Danijel Paulin, danijel.paulin@hr.ibm.

com
Systems Architect, SEE IBM Croatia

IBM Storage Virtualization

Cloud enabling technology
11th TF-Storage Meeting, 26-27 September 2012, Dubrovnik, Croatia

9/27/2012

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Agenda

Introduction Virtualization function and benefits IBM Storage Virtualization Virtualization Appliance SAN Volume Controller Virtual Storage Platform Management Integrated Infrastructure System - Cloud Ready Summary

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Smarter Computing
New approach in designing IT Infrastructures
Smarter Computing is realized through an IT infrastructure that is designed for data, tuned to the task, and managed in the cloud...

Greater Storage Efficiency & Flexibility Workload Systems Tuning

Higher Utilization

Increased

Virtualization

Flexibility

Foundation for Cloud Better Economics

Building a cloud starts with virtualizing your IT environment

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The journey to the cloud begins with virtualization!

Virtualize Server, storage & network devices to increase utilization Provision & Secure Automate provisioning of resources Monitor & Manage Provide visibility of performance of virtual machines Orchestrate Workflow Manage the process for approval of usage Meter & Rate Track usage of resources
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IBM Virtualization Offerings

Server virtualization
System p, System i, System z LPARs, VMware ESX, IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud Virtually consolidate workloads on servers

File and File System virtualization

Scale Out NAS (SoNAS), DFSMS, IBM General Parallel File System, N-series Virtually consolidate files in one namespace across servers

Storage virtualization
SAN Volume Controller (the Storage Hypervisor), ProtecTIER Industry leading Storage Virtualization solutions

Server and Storage Infrastructure Management

Data protection with Tivoli Storage Manager and TSM FastBack Advanced management of virtual environments with TPC, IBM Director VMcontrol, TADDM, ITM, TPM Consolidated management of virtual and physical storage resources

IBM Storage Cloud Solutions

Smart Business Storage Cloud (SoNAS), IBM SmartCloud Managed Backup Virtualization and automation of storage capacity, data protection, and other storage services

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Virtualization functions and benefits

Virtual Resources Virtual Resources

Sharing
Resources

Aggregation
Resources

Examples: LPARs, VMs, virtual disks, VLANs Benefits: Resource utilization, workload mgmt., agility, energy efficiency
Resource Type Y

Examples: Virtual disks, system pools Benefits: Management simplification, investment protection, scalability
Virtual
Add or Change

Virtual Resources

Resources

Emulation
Resource Type X

Insulation
Resources
Add, Replace, or Change

Resources

Examples: Arch. emulators, iSCSI, FCoE, v. tape Benefits: Compatibility, software investment protection, interoperability, flexibility

Examples: Compat. modes, CUOD, appliances Benefits: Agility, investment protection, complexity & change hiding
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What is Storage Virtualization?

Logical Representation Technology that makes one set of resources look and feel like another set of resources A logical representation of physical resources

Hides some of the complexity Adds or integrates new function with existing services
Virtualization

Can be nested or applied to multiple layers of a system

Physical Resources

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What distinguishes a Storage Cloud from Traditional IT?

1. Storage resources are virtualized from multiple arrays, vendors, and datacenters pooled together and accessed anywhere. (as opposed to physical array-boundary limitations) 2. Storage services are standardized selected from a storage service catalog. (as opposed to customized configuration) 3. Storage provisioning is self-service administrators use automation to allocate capacity from the catalog. (as opposed to manual component-level provisioning) 4. Storage usage is paid per use end users are aware of the impact of their consumption and service levels. (as opposed to paid from a central IT budget)

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IBM Storage Virtualization

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Today's SAN

SAN

SAN-attached disks look like local disks to the OS & application

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SAN with Virtualization

SAN

Virtual disks start as images of migrated non-virtual disks. Later, modify striping, thin provisioning, etc.

Virtualization layer

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Become truly flexible !

SAN

Virtual disks remain constant during physical infrastructure changes

Virtualization layer

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Enable tiered Storage !

