Presentation from Scalar and NetApp discussing why CDOT is the promised land of storage and the future of NetApp, followed by a walk-through of the path to CDOT by one of Scalar's technical thought leaders.

1. The Road to Clustered Data ONTAP
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“Please allow me
to introduce myself…”
~ The Rolling Stones

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100%
Vancouver Calgary
Toronto
Ottawa
London
Montreal

5. We are…
• Security
• Infrastructure
• Cloud
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6. Top awards.
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• Brocade Partner of the Year
~ Innovation
• Cisco Partner of the Year
~ Data Centre & Virtualization
• NetApp Partner of the Year
~ Central Canada
• VMware Global Emerging Products
Partner of the Year
• F5 VAR Partner of the Year
~ North America
• Palo Alto Networks Rookie of the
Year

7. Top vendors.
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• Enterprise leaders and emerging
technologies
• Vendors that can handle niche
workloads and are experienced at
developing markets

8. Why Clustered Data ONTAP?
Tony Lee, SE Manager for Western Canada
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9. IT Professionals
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10. Infrastructure Challenge
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Infrastructure
Rigid
Resources
Traditional IT
Actual Demand

11. Infrastructure Challenge
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Elastic
Resources
Cloud
Cloud
Infrastructure
Actual
DemandInfrastructure
Rigid
Resources
Traditional IT
Actual Demand

12. Hybrid Cloud
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13. Seamless Flexibility
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14. Data Challenge
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15. Data Silos
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16. Data Fabric
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17. Data Fabric
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18. NetApp Data Fabric
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19. NetApp Data Fabric
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20. Cloud Service Providers
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21. Cloud Service Providers
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22. Cloud Service Providers
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23. Cloud Service Providers
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24. Hyperscalers
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25. Hyperscalers
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26. Hyperscalers
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27. Hyperscalers
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28. Private Cloud
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29. Private Cloud
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30. Scalability
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24 Nodes

31. Infrastructure Class of Service
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32. Hardware Virtualization
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Virtualization

33. Private Cloud
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34. Private Cloud
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35. Software Defined Storage
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36. Multi-Tenant
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37. Dynamic Quality of Service
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38. Dynamic Quality of Service
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39. Proven Efficiency
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Compression
Deduplication
Cloning

40. Non-Disruptive Operations
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41. Non-Disruptive Operations
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42. Non-Disruptive Scaling
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43. Non-Disruptive Scaling
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44. Private Cloud
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45. NetApp Data Fabric
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46. The Migration Path to CDOT
Alex Dawson, Solution Engineer
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47. • Pre-sales technical staff work closely with professional
services staff
• Validated technical solutions on your data centre floor
• Scalar Project Management oversees all professional services
engagements
• Provide planning, status updates, project close-out
The Scalar Process
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48. • Design sessions for network connectivity
• Design sessions for storage layout, SVM layout
• Design sessions for replication
• Data classification
• System implementation
• Migration and documentation
High level process
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49. To begin, a quick vocabulary check
• Physical connections are PORTS
• Access data or administration through INTERFACES (LIFs)
• Each controller is a NODE
• Data is served by a Storage Virtual Machine, or SVM
Understanding Clustered ONTAP
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50. • How many ports, to where, for what?
• What will go on those ports? IP ranges, VLANs
• LACP LAGs, VLAN trunks
• Leads to requirements for upstream network design
• Can be simple, or rich, depending on use case for SAN
Design for network connectivity
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51. • During the purchasing process, there will have been
discussions on how much storage, and for what, usually in
broad terms
• In this stage, we decide exactly which disks, shelves go
where, with which controllers
• Decide on aggregate layouts, SVM design
• SVM design – less is better, but segregation of administration
is a key benefit, so don’t be afraid to use them
Design for storage layout
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52. • All data is served by SVMs, through logical interfaces (LIFs),
either over IPs or FC WWPNs
• Decide which LIFs, for what, for which SVM
• Including Administration and data access IPs
Design for storage layout
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53. • Are we replicating data? If so, to where?
• Mirroring? Or vaulting? (Different copies on primary and
secondary) Or both?
• How are we replicating? IP addresses dedicated to replication
are used
• Define data tiers, RPO and RTO for those tiers
• Design replication schedules
Design for replication
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54. • 99% of systems we install are replacing something else, either
a file server or servers or an existing SAN
• What is on the old environment? How can we move it to the
new environment?
• Group data sets by migration options, outage tolerances
Data classification
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55. • Physical installation
• Cabling
• Formatting drives
• Configure SVMs
• Configure volumes, LUNs
• Configure replication and protection
Implementation
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56. • Storage VMotion for VMWare
• Physical server options – disk mirroring/splitting (dynamic
disks or LVM), server mirroring (P2V), local data migration
using DoubleTake Move, local data migration using
robocopy/rsync, SAN level migrations using NetApp DTA, or
Foreign LUN Import
• NAS migration using rsync/robocopy or third party tools
(Some very good options from third parties)
Migration and documentation
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57. • Full configuration validation
• NetApp Config Advisor tool run through
• System Installation Workbook
• Learningcenter.netapp.com
• OnCommand System Manager
• OnCommand Unified Manager
Documentation & Training
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Read how Vancouver Community College addressed
their escalating data demands with CDOT here.

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