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Presentation SE Technical Version AVERE SYSTEMS, INC 5000 McKnight Road, Suite 404 Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (412) 635-7170 Mark Renault averesystems.com Company Overview Mission Provide Demand-Driven Storage solutions that dynamically

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Presentation SE Technical Version

AVERE SYSTEMS, INC 5000 McKnight Road, Suite 404 Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (412) 635-7170

Mark Renault

averesystems.com

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Company Overview

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  • Mission

– Provide Demand-Driven Storage™ solutions that dynamically organize data into the most optimum storage tier yielding higher performance, global name space, LAN & WAN virtualization & lower cost

  • Profile

– Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA – Menlo Ventures & Norwest Venture Partners

  • Management Team

– Ron Bianchini, CEO: NetApp, Spinnaker, FORE, Scalable Networks – Mike Kazar, CTO: NetApp, Spinnaker Networks, IBM, Transarc – John Dean, CFO: Vivisimo, NetApp, Spinnaker, P&G – Tom Hicks, VP Eng: NetApp, Spinnaker, FORE – Rebecca Thompson, Mkg: Vivisimo, FreeMarkets, FORE, Cisco – Brian Gladden, Sales: Gluster, Gear6, NetApp – Dan Nydick, Dir. Eng: NetApp, Spinnaker, FORE, Scalable Networks

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Customer Challenge

  • Hard disk drives (HDDs) are getting bigger not faster
  • Many, costly 15k RPM drives required to achieve performance
  • Challenging due to budget, power, cooling, floor space constraints
  • Want SSD but solutions are expensive, complex, incomplete,

vendor-specific

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Track Sector Platters Linear Density (bpi) Track Density (tpi) Areal Density

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Storage Media Comparison Summary

Small Large Random Large Sequential Archival

SATA SATA SATA

Read

RAM SSD SAS

Write

RAM SAS SAS

Cap Price $/GB R Perf W Perf SATA HDD 2,000GB $150 $0.08 130 130 SAS HDD 300GB $270 $0.90 400 360 SLC Flash 64GB $700 $11.00 24,500 1,000 DRAM 32GB $1280 $40.00 325,000 325,000

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True Dynamic Tiering

  • What? Finest level of granularity
  • When? Data is tiered on-the-fly
  • How? Automatic movement between tiers

– Automatic by frequency, access pattern and size

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LUN Volume File Block Weeks Days Hours On-The-Fly Manual Disruptive Manual Non-disruptive Policy-based Automatic

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How It Works

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  • Tiered File System (TFS) dynamically places data on optimal

media

  • Active data owned by high-performance Avere FXT cluster
  • In-active data owned by Mass Storage System (MASS)
  • Offers a global view of all MASS filesystems locally & remotely
  • Avere algorithms monitor access patterns & manage data location
  • Policy mgmt keeps FXT cluster in sync with MASS for backup, etc.
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Customer Benefits

  • Performance acceleration: Active data moved to RAM, SSD, SAS
  • Cost savings: 5:1 reduction in disks, power, space
  • Simplicity: Seamless fit with existing clients, NAS servers
  • Scaling: Efficient, non-disruptive growth through clustering
  • Ease of management: Global Name Space & WAN capable

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Performance & capacity scale independently, more efficiently

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SPECsfs2008: Industry Benchmark

Posting Op Rate Latency #FileSys # Disks

Apple Xserve 8,053 1.37 6 49 Apple Xserve 18,511 2.63 16 65 Apple MacPro Leopard 9,189 2.18 32 65 Apple MacPro Snow Leopard 18,784 2.67 32 65 Avere 22,025 1.30 1 14 Avere 2-node cluster 43,796 1.33 1 26 Avere 6-node cluster 131,591 1.38 1 79 BlueArc Mercury 50 40,137 3.38 1 74 BlueArc Mercury 50 cluster 80,279 3.42 2 148 BlueArc Mercury 100 72,921 3.39 1 146 BlueArc Mercury 100 cluster 146,076 3.34 2 292 Exanet 2-node 29,921 1.96 1 148 Exanet 8-node 119,550 2.07 1 592 HP BL860c 4-node 134,689 2.53 48 584 Huawei Symantec 176,728 1.67 6 960 Isilon 10-node 46,635 1.91 1 120 NTAP 3140 FC 40,109 2.59 2 224 NTAP 3140 FC PAM 40,107 1.68 2 112 NTAP 3140 SATA PAM 40,011 2.75 4 112 NTAP 3160 60,409 2.18 4 224 NTAP 3160 FC PAM2 60,507 1.58 2 56 NTAP 3160 SATA PAM2 60,389 2.18 8 96 NTAP 6080 120,011 1.95 2 324 Onstor Cougar 6720 42,111 1.74 32 224 Onstor Cougar 3510 27,078 1.99 16 112 SGI 10,305 3.86 1 242

