2. IT Production challenges@ Financial Service Inc.
Complex Datacenter
- Sprawl of servers & storage systems
- Systems working in silos
- Separate servers for file environment
Management headache
- Separate storage systems for different instances of SAP / Exchange
- 10+ Storage Systems across two datacenters
- No end to end device mapping in VMware environment
Low Efficiency
- Wastage of space because more spindles required for performance
- Resources could not be shared in event of peak load
No Quality of Service
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3. Before Picture
Primary Site DR Site
Core Apps + DB Servers at primary site… Servers at DR site…
WAN
SAN SAN
CX700 CX300 CX700 CX700
CX700 CX3-20 CX3-40 CX3-40 CX700 CX300 CX3-40
Oracle | SAP | Exchange | Virtual Servers | File Servers | Custom Apps
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4. Their “ASK” on Operational Management
Can I use a unified management platform across my
file and block environment?
Can I have a single management platform for my data
protection needs?
How can I help my VMware and storage
administrators grasp each other’s management and
reporting needs?
How can I help improve IT staff productivity by
reducing the amount of time spent on non-critical
tasks?
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5. They Needed a Change…. But had concerns
• Need to consolidate
- But to how many storage systems?
• Want dynamic infrastructure
- Would it meet desired SLA?
• Would there be other service degradations?
- What about response during Peak load?
• Migration
- How to achieve seamless transition?
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6. What EMC did…
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8. Our Approach to Optimize Infrastructure
From Point-in-Time to Real-Time
MANUAL PROCESS 100% AUTOMATED
Oracle Exchange SQL
server server server
Multi-Protocol Support (SAN & NAS) Oracle Exchange SQL OracleI ExchangeI SQLI
VMware Control Path Integration
Object
iSCSI
Block
NFS
VAAI
SOAP
File
REST CIFS FC
FCoE
Storage Services
Storage Services: Self Optimizing
Thin Provisioning, De-Dupe, Compression, Snapshots
and Replication SSD SAS NL-SAS
Static Association of Dynamic, Self-optimizing
Disk Groups to Applications Storage Pools
based on best guess based on actual data activity
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9. Clicker Question
Do you face challenges in your Infrastructure connectivity and
manageability in your virtualized stack?
A. Our Storage and other solutions worked seamlessly in
virtual environments
B. We would like to see more transparency between storage
and virtual infrastructure
C. Virtual infrastructure presents a flexible and dynamic stack.
It would be great if underlying storage infra worked hand in
hand
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10. We proposed FAST Suite to provide
automatic data placement
Highest performance & capacity efficiency – automatically!
Real-time caching with FAST VP
FAST Cache Optimal data placement via
-Highest Tier
- Auto Tier
- Lowest Tier
Flash High Perf. High Cap.
SSD HDD HDD
FAST Cache
Extended Cache for real time read
and write workloads
Scheduled optimization with Overall Drive Count reduced by
FAST VP 45%
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11. How FAST cache making difference in
Customer’s Oracle environment?
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12. Read Throughput vis-à-vis FAST Cache hit/s
FAST Cache is helping to absorb read workload
FAST Cache read hit ratio >90%
Serving real time burst from cache, better response
IO/s
Hit
Ratio
Time
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13. Write Throughput vs. FAST Cache Write Hit/s
Write IOPS FAST Cache Write Hit/s
Entire write load is serviced from FAST cache
IO/s
Time
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14. Yet, Disk Utilization
Disk Utilization is well below 20% vs. 80% earlier
Further room for consolidation despite of heavy I/O on LUN
More work - same spindles
Load is absorbed by FAST cache
After
Util%
Before
Time
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15. VNX - More Transactions Per Rack U
Efficient: More Transactions. Less Footprint.
7,500
6,000 2X Double the transaction
density of the nearest
competitor
IOPS per Rack U
4,500 MORE
3,000 Block NFS/CIFS
1,500
NF NF NF
S S S
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16. VNX – Green Storage Technology
More Transactions. Less Carbon Footprint.
