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Gene Mullis Senior Principal Regional Product Manager
Storage Foundation Capabilities You Absolutely Need to Know about!
Ryan Jancaitis Principal Product Manager Storage Foundation
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Optimize through Thin Provisioning
Increase utilization
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Efficiency
Availability
Management
Introduction: Key Benefits
Granular replication at any distance
Server health
Simplify infrastructure management
Automate operations
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Efficiency • Thin Provisioning/Reclamation
• De-duplication
• Compression
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Thin Capacity Visibility & Reporting
Barriers to Thin Adoption Lack of Visibility Fear Intensive Reclamation Processes
Thin Pool
File System
Volume
Deleted Space Still Allocated
“Zero” Block Writes
File System Scan
Array Side Pool Scans
Subscribed or consumed?
Efficiency
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Thin Pools
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Thin Automation Visibility & Reporting
Maintain your “Lean” storage investment Reclaim thin without impacting services Control thin storage centrally Visibility & reporting
Low Impact Thin Reclaim
Deleted File System
Volume
Automated & Scheduled Management
Veritas Operations Manager ™
Subscription Vs. Consumption Reclamation Rates
/Data
Efficiency
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Increase Primary Storage Utilization
Challenges to Utilization Unstructured Data growing 80% Exploding Virtualization Environments Increasing Regulation
Efficiency
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Primary Storage De-duplication Efficiency
Increase Host Storage Efficiencies De-duplicate primary storage Attack the virtual sprawl Improve read I/O
VxFS De-Duplication
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Primary Storage Compression Efficiency
Increase Host Storage Efficiencies Handle retention requirements H/W Agnostic Shorten the DR window
VxFS Compression
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Management • Snapshots
• Templates • Disk Shred
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Enhanced Backup, Reporting, & Recovery
3 Key Benefits of Snapshots Improved recovery times
Enhanced backups
Potential to present several views of the same data
Management
File System
Copies
File System
Primary Host
Working Source
File System
Backup Reporting
Recovery Copies
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Challenges with snapshots
Array based snapshots are often not granular enough
Recovery involves un-mounting of file systems
Traditionally an “all or nothing” process
Management
File System
Full Copies
File System
Primary Host
Recovery Copies
Working Source
File System
Backup Reporting
Frequency vs. Consumption?
Complex Recovery
Inefficient Data Sharing
Enhanced Backup, Reporting, & Recovery
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Veritas File System Veritas Cluster File System
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Flexible Granularity with Snapshots and Checkpoints File based snapshots for reporting
Space optimized snapshots for volume level recovery
Full Volume Snapshots for off-host processing
Management
File Snap
Primary Host
Working Source
Backup Reporting
High Frequency Efficient Snaps
Volume Copy
Off host processing
Enhanced Backup, Reporting, & Recovery
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Ease Storage Deployment Operations
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Service Development Document Configuration
Develop Scripts/Steps
Service Delivery Check Infrastructure
Apply Standard
Validate Deployment
File System
Volume
RAID Type
Snapshots Replication Risk, Cost & Delay
Management
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Veritas Operations Manager ™
Ease Storage Deployment Operations
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VOM & VOM Storage Templates
Centralised end-end storage visibility
Template the existing configurations
Validate the target infrastructure
Benefits
Provides error free storage configuration
Avoids costly script maintenance & development
Faster service delivery
RAID Type
Snapshots Replication
Management
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Securely De-provision Storage Prevent Data from leaving your control
Array Replacement
Disaster Recovery Exercises
Cloud Storage Deployments
Regulatory Compliance
SAN
Identify LUNs being decommissioned
Overwrite all blocks with one or more passes
New option for vxdiskunsetup in SF 6.0
Management
Safely map LUN to new host
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Three passes over this 2.5GB LUN took 1m46s. testhost76# time vxdiskunsetup -o shred=3 hds9970v0_164
disk_shred: Shredding disk hds9970v0_164 with type 3
