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New approach to the design and deployment of storage
Piotr Biskupski – IBM STG PolandIBM Forum 2012 – Estonia
Tallinn, October 9, 2012
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…while dealing with constraints like a flat budget.
And respond to demands for new services…
Internet connected devices—22B in 2020 (24.9% CAGR)
31.9 million servers worldwide
Since 2000 security vulnerabilities grew eightfold
The volume of digital content, up 48% from 2011, is expected to reach 2.7 ZB (1ZB = 1 billion terabytes) in 2012 and 8ZB by 2015.
Data centers have doubled energy use in past 5 years
Real-time analytics workloads growing 13% CAGR with related server spend growing 3x average
Collaborative software workloads growing 10% CAGR
Last 10 years servers up 2X and virtual machines up 42% CAGR
To realize the promise of a Smarter Planet, enterprises must address the IT challenges that have emerged.
IBM Storage is key to Smarter Computing
Designed for dataStorage Efficiency is essential to outpace data growth
Storage Virtualization enables a robust cloud deployment
Storage must adapt to changing information patterns
Smarter Computing
Introducing IBM Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing
Cloud Agile
Efficient by Design
Self-optimizingIncrease information access and improve ROI
Manage cost and capacity growth
Improve performance and productivity
Efficient by Design
Manage Cost and Capacity GrowthManage Cost and Capacity Growth
Decreases Space Requirements• Store more information in less space
• Supports non-IBM storage, savings throughout the data center
Simplifies Administration• Reduce complexity
• Automate tasks
Efficiency for Active Workloads• Efficiency for transaction processing, big data, clouds
• Not just for inactive data
Benefits• Reduce space requirements for active data up to 80%
• Save up to 47% in administrator time
• Reduce complexity by up to 30%
Reduce Capital ExpensesReduce Capital Expenses
Reduce Operating ExpensesReduce Operating Expenses
Self-optimizing
Improve Performance and ProductivityImprove Performance and Productivity
Analyzes and adapts• Analyzes access patterns and adapts automatically
• Flash optimization makes high performance affordable
Automates performance tuning• Saves time, reduces errors and eliminates user disruption
• Easy to match critical workloads with performance features
Analyze Big Data Fast• Tuning and tiering are faster and more accurate
• Optimization is a continuous automated process
Benefits• Increase performance 3X with only 3% SSDs
• Reduce storage costs by 50%
Optimize performance and cost
Optimize performance and cost
Increase administrator productivity
Increase administrator productivity
Cloud Agile
Adaptive• Storage adapts easily to unpredictable workloads
• Data is automatically synchronized between facilities
Automated• Self-service provisioning
• Simpler and faster administration
Deploy Clouds Faster • Administrators manage far more capacity
• Leverage existing storage systems
Benefits • Reduce disk space needs by up to 50%
• Speed storage deployment up to 26%
• Improve application availability by 29%
Increase Information Access and Improve ROIIncrease Information Access and Improve ROI
Increase AgilityIncrease Agility
Increase productivityIncrease productivity
Information Governance
Cloud Agile SONAS and Storwize V7000 file storage
virtualization (SoD) SONAS and Storwize V7000 ACE enables
global file collaboration with multi-writer support (SoD)
SONAS and Storwize V7000 Unified, cloud storage self-service service portal (SoD)
Storwize V7000 support for Active Cloud Engine (SoD)
XIV clustering (SoD) XIV Gen3 GTS Implementation Services
Self-optimizing DS8000 Easy Tier extended to server
based storage (SoD) DS8000 new high-density flash storage
option (SoD) DS8000 Easy Tier support for
application API (SoD) IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center
will introduce analytics-based storage tier recommendations and automation to migrate data to the right tier (SoD)
Efficient by Design Real-time Compression integrated into Storwize V7000, SVC TPC improved GUI, enhanced reporting, tiering optimization, cloud support SONAS TPC support TPC now supports XIV/Storwize V7000 GUI ProtecTIER file protocol support Storwize V7000U real-time compression for file workloads (SoD)
