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Storwize V7000The Making of a Solution


IBM Virtualized Disk SolutionsGuiding Principles

Modular scalability, supports independent scaling of performance, capacity, and software function – allowing you to start small and grow large without ever changing hardware platforms.

Integrated software functions and management interface across the entire range of scalability.

Enterprise-class software capabilities, including replication functions traditionally found in high-priced enterprise arrays, virtualization capabilities to improve efficiency and application up-time, and management capabilities that make quick work of complex deployments.


Agenda

Extraordinary Building Blocks

The Making of a Solution


2U

Storwize V7000

Built-in Software inherited from SVC and DS8000 RAID

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10

Storage Virtualization(internal disks and external arrays)

Non-disruptive Data Migration

Efficiency

Thin Provisioning

Easy Tier(dynamic data movement across SSD/HDD)

Manageability

New User interface (easy-to-use, web based)

Integrated SAN-wide Management(Tivoli Storage Productivity Center)

Integrated IBM server and storage mgmt (Systems Director Storage Control)

Replication

Application integrated(Oracle, DB2, SAP, Domino, Exchange, SQL Server)

Efficient use of space(thin provisioned, incremental, deduplicated)

DR automation (failover/fail back, site switching)

IP or Fibre Channel

Control enclosure: dual controllers and up to twelve 3.5” or twenty-four 2.5” drives in just 2U

Eight 8Gb FC ports plus four 1Gb iSCSI ports per controller pair initially (10Gb iSCSI and FCoE post-GA)

Expansion enclosure: drives only

Up to nine expansion enclosures attach to one control enclosure


Efficiency FeaturesThin provisioning More productive use of available storage

Across all supported host platforms

Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated space is reserved whether the application uses it or not.

With thin provisioning, applications can grow dynamically, but only consume space they are actually using.

Dynamicgrowth

Easy Tier “Easy Tier” pools identify the busiest data extents and automatically relocate them to highest performing Solid-state Disks

Remaining data extents can take advantage of higher capacity, price optimized disks

Automaticrelocation

SSD

HDD

Automaticrelocation

SSD

HDD


12 hours (Elapsed Time)

ApplicationTransactionThroughput

Easy TierLearning

Easy TierIn Action

240% fromOriginal

brokerage transaction

Easy Tier Application Transaction Improvement

PRELIMINARY


ApplicationTransaction

Response Time

Easy TierLearning

Easy TierIn Action

Easy Tier Application Transaction Improvement

PRELIMINARY

12 hours (Elapsed Time)


Host System Attach

IBMAIX

i6 VIOSHACMP /XDGPFS / VIO

SunSolaris

VCS/SUN clustering

HPHP-UXTru64

OpenVMSServiceGuard with SDD

Linux(Intel/Power/zLinux)

RHEL/SUSERHEL 5 ia32, x64

RHEL 3 PowerSLES 9 ia64

IBMBladeCenter

Win/Linux/VMWare/AIXOPM/FCS/IBS

SGIIRIX

AppleMac OS X

MicrosoftWindows

MSCSMPIO, VSS, GDS

VMwareSRM

NovellNetWare

Clustering

Up to 1024 Hosts

Network

For the most current, and more detailed, information please visit ibm.com/storage/svc and click on “Interoperability”.

Storwize V7000Clustered XIV(SVC + XIV)


External Virtualization FeaturesTransparent data movement Efficiently manage technology upgrades and

lease terminations by transparently moving application data from legacy disk arrays to new IBM Virtualized Disk SolutionsNetwork

IBM diskLegacy

Applicationserver

IBMESS, FAStTDS3/4/5/6/8

XIV

SunStorageTek

HPMA, EMAMSA, EVA

XP

BullStoreWay

PillarAxiom

NECiStorage

FujitsuEternus

EMCCLARiiON,Symmetrix,

VMAX

HitachiUSP

Lightning, ThunderTagmaStore

NetAppFAS

Network

Legacy disk attach

For the most current, and more detailed, information please visit ibm.com/storage/svc and click on “Interoperability”.


Scalability: Customer case studyOne of the Largest Financial Institutions in the United States

Business challenge:

The Bank’s storage scale is measured in petabytes. Storage capacity is leased from multiple vendors to introduce competition and reduce capital costs. However, technology turns and leases end – meaning new storage must be leased and data must be migrated. The disruptive nature of migrating data between traditional arrays often resulted in the Bank having to extend leases month-to-month incurring significant cost.

