The Basics of Automating a Cloud Storage Service

July 28, 2011

Hosted by: Kingman Tang Senior Manager, Cloud Solutions Marketing NetApp

Presenting: Azmir Mohamed Product Management Abiquo

Michael Harding Product Marketing NetApp

Agenda
Managing the Storage Environment Integrating with Cloud Management Putting it Together Summary Questions

Polling Question #1
Are you creating an automated Storage Service?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Already have one Plan to do so within a year Expect to do so after a year No plans Not sure what you mean by Storage Service

Data Center Transformation

Data Center Virtualization Service-level Automation

Application Silos
Apps Servers Network Storage

Zones of Virtualization

ITaaS (aka Internal Cloud)

External Cloud Services

Storage Efficiency Service Efficiency

Storage and Service Efficiency

Average Cost
Centralize Rationalize and Standardize Consolidate and Virtualize

Automate

Self-Service

Storage Efficiency

Thin provisioning Deduplication Clones and Snapshot copies Automation Performance analytics Service Catalog

Service Efficiency

Capacity

Storage Management and Automation

Unified, extensible policy infrastructure Uniform mgmt across workloads Single configuration repository for reporting, event & audit logs User interface choices

Key Storage Management Capabilities

Operations Provisioning Protection Plug-ins for VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V

Assign pre-configured Services to Datasets

Run reports to determine storage savings from de-dupe

Storage Service Catalog

Enables Storage as a Service Automates manual processes APIs, SDK for 3rd party integration

Mapping SLAs to Storage - Typical

I request Tier 1 storage please

Most vendors map SLA to physical storage

Service Level Size Provisioned Service Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
I create the service levels and map them to physical storage

SLA

Storage Requester

Storage Architect

Physical Storage

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Mapping SLAs to Storage Service Catalog

I request Gold storage please

Mapping SLAs to catalog attributes

Storage Attributes Isolation Efficiency Protection HA Service Catalog vFiler Dedupe Thin provision RPO

SLA

Service Level Gold Silver Bronze

Provisioned Storage Service Requester

I create the Service Catalog and policies to deliver on storage attributes

Storage Architect

Storage managed as an optimized pool based on service catalog attributes

Physical Storage
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Storage - Cloud integration example

I need two 800GB Oracle instances at the Gold service level

App Admin

Data Center Orchestration Framework

Service Analysis Service Measurement

Service Catalog Policy Infrastructure

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Storage - Cloud integration example

I need two 800GB Oracle instances at the Gold service level

App Admin

Data Center Orchestration Framework

2 VMs with 11g on Tier 1 servers

Service Analysis Service Measurement

Service Catalog Policy Infrastructure

2x800GB LUNs GOLD SLA

2x800 LUNs Thin provision Dedupe

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Storage - Cloud integration example

I need two 800GB Oracle instances at the Gold service level

App Admin

Data Center Orchestration Framework

2 VMs with 11g on Tier 1 servers

Service Analysis Service Measurement

Service Catalog Policy Infrastructure

2x800GB LUNs GOLD SLA

2x800 LUNs Thin provision Dedupe

SnapVault SnapMirror

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Storage - Cloud integration example

I need two 800GB Oracle instances at the Gold service level

App Admin

Data Center Orchestration Framework

2 VMs with 11g on Tier 1 servers

Service Analysis Service Measurement

Service Catalog Policy Infrastructure

2x800GB LUNs GOLD SLA

2x800 LUNs Thin provision Dedupe

SnapVault SnapMirror

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Storage - Cloud integration example

App Admin

Data Center Orchestration Framework

Service Analysis Service Measurement

Service Catalog Policy Infrastructure

Service Efficiency

SnapVault

SnapMirror

Storage Efficiency

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Self-service Storage

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Polling Question #2
What are your top reason(s) to deploy Cloud storage service?
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Improve business agility / time to solution Reduce Capital and/or Admin costs Enable end-user self-service Reduce complexity of physical infrastructure Improve availability

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Award Winning, Market Leadership

Best Enterprise Software, 2010 Best Cloud Management, 2011

Top Ten Startup in 2010 March, 2011 10 Hot Emerging Vendors for 2010

Cloud Computing: 16 Hot Startups in 2011

15 Cloud Computing Firms to Watch for 2011

15 Cloud Companies to Watch

Top rated Pure-Play cloud management Vendor, 2011, Q2 Private Cloud Management Report

Citrix Synergy, 2011 Best Partner Solution for Virtual DataCenters

2011 Hot Company 2011 Top 100 Cloud Computing Vendors

Aggregation of Multi- Data Center Resources

Pooling of Multi-Data Center Resources

Secure Multi-Tenant Consumption

Private, Public And Share Image Libraries

Consumption Rules Enhanced By Business Policy

Why Multi-Hypervisor Support

Native support for all hypervisors in leader category of Gartner Magic Quadrant Support for leading open source x86 hypervisors (KVM and Xen) Built-in V2V conversion between hypervisors

Gartner Magic Quadrant

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Cloud Storage Platform Integration

Goal is to
allow users to choose/find the right storage tier instantly usable

Side benefit is to standardize all cloud storage requirement on common NetApp infrastructure

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Storage technology plugins - NetApp

Abiquo Server

Abiquo Storage System Manager

REST-API REST-API

NetApp Storage Plug-in

XML-RPC XML-RPC XML-RPC

Producer Screenshot Tiered Storage

Consumer Screenshot Self Service Storage

Consumer Screenshot Self Service Storage Volume

Summary
Cloud storage is real and here today Delivers savings through efficiency Requires automation that can be integrated Cloud Management tools should Encompass storage and other IT resources Preserve flexibility in choice of platforms

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Resources
NetApp Abiquo Solution Brief, Building Storage as a Service Across Multi-hypervisor Data Centers http://media.netapp.com/documents/ds-3167.pdf Abiquo Cloud Management with Netapp video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brKqhYgQKek Information on Abiquo: www.abiquo.com
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Q&A

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Azmir Mohamed azmir.mohamed@abiquo.com Michael Harding mharding@netapp.com For more information: http://www.netapp.com/OnCommand