Tying IBM Smarter Storage to New Capabilities and Vision:June Cross-IBM Announcements and SoDs
IBM Smarter Storage
Virtualization
Thin Provisioning
Compression RACE
Easy Tier• option: TPC for Disk Midrange Edition
FlashCopy
• option: FlashCopy Manager
Advanced copy services - Metro and/or Global Mirror• option: TPC for Replication
Active Cloud Engine
Storage virtualization
SAN
95%capacity95%capacity
50%capacity50%capacity
25%capacity25%capacity
SVC / V7000
55%capacity55%capacity
Virtualized strorage
VM-machine
Virtual DC…
…no walls
Storage virtualization with HA
Thin-provisioning
Traditional (“fully allocated”) virtual disks use physical disk capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual disk even if it is not used
With thin-provisioning, Storwize V70000 allocates and uses physical disk capacity when data is written
Available at no additional charge with base virtualization license Support all hosts supported with traditional volumes and all advanced features (EasyTier, FlashCopy, etc.) Reclaiming Unused Disk Space
– When using Volume Mirroring to copy from a fully-allocated volume to a thin-provisioned volume, Storwize V7000 will not copy blocks that are all zeroes
– When processing a write request, Storwize V7000 detects if all zeroes are being written and does not allocate disk space for such requests in the thin-provisioned volumes● Helps avoid space utilization concerns when formatting Volumes
Done at Grain Level (32/64/128/256KiB) If grain contains all zeros don’t write
Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated space is reserved whether the application uses it or
not
With thin provisioning, applications can grow dynamically, but only consume space they are
actually using
Dynamicgrowth
• A compressed Volume is a third type of volume
– Regular (fully allocated)
– Thin Provisioned (Space Efficient)
– Compressed
• A compressed volume is “a kind of” Thin Provisioning
– Compression supports all Thin Provisioning features (e.g. autoexpand)
– Only uses physical storage to store the compressed version of the volume
– Can be on back-end virtualized storage
– Supported with CLI and GUI
• GUI also has a preset for compressed volumes
• Performance monitoring tab support for Compression CPU resource usage
• Compression operates at a volume copy level
– Maximum of 200 compressed Volume copies per IO group
• Specified at creation of the volume copy
– No conversion in place, but a volume can be converted via Volume Mirroring1
• Compressed volumes can be source and target of Remote Copy relationship or FlashCopy mapping
– Data between copies is uncompressed
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Bazy danychDane
użytkownikówCAD/CAM
EngineeringSerwery wirtualne Oil & Gas
2.5xdata
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3.5xRTOs
2.0xBackup lic.
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Real-Time Compression
Orion (Oracle I/O Calibration Tool) is a standalone tool for calibrating the I/O performance for storage systems that are intended to be used for Oracle databases. The calibration results are useful for understanding the performance capabilities of a storage system, either to uncover issues that would impact the performance of an Oracle database or to size a new database installation
What is Easy Tier?– A function that dynamically re- distributes active data across multiple tiers of storage class based on workload characteristics– The goal being to reduce response time– Users have automatic and semi-automatic extent based placement and
migration management
Why it matters?– Solid State Storage has orders of magnitude better throughput and response time with random reads– Full volume allocation to SSD only benefits a small number of volumes or portions of volumes, and use cases– Allowing dynamic movement of the hottest extents to be transferred to the highest performance storage enables a small
number of SSD to benefit the entire infrastructure– Works with Thin-provisioned Volumes
IBM EasyTier
Hot-spots Optimized performance and throughput
AutomaticRelocation
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
Transparentreorganization
Hot-spots Optimized performance and throughput
12 hours (Elapsed Time)
ApplicationTransactionThroughput
Easy TierLearning
Easy TierIn Action
240% from OriginalBrokerage transaction
PRELIMINARY
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Snapshots, backup etc.
