Esther Good
IBM Software Relationship Executive
Agenda
• Who We Are
• Storage Industry Trends
• Why NetApp Solutions are GREAT for Database
Environments
•DB2/NetApp Partnership
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Network Appliance
Rewriting the Rules for Global IT Infrastructures
Network Appliance delivers center-to-edge data
management and information distribution systems that
enable businesses to simplify, share, and scale their
storage networking and content delivery infrastructure
- without limits.
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The Appliance Revolution
80’s
General-Purpose System
Transforms Into
Specialized Appliances
90’s
UNIX
Application
NT
Servers
Applications
File Service
Printing
Routing
Data Access
Appliances
Print Servers
Routers
network
…...
network
…...
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Our Appliances Do One Thing Well…
Deliver Data On Demand
scale
share
simplify
Network Appliance Technology
 Dedicated appliance based on patented file system
design that:
- Simplifies data management and content delivery
- Accelerates data access within a network
- Maximizes data availability and scalability
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NetApp Worldwide Presence
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Founded:
Headquarters:
Year 2000:
Distribution:
Installed systems:
Revenue
1992
Sunnyvale, CA
> 2100 employees
70+ countries
> 22,710
~ $1B/yr (20 quarters of 70% growth)
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#1 in Network Attached Storage
Network Appliance
Market Share
60.1%
Network Appliance
#2 Vendor
Others (9)
Source: “Worldwide Hard Disk Drive Network Attached Storage (NAS) Market Share,
Dataquest/GartnerGroup
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A Leader in Content Distribution and Caching
Network Appliance
Market Share
28%
Network Appliance
Inktomi
Cisco
CacheFlow
Cobalt
Other
Source: Internet Research Group
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Storage Industry Trends
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Storage Paradigm Shift
2000
30%
Direct Attach
Network Attach
70%
Source: IDC, 4/2001
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Storage Paradigm Shift
2004
33%
Direct Attach
Network Attach
67%
Source: IDC, 4/2001
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Server Centric Architecture
AIX
FS
IBM Storage
Database
Win2K FS
Email
Solaris FS
PC Vendor
Storage
Sun Storage
Data Warehouse
Shortcoming: Each new application server requires
its own storage solution creating storage islands
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Network Centric Architecture:
Single-Copy Data Sharing with Protection
AIX
Win2K
Solaris
FS
UNIXApps
Apps
UNIX
Clustered App
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Bandwidth: Disk vs Network
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Gigabit
Switched
120
MB/Sec
100
Fibre Channel
80
Ultra SCSI
60
40
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SCSI
Fast-Wide
SCSI
10bT Shared
0
1992
100bT
Switched
FDDI Shared
1994
1996
Storage
1998
2000
Network
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Why Network Appliance
Solutions are GREAT for
Database Environments
NetApp’s Database Customer base
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Currently over 1300 Database customers...
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Market presence runs deep as well;
NetApp powers…
 9 out of top 10 ISPs
 13 out of top 15 web sites
 41 of Fortune e-50 Index companies
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Banks
Airlines
Automotive
Government
Oil & Gas
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The NetApp Advantage
  Dramatic improvement in solution
availability
 Reduction in operational cost,
complexity, and deployment processes
 Typical customer experience is a faster
database environment
 Scale seamlessly while experiencing
rapid growth
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Causes of Downtime
Planned
Downtime
People
5%
5%
30%
30%
Hardware
Environment
5%
15%
10%
Server
Software
Client Software
Network
Software
Source: Windows 2000 Magazine 6/2001
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Snapshot, SnapRestore and
SnapMirror Provide Immediate Relief
•Use Snapshot/SnapRestore for full scale tests on production
environment
• Take a Snapshot, run the test, then use SnapRestore
•Reduces recovery time risks
• Use SnapRestore as security for maintenance like planned SWUpgrades, Data Uploads, etc
•Use Snapshot for Offline Backup
• Reduce downtime to a few minutes (cold backup)
•Use Snapshot for Online Backup
• Reduce the time you’re in degraded/vulnerable mode to a few
minutes (hot backup)
•Use SnapMirror for Disaster Recovery
• SnapMirror provides efficient replication of database files to a
remote location or DR-site
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Constantly Challenged with
Planned Downtime Scenarios
Key Reasons for Planned Downtimes…
Software Upgrades
27%
25%
Server Upgrades
DB Maintenance
14%
8%
Y2K Testing
Backups
6%
DW Loading
3%
Hardware Upgrade
1%
Storage Upgrade
1%
Others
26%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
Source: Strategic Research Corporation, 2000
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Fast Recovery from Unplanned
Downtimes
Database Recovery Scenario - An Example
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300 GB database and the entire database requires recovery
Tape recovery time is 60 GB/hour
Normal recovery time is 5 hours + log replay time
SnapRestore reverts volume to same state as when backup was taken.
