2.1 IBM Grid Scale Cloud Storage V1 (C9020-661) - Module 2 - IBM Spectrum Accelerate PDF

IBM Storage Certification
IBM Grid Scale Cloud Storage V1 (C9020-661)

Module 2
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
September 2018
© 2018 International Business Machines Last Update: January 2018

Overview
About This Module
Software Defined Storage allows customers to have a very efficient, flexible, agile, and scalable storage
environment. Customers can store their data on premise, off premise or delivered via a hybrid cloud
environment. All while helping them drive down storage related costs.
This certification exam focuses primarily on Spectrum Accelerate and it’s core features, functions, and
capabilities including: IBM XIV, FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R. This certification also covers the integration of
Spectrum Accelerate products with Spectrum Software and cloud services.
This module provides an overview of IBM Spectrum Accelerate and it’s underlying architecture that makes it
high-performing, highly scalable, resilient, and easy to manage.
This module is one in a series of self-learning modules designed and developed to help you prepare for the IBM
Grid Scale Cloud Storage V1 certification exam.

Introduction
Meet the Team IBM Storage Systems Certification Test Preparation Development Team
Andrew has over 30 years experience in the Steve has over 40 years of experience in the
IT industry working at the worlds largest IT industry, with over half of them at IBM. He
Media and Manufacturing companies. He is is a world renown expert not only on
the author of more than 9 Redbooks and XIV/A9000/Flashsystems, but also has
Papers, and as an IBM Global Engineer received acclaim for his knowledge of and
meets with clients globally- both at TechU experience with fine tequila. He has worked
Andrew Greenfield symposiums & in their local geographies. Steve Solewin on multiple products in the IBM test labs, and
has has many customer facing roles as well.
Josh is a member of the IBM Storage Steve is a Corporate Solutions Architect,
Solutions Engineering team. He has been with working with customers, Business Partners
IBM for 16 years as an server specialist for and IBM account teams all over the globe.
IBM System X focusing on Linux, VMware
and Windows systems. Jagadeesh is a Corporate Solutions Architect
Joshua Blumert at IBM Systems, as a member of IBM WW
Solution Engineering team. He works with
Eyal has been with IBM for eight years, joining Clients, Business Partners and IBMers
the team as a storage specialist following the Worldwide designing and implementing
acquisition of XIV. Today, Eyal and his team infrastructure Solutions. He has over 20 years
have worldwide responsibility for architecting, Jagadeesh Papaiah of experience in IT.
testing and proving IT solutions with
FlashSystems, Spectrum Accelerate and
Patrick Pollard is an IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Eyal Abraham Spectrum Virtualize. Eyal has held various
Solution Architect, and has been with IBM
engineering, professional services and
since 2008 as one of the first XIV team
consulting positions at IBM as well as at EMC.
members. Patrick has been involved with the
storage industry and storage technology
Stephen has over 20 years in the IT industry companies since 1980. As a Storage
in a variety of leading edge IT technologies. Solutions Architect he has led the introduction
Stephen has been working as with Oracle Patrick Pollard of features such as Mirroring, Hyper-Scale
databases and applications. Stephen is Mobility, RtC, and the introduction of
currently a part of the Storage Solution A9000/R. Patrick has expertise in Fibre
Engineering team with IBM supporting sales Channel, iSCSI, IBM Mainframe FICON®,
Stephen Andert of IBM FlashSystem products throughout ESCON, and SCSI.
Latin America and the world