SAN

Virtualization layer

Moving virtual disks between storage tiers requires no downtime

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Avoid planned Downtime !

SAN

Upgrade

Virtualization layer upgrade or replacement with no downtime!

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In-band Storage Virtualization - Benefits

Pooling Isolation

CACHE + SSD

Performance

1. 2. 3.

Flat interoperability matrix Non-disruptive migrations No-cost multipathing

1. 2. 3.

Higher (pool) utilization Cross-pool-striping: IOPS Thin Provisioning: free GB

1. 2. 3.

Performance increase Hot-spot elimination Adds SSD to old gear

Mirroring

Mirroring

License $$
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1. 2. 3.

License economies Cross-vendor mirror Favorable TCO

Migration into Storage Virtualization (and back!)

ZONE

SAN

Virtualization layer

Virtual disks in transparent Image Mode, before being converted to Full Striped This works backwards too (no vendor lock-in)
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Redundant SAN !
ZONE

SAN A

SAN B

1 : 4

Virtualization layer

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Virtualization Appliance SAN Volume Controller

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Storage Hypervisor
VMControl
Manage

Virtual Server Infrastructure

IBM Systems Director

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Storage Hypervisor

Virtual Storage Infrastructure

(SAN Volume Controller)

Manage

Virtual Storage Platform - SAN Volume Controller

Common device driver - iSCSI or FC host attach Common capabilities
I/O caching and cross-site cache coherency Thin provisioning Easy Tier automated tiering to Solid-state Disks Snapshot (FlashCopy) Mirroring (Synchronous and Asynchronous) Transparent data migration among arrays and across tiers Snapshot and mirroring across arrays and tiers

Virtual Storage Platform Management - Tivoli

Storage Productivity Center Manageability
Integrated SAN-wide Management with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Integrated IBM server and storage management (Systems Director Storage Control)

Replication
Application integrated FlashCopy DR automation

Data mobility

High Availability
Stretch Cluster HA

Virtualization Appliance : SAN Volume Controller

Stand-alone product Clustered 28 SVC comes with write cache mirrored in pairs (IOgroups) Multi-use Fibrechannel in & out Linux boot, 100% IBM stack

TCA: 1. Hardware 2. per-TB license (tiered) 3. per-TB mirroring license

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6th Generation.....
Continuous development Firmware is backwards compatible
(64 bit not for 32 bit Hardware) initial Release

Replace while online

SAN Volume Controller CG8 Firmware v6.4

:
SVC 4F2 SVC 8F2 SVC 8F4 SVC 8G4 SVC CF8 SVC CG8 4GB cache, 2Gb SAN (Rel.3 / 2006) 8GB cache, 2Gb SAN (ROHS comp.) 8GB cache, 4Gb SAN 155.000 SPC-1 IOPS +Dual-core Processor 272.500 SPC-1 IOPS 24GB cache, Quad-core 380.483 6-node SPC-1 IOPS +10 GbE approx. 640.000 SPC-1-like IOPS

MODELS
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SVC Model & Code Release History

1999 Almaden Research group publish ComPaSS clustering 2000 SVC lodestone development begins using ComPaSS 2003 SVC 1.1 4F2 Hardware 4 node 2004 SVC 1.2 8 node support 2004 SVC 2.1 8F2 Hardware 2005 SVC 3.1 8F4 Hardware 2006 SVC 4.1 Global Mirror, MTFC 2007 SVC 4.2 8G4 Hardware, FlashCopy enh 2008 SVC 4.3 Thin Provisioning, Vdisk Mirror 8A4 Hdw 2009 SVC 5.1 CF8 Hardware, SSD Support, 4 Site 2010 SVC 6.1 V7000 Hardware, RAID, Easy Tier 2011 SVC 6.2/3 V7000U, 10G iSCSI, xtD Split Cluster 2012 SVC 6.4 IBM Real-time Compression, FCoE, Volume mobility...
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SVC 2145-CG8 Virtualization Appliance

