40GE: Petabyte scale enterprise grade for demanding cloud

40GE: Petabyte scale enterprise grade for
demanding cloud applications
Ethernet Summit
4/16/15
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Renu Raman, Aidan Shribman
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Enterprise In Memory Clouds are Different
Enterprise InMemory Clouds
Traditional Clouds
1. 
Consumer
1. 
Large Enterprise
2. 
Web-scale apps
2. 
Mission Critical
3. 
Small Servers
3. 
Large Servers
4. 
Flash/Disk
4. 
RAM, RAM and RAM
5. 
Virtualized
5. 
Physical
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Early
Adopters
of Faster
Interconnects
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Networking/Interconnect trends
Standardizing Ethernet Speeds
TbE?
Link Speed (Gb/s)
1000
100
2.5x faster and
approaching 6X.
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
1
1G to 10G took 10 years
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10 GbE 10G
10
Growth Drivers/Limiters
2-3X cheaper per port
100 GbE
40 GbE 40G
0.1
1990
Ethernet Vs FC
400 GbE?
as
Fast Ethernet
1995
2000
2005
2010
2015
2020
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Tech Directions
Standards (Limiter)
Optics is around the
corner
Flash Adoption
SDN
Price/Perf
ECMP, VxLAN
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S4/HANA Enterprise Cloud Landscape (3 Tier Arch)
1.0
1.5
2.0
Cell 2
Arista 7048 Swh
CFM Server
Arista 7050 QX
Node-08
Node-07
Node-06
Node-05
T1
Node-04
T1
HUB
T1
spine
T1
T1
Shard Flash Array
T1
Node-03
Node-02
Node-01
SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud
Administration
4x10G -> 2x40GE -> 2x100GE
POD-DR (T2)
POD-B (T2)
POD-A (T2)
2x10GE -> 40GE
Archival (T3)
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POD-DR (T2)
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Design Re-think
Data Management (Tiers and Types) drives topology
T0
Primary Storage
Performance Tier
1. 
Adopt latest technologies (Flash,
NVM, PCIe, New Interconnects)
2. 
Performance optimized physical and
logical interfaces
3. 
Provide connectors to industry
standard media (logical and
physical)
Not Shared
T1
Persistence, Shared
HA/Recovery
T2
Management Tier
1. 
Adopt Industry standard interfaces
2. 
Handles DR, Global data store
3. 
TCO focus
Shared Globally
Hot
Warm
Cold
HA/DR/Archival
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SAP Enterprise Cloud Networking Toplogy
SAP HANA
Cloud Platform
8x40GE
Spine
Spine
8x40G
E
Spine
8x40GE
Leaf #1
Leaf #2
Leaf #1
Leaf #1
Leaf #2
Leaf #2
2x40GE
#1
#2
#9
Rack #1
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#1
#2
#9
Rack #2
#1
#2
#9
Rack #3
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Storage: Key Use Cases
SAP Business
Suite
SAP Business
Warehouse
Customer
Apps
Services
SAP HANA
SAP IQ
Hadoop
Backup, DR
Store/Backup
Store/Backup
SAP HANA Cloud Platform
On-boarding
Cloud hosting
Custom
Services
Storage Pod
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Typical Workflows
VLANs
202
20GB/s
5GB/s
10GB/s
20GB/s
HUB
HANA
VLANs
124, 202
10, 11, 12
SPOD
HDP
HANA
SPOD
VLANs
127, 202
10, 11
VLANs
128, 202
10, 11, 12
VLANs
129, 202
11, 12
VLANs
130, 202
11, 12
SW
SW
SW
SW
SW
40GbE
10GbE
SW
1GbE
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3 ways to mount a Storage volume
Client
SPOD
-nfs-server
node-01
node-02
node-03
/spodmnt
NFSv3
-nfs- node-04
server
node-05
node-06
node-07
node-08
Relatively low performance, no deployment on client side needed
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3 ways to mount a Storage volume
SPOD
Client
node-01
node-02
node-03
/spodmnt
NFS
v3
nfsserver
NFS Protocol
node-04
node-05
node-06
node-07
node-08
Higher performance, deployment procedure required
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3 ways to mount a Storage volume
SPOD
Client
/spodmnt1
NFS
v3
nfsserver
NFS Protocol
node-01
node-02
/spodmnt2
NFS
v3
nfsserver
NFS Protocol
/spodmnt3
NFS
v3
nfsserver
NFS Protocol
node-03
node-04
node-05
/spodmnt4
NFS
v3
nfsserver
NFS Protocol
/spodmnt5
NFS
v3
nfsserver
NFSProtocol
node-06
node-07
node-08
Very high aggregate performance, deployment procedure and parallel I/O to different files
required
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Storage POD Specifications
SPOD v1.0 Specification
--- System --Management Switch (1)
Rack Unit: 1U
Ports: 48 x 1G
Storage Switch (2)
Rack Unit: 1U
Ports: 36 x 40G
Management Node (1)
Rack Unit: 1U (Twin Unit)
1 Socket (WSM): 4 Core
2 DIMM Slots: 32 GB RAM
2 SAS Slots: 1 TB HDD
Storage Node (8)
Rack Unit: 4U
2 Socket (IvyBridge): 8 Core
8x32 DIMM Slots: 256 GB RAM
48x8 3.5” Slots: 384 TB HDD
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# of racks
1,2,3
Management Cloud API
OpenStack Manila API
Data Interface
FILE, NFSv3, HDFS
Availability
active-active
Replication
2+1
Encryption
Intel x86 AES
Compression
LZ4 (default), LZF, ZLIB
Snapshot’ing
supported
--- Rack --Power Intake
208v @ 30A (3-phase)
Outgoing Network
8 x 2 x 40G
--- Node --CPU
2 @ Intel Xeon E5-2600v2
Memory
256 GB
Storage
384 TB / 3 GBps / 5K IOPS
Network
2 x 40G
READ Throughput stream /
node / rack
400 / 2,400 / 10,000 MB/s
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Maching Disk Throughput to Network Throughput
1 x NIC
Board / QPI
2 x HBA
2x40 GbE
128G
DRAM
6 Gbps
SAS
2xIVB @
3.4
NVRAM
20xQPI
pair
CPU
8xPCI
8xPCI3.0
3.0
8xPCI 2.0
Rx
Tx
8xPCI 3.0
2x5=
10GB/s
3.4x4=
13GB/s
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2x4=
8GB/s
45 x HDD
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
4TB 3.5"
45x0.15
= 7GB/s
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SPOD PoC READ Performance
Storage Performance, Read, BS=1M, Sequential, 8
Streams/Node
Throughput
Cluster aggregate
8000 MB/s
7500 MB/s
7000 MB/s
6500 MB/s
6000 MB/s
5500 MB/s
5000 MB/s
4500 MB/s
4000 MB/s
3500 MB/s
3000 MB/s
2500 MB/s
2000 MB/s
1500 MB/s
1000 MB/s
500 MB/s
MB/s
1 Node
Node average
2 Nodes
Stream average
3 Nodes
8 Streams
16 Streams
24 Streams
1
2
Node Scale-Out
3
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Summary
1. 
Ethernet speed is growing faster than FC.
2. 
Ethernet provides flexibility in network topology to create different work
flows.
3. 
Price point (per port) of Ethernet is dropping faster than FC.
4. 
New media technologies (Flash) are first to attach with PCIe or Ethernet.
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