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Matt Key                           IBM FlashSystem SME           mkey@us.ibm.com
Byron Grossnickle                  IBM Spectrum Virtualize SME   byrongro@us.ibm.com
Yvonne Herman                      IBM Storage for Healthcare    Yvonne.Herman@ibm.com

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Matt Key              mkey@us.ibm.com
Byron Grossnickle     byrongro@us.ibm.com
Yvonne Herman         Yvonne.Herman@ibm.com
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Accelerate Epic EHR Performance with IBM FlashSystem Storage
IBM Storage Products for Epic Systems

Agenda:

   IBM FlashSystem
   IBM FlashSystem Family
   Enterprise-Class Storage Made Simple for Hybrid Multicloud
   IBM FlashSystem Family Comparison
   IBM FCM Update

   SVC Update
   IBM SAN Volume Controller (SV2/SA2)
   Fully Allocated Performance - SV2 and SA2 with 8.3.1

   IBM Storage Performance for Epic and Epic Comfort Level
Accelerate Epic EHR Performance with IBM FlashSystem Storage
Entry                 Midrange                   High-End                    Hybrid
IBM              Enterprise              Enterprise                 Enterprise                 Multicloud
FlashSystem
Family

Storage made                                                    FlashSystem 9200R

simple for
hybrid                                                           FlashSystem 9200
multicloud                             FlashSystem 7200

               FlashSystem 5100

               FlashSystem 5000

                                              IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software
                    IBM Storage Insights (AI-based Monitoring, Predictive Analytics, and Proactive Support)
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Accelerate Epic EHR Performance with IBM FlashSystem Storage
Enterprise-Class Storage Made Simple for Hybrid Multicloud
 IBM FlashSystem Family

                                                      IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software
                         IBM Storage Insights (AI-based Monitoring, Predictive Analytics, and Proactive Support)
 FlashSystem 5010            FlashSystem 5030        FlashSystem 5100         FlashSystem 7200          FlashSystem 9200     FlashSystem 9200R

VMware and Red Hat OpenShift Container Integration
3-Site Replication
Local and remote replication (snapshots, DR, copy/migrate to cloud)
Easy Tier AI-driven automated tiering
Transparent Data Migration
                                                                           Data Reduction Pools
                                                                           Scale-out Clustering
                                                                        HyperSwap High Availability
                                                                                Encryption
                                                                                                      NVMe Flash and FC-NVMe Host Connections
                                                                                    High Performance Compression and Encryption with IBM FCM
                                                                                  External Storage Virtualization of more than 500 storage systems
                                                                                                                           Storage Class Memory
Accelerate Epic EHR Performance with IBM FlashSystem Storage
Quick Comparison of FlashSystem Family
                                              FlashSystem            FlashSystem           FlashSystem             FlashSystem         FlashSystem              FlashSystem
                                                  5010                   5030                  5100                    7200                9200                    9200R
  All-Flash and/or Hybrid                        AF ✓ - H ✓             AF ✓ - H ✓           AF ✓ - H ✓               AF ✓ - H ✓          AF ✓ - H ✘               AF ✓ - H ✘

  Max cache per control enclosure                   64GB                   64GB                576GB                    1.5TB                1.5TB                  1.5TB x 4

  Host adapter slots per control enc.                 2                        2                  2                       6                     6                      6x4

  Storage Class Memory support                       No                       No                 Yes                     Yes                  Yes                      Yes

  NVMe SSDs and IBM FCMs                             No                       No                 Yes                     Yes                  Yes                      Yes

  NVMe-oF support                                    No                       No                 Yes                     Yes                  Yes                      Yes

  SAS SSDs and SAS HDDs                           ✓ and ✓                ✓ and ✓              ✓ and ✓                  ✓ and ✓             ✓ and ✘                  ✓ and ✘

  Support for SAS devices                    Yes – Control & Exp.   Yes – Control & Exp.   Yes – Expansion          Yes – Expansion    Yes – Expansion          Yes – Expansion

  Max physical capacity raw
                                                   720TB                  720TB                921.6TB                 921.6TB              921.6TB                921.6TB x 4
  in 2U control enclosure

  Max usable effective capacity raw                                                            1.8PB**                  1.8PB**             1.8PB**                1.8PB** x 4
                                                   720TB               Up to 3.6PB*
  in 2U control enclosure                                                                  Or up to 4.6PB*          Or up to 4.6PB*     Or up to 4.6PB*        Or up to 4.6PB* x 4