Backup, Recovery, Tests,
FlashCopy• Full• Snapshot
Backup
Cascaded copy – copy from copy
Reverse FlashCopy256 copies2. Reverse
FlashCopy
ORSource
Source
Target
Target
Vol3FlashCopy
target of Vol1
Vol0Source
Map 1 Map 2
Map 3
Map 4
Vol1FlashCopy
target of Vol0
Vol2FlashCopy
target of Vol1
Vol4FlashCopy
target of Vol3
Internal Storage
StorwizeV7000
StorwizeV7000
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Volume Mirroring Volume Mirroring“outside the box”2 close sites (<10Km)Warning, there is no consistency
group
Global Mirror Consistent Asynchronous Mirror
– Limited impact on write IO response time– Data loss– All write IOs are sent to the remote site in
the same order they were received on source volumes
– 1 source and 1 target volumes + change volumes on each site
2 remote sites (>300 Km)
Metro Mirror Synchronous Mirror
– Write IO response time doubled + distance latency
– No data loss2 close sites (<300 Km)Warning, production performance impact if
inter-site links are unavailable, during microcode upgrades, etc.
FlashCopy Point-in-Time Copy“outside the box”2 close sites (<10Km)Warning, this is not real time
replication
Source and target can have different characteristics and be from different vendorsSource and target can be in the same cluster
Remote Copy between SVC & Storwize V7000 is supported
Vol0 Vol0’Vol0’
Internal Storage External Storage
R WW
Advanced Copy Services
Non-disruptive Data MigrationTraditional SAN1. Stop applications2. Move data3. Re-establish host connections4. Restart applications
Storwize V70001. Move data Host systems and applications are not affected In both cases, if it is with a new back-end external storage, you need to…
– Cabling,– Change the SAN zoning,– Create arrays & create LUNs in the arrays,– Assign those LUNs to the server or Storwize V7000
Once Managed Disk Groups are created using the assigned LUNs, Volumes will be migrated between MDG with just one command/click
SAN
Storwize V7000
SAN
Migration scenarios:– Image mode to image mode– Image mode to managed mode– Managed mode to managed mode– Managed mode to image mode
Image mode = Native modeManaged mode = Virtual mode
Migrate on-line to decommission, up-Tier, down-Tier, re-Tier…
HARDWARE COMPONENTS
Cluster system*
Easy Tier
RAID
innovative GUI
SAN
virtualization
Snapshot
IBM Storwize V7000
IBM Storwize v7000IBM Storwize v7000
IBM Active Cloud Engine™ NAS
Unified
unified
Modular Hardware Building Blocks
Software inherited from prior Offerings plus Enhancements
Software inherited from SVC and DS8000 RAID
•FCP, iSCSI & FCoE•RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10•Storage Virtualization (Internal & external disks)•Non-disruptive Data Migration•Global & Metro Mirror (Multi-site)•FlashCopy (Point-In-Time Copy)•Thin Provisioning•Real Time Compression
New and enhanced Software functions
•New GUI (Easy-to-use, web based, XIV like)•Easy TierTM SSD exploitation •RAID & enclosure RAS services and diagnostics•Additional scalability improvements•Enhanced Host, Controller and ISV interoperability•Integration with IBM Systems Director •Enhancements to TPC, FCM and TSM support
Storwize V7000 Overview
New!
