Virtualize More, Manage Less: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Virtualize More, Manage Less:
IBM System Storage SAN

Volume Controller
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© 2008 IBM Corporation
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Market trends stressing the IT environment

Focus on Return On Need to Legacy system integration
Investment integrate
across
Acquisitions and company
Increasingly mobile workforce
mergers
External mandates that impose

Power &
standards and regulatory compliance Cooling
Limitations
More demanding Need to streamline

expectations for linkages with partners
personalized service – and suppliers
right now
Protect the security Seamless access Pressure to improve

and privacy of critical to infrastructure – operational efficiency
Increasing
assets anytime/anyplace and manage costs
volume of data
2 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Challenges – Variety, Volume, and Velocity
Variety of Information
E-mails
Web Media Documents Information Technology holds the
content
promise of bringing a variety of
Reports new types of information to the
people who need it
Source: IDC Disk Systems
Forecast, Midyear Update Volume of Data
Oct. 2005
Data is growing exponentially. IDC
estimates continued 60% yearly
growth of new disk PB shipped
PB Velocity of Change
IT Organizations are under
80% of IT problems are tremendous pressure to deliver the
reported by end users
right IT services. 85% of problems
are caused by IT staff changing
something. 80% of problems not
detected by IT staff until reported.
Managing Information in Silos has

become Obsolete
Handheld
devices
Desktops Workstations Workstations
Desktops
1950s LAN
“Server-Centric” LAN
SAN
Information
Server Server
Terminals
Server Server
SAN
System
Storage
Storage
21st Century
Storage “Information-Centric”
Globally Integrated
1990s Enterprise
Subsystems
“Network-Centric”
Customer Concerns Driving Virtualization
 Growth in data center costs

 Inability of IT organization to respond
quickly enough to business demands
 Poor availability or service levels
 Lack of skilled staff for storage
administration functions
 Poor asset utilization

What is Virtualization?
Logical representation of resources not constrained

by physical limitations
– Create many virtual resources within single physical device
– Reach beyond the box – see and manage many virtual

resources as one
– Dynamically change and adjust across the infrastructure
IBM Virtualization
A comprehensive platform to
help virtualize the infrastructure
Comprehensive Virtualization Offerings

Server virtualization
 IBM System p, System i, System z LPARs, VMware ESX
 Virtually consolidate workloads on servers
File virtualization
 IBM DFSMS, IBM General Parallel File System, IBM SOFS
 Virtually consolidate files in one namespace across servers
File system virtualization

 IBM System Storage N series Virtual File Manager
 Virtually consolidate file systems into one namespace
Disk and tape storage virtualization

 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller, TS7500, TS7700
 Virtually consolidate storage into pools
Storage Infrastructure Management

 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
 Consolidated management of virtual and physical storage resources

Storage Virtualization is . . .
Technology that makes one set of
resources look and feel like another set of
Logical resources, preferably with more desirable
Representation
characteristics…
A logical representation of resources not
constrained by physical limitations
Virtualization – Hides some of the complexity
– Adds or integrates new function with existing
services
– Can be nested or applied to multiple layers of a
system
Physical
Resources
Source: Evaluator Group
Why Storage Virtualization?
 Not “just another way of helping manage SANs”

 Storage virtualization complements server virtualization
– Both technologies help increase flexibility and speed
responsiveness
 Storage management used to be manually intensive,

time-consuming and disruptive to the business
 Storage virtualization with SVC can help change that to
automatic, time-saving and non-disruptive to the
business
 Radically changes the way you think about and work
with storage to make it fundamentally more flexible than
just disk boxes alone

Value of Storage Virtualization
 Enterprise Strategy Group reports that early virtualization

adopters on average every year save:
– 24% on hardware costs
– 16% on software costs
– 19% on SAN administration costs
 With a $1 million budget spending $500,000 on hardware,

$200,000 on software, and $300,000 on administration
Annual savings would be $209,000
Source: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid5_gci1122304,00.html
Why is SVC Important?
Overall, SVC helps reduce storage cost

 Helps improve storage utilization
– Make better use of existing storage and control growth
 Designed to improve application availability

– Make changes to storage and move data without taking applications down
 Helps simplify management

– Greater efficiency and productivity for storage management staff
 Offers network-based replication