  Maximum capacity with clustering                   NA                32PB (2-way)         32PB (2-way)             32PB (4-way)        32PB (4-way)             32PB (4-way)

                                                                                           FCM (no impact)         FCM (no impact)     FCM (no impact)          FCM (no impact)
  Data Reduction                                    None               Software DRP
                                                                                           DRP (Hdw assist)        DRP (Hdw assist)    DRP (Hdw assist)         DRP (Hdw assist)

                                                                                                                    Customer set-up   IBM install, technical   IBM install, technical
  Installation and support                     Customer set-up        Customer set-up      Customer set-up
                                                                                                                     ECS optional       advisor and ECS          advisor and ECS

  Support for CSI and other multicloud               Yes                      Yes                Yes                     Yes                  Yes                      Yes

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 * With 5:1 data reduction via DRP       ** With 2:1 data reduction via FCM                                   All-Flash and Hybrid    All-Flash Only
Accelerate Epic EHR Performance with IBM FlashSystem Storage
FlashSystem 7200 / 9200

                                              High Performance                Low Risk               Operational Density

                                                                                                   • Up to 700 TB Usable NVMe
                                             • With Zero-Impact         • 99.9999% Availability      per 2U
                                              Compression and AES-                                   (1.4 PB Guaranteed
                                              256 Encryption            • 100% Data Availability     Effective) at 2kW Power
 FlashSystem 9200                                                        Guarantee with
 45 GBps Cache-Miss / 1.2 M Random 8K IOPS                                                         • Simple All-inclusive Licensing
                                             • < 0.3 ms Avg Response     HyperSwap
                                              Time at 100% Random                                    (Cloud, Copy Services, Data
 FlashSystem 7200
                                                                        • 100% DRAID-6               Reduction)
 40 GBps Cache-Miss / 700K Random 8K IOPS
                                             • Cluster scalable to 4X                              • Simple, automatic reporting
                                                                        • High performance
                                                                                                     and monitoring through
                                             • 180 GBps in 8U            during fast rebuilds        Storage Insights

                                                                        • Volume agility through   • Enterprise Class Support
                                                                         clustering                  (Technical Advisor, 30m
                                                                                                     Sev1 Response, Remote
                                                                                                     Support, IBM-managed FW
Celebrating 10 years of                                                                              upgrades)
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Accelerate Epic EHR Performance with IBM FlashSystem Storage
IBM FlashSystem 7200
FlashSystem 7200               Dual Active-Active Array Controllers with NVMe to Flash Media         Storage Class Memory
Two 8-core 2.1 GHz             Dual-ported 2.5” NVMe Flash bays (24)                                  Up to 12 SCM drives to
CPUs for a total of                                                                                    accelerate workloads.
32-cores per system            FlashCore Modules designed to 2.5” industry standard form factor          Use with FCMs and
                               (Includes: HW Compression, HW Encryption)                                           EasyTier.

Up to 1.5TB
of cache
per system

Up to six
host adapters
cards per system

Up to 9.2M IOPS
and 140GB/s with
four systems in       Interface Card Slot (2)   Tech Port    10GbE Ports (4)         USB Ports (2)        2KW PSU (2)
a 4-way cluster
                                                                       Interface Card Slot (1)
FCM Update

Up to      Endurance   Performance          FlashCore

38.4 TB                Up to 50%            Gzip Compression

Usable     DWPD 2                           Consistency
                       Better
                                            Longevity
Capacity               Performance
                       over First Gen FCM   Adaptive

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Footprints and Speeds                                          •      Evolved from 32L to now 96L 3D NAND
                                                               •      NVMe
                                                               •      Hardware data reduction
                                                               •      Quad-port 32Gb

                                      A9000R               FS9200
                                         (max)          (Can cluster 4x)
                                     42U, 8.7 kW            2U, 2kW
                                        1700 lb              102 lb
                                    720 TB Usable       *700 TB Usable
                                    2.1 PB Effective   *1.400 TB Effective
                                      1.5 M IOPS          1.2 M IOPS
                                       26 GBps              45 GBps
                                      32 x 16 Gb           24 x 32 Gb

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SVC Node Model Comparison

                                                 Increased FC bandwidth + double PCIe bandwidth + huge cache
                                                               = improved latency, MB/s and IOPs
    Per Node                   SV1                             SV2                            SA2

      CPU              8 core 3.2GHz (x2)             16 core 2.3GHz (x2)            8 core 2.1GHz (x2)
                        (Intel Broadwell EP)            (Intel Cascade Lake)           (Intel Cascade Lake)

