Unified Management for Virtual Storage

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1 Unified Management for Virtual Storage Storage Virtualization

2 Automated Information Supply Chains Contribute to the Information Explosion Zettabytes Information doubling every months Storage growing 20-40% per year Storage budgets up 1%-5% in 2010 Exabytes Petabytes The information explosion meets budget reality Terabytes Gigabytes

3 Automated Information Supply Chains Contribute to the Information Explosion Zettabytes Exabytes Petabytes Terabytes Gigabytes Information doubling every months Storage growing 20-40% per year Storage budgets up 1%-5% in 2010 The information explosion meets budget reality As server hypervisors have helped bridge the gap in server infrastructures the IBM storage hypervisor can help bridge the gap in the storage infrastructure

4 Server and Storage Hypervisors Server hypervisors Virtualize physical servers driving up efficiency Allow for transparent mobility of virtual machines Improve labor efficiency through a common management interface regardless of the type of OS running in the virtual machine or brand of hardware being utilized IBM offers the hypervisor for storage

5 Virtualize the complete infrastructure Virtual Server Infrastructure VMWare optimizes the x86 server infrastructure. Now, consider doing the same for the storage infrastructure.

6 Virtualize the complete infrastructure Virtual Server Infrastructure Midrange Storwize V7000 Enterprise SAN Volume Controller VMWare optimizes the x86 server infrastructure. Now, Virtual Storage consider Infrastructure doing the same Storage Hypervisor for the storage infrastructure. Manage Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

7 Virtualize the complete infrastructure Virtual Server Infrastructure Midrange VMware and PowerVM Storwize V7000 optimize your SAN server Volume Controller infrastructure. Virtual Storage Now, Infrastructure consider doing the same for the storage infrastructure. Storage Hypervisor Enterprise Manage Manage VMControl Storage Control Tivoli Storage Productivity Center IBM Systems Director IBM Systems Director 7

8 IBM Virtual Storage Infrastructure Virtual Storage Platform System Storage SAN Volume Controller & Storwize V7000 (think VMware vsphere or IBM PowerVM) Common device driver iscsi or FC host attach Common capabilities I/O caching Thin provisioning Easy Tier automated tiering to Solid-state Disks Snapshot (FlashCopy) Mirroring (Synchronous and Asynchronous) Data mobility Transparent data migration among arrays and across tiers Snapshot and mirroring across arrays and tiers Virtual Storage Management Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (think VMware vcenter or IBM Director VMControl) Manageability Integrated SAN-wide Management (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center) Integrated IBM server and storage mgmt (Systems Director Storage Control) Replication Application integrated FlashCopy (Oracle, DB2, SAP, Exchange, SQL Server) DR automation (Storage failover/fail back with TPC for Replication) (Site switching with Tivoli System Automation) High Availability Stretch Cluster HA

9 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Virtual Storage Management Gain comprehensive insights for improved service delivery Advanced topology viewer, metrics for storage configurations and performance monitoring, and comprehensive reporting capabilities with customizable options. Manage SAN through policy-driven recommendations Best practice guidance for storage configuration, provisioning and SAN planning for performance assurance. Establish and achieve storage service level agreements Advanced-in-class heat maps, threshold management and fault alerting enabling proactive problem management. Optimize resource utilization for enhanced return on storage investments Analysis-backed intelligent migration of data, and optimized storage configuration setup and capacity utilization.

10 Storage Hypervisor: Customer case study IBM Global Account (IGA) Business challenge: IGA (IBM s internal operations) is a massive operation. Data growth and labor costs were outpacing budgets. Provisioning responsiveness was not meeting objectives. Size and Scope Total Storage 24+ PB Block Storage Solution: Benefits: Block Storage File Storage Tape Capacity Implement a Storage Hypervisor with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Tivoli Storage Productivity Center. With 9PB of tiered storage now virtualized and connected to over 35k fibre channel ports, IGA can improve labor productivity and storage efficiency while delivering higher service levels. Provisioning time reduced from months to days 20% increase in storage utilization 9 PB 1 PB 15 PB 50% reduction in cost / TB through consolidation and tiering Block Storage Solution components: IBM SAN Volume Controller Increased utilization Live performance balancing Concurrent maintenance IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Performance and Capacity Management Smarter ILM

11 Regardless of what kind of physical disk hardware you have installed, what could your Virtual Storage Infrastructure look like?

