Smart Movement & Management of Information Infrastructure
Shiva Anand NeikerStorage Sales LeaderIBM Systems & Technology GroupIBM ASEAN
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Smart Movement & Management of Information InfrastructureScale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) and the
Smart Business Storage Cloud (SBSC)
Shiva Anand Neiker – Sales Leader, Storage ASEAN24 May 2010
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Standardization of the rail network enabled industrialized America and Europe
The connecting platform fueled growth, creating new business opportunities
This increased factory efficiencies by driving better connection with resources
This enabled new distribution models and fundamentally changed the marketplace and how it operated
Other technologies had similar effects:– Electricity grid– National highway systems– The Internet
Connecting Platforms Drives Growth
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In the past, different system platforms were largely unconnected from each other
Small Systems
Large Systems
SCSI
ESCON
SNA
TCP/IP
NFS CIFS
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Small Systems
Large Systems
SCSISAS
ESCONTCP/IP
NFS CIFS
NFSHTTPFTP
FICON
FCP
Fibre Channel Protocol
iSCSIFCoE
FCPFCoE
HTTPFTP
A convergence of technologies has brought these systems platforms closer together
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Tier 2 Storage & NAS
Content Management
Systems
Target Data Types & WorkloadsUnstructured/File Data Focus
There is a significant shift in storage usage from traditional structured data to unstructured, file-based content. This is especially true in mature markets.
‘Content Depots’ are also an emerging reality in the storage market in areas like archiving, media repositories, web content, health records, etc. Some reports show this space growing at +90% annually.
IBM’s Storage Cloud offerings are built on IBM’s premier scale-out file system technology.
World Wide Block-Based and File -Based Storage Capacity Consumption by User Segment (EB) , 2007-2012
World Wide Block-Based and File -Based Storage Capacity Consumption % Share by User Segment , 2007-2012
7Source: IDC, 2008
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The Problems with NAS filers today
“I loved my first filer. It was so easy to
manage. When we installed our 20th,I started to hate
them.”
Classic Filers
• Current NAS solutions do not scale
• Customers have to add box after box and manage them individually
• Difficult to apply policies across independent data islands
• Some applications require parallel access and high data rates
• Migration, integration or removal of storage for file services is a disruptive nightmare
• Backup windows are a big issue and get worse as the amount of data increases
All files online, but more than 80% haven't been accessed during the last 6 months
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Using a Global Name Space
Many attempts to solve this with a Global Name Space (IBM Virtual File Manager, Brocade StorageX, ONTAP GX)– Each individual file is pinned to a single NAS
filer– Maximum single file performance is equal to
the performance of the individual hosting filer– Bottlenecks on individual directory branches– Islands regarding disks, backup, etc.
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Each filer is individually accessed
“Finding the file” becomes…– Finding the server that has
the file… then …– finding the file on that
server
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/web
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NAS virtualizers versus Scale-Out approach Scale-Out Network Attached Storage
- True clustered NAS with Global Namespace- All nodes serve all files- Maximum single file performance is equal to
the aggregated performance of the cluster- No disk, backup, management, etc. islands- No bottlenecks on single directory branches
Virtualizer (IBM VFM, ONTAP GX)- No clustering, rather just a redirection layer
on top of existing island topology- Each individual file is pinned to a single NAS
filer- Maximum single file performance is equal to
the performance of the hosting filer- Possible bottlenecks on individual directory
branches- Islands regarding disks, backup, etc.
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Global Namespace
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Core Value – Simple Management
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each file is pinnedto a single filer
“Cloud“ IP Layer“Cloud“ IP Layer
Classic Filers
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Global name space,Every file is accessible from all interface nodes
Scale-Out Network Attached Storage
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IBM CloudStandardized services
on the IBM cloud
Preintegrated, workload-optimized systems
Private cloud services, behind your firewall, built and/or managed by IBM
IBM Lotus Live
IBM Lotus® iNotes®
IBM CloudBurst™ family
IBM Smart Business Test Cloud
IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
IBM Smart Business StorageCloud
Analytics Collaboration Development
and test
Desktop and devices
Infrastructurestorage
IBM Smart Analytics System
Smart Business for Small or Midsize Business (backed by the IBM Cloud)
Infrastructurecompute
IBM Computing on Demand
IBM Information Protection Services
Business services
BPM BlueWorks (design tools)
IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
IBM Smart Analytics Cloud
Smart business expense reporting on the IBM cloud
IBM Information Archive
Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (beta)
Smart Business End User Support
IBM Scale-Out NAS
CustomizedSolutions
IntegratedSystems
IBM Cloud Services and Systems Portfolio
IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)
IBM Lotus® Foundations
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SONAS – Host Attachment
CIFS (SAMBA)
CIFS (SAMBA)
IBMGPFSIBM
GPFS
Enterprise Linux with associated device driversEnterprise Linux with associated device drivers
IBM Server s (x3650M2 )IBM Server s (x3650M2 )
Monitoring AgentsMonitoring Agents
NFSNFS HTTPSApacheHTTPSApache VSFTPDVSFTPD
CTDBCTDB
Mgmt. NodeInterface
Mgmt. NodeInterface
SSHDSSHD
RsynchRsynch
High Density StorageHigh Density Storage
Enhanced Interfaces
SONAS Component Stack Integrates Clustered CIFS and Clustered NFS via CTDB, which provides:
– Transparent, non-disruptive failover of CIFS and NFS with no client side changes
– Incredible performance between one node and one client
CIFS more than 700MB/secNFS more than 800MB/sec
– Integrated Acess Control Lists (ACL) between Unix, Linux and Windows
– Unparalleled aggregate performance scaling, Intelligent load balancing, simultaneous access to a single file by heterogeneous clients.
