Storage Virtualization: IBM SAN Volume Controller

Tony Pearson IBM Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist
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Storage Virtualization
IBM SAN Volume Controller
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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize Family
The Storwize Family
Comprehensive range of virtualized software defined storage systems

One code base on all platforms
One set of functions (selectively licensed) New!
One client experience SAN Volume
Controller
FlashSystem
V840
Storwize V7000
Unified
Storwize V7000
Storwize V5000
Storwize V3700
Storwize V3500
(China only)
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IBM Vision: Software Defined Storage - Virtualization
OpenStack SmartCloud VMware FCP iSCSI FCoE

Linux
Software Defined Environment z/VSE Linux
Windows
z/VM Windows
Linux UNIX UNIX
Windows VMware VMware
UNIX
VMware

SAN TCP/IP
Storage Hypervisor Other

SmartCloud VSC, SVC, Storwize, IBM and
FlashSystem V840 non-IBM
Disk
XIV FlashSystem systems
DS8000
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SVC Advantageswith application across the Storwize family

Industry-leading storage virtualization offering
Only storage virtualization system with integrated Real-time Compression
designed to be used with active primary data
Best performing storage virtualization system in industry-standard benchmarks
First storage virtualization system with fully integrated SSD support
Integrated iSCSI server attachment support and support for FCoE protocol
Fully upgradable without disruption from smallest to largest configurations
Future proof with ability to replace current hardware with new hardware
without disruption
Network-based virtualization with SVC supports diverse server environments
including VMware, other virtualization, and non virtualized servers
IBM has shipped over 40,000 SVC engines running in more than 10,000 SVC
systems
From 2006 to present, across this entire installed base, SVC delivered better
than five nines (99.999%) availability
SAN Volume Controller is a proven offering that has been delivering benefits
to customers for over ten years
SAN Volume Controller can virtualize IBM and non-IBM storage (over 170
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systems from IBM, EMC, HP, HDS, Sun, Dell, NetApp, Fujitsu, NEC,Bull) 2014 IBM Corporation
SVC Supported Environments (sample view*) applies to Storwize

Linux Citrix Xen
IBM IBM Power (Intel/Power/z) Server
Microsoft HP-UX 11i RHEL 4/5/6
z/VSE Novell IBM AIX Solaris Tru64 IBM TS7650G
z/VM VMware Windows
IBM i 6.1 SUSE 9/10/11 Apple ProtecTIER IBM 1024
NetWare OpenVMS SGI IRIX
vSphere 4, 5 Hyper-V (VIOS) Mac OSGateway BladeCenter
Hosts
z/Linux OES2 Flex System
PureFlex
iSCSI or FCOE
Point-in-time Copy 8Gbps SAN fabric SAN
1Gb or 10Gb Continuous Copy
Full volume, Copy on write
256 targets, Multiple Cluster Mirror
Incremental, Cascaded, Reverse, Metro/Global Mirror
Snapshots, FlashCopy Mgr Stretched Cluster
Thin Provisioning Easy Tier Real-time Compression Internal SSD
Virtual Disk Mirroring
IBM
Compellent IBM IBM Hitachi HP EMC Sun NetApp NEC Fujitsu TMS
Fluid DataDS XIV N series Lightning MA, EMA CLARiiON StorageTek FAS iStorage Eternus RamSAN
DS3000, DS4000 FlashSystem Thunder MSA, EVA, CX4, StorEdge
TagmaStore XP, P9500, Symmetrix, Pillar
DS5000, DS6000 Storwize Family AMS, WMS, 3Par XioTech Bull NexSAN
Violin DS8000 USP, USP-V
DMX, VMAX, Emprise Storeway SATABeast Axiom
VSP VNX, VNXe
* Confirm all supported configurations at ibm.com/storage/support/2145 and click on Support
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Storwize Hardware Family Significant Milestones Through

