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Smart Movement & Management of Information Infrastructure

Shiva Anand NeikerStorage Sales LeaderIBM Systems & Technology GroupIBM ASEAN

© 2010 IBM Corporation

Smart Movement & Management of Information InfrastructureScale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) and the

Smart Business Storage Cloud (SBSC)

Shiva Anand Neiker – Sales Leader, Storage ASEAN24 May 2010

© 2010 IBM Corporation4

Standardization of the rail network enabled industrialized America and Europe

The connecting platform fueled growth, creating new business opportunities

This increased factory efficiencies by driving better connection with resources

This enabled new distribution models and fundamentally changed the marketplace and how it operated

Other technologies had similar effects:– Electricity grid– National highway systems– The Internet

Connecting Platforms Drives Growth


In the past, different system platforms were largely unconnected from each other

Small Systems

Large Systems

SCSI

ESCON

SNA

TCP/IP

NFS CIFS


Small Systems

Large Systems

SCSISAS

ESCONTCP/IP

NFS CIFS

NFSHTTPFTP

FICON

FCP

Fibre Channel Protocol

iSCSIFCoE

FCPFCoE

HTTPFTP

A convergence of technologies has brought these systems platforms closer together


Tier 2 Storage & NAS

Content Management

Systems

Target Data Types & WorkloadsUnstructured/File Data Focus

There is a significant shift in storage usage from traditional structured data to unstructured, file-based content. This is especially true in mature markets.

‘Content Depots’ are also an emerging reality in the storage market in areas like archiving, media repositories, web content, health records, etc. Some reports show this space growing at +90% annually.

IBM’s Storage Cloud offerings are built on IBM’s premier scale-out file system technology.

World Wide Block-Based and File -Based Storage Capacity Consumption by User Segment (EB) , 2007-2012

World Wide Block-Based and File -Based Storage Capacity Consumption % Share by User Segment , 2007-2012

7Source: IDC, 2008


The Problems with NAS filers today

“I loved my first filer. It was so easy to

manage. When we installed our 20th,I started to hate

them.”

Classic Filers

• Current NAS solutions do not scale

• Customers have to add box after box and manage them individually

• Difficult to apply policies across independent data islands

• Some applications require parallel access and high data rates

• Migration, integration or removal of storage for file services is a disruptive nightmare

• Backup windows are a big issue and get worse as the amount of data increases

All files online, but more than 80% haven't been accessed during the last 6 months


Using a Global Name Space

Many attempts to solve this with a Global Name Space (IBM Virtual File Manager, Brocade StorageX, ONTAP GX)– Each individual file is pinned to a single NAS

filer– Maximum single file performance is equal to

the performance of the individual hosting filer– Bottlenecks on individual directory branches– Islands regarding disks, backup, etc.

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Each filer is individually accessed

“Finding the file” becomes…– Finding the server that has

the file… then …– finding the file on that

server

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NAS virtualizers versus Scale-Out approach Scale-Out Network Attached Storage

- True clustered NAS with Global Namespace- All nodes serve all files- Maximum single file performance is equal to

the aggregated performance of the cluster- No disk, backup, management, etc. islands- No bottlenecks on single directory branches

Virtualizer (IBM VFM, ONTAP GX)- No clustering, rather just a redirection layer

on top of existing island topology- Each individual file is pinned to a single NAS

filer- Maximum single file performance is equal to

the performance of the hosting filer- Possible bottlenecks on individual directory

branches- Islands regarding disks, backup, etc.

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Global Namespace


Core Value – Simple Management

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each file is pinnedto a single filer

“Cloud“ IP Layer“Cloud“ IP Layer

Classic Filers

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Global name space,Every file is accessible from all interface nodes

Scale-Out Network Attached Storage


IBM CloudStandardized services

on the IBM cloud

Preintegrated, workload-optimized systems

Private cloud services, behind your firewall, built and/or managed by IBM

IBM Lotus Live

IBM Lotus® iNotes®

IBM CloudBurst™ family

IBM Smart Business Test Cloud

IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud

IBM Smart Business StorageCloud

Analytics Collaboration Development

and test

Desktop and devices

Infrastructurestorage

IBM Smart Analytics System

Smart Business for Small or Midsize Business (backed by the IBM Cloud)