IBM Software Defined Storage
SDS Family

SDS Family

Overview
Software based on popular IBM XIV storage that extends its block storage grid-based architecture and data
distribution capabilities enabling tune-free consistent performance, ease of management, self-healing, to new
delivery models needed by next-generation application environments. Spectrum Accelerate is the base software
architecture for IBM XIV, IBM Spectrum Accelerate SDS, and FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R.
Spectrum Accelerate SDS
Key Capabilities
 Enterprise cloud storage in minutes, leveraging commodity hardware
 Hotspot-free performance and QoS without any manual or background tuning needed
 Advanced snapshot, remote replication and role-based security
 Multi-tenancy with each domains having own admins, resources, data protection (snapshots, replication)
 Deploy on premise or on the cloud
 Simplified hyper-scale management of dozens of PB
 Best in class VMware and OpenStack integration
 Data-at-rest encryption – “hot encrypt” in minutes
Benefits
 Enterprise-class function and data availability
 Maximized business agility and flexibility
 Simplified acquisition and rapid deployment
 Minimized administration and training costs
 Exceptional ease of use
True Hybrid Storage Cloud Capabilities
Spectrum Accelerate
Seamless Hybrid Storage Cloud
XIV Flash System A9000R
As-a-Service
FlashSystem A9000
x86 Servers
Seamlessly manage and move data between instances.

Single Login
Single Management

Introduction
Flexibility and Choice
Integrated Do-it-Yourself As-a-Service

 IBM XIV  x86 Servers / VMware IBM Cloud
 IBM FlashSystem A9000  Dedicated – IBM Lab Services
 Shared – As-a-Service
 IBM FlashSystem A9000R
XIV Gen3 FlashSystem FlashSystem

A9000 A9000R

Introduction
On-Premise Off-Premise
 IBM XIV
 IBM FlashSystem A9000  IBM Cloud
 Dedicated (IBM Lab Services)
 IBM FlashSystem A9000R  Shared (As-a-Service)
 x86 Servers / VMware (Do-it-Yourself)
XIV Gen3 FlashSystem FlashSystem x86 Servers /

A9000 A9000R VMware

Introduction
On-Premise Off-Premise
 IBM XIV
 IBM FlashSystem A9000  IBM Cloud
 Dedicated (IBM Lab Services)
 IBM FlashSystem A9000R  Shared (As-a-Service)
 x86 Servers / VMware (Do-it-Yourself)
XIV Gen3 FlashSystem FlashSystem x86 Servers /

A9000 A9000R VMware

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
Intel x86-64 CPUs

Min. Qty. 1 – Max. 2 3.5 Inch NL-SAS HDD
Min. Cores 6* - Max. 16 Min. Qty. 6 – Max. 12
Min. Cap. 1TB – Max. 6TB
DDR4 RAM
Min. 24GB** – Max. 128GB
Front
Modules
Min. 3 – Max. 15 Lenovo x3650 M5
2.5 Inch SSD (Caching)
Rear Min. Qty. 0 – Max. 1
Min. Cap. 500GB – Max. 800GB
2.5 Inch HDD (Hypervisor Boot)
Integrated 1Gb Ethernet
10Gb Ethernet
Min. 2 Ports (for Internal SA Communications)
Min. 2 Adapters for Redundancy
Any x86 Server that meets the minimum requirements can be used.
* 4 cores dedicated to Spectrum Accelerate – ESXi requires 2 cores min.

** ESXi uses 12GB. If using 4TB or 6TB NL-SAS HDDs then 48GB is minimum RAM.

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VMware Hypervisor 1. VMware ESXi installed on bare metal server

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module

2. Server hardware is abstracted
Processors Memory I/O Adapters Storage

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VM

3. Virtual Machine created

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VM

4. Spectrum Accelerate OVF is installed
 Spectrum Accelerate is distributed /

downloaded as a virtual appliance
 Pre-configured VM that includes the
underlying operating system and application
pre-installed
 Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VM VM
OS
5. Operating system installed

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VM VM
App
OS
6. Application installed

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VM VM VM VM
App App App
OS OS OS
6. Application installed
7. Repeat…
All virtual machines share the hardware components.

