Transcript Unified virtual storage

AssuredUVS
Taking Your Storage To The Next Level
Oct 2010
Mike Phelan
First a little bit about Dot Hill
AssuredUVS
Storage Virtualization Solutions
Unified Virtualized Storage servers for managing peta-byte
sized data centers or high performance storage arrays
AssuredVRA
Server RAID
Software
Internal Virtual RAID Array
Adapters for Windows and
Linux Servers
AssuredSAN
High Availability
Storage Disk Arrays
Highly redundant rack mountable disk
arrays for general purpose storage
and SMB to large data center
3000 Series Product Family
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3000 series
– 10Gb iSCSI (2 Port)
– 8Gb Fibre Channel
– 6Gb SAS (4Port)
– 6G SAS, SATA and SSD drive support
– Additional power savings: automated drive spin down, efficient PSUs
– Support for 7 JBOD expansion chassis
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Hybrid 8G FC and iSCSI
– Improved value and flexibility in dual-use environments e.g. server virtualization
– Reduced Opex and spares handling
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Built in Data Protection
– Off-site Bi-directional replication capability with new replication
– Support for up to 1,000 Snapshots per storage array
Day in the life of the CIO
• Challenges
– Running out of storage on some while others have capacity to spare
– Personnel turnover is causing operational issues and training
deficiencies
– Business requirements around availability and DR have increased
and not being met – and budgets are tight
• Options
1.
Purchase additional equipment for the different SAN’s that need
the additional storage
2.
Eliminate dis-similar storage arrays and standardize on one
vendor and one model from that vendor
3.
Virtualize storage environment like you have done with your server
environment
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Option #3 Analysis
• Virtualize storage environment like you have done with your
server environment
• Pros
– Allows IT shop to keep existing equipment
– One system to learn
– All features are storage vendor agnostic
– Consolidate operations
• Data Protection: Snaps, DR
• Data Management: Volume mgt, alerts, scheduling, reporting
• Cons
– Must learn a new system (but we’re already familiar with
virtualization concepts from our server virtualization efforts)
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The Key to Virtualization – Storage Tiers
E:/
• Tiers are storage agnostic
• A tier is where the
virtualization happens
• Tiers allow all advanced
features to operate
across systems –
regardless of vendor or
vintage
AssuredUVS
Server is presented a
Server volume will
single volume that
take advantage of
spans across storage
the new space
systems
A volume is
carved out
Presented
volumes create
the virtual tier
Virtual Storage Volume
A storage tier can be
Storage tier is created
expanded to include
from multiple storage
additional systems –
array systems
regardless of vendor
Vendor #1
Vendor #2
Vendor #3
What does the AssuredUVS offer?
• Virtualize any array
FC, iSCSI, and NAS ALL supported
protocol on the Front End
• Simplify / Consolidate
Management
– Volume creation
FC
iSCSI
NAS
– Thin Provisioning
– Snapshots
– Replication
AssuredUVS
• Multi Protocol Support
– Fibre Channel
– iSCSI
– NAS host connectivity
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel
Fibre Channel supported
protocol on the Back End
What’s included?
AssuredUVS + Storage
• Goal: Keep it simple!
