V5030RI Roadbook-V1.1 PDF

IBM Storwize V5030 - OLTP workload
on SSD RI drives
Roadbook V 1.1
Authors:
Guillaume Legmar IT Specialist - System Storage Demonstration Center
Internet Web site: http://www.ibm.com/systems/clientcenterdemonstrations

January 2018
IBM Storwize V5030 – OLTP workload on SSD RI drives Roadbook – Page 1 / 39 Internet Web site:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/clientcenterdemonstrations
History
Authors Role Date Comments
Guillaume Legmar Storage IT Specialist 07/11/2017 Creation – version 1
18/12/2017 Integrate the new GUI changes
Table of Contents
History..............................................................................................................................2
1. Introduction .............................................................................................................4
1.1 Purpose of this demonstration ........................................................................................................4
1.2 To book and get access to the demonstration platform ..................................................................4
1.3 Connect to the demonstration platform ...........................................................................................4
2. Demonstration Scope .............................................................................................5
2.1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Scope ..............................................................................................................................................5
3. Demonstration infrastructure ...................................................................................6
3.1 Platform overview ............................................................................................................................6
3.2 Addressing plan and credentials .....................................................................................................6
4. Demonstration Access to web tools ........................................................................7
4.1 How to access demonstration Web interface ..................................................................................8
4.2 How to access to the vSphere Web client ................................................................................... 12
4.3 How to access the V5030 GUI ..................................................................................................... 14
5. Managing a V5030F.............................................................................................. 17
5.1 Volumes management ................................................................................................................. 18
5.1.1 Create a volume: prerequisites ............................................................................................. 18
5.1.2 Create a volume .................................................................................................................... 20
5.1.3 Attach to ESX server and create a datastore ....................................................................... 22
5.2 Flashcopy management ............................................................................................................... 26
5.2.1 Flashcopy creation ................................................................................................................ 26
5.2.2 Consistency group ................................................................................................................ 29
6. Performance Metrics during a OLTP workload ..................................................... 32
6.1.1 Run a workload ..................................................................................................................... 32
6.1.2 Stop a workload .................................................................................................................... 34
6.1.3 Monitor the performance directly on V5030 .......................................................................... 35
6.1.4 Viewing Results .................................................................................................................... 37
6.2 Interpretation of the results .......................................................................................................... 39
1. Introduction
1.1 Purpose of this demonstration

The purpose of this demonstration is to give you an overview of the way you can manage a
V5030F and idea of the performances of a volume made of SSD Read intensive drives when
running an OLTP workload.
To run this demonstration, you can follow this Roadbook but you can also make your own tests,
the platform is fully reset between 2 demonstrations.
At your customer’s site

✓ Show that the performance of a SSD Read intensive configuration is strong enough to hold a
OLTP traffic.
Presentation and demonstration
✓ Duration: 1h
✓ Run by an FTSS as a presales action
✓ Preconfigured platform, ready to use, booked for half a day
✓ Scenarios are written, tested, documented and maintained by ICC Montpellier Storage
Benchmark team
✓ Use scripts and GUI hands-on
1.2 To book and get access to the demonstration platform

✓ Book your demo on this website http://www.ibm.com/systems/clientcenterdemonstrations
✓ Document your booking with this following information:
▪ Customer’s name
▪ Siebel opportunity number
▪ Short description of the demo objectives
▪ Requested date and time of the demonstration
✓ Technical support at ICC Montpellier: Guillaume Legmar
✓ You will receive a confirmation mail when the demo is booked.
1.3 Connect to the demonstration platform

The connection to the demonstration environment is done through VPN using OpenVPN.
To connect to the demonstration platform, you need:
✓ have the tool “OpenVPN GUI” installed on the workstation from which you will run the
demonstration (any workstation connected to internet)
✓ your OpenVPN certificate (provided in the confirmation mail or on the Demo Center portal, in
your request page or in your profile page) installed.
✓ Have started, as administrator, the OpenVPN GUI tool
In case of issue, go to the Demo Center help site
Once the VPN connection is done, you can access the demonstration environment following the
instruction of the roadbook, using the credentials (provided in the confirmation mail or on the Demo
Center portal, in your request page.
2. Demonstration Scope
2.1 Introduction
IBM® Storwize® V5000 is a flexible storage solution that offers extraordinary scalability from the smallest to
the largest system without disruption. Built with IBM Spectrum Virtualize™ software, it can help you lower
capital and operational storage costs with heterogeneous data services. Storwize V5000 is an easily
customizable and upgradeable solution for better investment protection, improved performance and
enhanced efficiency.
The cost per GB of a Read intensive drive is typically less than the cost per GB of an enterprise drive. The
cost is low because the amount of over-provisioning is less and almost all the flash memory in the drive is
available for storing data.
Read intensive drives are like enterprise drives in terms of read performance. However, because of the lower
over-provisioning of the read intensive drives, the random write performance is reduced because of the
higher number of background operations that are needed for garbage collection and associated write
amplification. Thus, lower over-provisioning decreases both performance and endurance. Read performance
is not impacted.
2.2 Scope
In this demonstration, you will be able to connect with administrator rights to a dedicated Spectrum
virtualize V5030F fully equipped with SSD drives.
You will be able to manage disks, pool and volumes.
You will be able to use copy services.
You also will follow the progress of a workload running on a virtual machine hosted by a VMware
server. (as this configuration seems to be quite representative of the typical configurations found in
the field) The workload is imitating an OLTP workload:
- 6 different volumes
- 4K packet size
- 80 % of read operation
3. Demonstration infrastructure
3.1 Platform overview
3.2 Addressing plan and credentials

