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The Road to Clustered Data ONTAP
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“Please allow me to introduce myself…”
~ The Rolling Stones
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100%
Vancouver Calgary
Toronto
Ottawa
London
Montreal
We are…
• Security
• Infrastructure
• Cloud
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Top awards.
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• Brocade Partner of the Year~ Innovation
• Cisco Partner of the Year~ Data Centre & Virtualization
• NetApp Partner of the Year~ Central Canada
• VMware Global Emerging Products Partner of the Year
• F5 VAR Partner of the Year~ North America
• Palo Alto Networks Rookie of the Year
Top vendors.
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• Enterprise leaders and emerging technologies
• Vendors that can handle niche workloads and are experienced at developing markets
Why Clustered Data ONTAP?
Tony Lee, SE Manager for Western Canada
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Infrastructure Challenge
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Infrastructure
Rigid
Resourc
es
Traditional IT
Actual Demand
Infrastructure Challenge
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Elastic
Resourc
es
Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure
Actual DemandInfrastructure
Rigid
Resourc
es
Traditional IT
Actual Demand
Seamless Flexibility
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NetApp Data Fabric
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NetApp Data Fabric
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Cloud Service Providers
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Cloud Service Providers
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Cloud Service Providers
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Cloud Service Providers
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Scalability
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24 Nodes
Infrastructure Class of Service
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Hardware Virtualization
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Virtualization
Software Defined Storage
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Dynamic Quality of Service
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Dynamic Quality of Service
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Proven Efficiency
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Compression
Deduplication
Cloning
Non-Disruptive Operations
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Non-Disruptive Operations
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Non-Disruptive Scaling
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Non-Disruptive Scaling
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NetApp Data Fabric
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The Migration Path to CDOT
Alex Dawson, Solution Engineer
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• Pre-sales technical staff work closely with professional services staff
• Validated technical solutions on your data centre floor
• Scalar Project Management oversees all professional services engagements
• Provide planning, status updates, project close-out
The Scalar Process
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• Design sessions for network connectivity
• Design sessions for storage layout, SVM layout
• Design sessions for replication
• Data classification
• System implementation
• Migration and documentation
High level process
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To begin, a quick vocabulary check
• Physical connections are PORTS
• Access data or administration through INTERFACES (LIFs)
• Each controller is a NODE
• Data is served by a Storage Virtual Machine, or SVM
Understanding Clustered ONTAP
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• How many ports, to where, for what?
• What will go on those ports? IP ranges, VLANs
• LACP LAGs, VLAN trunks
• Leads to requirements for upstream network design
• Can be simple, or rich, depending on use case for SAN
Design for network connectivity
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• During the purchasing process, there will have been discussions on how much storage, and for what, usually in broad terms
• In this stage, we decide exactly which disks, shelves go where, with which controllers
• Decide on aggregate layouts, SVM design
• SVM design – less is better, but segregation of administration is a key benefit, so don’t be afraid to use them
Design for storage layout
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• All data is served by SVMs, through logical interfaces (LIFs), either over IPs or FC WWPNs
• Decide which LIFs, for what, for which SVM
• Including Administration and data access IPs
Design for storage layout
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• Are we replicating data? If so, to where?
• Mirroring? Or vaulting? (Different copies on primary and secondary) Or both?
• How are we replicating? IP addresses dedicated to replication are used
• Define data tiers, RPO and RTO for those tiers
• Design replication schedules
Design for replication
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• 99% of systems we install are replacing something else, either a file server or servers or an existing SAN
• What is on the old environment? How can we move it to the new environment?
• Group data sets by migration options, outage tolerances
Data classification
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• Physical installation
• Cabling
• Formatting drives
• Configure SVMs
• Configure volumes, LUNs
• Configure replication and protection
Implementation
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• Storage VMotion for VMWare
• Physical server options – disk mirroring/splitting (dynamic disks or LVM), server mirroring (P2V), local data migration using DoubleTake Move, local data migration using robocopy/rsync, SAN level migrations using NetApp DTA, or Foreign LUN Import
• NAS migration using rsync/robocopy or third party tools(Some very good options from third parties)
Migration and documentation
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• Full configuration validation
• NetApp Config Advisor tool run through
• System Installation Workbook
• Learningcenter.netapp.com
• OnCommand System Manager
• OnCommand Unified Manager
Documentation & Training
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Read how Vancouver Community College addressedtheir escalating data demands with CDOT here.