IBM Spectrum Virtualize™

Understanding SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem V9000

Tony Pearson
Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist
IBM Corporation
 Abstract

This session will cover the various products built from

Spectrum Virtualize software code base, including the
SAN Volume Controller, the Storwize family of products,
and the FlashSystem V9000.

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 This week with Tony Pearson

Day Time Topic

Tuesday 11:30 Software Defined Storage -- Why? What? How?

Wednesday 10:15 IBM Spectrum Protect Overview

13:45 What Is Big Data?

Architectures and Practical Use Cases
15:00 Storage Tiering on z System:
Less Management Lower Cost and Increased Performance

Thursday 09:00 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

for z System storage
11:30 IBM Spectrum Virtualize:
Understanding SVC, Storwize and FlashSystem V9000
15:00 IBM Storage integration with OpenStack

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 IBM Storage Portfolio – Family Portrait

IBM Spectrum
Control

IBM Spectrum Scale IBM

Elastic Storage Server Spectrum
Archive
IBM Spectrum Virtualize Virtual
SVC, Storwize Tape
Systems Libraries
IBM Cloud
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
IBM Spectrum Object
Protect Storage
System
FlashSystem XIV Drives

DS8000

Flash/Disk Data Object Physical

All-Flash Hybrid Management Store Disk/Tape Tape
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 Virtualize Your Infrastructure

Virtual Server
Infrastructure

FlashSystem V9000

Storwize V7000
San Volume Controller
V5000, V3000

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 IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Virtualize can attach to FCP FCoE iSCSI

a large variety of FCP, FCoE and z/VSE Linux Linux
z/VM Windows Windows
iSCSI host servers. Linux UNIX UNIX
Windows VMware VMware
UNIX … …
VMware
…
SAN TCP/IP

IBM Spectrum
Virtualize
IBM Spectrum Virtualize™
SVC, Storwize, FlashSystem V9000, VersaStack

FCP FCoE iSCSI

Spectrum Virtualize can attach to
a variety of FCP, FCoE and
iSCSI storage devices
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 Spectrum Virtualize – Terminology

Volumes:
Belong to one or more I/O Groups
Volume Size 16 MB to 256 TB
Dynamically Expandable
Thin-Provisioned, Compressed
I/O Group 0 … I/O Group 3
Cluster:
1-4 Node-pairs (I/O Groups)
Cache, Copy Services

Storage Pools:
Managed Disks from 256
flash and disk systems
Assign LUNs to Storage Pools
Define Extent size (16MB to 8GB)
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 IBM Storage Portfolio – Spectrum Virtualize

Common Advanced Virtualization Code Base

Many Different Packages
SAN Volume
IBM Spectrum Scale Controller
IBM FlashSystem V9000
Elastic Storage Server
IBM Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Storwize V7000

Accelerate Unified
FlashSystem
XIV
Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000F
DS8000

Flash/Disk Storwize V5000

Storwize V5000F
All-Flash Hybrid

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 IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware

Server and storage virtualization offerings provide complementary benefits

SVC supports VMware, Hyper-V, XEN, KVM, PowerVM, z/VM
SVC provides common external storage virtualization
• Especially valuable for customers with a mixed
server virtualization environment
SVC supports every VMware vSphere release
SVC supports VMware vCenter
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
with Metro Mirror and Global
Mirror functions
SVC with VMware
“best practices” Red paper
available!
Supports VAAI, VASA, VADP,
and vSphere v6 VVols
vCenter and Web Admin plug-ins

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 Easy Tier

Host Host Host Automatic storage hierarchy

– Mixed storage pool with 2 or 3 tiers
1. Flash tier (internal or external
Flash, including SSD)
Host Volumes & Extents
2. Enterprise 15K/10K spinning disk
3. Nearline 7200 RPM spinning disk

Volumes belong to a single pool

– Each volume is a collection of extents
Mixed storage pool on the storage pool
– An extent is either on Flash, Enterprise
or Nearline disk

