NAS strategies for virtualization with ZFS Storage Appliance


Oracle StorageImplementing Efficient NAS Solutions for Virtualization


Program Agenda

• Why Virtualization?

• Why NAS and Why ZFS-SA?

• Innovative Technologies

• Examples of the ZFS-SA deployed

using these Technologies

• Bottom Line Results


Virtualization and Cloud Storage

Uncontrolled Business and Corresponding IT Growth

• Application growth

• Resulting server and accompanying storage sprawl

Law of Unintended Consequences

• Complexity and uncontrolled costs

• Lack of manageability and server/storage efficiency(s)

• IT architecture loss of integrity

• Mission critical applications become compromised

Business Consequences

• Uncontrollable costs

• IT Architecture plans become ineffective – reactive instead

of proactive

Growth and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Why Virtualization and Why Cloud Computing and Storage


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage Appliance

The Advantages of Consolidation

• Lowering capital and operational costs

• CapEx – reduction in IT capital outlay for servers

• OpEx – admin, licensing, power, cooling

• Data center real estate – data center space efficiency

Advantages in Storage Consolidation

• Further improves data center space efficiency

• Manageability – provisioning, data protection,

storage efficiency(s)

• Cost reduction – capacity, power/cooling

and space efficiency(s)

Resolving Application / Server / Storage Sprawl

First Steps towards a Virtualization Architecture



Virtualization Naturally Matures to

Cloud Computing and Storage

• Consolidating apps – addressing the high availability enterprise

• Cloud computing agility – monitoring and management complexity

• Cloud storage – storage agility introduces complexity

Key Elements - Next Generation

Cloud Computing and Storage

• Rapid app deployment – development/test/QA and cutover to production

• Minimize/mitigate risk and preserve production availability

• Data protection challenges – BU/R and DR replication features

• Holistic monitoring/management features – observability,

storage efficiency

• Resource management – on demand compute and storage

As Virtualization Matures – More Unintended Consequences


The ZFS Storage Appliance


Oracle’s Complete Storage PortfolioEngineered for Oracle Software / Best of Breed for Mixed Environments

Business Ready SystemsBusiness-Ready Systems

Exadata

Exalogic

SSD F20 F5100

Tape and Virtual Tape

SL8500

SL3000

VSM

SL500

LTOT9840

T10KSL24/48

SPARC

SuperClusterZFS Storage

Appliances

Flash Storage

SAN Storage

Pillar

Axiom 6006000/2500

series

Storage Management: OEM, ASM, DTrace Analytics, CAM, ACSLS, ELS

Automated Tiering: Partitions, SAM QFS, Hybrid Storage Pools, VSM

Data Reduction: 11g ACO, HCC, RMAN, ZFSSA Dedup/Comp

Data Protection: Data Guard, RMAN, OSB, ZFSSA Snap/Rep, MaxRep

Security/Encryption: ASO, Oracle Key Manager, Disk/Tape Encryption

Storage Software

NEW

NAS Storage

NEW

NEW


• Observability – DTrace storage analytics

• Data protection – snaps/clones

• Disaster recovery – replication

• Storage efficiency – de-duplication,

compression and thin provisioning

Third Generation Systems

Key Storage Features: Key Storage Features:

• Virtual machine observability enhances

manageability and diagnosis

• Snaps/clones – instant short term virtual machine

and guest applications BU/R

• DR planning enhanced with built-in replication

• Storage efficiency and rapid provisioning improves

productivity and extends capacity.

