IBM CAA Team

Kirill Kornilyev
Central Asia & Azerbaijan Sales Leader, IBM Technology Sales,
Northern Central & Eastern Europe
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirill-korniliev/
As VP for Infrastructure Sales, I’m responsible for sales of IBM Servers, Storage
Systems, Cloud, Technology Lifecycle Services and IBM Support Services in the
Northern, Central & Eastern European (NCEE) market. My goal is to ensure our
Customers seeing IBM as the partner of transformation and the vendor of choice
for Business Partners.
Pavel Gavrychenko
Systems Hardware Leader Central Asia & Azerbaijan
pavel.gavrychenko@ibm.com

With almost than 10 years Experience in IBM and more than 15

in IT Distribution companies Pavel is devoted to ensuring in
delivering highly technological and optimized solution to the
Customers in CAA region
Sergii Kostenko
Systems Sales Manager Central Asia & Azerbaijan. Storage
Brand representative. Ukraine and Central Asia & Azerbaijan
+38(067)2398282
sergiy.kostenko@ua.ibm.com

Architecture, technical delivery, managing and administration of Storage systems for

large Enterprises; Configuration and architecture considerations of SAN; Advanced
skills in technical and delivery processes; PoC execution and practical delivery with
fully documented process flow; marketing analytic and research;
What can we do…
IBM award-winning storage portfolio
Driving hybrid cloud and container deployments
Primary Storage Container Native SDS Storage for AI and Unstructured Data

IBM Storage Insights IBM Storage IBM Storage Scale

Fusion
IBM Storage Virtualize
for Public Cloud
IBM Storage Virtualize IBM Storage Scale
IBM Storage
All-Flash and Hybrid Systems SVC Storage for Z Fusion HCI
Storage Sentinel IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Storage IBM Storage Cloud

FlashSystem 9500 Scale System Object Storage

FlashSystem 7300

FlashSystem SAN Volume

FlashSystem 5000 9500R Controller DS8900F TS7700 SSS 3500, 6000

Networking

IBM Safeguarded Copy IBM Cyber Vault IBM Storage Protect Suite

Data Resilience and Modern Data Protection

Messaging
IBM Storage FlashSystem: More in Store

More in Store: Cyber Resiliency for All

In today's data-driven world, the security and resilience of your company's data are crucial. At IBM, we believe in Cyber Resilience for all and are
here to help you achieve it. Don't miss IBM's exclusive limited-time offer - buy 10 FCMs for FlashSystem 5200 and get 2 FCMs for free. Buy 20 FCMs
for FlashSystem 7300 and get 4 FCMs for free. Buy 30 or 40 FCMs for FlashSystem 9500 and get 6 or 8 free FCMs respectively.

For your data needs. we also continue to deliver the most competitive price in the market, reducing our prices on FlashSystem 5015 and 5045
models.

Strengthen your data resiliency strategy and get the best value for your investment. Act now!

**Offers valid from Oct 12 through Dec 31 2023

Standard parts shipping 10 days
Up to 100% Availability Site 1
Host server
Site 2
Host server
with IBM HyperSwap
• Extreme availability (100%)

• Completely redundant

• Continuous data access

• Moves data without disruption

Primary Secondary

• Eliminate downtime costs

Quorum
FlashSystem 3-Site Data
Protection for HA and DR
Primary Secondary Third
SIte Site SIte

Orchestrator
Host

HyperSwap cluster
Fabric Fabric Fabric

Fabric FC/IP
Partnership
Active-Active Relationship

Quorum

Beginning with Storage Virtualize 8.3.1.2, external orchestrator software (installed on a separate server/VM) is used to run
commands to configure 3-site. The orchestrator is still required with Storage Virtualize 8.4 With the February 2021
announcements, IBM enables management for 3-site and HyperSwap to be done from the primary GUI.
Safeguarded copy for IBM Storage FlashSystem

IBM Storage Sentinel

Immutable copies

Can’t be modified or deleted Walled off and “logically air High-speed recovery because
by the “wrong people” gapped” on the primary storage, it’s on the primary storage
away from Bad Actors
 IBM Storage Sentinel
New end-to-end data resilience continuity
IBM Storage FlashSystem with Anomaly Scan
Engine: Orchestration Software (CDM) view
IBM Storage FlashSystem
Orchestration software running on a host server
IBM Storage Copy Data Management