I/O Monitor keeps access history for each

virtualisation extent
– Extent sizes already defined for the
Flash Enterprise Nearline
storage pool (16MB to 8GB in size)
– Default is 1 GB extent size
– Every 5 minutes
Automatic extent migration
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Easy Tier Application Transaction Improvement

No change to
the database or
application
240% from
Original No work to
brokerage identify active
transaction
indexes or I/O
profiles
No manual
Application
Transactions movement of
files or volumes
Just turn it on
and let it work!
Easy Tier Easy Tier
Learning In Action

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 FlashSystem integration with SAN Volume Controller

Production DB servers

ERP SCM SRM CRM BW

Non-prod DB
servers
Flash only Easy Tier HDD only
pool pool pool ERP SCM … … …

SVC storage pools (managed disk groups)

SVC nodes

• Put DB with a high IO/s per TB

ratio on Flash only
• Put Production DB
on Easy Tier™ tiered storage
• Put Non-production DBs
FlashSystem
Storwize / XIV / on HDD only
DS8000
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 Local and Remote Copy Services

Transmit via:
Site 1
• FCP
Any Storwize
Family product
• FCIP
Volume SAN • TCP/IP
VDisks
with WAN
SAN acceleration
Storwize
Family Product Site 2

Any Storwize
Family product
Storage Storage SAN VDisks
Pool 1 Pool 2

Local:
• FlashCopy Remote:
• Volume Mirror • Metro Mirror
• Stretched Cluster • Global Mirror
• HyperSwap • Global Mirror with Change Volumes
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 HA enhancements in Spectrum Virtualize v7.6
Host Server Host Server
New Reads are
management Site 1 Site 2 performed
GUI for locally, as long
HyperSwap as the local
and Stretch copy is up to
Cluster date

Node 1 Node 2 Node 3 Node 4

I/O Group 1
I/O Group 2
Site 1 Site 3 Site 2

IP-based Quorum
No longer requires Fibre
Channel connection to
site 3 for HyperSwap and
Site 1 Stretch Cluster
Site 2
Storage Pool 1 Storage Pool 2
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 IBM Real-time Compression
More efficient for Primary Active Data than Deduplication

Active Backup Fully Integrated feature of SVC, Storwize

Data Data
V7000, FlashSystem V9000 and XIV
Real-time 40-80% 40-80% High-performance Real-time supports
Compression Best
active primary workloads
Data 20-30% 80-95 %
– Databases, VMs, CAD/CAM, etc.
Deduplication Best
– More effective and efficient than Data
Deduplication for Active data
No restrictions on volume size or OS
Compress existing data without downtime
Compression helps to address:
– Storage hardware purchase costs
– Rack space
– Power and cooling
– Software license fees

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 IBM Real-time Compression
Expected Compression Ratios

Real-time Compression uses proven Random-Access Compression Engine (RACE)

45-day Free Trial of Compression available

Databases (DB2, Oracle, etc.) ~ 80%

Linux and Windows 50% to 70%
Virtual Servers
(VMware, etc.) Virtual guest images

2003 ~ 60%
Microsoft Office
documents 2007 or later ~ 20%

CAD/CAM Engineering drawings ~ 70%

Source: IBM internal tests.
IBM Comprestimator* tool can be used to evaluate expected compression benefits for
specific environments
• This pre-sales tool is available to estimate compression savings, percentage savings
shown are typical results, based on client experiences, your mileage may vary.
• http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/comprestimator/home.html

New: Comprestimator tool now integrated into Spectrum Virtualize v7.6

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 Compression Acceleration Cards –
Intel® QuickAssist Technology

Intel QuickAssist technology integrated into new Compression Acceleration

cards.
Used to offload the LZ compression and decompression processing
Each node supports up to two Compression Acceleration cards
SVC uses 4 parallel compression engines per card
To use compressed volumes, nodes require at least:
SVC 2145-DH8 or next generation Storwize V7000
One Compression Acceleration card
When compression is enabled,
Portion of Cache is used for Compression
Optionally upgrade each node to contain second
Compression Acceleration card
Upgrade recommended when normal data working set > 32TB