Based on IBM System x3550 M3 server (1U) Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere) 2.53 GHz quad-core processor 24GB of cache Up to 192GB of cache per SVC cluster Four 8Gbps FC ports (support Short-Wave & Long-Wave SFPs) Up to 32 FC ports per SVC cluster For external storage And/or for server attachment And/or Remote Copy/Mirroring Two 1 Gbps iSCSI ports Up to 16 GbE ports per SVC cluster Optional 1 to 4 Solid State Drives Up to 32 SSD per SVC cluster Optional two 10 Gbps iSCSI/FCoE ports New engines may be intermixed in pairs with other engines in SVC clusters Mixing engine types in a cluster results in Volume throughput characteristics of the engine type in that I/O group Cluster non-disruptive upgrade capability may be used to replace older engines with new CG8 engines
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IBM SAN Volume Controller Architecture

consistent Driver Stack consistent Driver Stack vDISK
here: striped Mode

consistent Driver Stack

SVC Node
with UPS (not depicted)

IO Group Managed Disk

SAN Volume Controller cluster

Storage Pool

Storage Pool

Storage Pool

Array LUNs

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IBM SAN Volume Controller Topology

SVC Cluster

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Virtual-Disk Types
Image Mode:

A B C
Virtual Disks

Pass thru; Virtual Disk = Physical LUN Sequential Mode: Virtual Disk mapped sequentially to a portion of a managed disk

Striped Mode: Virtual Disk striped across multiple managed disks. Preferred mode

MDG1

MDG3

MDG2

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IBM SAN Volume Controller I/O Stack

SVC software has a modular design
100% In-house code path

SCSI Frontend

Remote Copy Cache

Each function is implemented as an independent component

Components bypassed if not in use for a given volume

Flash Copy Mirroring

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Standard interface between components

Easy to add/remove components

Space Efficient Easy Virtualization RAID

Drives | External SCSI SCSI Backend

Components exploit a rich set of libraries and frameworks

Minimal Linux base OS to boot-strap and hand control to user space Custom memory management & thread scheduling Optimal I/O code path Clustered "support" processes like GUI, slpd, cimom, easy tier

Tier

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IBM SAN Volume Controller Management Options

SVC GUI
Completely redesigned Browser based Extremely easy to learn/use fast

SVC CLI
ssh scripting complete command set

Tivoli Productivity Center

TPC, TPC-R SMI-S 1.3 Embedded CIMOM

VDS

VSS

vCenter

Plugin

Storage Control
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SAN Volume Controller Features

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SAN Volume Controller Features - summary

FlashCopy, Point-In-Time copy (optional) Cache partitioning Embedded SMI-S agent Easy to use GUI
Built-in real time performance monitoring Up to 256 target per source
Target FC may be source Remote Copy

E-mail, SNMP trap & Syslog error event logging Authentication service for Single Sign-On & LDAP Virtualise data without data-loss Expand or shrink Volumes on-line Thin-provisioned Volumes
Reclaim Zero-write space Thick to thin, thin to thick & thin to thin migration
Volume

Up to 256 Full (with background copy = clone) Partial (no background copy) Vol1 Vol2 Vol0 FlashCopy FlashCopy Space Efficient Source target of Vol0 target of Vol1 Map 1 Map 2 Incremental Cascaded Map 4 Consistency Groups Vol4 Vol3 FlashCopy FlashCopy target of Vol3 target of Vol1 Reverse

Microsoft Virtual Disk Service & Volume Shadow Copy Services hardware provider Remote Copy (optional)
Synchronous & asynchronous remote replication with SVC SVC Consistency groups

On-line Volume Migration

Volume

SVC

Volume Mirroring
Volume copy 1

SVC

MDisk Source

MDisk Target

EasyTier: Automatic relocation of hot and cold extents

SSDs HDDs
Automatic Relocation

Volume copy 2

MM or GM Relationship SVC

Consolidated DR Site

MM or GM Relationship

MM or GM Relationship

SSDs

HDDs

VMware
Optimized performance and throughput

Hot-spots

Storage Replication Adaptor for Site Recovery Manager VAAI support & vCenter Server management plug-in

