300 Latency
70% R & 30% W
Effective Capacity (1) Effective Capacity (1) 5
80% cache hit
with Data Reduction with Data Reduction
80% temporal locality
2 Grid Elements
Min. Config.
300TB 600TB 250s 0.66M 4
3 450TB 900TB 250s 0.99M
4 600TB 1,200TB 250s 1.32M
5 750TB 1,500TB 250s 1.65M
6 900TB 1,800TB 250s 2.0M 2
3
1
Based on a 5.26:1 data reduction ratio
FlashSystem A9000/A9000R Host Port Connections
Host Port Connections * Host Port Connections *

Option 1 Option 2 Backend Grid Connections
A9000 12x16Gb FC + 6x10Gb iSCSI 12 x 10Gb iSCSI 56Gb FDR InfiniBand

A9000R with 2 Grid Elements 16x16Gb FC + 8x10Gb iSCSI 16 x 10Gb iSCSI 56Gb FDR InfiniBand
* Host port connections must be identically configured (100% Option 1 or 100% Option 2) in each of the grid controllers
Tier 1 Guarantee for IBM FlashSystem A9000
and IBM FlashSystem A9000R
Performance: Endurance: 7 year 24x7 Support:
IBM MicroLatency FlashCore ensures Up to 7 years support available
Performance with full- that flash memory will with optional price protection &
time data reduction be covered for read/ flash media retention offerings
write endurance while New: Enterprise Class
you are under warranty Services
or maintenance
Data Reduction: Peace of Mind:

Capacity Guarantee To the typical No charge, complimentary services,
product capacity (e.g., 300TB, 1.8PB), like training, configuration, and
Competitor Match Guarantee Match consultation, for all Tier 1
any demonstrated FlashSystem opportunities
competitor guarantee for specified data New: Perpetual Licensing with IBM
New: pattern removal, deduplication, Spectrum Accelerate / IBM
and compression Spectrum Storage Suite
Enterprise
Features/Abilities
Simplifying Everything
A New Management Interface Simplifies Management
Web based Powerful

application Navigation
Holistic Instant
View Analysis
User-Centric Functionality Saves Time
Health Dashboard Reclaimable Capacity Dynamic Tips

Gain insights and spot problems Manage your storage efficiently Guided assistance
Smart Filtering Multiple Tabs

Capacity Analytics
Find information faster Multi-task easily
Analyze long term forecasts
Hyper-Scale Manager Manage Up To 144 Systems
Use your time to provision storage:
Define volumes in seconds
Resize volumes painlessly
Create instant snapshots
No need for:
Performance tuning
Complex layout patterns
RAID group management
Role-based management
Allows safe delegation of tasks
App. Admins. manage their own snapshots
Integrate with the organizations LDAP
Full Monitoring and Alerting of all managed FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R
Hyper-Scale Mobility
Maximum Flexibility Between FlashSystem A9000 Systems
IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility is designed to provide online, non-disruptive

data mobility between FlashSystem A9000s in a manner that is
transparent to host applications.
Facilitates aggressive thin-provisioning
IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility facilitates data migration by providing access to
a volume through multiple storage controllers as a single, multipath
volume on the host and controlling which storage controller accepts I/Os
from the host.
FC (anticipated June 16)
IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility
Use & Benefits Of Non-disruptive Data Migration
Flexible moving of volumes between FlashSystem A9000

IBM Hyper-Scale data mobility makes
systems with full transparency to the host operating it possible to move data in a manner
system and application that is transparent to host applications
Facilitates migration by giving access to a volume through

multiple storage controllers as a single, multipath volume on
the host
FlashSystem
FlashSystem
Administrators can move volumes to take advantage of A9000
A9000
capabilities on other systems, such as flash caching
Key benefits:
Key
Maximizes utilization across systems
benefits:
Maximizes
Maximizes effective loadacross
utilization balancing across multiple systems
systems
Host
Helps
Maximizes effective load balancingsystem
streamline migration between acrossversions
multiple systems
Helps streamline migration between system versions
Data Migration
Built-in data migration facility available at GA

FlashSystem A9000 &/or FlashSystem A9000R is placed between the servers and the legacy storage
Minimal down time
FlashSystem A9000R proxies the exiting storage device until all data is migrated
Online data migration from any other storage array
Outdated hardware can be phased out and removed
SAN Fabric SAN Fabric SAN Fabric
Migration Stages Implementation Highlights
Migration stage
Migration stage
App I/O written to Source

