IBM eServer iSeries

Session: 36CE 410253

iSeries HA and Storage Solutions

Steven Finnes
finnes@us.ibm.com
www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/ha
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Agenda

2003 iSeries Storage Solutions

New integrated disk attach: PRICE/PERFORMANCE !!!
iSeries and SAN
Extending iSeries connectivity to Enterprise Storage Server (ESS)
iSeries Availability Solutions
Positioning
Support, Planning and Education
Summary

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iSeries Disk Solutions

Integrated SAN NAS iSCSI

TCP/IP TCP/IP TCP/IP SCSI

SAN TCP/IP SCSI

over LAN over LAN

iSeries Integrated Enterprise Storage Network Attached iSCSI

Storage Server (ESS) Storage

Small- to Enterprise- Medium- to Enterprise- Can be connected for Not Supported

Sized Environments Sized Environments iSeries Integrated File System
(IFS)
serving (via NFS)

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NEW: High Performance Integrated Storage

Achieve up to 3X throughput improvements with enhanced PCI-X I/O options

for integrated disk attach
Improve performance with IBM’s 3 disk optimized RAID-5
New 35GB and 70GB 15K RPM disk drives
New PCI-X I/O towers with rack mount options

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Integrated Scalability and Performance

Exploits 1 Gb/s High Speed Link (HSL) connectivity CPU, L1,L2, L3 Cache

Scales from 8 GB to 144 TB Main Storage and Expert

ƒ High performance PCI RAID Disk Unit Controller Cache
supporting up to
–2047 internal disk units HSL Bus, IOP
Aggregate transfer rate of 640 MB/s on each controller
CTLR -757MB Write cache
235 MB distributed array level write cache 4 x 160 MB/s
ƒ Up to 106GB compressed write cache total Bus

757MB per 15 disk units

Up to 18 drives per IOA
Ultra-3 SCSI and 15,000 RPM disk units

Hardware assisted and optimized RAID-5

NOTE: Ships with Ultra-3 support

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New Ultra* SCSI Disk Adapters

#2757 High Performance RAID-5 #5705 Tape/Disk Adapter
Adapter ƒ Non-RAID-5
ƒ 235 MB write cache, up to 757MB ƒ Internal Ultra SCSI bus
with compression –Supports up to 6 Disk Units and
ƒ RAID-5 optimized, minimum 3 internal optical / tape device
drives in array ƒ External Ultra SCSI bus
ƒ 4 Ultra SCSI buses –Optional tape devices capable of
ƒ Supports up to 18 disk units and attaching to LVD SCSI
two internal optical / tape devices
#2782 Entry RAID-5 Adapter
ƒ 40 MB write cache
ƒ RAID5 optimized, minimum 3
drives per array
ƒ Two Ultra SCSI buses
*NOTE: Shipped today with Ultra3 (160
ƒ Supports up to 12 disk units and mb/s) support.
two internal optical / tape devices

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High Performance RAID Controller Comparisons

Feature 2778 / 4778 2757 Improvements
SCSI bus 80 MB/s 160 MB/s* 2x faster
# SCSI buses 3 4 1.25x more
Max PCI Burst Rate 133 MB/s 532 MB/s 4x more
Processor Speed 80 MHz 500 MHz 6.25x faster

Compressed Write Cache 104 MB 757 MB 7x larger

Min/Max drives in RAID5

4 / 10 disks 3 / 18 disks Optimized
array
SCSI bus tagged command Faster Response Time
N/A Yes
queuing (under heavy I/O load)
Array parity checking and
Yes Yes - New HDW assist 5x faster
memory scrubbing
Capacity, Performance,
RAID Configuration Enable or Disable Greater Flexibility
Balance or disable

*NOTE: Shipped today with Ultra3 (160 mb/s) support.

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Performance Comparison: 2778 -vs..- 2757rem

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iSeries Storage Specialist ?

( Truth be known ...there is no such thing !)

Virtualized integrated storage means

not much to do here ....

