Get More of Your Existing Storage: IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

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IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller

© 2009 IBM Corporation
The World is Becoming Smarter Every Day
What’s Making It Smarter? More Information!
 2.5 billion RFID tags sold in 2009
 900 million GPS devices sold

annually by 2013
 76 million smart electric meters in

2009. 200M by 2014
 Text messages generate 400TB

of data daily in the U.S.
 MRIs will generate a petabyte of

data globally this year
2 © 2010 IBM Corporation

With the Information Explosion Comes a Value Gap
Storage Requirement Growth Outpaces Storage Budget Growth
Zettabytes
Data
 Need to Take Control of Storage Growth
Exabytes
 and Take Control of Your Expenses
 Fix Now, While Costs

Petabytes
Can Be Contained
The information explosion

meets budget reality
Terabytes
Budget
Gigabytes
2000 2005 2010 2015

Clients are Struggling to Keep Up and Spending to Address
Top Issues
Top issues and initiatives for storage managers
Managing Tiered Storage Buildout
Storage Growth
Consolidation
Proper Capacity
Forecasting &
Storage Reporting Technology Refresh
Managing Backup Redesign

Costs
Virtualization Adoption
Backup
Administration
& Management Improving Performance
Managing Archiving
Complexity
0% 20% 40% 60% 0% 20%
Source: TheInfoPro Storage Study (12/14/09), n=186. Source: The InfoPro Storage Study (12/14/09): F1000 Sample. Wave 13, n=183.
*Note that due to multiple responses per interview, total exceeds 100%. This is a
partial list of responses received, showing only the top issues and initiatives.

What if there was an Storage Solution that could Face
them and
 Minimize information explosion effects such as high data

center costs
 Enable IT organizations to respond quickly enough to business
demands
 Raise availability or service levels
 Get rid of management
 Boost the utilization of you existing assets
Get ready to Increase your Storage Efficiency without

Complexity…
…Virtualize your Storage
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IBM drives Storage Virtualization to the next level with
IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller 6.1
Virtualize IBM and non-IBM disk systems to increase

up to 20% storage utilization, reduce the costs
associated with disk storage and simplify
administration.
Designed to pool storage volumes into a reservoir of capacity for centralized management.
SVC helps to hide the boundaries among disk systems, which simplify management and
enables customers to focus on managing storage as a resource to meet business requirements
and not as a set of boxes.
– Now featuring a fresh new user interface based on the popular XIV user interface, SVC is
even easier to use than ever.
– The new Easy Tier function automatically migrates only active portions of volumes to
SSD, helping to optimize both performance and cost.
– Supports up to 4X the previous limits: up to 256 virtualized disk systems, and up to 1PB
in volume size

IBM SAN Volume Controller 6.1 Overview
 Volume Management improvements

– Improved SSD usage through moving hotspots of activity at the extent level by
using Easy Tier feature
 Cluster enhancements including 1PB MDisks, and 8GB extents
– Enhances ability to virtualize LUNs greater than 2TB and allows for virtualizing up
to 32PB of storage on a single SVC cluster
 Console/GUI usability enhancements
– New web-based design incorporating SVC user feedback
– SVC objects can be named with up to 63 characters
– Allows TPC and Director users to seamlessly launch SVC task panes in context
 Greater scalability by increasing controller WWNN limit to 256 from 64
 RAS enhancements – support matrix available on the System Storage Interoperability
Center
 New SVC Entry Engine – replacing the 2145-8A4
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IBM SAN Volume Controller 6.1
 Industry-leading storage virtualization offering
 Best performing storage virtualization system in industry-standard benchmarks
 First storage virtualization system with fully integrated SSD support
 Integrated iSCSI server attachment support
 Fully upgradable without disruption from smallest to largest configurations
 “Future proof” with ability to replace current hardware with new hardware
without disruption
 Network-based virtualization with SVC supports diverse server environments
including VMware, other virtualization, and non virtualized servers
 To date, IBM has shipped almost 20,500 SVC engines running in more than
6,500 SVC systems
 In 2008 & 2009 across this entire installed base, SVC has delivered better than
five nines (99.999%) availability
 SAN Volume Controller is a proven offering that has been delivering benefits
to customers for over six years
 SAN Volume Controller can virtualize IBM and non-IBM storage (over 120
systems from IBM, EMC, HP, HDS, Sun, Dell, NetApp, Fujitsu, NEC, Xiotech)
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Why SVC has been the Industry-leading storage
virtualization offering?
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
 Match the value of data to the cost of storage
– Helps improve performance at lower cost through more efficient use of SSDs, automatically relocate
data from one tier to other

