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IBM SmartCloud

Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

Clemens Kalbfuss

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Virtual Server Infrastructure

Virtualize the complete infrastructure

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What you need to manage

FlashCopy

Application Integration

Data ProtectionExternal Virtualization

NAS

Split Mirror

Storage Tiering

SnapshotsSnapshots

FlashCopy

Application Integration

External Virtualization

Split Mirror

Data Protection

Storage Tiering

NAS

- Efficiency Improvement up

to 30% per Terabyte

- ROI in 12 – 18 months

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Key Virtualization Features

Thin Provisioning � Satisfy provisioning requests but allocate storage only when data is written

� Improve capacity utilization across the infrastructure

� Value: Purchase only the storage you need when you need it

IBM Easy Tier SSD Management� Busiest data automatically moved to

highest performing Solid-state Drives

� Up to a 3x performance improvement with as little as 5% SSD

� Value: Optimized performance at lower overall cost

Real-time Compression � Buy and maintain less storage

� Compress active data up to 80% without application performance degradation

� For example, VMware ~75%, Database ~80%, Exchange ~50%

� Value: Store more data with less disk

Hot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.

AutomaticRelocation

SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs

Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated space is reserved whether the application uses it or not

With thin provisioning, applications can grow dynamically, but only consume space they are actually using

Dynamicgrowth

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Key Management Features

Practice Disaster Recovery Techniques

� Practice application recovery procedures

� Detect mirroring failure and automate failover

� Value: Train staff and prove business continuity plans work without disrupting applications

Application-Aware Copies � Integrated, instant copy for critical applications

� Rapidly create clones for application testing

� View inventory of application copies and instantly restore

� Value: Virtually eliminate application downtime for backup

High Availability Configurations

Network

� Synchronous and asynchronous mirroring between sites

� Real-time data mobility between sites complements

VMware vMotion and PowerHA Live Partition Mobility

� Integrated management with practice support

� Automated fail-back after repair

� Value: Enable near-continuous data availability

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Business Case

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What you need to manage

Data

Protection

Infrastructure

Management

Performance

Analysis

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TPC (with and without VSC)

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TPC (with and without VSC)

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TPC (with and without VSC)

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TPC (with and without VSC)

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TPC (with and without VSC)

� Path Explorer:

– Phase 1 implementation of a web-based topology viewer

– Launch in context from web GUI to element managers (SVC GUI etc)

– Introduction of capacity bars in many tabular views

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What you need to manage

Terabytes to

exabytes of

existing data

to process

Structured,

unstructured,

text, multimedia

Streaming data,

milliseconds to

respond

Uncertain,

inconsistent,

ambiguous

Variety

Volume Velocity

Veracity

Data

Optimization

Capacity

Provisioning

Performance

Boost

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TPC (only with VSC)

Storage Administrator

Find available LUN(s)

If none exist,

allocate new ones

Find available LUN(s)

If none exist,

allocate new ones

Find the best LUN(s)

for the application

Find the best LUN(s)

for the application

Assign the LUN(s)

to the application

server HBA(s)

Assign the LUN(s)

to the application

server HBA(s)

Match source / target

pairs

Match source / target

pairs

Determine current

zoning configuration

Determine current

zoning configuration

Adjust switch

zones

Adjust switch

zones

System Administrator

Submit Storage Request

Submit Storage Request

Need more or

additional

Storage

Need more or

additional

Storage

Contact

System admin

Contact

System admin

Contact

Storage admin

Contact

Storage admin

Adjust MultipathingAdjust Multipathing

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TPC (only with VSC)

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“Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a process for managinginformation through its lifecycle, from conception until disposal, in a manner that optimizes storage and access”

“Place the right data on the right storage at the right time”

Down-tier use-case Up-tier use-case

Performance

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Storage optimization scanarios

Rebalancing (Storage Optimizer)

Re-tiering (Tiered Storage Optimizer)

Provisioning (SAN Planner)� User defines volume properties

� User selects allowed target pools

� User provides workload characteristics

⇒ TPC suggest best matching pool

⇒ TPC will create the volume, map it and zone it to the server

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� User selects source pools and target pools

⇒ TPC suggest which volumes to move to achieve almost equal utilization in terms of workload

⇒ TPC provides a list of commands for SVC to migrate volumes

� User executes the recommendations manually

� User defines policies

� User groups pools into storage tiers (not one tier may have more than one pool)

⇒ TPC suggest which volumes to move to different tier and shows the estimated performance changes

� User executes the recommendations manually

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Tiered Storage Optimizer

What this is:

• Integration with existing storage optimizer and storage

tiering reporting; policy-driven ILM leveraging

virtualization technology to provide recommendations for

storage re-location

• Developed by IBM Research and has been deployed in IBM

GTS to manage storage assets

Benefit to you:

• Provides recommendations for workload migration

based on user defined policy based on file system

level data, performance and capacity utilization

• Ensures only highest performing workloads are

allocated to most expensive storage

• Enterprise wide datacenter storage tiering solution

complementary to Easy Tier technology

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TPC (only with VSC)

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Down-tier use-case Up-tier use-case

Performance

A Service Point of View

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services

E-mail Video SAP Home

directories

…Database

TPC (only with VSC)

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services

2. For each catalog entry, define the appropriate service levels

Capacity Efficiency

Data Access Resilience

Disaster Protection

I/O Performance

Highest Lowest

E-mail Video SAP Home

directories

…Database

TPC (only with VSC)

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services

2. For each catalog entry, define the appropriate service levels

Capacity Efficiency

Data Access Resilience

Disaster Protection

I/O Performance

Highest Lowest

E-mail Video SAP Home

directories

…Database

TPC (only with VSC)

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services

2. For each catalog entry, define the appropriate service levels

Capacity Efficiency

Data Access Resilience

Disaster Protection

I/O Performance

Highest Lowest

E-mail Video SAP Home

directories

…Database

TPC (only with VSC)

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Flashcopy T1Database

Production Disk

Flashcopy T2

Flashcopy T3

Local Filesystem (Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows)

Lotus Domino Server Instant Backup

Instant Restore

Before

After

300% Better Responsetime

Increase Efficiency

Snapshot Based Data Protection

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VSC Offering Overview

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� A suite of IBM storage management products that can be ordered as a single PID using a ‘Tiered per Terabyte’ pricing metric

� One PID includes:- SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Virtualization

- SAN Volume Controller FlashCopy

- SAN Volume Controller Remote Mirroring (Metro/Global Mirror)

- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) with Advanced Analytics

- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (2-Site)

- Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCM)

� Use as many of the products as you like

� Pay on a ‘per Terabyte’ basis for data within the SAN Volume Controller storage pools, referred to as Managed Terabytes

� NOTE: This does NOT include Real Time Compression

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Phone: +49-171 861 8574Mail: clemens.kalbfuss@de.ibm.com

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