– Helps enable greater choice when buying storage

IBM IT Infrastructure Virtualization

“The combination of server and storage virtualization makes sense and over
time should become requisite in the data center, in one form or another. In fact,
the more pervasive that server virtualization becomes, the greater contrast it
will create with non-virtualized storage environments and the inefficiency of
these solutions will become more apparent.”
Enterprise Strategy Group, January 2008
 Server virtualization only one part of the answer

 IBM has proven best practices and strategy required for comprehensive
virtualization plan
 IBM has best of breed offerings for end-to-end infrastructure virtualization
Server virtualization alone enhances only a portion

of the IT infrastructure

IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware

 VMware and IBM storage virtualization offerings provide complementary
benefits
– Including improved asset utilization, simplified infrastructure, greater flexibility
and responsiveness, easier disaster recovery
 IBM storage virtualization offerings designed to

operate with VMware, other virtualization
environments, and non-virtualized servers
– Provide integration and single point
of control for storage in
heterogeneous server
environments
 IBM SAN Volume Controller was

first storage virtualization device
listed in VMware’s compatibility
guide for ESX Server 3.5 and 3i
SVC Facts
 IBM has 40 years experience in virtualization technologies

 IBM has shipped over 12,000 SVC engines running in
more than 4,000 SVC systems
 There are more than 130 customer references and 24
customer case studies for SAN Volume Controller
 SAN Volume Controller is a proven offering that has been
delivering benefits to customers for four years
 SAN Volume Controller demonstrates scalability with the
fastest Storage Performance Council benchmark results
 SAN Volume Controller can virtualize IBM and non-IBM
storage (over 120 systems from IBM, EMC, HP, HDS, Sun,
Dell, NetApp, Fujitsu, NEC, Bull)

SAN Volume Controller Delivers Value
Reduces the cost and Improves Improves Improves

complexity of business storage personnel
managing storage continuity utilization productivity
 Creates tiers of  Supports data  Combines storage  Manage a single

storage movement without capacity into a single storage resource
interrupting resource – from from a central
 Enables multi- applications multiple vendors point
vendor strategies
 Allocate more  Manage storage as
storage to a business resource,
applications not as separate
automatically boxes

SVC Delivers Availability, Performance, and Scalability
It’s resilient It has the fastest benchmark It scales to manage

and highly available of any controller large environments
 We designed and built SVC with  SVC has the fastest SPC-1  SVC scales from very
the resiliency of a storage controller benchmark EVER submitted small configurations
 SVC supports non-disruptive firmware (272K IOPS) (1TB) to large enterprises
updates and hardware maintenance on
the disk arrays to further increase its  SVC has the fastest SPC-2 (> 500TBs) and growing !
availability benchmark EVER submitted
(7.080 GBPS)  New SVC engines deliver
 SVC is a proven offering, having been dramatically better
delivering benefits to customers for four  Many references quote throughput, supporting
years significant performance larger and more I/O
improvements intensive environments
(up to 10X faster)

Flexible Storage Infrastructure with SAN Volume

Controller
Make changes to the

storage without
disrupting host
applications
Virtual Virtual Virtual Virtual

Disk Disk Disk Disk
SAN
Manage the storage
Apply common
SAN Volume Controller pool from a central
copy services point
Advanced Copy Services
across the
storage pool Storage Pool
HP
Combine the capacity
DS8000
HDS EMC from multiple arrays
DS4000 into a single pool of
storage

SVC Delivers Clear Financial Benefits
Summary financial Original Risk-

 Forrester Consulting results estimate adjusted
Total Economic Impact™ study
of SVC ROI 83% 53%
 Surveyed four SVC customers to Payback period (years) 1.2 1.4

understand costs and benefits
Total costs (PV) ($581,225) ($616,256)
– Created composite model based on Total benefits (PV) $1,061,106 $943,750
interview findings
Total (NPV) $479,881 $327,494
 Risk-adjusted payback period: Internal rate of return
75% 55%
1.4 years (IRR)
Source: The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM® System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller

Key Areas of Cost Saving Observed

by Forrester in SVC Customers
 Reduction in storage management and
administration cost
– Allowing a core group of administrators to control multiple
assets across a distributed storage environment
(50% efficiency improvement)
 Improved storage utilization
– Improve capacity utilization of existing storage assets
– Control the growth of future spending
(improved utilization by 30%)
 Reduced cost of storage
– Capitalize on being able to purchase the lowest cost storage
resources (controlled growth on average by 20%)
 Improved customer and end user availability to data-
driven applications
– Minimize downtime associated with migrating data between
storage assets ($240,000 in annual savings)
SVC Can Help Improve Energy Efficiency
 Designed to migrate data without disruption

