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Availability
Built on Power technology Highest levels of availability and data access protection
Remote Copy
Lowest latency for Metro Mirror Best RPO and lowest bandwidth requirements with Global Mirror Superior management with GDPS / TPC for Replication (TPC-R)
Ease of Use
Common GUI across the IBM platform Simplified creation, assignment and management of volumes
SSD Arrays
Nearline Arrays
Flash Cache
Flash Cache
SAN
SSD
HDD
DS8870
Easy Tier Caching Client and Easy Tier Server work together
Easy Tier Cache Client The driver in the Host SCSI stack determines what to cache based on access patterns The cache makes per-io decisions of what to keep in cache and what to evict Selection algorithms achieve high performance by remembering the latest evicted tracks when selecting what to promote into the cache Easy Tier Cache Server While the Client Host SCSI stack driver does its own caching, it also receives advice through Easy Tier Server specific communication The advice is based on a unified view of the SAN storage, hosts, and their access patterns. It is a priority sorted list of extents The Client combines this advice with its own population list, resulting in both short and longer term cache population, higher hit ratio, and better storage solution optimization, including application aware storage. SAN based multi-host applications are enabled through the Easy Tier Server SAN Storage coherency protocol With coherency managed, storage advanced replication functions such as FlashCopy and remote mirroring are transparently enabled
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IBM Server
Host Caching Client
IBM Server
Host Caching Client
Flash Cache
Flash Cache
Caching Statistics
SSD
HDD
IBM Storage
5.3X
performance increase!
Base configuration is all-HDD with Easy Tier Server not activated IBM Power 770 server running AIX with 1 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer DS8870 146GB 15K drives (RAID 5) with 2 1.3TB database volumes
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Caching Server (storage device) DS8000 Model/Code LIC Feature Key Easy Tier Server DS8870 drive types DS8870 configuration Volume Types
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DS8870 Release 7.1 FC7084 new LIC Key No charge All types supported, with or without multiple tiers All (14 frame, all cache sizes, etc) Open volumes only (no CKD)
Enables Administrators to direct data placement based on business knowledge and application knowledge
Provide volume level pin / unpin capability Tier placement
Easy Tier Application Data Placement
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Demonstration Execution
Apply special DB2 utility, DFSMS, and storage prototype support in demonstration environment Perform DB2 for z/OS REORG Confirm the storage tier assigned for a newly reorganized data matches original data storage tier
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MM/GC/GM Replication
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System Summary
Pools/volumes monitored How much hot capacity Current configuration of the pools Tier Status
IOPS overloaded, BW overloaded
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Intra-tier Status
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Workload Skew
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Nearline
Enterprise SSD
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(Read-only)
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Performance
Availability
Management/Growth
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Production Site 1
Production Site 2
Infrastructure Base Solution AIX HyperSwap Virtualized Storage Solution SVC Stretched Cluster VDM Software Base Solution DB2 HA-DR / Replication PowerHA GLVM
Infrastructure Base Solution AIX HyperSwap + FlashCopy Virtualized Storage Solution SVC Stretched Cluster VDM Software Base Solution DB2 HA-DR / Replication PowerHA GLVM
Infrastructure Base Solution AIX HyperSwap + Parallel DB Virtualized Storage Solution SVC Stretched Cluster VDM + Parallel DB Software Base Solution DB2 Geographically Dispersed PureScale Clusters (GDPC) Geographically Dispersed GPFS Cluster + Parallel DB PowerHA-AIX LVM Mirroring
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Customer Benefits
Unplanned HyperSwap Continuous availability against storage failures Planned HyperSwap Storage migrations without downtime Customer Benefits Storage maintenance without downtime
HyperSwap
Requirements
AIX 6.1 TL8 with SP1 or AIX 7.1 TL2 with SP1 PowerHA 7.1.2 SP1 with APAR IV2758 Available November 9, 2012 DS8800 R6.3 SP2, DS8870 R7.1
Oct 3 PowerHA HyperSwap Announcement
Synchronous Mirroring
Brings together AIX, PowerHA and DS8000 to provide a comprehensive application and data availability solution
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Active-Passive Sites
Active-Active workload within a site Active-Passive across sites Continuous availability for site storage outages
S1
S2
Oracle RAC
(Active) N2-1 N1-2
(Active) N1-1
(Active)
S1
S2
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Performance
HyperPAV GDPS and GDOC Automation GDPS/Active/Standby HyperSwap Technology Improvements Remote Pair FlashCopy and Enhancements zCDP for DB2, zCDP for IMS Eliminating Backup windows Heat map transfer
Availability
1 TB EAVs Quick Init for CKD Volumes Dynamic Volume Expansion Space Efficient FlashCopy z/OS Distributed Data Backup System z Discovery and Automatic Configuration (zDAC) Alt Subchannel Exploitation Disk Encryption TPC for Replication, GDPS
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Management/Growth
If the INIT/REFORMAT is rejected because it is online to some remote system, client can issue Query Host Access from ICKDSF or DEVSERV Output listing indicates which host(s) have the volume online
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When conditions occur that cause an imbalance in performance (I/O latency/throughput) across a set of channel paths to control unit Channel subsystem will bias the path selection away from poorer performing paths toward the well performing paths
