IBM Storwize V7000 Unified - Eventworld.cz...–File “module” only supports one type of storage (Storwize V7000), not a heterogeneous gateway –Unified capability can be used

© 2012 IBM Corporation

Pavel Müller

IBM Systems and Technology Group

IBM Storwize V7000 Unified


Storwize V7000 – Position

Block File

Enterprise

DS8000 For clients requiring:

Advanced disaster recovery with

3-way mirroring and System z

GDPS support

Continuous availability, no

downtime for upgrades

Best-in-class response time for

OLTP or transaction workloads,

flash optimization

Single system capacity scalable to

the PB range

XIV For clients requiring:

Breakthrough ease of use and

management

High utilization with

automated performance (“hot

spot”) management

Virtually unlimited snapshots

Advanced self-healing

architecture

SONAS For clients requiring:

Massive I/O, backup, or

restores

Consolidation, or scale large

numbers of clusters

N series For clients requiring:

NAS storage

Simple two-site high

availability

Midrange

DS5000 For clients requiring:

Good cost/performance, general-

purpose storage

Need to add capacity to existing

configuration

10s of TB of capacity

Storwize V7000 For clients requiring:

10s of TB of rack-mounted storage with sophisticated software

functions

Breakthrough ease of use and management

Non-disruptive migration from, or virtualization of, existing disk

Entry DS3000 For clients requiring:

SMBs or branch office locations; cost sensitive; start at as small as

100s GB, up to low TB capacity

Storage

Optimizers

SVC, Easy Tier, ProtecTIER, Information Archive, Real Time Compression For clients requiring optimization of storage costs:

Storage technologies that add function, performance, ease of use, or efficiency to new or existing storage


The File Storage challenge “We've been preaching against the SAN vs. NAS war for a long time. Users need block

access and file access - what they really want is a single storage platform that does both.

Steve Duplessie - Enterprise Storage* Group - August 2002

Total Archived Capacity, by Content Type, Worldwide, 2008-2015 (Petabytes)


Storwize V7000 Overview


Control enclosure can be purchased in 12 or 24 drive bay configuration

– Includes dual controllers and internal disk drives

– 16GB Cache

Expansion enclosures can be purchased in 12 or 24 drive bay configurations

– Maximum nine expansion enclosures

– Expand capacity up to 720 TB raw (3 TB NL SAS)

Solid State Drives can be included in 24 bay enclosures

– Replaces spinning drives

– Enables use of Easy Tier functionality

Drive sizes can be intermixed in an enclosure

12 and 24 bay enclosures can be intermixed in a system

Storwize V7000 Overview


Easy Tier (dynamic HDD/SSD management)

Thin provisioning

FlashCopy up to 256 copies of each volume

Volume Mirroring

Storage virtualization (internal and external disks)

Global & Metro Mirror

Non-disruptive data migration

RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10

Software Functionalities

2U


Drive Choices

2.5-inch: up to 24 drives/encl.

– 146 GB 15K RPM SAS






–1 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS

– 200GB E-MLC Solid-State

– 300 GB E-MLC Solid-State

– 400 GB E-MLC Solid-State

3.5-inch: up to 12 drives/encl

– 2 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS

– 3 TB 7,200 RPM NL-SAS


Control Enclosure Rear View 2076-312/324

External Enclosure Ports # Ports

8 Gb Fiber Channel SAN 8

1 Gb Ethernet 4

10 Gb Ethernet (Models

312/324)

4

USB 4

Internal Enclosure Ports # Ports

SAS 2.0 4

Each SAS 2.0 ports has four

send/receive wire pairs

Each wire pair is 6 Gb/s or 24 Gb/s total

per SAS port


Expansion Enclosure Rear View

IBM Storwize V7000 Expansion Enclosure (2076-212, -224) is packaged in a

2U rackmountable enclosure that houses twenty-four 2.5-inch drive bays

(model 224) or twelve 3.5-inch drive bays (model 212)


Clustered Systems

• SCALE UP to add capacity

• SCALE OUT to add performance

• Clustered systems provide smarter scalability

• Buy only as much capability as you need, when

you need it

• Increase performance, connectivity and cache

• Clustered system operates and is managed as a

single system

Scale UP and/or OUT as business requirements grow

Control enclosure 1 Control enclosure 2 …


Clustered Systems Start with a single control enclosure (a pair of controllers)

