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VNX Storage Platform

Juraj GrigaEMC Technology Consultant

23.3.2011


Application Challenges


Why did we virtualize servers?


Benefits after virtualization


Virtualization Changes EverythingVirtual servers need virtualization optimized storage

Virtual server pool

Self-Optimizing Storage Pools

Storagesystem

Discrete servers

Static RAID Groups

Storagesystem

RAID groups Storage pool

AUTOMATIC DATA OPTIMIZATION

AUTOMATIC APPLICATION OPTIMIZATION


Unisphere™

Next Generation Unified StorageOptimized for today’s virtualized IT

Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

VNXe3100 VNX7500

VNX5700

VNXe3300 VNX5100

VNX5500

VNX5300


#1 SAN Platform #1 NAS Platform

Simple. Efficient. Powerful.Built for the most demanding virtual environments

CLARiiON Celerra

Scales performance and capacity

Self-optimizing

Hyper-efficient

Works on any network

Fully automated

A new wayto think

about unified storage

H A R D W A R E


Click. Automate. Done.


VNX FamilyVNX Series and VNXe Series

Efficient Data Services Virtual Provisioning, Compression, File Dedupe, Replication

PowerfulNew multi-core Intel CPUs &

6Gb/s SAS backend

Unified PlatformOne platform supporting file, block and object

Optimized For All Virtual ApplicationsVMware and Hyper-V integration

Easily UpgradableStart with file or block and

upgrade to unified

High Availability Designed to deliver 5 9’s

availability

Centralized ManagementOne management framework

Packaged Software Solutions

Simple software suites

VNXe3100

VNX7500VNX5700

VNXe3300 VNX5100

VNX5500

VNX5300


VNX System Architecture

LCCLCC

Flash drivesSAS drives

SPSSPS

Power Supply

Power Supply

LAN

Near-Line SAS drives

VNX SP Failover

Clients Oracle serversExchange servers

VNX Unified Storage

Application servers

SAN

FailoverVNX X-Blade

VNX SP

VNX OE FILE

VNX OE BLOCK

Virtual servers

FC iS FC iSFCoE

FCoE

VNX X-BladeVNX X-BladeVNX X-Blade VNX X-BladeVNX X-BladeVNX X-BladeVNX X-Blade

10GbEnet

10GbEnet

Object:Atmos VE

H A R D W A R E


VNX Series ModelsSimple. Efficient. Powerful.

VNX5100 VNX5300 VNX5500 VNX5700 VNX7500Form factor 4U 4U–7U 4U–7U 5U–8U 5U–8U

Number of drives 75 125 250 500 1,000

Drive types 3.5” Flash, SAS, and NL-SAS and 2.5” SAS

File system

modules

I/O slots per X-Blade

n/a 3 4 4 5

X-Blades n/a 1 or 2 1, 2, or 3 2, 3, or 4 2–8

Memory n/a6 GB/blade 12 GB/blade 12 GB/blade 24 GB/blade

12 GB 36 GB 48 GB 192 GB

Protocols n/a NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS

Storage Pool

modules

Storage Processors

2

I/O ports per SP 4 Fibre Channel ports, 2 back-end SAS ports n/a n/a

I/O slots per SP n/a 2 2 5 5

Memory 8 GB 16 GB 24 GB 36 GB 48 GB

ProtocolsFibre

ChannelFibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI


The FLASH 1st StrategyMaximum economic efficiency across system service life

Year One Year TwoYear Three Year Four Year Five

“Hot”high activity

“Cold”low activity

As data ages, activity falls quickly, which trigger automatic movement to high capacity HDDs for lowest cost over time

Highly active data is stored on FLASH for fastest response time

Movement Trigger

HDDFLASH


Flexible Storage Tiers

SAS back-end connect for performance and reliability

• Up to 24Gb (4x6 Gb) per SAS bus

• Point-to-point, robust interconnect

Flash (SSD) options

• Highest performing drives

• 3.5” – 100 GB, 200 GB

– ~3,000 IOs per second

Optimize TCO with tiered service levels

H A R D W A R E

AUTOMATIC DATA OPTIMIZATION

Highest capacity

Good performance

Highest performance

Near-line SAS(7.2K rpm)

SAS(10K /15K

rpm)

Flash

SAS (HDD) options

• 3.5” drives (195 drives/ rack)

– 300 GB and 600 GB– 10K and 15K RPM– ~ 140 (10K) to ~ 180

(15K) IOs per second

• 2.5” Drives (500 drives/ rack)

– 300 GB and 600 GB – 10K RPM

Near-line SAS (HDD) options

• 3.5” drives (195 drives/ rack)