• Software, server and
storage
• AssuredUVS offering
– Standard feature set
• Single Source Sale
– 2 controllers
• Provides room for
expansion, deep and wide
– Storage
– Grow Dot Hill Storage
– Add storage… vendor
agnostic
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Virtualize Existing Hardware
Keep and
manage existing
equipment
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Flexible Management
• Maintain
SAN/Application
association
EMC
Dot Hill
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IBM
Dot Hill
HP
• Add additional storage
where needed
• Virtualize/centralize
advanced feature
management
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Consolidate Operations
Volume Creation
Data Protection
System Reporting
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Virtualized Storage Replication
Site A
Site B
Ethernet
WAN
AssuredUVS
AssuredUVS
Site A Data Protection
Site B Data Protection
Vendor #1
Vendor #2
Vendor #4
Vendor #3
Consolidate Replication Operations
Replicate Between Different Vendors
Manage Entire Storage Environment
Through a Single Pane of Glass
Bi-directional Replication
Vendor #5
AssuredUVS Specifics
FEATURE
CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT
EMAIL ALERTS
DATA MIGRATION
NUMBER OF VOLUMES
SNAPSHOTS
THIN PROVISIONING VOLUMES
PROXY VOLUMES FOR MIGRATION
DATA MIRRORING
SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION
ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION
NAS SUPPORT
STARTING CAPACITY
SAN VOLUME SIZE
CONTROLLERS PER
CONFIGURATION (MIN, MAX)
HOST INTERFACE
MAXIMUM STORAGE CAPACITY
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AssuredUVSTM
Standard
AssuredUVSTM
Datacenter
AssuredUVSTM
Datacenter
For mid-sized data
centers unifying
up to 150TB of
storage
INCLUDED
INCLUDED
INCLUDED
512
4096
64
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AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE
50TB
8TB
For large data
centers unifying
Starting at 2PB of
storage
INCLUDED
INCLUDED
INCLUDED
4096
32768
1024
1024
INCLUDED
1024
AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE
250TB
64TB
For large data
centers unifying
up to 6PB of
storage
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INCLUDED
INCLUDED
12288
98304
3072
3072
INCLUDED
3072
AVAILABLE
AVAILABLE
250TB
64TB
1,2
2
2,4,6
iSCSI / FIBRE
CHANNEL
150TB
iSCSI / FIBRE
CHANNEL
2PB
iSCSI / FIBRE
CHANNEL
6PB
Licensed Options
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Replication
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Capacity increase
from initial
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NAS
Professional Services
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Installation
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Upgrade
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Training
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What is Unified Virtual Storage
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Unified Virtual Storage is the
capability to join varied storage
products and administer them as a
single virtual entity
What is Unified?
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SAN and NAS
Multiple protocols
Multiple storage array vendors
Common management tools
What is Virtual?
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Through Unified Virtual Storage
solutions, IT centers can meet their
needs by delivering breakthrough
storage management, performance,
efficiency, flexibility and scale.
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Virtualization
Scale out clustering
Array Independent
Single pane
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Benefits / Value Position
Dot Hill’s AssuredUVS solution helps businesses to meet their IT
needs by delivering breakthrough storage management,
performance, efficiency, flexibility and scale.
Feature
Business Benefits
Storage
Virtualization
Drive Operational Efficiency
Open
Architecture
Eliminate Vendor Lock-in
Unified
Protocols
Integrate NAS/SAN and FC/iSCSI
Scalability and
Efficiency
Utility based storage
Data
Protection
Local and Remote Data Protection
 Reduce down time
 Increase productivity
 Improve utilization
 Investment protection
 Improve storage performance
 Reduce product obsolescence
 Consolidate operations
 Maximize storage resources
 Match need with resource
 Broad support model
 Delay future investments
 Nearly limitless growth
 Business continuity
 Regulatory compliance
 Peace of mind
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Thank You!
Feature Specific Slides
Storage Tiers/Pools
Mission
Critical
Apps
Email
Documents
R&D
Archive
• Drag and drop storage
devices to create storage
tiers (pools)
• Tiers are two-dimensional
arrays:
– Striping along the rows
AssuredUVS
System
– Concatenation between the
rows
• Optimized Tiering
– Data distribution – uniform or
bandwidth optimized
Tier 1
Enterprise
Tier 2
Mid-Range
R&D
Repository
Archive
Tier 3
Commodity
Leverages Virtualization for
Optimal Utilization of Storage
– Seamless Tier growth –
thresholds, alerts
• Allocate block and file
Volumes from the same Tier
Volumes
Thin Provisioning
• Volume Types:
 SCSI and NFS/CIFS, allocated
on the same tiers
 Regular or Thin Provisioned
• Max Volume Size – 256 TB
Application
Servers
Promised Capacity
Up to 1 PB per Tier
Up to 256 TB per Volume
 Dynamic Volume Expansion:
• Thin Provisioning with Sparse Volumes
• Seamless growth of both capacity and
bandwidth
• 4 policy parameters:
• Maximal and reserved capacity
• Soft and hard limits
• As new storage added to tier, new
chunks are striped wider and improve
performance
• Policy can be changed dynamically
Thin
Provisioning
Actual
Allocation
Snapshots
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Read-Only Snapshots
– Delta-based PiT snapshots
Source
Volume
– Fast creation and operational recovery
– Used for data protection / backup
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Production Data
Read/Write Snapshots
– Lab testing and training
Multiple Replicas
192,000 Snapshots
RO and RW per iSN
– Long or risky operations