2076-112/212/312– 12 x 3.5” LFF Drive Bays– Four columns of three horizontally mounted drive carriers– Drive slots are numbered 1 to 12 starting top left and going left to right and top to bottom
2076-124/224/324– 24 x 2.5” SFF Drive Bays– One row of 24 vertically mounted drive carriers– The drive slots are numbered 1 to 24 from left to right
Enclosure Front View
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Drive Type Vendor Drive Name Drive Sizes
Model 124/2242.5” Small Form Factor
(SFF)
SSD (eMLC)
STECHitachi
HikariRalston Peak
200, 300 & 400GB
SAS15K RPM
Seagate Hornet 146 & 300GB
SAS10K RPM
Seagate
Firefly 300GB
Firestorm450, 600 &
900GB
NL-SAS7.2K RPM
Seagate 1TB
Model 112/2123.5” Large Form Factor
(LFF)
NL-SAS7.2K RPM
Seagate Muskie 2 & 3TB
Drive Options
Control Enclosure Rear View
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LNK
Tx/Rx
10Gb/s
Four 2/4/8Gbps Fibre Channel ports
Two USB2 ports Two 1Gbps Ethernet ports
Two 6Gbps SAS ports(connections to expansions)
Top node canister
Bottom node canister
Note: identical but installed upside down
Power Supply Unit (PSU)Power Cooling Module (PCM)
& BatteryNote: identical but installed upside down
Power Supply Unit (PSU)Power Cooling Module (PCM)
& Battery
Two 10Gbps Ethernet ports
10Gbps dual port Converged Network Adapter (CNA) can now carry not only
iSCSI but also FCoE frames
ExpansionEnclosures
ControlEnclosures
Modular Scalability• Start with a single control enclosure (a pair of controllers)
– And add up to 9 expansion enclosures to scale-in• Mix 2.5” & 3.5” drive enclosures• Mix drive type and drive size in an enclosure
• Add control enclosures independently of expansion enclosures– Build a cluster (a Grid) of controller pairs to scale-out– Add expansion enclosures as required for capacity and performance
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Overview of the I/O Stack
• SCSI Target – looks like a disk system and presents Volumes to Hosts (HBA driver layer)
• Remote Copy – replicates data to second site for disaster recovery• Cache – mirrors writes between nodes in I/O Group• FlashCopy creates point-in-time copies• Volume Mirroring – provides pointers to two copies of data for high
availability• Thin-provisioned Volume – consumes disk space only when data written
–Random Access Compression EngineTM sits parallel to Thin-Provisioning acts in coordination• RACE is running in a controlled binary executable
• Virtualization – Volume MDisk mappings, non-disruptive data migration
• RAID – Internal storage Array 1 array = 1 Mdisk migration• SCSI Initiator – talks to disk backend just like a host accessing LUNs
(MDisks) – HBA driver layer
Remote Copy
Cache
FlashCopy
SCSI target
Thin-provisioning
Volume Mirroring
Comperssion
LAN
Volumes•Up to 2,048/8,192 Volumes per IO group/cluster•Max. Volume size of 256TiB• Image Mode = Native Mode• Managed Mode = Virtualized Mode
Single Multipath driver(SDD, MPIO)
SAN
StorwizeV7000
Internal Storage External Storage
Internal Storage1 to 8/16 drives (HDD) to form an Array1 Array Managed Disk (MD)
External StorageMultiple Storage Subsystems
1 LUN Managed Disk (MDisk)
SSD SAS NL-SAS
Storage Pools•Up to 128 MDisks per Storage Pool•Up to 128 storage pools per cluster
Pool 3 Pool 4 Pool 5Vol4
iSCSI, FCP or FCoEHost Mapping
Virtualisation Concepts & Limits
Up to 4,096 MDisks Max. External MDiskSize of 2TiBOr greater(1)
Hosts•Up to 256/1024 Hosts per IO group/cluster•Up to 512/2048 FC ports per IO group/cluster•Up to 256/1024 iSCSI ports per IO group/cluster
Pool 1 Pool 2Vol1
Round-robin port selection for back-end storage subsystems
Enhanced!
Vol3 Vol6Vol7Vol2 Vol5
Storwize V7000u Features• FCP, iSCSI & FCoE Block Access Protocols, and file (NAS)• Cache partitioning• Easy to use GUI
– Real Time PerformanceStatistics
• Embedded SMI-S agent• E-mail, SNMP trap & Syslog error event logging• Authentication service for Single Sign-On & LDAP• Virtualise data without data-loss
– External storage virtualization (optional)• Thin-provisioned & Compressed Volumes
– Reclaim Zero-write space– Thick to thin, thin to thick & thin to
thin migration• Expand or shrink Volumes on-line• On-line Volume Migration between
Storage Pools & IO groups
• Volume Mirroring
• EasyTier: Automatic relocation of hot and cold extents
• Snapshot-FlashCopy (Point-In-Time copy)– Up to 256 target per source
– Full (with background copy = clone)
– Partial (no background copy)
– Space Efficient
– Incremental
– Cascaded
– Consistency Groups
– Reverse
• Microsoft Virtual Disk Service & Volume Shadow Copy Services hardware provider
• Remote Copy (optional)– Synchronous & asynchronous remote replication with Consistency
groups• Optional Cycling Mode
using snapshots
• VMware– Storage Replication Adaptor for Site Recovery Manager– VAAI support & vCenter Server management plug-in
Hot-spots Optimized performance and throughput
AutomaticRelocation
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
Volume
Volumecopy 1
Storwize V7000
Volumecopy 0
Volume
MDiskTarget
Storwize V7000
MDiskSource
Up to 256
Vol3FlashCopy
target of Vol1
Vol0Source
Map 1 Map 2
Map 3
Map 4
Vol1FlashCopy
target of Vol0
Vol2FlashCopy
target of Vol1
Vol4FlashCopy
target of Vol3
MM or GMRelationship
ConsolidatedDR Site
MM or GMRelationship
MM or GM Relationship
Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000 Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000
New!
