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Making the Right Storage Choice for your Virtualized Server Environment

Tony PearsonIBM Master Inventor and Senior Managing Consultant

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AbstractMaking the Right Storage Choice for your Virtualize d Server Environment

Learn about the IBM Storwize V7000 disk system and how it can provide better storage performance, utilization and productivity in a virtualized server environment such as VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V. Integrating storage efficiency techniques, including thin provisioning and automated data tiering, can provide dramatic benefits to your business.

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Agenda

Multi-platform support enhances flexibility

Built-in advanced functionality reduces costs

Performance optimization can help identify and resolve bottlenecks

High Availability and Disaster Recovery features reduce application downtime

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Are you running two or more Hypervisors?

• In a recent survey, 44 percent of respondents indicated they were running two or more Hypervisors*

* Source: http://www.thehotaisle.com/2009/10/01/cloud-soup

IBM is a VMware Global Alliance Partner and the leading reseller of VMware solutions

IBM is a Gold Certified Partner and supports Hyper-V virtualization

IBM is a Global Partner supporting Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV)

based on Linux KVM

IBM supports open source Xen, including Citrix XenServer and OracleVM

IBM has been doing server virtualization for the past 40 years

and supports PowerVM and zLPAR

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IBM Storwize V7000 disk system

• Multi-Platform support for different hypervisors

• External Storage across a shared network to enable Live Mobility of VM guests– Fibre Channel Protocl (FCP)

– iSCSI for Gigabit Ethernet

• Enterprise-class performance and built-in functions for storage efficiency and data protection

• Non-Disruptive migration and upgrades for high availability

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Start Small and Grow Easily

Start smallOne 12- or 24-bay control enclosure

12- and 24-bay expansion enclosurescan be intermixed in a system

Drive sizes can be intermixed in an enclosure

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Scale UpEasily add up to 9 expansion enclosures

Expand to hundreds of TB

Drive choices• 2.5-inch (SFF)

– 300GB SSD– 300GB 10K RPM– 450GB 10K RPM– 600GB 10K RPM

• 3.5-inch (LFF)– 2TB 7200 RPM

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Agenda

Multi-platform support enhances flexibility

Built-in advanced functionality reduces costs

Performance optimization can help identify and resolve bottlenecks

High Availability and Disaster Recovery features reduce application downtime

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• Volumes are a logical representation– Portions of each volume can reside on SSD or HDD,

internal or external

– Stripe across many disks to optimize performance

– Migrate volumes from one storage tier to another

HDD

SSD

External Virtualization

+Internal Storage External Storage

Innovative and Elegant Architecture

• Easy Tier™ provides automated tiering– Busy portions moved to SSD

– Less active moved to HDD

– Can use internal and external SSD and HDD

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Application

Transactions

Easy Tier

LearningEasy Tier

Movement

240% from

Original

brokerage

transaction

Easy Tier Application Transaction Improvement

�No change to the database or application

�No work to identify active indexes

�No manual movement of files or volumes

� Just turn it on and let it work!

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Transaction

Average

Response

Time

Easy Tier

Learning

Easy Tier

Movement

Easy Tier Application Response Time Improvement

12 hours (Elapsed Time)

40% from

Original

brokerage

transaction

�No change to the database or application

�No work to identify active indexes

�No manual movement of files or volumes

� Just turn it on and let it work!

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Agenda

Multi-platform support enhances flexibility

Built-in advanced functionality reduces costs

Performance optimization can help identify and resolve bottlenecks

High Availability and Disaster Recovery features reduce application downtime

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Built-In Advanced Functions

With IBM Storwize V7000, many functions are included at no additional charge that you would pay for otherwise

– Thin provisioning - storage is not allocated until data is written for higher disk utilization

– Local replication - full copy or thin provisioned replicas (snapshots) of volumes offloads server resources from hypervisor hosts

– Easy Tier™ - automated tiering between SSD and HDD storage

– Non-disruptive data migration within and between internal and external storage

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External Virtualization

• Storwize V7000 virtualizes internal storage– Volumes allocated across RAID ranks

• Storwize V7000 also virtualizes external Fibre Channel storage– Inherit rich Storwize V7000 functionality