– Helps make it easier and quicker to implement more energy efficient storage
 Designed to ease deployment of tiered storage and improve storage

performance
– Helps use lower-tier storage for greater range of applications
 Designed to help increase storage utilization and control growth

– Helps reduce storage requirements and so energy use
– New space-efficient functions significantly enhance storage utilization

SVC 2145-8G4 Storage Engine
 SVC engine based on IBM System x3550 server

– Two dual-core Intel Xeon 5160 processors at 2.33GHz
– 8GB of cache
– Four 4Gbps FC ports
– SVC code improvements to use multi-core processor
● Improvements also deliver potential benefits to customers with previous model
SVC nodes
 Dramatically improved throughput compared with 8F4 engines
 Helps support larger, more I/O intensive storage configurations
 New engines may be intermixed in pairs with older engines in
SVC clusters
– Helps protect investments and offers enhanced growth capability
 Cluster nondisruptive upgrade capability may be used to replace
older engines with 8G4 engines
Breakthrough Performance with SVC 4.2
 SPC-1 benchmark: Simulates I/O characteristics of OLTP workloads

– SVC delivers up to 272,500 SPC-1 IOPS
 SPC-2 benchmark: Simulates heavy sequential workloads

– SVC delivers up to 7080 SPC-2 MB/s
 SVC is the fastest storage virtualization system in both SPC

benchmarks
 High SVC throughput supports virtualizing multiple storage systems
Measurements conducted using 8-node SVC configurations; SVC 4.1 used 8F4 nodes; SVC 4.2 used 8G4 nodes.
For more information, see www.storageperformance.org/results
SVC 4.3: Improving Utilization and Availability

 Storage utilization a key issue
– As information volume continues to grow, improving use of storage is a
key tool to control growing costs
 Space-Efficient Virtual Disks and Space-Efficient FlashCopy
– “Thin provisioning” and “snapshot” functions
– Dramatically improved storage utilization with dynamic provisioning
 Virtual Disk Mirroring
– High availability for critical data
 Multi-Target FlashCopy copies increased
– Now up to 256 copies dependent on one virtual disk
 Scalability and standards
– Up to 8192 virtual disks supported, twice previous limit
– Support for IPv6 environments
 Expanded server and storage environment support

Infrastructure Simplification
 Consolidate dispersed storage resources

Objective:
 Provide a unified, strategic view of your data
lower TCO
 Break through traditional storage complexity with advanced
and management capabilities
improved  Innovate to unify and simplify heterogeneous storage
ROI environments
It’s
choice
Infrastructure Simplification with SAN Volume

Controller
Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller
 Capacity is isolated in SAN islands  Combines capacity into a single pool
 Multiple management points  Uses storage assets more efficiently
 Poor capacity utilization  Single management point
 Capacity is purchased for, and  Capacity purchases can be deferred
owned by individual processors until the physical capacity of the SAN
reaches a trigger point.
55%
25% 50% capacity
capacity
SAN capacity SAN
95% SAN
capacity Volume Controller

Space-Efficient Virtual Disks (SEV)
 Space-Efficient Virtual Disks function is the SVC implementation of “thin

provisioning”
 Traditional (“fully allocated”) virtual disks use physical
disk capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual
disk even if it is not used
– Just like traditional disk systems
 With SEV, SVC allocates and uses physical disk

capacity when data is written
– Can significantly reduce amount of physical disk capacity needed
 Available at no additional charge with SVC base virtualization license

SEV Helps Save Disk Space

 SEV will help save much of the “allocated but unused” space
on virtual disks today
– Can be 50% or more of disk space, especially in Windows environments
 SVC helps improve disk utilization by pooling capacity from

disk systems and pooling spare capacity
 SEV takes this to the next level by pooling spare capacity from
virtual disks
– Instead of reserving spare capacity for each virtual disk, have a pool of
shared spare capacity that all virtual disks use as their data grows
– No need to create special pools of storage just for SEV
 Storage administrators can focus on more strategic issues

– Monitor total SVC capacity utilization, track trends, plan acquisitions
– No longer need to monitor and provision for individual disks