Key Storage Benefits:Key Storage Benefits: 7120

Best value full suite of data services

Up to 120 TB

7320

Best flexibilitysingle or dual controllers

Up to 192 TB

7420

Best scalabilityactive-active controllers

Up to 1.15 PB



S7420

S7320S7120

S7420

7120

Entry standaloneUp to 60×1T or 2T 7,200 RPM SAS disks

Or 300GB or 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS disks

Write flash cache

Sun ZFS Storage 7120

What you get: • Up to 120 TB HDD capacity• High 4 Core CPU• 24 GB DRAM cache • Write flash cache included

Value: Entry level pricing with enterprise class data services and simplified management from 12TB up to 120TB to address growing business requirements

Uses:Use for general purpose file sharing, web storage, entry level storage application requirements

ZFS Storage Appliances


S7420

S7320S7120

S7420

7320

Entry cluster-capable

Up to 96×1T or 2T 7,200 RPM SAS disks

or 300GB or 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS disks

Up to 8×512G read/16×18G write flash

Active-active clustering for H/A


What you get: • High availability cluster option• 2 CPUs (4 cores per CPU) per controller• Up to 4TB/system of read flash cache

Value: Entry level modular scalability and high availability up to 192TB for accelerated business application performance

Uses:Use for general purpose file sharing, virtualization, disaster recovery, test, QA, streaming workloads such as video/media


• Up to 288 GB of write flash cache• Up to 72 GB DRAM per controller


S7420

S7320S7120

S7420

7420

Expandable cluster-capable Up to 576×1T or 2T 7,200 RPM SAS disks

or 300GB or 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS disks

Up to 8×512G read/96×18G write flash

Active-active clustering for H/A


What you get: • Up to 1.15 PB HDD capacity, up to 64 CPU cores/system• Up to 1TB/system DRAM cache• Up to 4TB/system read flash cache• Up to 1.7TB write flash cache • Up 120Gb/s Ethernet bandwidth connectivity

Value: Modular scalability and high availability up to 1.15 PB for accelerated business application performance

Uses:Consolidation of virtualization environments requiring multiple data services, heterogeneous file sharing , back up, disaster recovery, and bulk storage



• Fibre channel

• iSCSI

• InfiniBand over IP/RDMA

• iSER

• SRP

• NFS V3 and V4

• CIFS

• HTTP

• WebDAV

• FTP

• ZFS NDMP V4

Data ProtocolsData Protocols

Full Complement of Data Services

• Browser and CLI interface

• Management dashboard

• Hardware/component view

• Role-based access control

• Phone home

• Event and thresholdbased alerting

• DTrace analytics

• Scripting

• Workflow automation

• Advanced networking

• DFS root support

• Source aware routing

• High availability clustering

ManagementManagement

• Hybrid storage pool

• Hybrid columnar compression

• Single, double and triple parity RAID (RAIDZ, Z2, Z3)

• Mirroring and triple mirroring

• End-to-end data integrity

• Remote replication*

• Snapshots and clones*

• Quotas

• In-line de-duplication

• Compression

• Thin provisioning

• Antivirus via ICAP protocol

• Online data migration

Data ServicesData Services

* Indicates licensed options


Write SSD

7200

or

15000

RPM

SAS

HDD

ReadSSD

Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

• Only Storage Appliance with

Hybrid Storage Pools (HSPs)

– Data is intelligently and automatically

migrated between DRAM, Flash and Disk

– Continuously optimizes storage system

performance and efficiency

– Simplifies management, transparently

managed as a single storage pool

– Now available with 15,000 RPM HDDs;

advantageous for high I/O use cases

involving random, uncached data

Delivers Savings and Performance for Consolidation


Sun ZFS Storage Appliances

• Only Storage Appliance with

DTrace Analytics

– Automatic real-time visualization

ofapplication and storage related

workloads (on right picture of

database and table index analytics)

– Simple yet sophisticated

instrumentation provides real-time

comprehensive analysis

– Supports multiple simultaneous

application and workload analysis in

real-time

– Analysis can be saved, exported

and replayed for further analysis

Best in Management Simplicity


• Provisioning

• Data protection

• Storage efficiency

• Unified storage

ManageabilityManageability

• Cost reduction: Opex and Capex

Bottom Line ResultsBottom Line Results

Why Are We Different, Why Are We Better


• Clustered storage controllers

• End to end data Integrity

• Fault management architecture

• Observability – storage analytics

High AvailabilityHigh Availability

• DTrace storage analytics – holistic monitoring– Drill down – client to the platter