IP Address User Password
Given by demo
Web interface 10.3.23.154/V5030RI webguest
center
IBM Spectrum Virtualize Given by demo
10.3.23.87 webguest
V5030 center
vSphere Web client 10.3.23.26 V5030user@vsphere.local pass4V5030!
4. Demonstration Access to web tools
In this roadbook, we will describe
How to create Volumes, map them to an ESX and see the result in the ESX server by creating a
datastore.
How to create a backup of a volume by using the copy services
And at last, how to launch the workload simulation on the Linux server and how to monitor the
performance during the runs.
To run this demonstration, you can follow this Roadbook but you can also make your own
scenarios, the platform is fully reset between 2 demonstrations.
The only tools you will need to run this demo, are an OpenVPN client to connect to the
Demonstration network and a web browser to access the Demonstration web interface, vSphere
Web client and the V5030 GUI
4.1 How to access demonstration Web interface
In a web browser, connect to the Demonstration web interface, on http://10.3.23.154/V5030RI.
On the right panel, you will have the link to launch the workload, an overview of the architecture dedicated to
this demo, a recall of the passwords for the demonstration webpage, WebSphere and V5030 GUI and a
shortcut to launch these GUI
For example if you click on this button
It will show you an overview of the infrastructure of the machines used in this demonstration
In the middle of the page you will see the performance metrics of the workload (IO per seconds, Bandwidth
and response time) for both workload.
At last on the left panel, the gauges.
4.2 How to access to the vSphere Web client
You can access the Vcenter Web Client by using a web browser on the address https://10.3.23.26 or you
can use the dedicated button of the left menu in the Demonstration web interface
Click on Log in to vSphere Web client
The user is V5030user@vsphere.local the password is pass4v5030!
4.3 How to access the V5030 GUI
In a web browser, connect to the V5030 management GUI, on https://10.3.23.87. or you can use the
dedicated button of the left menu in the Demonstration web interface
On first login, you may have a security alert, click on advanced button and add Exception to access the GUI
login screen
Enter the management GUI, the password for webguest has been sent in the confirmation mail.
if you are not familiar with the V5030 interface do not hesitate to navigate the menus in the left panel
5. Managing a V5030F
We have prepared some volumes and one server to run the OLTP workload on RI disks. If you delete or
damage the volume created you may not be able to run the part of the demonstration described in the
chapter 6.
If you want to run this part of the demonstration you must keep the following disks and their mapping:
For the rest, the V5030F is yours for the duration of you booked demonstration. We have detailed two small
scenarios, the first one consists in create a volume the mount it on an ESX server, the second one will show
you how to create and manage a flashcopy but of course you can imagine your own scenario.
5.1 Volumes management
5.1.1 Create a volume: prerequisites

Before creating a volume, you must have a pool defined and populated with some storage. In this
demonstration, you already have a pool named PoolRI. There is enough free space for you to use it or you
can create your own
to launch the “create pool” windows

1 develop the “pool” menu
2 choose the “pool” option
3 then click on “Create”
Do not forget to add storage to any new pool you may create
5.1.2 Create a volume
to launch the “create volume” windows

1 develop the “volume” menu
2 choose the “volume” option
3 then click on “Create volume”
In the Create Volume Windows you will have to choose the parameters of the volumes you want to create
1 the type of volume: basic mirrored, or custom. (in this document, we have captured a basic volume
creation but feel free to play with all the available options.
2 choose the pool where the volume will be created