September
Over 36,000 systems purchased
Includes Storwize V7000, Flex System V7000,
Storwize V5000, Storwize V3000 and
Storwize V7000 Unified systems
Over 80,000 total enclosures deployed
Averaging more than 2 expansion units per system
(Storwize V7000)
Over 1.1 exabytes of capacity

Thats over a million TB
Delivering five nines availability
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Storwize Family Continuing Delivery of

Enhanced Capability and Value
October 2010 October 2011 November 2012 October 2013

New Standard for Unified Storage Storwize V3700 IP replication
Midrange Storage Active Cloud Flex System Integrated SANSlide
Storwize V7000 Engine V7000 Mobile dashboard
Storwize V7000 Enhanced Stretched
Unified Cluster
Storwize V5000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
July 2003 - 2010 May 2011 April 2012 June 2013 June 2014
SAN Volume Controller Clustering Real-time Compression Easy Tier 3
Remote Copy (async, sync) VMware APIs Compression performance Auto-rebalance
FlashCopy (incremental, 10Gb iSCSI FCoE Easy Tier and Compression
cascaded, multi-target) compression acceleration
Thin provisioning Capacity and VM Storwize V7000
Volume Mirroring scalability Gen. 2
Split cluster Global Active Cloud
iSCSI, VAAI, and more Engine
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Transformation to Software Defined Storage

Heterogeneous, integrated storage services over open interfaces
Orchestrators - IaaS Storage

End User
Admin
REST/OSLC TOSCA
IBM Software Defined Storage Virtual Controller

Storage Advanced Self-Service
Integration Management Portal
Integratio Storage Policy Analytics & Backup Storage

n & API Virtualizatio Automati Optimizatio and Copy Cloud
Services n on n Managem
ent
IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center

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IBM integration, innovation and holistic approach

Storage Infrastructure Automated Storage Advanced Data
Management & Virtualization and Replication
Analytics Optimization
SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

Enables storage for cloud computing
Easy to buy and deploy
Pay-as-you-go pricing
SAN
SAN and Storage External Storage Snapshot

Resource Management Virtualization Management
and Analytics
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IBM Virtual Storage Center (VSC)
OpenStack VMWare Storage Cloud
Integration and support for

OpenStack, Vmware and
private storage cloud
Standardized storage services
from service catalog
Mobility of storage volumes
Self service storage cloud
Policy-based analytics and
optimization of storage
resources
VSC transforms heterogeneous storage into Software Defined Cloud Storage

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Storage Virtualization is . . .
Technology that makes one set of

resources look and feel like another set
Logical
Representation of resources, preferably with more
desirable characteristics
A logical representation of resources
not constrained by physical limitations
Virtualization
Hides some of the complexity
Adds new functionality
Improves flexibility
Physical
Resources
Source: Evaluator Group

Virtualize Your Infrastructure
Virtual Server
Infrastructure
Enterprise
Tivoli Storage
SAN Volume Controller
Virtual Storage
Productivity
Center Storage Hypervisor
Infrastructure
Tivoli
FlashCopy
Manager

Storwize Family Terminology
Volumes:
Belong to one or more I/O Groups
Volume Size 16 MB to 256 TB
Dynamically Expandable
Thin-Provisioned, Compressed
I/O Group 0 I/O Group 3
Cluster:
1-4 Node-pairs (I/O Groups)
Cache, Copy Services
Storage Pools:
Managed Disks from 256 disk
systems
Assign LUNs to Storage Pools
Define Extent size (16MB to 8GB)
Gold Silver Bronze

Server Management
Only one device driver regardless of the

number of types of storage controllers
being managed by the SAN Volume
Controller
Multipathing, failover/failback, load-
balancing
Server does not see storage systems
managed by SVC
SAN Adding a new storage system requires no
additional maintenance to servers
Virtual
SAN Disk
Choice of Driver is yours:
Volume Controller IBM SDD (Subsystem Device Driver)
MPIO (Window, AIX), MPxIO (Solaris)
VMWare Qlogic MPP
DM-MP (Linux)
PVLinks (HP-UX)
Symantec DMP
Storage Management
Optimize IT Mitigate Risk Enable Business Flexibility
Only the SAN Volume Controller

seen by the storage system
No costly device drivers
needed to support the storage
subsystem SAN
No advanced function software Virtual
licensing required on the SAN Disk
Volume Controller
storage controller
Simply provision storage to the
Replacing storage does not
require changes to the host