Using Space-Efficient Virtual Disks

 Customers try to optimize storage use and administrator effort
today
– Allocate storage in advance for planned growth
● Requires buying storage before needed
– Increase size of LUNs as stored data grows
● Requires monitoring of space used on different LUNs
● Requires action to increase LUN size
● May be disruptive to applications if database reorg required to use additional capacity
(especially if more LUNs needed)
 SEV dramatically simplifies storage optimization
– Create virtual disk to match anticipated growth
– SVC automatically provisions disk capacity on demand
 Use SEV to manage requests for storage
– IT departments often request more storage for projects than needed
– Usually difficult to reclaim disk space
– SEV enables request to be satisfied virtually but disk space is saved

The University of Auckland

Business challenge
New Zealand’s leading university and research facility, The University “IBM’s vision of storage and
of Auckland supports approximately 40,000 students and staff
storage virtualization
members. Facing expanding data storage requirements and
matched our view of how it
inadequate data availability, the university’s IT organization set out to
address these issues as part of a larger project to build out a new should be done.”
primary data center.
“Virtualization has enabled
Solution us to remove a lot of the
Fully virtualized IT infrastructure physical infrastructure,
 VMware ESX Server which means we’re not
using as much power, we’re
 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
not using as much cooling.
 IBM System Storage DS4800, DS4100
It has reduced our carbon
Benefits footprint and lowered our
 Reduced data center footprint through server consolidation
operating costs while
giving us room to grow.”
 Improved storage utilization and reduced power and cooling costs
 Improved application availability and centralized management John Askew, system architect,
 Reduced total cost of ownership of the IT infrastructure The University of Auckland

Non-disruptive Data Migration with SAN Volume

Controller
1. Stop applications 1. Move data
2. Move data Host systems and applications
3. Re-establish host connections are not affected.
4. Restart applications
Virtual
SAN Disk
SAN
SAN
Volume Controller

Business Continuity
Objective:  Help reduce business risk, by increasing resilience

protect your
 Help secure and protect business information
business
 Stay competitive and maintain market readiness
It’s
confidence
Business Continuity with SAN Volume

Controller
 Replication APIs differ by vendor  Common replication API, SAN-wide,
 Replication destination must be the that does not change as storage
same as the source hardware changes
 Different multipath drivers for each  Common multipath driver for all arrays
array  Replication targets can be on lower-
 Lower-cost disks offer primitive, or cost disks, reducing the overall cost of
no replication services exploiting replication services
FlashCopy® SAN TimeFinder SAN

PPRC SRDF SAN SVC
Volume Controller
IBM IBM EMC EMC IBM IBM EMC HP IBM

DSx DSx Sym Sym DS8000 DS4000 Sym MA S-ATA
SVC FlashCopy® Function
 Volume-level local replication function

Up to 256
targets
 Designed to create copies for backup, parallel processing, test, …
FlashCopy
 Copy available almost immediately for use relationships
 Background copy operation or “copy on write”
 Up to 256 copies of a single source volume Source

vdisk
 Source and target volumes may be on any SVC supported disk systems

Incremental FlashCopy
 FlashCopy capability where only changes from either source Start incremental FlashCopy
or target data since last FlashCopy operation are re-copied
during a target refresh
 Up to 256 incremental and non-incremental targets can exist Data copied as normal
for same source
 Consistency groups can include both incremental and non- Later …
incremental FlashCopy targets
 Helps increase efficiency of FlashCopy operations and can
reduce time to refresh copies Some data changed by apps
 Designed to allow completion of point-in-time online backups Start incremental FlashCopy
much more quickly, thus the impact of using FlashCopy is
reduced
– May enable more frequent backups so enabling faster recovery Only changed data copied
– More frequent backups could be used as a form of “near-CDP” by background copy
Cascaded FlashCopy
 FlashCopy capability to create “copies of copies”

– Mappings can be incremental or non-incremental
 Allows a vdisk to be both source and target in concurrent FlashCopy mappings
– See diagram: Map 2 can be defined and triggered while Map 1 relationship exists
 Maximum number of targets dependent on a single source disk is 256. The example
shows 4 targets from source disk 0
 Enables backup of target disks to be made Map 1 Map 2 Disk2
without having to disrupt existing FlashCopy FlashCopy
target of Disk1
relationships with original source
Ma
Disk0 Disk1
p3
 Helps reduce time to establish copies of targets, Source FlashCopy
target of Disk0
Map 4 Disk4
since there is no need to await copy complete of FlashCopy
target of Disk3
target disk before triggering cascaded copy
Disk3
 Designed to increase flexibility in use of FlashCopy FlashCopy
target of Disk1