SAN Volume Controller Delivers Value
Scales to meet Optimizes Improves Improves Simplify

business needs resources business storage capacity infrastructure
continuity utilization
 Proactively support  Creates tiers of  Supports data  Combines storage  Manage a single
information growth storage movement without capacity into a single storage resource
interrupting resource – from from a central
 As client data and  Enables multi- applications point
multiple vendors
applications grow, vendor strategies
the storage  Allocate more  Manage storage as a  Migrate data
infrastructure can storage to business resource, not without disruption
grow with them. applications as separate boxes
automatically
 Automatic process of
storage capacity
provisioning
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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 six  Many references quote throughput, supporting
years significant performance larger and more I/O
improvements intensive environments
(up to 10X faster)

SVC Delivers Flexibility to the Storage Infrastructure
Flexibility to auto
or manually
migrate full
Make changes to the volumes to meet
storage without needs
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 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
 Reduces administrative effort and costs by automating data placement

SVC Delivers Clear Financial Benefits
Original Risk-
 Forrester Consulting Summary financial 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 Total benefits (PV) $1,061,106 $943,750
on interview findings Total (NPV) $479,881 $327,494
 Risk-adjusted payback period: 1.4 Internal rate of return
75% 55%
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 6.1
Storage Engine
SVC engine based on IBM System x3550M2 server
–Intel® Xeon® 5500 2.4 GHz quad-core processor
–Triple cache size to 24GB (with future growth possibilities)
–Four 8Gbps FC ports
Bandwidth twice that of the Model 8G4
–Expect double MB/s and up to double IOPS of Model 8G4
–Significant price/performance improvement and enables support of more demanding and larger configurations with
fewer SVC engines
Engines may be intermixed in pairs with other engines in SVC clusters
–Mixing engine types in a cluster results in VDisk throughput characteristics of the engine type in that I/O group
Cluster non-disruptive upgrade capability may be used to replace older engines with new CF8
engines
 Users of SSDs on the SVC 2145-CF8 are now able to safeguard their data beyond VDisk mirroring,
as SVC now provides RAID (0,1,5,6, and 10) control for SAS-attached storage
Software Enhancements Advanced Software Functions

 New Easier to use GUI  Thin Provisioning
 Easy Tier Functions  Flash Copy
 Increase previous limits up to 4X  Metro and Global Mirror

New on
SVC 6.1 Enhancements SVC 6.1
Newly Designed User Interface NOTE: Animated Slide
 What this is?

–Easier and more productive to use interface based on the XIV
GUI, increased number of characters allowed for naming objects,
display of the command lines being executed.
– Designed to incorporate Web 2.0 elements like tagging going
forward
 Why it matters?
–It can be accessed from anywhere on the network with a web
browser (Browser-based accessed from Linux)
– Launch In-Context with TPC / IBM Director
– Able to see command-lines that are being executed when you
perform actions in the GUI
– Easier navigation between screens
User
Interface
Sample