– 2 TB– 7.2K RPM– ˜ 90 IOs per second


SSD HDD

LUN

Highest Tier PreferredMaximize performancee.g. high-performance OLTP system

LUN LUNLowest Tier PreferredReduce TCOe.g., archived or infrequently accessed data

Auto-TierOptimize TCO and performancee.g. databases with varied levels of activity among tables, or file systems with varied levels of activity across files

FAST VP PoliciesPolicy ensures storage service levels are met

FA S T S U I T E

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Save Time with FAST VPSet-it-and-forget-it performance optimization

FA S T S U I T E


Virtual Machines

VMware ESX Server

Nondisruptive Data Mobility with Virtual LUN

• Tier virtual machines within array

• Move virtual machines between storage tiers

• Alter performance characteristic of your VMware vStorage VMFS without disruption

• Nondisruptive to virtual machines and applications

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Tier 1 Applications

Tier 2 Applications

Virtual LUN Technology

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LP-SATA

LP-SATA

LP-SATA

LP-SATA

LP-SATA

LP-SATA


FAST Cache Overview

• Support for file and block

• Extends mid-tier cache using Flash drives

– Adds up to 2 TB of cache

• Less than a third of the cost of DRAM

• Hot data automatically ends up in FAST Cache

• RAID 1 for Read/Write protection

• Transparent to SP failure, no need to warm up the cache

• Applicable to most workloads

FAST Cache

Disk Drives

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Performance

Capacity

Exchange SharePointOracle

DatabaseFileVMwareSAP

FA S T S U I T E


3-Times the PerformanceRun applications faster than ever

• 3X the number of users

• 3X the number of transactions

• 3X faster VMware View boot time

• 3X quicker VMware View refresh time

• 3X the number of users

• 3X the number of transactions


Accelerate SQL Server with VNX Series

• 4.5x performance improvement vs. previous generation

• Achieves optimized performance without expensive data base and application tuning

• Configuration: – VNX5700 utilized 20 SAS and

4 Flash drives with FAST Cache

– vs CX4-480 with 20 FC drives

More than 3x performance improvement with VNX and FAST Cache

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Accelerate Oracle OLTP with VNX Series

• Improved Oracle transaction time by 3.7x

– Using FAST Cache and virtualized Oracle (with vSphere 4.1)

• Increased performance comes at only a 18% increase in storage solution cost

• Configuration: – VNX5300 with 20 15K SAS and

7 Flash drives (two used as FAST Cache, five in a tiered pool with FAST VP)

– Vs. CX4-120 with 45 FC drives

>3x utility from your Oracle OLTP using FAST Cache and FAST VP

If you hear Oracle OLTP, VNX series is a great

solution

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FA S T S U I T E


VNX THIN PROVISIONING

VNX Thin Provisioning

• Capacity oversubscription allows intelligent use of resources

– File systems– FC and iSCSI LUNs– Logical size greater than

physical size

• VNX Thin Provisioning safeguards to avoid running out of space

– Monitoring and alerting

• Automatic and dynamic extension past logical size

– Automatic NAS file system extension

– FC and iSCSI dynamic LUN extension

Only allocate the actual capacity required by the application

Logical application and user view

Physical allocation

User B10 GB

User A10 GB

User C10 GB

4 GB

2 GB2 GB

Physical consumed storage

Capacity on demand

E F F I C I E N C Y


Dynamic Capacity Provisioning

E F F I C I E N C Y


Block Data CompressionReduces data footprint by up to 50%

• Works with LUNs, databases, e-mail– Best with infrequently accessed data

• Minimal performance impact

• Compression done in background

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File Deduplication and Compression

E F F I C I E N C Y

• Intelligent data selection– Typically avoids active data

Option to target active files Compression support for VMs through

the Celerra Plug-in for VMware End-user file-level activation

– Tunable options by file system Size of files Age of files File extension Directory filtering

• Internal policy engine– Runs in the background– Throttles to avoid negative

impact on client services

• Leverages EMC technologies– Compression engine– Deduplication engine

Capacity Savings

Traditional file data

1 TB

Up to 50%savings

File-level Deduplication- enabled file system

~ 500 GB

Activedata

~100 GB

Up to 500 GB savingsDedupe and

compressed data

~400 GB

Activedata

~100 GB

Inactive or aged data orspecifically targeted data

~900 GB


VNX File Level Retention

File Level Retention Enterprise Option (FLR-E)• Provides for retention periods per file

• Enables adherence to good business practices – Tamper proof clock– Activity Logging

File Level Retention Compliance Option (FLR-C)• Meets SEC Rule 17a-4(f) compliance requirements

– Prevents file system deletions with locked files– “Hard” default retention periods– Data verification to validate committed content

