Block Volume Rohit Rahi

Local NVMe Storage November 2018

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

• Understand use cases for local and block storage
• Describe OCI Block Volume service capabilities
• Create block volumes and walk through features

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OCI Storage Services
Local Block File Object Archive
NVMe Volume Storage Storage Storage
NVMe SSD based NVMe SSD based NFSv3 compatible Highly durable Long-term archival
Type
temporary storage block storage file system Object storage and backup

Highly durable Highly durable

Non-persistent; Durable (multiple Durable (multiple
Durability (multiple copies (multiple copies
survives reboots copies in an AD) copies in an AD)
across ADs) across ADs)

Capacity Terabytes+ Petabytes+ Exabytes+ Petabytes+ Petabytes+

51.2 TB for BM, 50 GB to 32 TB/vol

Unit Size Up to 8 Exabyte 10 TB/object 10 TB/object
6.4-25.6 TB for VM 32 vols/instance
Apps that require Long term archival
Big Data, OLTP, Apps that require Unstructured data
SAN like features and backups
Use cases high performance shared file system incl. logs, images,
(Oracle DB, VMW, (Oracle DB
workloads (EBS, HPC) videos
Exchange) backups)

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Local NVMe SSD Devices
• Some instance shapes in OCI include locally attached NVMe devices
• Local NVMe SSD can be used for workloads that have high storage performance requirements
• Locally attached SSDs are not protected and OCI provides no RAID, snapshots, backups capabilities
for these devices
• Customers are responsible for the durability of data on the local SSDs
[opc@nvme ~]$ lsblk
Instance type NVMe SSD Devices NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nvme0n1 259:0 0 5.8T 0 disk
BM.DenseIO2.52 8 drives = 51.2 TB raw nvme1n1 259:3 0 5.8T 0 disk
nvme2n1 259:1 0 5.8T 0 disk
nvme3n1 259:2 0 5.8T 0 disk
VM.DenseIO2.8 2 drive = 6.4 TB raw nvme4n1 259:5 0 5.8T 0 disk
nvme5n1 259:6 0 5.8T 0 disk
VM.DenseIO2.16 4 drives = 12.8 TB raw nvme6n1 259:4 0 5.8T 0 disk
nvme7n1 259:7 0 5.8T 0 disk
VM.DenseIO2.24 8 drives = 25.6 TB raw sda 8:0 0 46.6G 0 disk
├─sda2 8:2 0 8G 0 part [SWAP]
├─sda3 8:3 0 38.4G 0 part /
└─sda1 8:1 0 200M 0 part /boot/efi

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NVMe SSD Persisted - Reboot/Pause

101011010101010
101011010101010
100101010101010 Data saved on 100101010101010 Data deleted on
010101010010101 instance 010101010010101 instance reboot or
00010011110101 00010011110101
reboot or pause, not usable
pause for primary data
Local NVMe Local NVMe
SSD SSD
Instance Instance
(VM/BM) (VM/BM)

“With Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, companies can leverage NVMe for persistent storage to host databases
and applications. However, other cloud providers typically do not offer such a capability. In cases where
NVMe storage was an option with other vendors, it was not persistent. This meant that the multi-terabyte
database that researchers loaded to this storage was lost when the server stopped.
Accenture

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Protecting NVMe SSD Devices
RAID 1: An exact copy RAID 10: Stripes data across multiple mirrored RAID 6: Block-level striping with two parity
(or mirror) of a set of pairs. As long as one disk in each mirrored pair blocks distributed across all member disks
data on two or more is functional, data can be retrieved
disks

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SLA for NVMe Performance
Shape Minimum • OCI provides a service-level agreement
Supported IOPS (SLA) for NVMe performance
VM.DenseIO1.4 200k
• Measured against 4k block sizes with 100%
VM.DenseIO1.8 250k random write workload on Dense IO shapes
VM.DenseIO1.16 400k where the drive is in a steady-state of
BM.DenseIO1.36 2.5MM operation
VM.DenseIO2.8 250k
• Run test on Oracle Linux shapes with 3rd
VM.DenseIO2.16 400k party Benchmark Suites,
VM.DenseIO2.24 800k https://github.com/cloudharmony/block-
BM.DenseIO2.52 3.0MM storage

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Block Volume Service
• Block Volume Service let you store data on block volumes independently and beyond the
lifespan of compute instances
• Block volumes operates at the raw storage device level and manages data as a set of
numbered, fixed-size blocks using a protocol such as iSCSI
• You can create, attach, connect, and move volumes, as needed, to meet your storage and
application requirements
• Typical Scenarios
– Persistent and Durable Storage

– Expand an Instance's Storage

– Instance Scaling

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Block Volume Service (contd.)
Capacity Configurable: 50 GB to 32 TB (1GB increments)
Perf: disk type NVMe SSD based
Perf: IOPS 60 IOPS/GB - up to 25K IOPS*
Perf: Throughput/Vol 480 KBPS/GB - up to 320 MBPS**
Perf: Latency (P95) Sub-millisecond latencies
Perf: Per-instance Limits • 32 attachments/instance, up to 1 PB (32 TB/volume x 32 volumes/instance)
• Up to 400K IOPS, near line rate throughput
Durability Multiple replicas across multiple storage servers within the AD
Security Encrypted at rest and transit
Restore from Backups (RTO) <1 minute, regardless of size
Backup Performance (RPO) ~30 minutes (for 2TB), via snapshot

