HOW TRUE DATA CENTRE

VIRTUALISATION WITH FLUID

DATA REDUCES COSTS JON BROOKS Senior Business Development Manager- Compellent

RYAN SCLANDERS Infrastructure Manager - CMA

FASTEST GROWING SAN VENDOR

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COMPELLENT CUSTOMERS Thousands of satisfied customers

worldwide

Education

Media

Manufacturing /

Retail

Service

Providers

Government FBI

Legal

Other

Finance/

Insurance

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SO WHY IS STORAGE SO EXPENSIVE? How long can you manage data

the same way?

10%

17%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

2007 2009

% o

f IT

Sp

en

d

Storage Growing Proportion of IT Budget:

Total IT Spend

Storage Spend

Source: Forester, 2010

Data Growth is out of control…

Storage capacity is growing ~60% p.a.

(Gartner)

Companies are only using 40~50% of their

installed capacity (ESG)

Total Cost of Storage is growing faster than IT

budgets

Virtualisation of Servers and Desktops drives

even more data into your datacentre….

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Storage Upgrades Drive Future Capex Spend Requirements

Assuming conservative 40% growth assumption

e.g. £250k initial investment

Assumes “forklift upgrade” to replace SAN in year 5 at same cost as original (to be

conservative)

£0

£500,000

£1,000,000

£1,500,000

£2,000,000

£2,500,000

TB

100 TB

200 TB

300 TB

400 TB

500 TB

600 TB

700 TB

800 TB

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7

Usable TB Capex

Forklift Upgrade

As IT budgets tighten, how can

storage growth costs be contained?

Datacentre Economic Challenges and Storage-related pain points

KEY ELEMENTS OF FLUID DATA

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STORAGE CENTER OVERVIEW Enterprise storage with the

future built in

Storage Center Hardware

Supports file and block (FC, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS)

Scale up and out from TBs to PBs

Drives supported: FC, SATA, SAS, Solid State

Clustered controllers – no single point of failure

Non-disruptive architecture with the future built in

Storage Center Software

Advanced Thin Provisioning

Automated Tiered Storage

Intelligent Storage Automation

True Storage Virtualization

Continuous Snapshots

Thin Replication

Disk

Enclosure

Storage Controller NAS Connectivity

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FLUID DATA SAVES MONEY Buy Less Disks… Reduce

Datacentre Running Costs

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Impact on Expansion Costs Reduces amount of Capex you will

have to allocate from future

budgets…

Less Capex for Capacity Growth in Future Budget

TB Capacity generally grows faster than Performance (IOPS)

Adding Capacity is at cost of cheapest drives available

Adding Performance no longer requires as many high performance drives as traditional

No more forced end-of-life replacement / avoid forklift upgrades

£0

£500,000

£1,000,000

£1,500,000

£2,000,000

£2,500,000

TB

100 TB

200 TB

300 TB

400 TB

500 TB

600 TB

700 TB

800 TB

Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7

Usable TB Capex CML example

Ryan Sclanders

Manager, IT Infrastructure Services

Credit Market Analysis • a division of the

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

A subsidiary of Chicago

Mercantile Exchange

Founded in 2001 by industry

veterans

Enable traders to graphically

organise and store quotes

(transaction heavy for

databases)

Headquartered in London with

locations in New York and

Singapore

THE NEED FOR A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE

Previous server cluster solution could not support the

services CMA wanted to offer:

• Virtualised environment with VMware

• Scalable storage to grow databases and access

historical data

• 150 databases averaging 40-60 GB

• Shared infrastructure to host client application servers

in-house

• Improved system utilisation and recovery times

• Centralised backup strategy

THE IT ENVIRONMENT TODAY

Storage

• Compellent Storage Center SAN in London (production)

• Second SAN for DR and corporate operations

WAN

• 100 Mbps redundant connections

Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows

• .NET

• Linux Ubuntu

Key Applications

• Microsoft SQL, Exchange Server

• VMware

• MySQL

• CMA QuoteVision, DataVision

FAVOURITE COMPELLENT FEATURES WITH VMWARE

Improved data access (read/write operations across all disk drives)

Boot local and remote virtual volumes from SAN

Write virtualised volumes to the entire disk pool, or any subset

No need to manually map VMs to specific storage tiers or move VMDK files between LUNs by hand

GETTING EFFICIENT WITH POWER, SPACE AND COOLING

Server and storage virtualisation eliminated 14 physical servers

Now 8 physical servers running 350 virtual servers

Storing inactive data on low-speed SATA drives reduced power and cooling

Total power consumption dropped approx 60 percent

MANAGING GROWTH WITH COMPELLENT

Adding storage now a matter

of adding drives without

downtime

Automated Tiered Storage

migrated 40% of data (VMs,

historical info)

Thin Provisioning increased

disk utilisation 40 percent

LOWERING SYSTEM OVERHEAD, INCREASING REDUNDANCY

Asynchronously replicate

between two SANs

Reduced bandwidth by replicating

over IP lines

Custom requirements

• Better system utilisation

• Faster recovery times

• Centralised backups

• Shared infrastructure

• Lower hardware costs

Lowered system overhead

KEY EFFICIENCIES WITH COMPELLENT

Saved £300,000 in first 6 months

(consolidation, admin and disk

savings)

Ability to virtualise and recover full

VMs

Lower power consumption (VMs vs.

physical servers)

Better hardware utilisation, lower

system and admin overhead for

replication

Spend less time on storage

State-of-the-art, secure, scalable

environment for customers

Find out more at stand 634