Intel® Optane™ Technology

Jeffery Lee
May 18th, 2021
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 Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory Adoption
CUSTOMER
TRACTION
SINCE LAUNCH1 FORTUNE 500 POC TO SALE CONVERSION PRODUCTION WINS

SPANNING MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES1 AND SEVERAL WORKLOADS1

OTHER
21%

1 Source for all sales data – Intel Sales and Marketing, Jan 2021.

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 Intel® Optane™ SSD Adoption
CUSTOMER
TRACTION
SINCE LAUNCH1 FORTUNE 500 POC TO SALE CONVERSION PRODUCTION WINS

SPANNING MULTIPLE INDUSTRIES1 AND SEVERAL WORKLOADS1

1 Source for all sales data – Intel Sales and Marketing, Jan 2021.

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Vision of 2-Tier Memory/Storage for Optane
Performance Tier Capacity Tier

DRAM
Intel® Optane™
persistent memory
DRAM
Hot tier

Memory

Intel Optane
Storage persistent memory

SSD storage

Memory bus
PCIe bus Intel Optane SSD

SSD storage

Intel Optane technology can help memory and storage applications! 5

 A Growing Ecosystem for Intel® Optane™ Technology
Software

CSPs & COSPS

OEMs & SIs

Source for all ecosystem data – Intel Sales and Marketing, Jan 2021.
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Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory
Additional Material

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Accelerate Insight and Innovation
Intel® Optane™ persistent memory (PMem) 200 series fills the DRAM gap

Extract more from larger datasets. Expand your memory

pool in persistent memory and support near-real-time
data analysis; deliver deep insights, improve operations,
or create new revenue streams.

Lower overall total cost of ownership (TCO).3 Do more

with each server—increase CPU utilization, in-memory
database capacity, throughput, virtual machine (VM)
density, and services for users on a consolidated footprint.

Protect data automatically. Help secure all data at

rest in persistent memory with application-transparent
AES-256 encryption, which enhances security without
code changes.

High performance. High capacity. Hardware-enhanced security.

3 Supports for more than 1.2x more VMs than the previous generation. Based on testing by Intel as of April 27, 2020 (Baseline) and March 31, 2020 (New). For details, see Endnotes slides.

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Intel Optane PMem 200 Series Real-World Usages

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [4]

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Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory
200 Series Value

Extract more value Scale delivery of more Automatically improve

from larger datasets than services to more customers security without sacrificing
previously possible at compelling TCO performance

▪ 128, 256, and 512 GB modules ▪ Support more VMs and more ▪ AES 256-bit hardware encryption helps
▪ Larger datasets can exist closer to the memory per VM, all at a cost lower protect firmware and data
CPU than typical DRAM ▪ Data put on the module is always
for faster processing, which means ▪ Memory cost savings can help fulfill encrypted
greater insights large memory capacity needs ▪ Security-enabled cryptographic erasure
▪ Larger memory pools help break ▪ Increase VM, user, and application and DIMM over-write help keep data
through input/output (I/O) bottlenecks density and meet business service- from being accessed on repurposed or
▪ More affordable to keep larger datasets level agreements (SLAs) with fewer discarded modules
in memory servers

▪ Faster restart times for in-memory ▪ Improve business uptime during

databases power failure

Solves: Existing memory and high- Solves: Data-intensive workloads Solves: Data is vulnerable to
latency storage systems cannot perform best when hot data is constant, sophisticated attacks, but
meet high-throughput, high- stored in memory, but DRAM is enabling security and encryption
bandwidth demands expensive and limited in capacity can sacrifice performance

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Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem)
at a Glance
AES Secure
UP TO higher average memory AES Secure
UP TO
512 GB
AVG.
256-BIT Erase
512 GB 32%
bandwidth over the previous 256-BIT Erase
encryption modules generation10 encryption modules

Intel Optane PMem Intel Optane PMem

100 series 200 series
2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors
on 2S/4S/8S platform on 2S platform

8–28 6 channels 16–40 8 channels

cores memory cores memory

3 TB 4.5 TB 2,666 MT/s 4 TB 6 TB 3,200 MT/s

Intel Optane Total system DDR4 + Intel Optane Intel Optane Total system DDR4 + Intel Optane
PMem memory PMem PMem memory
per socket** per socket**
PMem
per socket* per socket*

18 W Max eADR 15 W Max

thermal design power thermal design power

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [1]
10 Based on testing by Intel as of April 27, 2020 (Baseline) and March 31, 2020 (New). For details, see Endnotes slides.

