Greenplum Summit 2019

2. © Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.
Pivotal’s Opinionated On-Premise
Platform
for Massively Parallel Postgres
Achieve Extreme Simplicity and
Superior Price/Performance with
Greenplum Building Blocks

3. Greenplum Building Blocks
It's All Just Blocks! Simple yet elegant.
● Pivotal’s Greenplum-Optimized Engineered
System to deliver unrivaled Price/Performance
for Next-Generation Analytics and AI!
● Leverages state-of-the-art DELL Servers,
Storage and Networking technologies.
● Simple AND Flexible Sizing and Scaling to fit
enterprise scale workloads from small to huge.
● Cloud Inspired, On-Premise Experienced.

4. Feature Set
Engineered System for Pivotal
Greenplum
● All Design Decisions Based on
Price/Performance “Bang for the Buck”
● Leverages Dell Advanced-Commodity
Hardware
● Engineering Tested Component Selection
● Simple and Easy Cluster Sizing
● Multi-Generational Hardware Compatibility
● Facilitates Next-Generation Replacement for
Appliance
Optimized & Scalable Deployments
● Optimized Installations & Configuration
● High-Performance Multi-Channel I/O
● Independent & Parallel Scale-Out Across
Compute & Storage
● Scale Cost Efficiently

5. Greenplum Blocks
Greenplum Blocks (GB)
● Greenplum Engineered Compute & Storage
in High Availability Payload
● 3 Types: Balanced, Dense & Fast
○ Select Compute Block Type
○ Scale Appropriately
Greenplum Storage Blocks (GSB)
● Greenplum Extended / Data Lake Storage
● Cheap-and-Deep Optional Add-On Storage
● 1 Type
○ 1, 2, or 4 Per Greenplum Block

6. Greenplum Block Types
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
The Balanced Block -- the Default GP Block
Designed for most GP workloads -- Engineered balance
across CPU, Memory, Disk and Network resources.
The Fast Block -- Twice the CPU and twice
the RAM of the Balanced Block for highly
concurrent and/or high CPU workloads.
The Dense Block -- Twice the internal disk
capacity of the Balanced Block for customers with
larger disk capacity requirements.
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
GP
Primary
GP
Primary
GP
Primary
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
CPU CPU
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
CPU CPU
GP
Primary
GP
Primary
GP
Primary
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
RAM

7. GSB - Greenplum Storage Blocks (Optional)
Primary
DIO
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
GP Storage
Block
GP Storage Block
● Optionally add-on GP Storage Block
● Scale Storage separate from compute
● 144TB Increments
● Scalably extends disk capacity
● GP Managed and/or External Storage

8. Storage Block
(External Storage)
Dense Block
(Storage X 2)
Fast Block
(Compute/RAM X 2)
Balanced Block
(Price/Performance)
Greenplum Block Types
GP Storage BlockPrimary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM DIOPrimary
Inter
GP
PrimaryGP
Primary
GP
Mirror
CPU
GP
Mirror
CPU
RAM
GP
TempGP
Temp
● CPU: 192 Cores
● RAM: 3.0 TB
● Primary: 38.4 TB
● Mirror: 38.4 TB
● Temp: 12.8 TB
● CPU: 96 Cores
● RAM: 1.5 TB
● Primary: 38.4 TB
● Mirror: 38.4 TB
● Temp: 12.8 TB
● CPU: 96 Cores
● RAM: 1.5 TB
● Primary 76.8 TB
● Mirror 76.8 TB
● Temp: 12.8 TB
● Cache: 15 TB
● Usable: 144 TB
● GP Managed or
External Storage
CPU CPU
RAM
DIO

9. Engineered H/A Greenplum Blocks
What’s Inside a GP Balanced Block?
1.5TB RAM
48X 32GB RDIMM
96 Cores
4x Intel Xeon Platinum
8168 2.7G, 24C/48T,
10.4GT/s
NVMe SSD
38.4TB
M/U SSD, 2.5” Drives
SAS SSD, 38.4TB
SAS M/U SSD, 2.5” Drives
NVMe HHHL Card,
12.8TB
NVMe M/U, HHHL PCIe
10GbE NICs
Intel X710 Quad Port 10GbE
2x 40GbE NICs
Intel XL710 Dual Port 40GbE
RAM
CPU
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
GP Access Network
GP Data In/Out Network
GP Interconnect

10. GBB Framework
It's All Just Blocks!
● Store more data and run faster by adding more
blocks
● Starting as small as a single block, scalable to
handle the largest, multi-PB workloads
● Ready for the future, expand your blocks after
deployment with similar block types or later with
blocks of +1 GBB version. Starts with GBB 4th
Generation.
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM
Primary
DIO
Inter
GP
Primary
GP
Mirror
GP
Temp
CPU CPU
RAM

11. ( A + B ) * C = GBB
A - Choose the Greenplum Block that’s right for you
B - Augment with zero or more Greenplum Storage Blocks
C - Scale the Blocks, how many of (A+B) would you like?
Or Select one our Pre-Configured Offerings
Simple.
Flexible.
GBB Sizing

12. Appliance Replacement
DCA Replacements:
1 GBB Balanced Block for every DCA ¼ Rack.
4X ( GBB Balanced Blocks )1 Full Rack
DCA v3
Example:
≈

13. Data Lake/HD Replacement
4X (GBB Dense Blocks + 2 GSB )
≈1PB
Data Lake Replacements:
1 GBB Dense Block + 2 GSB for every 250TB of Data Lake.

14. Netezza Replacement
Netezza Replacements:
4 GBB Fast Blocks for every NZ Full Rack.
≈
2 Full Rack NZ
8X ( GBB Fast Blocks )

15. Wrap
Greenplum Building Blocks Provides
● Rich Price/Performance Driven Pivotal Greenplum Ecosystems.
● Dell Advanced-Commodity Hardware.
● Simple and Flexible Cluster Sizing.
● Independent & Parallel Scale-Out Across Compute & Storage.
● Multi-Generational Hardware Compatibility.
● Next-Generation Replacement for Legacy Appliances.

16. #ScaleMatters
© Copyright 2019 Pivotal Software, Inc. All rights Reserved.

17. Appendix

18. GBB 4.0: Hardware Specifications
Block Type
(HA
blocks) Cores RAM
GP
Primary
Data
Space
GP
Mirror
Data
Space
GP
Work
Data
Space
GP
Access
Network
s
GB
Interconn
ect
Network
Optional
GP Block Storage
(TBs)
Balanced
Block
96,
192 HT
1.5TB 38.4TB 38.4TB 12.8TB 8x 10GbE 4x 40GbE 0, 144, 288, 576
Fast Block
( compute
)
192,
384 HT
3.0TB 38.4TB 38.4TB 12.8TB 8x 10GbE 4x 40GbE 0, 144, 288, 576
Dense
Block
( capacity
)
96,
192 HT
1.5TB 76.8TB 76.8TB 25.6TB 8x 10GbE 4x 40GbE 0, 144, 288, 576,
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