Space-Efficient FlashCopy (SEFC)
 Combination of using SEV and FlashCopy together

 Helps dramatically reduce disk space when making copies
 Two variations
– Space-efficient source and target with background copy
● Copies only allocated space
– Space-efficient target with no background copy
● Space used only for changes between source and target
● Generally what people mean when they talk of “snapshots”
 Space-efficient copies may be updated just like normal FlashCopy copies
 SEFC may be used with multi-target, cascaded, and incremental FlashCopy
– Can intermix space-efficient and fully-allocated virtual disks as desired
Improving Application Test with SEFC

 Production systems often have many test
systems that are replicas of production
– SAP is known for often having large number SE
of copies
 Using SEFC to create replicas could Production SE
significantly reduce storage needed FA FA
– In this example, use fully-allocated test Test SE
master to isolate test systems from master
copy
production disk
SE
● Production and test could be on separate
disk systems Test
– Test master can be used to “reset” test virtual disks after test runs
– Implementation uses SEFC, cascaded, and multi-target FC
 This example uses around 2x production data
– Compare with 5x for regular FlashCopy

Saving Disk Space for Boot Drives with SEFC
 Boot drives or disk images usually required for each server or

virtual server
 Contents of boot drives may be very similar
 Use SEFC to “clone” master boot drive or disk image
 Disk space used for differences between servers, which may

be very minor
 Same approach may be used for VMware Virtual Desktop

Infrastructure (VDI)

Improving Disk Backup with SEFC
 Without SEFC, disk-to-disk copies used for backup consume

same amount of space as original data
– Customers may limit number of copies kept because of space usage
 SEFC dramatically reduces size of disk copies
 May enable more copies to be kept online, speeding recovery

– Multi-target FlashCopy now supports up to 256 copies
 With scripting, could create regular backup copies

– Similar in concept to continuous data protection

Virtual Disk Mirroring
 SVC stores two copies of a virtual disk, usually on separate disk systems
– SVC maintains both copies in sync and writes to both copies
 If disk supporting one copy fails, SVC provides continuous data access
by using other copy
– Copies are automatically resynchronized after repair
 Intended to protect critical data against failure of a disk system or disk
array
– A local high availability function, not a disaster recovery function
 Copies can be split
– Either copy can continue as production copy
 Either or both copies may be space-efficient

SVC Metro Mirror Function
 “Metropolitan” distance synchronous remote mirroring function

 Up to 300km between sites for business continuity
– As with any synchronous remote replication, performance requirements may limit usable
distance
 Host I/O completed only when data stored at both locations
 Designed to maintain fully synchronized copies at both sites
– Once initial copy has completed
 Metro and Global Mirror delivered as single feature
– Offers great implementation flexibility
 Operates between SVC clusters at each site
– Local and remote volumes may be on any SVC supported disk systems

SVC Global Mirror Function
 Long distance asynchronous remote mirroring function

 Up to 8000km distance between sites for business continuity
 Does not wait for secondary I/O before completing host I/O
– Helps reduce performance impact to applications
 Designed to maintain consistent secondary copy at all times
– Once initial copy has completed
 Built on Metro Mirror code base
 Metro and Global Mirror
delivered as single feature
– Offers great implementation flexibility
 Operates between SVC clusters at each site
– Local and remote volumes may be on any SVC supported disk systems

Configurable Copy Services Space
 Capability to configure up to 256TB of copy services capacity

per I/O Group
– Copy service space is allocated between Remote Copy (Metro/Global
Mirror) and FlashCopy in user-defined ratio
– May configure up to 256TB for FlashCopy or MM/GM
 Dynamically configurable, allowing users to redirect portions
of SVC cache to use for copy services space
– Default: no cache use, up to 40 TB for each of FlashCopy and remote
copy
 Enables more than three times as much data to participate in
SVC copy service activities
– Previous limit was 40TB each for FlashCopy and MM/GM
 Provides flexibility for users to dynamically configure the
amount of storage supported for each type of copy service to
suit their needs