* 3 TB Intel Optane PMem = 6 x 512 GB Intel Optane PMem per socket, 4.5 TB System Memory = 6 x 512 GB Intel Optane PMem per socket + 6 x 256 GB
** 4 TB Intel Optane PMem = 8 x 512 GB Intel Optane PMem per socket, 6 TB System Memory = 8 x 512 GB Intel Optane PMem per socket + 8 x 256 GB

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Operating Modes
of Intel® Optane™ Persistent Memory (PMem)

Memory Mode (MM) App Direct Mode (AD) Storage over AD

Affordable memory capacity for Persistent performance and Acts as fast storage on the
many applications high capacity memory bus
Total memory: Intel Optane PMem size Total memory: Intel Optane PMem size + DRAM size Avoids the latency of the input/output (I/O) bus

Unmodified application Intel Optane PMem–aware application Unmodified application

Unmodified OS/VMM Intel Optane PMem–aware OS/VMM OS with NVDIMM driver

Storage on memory bus

Volatile memory pool
Intel Optane PMem DRAM DRAM
DRAM as cache Intel Optane PMem

Persistent Volatile Persistent Volatile

Intel Optane PMem

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 Intel® Optane™ PMem Specifications and Features
Product Specifications Intel Optane PMem 100 Series Product Specifications Intel Optane PMem 200 Series

Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor 2nd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors

Module capacity; 128, 256, 512 GB; Module capacity; 128, 256, 512 GB;
PMem platform capacity 3 TB per socket PMem platform capacity Up to 4 TB per socket

DDR-T speeds Up to 2,666 MT/sec DDR-T speeds Up to 3,200 MT/sec

32% average bandwidth increase

Performance (bandwidth) Baseline Performance (bandwidth)
vs. previous gen
Thermal Design Power (TDP) Thermal Design Power (TDP)
Up to 18 W Up to 15 W
(sustained) (sustained)

Operating modes App Direct, Memory Mode Operating modes App Direct, Memory Mode

Security AES-256 encryption Security AES-256 encryption

Data persistence feature ADR Data persistence feature ADR, eADR (optional)

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [1]

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Intel® Optane™ SSD
Additional Material

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 Storage Acceleration with Intel Optane SSD P5800X
the World’s Fastest Data Center SSD
P5800X gains vs Intel® SSD Accelerate Slower Capacity Storage
D7-P5600 NAND (both Gen4 PCIe)

ACCELERATING CACHING TIERING

13x
up to
Lower Average
Latency
at QD=1
Metadata Write
Cache

Hot
intelligent data placement

66x
Data HOT
up to
Tier
Better QoS (4K Read, Capacity
70/30 Mixed Random, Storage 3D NAND SSD 3D NAND SSD
WARM 3D NAND SSD
QD=1, 5 9’s)

27x
up to Gen3 PCIe Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X improvements vs PCIe Gen 3 NAND
Greater IOPS/GB
70/30 Mixed
Random Read

70% 60% 50%

Lower 4 9’s

33x
Greater Better
latency vs all- per-node response
More TLC NAND at VM density times
than Higher endurance ~ same cost
(Drive Writes
Per Day) Also: MS-SQL, MySQL

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [2]

