10 Reasons To Virtulaize Your Storage
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IT as a Weapon SeriesPeter Eicher, Product Marketing
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FalconStor IPStor Platform
TOTALLY Open and massively scalabledata protection and
management
• IPStor® software is a highly optimized, scalable, and flexible virtualization platform
• Leverages all open storage and tape libraries
• A data provisioning and protection platform based on standard industry server and storage technology working with all connectivity protocols
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SNIA Definition of Virtualization
“ …. virtualization hides the back-end complexity and adds or integrates new functionality with existing back-end data services”
FalconStor definition:Storage Virtualization provides an abstraction layer between physical storage devices and compute elements and facilitates classification and pooling of storage resources. The virtualization layer can also provide intelligence and advanced data services to increase overall efficiency.
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Data
FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
Physical Virtual
Existing SAN volumes via Storage
Service Enabler
Virtualized SAN volumes
Thin provisioned SAN volumes
Linux Solaris HP-UX AIX Netware
Exchange Oracle VMware NotesSQL SAPDB2
Windows
Any application
Any operating system
Any storage protocol
Any diskarray
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Ten Reasons to Use Virtualization
And we mean it
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10 reasons to use storage virtualization
#1 Simplify Provisioning
Click! Click! Done!
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Simplifying Provisioning
Virtualdisks
Physicaldisks
• Create volumes of any size from across physical disk resources
• Physical LUN and virtual devices up to 16TB each
• Expand volumes as needed
• Batch-creation of volumes
• Securely assign volumes to servers through NSS interface
• Host connections via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, InfiniBand
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# 2 Data Mobility
You want me to move what to
where?
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Data mobility
• Any-to-any synchronous or asynchronous data mirroring/copying
• Zero downtime data migration – Initiate disk mirror– Switch primary target when
synchronization completes– No need to ever stop your
applications– Ultimate data protection
across arraysPrimary MirrorPrimaryMirror
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# 3 Rip roaring fast data recovery
“Data restore” has left the building
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Rip roaring fast data recovery
FC orEthernet
Application-specific Snapshot Agent
• One TimeMark® snapshot policy per virtualized disk• Flexible scheduling
• Mountable TimeView® images for instant data recovery of any captured point in time
• 255 snapshots per disk
• Snapshot Agents and consistency groups for 100% data integrity
• Eliminate “mandatory restore” and move to data recovery
11:0011:00 12:0012:009:009:00 10:0010:00
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# 4 Fixing Backup Problems
Your backup vendor called. He wants his
backup window back.
But you don’t.
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BU SW calls HyperTrac™ to mount snapshot disk for serverless tape backup
Eliminating Backup Window &Host Performance Impact
Ethernet
Files/Volume
SystemState
Database
Traditional Backup
FC orEthernet
Shrinking backup window & host
performance impact
Perform tape backup anytime. Eliminate backup window,
remove backup performance impact from production
servers
Backup server
Backup SW
HyperTrac
11:00
10:0010:00 11:0011:00
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# 5 Ability to Pool Storage by Class
Everybody in the pool!
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Pooling storage by class
• Assign physical disk resources to storage pools
• Categorize based on performance, usage, cost, whatever you want
• Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3…• Snapshot disk• Replica disk• Stuff-nobody-will-ever-
look-at-again-in-my-lifetime disk
• Decrease operator error and avoid misallocation of resources
RAM disk
Fibre disk
SATA disk
Joe’s Disk Emporium
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# 6 Eliminating Vendor Barriers
Let me see if I got this… I can only copy data from
your expensive disk array to… another one of your expensive disk arrays?
Umm… not so much.
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Eliminating vendor barriers
• TOTALLY Open data movement from any device to any device• Live mirrors of primary
data• Snapshot space• Replication targets• Full copies (clones)
• Eliminate any and all vendor lock-in scenarios
Vendor A
Vendor BVendor D
Vendor C
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# 7 Reducing Costs for Disaster Recovery
As soon as I stop laughing at the bandwidth costs I’ll
find some time to cry.
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Sending changed TracksHost updatesa disk sector
Sending Changed SectorsHost updatesa disk sector 512b
512b512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b512b
32K Trackis replicated
512 byte Sectoris replicated
64 times more efficient
MicroScan vs Track-based replication
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Real world replication savings example
• Legal Services firm benchmark, Nov-Jan 2006• 83 days worth of replicated data
Site File System Change in GB
Filtered by MicroScan
Actual GB Transferred
Percentage Reduction
Houston 4,869 4,017 852 82%
New York City 16,176 13,409 2,767 83%
Wash D.C. 7,289 5,581 1,708 77%
Atlanta 73,376 62,527 10,849 85%
101,710 85,534 16,176 84%
Avg per Day 1225 1031 195 84%
Min. Storage Unit to Track Changes on Disk
FalconStor Vendor-A Vendor-B Vendor-C
512 Bytes 4 KB 16 KB 64 KB
Storage Efficiency 1 8 x less efficient
32 x less efficient
64 x less efficient
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# 8 Reducing Costs for Disaster RecoveryPart Two
It’s not like much is at stake here. It’s only…. THE ENTIRE COMPANY!
So you’re approving the DR budget, right?
Right?
Work with me man.
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Reducing disaster recovery costs
• Any-to-any replication means you can use lower-cost storage at the DR site
• Any-to-any protocol support means you can replicate your Fibre Channel SAN to an iSCSI SAN
• Complete support for physical-to-virtual restore means you can use virtual servers at the DR site to restore physical servers at the data center
• Thin Provisioning and Thin Disaster Recovery means you save disk space and power
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# 9 Keeping Your Storage Vendor Honest
Which in no way is meant to imply that he can’t still buy
you lunch.
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Keep your storage vendor honest
• Move the storage intelligence into the fabric• Storage abstraction
layer
• Storage services no longer dependent on vendor-exclusive disk functionality
Hosts
Fabric
Storage abstraction layer
Disk
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# 10 Saving Money!
I’m talking cash, greenbacks, legal tender, loot, scratch, gold, gravy, coin, dinero,
Benjamins, cabbage, samolians, and that thing
called a budget that’s never, ever what it should be.
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Saving money!
• Any storage!• Any storage protocol!• Low bandwidth replication!• Easier management!• No vendor lock-in!• Thin provisioning!• Fast recovery!• No backup window!• Shall we go on?
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10 reasons to use storage virtualization
1. Simplify provisioning
2. Data mobility
3. Rip roaring fast data recovery
4. Fixing backup problems
5. Ability to pool storage by class
6. Eliminating vendor barriers
7. Reducing costs for disaster recovery
8. Reducing costs for disaster recovery, part two
9. Keeping your storage vendor honest
10.Saving money
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