– Rapid recovery from Operational Disasters
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Persistent snapshots survive failures and
maintenance
VSS Hardware
Provider
Consistency using VSS or CLI scripts
– Windows: consistency is based on VSS
Provider
– Unix/Linux: consistency is based on scripts
with CLI
SNAP (VSS)
SNAP (VSS)
SNAP (VSS)
Disaster Recovery
Primary Site
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Secondary Site
Delta-based Snapshots
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Instant creation, minimal impact
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Consistency - no need for application rollback
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Rapid recovery with RPO and RTO down to seconds
Replication
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Synchronous mirroring over fiber channel networks
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Asynchronous mirroring over FC or IP
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Support for point to point replication
Combined solution for DR and incremental backup:
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Pairs of identical snapshots on source and target
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Remote snapshots can be used for verification or
alternative use
Bandwidth Management
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Load Balancing on inter-site connections
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Tunable Speed for heavy operations
Data Protection against operational and physical disasters
NAS File Virtualization
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In addition to Block (SAN) Virtualization, the AssuredUVS provides File
(NAS) Virtualization service based on the same technology and managed
with the same tools
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AssuredUVS NAS virtualization has the following distinctive features:
– SAN and NAS volumes are allocated from the same tiers
– NAS (NFS or CIFS) and SAN (FC) services are served by the same controllers
– Adaptive bandwidth optimized striping enables mix of 1Gbps Ethernet and 4 or 8
GFC devices without slowing down faster devices
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The same AssuredUVS services (sparse volumes, snapshots, replication,
etc) support both SAN and NAS volumes
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Supports IP protocols and CIFS domain management
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Simplifies Deployments & Migrations
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Rapid Deployment with Proxy
Volumes
– Run application via iSN proxy
volume transparently mapped to
existing storage
– Gain data protection and disaster
recovery for any storage just in
seconds
AssuredUVS
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Powerful Data Migration
– Copy data behind iSN under running
application
– Gain smart provisioning and striping
or just replace storage
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Allows customers to protect
investments and re-assign storage
resources
Customer Solution
Environment
Problem
For “IT constrained”
organizations with demanding
storage and protection
requirements.
Solution
If what you have is
Existing storage in a FC SAN
One or more different arrays
No storage virtualization
The AssuredUVS delivers dramatically improved
performance, increased availability, simplified
operations and reduced costs.
What you will get
Additional SAN storage
Storage virtualization engine with 50TB capacity and:
• Data migration to single unified solution
• Virtual volumes
• Volume copy, snapshots, synchronous replication
• Thin provisioning / Storage tiers
• Ability to scale virtual storage up to 150TB
Storage solution for Fibre Channel /iSCSI and NAS
Single management tool for all storage
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Consolidate
storage products
Unify storage
management
Deliver integrated
solution
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Benefit
Diverse vendors
Diverse vintage
Volume creation/mgt
Thin Provisioning
Snapshots
Replication
Fibre Channel
iSCSI
NAS host connectivity
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Specific IT Needs Addressed
Across the board customers would prefer to
have storage services managed in the network
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AssuredUVS functionality, managed in the
network:
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Services in the fabric
Operational Efficiency
Volume Management
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Diverse storage unification
Provisioning
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Integrated in-band solution
Virtualization
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Simple single management utility
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Policy-based QoS/SLA
Quality of Service (QoS)
Asynchronous replication
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Scalability/Flexibility
Synchronous replication
Snapshot
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240K volumes
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192K Snapshots
Mirroring (RAID 1)
Backup
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Seamless data migration
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Fault tolerant architecture
Continuous Backup
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Application Availability
Data Migration
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Thin Provisioning
Virtual Tape
Policy based storage tiering
Policy-based data
retention/archiving
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Remote Replication
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Synchronous mirror
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NAS Support
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Policy based storage tiers
0%
Source:
ESG
20%
40%
60%
80%
Currently run in the network
Would prefer to run in the network
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