• Retention periods cannot be modified

• File systems can only be deleted when retention period has expired

• Third-party compliance validation paper

S E C U R I T Y A N D C O M P L I A N C E S U I T E


Virus-checking request

�VNX Anti-Virus Support

• Shared bank of virus-checking servers

• Can deploy multiple vendors’ engines concurrently

• Virus-checking server only reads part of files

• File access is blocked until it is checked

– Scan after update– Scan on first read– Automatic access-time update

• Notification on virus detect

• Anti-virus sizing tool

• Runs over VNX Event Enabler infrastructure

McAfee NetShieldSymantec AntiVirus for NAS and EndpointTrend Micro ServerProtect for EMC VNXCA eTrust AntivirusSophos Anti-VirusKaspersky Anti-Virus

Virus-checkingserver

User

Write/close or first read after new virus-definition file

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VNX5300

This is the only anti-virus checking method supported by major virus-checking vendors for network shares

Virus-checking signatures

S E C U R I T Y A N D C O M P L I A N C E S U I T E


FC NetworkIP Network

Next Generation Data NetworkingConverged 10GbE networks are emerging

• EMC now has expanded portfolio of services

– Certification training– Implementation

services

• Services can be helpful in the following customer use cases

– Data center virtualization (cloud)

– Unified storage (iSCSI and NAS)

– Storage and server consolidation

HBANIC

Converged Network

Converged Network Adapter

FCoE IO Module

• Trend accelerated by server virtualization

– VMware support FCoE, iSCSI, and NAS

• EMC now delivers end-to-end Ethernet-based solutions

– Converged network adapters

– FCoE switches– Native Ethernet/FCoE

storage

H A R D W A R E


Disaster Recovery Challenges

H A R D W A R E

Business Continuity can be Complex


Options for Protecting Data?

Daily Backup: Recovery point every 24 hours

RECOVERY GAP

Snapshot: Recovery point every 3 hoursRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAPRECOVERY

GAP

Continuous Replication with Application Bookmarks: Application optimized recovery points

Checkpoint Patch Post-Patch Cache Flush QuarterlyClose

HotBackup

CheckpointPre-Patch

UNLIMITED RECOVERY POINTS WITH APPLICATION I/O BOOKMARKS

(T) Time

Sync and Async Replication: Latest image replicated, but susceptible to logical corruption

Event

Recovery


RecoverPoint/SE OverviewData protection, replication, and disaster recovery solution

• Dynamic synchronous and asynchronous replication

• WAN deduplication reduces network traffic by up to 90%

• Protects physical and virtualized applications

• Integrated with VMware vCenter Server and Site Recovery Manager

• Recover replicated data to any point in time

• Uses array based pricing!

• Provides unified file and block storage disaster recovery

RecoverPoint/SE: VNX, CLARiiON Unifiedup to 300 TB

RecoverPoint Family

CRR: remote protection

CLR: concurrent local and remote protection

CDP: local protection


Local and/or Remote Replication

SAN

OPTIONAL REMOTE RECOVERY SITEPRODUCTION SITE

Prod

LUNs

FC/WAN

Local copy

Application servers

SAN

RecoverPointappliance

RecoverPoint bi-directional replication/recovery

Remote copy

Standby servers

RecoverPointappliance

Production and local journals

Remote

journal

VNX array

RecoverPoint/SE CRR• Unified block & file remote protection• DVR-like recovery to significant PiT• 90% WAN bandwidth reduction

RecoverPoint/SE CDP• Local block protection• DVR-like recovery to any PiT

VNX array


MirrorView - Multi-site Replication

MirrorView/SynchronousRPO: Zero seconds

• Both images identical• Limited distance• High network bandwidth• One primary to one or two

secondaries

MirrorView/AsynchronousRPO: 30 minutes to hours

• Target updated periodically• Unlimited distance• Restartable copy on

secondary if session fails • Optimized for low network

bandwidth (consumes 100 Mb/s maximum)

• One primary to one secondary

Limited distance

Primary Secondary

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Unlimited distance

Primary Secondary

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LUN level Disaster Recovery – MirrorViewithSynchronous

• Cost effective block replication

– Supports multi-site replication

• Tracks host writes while link to secondary is down

– Uses a bitmap to map the entire primary mirror

– When secondary is available again, sends only changed data

• Enables partial sync; avoids full re-sync

– Minimizes customer’s exposure to out-of-sync data

Cost effective synchronous block replication

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Secondary

E J O RE’J’O’R’

Fracture Log


Replicator

• Service-level specifications– Automated, business-oriented policy

definitions for recovery point objectives (RPOs)

