PowerMax

NVMe and Optane SCM: addressing read latency

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 PowerMax OS Initial Release 2018

• PowerMax • VMAX All Flash

– New: PowerMax 2000/8000 platforms
– NVMe NAND drives (1.9, 3.8, 7.7TB)
– Deflate compression
– Deduplication
– Unisphere 9.0 (HTML5-based) – Unisphere 9.0 (HTML5-based)
– Service Levels on all flash – Service Levels on all flash
– Online device expansion – snap and SRDF – Online device expansion – snap and SRDF
– SRDF/Metro add/remove devices – SRDF/Metro add/remove devices
– PowerMax 2000/8000 online upgrades
– CloudIQ support (Unisphere 9.0.1) – CloudIQ support (Unisphere 9.0.1)

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PowerMax/VMAX AF New Features 2019 5978.479.479

• PowerMax • VMAX All Flash

– NVMe SCM drives (0.75 & 1.5TB)
– NVMeoF (16 & 32Gb FC)
– SRDF/Metro device expansion – SRDF/Metro device expansion
– NDM 5978 to 5978 – NDM 5978 to 5978
– FC point-to-point (16 & 32Gb) – FC point-to-point (16 Gb)
– NVMe NAND drives (15.4TB)
– Mainframe: – Mainframe:
– Mix CKD/FBA in single SRP – Mix CKD/FBA in single SRP
– Reduce SRDF/S latency – Reduce SRDF/S latency
– zDP 1024 snaps – zDP 1024 snaps

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 Key features for PowerMaxOS 5978.669.669 (2020)
PowerMax only PowerMax and VMAX All Flash*
• 25GbE for iSCSI and SRDF • SRDF/Metro Smart DR
• Cloud Mobility • Snapshot Policies
• vVols 2.0 replication support • Workload planning across multiple arrays
• Embedded VASA Provider • Proactive performance management
• STIG hardening for U.S. Federal
• End-to-end efficient encryption
(Thales/Vormetric)
* PowerMaxOS software also available for VMAX All Flash products

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Key new features for PowerMaxOS 5978.711.711 (2021)

• PowerMax • VMAX All Flash

– Enhanced DRR reporting – Enhanced DRR reporting
– Capacity summary in base 2 and base 10 – Capacity summary in base 2 and base 10
– Cyber Security IQ – Cyber Security IQ
– Add VASA provider to active array
– E2EEE Windows host support
– Ansible & CSI updates – Ansible & CSI updates
– Cloud Mobility PowerFlex One FS S3, ECS

* PowerMaxOS software will be available for VMAX All Flash products

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 New DRR reporting
Details on unreducible capacity and savings from pattern matching

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 Cyber Security IQ
Cloud IQ-based automated compliance detection and reporting Determine if LDAP is configured

Determine if LDAP SSL authentication is defined

Determine if TLS is enabled for SNMP V3

Determine if SNMP trap destination is configured

Determine if latest security release is applied

Determine if Unisphere default password in use

Determine if Unisphere RBAC implemented

Determine if Unisphere ports are accessible outbound

Determine if syslog server is configured

Determine if D@RE is enabled

Determine if default certificates are customized by user

Determine if Admin roles populated with allowed users

Determine if initial setup account is disabled

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 Global, inline deduplication and compression
Additional savings from pattern matching

• Activity-based reduction
– Leverages machine learning

• Turn on/off by application

Intelligent dedupe
• Write caching + compression

• Hardware accelerated
• No capacity overhead 3.5:1data reduction
GUARANTEED
• Maintains even large block performance
**No Assessment Required**
• Works with all data services

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 End-to-end efficient encryption (with Thales/Vormetric)

Data encrypted Inline Data Inline Data at Rest

by app on host Reduction Services Encryption Services

PowerMax D/encrypt D@RE Flash SSDs

Dedupe &
System Hardware Hardware
Compress
External Key Cache Module Module
Module
Manager Shared encryption keys

Host encryption keys Inline d/encryption with D@RE protection for

for data in flight hardware offload all data at rest
(host to/from array) (additional module) (required)

Initial release does not support replication

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 Local replication with performance at scale
SnapVX

