Storwize V7000
The Making of a Solution
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IBM Virtualized Disk Solutions
Guiding Principles
 Modular scalability, supports independent
scaling of performance, capacity, and software
function – allowing you to start small and grow
large without ever changing hardware
platforms.
 Integrated software functions and
management interface across the entire range
of scalability.
 Enterprise-class software capabilities,
including replication functions traditionally
found in high-priced enterprise arrays,
virtualization capabilities to improve efficiency
and application up-time, and management
capabilities that make quick work of complex
deployments.
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Agenda
 Extraordinary Building Blocks
 The Making of a Solution
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Storwize V7000
2U
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Control enclosure: dual controllers and up to twelve 3.5” or twenty-four 2.5” drives in just 2U
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Eight 8Gb FC ports plus four 1Gb iSCSI ports per controller pair initially (10Gb iSCSI and FCoE post-GA)
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Expansion enclosure: drives only
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Up to nine expansion enclosures attach to one control enclosure
Built-in Software inherited from SVC and DS8000 RAID
Manageability
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RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
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New User interface (easy-to-use, web based)
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Storage Virtualization
(internal disks and external arrays)
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Integrated SAN-wide Management
(Tivoli Storage Productivity Center)
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Non-disruptive Data Migration
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Integrated IBM server and storage mgmt (Systems
Director Storage Control)
Efficiency
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Thin Provisioning
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Easy Tier
(dynamic data movement across SSD/HDD)
Replication
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Application integrated
(Oracle, DB2, SAP, Domino, Exchange, SQL Server)
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Efficient use of space
(thin provisioned, incremental, deduplicated)
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DR automation (failover/fail back, site switching)
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IP or Fibre Channel
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Efficiency Features
More productive use of available storage
Across all supported host platforms
Thin provisioning
Dynamic
growth
Without thin provisioning, pre-allocated
space is reserved whether the application
uses it or not.
Easy Tier
SSD
Automatic
relocation
HDD
SSD
Automatic
relocation
HDD
With thin provisioning, applications can
grow dynamically, but only consume space
they are actually using.
“Easy Tier” pools identify the busiest data
extents and automatically relocate them to
highest performing Solid-state Disks
Remaining data extents can take advantage
of higher capacity, price optimized disks
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Easy Tier Application Transaction Improvement
240% from
Original
brokerage
transaction
PRELIMINARY
Application
Transaction
Throughput
Easy Tier
Learning
Easy Tier
In Action
12 hours (Elapsed Time)
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Easy Tier Application Transaction Improvement
PRELIMINARY
Application
Transaction
Response Time
Easy Tier
Learning
Easy Tier
In Action
12 hours (Elapsed Time)
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Host System Attach
VMware
Microsoft
Novell
IBM
Sun
HP
SGI
Linux
Apple
SRM
Windows
MSCS
MPIO, VSS, GDS
NetWare
Clustering
AIX
i6 VIOS
HACMP /XD
GPFS / VIO
Solaris
VCS/SUN
clustering
HP-UX
Tru64
OpenVMS
ServiceGuard with SDD
IRIX
(Intel/Power/zLinux)
RHEL/SUSE
RHEL 5 ia32, x64
RHEL 3 Power
SLES 9 ia64
Mac OS X
IBM
BladeCenter
Win/Linux/VMWare/AIX
OPM/FCS/IBS
Up to 1024 Hosts
Network
Storwize V7000
Clustered XIV
(SVC + XIV)
For the most current, and more detailed, information please visit ibm.com/storage/svc and click on “Interoperability”.
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External Virtualization Features
Transparent data movement
Application
server
Network
Legacy
Efficiently manage technology upgrades and
lease terminations by transparently moving
application data from legacy disk arrays to
new IBM Virtualized Disk Solutions
IBM disk
Legacy disk attach
Network
Hitachi
EMC
NetApp
IBM
Sun
HP
NEC
Bull
Fujitsu
Pillar
USP
Lightning, Thunder
TagmaStore
CLARiiON,
Symmetrix,
VMAX
FAS
ESS, FAStT
DS3/4/5/6/8
XIV
StorageTek
MA, EMA
MSA, EVA
XP
iStorage
StoreWay
Eternus
Axiom
For the most current, and more detailed, information please visit ibm.com/storage/svc and click on “Interoperability”.
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Scalability: Customer case study
One of the Largest Financial Institutions in the United States
Business challenge:
The Bank’s storage scale is measured in petabytes. Storage capacity is
leased from multiple vendors to introduce competition and reduce capital
costs. However, technology turns and leases end – meaning new storage
must be leased and data must be migrated. The disruptive nature of
migrating data between traditional arrays often resulted in the Bank
having to extend leases month-to-month incurring significant cost.