Accomplished by exploiting in-band I/O instrumentation and metrics of System z FICON and zHPF protocols and new intelligent algorithms in the channel subsystem to exploit this information
Results show 50-100% throughput improvements with CU HBA/port congestion Complements DS8870 as premier storage consolidation platform
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After a GDPS/PPRC HyperSwap or an unplanned site switch, potential exposures exist to systems using the old Metro Mirror (MM) primaries Reading down-level data from the old MM primaries Updates the old MM primaries would be lost when the MM pairs are reestablished in the reverse direction Example scenarios GDPS/PPRC provides IPL protection However, if GDPS isnt used to IPL a system image, the IPL could be done against the former MM primaries Systems outside of the Sysplex will continue to access (and perhaps update) the old MM primary volumes following an unplanned HyperSwap Soft Fence (SF) will allow a host system to put a volume into a "soft fenced" state and also take it out of the soft fenced state. When a volume is in the soft fence state the disk subsystem will prevent all reads and writes to the volume from any host system
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Future release of GDPS/Active-Active (A/A) is planned to integrate Global Mirror (GM) disk replication into the A/A environment
Software replication will be mirroring the A/A workload data GM will be mirroring all data Both the A/A workload data and the non A/A workload data
When a disaster occurs, A/A will need to understand the point of consistency for both software replication and GM in order to reconcile the two copies of the A/A workload data
Consistency time stamps from software replication are relative to the Sysplex clock and the GM consistency time stamps are relative to the DS8870 clock The two clocks are not synchronized and time stamps cannot be validly compared to each other
Solution is Host Timestamp is sent to the DS8000 for Read and Write I/O
GM Master Control Unit retrieves the Sysplex time from the I/Os issued from the systems within the Sysplex and uses it when Consistency Groups are formed
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HBA Drivers
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Great performance
Up to 400,000 IOPS (100% read), up to 340,000 IOPS (60% read/40% write) and up to 270,000 IOPS (100% write) Up to 4.5 GB/s bandwidth
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All-HDD
Response Time
5-15 milliseconds
< 1 millisecond
Flash Exploitation
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146GB 15k-RAID10 146GB 15k-RAID5 300GB 15k-RAID10 300GB 15k-RAID5 Larger capacity 10k-RAID5
TODAY
Performance-Cost curve
Time
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$7.2M
30+%
Less Expensive
38% Lower Software License Costs Fewer cores, Lower maintenance Database, infrastructure SW Much Higher Storage Utilization As much as 50% Lower maintenance Simplified management 17% Fewer Servers Fewer cores Fewer network connections Lower maintenance 74% Lower Environmental Costs Power / cooling, floor space 35% Lower Operational Support Costs Server / Storage Administration
$4.9M
$3.1M
Traditional Disk
Source: Wikibon March 2013
All-Flash
All-Flash (Atomic)
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6-2013 4-2012 Easy Tier V Encryption for SSD and NL-SAS on Server, App, Heat DS8800 Map Transfer Easy Tier4 VMware 400GB SSD VAAI, vSphere, SRM Thin Provisioning for all copy services zSynergy
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2006 Turbo Models with Power5+ 500GB FATA nearline 4GB FCP/FICON Flexible Warranties (242x) zOS Synergy Items
2007 SSPC Support (new) Storage Pool Striping Space Efficient FlashCopy Dynamic Volume Expansion 3rd & 4th expansion frames
5-2008 Extended Address Volumes Variable LPAR IPv6 2-2009 Solid State Drives 1 TB SATA Intelligent Write Cache Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Remote pair FlashCopy
10-2009 DS8700 with Power6 controller PCI-E internal fabric Increased Cache/NVS
11-2011 3TB nearline SAS Addl expansion frame and 1,536 drives Easy Tier3 I/O Priority Manager (CKD) zHPF QSAM BSAM BPAM 1 TB EAV DB2 list pre-fetch optimizer
11-2012 DS8870 with Power 7 controller Increased Cache / NVS All FDE drives RoHS 2013 Energy savings
DS8100 / DS8300 includes all functional enhancements up to R4.3 DS8700 / DS8800 include all functional enhancements up to R6.3
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DS8870 enterprise storage video DS8870 performance whitepaper DS8870 SPC-1 and SPC-2 benchmarks Analyst whitepaper: IBM Easy Tier Automated Storage Tiering, Silverton Consulting Analyst whitepaper: When Infrastructure Really Matters, DS8870, The Clipper Group Analyst whitepaper: Developing An Enterprise Flash Strategy with IBM, Storage Switzerland DS8000 storage efficiency and optimization solution brief DS8870 3D product tour (posted on DS8000 home page) DS8870 Installation and Planning Guide Redbook : IBM System Storage DS8870 : Architecture Implementation and Usage Redpaper : IBM System Storage DS8870 : VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) support
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Improved FlashCopy handling of reserves in FB environments SCSI reserves Detection and Removal
SCSI reserve could be left on devices when a server has been shut down
User error Desire to shutdown quickly Various other reasons
Problem for FlashCopy target devices that are used for testing
Subsequent FlashCopy will fail and no easy way to either detect or correct
New volume type for Power i Unprotected Variable Capacity LUN 2107 Model 050 Protected Variable Capacity LUN 2107 Model 099 Volume characteristics: Format is 520 byte sector Size in multiples of 1 Gigabyte Maximum Size is 282 Gigabyte Volume types supported: Standard, Track Space Efficient (TSE), and Extent Space Efficient (ESE) Change from Protected to Unprotected and vice versa Volume resize is available for these models Existing Models: A01, A81, A02, A82, A04, A84, A05, A85, A06, A86, A07, A87 New Models: 050, 099 DSCLI supported with R7.1: Updated mkfbvol, chfbvol, lsfbvol
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