SVC

 SVC stores two copies of a Volume

Volume Mirroring Back-end high availability & migration

SVC
R W

It maintains both copies in sync, reads primary copy and writes to both copies

If disk supporting one copy fails, SVC provides continuous data access by using other copy
Copies are automatically resynchronized after repair

Intended to protect critical data against failure of a disk system or disk array
A local high availability function, not a disaster recovery function

Copies can be split

Either copy can continue as production copy

Copy 0

Copy 1

Either or both copies may be thin-provisioned

Can be used to convert fully allocated to thin-provisioned volume
Thick to thin migration

May be used to convert thin-provisioned to fully allocated

Thin to thick migration

Mirrored Volumes use twice physical capacity of un-mirrored Volumes

Base virtualisation licensed capacity must include required physical capacity

The user can configure the timeout for each mirrored volume
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Priority on redundancy: Wait until write completes or times-out finally. Performance impact, but active copies are always synchronized

IBM EasyTier
Hot-spots
Transparent reorganization

Optimized performance and throughput

What is Easy Tier?

A function that dynamically re- distributes active data across multiple tiers of storage class based on workload characteristics Automatic storage hierarchy
Hybrid storage pool with 2 tiers = Solid-State Drives & Hard Disk Drives I/O Monitor keeps access history for each virtualisation extent (16MiB to 2GiB per extent) every 5 minutes Data Placement Adviser analyses history every 24 hours Data Migration Planner invokes data migration Promote hot extents or demote inactive extents

The goal being to reduce response time Users have automatic and semi-automatic extent based placement and migration management
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
Automatic Relocation

Why it matters?

Solid State Storage has orders of magnitude better throughput and response time with random reads Full volume allocation to SSD only benefits a small number of volumes or portions of volumes, and use cases Allowing dynamic movement of the hottest extents to be transferred to the highest performance storage enables a small number of SSD to benefit the entire infrastructure
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Hot-spots

Optimized performance and throughput

Works with Thin-provisioned Volumes

Thin-provisioning
Traditional (fully allocated) virtual disks use physical disk capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual disk even if it is not used With thin-provisioning, SVC allocates and uses physical disk capacity when data is written
Dynamic growth Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated space is reserved whether the application uses it or not With thin provisioning, applications can grow dynamically, but only consume space they are actually using

Available at no additional charge with base virtualisation license

Support all hosts supported with traditional volumes and all advanced features (EasyTier, FlashCopy, etc.) Reclaiming Unused Disk Space
When using Volume Mirroring to copy from a fully-allocated volume to a thinprovisioned volume, SVC will not copy blocks that are all zeroes When processing a write request, SVC detects if all zeroes are being written and does not allocate disk space for such requests in the thin-provisioned volumes
Helps avoid space utilization concerns when formatting Volumes

Done at Grain Level (32/64/128/256KiB) If grain contains all zeros dont write
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Copy Services

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Business Continuity with SVC

Traditional SAN Replication APIs differ by vendor Replication destination must be the SAN Volume Controller Common replication API, SAN-wide, that
does not change as storage hardware changes Common multipath driver for all arrays Replication targets can be on lower-cost disks, reducing the overall cost of exploiting replication services

same as the source Different multipath drivers for each array Lower-cost disks offer primitive, or no replication services

FlashCopy Metro/Global Mirror

SAN

TimeFinder SRDF

SAN
SVC SVC

IBM DS5000
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IBM DS5000

EMC Clariion

EMC Clariion

HDS AMS

IBM Storwize V7000

HP EVA

EMC Clariion

IBM DS5000

Copy Services with SVC

Volume Mirroring
Volume Mirroring
outside the box 2 close sites (<10Km) Warning, there is no consistency group

FlashCopy
Point-in-Time Copy
outside the box 2 close sites (<10Km) Warning, this is not real time replication

Metro Mirror
Synchronous Mirror
Write IO response time doubled + distance latency No data loss

Global Mirror
Consistent Asynchronous Mirror
Limited impact on write IO response time Data loss All write IOs are sent to the remote site in the same order they were received on source volumes Only 1 source and 1 target volumes

2 close sites (<300 Km) Warning, production performance impact if inter-site links are unavailable, during microcode upgrades, etc.

