Open Standards for Storage & Networking

David Dale, Industry Evangelist Chairman SNIA IP Storage Forum

8th National e-Governance Conference Bhubaneswar February 4, 2005

Contents Computer Industry Today Standards the Lifeblood of Open Systems Network Appliance and Standards Types of Standards Participation Current Key Initiatives
Grid Alliance Storage Management Initiative IP Storage Forum

Summary
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Computer Industry Pre-Open Systems

Vendor 1 Vendor 2 Vendor 3 Vendor 4 Vendor 5

Network
Applications

Operating System
Server Storage
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Open Systems Industry

Vendor 1 Vendor 2 Vendor 3 Vendor 4 Vendor 5

Cisco

Network (Ethernet)
Applications (DBMS)

Oracle SAP Microsoft Linux

Operating System (Unix, Windows)

Server (Intel Architecture) Storage
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Dell

EMC NetApp
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Standards: the Lifeblood of Open Systems

Without industry standards, the world of open systems would not exist
Networking standards (IETF) Applications standards (IETF, Open Group) OS standards (Linux, Windows APIs) Servers (IEEE, ISO, card, chassis and component interface standards) Storage (STA, FCIA, SNIA, IETF, etc)

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Network Appliance and Standards

Network Appliance
$1.2B (FY 2004) global storage vendor Established 1992 Based in Sunnyvale, CA, USA R&D facilities in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Boston, Pittsburg, and Bangalore Worlds leader in Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Active participant in industry standards:

IETF, FCIA, SNIA, Open Group Special interest trade associations Grid Alliance; DAT Collaborative; etc Participant in industry interoperability plug-fests UNH, Storage Networking Industry Association
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Types of Standards Participation

Participate in creation of new standards
Example: IETF; NDMP; SNIA SMI-S

Determine need for new standards and seed development

Example: Enterprise Grid Alliance

Develop reference implementations of new standards

Example: iSCSI target

Develop of high-performance implementations of standard interfaces

Examples: NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI clients for Linux

Drive promotion and adoption of new standards

Example: SNIA IP Storage Forum; SNIA Storage Management Forum
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The Enterprise Grid Alliance Consortium of vendors and customers focused on developing Enterprise Grid solutions Founders:
Board of Directors: EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, NEC, Network Appliance, Oracle, Sun Members: Ascential Software, Brocade, Cassatt, Cisco, Data Synapse, EMC, Force 10 Networks, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, NEC, Network Appliance, Novell, Optena, Oracle, Sun, TopSpin
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Activities of Alliance
Ensure movement to an open grid environment with standards and interoperability
Create solutions Endorse and support existing specifications Define new specifications where needed

Provide practical, achievable near term benefits

Useful in Enterprise data centers

Resolve issues with enterprise grid computing Develop reference implementations for new specifications Test and certification procedures and compliance programs Test and promote interoperability between enterprise grid software and hardware Build demonstrations Document best practices Grow the grid computing market
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Phase 1: Core Capability

Core Commercial Enterprise applications only
Applicable to every Enterprise Validate that basic support is possible now Encourage or develop needed specifications ensuring openness

Capability within a single Enterprise only

Not between Enterprises Focus on a data center, but include interaction with other data centers first for availability and then for load balancing and cooperative processing Interoperation between vendors, within a data center

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Core Capability
Between Enterprises Internet

20042005
Within an Enterprise Intranet Commercial Enterprise Apps ERP, CRM, BI Technical Enterprise Apps Modeling, Simulation

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Phase 2: Include and Extend

Include support for Technical Grid applications
Enables Technical Grid processing when Commercial applications dont need the resources Off hours capacity encourages development of more Technical Grid applications Boundary between application types begins to blur

Extend multiple data center support to other organizations

Message passing applications such as supply chain, trading applications Web service calls between applications Grids between Enterprises begin to interoperate

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Include and Extend

Between Enterprises Internet

20052006 20042005
Within an Enterprise Intranet Commercial Enterprise Apps ERP, CRM, BI Technical Enterprise Apps Modeling, Simulation

20052006

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Phase 3: Unify and Complete

Unify Grid computing within and between Enterprises
True cooperative processing, not just message passing Dynamic capacity addition: Virtually extend the data center Final capacity on demand capability delivered

Complete support for all Enterprise applications

In all configurations, inside the data center and outsourced to data center providers Complete interoperation between Enterprise Grids Final computing-as-a-utility model begins to emerge

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Unify and Complete

Between Enterprises Internet

20052006

20062007

20042005
Within an Enterprise Intranet Commercial Enterprise Apps ERP, CRM, BI

20052006

Technical Enterprise Apps Modeling, Simulation

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SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI) A major initiative of the Storage Networking Industry Association
To drive the creation and proliferation of open standards for the management of heterogeneous storage networks

The SMI drives four major programs

Creating a Storage Standard (SMI-Specification) Educating the Industry Driving the implementation of SMI in vendors products Testing product compliance with the SNIA Conformance Test Program (CTP)
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Storage Management Infrastructure