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 High Endurance Storage is Cost Effective
Endurance Rating1 Application: Protect low-endurance
(higher is better) NAND capacity drives
Use Optane SSD for
Intel® Optane™ SSD small block writes
P5800X1
100
Directing writes to
Intel Optane SSD
60
Data ingest in 4K (small) blocks
high endurance Intel
DC P4800X1
Intel Optane Optane SSDs can
Intel® SSD
3 SSD P5800X extend the life1 of
D7-P56001
Data de-staged in 1M (large) blocks capacity SSDs by

10-20x
Intel® SSD
D5-P43201
0.5
Fewer Replacements

0 20 40 60 80 100
Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD)

67% Higher vs Previous Gen Reduce SSD Capacity Storage Costs

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [2]

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 Outstanding QoS for Predictable Performance
Read Quality of Service (QoS) at 1GB/s Write1 Application: Differentiate storage-based services
(lower is better)

Target response time

Service level
(latency)

LESS PREDICTABLE
Entry
Read Latency

Basic

Good

Better
MORE
PREDICTABLE
Best
I/O
Intel® SSD D7-P5600 Intel® Optane™ SSD P5800X

up to 66x Better QoS at 5 9s Latency Offer Premium QoS Tiers

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [5]

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 Low Latency Under Heavy Write Workloads
Aerospike Certification Tool (ACT) Application: Minimize response times to
Maximize TPS below 1ms Latency, ACT v6.1 accelerate time to insight

Financial Services

FSI
• Fraud-detection
• Analytics
Zero Failures • Compliance
TPS

2,000K for Intel Optane • Market modeling, etc.

SSD P5800X
at 1ms SLA Real-time Bidding
Ad
• Ad requests
480K Spot • Bid requests
• Bidding
Intel® SSD Intel® Optane™
D7-P5600 SSD P5800X • Ad delivery

Meet SLAs with 2 Million TPS Faster Actionable Insights

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [6]

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 Leading IOPS Performance Across Workloads
KIOPS1 across random mixed 4KB workload Application: Use a write buffer to balance high-speed
network and storage performance
2,500
# SSDS to saturate
2,000 100 GbE network to 90%
KIOPS (higher is better)

Intel® Optane™ Intel SSD

SSD P5800X D7-P5600
3.7x Higher
1,500 (400GB) (3,200GB)

1,000 at 70R/30W 100% 2 SSDs 4 SSDs

Random
Read 800GB 12,800GB
500
100% 3 SSDs 13 SSDs
100 Random
1,200GB 41,600GB
0 Write
100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0%
% Read 70/30 3 SSDs 7 SSDs
Mixed
Intel® SSD D7-P5600 Intel® Optane™ SSD P5800X
Read/Write 1,200GB 22,400GB

Up to 2M IOPS for Mixed WLs1 16-35x More Efficient Saturation2

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [7,2]

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 Real-world Value from the World’s Fastest Data Center SSD1

Lower Consistent Greater Higher

Latency2 QOS2 IOPS2 Endurance2

Get Actionable Monetize Service Better Saturate Extend life of

Insights Faster Level Agreements High-Speed Networks NAND SSDs

INTEL® OPTANE™ SSD P5800X

1 Source – Intel. As compared to generally available PCIe Gen4 x4 (4 lanes) Enterprise and Data Center industry SSDs. Results may vary.
2 Source - Intel. See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/data-center-ssds/optane-ssd-series/optane-p5800x-series.html for workloads and configurations. Results may vary.

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 Product Overview: Intel® Optane™ SSD P5800X
https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/201861/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p5800x-series-400gb-2-5in-pcie-x4-3d-xpoint.html

Product Specs Intel Optane SSD P5800X Benefit Family Intel Optane SSD P5800X

Capacity (GB) 400/800/1600 Capacity continuity w/ previous gen SSD

Product Name P5800X Series
Media 2nd Gen Double's density/die from 16GB →32GB
Sequential Read1 Up to 7.4GB/s
DWPD 100 Increased Endurance

Form Factor U.2 & E1.S E1.L in planning

Sequential Write1 Up to 7.4GB/s
Warranty 5yr Industry Standard
Random 4k Read (IOPS)1 Up to 1.55M
Product Design Intel Optane SSD P5800X Benefit