Infrastructurecompute

IBM Computing on Demand

IBM Information Protection Services

Business services

BPM BlueWorks (design tools)


IBM Smart Analytics Cloud

Smart business expense reporting on the IBM cloud

IBM Information Archive

Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (beta)

Smart Business End User Support

IBM Scale-Out NAS

CustomizedSolutions

IntegratedSystems

IBM Cloud Services and Systems Portfolio

IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)

IBM Lotus® Foundations


SONAS – Host Attachment

CIFS (SAMBA)

CIFS (SAMBA)

IBMGPFSIBM

GPFS

Enterprise Linux with associated device driversEnterprise Linux with associated device drivers

IBM Server s (x3650M2 )IBM Server s (x3650M2 )

Monitoring AgentsMonitoring Agents

NFSNFS HTTPSApacheHTTPSApache VSFTPDVSFTPD

CTDBCTDB

Mgmt. NodeInterface

Mgmt. NodeInterface

SSHDSSHD

RsynchRsynch

High Density StorageHigh Density Storage

Enhanced Interfaces

SONAS Component Stack Integrates Clustered CIFS and Clustered NFS via CTDB, which provides:

– Transparent, non-disruptive failover of CIFS and NFS with no client side changes

– Incredible performance between one node and one client

CIFS more than 700MB/secNFS more than 800MB/sec

– Integrated Acess Control Lists (ACL) between Unix, Linux and Windows

– Unparalleled aggregate performance scaling, Intelligent load balancing, simultaneous access to a single file by heterogeneous clients.

FTP for File transfers HTTPS and other protocols planned for

later releases


SBSC CIFS Enhancements

Clustering– Multiple exports of the same file system over multiple nodes

including distributed lock, share and lease support– Failover capabilities on the server– Integration with NFS, FTP, HTTP daemons in regard of locking,

failover and authorization Performance optimization with GPFS NTFS ACL Support in Samba using the native GPFS NFSv4 ACL

Support HSM support within Samba to allow destaging of files to tape and

user transparent recall. VSS integration of GPFS snapshots Registry based Samba configuration Alternate Data Streams Simple install and configuration tools


SONAS – System Software Stack

CIFS (SAMBA)

CIFS (SAMBA)

IBMGPFSIBM

GPFS





CTDBCTDB

Mgmt. NodeInterface

Mgmt. NodeInterface

SSHDSSHD

RsynchRsynch


Systems Software

SONAS Component Stack General Parallel File System (GPFS) -

IBM’s high end clustered file system– Designed for extreme

performance, scalability, and availability – features distributed metadata, wide striping, byte range locking, parallel I/O, variable block size, and extensive tuning parameters

– Reference www.top500.org High-speed file system scan and policy

engine– Supports movement of data

between storage tiers– Scans 1 billion files in under 15

minutes Rsync for file-level Synchronous

Replication


GPFS Overview IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS)

available 1996, used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world– Cluster: 1000+ nodes, fast reliable

communication, common admin domain– Shared disk: all data and metadata on disk

accessible from any node through disk I/O interface

– Parallel: data and metadata flows from all of the nodes to all of the disks in parallel

High performance– Multi-Terabyte files, Multi-Petabyte file systems.– Wide striping, large blocks, many GB/s to single

file

Highly Reliable– Can survive Disk and Node failures– Allows Split site Configurations

Storage

StorageNetwork


GPFS: ASC Purple/C Supercomputer

1536-node, 100 Teraflop IBM System P cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

2 PB GPFS file system (one mount point)

500 RAID controller pairs, 11000 disk drives

126 GB/s parallel I/O measured to a single file (134GB/s to multiple files)


GPFS: Information Lifecycle Management

One global file system name space across a pool of independent Storage

– Storage pool – group of LUNs– Fileset - define subtrees of a file system– Policies – for rule based management of files

What does it offer– Files in the same directory can be in different

pools– Allows classification of data according to

Service Level Agreements

StorageArea

Network

System

Gold Silver Bronze


File Placement Example using DB2 or Oracle

Databases by default places index and data table spaces in the same directory

File placement policies can direct the data to a pool with appropriate performance characteristics using file extension