Solution:
Virtualization with IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller. With
over 2PB of tiered Fibre Channel and SATA storage now virtualized, the
Bank can transparently migrate data from old technology to new arrays,
meeting lease termination dates and saving significant cost in lease
extensions. Because migration is transparent, application uptime is also
enhanced. Because virtualization is heterogeneous, the Bank can further
leverage its multi-supplier strategy to keep costs down for its virtualized
IBM XIV, and EMC DMX and CLARiiON storage.
Solution components:
 IBM® SAN Volume Controller
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FlashCopy
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Global Mirror
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Thin provisioning
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Transparent data
migration
 IBM XIV® Storage System
Benefits:

Reduction in lease extension costs

Tested 30% increase in storage utilization

Improved application uptime
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Agenda
 Extraordinary Building Blocks
 The Making of a Solution
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Manageability Features
Overview
 User Interface
– Adopted from the easy-to-use XIV GUI
– For clients where the Storwize V7000 “is” the
infrastructure
Easy-to-use management GUI
 Enterprise Management
– Integrated management with a SAN-wide perspective
– For clients where the Storwize V7000 is connected to a
SAN with other, perhaps heterogeneous storage
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Integrated SAN-wide management
 Server / Storage Management
– Integrated management with a Systems and Storage
perspective
– For clients with IBM servers and storage
Systems Director Storage Control
Integrated IBM server and storage mgmt
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Fresh New User Interface
Based on the well-received XIV interface
System
recommendations
Visual task flow
guidance
Integrated video
instruction
Link to more
information if
needed
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System status
always available
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Preset provisioning
templates
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Quickly provision
multiple volumes of
the same type
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For experts, use the
GUI to generate CLI
syntax for desired
actions
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Offline
Visually identify
hardware areas of
concern
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Manageability Features
Overview
 User Interface
– Adopted from the easy-to-use XIV GUI
– For clients where the Storwize V7000 “is” the
infrastructure
Easy-to-use management GUI
 Enterprise Management
– Integrated management with a SAN-wide perspective
– For clients where the Storwize V7000 is connected to a
SAN with other, perhaps heterogeneous storage
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Integrated SAN-wide management
 Server / Storage Management
– Integrated management with a Systems and Storage
perspective
– For clients with IBM servers and storage
Systems Director Storage Control
Integrated IBM server and storage mgmt
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Enterprise Management Features
Visualize the SAN
Network
Provision storage
Network
From virtual machines to the physical server
they reside on, through the SAN, to the disk
systems …
Physical topology and logical data path
Health/Status Monitoring
Event Management
Device Capacity Mgmt
Policy-based Alerting
For new or expanding applications, apply
application-centric provisioning policies
Provision host multi-pathing, SAN zones, and
array capacity in a single action
Isolate application I/O performance
problems across the entire data path
Report on performance history
Analyze performance
Network
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Analyzing Storage Performance
Highlight the desired
computer or storage device
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Analyzing Storage Performance
Identify critical path and/or
potential performance
bottlenecks.
Identify unexpectedly
convoluted paths through
the SAN
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Analyzing Storage Performance
Verify logical and efficient
paths – be pleased with your
work
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Analyzing Storage Performance
Hover to display current
performance statistics at any
point along the data path
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Analyzing Storage Performance
Define the data columns you want to
report on
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Analyzing Storage Performance
Use the “Drill up” option to go to reports that may provide insight to
the root cause
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Automatically monitor for
performance thresholds…
…and trigger notification if
thresholds are violated.
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Manageability Features
Overview
 User Interface
– Adopted from the easy-to-use XIV GUI
– For clients where the Storwize V7000 “is” the
infrastructure
Easy-to-use management GUI
 Enterprise Management
– Integrated management with a SAN-wide perspective
– For clients where the Storwize V7000 is connected to a
SAN with other, perhaps heterogeneous storage
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Integrated SAN-wide management
 Server / Storage Management
– Integrated management with a Systems and Storage
perspective
– For clients with IBM servers and storage
Systems Director Storage Control
Integrated IBM server and storage mgmt
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Server / Storage Management Features
Visualize and manage the complete infrastructure From virtual machines to the physical server
Network
Provision Virtual Server Images and storage
Network
they reside on, through the SAN, to the disk
systems …
Physical and virtual resource relationships
and utilization
Health/Status Monitoring
Event Management
Triggered action plans
For virtual server environments, dynamically
provision virtual server images and array
capacity in a single action
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Manageability Features
Summary
Enterprise Management
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Server / Storage Management
Systems Director Storage Control
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User Interface
Perspective
Device
Device + surrounding SAN
Servers + Storage
Capabilities
Health
Capacity
File System Utilization Analytics
Provisioning
Performance Analytics
Replication Management
Recovery Automation
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Productivity: Customer case study
Fortune 100 Diversified Health Insurance Company
Business challenge:
The Insurer’s storage scale is measured in petabytes. Scale had made
the job of maintaining visibility into the utilization and effective operation of
the storage infrastructure a near impossibility. Traditional, manual
management processes were not scaling. The Insurer wasn’t getting
optimal use out of its significant capital investment in storage
infrastructure.