  Mem (min/max)         64GiB / 256GiB                 128GiB / 768GiB                128GiB / 768GiB
   Boot Drives            2 x external                    2 x internal                   2 x internal
     Battery              2 x external                    1 x internal                   1 x internal
  Compression     Optional up to 2 Compression           Internal offload              Internal offload
                              cards               (equivalent to 5x SV1 cards)   (equivalent to 2x SV1 cards)
                         RACE or DRP                        DRP only                      DRP only

    FC attach          Quad port 16Gbs                 Quad port 32Gbs                Quad port 32Gbs
                                                       Quad port 16Gbs                Quad port 16Gbs

    HIC Slots                    4                               3                              3
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SV2/SA2)

Up to 768GB                                                                        Dual 16-core
Cache                                                                              (SV2) or 8-core
                                                                                   (SA2)
                                                                                   processors

                                   Tech Port   10GbE Ports (4)   USB Ports (2)
                                                                                 2KW PSU (2)
         Interface Card Slot (3)
         (up to 12 ports per 2U)

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Performance:

                SV2 and SA2 with 8.3.1

February 2020                            15
8.3.0 vs 8.3.1 DRP
Performance
• Code improvements that have aided performance
                                                                           3X
  • Multi-chunk write support                                          improvement
  • Multi-threaded lower cache                                         DRP Seq Read
    • Immense improvement in single volume performance
  • Internode messaging improvements

  • Working Set: FS9150                                   Up to
    •   24 – 4.8 TB FCM modules
    •   DRAID6                                            2.5X
    •   768GB Cache (cache 3% of working set)            improvement
    •   25TB Working set
    •   67% capacity utilization AFTER data reduction
                                                           DRP IOPS
    •   Compression 2.85:1, deduplication 2:1             throughput

                                                                         50%
                                                                        reduction
                                                                         DRP read
                                                                        Resp. time

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Max Performance: New
Platform At a Glance
                                                                                                      Relative positioning with OLTP workload 70/30/50

                                                                                                               Relative Performance Comparison: 16KB 70/30/50
                                                                                             4.00
                                                                                                    5100
                                                                                             3.50   7200
           Max IOPS        Min Latency      Max Bandwidth
                                                                                                    9200

                                                                Average Response Time (ms)
           4K Read Hit
                         min latency for 4K Read BW, 256 KB
                              Read Hit       reads from flash
                                                                                             3.00   SA2 Max   2x             2x                           1.7x
                                                                                                    SV2 max
                                                                                             2.50
 FS 9200     4.5 M           under 70           45 GB/s
                                                                                             2.00

 FS 7200     2.4 M           under 70           35 GB/s                                      1.50

                                                                                             1.00
 FS 5100   900 K IOPS        under 70           15 GB/s
                                                                                             0.50

  SV2          4M            under 70           49 GB/s
                                                                                             0.00
                                                                                                                                Throughput (IOPs)
  SA2        2.4 M           under 70           33 GB/s

             Fully Allocated volumes, max performance shown on this page.
             Performance shown is achievable and sustainable long-term (not a burst)
             Capacity: Physical capacity utilization on the flash drives around 80%.
             With FCM drives and drive compression ratio 2.85:1.

                                           IBM Spectrum Virtualize Rel 8.3.1
SVC Split between Sites (Enhanced Stretch Cluster)
                                                              ✓For high availability application needs,
        Transparent Failover             Application server
                                                               synchronously mirror application data between
        Single Site High Availability                          two separate disk systems

                                  Mirrored copies

                   Two-site High Availability                 ✓For ultra-high availability application needs,
                                                               synchronously mirror application data between
                                                               two different sites
                                                              ✓Eliminate single points of failure and
                                                               transparently failover data access from one site
                                                               to the other
                                                              ✓Up to 300 km distance
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                                   Storage for Hybrid Multicloud                                                     Storage for AI & Big Data

                                                                                            Storage for         Elastic Storage     Cloud Object
            All-Flash and Hybrid Systems                                SVC                                         System            Storage
                                                                                         Enterprise Servers

                                        Flash System
                                            9200                      SAN Volume
                                                                       Controller
                         Flash System                  Flash System
                             7200                          9200R

     Flash System 5000                                                                    DS8900F    TS7700

                                                       Networking

                           IBM Spectrum Protect Suite
                                                                          Hybrid Cloud          Snapshots     Tape           VMs        Containers

    Cyber Resiliency & Modern Data Protection

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IBM Storage – Epic Comfort Level