Duration - 3 minutes
Total recovery time: 3 minutes + log replay time
Database
Gigabit
Database Instance
F760
Logs
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The NetApp Advantage
 Dramatic improvement in solution
availability
  Reduction in operational cost,
complexity, and deployment processes
 Typical customers experience is a faster
database environment
 Scale seamlessly while experiencing rapid
growth
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Simplify Your Environment While
Increasing Productivity and Focus
Typically, a DBA has too many
responsibilities...
…NetApp helps by eliminating or
simplifying some DBA functions
Disk layout tuning/re-tuning
Eliminate
Backup design & scheduling
Simplify
Upgrade testing & scheduling
Simplify
Disaster recovery
Simplify
Database tuning
Allow focus
Application tuning
Allow focus
NetApp makes the first 4 easy, so DBA’s can spend
their time on the high leverage items!
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NetApp Filer Benefits Add Up to a
Lower TCO
TCO
=
Acquisition
Costs
+
Operational
Costs
+
Business
Costs
Operational costs are
minimized….
Business impact
costs are lower….
“install-as-you-grow”
philosophy
Appliance is simple to
operate
Less planned
downtime
Fewer spindles required
for same functionality
Less headcount required
for Database and sys
admin tasks
Lower probability of
unplanned downtime
Acquisition costs are
lower….
Filers scale entire
compute environment
DBAs are more focused
and productive
Faster recovery from
unplanned downtime
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NetApp TCO on Database
Workloads Lower by 75% !
Acquisition
Cost
=
+
Operational
Cost
+
Business
Cost
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$ Million
TCO
75% drop
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Acquisition Cost
Operational Cost
8
Business Cost
6
4
2
0
SAN
(EMC)
NAS
(NetApp)
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The NetApp Advantage
 Dramatic improvement in solution
availability
 Reduction in operational cost, complexity,
and deployment processes
  Typical customer experience is a faster
database environment
 Scale seamlessly while experiencing rapid
growth
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Performance Benefits
Direct Attached Storage
DATABASE
SERVER
Client workstations and terminals
NetApp Filer Attached Storage
DATABASE
SERVER
Client workstations and terminals
• Extra CPU in the architecture that is 100% dedicated to storage
management
• Dramatic reduction in I/O latency is a key enabler for database
environments
–Reads are optimized due to file level intelligence in read-aheads
–Writes are faster due to NVRAM and built-in RAID 4 striping
• Speeds (increasing by factor of 10) vs. SCSI or FC speeds
• Automated disk layout is resilient to growth and change
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The NetApp Advantage
 Dramatic improvement in solution
availability
 Reduction in operational cost, complexity,
and deployment processes
 Typical customer experience is a faster
database environment
  Scale seamlessly while experiencing
rapid growth
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NetApp Technology Enables
Seamless Scalability
 Grow database dynamically with zero downtime
 Results in increased productivity, more operational time
 Allows you to “buy as you grow”
 Filer scales entire computing environment
 Your existing hardware investment goes further
 NetApp allows both easy scaling up and out
 Individual filers scale from gigabytes to 12TB
 Adding multiple filers to the environment is easy
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NetApp as a Strategic Partner
Enabling Customer Success
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NetApp recognizes strategic partnerships are critical
Large scale performance engineering team and labs
Competency Centers (on-site) with strategic partners
DB specific worldwide customer support infrastructure
Joint customer service escalation teams/procedures in place
Results
Certified solutions
Successful deployments
Bullet-proof support
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IBM DB2 /NetApp Partnership Highlights
 IBM DB2 UDB supported on filers since 06/00 (press
release 11/29/00)
 IBM tests filers with same scripts used to test new
releases of DB2 UDB
 Partnership is on a roll
 NetApp equipment is on site in IBM labs.