– Data table spaces have a .DAT extension

– Index table spaces have an .INX extension

RAID 1Index_pool

RAID 5data_pool

/DATA/MYDB/ SQL00002.DATSQL00002.INXSQL00003.DATSQL00003.INXSQL00004.DATSQL00004.INX

Rule ‘Data rule’ set pool ‘index_pool’Where UPPER(NAME) like ‘%.INX’


Scale-Out NAS hardware components

CIFS (SAMBA)

CIFS (SAMBA)

IBMGPFSIBM

GPFS





CTDBCTDB

Mgmt. NodeInterface

Mgmt. NodeInterface

SSHDSSHD

RsynchRsynch


COTS components

SONAS Component Stack

Since the early 1990s, IBM’s SeaScape Architecture focused on using Commercial Off-the-Shelf hardware for its storage systems

SONAS continues this tradition, using IBM System x3650M2 servers, and high density disk drawers

This approach allows IBM to take advantage of R&D spent on other server and storage projects


High level view of Scale-Out NAS Storage (SONAS)

Management Node

Interface Node ...

IP Network

Tape

Other Future

Interfaces

Interface Node

High Speed Internal Network

Storage Node

Storage Pod

Storage Node Storage Node

Storage Pod

High Density Storage Drawer

Storage Node

GPFS

GPFS Client GPFS ClientGPFS Client GPFS Client

GPFS GPFS GPFS

Application Node(future)


Simple: Only 3 basic parts:

Interface Nodes Management Nodes Storage Pods



...• ‘Lego-like’ modular design allows online independent scaling of I/O throughput and storage capacity

R1


Sample designs for IBM SONAS systemMultiple variations exist to allow for I/O rich or Storage rich systems: almost 1 PB per rack.Extreme aggregate single system capacity and performance

MGT NodeMGT Node

Interface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface Node

KVMStorage NodeStorage Node

60 Disks

60 Disks

60 Disks

60 Disks

Interface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface Node

Switches

Switches

Storage NodeStorage Node

60 Disks

60 Disks

60 Disks

60 Disks

Storage NodeStorage Node

60 Disks

60 Disks

60 Disks

60 Disks

Switches

I/O Dense Configuration

Storage Dense Configuration

Base Configuration


Interface, Management and Storage Nodes…

x3650M2– Form: 2U– Processor:

Dual Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5530

2.26GHz, 8MB L2 cache, 80W– Memory: 8GB to 64GB DDR3 RAM – Storage: 300G SAS 10K disk drives– Four PCIe Gen 2.0 x8 adapter slots– Network Interfaces

Quad-port 1 GbE NICsDual-port 10 Gb CEE CNAsSingle port 4X DDR InfiniBand

Host Channel AdaptersDual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel

Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)

FRONT VIEW

REAR VIEW

IBM x3650M2 rack-mount server

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/x/hardware/rack/x3650m2/index.html


• Fast• 2GB/s Throughput • 30,000 IOPS to Disk

• Ultra-Dense• 60 Drives in just 4U• Scales to 120 Drives with Additional 4U

Enclosure

• Flexible• Intermix SAS and SATA for Storage

Tiering

• Highly Reliable• Active/Active Failover • SATAssure Data Integrity Validation• RAID 5 or RAID 6• Redundancy Throughout• Battery Backed Cache

SONAS Integrated Storage High density advanced storage appliance


Disk Types/Capacity Supported for R1

Feature Code

Drive Type

Drive Capacity

RAID Config

TotalDrives

Data Drives

Parity Drives

Spare Drives Usable

Capacity

6 x 1300

SATA 1 TB RAID 6

60 48 12 0 48 TB

6 x 1310

SAS 450 GB RAID 5

60 48 6 6 21 TB

•All storage controllers/expansion drawers must be fully populated•No mixing of disk types within the controller or expansion drawer•Controller and attached expansion drawer can contain different disk types

•Up to 30 interface nodes•Up to 30 storage pods (60 to 240 drives each) for maximum 7200 drives•Maximum usable capacity with 1TB SATA = 5760 TB•Other drives are planned later for 2010


Single, Integrated Installation wizardsEntire cluster installed from one DVD

from one node

Health Center/Cluster monitoringSystem LogAlert LogTopology

IBM SONAS Console SettingsUtilization ThresholdsScheduled tasksNotification settingsNotification recipients