Able Body Labor

Business challenge
The Able Body family of companies is one of the fastest growing
staffing organizations in the U.S., providing skilled and unskilled labor “[SVC] has allowed us to
for a wide variety of industries. When the company’s growing storage virtualize the disk arrays
needs began to exceed capacity, Able Body turned to IBM Premier the way VMware allowed us
Business Partner Champion Solutions Group to help develop a long- to virtualize our servers.”
term storage strategy that would leverage the company’s existing
investments in IBM System Storage™ technology. William Stillwell, Systems
Architect, Able Body Labor
Solution
Virtualized storage infrastructure to complement virtualized servers “With TotalStorage
 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller Productivity Center, I just
 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center go to one console and I’m
able to see disk utilization
 IBM System Storage DS4700
and take corrective action
Benefits right then.”
 Flexibility and scalability for future growth
Paul Zimorski, CIO,
 Dramatic improvement in disk performance Able Body Labor
 Improved application availability

Information Lifecycle Management
 Improved ROI by matching resources to their relevance to core

Objective: business
storage aligned
 Increase productivity and response to change by providing
with access to data, regardless of where it resides
data’s relative  Reduce administrative cost through a policy-based approach to
value managing information – from creation to disposal
 Assists compliance and security
It’s
complete
Lifecycle Management with SAN Volume

Controller
 Moving data between arrays is  Ability to move data between arrays
disruptive without disruption
 Apply Copy Services from any to any
 Copy Services only between like
 Match the cost of storage to the
arrays
business value of the data
SAN
SAN SAN Volume
Controller
DS
EMC DS4000 4000
DS8000 DS8000
EMC Migration
TimeFinder Metro Mirror FlashCopy
Circuit City
Business challenge
 SAN “islands” causing poor storage utilization
“IBM storage virtualization
 Applications disrupted for server and storage infrastructure changes
has transformed our IT
 Poor productivity from manual storage management processes
storage infrastructure so
 Lack of attention to storage planning, optimization, and strategy we can respond quickly to
user needs. And the IT team
Solution
has the tools to work
Virtualized storage infrastructure
productively. Today, our
 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
team spends much more of
 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
their time thinking
 Tiered storage using IBM System Storage DS8100, DS4500,
strategically, which helps
DS4100
us stay on the right course.
Benefits IBM has helped us create a
 Tiered storage helped reduce capital costs by $1M over 18 months great environment for
 Improved application availability through nondisruptive changes
storage administration.”
 Faster application deployment with virtual infrastructure Nick Otto, Director, IT

Infrastructure Services
 Better productivity enables administrators to focus on strategic
issues IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
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Scalability and Standards
Up to 8192 Virtual Disks Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

 SVC 4.3 supports up to 2048  SVC 4.3 adds support for IPv6
virtual disks per I/O group addressing
– Double previous limit – Continues to operate in existing
– Max cluster configuration: IPv4 environments
8192 virtual disks  For complete IPv6 support,
 Supports greater use of need appropriate console
FlashCopy function – SVC Master Console running on
Windows 2003 with SP2 and IE 7
 Supports use of SVC
capacity with greater – System Storage Productivity
number of servers, virtual Center 1.2
servers, and applications  Demonstrates continuing
support of standards by SVC

New SVC Case Studies

 Dumfries and Galloway Council
– “Having a single, centrally managed storage environment means considerable savings in
administrative workload, as well as simplifying backup processes. SAN Volume Controller gives
us the flexibility to allocate storage capacity wherever it is most needed, so it is easy to add new
systems to the network.”
 Gwinnett County
– “Storage management with the IBM SAN Volume Controller is a storage administrator’s dream
come true.”
 Able Body Labor (10,000th SVC engine customer)
– “We needed to get organized on the backend so we could enable competitive advantages for the
business. The IBM storage solution has allowed us to do that.”
 University of Auckland
– “The best place to virtualize anything is the abstracted layer between the host operating system
and the storage. The IBM SVC was one of the few products in the marketplace that actually did
virtualization that way.”
 Agrium
– “SVC has made a big difference to the scalability and cost-effectiveness of our storage
environment.”
 Palomar Pomerado Health
– “Storage virtualization, managed by the IBM SVC, is key to our plan to maintain a highly reliable
yet flexible IT infrastructure.”
Go to ibm.com/storage/svc and click on “Case Studies”

Improving SVC
Management: IBM System
Storage Productivity Center

Today, administrators who manage IBM storage are

offered a single-box view of the world.

With SSPC, administrators will manage IBM storage along with

the rest of the storage environment those devices are
connected to.
This context will greatly improve the way

customers manage even the most basic storage
environments.