 Testing, performance studies, proofs-of-concept, joint
development
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IBM DB2 /NetApp Partnership Highlights
 DB2 EEE/Intel/NetApp scalability study
 Purpose: Evaluate the scalability of the solution using a
decision support workload
 Configuration: IBM UDB EEE, Intel AD450NX
clustered servers, NetApp 840 filers
 Method: Ran Decision Support query workload on one
to four Intel servers varying DB size from 50 - 200 GB’s
 Excellent scalability results documented in
technical bulletin written jointly by the 3
companies
 On NetApp, Intel and IBM Software Websites
 Press Release - 12/17/01
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IBM DB2 /NetApp Partnership Highlights
 DB2 EEE/Linux/SAP/Infiniband/NetApp demo
 at IDF (Intel Developer’s Forum) in DB2 booth
 Part of Janet Perna keynote at DB2 Tech Conference
 SAP Tech Ed.
 Will be at Cebit
 White paper on solution is on IBM Software website
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IBM DB2 /NetApp partnership highlights
 IBM DB2 and DAFS - joint initiatives
 DB2 review/input to DAFS specifications
 DB2/dDAFS demo 06/01
 DB2 Senior Management support with Consultants
 IBM DB2 testing dDAFS and uDAFS
 DB2/dDAFS beta customer
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What is DAFS?
 Direct Access File System protocol
 A file access protocol, based on NFS, designed
specifically for high-performance data center file
sharing
 Optimized for high performance
 Semantics for clustered file sharing environment
 Transport independent
 Uses standard memory-to-memory I/O architecture
 NetApp products on InfiniBand, 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet
 A fundamentally new way for high-performance and
cluster applications to access file storage
 Provides direct application access to transport resources
 Avoids Operating System overhead
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File Access Methods
NFS
Local FS
Application
Application
Buffers
Buffer
Cache
NFS
Application
Buffers
Buffers
FS Switch
DAFS
User
Space
DAFS
DAPL
FS Switch
Buffer
Cache
File
System
OS
Kernel
SCSI
Driver
TCP/IP
Packet
Buffers
HCA
Driver
NIC Driver
NIC
HBA Driver
HBA
HCA
H/W
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DAFS Client Implementations
Raw Device Adapter
Kernel File System
User Library
Application
(unchanged)
Application
(unchanged)
Application
(modified)
Buffers
Device Driver
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Buffers
Buffers
Disk I/O
Syscalls
File System
File I/O
Syscalls
DAFS Library
DAFS Library
DAFS Library
DA Provider Library
DA Provider Library
DA Provider Library
HBA Driver
HBA Driver
HBA Driver
HBA/HCA
HBA/HCA
HBA/HCA
Kernel-level plug-in
Looks like raw disk
App uses standard disk
I/O calls
Performance similar to
direct-attached disk
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Kernel-level plug-in
Peer to NTFS, UFS
App uses standard file
I/O semantics
Limited access to DAFS
features
Performance similar to
local FS
User
Space
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OS
Kernel
H/W
User-level library
Best performance
Application access to
sharing semantics
Requires application
modification
I/O-intensive & cluster
applications
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DAFS Contributors
1Vision Software
Adaptec
Adv Storage Array Products
Agilent
Alcita Technologies
Aristologic
ATTO technologies
Bakbone Software
Banderacom
Berg Software Design
BMC Software
Broadband Storage
Brocade Communications
Ciprico
Cisco Systems
Cluster File Systems
CMD Technology
Compaq Computer Corp
ComVault Systems
Congruent Software
Duke University
Earthlink Network
ECCS
Emphora
Emulex
Eurologic Systems
First Internet Alliance
Fujitsu Ltd
Gadzoox Networks
Harvard University
Hewlett Packard
Hyper I/O
IBM
Ikadega
Incipient
Independent Storage Corp
InfiniCon Systems
InfiniSwitch
InfoCruiser
inRAID
Intel Corp
Interphase
JNI
Lane 15 Software
LSI Logic Storage Systems
Mellanox
MPI Software Technologies