Volume Safeguarded Recovery

Group copy volumes
snapshots from SGC
Snapshot

Quiesce/unmount Create copy of SGC

Application the XFS filesystem to (recovery) and mount
(SAP HANA, EPIC) obtain a consistent them on anomaly
Application server running on a set
snapshot scan engine server
of IBM Storage FlashSystem volumes

Results Anomaly scan engine NTFS/XFS Filesystem Anomaly scan

Back to operational reports result of backup Scanning analysis Engine system
with minimal scan to orchestration Orchestration software Orchestration software
downtime impact software Volume and performance notifies anomaly scan
analytics engine to scan volume
Integrated
Ransomware
Detection
But How Do You Detect Ransomware

Threat Signature Sample Hash Comparison

Detection Data Behavior Signals Monitoring for Anomalies

By

Network Signals Network-Level Monitoring for Anomalies

15
But How Do You Detect Ransomware

Threat Signature Sample Hash Comparison

Detection Data Behavior Signals Block Level Monitoring for Anomalies

By

Network Signals Network-Level Monitoring for Anomalies

16
Workload anomaly alerts in
2Q23
Using FlashSystem Entropy is used to
controller CPU, detect highly random
Storage Insights calculate entropy on data, such as
incoming write I/Os encrypted data written
17
in by ransomware

Entropy

Entropy is calculated (byte by byte) in the write

cache destage, but it is computationally
intensive.
To reduce performance impacts, it is sampled
in 1 in ever 100 IOs

Compression
How statistics will be used
Time Window

Normal Traffic

Ransomware Traffic
Drive level
Compressibility

High Avg Window

Normal IO

8 Encrypted IO
Entropy of
Incoming 5
Writes

18
Ransomware Monitoring Architectural Overview
Production IBM Storage Virtualize
Workload
Trends / Summary
Statistic Collection

Data And Trends

Show Real-Time
Workload Anomaly
Alert

External Tools
Storage Insights Pro

Responses / Actions
QRadar / Defender
19
Cyber attack detection and recovery IBM Storage Sentinel is
a great example of the
IBM Cyber Vault effect

Major
Infrastructure breach Infrastructure
recovery recovery
3
2

Platform
1 recovery

1 Corruption of data occurs – but not yet detected IBM Cyber Vault Effect
Due to the Cyber Vault environment
2 Corruption Without the Cyber Vault environment corruption
and the use of Safeguarded Copy
is detected much later and has a greater chance to spread
technology, data is continuously
3 It takes even longer to identify all impacted data once the checked, and corruption is found
corruption has spread within the enterprise and corrected earlier and faster
IBM Aspera’s mission

IBM Aspera’s next-generation transport technologies

move the world’s digital assets and data at maximum speed,

regardless of file size, transfer distance, and network conditions

Markets Served
Media and Entertainment
Life Sciences & Pharmaceutical
Oil & Gas
Telecommunications
Federal Government Engineering & Manufacturing Architecture & Design
Healthcare Software & Gaming Financial Services
Enterprise IT Advertising & Publishing Legal & eDiscovery
Cloud Computing Consumer Products & Retail Service Providers
Converged 8.6.0
Azure/AWS Release

• Additional support of AWS more durable io2

EBS
• AWS and Azure Host VM based on RHEL 8.7
• Multi cloud use case - Replication support
between AWS and Azure
• Rebranding from IBM Spectrum to IBM
Storage
• New key features support
Multi-Cloud Use Case
Amazon/Azure

Select cloud provider as per requirement like Easily perform below tasks using IBM Storage
below while avoiding vendor lock-in Virtualize for Public Cloud across different clouds
• Cost reduction 23
• Distribute workload
• Infrastructure optimization • Migrate data
• Quality and performance • Backup data
• Cloud services and features • Plan for disaster recovery

Maximum Round trip time (RTT) between two replicating clusters should not exceed 80 ms for Policy-based
replication to work properly. While selecting AWS and Azure regions for replication keep RTT into consideration
Core Standalone Aspera Products