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100% Linear Scaling

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22,025 43,796 131,591 y = 21931x 20,000 40,000 60,000 80,000 100,000 120,000 140,000 1 2 6

Avere SPECsfs2008 Throughput (ops/sec)

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SPECsfs2008 Performance*

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Only solution with 1 file system *For more details: http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008.html 7x reduction in disks, power & space on average

*Includes disks used for storing data, not system/OS disks

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Comparing 100k ops/sec Solutions*

*For more details: http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/ results/sfs2008.html

$3.4/op $11.3/op $76.3/op

Avere NetApp EMC

Product FXT 2500, 6-cluster FAS6080, FCAL Disks Celerra NS-G8, Symmetrix V-Max Performance (ORT) 131,591 ops/sec (1.38 msec) 120,011 ops/sec (1.95 msec) 110,621 ops/sec (2.32 ms ORT) Usable Capacity 15.3TB SATA 14.0TB FC 12.9TB SSD List Price $445,000 $1,351,000 $8,435,000 Rack Units 16 84 95

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WAN Deployment

Satellite office

– Minor installation w/o local MASS – Multiple satellite offices supported – Write-around mode – Selectable cache timeout period

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Core office

– Major datacenter w/ local MASS(es) – Multiple core offices supported – Data retention & management at core office

  • Accelerate data access at Satellite offices
  • Coherent access to all data from all offices
  • Hide WAN latency at Satellite office
  • Centralize data management & retention at Core office

WAN*

*Typical WAN connection is private, reliable network

Avere FXT Cluster Avere FXT Cluster (optional)

– Optional FXT cluster (in WT mode)

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Global Namespace

  • Join exports from multiple MASSes into GNS
  • Support heterogeneous MASS vendors & models
  • Clients access all exports/MASSes from a single mountpoint, single IP
  • NFS & CIFS support, simpler than automounter & DFS, no extra server
  • Newly added exports are visible to clients without client reboot
  • GNS “logical view” is admin-defined on Avere UI, client’s view of

namespace

  • Nesting of exports/junctions not supported

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Global Namespace

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GNS Logical View

/ /eng /sales /finance /support /hw_eng /sw_eng /pipeline /staffing /fy2009 /cust_data NetApp1: EMC: NetApp2: Sun_ZFS: Data Center (MASS:/export) Remote Site (MASS:/export) /mech_des /src_code /pipeline /cust_data /fy2009 /staffing Clients FXT Cluster /mech_des /src_code WAN

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Migration

  • Non-disruptive migration between two MASSes (see below)
  • Export is the unit of migration
  • Enables…

– Moving exports to a newly installed MASS – Moving exports from an overloaded MASS – Moving exports from a soon-to-be-decommissioned MASS

  • Checkpoints implemented, don’t need to restart if A or B fails
  • Resources consumed, peak performance not available

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NetApp1 NetApp2

Migration start Migration complete

Migrating /src_code export from NetApp1 to NetApp2

Export moves from NetApp1 to NetApp2 Physical location changes, logical does not Physical Logical Before netapp1:/vol/vol0/src_code /eng/sw_eng/src_code After netapp2:/vol/vol1/src_code /eng/sw_eng/src_code

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User Interface

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Simple Administration

– Install first FXT node in minutes – Additional nodes join cluster automatically – Email, web GUI alerts

Powerful GUI Monitoring

– Historical monitoring of ops/sec, throughout, and latency – Per cluster, per vserver, and per node stats provided – Hot lists show most active files, client IPs, and CPUs – Support 3rd-party monitoring tools: XML API, RRD data format, SNMP

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250k ops/sec Random IO, 50x Acceleration

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Configuration: 6 FXT 2700 nodes, NetApp MASS, 250k client ops/sec, 5k MASS ops/sec, 50x acceleration, seismic SRME application (Surface-Related Multiple Elimination)

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2 GByte/sec Throughput, 50x Acceleration

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Configuration: 6 FXT 2700 nodes, NetApp MASS, 2 GB/sec client throughput, 40 MB/sec MASS throughput, 50x acceleration, seismic SRME application (Surface-Related Multiple Elimination)

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50x Lower Latency with Avere

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Configuration: 6 FXT 2700 nodes, NetApp MASS, 0.4 msec (avg.) client latency, 20 msec (avg.) MASS latency, 50x acceleration, seismic SRME application (Surface-Related Multiple Elimination)

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50x Lower Latency with Avere

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Configuration: 6 FXT 2700 nodes, NetApp MASS, 0.4 msec (avg.) client latency*, 20 msec (avg.) MASS latency, 50x acceleration, seismic SRME application (Surface-Related Multiple Elimination)

