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Pavel Müller
IBM Systems and Technology Group
IBM Storwize V7000 Unified
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Storwize V7000 – Position
Block File
Enterprise
DS8000 For clients requiring:
Advanced disaster recovery with
3-way mirroring and System z
GDPS support
Continuous availability, no
downtime for upgrades
Best-in-class response time for
OLTP or transaction workloads,
flash optimization
Single system capacity scalable to
the PB range
XIV For clients requiring:
Breakthrough ease of use and
management
High utilization with
automated performance (“hot
spot”) management
Virtually unlimited snapshots
Advanced self-healing
architecture
SONAS For clients requiring:
Massive I/O, backup, or
restores
Consolidation, or scale large
numbers of clusters
N series For clients requiring:
NAS storage
Simple two-site high
availability
Midrange
DS5000 For clients requiring:
Good cost/performance, general-
purpose storage
Need to add capacity to existing
configuration
10s of TB of capacity
Storwize V7000 For clients requiring:
10s of TB of rack-mounted storage with sophisticated software
functions
Breakthrough ease of use and management
Non-disruptive migration from, or virtualization of, existing disk
Entry DS3000 For clients requiring:
SMBs or branch office locations; cost sensitive; start at as small as
100s GB, up to low TB capacity
Storage
Optimizers
SVC, Easy Tier, ProtecTIER, Information Archive, Real Time Compression For clients requiring optimization of storage costs:
Storage technologies that add function, performance, ease of use, or efficiency to new or existing storage
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The File Storage challenge “We've been preaching against the SAN vs. NAS war for a long time. Users need block
access and file access - what they really want is a single storage platform that does both.
Steve Duplessie - Enterprise Storage* Group - August 2002
Total Archived Capacity, by Content Type, Worldwide, 2008-2015 (Petabytes)
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Storwize V7000 Overview
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Control enclosure can be purchased in 12 or 24 drive bay configuration
– Includes dual controllers and internal disk drives
– 16GB Cache
Expansion enclosures can be purchased in 12 or 24 drive bay configurations
– Maximum nine expansion enclosures
– Expand capacity up to 720 TB raw (3 TB NL SAS)
Solid State Drives can be included in 24 bay enclosures
– Replaces spinning drives
– Enables use of Easy Tier functionality
Drive sizes can be intermixed in an enclosure
12 and 24 bay enclosures can be intermixed in a system
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Easy Tier (dynamic HDD/SSD management)
Thin provisioning
FlashCopy up to 256 copies of each volume
Volume Mirroring
Storage virtualization (internal and external disks)
Global & Metro Mirror
Non-disruptive data migration
RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Software Functionalities
2U
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Drive Choices
2.5-inch: up to 24 drives/encl.
– 146 GB 15K RPM SAS
– 300 GB 15K RPM SAS
– 300 GB 10K RPM SAS
– 450 GB 10K RPM SAS
– 600 GB 10K RPM SAS
– 900 GB 10K RPM SAS
–1 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS
– 200GB E-MLC Solid-State
– 300 GB E-MLC Solid-State
– 400 GB E-MLC Solid-State
3.5-inch: up to 12 drives/encl
– 2 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS
– 3 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS
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Control Enclosure Rear View 2076-312/324
External Enclosure Ports # Ports
8 Gb Fiber Channel SAN 8
1 Gb Ethernet 4
10 Gb Ethernet (Models
312/324)
4
USB 4
Internal Enclosure Ports # Ports
SAS 2.0 4
Each SAS 2.0 ports has four
send/receive wire pairs
Each wire pair is 6 Gb/s or 24 Gb/s total
per SAS port
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Expansion Enclosure Rear View
IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure (2076-212, -224) is packaged in a
2U rackmountable enclosure that houses twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays
(model 224) or twelve 3.5-inch drive bays (model 212)
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Clustered Systems
• SCALE UP to add capacity
• SCALE OUT to add performance
• Clustered systems provide smarter scalability
• Buy only as much capability as you need, when
you need it
• Increase performance, connectivity and cache
• Clustered system operates and is managed as a
single system
Scale UP and/or OUT as business requirements grow
Control enclosure 1 Control enclosure 2 …
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Clustered Systems Start with a single control enclosure (a pair of controllers)
• And add up to 9 expansion enclosures Mix 2.5” & 3.5” drive enclosures
Mix drive type and drive size in an enclosure
Add control enclosures independently of expansion enclosures
• Build a cluster (a Grid) of controller pairs
• Add expansion enclosures as required for capacity and performance
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Based on the XIV interface
Visual task flow
guidance
Integrated video
instruction
System status
always available Link to more
information if
needed
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Based on the XIV interface
Offline
Visually identify
hardware areas of
concern
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Storwize V7000 Unified
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What this is
• Unified block and file storage system with a tightly integrated management console
• Support for NFS/CIFS/FTP/HTTPS/SCP file protocols in addition to existing block functions
• IBM Active Cloud Engine™ technology
• File replication and file level snapshots for business continuity and disaster recovery
Why It Matters • Provides greater flexibility for provisioning of storage resources and improves overall
capacity utilization
