The Best Storage for Virtualized Environments Paul Kessler Asia Pacific Solutions Marketing Alliances, NetApp Nov.4,2008
The Best Storage for Virtualized Environments Paul Kessler Solutions Marketing & Alliances Asia Pacific
Virtualization in China 3
Gartner s Storage Fundamentals for Virtualized Environments VMware, Citrix and Microsoft integration and support Thin provisioning Data Reduction, e.g. De-Duplication Extensive snapshots Application synchronization tools Recovery management tools Boot volume spawning support iscsi and Fibre Channel support Support in SAN and storage resource management tools Remote replication Failover/back management Automated tiering Support for multiple drive types 4
What If You Could Also... Backup and restore your VMs instantaneously Easily protect all your virtualized data with DR Save 50% on your storage, power, cooling, and space Deduplicate virtual server and virtual desktop data, enabling 50% space savings, or more Automate your most labor-intensive data management tasks Clone and provision storage as quickly as your VMs Do this with one architecture in any environment 5
Virtualization Increases Storage Demands Before Virtualizing Servers* After Virtualizing Servers Number of applications per server 1 Number of physical servers 10+ Number of apps down on storage failure 1 Data lost on dual-disk failure 1x Backup data volume 1x Meeting backup window Feasible Disaster recovery Costly/complex Provisioning Slow/complex * Typical configuration: DAS, RAID 5, tape backup 10+ 1 10+ 10x 10x Maybe not More complex Storage servers 6
The Requirement for Networked Storage Advanced virtualization features are only enabled through the use of networked storage. Move VMs To load Balance Simple VM Failover VM Failover upon site failure VM1 VM2 VM2 VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2 7
Cost-Effective Data Reliability The Problem Double-disk failure is a mathematical certainty RAID 5 (single parity disk) Insufficient protection RAID 10 (mirrored copy) Double the cost NetApp RAID-DP Solution Protects against double- disk failure High performance and fast rebuild Same protection and performance as RAID 10 at half the cost RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 10 RAID-DP Cost Low Low High Low Performance Low Low High High Resiliency Low High Med High 8
Instantaneous Backup, Zero Server Impact The Problem High server utilization No spare cycles for backups Tape is slow, complex, & expensive DR can be difficult to manage VM1 VM2 NetApp Snapshot Solution Servers run apps, not background processes Instantaneous backup and recovery Low storage overhead Application consistent VM1 VM2 CPU Utilization CPU Utilization Storage Pool Traditional Backup Is NOT Practical Fast, Affordable, and Simple Backup and Restores 9
Useable Snapshots for Rapid Recovery Market-leading performance SPC-1 Performance (IOPS) Baseline NetApp FAS3040 EMC CX3-40 With Snapshots 30,986 24% higher 29,958 233% higher 24,997 NetApp FAS3040 8,997 EMC CX3-40 NetApp 3% difference Snapshots 4/hr First RAID-6 EMC 64% impact Snapshots 1/hr Best practice mirroring 10
An Opportunity for NetApp Deduplication VM images consume storage equal to size of template VM images are 100% identical OS software, patches, software drivers, application data Save 50% on primary storage requirements after deduplicating APP DATA OS APP DATA OS APP DATA OS APP DATA OS APP DATA OS APP DATA OS APP DATA OS APP APP Duplicate DATA DATA Data Is Eliminated OS OS DATA APP OS Traditional NetApp FAS Enterprise System RAID Arrays 11
Lower Power, Cooling & Space App 3 Typical: 40% Utilization waste 8 spindles NetApp: 70+% Utilization Buy 50% Less Storage* Save 50% in Power, Cooling, & Space* App 2 waste 6 spindles Shared capacity App 3 12 spindles App 1 waste 6 spindles App 2 App 1 Standard Volume Manager NetApp Thin Provisioning Source: Oliver Wyman Study: Making Green IT a Reality. November 2007. *Thin Provisioning, clones, & multiprotocol all contribute to savings. 12