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module
VM VM VM VM
App App App
OS OS OS
VMware Hypervisor  Spectrum Accelerate is distributed /
downloaded as a virtual appliance
 Pre-configured VM that includes the
underlying operating system and application
pre-installed
 Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
 Downloaded via IBM Passport Advantage
 A workstation is required deploy and manage the environment

 Administrator can setup Spectrum Accelerate Virtual appliance
Workstation in minutes
 A Spectrum Accelerate system can be managed with Hyper-
Scale Manager release 5.2 or later.
Management / Deployment

Spectrum Accelerate
All Host Connectivity
DIY Module - Network Connectivity
All iSCSI Connectivity

Front End (Host I/O) NIC 0 | Port 0
Front End (Host I/O) NIC 1 | Port 0
Back End (Grid I/O) NIC 0 | Port 1
Back End (Grid I/O) NIC 1 | Port 1

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module – Management Network
Server – Integrated Management Module (IMM)

Component Management
Workstation Connectivity
Workstation
Management /
Deployment Host

Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module - Configurations
Minimum Configuration: Maximum Configuration:

3 Modules 15 Modules
 3 x x86-64 bit Servers  3 x x86-64 bit Servers
 Min. 1 x CPU with 6 Cores  2 x CPU with 8 Cores each
 Min. 24GB RAM  128GB RAM
 Min. 6 x 1TB HDDs  12 x 6TB HDDs
 1 x Dual Port 10Gb iSCSI NICs  2 x Dual Port 10Gb iSCSI NICs
 1 x 300GB HDD for EXSi Boot  1 x 300GB HDD for EXSi Boot
 1 x Optional SSD for Caching  1 x 800GB SSD for Caching
 1 x 1GB Ethernet Switch  1 x 1GB Ethernet Switch
 1 x 10Gb Ethernet Switch  2 x 10Gb Ethernet Switch
 1 x Workstation  1 x Workstation
Best Practice:
Performance
 > than 3 modules
 Optional SSD for Caching
High-Availability
 Redundant network connections (NICs and Switches)
 Uninterruptable Power Supplies
Workstation Workstation
3 Modules Management / Deployment 15 Modules Management / Deployment

Spectrum Accelerate
Providing Linear Scalability
Linear Scalability
As additional modules are added performance
enhancing resources are added:
Performance
 CPUs
 Memory
 Hard Disk Drives
 Cache
 I/O Adapters
Number of Modules
Spectrum Accelerate
DIY Module - Configurations
Basic Configuration Balanced Configuration Optimal Configuration
Number of ESXi Servers 3 15 15

Number of physical cores 6 8 16
RAM (physical server) 48 GB 64 GB 128 GB
RAM (dedicated to Spectrum Accelerate VM) 24 GB 48 GB 96 GB
Number of HDDs for data, per module 6 12 12
Size of Data Disk Drive 1 TB 4 TB 6 TB
Minimum Size of ESXi Boot Drive 300 GB 300 GB 300 GB
Number of SSDs per VMware ESXi host 0 1 (500GB) 1 (800GB)
Number of 10-GbE ports 1 2 4
Rules:
 Each ESXi host should have the same number HDDs
 HDDs in each ESXi host should be of the same size and speed – to avoid performance related issues
 HDDs and their disk controller must support Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART)

Architecture
Data Distribution
The secret of how Spectrum Accelerate

performs well and protects its data is all
within it’s data distribution technology –
same as XIV
The next few slides highlight the basics of

how the Spectrum Accelerate data
distribution works.

Architecture
Data Distribution
Data is divided into 1 MB chunks called

partitions.

Architecture
Data Distribution
Each 1 MB partition is strategically written to a

hard disk drive on one of the modules.

Architecture
Data Distribution
Each partition is mirrored and pseudo

randomly distributed to another hard disk drive
on another module within the cluster.
Mirrored

Architecture
Data Distribution
The process repeats itself, writing another

partition to a hard disk drive…

Architecture
Data Distribution
…the partition then being mirrored
Mirrored

Architecture
Data Distribution
Eventually, all the partitions will be distributed

and mirrored across all the hard disk drives in
all of the modules.
Process Repeats

Architecture
Data Distribution
The partitions will now continually be

redistributed (rebalanced) automatically
throughout the entire cluster.
End Result
 Consistent high-performance
 Continual data protection
 No tuning
 No hot spots

Architecture
Data Distribution
Self-Healing Scenario: Sudden Drive Failure

If a Hard Disk Drive within a server suddenly
fails…

Architecture
Data Distribution

fails…
All of the data that was on that failed drive

quickly gets rebuilt on the remaining drives. X

Architecture
Data Distribution

fails…
All of the data that was on that failed drive

quickly gets rebuilt on the remaining drives.
Within a few minutes all data on the system is

back to a full state of redundancy.