• Create thousands of copies

– Test/dev, backup, etc.
– Up to 1024 snapshots and 1024 linked targets

• Simple to manage
– Snapshots at the storage group level
Production Linked
– Supports naming & expiration dates Volume Target
– Resize while retaining old snaps

• High performance
• Secure snaps
– Protect against accidental or malicious deletion

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 Cloud Mobility for PowerMax

OBJECT 1
Reduce primary
OBJECT 2
storage utilization
OBJECT 3 Move inactive data
OBJECT 4 sets to Cloud
Embedded Block to Object and OBJECT 5

Snapshot Delta Shipping Engine Flexibility in protection

OBJECT 6
RTO/RPO/cost

Application level protection for block devices via Snapshot delta shipping
Integrated compression and encryption, managed via Unisphere or REST API
Restore from cloud to any point in time, hydrate and access in cloud via vApp

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 Cloud Mobility for PowerMax
vAPP

BLOCK 1

OBJECT 1

OBJECT 2
(AWS only at launch,
OBJECT 3
PowerScale OneFS
OBJECT 4
S3 and ECS storage
Embedded Block to Object and OBJECT 5
with 5978.711.711)
Snapshot Delta Shipping Engine OBJECT 6

Application level protection for block devices via Snapshot delta shipping
Integrated compression and encryption, managed via Unisphere or REST API
Restore from cloud to any point in time, hydrate and access in cloud via vApp

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 Snapshot Service Level policy examples

10m2day 6h4day

Type = secure Type = secure

Location = local Location = local
RPO = 10 min RPO = 6 hours
Retention 2 days Retention 4 days
Alerting = yes Alerting = yes

12h14day 7d2year

Type = standard Type = standard

Location = local Location = cloud
RPO = 12 hours RPO = 7 days
Retention 14 days Retention 2 years
Alerting = yes Alerting = yes

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 Storage Direct integrated data protection
Dramatically faster backup and recovery (formerly ProtectPoint)

Faster backup &

20x recovery
Faster backup

Eliminate impact
on application

10x Reduce cost and

Faster recovery
complexity

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 Remote replication gold standard – SRDF
Synchronous Metro Asynchronous

Witness

1 1
2 3
4 2
3

Up to 100km Up to 100km Unlimited distance

Zero data loss Active/active Extended distance

High performance Automated failover/back Multi-cycle mode
Scalable consistency Non-disruptive migrations Remote link resiliency

2-site, 3-site, and 4-site replication

Simple: <2 minutes to configure, resize devices online
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 SRDF/Metro Smart DR
Full disaster recovery from both sides of Metro config using a shared DR target device

• Metro between primary arrays

– Still recommend <1ms to limit write impact
– All standard Metro features

• DR copy is async and efficient R11 R21

– Space efficient
▪ Single DR copy for both source devices
– Bandwidth efficient
▪ Data only sent remotely once (one SRDF/A link)
A B

• DR continues if a primary frame unavailable R22

– Either primary array can continue the DR data flow
DR

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 SRDF/A with VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols)
Industry leading remote replication for vVols environments
VMware vVols
• Embedded PowerMax VASA provider
– Simplifies deployment, automatic HA

• Most scalable solution in the industry

– Up to 64K vVols on a single array
– One Protocol Endpoint (PE) per host
▪ Many competitors are one PE per array
– Independent, flexible snaps (source & target)

• Complete VMware ecosystem support

– Native: vMotion/Storage vMotion, SRM, VDI Support requirements:
– Third party: backup, snap management, etc. PowerMax 2000 or 8000
vSphere 7.0 or 7.1