Volume data is migrated from the Source controller Sourc
e
Destination
to a Destination controller through synchronous App on
mirroring stage
Sustained/Proxy Proxy stage
Host
Proxy stage
App I/O redirected by Source to Destination
Volume data only resides at the Destination Sourc Destination Sourc Destination
e e
Note: moving between the two stages is done App on

Host
App on
Host
explicitly by the user
Complete migration (not proxying) can be subsequently set by Sourc

e
Destination
connecting the host to the Destination, and doing a mapping and App on
rescan Host
Replication
Benefitting From Years Of Successful Implementations
Synchronous June, 2016 (Announced)

Asynchronous
FlashSystem Products Have Built-in Encryption
Protecting Businesss Most Valuable Asset
Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by most leading

compliance regulations such as HIPAA and FIPS
Data-at-rest design
Local key management
Flash System A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R support data at rest encryption.
Encryption for the system will require a Key Manager software solution like IBM
SKLM or other Key Manager that supports the KMIP 1.0 standard. All encryption key
transactions are managed by the Key Manager with the FlashSystem A9000/R
system, and no USB keying of individual FlashSystem 900s are required.
Key managers other than IBM SKLM are supported through the RPQ process.
Hot encryption activation and re-key
Multi Tenancy
Domain - isolated set of storage resources

Domain admin has access to the specified domains only Tenant C
Global admin can manage domains and assign admins to Admin
domains Tenant A
Private objects are assigned to domains Admin
Global Objects
Users, Hosts, Clusters, Targets
Hosts created by domain admin are assigned to that Tenant D
Admin
domain
Tenant B
Close/Open Policy: Admin
A "global" storage admin will (will not) be able to see "inside" a domain
QoS Classes
Ability to create virtual tiers of storage without the need to

move data between tiers
Up to 500 QoS classes in the system
Limit the bandwidth consumption of:

Hosts
Pools
Domains
Interoperability
Citrix Zen Server
HP HP-UX
Open VMS
FlashSystem A9000 & A9000R
Interoperability & Certifications
IBM AIX
IBM I / AS400 OS
z/VM (FCP attach only)
z/VSE (FCP attach only)
zLinux (FCP attach only)
VIOS
Microsoft Windows Server
OpenStack
Oracle Oracle Enterprise Linux OS
Red Hat Linux
SuSE Linux
Veritas Storage Foundations
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
vSphere / ESXi
VMware Web Client Plugin (VWC)
VAAI
VASA
vRealize Orchestration (vRO)
vRealize Operations (vOPS)
Converged Infrastructure VersaStack
Pure Power
Certifications
Reference IBM System Storage Interoperability Center for latest supported
Kroll
versions.
https://www-
FlashSystem |
EnergyStar 304.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/ssic/interoperability.wss
Snapshots and
More Snapshots
High-Performance Redirect-on-Write Snapshots
Snapshots Are Changing, And For The Better
Copy-on-Write (CoW) and Redirect-on-Write (RoW) are different

Snapshot schemes
With CoW a snap of new data will prepare to overwrite a piece of
existing data in a primary LUN. The storage system will halt the write,
then copy the original piece of data to a new location at which point the
storage system allows the new data to be written to the primary LUN
(original location).
With RoW a snap of new data is simply written to a new location
leaving the primary LUN (original location) untouched. This has the
effect of significantly improving performance in snap-rich environments.
Copy-on-Write vs Redirect-on-Write Snapshots
COPY-ON-WRITE REDIRECT-ON-WRITE
Snapshot Original data Original Snapshot
data resides now resides data data resides
in the in a new LUN remains in in a
original LUN the new LUN
original LUN
The New,
Faster, Way
Step 2
Lun 1 Lun 2 Lun 1 Lun 2
Step 1
Step 3
Step 1
FlashSystem
FlashSyste
V9000
m
A9000
Data Protection
Architecture
Robust RAS Protection
RAS Architecture
Integrated system management and RAS of all hardware and software components
in the system for FlashSystem A9000 and FlashSystem A9000R offerings.
No Single-Point-Of-Failure
Internal dedicated RAS Network
Leverages IBMs RAS processes, tools and reports mechanisms such as:
White Glove installation and maintenance
TA (Technician Assistant) tool
Hot Upgrade Process
Call Home & Service Center
XRSC
Events, SNMP, SYSLOG
World Class RAS Design & System Resiliency Logical System View Logical System
View
Grid Controller Flash Flash
Enc Enc
Flash Flash Ctrlr 1 Ctrlr 1
Grid Controller
Enc Enc
Redundant IB Interconnect and RAS Network Ctrlr 1