Improved Application Availability
Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller

1. Stop the application 1. Move data
2. Move data
3. Re-establish host connections Host systems and applications are
4. Restart application not affected!
SAN SAN
Volume

IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware

Server and storage virtualization offerings provide complementary benefits
SVC supports VMware, Hyper-V, XEN, KVM, PowerVM, z/VM
SVC provides common external storage virtualization
Especially valuable for customers with a mixed
server virtualization environment
SVC supports every VMware vSphere at GA
SVC supports VMware vCenter
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
with Metro Mirror and Global
Mirror functions
SVC with VMware
best practices Redpaper
now available!
Supports VAAI, VASA, VADP
vCenter plug-in

Optimized Storage Resource Utilization

Shared physical network Hosts own volumes
Limited capacity sharing Capacity can be more easily
Capacity purchased for, and reallocated
owned by individual Capacity purchases can be deferred
processors until the physical capacity of the
Poor capacity utilization SAN reaches a trigger point.
70%
capacity
25% 50% Volume Volume
capacity SAN SAN
capacity
95% SAN Volume Controller
capacity
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

Easy Tier
Host Host Host Automatic storage hierarchy
Mixed storage pool with 2 or 3 tiers
1. Flash tier (internal or external Flash, including
SSD)
2. Enterprise 15K/10K spinning disk
Host Volumes & Extents
3. Nearline 7200 RPM spinning disk
Volumes belong to a single pool

Each volume is a collection of extents on the
storage pool
An extent is either on Flash, Enterprise or Nearline
disk
Mixed storage pool
I/O Monitor keeps access history for each virtualisation
extent
Extent sizes already defined for the storage pool
(16MB to 8GB in size)
Default is 1 GB extent size
Every 5 minutes
SSD Enterprise Nearline
Automatic extent migration

FlashSystem integration with SAN Volume Controller

Production DB servers
ERP SCM SRM CRM BW

Non-prod DB
servers
Flash only Easy Tier HDD only
pool pool pool ERP SCM
SVC storage pools (managed disk groups)
SVC nodes
Put DB with a high IO/s

per TB ratio on Flash only
Put Production DB
FlashSyste on Easy Tier tiered
m Storwize / XIV / storage
DS8000
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Thin Provisioning
SVC and Storwize implement thin provisioning

Traditional (fully allocated) Volumes use physical
disk capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual
disk even if it is not used
Just like traditional disk systems
With Thin Provisioning, it allocates and uses physical disk
capacity when data is written
Can significantly reduce amount of physical disk capacity
needed
Designed for no Application Performance Impact!
Included at no additional charge with base software license
IBM Real-time Compression

More efficient for Primary Active Data than Deduplication
Active Backup Fully Integrated feature of SVC, Storwize

Data Data
V7000 and Flex System V7000
Real-time 40-80% 40-80% High-performance Real-time supports
Compression Best
active primary workloads
Data 20-30% 80-95 %
Databases, VMs, CAD/CAM, etc.
Deduplication Best
More effective and efficient than Data
Deduplication for Active data
No restrictions on volume size or OS
Compress existing data without downtime
Compression helps to address:
Storage hardware purchase costs
Rack space
Power and cooling
Software license fees

IBM Real-time Compression

Expected Compression Ratios
SAN Volume Controller Real-time Compression uses same proven Random-Access

Compression Engine (RACE) as IBM RTC Appliances
Delivers similar levels of compression*
DB2 and Oracle databases ~ 80%

Linux and Windows 50% to 70%
Virtual Servers
(VMware) Virtual guest images
2003 ~ 60%
Microsoft Office
2007 or later ~ 20% Source: IBM internal tests.
CAD/CAM ~ 70%
IBM Compresstimator* tool can be used to evaluate expected compression benefits for
specific environments
* This pre-sales tool is available to estimate compression savings, percentage savings

shown are typical results, based on client experiences, your mileage may vary.
Compression Acceleration Cards Intel Quick Assist Technology

Intel Quick Assist technology integrated into new Compression Acceleration
cards.

