Essential Requirements To Evaluate Next-Generation Cloud Storage

Transition was everywhere in 2019. Enterprises that had rushed to get to the public cloud started bringing applications back. They also began to deploy Tier 1 workloads with software-defined technologies instead www.mcafee/activate of storage arrays. Change was the only constant as  www.mcafee.com/activate it related to the storage deployments of the Fortune 1000. While change was in the data center air, the key requirements for the next-generation of storage infrastructure became very clear. Datera is comprised of the world’s leading SDS architects and former end users www.mcafee.com/activate download, and we have worked with scores of Fortune 1000 companies to understand their data storage needs. 

While we recognize that every organization’s applications and needs are different, from this unique vantage point we developed a set of common requirements www.mcafee.com/activate product key and best practices mcafee.com/activate product key to help you and your organization get a fast start on the path to a new and better data infrastructure. 

Storage Categories and Goals the Fortune 1000 are Evaluating

When getting started we recommend first investigating the four main categories of storage technology that drive different sets of requirements.

  1. Enterprise-Class Flash Arrays. Arrays from the leading vendors are strewn all over the floor, whether deployed on a standalone basis or more recently as converged appliances. Enterprises want to www.mcafee.com/activate download retain the pros of arrays www.mcafee/activate—the performance levels, the 9s of availability, while distancing themselves from the cons—the high cost, the inflexibility, the lock-in, the homogeneity of media choices, and even the need for Fibre Channel to achieve performance and stability.
  2. Public Cloud Services. The impact of the public cloud cannot be overstated. AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure mcafee.com/activate product key—none of which use arrays to build their hyperscale data centers—showed the market that infrastructure could be done in a new, more agile, and more cost-effective way. Similarly, enterprises www.mcafee.com/activate looked to see if they too could build their infrastructure in this manner to achieve the same level of operational agility www.mcafee.com/activate product key and velocity and to do it on Ethernet rather than Fibre like the cloud players do, but they also wanted to avoid the massive cost of inflation they have experienced in their monthly bills, often 5X higher than on-premises infrastructure.
  3. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).  HCI growth remains strong, particularly in emerging regions. It provides an easy on-ramp to a shared infrastructure and software-defined approach, but shows inherent system limitations in scale, performance, and hardware utilization. Enterprises would like www.mcafee.com/activate download to retain the simple deployment  www.mcafee/activate and procurement models that HCI software vendors provide, but to do so without the common problems that have plagued the leading HCI platforms such as “noisy neighbor” syndrome where certain applications or tenants overtax the infrastructure and compromise other applications, and the inability to scale beyond monolithic orchestration within a single cluster.
  4. Software-Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is seen as combining the best attributes of the other storage choices—the dedicated performance of arrays, the agility of the public cloud, and the potential to consolidate applications and tenants of HCI—with the additional benefits of automation, while lessening the vendor lock-in that has pervaded the industry since its inception. While its benefits have long been evident www.mcafee.com/activate, it’s important to test multiple vendors against one another to understand differences in performance and availability with data management services turned on (e.g. encryption, compression, deduplication). Equally important is a test of the reliability of automation to drive quality of service and to quantify its value in understanding admin resourcing.

The Fortune 1000 test new storage approaches to maintain and expand the benefits they’ve seen in the past while finding new ways to eliminate www.mcafee.com/activate download old headaches and reduce the cost profile. 

Fortune 1000 Requirements for High-Performance Block Workloads at Hyperscale

In this section, we include a list of core requirements the Fortune 1000 should test against to understand which storage category can deliver www.mcafee/activate. You may further refine based on your particular use cases. 

  1. LATENCY: The system must provide 1M or more IOPS with under 1-millisecond latencies. Storage needs can change at a moment’s notice, so it is essential that a system can expand rapidly to achieve performance and capacity requirements. SQL and NoSQL databases require high IOPS and low latency storage systems that can scale performance and capacity with ease. Testing 1 Million IOPS under 1 millisecond is a common threshold, so we’d suggest you start www.mcafee.com/activate product key there and add more if your specific workloads require it. Also, test the ability to expand this with the fully supported addition of asymmetric media nodes, including NVMe and Storage Class Memory (SCM) such as Intel Optane.
  2. THROUGHPUT: The system must support a minimum of 64 GB/s of overall throughput. Throughput has become more important for most organizations than raw storage performance since throughput is the ultimate measure of application (rather than storage) performance and highly valuable www.mcafee.com/activate in multi-tenant environments. The combination of database and other workloads may push www.mcafee/activate the network’s overall performance as well, which can require the network and storage teams to agree on the testing. This has proven to be valuable in enabling a move to 100GbE and 200GbE networks (similar to the public cloud providers) and can yield massive savings in administration time and costs when compared with complex Fibre Channel networks.
  3. ASYMMETRIC SCALING: The system must be able to scale granularly (node by node) to a hyper-scale threshold of multiple petabytes, yielding additional granular capacity, performance, durability, and resilience with each additional node. The system must be able to scale asymmetrically and rapidly—typically from a few hundred terabytes to multiple petabytes—and to do so non-disruptively without downtime. The test should include adding different kinds of nodes along the way to demonstrate that the environment not only incorporates the new capacity and horsepower www.mcafee.com/activate download, but rebalances the system without the need for manual tuning. Scaling the environment should not drive significant new admin time because the savings achieved on the capital side could be offset by extra costs in personnel. Pay close attention here www.mcafee/activate, since many enterprises see massive differences in scaling between systems. At a minimum, test the ability to scale up within a rack and scale-out across racks and across aisles within a single data center, since this is what scale-out architectures must achieve to provide the flexibility enterprises seek. 
     
  4. PERFORMANCE WITH DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES ENABLED. System should show minimal performance degradation even when more than 60% utilized. Vendors have a habit of painting a very rosy picture of theoretical performance, which is often measured without using features that utilize CPU cycles in storage hardware. Enterprises often see a massive dropoff in system-wide performance www.mcafee.com/activate in the systems they test when even basic mcafee.com/activate product key data management services were utilized—including compression, encryption, snapshots and deduplication—that render those systems a non-starter. Be sure to test the systems under loads when application traffic is high to understand how the system would respond www.mcafee.com/activate product key. The tests should incorporate both elements—data management off and on, traffic high and low—to give the best picture of real-world performance www.mcafee/activate. Architects testing the system should also record a time sequence of the monitoring tools to show the ebbs and flows of the system over time and how it responds. To not do so would invite trouble in an actual deployment.

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