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 Spectrum Virtualize Brings Controller-based Encryption

Putting the encryption activity in the controller creates

additional options
Self encrypting media not required, reducing implementation
costs
Available on SVC, FlashSystem V9000, Storwize V7000, V7000
Unified, V5030 and V5020

Each system has a unique encryption key

At power-on the key is retrieved and used to unlock the arrays
(mdisks)
If a drive or array is removed from the environment the data on it
cannot be retrieved without the key

Keys are stored on supplied USB flash drives

At least one USB flash drive must be present at power-up to gain
access to mdisks
Once booted, the system will function normally without USB flash
drives present until power is lost

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 Real-time Compression

IBM Random Access Compression Engine™

• Stretch Cluster forwarding
• Metro Mirror, HyperSwap Benefits
• Hardware-assisted real-time
Upper cache compression
• FlashCopy
• Global Mirroring • Compressed data in cache to
• Thin Provisioning increase hit ratios

• Compression • More capacity savings than data

offloaded to Intel® deduplication for active data
QuickAssist FPGA

• Compress existing data without

Lower cache downtime
• Encryption
5x • Compress before Encryption to
effective optimize benefits of both
capacity!
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SVC 2145-DH8 Node Features

Move SVC to 2U server for enhanced

processing capability and I/O
Front mounted dual System Batteries
eliminates need for external UPS
Flexible Hardware allows user to
configure CPUs, memory and I/O
Optional compression acceleration cards
Mirrored boot drives, No front panel
Support for SAS card to allow external
SSD Expansion enclosures
Dedicated Ethernet Port for Out-of-Box
and technician support

Investment protection
SVC-DH8 nodes can cluster with
existing SVC nodes

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 New SVC 2145 Storage Engine

Based on IBM System x3650M4 (2U)

8-core processor with 32 GB RAM
Real-time Compression accelerator
Second 8-core processor/32 GB RAM
Redundant 600GB 10K SAS internal drives
for boot and hardened data dump No longer requires external UPS
Two Internal hot-swap batteries
Optional AC power (110 - 240v)

Flexible Port Configurations

Three 1GbE ports +
12Gb SAS connections Three HIC slots per processor for
FCP, iSCSI and FCoE

Enclosure with 24 SFF slots for SSD

or 12 LFF slots for Nearline drives

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 SVC DH8 Node – Rear View

CPU 1 CPU 2
1 FC adapter 4 QuickAssist 1

Mgmt ports 2 FC or Ethernet 5 FC or Ethernet

750W PSUs
3 FC or SAS adapter 6 QuickAssist 2

IMM Port 4 USB ports

1 GB iSCSI ports Technician Port for encryption keys
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 Four Port 16Gbps Fibre Channel Adapter

New adapter provides four 16Gbps FC ports

– Up to four adapters (#AH14) per SVC engine (16 ports per engine / 128 per clustered system)
– Up to two adapter pair features (#AHB3) per Storwize V7000 Gen2 control enclosure (16 ports per
control enclosure / 64 per clustered system)
– Up to four adapters (#AF44) per FlashSystem V9000 controller (16 ports per controller / 128 per
clustered system)
– Auto negotiates 8Gbps/16Gbps
– 16Gbps and 8Gbps host HBAs supported in direct attach mode

Up to four 8Gbps FC adapters now supported with SVC DH8

IBM Spectrum Virtualize software 7.6 required

More ports provide more connectivity options

and enable separation of workloads

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 IBM Storage Portfolio – Spectrum Virtualize

Common Advanced Virtualization Code Base

Many Different Packages
SAN Volume
Spectrum Scale Controller
IBM FlashSystem V9000
Elastic Storage Server
Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Storwize V7000

Accelerate Unified
FlashSystem
XIV
Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000F
DS8000