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File Module File Module
ACEStorwize
V7000Unified
Data Movement - V7000 unified Information Lifecycle Management
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/appl
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/home/appl/data/web/
important_big_spreadsheet.xls
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All File Modules participate in parallel data movement
No change to the logical directory
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Data MovementHierarchical Storage Management
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Tier 3Tier 3
Stub files left on disk Auto-recall if accessed
External TSM server
5. Perform results of scan
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Visual task flow guidance
Integrated videoinstruction
System statusalways available
Systemrecommendations
Link to more information if
needed
User InterfaceBased on the well-received XIV interface
• What it is:– Site Recovery Manager is a VMware
product for disaster recovery
• What it does:– Simplifies and automates
disaster recovery processes• Discovery of replicated storage• Non-disruptive failover test using a writable
copy of replicated data• Emergency and planned failover• Reverse replication after failover as part of failback• Restore replication after failover as part of a production test
• Site Recovery Manager works with VMware Infrastructure to enable faster, more reliable, affordable disaster recovery
Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure to transform disaster recovery
VMware Site Recovery Manager
VMware vStorage API for Array Integration
VAAI support• Integration with vStorage API’s to improve performance
– Full copy (and Block zeroing which was delivered in 6.1.0) offload work from production virtual servers to storage which improves application performance
– Hardware-assisted locking enables a finer grained level of locking on VMFS metadata which is more efficient and also scales better in larger VMware clusters
• Example tasks that can benefit from improved performance :– VM creation/cloning/snapshots/deletion– vMotion and storage vMotion– Extending a VMFS Volume– Extending the size of a VMDK file VMware Storage Stack
VMFS NFS
VMware LVM
Data Mover
NFSClient
NetworkStack
vStorage APIfor Multi-Pathing
NFS
HBA Drivers NIC
vStorage APIs
Provisioning / Cloning
VMware Storage Management Plugin• Gives a detailed look at current storage use
• Supports Storwize V7000, Storwize V7000 Unified, Scale Out NAS, SAN Volume Controller & XiV
• Easy to use GUI
• Allows the VMware operator to provision storage to:
– Create datastores
– Create RDMs
– Extend existing datastores and RDMs
– Move datastores and RDMs between storage pools
Combine the capacity from multiple arrays into a single pool of storage
Apply common copy services across the storage pool
Manage the storage pool from a central point
Make changes to the storage without disrupting host applications
Volume Volume Volume Volume
SAN
Storwize V7000 / SVC
Advanced Copy Services
Storage Pool
HP
EMCDS4000
DS8000HDS
Flexible Storage Infrastructure with Storwize V7000
IBM Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing
Efficient by design• With Smarter Storage, essential storage technologies are built in and tightly
integrated. Efficiency is effortless – requiring no manual intervention. Management is intuitive and easy – improving the efficiency of your most important asset, your people.
Self-optimizing• Smarter Storage analyzes data access patterns, adapts and improves performance.
Sophisticated internal analytics automatically place data on the appropriate storage tier.
Cloud agile• Smarter Storage fully participates in highly virtualized cloud environments. Both
IBM and non-IBM storage are managed as one virtual storage pool. Existing storage systems inherit IBM's latest, most advanced capabilities. Data is automatically synchronized between facilities. Files flow to users wherever they are.