2 remote sites (>300 Km)

Vol0
R W

Vol0

Vol0

SVC

SVC

Managed Storage

Legacy Storage

Managed Storage

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Source and target can have different characteristics and be from different vendors Source and target can be in the same cluster

Multicluster Mirroring "any-to-any" (up to 4 instances)

SAN Volume SAN Volume Controller Controller

SAN Volume SAN Volume Controller Controller

Datacenter1

Datacenter 2

SAN Volume SAN Volume Controller Controller

Datacenter 3
SAN Volume Controller

Datacenter 4
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SVC split cluster solution

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SVC split cluster - symmetric disk mirroring

VM VM

VM Host

VM

High availability + protection for virtual machines

VM

VM Host

VM

VM

SVC 1 node A

One storage system. Two locations.

SVC 1 node B

LUN1

max.100km recommended max.300km supported

LUN1'

Appliance functionality, not software-based, no license

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SVC split cluster & VDM Connectivity Bellow 10Km using passive DWDM
You should always have 2 SAN fabrics (A & B), and 2 switches per SAN fabric (one on each site)
This diagram is only showing connectivity to a single fabric
In reality connectivity is to a redundant SAN fabric and therefore everything should be doubled
SW SW LW or SW

I/O Group
LW or SW SW SW

You should always connect each SVC node in a cluster on the same SAN switches
The best is to connect each SVC node to SAN fabric A switch 1 & 2, as well as SAN fabric B switch 1 & 2 You can consider (supported but it is not recommended) connecting all SVC nodes to the switch 1 in the SAN fabric A, and to the switch 2 in the SAN fabric B
SW

SAN A Switch 1

ISL

SAN A Switch 2

LW or SW

LW or SW

LW or SW

LW or SW

SW

To avoid fabric re-initialisation in case of link hiccups on the ISL, consider creating a Virtual SAN Fabric on each site and use inter-VSAN routing

Pool 1

Candidate Quorum

Pool 3

Primary Quorum

Pool 2

Candidate Quorum

Production room A

Production room C

Production room B

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SVC split cluster & VDM Connectivity Up to 300Km using active DWDM
I/O Group
SW SW

Enhanced!

Brocade virtual fabric or a Cisco VSAN can be used to isolate Public and Private SANs ISL s/Trunks

SW

SW

Public SAN A Private SAN A

Public SAN A Private SAN A

Dedicated ISLs/Trunks
For SVC inter-node traffic

SW SW LW or SW LW or SW

SW

Pool 1

Candidate Quorum

Pool 3

Primary Quorum

Pool 2

Candidate Quorum

Production room A

Production room C

Production room B

You should always have 2 SAN fabrics (A & B) with at least:

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2 switches per SAN fabric (1 per site) when using CISCO VSANs or Brocade virtual fabrics to isolate private and public SANs 4 switches per SAN fabric (2 per site) when private and public SANs are on physically dedicated switches This diagram is only showing connectivity to a single fabric A (In reality connectivity is to a redundant SAN fabric and therefore everything should be doubled with also connection to B switches).

HA / Disaster Recovery with SVC Split Cluster

2-site Split Cluster
Server Cluster 1 SVC Stretched-cluster Failover Server Cluster 2

Stretched virtual volume

Up to 300km
Data center 1 Data center 2

Improve availability, load-balance, and deliver real-time remote data access by distributing applications and their data across multiple sites. Seamless server / storage failover when used in conjunction with server or hypervisor clustering (such as VMware or PowerVM) Up to 300km between sites (3x EMC VPLEX)

4-site Disaster Recovery

Server Cluster 1

Failover

Server Cluster 2

Server Cluster 1

Failover

Server Cluster 2

For combined high availability and disaster recovery needs, synchronously or asynchronously mirror data over long distances between two high-availability stretch clusters.