New on
SVC 6.1 Enhancements SVC 6.1
Cluster: 1PB MDisks, VDisks and 256 WWNN
1 PB MDisks and 8 GB Extent size Storage WWNN limit increased to 256
 What is this?
 What is this?
Increases the maximum size of MDisks managed up
to 1PB (increased from 2TB MDisks), accomplished –When a storage subsystem is connected to SVC,
by moving to a 64b logical block address typically all of its ports are identified by a shared
Worldwide Node Name (WWNN)
Extent sizes can be up to 8GB
–The number of storage WWNNs that can attach to a
Using 1PB MDisks and 8GB extents, maximum total
SVC cluster will be increased from 64 to 256
capacity is 32PB
 Why it matters?
Simplifies the migration and use of storage systems
with large-capacity LUNs
 Why it matters?
Increases the amount of storage that can be
virtualized by one SVC cluster –A larger number of storage controllers can be
supported
Provides administrators greater flexibility in
expanding provisioned storage to needed levels –This is especially important when attaching to some
storage controllers that are designed to claim one
WWNN per Fibre Channel port (WWPN)

Scale-Out SSD Support
 Up to four 146GB SSDs per SVC engine

– Control costs: buy only as many SSDs as required
Minimum purchase: one SSD
 Virtual disk mirroring used to protect SSD data
– Designed to protect against SSD or storage engine failure
– Up to 584GB mirrored capacity (1.2TB total) per I/O Group
– Up to 2.4TB mirrored capacity (4.8TB total) per SVC cluster
 SSD fully integrated into SVC system
– Replication, data movement, management operate as for other storage
– Move data to/from SSD without disruption; make copies of SSD data onto HDD
– SSDs in one I/O Group (pair of Storage Engines) may be accessed through any I/O Group
in SVC cluster
 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Intelligent Performance Optimizer can help
identify candidate data for SSD

SVC 6.1 Enhancements New on
SVC 6.1
Easy Tier
Application
 What is Easy Tier?
─ A function that dynamically re-distributes active data External SSD
RAID Array(s)
across multiple tiers of storage class based on
workload characteristics.
─ The goal being to reduce response time. Virtual
Disk
─ Users will have automatic and semi-automatic extent
FC/SAS RAID Array(s)
based placement and migration management
SVC Cluster
 Why it matters?
SATA RAID Array(s)
– Solid State Storage has orders of magnitude better throughput and response time.
– Full vdisk allocation to SSD only benefits a small number of volumes, and use cases.
– Allowing dynamic movement of the hottest extents to be transferred to the highest
performance storage enables a small number of SSD to benefit the entire infrastructure.
– Will work with SEVdisks, unlike EMC FAST v2

Easy Tier Components NOTE: Animated Slide New on
SVC 6.1
A “hot spot” is formed when an

application makes frequent use of the
SVC Node same area of a vdisk. Here, those extents
are stored on magnetic disk
vdisk IO Monitor generates usage statistics and

sends them to the Data Placement Advisor
Easy Tier Management Code
Data Placement Advisor identifies hot
spots, and outputs potential data
migrations to the Data Migration
IOM DPA DMP DM
Planner
Data Migration Planner decides which

migrations to do based on the available
storage and its characteristics
Data Migratory uses SVC data

migration capabilities to seamlessly
migrate the data to higher performing
storage without any application
interruption
Magnetic Disk SSD

Easy Tier Deployment New on
SVC 6.1
 New GUI can auto-detect SVC SSDs

and generate Hybrid-Pool (MDisk
Virtual group)
Virtual
DiskVirtual
Disk  MDisks within Hybrid-pool (MDisk
Virtual
Disk group) have an associated “tier”
Virtual
Disk
Disk
 Virtual disks created from a Hybrid-
pool will start on the lower tier
 As workload is analysed, the
hottest extents within the vdisks
allocated to the Hybrid-pool are
moved to SSD
 As the SSD fills up, if data becomes
relatively cold, data will be migrated
back to HDD
Hybrid-Pool
 User has control over automatic
migration or user-authorized
migration
SVC Scale-Out SSD Implementation
Add SSDs to scale capacity
Add SVC I/O Groups to scale throughput and add capacity
 Add SSDs to SVC engines for more capacity