Not pictured: Aspera Proxy, HTTP Gateway, various SDKs, list of all clients
Storage Virtualize
General
Information
Storage Virtualize enables Pooling of physical resources
Traditional SAN
▪ Capacity is isolated in SAN islands
▪ Multiple management points
▪ Potentially poor capacity utilization
▪ Capacity is purchased for and owned by individual
applications
Virtualized Storage Environment
▪ Combines storage capacity into storage pools
▪ Single management point
▪ Uses storage assets more efficiently
▪ Capacity purchases can be deferred

Storage Area
Network

55%
Storage Area capacity
Network 75%
capacity
95%
capacity

25% 30%
capacity capacity
Storage Virtualize enables data mobility

Traditional SAN Virtualized Storage Environment

• Stop applications
• Move data
• Re-establish host connections
• Restart applications
• Move data
• Host systems and applications are not affected
• Migration scenarios:
• Balance workloads
• Move data between storage tiers
• Migrate data off old equipment

Storage Area
Network

Storage Virtualization Layer

Storage Area
Network
Storage Virtualize delivers common capabilities
Storage System #1 Efficiency Features
▪ Thin provisioning ▪ Thin provisioning
▪ Snapshots ▪ I/O caching
▪ Mirroring ▪ Compression and Deduplication
▪ Flash storage support
▪ Easy Tier
▪ Data migration

Protection and DR
▪ FlashCopy
▪ Active-Active Data Center
Storage System #2 ▪ Synchronous Mirroring
For All Of A
▪ Thin provisioning ▪ Asynchronous Mirroring Client’s
▪ Flash Storage ▪ Encryption
▪ Compression ▪ Hot Spare Node (SVC) Distributed
Storage
Storage Virtualize is important to our clients

Storage Virtualize reduces storage cost and adds flexibility by enabling:

Improved storage utilization

Improved application availability and simplified data migrations

Simplified storage management

Network-based replication and software architectural advantages

Техническая валидация

Pre and Post Sale поддержка

Интеграция и внедрение
Консультация IT Аудит
Сервисная поддержка Продажи
Proof of Concept и демонстрация
Technical and Support Slides
FlashSystem Overview
Enterprise for Everyone FlashSystem 5015

FlashSystem 5045

FlashSystem 5200

FlashSystem 7300

FlashSystem 9500R
FlashSystem 9500
IBM Storage FlashSystem Family
Four key messages

Resilience Cloud
Enabled

Performance Built for

and Efficiency the future
IBM FlashSystem family overview
Fourth key message

Resilience

Storage Storage Storage

Virtualize Protect Plus Insights
 Immutable Built with
IBM primary storage IBM Storage
copies
solutions for When you need a
Virtualize
immutable copy copy that bad actors
can’t reach

Cross-vendor support Safeguarded Copy

Backup Recover
Immutable point-in-time copies of production data
[ ]
Enterprise storage from entry to high-end
IBM FlashSystem Isolated logical air-gap offline by design
Heterogeneous storage with
Separate privileges for admins of production data
SAN Volume Controller
Pure HPE IBM and Safeguarded Copies
Dell/EMC NetApp 500+ others…
… Consistent automation with other copy services
Safeguarded Copy For Up to Fast restore
FlashSystem from primary storage
15000
immutable point-in-
time copies of data

Immutable point-in-time copies of

production data

Isolated logical air-gap offline by design Prevents modification

Separate privileges for admins of
production data and Safeguarded
backups
Included with Storage Virtualize at no
charge
or deletion of sensitive
point-in-time copies due
to user error, malicious
destruction, or
ransomware attack
What FlashSystem Cyber Vault is simple

Immutable Proactive
Copies of Data Monitoring
Created with IBM Safeguarded Copy Early warning signs of attack with
Can not be changed once created IBM Storage Insights
Recommend integration with SIEM
Cyber Vault such as IBM QRadar

Rapid
Recovery
Restore production from validated data
copies on primary storage
Recovery from point-in-time copy
Blueprint
Automation
Test / Validation
of Data Copies
Recover data copies to isolated environment
to check they are corruption free
Test recovery procedures
Forensics & Diagnostics Services
IBM Storage Sentinel at a high level
Integration with Scanning
Safeguarded Begins
Copies