Grid Controller
Ctrlr 1
Grid Controller
Flash Flash
Disaggregated Controllers and Flash Enclosures Grid Controller Enc

Ctrlr 1
Enc
Ctrlr 1
Grid Controller
FlashSystem A9000
Failure of a Controller takes down NO Flash Enclosures. Grid Controller
Instantaneous cache rebuild after a controller failure

Flash Flash
Enc Enc
Ctrlr 1 Ctrlr 1
Grid Controller
Resilient Distributed RAM Cache Grid Controller
FlashSystem A9000 is resilient to a compute controller failure

IB Interconnect
IB Interconnect
FlashSystem A9000R is resilient to 2 concurrent compute controller failures

Fully redundant and highly available Flash Enclosures Flash
Enc
Flash
Enc
Enclosures break up the grid into failure domains which are independent
Ctrlr 1 Ctrlr 1
Grid Controller
Grid Controller
Flash protection
Flash
Enc
Ctrlr 1
Flash
Enc
Ctrlr 1
Grid Controller
Full integrated data checking throughout the system Grid Controller
Health Binning and advanced ECC algorithm mitigating write amplification. Flash
Enc
Ctrlr 1
Flash
Enc
Ctrlr 1
RAID in each independent Controller across Flash chips

Grid Controller
Grid Controller
Flash media endurance management FlashSystem A9000R
FlashSystem Data Protection Schema
Improving Availability and Serviceability on FlashSystem Storage
Two-dimensional RAID IBM | PW No single point of failure

IBM Variable Stripe RAIDTM Fully redundant and hot-swappable
Higher resilience Flash modules
Higher storage efficiency
Higher rebuild performance I/O interfaces
Lower set uptime RAID controllers
System-level RAID Management controllers
Non-disruptive (concurrent) code load Power supplies
Data path is entirely independent of the Batteries
control path Fan modules
Management features
Call home
Detailed logging
Remote power on
FlashCore: Advanced Flash Management
Innovative Engineering To Avoid Media Failures
IBM Enhanced ECC

IBM designed a new Error Corrector using a novel code which:
Corrects an astoundingly large number of errors
Does not rely on additional reads
Flash Conditioning (proactive voltage-level shifting)
Predictive techniques adjust internal flash settings in advance
minimizing probability of uncorrectable errors
Adaptive, self-optimizing wear-leveling (health-binning + heat-segregation)
Put the most accessed data on the healthiest blocks
Result: 9.4x improvement in lifespan over base media (flash chips)
Fully Integrated Data Protection & Redundancy Architecture
Triple cache redundancy (3 x copies on 3 x Grid Controllers)
Grid Controllers
Cache Vaulting, Dual BBU
Dual IB fabric (bandwidth and grid redundancy) IB Grid Connectivity (FlashSystem A9000R)
=1
Dual controller architecture on Flash Enclosure, Dual Battery Module, Storage
Two-dimensional RAID (10+1+1) data protection between flash modules Enclosure
Variable Stripe RAID (VSR) per MicroLatency modules Flash Media
FlashCore: Variable Stripe RAID
Dynamic RAID Re-striping To Isolate & Bypass Media Failures
Failures of large capacity granularity, such as an entire flash chip or a plane or a die of a flash chip, are
isolated, reduced to the absolute minimum affected area, then bypassed.
The parity stripe containing the affected region is re-striped to no-longer contain the affected region
The remaining un-affected capacity remains in use
Such errors are "self-healing", the module will surgically cut them out and keep running
No loss in performance, usable capacity, or protection
No replacement necessary
No degraded state
No lengthy rebuild time
With VSR technology, multiple plane or chip failures do not result in lost usable capacity or
lost performance, and do not require the IBM MicroLatency module to be replaced
US Patents: US7856528, US8176284, US8176360, US8443136, US8631273,
US8631274, US8775772, US20110040925, US20110040926, US20110040927,
US20110087855, US20120221781, US20120221888, US20140143636
Variable Stripe RAID
Patented Variable Stripe RAID allows RAID stripe sizes to vary.