Used to offload the LZ compression and decompression processing

Each node supports up to two Compression Acceleration cards

SVC uses 4 parallel compression engines per card

To use compressed volumes, DH8 nodes require at least:

64GB of Cache Memory per node

One Compression Acceleration card

When compression is enabled,

38GB is used as a Compression Cache

Optionally upgrade each node to contain second Compression Acceleration
card

Upgrade recommended when normal data working set > 32TB

Local and Remote Copy Services

Transmit via:
Site 1
FCP
Any Storwize
Family product
FCIP
SAN
VDisks
TCP/IP
with WAN
acceleration
Volume
Site 2
SAN
Any Storwize
Storwize
Family product
Family Product
SAN VDisks
Storage Storage
Pool 1 Pool 2
Local: Remote:
FlashCopy Metro Mirror
Volume Mirror Global Mirror
Stretched Cluster Global Mirror with Change Volumes
SAN Volume Controller Stretch Cluster

Transparent Failover For high availability application
Application server needs, synchronously mirror
application data between two
separate disk systems
Mirrored copies
Stretched Cluster for For ultra-high availability

High Availability application needs, synchronously
mirror application data between two
different sites at campus distances
Eliminate single points of failure

and transparently failover data
access from one site to the other

IBM SAN Volume Controller - FlashCopy
Up to 256 Start incremental FlashCopy

FlashCopy:
targets
Volume level
Data copied as normal
FlashCopy point-in-time copy
relationships with any mix of thin Later
and fully-allocated
Source Some data changed by apps

Incremental FlashCopy:
Volume Start incremental FlashCopy
Volume level
point-in-time copy
Only changed data copied
Map 1 Map 2 Disk2 by background copy
FlashCopy
target of Disk1
Ma
Disk0 Disk1
p
3
Source FlashCopy Map 4 Disk4

target of Disk0
FlashCopy
target of Disk3
Cascaded FlashCopy:
Disk3 Copy the copies
FlashCopy
target of Disk1

Reduced Cost and Improved Flexibility for Replication Services

Replication APIs differ by Common replication API, SAN-
vendor wide, that does not change as
Replication destination must be storage hardware changes
the same as the source Replication targets can be on
Lower-cost disks offer primitive, lower-cost disks, reducing the
overall cost of exploiting
or no replication services replication services
ShadowImage SAN TimeFinder SAN

TrueCopy SRDF SAN Volume Controller SVC
HDS HDS EMC EMC IBM IBM EMC HP IBM

USP USP Sym Sym ESS SATA Sym EVA DS5000

Extended Distance Disk Mirorring
Synchronous Metro Mirror Asynchronous Global Mirror

Up to 300km between sites for Up to 8000km distance between sites for
business continuity business continuity
As with any synchronous remote Does not wait for secondary I/O before
replication, performance completing host I/O
requirements may limit usable Helps reduce performance impact to
distance applications
Host I/O completed only when data Designed to maintain consistent
stored at both locations secondary copy at all times
Operates between SVC clusters at Operates between SVC clusters at each
each site site
Local and remote volumes may be Local and remote volumes may be on
on any SVC supported disk systems any SVC supported disk systems

IP-based Replication with Integrated WAN Acceleration
Enables use of IP connections for remote

mirroring
Transparent to servers and applications
Supports all Remote Mirroring modes
Global Mirror with Change Volumes
preferred
Straightforward configuration on existing IP
infrastructure
Integrates Bridgeworks SANSlide network
optimization technology
No separate appliances required
Uses Artificial Intelligence to improve
network bandwidth utilization up to 3x
Included with Remote Mirroring license

