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Storage Foundation Capabilities You Absolutely Need to Know about! 1

Gene Mullis Senior Principal Regional Product Manager

Storage Foundation Capabilities You Absolutely Need to Know about!

Ryan Jancaitis Principal Product Manager Storage Foundation

SYMANTEC VISION 2012

Optimize through Thin Provisioning

Increase utilization


Efficiency

Availability

Management

Introduction: Key Benefits

Granular replication at any distance

Server health

Simplify infrastructure management

Automate operations

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Efficiency • Thin Provisioning/Reclamation

• De-duplication

• Compression


Thin Capacity Visibility & Reporting

Barriers to Thin Adoption Lack of Visibility Fear Intensive Reclamation Processes

Thin Pool

File System

Volume

Deleted Space Still Allocated

“Zero” Block Writes

File System Scan

Array Side Pool Scans

Subscribed or consumed?

Efficiency

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Thin Pools


Thin Automation Visibility & Reporting

Maintain your “Lean” storage investment Reclaim thin without impacting services Control thin storage centrally Visibility & reporting

Low Impact Thin Reclaim

Deleted File System

Volume

Automated & Scheduled Management

Veritas Operations Manager ™

Subscription Vs. Consumption Reclamation Rates

/Data

Efficiency






Increase Primary Storage Utilization

Challenges to Utilization Unstructured Data growing 80% Exploding Virtualization Environments Increasing Regulation

Efficiency


Primary Storage De-duplication Efficiency

Increase Host Storage Efficiencies De-duplicate primary storage Attack the virtual sprawl Improve read I/O

VxFS De-Duplication



Primary Storage Compression Efficiency

Increase Host Storage Efficiencies Handle retention requirements H/W Agnostic Shorten the DR window

VxFS Compression



Management • Snapshots

• Templates • Disk Shred


Enhanced Backup, Reporting, & Recovery

3 Key Benefits of Snapshots Improved recovery times

Enhanced backups

Potential to present several views of the same data

Management

File System

Copies

File System

Primary Host

Working Source

File System

Backup Reporting

Recovery Copies








Challenges with snapshots

Array based snapshots are often not granular enough

Recovery involves un-mounting of file systems

Traditionally an “all or nothing” process

Management

File System

Full Copies

File System

Primary Host

Recovery Copies

Working Source

File System

Backup Reporting

Frequency vs. Consumption?

Complex Recovery

Inefficient Data Sharing












Veritas File System Veritas Cluster File System


Flexible Granularity with Snapshots and Checkpoints File based snapshots for reporting

Space optimized snapshots for volume level recovery

Full Volume Snapshots for off-host processing

Management

File Snap

Primary Host

Working Source

Backup Reporting

High Frequency Efficient Snaps

Volume Copy

Off host processing













Ease Storage Deployment Operations


Service Development Document Configuration

Develop Scripts/Steps

Service Delivery Check Infrastructure

Apply Standard

Validate Deployment

File System

Volume

RAID Type

Snapshots Replication Risk, Cost & Delay

Management





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Veritas Operations Manager ™

Ease Storage Deployment Operations


VOM & VOM Storage Templates

Centralised end-end storage visibility

Template the existing configurations

Validate the target infrastructure

Benefits

Provides error free storage configuration

Avoids costly script maintenance & development

Faster service delivery

RAID Type

Snapshots Replication

Management


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Securely De-provision Storage Prevent Data from leaving your control

Array Replacement

Disaster Recovery Exercises

Cloud Storage Deployments

Regulatory Compliance

SAN

Identify LUNs being decommissioned

Overwrite all blocks with one or more passes

New option for vxdiskunsetup in SF 6.0

Management

Safely map LUN to new host





Three passes over this 2.5GB LUN took 1m46s. testhost76# time vxdiskunsetup -o shred=3 hds9970v0_164

disk_shred: Shredding disk hds9970v0_164 with type 3

disk_shred: Disk raw size 2461040640 bytes

disk_shred: Writing 37552 (65536 byte size) pages and 32768 bytes to disk

disk_shred: Wipe Pass 0: Pattern 0x35

disk_shred: Wipe Pass 1: Pattern 0xca

disk_shred: Wipe Pass 2: Pattern 0xab

disk_shred: Shred passed random verify of 131072 bytes at offset 545890304

real 1m46.40s

user 0m0.65s

sys 0m7.09s

testhost76#

Management

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Securely De-provision Storage Shred Use Example:


