Remote Data Instant Replay

Primary DR
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SC8000 Controllers Series 40 Controller

 What’s in it for you?
Define the replication process.

Describe how to set up and configure replication.

Describe how to activate a remote site and

recover back to the original site.

Discuss portable volume and live

volume.
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 Remote Instant Replay

• Volumes can be
replicated to
multiple sites
• Easy management Primary DR
through Enterprise
Manager
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 Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

ACK (4)
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ACK (3) Compellent SC8000
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EST

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Write (2)
EST

EST

Write (1)
System A Synchronous System B

ACK (2)
Compellent SC8000

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ACK between SC (4) Compellent SC8000

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Write (3)
EST
EST

Write (1)
System A Asynchronous System B

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 Failure recovery – minimal recopy
Two Synchronous Replication methods *
• High Availability Mode
- Source volume is available at all times.
- Uses “Check Pointing” to track changes to the source volume.
- Writes to the source volume when the destination volume in unavailable.
- Writes are “journaled” if high latency or link fails to remote site.
- Changes are sent to the remote site when link is re-established.
• High Consistency Mode
- Ensures primary volume and replica are identical.
- Writes to the host are failed if remote link is lost.
- This is how “legacy” synchronous replication works.
High Availability High Consistency

IO IO

Synchronous Synchronous
Host Host

Primary Remote Primary Remote

- Near DR Site - Near DR Site

*Cannot “toggle” modes. Must delete and recreate synchronous replication.

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 FC zoning for replication with virtual ports
Source uses Virtual Ports, Both Source and Remote use Virutal
Remote uses Legacy Mode Ports
Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 1 Zone 2 Zone 3
All Souce All Source All Source All Source
Virtual Port Physical Port All Physical Virtual Port Physical Port
WWN's WWN's Port WWN's WWN's WWN's
from both All Remote All Remote
All Remote Port All Remote Port Systems Physical Port Virtual Port
WWN's WWN's
WWN's WWN's

Physical represents an Virtual represents

Initiator action the Target
Ports Used
Source for Remote
Replication

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 Remote Instant Replay bandwidth

8Gb

DB

Email
Files
4Gb

• Frequency of replication
• Number of volumes
• Rate of changes
• Size of volumes 1Gb
• Quality of the link

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 Remote Instant Replay operations

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 Simulate a replicated volume

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 Configure Storage Center connections

Select the Storage Center

to connect to; click Next 1
to bring up the
Connection Screen

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 Creating a Quality of Service definition

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 Modifying QoS definitions in EM
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 Modifying QoS definitions in the Web GUI

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 Create a replicated volume

Select source and target

systems for replication,
then click Next

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 Volume selection

Select one or many volumes to replicate by checking the box next

to each volume, then click Next.

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 Create a replicated volume – configure
replication options

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 Create a replicated volume (cont.)

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 Saving Restore Points

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 Scheduling automatic Restore Points

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 View replications

• Enterprise Manager
• Web GUI
• QoS Definition

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 Perform Lab 25:
Enterprise Manager
Create a Replication

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 Predefine a DR site for activation

Edit
Settings

DR of 50GBVol3

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 Activating a Disaster Recovery site

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 Activating a Disaster Recovery site (cont.)

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 Activating a Disaster Recovery site (cont.)

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 Restoring to the Source site

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 Restoring to the Source site (cont.)

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 Remote Instant Replay best practices review

Small
Primary Bandwidth
DR
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Large
EST EST

Bandwidth

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 vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

• Certified with VMware’s Site

Recovery Manager (SRM)
• SRM takes advantage of Enterprise
Manager, to provide a simple to
implement and robust disaster
recovery solution
• Enterprise Manager 6.1 or higher
- Selectable Replay

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 Portable Volume
Ruggedized travel case (optional)

•Based on the Dell RD1000 solution

•Considerable cost and time savings on initial synchronization
to destination site
•Remote Instant Replay must be licensed on both sites
•Enterprise Manager facilitates the process
•1.0 TB External SATA hard disk drive
•USB 3.0 connectivity
•Built-in security and encryption
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 Portable Volume requirements

•Source and destination Storage Centers are visible in the

Enterprise Manager client
•Destination Storage Center is defined as a remote Storage
Center on the source Storage Center
•Storage Center and Enterprise Manager version must be 6.2
or greater
•The RD1000 replaces the legacy portable volume solution.
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 Connectivity
SC8000 Controller
Compellent SC8000
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EST

- USB drives
- Auto-detected connectivity Compellent SC8000
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- USB 3.0 speed (SC8000)

EST

2 USB on the front

2 USB on the back

Series 40 Controller

2 USB ports on the front

behind the faceplate
2 USB ports on the back
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 Portable Volume features

Source Destination
• Reduces initial synchronization time
from weeks/months to days iSCSI
• Enables utilization of low bandwidth
links for deltas

• Leverages common USB interface

USB

USB
• Volumes can optionally be encrypted
with 128-bit Advanced Encryption Portable Portable
Volume
Standard (AES) to ensure data
Volume

protection.
Portable Volume returned to
Primary Storage Center to re-prime

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 Replicating with Portable Volume

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 Replicating with Portable Volume (cont.)