Stretched virtual volume

Metro or Global Mirror

Stretched virtual volume

Data center 1

Data center 2

Data center 1

Data center 2

High Availability Disaster Recovery

High Availability

SVC Split Cluster Considerations

The same code is used for all inter-node communication
Clustering Write Cache Mirroring Global Mirror & Metro Mirror

Advantages
No manual intervention required Automatic and fast handling of storage failures Volumes mirrored in both locations Transparent for servers and host based clusters Perfect fit in a virtualized environment (like VMware VMotion, AIX Live Partition Mobility)

Disadvantages
Mix between HA and DR solution but not a true DR solution Non-trivial implementation involve IBM Services
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Storwize V7000 : mini SVC with disks

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V7000 = The iPod of Midrange Storage

based on "mini" SVC

Delegated complexity "auto optimizing"

Easy-Tier SSD enabled Thin provisioning

Non-IBM expansion

Auto-migration

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Compatibility

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SVC 6.4 Supported Environments

IBM z/VSE
VMware Novell vSphere NetWare 4.1., 5 IBM Power7 Microsoft IBM AIX Windows Sun IBM i 6.1 Hyper-V Solaris (VIOS) HP-UX 11i Tru64 OpenVMS

SGI IRIX

Linux (Intel/Power/z Linux) RHEL SUSE 11

Citrix Xen Server

IBM TS7650G

Apple Mac OS

IBM BladeCenter

1024 Hosts

VAAI

Point-in-time Copy

Full volume, Copy on write 256 targets, Incremental, Cascaded, Reverse, Space-Efficient, FlashCopy Mgr

Native iSCSI* 8Gbps SAN fabric 1 or 10 Gigabit Continuous Copy

SAN

Metro/Global Mirror Multiple Cluster Mirror

SAN Volume Controller

Easy Tier

SSD

SAN Volume Controller

Space-Efficient Virtual Disks

Virtual Disk Mirroring

TMS RamSan620
DS3400, DS3500 DS4000 DS5020, DS3950 DCS9550 DS6000 Compellent DS8000, DS8800 DCS9900

IBM DS

IBM XIV

IBM Hitachi Storwize V7000 Virtual Storage IBM N series

Series 20
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Thunder MA, EMA TagmaStore MSA 2000, XP CX4-960 AMS 2100, 2300, 2500EVA 6400, 8400 Symmetrix WMS, USP, USP-V

3PAR, VNX StorageTek Axiom Eternus NetApp iStorage DX60, DX80, Platform (VSP) StorageWorks VMAX DX90, DX410 Lightning P9500, FAS CLARiiON

HP

EMC

Sun

NEC Bull

Fujitsu

Pillar

DX8100, DX8300, DX9700 8000 Models 2000 & 1200 Storeway4000 models 600 & 400, 3000

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Virtual Storage Platform Management

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Storage Hypervisor
VMControl
Manage

Virtual Server Infrastructure

IBM Systems Director

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Storage Hypervisor

Virtual Storage Infrastructure

(SAN Volume Controller)

Manage

Virtual Storage Platform - SAN Volume Controller

Common device driver - iSCSI or FC host attach Common capabilities
I/O caching and cross-site cache coherency Thin provisioning Easy Tier automated tiering to Solid-state Disks Snapshot (FlashCopy) Mirroring (Synchronous and Asynchronous) Transparent data migration among arrays and across tiers Snapshot and mirroring across arrays and tiers

Virtual Storage Platform Management - Tivoli

Storage Productivity Center Manageability
Integrated SAN-wide Management with Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Integrated IBM server and storage management (Systems Director Storage Control)

