Brian Sherman- Distinguished Engineer 10 June 2013

Session 1312: Whats new with the DS8000

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DS8000 Unique Technology Advantages Provides Value to Clients

IBM Servers + DS8000 are integrated by design
System z, Power i, p Available years ahead of competitors

OLTP and Batch Performance

High Performance FICON (zHPF) Cache efficiency Easy Tier QoS - IO Priority Manager (IOPM)

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

Encryption Enterprise Storage for the Worlds Most Demanding Clients

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DS8870 R7.1 Announcement Content

R7.1 announced June 4, 2013 (GA June 7, 2013) and provides the following:
Introducing Easy Tier V Easy Tier Server provides deep Power AIX / DS8000 integration Easy Tier Application allows for pinning volumes to a given tier Heat map transfer enables the transfer Easy Tier optimization to remote mirror target VMware enhancements VAAI - Write Same SRM 5.0/5.1 vCenter Plug-In Resiliency improvements Improved FlashCopy handling of volume reservations in Open Systems - SCSI reserves Detection and Removal z/OS Soft Fence Timestamp synchronization for Sysplex and DS8000 New ICKDSF Verify Offline command Power i variable LUN sizes Support for Symantec space reclamation Field model conversion from DS8800 to DS8870

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DS8000 4Q2012 key dates

DS8870 R7.0 (242x 961 / 96E)

Announcement date: General availability date: October 3, 2012 October 19, 2012

AIX PowerHA support for HyperSwap

Announcement date: General availability: October 3, 2012 November 9, 2012

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Easy Tier Evolution

Easy Tier 1 (DS8700 R5.1)
Automated cross-tier performance management for SSD/HDD hybrid pools Manual mode management support for dynamic extent pool merge and dynamic volume relocation

Easy Tier 2 (DS8700/DS8800 R6.1)

Automated cross-tier performance or storage economics management for hybrid pools with any 2 tiers (SSD/ENT, SSD/NL or ENT/NL) Automated intra-tier performance management (auto-rebalance) in hybrid pools Manual mode management support for rank depopulation and optimized volume restriping within non-managed pools (manual volume rebalance)

Easy Tier 3 (DS8700/DS8800 R6.2)

Automated cross-tier performance and storage economics management for hybrid pools with 3 tiers (SSD/ENT/NL) Automated intra-tier performance management in both hybrid (multi-tier) as well as homogenous (single tier) pools (autorebalance) Thin Provisioning support for Extent Space Efficient (ESE) Volumes

Easy Tier 4 (DS8800 R6.3 / DS8870 R7.0)

Support for encryption capable environments DS8800 and DS8870 have FDE capable SSD and nearline drives

Easy Tier 5 (DS8870 R7.1)

Server Application Heat map transfer

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DS8000 Easy Tier Automated Tiering

Combining the benefits across tiers and within a tier
Logical Volume Easy Tier Managed Extent Pool

SSD Arrays

Full 3-tier technology support

Faster performance for hot data with SSDs Cost savings (reduced footprint and $/GB) for cold data Sophisticated algorithms automatically optimize each pool continuously
Extent Virtualization Enterprise Arrays

Enhanced auto intra-tier re-balancing to support homogeneous (single-tier) pools

Supports both mixed-tier pools and singletier pools

Nearline Arrays

Easy Tier supports thick and thin provisioned volumes

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Easy Tier 5 - Easy Tier Server Overview

IBM Server IBM Server
Host Caching Client

IBM Power p / DS8000 integration Easy Tier Server is an architecture:

A Host flash-cache based on IBM research technology using IBM flash hardware (Easy Tier Caching Client) Easy Tier based algorithms for automatic application aware system-wide optimization (Easy Tier / Easy Tier Caching Server) A proprietary protocol provides in band (SAN) communication and coherency

Host Caching Client

Flash Cache

Flash Cache

SAN

Caching Server Easy Tier

Hosts (Caching Clients)

Work independently to cache their applications IO streams providing real-time performance enhancement Use the Cooperative Caching protocol to have cooperative system-aware caching that interfaces with IBM Storage running the Cooperative Caching Server
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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