Until Data Is And Scrutinized Data is

Deemed with Machine Analyzed
Safe Learning

Process Repeats for Post Attack

Every Replication Forensics
Add Storage Protect Plus

• Extreme ease of use

• Low RPOs and RTOs
• VROs and GROs
• Protect the business
• Rich hypervisor integration
• Support non-virtualized systems
• Automation for both backup and recovery
• Integrate with cloud and object storage
• Enable storage efficiency capabilities
• Built on top of RESTful APIs
• Most importantly; be priced fairly
• Provide a return on the investment
FlashSystem 5200, 7300, 9500, and
9500R provide external encryption

Adds encryption to existing

storage systems

Hardware assisted support

for external storage

IBM Storage Virtualize encryption

addresses all these use cases
Both USB and Key Server Encryption Management

The IBM FlashSystem family supports flexible encryption management

IBM FlashSystem 9210

Storage Virtualize and
Storage Insights
unlock the value of
Hybrid Cloud
Storage Insights works with Storage
Virtualize for Public Cloud

Storage administrators can monitor a client’s

hybrid multi-cloud storage infrastructure

Value:

Consistent monitoring solution

Monitor capacity, performance and health

IBM support has access to improve resolution times

Fabric monitoring is part of SI and SI Pro
Fabric monitoring in Storage Insights SI SI Pro
How fabric data benefits everyone SI SI Pro

Over 50% of problems reported as Quicker time to resolution when

storage are actually due to other factors troubleshooting storage issues

Provides more data to feed analytics

Storage Insights VM Capabilities

What's new in IBM Storage Insights - IBM Documentation

What’s New IBM Storage Insights IBM Storage Insights Pro

Support for monitoring VMware hosts and

virtual machines ✓ ✓
Monitoring capacity that is protected by
Safeguarded Copy ✓ ✓
Monitoring enhancements for IBM Storage
Virtualize ✓

More views of your capacity ✓

The upgrade process for data collectors
just got smarter ✓ ✓
Unlock more capabilities with Storage Insights Pro
• Unlock a full year of data history

• Apply policy-based notifications across many devices

• Schedule reports on performance, capacity, inventory and health

• Troubleshoot application / server performance issues as well as drill down

into system performance to isolate risks and avoid outages entirely

• Chargeback reporting by application / server

• Traverse replication and virtualization relationships

• Find space wasters and reclaim unused storage

• Data Tier insights guides you to put data on the optimum

storage tier to save infrastructure cost
Instant in app 60 day trial
reveals full data history and
all SI Pro capabilities.
IBM FlashSystem family overview
Second key message

Cloud
Enabled

StorageV Storage
irtualize Insights
Extensive OpenShift and Container Storage Interface support
IBM extends data protection for containers
in hybrid cloud environments

IBM has been demonstrating

Red Hat OpenShift container backup
support. This enables developers to test
the ability to easily back up, recover and
retain containers in a Red Hat
OpenShift environment.
IBM Storage for Red Hat OpenShift – full stack architecture

IBM Cloud Pak IBM Cloud Pak IBM Cloud Pak IBM Cloud Pak IBM Cloud Pak for
for Applications for Data for Integration for Automation Multicloud Management

IBM containerized IBM containerized IBM containerized IBM containerized IBM containerized
software software software software software

Operational services Operational services Operational services Operational services Operational services

Container platform Container platform Container platform Container platform Container platform

IBM Power

Virtualize Scale COS Protect Plus

On-Premises & Public Cloud Consistency

• Easily incorporate OpenShift

• Easily add IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud

Cyber Vault
• Easily enable Storage administrators to monitor their hybrid
multi-cloud storage infrastructure with IBM Storage Insights
Blueprint
Automation
• Take advantage of IBM FlashSystem Cyber Vault blueprint

Simplify management, ease workload mobility, speed Disaster Recovery

Rapid Innovation Hybrid Integration Investment Leverage Management & Compliance

IBM Storage Virtualize - On-prem and in the cloud
On IBM Cloud, IBM On AWS, IBM On Microsoft Azure, IBM
Storage Virtualize for Storage Virtualize Storage Virtualize for
Public Cloud is for Public Cloud is Public Cloud is deployed
deployed on bare deployed on Elastic on Azure VMs, with
metal servers, with Compute Cloud shared Azure Managed
Endurance or (EC2) instances, Disks. It is also enabled
iSCSI/FC Performance block with EBS block with Safeguarded Copy
storage. storage. for cyber resiliency.

