EDCiStorage Area Networking

for Education

Take Advantage of the Advancementsboth in Technology and Economy

Big Picture

The End to the Means› (According to IBM )

› http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/thesmartercity/index_flash.html?cmp=blank&cm=v&csr=chapter_edu&cr=youtube&ct=usbrv111&cn=agus_brsmartcity-20090929#/education/ch1/

Big Picture (You say its just a grade?)

Big Picture (What Education needs.)

Data to measure if learning outcomes are continuously improving.

Data to monitor student academic performance.

Data to measure which programs are delivering results.

Data for K20 and Beyond? (Lifetime retention)

Big Picture

Educators need an e-learning environment to deliver the services and interventions that can help turn a low performer into a high achiever.

Predictive Analytics Instructional Case Management Open Standards Based Approach

Question#2 - Does data storage and retnetion have anything to do with this?

Big Picture What is needed?

Infrastructure› The essence of the evolving world of

education is actually following a similar path as health care.

Data collection starts in the beginning of the educational cycle until the end of the educational cycle. The ending cycle of educations could include people well into their 60’s and 70’s. ( Based on IBM analysis of education.)

Healthcare is required to retain health records for the life of the patient.

Big Picture

Why build what we can push to the cloud?

Evolution to Google Applications Thin devices Student owned devices

How much have you moved offsite? Administrative applications are not always

easy to migrate to the cloud.

Big Picture – 2 things we need.

Application & Network Infrastructure› Every facility needs a solid, reliable infrastructure that

will be able to support application delivery and all client components including the bring your own device (BYOD) generation.

Switching Sprawl needs to be remediated. Intelligent networking to Support:

Quality of Service for Distance Learning Bandwidth Management Curriculum Reservation

Server sprawl needs to be remediated. Intelligent use of compute power

Compute Management (CPU) Storage Management Data management

Driving Forces

Hardware compute power has exceeded software requirements.

In the past, this hardware was always behind.

Server CPU-memory speed and densities have increased while pricing has deceased.

Hardware disk capacities have increased along with performance increases.› Disk networking has become economically feasible.› Question #3 - How many servers do you currently

have?

Biggest Driving Force

Disk networking has become economically feasible.

Fibre Channel disk networking was prohibitively expensive. (Including FC drives)

Storage system migration from Fibre Channel interfaces to 6GB Serial Attached SCSI interfaces. (SAS)

Host Bus Adapters now offer lower cost SAS and iSCSI interfaces for server access to SANs.

10GB Ethernet competing with Fibre Channel for fast interfacing to new controllers.

Technology Advancements

Three Elements to Compute Power

Tear Apart the “Typical” Server...› Virtualization allows the user to manage each hardware

platform to leverage the investment to its maximum potential.

Processor Virtualization Memory Virtualization Storage Virtualization

› Question #4 - How many of you are using some form of consolidated storage?

Why Storage Virtualization?

Storage virtualization, like server virtualization, is one of the foundations of building a flexible and reliable infrastructure solution that allows users to better align their IT needs.

Storage virtualization allows an organization to implement pools of storage across physically separate disk systems (which might be from different vendors).

Storage can then be deployed from these pools and can be migrated between pools without any outage of the attached host systems.

Storage virtualization provides a single set of tools for advanced functions, such as instant copy and remote mirroring solutions, which means that deploying storage can be performed by using a single tool regardless of the underlying storage hardware.

Storage virtualization Features

Thin Provisioning – Allows for storage optimization by consuming real capacity only when data is written

Flash Copy – Allows the user to create a point in time copy if the data that the system can be rolled back

Easy Tier – Allows for management of hotspots automatically by migrating extents from spinning drives to solid state drives as needed for higher performance

Metro and/or Remote Mirror – Allows you to replicate data synchronously or asynchronously between systems.

External Virtualization – Allows users to bring external disk systems under control of the central system.

Disk Pooling – The ability to share disk space across multiple arrays.

The evolution of SAS Switching 1GB iSCSI could not keep up with 3Gb and 6GB SAS drives or

needed VM performance. SAS switching further reduced costs. Advanced disk networking such as fibre channel were cost

prohibitive.

Evolution of Memory Management

The X (Advanced) range of Xeon 5600 series processors have the ability to run two DIMMs per memory channel and still operate the memory bus speed at 1333MHz.

Example of Stacked System

Evolution of Memory Management

Intel’s new E5-2600 series processors offer dedicated 4 channel memory access at full memory speed.

Summary

Consolidation of storage completes the ability to virtualize platforms for any size business including education.

Thank you!! Questions?