Today: Proprietary Interfaces IT Service Management Applications

Java Library Command Line C++Library C Library SCSI Mode

Discovery Services
CORBA Telnet RPC

Integration Infrastructure
XML DTD

Security Services
FC-GS SNMP TCP/IP Socket
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Tape Library

Switch

Array

Many Other

Vendor Unique Object Models

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SMI-S Storage Management Solution

Storage Management Applications

LAN/WAN

Clients

UNIX

UNIX

Windows

Storage Devices

Storage Area Network Providers

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Interoperability Through Standards

SMI-S

Storage Management Applications

(XML over HTTP)

CIM/WBEM

SMI-S Instrumentation
Array Provider Switch Provider SNIA-SML Provider SNIA HBA API Provider

Disk Arrays FC Switches

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FC HBAs Tape Libraries

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SMI-S Providers Deliver Properties and Services

Storage Management Applications (XML over HTTP)

CIM/WBEM

Management Services Object Oriented, Platform Independent, Automated Discovery, Security, Configuration, Provisioning Operations, etc Individual Device Properties

Disk Arrays

FC HBAs FC Switches Tape Libraries

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SMI-S v1.0 Functionality

Array Volume Creation Create logical volumes in an array and make them available to a host Indications Provide device awareness and operations monitoring Array LUN Masking Control the visibility of logical volumes to hosts (a form of security)
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Array Snapshot & Mirror Control Create, split, and synchronize Snapshots and mirrors Fabric & Zoning Discovery Discover the path between hosts, switches and arrays; configure and
report on zones Tape Library Management Track library health, capacity and resources, plus LAN-based media movement
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SMI-S Technology Roadmap

Policy Improvements Object Based Storage Health/Fault Management Storage Security Policy CTP Tests SMI-S Test Specification Arrays, Switches, Libraries, Hosts Management Services QoS Single Sign-on CIM 2.x CIM 3.x

SMI-S V2.+

CIM Storage Profiles SLP Discovery

SMI-Specification V1.2 SMI-Specification V1.1 CIM 2.8 Performance Locking SMI-Specification NAS iSCSI V1.0 CIM 2.7
CIM 2.9 Recipes for Interoperable operations SMI-Lab validation Cascading Ownership

Databases CIM-Soap Applications ILM

Bluefin Contribution To SNIA

2002
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2003

2004

2005

2006
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SMI-S: an ANSI INCITS Standard

Successful completion of INCITS submission for approval ANSI INCITS 388-2004, American National Standard for Information Technology Storage Management Based on version SMI-S v1.0.2, verifiable by the SNIA CTP. SMI-S ISO certification submission expected in 2005

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SMI Value
End-Users
Provides freedom of choice Reduce management costs Control agent proliferation Reduce overhead and complexity

Industry
Accelerate product acceptance and time to market Lowers development cost, spurs innovation Expand total market

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SNIA IP Storage Forum

Mission
To drive the broad adoption of IP-based SAN storage solutions iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP

IP Storage Protocols: iSCSI is a standard SCSI block storage protocol which uses TCP/IP for transport
Enables the creation of SANs based on Gigabit Ethernet instead of Fibre Channel

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IT Pain Points
Data growth and server proliferation
Large numbers of Intel-architecture servers Broad deployment of Windows server applications Distributed business apps generating huge data growth Business apps becoming mission critical

Scalability and data availability can be a major problem with DAS in these environments Over-provisioning and data protection complexity make DAS increasingly expensive Applications in this space often require either a DAS or a SAN solution Cost, complexity and lack of expertise can prohibit traditional FC SAN implementation iSCSI Addresses These Issues
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IP SAN Topology and Advantages

Users

Standard SAN storage

LAN

Servers w/ iSCSI Initiators

Block storage access Supports all apps Transparent migration from direct attached storage Less costly infrastructure Easier to manage Expertise in existing staff

Lower TCO than FC

Gigabit Ethernet Switch

Leverages IP Benefits
IP SAN

iSCSI Storage Systems

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Plug-and-play interoperability Robust well-understood management software Enables global integration of data assets
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Where IP SAN Solutions Fit

LAN
Core Production:
Bus. Critical, some Bus. Operations

WAN
Layered Production
Bus. Internal, some Bus. Operations

Test/ Dev

Remote Offices

Storage Network

Storage Network

D/D Backup & DR

Storage Network

Networked Storage in remote offices Primary Storage Secondary Storage Infrastructure

Ethernet FC

DR Network
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Secondary Storage

Mostly Ethernet Lots of both

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NetApp iSCSI Momentum

4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0

Dec 03
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iSCSI License Downloads

>1000 Production Deployments December 04

Dec 04

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Summary
Each of these standards will become important to the IT community
Particularly in e-Governance

Grid environments are starting to roll out

Linux based Flexible and massively scalable Best price performance

SMI-S compliant products exist today IP SAN (iSCSI) is now being adopted by mainstream IT organizations
Accelerating rate of adoption Excellent value proposition compared with direct-attached storage solutions Major installations in both local and national government environments
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