5
4 3X More than three times
the transactions per
IOPS / lb of CO2 / year
pound of CO2 per year
3 GREENER
Block NFS/CIFS
2
1
NF NF NF
S S S
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17. 2. Reduce complexity
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18. Operational Management concerns
addresses by Unified Management
• Simple and intuitive GUI for combined file
and block
• Tight VMware integration
• Built-in access to Support community
• Supports VNX series, CLARiiON, and Celerra
• Direct integration with Data protection tools
– EMC Data Protection Advisor
– EMC Replication Manager
– EMC Atmos
– EMC RecoverPoint/SE
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19. Optimized for Virtualization
Seamless virtualization experience and acceleration
VAAI* offload
Storage Unisphere vCenter Server Virtual server
administrator Less net I/O integration administrator
Manage storage and VM
resources in unison
10X More VMs
Faster Manage storage and VM
resources in unison
response
Control offload functions Control offload functions and
Transparency
and integrated replication Offload Enablement
integrated replication
* VAAI = VMware vStorage
APIs for Array Integration
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20. 3. Additional Benefits
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21. Total Protection—Better than Ever
Recover Point Integration
• Local and remote data recovery with DVR-
like roll-back
• Restore individual or multiple virtual
machines with a single click
• Define and enforce custom RPOs and SLAs
across virtual infrastructure
• Automated failover and failback
• Proven reference architectures
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22. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
Integration
Makes disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable
PRODUCTION RECOVERY • Removes manual recovery
Virtual Machines Virtual Machines
complexity
VMware Infrastructure VMware Infrastructure • Simplifies and automates
Servers Servers
disaster recovery workflows:
– Configuration
– Testing
Heterogeneous Storage Heterogeneous Storage
– Failover
EMC RecoverPoint
– Failback
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23. What Customer achieved…
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24. After Picture
Core Apps + DB Servers at primary site… Servers at DR site…
WAN
CX700
SAN SAN
CX3-20 EMC Avamar
CX3-40
EMC RecoverPoint/SE EMC RecoverPoint/SE
CX3-40 appliance for Data Protection appliance for Data Protection
CX700
CX700 CX300 CX700 CX700
CX300
Home
CX3-40
EMC Data Domain
EMC VNX 5500 EMC VNX 5500
EMC VNX 5500
Existing CX at Primary site phased out
Similarly older system phased out at secondary site with new VNX5500
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25. Results Achieved
• Payroll Processing down from 3 hrs to 1.5 hours
• Response Time of SAP came down to >8ms
Performance • Overall load increased but drive utilization decreased
• Centralized single interface to manage storage infrastructure
Management • Step by Step Wizard based storage tasks to increase productivity
Abilities
• More efficient use of storage
• Drives reduced by 45%, simple to manage Datacenter
Effectiveness • Overall good end user experience
• Any point in time recovery using Recoverpoint
• RPO of less than 10min
DR
Capabilities • Integration with VMware SRM
• Consolidate system for SAN and NAS workload
Unified • Simple NAS backup using NDMP
• More reliable experience with 99.999
Storage
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26. Next Generation Unified Storage
Optimized for Virtual Infrastructure
Scales large & fast
Self-optimizes for
performance and
capacity efficiency
Works on any network
Everything fully
Plug & Play automated
Works on any IP net
Up and running
quickly
Easier than ever
VNXe3100 VNXe3300 VNX5100 VNX5300 VNX5500 VNX5700 VNX7500
Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
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27. THANK YOU
THANK YOU
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Notas del editor
Here are common challenges that many of EMC’s customers face. Today, most solutions are siloed and focused only on managing specific domains. However, companies have multiple domains to manage, which they need to do so from a single point of control, including a way to protect their infrastructures from disaster recovery and maintain business continuity. Another major challenge facing users is the management complexity in virtual environments. Storage administrators have access to detailed information on the array, but lack visibility into how the virtual server is configured and which virtual machines are consuming what for storage resources. VMware administrators, on the other hand, can see the details of the virtual server environment and virtual machines, but lack visibility into the array. What’s needed are more tools that automate management, discovery, and reporting and make it easy for administrators to manage and report on who is using what, when, and where—making administrators more effective and productive. EMC hears from customers asking about how other customers utilize EMC’s solutions. Customers require easy-to-use support services and self-help services. In addition, they ask EMC to provide them with tools to help address critical tasks so they spend less time focused on non-critical areas.You will learn how to address these challenges throughout this presentation.