Solution:
Visualization, Control, and Automation with Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center. With 2PB of storage now managed, the Insurer can
visualize the entire storage topology, leverage analytics to aid in
provisioning storage for new applications, monitor overall health, and report
on performance and capacity utilization. These tools have allowed the
Insurer to deal with continued storage growth, improve the storage
environment quality of service, and do these things without parallel growth
in the storage management staff.
Benefits:
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Simplified problem isolation and 25% reduction in mean-time-to-repair
for performance related issues
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Effective management of storage assets and capacity resulting in
deferred capital expenditures for new storage
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Improved overall quality and health of the storage environment
Solution components:
 IBM® Tivoli® Storage Productivity
Center
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Standard Edition
 IBM System StorageTM DS8000®
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Replication Features
Overview
 IP Replication
– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing
instant recovery with cost-optimized disaster
recovery options
 Fibre Channel Replication
– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing
instant recovery with full-featured enterprise
replication solutions
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IP Replication Features
Snapshot replication
Replication
FastBack
virtual machine
IP Network
Deduplicated
snapshots
Enterprise snapshot replication
Deduplicated
Replication
Storage Manager 6
FastBack
virtual machine
Create instant copies of
applications or file systems for
backup
Make better use of space with
incremental (only changed blocks)
and deduplicated snapshots
Replicate snapshots off-site for
disaster recovery
For enterprise and branch office
configurations
Replicate distributed snapshots
to a central Tivoli Storage
Manager server for Unified
Recovery Management and
disaster recovery
Make better use of network
resources by deduplicating data
before transmission
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Replication Features
Overview
 IP Replication
– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing
instant recovery with cost-optimized disaster
recovery options
 Fibre Channel Replication
– Application-integrated capabilities for clients needing
instant recovery with full-featured enterprise
replication solutions
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FlashCopy Features
FlashCopy
Create instant application copies for backup
or application testing
Make better use of space with incremental
(only changed blocks) or space-efficient
(thin provisioned) snapshots
FlashCopy Manager
Integrated, instant copy for critical
applications
Virtually eliminate backup windows
Rapidly create clones for application testing
View inventory of application copies and
instantly restore
Enterprise FlashCopy Replication
Replicate FlashCopy’s to a central Tivoli
Storage Manager server for Unified Recovery
Management and disaster recovery
Make better use of network resources by
deduplicating data before transmission
Deduplicated
Replication
Storage Manager 6
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Fibre Channel Mirroring Features
Synchronously over Metro distances
Asynchronously over Global distances
Application-level consistency groups
Mirror data off-site
Network
Practice and Automatically Respond to Disasters For critical application consistency groups,
Network
Recovery
practice
volume
freeze the Mirror and take a consistent
FlashCopy
Practice application recovery procedures from
the FlashCopy
Detect mirroring failure and automate failover
to Recovery volume
Automate fail-back after repair
Monitor and manage IT-wide site switching
from a single console (Applications, servers,
and storage)
Site Switching Automation
Network
Recovery
volume
& server
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Site Switching
 Single Cluster automation and high availability can be
ensured…
– Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms on Windows,
AIX, Linux and SUN Solaris
– Other clustering products such as IBM HACMP, Microsoft® Server
Cluster, Veritas Cluster on SUN
 … but Cross-cluster dependencies in many business
processes require a wider perspective.
CRM
dependency
Web
Cluster
dependency
Stock
Trading
Application
dependency
Cluster
Cluster
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Scenario – Planned Site Switch
Automated
Steps
Site I
Site II
Web
Web
Tivoli System Automation
Application Manager (TSA-AM)
1. Operator
initiates
planned site
switch
2. TSA-AM
triggers
TPC-R to
switch
replication
direction
Cooperative
Integration
3. TSA-AM
starts
application
components
at Site II
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
for Replication (TPC-R)
Enterprise Virtualized Disk Solution
Storwize V7000
Replication*
Secondary
Primary
Secondary
Primary
* Storwize V7000 to SVC replication available post-GA
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Replication Features
Summary
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Storwize V7000
This is the basic hardware
 Required Software
–5639-VM1 (Base)
●Management GUI
●Thin Provisioning
●Easy Tier
●FlashCopy
 Hardware (MT/Model)
–2076-112
(12-bay LFF control enclosure)
–2076-124
(24-bay SFF control enclosure)
–2076-212
(12-bay LFF expansion enclosure)
–2076-224
(24-bay SFF expansion enclosure)
This is what makes it a “solution”!!
 Optional Software
– Management
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5608-E14
(TPC for Disk Midrange Edition)
5765-ASM
(Director Storage Control plug-in)
– IP Replication
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5639-FB1
(FastBack for Storwize V7000)
– FC Replication
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5608-AC6 (FlashCopy Manager)
5639-RM1 (Mirroring)
5608-WB2 (TPC for Replication)
– Embracing legacy disk
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5639-EV1 (External virtualization)
 Optional Services