If one die fails in a 16-chip stripe, only the failed die is bypassed, then data and parity is
restriped across the remaining fifteen chips (some chips on rear of circuit board).
Variable Stripe RAID reduces maintenance intervals caused by Flash failures
Flash
Flash Chips
Chips
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FlashCore: Resiliency Well Beyond SSDs
Numerous Media Failures Are Easily Tolerated
5.7TB IBM MicroLatency Module has almost 8.8TB total of raw flash (64 flash chips)
If failures are distributed across the 4 controllers in a 5.7TB IBM MicroLatency Module
Can lose up to 2.29TB of flash capacity (almost 573GB per flash controller) before failing
Over a quarter of the flash on the module can fail before it needs to be replaced.
10 of the 64 flash chips can fail without any issue
When the 11th fails, the module will issue a warning, but continue to run
When the 17th chip fails, the module is failed and the system-level protection is engaged
If the failures are localized to a single controller, divide those numbers by 4...
3 chip failures on a single controller (controlling 16 flash chips) will trigger a warning
5 flash chip failures (of the 16 total) will trigger the failure
Compare this to an off the shelf SSD which can sustain approximately of a flash chip failure
before failing the entire drive!
Data Reductions and
Protection
Flash-Optimized Pattern Removal, Deduplication & Compression
Flash-Optimized Data Efficiency Suite Optimizes Economics
Designed together for comprehensive &
complementary reduction
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PROVISIONING
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Supports scalable workloads Hardware accelerated Allocate capacity Redirect-on-write

Global, inline No performance-degrading effectively Space-efficient
8K block size w/4K alignment background scrubs High-performance
Inline
In-Line Data Reduction Processing
Pattern Removal is a special case of deduplication. We essentially take
Data reduction methods: the hash of the data and compare that to the hash of known patterns. If
8KB pattern detection a match is found, we can use that hash to reference the data.
Deduplication
Compression
64KB Pattern
User Write
Divide to Removal Deduplication Compression
8KB
chunks
Find Find
patterns dedupe
Deduplication Mechanism
Data reduction is global (system wide) and always on

Users written data is split in to constant sized chunks, 8KB in size
A fingerprint (SHA-1 hash) is calculate for each chunk
Data reduction algorithm searches for existing fingerprints:
Own segment
Other active segments
Short Term database
Long Term database
If fingerprint is found a reference to the existing chunk is created, otherwise the chunk is
stored as-is, as a new pattern
Deduplication engine creates logical objects called segments, 16MB in size
Introduction Of New Flash Optimized Compression
Employing an all new advanced, and optimized, compression engine

Cache above and below compression
Journaling file system
Inline
Metadata management
Recovery from metadata loss
Hardware off-load of all compression/de-compression operations
Data Reduction Technical Advantages
Low memory consumption
Scalable design
Performance
Huge upper and lower cache as compared to previous RACE
Large write cache hides latency of algorithm (main feature)
Multiple main threads per compute module
Minimal read amplification
Direct access to InfiniBand
Reach nearly ideal deduplication ratios
Powerful pattern detection
Able to survive complete loss of metadata
4KB alignment detection
Temporal locality maintained
FlashSystem A9000 Flash Optimized Data Path
Three Controllers For Redundancy & Sustained Performance
Host Write IO
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on on on
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DRN DRN DRN the previous transfer
IBM FlashSystem A9000 Cloud Scaling
Leveraging New Advances For Data Reduction & Migration
Hyper-Scale Mobility
Each System Is a
Complete Offering Cloud-Scale Elements
Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe Dedupe
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Compute Controllers
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FlashSystem A9000R With Triple Cache Mirroring
2 Grid Elements, Minimum, Deliver Redundancy & Massive Performance
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decoupled from one another.
Failure of a controller doesnt stop
a flash enclosure.
IBM FlashSystem A9000R Grid Scaling
Leverage The Grid For Data Reduction, Expansion, and Performance
InfiniBand
Backplane
Initial Configuration Includes

2 Grid Elements Expansion Grid Elements
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Cloud Optimized Solutions
The Right FlashSystem For The Right Task
Optimized Configurations For Diverse Jobs
Configuration FlashSystem A9000 (8U complete offering) FlashSystem A9000R (rack-based offering)
Purpose built for the cloud Rack-scale, cost-effective, pre-integrated solution

Deployment Model Utilize existing infrastructure (racks, PDUs, etc.) White gloves experience
Massive scalability based on fixed 8U offering Seamless scalability
Compact and modular offering Integrated rack-based offering
Architecture 8U per complete offering Minimum configuration includes 2 grid elements
Switchless design Includes grid fabric IB switches, PDU
Hyper-Scale Manager for up to 144 systems Scale-out grid