FTP for File transfers HTTPS and other protocols planned for
later releases
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SBSC CIFS Enhancements
Clustering– Multiple exports of the same file system over multiple nodes
including distributed lock, share and lease support– Failover capabilities on the server– Integration with NFS, FTP, HTTP daemons in regard of locking,
failover and authorization Performance optimization with GPFS NTFS ACL Support in Samba using the native GPFS NFSv4 ACL
Support HSM support within Samba to allow destaging of files to tape and
user transparent recall. VSS integration of GPFS snapshots Registry based Samba configuration Alternate Data Streams Simple install and configuration tools
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SONAS – System Software Stack
CIFS (SAMBA)
CIFS (SAMBA)
IBMGPFSIBM
GPFS
Enterprise Linux with associated device driversEnterprise Linux with associated device drivers
IBM Server s (x3650M2 )IBM Server s (x3650M2 )
Monitoring AgentsMonitoring Agents
NFSNFS HTTPSApacheHTTPSApache VSFTPDVSFTPD
CTDBCTDB
Mgmt. NodeInterface
Mgmt. NodeInterface
SSHDSSHD
RsynchRsynch
High Density StorageHigh Density Storage
Systems Software
SONAS Component Stack General Parallel File System (GPFS) -
IBM’s high end clustered file system– Designed for extreme
performance, scalability, and availability – features distributed metadata, wide striping, byte range locking, parallel I/O, variable block size, and extensive tuning parameters
– Reference www.top500.org High-speed file system scan and policy
engine– Supports movement of data
between storage tiers– Scans 1 billion files in under 15
minutes Rsync for file-level Synchronous
Replication
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GPFS Overview IBM’s General Parallel File System (GPFS)
available 1996, used on many of the largest supercomputers in the world– Cluster: 1000+ nodes, fast reliable
communication, common admin domain– Shared disk: all data and metadata on disk
accessible from any node through disk I/O interface
– Parallel: data and metadata flows from all of the nodes to all of the disks in parallel
High performance– Multi-Terabyte files, Multi-Petabyte file systems.– Wide striping, large blocks, many GB/s to single
file
Highly Reliable– Can survive Disk and Node failures– Allows Split site Configurations
Storage
StorageNetwork
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GPFS: ASC Purple/C Supercomputer
1536-node, 100 Teraflop IBM System P cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2 PB GPFS file system (one mount point)
500 RAID controller pairs, 11000 disk drives
126 GB/s parallel I/O measured to a single file (134GB/s to multiple files)
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GPFS: Information Lifecycle Management
One global file system name space across a pool of independent Storage
– Storage pool – group of LUNs– Fileset - define subtrees of a file system– Policies – for rule based management of files
What does it offer– Files in the same directory can be in different
pools– Allows classification of data according to
Service Level Agreements
StorageArea
Network
System
Gold Silver Bronze
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File Placement Example using DB2 or Oracle
Databases by default places index and data table spaces in the same directory
File placement policies can direct the data to a pool with appropriate performance characteristics using file extension
– Data table spaces have a .DAT extension
– Index table spaces have an .INX extension
RAID 1Index_pool
RAID 5data_pool
/DATA/MYDB/ SQL00002.DATSQL00002.INXSQL00003.DATSQL00003.INXSQL00004.DATSQL00004.INX
Rule ‘Data rule’ set pool ‘index_pool’Where UPPER(NAME) like ‘%.INX’
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Scale-Out NAS hardware components
CIFS (SAMBA)
CIFS (SAMBA)
IBMGPFSIBM
GPFS
Enterprise Linux with associated device driversEnterprise Linux with associated device drivers
IBM Server s (x3650M2 )IBM Server s (x3650M2 )
Monitoring AgentsMonitoring Agents
NFSNFS HTTPSApacheHTTPSApache VSFTPDVSFTPD
CTDBCTDB
Mgmt. NodeInterface
Mgmt. NodeInterface
SSHDSSHD
RsynchRsynch
High Density StorageHigh Density Storage
COTS components
SONAS Component Stack
Since the early 1990s, IBM’s SeaScape Architecture focused on using Commercial Off-the-Shelf hardware for its storage systems
SONAS continues this tradition, using IBM System x3650M2 servers, and high density disk drawers
This approach allows IBM to take advantage of R&D spent on other server and storage projects
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High level view of Scale-Out NAS Storage (SONAS)
Management Node
Interface Node ...