– SSDs may be added without disruption to engines
 Add SVC engines for more capacity and throughput
– Additional engines provide more processing power, more bandwidth, more SAN attachments
– SVC designed to deliver maximum I/O capability of SSDs
– Up to 50,000 read IOPS per SSD
– Up to 200,000 read IOPS per SVC I/O Group
– Up to 800,000 read IOPS per SVC cluster

SVC SSD Protection Options
 Mirroring between SSDs  Mirroring between SSDs and

in SVC Storage Engines magnetic disk
– Suitable for use with any workload – Unique SVC protection option
– Recommended general-use – Maximizes available SSD capacity
protection option – Suitable for workloads with
 Unmirrored SSDs also an option primarily read I/Os
● Write I/Os are cached but write
– No protection against SSD or storage engine throughput ultimately limited by HDD
failure ability
– Maximizes available SSD capacity – Should be used only with well-
understood workloads
– Not recommended
– Should be used only for easily recreatable data
Preliminary SVC CF8 Sequential Performance (HDD)
SVC Two-Node Configuration; 64KB Transfers; 8Gbps
6
1.9×
throughput
5
4
GB per sec
2.1×
3 throughput 8G4
CF8
2
0
Reads Writes
Note: Preliminary measurements using pre-GA software and hardware. GA-level performance may vary significantly; more
detailed performance information using GA-level hardware and software will be published at a later date.

SPC-1 Performance Comparison
600,000
500,000 Projected
I/Os per sec
400,000
More
65 %
300,000
200,000 ore
M
35%
100,000
0
?
No measurements
EMC HDS USP- SVC 8G4 TMS SVC CF8

V RamSan-
400
SVC CF8 projected to deliver more than double SPC-1 throughput of HDS USP-V
SVC measurements and projection conducted using 8-node SVC configurations.

For more information, see www.storageperformance.org/results
Preliminary SVC CF8 Transactional Performance
(Mixed HDD+SSD) SVC Two-Node Configuration; 4KB Transfers; 8Gbps
400,000
Additional throughput
350,000 possible with HDD:
~10ms RT
300,000
I/Os per sec
Very high
250,000 performance
SSD throughput: HDD
200,000
~1ms RT SSD
150,000
100,000
50,000
0
100% Read 100% Write DB like
Miss Miss
HDD throughput above is as good as or better than similar throughput with current 8G4 engines.
Total bar height represents maximum capability of one I/O Group.
Note: Preliminary measurements using pre-GA software and hardware. GA-level performance may vary significantly; more detailed performance
information using GA-level hardware and software will be published at a later date.
SVC helps you to Archive
 Infrastructure Simplification: Lower TCO and improved ROI
 Business Continuity: Protect your business
 Information Lifecycle Management: Storage aligned with
data’s relative value

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

Thin Provisioning (Space-Efficient Virtual Disks)
 SVC allocates and use physical disk capacity when data is written, versus
traditional disk systems that “fully allocates” virtual disks and use physical disk
capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual disk even if it is not used
 Improve disk utilization by pooling capacity from disk systems and pooling spare
capacity
 Thin provisioning 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 thin provisioning
 Storage administrators can focus on more strategic issues
 Dramatically simplifies storage optimization
* Create virtual disk to match anticipated growth Available at no additional charge with SVC base
virtualization license
* SVC automatically provisions disk capacity on demand
Using Thin Provisioning Functions
 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)
 Thin provisioning dramatically simplifies storage optimization
– Create virtual disk to match anticipated growth
– SVC automatically provisions disk capacity on demand
 Use thin provisioning to manage requests for storage
– IT departments often request more storage for projects than needed
– Usually difficult to reclaim disk space
– Thin provisioning enables request to be satisfied virtually but disk space is
saved
Thin Provisioning: Zero Detect
 When using Virtual Disk Mirroring to copy from a fully-

allocated virtual disk to a space-efficient (thin
provisioned) virtual disk, SVC will not copy blocks that
are all zeroes
– Disk space is not allocated for unused space or formatted space that is
all zeroes
 When processing a write request, SVC will detect if all
zeroes are being written and will not allocate disk space
for such requests
– Helps minimize disk space used for space-efficient virtual disks
– Helps avoid space utilization concerns when formatting vdisks
– Supported only on Model CF8 storage engines
The University of Auckland
Business challenge
New Zealand’s leading university and research facility, The University
of Auckland supports approximately 40,000 students and staff “IBM’s vision of storage and
members. Facing expanding data storage requirements and
storage virtualization
inadequate data availability, the university’s IT organization set out to
matched our view of how it
address these issues as part of a larger project to build out a new
primary data center.
should be done.”
Solution “Virtualization has enabled