SAN Storage Coherency

Caching Statistics

Caching Server EasyTier Global Heat and Statistics Data

SSD
HDD

IBM Storage

Easy Tier Server boosts transaction dramatically

Up to 5X performance increase for DB2 banking brokerage workload

Easy Tier caches hottest data to server

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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Easy Tier Server Requirements

Caching Client (the host) Host Type Host Environment Hardware (initial / more to come) Power AIX Native AIX, No VIOS AIX 7.1 TL2, AIX 6.1 TL8 P7+, P7, P6 Any supported direct attach flash such as EXP30 UltraSSD w/ GX++, EXP24S w/ SAS adapters, or TRES I/O expansion drawers

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)

Easy Tier 5 Easy Tier Application

Databases and ISV solutions will be able to provide performance tips to Easy Tier
Will guide what, when, where and how data is placed across the server and storage systems dynamically

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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Technology Prototype Demonstration:

zEC12 + DB2 for z/OS + DS8000 Directive Data Placement Use Case DB2 for z/OS integration of Directive Data Placement capability in REORG Demonstrate DB2 is able to control the data placement of a Shadow data set based on the storage tier of a REORG Target data set Customer Value: Performance Assurance On Demand Just-In-Time Data Placement Based on unique knowledge about data processing task and data classification, application can timely choose data placement decision Easy Tier function continues to manage the rest of data placement decisions in a coordinated fashion Storage Performance Assurance Ensure a newly created Shadow dataset is placed at the same tier as the existing target dataset during a typical database operation such as REORG Assure new dataset is performance optimized immediately after the reorganization.

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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Easy Tier 5 - Heat Map Transfer

Workload Hotspot Analysis

MM/GC/GM Replication

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Heat Map Transfer Learning

Primary site: Optimize the storage allocation according to the customer workload Save the learning data Transfer the learning data from the Primary site to the Secondary site Secondary site: Without learning, only optimize the storage allocation according to the Replication work load With learning, Easy Tier can apply the checkpoint learning data from the primary site Following Primary storage data placement to optimize for the customer workload Heat Map Transfer Utility Available on Windows SLES11+/RHEL4+ Up to 30 systems supported TPC-R also supported TPC 5.1.1

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DS8000 STAT System Summary Updated

System Summary

Pools/volumes monitored How much hot capacity Current configuration of the pools Tier Status
IOPS overloaded, BW overloaded
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SSD, Enterprise, NL or any combination

Data Management Status

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DS8000 STAT New Intra-tier Rebalance

Intra-tier Status

Ranks monitored for IOPS

Current IOPS, utilization of the rank and projected

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DS8000 STAT Pool View Updated

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DS8000 STAT New Workload Skew

Workload Skew

Customer skew data by pool Utilized by Disk Magic

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DS8000 STAT Volume Heat Distribution Updated

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Workload skew from different client environments

100 90 80 Comulative Percentage of Activity 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 Percentage of extents

Nearline

Enterprise SSD

Mainframe1 - Small IOs Mainframe 3 - Small IOs Open2 - Small IOs

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Mainframe1 - MB Mainframe3 - MB Open2 - MB

Mainframe2 - Small IOs Open1 - Small IOs Open3 - Small IOs

Mainframe2 - MB Open1 - MB Open3 - MB

Drive Selection in an Easy Tier Environment

SSD FlashSystem family

3-5% SSD, 95-97% Enterprise

Provides improved performance compared to single tier solution Removes requirement for over provisioning for high access density environments All data guaranteed to have at least enterprise performance Enterprise

3-5% SSD, 25-53% Enterprise, 40-70% Nearline

Provides improved performance and density to a single tier solution Significant reduction in environmental costs

20-50% Enterprise, 50-80% Nearline

Provides reduced costs and comparable performance to a single tier Enterprise solution Nearline

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New upcoming GUI: https://<DS8000-IP>:8452/preview

(Read-only)

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Integration of Power and DS8000