IP Network
Tape
Other Future
Interfaces
Interface Node
High Speed Internal Network
Storage Node
Storage Pod
Storage Node Storage Node
Storage Pod
High Density Storage Drawer
Storage Node
GPFS
GPFS Client GPFS ClientGPFS Client GPFS Client
GPFS GPFS GPFS
Application Node(future)
High Density Storage Drawer
Simple: Only 3 basic parts:
Interface Nodes Management Nodes Storage Pods
High Density Storage Drawer
High Density Storage Drawer
...• ‘Lego-like’ modular design allows online independent scaling of I/O throughput and storage capacity
R1
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Sample designs for IBM SONAS systemMultiple variations exist to allow for I/O rich or Storage rich systems: almost 1 PB per rack.Extreme aggregate single system capacity and performance
MGT NodeMGT Node
Interface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface Node
KVMStorage NodeStorage Node
60 Disks
60 Disks
60 Disks
60 Disks
Interface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface NodeInterface Node
Switches
Switches
Storage NodeStorage Node
60 Disks
60 Disks
60 Disks
60 Disks
Storage NodeStorage Node
60 Disks
60 Disks
60 Disks
60 Disks
Switches
I/O Dense Configuration
Storage Dense Configuration
Base Configuration
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Interface, Management and Storage Nodes…
x3650M2– Form: 2U– Processor:
Dual Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5530
2.26GHz, 8MB L2 cache, 80W– Memory: 8GB to 64GB DDR3 RAM – Storage: 300G SAS 10K disk drives– Four PCIe Gen 2.0 x8 adapter slots– Network Interfaces
Quad-port 1 GbE NICsDual-port 10 Gb CEE CNAsSingle port 4X DDR InfiniBand
Host Channel AdaptersDual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel
Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
FRONT VIEW
REAR VIEW
IBM x3650M2 rack-mount server
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• Fast• 2GB/s Throughput • 30,000 IOPS to Disk
• Ultra-Dense• 60 Drives in just 4U• Scales to 120 Drives with Additional 4U
Enclosure
• Flexible• Intermix SAS and SATA for Storage
Tiering
• Highly Reliable• Active/Active Failover • SATAssure Data Integrity Validation• RAID 5 or RAID 6• Redundancy Throughout• Battery Backed Cache
SONAS Integrated Storage High density advanced storage appliance
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Disk Types/Capacity Supported for R1
Feature Code
Drive Type
Drive Capacity
RAID Config
TotalDrives
Data Drives
Parity Drives
Spare Drives Usable
Capacity
6 x 1300
SATA 1 TB RAID 6
60 48 12 0 48 TB
6 x 1310
SAS 450 GB RAID 5
60 48 6 6 21 TB
•All storage controllers/expansion drawers must be fully populated•No mixing of disk types within the controller or expansion drawer•Controller and attached expansion drawer can contain different disk types
•Up to 30 interface nodes•Up to 30 storage pods (60 to 240 drives each) for maximum 7200 drives•Maximum usable capacity with 1TB SATA = 5760 TB•Other drives are planned later for 2010
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Single, Integrated Installation wizardsEntire cluster installed from one DVD
from one node
Health Center/Cluster monitoringSystem LogAlert LogTopology
IBM SONAS Console SettingsUtilization ThresholdsScheduled tasksNotification settingsNotification recipients
Ease of Management
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Scale-out NAS is suited to many industries and applications
Media and entertainment
Retail banking
Financial markets
Aerospace and defense
Automotive
Chemical and petroleum
Government
Healthcare
Online service providers
Retail Banking & Financial Markets
Chemical & Petroleum
2 Billionpeople will be on the web by 2011.*
Online Service Providers
Healthcare
Photo sharing
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Why Smart Businesses will like IBM Scale Out NAS storage
Unified management of terabytes and petabytes of storage– Automated tiered storage, centrally managed and
deployed Global access to data, from anywhere
– Single global namespace, across petabytes of data Based on standard, open architectures
– Not proprietary– Avoids lock-ins– Leverage worldwide Open Source innovative
technology Provides and exceeds today’s needed requirements for:
– Scale-out capacity, performance, global virtual file server
– Extreme scalability with modular expansion High ROI
– Significant cost savings due to auto-tune, auto-balance, automatic tiered storage
Position to exploit the next generation of storage technology