Ease of Management


Scale-out NAS is suited to many industries and applications

Media and entertainment

Retail banking

Financial markets

Aerospace and defense

Automotive

Chemical and petroleum

Government

Healthcare

Online service providers

Retail Banking & Financial Markets

Chemical & Petroleum

2 Billionpeople will be on the web by 2011.*

Online Service Providers

Healthcare

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Why Smart Businesses will like IBM Scale Out NAS storage

Unified management of terabytes and petabytes of storage– Automated tiered storage, centrally managed and

deployed Global access to data, from anywhere

– Single global namespace, across petabytes of data Based on standard, open architectures

– Not proprietary– Avoids lock-ins– Leverage worldwide Open Source innovative

technology Provides and exceeds today’s needed requirements for:

– Scale-out capacity, performance, global virtual file server

– Extreme scalability with modular expansion High ROI

– Significant cost savings due to auto-tune, auto-balance, automatic tiered storage

Position to exploit the next generation of storage technology

– Superb foundation for cloud storage


Features and Functions Network File Serving

– NFS v2/v3, CIFS and FTP Clustered file-based storage

– Up to 256 file systems– Up to 1B files per file system– Maximum 2PB per file system

Quotas– User, group and fileset level quotas– Soft limits, hard limits, grace periods

Data Protection– File system Snapshots, up to 256 per

file system– Integrated TSM V6.1 Backup/Archive

(B/A) client– Synchronous mirroring of file system

metadata and file data Systems Management

– Unified GUI and CLI– Centralized event log– Event notifications via email or

SNMP

Integrated Solution Packaging– Shipped as a single software product

and modular IBM Hardware nodes– All components integrated into

rack(s) and cabled– System assembled, configured and

tested in manufacturing Scalability

– Up to 30 interface nodes– Up to 7200 HDDs in single system

(14.4PB raw using 2TB SATA) RAS

– Centralized monitoring of entire system via System Health Center

– Call home and remote service features

– Fully redundant capability in all components for HA

ISV Support and Enablement – VMware certification testing– Out-of-band Symantec Anti-virus

interoperability testing and white paper


IBM CloudStandardized services

on the IBM cloud

Preintegrated, workload-optimized systems

Private cloud services, behind your firewall, built and/or managed by IBM

IBM Lotus Live

IBM Lotus® iNotes®

IBM CloudBurst™ family

IBM Smart Business Test Cloud


IBM Smart Business StorageCloud

Analytics Collaboration Development

and test

Desktop and devices

Infrastructurestorage

IBM Smart Analytics System

Smart Business for Small or Midsize Business (backed by the IBM Cloud)

Infrastructurecompute

IBM Computing on Demand

IBM Information Protection Services

Business services

BPM BlueWorks (design tools)


IBM Smart Analytics Cloud

Smart business expense reporting on the IBM cloud

IBM Information Archive

Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (beta)

Smart Business End User Support

IBM Scale-Out NAS

CustomizedSolutions

IntegratedSystems

IBM Cloud Services and Systems Portfolio

IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)

IBM Lotus® Foundations


An Analogy – Transportation Alternatives

Traditional Approach: Buy a car, drive it yourself, have a place to park it,

take care of maintenance and insurance.

Rental with or withouth Chauffer: Rent a car by the day or week. Drive it yourself, or hire a chauffer to drive the car for you.

Transportation as a Service: Hop in the back seat of a taxi andtell driver where

you would like to go. Pay by the mile.


An Analogy – Transportation as Someone Else’s Problem

You Decide where to go You Decide where to go

You DriveParking / Storage

Someone else Drives

Parking / Storage

You Purchase VehicleOngoing Maintenance

Someone else purchases Vehicle

Ongoing Maintenance

Purchases Vehicle,Ongoing Maintenance

You Decide where to go

You Drive (or hire someone)

Weekly Parking

Traditional Weekly Rental Taxi


EnterpriseEnterpriseData Center

Private Cloud

EnterpriseData Center

IBM Operated

Managed Private Cloud

Hosting CenterHosting Center

Hosted Private Cloud

Enterprise A

Shared Private Cloud

Cloud

Enterprise owned and operated

Enterprise owned and operated

Enterprise owned; IBM operated

Enterprise owned; IBM operated

Customer/IBM owned and IBM operated

(single tenant)

Customer/IBM owned and IBM operated

(single tenant)

IBM owned and operated

(multi-tenant)


(multi-tenant)

Enterprise B

Enterprise C

1 2 3 4

Public Cloud

Cloud


(multi-tenant)


(multi-tenant)5

User A

User B

User C

User D

User …

Private Cloud Shared Private Cloud Public Cloud

Cloud Services delivered publicly toend users / secure, enterprise-class

Cloud Servicesdelivered privately toEnterprises / virtualseparation of tenants

Customer owns and pays for infrastructureand has unlimited exclusive access

IBM owns infrastructure and customer has shared access and pays by usage

IBM’s Five co-existing cloud delivery models


IBM provides seamless transition to a cloud model.