FC or iSCSI storage FC or iSCSI

IBM Cloud

On-premises IBM Cloud AWS AZURE

Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud
IBM Block Flash Portfolio and VMware Integration

Storage Virtualize – A Cluster & Virtualization Architecture

Storage
FlashSystem FlashSystem FlashSystem SAN Volume
Client Benefit Virtualize for
9500 / 9500R 7300 5200 / 5000 Controller
Public Cloud
VMware Support ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

VMware Web Client (VWC) ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

SRA for Site Recovery Manager - Storage-
based replication ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
VAAI (Hardware Accelerated)
Zero – Block Zero ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Full Copy – SCSI XCopy ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
ATS ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Unmap ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
VASA 3.0 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
vVol ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓

vRealize Suite ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ansible enhances Storage
Virtualize in hybrid cloud
environments

Ansible is a radically simple IT

automation engine.

It was designed for multi-tier deployments

since Day one.

It uses no agents and no additional custom

security infrastructure.
Bringing consistent hybrid cloud to over 500 different systems

VMware turns one Storage Virtualize turns

physical server into many arrays (over 500) into
many virtual servers one consistent environment
IBM FlashSystem family overview
First key message

Performance
and Efficiency

StorageV Storage
irtualize Insights
 *Illustrative performance comparison, will vary based on workloads and configurations

IBM FlashSystem Portfolio Clustered

Simple, innovative, flexible, safe and fast Able to
Cluster
NVMe

NVMe

HIGH-END
Able to FlashSystem 9500 FlashSystem 9500R
Cluster

NVMe
MIDRANGE
Able to
Cluster FlashSystem 7300

Able to NVMe
ENTRY Cluster

FlashSystem 5200
SAS

FlashSystem 5045
SAS

FlashSystem 5015
A quick word about Flash devices Think EASY TIER
used with FlashSystem portfolio

FlashCore
SAS SSD NVMe SSD Module SCM SSD
Type of Flash 3D NAND 3D NAND 3D NAND Kioxia XL-FLASH

Protocol Serial Attached SCSI NVMe NVMe NVMe

Physical Size 2.5” 2.5” 2.5” 2.5”

Capacities 1.92TB – 30TB 800GB – 30.72TB 4.8TB – 38.4TB 1.6TB

Hardware Comp
Differentiator None None and Encryption Ultra low Latency
All FlashSystem models FlashSystem 5200 FlashSystem 5200 FlashSystem 5200
FlashSystem 7300 FlashSystem 7300 FlashSystem 7300
FlashSystem 9500 FlashSystem 9500 FlashSystem 9500
IBM FlashSystem Family
FlashSystem FlashSystem FlashSystem FlashSystem FlashSystem
5015 5045 5200 7300 9500
Software IBM Storage Virtualize Software
2x Broadwell @ 2.2GHz 2x Broadwell @ 2.2GHz 2x Skylake @ 2.3GHz 4x Cascade Lake 4x Ice Lake
CPU (2 cores) (6 cores) (8 cores) @ 2.4GHz (10 cores) @ 2.4GHz (24 cores)
16/32Gb FC / NVMeoF 32/64Gb FC / NVMeoF
16Gb FC 16Gb FC 16/32Gb FC / NVMeoF
100GbE iSCSI/RDMA NVMe 100GbE iSCSI/RDMA NVMe
25Gb iSCSI 25Gb iSCSI 25Gb iSER / iSCSI
Connectivity 10Gb iSCSI 10Gb iSCSI 10Gb iSCSI
25Gb iSCSI/RDMA NVMe 25Gb iSCSI/RDMA NVMe
10Gb iSCSI 10Gb iSCSI
12Gb SAS 12Gb SAS 12Gb SAS
12Gb SAS 12Gb SAS
Cache 32GB or 64GB 32GB or 64GB 64GB to 512GB 512GB to 1.5TB 1TB to 3TB
Advanced SW
Optional Optional Included Included Included
Features
Encryption -- Yes Yes Yes Yes
Compression -- SW HW-assist HW-assist HW-assist x2
Deduplication -- Yes Yes Yes Yes
Clustering -- Yes (2-way) Yes (4-way) Yes (4-way) Yes (2-way/4-way by RPQ)
Ext. Virtualization -- -- Yes Yes Yes
3-year
1-year
1-5 year 3-year warranty warranty
3-year warranty 3-year warranty warranty
Service & Support 9x5, CSU Install 9x5, CSU Install
IBM Storage Expert Care 9x5, CSU Install
24x7, IBM
24x7, IBM
Basic or Advanced (ECS optional) Install
Install
(ECS)
Power AC or DC (800W PSU) AC or DC (800W PSU) AC (1200W PSU) AC (2000W PSU) AC (2000W PSU)