Flash/Disk Storwize V5000

Storwize V5000F
All-Flash Hybrid

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 Inheriting Key Features from IBM’s Enterprise-Class Systems

Enterprise-Class Systems Inherited NAS,

ILM and
Active File
Management
from Spectrum
Innovative ease-of-use Inherited architecture and Scale
GUI influenced from the software features from SAN
field-proven interface of Volume Controller (SVC)
IBM XIV

Storwize V7000
Inherited RAID (block only) V700
0
Unifie

functionality already
d

developed for the V700

0
Unifie
d

DS8000 series for

3.5” and 2.5” disk
drives Storwize V7000 Unified
Storwize V5000
RAID 5, 6, 10 (block and file access)
(block only)
RAS services and
diagnostics Midrange Systems
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Storwize V7000 Upgrade Options
Drive choices Drive choices
2.5-inch (SFF) 24-bay
• 200/400/800/1600 GB
Solid-State Drive (SSD)
• 300/600 GB 15K RPM SAS
• 3600/900/1200/1800 GB 10K RPM SAS
• 1and 2 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS
Mix and Match!
3.5-inch (LFF) 12-bay Mix 12-bay and 24-bay
• 2/3/4/6/8 TB 7,200 RPM
expansions behind the same
NL-SAS controller
Mix any drive types within shelf
Block-only
FCP, FCoE and iSCSI, up to 1,056 drives

Cluster up to 4 Control Enclosures

together into a single system

Start with 1 Control Enclosure

Add up to 20 Expansion Enclosures Each can have up to 20
Expansion Enclosures

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 IBM Storwize V7000 (Gen2) – Control Enclosure

• Control enclosure is 2U, same physical size as other Storwize.

• Front looks identical to V3000 and V5000
• Back layout is very different to make room for the more powerful
canisters:

PSU 1 Canister 1 Canister 2 PSU 2

Slot
1 Compression
2 FC or Ethernet
3 FC or Ethernet
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 Distributed RAID 5 and RAID 6

)P( S RAID4 with Dedicated Parity (4+P+S)

Updates require write to parity drive bottleneck

RAID5 with Interspersed Rotating Parity (4+P+S)

S RAID6 with Interspersed Rotating Parity (3+P+Q+S)
Avoids bottleneck by spreading out parity updates

)S( Idle dedicated spare drive is bottleneck during rebuild

Distributed RAID5 and RAID6

No “idle” dedicated spare drives
– All drives contribute to performance
– Especially important when using flash drives

More drives means faster rebuild

– 5-10x faster than traditional RAID
– No bottleneck rebuilding to dedicated spare
– Especially important when using large drives
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 IBM Spectrum Scale for
Storwize V7000 Unified R1.6

Block-and-File
Add Spectrum Scale v4.1.1 file modules to add support for
FTP, HTTPS, SCP, NFS, CIFS (including SMB3)
V7000
Unified
As well as block-level FCP, FCoE and iSCSI, up to 1,056 drives

V7000
Unified

Attachment options
SAN or Direct attach to Storwize V7000

Cluster up to 4 Control Enclosures

together into a single system

Start with 1 Control Enclosure

Each can have up to 20
Add up to 20 Expansion Enclosures Expansion Enclosures

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 Storwize V7000 Unified – The Logical File System View

Storwize V7000 Unified can hold One big file system or divide
1 to 4 control enclosures and up to 1,056 drives into as many as 256 smaller file
systems.