• Veritas Replicator

• Defragmentation • FSCK

Availability


Data Replication at any Distance


Reasons to replicate data Disaster recovery solutions

Metropolitan and replicated data clusters

Data centre migrations

Platform re-hosting

SAN Replication

File System

Volume

File System

Volume

Migrations / Re-Hosting

Site A Site B Site Resilience

Availability








SAN Replication



Why is Replication so Complex? Usually done in the SAN

Susceptible to configuration drift

Can require infrastructure changes to support (FCIP)

Difficult to manage in a virtual environment

Additional HW

File System

Volume

FCIP Layer

File System

Volume

FCIP Layer

Virtualisation Config Risk

Availability










Veritas Replicator Works at the volume, file system, and file level

Configured close to the application

Easy to configure, uses IP as the transport layer

Provides synchronous or asynchronous replication

Volume Mirror

File System

Volume

File System

Volume

Deep Virtual Discovery

IP Based Replication

Simple Centralised Configuration

Availability








Availability

Challenges to Availability Increasingly random workloads Larger file systems Inadequate tools

Availability

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Defragmentation

df -os /mnt3

/mnt3 (/dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol3): … blocks … files

Free Extents by Size

1: 2077988 2: 2104073 4: 1371895

8: 2226679 16: 1618029 32: 1000385

64: 53134 128: 1667 256: 480

512: 352 1024: 302 2048: 244

4096: 172 8192: 107 16384: 76

32768: 122 65536: 5 131072: 0

262144: 0 524288: 0 1048576: 0

2097152: 0 4194304: 0 8388608: 0

16777216: 0 33554432: 0 67108864: 0

134217728: 0 268435456: 0 536870912: 0

1073741824: 0 2147483648: 0

VxFS 6.0 Enhancements

• Improved Reporting

• Incremental Fragmentation

• Free space defragmentation

Availability

fsadm –E /data

File System Extent Fragmentation Report

Free Space Fragmentation Index : 80

File Fragmentation Index : 60

# Files Fragmented by Fragmentation Index

0 1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100

7838181 3774 82836 281144 8080449

...

fsadm –E –f /data/datafile

File Fragmentation Report

# File # File # Blocks Fragmentation

Blocks Extents In Indirects Index

2113383 66 8 17



FSCK

fsck –t vxfs –o full,status,interval=N special

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Availability

VxFS 6.0 Enhancements

• Progress Reporting • Multi-threaded for improved performance • Integration with VxCompress


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Then Summary.......



Summary: IT Service Business Demands


Business Demands

Lower Costs

Increase Service Agility

Maintain Service Quality

Efficiency

• Thin Provisioning/Reclamation • De-duplication • Compression

Availability

• Veritas Replicator • Defragmentation • FSCK

Management

• Snapshots • Templates • Disk Shred

Enhancing existing Symantec Environments


Interested to know more about Storage Foundation? Go to these sessions:

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ID Title Day Time Room

SM B01 Storage Foundation Strategy and

Futures

Monday, May 7

Tuesday, May 8

1-2 p.m.

1:15-2:15 p.m.

320

319

SM B02 High Availability Strategy and Futures Wednesday, May 9

Thursday, May 10

10:45-11:45 a.m.

1-2 p.m.

116

116

SM B03 Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) and

Data Insight Strategy and Futures Tuesday, May 8 3:45-4:45 p.m. 319

SM B07 Simplify Multi-Tier Application

Management with Virtual Business Services

Tuesday, May 8 2:30-3:30 p.m. 319

SM B08 Improve VMware Storage Performance, Reliability and Reporting with Dynamic

Multi-Pathing

Wednesday, May 9

4:45-5:45 p.m. 309

SM L08

Enhanced Primary Storage Compression and De-duplication on

UNIX and Linux with Storage Foundation 6.0

Wednesday, May 9 1:00-2:00 p.m. 123


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