Today
Deployments of IBM storage systems often require multiple additional
servers to provide element management and other auxiliary functions
TPC
Proxy CIMOM Proxy CIMOM
GUI
GUI
GUI
GUI
Proxy CIMOM Proxy CIMOM Proxy CIMOM Backup SVC Master Console
Master Console (Proxy CIMOM, GUI)
GUI
GUI GUI
Internal
HMC
GUI
External
HMC
With SSPC
Complexity in the data center is reduced through centralization of
management and elimination of auxiliary servers.
Initial implementation is with SVC and DS8000 only
SSPC
Internal
HMC
External
HMC
IBM System Storage Productivity Center

New console offering integrated view for simplified storage management
 Enables end-to-end disk management on single

screen
– Supports management of heterogeneous SMI-S
conforming systems and devices
 Common console for DS8000 & SVC

– Device configuration for DS8000, SVC
– Support for other IBM storage forthcoming
 SSPC is preloaded with IBM TotalStorage

Productivity Center products to ease install
– TPC Basic Edition – required license
– TPC Standard Edition - recommended license
● TPC for Disk
● TPC for Fabric
● TPC for Data
– Preload enables simpler install/configuration

SAN Volume Controller
Supported
Environments

Interoperability Additions in SVC Version 4.3
Host Systems Disk Systems

 Microsoft Windows 2008 including Enterprise x64  Pillar Axiom Models 300 and 500
Edition, SAN boot, 32-bit support, and clustering
 Microsoft Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition for
Itanium-based systems, including SAN boot
 HP-UX 11i V3 for PA-RISC and Itanium-based
systems including clustering with HP ServiceGuard
 Apple Mac OS X Server 10.5.2 with ATTO Celerity
FC-42ES HBA

SAN Volume Controller Version 4.3

Supported Environments
Sun
Linux
(Intel/Power/zLinux)
IBM N series
Microsoft HP-UX 11i V3 Gateway
Novell IBM AIX Solaris RHEL/SUSE
NetWare Windows 2008 HACMP /XD Tru64 RHEL 5 ia32, x64 NetApp IBM 1024
VMware MSCS GPFS / VIO
VCS/SUN OpenVMS SGI IRIX RHEL 3 Power Apple V-Series BladeCenter
Clustering
MPIO, VSS, GDS
clustering
ServiceGuard with SDD SLES 9 ia64 Mac OS Hosts
Win/Linux/VMWare/AIX
OPM/FCS/IBS
New New
New
iSCSI to hosts
Via Cisco IPS
Point-in-time Copy SAN with 4Gbps fabric SAN
Full volume, Copy on write Continuous Copy
256 targets, Metro Mirror
New Incremental, Cascaded Global Mirror
Space-Efficient
New SAN New SAN
Up to 8192 Virtual Disks Space-Efficient Virtual Disks
Volume Controller Volume Controller
New New
Virtual Disk Mirroring
IBM IBM IBM Hitachi HP EMC Sun NetApp NEC Fujitsu Pillar
ESS, DS N series Lightning MA, EMA CLARiiON StorageTek FAS iStorage Bull Eternus Axiom
Thunder MSA, EVA StoreWay
FAStT DS3000
XP Symmetrix 300, 500
DS4000 TagmaStore
DS6000 AMS, WMS
DS8000 For the most current, and more detailed, information please visit ibm.com/storage/svc and click on “Interoperability”.
Conclusion

Key Requirements for Virtualized Disk Storage
With over 4,000 systems to date,

SAN Volume Controller delivers on
key requirements …
– Retain existing investments
– Implement with minimal disruption to

applications
– Enable phased implementation

Why IBM Virtualization

 Over 40 years experience with virtualization technologies
 Over 30 years experience with storage virtualization
 Industry’s first and leading mainframe virtualized tape system
 Industry leading disk block virtualization system
 Complete range of virtualization assessment, planning and
implementation offerings
 IBM offers an integrated range of virtualization and management
offerings to address all portions of the IT infrastructure

SVC: The Benefits are Real

Key Areas of Cost Saving Observed by Forrester in SVC Customers
 Reduction in storage management and
administration cost
– Allowing a core group of administrators to control multiple
assets across a distributed storage environment
(50% efficiency improvement)
 Improved storage utilization
– Improve capacity utilization of existing storage assets
– Control the growth of future spending
(improved utilization by 30%)
 Reduced cost of storage
– Capitalize on being able to purchase the lowest cost storage
resources (controlled growth on average by 20%)
 Improved customer and end user availability to data-
driven applications
– Minimize downtime associated with migrating data between
storage assets ($240,000 in annual savings)
Simplify your IT