Replication
Application integrated FlashCopy DR automation

Data mobility

High Availability
Stretch Cluster HA

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center - TPC

What You Need to Manage
Servers
ESX servers Apps, DBs, file systems Volume managers Host bus adaptors Virtual HBAs Multi-path drivers

TPC Can Help

Start Here and Mature

TPC 5.1
Single management console Heterogeneous storage Health monitoring Capacity mgmt. Provisioning Fabric management FlashCopy support Storage System Performance Management SAN Fabric Performance management Trend Analysis DR & Business Continuity Applications & Storage Hypervisor (ESX, VIO) Hyperswap Mgmt.

IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center

All this and more
Advanced SAN Planning and provisioning based on best practices Proactive configuration change management Performance optimization Tiering Optimization Complete SAN fabric performance mgmt. Storage Virtualization Application Aware FlashCopy management

Storage Networks
Switches & Directors Virtual devices

Storage
Multi-vendor storage Storage array provisioning Virtualization / Vol. mapping Block + NAS, VMFS Tape libraries

Replication
FlashCopy Metro Mirror Metro Global Mirror

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TPC 5.1 Highlights

Fully integrated & Web-based GUI
Based on Storwize/XIV success

TCR/Cognos-based Reporting & Analytics Enhanced management for virtual environments Integrated Installer Simplified packaging

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Enhanced management for virtual environments

Virtual Machines Clustered Across Hosts Hypervisor
VM

Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

Hypervisor
VM

Storage (SAN)

Helps avoid double counting storage capacity in TPC reporting on VMware Associates storage not only with individual VMs and Hypervisors but also with the clusters VMotion awareness

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Enhanced management for virtual environments

Web-based GUI - Hypervisor related Storage

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Integrated Infrastructure System Cloud Ready

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IBM PureSystems
Infrastructure & Cloud Application & Cloud

Integrated Infrastructure System Factory integration of Compute, Storage, Networking, and management Broad support for x86 and POWER environments Cloud ready for infrastructure

Integrated Application Platform Factory integration of infrastructure + middleware (DB2, Websphere) Application ready (Power or x86 with workload deployment capability) Cloud ready application platform

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PureFlex System is Integrated by design

Tightly integrated compute, storage, networking, software, management, and security
Expert Integrated Systems

Storage

Networking

Compute

Virtualization

Security

Tools

Applications

Management

Flexible and open choice in a fully integrated system

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IBM PureSystems
Whats Inside? An evolution in design, a revolution in experience
Expert Integrated Systems

IBM Flex System

Chassis
14 half-wide bays for nodes

IBM PureFlex System

Pre-configured, pre-integrated infrastructure systems with compute, storage, networking, physical and virtual management, and entry cloud management with integrated expertise.

IBM PureApplication System

Pre-configured, pre-integrated platform systems with middleware designed for transactional web applications and enabled for cloud with integrated expertise.

Compute Nodes
Power 2S/4S* x86 2S/4S

Storage Node
V7000 Expansion inside or outside chassis

Management Appliance Networking

10/40GbE, FCoE, IB 8/16Gb FC

Expansion
PCIe Storage
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Summary

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Why to consider Storage Virtualization?

1. Missing storage "hypervisor" for virtualized servers 2. Too high physical migration effort 3. Compatibility chaos (multipathing, HBA firmware) 4. Need for transparent campus failover like Unix LVM 5. Need for automatic hotspot elimination ("Easy Tier") SVC 6. Unhappy with storage performance
Simplified administration, including copy services: 1 same process Online re-planning flexibility is greatly enhanced "Cloud ready" Storage effectiveness (ongoing optimization) can be maintained over time Move applications up one tier as required, or down one tier when stale Move from performance design "in hardware" to QoS policy management

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Internet Resources
Information Center
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/svc/ic/index.jsp

SVC Support Matrix

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/virtualization/svc/interop.html

SVC / Storwize V7000 Documentation

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/svc/ic/index.jsp

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