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All-Flash Storage: Accelerated Performance, Yes, but Is It Enterprise-Grade?

August 2015
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All-Flash Vendors Should Meet These Criteria
Here's our checklist to help you evaluate the enterprise-grade capabilities of all-flash storage solutions you may be considering. It helps you assess what you should be most concerned about as you invest in solid-state storage arrays for critical application environments.
Your enterprise should settle for no less.
AFF Enterprise-Grade Checklist
Performance
Audited performance benchmarks
Quality of service
Management Simplicity
Single pane-of-glass management
Seamless scale-out and scale-up
NAS and SAN
Data Protection / Security
Synchronous / asynchronous replication
Secure multi-tenancy
F2D2C integrated data protection
Application Integration
Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, VMware, Citrix
Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, TSM
OpenStack, CloudStack integration
When you've gone through the list, contact your NetApp sales rep or reseller to see if you qualify for our free All Flash FAS try-before-you-buy offer—it's a risk-free way to get a taste of what true enterprise-grade, all-flash storage has to offer.
Mike McNamara
Senior Manager, Product Marketing
NetApp
Sure, high performance and low latency matter. Business competition—relentless 24/7/365—demands that you coax maximum speed and responsiveness from key business operations. Faster time to market translates to greater customer satisfaction and competitive advantage.
That's why your forward-looking IT peers increasingly embrace all-flash storage: By speeding performance and reducing latency, flash accelerates business value—driving revenue, enhancing the customer experience, and reducing costs through consolidation.
But when it comes to all-flash storage solutions today, high performance and low latency are not enough. Your enterprise needs more.
Turn on a Dime—Without Compromise
In an enterprise context, "agility" refers to how well and rapidly a company can adapt to market and environmental changes—and do it in productive, cost-effective ways. Robust data management and enterprise-grade capabilities are key to staying on top of today's dynamic marketplace.
Accordingly, astute IT bosses are asking questions around all-flash storage solutions: How available is my data? How much flexibility do I have to move that data over its lifecycle? What about data protection? Does the solution offer native support for cloud?
In essence, they're saying, "Okay, Mr. Storage Vendor, you can accelerate my performance and reduce my latency. But can you wrap that in the enterprise-grade package that I need to run my business?"
NetApp® All Flash FAS (AFF) answers all these questions. It's an enterprise-grade storage solution.
Figure 1) Powered by clustered Data ONTAP, All Flash FAS is built for virtualized, shared environments requiring high performance plus robust data management.
Source: NetApp, 2015
Powered by Clustered Data ONTAP
Driving All Flash FAS is NetApp clustered Data ONTAP®, the #1 storage operating system (OS).* It's the foundation of the Data Fabric, our vision for the future of data management. We architected Data ONTAP to have enterprise-grade, unified, scale-out capabilities that deliver nondisruptive operations, storage and operational efficiency, and scalability over the lifetime of the system. Data ONTAP is the basis for virtualized shared storage infrastructures.
Backed by Data ONTAP FlashEssentials, AFF simplifies flash deployment, eliminates flash silos, accelerates database performance with 20x faster response times, and reduces your total cost of ownership. Enhanced native capabilities of the OS bring integrated inline efficiencies to AFF. These include newly enhanced compression, inline zero-block and always-on deduplication for 5x–10x average space savings.
All Flash FAS employs the Data ONTAP log-structured file system WAFL® (Write Anywhere File Layout). It's optimized for flash media to minimize latency, reduce wear, and maximize usable capacity. The solution's optimized write, read, and parallel processing results in consistent submillisecond latency and high performance.
Figure 2) Flash-optimized write architecture reduces latency and increases the longevity of SSDs.
Source: NetApp, 2015
Flash-to-Disk Agility
All Flash FAS supports live workload migration between flash and hard disk drive (HDD) tiers—on premises or in the cloud. As data characteristics and application environments change, data that's no longer performance-driven doesn't need to be in flash. All Flash FAS gives you the flexibility to move that data nondisruptively within the same cluster to other nodes that are just spinning media for cost-effective backup or archival for example—quickly and easily.
Flash-to-Cloud Data Protection
NetApp is the first all-flash system to support integrated snapshots and cloning to a software instance running on Amazon Web Services. You can move your data securely across your choice of clouds—enabled by Cloud ONTAP™ and NetApp Private Storage for Cloud.
Enterprise-grade Data Protection Delivers Resiliency
Industry-leading, advanced data protection technologies in AFF improve your resiliency. Core features include RAID DP, in-core checksums, lost write protection, read-after write verification, and media scans that verify that data written to the solid state drive (SSD) is written correctly and regenerated.