Max Performance 400k IOPS 1.2M IOPS 1.5M IOPS 3.5M IOPS 8M IOPS 16M IOPS
8.3.1* 8 GB/s 12 GB/s 21 GB/s 45 GB/s 100 GB/s 200 GB/s
IBM NVMe Enterprise Storage
Choose your capacity

Choose your performance

1U 12 drives, 1PBe

FlashSystem 5200
300k** IOPS, 21GB/s Choose your support
Basic, Advanced

2U 24 drives, 2.2PBe
FlashSystem 7300 580k** IOPS, 45GB/s

Expert Care Basic, Advanced or Premium

4U 48 drives, 4.5PBe*
FlashSystem 9500 1.6M** IOPS, 100GB/s
Expert Care Advanced or Premium

** IOPS shows are for 16k 70/30/50 workloads and are shown for comparison purposes
Storage Virtualize Across The Family IBM Storage Virtualize

Storage Insights (AI Predictive Analytics and Proactive Monitoring)

FlashSystem 5015 FlashSystem 5045 FlashSytem 5200 FlashSystem 7300 FlashSystem 9500/R SAN Volume Controller

VMware & Container Integration

Multi-tenancy
3-Site Data Copies
Metro/Global Mirror (Remote copy)
Local and cloud snapshots
Volume Mobility for non-disruptive Data Migration across FlashSystem and SVC
Easy Tier (Automated hot/cold extent movement)
Data Migration (from >500 supported arrays)
Distributed RAID 1, 5 & 6 DRAID 1 and 6
DRP (Software only) Data Reduction Pools (Hardware assisted compression)
Clustering (Multiple I/O groups)
HyperSwap (Active / active access)
Encryption (Local and server based keys)
NVMe-oF Host Connections
External Storage Virtualization (>500 Supported Arrays)
Safeguarded Copy – delivering immutable copies
FCMs (NVMe with compression & encryption) & NVMe/SCM drives
Storage Class Memory (ultra low latency drives)
The Value Behind IBM’s
unique FlashCore Modules
FlashCore Module 3
Unprecedented density and performance

Innovative design delivering:

Extremely low latency

Unprecedented capacity

Extended endurance
FlashCore: Hardware Accelerated I/O
FlashCore data compression/decompression algorithm is a modified Dynamic GZIP algorithm

Business Benefit → Improved economics with no performance impact

Hardware

Originated with IBM Mainframe

Who has it?

Minimizes data written to flash
IBM is the only vendor to deliver
these purpose-built next-gen ECC is fast and light
flash modules with inline
high-performance Data reduction is transparent
compression and encryption
Implement Health Binning and Heat Segregation

Business Benefit of FCM → Asymmetrical wear leveling delivers higher

endurance in real life workloads

FlashCore Technology continuously

monitors the health of each block
Health binning → 57% endurance gain
Heat segregation → 45% reduction in write amplification

This asymmetrical wear leveling and sub-chip tiering work in conjunction

FlashCore Implements Variable Voltage Levels

Business Benefit of FCM → Variable Voltage is the Fountain of Youth,

delivering reliable long life

Dynamic read level shifting

Predictive techniques

Characterization by IBM Flash

developers Who has it?
IBM is the only
vendor to provide
this capability
FlashCore Differentiators
Special access to the Flash cells

Continually assesses health

Hotter data placed in healthier blocks

increases endurance by up to 57% Results:
Write amplification reduced up to 45% • Flash lifespan is extended