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iSeries Integrated Storage Management

Self-caching, automatic load balancing
ƒ Data is automatically spread across all disk units
in a Disk Pool
ƒ Parallel I/O results in optimum performance and Object A Object B Object C Object D

disk utilization OS/400

ƒ No user planning or management, no manual TIMI
data placement
Storage Management
ƒ No individual "disk full" conditions to handle
ƒ Integrated tools to study effects of read cache I/O
before implementation

Added disk capacity is automatically utilized

Data is spread by OS/400 Storage Management, not

disk controllers
ƒ Regardless of physical attachment solution

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Storage Maintenance Interface - Single Point of Control

Create, manage and monitor storage

virtualization on iSeries
ƒ Secured access
ƒ Configuration, protection,
availability, recovery and
maintenance
Self-guided wizards
Graphical representation of complex
management tasks
SAN-like storage management for
Windows servers

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V5R2: Multiple independent

Auxiliary Storage Pools databases, system libraries, and
library names

Independent Disk Pools

ƒ Required for switched disk clustering
ƒ New option for single server and redundant
server availability
ƒ Maintenance by Independent Disk Pools
Outage isolation System ASP
ƒ Server and other ASPs continue if an IASP fails
Application consolidation
ƒ Up to 223 IASPs with V5R2

User ASP User ASP Independent ASP Independent ASP Independent ASP
(journal receivers (libraries, UDFS) Company 1 Company 2 Payroll
and save files) (libraries, UDFS) (libraries, UDFS) (libraries, UDFS)

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HABP Switchable IASP Cluster for Websphere

Firewall Application Server Database

Java
Clients
WAS1

Application
Http Server Clone
Admin Switchable
Server
Clone Repository IASP
Admin Server

Enterprise
Journaling Data
WAS2
Active
Web Persistent
Servlet
Clients Application Session Data
Http Server Clone
Admin
Server Repository
Clone
Admin Server

Redundant firewall, application, Switchable Disk Pool

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HA Replication/Clustering Solution for Websphere

Firewall Application Server Database

Java Primary DB
Clients
WAS1
Enterprise
Data
Application
Http Server Clone
Admin Persistent
Server Repository Servlet
Clone
Admin Server Session Data

WAS2 Sync RJ

Web Secondary DB
Clients Application
Http Server Clone
Admin
Server Repository Enterprise
Clone
Admin Server Data

Persistent
Servlet
Session Data
Redundant firewall, application and DB

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SAP
with Independent ASP's
Data Center Center Topology
ƒ IASPs for multiple DB images
ƒ Switchable IASPs for availability

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Storage Virtualization for Windows and Linux Servers

iSeries storage consolidation for multiple OS/400

environments
Extends SAN-like functions to:
Disk #1
ƒ Windows Servers
–Virtual drives per server, up to 2TB Disk #2
–Dynamically increase disk size for
Windows 2000 servers Disk #3

–Unique hot spare facility provides

simple, efficient high availability Integrated xSeries Server
ƒ Linux Servers
–Storage Spaces are 1MB to 64GB
each
–Up to 20 Storage spaces per Linux
partition
Improves performance with more disk arms Integrated xSeries Adapter
Consolidated backup of OS/400, Linux and
Windows Servers
Graphical management

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OS/400

iSeries Storage Management Storage Management

Options: Integrated and SAN

IOA Card (FC) IOA Card
All managed by
OS/400
SAN Storage Solution

Storage
Software
SAN
hubs/Switches
Switches, Hubs,
Tools
Routers, etc.
SAN Software Integrated Storage
Tools Solution

Customer Host Host

HBA HBA
managed Bay Bay
Processor SSA Adp. Processor

External Storage Cache SSA Loop Cache ** recall that

NVS NVS
multipath is not
supported yet

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Enterprise Storage Server

Family of enterprise storage servers from entry through

Model 800 with Turbo feature
ƒ Increased throughput (compared to F20)
ƒ 15K RPM disks
Built for Redundancy
2 GB Fibre Channel/FICON
64 GB Non-volatile cache
ƒ 2 GB fixed write cache
Data protection
ƒ RAID-5
ƒ RAID-10
FlashCopy, PPRC

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Enterprise Storage Server - StorWatch

Comprehensive ESS Management Tools

ƒ Web-based management
ƒ One or more ESSs - any location

StorWatch ESS Specialist - built-in

ƒ Status, configuration, authorization
ƒ Notification (e-mail, pager, SNMP)
ƒ Capacity reassignment
ƒ Copy Services management

