Datacore SANsymphony-V_R9 Marc van Schijndel

Country Manager ttec

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Topics

Virtualization Technology

Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Systems Management

Pooling & Provisioning

Continuous Availability

Performance Acceleration

Backup & Recovery

Remote Replication

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Virtualization Technology

USERS

APPS

DISKS

Desktop

Virtualization

Server

Virtualization

Storage

Virtualization

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Layered, flexible solution

Tiered

storage pools

Storage Hypervisor

Virtual Disks

Desktops

Servers

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Infrastructure wide functions

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Benefits

Maximize combined value of storage assets

Take cost out of storage infrastructure

Simplify management & migration

Overcome device-specific differences

Provide higher levels of service

Customers report up to:

60% COST SAVINGS

90% UTILIZATION

100% UPTIME

200% FASTER

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IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service)

Adaptive techniques for addressing growth

► And subscriber variability

Dynamic allocation of tiered resources

► Tuned to different classes of service

Coordinated actions across related objects

Resiliency in the face of:

► Frequent changes

► Equipment failures & obsolescence

► Facility outages

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Centralized systems management

Control / monitor diverse resources from one console

► Intuitive to set up and operate

► Automates repetitive tasks

► Self-guided wizards for key workflows

► Comprehensive diagnostics & troubleshooting tips

► Role-based, administrative permissions & audit trail

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Intuitive, self-guided workflow

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Visualize the “big picture”

Leverage system monitoring tools ► Microsoft System Center

Operations Manager

► VMware vCenter

► Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer

Understand system-wide health at a glance ► Apps, servers, networks,

storage, …

► SNMP v1 queries & traps

Intervene early to prevent outages

Correlate behavior of co-dependent components ► Isolate potential

trouble spots

► Expedite root-cause analysis

Increase overall system performance & availability

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VMware vCenter plug-in

Access key SANsymphony-V functions from the same vCenter Server used to manage vSphere environment

► Rapidly provision virtual disks to vSphere / ESX servers

► Track status & properties of virtual disks used by vSphere hosts

► Coordinate snapshots of VMs (datastores)

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VMware vCenter plug-in

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VMware integration

VAAI

► Offload vSphere hosts & SAN from low-level storage operations that are performed faster & more efficiently by SANsymphony-V • Full copy

• Block zeroing

• Hardware-assisted locking

SRM (Site Recovery Manager)

► Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) responds to SRM requests for replication services

► Used to achieve fully automated vSphere site recovery & migrations

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vCenter native integration

SANsymphony-V console communicates directly with vCenter Server

DataCore administrator can:

► See hosts, VMs, clusters, datastores & ports

► Serve virtual disks to them

► Set path selection preferences

► Create VMFS datastores

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Analyzis and Reporting

Assist with capacity planning, tuning & asset tracking

► Configurable views of system behavior and performance

► Drill down into I/O characteristics

► Save configuration snapshots for change management

► Export resource allocation to billing & chargeback tools

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Reports

Exportable to: ► Image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc)

► PDF (Adobe)

► HTML (website)

► MHT (single file website)

► RTF (Rich Text)

► XLS (Excel)

► XLSX (Excel 2007+)

► CSV

► TXT (plain text)

Customizable ► Sort / Filter / Search

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Real time performance charts

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Virtual disk pooling

Consolidate like or unlike disk resources

► Split pool into tiers of different price/performance/capacity

► Create and assign virtual disks of desired sizes

► Define access rights

► Explicitly assign virtual disks to hosts or groups of hosts

► Eliminate stranded disk space

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No need to be a storage specialist

Simplify & automate best practices ► Auto-discovers available

space

► Thin provisions

► Selects best path

► Sets adaptive cache

► Creates HA mirrors

► Load balances back-end ports

Thin provisioning

Allocate just enough space, just-in-time

► Appears to computers as very large drives (e.g. 2 TB disks)

► Takes up only space actually being written to

► Dynamically allocates more disk space when required

► Reduces need to resize LUNs

► Reclaims zeroed out disk space

Virtual disk migrating

Move contents from one disk to another without impacting applications

► Eliminates downtime for hardware disk upgrades

► Clears & reclaims space occupied by original

► Provides pass-through access to drives previously connected directly to hosts

Pool housekeeping

Remove disk from pool safely & non-disruptively

► Decommission a disk drive (age, problems, etc.,)

► Shrink size of physical pool (use resource elsewhere)

Contents automatically distributed among remaining disks

► No failover required

► No need to replace the volume

Continuous Availability (Sync Mirror)

Real-time I/O replication for continuous availability

► Eliminates storage as a single point of failure

► Enhances survivability using physically separate nodes

► Updates distributed copy simultaneously

► Mirrored virtual disks behave as one, multi-ported shared drive

High speed caching

Speeds up performance

► Accelerates disk I/O response from existing storage

► Uses x86-64 CPUs and memory from DataCore nodes as powerful, inexpensive “mega caches”

► Anticipates next blocks to be read, and groups writes to avoid waiting on disks

Automated Tiered Storage

Make best tradeoff between performance & cost

► Select tiers based on price/performance/capacity

• SSD, SAS, SATA, …

► Dynamically migrates blocks among classes of storage

► Best location at the time determined by:

• Access frequency

• User preferences

Sub-LUN auto tiering

Heaviest hit blocks take advantage of Tier 1 performance

Other blocks moved to Tier 2 & Tier 3

SSD

Tier 1 SATA

Tier 3

SAS

Tier 2

Frequently

Accessed

Infrequently

Accessed

Moderately

Accessed

VIRTUAL

DISK

Dynamically optimizes resources Based on average access frequency

for each tier

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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 0 Tier n

Hot Cold Warm Archive

Above average

moves up a tier

Below average

moves down a tier

Cloud gateway

Extends disk pool to external clouds

► Supports the popular public cloud hosting services

► Appears as on-premises iSCSI-attached storage

► Caches transmissions & controls bandwidth

Developed by*

*Trial license of TwinStrata CloudArray® virtual appliance software

is included with SANsymphony-V license

RAID striping

Better protection & performance

► Circumvents drive failures

► Spreads I/O across multiple spindles

► Offloads RAID 0 & 1

► Supports popular RAID devices in pool

Load balancing

Improve response and throughput

► Overcomes typical storage-related

bottlenecks

► Spread load on physical devices using different channels for different virtual disks

► Bypasses failed & offline channels

► Automatically balances I/Os across pooled drives in a tier

Automatic fine-tuning

Heat maps reveal hot spots of heavy disk activity ► SANsymphony-V automatically migrates disk blocks

to less active drives

High

activity

Low

activity

Backup/recovery (online snapshots) Capture point-in-time images

► Recover quickly at disk speeds to known good state • Differential and full clones

• Thin provisioned

• Read / writeable

• Trigger via VSS

• Snap from premium storage to lower cost equipment

► Eliminate back-up window

► Provide “live” copy for analysis, development & testing

CDP (Continuous Data protection) Return to any point-in-time without taking explicit backups

► Restore arbitrary point-in-time within a 48 hour period

► Logs and timestamps all I/Os to the selected virtual disks

► No need to quiesce or interrupt applications

► No host agents required

► Easy to enable and revert from

Asynchronous replication Update distant copies without impacting local performance

► Ideal for disaster recovery & remote data center migration

► Standard IP-based links

► Optimizes bandwidth via compressed, multi-stream, transfers & prioritized QoS

► 1-many, many-to-1, bidirectional

► Test readiness non-disruptively

► Expedite initialization offline using transportable media

Questions?

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