Pre-deposit write (Copy services one protocol exchange, keeps link full) Cache Optimization Algorithms AMP, ARC, WOW, 4K Cache Blocks Easy Tier Easy Tier Server and Application DB2 End-to-End I/O Priorities and Cooperative Caching for Power AIX I/O Priority Manager Integrated performance monitoring tools between Power i and DS8000 FlashSystem family HyperSwap (AIX) Power HA p, Power HA i Remote Pair FlashCopy and Enhancements FlashCopy and Functions like Fast Reverse Restore Full System FlashCopy (FSFC) Toolkit for Power i Heat map transfer Dynamic Volume Expansion Thin Provisioning Space Efficient FlashCopy Disk Encryption TPC for Replication

Performance

Availability

Management/Growth

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IBM Power Active-Active Solution Portfolio

Active-Standby for Fast Takeover Active-Query or Asymmetric Workload Active-Active for Symmetric Workload

Primary Site (Production)

Secondary Site (Warm Standby)

Primary Site (Production)

Secondary Site (Query Workload)

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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Power HyperSwap Technology

HyperSwap non-disruptively substitutes secondary for primary devices for planned and unplanned events through in-band commands
Transparent to applications - continue to use same the same device
Cluster HA/DR Application

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

Primary DS8000 Site 1

Secondary DS8000 Site 2

Legend: Active Path Passive Path

Brings together AIX, PowerHA and DS8000 to provide a comprehensive application and data availability solution
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HyperSwap Multi Site Deployments: Oracle RAC

Compute Node outages:
Active-Active workload provides continuous availability
Site 1 PowerHA Cluster

Oracle RAC Storage outages:

HyperSwap provides continuous availability
(Active) N1-1 (Active) N1-2 N2-1

Site 2 (Passive) (Passive) N2-2

Active-Passive Sites
Active-Active workload within a site Active-Passive across sites Continuous availability for site storage outages

S1

SYNC < 100 KM

S2

Fig 1: Active-Passive HyperSwap

Site 1

Active-Active Sites (coming soon)

Active-Active workload across sites Continuous availability of site compute infrastructure and storage outages Oracle RAC long distance deployment

Oracle RAC
(Active) N2-1 N1-2

Site 2 (Active) N2-2

(Active) N1-1

(Active)

S1

SYNC < 100 KM

S2

Fig 2: Active-Active HyperSwap

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PowerHA HyperSwap Client Test Results

Client Application Connection Maintains

Unplanned HyperSwap Completed in 17 sec

Planned HyperSwap Completed in <1 sec

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Integration of z/OS and DS8000

zHPF Enhancements (now includes all z/OS DB2 I/O, BxAM/QSAM) Extended Distance FICON Caching Algorithms AMP, ARC, WOW, 4K Cache Blocking DFSMS Recognition of SSDs and Storage Tiering Easy Tier Easy Tier Server and Application z/OS GM Multiple Reader Support SSDs + DFSMS + zHPF + HyperPAV + DB2 zWLM + DS8K I/O Priority Manager

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

System z and DS8870 Integration New ICKDSF Function

New ICKDSF parm VerifyOffline
INIT and REFORMAT commands will instruct the DS8870 to reject the I/O if the volume is online to any other system Only the DS8870 has the information about every system (including different Sysplexes, Vm, Linux,...) that has a path to this volume

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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New ICKDSF INIT/REFORMAT parameter with DS8870 R7.1

Why does this matter? Issue 1 - Prevent accidental loss of data when initializing a volume with z/OS ICKDSF
Even though its documented the volume must be offline to all other systems, mistakes can happen Prior to this enhancement, ICKDSF has no means to know if a volume is being used from other systems This function protects accidental destroying a volume that is online to other systems Example: Use ICKDSF to initialize a volume. Incorrect volume serial provided and specifies a volume that is online to another system

Issue 2 - Volume Integrity

There are scenarios when an operation is performed to a volume and the volume is required to be offline to all other systems, to protect the integrity of the volume Example: Volume restored using DSS full-volume restore on system A while it is also online to system B System B may not be aware of any changes that were made to the volume such as the Volume serial, VTOC location, Index location or changes to the VVDS (Catalog)
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EC12 - New Channel Path Selection Algorithm with DS8870

New channel path selection algorithm provides improved throughput and I/O service times when abnormal conditions occur: Abnormal conditions include the following:
Multi-system work load spikes Multi-system resource contention in the SAN or at the CU ports SAN congestion Destination port congestion Firmware failures in the SAN, channel extenders, WDMs, control units Hardware failures (link speeds did not initialize correctly) Miss-configuration Cabling Errors Dynamic changes in fabric routes (possible multi-hop cascading)