Benefits: Reduction in lease extension costs

Tested 30% increase in storage utilization

Improved application uptime

Solution:

Virtualization with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. With over 2PB of tiered Fibre Channel and SATA storage now virtualized, the Bank can transparently migrate data from old technology to new arrays, meeting lease termination dates and saving significant cost in lease extensions. Because migration is transparent, application uptime is also enhanced. Because virtualization is heterogeneous, the Bank can further leverage its multi-supplier strategy to keep costs down for its virtualized IBM XIV, and EMC DMX and CLARiiON storage.

Solution components:

IBM® SAN Volume Controller

FlashCopy

Global Mirror

Thin provisioning

Transparent data migration

IBM XIV® Storage System


Agenda

Extraordinary Building Blocks

The Making of a Solution


Manageability FeaturesOverview

User Interface

– Adopted from the easy-to-use XIV GUI

– For clients where the Storwize V7000 “is” the infrastructure

Enterprise Management

– Integrated management with a SAN-wide perspective

– For clients where the Storwize V7000 is connected to a SAN with other, perhaps heterogeneous storage

Server / Storage Management

– Integrated management with a Systems and Storage perspective

– For clients with IBM servers and storage

Easy-to-use management GUI

Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterIntegrated SAN-wide management

Systems Director Storage ControlIntegrated IBM server and storage mgmt


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Visual task flow guidance

Integrated videoinstruction

System statusalways available

Systemrecommendations

Link to more information if

needed

Fresh New User InterfaceBased on the well-received XIV interface


Preset provisioning templates


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Quickly provision multiple volumes of

the same type


For experts, use the GUI to generate

CLI syntax for desired actions


Offline

Visually identify hardware areas of

concern



User Interface













Analyze performance Isolate application I/O performanceproblems across the entire data path

Report on performance history

Network

Enterprise Management Features

Visualize the SAN From virtual machines to the physical server they reside on, through the SAN, to the disk systems …

Physical topology and logical data path Health/Status MonitoringEvent ManagementDevice Capacity MgmtPolicy-based Alerting

Network

Provision storage For new or expanding applications, apply application-centric provisioning policies

Provision host multi-pathing, SAN zones, and array capacity in a single action

Network


Analyzing Storage Performance

Highlight the desired computer or storage device



Identify critical path and/or potential performance bottlenecks.

Identify unexpectedly convoluted paths through the SAN



Verify logical and efficient paths – be pleased with your work



Hover to display current performance statistics at any point along the data path



Define the data columns you want to report on



Use the “Drill up” option to go to reports that may provide insight to the root cause


Automatically monitor for performance thresholds…

…and trigger notification if thresholds are violated.



User Interface













Server / Storage Management Features

Visualize and manage the complete infrastructure From virtual machines to the physical server they reside on, through the SAN, to the disk systems …

Physical and virtual resource relationships and utilization

Health/Status MonitoringEvent ManagementTriggered action plans

Network

Provision Virtual Server Images and storage For virtual server environments, dynamically provision virtual server images and array capacity in a single action

Network


Manageability FeaturesSummary

User InterfaceEnterprise Management

Tivoli Storage Productivity CenterServer / Storage Management

Systems Director Storage Control

Perspective

Device Device + surrounding SAN Servers + Storage

Capabilities

Health Capacity File System Utilization Analytics Provisioning Performance Analytics Replication Management Recovery Automation


Productivity: Customer case studyFortune 100 Diversified Health Insurance Company

Business challenge:

The Insurer’s storage scale is measured in petabytes. Scale had made the job of maintaining visibility into the utilization and effective operation of the storage infrastructure a near impossibility. Traditional, manual management processes were not scaling. The Insurer wasn’t getting optimal use out of its significant capital investment in storage infrastructure.

Benefits: Simplified problem isolation and 25% reduction in mean-time-to-repair

for performance related issues

Effective management of storage assets and capacity resulting in deferred capital expenditures for new storage

Improved overall quality and health of the storage environment

Solution:

Visualization, Control, and Automation with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. With 2PB of storage now managed, the Insurer can visualize the entire storage topology, leverage analytics to aid in provisioning storage for new applications, monitor overall health, and report on performance and capacity utilization. These tools have allowed the Insurer to deal with continued storage growth, improve the storage environment quality of service, and do these things without parallel growth in the storage management staff.