StorWatch ESS Expert

ƒ Optional
ƒ Performance, asset, capacity
management

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Fibre Channel Tape Connectivity

Connectivity through #2765 Fibre Channel Adapter

ƒ Improved performance, up to 136 GB/hr* per drive -
1.3TB /hr with 10 drives
ƒ Maximum 2 FC adapters per IOP

Enhanced connectivity and resource sharing

Multiple targets, 16 devices per adapter

ƒ Share tape resource

Maximum distances with 2 GB support

*Note: Save rates based on OS/400

V5R1 on iSeries Model 840 and IBM
3590-Exx using SCSI and #2765
Fibre channel adapter.
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iSeries and SAN Options with V5R2

Switch fabric expands options across

multiple initiators and multiple targets

Enabled by IBM 2109 switch

Multiple SAN targets can be connected
through a single iSeries fibre channel
adapter IBM 2109

Optimizes number of fibre channel adapters

Zoning recommended for performance
FC adapter for Linux partition

Switched disk support

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Disk Attach Solution Guide

OLTP File Serving

Integrated iSeries storage for

Windows Servers, LINUX,
Dedicated environment OS/400 PASE, Domino SAN environment
Applications

Dedicated SAN attached

iSeries direct-attach disks
ESS disks ESS disks

Interactive, I/O intensive commercial File serving, compute-intensive workload

transaction processing with large block I/O
Batch processing dependent on disk Web serving (downloading Web pages),
response time Domino / Lotus Notes, other large block
Predictive response times required at all I/O applications
times
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Availability Solutions

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The HA Market

Market:
Top business issue for IT executives
Demand for HA solutions has been growing at 20% CGR for the
past three years
e Infrastructure is driving the demand for 24x365 operations
Customer:
Server Consolidation
Banking Srvcs, Financial Srvcs,Telecom, Manufacturing, e-
Commerce ,Health Systems,
Distribution/Retail, Insurance,Health, Transportation
Value:
Eliminate planned down time = asset utilization
back-up window + maintenance = $$
Minimize unplanned down time = business continuity
Local unplanned scenarios
Disaster recovery scenarios

Source: IMEX Research.com Jan 2002

@ http://www.highavailabilitycenter.com/index.shtml

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Define Business Objectives Define the outage types

Scheduled outages
Business Impact Analysis The majority of all downtime is planned
Disruption impact Backups
PTF and OS installs
Risk Analysis Application maintenance
Probability of disruption critical function Upgrades

Unscheduled outages
SLAs Locally Recoverable Outage
Service Level Agreements Application failure
Operator error
RPO
Power outages
Recovery Point Objective
Network failure
24hrs, 1hr, immediate ?
Hardware failure

RTO Disaster
Recovery Time Objective
Loss of the IT facilities
6hrs, 1hr, 10 min ?

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Establish Requirements
Understand customer availability needs and Availability discussions should include
expectations: ƒ 1. Server hardware
What outage types ƒ 2. Storage (disk and tape storage)
ƒ Planned? ƒ 3. Software and Automation
ƒ Unplanned? ƒ 4. Networking
ƒ Disaster Recovery? ƒ 5. Services
ƒ All of the above?
High Availability (HA) or Continuous Availability
(CA) requirements?
ƒ Near zero downtime for any outage type?
Determine the cost vs..
ƒ Loss of transactions not tolerated?
Recovery Point Objective
Availability level vs.. cost vs.. complexity
and Recovery Time Objective
ƒ Complexity varies, but all solutions creates
additional complexity
Long distances between the primary and backup
servers?
ƒ Communication costs

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Translate to business metrics

Outage Current Cost to Objective
Type Duration Business

Planned 50hrs $200K 0 hrs

Unplanned 6hrs $500K 1/2 hrs
Disaster 48hrs $2M 12 hrs

Total the annual Planned Outage time

Estimate an Unplanned Outage Risk
Estimate Cost/Value to the Business
Recommend Appropriate Solutions
Consider Using an ROI tool

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Evaluate Solution Strategies