Random 4k Write (IOPS)1 Up to 1.6M

Double interface bandwidth/ICX
PCI Express 4.0 1x4(SP), 2x2(DP)
Alignment

Media Channels 8-12 Increased max bandwidth Random 4k 70/30 (IOPS)1 Up to 2.0M

Single-Core 1.1GHz ARM

ASIC/CPU Increased firmware capabilities
Cortex R7 QoS (4KRR, QD=1, 99%)2 <6us

136 I/O SQ/CQ Queue Designed for maximum utilization of

Queues
Pairs Intel® Xeon® Processors QoS (4KRR under 2GB/s 4K RW,
<66us
99.999%)
NVMe version 1.3d Support key optional features
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [2]
1 Source - Intel. Latency measured using Intel ® Storage Performance Developer Kit (Intel SPDK) and FIO 3.3 (with fio_plugin) based on random 4Kb transfer size with total queue depth of 1 (QD=1, workers/jobs=1) workload.

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Intel® Optane™ Technology
Proof Points and Customer Value

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Intel® Optane™ Technology Customer Value for
Virtualized Infrastructure
Greater VM Density Higher VM Capacity Greater VM Density
Scale customer
hosting center & expand system US-based
50% higher
increase VM memory and ENERGY
host VM count at
density with no COMPANY
increase VM same cost vs
performance capacity3 with DRAM-only4
degradation1 for MSFT Azure
VMware vSphere Stack HCI

Performance / TCO Faster Response Higher Performance &

On VMware vSAN
Lower Costs
use as write
deployment cache in Storage achieves
“…incredibly good Spaces Direct for 50% more perf
performance… low latency and 30% cost
a price point that’s reduction
and high
beneficial
performance3
from a TCO
perspective.”2

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [8] 23
Intel® Optane™ Technology Customer Value for HPC

Performance & Reliability Usability & Functionality

switching from HDDs to “The recent IO-500 results for
petabytes of flash DAOS demonstrate the
storage with Universal continuing maturity of
Storage, powered by Intel® the software’s functionality.”
Optane™ SSD
 SSD

Increased Throughput Faster Time to Insight

2.78x increase 8x faster

in games hosted on a solver run compared to
single server Lustre filesystem

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [9]

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Intel® Optane™ Technology Customer Value for AI/Analytics

Cost Savings Cost Savings Simplified Deployments

30% reduction in
recommendation 60% lower TCO for all-flash VxRail HCI and Intel Optane
system and Redis Optane SSD with Intel QLC 3D Technology are “light years
service NAND vs traditional HDDs ahead of anything else.”

Improved Outcomes Faster Time to Insight Faster Time to Insight

eliminates storage
50% bottlenecks and
Improved patient significantly improves
outcomes and lower improvement in the average response
costs performance for
time to provide faster
Spark SQL
access to models.

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [10]

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 Intel® Optane™ Technology Customer Value for Database

Extract Data Value Cost Savings

“By having the ability
to automatically extract
data from the clinical Store 5x more
notes, we were able to records per node with
flip quickly to analyzing 30% lower hardware
data on our COVID-19 cost with Aerospike
patients.”

Optimized Investment Faster Time to Insight

Up to 17x faster
30% improvement in Storage applications
queries per second (on (RocksDB, MongoDB,
PolarDB)
MySQL)

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Configurations see appendix [11]

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Summary
Data-centric compute is reshaping data center infrastructure—with
demands increasing along with massive sets generated by cloud,
networks, 5G, edge processing, and AI.

Intel works with partners to bring advanced capabilities across a breadth

of key data center use cases to address these challenges.

Now you can take advantage of the opportunities and establish a

foundation that can scale and evolve with the inevitable changes of the
data-centric era.

Optane Pmem for big memory usage. Opatne SSD for A(acceleration)
C(Caching) and T(Tiering)

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