FS1 FS2 ... FS256

Each file system can be

further divided into fileset
containers (tree branches)
• Policies applied at the
fileset level

Soft and hard quotas can be

Each Storage Pool consists defined for user, group, or
of a set of “File Volumes” on fileset
Gold Silver Bronze the specific media

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 Storwize V7000 Unified User Interface

Storage pools may be

File Management used for both block and
Integrated into file workloads
Navigation

File storage
management completely
integrated

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 Information Lifecycle Management and HSM

IP Network Capacity managed centrally

Average utilization >80%
Policy driven
V7000 Unified TSM
File placement – direct new
files to the correct initial disk
tier
ILM HSM File movement – between
storage tiers, the least active
files can be migrated to tape
via TSM
Just buy the capacity File expiration – delete files
you really need after they are no longer
needed

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 IBM Storage Portfolio – Spectrum Virtualize

Common Advanced Virtualization Code Base

Many Different Packages
SAN Volume
Spectrum Scale Controller
IBM FlashSystem V9000
Elastic Storage Server
Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Storwize V7000

Accelerate Unified
FlashSystem
XIV
Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000F
DS8000

Flash/Disk Storwize V5000

Storwize V5000F
All-Flash Hybrid

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 Storwize V5000 Gen2 models
Storwize V5010
Supports thin provisioning, FlashCopy,
Easy Tier and remote mirroring
Storwize V5030 Storwize V5020
Supports thin provisioning, FlashCopy, Easy Supports thin provisioning, FlashCopy,
Tier, remote mirroring, encryption, Easy Tier, remote mirroring, and
compression and external virtualization encryption

up to 1,008 internal drives up to 264 internal drives

Up to 2 Control Enclosures 1 Control Enclosure

Add up to 20 Expansion Enclosures Add up to 10 Expansion
per controller Enclosures

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 IBM Storage Portfolio – Spectrum Virtualize

Common Advanced Virtualization Code Base

Many Different Packages
SAN Volume
Spectrum Scale Controller
IBM FlashSystem V9000
Elastic Storage Server
Spectrum Virtualize

Spectrum Storwize V7000

Accelerate Unified
FlashSystem
XIV
Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000F
DS8000

Flash/Disk Storwize V5000

Storwize V5000F
All-Flash Hybrid

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 The CPU-Disk Performance Gap over the past 10 years

Flash storage narrows the

performance gap between
processors and I/O

CPU performance 10x Performance

Gap
DRAM Speed 8x
Network Speed 100x
Bus Speed 20x

Disk performance has grown

only 1.2x in the last decade
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 Why is Everyone Excited about Flash?

ROM
Cost per GB

• Block-based Solid-State Storage

• Non-volatile, persistent across power loss RAM
• No moving parts, uses less power & cooling
• Consistent random access, no “seek” penalty
Memory-like
• Driven by Consumer Market Performance
• Smart phones, Tablets
• Digital cameras, MP3 players
• USB thumb drives

Disk-like Flash

Disk capacity
and cost

Performance
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 Our unlikely hero makes his entrance…Flash
But it’s not perfect on its own.. Here is what IBM adds…

Industry standard
interfaces

Flash Memory Hardware

accelerated I/O

IBM
DIMM PCIe SSD MicroLatency™
module
• Physically small and design flexible
• Very fast (low latency) Advanced flash
management
• Non volatile, Inherently rugged
Industry standard chip
• Very low power
technology

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 Solid State Drives (SSD) vs. IBM MicroLatency™ Module

Hard Drive Disks

5-15 milliseconds
IBM FlashCore™ Technology
Hardware Accelerated I/O
~1 milliseconds
IBM MicroLatency™ Module
(1000 microseconds)
Advanced Flash Management
Solid State Drives (SSD)

100-200 microseconds,
Up to 57TB in 2U

COMMODITY SLOW FALLIBLE CUSTOM FAST RELIABLE

No hardware Designed for More single Requires hardware Designed for Innovative flash
skills needed low cost points of failure engineering low latency management

Better Performance Better Reliability Better Density Lower $/IOPS

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 Microsecond latency maximizes CPU utilization/efficiency

I/O Serviced by Disk

~100 µs ~100 µs
Processing
CPU Utilization = 200 / 5,200 = ~4%
CPU State

~5,000 µs
Waiting

Time 12X Application

1 I/O Request benefit by only
changing storage
latency!

~100 µs ~100 µs
Processing

CPU State

Waiting
~200 µs
I/O Serviced by IBM FlashSystem
Time
1 I/O Request
CPU Utilization = 200 / 400 = 50%