For enterprise-grade data availability, NetApp MetroCluster™ is the only high-availability and disaster recovery software integrated into an all-flash array. With MetroCluster, you recover from failures with zero data loss, maintaining continuous data availability for mission-critical applications—at half the cost and complexity of competitive solutions. All Flash FAS with MetroCluster is one of the only all-flash arrays that supports integrated synchronous mirroring with a single management view. And, according to Forrester Research estimates, organizations can achieve up to 143% return on investment (ROI) through MetroCluster.
NetApp SnapMirror® software replicates to any type of FAS system—all flash, hybrid, or HDD, on premises or in the cloud—reducing overall system costs.
Enhancements that improve SSD durability and life include metadata and user data that are coalesced in memory before being destaged intelligently to the SSD subsystem. This ability minimizes wear by reducing the amount of writes dispatched to the SSDs. Data is never overwritten in place and writes are striped across multiple SSDs, resulting in more even wear.
Furthermore, where other storage vendors compete, we partner. One road leads to vendor lock-in; the other leads to interoperability. Through strong data protection partnerships, All Flash FAS delivers integrated support for Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, and Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) solutions.
Leading Application Integration Covers All the Bases
Deep application integration sets All Flash FAS apart from other all-flash solutions on the market today.
Delivering tight assimilation with Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP, Citrix, VMware, and OpenStack and CloudStack environments, AFF streamlines your management and data protection chores—saving you time and cycles. Application-consistent backup and recovery is integrated and automated.
Storage Management Made Easy
All Flash FAS includes the NetApp OnCommand® family of management software for automated tools that further simplify management of storage operations. Setting up and configuring AFF typically takes less than 15 minutes leveraging preconfigured systems for SAN deployments. OnCommand Workflow Automation automates common storage tasks such as provisioning and data protection for environments such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
To optimize storage for peak performance and to keep everything running smoothly, OnCommand Performance Manager automatically monitors and analyzes performance. It's an integrated component of OnCommand Unified Manager.
With multiprotocol support—Fibre Channel (FC), FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, pNFS, CIFS/SMB—AFF delivers a common look and feel across your entire heterogeneous enterprise. Network-attached storage (NAS) is especially useful for VDI workloads typical in Citrix XenDesktop and VMware Horizon View installations.
The Need for Speed
All Flash FAS accelerated performance enables server consolidation and can reduce database license costs by 50%.
In a recent SPC-1 benchmark, the All Flash FAS8080EX delivered 685,000 SPC-1 IOPS, ranking in the top 5. For database environments, AFF delivers 309K IOPS at 1ms latency for Oracle database 12c and 280K IOPS at 1ms latency for Microsoft SQL Server. VDI performance is equally impressive with 160K IOPS at ~1ms latency (80% write, 20% read).
Like every FAS controller, AFF supports all the same protocols and features as FAS hybrid arrays. This includes the ability to scale up and out to 8 nodes for FC, or 24 nodes for NAS. With multi-tenancy built in and quality of service to protect important workloads, All Flash FAS is more than capable of meeting the demands of enterprise IT—scaling up to 384TB all-flash capacity per high availability (HA) pair or up to 5PB all-flash capacity in a cluster.
Free Try Before You Buy
If you're evaluating all-flash storage arrays for your enterprise, you'll want to consider the questions in the All Flash Array Checklist for Enterprise Buyers (see sidebar, "All-Flash Vendors Should Meet These Criteria"). Compare NetApp AFF against all-flash storage solutions other vendors are offering. If their solutions don't meet these criteria, you will end up setting up a storage silo with all of the management challenges involved.
NetApp is currently offering a free All Flash FAS trial for qualified enterprises. It's a risk-free way to put all-flash storage performance with enterprise-grade capabilities through its paces in your own environment. Contact your NetApp sales rep or reseller to find out more
The NetApp AFF8000 product line delivers on all the elements in the checklist. Because yes, high performance and low latency matter—but for enterprise IT mavens, that's just the beginning.
*IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker 2015 Q1, June 2015 (Open Networked Disk Storage Systems revenue)
Mike McNamara, senior manager of product marketing at NetApp, has 25 years of storage and data management marketing experience. Prior to NetApp, Mike worked at Adaptec, EMC, and HP. He helped lead the launch of the industry's first unified scale-out storage system, iSCSI and SAS storage system, and Fibre Channel storage system. Mike is a former marketing chairperson for the Fibre Channel Industry Association, and current member of the Ethernet Technology Summit Conference Advisory Board and the Ethernet Alliance. He frequently contributes to industry journals and speaks at industry events.
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Maximum virtual server performance requires storage that accelerates virtual machine operation. Storage must also address the unique needs of applications running in the virtual environment. Learn how all-flash storage solves the I/O blender effect, find out what storage features are most important, and see how All-Flash FAS can deliver a rapid return on investment.