Next Generation SVC Node Features

Move SVC to 2U server for enhanced
processing capability and I/O
Front mounted dual System Batteries
eliminates need for external UPS
Flexible Hardware allows user to
configure CPUs, memory and I/O
Optional compression acceleration cards
Mirrored boot drives, No front panel
Support for SAS card to allow external
SSD Expansion enclosures
Dedicated Ethernet Port for Out-of-Box
and technician support
Investment protection
SVC-DH8 nodes can cluster with
existing SVC nodes

New SVC 2145 Storage Engine with v7.3 Software
Based on IBM System x3650M4 (2U)

8-core processor with 32 GB RAM
Real-time Compression accelerator
Second 8-core processor/32 GB RAM
Redundant 600GB 10K SAS internal drives
for boot and hardened data dump No longer requires external UPS
Two Internal hot-swap batteries
Optional AC power (110 - 240v)
Flexible Port Configurations

Three 1GbE ports +
12Gb SAS connections Three HIC slots per processor for
FCP, iSCSI and FCoE
Enclosure with 24 SFF slots for SSD

48 drives per I/O Group
( 192 SSDs for 8-node cluster )

SCSI Target
7.3.0 Software Stack
Forwarding
New Dual Layer Cache Replication
Architecture
Peer Communications
Upper Cache New
Interface Layer
First major update to
Configuration
cache since 2003 FlashCopy
Clustering
Flexible design for Mirroring
plug and play style
cache algorithm Thin Provisioning Compression
enhancements in the Lower Cache New
future
Virtualization Easy Tier 3
SVC like L2 cache
for advanced functions Forwarding
New
Upper Cache simple
RAID
write cache
Lower Cache algorithm Forwarding
intelligence SCSI Initiator

Understands mdisks
Fibre Channel
Shared buffer space
iSCSI
between two layers * Only 4F2 hardware limited to running no
FCoE later than 5.1 Software due to 32bit CPU
SAS
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SAN Volume Controller and SmartCloud VSC Deliver Value
Reduces the cost and Improves Strengthens Enhances

complexity of storage business personnel
managing storage utilization continuity productivity
Creates tiers of Combines storage Supports data Manage a single

storage capacity into a single movement without storage
resource from interrupting resource from a
Enables multi-
multiple vendors applications central point
vendor
strategies Manage storage as a Allocate more storage
business resource, not to applications
as separate boxes automatically


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SVC Supported Environments (sample view*) applies to Storwize

Linux Citrix Xen
IBM IBM Power (Intel/Power/z) Server
Microsoft HP-UX 11i RHEL 4/5/6
z/VSE Novell IBM AIX Solaris Tru64 IBM TS7650G
Windows
z/VM NetWare VMware Hyper-V IBM i 6.1 SUSE 9/10/11 Apple IBM
ProtecTIER BladeCenter
1024
OpenVMS SGI IRIX
z/Linux OES2
vSphere 4, 5 (VIOS) Mac OS Gateway Hosts
Flex System
PureFlex
iSCSI or FCOE
Point-in-time Copy 1Gb or 10Gb 8Gbps SAN fabric SAN
Full volume, Copy on write Continuous Copy
256 targets, Multiple Cluster Mirror
Incremental, Cascaded, Reverse, Metro/Global Mirror
Snapshots, FlashCopy Mgr Stretched Cluster
Thin Provisioning Easy Tier Real-time Compression Internal SSD
Virtual Disk Mirroring
Compellent IBM IBM IBM Hitachi HP EMC Sun NetApp NEC Fujitsu TMS
Fluid Data DS N series CLARiiON StorageTek FAS iStorage Eternus RamSAN
XIV Lightning MA, EMA
DS3000, DS4000 FlashSystem Thunder MSA, EVA, CX4, StorEdge
TagmaStore XP, P9500, Symmetrix, XioTech Bull NexSAN Pillar
DS5000, DS6000 Storwize Family AMS, WMS, 3Par
Violin DS8000 USP, USP-V
DMX, VMAX, Emprise Storeway SATABeast Axiom
VSP VNX, VNXe
* Confirm all supported configurations at ibm.com/storage/support/2145 and click on Support
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Find Out More