Replication Based Solutions

Switchable Storage Pools (IASPs)
Clustering
SAN-based Methods

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iSeries Availability Tools

Save While Active HA Software Copy Services

SWA

Included in OS/400 (no additional charge)
Used for Backups only
5-15 minute outage for checkpoint
Fairly Easy
Used for HA/DR or Tape backups or
planned outages (e.g. release upgrades)
No outage
All components are protected
Longer distances are possible
Secondary System can run other
applications on back-up data
Integrity at Application Level
most comprehensive and widely used
Used for DR or Tape backup (no help for
release upgrades)
30-60 minute outage to make FlashCopy
multi-hour outage at DR time
All components can be protected
Secondary System stops other work at
DR/Backup time
Integrity at byte-level only
Procedure is Fairly Easy (repetitive) although
care is required

** SWA and HA work on internal or external disk **

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Comprehensive iSeries HA Solution Suites

Tape
Data & CPU
concurrently useable on
backup server

Backup Server - active copy

Primary Server
accessible in real-time

1000s of customer accounts WW

Can provide the most resilient availability solution
Scheduled Outages: Concurrent Saves & Maintenance Procedures
Unscheduled Outages: Failover support for primary server failure
Workload balancing (Queries, Batch, Web etc.) on Backup server
No IPL required for switchover

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Classic HA Solution Concepts

HA best case RTO/RPO

ƒ Sync Remote Journaling should be considered
ƒ Switched disks may play a role
ƒ HSL/LAN/WAN Connectivity

Determine solution objectives

Use LPAR to help gain maximum ROI
Use Clustering to help gain maximum
availability

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Server Consolidation & High Availability

Replication vs. IASP topologies
Shrink Development Partition
at switch-over time

HA based on replication HA based on switched disk

- second copy "live" - no second copy
- back-up & data access - no data access until switch
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The Service Bureau Approach

HA or DR strategy
ƒ Distributed sites backed- up centrally

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Assess solution functional attributes....

Replication validation tools and
functionality (ready to switch)
Recovery Automation
MQ support, Websphere support
Application level granularity for
availability management
Can it replicate all object types
Out of sequence events in journal
entries
Automated Object Replication
management (creates, deletes, moves,
renames)
Integrated Remote Journaling
Journal Minimal Changes
Journal Standby Mode
Large Object Support
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IFS, Data Areas, Data Queues
IASP integration and support
Centralized availability solutions for
heterogeneous environments
Provides both switch over and switch
back capability
Advanced auditing and verification
function
Integrated Clustering Middleware
Can demonstrate ClusterProven
application support
OS/400/Linux/Windows integrated
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Assess solution provider attributes and track record

Usability: Ask for customer
reference accounts that role swap
once a month
Usability: Speak to a customer
reference that has role swapped
during an unplanned outage
Reference accounts: what are they
doing, how did they implement, how
are they using it
End-to-end implementation plans
Strong local partner practice
24x&7 International and local service
& support infrastructure
Diverse service offerings
Support Publications
Full spectrum of offerings
Solutions spanning simple DR to
continuous availability
Ease of Use/Systems management
capabilities
WW presence - large install base
WW language support - indication of
company capability, strength and
experience
Strategic development relationship
with IBM
Industry solution provider relationships

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Assess Total solution attributes....

"Half" of an HA solution is service & support
Investigate customer reference accounts on both implementation and post
implementation service and support
If you are using or deploying a package like SAP, JDE, Intensia ...find out how
many they have done, how many are in production, talk to a reference
account on how the project went
Does the solution provider support ClusterProven ISV solutions
Project Plans (ask for a project plan documentation example)
Project Ownership, Project Manager, Implementation Plan
Test Plan, Training Plan,
What type of technical training certification is required for the implementation
experts in both the ISV solution and iSeries
Post Installation Support, how many support people per installed customer ?
Training and certification

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Positioning Availability Solutions

iSeries Clustering and High Availability Business Partner Solutions
ƒ Most widely deployed type of HA solution across iSeries install base
ƒ Can be the most resilient and diverse coverage model
ƒ Ask reference accounts about service and support
Single server and Save-While-Active (SWA) for backups
For disaster recovery
ƒ iSeries Replication Clusters (internal or ESS storage)
ƒ OS/400 Mirrored ESS
ƒ Hosted iSeries Services or Business Continuity Recovery Services
For basic planned and unplanned outages
ƒ iSeries Switched Disk Clusters
ƒ Best solution will often be a combination of one or more availability technologies
Analyze your availability requirements first
ƒ Engage your iSeries rep or HA expert for assistance

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