Find Out More

SVC on ibm.com
ibm.com/storage/svc
Virtualization View
ibm.com/systems/virtualization/news/
SVC Support
ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sanvc/index.html
Storage Virtualization Blog

ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtualization
SVC Sales Kit

IBM System Sales
tinyurl.com/54clbr
PartnerWorld
tinyurl.com/4yf9c7
Who to Contact
Worldwide and Geo Sales
Southwest IOT
Worldwide • Anne Auge, Storage, SAN, NAS Sales Leader
• Jeff Barber, Director, WW Storage Sales, ESD
• PIERRA@fr.ibm.com
• barberj@us.ibm.com
• Office: + 33 4 92 11 56 57
• Office: + 1 412 999-7372
• Metin Eskicioglu, Tivoli Storage SW Sales Leader
• Pradeep Madhavan, Director, WW Storage Sales, BSD
• metineski@es.ibm.com
• pradeepm@us.ibm.com
• Office: + 34 91 333 2160
• Office: + 1 248 552-5912
• Laura Guio, Director Storage Software Sales
Asia-Pacific
• guio@us,ibm.com
• Adrian Cepak, Tivoli Storage SW Sales Leader
• Office: + 1 408 927-2260
• acepak@au1.ibm.com
• Office: + 61 412 821 851
Americas
• Jun Lin, Virtualization Sales and Technical Lead
• John Miller, Americas Storage Virtualization Sales Mgr
• linjun@au1.ibm.com
• millerj@us.ibm.com
• Office: + 61 2 94788884
• Office: + 1 610 578-2136
• Ron Broucek, Americas Tivoli Storage Software Sales
• rjbrouc@us.ibm.com Worldwide Brand Team
• Office: + 1 630 568-7068 • Chris Saul, SAN Volume Controller Marketing Manager
• cbs@us.ibm.com
Northeast IOT • Office: + 1 408 404-6034
• John Canny, Storage Virtualization Sales • Dorothy Faurot, SAN Volume Controller Product Manager
• cannyjj@uk.ibm.com • dfaurot@us.ibm.com
• Office: + 44 131 558-4268 • Office: + 1 919 486-2399
• David Glover, Tivoli Storage Software Sales
• gloverw@uk.ibm.com
• Office: + 44 207 202-3429
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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

Market trends stressing the IT environment

External mandates that impose

More demanding Need to streamline

Protect the security Seamless access Pressure to improve

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Challenges – Variety, Volume, and Velocity

Managing Information in Silos has

Customer Concerns Driving Virtualization

 Growth in data center costs

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Logical representation of resources not constrained

– Create many virtual resources within single physical device

– Reach beyond the box – see and manage many virtual

– Dynamically change and adjust across the infrastructure

Comprehensive Virtualization Offerings

File system virtualization

Disk and tape storage virtualization

Storage Infrastructure Management

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Why Storage Virtualization?

 Not “just another way of helping manage SANs”

 Storage management used to be manually intensive,

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Value of Storage Virtualization

 Enterprise Strategy Group reports that early virtualization

 With a $1 million budget spending $500,000 on hardware,

Annual savings would be $209,000

Why is SVC Important?

Overall, SVC helps reduce storage cost

 Designed to improve application availability

 Helps simplify management

 Offers network-based replication

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IBM IT Infrastructure Virtualization

 Server virtualization only one part of the answer

Server virtualization alone enhances only a portion

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IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware

 IBM storage virtualization offerings designed to

 IBM SAN Volume Controller was

 IBM has 40 years experience in virtualization technologies

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SAN Volume Controller Delivers Value

Reduces the cost and Improves Improves Improves

 Creates tiers of  Supports data  Combines storage  Manage a single

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SVC Delivers Availability, Performance, and Scalability

It’s resilient It has the fastest benchmark It scales to manage

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Flexible Storage Infrastructure with SAN Volume

Make changes to the

Virtual Virtual Virtual Virtual

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SVC Delivers Clear Financial Benefits

Summary financial Original Risk-

 Surveyed four SVC customers to Payback period (years) 1.2 1.4

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Key Areas of Cost Saving Observed

SVC Can Help Improve Energy Efficiency