Architecture
Data Distribution
Self Healing Scenario: Sudden Module Failure

If an entire module (server) within a cluster
suddenly fails…

Architecture
Data Distribution

If an entire module (server) within a cluster
suddenly fails…
All of the data stored on the drives within that

module gets rebuilt on the remaining modules.

Architecture
Data Distribution

If an entire module within an XIV system
suddenly fails…
All of the data stored on the drives within that

module gets rebuilt on the remaining modules.
All data on the system will be brought back to a

full state of redundancy.

Architecture
Data Distribution
Scalability Scenario: New Modules Added

Architecture
Data Distribution
New modules (server with HDDs) are added to

a customer’s existing system + Add New Modules

Architecture
Data Distribution
New modules are added to a customer’s

existing system
As soon as the modules are setup and running

the new drives are recognized and incorporated
into the pseudo random algorithm.
+ Add New Modules

Architecture
Data Distribution
New modules are added to a customer’s

existing system
As soon as the modules are setup and running

the new drives are recognized and incorporated
into the pseudo random algorithm. Data is automatically
redistributed (rebalanced)
All of the data is automatically redistributed
(rebalanced) across all of the drives within all of
the modules.

Architecture
Efficiency Features
Thin Provisioning
 Increases capacity utilization
 Slows down the need to buy more physical capacity
Volume

Architecture
High-Availability Features
Redundant Modules
 Minimum: 3 / Maximum: 15
Self-Healing Capabilities
 Built-in resilience, self-healing, and lightning speed rebuild speeds
 Keeps data highly available and accessible at all times
Automatic Data Redistribution

 When a module / disk fails - and even before! - automatically distributes the workload to other
modules / disks
 Returns the system to full redundancy rapidly
Fast Drive Rebuilds

Minutes to rebuild lost data

Architecture
Data Protection Features – all the same as XIV!
Snapshots Multi-Tenancy
 Instant point-in-time copy of volume data – “snapshot” Divide environment into isolated domains
 Supports 1000s of snapshots without performance penalty Separate customers / teams / departments etc.
 Support for Consistency Groups
 Replicated Snapshots with Replication
Vaulting
Cache and metadata
Data-at-Rest Encryption
 Data-at-rest encryption using self-encrypting drives (SEDs)
 Non-disruptive hot-encryption in minutes
 Requires the use of Key Management Server that supports KMIP - such as IBM Security Key Lifecycle
Manager (SKLM)
Remote Mirror / Replication

 IP-based Replication (Remote Mirror)
 Asynchronous Mirroring (Global Distance)
 Synchronous Mirroring (Metro Distance)
 Three-site mirroring in IBM XIV (use both Metro and Global)
Hyper-Scale Mobility for IBM XIV and FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R
 Seamlessly move volumes between Spectrum Accelerate storage systems
 Transparent to host applications
Architecture
Multi-Tenancy Users Domain A
Pool
• Domain- isolated set of storage resources
• Domain admin has access to the specified Pool
domains only
• Global admin can manage domains and Domain B
assign admins to domains Pool
• Private objects are assigned to domains Pool

• Global Objects
Pool
– Users, Hosts, Clusters, Targets
– Hosts created by domain admin are Domain C
assigned to that domain Pool
• Close/Open Policy: Hosts

– A "global" storage admin will (will not)
be able to see "inside" a domain

Architecture
Quality of Service (QoS)
 By it’s very design Spectrum Accelerate provides consistent and equal performance to all workloads
 Sometimes business critical applications have to run alongside non-business critical ones.
 If all resources are equally shared among all of the applications there may be unintended adverse
performance effects on the business critical workloads
 Quality of Service (QoS) can address this issue by limiting performance resources of specific applications:
 Limiting bandwidth
 Limiting IOPs
 Service classes can be defined by an administrator
 The end result is that more resources are available for critical applications

Architecture
Management
IBM XIV Management Command Line (XCLI) Hyper-Scale Manager
Monitoring
XIV Mobile Dashboard App Push Notification
1 1