Solution components:

IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity Center

Standard Edition

IBM System StorageTM DS8000®


Replication FeaturesOverview

IP Replication

– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing instant recovery with cost-optimized disaster recovery options

Fibre Channel Replication

– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing instant recovery with full-featured enterprise replication solutions


IP Replication Features

Snapshot replication Create instant copies of applications or file systems for backup

Make better use of space with incremental (only changed blocks) and deduplicated snapshots

Replicate snapshots off-site for disaster recovery

For enterprise and branch office configurations

Replicate distributed snapshots to a central Tivoli Storage Manager server for Unified Recovery Management and disaster recovery

Make better use of network resources by deduplicating data before transmission

Deduplicatedsnapshots

FastBackvirtual machine

FastBackvirtual machine

IP Network

Replication

Storage Manager 6

DeduplicatedReplication

Enterprise snapshot replication


Replication FeaturesOverview

IP Replication

– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing instant recovery with cost-optimized disaster recovery options

Fibre Channel Replication

– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing instant recovery with full-featured enterprise replication solutions


FlashCopy Features

FlashCopy Create instant application copies for backupor application testing

Make better use of space with incremental(only changed blocks) or space-efficient(thin provisioned) snapshots

FlashCopy Manager Integrated, instant copy for criticalapplications

Virtually eliminate backup windowsRapidly create clones for application testingView inventory of application copies and

instantly restore

Storage Manager 6

Replicate FlashCopy’s to a central Tivoli Storage Manager server for Unified Recovery Management and disaster recovery

Make better use of network resources by deduplicating data before transmission

Enterprise FlashCopy Replication

DeduplicatedReplication


Fibre Channel Mirroring Features

Mirror data off-site Synchronously over Metro distancesAsynchronously over Global distancesApplication-level consistency groups

Practice and Automatically Respond to Disasters For critical application consistency groups, freeze the Mirror and take a consistentFlashCopy

Practice application recovery procedures fromthe FlashCopy

Detect mirroring failure and automate failoverto Recovery volume

Automate fail-back after repair

Recovery practice volume

Network

Network

Site Switching Automation Monitor and manage IT-wide site switching from a single console (Applications, servers, and storage)

Recovery volume& server

Network


Site Switching

Single Cluster automation and high availability can be ensured…– Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms on Windows,

AIX, Linux and SUN Solaris

– Other clustering products such as IBM HACMP, Microsoft® Server Cluster, Veritas Cluster on SUN

… but Cross-cluster dependencies in many business processes require a wider perspective.

Cluster Cluster Cluster

Web

CRMdependency

Stock Trading

Application

dependency dependency


Scenario – Planned Site Switch

Automated Steps

1. Operator initiates planned site switch

2. TSA-AM triggers TPC-R to switch replication direction

3. TSA-AM starts application components at Site II

Web

Storwize V7000Enterprise Virtualized Disk Solution

Tivoli System AutomationApplication Manager (TSA-AM)

Tivoli Storage Productivity Centerfor Replication (TPC-R)

CooperativeIntegration

Site I Site II

Secondary PrimaryReplication*

Primary SecondaryReplication*

* Storwize V7000 to SVC replication available post-GA

Web


IP ReplicationFastBack for Storwize V7000

Fibre Channel ReplicationFlashCopy and Mirroring

Optimal Client Environment Entry and Lower Midrange Upper MidrangeApplication integrated

Out-of-the-box Applications

Operating Systems

Custom application support Efficient Use of Space

Incremental snapshot Thin Provisioned snapshot Deduplicated snapshot

Focus on Recovery

Instant Restore Off-site replication

Synchronous mirroring Asynchronous mirroring Copy Site Switching Automatioon

Enterprise Recovery Management

Replicate snapshots toTivoli Storage Manager Deduplicated network traffic to TSM repository

Replication FeaturesSummary


Storwize V7000

Required Software–5639-VM1 (Base)

●Management GUI●Thin Provisioning●Easy Tier●FlashCopy

Hardware (MT/Model)–2076-112(12-bay LFF control enclosure)

–2076-124(24-bay SFF control enclosure)

–2076-212(12-bay LFF expansion enclosure)

–2076-224(24-bay SFF expansion enclosure)

Optional Software– Management

● 5608-E14(TPC for Disk Midrange Edition)

● 5765-ASM(Director Storage Control plug-in)

– IP Replication● 5639-FB1

(FastBack for Storwize V7000)

– FC Replication● 5608-AC6 (FlashCopy Manager)● 5639-RM1 (Mirroring)● 5608-WB2 (TPC for Replication)

– Embracing legacy disk● 5639-EV1 (External virtualization)

Optional Services

This is the basic hardware This is what makes it a “solution”!!

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