– Superb foundation for cloud storage
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Features and Functions Network File Serving
– NFS v2/v3, CIFS and FTP Clustered file-based storage
– Up to 256 file systems– Up to 1B files per file system– Maximum 2PB per file system
Quotas– User, group and fileset level quotas– Soft limits, hard limits, grace periods
Data Protection– File system Snapshots, up to 256 per
file system– Integrated TSM V6.1 Backup/Archive
(B/A) client– Synchronous mirroring of file system
metadata and file data Systems Management
– Unified GUI and CLI– Centralized event log– Event notifications via email or
SNMP
Integrated Solution Packaging– Shipped as a single software product
and modular IBM Hardware nodes– All components integrated into
rack(s) and cabled– System assembled, configured and
tested in manufacturing Scalability
– Up to 30 interface nodes– Up to 7200 HDDs in single system
(14.4PB raw using 2TB SATA) RAS
– Centralized monitoring of entire system via System Health Center
– Call home and remote service features
– Fully redundant capability in all components for HA
ISV Support and Enablement – VMware certification testing– Out-of-band Symantec Anti-virus
interoperability testing and white paper
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IBM CloudStandardized services
on the IBM cloud
Preintegrated, workload-optimized systems
Private cloud services, behind your firewall, built and/or managed by IBM
IBM Lotus Live
IBM Lotus® iNotes®
IBM CloudBurst™ family
IBM Smart Business Test Cloud
IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
IBM Smart Business StorageCloud
Analytics Collaboration Development
and test
Desktop and devices
Infrastructurestorage
IBM Smart Analytics System
Smart Business for Small or Midsize Business (backed by the IBM Cloud)
Infrastructurecompute
IBM Computing on Demand
IBM Information Protection Services
Business services
BPM BlueWorks (design tools)
IBM Smart Business Desktop Cloud
IBM Smart Analytics Cloud
Smart business expense reporting on the IBM cloud
IBM Information Archive
Smart Business Development and Test on the IBM Cloud (beta)
Smart Business End User Support
IBM Scale-Out NAS
CustomizedSolutions
IntegratedSystems
IBM Cloud Services and Systems Portfolio
IBM Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS)
IBM Lotus® Foundations
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An Analogy – Transportation Alternatives
Traditional Approach: Buy a car, drive it yourself, have a place to park it,
take care of maintenance and insurance.
Rental with or withouth Chauffer: Rent a car by the day or week. Drive it yourself, or hire a chauffer to drive the car for you.
Transportation as a Service: Hop in the back seat of a taxi andtell driver where
you would like to go. Pay by the mile.
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An Analogy – Transportation as Someone Else’s Problem
You Decide where to go You Decide where to go
You DriveParking / Storage
Someone else Drives
Parking / Storage
You Purchase VehicleOngoing Maintenance
Someone else purchases Vehicle
Ongoing Maintenance
Purchases Vehicle,Ongoing Maintenance
You Decide where to go
You Drive (or hire someone)
Weekly Parking
Traditional Weekly Rental Taxi
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EnterpriseEnterpriseData Center
Private Cloud
EnterpriseData Center
IBM Operated
Managed Private Cloud
Hosting CenterHosting Center
Hosted Private Cloud
Enterprise A
Shared Private Cloud
Cloud
Enterprise owned and operated
Enterprise owned and operated
Enterprise owned; IBM operated
Enterprise owned; IBM operated
Customer/IBM owned and IBM operated
(single tenant)
Customer/IBM owned and IBM operated
(single tenant)
IBM owned and operated
(multi-tenant)
IBM owned and operated
(multi-tenant)
Enterprise B
Enterprise C
1 2 3 4
Public Cloud
Cloud
IBM owned and operated
(multi-tenant)
IBM owned and operated
(multi-tenant)5
User A
User B
User C
User D
User …
Private Cloud Shared Private Cloud Public Cloud
Cloud Services delivered publicly toend users / secure, enterprise-class
Cloud Servicesdelivered privately toEnterprises / virtualseparation of tenants
Customer owns and pays for infrastructureand has unlimited exclusive access
IBM owns infrastructure and customer has shared access and pays by usage
IBM’s Five co-existing cloud delivery models
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IBM provides seamless transition to a cloud model.
