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EMC Data Archive POC Notes

Architecture:The initial architecture was to use Rainfinity to write data to a Celerra and then Kazeon would

read the target Celerra for search capability.

Legal Data

Drag and drop

Archive DataDrag and drop

Rainfinity

EMC SM POC Target

Celerra

Kazeon

Production SM Source

Celerra

During the POC the architecture changed due to the limitation of Kazeon and Rainfinitys abilityto archive data from a non-shared system. So the new architecture was to use the Celerra to

present a public share which uses could access to drag and drop the files for archive to. After the

files has been moved to the Celerra share Kazeon would then index the data for search capability

and lastly Rainfinity would archive the data to another filesystem for long term retention.

Legal Data

Archive Data

Rainfinity

EMC SM POC TargetCelerra

Kazeon

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Installation:

KazeonThe installation of Kazeon was very simple and quick after the system was racked we

were active for testing within a few hours.

CelerraThe NAS was setup and ready by the end of the day for configuration. There were no

major problems with this setup.RainfinityThere was not SE that was available for the installation. Once we did get someone

to install the RF appliance we still needed another person to configure the appliance. The

appliance took 1.5 days to get configured this seems a lot more complex then I would havefigured. The one thing to keep in mind though is that this was a one-time setup, after the setup

the policy to archive the data was easy to configure. Also to note was that the architecture was

modified during the setup of this process of how we would archive.

POC Test:Objective testingThis test is simply a test of the objectives outlined in the RFI.

Objective 1 - We need a solution that must provide the means to automate the archiving ofstructured and unstructured data to a centralized storage location based on IT corporate policies.

Objective Achieved and TestedWe could move unstructured data to a NAS share where itwas then archived for long term retention. I was unable to test structured data due to lack of time

and equipment availability.

Objective 2 - We need a solution that must provide the ability to collect and track all

incremental changes of structured and unstructured active data. The collected data must then be

stored on a centralized secondary storage location while preserving the file date information and

preventing the destruction of data for means of long term legal retention.

Objective Achieved and TestedUsing Kazeon we were able to scan file shares for data

requested for long term retention. After which a copy of the found data could be copied and

retention applied for long term retention on an incremental basis.

Objective 3 - Provide the capability to search through collected data as identified in the 2nd

bullet with a future e-discovery process.

Objective Achieved and TestedUsing Kazeon to index data we were able to search data atboth metadata level and a document contents level searching.

Objective 4 - Capability to assign ownership of data when archived.

Metrics:

Copy of data from PC to archive file system - 21GB2 hours

Kazeon basic scan of files on archive file system21GB2 min

Kazeon deep scan of files on archive file system21GB

Rainfinity archive to legal file system21GB30 min

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RFI Testing Criteria:

1. Can your solution de-duplicate against all the data that it stores? The Celerra filesystemcan de-duplicate. This a post process

2. Does your solution support Oracle, MS SQL and/or Unix (Redhat Linux and HP-UX)?The data written can be either NFS or CIFS data so as long as the data to be archived can

write the data to this location it can be recovered at a later date. But it should be notedthat this whole process would be manual it is unable to do this via tools or automation.

3. Can the network be throttled during ingestion of archive data? No, this is not done withany tool set with this EMC solution. You would have to utilize Qos rules to make anysort of bandwidth limitations.

4. Can replication solution support a remote site greater than 500 miles away? Yes theCelerra can replicate to another Celerra.

5. Can the data in the repository be searched? Yes, Kazeon can index both source anddestination data. There is a basic index which pulls only meta data and there is also a

deep index which will search inside documents. The searching with Kazeon if very good

and provides a lot of information very easily.

6. Are servers required for your solution? No, the equipment needed at the production siteare 1 Celerra (NAS), Kazeon appliance and Rainfinity appliance, all of which are selfcontained in a rack.

7. Can your solution achieve all the project objectives? Yes all project objectives can bemet.

8. Does your solution require an agent? No agents are required data is accessed by beingshared to the network.

9. Can you set quotas on storage? Yes you can set quotas on the Celerra for storagerequirements.

10.Can identified data for recovery be written to removable medium? Yes identified data

can be copied down to the desktop or exported into a legal extraction csv file.

Support Matrix

Description EMC

solution that must provide the means to automate the

archiving of structured and unstructured data to a centralized

storage location based on IT corporate policies.

x

solution that must provide the ability to collect and track allincremental changes of structured and unstructured active data.The collected data must then be stored on a centralizedsecondary storage location while preserving the file dateinformation and preventing the destruction of data for means of

long term legal retention.

x

Provide the capability to search through collected data as

identified in the 2nd

bullet with a future e-discovery processx

Capability to assign ownership of data when archived x

Can your solution de-duplicate against all the data that it

stores?x

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Does your solution support Oracle, MS SQL and/or Unix

(Redhat Linux and HP-UX)?x

Can the network be throttled during ingestion of archive data?

Can replication solution support a remote site greater than 500

miles away? x

Can the data in the repository be searched? x

Are servers required for your solution?

Can your solution achieve all the project objectives? x

Does your solution require an agent?

Can you set quotas on storage? x

Can identified data for recovery be written to removable

medium?x

Thoughts & Perceptions: