DS3000 & DS4000 Series Applications and Positioning

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DS3000 & DS4000 series

Applications and Positioning
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Fabian D’souza
Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Able-One Systems
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Agenda
 Business Needs
 Features
 Metrics
 Product Specifics
 Summary
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BUSINESS NEEDS
CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS
RTO
DISASTER
RECOVERY
RPO
B/R
HIGH
AVAILABILTY STORE CDP PROTECT ILM
SOFTWARE
STORAGE ONLINE
DEVICES STORAGE
DATA MAN-AGE
VIRTUALIZATION DISK BASED

BACKUP
NETWORK STORAGE CENTRALIZATION
CONSOLIDATION VIRTUAL TAPE
DESTROY
LIBRARY
APPLICATIONS
TAPE LIBRARY RETAIN A/R
DATA OFFLINE
OFFLINE
OS STORAGE
ENCRYPT
HARDWARE
BLADE NEAR ONLINE MOVE HSM
SERVERS STORAGE
SERVER
CONSOLIDATION
VIRTUALIZATION CREATE/
STORE
FILES MAIL DATABASE APPLICATIONS
Exchange/ Oracle/SQL/
ERP/SAP
Domino Informix
FEATURES
 Storage Consolidation
 Data Replication
 Flash Copy
 Volume copy
 Enhanced Remote Mirroring
Why Storage Consolidation
 EXP HotAdd Technology
Online capacity expansion, configuration and LUN access
 Dynamic Array Expansion (DAE)

Add drives to existing array
 Dynamic Volume Expansion (DVE)

Add available capacity to existing logical drives (OS dependent)
 Dynamic RAID Level Migration (DRM)

Change the RAID configuration of an array
 Dynamic Segment Size Migration (DSS)

Change the data stripe size
 Dynamic mode switching

Change between remote mirroring modes
Factors to consider in Storage Consolidation
 Servers
 Homogeneous or heterogeneous?
 How many?
 Applications
 Same or different?
 Business criticality?
 Workload
 Light or heavy?
 Consistent or varying?
 IOPS or throughput?
FlashCopy
Primary uses:
 Creates one logical drive that is a
point-in-time (time-stamped) image
of another C’
A’ B C ABC
 Useful for tape backups; reduces “quiese”
(hot backup) window Logical-
Drive
FlashCopy
 Can be used for periodic online backups AC
Snapshot
 Can be used for repurposing of information Reserve
 Data restore capability
Physical Logical
 Application development & test
 Training
VolumeCopy
 Complete physical replication of one logical drive
(source) to another (target) within a storage
system
 Target logical drive also referred to as a clone Production Server Analysis Server
 Benefits:
 Full PiT data set available
for analysis, mining, testing, backup
 Eliminates I/O contention on
the primary logical drive
 Redistribute data for performance
and/or capacity optimization
 Technology migration to
PiT
new / faster / larger drives Clone
 Move logical drives to more
desirable arrays
Enhanced Remote Mirroring
 Storage-based data replication
 Ongoing, real-time replication of a logical drive from one DS4000 storage subsystem
to another
 Primary uses:
 Disaster recovery
 Centralize backup data
 Centralize data mining
Fabric
L1L2M3 L3M1M2
 Business Considerations
– Service loss - Temporary or long term
– Data loss - Pain
– Business loss recoverable and unrecoverable
Data Replication Comparison
Attribute FlashCopy VolumeCopy Remote Mirroring
Industry term Snapshot or Image Clone or Copy Mirror
Designed to maintain a complete

Continuously updated
Replication type PiT image of source PiT copy
copy of source
of source
Copy location
Same storage system Same storage system Remote storage system
relative to source
Time required to Dependent on size Dependent on size, replication

Near instantaneous
create / establish copy and prioritization setting distance and prioritization setting
Performance impact Primarily dependent on Primarily dependent on

None
of creating copy prioritization setting prioritization setting
Ongoing impact of Primarily dependent Dependent on write %

None
maintaining copy on write percentage and replication distance
Maximum copies 4 per source 8 active copies 32 mirrors
Designed to remain available if source is

Designed to remain available if
Copy dependence on source Lost if source is lost lost
source is lost
Designed for easy file Designed for easy file Designed for recovery
Data restoration from copy
and/or source restore and/or source restore of primary site disaster
Application access Full r/w access while Source is read-only Requires mirror be “broken”
to source and target FlashCopy remains active during copy process for r/w access to target
Metrics
 Application - Performance (IOPS/Throughput)
 Storage - Capacity (RAW)
What is IOPS? (Input/Output per second)
 IOPS is important for transaction-based applications with random, small-
block I/O such as OLTP, databases, Exchange
 IOPS performance is heavily dependent on the number and type of disk

drives
 FC and SAS drives generally have faster seek time, lower latency, faster and
rotational velocity and better command queuing compared to SATA
 Drive-limited configurations can result in similar performance between
systems with different maximum capabilities
What is Throughput
 MB/s important for throughput-intensive applications with sequential

large-block I/O such as video servers, seismic processing, high
performance computing (HPC)
 Throughput rates are heavily dependent on the internal controller

bandwidth
 Maximum throughput rates can typically be reached with

a smaller number of disk drives (~ 14 to 42)
 SATA generally delivers up to 66% of FC’s or SAS’ drive-level
performance
PRODUCT SPECIFICS
Positioning the IBM System Storage DS Family
New Unified New Standard in New Standard
Entry Point Family Pricing and in Functionality,
Packaging Performance, TCO
DS3000 DS4000 DS6000 DS8000
IBM TotalStorage and System Storage Family innovations are

designed to help you:
 Simplify the underlying IT infrastructure of storage and its management
to help lower cost and complexity while increasing the ability to respond to
changing needs.
 Maintain business continuity, security and data durability.
 Efficiently manage information throughout its lifecycle, relative to its

business value.
DS3000 and DS4000 Series Positioning
This table represents general positioning and not technical capabilities
Increasing performance and functionality
DS4800
DS4700
DS3400 DS4200
DS3200
SMB Remote office Department Data Center
 SAS connectivity  FC connectivity  FC connectivity  FC connectivity

 Shared DAS  Shared DAS  Homogeneous SANs  Heterogeneous SANs
 Simple management  Entry-level SANs  Configuration flexibility  Highest performance
 Snapshot replication  Simple management  Simple management  Extensive configuration
 Snapshot replication  Data replication flexibility and data
replication services
DS3000 and DS4000 Key Messages
Part of IBM’s cohesive and impressive storage disk enclosure portfolio
DS3000 series DS4000 series
 Easy: Helps reduce administration costs  Well-known DS4000 Storage Manager interface meets
the requirements of experienced storage managers
 Scalable: Capacity expands up to 48 drives and
compatible with DS4000 Storage Manager  Unmatched configuration flexibility / adaptability with
112 drive (Ds4200/DS4700) and 224 drive (DS4800)
 Flexible: For System x, BladeCenter, and select
capacity expansion
3rd party servers
 Affordable: Excellent value starting under  Industry-leading performance across a broad set of
$5,500* CAD operating systems
 Scalable price model starting at less than $15k* CAD
* Prices subject to change without notice. Starting price may not include a hard drive, operating system or other features.
Contact your IBM representative or Business Partner for the most current pricing in your geography.
What is the DS3000 series?
DS3000 series
DS3200 DS3400
 3-Gbps SAS connect to host  4-Gbps Fibre connect to host

 Direct-attach  Direct-attach or SAN
 For System x  For System x & BladeCenters
 2U, 12 disks  2U, 12 disks

 Dual Power Supplies  Dual Power Supplies
 Support for SAS disks  Support for SAS disks
 Expansion via EXP3000  Expansion via EXP3000
DS4000
Disk Systems Disk Enclosures

Turbo/Dual/Single-active
Dual-active RAID controllers RAID 14/16 internal disk drives inside the
with no internal disk drives controllers with 14-16 controller
internal disk drives
FC SATA
DS4800
DS4500
DS4700/DS4300 DS4700/DS4300 FC DS4000

DS4000 EXP100
DS4800, DS4500 Express/Turbo DS4100 Dual/Single with EXP710/810 FC
SATA Expansion
SATA Expansion Unit
DS4000 Series
Capacity-oriented applications Performance-oriented applications
Serial ATA Drives (EXP100) Fibre Channel Drives (EXP810/EXP710)
Entry Entry
High End Midrange Level Level Midrange High End
DS4800 DS4800
Higher functionality
DS4800 DS4800
Model 80 Model 80
DS4700 DS4700
Express Express
DS4300 DS4100 DS4300

DS4300 SCU
DS4100 SCU
Increasing Increasing
capacity performance
Specification Comparison
Attribute DS3200 DS3400 DS4200 DS4700
Host interfaces 3 Gbps SAS 4 Gbps FC 4 Gbps FC 4 Gbps FC
Host channels (dual) 3 or 6 4 4 4 or 8
Expansion Ports (dual) Two SAS Two SAS Four FC Four FC
Max # of drives 48 48 112 112
Supported drives SAS SAS SATA FC/SATA
Drive enclosure 2U 12 drive 2U 12 drive 3U 16 drive 3U 16 drive
Cache memory (dual) 1 GB / 2 GB 1 GB / 2 GB 2 GB 2/4 GB
Hardware XOR Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated
Dual Ethernet No No Yes Yes
Max # of Volumes 256 256 1024 1024
Storage Manager Comparison
Storage Manager Comparison Overview
Attribute DS3000 DS4000
Interface Web-like (Java-based) Java-based
Design goal Task-oriented and simple Intuitive and powerful
Management Windows EMW and SMW EMW and AMW
Task Assistant Yes Yes
Max partitions 16 64
Premium features FlashCopy, VolumeCopy FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, ERM
Management In-band and out-of band In-band and out-of-band
OS Support Installed on Windows or Linux Comprehensive
Target administrator Part-time (no storage expertise) Dedicated
IOPS – Dual Controller performance
Drive DS4800 DS4700 DS4200 DS3400 DS3200
Type (IPOS) (IOPS) (IOPS) (IOPS) (IOPS)
Maximum Burst I/O rate FC/SAS 575,000 120,000 121,500 120,000 96,000
cache reads
(512 byte)
SATA 575,000 TBD 121,500 - -
Maximum Sustained I/O FC/SAS 85,000 44,000 - 21,500 19,000

rate
disk reads
(4k – R5) SATA TBD TBD 11,200 - -
Maximum Sustained I/O FC/SAS 22,000 9,000 - 4,600 4,200

rate
disk writes
(4k – R5) SATA TBD TBD 1,800 - -
Number of drives utilized

for benchmark testing N/A 224 FC 112 FC 112 FC/SATA 48 SAS 48 SAS
Benchmark configuration
I/O – 4k random reads / writes – RAID 5 – 15,000 RPM disk drives
Note: Results achieved under ideal circumstances in a benchmark test environment at Engenio.
Actual customer results will vary based on configuration and infrastructure components.
Throughput – Dual Controller performance
Drive DS4800 DS4700 DS4500 DS4200 DS3400 DS3200
Type (MB/sec) (MB/sec) (MB/sec) (MB/sec) (MB/sec) (MB/sec)
FC/SAS 1600 1500 800 - 1630 1670

Maximum Sustained
throughput
cache read (512k)
SATA TBD TBD 800 1550 - -
FC/SAS 1600 990 795 - 940 895