Scalability
Non-disruptive migration via Hyper-Scale Mobility* 2 to 6 building blocks in a rack
Hyper-Scale Manager for up to 144 racks
Capacity 60TB, 150TB or 300TB effective capacities 300TB to 1.8PB effective capacity
Performance 500,000 IOPS (70/30) per FlashSystem A9000 Up to 2M IOPS (70/30) per FlashSystem A9000R
250s (microseconds) minimum latency 250s (microseconds) minimum latency
Support Model IBM-installed / supported IBM-installed / supported
* June, 2016
FlashSystem A9000 & FlashSystem A9000R
Purpose-built for the cloud
IBM FlashCore Grid-Scale &
Technology Hyper-Scale
Scale & grow with your
Differentiate your
customers
offering
Secure Enterprise
Multi-Tenancy Services
Keep your tenants Gain peace of mind for
Microsoft
happy you and your tenants
VMWare
OpenStack
REST API
Quality of
Data Reduction Service
Optimize capacity for
Cloud Integration
Eliminate the impact of
any workload Integrate easily with what you have,
and whats to come noisy neighbors
IBM Corporation 2016 IBM & IBM Business Partner Use Only FlashSystem |
FlashSystem A9000 & A9000R Feature Introduction
GA April 29, 2016 GA June 28, 2016 Outlook

Hyper-Scale Manager for A9000 (SW release) A-Sync mirror to Gen3
and A9000R (manage both from Hyper-Scale Mobility between (A9000/R, XIV 11.6.1 only)
same interface) A9000s, FC (statement of Direction)
QoS ceilings by volume, pool, A9000/R Mirroring
or host Management Portal support -
Multi-tenancy capacity statistics enhanced
Integration w/VMware, Hyper-V, Encryption
OpenStack VMware VASA 2.0 and SRM
Pattern removal, deduplication,
compression
RoW snapshots
VMware vRO, vROps, VASA 1.0,
VAAI, Web Client Plugin, vSphere
All announced April 27th
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FlashSystem A9000 and

All flash array - virtualizing

All IBM FlashSystem Products Share A Consistent Core Architecture

Up to 2M IOPs per FlashSystem A9000R REST

Minimum Latency of 250s

Virtualization and automation with VMware, REST, and OpenStack

FAST CLOUD OPTIMIZED

IBM FlashSystem A9000:

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

Effective Capacity 1 60TB 150TB 300TB

FlashSystem A9000 grid controllers:

FEATURE RICH SECURE

Scalable grid architecture Grid Controller

IBM Flash Enclosure InfiniBand Interconnect

* 5.26:1 data reduction

Expansion (Grid Element):

Number of Flash Enclosure Flash Enclosure Minimum

4 600TB 1,200TB 250s 1.32M

5 750TB 1,500TB 250s 1.65M

6 900TB 1,800TB 250s 2.0M 2

Host Port Connections * Host Port Connections *

A9000 12x16Gb FC + 6x10Gb iSCSI 12 x 10Gb iSCSI 56Gb FDR InfiniBand

Data Reduction: Peace of Mind:

Web based Powerful

Health Dashboard Reclaimable Capacity Dynamic Tips

Smart Filtering Multiple Tabs

IBM Hyper-Scale Mobility is designed to provide online, non-disruptive

Flexible moving of volumes between FlashSystem A9000

Facilitates migration by giving access to a volume through

Built-in data migration facility available at GA

SAN Fabric SAN Fabric SAN Fabric

App I/O written to Source

to a Destination controller through synchronous App on

Note: moving between the two stages is done App on

Complete migration (not proxying) can be subsequently set by Sourc

Synchronous June, 2016 (Announced)

Industry standard AES-XTS 256 required by most leading

Domain - isolated set of storage resources

Ability to create virtual tiers of storage without the need to

Up to 500 QoS classes in the system

Limit the bandwidth consumption of:

z/VM (FCP attach only)

z/VSE (FCP attach only)

zLinux (FCP attach only)

Microsoft Windows Server

Oracle Oracle Enterprise Linux OS

Red Hat Linux

Veritas Storage Foundations

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

VMware Web Client Plugin (VWC)

vRealize Orchestration (vRO)

vRealize Operations (vOPS)

Converged Infrastructure VersaStack

Copy-on-Write (CoW) and Redirect-on-Write (RoW) are different

Redundant IB Interconnect and RAS Network Ctrlr 1

Disaggregated Controllers and Flash Enclosures Grid Controller Enc

Instantaneous cache rebuild after a controller failure

FlashSystem A9000 is resilient to a compute controller failure

FlashSystem A9000R is resilient to 2 concurrent compute controller failures

RAID in each independent Controller across Flash chips

Flash media endurance management FlashSystem A9000R

Two-dimensional RAID IBM | PW No single point of failure