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Byron Grossnickle
N.A. Storage Specialty Team
Agenda
New 2145-DH8 Hardware
Software Enhancements in SVC Version 7.3
2145-DH8 HARDWARE
Boot drives
2 300GB 10K SAS
System indicators
Battery 1
Battery 2
PSUs
DIMMs
CPU
Fans
Boot drives
Batteries
system battery
CPU1
QPI
CPU2
SVC
RTC
PCIe Gen3
PCIe Gen3
Mgmt ports
Slot 1
Slot 4
Slot 2
Slot 5
Slot 3
Slot 6
1 Gb iSCSI ports
750W PSUs
4 USB ports
Technician Port
SVC - Flexibility
Item
Min
Max in R1
CPU
Memory
32GB
64GB
3*
12 Gb SAS cards
Boot drives
Memory
CPU
No. I/O
cards
Compression support
32GB
1x 8 core
1 to 2
NO
64GB
2x 8 core
1 to 3 *
NO
64GB
2x 8 core
1 to 3 *
1-2
YES
SVC - Flexibility
Top of Node
CPU 1 attach
CPU 2 attach
4 Compression Accelerator
card
2 I/O card
5 I/O card
6 Compression Accelerator
card
There must be at least one Host I/O card but it does not have to be in a particular slot.
The 10 Gbps Ethernet card will not fit in PCIe expansion slot 1 or slot 4 but that will be fixed in
the future.
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Green LED
Meaning
On
Link established
Off
No link
iSCSI access to volumes is possible via the customers 10 Gbps Ethernet network.
FCoE frame routing should be done by FCoE Switch
SVC doesn't support multihop FCoE
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2nd CPU and extra 32 GB of memory are compulsory with the compression accelerator adapter
The use of compression accelerator adapters is compulsory (at least one) if users
wish to use compression on SVC DH8.
For an I/O group containing a SVC DH8 with no compression accelerator, an attempt to create first
compressed volume will fail.
The addnode command will also fail, if trying to add a SVC DH8 without a compression accelerator, to
an I/O group which has compressed volumes
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No RTC support
38GB memory for compression stack (32 additional + 6 from the SVC stack)
38GB memory for compression stack (32 additional + 6 from the SVC stack)
Note: The 2nd CPU is required to open the PCIe lanes as well as schedule traffic
into and out of the compression accelerator cards
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Expansion enclosures are physically identical to the V7000 Gen2 expansion enclosures,
but will have a different product ID
SVC DH8 cannot use the V7000 Gen2 expansion enclosures, V7000 Gen2 cannot use the
SVC DH8 expansion enclosure
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Node 1
Node 2
IO Group
Expansion Enclosure 1
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Expansion Enclosure 2
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Attribute
(per node)
SVC CG8
SVC DH8
CPU
2X 6 cores Westmere
Controller memory
24GB to 48GB
32GB to 64GB
Host I/O
2x 1GbE
4x to 8x - 8Gb FC
2x 10GbE
(2 card max)
3x 1GbE
0 to 12x - 8Gb FC
0 to 4x 10GbE
(3 I/O card max)
Compression
resources
8 cores (with 2nd CPU fitted) 8 cores (with 2nd CPU fitted)
1 or 2 Compression Accelerator
Card
Drive expansion
SAS fabric
6Gb SAS
12Gb SAS
As soon the system is installed and the user connects to the Technician Port he will be directed to the new Init tool welcome panel
This port will run a dedicated DHCP server in order to facilitate service/maintenance and out of box in lieu of the front panel
Service IP will NOT be associated with the Technician Port, but will continue to be assigned to Ethernet port 1 (lowest Ethernet
port for management)
* If the users laptop has DHCP configured, nearly all do, it will automatically configure to bring up Initization screen
* If they do not have DHCP they will need to set IP of their Ethernet adapter to 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.20
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If the node being replaced is a CG8, CF8 or 8A4 and the replacement node
is a DH8 then the replacement node must have a four port FC card in slot 1.
If the node being replaced has a second I/O card in addition to the required
FC card, then the replacement node must have the same card in slot 2
SVC DH8 will use the new 80c product ID, that provides the ability for a new
scheme of WWNN/WWPNs
Native 'WWPNs' follow:
500507680c <S><P> XXXX
Where <S> is the PCIe slot number (1-6) and <P> is the port number in that slot (1-4)
XXXX is the sequence number of the SVC DH8 assigned at manufacturing which may be changed by
the user if needed for migration
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SVC DH8
6,050
17,000
3,500
7,000
800,000
1,150,000
300,000
500,000
5,380
14,000
2,800
4,000
365,000
700,000
115,000
200,000
200,000
395,000
Compressed
SVC CG8
2,600-50,000
71,000-175,000
1,200-16,000
28,000-115,000
DB-like
2,200-40,000
59,000-149,000
Statements of Direction
IBM intends to enhance the new SVC engine and new Storwize V7000 to
support 16 Gb Fibre Channel connectivity
The second CPU with 32 GB memory feature on SVC Storage Engine Model
DH8 provides performance benefit only when Real-time Compression is
used. IBM intends to enhance IBM Storwize Family Software for SVC to
extend support of this feature to also benefit uncompressed workloads.