– Real time storage workload management and monitoring

– Affords rapid response

• Storage efficiency – extending Stg capacity– In-line de-duplication

– Compression

– Hybrid columnar compression

– Thin provisioning

• Hybrid storage pools – intelligent caching– Write Cache – Flash SSD, ideal for virtualization

– Read Cache – DRAM and/or Flash SSD

Storage InnovationStorage Innovation


• Storage flexibility– Unified storage

– App sensitivity to storage type

• Consolidation– Consolidation cost savings – cost, TCO

– Data protection and DR

– Provisioning and manageability

• Virtualized storage access

– Accessibility:

File based storage – NFS, CIFS, WebDAV, FTP

Block based storage – FC, iSCSI, iSER, SRP

Protocols broadly supported:

IP: 1GE, 10GE and IB: RDMA, IPoIB

– Virtual machine storage emulation

Virtualized I/O – all data can appear local

Network Attached StorageNetwork Attached Storage

• NAS is inherently virtual

• NAS is inherently agile

• NAS enables app agility

• NAS connectivity is portable– Data attaches to app, not hardware

– Data follows the app throughout the Infrastructure

Cloud Storage is a NaturalCloud Storage is a Natural

Why NAS and Virtualization

• Applications are more observable– DTrace storage analytics

• App API‟s afford holistic storage management

• Workflows empower: – App centric storage management

Application AwarenessApplication Awareness



Solutions and

the ZFS Storage Appliance


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceSolution Approach(s)

Three Solution Types

• Oracle Engineered Solution(s)

• Oracle Optimized Solution(s)

• Oracle Storage Solution(s)

Oracle Engineered Solutions

• Exalogic Elastic Cloud

– Engineered one stop package

Oracle Optimized Solutions

• Enterprise cloud infrastructure

– Top to bottom Oracle on Oracle

– Optimized solution

Oracle Storage Solutions -

Virtualization

• Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

• Pillar Storage

Holistic Approach

• Interoperability

– Attach to cloud storage agility features

– Qualified/tested/certified

• Engineered integration

– Engineered offboard plug-in design

– Empowered by NAS onboard workflows

– Enhances/augments virtualization features


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceOracle Storage Solutions

Oracle Engineered Systems –Exalogic ElasticCloud

Oracle Optimized Solutions – Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle Storage Solutions


Engineered integration

– Oracle VM 3.0 – storage connect plug in,

Oracle Enterprise Manager

– Oracle VDI – rapid iSCSI provisioning

– VMware – vCenter Site Recovery Manager


interoperability

– VMware vSphere

– Citrix XenDesktop

– Honorable mention: Microsoft

Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer


Oracle Storage Solutions

Virtualization

ZFS Storage Appliance


• Oracle VM 3.0• VMware vSphere

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Point SolutionsVirtualization and Cloud Computing

Storage

For

Cloud Computing

Storage

For

Cloud Computing

• Oracle VDI• Citrix XenDesktop

Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure

• Snaps/clones and replication

• VMware vSphere Site Recovery Manager

Data Protection

and

Disaster Recovery

Data Protection

and

Disaster Recovery


Sun ZFS Storage Appliance – Solutions Overview

Solution Type Solution Benefit Storage BenefitVirtualization

PlatformVirtualization and

Cloud Features

Storage forCloud

• Data center efficiency• Application portability • Improved resource observability

• Effortless integration• Storage agility• Application storage observability• Data protection• High availability• Fast backups and recovery

Oracle VM

DRS, Live Migration Oracle RAC Online

Relocation Storage Connect

VMware vMotion/Stg

vMotion DRS

Data Protection and

DisasterRecovery

• Application and storage availability• Data protection• Data center recovery

• Engineered integration• Data recovery• Data failover and fail back

Oracle VM ZFS Replication ZFS Snaps/Clones

VMware ZFS Replication VMware vSphere

SRM

Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure

• Simplified desktop administration.• Labor ROI• Security• Consolidated desktop storage