Maximum Sustained
throughput
disk read (512k)
FC/SAS 1300 850 635 - 725 695

Maximum Sustained
throughput
disk write (512k)
Benchmark configuration
I/O – 512k sequential reads / writes – RAID 5 – 10,000 RPM disk drives
Note: Results achieved under ideal circumstances in a benchmark test environment at Engenio.
Actual customer results will vary based on configuration and infrastructure components.
Application Access Patterns
Best served by SAS or FC drives
Read Write I/O Throughput Random Sequential

intensive intensive intensive intensive access access
OLTP ● ● ● ●
Data warehouse ● ● ●
System (SCP) ● ● ●
File serving ● ● ●
Medical imaging ● ● ● ●
Web / Internet ● ● ●
Multimedia / video ● ● ●
Document imaging ● ● ●
CAD/CAM ● ● ●
Backup / recovery ● ● ●
Option for SATA drives

MB/s
Performance Positioning
 Understand the requirements

 Looking for highest performance = DS4000 series
 Looking for good performance to value = DS3000 series
 Is the application best served by FC and SAS, or is SATA HDD ok?
 Highest performance of the DS4000 series delivered by DS4800 (FC)
 IOPS and MB/s (throughput)
 Highest performance of the DS3000 series delivered by DS3400 (FC)
 IOPS and MB/s (throughput)
 Additional factors to consider:
 Consolidation, replication, workload, future headroom
Performance Positioning for DS3000/DS4000 Series
DS4000 IOPS Throughput

System Databases – OLTP – Exchange Video and Media Servers
 Good performance value for  Good performance value for

DS3200
configurations up to 48 drives configurations up to 48 drives
 Good performance value for  Good performance value for

DS3400
configurations up to 48 drives configurations up to 48 drives
 Best Price and good enough performance value for  Best price /performance value for configurations up to 112
DS4200
configurations up to 112 drives drives
 Best performance value for  Best performance value for

DS4700
configurations up to ~ 112 drives configurations up to 112 drives
 Highest IOPS  Highest throughput

DS4800  Best performance value for medium to large configurations  Best performance value when utilizing all
host-side channels and require large capacity
Performance value is price / performance.
Classes of Storage
Reference data,
OLTP, databases, 1st external RAID,
Typical applications fixed content, Archive and retrieval
ERP, email file / print server
D2D backup/restore
Requirement Primary Secondary Entry-level Archival
IOPS performance Highest Minimal Minimal ---
MB/s performance Highest High Minimal High
Time to data Immediate ~ Immediate ~ Immediate Prolonged
Media reliability Highest High High Good
Uptime 24/7 < 24/7 OK < 24/7 OK < 24/7 OK
Price Higher is OK Low cost-per GB Lowest Lowest
Primary media FC disk SAS/SATA disk SAS/SATA disk Tape
1. DS4800 1. DS4800 1. DS3400

2. DS4700 2. DS4700 1.DR550
Top systems 2. DS3200
3. DS3400 3. DS4200 2. DS4200
3. DS4200
4. DS3200 4. DS3400
5. DS3200
Application Positioning
DS4800 DS4700 DS4200 DS3400 DS3200
OLTP N/A
Data warehouse
System (SCP)
File serving
Medical imaging
Web / Internet
Multimedia / video
Document imaging
CAD/CAM
Backup / recovery
Consolidation Positioning
Max Performance
System Environment Servers Applications
Partitions Requirements
Workgroup /  Heterogeneous  Specialized

DS3200 16 Consistent
Departmental  Small number  File storage
Workgroup /  Heterogeneous  Specialized

