© 2006 IBM Corporation SAN Volume Controller References Jan 2006 Roger Wofford Storage Software...

© 2006 IBM Corporation

SAN Volume Controller ReferencesJan 2006

Roger WoffordStorage Software Product Marketing

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Business Challenge Benefits

Integrate IT infrastructure with Softbank due to acquisition

Create tiered storage to reduce costs

Reduce the cost of implementing copy services

Improved scalability and flexibility for a lower cost

Reduced the need for more capacity by using their existing storage more efficiently

Enables easy redistribution of storage assets as application requirements grow

Solution Introduced SAN Volume Controller to manage the

storage infrastructure

Added DS4500 for departmental use and as a FlashCopy target

Uses SVC-based FlashCopy between ESS and DS4500 to reduce costs


Business Challenge

Benefits

Manage their client’s needs better

Increase their flexibility

Ensure proper access levels to research data

Reduced overall costs by 10%

Simpler to manage their large and growing environment

Set the stage for 6X storage growth expected in 2006

Solution DS4500 storage with both FC and SATA drives

SAN Volume Controller to create and manage tiers of storage from a central point

SAN File System for policy-based file movement between storage tiers



Improve the performance and scalability of their IT infrastructure

Simplify their storage administration to save costs and improve personnel productivity

Improve their disaster recovery capabilities

Increased business critical application performance by 50%

Cut end-user response times in half

Used SAN Volume Controller data movement to simplify the transition from HP storage

Solution Consolidated servers into IBM BladeCenter and

pSeries servers

Consolidated storage into ESS and DS4000 managed by SAN Volume Controller

Implemented SAN Volume Controller & ESS800 at remote site



Improve IT flexibility

Implement a disaster recovery capability

Increase its availability to 99.99%

Expect to save $700K in maintenance fees alone

Reduced batch processing time by 67%

Achieved 99.99% availability to their clients

Solution

Introduced SAN Volume Controller at two sites to manage multiple DS4000 storage servers

IBM pSeries servers + HACMP create their high availability environment

GPFS enables parallel applications to access the same files from either site

Charles Vogele Trading Group AG



Create a DR capability to meet APRA standards

Link their data centers, 40 km apart

Achieve more efficient storage capabilities

Flexible, reliable storage solution

Disaster recovery capabilities exceed APRA requirements

Storage is simpler to manage and their personnel are more productive

Solution

DS4400 storage at both sites

SAN Volume Controller to manage the storage

Metro Mirror for SAN Volume Controller to replicate between the sites over a Cisco DWDM network

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New regulations required keeping records of all security calls

Enhance business resiliency to satisfy elevated customer demands

Reduce costs to enable profitable expansion

Expects to save $1m in first 18 months

SVC enabled storage consolidation & enhanced scalability

TSM simplified storage management and enabled efficient backups

Solution Constructed a new call center that also serves as a

failover & disaster recovery site

IBM Grid Computing solution with IBM Bladecenter, xSeries and VMware server virtualization

SAN Volume Controller manages DS4000 / DS8000 storage & TSM + IBM Tape provide DR protection


SVC Client References as Proof Points

Industry Client Benefits Realized

TransportationCalifornia Dept of Motor Vehicles

Shares storage capacity from a single pool across its server environment

Simplified their infrastructure and it’s easier to manage

Professional Services

DIS-AG Simplified storage growth and server upgrades

Mirrors and copies CRM, Web interface & MS Exchange environments

Healthcare Care New England Used SVC for data migration for its new data center, increasing uptime

Reduced costs by replicating between different classes of storage

Insurance Desjardins Created a tiered storage environment for easier backups

Simplified provisioning across all storage from a single point

Media & Entertainment

Yurion, Inc Ensures 100% availability of its music services to its users

Enables a single admin to monitor and configure the grid remotely

Consumer Products

Smithfield Foods Simplified managing storage and streamlined admin tasks

A principal factor in achieving 10% annual profit growth

Financial Services

Australian Administration Services

Increased flexibility and scalability to support expected growth

Supports multi-vendor strategy to reduce costs


SAN Volume Controller References with Heterogeneous Storage

ClientIBM SalesContact

StorageManaged Client Benefits Realized

Group Humanis(France)

Florence ScherrerPhone: 33-1–4905 -8680 [email protected]

EMC

IBM

Reduced backup times from five hours to two hours

Increased utilization of storage assets

China Construction Bank (China)

Wei JinPhone: [email protected]

EMC

IBM

Reduced storage management requirements by 50%

Overall storage performance increased 3X

Marine Max(US)

Michael E. ShahbazianPhone: (813) [email protected]

EMC Increased supply chain efficiencies by 25%

Saved hundreds of hours of development costs

City of Richmond(US)

Andy HarmondPhone: (804) [email protected]

EMC

IBM

Expects to more than double their storage utilization from 40% to 85%

Significantly reduced disk storage costs

Daishin Securities(Korea)

YoungKyoon AhnPhone: [email protected]

EMC

IBM

Created a multi-vendor disaster recovery environment between EMC and IBM disks

Reduced the complexity and costs of managing storage

Zf LenkesystemeGmbh (Germany)

Alexander KlaegerPhone: [email protected]

EMC

IBM

Created tiered storage environment to match business needs

Increased storage utilization of existing assets

Lowered the costs of managing heterogeneous storage

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