Fully virtualized IT infrastructure us to remove a lot of the
physical infrastructure,
 VMware ESX Server
which means we’re not
 IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller
using as much power, we’re
 IBM System Storage DS4800, DS4100 not using as much cooling.
It has reduced our carbon
Benefits
footprint and lowered our
 Reduced data center footprint through server consolidation
operating costs while
 Improved storage utilization and reduced power and cooling costs
giving us room to grow.”
 Improved application availability and centralized management John Askew, system architect,
 Reduced total cost of ownership of the IT infrastructure The University of Auckland

iSCSI Server Attachment
 SVC Storage Engines have two 1Gbps Ethernet ports

– Until now, one port per cluster used for management interface
 SVC 5 enables use of these ports for iSCSI server connections
 Storage attachment, intra-cluster communication and remote
replication still use Fibre Channel
 One port per cluster still used for management interface but not
dedicated to this function
 Helps reduce cost of server attachment
– May be especially helpful for BladeCenter configurations
● Eliminates need for HBA in blades
– Helps reduce number of FC switch ports required

iSCSI Server Attachment (continued)
 All SVC function available to iSCSI-attached servers

 Virtual disks may be shared between iSCSI and FC servers
 Initial iSCSI server support
– RHEL SP 5.3, RHEL 4 update 6 (32 and 64-bit)
– SLES10 SP2 (32 and 64-bit)
– Windows 2003 SP1, SP2
– Windows 2008 SP1, SP2
– AIX 5.3, 6.1
– Sun Solaris 10
– HP-UX 11i V3

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

Disk
SAN
Volume Controller

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

protect your
business
 Help secure and protect business information
 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
Map 1 Map 2 Disk2
 Enables backup of target disks to be made FlashCopy
without having to disrupt existing FlashCopy target of Disk1
Ma
relationships with original source Disk0 Disk1
p3
Source FlashCopy Map 4 Disk4
 Helps reduce time to establish copies of targets, target of Disk0
FlashCopy
since there is no need to await copy complete of target of Disk3
target disk before triggering cascaded copy Disk3
FlashCopy
 Designed to increase flexibility in use of FlashCopy target of Disk1

Reverse FlashCopy
 FlashCopy capability to reverse relationships and enable rapid Create disk backup copies
data recovery
 Create disk backup copies of production data source target
(up to 256)
 If backup required because of damage to production data
target
– Unique capability to create copy of damaged data for diagnosis
– Reverse FlashCopy relationship and copy backup to recover production Later …
data Backup to tape
can continue
● No need to wait for physical data movement to complete unaffected
– Backup or other tasks using disk backup copies not affected 1. Preserve target source
 Designed to speed recovery from damaged data damaged data

OR
target 2. Reverse source
FlashCopy
operation
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
Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager
 IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager provides replication integration
between major server software and IBM disk systems and virtualized
storage environments
 Comparable with NetApp SnapManager and SMBR
– Operates with any storage supported by SVC
FlashCopy Create instant application copies for backup

or application testing
Many replication options including
incremental (only changed blocks) or
space-efficient copies (“snapshots”)
DS8000 XIV DS3/4/5 SVC
FlashCopy features differ between devices
FlashCopy Manager* Integrated, instant copy for critical

applications
Virtually eliminate backup windows
Rapidly create clones for application testing
View inventory of application copies and
instantly restore * Planned availability 4Q09