   IBM DS8xxx

   • Epic Comfort Level for Operational Database     HIGH
   • Epic Comfort Level for Analytical Database      HIGH
   • Prevalence in Epic Customer Base                Rare

   IBM FlashSystem

   • Epic Comfort Level for Operational Database     HIGH
   • Epic Comfort Level for Analytical Database      HIGH
   • Prevalence in Epic Customer Base              Common
Epic Workload                                                                     ™

 • GenerateIO – Storage Performance Tool by Epic
   • Continuous 8K Random Reads
   • Every 80 seconds write burst consists of 256k sequential writes to the WIJ
      • + 100% Random 8k writes to the DB

 • Epic performance requirements:
   •   Write cycle must complete within less than 45 seconds
   •   Average read latencies must be 2 ms or less
   •   99% of read response time below 60 ms
   •   99.9% read response time below 200 ms
   •   99.99% read response time below 600 ms
   •   Average write latencies must be 1 ms or less

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  IBM DS8900F Family comparison summary

  System                                                        IBM DS8910F                               IBM DS8950F
                                                        2 x IBM Power Systems Power 9             2 x IBM Power Systems Power 9
  Processor complex (CEC)
                                                                MTM 9009-22A                              MTM 9009-42A
  Frames (min / max)                                                0/1                                       1/2
  POWER 9 cores per CEC (min / max)                                  8                                       10 / 20
  System memory (min / max)                                   192 GB / 512 GB                             512 GB / 2 TB
  Host Adapter Ports (min / max)                                   4 / 64                                    4 / 128
  Flash Drives (min / max)                                        16 / 192                                  16 / 384
  Maximum physical capacity (w/ 15.36 TB Flash Drive)              2.95 PB                                   5.9 PB
  Max IOPs (4K 70/30 R/W mix)                                      860 K                                    2,300 K
  Minimum response time (4K read hit)                                                   90 µsec
  Minimum response time w/ zHyperLink (4K read)                                         18 µsec
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DS8K GenerateIO Performance

• Baseline:                  250k IOPS
   • Longest Write Cycle:    44.88 (s)
   • RanRead Average:          .35 (ms)

• 24 Hour Sustain:           245k IOPS
    • Longest Write Cycle:    44.8 (s)
    • RanRead Average:         .35 (ms)

• Incremental FlashCopy:     240k IOPS
    • Longest Write Cycle:   44.61 (s)
    • RanRead Average:         .55 (ms)
IBM FS9200

• Epic GenerateIO Test Results

• GenerateIO: Epic’s IO Simulator/Storage
Performance Tool

     •   Lab Configuration
     •   Baseline Throughput
     •   FlashCopy Performance
     •   Sustained Scalability
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Lab Configuration
All GenerateIO test parameters performed on the FS9200 were modeled under extreme conditions and
after one of IBM/Epic’s largest, high demand customer.

       FS9200                                                          AIX Power 9 9009-42A server
        • 24 9.6TB NVMe/3D NAND FCMs version 2.0                       • 128GB RAM
          DRAID 6 10+2
        • Hardware Compression & Encryption                            • 300 GB local storage
        • 768GB read cache                                             • 4 16GB Fiber Channel Adapters
        • 12 paths (24-host to 24-storage paths mappings)              • 24 core LPAR
        • 2 pools in the same IOgroup
        • 100TB Epic ODB 95% full
            • 24 volumes
            • 8 file systems
          • FlashCopy
            • 24 FC targets

                                       Epic GenerateIO Cache IO Simulator version 1.10.3
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FS9200 GenerateIO Performance

• Baseline:                  194k IOPS
   • Longest Write Cycle:    43.67 (s)
   • RanRead Average:         2.03 (ms)

• 24 Hour Sustain:           188k IOPS
    • Longest Write Cycle:   42.02 (s)
    • RanRead Average:        2.06 (ms)

• Incremental FlashCopy:     151k IOPS
    • Longest Write Cycle:   41.79 (s)
    • RanRead Average:        1.48 (ms)
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IBM FS9200 Resources

   9200 Blueprint, Best Practices,
          Product Guides
                                       http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

         IBM Storage Electronic Health Records with Epic and IBM FlashSystem 9200 Blueprint Version 2 Release 3
         IBM FlashSystem 9200 & 9100 Best Practices & Performance Guidelines
         IBM FlashSystem 9200 Product Guide
         Implementing the IBM FlashSystem 9200, 9100, 7200 and 5100 with Spectrum Virtualize V8.3.1
    © Copyright IBM Corporation 2020                                                                  IBM Digital Systems Masters 2020.
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