3 the capacity saving (once again do not hesitate to play with all the options thin-provision compressed or
none)
Of course, as usual, you will be able to set the size and the name of the volume, take attention to the fact
you can create several volumes in only one operation
When all the parameters are set according your wishes, you can create the volume(s)
5.1.3 Attach to ESX server and create a datastore
For this section let say that you have create a new volume names my volume (1). It in the pool named
PoolRI (2) its size is 100GB (3) it’s thin provisioned (4) and it’s not mapped yet (5)
Note the UID, you will use it later to identify the volume on the server. In the example of this roadbook it’s
60050763808301485800000000000362
You can create a mapping by right click on the volume
Then let you guide through the create mapping wizard to map the volumes you created to the ESX server
named DemoRI_ESX_Host
Once mapped, the disk is accessible by the host. If you want to see it you can connect to the WebSphere
web client.
Chose Hosts and clusters in the home menu
Right click on the ESX server to rescan the SAN configuration
Then you can create a new datastore on the volume
You can identify the volume by its name in the Vcenter. This name matches the UUID of the disk in the
V5030
5.2 Flashcopy management
The aim of the flash copy is to create a volume with an exact image of a volume at the exact moment when
you start the flashcopy. This can be a snapshot, a clone or a backup of the source disk.
5.2.1 Flashcopy creation
Chose the flashcopy option in the left menu then right-click on the volume you want to flashcopy.
You can play with all the options but in this document, we will show you the screenshot of an Advanced
flashcopy with creation of a new volume:
Now the flashcopy relation have been created, but the data are not on the new volume yet. You must start
the relation to start the copy. You can do it and all the monitoring of the flashcopy in the flashcopy mapping
menu
5.2.2 Consistency group

A consistency group will let you start and stop several flashcopy at the same time. For example, if you want
to create a backup of all the data volumes of a server. You will create a flashcopy mapping for all these
volumes, move all these mapping to a consistency group. And start all the copy by starting the consistency
group.
To illustrate this section for this roadbook we have create a snapshot of all the RDMdisks
Let’s create a consistency group named fccstgrp0
And move all the mapping to this newly created consistency group. (it can be done in one operation by
selecting all the needed mapping
If you select one mapping in the group you will notice that the start option is greyed, you can only start the
consistency group. This action will launch al the flashcopy at the exact same time.
6. Performance Metrics during a OLTP workload
Note: This is not a benchmark. The SAN and LAN are not dedicated to this demonstration and can have a
big impact on Raw performance.
6.1.1 Run a workload

To make the Gauges appear the first time and get the first results you will have to launch a workload.
You can run the workload as many time as you want. The only limitation is that you cannot run more than
one workload at a time.
The performance metrics are shown as the workload is executed, this is not exactly real time as you
can have up to 2 seconds delay between the IO is really processed ant the result to be shown on the
web interface.
While a workload is running you cannot start another workload.
6.1.2 Stop a workload
While a workload is running, you can stop it at any time, this operation will stop the IO and let you restart a
1new workload. The link to stop a workload is at the same place as the one to start it as shown in the next
picture.
6.1.3 Monitor the performance directly on V5030
In this demonstration Web Interface, we have decided to show only 3 metrics: IO per second, bandwidth and
response time or both read and written packet.
The IBM Storwize V5030 GUI have a performance monitoring allowing you to have more detail if you want.
For example, it gives the IO per second for Read packet and for written packet.
If you want to you can access the GUI, click on the ling on the right column in the web interface
You can log in the V5030 interface as shown in chapter 4.1.

Once logged in you can access the performance monitoring by the monitoring menu
To generate some traffic on these interface you have of course to launch workload from the demonstration
web interface
6.1.4 Viewing Results
In the next pictures, you have an example of the result of successive runs
what the V5030 GUI shows:

you have more details but you can only see wat happened in the last 5 minutes
You can easily see two ended runs and one is ongoing
what the Demonstration web interface shows:

this information will remain on screen until you launch a new workload
6.2 Interpretation of the results
If the server and storage are dedicated to this demonstration, SAN and LAN are mutualized by the demo
center, so the result you will have will depend of several factors which are not related to the machine you can
access to.
Nevertheless, you should see that the performance shown by the workload ran on the Read intensive disks
are quite good, the same workload ran on the SSD disk may present better performance but the difference
between two runs are quite minimal.
Indeed, the SSD drives have a better resilience and extra performance on random write intensive workload,
but when you are using OLTP workload the Read intensive disks are almost as quick as the SSD drives can
be.

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IBM Storwize V5030 - OLTP workload

Internet Web site: http://www.ibm.com/systems/clientcenterdemonstrations

18/12/2017 Integrate the new GUI changes

1.1 Purpose of this demonstration

At your customer’s site

1.2 To book and get access to the demonstration platform

1.3 Connect to the demonstration platform

You will be able to manage disks, pool and volumes.

You will be able to use copy services.

3.1 Platform overview

3.2 Addressing plan and credentials

How to create a backup of a volume by using the copy services

In a web browser, connect to the Demonstration web interface, on http://10.3.23.154/V5030RI.

For example if you click on this button

The user is V5030user@vsphere.local the password is pass4v5030!

5.1.1 Create a volume: prerequisites

to launch the “create pool” windows

to launch the “create volume” windows

2 choose the pool where the volume will be created

You can create a mapping by right click on the volume

Chose Hosts and clusters in the home menu

Right click on the ESX server to rescan the SAN configuration

5.2.1 Flashcopy creation

5.2.2 Consistency group

6.1.1 Run a workload

While a workload is running you cannot start another workload.

You can log in the V5030 interface as shown in chapter 4.1.

what the V5030 GUI shows:

what the Demonstration web interface shows:

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