Support for open standards in use in their datacenters today
High degrees of scalability: petabytes of data and billions of files
Global namespace to eliminate islands of data in your environment
Bullet-proof security that integrates into your existing authentication systems
Built-in data placement and ILM via a global policy engine
Support for multiple tiers of storage including low-cost tape technology
High performance and availability, making it useful in your environment today
IBM has focused it’s efforts on the demanding needs of our enterprise client base.
Smart Business Storage Cloud
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SBSC component view
Enhanced CIFS Server with NTFS Semantics to Support Active Directory Integration
CTDB – Clustered Trivial database Daemon, Controls the cluster and the file service daemons
General Parallel File System (GPFS) - IBM’s high end clustered file system
Management, administration and monitoring software
Disk and Tape hardware
CIFSCIFS
IBMGPFSIBM
GPFS
Enterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux
IBM ServerIBM Server
IBM DiskIBM DiskIBM TapeIBM Tape
ReportingReporting
MonitoringMonitoring
ProvisioningProvisioning
NFSNFS HTTPSHTTPSFTPFTP
CTDBCTDB
HSM - ArchivingHSM - Archiving
TSM – Backup & RestoreTSM – Backup & Restore
IBM Director - Hw MgtIBM Director - Hw Mgt
SCPSCP
IBM SVCIBM SVC
Other Disk
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SBSC component view – GPFS
Integrated File System Scan Scans 1 billion files in under
15 minutes
• Hierarchical Storage Manager (HSM) moves data between disk and tape
• Over 80 percent of most files on NAS systems have not been accessed in the last six months
• Backup and Recovery works with existing TSM Server backup environments
CIFSCIFS
IBMGPFSIBM
GPFS
Enterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux
IBM ServerIBM Server
ReportingReporting
MonitoringMonitoring
ProvisioningProvisioning
NFSNFS HTTPSHTTPS FTPFTP
CTDBCTDB
HSM - ArchivingHSM - Archiving
TSM – Backup & RestoreTSM – Backup & Restore
IBM Director - Hw MgtIBM Director - Hw Mgt
SCPSCP
IBM DiskIBM DiskIBM TapeIBM TapeIBM SVCIBM SVC
Other Disk*
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The SBSC Story: Information Lifecycle Management
Capacity managed centrally Average utilization >80% Policy driven
File placement – direct new files to the correct initial disk tier
File movement – between storage tiers, the least active files can be migrated to tape
File expiration – delete files after they are no longer needed
SBSC
Just buy the capacity you really need
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The SBSC Story: Backup with TSM
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) is tightly integrated into SBSC The scan for changes in the file system is done by SBSC internally Reduce backup window to the time needed to copy changes to tape LAN-free backup uses SAN bandwidth
SBSC
LAN-free
TSMServer
Metadata
Data
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SBSC component viewCommodity hardware based
design Product is comprised of
Linux on x86 servers.Supports numerous storage
devicesIBM SAN Volume Controller
TSM (disk, tape, optical)
Scale out – done with an “Army of Ants” and not with “a single Big Elephant”
CIFSCIFS
IBMGPFSIBM
GPFS
Enterprise LinuxEnterprise Linux
IBM ServerIBM Server
ReportingReporting
MonitoringMonitoring
ProvisioningProvisioning
NFSNFS HTTPSHTTPS FTPFTP
CTDBCTDB
HSM - ArchivingHSM - Archiving
TSM – Backup & RestoreTSM – Backup & Restore
IBM Director - Hw MgtIBM Director - Hw Mgt
SCPSCP
IBM DiskIBM DiskIBM TapeIBM TapeIBM SVCIBM SVC
Other Disk
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IBM’s Modular/Layered Approach
Foundation
Flavoring
SVC
DSFamily
TapeLibrary
Physical Disk Physical Tape
VirtualDisk
VirtualTape
VirtualFile
XIV
TS7650G SBSC
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The growth of instrumentation, interconnection and intelligence is driving new IT and business services ... and the requirement for service management systems.
New IT consumption and delivery models are very compelling for some workloads today – and will position your enterprise for the future.
IBM offers solutions and services to:– Reduce infrastructure and operational costs.– Accelerate service deployment and return
on investment.– Deliver consistent, secure services.
In Summary … We can shift to a smarter planet.
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