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 PowerMax VMware Integration Summary
• Storage API Integration (VAAI, VASA) • VMware Cloud Foundation
– Offload activities to the array – External array for Workload Domain
– Advertise capabilities from the array
• PowerMax plugin for vRealize Orchestrator
• VMware Virtual Volumes (vVols) – Auto provisioning, datastore creation & snaps
– Storage paradigm for array data services
• Ansible Modules for PowerMax and VMAX All Flash
– VM-level granularity to VM Admin
– Use-case automation of storage infrastructure
• Unisphere for PowerMax – Use as templates for customized automation
– View VMware infrastructure storage within Unisphere
• CSI Driver for PowerMax
• Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) – Support for persistent storage in Kubernetes
– In-context storage translation
• SRDF SRA for Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
– Self service provisioning of storage within vCenter
– Leverage SRDF replication with SRM
• Dell EMC Storage Analytics (ESA) – Support for 2-site, 3-site, STAR, and SRDF/Metro
– Array metrics for vRealize Operations Manager
• PowerMax and VMAX Content Pack for Log Insight
– End to end analytics, mapping & dependencies
– Provides dashboards, alerts, and queries for logs

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 Three-year product Refresh & Recycle Anytime Upgrades
satisfaction Incentives
Never-worry data
Storage data reduction Clear price support migration

Up to 55:1 data
All-inclusive software Flexible consumption
protection deduplication
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 Storage Provisioning
Prior Array Information Details
Dec Snapshot Management
2019 SRDF Replication Management
Ansible Certification
Ansible is an automation framework from
RedHat and we provide open-source modules SRDF Add/Remove new volume to device group
for automating PowerMax/VMAX array
New SRDF Multisite Concurrent
operations. These modules can be stitched Sep Expand Volumes Online
together into playbooks for end to end 2020 Assign Device WWN in a Storage Group module
orchestration
Additional Filters and Health Status statistics

Smart Metro DR Support

Next SRDF Multiple Site enhancements including
1H cascaded mode
2021
Snapshot Policy Support

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 CSI 1.1 Specification Operator Certification
Static & Dynamic provisioning Snapshot Support
New Supports iSCSI, FC Qualifications: RHEL 7.6 – 7.8,
Sep Volume Expansion CentOS 7.3, 7.5, 7.8, Kubernetes
2020 version 1.13 - 1.19
Raw Block Volumes
Container Storage Interface (CSI)
OpenShift 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
specification was designed to provide an
Operator Framework (OSP)
interface that Container Orchestrators (like
Kubernetes) can use to provision storage.
Storage vendors implement CSI Drivers that Topology
Next
conform to the specification which provide Kubernetes v1.20
Dec
storage services via this vendor neutral 2020 OpenShift 4.5/4.6
Container Storage Interface Qualifications: RHEL 7.9, Ubuntu 20.04

Remote Replication – SRDF Metro

Next+ Storage Group Snapshots
1H Windows Support
2021 Kubernetes v1.2x
OpenShift 4.7/4.x
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 PowerMax near-term product NDA roadmap
C2019 Q3 / Q4
Foxtail SW (5978.444 / 479)
• NVMe SCM drives (0.75 & 1.5TB)
• FC-NVMe (16 & 32Gb FC)
• SRDF/Metro online device expansion
• 32Gb FC SRDF
• NDM 5978 to 5978
• NDM with Host Action
• FC point-to-point (16 & 32Gb)
• NVMe NAND drives (15.4TB)
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Hickory SW (5978.669) Hickory SR (5978.711)
• 25GbE iSCSI and SRDF • Enhanced DRR reporting
• SRDF/Metro Smart DR • Capacity summary in base 2 and base 10
• vVols 2.0 with SRDF • Cyber Security IQ
• eVASA 3.0 • Add VASA provider to active array
• End-to-end efficient encryption • E2EEE Windows host support
• STIG compliance • Ansible & CSI updates
• Snapshot policies
• 1024 snaps
• Snaps to the cloud
PowerMax 2000 / 8000
Shipping Develop Planning
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 VMAX All Flash near-term product NDA roadmap
C2019 Q3 / Q4
Foxtail SW (5978.444 / 479)
• SRDF/Metro online device expansion
• NDM 5978 to 5978
• NDM with Host Action
• FC point-to-point (16Gb)
VMAX All Flash 450F / 850F
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C2020 Q3 C2021 H1
Hickory SW (5978.669) Hickory SR (5978.711)
• SRDF/Metro Smart DR • Enhanced DRR reporting
• Snapshot policies • Capacity summary in base 2 and base 10
• 1024 snaps • Cyber Security IQ
• Ansible & CSI updates
VMAX All Flash 250F / 950F
Shipping Develop Planning
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