Next

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 Replicating with Portable Volume (cont.)

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 The synchronization process

Vol 01 Rep of
Vol 01

Source Destination

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 Erasing the Portable Volume drive

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 Live Volume overview

Live Volume

Primary Secondary

Replication Pair

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 Live Volume features

Live Volume
Zero Downtime
Planned Outage
Losing Staying Live Volume Live Volume
Power Online
Primary Secondary Primary

Migrate all
volumes

•Planned Maintenance Outages

•Migrations

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 Live Volume requirements and best practices

Network

Fibre Channel
or
iSCSI

• Separate LAN traffic from storage traffic

• Primary and Secondary SC running 5.0.2 or above
• Enable Replicate Active Replay
• Licensed Live Volume and Asynchronous Replication
• Primary and Secondary SC’s configured in Enterprise Manager
• Fibre Channel or iSCSI with a round trip latency of less than 10ms
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 Live Volume
LIVE VOLUME – SERVER
SINGLE volume migration
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Secondary
Live Volume

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 Live Volume - clusters/virtual servers

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 Live Volume with Windows MPIO
• All Active lines
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should go to the Primary

same Primary side
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Replication
Data

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Live Volume

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 Live Volume and Data Progression
Primary Secondary
Live Volume

Tier 1 Tier 1
Tier 1 Tier 1

RAID 10 RAID 5
Tier 2 RAID 10 RAID 5
Tier 3
RAID 5 Tier 3

RAID 6
RAID 6

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 Create a Live Volume

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 Converting to Live Volume

Next

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 Perform Lab 26:
Live Volume

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 Volume Advisor
• Used to:
– Place new volumes on a specific Storage Center
– Migrate existing volumes from one collocated
Storage Center to another.
• Based on a scoring engine for collocated Storage
Centers
– Each Store Center is scored
– Higher scores receive volume placement priority
– Scores are not visible or customizable

Requirements
• Storage Centers must be collocated
• Storage Centers must be on the same
SCOS version
• Duplicate Tier 1 drive type
• Live Volume licensed across systems Data Center

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• For volume migration, identical server definitions
• Available in version 6.3 or higher of Enterprise
Manager

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Placing a new volume using Enterprise Manager

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 Recommend a Storage Center

• Create a Volume Wizard walk-through

• Enterprise Manager can recommend the
“best” Storage Center to place the volume
based on an algorithm measuring:
– Average CPU utilization (last 14 days)
– % Full total disk space
– % Full Tier 1
– Average FE IO/sec (last 14 days)
– Total # of volumes

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 Moving an existing volume in EM

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Threshold definitions that support Volume Advisor

Four types of threshold definitions can trigger an alert and a recommendation to move
one or more volumes.

Type Alert Object Type Alert Definition

IO Usage Storage Center FE IO / Sec

IO Usage Volume Latency

IO Usage Controller CPU Usage

Storage Storage Center Percent Used

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 Creating a Threshold Definition

• Threshold Alerts monitor if a volume exceeds

certain criteria
– Available today
• Administrator can now receive a recommendation
to move the volume to a Storage Center based on:
– Storage Space Full
– Tier One Full
– Volume Latency

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 Volume movement recommendations
Right clicking on the alert gives the option to “Recommend Storage Center”

• The admin is provided

with:
1. Recommended
Storage Center
name
2. The option to
convert the
volume to a Live
Volume for
movement

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 Section Review

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 Review Questions
1. What type of synchronous replication mode allows for writes to
keep going from the host to the primary Storage Center even if the
link between the Storage Centers has been disconnected?
High Availability

2. In order to restore a volume back to the source system with its

original mapping, replay and Data Progression attributes, what needs
to be saved?
Replication Recovery Restore Points

3. When setting up Remote Data Instant Replay, what option is

checked to only send actual changes to a page rather than the
complete page to the DR site?
Deduplication

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 Review Questions
4. What definition must be set up before starting your first replication?
QoS

5. True or False. Live volume works with both synchronous and

asynchronous replication.
False – currently asynchronous only

6. Replication can occur using synchronous or asynchronous

methods. Which method is recommended if the bandwidth is small
or unreliable?
Asynchronous Replication

7. What is the feature starting in version 6.3 that places volumes

(existing and new) on the “best” Storage Center?
Volume Advisor

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