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I disabled the Adobe Flash hardware acceleration as recommended but FF still crashes often

Oxylatium recommended that I disable Adobe Flash hardware acceleration. I did this, but Firefox is still crashing every few minutes.

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I am trying to find out how to create an animated preview of a PDf book file were the pages curl and turn to simulate a real book. Kodak Prinergy uses such a preview for clients to view & order online products, they informed me that it was done in Flash, but offer no other info.
Any info would be helpful.

I too would like to know if it is possible to import a PDF form into Catalyst and have it create the
form in Flash... I can open the PDF in Illustrator but only one page at a time... Since I do not see the option of importing a PDF can I import separate AI files for each of the pages of a multi-page form? Then use each page as a frame in the timeline?

Xtremio or All Flash Storage with SAP

Hi gurus, Where can I find information about supported storage platforms? Can we move our SAP SQL Server to EMC Xtremio storage and still be supported by SAP? Warm Regards, CM

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All Flash FAS Makes the Grade for Enterprise

As businesses strive to achieve faster time to market and greater customer satisfaction, they must improve the speed and responsiveness from key business operations. IT leaders recognize the benefits of all-flash storage for delivering consistent, low-latency I/O to critical workloads. The right all-flash storage can yield significant benefits for your business by accelerating applications, speeding up important decisions, and increasing the satisfaction of end users and customers. Flash must be enterprise-grade to reach its full potential, and the All Flash FAS (AFF) 8000 series which ships with Data ONTAP FlashEssentials innovations, is designed for the enterprise buyer.

Its about leveraging the right architecture and optimizing it for flash to deliver an enterprise grade solution to take flash main stream!

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I have 8 master pages in my adobe form, But when I see the PDF preview or print only the first master page is shown or printed. Can anyone please tell me how to print or pdf preview all the master pages. The contents in the master pages are different.
Thanks in advance.

Master pages are used a background for body pages (similar to a background image).
You should put all your contents on separate body pages instead master pages.

Flash storage imac

Is it wise (dollars aside) for me to CTO a new iMac 21" with all flash storage, or better to go with Fusion? With the advent of external and cloud-based storage, I am wondering if investing in phsyical HD for an iMac is wise, especially when in return you can configure for Flash only storage and gain speed. Thoughts?

iOS is not compatible with the iMac directly. Tell us your Mac OS X if you want help pertaining to your iMac.
Flash storage is faster, but also has some downsides:
1. Complete erasure as far as I know is not possible. Meaning your personal data stored on it is at risk if someone should get ahold of it after it hits the dump.
2. It costs more.
3. The maximum data storage amount isn't as much.
The Cloud is only as good as your internet connection.

PDF previews for FBA users

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I have an extended web app for FBA users in SharePoint 2013 site. I configured the PDF previews according to following article:
http://stevemannspath.blogspot.com/2012/10/sharepoint-2013-pdf-preview-in-search.html
it is working but not for FBA users. I opened the extended web app in SharePoint designer and the code explained in step 6 in above article was there. Unable to figure out if there is any additional step for FBA users.
Any help would be really appreciated.

unfortunately, PDF previews will not work for FBA users according to above mentioned method. So, i followed another method explained here

I'm having problems with my storage, Its saying all my storage is taken but I've deleted everything?

My iPad is telling me ive used up all my storage on my iPad but I have deleted absolutely everything on it and its still saying there no storage available.

I have turned it on and off and still the same, I have even deleted all of my icloud storage

My photos looked great but when I made a book they all appeared to be corrupted in the pdf preview?

My photos looked great but when I made a book in iphoto 09 they all appeared to be corrupted in the pdf preview? There is a white triangular shape with random horizontal lines running through each photo in the ibook preview. Took it to the Genius bar, after a week of fooling with it including wiping it clean and resinstalling the OS the same thing happens.