Increase Agility with Fast Provisioning Traditional Provisioning NetApp Provisioning 27 mins 3 sec Time-consuming physical copies Slow to provision or reprovision Manual and complex Not suited for VM provisioning Instant copies with FlexClone Quick provisioning with FlexVol Simple commands or policies Ideal for dynamic VM environment The FlexClone feature allows our DBAs to establish new development and test environments in minutes instead of days. Ultimately, this shortens the time it takes to go from a new idea to a new revenue stream by at least 99%. - Mark Tuttle, Sr. Engineering Mgr, AutoTrader.COM 13
As Much as 39% in TCO Savings Total Cost Index 200 180 160 140 120 100 80 60 40 20 0 TCO Comparison in VMware ESX Environments 92 15 27 100 15 31 50 54 163 163 24 26 57 61 82 76 Downtime and Recovery Costs Internal Operational Costs Product Acquisition and Ongoing Vendor Costs NetApp NFS NetApp SAN EMC CLARiiON HP EVA Source: Oliver Wyman VMware Storage Total Cost Comparison Update, Dec 2007 NetApp has at least a 2x recovery time advantage over EMC and HP NetApp has a 2x TB/FTE ratio compared to EMC and HP Less primary storage required due to Snapshot copies & thin provisioning 14
Evaluate Your Potential Savings Online See your primary storage savings Interactively illustrates benefit of NetApp features Calculates power and cooling savings Also evaluates: Archival Backup DR Dev/test www.secalc.com 15
Use 50% Less Storage. Guaranteed*. 50 We now see an average of 83% reductions in redundant data on our VMware system. - Jonathan Davis, Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Use NetApp for your virtual environments, and we guarantee* you will use 50% less storage Implement our standard best practices Use our industry-leading features Thin provisioning Deduplication RAID-DP NetApp Snapshot copies Have us help you install If you don t use 50% less storage, get the required capacity at no additional charge *For terms and conditions, go to netapp.com/guarantee 16
Application-Empowered Data Management App Admin DBA VM1 VM2 VM3 VM4 VM5 VM6 VM7 VM8 Virtual Server Admin Storage Pool Storage Admin 17
The Broadest Range of Unified Storage Fabric-Attached Storage Family Unified storage NAS, SAN, and iscsi Tiered storage from mission critical to archival Common software, interface, and management tools Support for heterogeneous storage with V-Series Data ONTAP : Foundation of the Storage Pool FAS2000s FAS3000s FAS6000s V-Series HP EMC HDS 18
Virtualize existing storage arrays Site 1 NetApp V-Series virtualizes other enterprise arrays Virtualizes storage as VMWare does for servers Protects your existing investment Leverages existing storage infrastructure 19
Siemens IT Solutions and Services, Siemens Ltd. China Business Challenge Reduce costs, simplify administration, and improve service with a streamlined, virtual infrastructure IT Challenge Deploy a highly flexible storage solution to enable rapid provisioning and the ability to scale storage capacity nondisruptively Benefits Achieved faster, nondisruptive storage deployment and provisioning in hours versus days Reduced backup times by 50% Gained the ability to recover in minutes rather than hours Saved 50% on headcount; able to reassign staff to other needs Reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) by 52% Industry IT Services Solution Storage System Virtualization Protocols FC SAN The VMware implementation with NetApp s storage is the first of its kind within Siemens China. We expect the virtual environment to help Siemens business segments increase their market share by increasing their application and service capabilities as well as their standing as business and technical innovators. - Li Xiao Yi, Data Center and Infrastructure Team Lead Siemens IT Solutions and Services Siemens Ltd., China 20
The NetApp & VMware Global Alliance Thousands of joint customers Virtualization Escalation Team for joint support Reference platform for iscsi and NFS for ESX3.0 All NetApp products are VMware certified Deep engineering-level collaboration Actively engaged across all levels Mutual Global Partners 21
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