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Leveraging the Power of Compute and Storage Grids

Rick Jooss – Network Appliance

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Abstract

Leveraging the Power of Compute and Storage Grids

As compute and storage resource requirements grow, enterprise ITusers are redefining their server and storage infrastructure. Anincreasingly prevalent trend is to deploy large numbers of small servers and virtualize them, and to deploy modular storage, rather than large frame arrays, to serve core and departmental application workloads. Computing and storage grids are an emerging deployment topology designed to support this horizontal scaling need. Attendees will learn about the usage scenarios for grid computing in engineering test, core test and development, and production environments, and the best practices associated with multi-protocol grid deployments: Flexibly configuring and managing multiple and virtualized host operatingenvironments, Provisioning storage, and Protecting data with advanced technologies such as software-based SAN boot.

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Challenges

Growing computing needs

More responsiveness

Limited budget, space, energy and cooling

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Types of Grids

Technical Computing Grids

Data Grids

Utility Computing Grids

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Enterprise Trends Supporting Utility Grids

Modular Array Growth

$0

$200

$400

$600

$800

$1,000

$1,200

$1,400

$1,600

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Quarters (2005-2006)

Rev

enue

* - IDC - 2007

Small virtualized servers

Modular storage for core workloads

Blade Server Growth

-20,00040,00060,00080,000

100,000120,000140,000160,000180,000200,000

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Quarters (2005-2006)

Uni

ts

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PerspectiveServers Client

Systems

StorageNetwork

Client Network

VirtualizedStorage

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Infrastructure Choices

Server

OS Provisioning

Boot Protocol

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Server

BladesPro

SpacePowerInfrastructure

Con Flexibility

Racks/TowersPro

Lower fixed costCon

Infrastructure

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OS ProvisioningDisk-full

ProInstalled baseAvailability of commercial software

Con Bare metal installationTools to track and manage images

Diskless Pro

Reliability Performance SupportabilityRapid Provisioning / Re-purposing

Con Availability of commercial softwareInstalled base

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Boot Protocol

iSCSI Pro - Cost, Flexibility, Scalability

Con - Installed base

NFSPro - Cost, Flexibility, Scalability

Con – OS support

Fibre ChannelPro - Installed base, Performance

Con - Cost, Scalability

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Advantages of Virtualized Storage

Flexibility / Speed

Capacity

Business Continuity

Availability

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Flexibility / Speed

Servers ClientSystems

StorageNetwork

Client Network

Boot LUNS

OS_app_1

OS_app_2

OS_app_3

OS_app_4

OS_app_5

OS_app_6

OS_app_7

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Capacity

Clone

Clone

Clone

Clone

Clone

Clone

Clone

OS_app_1

OS_app_2

OS_app_3

OS_app_4

OS_app_5

OS_app_6

OS_app_7

Client Network

Golden LUNS Boot LUNs/Clones

Servers

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Capacity

Server

GoldenLUNs

Clones

Libraryof

golden images

StorageNetwork

Boot LUNs/Clones

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Flexibility and Capacity - Cloning

A B C D A

GoldenLUN

B C D

Cloned LUN

B’ D’A

GoldenLUN

B C D

ClonedLUN

GoldenLUN

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Clone Deployment Process

Install OSRemove identity (name, IP, etc…) off imageLock it as golden imageClone imageImage gets identity based on MAC address during boot

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Clones – Speed and Capacity Advantages

Time to Prov ision

-

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

25.0

30.0

10 30 50 70 90 110 130 150 170

Num ber of Servers

Tim

e - H

ours

Space to Provision

Without Cloning:

With Cloning:

Without Cloning:

With Cloning:

Number of unique images: 1000 50 60 10

Image Size (GB): 15 15 15 15

Number of clones: 0 1000 0 60

Clone Size- 10% (GB): 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5

Total needed capacity (GB): 15,000 2,250 900 240

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Business Continuity

Mirroring

Data Center 1 Data Center 2

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Availability

server1

server3

server4

server2blade1

blade2

blade3

blade4

blade5

blade1

blade2

blade3

blade4

blade5

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Case Study

100+ KM

Location 1 Location 2

ArrayTape

BackupServer

Array Tape BackupServer

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Summary

Utility Grid computing is happening

Virtualized Storage is a key enabling technology to make Utility computing grids a possiblity

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Q&A / Feedback

Please send any questions or comments on this presentation to SNIA: trackvirtualization@snia.org

Many thanks to the following individuals for their contributions to this tutorial.

SNIA Education Committee

Robert PeglarJeff Eckard Bruce MoxonDavid Dale