12 Virtual Simplicity System recommendations Visual task flow guidance Integrated video instruction Link to more information if needed System status always available

13 Virtual Best Practices Preset provisioning templates

14 Virtual view of enterprise capacity utilization

15 Virtual view of enterprise capacity utilization

16 Virtual view of enterprise capacity utilization

17 Virtual Performance Improvement Easy Tier and Solid-state disks Application Transaction Throughput 240% from Original brokerage transaction PRELIMINARY Easy Tier Learning Easy Tier In Action

18 Virtual, Application-integrated Snapshot FlashCopy Up to 256 Create instant application copies for backup or application testing Make better use of space with incremental (only changed blocks) or space-efficient (thin provisioned) snapshots FlashCopy Manager Up to 256 Integrated, instant copy for critical applications Virtually eliminate backup windows Rapidly create clones for application testing View inventory of application copies and instantly restore

19 View the I/O Path to your Virtual Storage Highlight the desired computer and open the DataPath view

20 View the I/O Path to your Virtual Storage

21 View Virtual Volume I/O Performance Hover over the Storage Hypervisor and see near real-time performance

22 View Virtual Volume I/O Performance Hover over the Storage Hypervisor and see near real-time performance

23 View Virtual Volume I/O Performance Hover over the Storage Hypervisor and see near real-time performance

24 View Fabric Performance for your Virtual Volumes Hover over the SAN switch and see near realtime port performance

25 View Historical Virtual Volume Performance Example: 30 days of historical performance metrics

26 Proactively Alert on Performance Thresholds Monitor thresholds and trigger proactive alerts or automated responses

27 Virtual storage integration with virtual server management IBM Systems Director End-to-end capacity view of all storage Integrated storage Management tasks Details by storage type

28 Virtual Storage Federation ESX Cluster 1 Virtual volume SVC cluster Data center 1

29 Virtual Storage Federation ESX Cluster 1 Virtual volume SVC cluster Physical data Data center 1

30 Virtual Storage Federation ESX Cluster 1 ESX Cluster 2 SVC Stretched-cluster Stretched virtual volume Data center 1 Data center 2

31 Virtual Storage Federation vmotion ESX Cluster 1 ESX Cluster 2 SVC Stretched-cluster Stretched virtual volume Data center 1 Data center 2 Search on SAN Volume Controller

32 Virtual Business Continuance 2-site Virtual Storage Federation SVC Stretched-cluster Failover Server Cluster 1 Server Cluster 2 Stretched virtual volume Improve availability, load-balance, and deliver real-time remote data access by distributing applications and their data across multiple sites. Seamless server / storage failover when used in conjunction with server or hypervisor clustering Data center 1 Data center 2 4-site Disaster Recovery Failover Server Cluster 1 Server Cluster 2 Stretched virtual volume Metro or Global Mirror Failover Server Cluster 1 Server Cluster 2 Stretched virtual volume For combined high availability and disaster recovery needs, synchronously or asynchronously mirror data over long distances between two high-availability stretch clusters. Data center 1 Data center 2 High Availability Data center 1 Data center 2 High Availability Disaster Recovery

33 Regardless of what kind of physical disk hardware you have installed

34 Virtual Storage Infrastructure Midrange Storwize V7000 Storage Hypervisor Enterprise SAN Volume Controller Regardless of what kind of physical disk hardware you have installed Dynamic resource pools Data mobility Simplicity and depth of management Virtual storage federation Integration with your virtual servers and the applications that run on them Manage Tivoli Storage Productivity Center

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