10 Reasons To Virtulaize Your Storage

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Leveraging Virtualization for Greater ROI

IT as a Weapon SeriesPeter Eicher, Product Marketing

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FalconStor IPStor Platform

TOTALLY Open and massively scalabledata protection and

management

• IPStor® software is a highly optimized, scalable, and flexible virtualization platform

• Leverages all open storage and tape libraries

• A data provisioning and protection platform based on standard industry server and storage technology working with all connectivity protocols



SNIA Definition of Virtualization

“ …. virtualization hides the back-end complexity and adds or integrates new functionality with existing back-end data services”

FalconStor definition:Storage Virtualization provides an abstraction layer between physical storage devices and compute elements and facilitates classification and pooling of storage resources. The virtualization layer can also provide intelligence and advanced data services to increase overall efficiency.



Data

FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)

Physical Virtual

Existing SAN volumes via Storage

Service Enabler

Virtualized SAN volumes

Thin provisioned SAN volumes

Linux Solaris HP-UX AIX Netware

Exchange Oracle VMware NotesSQL SAPDB2

Windows

Any application

Any operating system

Any storage protocol

Any diskarray


Ten Reasons to Use Virtualization

And we mean it



10 reasons to use storage virtualization

#1 Simplify Provisioning

Click! Click! Done!



Simplifying Provisioning

Virtualdisks

Physicaldisks

• Create volumes of any size from across physical disk resources

• Physical LUN and virtual devices up to 16TB each

• Expand volumes as needed

• Batch-creation of volumes

• Securely assign volumes to servers through NSS interface

• Host connections via Fibre Channel, iSCSI, InfiniBand




# 2 Data Mobility

You want me to move what to

where?



Data mobility

• Any-to-any synchronous or asynchronous data mirroring/copying

• Zero downtime data migration – Initiate disk mirror– Switch primary target when

synchronization completes– No need to ever stop your

applications– Ultimate data protection

across arraysPrimary MirrorPrimaryMirror




# 3 Rip roaring fast data recovery

“Data restore” has left the building



Rip roaring fast data recovery

FC orEthernet

Application-specific Snapshot Agent

• One TimeMark® snapshot policy per virtualized disk• Flexible scheduling

• Mountable TimeView® images for instant data recovery of any captured point in time

• 255 snapshots per disk

• Snapshot Agents and consistency groups for 100% data integrity

• Eliminate “mandatory restore” and move to data recovery

11:0011:00 12:0012:009:009:00 10:0010:00




# 4 Fixing Backup Problems

Your backup vendor called. He wants his

backup window back.

But you don’t.



BU SW calls HyperTrac™ to mount snapshot disk for serverless tape backup

Eliminating Backup Window &Host Performance Impact

Ethernet

Files/Volume

SystemState

Database

Traditional Backup

FC orEthernet

Shrinking backup window & host

performance impact

Perform tape backup anytime. Eliminate backup window,

remove backup performance impact from production

servers

Backup server

Backup SW

HyperTrac

11:00

10:0010:00 11:0011:00




# 5 Ability to Pool Storage by Class

Everybody in the pool!



Pooling storage by class

• Assign physical disk resources to storage pools

• Categorize based on performance, usage, cost, whatever you want

• Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3…• Snapshot disk• Replica disk• Stuff-nobody-will-ever-

look-at-again-in-my-lifetime disk

• Decrease operator error and avoid misallocation of resources

RAM disk

Fibre disk

SATA disk

Joe’s Disk Emporium




# 6 Eliminating Vendor Barriers

Let me see if I got this… I can only copy data from

your expensive disk array to… another one of your expensive disk arrays?

Umm… not so much.



Eliminating vendor barriers

• TOTALLY Open data movement from any device to any device• Live mirrors of primary

data• Snapshot space• Replication targets• Full copies (clones)

• Eliminate any and all vendor lock-in scenarios

Vendor A

Vendor BVendor D

Vendor C




# 7 Reducing Costs for Disaster Recovery

As soon as I stop laughing at the bandwidth costs I’ll

find some time to cry.



Sending changed TracksHost updatesa disk sector

Sending Changed SectorsHost updatesa disk sector 512b

512b512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b512b

32K Trackis replicated

512 byte Sectoris replicated

64 times more efficient

MicroScan vs Track-based replication



Real world replication savings example

• Legal Services firm benchmark, Nov-Jan 2006• 83 days worth of replicated data

Site File System Change in GB

Filtered by MicroScan

Actual GB Transferred

Percentage Reduction

Houston 4,869 4,017 852 82%

New York City 16,176 13,409 2,767 83%

Wash D.C. 7,289 5,581 1,708 77%

Atlanta 73,376 62,527 10,849 85%

101,710 85,534 16,176 84%

Avg per Day 1225 1031 195 84%

Min. Storage Unit to Track Changes on Disk

FalconStor Vendor-A Vendor-B Vendor-C

512 Bytes 4 KB 16 KB 64 KB

Storage Efficiency 1 8 x less efficient

32 x less efficient

64 x less efficient




# 8 Reducing Costs for Disaster RecoveryPart Two

It’s not like much is at stake here. It’s only…. THE ENTIRE COMPANY!

So you’re approving the DR budget, right?

Right?

Work with me man.



Reducing disaster recovery costs

• Any-to-any replication means you can use lower-cost storage at the DR site

• Any-to-any protocol support means you can replicate your Fibre Channel SAN to an iSCSI SAN

• Complete support for physical-to-virtual restore means you can use virtual servers at the DR site to restore physical servers at the data center

• Thin Provisioning and Thin Disaster Recovery means you save disk space and power




# 9 Keeping Your Storage Vendor Honest

Which in no way is meant to imply that he can’t still buy

you lunch.



Keep your storage vendor honest

• Move the storage intelligence into the fabric• Storage abstraction

layer

• Storage services no longer dependent on vendor-exclusive disk functionality

Hosts

Fabric

Storage abstraction layer

Disk




# 10 Saving Money!

I’m talking cash, greenbacks, legal tender, loot, scratch, gold, gravy, coin, dinero,

Benjamins, cabbage, samolians, and that thing

called a budget that’s never, ever what it should be.



Saving money!

• Any storage!• Any storage protocol!• Low bandwidth replication!• Easier management!• No vendor lock-in!• Thin provisioning!• Fast recovery!• No backup window!• Shall we go on?




1. Simplify provisioning

2. Data mobility

3. Rip roaring fast data recovery

4. Fixing backup problems

5. Ability to pool storage by class

6. Eliminating vendor barriers

7. Reducing costs for disaster recovery

8. Reducing costs for disaster recovery, part two

9. Keeping your storage vendor honest

10.Saving money


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