*See next slide for zoom-in on client-side latency

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50x Lower Latency with Avere

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Configuration: 6 FXT 2700 nodes, NetApp MASS, 0.4 msec (avg.) client latency, 20 msec (avg.) MASS latency, 50x acceleration, seismic SRME application (Surface-Related Multiple Elimination)

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Smoothing Out Latency Spikes of Slow MASS

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Configuration: 2 FXT 2300 nodes, Sun Thumper+Solaris+ZFS MASS, client latency < 2 msec, MASS latency > 15 msec

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Operating Modes

Write-Through

– Ultimate reliability – Writes commit to Avere nodes & MASS – Writes limited by MASS – Read performance scales

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Write-Around

– Some users mount MASS directly – Expected during initial installation – Writes limited by MASS – Reads reduced by status check – Selectable cache timeout period

Write-Back

– Expected configuration – Read & Write performance scales – Performance scales independently of MASS – Write-through scheduling to sync with backup, etc.

Proprietary & Confidential

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Avere FXT Series

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  • Hardware

– 2U Rack Mount System – 64GB DRAM, 1GB NVRAM – FXT 2700: 512GB SSD/Flash (SLC) – FXT 2500: 3.6TB HDD (15k SAS) – FXT 2300: 1.2TB HDD (15k SAS)

  • Performance

– Per node results below, performance scales linearly to 25 nodes per cluster

(1) FXT 2700 recommended for this workload, (2) FXT 2500 recommended for this workload

  • Protocols

– Client: NFSv3 (TCP/UDP), CIFS – MASS: NFSv3 (TCP)

  • High Availability

– N+1 failover – Persistent non-volatile memory – Redundant network ports & power

  • Management

– GUI, email alerts, SNMP, XML API, policy-based management 3-node FXT cluster shown

  • Perf. per

FXT node Random I/0 (ops/sec) Sequential I/O (MB/sec) SPEC (ops/sec) 300GB Working Set 256B read 4KB read 4KB write Read Write SFS'97 SFS'08

  • Rand. read
  • Seq. read

FXT 2700 103k 96k 16k 1,600 330 49k (2) 28k ops/sec 870 MB/sec FXT 2500 103k 94k 13k 1,560 330 49k 22k (1) (1) FXT 2300 103k 94k 13k 1,560 330 49k (2) (1) (1)

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Evidence

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  • ESG Quote: “Conceptually, an architecture like this could

quite literally change everything we thought we knew about storage and I/O. If the Avere architecture can perform as intended, it might just turn decades of thinking on its head,” said Steve Duplessie, Founder of ESG.

  • Customer Quote: ''Before we added the Avere FXT Series to
  • ur storage network, we were seriously considering replacing

some of our slower mass storage systems due to their inability to keep up with client demands,” said Bryan Nielsen, IT Architect at the Salk Institute. “The introduction of the FXT into our network took the load off of these devices, breathing new life into our current storage infrastructure investments. In addition, Avere’s FXT opens up new possibilities in price, performance and size considerations for future storage investments.”

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Summary

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  • Right Time

– Storage industry at start of new era – Transition from HDD to SSD has begun – Heterogeneous Global Name Space

  • Right Architecture

– Leverage all media types – Tiering is granular, fast, and automatic – Support wide-range of application workloads – Simple to deploy and manage

  • Right Team

– Unique blend of clustered storage, file system and networking expertise – Proven track record

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Tiered NAS Strategy

SATA FC

Availability +, Access Density +

NVRAM RAM SSD SAS

50:1

Dynamic Tiered NAS

Local De-Dupe SATA

200:1

Private Remote D.C. Private Distributed D.C. Latency +, Reliability - WAN Remote D.C. WAN Distributed D.C.

500:1

Cloud

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Type Company Limitation NAS Server NetApp, EMC, Sun, Isilon, BlueArc

  • Over provision & short stroke
  • Expensive due to disks, power & space
  • Forced to select expensive drive types

Caching Appliance NetApp FlexCache

  • Read only work loads (non-persistent)
  • One protocol (NFS) limitation typical
  • Limited scaling

SSD Adapter NetApp PAM, Fusion IO

  • Inability to scale separately from server
  • Proprietary (NetApp)
  • Integration burden placed on end-user

(Fusion IO) SSD Array EMC, Texas Memory Systems

  • High media cost
  • Wasteful, copy entire volume to SSD
  • Limited Tier-0 management

Switch F5/Acopia

  • Disruptive, non-transparent
  • Data migration between tiers is slow
  • Poor performance for small-file apps

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Typical Vendor Approaches to Challenge

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Thank you!

AVERE SYSTEMS, INC 5000 McKnight Road, Suite 404 Pittsburgh, PA 15237 (412) 635-7170 averesystems.com