SVC on ibm.com
ibm.com/storage/svc
Virtualization NewsCenter
ibm.com/systems/storage/news/center/virtualization/
SVC Support
ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sanvc/index.html
Storage Virtualization Blog

ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtualization
SVC Sales Kit

IBM System Sales
tinyurl.com/ozhs3
PartnerWorld
tinyurl.com/z5u23

Tony Pearson
9000 S. Rita Road
About the Speaker Master Inventor,
Bldg 9032 Room 1238
Tucson, AZ 85744
Senior IT Specialist
+1 520-799-4309 (Office)
IBM System Storage
tpearson@us.ibm.com
Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior Consulting IT Specialist for the IBM System Storage product line.
Tony Pearson joined IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. Over the past years, Tony has worked in
development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware and software products.
In his current role, Tony presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, as well as various storage software
products. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads workshops to help clients with strategic planning for IBMs
integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products.
Tony writes the Inside System Storage blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners every week. This blog
was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by Networking World magazine. The blog was published in book form as Inside
System Storage: Volume I through Volume V , all available from Lulu publishing.
Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University
of Arizona. Tony holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and software products.

Additional Resources Email:

tpearson@us.ibm.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/az99tony
Blog:
http://ibm.co/brAeZ
Books:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/99_tony
IBM Expert Network:

http://www.slideshare.net/az99tony
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Tony Pearson IBM Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist

2014 IBM Corporation

The Storwize Family

Comprehensive range of virtualized software defined storage systems

IBM Vision: Software Defined Storage - Virtualization

OpenStack SmartCloud VMware FCP iSCSI FCoE

Storage Hypervisor Other

4 2014 IBM Corporation

SVC Advantageswith application across the Storwize family

SVC Supported Environments (sample view*) applies to Storwize

Thin Provisioning Easy Tier Real-time Compression Internal SSD

Virtual Disk Mirroring

Storwize Hardware Family Significant Milestones Through

Over 1.1 exabytes of capacity

Storwize Family Continuing Delivery of

October 2010 October 2011 November 2012 October 2013

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Transformation to Software Defined Storage

Orchestrators - IaaS Storage

IBM Software Defined Storage Virtual Controller

Integratio Storage Policy Analytics & Backup Storage

IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center

IBM integration, innovation and holistic approach

SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

SAN and Storage External Storage Snapshot

IBM Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

OpenStack VMWare Storage Cloud

Integration and support for

VSC transforms heterogeneous storage into Software Defined Cloud Storage

Technology that makes one set of

12 2014 IBM Corporation

Virtualize Your Infrastructure

14 2014 IBM Corporation

Storwize Family Terminology

16 2014 IBM Corporation

Only one device driver regardless of the

Only the SAN Volume Controller

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Improved Application Availability

Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller

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IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware

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Optimized Storage Resource Utilization

Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller

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Volumes belong to a single pool

SSD Enterprise Nearline

Automatic extent migration

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FlashSystem integration with SAN Volume Controller

ERP SCM SRM CRM BW

SVC storage pools (managed disk groups)

Put DB with a high IO/s

SVC and Storwize implement thin provisioning

IBM Real-time Compression

Active Backup Fully Integrated feature of SVC, Storwize

46 2014 IBM Corporation

IBM Real-time Compression

SAN Volume Controller Real-time Compression uses same proven Random-Access

DB2 and Oracle databases ~ 80%

* This pre-sales tool is available to estimate compression savings, percentage savings

Compression Acceleration Cards Intel Quick Assist Technology