disk_shred: Disk raw size 2461040640 bytes
disk_shred: Writing 37552 (65536 byte size) pages and 32768 bytes to disk
disk_shred: Wipe Pass 0: Pattern 0x35
disk_shred: Wipe Pass 1: Pattern 0xca
disk_shred: Wipe Pass 2: Pattern 0xab
disk_shred: Shred passed random verify of 131072 bytes at offset 545890304
real 1m46.40s
user 0m0.65s
sys 0m7.09s
testhost76#
Management
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Securely De-provision Storage Shred Use Example:
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• Veritas Replicator
• Defragmentation • FSCK
Availability
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Data Replication at any Distance
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Reasons to replicate data Disaster recovery solutions
Metropolitan and replicated data clusters
Data centre migrations
Platform re-hosting
SAN Replication
File System
Volume
File System
Volume
Migrations / Re-Hosting
Site A Site B Site Resilience
Availability
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SAN Replication
Data Replication at any Distance
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Why is Replication so Complex? Usually done in the SAN
Susceptible to configuration drift
Can require infrastructure changes to support (FCIP)
Difficult to manage in a virtual environment
Additional HW
File System
Volume
FCIP Layer
File System
Volume
FCIP Layer
Virtualisation Config Risk
Availability
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Data Replication at any Distance
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Veritas Replicator Works at the volume, file system, and file level
Configured close to the application
Easy to configure, uses IP as the transport layer
Provides synchronous or asynchronous replication
Volume Mirror
File System
Volume
File System
Volume
Deep Virtual Discovery
IP Based Replication
Simple Centralised Configuration
Availability
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Availability
Challenges to Availability Increasingly random workloads Larger file systems Inadequate tools
Availability
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Defragmentation
df -os /mnt3
/mnt3 (/dev/vx/dsk/testdg/vol3): … blocks … files
Free Extents by Size
1: 2077988 2: 2104073 4: 1371895
8: 2226679 16: 1618029 32: 1000385
64: 53134 128: 1667 256: 480
512: 352 1024: 302 2048: 244
4096: 172 8192: 107 16384: 76
32768: 122 65536: 5 131072: 0
262144: 0 524288: 0 1048576: 0
2097152: 0 4194304: 0 8388608: 0
16777216: 0 33554432: 0 67108864: 0
134217728: 0 268435456: 0 536870912: 0
1073741824: 0 2147483648: 0
VxFS 6.0 Enhancements
• Improved Reporting
• Incremental Fragmentation
• Free space defragmentation
Availability
fsadm –E /data
File System Extent Fragmentation Report
Free Space Fragmentation Index : 80
File Fragmentation Index : 60
# Files Fragmented by Fragmentation Index
0 1-25 26-50 51-75 76-100
7838181 3774 82836 281144 8080449
...
fsadm –E –f /data/datafile
File Fragmentation Report
# File # File # Blocks Fragmentation
Blocks Extents In Indirects Index
2113383 66 8 17
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FSCK
fsck –t vxfs –o full,status,interval=N special
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Availability
VxFS 6.0 Enhancements
• Progress Reporting • Multi-threaded for improved performance • Integration with VxCompress
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Then Summary.......
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Summary: IT Service Business Demands
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Business Demands
Lower Costs
Increase Service Agility
Maintain Service Quality
Efficiency
• Thin Provisioning/Reclamation • De-duplication • Compression
Availability
• Veritas Replicator • Defragmentation • FSCK
Management
• Snapshots • Templates • Disk Shred
Enhancing existing Symantec Environments
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Interested to know more about Storage Foundation? Go to these sessions:
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ID Title Day Time Room
SM B01 Storage Foundation Strategy and
Futures
Monday, May 7
Tuesday, May 8
1-2 p.m.
1:15-2:15 p.m.
320
319
SM B02 High Availability Strategy and Futures Wednesday, May 9
Thursday, May 10
10:45-11:45 a.m.
1-2 p.m.
116
116
SM B03 Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) and
Data Insight Strategy and Futures Tuesday, May 8 3:45-4:45 p.m. 319
SM B07 Simplify Multi-Tier Application
Management with Virtual Business Services
Tuesday, May 8 2:30-3:30 p.m. 319
SM B08 Improve VMware Storage Performance, Reliability and Reporting with Dynamic
Multi-Pathing
Wednesday, May 9
4:45-5:45 p.m. 309
SM L08
Enhanced Primary Storage Compression and De-duplication on
UNIX and Linux with Storage Foundation 6.0
Wednesday, May 9 1:00-2:00 p.m. 123
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