MTI Technology
NEC Corp
Network Appliance
Network Engines
Network Storage Solutions
Omegaband
Open Source Asia
Oracle
OTG Software
Pirus Networks
Procom Technology
PTC Systems
Qlogic
Quest Software
Rhapsody Networks
Sanera Systems
SAN Experts Facility
SANgate Systems
SanLight
Scale Abilities
Seagate Technology
Seek Systems
Sendmail
SINTESI
Solution-Soft
Spinnaker Networks
Texas Memory Systems
Toigo Productions
Troika Networks
University of British Columbia
Update Systems
VALinux
Veltrek
VERITAS Software
Viathan
Vieo Inc
Voltaire
Wipro Technologies
Xyratex
Yotta Yotta
Zerowait Corp
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IBM DB2 /NetApp partnership highlights
 Joint Marketing and Sales
 Joint Marketing and Sales contract with DB2 and
Lotus
 comprehensive joint marketing plan
 Strong relationship with IGS (including reselling
agreement
 Growing partnering with IBM Software sales force
resulting in joint sales successes
 Participation in major trade shows
 IDUG NA, Europe, M_DUG, IBM Partnerworld
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DB2 - NetApp Technical Reports
 IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition V6/V7:
Integrating with a NetApp Filer
 Unix, Windows NT and Windows 2000(co-authored with
IBM DB2 Toronto Lab)
 IBM DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition V7: Backup and
Recovery Using a NetApp Filer
 Unix, Windows NT (co-authored with IBM DB2 Toronto
Lab)
 Coming Soon
 Disaster recovery whitepaper for DB2 EE V7.1 using
SnapMirror technology
 Redbook (co-authored with IBM) on DB2 and NAS
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IBM DB2/NetApp Value Proposition
 Availability
 IBM DB2’s strong availability characteristics are
enhanced by NetApp Snapshots and SnapRestore
technology
 further strengthened by ‘Write Suspend’ functionality in
DB2 V 7.2.
 Reduce time to backup data, recover from data
corruption
 Bullet-proof Reliability of Filers
 > 99.99 % due to appliance design and integrated RAID
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IBM DB2/NetApp Value Proposition
 Scalability
 DB2 leads industry for number of nodes and terabytes
supported
 NetApp filers provide ability to expand from 100 GB to
multiple terabytes with no downtime for DB2
 Excellent scalability demonstrated in study with DB2
EEE, Intel Cluster servers and NetApp filers
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IBM DB2/NetApp Value Proposition
 Ease of Management
 “NetApp filers are easy to set up, use, manage” - Berni
Schiefer, Manager DB2 UDB Advanced Technology and
Performance
 Complementary Partnerships
 SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft etc.
 TCO
 DB2 has substantially better TCO than competitors
(D.H. Brown report)
 NetApp 75 % lower than EMC (INPUT report)
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Conclusion:
+
= cost effective mission critical
deployment
 Dramatic reduction in TCO
 Strong support partnership
 Strong product partnership with
aggressive ongoing roadmap
 Scalability to the largest scale and global
deployment
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DB2 ‘Write Suspend’ functionality
•DB2 has delivered two new features in Version
7.2:
•Suspended I/O
•db2inidb utility
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DB2 ‘Write Suspend’ functionality
•DB2 has delivered two new features in Version
7.2:
•Suspended I/O
•db2inidb utility
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DB2 ‘Write Suspend’ - db2inidb
db2inidb utility
•The db2inidb utility operates on the mirrored copy
-Perform crash recovery
-provide a duplicate copy of the database for
reporting purposes
-Put the copied database in a roll-forward pending
state and roll forward the database
-keeps the mirrored copy synchronized with the
primary database
-Allow the mirrored copy of the database to be
backed up
-backup that does not impact the performance
of the primary database server.
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