• Extends life of existing storage assets

• Protect investment in existing capacity

– Migrate data to internal or keep external• Improve availability by practically eliminating

storage-related causes of downtime

HDD

SSD

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Internal Storage

External Storage

All Storwize V7000 Storage is Virtualized

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Agenda

Multi-platform support enhances flexibility

Built-in advanced functionality reduces costs

Performance optimization can help identify and resolve bottlenecks

High Availability and Disaster Recovery features reduce application downtime

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• IBM Storwize V7000 can store two copies of a volume on separate storage pools

– Storwize V7000 writes to both copies in sync

• If disk supporting one copy fails, Storwize V7000 provides continuous data access by using other copy

– Copies are automatically resynchronized after repai r

• A local high availability function to protect critical data against system failure

• Either copy can be split off to be used as production copy

• Copies may be thin-provisioned, enabling thick-to-thin conversions

Volume Mirroring

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Extended Distance Mirroring

Metro Mirror (synchronous)• Up to 300km between sites• Host waits until data stored at

both locations• Designed to maintain identical

secondary copy

Global Mirror (asynchronous)• Up to 8000km distance• Host does not wait, reduces

impact to application• Designed to maintain consistent

secondary copy

Provides support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, PowerHA, and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (TPC-R)

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Summary and Next Steps

• Make the right storage choice for your server virtualization environment!

• Consider the IBM Storwize V7000– Supports multiple hypervisor platforms– Improves performance, identifies and resolves bottlenecks– Built-in advanced functions reduces costs– High availability features reduce application downtime

• Technical white papers are available!– Deploying IBM Storwize V7000 in VMware Environments– Highly Available Virtual Machines with IBM Storwize V7000 and

Microsoft Hyper-V

Available online:ibm.com/support/techdocs

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IBM Storwize V7000The Right Storage Choice

for your Server Virtualization Environment

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IBM Storwize V7000 – ISV SolutionsTechnical White Papers

• VMware– Deploying IBM Storwize V7000 in VMware Environments

– Implementing Disaster Recovery Solutions with IBM S torwize V7000 and VMware Site Recovery Manager

• Oracle– Deploying Oracle 11G RAC Release 2 with IBM Storwize V7000 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

– Practice Guide: Backup and Restore of Native Oracle Database Solutions Using IBM Tivoli Flashcopy Manager Version 1.0

• Microsoft– IBM Storwize V7000 with IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager: Backup Solution for Exchange 2010

– IBM Storwize V7000 Exchange Server 2010 NetBackup 7.0 VSS Solution

– IBM Storwize V7000 SQL Server NetBackup 7.0 VSS Solution

– Highly Available Virtual Machines with IBM Storwize V7000 and Microsoft Hyper-V

– Exchange 2010 High Availability and Disaster Recovery with IBM Storwize V7000

• Symantec– Using Symantec NetBackup and the IBM Storwize V7000 FlashCopy function / Concepts and best practices for

backup and restore solution on Linux

• SAP– Quick-start Guide to FlashCopy Manager for SAP with IBM Storwize V7000, IBM SAN Volume Controller or IBM

DS8000 Storage System

Available online:ibm.com/support/techdocs

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To book a briefing, please contact your IBM Representative, IBM Business Partner, or Briefing Center Coordinator, Lee Olguin at +1 (520) 799-5460.

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About the Speaker

Mr. Tony Pearson

IBM Master Inventor and

Senior IT Storage Consultant

Tony Pearson is a Senior Managing consultant for the IBM System Storage™ product line.

Tony Pearson joined IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. Over the past years, Tony has worked in

development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware and software products.

In his current role, Tony presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, as well as various Tivoli storage

software products. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads workshops to help clients with strategic planning for IBM’s

integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products.

Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners every week. This blog

was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine. The blog was published in a series of books

“Inside System Storage: Volume I” and “Volume II” available from Lulu publishing.

Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Arizona. Tony is an IBM Master Inventor and holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and software products.

9000 S. Rita RoadBldg 9070 Mail 9070Tucson, AZ 85744

Tony Pearson

Senior IT Storage Consultant

IBM System Storage™

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Storage Resources Available

Tony’s blog “Inside System Storage”:• www.tinyurl.com/az990tony

Follow Tony on Twitter: @az990tony

Tony’s book series “Inside System Storage”Volume I and Volume II are available in paperback and hardcover formats:

• www.lulu.com

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