Variable Voltage extends flash life

• Latency does not degrade

• Errors and downtime reduced

High-performance, high reliability flash
Hardware compression and encryption with no
performance penalty. This delivers the industry’s
highest capacity flash modules.
• Compression without penalty
• customers become focused on real
world workloads rather than
warranty issues
A new FlashCore Module 3
Building on IBM’s FlashCore technology, the latest FCM 3 drive
delivers increased performance and greater storage density

2022: FCM 3
Same SLC/QLC technology
2020: FCM 2
4.8, 9.6, 19.2 and 38.4TB
SLC/QLC technology for physical capacities
performance and cost

2018: FCM 1 Expanded metadata management

4.8, 9.6, 19.2 and 38.4TB delivers up to 3:1 effective to usable
3DTLC technology physical capacities ratio improvement with no performance
penalty
4.8, 9.6 and 19.2TB
physical capacities 2:1 inline native hardware 22, 29, 58, 115TB effective capacities
compression
2:1 inline native hardware
compression Significantly increased throughput

FlashSystem 5200, 7300 and 9500

All storage virtualizaton
is not created equal

Be aware of the differences between

Federation and Virtualization

Federated storage is simply a

collection of storage resources

Federated storage requires separate

device management software.

Federated Storage
Virtualization Involving IBM Storage Virtualize

25TB 25TB

73
• Compression • Compression
• Deduplication • Deduplication
Array 1 Array 2 • Encryption • Encryption
• Same Mgmt. • Same Mgmt.
25TB 25TB for everything for everything
• Safeguarded • Safeguarded
Copy Copy

• Compression • Compression
• Deduplication • Deduplication
• Encryption • Encryption
• Same Mgmt. • Same Mgmt.
for everything for everything
Array 3 Array 4 • Safeguarded • Safeguarded
Copy Copy
100TB
IBM FlashSystem family overview
Third key message

Built for
the future

Storage Storage
Virtualize Insights
IBM Award-Winning Storage Portfolio OpEx only
STaaS Pay for use Offering Coverage

Primary Storage Container Storage for AI and

Native SDS Unstructured Data
IBM Storage Insights IBM Storage IBM Storage Discover
Fusion
IBM Storage Scale
IBM Storage Virtualize
IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Storage Elastic Storage Cloud Object

All-Flash and Hybrid Systems SVC Storage for Z Fusion HCI System Storage

FlashSystem 9x00
ESS 3200, 5000
SAN Volume
Controller
FlashSystem 7x00

FlashSystem 5000 FlashSystem 9500R DS8900F TS7770

Networking

Data Resilience and Modern Data Protection with IBM Storage Protect Suite
IBM Award-Winning Storage Portfolio CapEx + OpEx
or OpEx only
SOU Pay for use Offering Coverage

Primary Storage Container Storage for AI and

Native SDS Unstructured Data
IBM Storage Insights IBM Storage IBM Storage Discover
Fusion
IBM Storage Scale
IBM Storage Virtualize
IBM Cloud Object Storage

IBM Storage Elastic Storage Cloud Object

All-Flash and Hybrid Systems SVC Storage for Z Fusion HCI System Storage

FlashSystem 9500
ESS 3200, 5000
SAN Volume
Controller
FlashSystem 7300

FlashSystem 5000 FlashSystem 9500R DS8900F TS7770

Networking

Data Resilience and Modern Data Protection with IBM Storage Protect Suite
Storage Utility Offering

Base Subscription

Capacity
Baseline Subscription

Variable Utilized Capacity Time

Cloud-Based Monitoring
What most of the competition
does with their utility offering

Initial Base with

“Buffer Capacity”
Also called As buffer fills
“Reserve additional
Capacity” capacity is added

Capacity
Baseline Subscription

Time
Turning a potential CapEx issue into an OpEx opportunity

We need Safeguarded Copy, IBM offers several OpEx

but we lack any CapEx budget. solutions for Safeguarded Copy.