• Unified console simplifies storage administration with a single user interface and
common CLI
• Enables deployment of a broad set of applications from within a single storage
system, especially in shared storage environments
V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
6U
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File Servers detail
Additional hardware and software on
top of the Storwize V7000
File Modules (FMs) provide file services
CIFS, FTP, HTTP(S), NFS, and SCP
Software stack originates from the Scale
Out NAS (SONAS) and GPFS products
x3650M3
Form factor: 2U
Processor: Single Six Core Intel® Xeon®
X5650 2.66GHz, 8MB L2 cache, 80W
Memory: 72GB DDR3 RAM
Storage: 2 * 500GB 10K SAS
Single RAID 1 pair
Network Interfaces: 4 GbE Ports 2 for Customer Network
2 for Management Network
Dual port 10GbE NIC Customer Network
Emulex OneConnect
Dual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel HBA QLogic QLE2562
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Internal connectivity
Storwize V7000 Unified File Servers take block storage from Storwize V7000 and present it to the network as filesystem, primarily as NFS and CIFS shares
Management interface for File Servers and Storwize V7000 is via green 1Gb Eth
File
Server File
Server
Storwize V7000
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• Support for NFS/CIFS/FTP/HTTPS/SCP file protocols in addition to existing block functions (FCP and iSCSI)
– NFS v2 & v3 server (not v4)
– CIFS server (Samba 3.3) – SMB1 and SMB2 (not 2.1)
– FTP, SCP & https servers
– NDMP v2, v3 & v4 backup/restore server (IP only, no local tape)
• File replication and file level snapshots for business continuity and disaster recovery in addition to existing block functions
File functions
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IBM Active Cloud Engine™ :
Policies and Rules
Means to automate the management of files using policies and rules
Policy is a set of rules that describes the life cycle of user data based on
the file’s attributes
Support for:
– File placement policies
• used to automatically place newly created files in a specific File System pool.
– File management policies
• used to manage files during their lifecycle
• move files to another internal or external File System pool
• copying files to archival storage
• changing their replication status
• deletion
Policy rules define an operation or definition such as migrate and replicate
a file
– three uses for rules:
• Initial file placement
• File management
• Restoring file data
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IBM Active Cloud Engine:
Policies and Rules (cont.)
Placement rules example :
Migration rules example :
Deletion rules example :
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Create and write files
/home/appl/data/web/important_big_spreadsheet.xls
/home/appl/data/web/big_architecture_drawing.ppt
/home/appl/data/web/unstructured_big_video.mpg
/home
/appl
/data
/web
/home/appl/data/web/important_big_spreadsheet.xls
/home/appl/data/web/big_architecture_drawing.ppt
/home/appl/data/web/unstructured_big_video.mpg
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Policy Engine
IBM Active Cloud Engine
Note: all three files, in same directory, but
each allocated to different physical
storage pool
Data striped across all disks in storage
pool. High performance, auto-tuning, auto-
load balancing
Pool 1: SAS drives Pool 2: Nearline SAS drives Pool 3: Nearline SAS drives
Workload auto-balanced across File
Servers
V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
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V7000 Unified
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Global Namespace
Metadata scan
/home
/appl
/data
/web
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
Policy Engine
• Scan Engine reads internal file system metadata
• Does not need to read the file or directory tree
1. Start scan
2. Read policies
3. Parallel Scan
4. Return results of scan
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IBM Active Cloud Engine
Scan Engine
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/home
/appl
/data
/web
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
/home/appl/data/web/important_big_spreadsheet.xls
/home/appl/data/web/big_architecture_drawing.ppt
/home/appl/data/web/unstructured_big_video.mpg
5. Perform results of scan
Policy Engine
Note: all three files, no change to logical
directory
HSM using external server Stub files left on disk
Auto-recall if accessed
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V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
IBM Active Cloud Engine
Data Movement
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Storwize V7000 Unified is a midrange disk system
– Customer set-up and maintained: built on proven Storwize V7000
– Intuitive GUI with wizards: built on proven Storwize V7000
– Support call flow starts in the same manner as Storwize V7000
Storwize V7000U is the first IBM-developed midrange unified storage offering
– Presenting both file and block interfaces from the same system
Storwize V7000U has a similar architecture to EMC Celerra and EMC VNX
– Unified management, ordering, and support but separate file/block devices
– File “module” hardware/software in front of block storage system
– File “module” only supports one type of storage (Storwize V7000), not a heterogeneous gateway
– Unified capability can be used only with single-control-enclosure systems
Storwize V7000U is a single orderable system with block and file capabilities
– Also available as an upgrade to an installed Storwize V7000 block-system (staged GA)
Storwize V7000U file module software based on IBM common NAS software and roadmap
– Enables faster delivery of file functions and file ISV certifications across multiple products
– Storwize V7000U software runs 2-way with embedded management (SONAS is n-way nodes with
separate management node)
Storwize V7000 Unified Key Points
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