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The StorageWorks Grid:Overview and considerations

Tim NolteStorageWorks Product ManagerHewlett-Packard Company

IT-Symposium 2005December, 2004 2HP StorageWorks—putting information to work

Agenda• Introduction to the StorageWorks Grid• Implications−How to plan a StorageWorks Grid

implementation

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Preface• The HP StorageWorks Grid is the HP strategy for

delivering the storage requirements of the adaptive enterprise into the future− It builds significantly on everything StorageWorks has

delivered over the years− It extends by adding a capabilities developed through a

number HP Labs and other projects


Storage grid business drivers• Vastly increasing volumes of

content− Drives storage cost, capacity, ease of

acquisition/deployment

• Demand for simplicity, manageability, adaptability− Drives shift to storage ecosystem

focus, automation

• Mobility− Drives need to access data in many

ways

• Regulations− Drives compliance needs

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StorageWorks response:A new virtual, adaptable, horizontal approach to storage

• Drastically reduce the complexity of storage− Provides a single managed “multi-function”

storage system− Embraces the need for change-on-demand− Single system image: easier access, management− Encompasses heterogeneous storage

• Change operational paradigms− Remove many storage management tasks− Automate remaining storage tasks− Application-focused information delivery

• Creatively expand storage capabilities− Dynamically changeable capabilities

• Fundamentally change cost structureand investment protection− Scalable in many dimensions− Older technologies can coexist with,

and be exploited by, new technologies

Policy and Reporting

Block or File Serving

Anti-Virus

Archive and Retrieve


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The storage grid enables Real-time scalabilityNEW information servicesFast corporate “memory”

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NetworkStorage

DAS

Network Storage enabledGreater scalabilityEfficient resource sharingHigher system availabilityShorter backup windows

The Storage Grid—a new virtual, adaptable, horizontal approach to storage

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Benefits throughout the enterprise

• Increase agility• Information sharing• Rapid capacity• Simple searching • Assured availability

End userReal-time information

Agility

CIOTotal Cost of Ownership

• Investment protection• Unlock asset value • Pay as you grow

scalability• Deliver SLA’s

Value

• Standard building blocks• Simplified management• Dynamic scalability• Rapid deployment

AdministratorRemove operational tasks

Simplicity


Smart cells:StorageWorks grid building blocks• Smart cell hardware

− Processor− Cache− Internal disks, tapes, etc.− Off-the-shelf components

• Smart cell software− Unite smart cells with peers− Places data on internal devices− Provides smart cell “personality”− Responds to changes

• Redistributes data and workloads− Hosting environment for 3rd party code

• Smart cells are united into domains

servicemodules

3rd partymodules

plug-in environment

common operating software

processing

storage capacity

Communication

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Smart Cells are flexible“Personalities” deliver functionality

NAS

Array

CAS

File Serving

BlockServing

Compliance Archive

Specialized personalities• Intelligent• Tuned to task• Numerous traits

Standardized, modular building blocks

Combinations of unique traits added to cells enable specialization


High performance smart cell

Controller StandardCPU

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StorageWorks Grid:a unique storage system

The cabinet contains networked Smart Cells

Grow by adding Smart Cells as needed

Block serving

NAS

Compliance archive

storage clients

SAN

EVA XP ESL

Single virtualizedimage to host

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“That’s all well and good, but how do my customers get there?

Tim Nolte



storage clients

SAN

EVA XP ESL

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Block serving

Management functionality will be dynamically loaded

NAS

Data protection

Archive

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Virus Check

storage clients

SAN

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Block serving

Management functionality will be dynamically loaded

NAS

Archive

Index/Search

Bus. Contin.…and can be changed easily by software downloads

Data protection

Virus Check

NAS

Index/Search

storage clients

SAN

EVA XP ESL

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Grid-based storage

Clients

Evolving the StorageWorks Grid:Coexistence

Conventional storage

SAN fabric

Conventional SAN infrastructure built as needed

FC, Ethernet, storageAdd StorageWorks Grid

When appropriate for your business

Existing SAN investment is fully preserved


Conventionalarray controller

Smart Cellhead

Smart Cell network

Evolving the StorageWorks Grid:Convergence


Clients

Grid-based storage

SAN fabric

When ready, migrate conventional storage into the storage grid

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Evolving the StorageWorks Grid:Management

Smart Cellhead

Conventionalarray controller


Clients

SAN fabric

Grid-based storage

Administrator

Management application

Self-managing functions

Managed information delivery

Smart data delivery

Single system to manage


Scale up and out architecture

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Scale-out flexibility

Networked together internally

Standardized, modular building blocks

Combinations of unique traits added to cells enable specialization

Managed as a single, highly available system

Scale massively

Massive single file system

NAS

Block

CAS

Others

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StorageWorks Grid roadmap

2004-2005 2006-2007 2008 +

Traditional Network Storage Solutions

Grid-based technologies

Co-Existence

Convergence

UnifiedStorageWorks

Grid

RISS (archiving)

Scalable File Share

XP 12000

Next generation arrays, tape, NAS, software

Grid-based array

Unified array management

Seamless repository virtualization

Changeable Smart Cell Functionality

Downloadable Smart Cell Functionality


Available todayArchiving and retrieval services

HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System (RISS)

Business needFind and retrieve one document in a billion

Storage servicesIndex-archive-search-retrievePay as you grow

Enabling technologies Search engineStandard building blocksSingle system image Grid-based parallelism

Smart cell gridfor ILM services

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Available todayVastly scalable solution

Business NeedScalable, high performing and manageable storage for HPTC data environments

Storage ServicesFile system managementSimultaneous scaling: bandwidth, connectivity, capacityPay as you grow

Enabling Technologies Grid-based parallelismStandard building blocksSingle system image (1000’s of clients)

HP StorageWorksScalable File Share (SFS)


“Plan for the future…but solve today’s problems today.”

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Getting ready forthe StorageWorks grid• Plan−Where you are today…where you expect to be at a

reasonable point in the future• Metrics: users, applications, capacity, performance, availability,

etc.• Revisit the plan regularly, get regular NDA updates

• Solve your problems when you need to−Don’t wait: there’s always something better “around the

corner”• Grow with awareness: take a long-term perspective while

solving tactical challenges−Simplify through consolidation and automation−Grow rationally: architectural approach


Planning for the futureCapacity

Time

SANSAN

Philosophy: Plan for the future, deal with today

Acquire with both “today” and “tomorrow”perspectives

Refine overall management as feasible

HP StorageWorks Grid

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HP is changing the faceof storage

Growth without limits

Eliminate barriersto change andenable growthaccording to

business needs

Change without chaos

Drive change to adaptto business fluctuationsand exploit

new opportunities

Simplicity without compromise

Manage advanced technologyin the simplest manner possible


For more information…

o Message Map and HP StorageWorks Grid presentations:http://nss.tsgonline.hp.com/marketing/presentations/index.htm

o Additional proof points and white papers:http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/highlights/thestoragegrid.html

o Summary from the Americas StorageWorks Conference – including StorageWorks Grid press, analyst and partner responses (external):http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/highlights/swconf2004.html

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