Support for open standards in use in their datacenters today

High degrees of scalability: petabytes of data and billions of files

Global namespace to eliminate islands of data in your environment

Bullet-proof security that integrates into your existing authentication systems

Built-in data placement and ILM via a global policy engine

Support for multiple tiers of storage including low-cost tape technology

High performance and availability, making it useful in your environment today

IBM has focused it’s efforts on the demanding needs of our enterprise client base.

Smart Business Storage Cloud


SBSC component view

Enhanced CIFS Server with NTFS Semantics to Support Active Directory Integration

CTDB – Clustered Trivial database Daemon, Controls the cluster and the file service daemons

General Parallel File System (GPFS) - IBM’s high end clustered file system

Management, administration and monitoring software

Disk and Tape hardware

CIFSCIFS

IBMGPFSIBM

GPFS

Enterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux

IBM ServerIBM Server

IBM DiskIBM DiskIBM TapeIBM Tape

ReportingReporting

MonitoringMonitoring

ProvisioningProvisioning

NFSNFS HTTPSHTTPSFTPFTP

CTDBCTDB

HSM - ArchivingHSM - Archiving

TSM – Backup & RestoreTSM – Backup & Restore

IBM Director - Hw MgtIBM Director - Hw Mgt

SCPSCP

IBM SVCIBM SVC

Other Disk


SBSC component view – GPFS

Integrated File System Scan Scans 1 billion files in under

15 minutes

• Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) moves data between disk and tape

• Over 80 percent of most files on NAS systems have not been accessed in the last six months

• Backup and Recovery works with existing TSM Server backup environments

CIFSCIFS

IBMGPFSIBM

GPFS



ReportingReporting



NFSNFS HTTPSHTTPS FTPFTP

CTDBCTDB




SCPSCP

IBM DiskIBM DiskIBM TapeIBM TapeIBM SVCIBM SVC

Other Disk*


The SBSC Story: Information Lifecycle Management

Capacity managed centrally Average utilization >80% Policy driven

File placement – direct new files to the correct initial disk tier

File movement – between storage tiers, the least active files can be migrated to tape

File expiration – delete files after they are no longer needed

SBSC

Just buy the capacity you really need


The SBSC Story: Backup with TSM

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is tightly integrated into SBSC The scan for changes in the file system is done by SBSC internally Reduce backup window to the time needed to copy changes to tape LAN-free backup uses SAN bandwidth

SBSC

LAN-free

TSMServer

Metadata

Data


SBSC component viewCommodity hardware based

design Product is comprised of

Linux on x86 servers.Supports numerous storage

devicesIBM SAN Volume Controller

TSM (disk, tape, optical)

Scale out – done with an “Army of Ants” and not with “a single Big Elephant”

CIFSCIFS

IBMGPFSIBM

GPFS



ReportingReporting



NFSNFS HTTPSHTTPS FTPFTP

CTDBCTDB




SCPSCP

IBM DiskIBM DiskIBM TapeIBM TapeIBM SVCIBM SVC

Other Disk


IBM’s Modular/Layered Approach

Foundation

Flavoring

SVC

DSFamily

TapeLibrary

Physical Disk Physical Tape

VirtualDisk

VirtualTape

VirtualFile

XIV

TS7650G SBSC


The growth of instrumentation, interconnection and intelligence is driving new IT and business services ... and the requirement for service management systems.

New IT consumption and delivery models are very compelling for some workloads today – and will position your enterprise for the future.

IBM offers solutions and services to:– Reduce infrastructure and operational costs.– Accelerate service deployment and return

on investment.– Deliver consistent, secure services.

In Summary … We can shift to a smarter planet.


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