STorage as a Service Storage Utility Offering

Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud

Bringing consistent features to over 500 different systems

Storage Virtualize turns

many arrays (over 500) into
one consistent environment

IBM Storage Virtualize

Distributed RAID delivers real benefits for customers

Traditional RAID 6 Distributed RAID 6

Distributed RAID Distributed RAID
Whatever the size Whatever the size of the enables all drives has 5-10X faster
of the RAID group, RAID group, there will to contribute to rebuild times
there will be two be two parity drives as
performance, compared to
drives used for well as a spare but the
parity along with the capacity is included in while Traditional Traditional RAID
likelihood of one the group rather than RAID does not!
drive set aside for a being a separate drive.
spare. In the event All drives contribute to
Dynamic Distributed RAID expansion
of a failure, all the overall performance
drives must write of the RAID group. In the makes using small, or large capacity
parity data to the event of a failure, all drives easier, and more affordable. You
spare which creates drives simultaneously can Non-disruptively grow existing
a bottleneck with write parity data to the RAID groups by 1-12 drives at a time.
the rebuild. spare capacity, thus
eliminating bottlenecks.
Data Reduction Pools

Increased efficiency
and reduced data
storage costs

DRP without using DRP with a pool

any data reduction Different DRP types
DRP with where you have
on multiple pools
compression only selectable data
Thin Provisioning on the same
from FCMs reduction. Consider
storage system
Unmap “modeling up”
Data Reduction FlashCore Data Reduction
aligned to workloads Modules Pools

Industry’s highest Maximum data

performance with reduction up to 5:1
up to 3:1 or better with zero detection,
compression deduplication and
compression

IBM’s differentiator:
selectable flexibility
by data pool

Flexibility, not compromise

Pain-free Tiering with Easy Tier

Active Data
Migrates Up
Remove the Remove the SCM
Solid-State Arrays
guesswork extra labor

Storage Class Memory

With extremely low latency

SAS SSD Arrays FCMs / NVMe

SSD Arrays

Artificial Intelligence NL-SAS HDD Arrays

provides automated
Less Active Data
intelligent analytics Migrates Down
Easy Tier is highly efficient
and highly flexible

1. Cognitive AI-driven without policies

Tier 0
2. Works on a sub-LUN basis SCM
LUN

Tier 1
3. Only hottest data need be moved NVMe
LUN

Tier 2
4. Only coldest data need be moved
HDD
LUN
85
Up to 100% Availability
Site 1 Site 2
with IBM HyperSwap Host server Host server

• Extreme availability (100%)

• Completely redundant

• Continuous data access

• Moves data without disruption

Primary Secondary
• Eliminate downtime costs

Quorum
FlashSystem 3-Site Data Protection for HA and DR

Primary Secondary Third

SIte Site SIte

Orchestrator
Host

HyperSwap cluster
Fabric Fabric Fabric

Fabric FC/IP
Partnership
Active-Active Relationship

Quorum

Beginning with Storage Virtualize 8.3.1.2, external orchestrator software (installed on a separate server/VM) is
used to run commands to configure 3-site. The orchestrator is still required with Storage Virtualize 8.4
3-site for Hyperswap Volumes from within the GUI

New
Once configured, the system is pretty
easy to monitor from within the GUI
Features of 3-Site HyperSwap solution

Zero Automatic
Active-Active RTO / RPO coordinated
Relationship across replication to
HyperSwap DR site

Convert Stateless and

HYperSwap Fault Tolerant
to 3-Site archiecture

3-Site
Same limits
Protocol HyperSwap
as SVC
agnostic adds to
HyperSwap
architecture enterpriseness
and GMCV
of SVC too
Some of the use cases of 3-Site HyperSwap

Upgrading an Maintenance has no

existing HyperSwap impact to production
configuration workloads

Easily handling
of link failures

Disaster recovery Recover from

of HyperSwap site Far Site in case
in areas susceptible of HyperSwap
to natural disaster cluster failure
Disaster Recovery w/ IP Replication Inexpensively solves
a customer problem
• Enables use of Ethernet connections for Source
Volume
remote mirroring

• Transparent to servers and applications

• Includes Bridgeworks WANrockIT network

optimization technology
• No separate appliances required
TCP/IP Network
• Uses artificial intelligence to improve
network bandwidth utilization up to 3x

• Deploy less costly network infrastructure

• Speed replication cycles for better remote

data currency and faster recovery Destination
Volume
FlashSystem, NVMe,
and VMware 7

NVMe-oF

Server Storage System