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 Introducing IBM’s choice for distributed system tier 1 storage

IBM FlashSystem V9000

IBM introduces a fully integrated, flexible, feature rich all-flash storage system

Scalable Performance Enduring Economics Agile Integration

• Scalable all-flash architecture accelerates applications and entire

infrastructures
• Performs at up to 2.5M IOPS with IBM MicroLatency
• Up to 57TB usable (285TB effective capacity) in only 6U and scales to
456TB usable (2.28PB effective capacity) in only 34U
• New licensing structure to simplify ordering and planning for External Data
Powered by IBM FlashCore™ Virtualization, FlashCopy, Metro Mirror, and Real-time Compression
Technology • FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

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 IBM FlashSystem V9000 Upgrade Options
Start with 1 Building block

Add up to 2 Cluster up to 3 more

Nearline disk Building blocks
Enclosures SAN

Add up to 4
Flash Enclosures

Virtualize storage from IBM, EMC, HDS, HP,

NetApp, Dell, NEC, Fujitsu, Oracle and others

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 IBM FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

Performance: IBM MicroLatency™ performance.

Data Reduction: The eligible machine, using compression, will achieve a system level
storage efficiency savings rate up to 5:1, based on Comprestimator performance modeling
results, within the guarantee period.

Endurance: Flash memory will be covered for read/write endurance as

long as you are under warranty or maintenance.

7 year 24 x 7 Support: Up to 7 years support available with optional price

protection and flash media retention offerings.

Peace of Mind: No Charge, Complimentary IBM services for all tier 1

opportunities: 40 hours for 228+TB solutions up to 556TB, or 80 hours for
556+TB solutions, Lab Services delivery in 2015.

IBM FlashSystem – GUARANTEED!!!

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 IBM for Software Defined Storage

IBM Software Defined Storage Simplify SAN management

Control Plane • Virtualize your IBM and non-IBM
flash and disk systems

Control Protect Proven Reliability

• Introduced in 2003
IBM Software Defined Storage • Over 100,000 Spectrum Virtualize
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High performance
Accelerate Virtualize Scale Archive
• Cache and load-balancing improves
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Extreme flexibility
IBM ranked #1 in Software • Add and remove storage without
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 IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center

Tucson, Arizona is home for

storage hardware and software
design and development

IBM Tucson Executive

Briefing Center offers:
– Technology briefings
– Product demonstrations
– Solution workshops

Take a video tour!

– http://youtu.be/CXrpoCZAazg

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 Tony Pearson
9000 S. Rita Road
Bldg 9032 Floor 1
About the Speaker Master Inventor
Tucson, AZ 85744
Senior Software
Engineer
+1 520-799-4309 (Office)
IBM Storage
tpearson@us.ibm.com

Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior Software Engineer for the IBM Storage product line. Tony joined IBM
Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. In his current role, Tony presents briefings on
storage topics covering the entire IBM Storage product line, IBM Spectrum Storage software products, and topics related to
Cloud Computing, Analytics and Cognitive Solutions. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads
client workshops to help clients with strategic planning for IBM’s integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and
virtualization products.

Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners
every week. This blog was rated one of the top 10 blogs for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine, and #1
most read IBM blog on IBM’s developerWorks. The blog has been published in series of books, Inside System Storage: Volume
I through V.

Over the past years, Tony has worked in development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware and
software products. Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in
Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. Tony holds 19 patents for inventions on storage hardware and
software products.

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 Additional Resources from Tony Pearson

Email:
tpearson@us.ibm.com

Twitter:
twitter.com/az990tony

Blog:
ibm.co/Pearson

Books:
www.lulu.com/spotlight/990_tony

IBM Expert Network on Slideshare:

www.slideshare.net/az990tony

Facebook:
www.facebook.com/tony.pearson.16121

Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/az990tony
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