* For Bare Metal or 8-core+ VM compute instance, using 4KB blocks. VM perf is limited by VM network bandwidth.
** At 256 KB block size

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Creating and Attaching a Block Volume
Paravirtualization is a light
virtualization technique where a
VM utilizes hypervisor APIs to
access remote storage directly as
if it were a local device

iSCSI block storage attachment

utilizes the internal storage stack
in the guest OS and network
hardware virtualization to access
block volumes. Hypervisor is not
involved in the iSCSI attachment
process

By default, all Block Volumes are

Read/Write

Block Volume can also be read-

only to prevent against accidental
modification

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Detaching and Deleting Block Volumes

• When an instance no longer requires a block volume, you can disconnect and then detach it from the
instance without any loss of data
• When you attach the same volume to another instance or to the same instance, DO NOT FORMAT the
disk volume. Otherwise, you will lose all the data on the volume
• When the volume itself is no longer needed, you can delete the block volume
• You cannot undo a delete operation. Any data on a volume will be permanently deleted once the
volume is deleted

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Backup and Restoration
• Complete point-in-time complete snapshot copy of your block volumes
• Encrypted and stored in the Object Storage Service, and can be restored as new volumes to any
Availability Domain within the same region

ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE (REGION)

Availability Domain 1 Availability Domain 2

Subnet A Subnet B

Server Server Object Storage

Block
Storage Block
(Backup) Storage
(Restore)

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Backup and Restoration
• Backup options:
• On-demand, one-off: point-in-time snapshot
• Automated policy-based: backups automatically on a schedule and retain them based on the
selected backup policy. Three backup policies:
• Bronze: monthly incremental backups, retained for twelve months (+full yearly backup, retained
for 5 years)
• Silver: weekly incremental backups, retained for four weeks (+ Bronze)
• Gold: daily incremental backups, retained for seven days (+Silver, + Bronze)

• On-demand, one-off block volume backups provide a choice of incremental versus full backup options
• Can restore a volume in less than a minute regardless of the volume size

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Clone
• Cloning allows copying an entire existing block volume to a new volume without needing to go
through a backup and restore process
• Clone is a point-in-time direct disk-to-disk deep copy an of entire volume
• The clone operation is immediate, but actual copying of data happens in the background and can
take up to 15 minutes for 1 TB volume
• A clone can only be created in the same AD with no need of detaching the source volume before
cloning it
• A clone can be attached and used as regular volume when its lifecycle state changes from
”PROVISIONING” to "AVAILABLE", usually within seconds (At this time, the data is being copied in
the background)

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Volume Groups

• Group together block and boot volumes from

multiple compartments across multiple
compute instances in a volume group
• You can use volume groups to create volume
group backups and clones that are point-in-
time and crash-consistent
• Manually trigger a full or incremental backup
of all the volumes in a volume group
leveraging a coordinated snapshot across all
the volumes

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Boot Volumes
• A compute instance is launched using OS image stored on a remote boot volume
• Boot volume is created automated and associated with an instance until you terminate the
instance
• Boot volumes are encrypted, have faster performance, lower launch times, and higher
durability for BM and VM instances
• Compute instance can be scaled to a larger shape by using boot volumes
• You can preserve the boot volume when you terminate a compute instance
• Boot volumes are only terminated when you manually delete them
• Boot volumes cannot be detached from a running instance
• Possible to take a manual backup, assign backup policy or create clone of boot volumes

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Custom Boot Volumes
• You have the option of specifying a custom boot volume size
• In order to take advantage of the larger size, you must first extend the root (Linux-based
images) or system (Windows-based images) partition

Linux default size is 46.6 GB Windows default size is 256GB

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Block Volume Offline Resize
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service lets you expand the size of block
volumes and boot volumes. You have three options to increase the size of your volumes:

• Expand an existing volume in place with offline resizing.

• Restore from a volume backup to a larger volume.

• Clone an existing volume to a new, larger volume.

You can only increase the size of the volume, you cannot decrease the size.

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Block Volume Demo

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Pricing
Block volumes are metered based on provisioned GB volume size

Metric Pay as You Go Monthly Flex

Block volumes provisioned storage GB/month $0.0425 $0.0425

• Typical Enterprise Workload - 400GB Database

• OCI Block Volume: $17 per month w/ 25,000 IOPS (400 x $.0425)
• 25% better performance; 60 IOPS/GB vs 50 IOPS/GB for Amazon EBS
• AWS: You need to pay $0.125/GB-month for storage ($50) and $0.065 per IOPS provisioned
($1,300 for 20,000 IOPS) = $1,350 per month
• 79X cheaper than Amazon EBS

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Summary
• Offers local NVMe SSD storage with SLAs for high-performance workloads
• Block Volume service - persistent, durable, high-performance block service with industry leading
price/performance
• Create, attach, connect, and move volumes, as needed, to meet your storage and application
requirements
• Block volume service supports backups (on-demand, automated) and restoration and
• Cloning and automated backups offered only by OCI Block Volume service
• Another unique feature, Volume Groups simplifies backups of running enterprise applications that span
multiple storage volumes across multiple instances

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