Spectrum Accelerate
Management : Spectrum Accelerate Environment
XIV Management Tools Hyper-Scale Manager (release 5.0)
The IBM XIV Management Tools is a package that  Hyper-Scale Manager reduces operational
includes the following objects: complexity and enhances capacity planning
 XIV Management GUI (capacity reporting feature)
 XIVTop real-time performance monitoring  Manage multiple IBM Spectrum Accelerate
 XCLI (XIV command-line interface) systems
 Ideal for large and multi-site IBM Spectrum
 Ideal for homogenous Spectrum Accelerate or Accelerate, XIV, and FlashSystem
XIV deployments. A9000/A9000R environments
 Manage, provision and monitor SA environment  Must be installed on separate VM or server
 Performance and capacity monitoring with the
IBM XIV Mobile dashboard

Spectrum Accelerate
Management : Hyper-Scale Manager
XIV A9000R
As-a-Service
x86 Servers A9000
Single Login
Simplified Management Experience
 Efficiently manage workloads across Spectrum
Accelerate systems using Hyper-Scale Manager
regardless of the consumption model.
Web Holistic Intuitive Instant  Manage up to 144 instances of Spectrum
based view navigation analysis
Accelerate.
Hyper-Scale Manager

Spectrum Accelerate
Management : VMware ESXi Environment
Because the deployment of the IBM Spectrum Accelerate is based on the VMware ESXi hypervisor, vSphere Client or VMware
vCenter can be used to manage the VMware ESXi hosts.
VMware vSphere Client VMware vCenter
 vSphere client is a tool that manages the  VMware vCenter is the centralized management
VMware ESXi hosts that are deployed in a data tool for all of the VMware products
center environment  Simplifies the management of multiple VMware
 Principal user interface for administering the ESXi servers / environments
VMware ESXi hosts and is required during the  Reduces the amount of effort that is needed to
deployment stage support IBM Spectrum Accelerate environments
 Web-based version also available  Connect through vSphere client

Spectrum Accelerate
Easy Integration
All IBM Spectrum Accelerate products integrate with VMware, OpenStack and Hyper-V.
Host Attachment Kits

Cost-free XIV Host Attachment Kits (HAKs) provide a platform-native, multipath solution that makes
connectivity setup easy, ensures best-practices configuration and provide host-storage
troubleshooting and support tools.
HAKs are provided for IBM AIX, Microsoft Windows, Oracle Solaris, HP-UX, SUSE, Linux Enterprise
Servers, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Spectrum Accelerate
Integration : RESTful APIs
 Allows administrators to automate

 Can develop their own management infrastructure around it
 RESTful API commands cannot be sent directly to the managed device
 Commands have to be directed to a device-specific RESTful API server - IBM Hyper-Scale Manager
IBM Systems
Spectrum Accelerate
Use Cases : Hybrid Cloud Storage
Establish a storage solution using an on premise integrated Spectrum Accelerate-based system and off-premise
cloud services to:
 Perform cloud-based backup, recovery, archiving
 Support Test/Dev Environment
XIV A9000R
As-a-Service
x86 Servers A9000
Single Login
Manage up to
144 Instances of
Spectrum Accelerate

Spectrum Accelerate
Use Cases : Disaster Recovery
On the Cloud
IBM FlashSystem A9000 &

Async Do It Yourself or As
IBM FlashSystem A9000R replication a Service
iSCSI
Single Management
Customer-choice or pre-
IBM XIV Storage installed / pre-tested
System Gen3 hardware

Spectrum Accelerate
Use Cases : Remote Office / Branch Office
Provide high-availability storage to smaller or distributed organizations.
Remote / Branch Remote / Branch

x86 Servers-DIY
x86 Servers-DIY
Use Less Expensive Hardware!
Single Management
x86 Servers-DIY
x86 Servers-DIY
Remote / Branch Remote / Branch
IBM XIV Gen3

Head Office
Spectrum Accelerate
Use Cases : Test / Development
Mix Spectrum Accelerate environments to easily create a test/development environment.
On-Premise
Test/Dev Team
Environment
Copy
Single Management
IBM XIV Gen3 x86 Servers

Spectrum Accelerate
Use Cases : Test / Development
Mix Spectrum Accelerate environments to easily create a test/development environment.
On-Premise
Test/Dev Team
Environment
Copy
Test / Dev Team using PaaS
Copy
Single Management
IBM XIV Gen3 x86 Servers

Spectrum Accelerate
Use Cases : Hyperconverged Infrastructure
VM
VMware Hypervisor
Storage Only Appliance

Spectrum Accelerate
Hyperconverged infrastructure combining compute, storage and networking in a single node.