• Effortless integration• Fast desktop backup/recovery• Hybrid storage pool I/O acceleration• Desktop observability

Oracle VDI Accelerated Desktop

Provisioning

Citrix XenDesktop XenApp


Oracle Point Solutions


Virtualization and Cloud Computing

Storage for Cloud Computing


The Sun ZFS Storage ApplianceOracle Virtualization/Cloud Computing Point Solutions

Oracle

Virtualization Cloud Computing

Storage Solution(s)

Oracle

Virtualization Cloud Computing

Storage Solution(s)

Virtualization/Cloud

Infrastructure

Virtualization/Cloud

Infrastructure

Sun ZFS

Storage

Appliance

Sun ZFS

Storage

Appliance


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceEngineered to Work Together – Oracle VM 3.0

Cloud Features

• Compute and storage agility – DRS and live migration

• Enabled by consolidated storage efficiency

• Enhances business critical application availability

Key Storage Features

• Data protection – snaps/clones and replication

• Storage efficiency – de-dupe, compression and thin

provisioning

Application Awareness

• Observability – virtual machine and client

monitoring/management

• Storage connect plug in – provision, configure and

manage storage

Benefits

• Fraction of the cost of VMware vSphere equivalent

• Snaps/clones – instant BU and recovery

• Storage efficiency preserves scalable capacity


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceOVM for Cloud Architecture – Database Storage Agility

Cloud for Database Storage and Computing

• Oracle RAC online relocation

• Application and database storage agility

• Over the top high availability

• App virtualization


• Observability - DTrace storage analytics


• Storage cluster option thin provisioning

Benefits

• Observability enables rapid response

• Snaps/clones – instant short term BU/R

• Application availability preserves the bottom line

• Not available with any other virtualization platform


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceVMware vSphere Interoperability

Compute and Storage for Cloud Automation

• Non-disruptive compute/storage agility

• Automated workload/storage management.

• Requires vCenter server and automation tools

Autonomic Infrastructure Management

• Monitors KPIs and initiates expansion and contraction

of server resources

• Seamless interoperability with the Oracle

ZFS storage appliance


• Observability – virtual machine and client

monitoring/management

• Observability – DTrace storage analytics


• Storage cluster option

Benefits

• Observability enhances DRS planning

• Snaps/clones – instant short term BU/R

• Enhances application availability

Virtual CenterGlobal Scheduler




Data Protection and Disaster Recovery



• Built-In replication improves disaster recovery turnaround

• Snaps/clones enable short term backup and D/R integrity/performance

• OVM and Oracle ZFS storage appliance workflows facilitate

non-disruptive DR testing

• Ensures IT infrastructure availability and preserves business continuity

• Storage-based data protection -file system snap/clone feature– Enabled by the ZFS file system snap/clone feature

– Virtual machine images and application writeable storage

• Asynchronous replication– Preserves application and data availability

– Powered by ZFS file system send/receive technology

– Ensures data integrity and coherency

Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceOracle VM Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Business Continuity — Protection for Mission Critical DataBusiness Continuity — Protection for Mission Critical Data

BenefitsBenefits


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceOracle VM Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Primary Site – Virtual Machine Storage

– ZFS storage appliance replication

• Asynchronous Replication– Enabled by ZFS snaps/clones

– Powered by ZFS FS send/receive

– Initial full replication

– Then changed blocks

Recovery Site – Virtual Machine Storage

– ZFS storage appliance replication target

• Upon Primary Site Failure– Mouse-click to become primary

– Operates from replicated data

• Upon Recovery– Replicated recovery

– Mouse click to recover primary


• Enhance and increase confidence in disaster recovery planning and execution

• Business continuity preserved keeping mission critical business applications available