A LOT of them dont appear.
What do you see in the window when you click on those? A blank, black window? An exclamation mark? What?

What is flash storage?

What is the difference in flash storage and a traditional hard drive? Why would I want to pay so much for a laptop that only has a fraction of the storage capacity of a old hard drive? If I have a lot of movies, music, games, etc. on my laptop, wouldn't I run out of room much faster or is the computers memory configured in a manner that keeps programs and such from using as much memory. I am a avid Apple product advocate because of the unquestionable quality and reliability of the products but As I am shopping for a new laptop, I find myself questioning why I would pay much more to downgrade hard-drive space on top of the fact that the "flash storage" is a new and relatively un-tested technology. I realize that apple has likely done intensive research on the new flash storage but I don't want to have to constantly monitor my available storage on a MacBook that I just paid $1200 bucks for. I also have read that in the event of a un-repairable system crash, recovery of data from a flash storage is extremely difficult if not impossible. My current Apple products which have the "old school" hard drive are very fast to open programs and apps, so why would I would want essentially pay twice as much to downgrade? I am a extreme tech. Idiot so someone please help me because I absolutely don't understand how I would be doing myself any favors buying a new version MacBook. Thanks so much!

Christy, when SSD drives were first released I thought, "Huh?" I had some of the same questions you did. Today every computer I use has either an SSD or a hybrid drive. (A hybrid drive is basically a standard drive with a small SSD. As Seagate's technology has improved it provides many of the advantages of an SSD at a lower cost.) Here's why:
SSDs are wicked fast and for some professional users this speed is significant, not just a convenience. The speed of an SSD also gives makes virtual memory more useful. Most of us launch multiple programs using more memory than our computers actually have and that works because programs running in the background can be shifted to the hard drive and brought back into RAM when they are moved back to the front. There's a noticeable slowdown when VM is being used because moving the program to/from the hard drive takes time. With an SSD it takes no time, in fact, I've noticed that a computer with an SSD feels like it has more memory. My 2007 iMac was maxed out to 6GB of RAM and starting with Lion it began to feel slow because it needed more RAM. With its drive upgrade it suddenly began performing much like my 8GB 2009 notebook - that was quite a big difference.
For mobile computers the SSD provides two additional advantages: An SSD requires less power so the battery lasts longer and because it has no moving parts it won't be crashed by inadvertent movement. And yes, if the SSD dies data can't be retrieved as with a standard hard drive. Then again most of us aren't going to pay the $500-$2500 that this treatment costs. Frequent backups are no substitute for Drive Savers.
The disadvantage is the cost per gigabyte which is dropping fast. The 256GB drive I bought 18 months ago is now selling for half the price I paid for it - and I paid half of what it cost just 6 months earlier! Still the price difference is there and that's why Apple is selling its desktop computers with a Fusion drive option - a combination of standard drive with a small SSD.
For notebook users, the SSD option can require a bit of discipline and how you handle it will depend on whether the notebook is your only computer or if you have a desktop too. I keep my media on the desktop, not my MBA. Apple's iTunes Match came at exactly the right time for me; I keep a small part of my collection on the Air and stream music from the cloud when I'm in WiFi range. I copy a few movies from my desktop to an sdRAM card for when I travel.
As I said, I am sold on SSDs and won't consider a standard drive on any of my computers again.

Is the 256GB flash storage enough for me? Can I install a bigger SD?

Hi there, I am transferring from a Dell (which I love) to the Macbook Air 256. However, I'm very concerned about the storage. I've had my Dell for 10 years and never gotten near the storage capacity. It has 285Gb and I've used 215GB of it. I figured the 256 would be enough, but I've only transferred 1 year of pictures over to my MAC, and the storage space is already HALF FULL!!!! I barely deleted 50 photos, and you can see the storage space free up by a couple GBs. Does flash storage not hold as much as regular hard drives? I'm a novice at mac computers and am getting really frustrated that this computer might not hold anything. Everything is also on an external drive, but I like it all on my computer for easy access. I also heard that I can put SD cards into my Macbook air to give me more storage. Is this true and if so, where do I get that? Thank you so so much for your help!

firebox is only $30 at walmart, if you dont have a safe deposit box.
theft is more about HIDING IT than vaulting it, buy a fireproof SLEEVE on Ebay for $30 and hide it under etc etc something, very easy to do.
you can buy your own private website, which is what I do, I have several   Cost is roughly $120 per year unlimited storage..
(see godaddy.com or otherwise)
However safety has to be put in place to prevent others from accessing your data, also very easy.
Its all about redundancy #1 and #2 longevity (DVD professional archival) for very important information that cant degrade over short term and rated for at least 60+ years.
All these points are explained in detail in the link I posted you as User Tip.
Online archives
Drawbacks:
1. Subject to server failure or due to non-payment of your hosting account, it can be suspended.
2. Subject, due to lack of security on your part, to being attacked and hacked/erased.
Advantages:
1. In case of house fire, etc. your data is safe.
2. In travels, and propagating files to friends and likewise, a mere link by email is all that is needed and no large media needs to be sent across the net.
3. Online archives are the perfect and best-idealized 3rd platform redundancy for data protection.
4. Supremely useful in data isolation from backups and local archives in being online and offsite for long-distance security in isolation.
5. *Level-1.5 security of your vital data.
As for hard drives, dont make the HUGE mistake others make, only having ONE off computer copy on a HD, thats a tragedy in waiting, 2 copies is 1, and 1 is none, ....and the data on the computer doesnt count in the 2-copy scheme.
Hard Drive Warning (all makes and models)
Ironically but logical, new hard drives are far more fragile than one that has been working for several months or a couple years. So beware in your thinking that a new hard drive translates into “extremely reliable”!
Hard drives suffer from high rates of what has been termed "infant mortality". Essentially this means new drives have their highest likelihood of failing in the first few months of usage. This is because of very minor manufacturing defects or HD platter balancing, or head and armature geometry being less than perfect; and this is not immediately obvious and can quickly manifest itself once the drive is put to work.
Hard drives that survive the first few months of use without failing are likely to remain healthy for a number of years.
Generally HD are highly prone to death or corruption for a few months, then work fine for a few years, then spike in mortality starting at 3-4 years and certainly should be considered end-of-life at 5-7+ years even if still working well. Drives written to once and stored away have the highest risk of data corruption due to not being read/written to on a regular basis. Rotate older working HD into low-risk use.
The implication of this is that you should not trust a new hard drive completely (really never completely!) until it has been working perfectly for several months.
Given the second law of thermodynamics, any and all current mfg. HD will, under perfect storage conditions tend themselves to depolarization and a point will be reached, even if the HD mechanism is perfect, that the ferromagnetic read/write surface of the platter inside the HD will entropy to the point of no viable return for data extraction. HD life varies, but barring mechanical failure, 3-8 years typically.
Hard drive failure and handling
The air cushion of air between the platter surface and the head is microscopic, as small as 3 nanometers, meaning bumps, jarring while in operation can cause head crash, scraping off magnetic particles causing internal havoc to the write surface and throwing particles thru the hard drive.
Hard drives are fragile in general, regardless, ... in specific while running hard drives are extremely fragile.
PDF: Bare hard drive handling generic instructions
hard drive moving parts
Some of the common reasons for hard drives to fail:
Infant mortality (due to mfg. defect / build tolerances)
Bad parking   (head impact)
Sudden impact   (hard drive jarred during operation, heads can bounce)
Electrical surge   (fries the controller board, possibly also causing heads to write the wrong data)
Bearing / Motor failure   (spindle bearings or motors wear during any and all use, eventually leading to HD failure)
Board failure   (controller board failure on bottom of HD)
Bad Sectors   (magnetic areas of the platter may become faulty)
General hard drive failure

How to open report.pdf file? getting error message file cannot be previewed pdf preview handler

how can I open a report.pdf file that shows error: file cannot be previewed because of an error w/ pdf preview handler

Hi pfmercerville,
If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or Vista), you will find that your PDF files do not preview in Windows Explorer as they do in the 32-bit versions. Instead, all you see is a message stating that This file can’t be previewed. To enable this functionality on your 64-bit operating system, follow these steps.
1. Click the Orb (Start Button).
2. Go to the Search programs and files textbox and input regedit.
3. Select regedit.exe from the results.
4. When the UAC prompt appears, click the Yes button.
5. In the left pane of the Registry Editor, go to (and select): 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\CLSID\{DC6EFB56-9CFA-464D-8880-44885D7DC193}
6. In the right pane, locate AppID.
7. Change AppID value to {534A1E02-D58F-44f0-B58B-36CBED287C7C}.
8. Restart your computer for the change to take affect.
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