– Set interconnect Quality of Service (QoS) by scheduled bandwidth throttling

• Advanced functionality– 1-to-N replication for data distribution– Cascading Replication for multi-site

disaster recovery

• Scalability– Up to 1,024 replication sessions

• Common replication management for NAS and iSCSI

• Integrates with writeable NAS snaps

CASCADING REPLICATION

Easily specify replication RPO and interconnect Quality of Service

R E P L I C A T I O N A N D R E C O V E R Y

Productionsite

Disaster recovery local

site

Disaster recovery

remote site

10-minute RPO 2-hour RPO

LAN WAN

Snaps

FS/LUNVDM

Snaps

FS/LUNVDM

Snaps

FS/LUNVDM

Network Network Network


Point-in-Time Views with Snaps

Logical PIT Copies

• Pointer-based copy of data– Takes only seconds to create a complete snap

• Requires less space than a full copy, but has performance overhead

– Only need space for modified data—“Copy on First Write”– Could result in spindle contention for concurrent reads (from

source and snap)

Physical PIT Copies*

• Physically independent point-in-time copies of source volume

– Require the same space as the source data– Available after initial copy– No performance impact on source data– Can be used to replace source after hardware or software error

• Can be incrementally re-established

Logical point-in-time view

Full-image copies

* Physical PIT copies for file systems requires VNX Replicator

L O C A L P R O T E C T I O N S U I T E

Snap

Snap

Snap

Snap

Sourcedata

SourceLUN

Clones

Clones

Clones

Clones


Replication Manager Local or Remote Protection

• Automates the creation, management, and use of all EMC disk-based, point-in-time replication technologies

• Auto-discovers the environment

• Intelligence to orchestrate replicas with deep application awareness

• Easy to use single GUI with advanced wizards

• Assignable roles for self-service replication

Improved business continuity with automated disk-based replicas

Integrated with major enterprise applications

A P P L I C A T I O N P R O T E C T I O N S U I T E

Replica 1

Replica 2

Replica 3

Replica 4


PowerPath Multipathing, Monitoring, and Advanced Capabilities

Monitoring and Management

EMCPowerPath

Multipathing

Data EncryptionPowerPath Migration Enabler*

Virtualization

Nondisruptive array migrations

SAN

Hypervisor

PowerPath

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HBA HBA HBA HBA

SAN


Optimized for VirtualizationSeamless virtualization experience and acceleration

Virtual server administrator

Storage administrator

VAAI* offloadvCenter Server

integrationUnisphere

Less net I/OMore VMsFaster response

10X

Manage storage and VM resources in unison

Control offload functions and integrated replication

Manage storage and VM resources in unison

Control offload functions and integrated replication

* VAAI = VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration


VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)10-times less I/O, more VMs, faster

• Intelligent offload of storage function to array

• Accelerates VM deployment, clone, snapshot, and Storage VMotion

• Available with latest VMware’s vSphere

VAAI

Improve scalability and performance

Eliminate out-of-space errors

Transparently leverage array function

Benefits


Storage ManagementEMC Virtual Storage Integrator


Next-generation architecture• Advanced multi-core platform • No-single-point-of-failure design• Multi-protocol: CIFS, NFS, and iSCSI• Powerful 6 Gb/s SAS back end• Compact 2U and 3U design

Streamlined for ease of use • Designed for the IT generalist• Application-optimized wizards• Configurable with just a few clicks • Built-in snapshots and replication• Perfect for small or remote offices

More Storage. Less Effort.The easiest, most-efficient array ever

Storage. Click. Done.


VNXe Series ModelsSimple. Efficient. Affordable.

VNXe3100 VNXe3300Form factor 2U 3U

Maximum drives 48 or 96 120

Drive types 3.5” SAS, NL-SAS 3.5” SAS, NL-SAS

Protocols NFS (including pNFS), CIFS, iSCSI

Configurable I/O slots 1 or 2 4

Embedded I/O ports per SP2 or 4 SAS ports2 or 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports

4 SAS ports8 Gigabit Ethernet ports

Storage processors (controllers) 1 or 2 2

System memory 4 or 8 GB 24 GB


Instant Expertise Best-practice wizards configure storage with just a few clicks

Share WizardSet up NFS and CIFS shares in minutes

Volume WizardSet up iSCSI volumes in minutes

Hyper-V WizardSet up 1 TB Hyper-V datastore in 10 minutes

Email WizardSet up hundreds of Exchange mailboxes in fewer than 10 clicks

VMware WizardSet up 1 TB VMware datastore in 10 minutes


Visually drill down to individual components

Instant Insight with Unisphere


Next-Generation Unified StorageOptimized for today’s virtualized data IT

VNXe3100 VNX7500

VNX5700

VNXe3300 VNX5100

VNX5500

VNX5300

Most PowerfulSystem

Easiest

Array

Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

Plug and play

Works on any IP net

Up and running quickly

Easier than ever

Scales large and fast

Self-optimizes for performance and capacity efficiency

Works on any network

Everything is fully automated


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JG Vnx Series

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