VM VM VM VM
App App App
OS OS OS
VMware Hypervisor
Hyperconverged Appliance
 Hardware Consolidation
 Scalable Building Blocks
 Common management via VMware vCenter

Spectrum Accelerate
Speeding Time to Value

Supermicro Hyperconverged Appliance with IBM Spectrum Accelerate
 Turnkey appliance
 Standard and customized SKUs /configurations
 Pre-installed, pre-integrated, pre-validated
 Can send hardware to Supermicro for integration
 IBM / Supermicro support
YouTube Video:
https://youtu.be/CP9H-VbHQuY
Additional Information:
https://www.supermicro.com/solutions/Spectrum-Accelerate.cfm

Spectrum Accelerate
Licensing

Optimized
capacity
Dynamic
performance
IBM XIV Storage System

Gen3
Customer-choice
or pre-installed /
pre-tested
hardware
Perpetual
IBM FlashSystem
license
A9000 &
IBM FlashSystem
A9000R
IBM Cloud as
Do It Yourself or As a Ultra-flexible
Service
Consumption
Ultra-flexible on-premises
Consumption
off-premises

Resources
Additional Resources

https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/spectrum/accelerate/
IBM Spectrum Accelerate Deployment, Usage, and Maintenance

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248267.html?Open
Deploying IBM Spectrum Accelerate on Cloud

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5261.html?Open
IBM Spectrum Accelerate Reference Architecture

IBM FlashSystem A9000R Product Guide

IBM Hyper-Scale Manager for IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family: IBM XIV, IBM FlashSystem A9000 and
A9000R, and IBM Spectrum Accelerate
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248376.html?Open
Using the IBM Spectrum Accelerate Family in VMware Environments: IBM XIV, IBM FlashSystem A9000
and IBM FlashSystem A9000R, and IBM Spectrum Accelerate

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Spectrum Accelerate SDS

XIV Flash System A9000R

Seamlessly manage and move data between instances.

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Integrated Do-it-Yourself As-a-Service

XIV Gen3 FlashSystem FlashSystem

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Intel x86-64 CPUs

2.5 Inch HDD (Hypervisor Boot)

Integrated 1Gb Ethernet

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VMware Hypervisor 1. VMware ESXi installed on bare metal server

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VMware Hypervisor 1. VMware ESXi installed on bare metal server

Processors Memory I/O Adapters Storage

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VMware Hypervisor 1. VMware ESXi installed on bare metal server

Processors Memory I/O Adapters Storage

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VMware Hypervisor 1. VMware ESXi installed on bare metal server

Processors Memory I/O Adapters Storage

 Spectrum Accelerate is distributed /

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Processors Memory I/O Adapters Storage

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Processors Memory I/O Adapters Storage

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All virtual machines share the hardware components.

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 A workstation is required deploy and manage the environment

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All iSCSI Connectivity

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Server – Integrated Management Module (IMM)

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Minimum Configuration: Maximum Configuration:

3 Modules Management / Deployment 15 Modules Management / Deployment

Basic Configuration Balanced Configuration Optimal Configuration

Number of ESXi Servers 3 15 15

Minimum Size of ESXi Boot Drive 300 GB 300 GB 300 GB

Number of SSDs per VMware ESXi host 0 1 (500GB) 1 (800GB)

Number of 10-GbE ports 1 2 4

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The secret of how Spectrum Accelerate

The next few slides highlight the basics of

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Data is divided into 1 MB chunks called

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Each 1 MB partition is strategically written to a