DS3400 16 Consistent
Departmental  Small number  File storage
 “Tier 2”
 Heterogeneous
Departmental  Production
DS4700 64 Varying  Medium number
Enterprise  Specialized
 Large Number  IOPS
 Production
 Heterogeneous
DS4800 64 Enterprise Varying  OLTP | IOPS
 Large number
 Replication
This table reflect “best practices” not technical requirements or limitations (other than max partitions).
Data Replication Positioning
 DS4800, DS4700
 Best choice when replication is a key piece of storage strategy
 Least performance impact in DS4000 Series
 DS4200
 Best choice for destination mirror or tiered storage secondary
 DS3400, DS3200
 OK for limited number of FlashCopy & VolumeCopy replication
processes
Processing power of DS4800 (controllers’ ASICs, high-speed busses, cache access) designed to
offer the best solution for configurations implementing strategic data replication
SUMMARY
DS3000 vs. DS4000 Selection Criteria
DS3000
Price Ease of Use Functionality
DS4000
Performance Availability Adaptability

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VIRTUALIZATION DISK BASED

FILES MAIL DATABASE APPLICATIONS

 Dynamic Array Expansion (DAE)

 Dynamic Volume Expansion (DVE)

 Dynamic RAID Level Migration (DRM)

 Dynamic Segment Size Migration (DSS)

 Dynamic mode switching

 Can be used for periodic online backups AC

Industry term Snapshot or Image Clone or Copy Mirror

Designed to maintain a complete

Time required to Dependent on size Dependent on size, replication

Performance impact Primarily dependent on Primarily dependent on

Ongoing impact of Primarily dependent Dependent on write %

Maximum copies 4 per source 8 active copies 32 mirrors

Designed to remain available if source is

 Application - Performance (IOPS/Throughput)

 Storage - Capacity (RAW)

 IOPS performance is heavily dependent on the number and type of disk

 MB/s important for throughput-intensive applications with sequential

 Throughput rates are heavily dependent on the internal controller

 Maximum throughput rates can typically be reached with

DS3000 DS4000 DS6000 DS8000

IBM TotalStorage and System Storage Family innovations are

 Efficiently manage information throughout its lifecycle, relative to its

SMB Remote office Department Data Center

 SAS connectivity  FC connectivity  FC connectivity  FC connectivity

DS3000 series DS4000 series

 Scalable price model starting at less than $15k* CAD

 3-Gbps SAS connect to host  4-Gbps Fibre connect to host

 2U, 12 disks  2U, 12 disks

Disk Systems Disk Enclosures

DS4700/DS4300 DS4700/DS4300 FC DS4000

DS4300 DS4100 DS4300

Host interfaces 3 Gbps SAS 4 Gbps FC 4 Gbps FC 4 Gbps FC

Host channels (dual) 3 or 6 4 4 4 or 8

Expansion Ports (dual) Two SAS Two SAS Four FC Four FC

Max # of drives 48 48 112 112

Supported drives SAS SAS SATA FC/SATA

Drive enclosure 2U 12 drive 2U 12 drive 3U 16 drive 3U 16 drive

Cache memory (dual) 1 GB / 2 GB 1 GB / 2 GB 2 GB 2/4 GB

Hardware XOR Integrated Integrated Integrated Integrated

Dual Ethernet No No Yes Yes

Max # of Volumes 256 256 1024 1024

Attribute DS3000 DS4000

Interface Web-like (Java-based) Java-based

Design goal Task-oriented and simple Intuitive and powerful

Management Windows EMW and SMW EMW and AMW

Task Assistant Yes Yes

Premium features FlashCopy, VolumeCopy FlashCopy, VolumeCopy, ERM

Management In-band and out-of band In-band and out-of-band

OS Support Installed on Windows or Linux Comprehensive

Target administrator Part-time (no storage expertise) Dedicated

Maximum Sustained I/O FC/SAS 85,000 44,000 - 21,500 19,000

Maximum Sustained I/O FC/SAS 22,000 9,000 - 4,600 4,200

Number of drives utilized

FC/SAS 1600 1500 800 - 1630 1670

FC/SAS 1600 990 795 - 940 895

FC/SAS 1300 850 635 - 725 695

Read Write I/O Throughput Random Sequential