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V7.3 UPDATES
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
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Host I/O
Volume Mirror
FWL
Front End
TP/RtC
FWL
Remote Copy
FWL
Cache
FWL
TP/RtC
Virtualization
Virtualization
RAID 1/5/6/10
RAID 1/5/6/10
Backend
Backend
FlashCopy
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Host I/O
Volume Mirror
FWL
Front End
TP/RtC
FWL
Remote Copy
Upper Cache
FWL
FWL
TP/RtC
Lower Cache
Lower Cache
Virtualization
Virtualization
RAID 1/5/6/10
RAID 1/5/6/10
Backend
Backend
FlashCopy
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Upper Cache
Simple 2-way write cache between node pair of the I/O group
This is its primary function
Receives write
Transfers to secondary node of the I/O group
Destages to lower cache
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Lower Cache
Advanced 2-way write between node pair of an I/O group
Primary read cache
Write caching for host i/o as well as advanced function i/o
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Site2
Non-Preferred Node
Cache
Cache
Write Data
Destage
Data is replicated twice over ISL
Mirror
Copy2
Copy 1
Storage at Site 1
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Storage at Site 2
Site2
Non-Preferred Node
UC
Destage
Mirror
Copy 1
Preferred
Copy 2
Non preferred
LC_1
LC_ 2
Destage
Storage at Site 1
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Copy 2
Preferred
LC_ 2
Destage
Storage at Site 2
Site2
Non-Preferred Node
CA
Destage
Mirror
Data is replicated twice over ISL.1 x compressed
1 x uncompressed
Cmp
Cmp
Mdisk FW
Storage at Site 1
Storage at Site 2
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Site2
Non-Preferred Node
UCA
UCA
Destage
Data is replicated three times over ISL.
1 x uncompressed, 2 x compressed
RtC changes buffer location, invalidates UCA location.
Mirror
Copy 1
Preferred
Copy 2
Non preferred
LCA1
LCA 2
Copy 2 Preferred
Cmp'd Write data Copy 1
LCA1
LCA 2
Destage
Storage at Site 1
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Destage
Storage at Site 2
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On other members of the Storwize family the tier of internal disk is known
ENT is Enterprise 15K/10K SAS or FC and NL is NL-SAS 7.2K or SATA
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Tier 0
Tier 1
Tier2
Flash/SSD
ENT
NL
Flash/SSD
ENT
NONE
Flash/SSD
NL
NONE
NONE
ENT
NL
Flash/SSD
NONE
NONE
NONE
ENT
NONE
NONE
NONE
NL
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Percent of workload
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Percent of extents
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Percent of MB
Flash Arrays
Active Data
Migrates Up
Plan for one extent times the number of MDisks in the storage pool
plus 16 as Easy Tier will try to keep some extents free in Tiers 0 and
1 if possible
E.G. 20 MDisks in an Easy Tier storage pool with either two or 3
MDisk tiers
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HDD Arrays
Note that as long as one extent free in the pool Easy Tier can
operate
If no free extents in the pool then nothing will change until more
capacity is added to the pool
Knowing the
performance threshold
we could:
Avoid overloading MDisks by
migrating extents
Protect upper tier's performance
by demoting extents when upper
tier's MDisks are overloaded
Balance workload within tiers
based on utilization
Use xml file to record the MDisks
threshold and make intelligent
migration decisions automatically
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From these 2 things ET will use the XML file to know how
hard to drive a particular MDisk
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Drive
MDisk
Volume
Comments
3 - RAID-5 arrays
Tier 0: Flash
Tier 1: Enterprise disk (15K and 10K)
Tier 2: Near-line disk (7.2K)
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0x0001 0x00040x0005
1
1
2
1
0
0x0000
2
1
0
0
5000
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10000
15000
Active
20000
ActiveLG
Extents
Low
25000
Inactive
30000
Unallocated
35000
40000
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Miscellaneous Enhancements
All pool settings can now be changed from the GUI
Read only cache mode on volumes
512 compressed volumes per i/o group now allowed with the 2145DH8
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