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University of BristolFile Consolidation Project

Marc Nevitt – Solution Architect

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Agenda

• Define Strategic Milestones and Business Requirements generating proposed Infrastructure

– Requirements of the University

• How does the proposed Solution meet requirements?

• Present Outline of Proposed Infrastructure

– How proposed architecture will meet Strategic requirements

– Information about proposed solution components

– Expansion & Upgrade Scenarios

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Strategic Milestones

1. Critical Service Recovery

- Decrease Time taken to recover Critical Services

- Reduce critical system potential data loss window

2. Homogenous Storage Management Strategy

- Easier to replicate multiple node data

- Allows for more productive management

3. Robust & Flexible File Store

- Under-graduate & Staff with file capacity provision

- Potential to manage departmental data

4. Test & Development Data and Corruption Recovery

- Provide convenient means of creating Test Data

- Rapid means of recovering from ‘logical’ corruption

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Strategic Milestones

1. Critical Service Availability

• Augment current DR Plan

• Third Party providing ‘Recovery Asset’ within four hours

• Represents only the beginning of a potentially lengthy recovery process

• Sharp Reduction in time to recover Critical Services

• Provide replica of data on disk in another location, via CLARiiON

• Faster than restoring from tape backup

• Three Failure Scenarios

• Computing Asset Failure

• Corrupt Application Recovery

• Site level Recovery

• Production ‘State’ Recovery via ‘Synchronous’ Replication

• Data generated between last back up & time of asset failure is unrecoverable

• Need to recover data as close to the state in which the production asset failed.

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Strategic Milestones

2. Homogenous Storage Management Strategy

• Enables Critical Service Replication, via MirrorView

• Far more productive than Host/Local Replication

• Overcomes limited recovery computing asset

• Limitations to ‘Local Attach’ storage management paradigm

• Highly Proliferated Environment can perpetuate Management Productivity issues:

• Hardware Limitations

• Disk is directly annexed to the processing node,

• The management of storage is directly related to the configuration state of a specific system.

• Lack of predictable storage management

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Strategic Milestones

3. Robust & Flexible File Store

• Two Distinct Areas of File Storage

• Undergraduate & Staff File Storage

• Theoretical maximum requirement of ten terabytes

• Realistic estimation between two and five terabytes

• Departmental Administrative Data

• Management of Departmental Administrative Files currently resides within the department itself

• Environment dispersed over a relatively wide geographical area.

• Represents a high asset count that would impose real management boundaries if centrally administered.

• Hyper – Consolidation

• Resolution of both file storage area’s to a level of asset that is within acceptable management parameters

• File Storage Provision made highly available & predictable to manage.

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Strategic Milestones

4. Test & Development Data and Corruption Recovery

• A convenient means of generating data for Test and Development purposes is a high priority for the University.

• Currently facilitated by the restoration of backup to the test & development computing asset.

• Slow restoration of Data from backup is a major factor in the time taken to perform a T&D activity

• T&D activity, by it nature, precipitates the risk of Corruption and the need to recover to a base state.

• Restoring to base configuration is facilitated by tape; slow.

• The use of replicated data with SNAP SHOTS & CLONES

• Shorten the time taken to perform a T&D activity but also allow a wider scope of Test & Development.

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Proposed Architecture

Enterprise Storage Architecture

• Based on two principle storage technologies

• Storage Area Networking (SAN)

• DELL | EMC CLARiiON CX providing core storage infrastructure.

• Deployed into two sites

• Synchronous Replication delivering ‘Production State’ recovery

• Detach Storage management from Computing device and resolve into a predictable administrative paradigm

• Thirteen Servers to initially attach to SAN

• High Specification Network Attached Storage (NAS)

• DELL | EMC Celerra Network Attach Storage

• Transparent integration into Active Directory & NFS

• High Specification File Serving Device capable of ‘Hyper-Consolidating’ asset

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Proposed Solution – Dell / EMC CLARiiON CX700

Feature CX300 CX500 CX700

Drive scalability 60 120 240

Host scalability SAN 64 128 256

Performance 50,000 IOPs680 MB/s

120,000 IOPs720 MB/s

200,000 IOPs1,520 MB/s

Host connections 4 SFF optical 4 SFF optical 8 SFF optical

Rack size (DPE2 or SPE)

4UDPE2 and SPS, with disks

4UDPE2 and SPS, with disks

5USPE and SPS, no disks

Rack size (DAE2) 3U 3U 3U

RAID 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5 0, 1, 1/0, 3, 5

Cache vaulting Yes Yes Yes

Data scrubbing Yes Yes Yes

Management software Navisphere Manager

Navisphere Manager

Navisphere Manager

Point in time copy SnapView SnapView SnapView

Remote mirroring N/a MirrorView MirrorView

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Proposed Solution

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CLARiiON CX500Replication

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University of BristolProposed Storage Infrastructure (Version 4.0)

15 x 146GB (10K)

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32 Port McData Switches24 Port McData Switches (8 ports enabled)

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Investment Protection

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University of Bristol – Expanded Storage Infrastructure (Version 1.0)

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32 Port McData Switches 32 Port McData Switches

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