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IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center is IBM’s entrance into the “storage hypervisor” market.

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What’s a Storage hypervisor?

Server hypervisor has a well understood value connotation

– Pooled physical resources are consumed by virtual machines resulting in high asset utilization

– Virtual machines are mobile giving CIO’s their choice of physical server device

– A common set of value capabilities and centralized management are provided for virtual machines regardless of what physical server they are sitting on

– …cost savings and flexibility!

Storage hypervisor is a rapidly emerging way of describing the same value points in a storage context

On Intel systems server virtualization platform (VMware vSphere or Red Hat EV) andserver virtualization management (VMWare vCenter or Red Hat EV Manager)On Power systemsserver virtualization platform (IBM PowerVM) and server virtualization management (IBM Director VMControl)

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Pooled Physical Resources

Value: Dramatically improve utilization of your physical storage assets

How? Pooled physical resources from virtually any disk array vendor or tier

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Pooled Physical Resources

No more silos of disk.

Disk can be used freely

Can be used anywhere at any time regardless of vendor

Use your disk like they were meantt to be use

Avoid vendor lock in

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Common Capabilities

Value: Deliver tier-1 service regardless of hardware choice

How? Common capabilities delivered by the storage hypervisor

– I/O caching, thin provisioning, automated tiering, application-integrated snapshot and mirroring, mobility-driven disruption avoidance

The desired service is delivered by the Storage hypervisor independent of the underlying hardware platform.

SLA (Service Level Agreement) is encapsulated with the data in a virtual volume.

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Common Capabilities

EMC/HP and others: They CAN NOT Deliver tier-1 service regardless of hardware choice

They are limited to their own hardware

Common capabilities are NOT delivered like

– I/O caching NO

– thin provisioning NO

– automated tiering NO

– application-integrated snapshot and mirroring NO

– mobility-driven disruption avoidance NO

The desired service is delivered by the Storage hypervisor independent of the underlying hardware platform.

SLA (Service Level Agreement) is encapsulated with the data in a virtual volume.

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Mobility

Value: Balance workload, manage lease termination, improve datacenter performance

How? Mobility of virtual volumes between any physical disk arrays– Move on the fly, snapshot or

mirror between arrays…

– …In a single physical datacenter or across two physical datacenters up to 300km apart

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Mobility

We make HP and EMC hardware work better, faster and smarter

BECAUSE of virtual volumes between any physical disk arrays– Move on the fly, snapshot or

mirror between array and VENDORS

– Move from one vendor to another. NOT JUST IBM

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Centralized Management

Optimize your people

NOT just someone for EMC/HP. One person with one skill set can do it all

Centralized management of all vendors hardware and storage services

– Visualization, health, capacity, performance

– Storage services catalog, automated provisioning, pay-per-use

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IBM’s entrant into the Storage Hypervisor market

Application and Virtual server snapshot integration

Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager software

Storage virtualization platformSystem Storage SAN Volume Controller software

Storage virtualization managementTivoli Storage Productivity Center software

Plus…Analytics to drive mobility for datacenter-wide performance

and tier optimization

Cloud service API’s for provisioning integration

Network

A new ‘software’ offering that combines essential technologies – some existing, some new

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Conclusion: what IBM believes…

The industry conversation around storage hypervisors is accelerating to a point that taking a strategic position on virtualizing the storage infrastructure is high on the CIO radar (just as virtualizing the server infrastructure was several years ago).

Storage hypervisors have the potential to shift the value conversation around storage from array hardware to hypervisor software, fundamentally changing the way CIO’s acquire and pay for storage resources.

It is probable that, in an accelerated storage hypervisor market conversation, IBM has the most complete / competitive offering by a good margin.

IBM’s software solution can run on a variety of widely scalable hardware platforms making it applicable to smalI businesses and large enterprises alike.

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Read more at

Google ‘IBM Storage hypervisor’www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/storage-hypervisor/

3-part Blog on IBM’s perspectivewww.ibm.com/connections/blogs/tivolistorage/entry/enabling_private_it_for_storage_cloud_part_i10?lang=

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