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

SVC Multiple Cluster Mirror Function
 Enables Metro and Global Mirror relationships

between up to four SVC clusters
– Any virtual disk is in only one MM/GM relationship
MM or GM Consolidated
MM or GM
 One possible scenario: consolidated DR site Relationship DR Site Relationship
– Up to three locations supported by one DR site

– Other scenarios possible
 Max MM/GM relationships increased to 8192 MM or GM
Relationship
 Designed to support more flexible DR strategies
 Helps reduce cost of DR

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
Improving SVC
Management: IBM System
Director Storage Control

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 Director Storage Control
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 6.1
IBM Disk Systems

– IBM XIV Storage System
– IBM Storwize V7000
Other vendor Disk Systems

– EMC Symmetrix VMAX
– Compellent Fluid Data Storage Series 20

SAN Volume Controller Version
IBM N series
Supported Environments Gateway
NetApp
Microsoft IBM AIX HP-UX 11i Linux V-Series
IBM Novell Windows Sun Tru64 (Intel/Power/zLinux) IBM TS7650G IBM 1024
z/VSE NetWare VMware Hyper-V Solaris OpenVMS SGI IRIX RHEL Apple BladeCenter
vSphere 4 IBM i 6.1 SUSE 11 Mac OS Hosts
New New
New New
Point-in-time Copy Native iSCSI 8Gbps SAN fabric SAN
Full volume, Copy on write
256 targets, New Continuous Copy
Incremental, Cascaded, Reverse Metro/Global MirrorNew
Space-Efficient, FlashCopy Mgr Multiple Cluster Mirror
New
SAN SAN
Entry Edition software SSD Volume Controller Space-Efficient Virtual Disks
Volume Controller
New New
New New New Virtual Disk Mirroring
IBM IBM IBM IBM Hitachi HP EMC Sun NetApp NEC Fujitsu Pillar
Lightning MA, EMA
ESS, DS XIV N series Thunder MSA 2000, XP
CLARiiON StorageTek FAS iStorage Bull Eternus Axiom
DS3400 DCS9550 CX4-960 StoreWay 3000
FAStT DS4000 DCS9900
TagmaStore EVA 6400, 8400
Symmetrix
AMS 2100, 2300, 2500 8000 Models 2000 & 1200
DS5020, DS3950 WMS, USP 4000 models 600 & 400
DS6000
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 6,500 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 6.1 Enhancements Summary
 Industry’s first SSD support integrated in storage virtualization system optimized

for high performance
– Highly scalable, highly affordable SSD implementation building on Quicksilver technology
demonstration
– Up to 800,000 SSD read IOPS per second with additional capacity for HDD workloads as well
– Unique data protection technique helps maximize available SSD capacity
 Dramatic price/performance improvement with new SVC engine
– SPC-1 throughput projected 2x current HDS USP-V
 iSCSI server attachment provides new flexibility and helps reduce costs
 IBM Tivoli FlashCopy Manager helps reduce backup windows
 New Multiple Cluster Mirror function supports consolidated DR strategies for
lower costs
 New Reverse FlashCopy function supports almost instant recovery from disk
backups
 SVC 6.1 upgradeable from existing software without disruption and at no
additional charge for users with current S&S

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
Storage Software News Center

ibm.com/systems/storage/news/center/software/
SVC Support
ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sanvc/index.html
Storage Virtualization Blog

ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtualization
SVC Sales Kit SVC EE Sales Kit SVC+disk Sales Kit

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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
• Maria Albena Carlizza, Tivoli Storage SW Sales Leader
• Pradeep Madhavan, Director, WW Storage Sales, BSD
• albena.carlizza@it.ibm.com
• pradeepm@us.ibm.com
• Office: + 39 06 5966 2278
• 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
• David Glover, Tivoli Storage Software Sales • Quintus Schulzke SAN Volume Controller Product
• gloverw@uk.ibm.com Manager
• Office: + 44 207 202-3429 • quintus@us.ibm.com
• Office: + 1 520 663 5241