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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HyperSwap / DS8000 Synergy - z/OS Soft Fence

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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System z / DS8000 Integration - Timestamp Synchronization

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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VMware Support on the DS8870

DS8870 supports vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI):
Integration with vStorage APIs to improve performance
R7.0 provided Full copy (aka XCOPY) primitive offloads work from production virtual servers to storage which improves application performance and reduces host and SAN resource utilization Hardware-assisted locking (via Atomic Test & Set) primitive enables a finer grained level of locking (block-level instead of LUN-level) on VMFS metadata which is more efficient and also scales better in larger VMware clusters R7.1 provides Write Same (zero blocks) primitive, the process of zeroing the VMDK is off-loaded to the storage subsystem

Example tasks that can benefit from improved performance :

VM creation/cloning/snapshots/deletion vMotion and storage vMotion Provisioning / Cloning Extending a VMFS Volume Extending the size of a VMDK file
vStorage APIs NFS

VMware Storage Stack

VMFS VMware LVM Data Mover

NFS NFS Client Network Stack NIC

DS8870 also now supports

vCenter plugin SRM v5.0/5.1

vStorage API for MultiPathing

HBA Drivers

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DS8000 integration of EXP30 UltraSSD flash storage

June 4, 2012 SOD 1U drawer
Up to 30 encryption capable eMLC SSD drives
With 387 GB drives = up to 11.6 TB (raw)

Each drawer is independently installable; up to 4 per rack

Two 6 Gb SAS adapters especially designed for SSD

Directly connected to DS8000 internal PCIe fabric via currently open slots

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

Enterprise class RAS

RAID protected with spares Dual power supplies, sensors, adapters and fans
Concurrently replaceable components

Easy Tier enabled

Statements on IBMs future plans and directions are for informational purposes only. Future plans and directions are subject to change without notice.
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Enterprise-class DS8000 flash evolution

Combining flash optimization plus high-end capabilities

All-HDD
Response Time

Hybrid with Easy Tier All-flash

~ 1 millisecond

5-15 milliseconds

< 1 millisecond

Flash Exploitation
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The economics of all-flash enterprise systems

Performance-Cost benefits of flash will replace enterprise spinning drives over time

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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Performance with Flash is only one benefit

All Flash

$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)

Businesses are 20% More Efficient

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DS8000 Functional Summary by Release

Note: not all enhancements are included
2004 255 LCUs Supported RAID5/RAID10 RMC/zGM/PTC/PAV 64K Logical Volumes 2GB FCP/FICON 73/146/300GB DDs 10-2006 HyperPAV HMC CIM Agent Enterprise Choice (extended) warranty 2-2008 DS8000 M/T intermix Extended Distance FICON 10-2008 zHPF zMGM Incremental Resync 7-2009 Thin Provisioning Quick init zHPF Multi-track support 4-2010 Easy Tier Thin Provisioning Quick Init 2TB nearline SATA Multiple GM sessions 5-2011 Easy Tier2 IO Priority Manager (open) Resource Groups New GUI 16TB LUN New Business Class option

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

1.0

2.0

2.4

3.0

3.1

4.0

4.1

4.2

4.3

5.0

5.1

6.0

6.1

6.2

6.3

7.0

7.1

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

10-2010 DS8800 Power6+ All 2.5 SAS-2 drives 8GB HA and DA

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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DS8000 is Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing

Manage cost and capacity growth

Built for Performance Simplified Storage Management Reduced Environmentals Encryption without compromise

Improve performance and productivity

Easy Tier Server / Storage integration Replication: Metro and Global Mirror

Increase information access and improve ROI

Ease of volume management IO Priority Manager (QoS) Multi-tenancy / Resource Groups

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DS8000 Family Additional Resources

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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Additional R7.1 Enhancements

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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

Changes in DSCLI to allow:

Detection of whether a SCSI reserve exists for devices in an environment and identify the server that holds the reserve Reset of the reserve when performing a FlashCopy Establish after it has been identified that it is not a valid reserve for a running server
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Power i Variable Size LUNS

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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