The FAST Suite improves performance and maximizes storage efficiency by deploying this FLASH 1st strategy. FAST Cache, an extendable cache of up to 2 TB, gives a real-time performance boost by ensuring the hottest data is served from the highest performing Flash drives for as long as needed. FAST VP then complements FAST Cache by optimizing storage pools on a regular, scheduled basis. You define how and when data is tiered using policies that dynamically move the most active data to high-performance drives (e.g., Flash), and less active data to high-capacity drives, all in one-gigabyte increments for both block and file data.Together, they automatically optimize for the highest system performance and the lowest storage cost simultaneously.
Unisphere’s easy-to-use, sleek interface provides a simple, integrated management experience for legacy systems such as CLARiiON and Celerra, and now for the newly available VNX series next-generation platforms. (Note to Presenter: VNXe series will be covered in the next section of this presentation.)Unisphere is extensible and supports other midtier products such as RecoverPoint/SE. Unisphere offers built-in contextual access to the support ecosystem and is your one-stop shop for all your support and service needs. To leverage all these benefits, you don’t need to make any radical changes to your existing infrastructure. Unisphere can be seamlessly added to your current environment. Let’s take a closer look at each of these Unisphere capabilities.Simple and intuitive GUI for file and blockOne look and you know what’s going onSingle sign-onAggregated alertsSummary viewsHigh-performance designFast and scalable data displayWhat you see is what the system getsCaching for fast replaySorting and filteringData exportable for customer reportsVMware integration: Automatic discovery of virtual machines and ESX serversEnd-to-end, virtual-to-physical mapping Automated virtual infrastructure reportingBuilt-in access to the support community: One-click self-serviceUnified user roles: Manage administrative rolesSupports CLARiiON, Celerra, and new VNX seriesUnisphere 1.1 supports legacy and VNX series systemsWill be localized into four languages
The VNX series platform is optimized for virtualization with over 50 points of tight integration.Until today, one of the major challenges facing users in virtual environments was a management complexity gap. Storage administrators have access to detailed information on the array, but lack visibility into how the virtual server is configured and which virtual machines are consuming what for storage resources. VMware administrators, on the other hand, can see the details of the virtual server environment and virtual machines, but lack visibility into the storage system. On VNX series, Unisphere together with vCenter Server integration makes storage management in a virtualized environment a seamless experience. Each administrator can use their familiar interface to gain full visibility into virtual and physical resources, transparently provision storage, integrate replication, and access and offload all storage functions to the storage system. To further drive efficiency in the VMware space, EMC has delivered on the VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), allowing the VNX series is be fully optimized for virtualized environments. This technology offloads VMware storage-related functions from the server to the storage system, enabling more efficient use of server and network resources for increased performance and consolidation.Letting the VNX series perform common data management tasks, like vMotion, result in:10-times network I/O10-times more virtual machines10-times faster response timeThe VNX series delivers unmatched VMware management integration and optimization and is ideal if you are running VMware.
For simple peace of mind, and total protection; whether it be local protection or remote protection, whether it be for encryption or for application protections, VNX protects your system better than ever. With unified replication for local and remote data recovery with DVR-like roll-back capabilities for business continuity on block-based storageBy allowing recovery of production applications with minimal data exposure through roll-back to a point in time abilities, you can now restore through a simple clickSimply define your recover-point-objectives (RPOs) set it and forget itAutomating processors for failover and failback further reduces risk exposure and simplifies on-going protection management
In summary, the VNX family simplify management of VMware environments, improve efficiency of storage through technolgies like FAST and FAST cache and also complement VMware technologies like SOIC. With VNXe is now affordable target to the SMB space basically designed for the IT generalist.And the VNX series of systems offer the performance and scalability needs for the applications running inside these virtual machines.