• All working together to maintain business activities, especially those directly related

to the bottom line

• Engineered integration with VMware site recovery manager

– Easy deployment via plug-In technology

– Available and downloadable with no license fee

– Interacts with vSphere to enable ZFS storage appliance replication

• Deploys with all SRM features

– Create/manage disaster recovery plans via VMware vCenter server

– Auto-discover, provision and protect virtual machines, applications and critical data

– Non-disruptive testing of recovery planning

– Participates in automated failover of virtual machines and data to a target recovery site

– Integrates into key activities such as recovering multiple sites to a single site

Virtualization and the ZFS Storage AppliancevCenter SRM Integration – Disaster Recovery for VMware

Business ContinuityBusiness Continuity

BenefitsBenefits


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceVMware vSphere SRM Integration - Architecture

Prerequisites:• VMware vCenter SRM

• Supports all Windows platforms that SRM supports

• Sun ZFS Storage ApplianceSW 2010 Q1.2 or later





Virtual Desktop Architecture


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceOracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Oracle VDI • Rapid VM desktop deployment

• Template to provisioned desktops

Accelerates Desktop Deployment• Rapid provisioning

– Direct Oracle VDI and ZFSSSA storage

integration

Fast iSCSI Connectivity• Hybrid storage pool acceleration

– Improves desktop productivity

– Read/write SSD and intelligent ZFS cache

* Also works with VMware and MS Hyper-V


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceVirtual Desktop Infrastructure – Citrix XenDesktop Interoperability

Easy and Seamless Integration

• Certified - XenDesktop/XenServer

• Desktop performance –

Storage analytics

• Storage @ a glance –

Dashboard BUI

Enables Business Productivity

• Hybrid storage pool acceleration

• Storage cluster high availability

• Virtualized MS and

Oracle e-business apps


Conclusion



When the 7000 Series was new and came from the „uncertain stable‟ of Sun, its potential

users could be forgiven for overlooking it despite its massively impressive capabilities. Now

it is a time- and market-proven offering that has just added increased speed, capacity, and

functionality - and it is delivered from the „thoroughbred house‟ of Oracle. Any excuses users

may have for not considering it as a strong and capable mid-to-high market storage

contender are getting pretty hard to come by.

From ESG

Oracle‟s unified storage systems are well positioned to address current market needs

by providing simple-to-use and scalable storage solutions. Industry-standard hardware

and open source software have the potential to greatly improve the overall economics

of storage for customers.

From IDC

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”

“”

Analysts agree


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceA Call to Action…

* Source: Edison White Paper comparing the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance to Network Appliance systems

• Certified and tested with Oracle VM, VMware, Hyper-V and Citrix

• Focused on the mainstream for interoperability and integration

– Oracle VM – storage agility and Oracle RAC solutions

– Oracle VDI – Oracle Vbox virtual desktop solution with accelerated iSCSI desktop storage provisioning

– Citrix XenServer and XenDesktop with XenApp – Microsoft and e-business app virtualization

– VMware – vMotion, storage vMotion, DRS and SRM integration

• Virtualization storage workload observability with storage analytics

– Provides 44% faster diagnosis and response*

– Flash-enabled intelligent read caching and write performance

• Storage efficient provisioning

– 34% less time to provision*

– Rapid Oracle VDI iSCSI provisioning

• Lower TCO

– Storage efficiency extends storage capacity, data services and storage analytics lower admin costs


Virtualization and the ZFS Storage ApplianceTo Learn More…

• For information about the Sun ZFSSA see the followinghttp: //www.oracle.com/us/products/servers-storage/storage/unified-storage/index.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/sun-unified-storage/overview/index.html

• For Information about Oracle VM see the followinghttp://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/index.html

• For Information about the Sun ZFSSA and VMware, see the followinghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/systems-hardware-architecture/

vmwaresra40-7000-163905.pdf

• For more information on Oracle VDI with ZFSSA see the following:http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/virtualization/061153.html?ssSourceSiteId=ocomit

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