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Storage Efficiency Means Getting More Value with Less
Reduce Cost, Improve Performance, Increase Flexibility by
Virtualization
How?
Storage Efficiency
 Optimize resources
– Get the most out of what you’ve got
Optimize
 Simplify your environment

– Manage more resources with less effort
Simplify Scale
 Scale to meet business requirements
– Proactively support information growth

Optimize Resources Through Storage Virtualization
Increase Disk Utilization by Up to 30%
 Pool storage resources

 Migrate data online to optimize throughput and performance
 Lower Operating Expenses for power, cooling, and floor space
Storage Virtualization Project Goals: After Virtualization1 (average):
 Reduce hardware costs  24% lower hardware costs
 Reduce software costs  16% lower software costs
 Simplify management  19% lower SAN admin costs
1 Storage virtualization -- V is for victory, 2005

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid5_gci1122304,00.html
Simplify Your Infrastructure Through Storage Virtualization
Reduce Administration Effort by Up to 50%*
 Perform fewer tasks, rather than

repeating work for each storage system
 Use a common platform for copy services,

quality of service, and capacity management
 Migrate data without disrupting users, to

improve performance, perform maintenance,
or reduce costs
* The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM® System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller, Forrester Research, 2006

Scale VMware Environments with Storage Virtualization
Resolve Storage Hot Spots Caused by Server Virtualization
How?
 Raw throughput gains from parallel operations and caching
 Internal replication (XIV) and solid-state storage (SVC)
 Online data migration for non-disruptive load balancing
Virtual Storage Controller

(Sustained IO per Second)
1
150% faster (est.)
IOPS (Million)
35% faster
.5
0
EMC HP XP24000, IBM SVC with IBM SVC with Solid-
(no benchmarks) Hitachi USP V, Disk state storage
Sun 9990V

IDS Scheer AG
Virtualization Simplifies a Complex IT Infrastructure
Business Challenge:
 Simplify the infrastructure to lower ongoing costs,
improve flexibility and reduce demands on technical
staff
 Due to SAN devices in full capacity, new systems “As a managed service
were added with different technologies, performance provider, we can take
and connections
advantage of the IBM
Solution: System Storage SAN
 IBM System Storage™ SAN Volume Controller Volume Controller’s
 IBM System x3850 M2 ability to cater to each
 IBM System Storage™ DS 3400
 DS4700 Express customer’s
 DS 4800 requirements
individually, according
Benefits: to SLAs.”
 Eliminated more than 120 servers and integrated
more than 30 storage systems
 Provides capacity for workload increases with highly Markus Peltz,
scalable servers Configuration Manager
 Enables recovery of failed systems within just
10 to 15 minutes

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 2.5 billion RFID tags sold in 2009

 900 million GPS devices sold

 76 million smart electric meters in

 Text messages generate 400TB

 MRIs will generate a petabyte of

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 Fix Now, While Costs

The information explosion

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Managing Backup Redesign

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 Minimize information explosion effects such as high data

Get ready to Increase your Storage Efficiency without

Virtualize IBM and non-IBM disk systems to increase

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 Volume Management improvements

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Overall, SVC helps reduce storage cost

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Scales to meet Optimizes Improves Improves Simplify

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

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Virtual Virtual Virtual Virtual

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 Designed to migrate data without disruption

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

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Software Enhancements Advanced Software Functions

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 What this is?

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 Up to four 146GB SSDs per SVC engine

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A “hot spot” is formed when an

vdisk IO Monitor generates usage statistics and

Data Migration Planner decides which

Data Migratory uses SVC data

Magnetic Disk SSD

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 New GUI can auto-detect SVC SSDs

Add SVC I/O Groups to scale throughput and add capacity

 Add SSDs to SVC engines for more capacity

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 Mirroring between SSDs  Mirroring between SSDs and

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EMC HDS USP- SVC 8G4 TMS SVC CF8

SVC measurements and projection conducted using 8-node SVC configurations.

 Infrastructure Simplification: Lower TCO and improved ROI

 Business Continuity: Protect your business