• And add up to 9 expansion enclosures Mix 2.5” & 3.5” drive enclosures

Mix drive type and drive size in an enclosure

Add control enclosures independently of expansion enclosures

• Build a cluster (a Grid) of controller pairs

• Add expansion enclosures as required for capacity and performance


Based on the XIV interface

Visual task flow

guidance

Integrated video

instruction

System status

always available Link to more

information if

needed


Based on the XIV interface

Offline

Visually identify

hardware areas of

concern


Storwize V7000 Unified


What this is

• Unified block and file storage system with a tightly integrated management console

• Support for NFS/CIFS/FTP/HTTPS/SCP file protocols in addition to existing block functions

• IBM Active Cloud Engine™ technology

• File replication and file level snapshots for business continuity and disaster recovery

Why It Matters • Provides greater flexibility for provisioning of storage resources and improves overall

capacity utilization

• Unified console simplifies storage administration with a single user interface and

common CLI

• Enables deployment of a broad set of applications from within a single storage

system, especially in shared storage environments

V7000 Unified

V7000 Unified

6U

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File Servers detail

Additional hardware and software on

top of the Storwize V7000

File Modules (FMs) provide file services

CIFS, FTP, HTTP(S), NFS, and SCP

Software stack originates from the Scale

Out NAS (SONAS) and GPFS products

x3650M3

Form factor: 2U

Processor: Single Six Core Intel® Xeon®

X5650 2.66GHz, 8MB L2 cache, 80W

Memory: 72GB DDR3 RAM

Storage: 2 * 500GB 10K SAS

Single RAID 1 pair

Network Interfaces: 4 GbE Ports 2 for Customer Network

2 for Management Network

Dual port 10GbE NIC Customer Network

Emulex OneConnect

Dual-port 8Gbps Fibre Channel HBA QLogic QLE2562


Internal connectivity

Storwize V7000 Unified File Servers take block storage from Storwize V7000 and present it to the network as filesystem, primarily as NFS and CIFS shares

Management interface for File Servers and Storwize V7000 is via green 1Gb Eth

File

Server File

Server

Storwize V7000


• Support for NFS/CIFS/FTP/HTTPS/SCP file protocols in addition to existing block functions (FCP and iSCSI)

– NFS v2 & v3 server (not v4)

– CIFS server (Samba 3.3) – SMB1 and SMB2 (not 2.1)

– FTP, SCP & https servers

– NDMP v2, v3 & v4 backup/restore server (IP only, no local tape)

• File replication and file level snapshots for business continuity and disaster recovery in addition to existing block functions

File functions


IBM Active Cloud Engine™ :

Policies and Rules

Means to automate the management of files using policies and rules

Policy is a set of rules that describes the life cycle of user data based on

the file’s attributes

Support for:

– File placement policies

• used to automatically place newly created files in a specific File System pool.

– File management policies

• used to manage files during their lifecycle

• move files to another internal or external File System pool

• copying files to archival storage

• changing their replication status

• deletion

Policy rules define an operation or definition such as migrate and replicate

a file

– three uses for rules:

• Initial file placement

• File management

• Restoring file data


IBM Active Cloud Engine:

Policies and Rules (cont.)

Placement rules example :

Migration rules example :

Deletion rules example :


Create and write files

/home/appl/data/web/important_big_spreadsheet.xls

/home/appl/data/web/big_architecture_drawing.ppt

/home/appl/data/web/unstructured_big_video.mpg

/home

/appl

/data

/web




IBM Storwize V7K Unified

Policy Engine

IBM Active Cloud Engine

Note: all three files, in same directory, but

each allocated to different physical

storage pool

Data striped across all disks in storage

pool. High performance, auto-tuning, auto-

load balancing

Pool 1: SAS drives Pool 2: Nearline SAS drives Pool 3: Nearline SAS drives

Workload auto-balanced across File

Servers

V7000 Unified

V7000 Unified


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Global Namespace

Metadata scan

/home

/appl

/data

/web

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

Policy Engine

• Scan Engine reads internal file system metadata

• Does not need to read the file or directory tree

1. Start scan

2. Read policies

3. Parallel Scan

4. Return results of scan



Scan Engine


/home

/appl

/data

/web

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3




5. Perform results of scan

Policy Engine

Note: all three files, no change to logical

directory

HSM using external server Stub files left on disk

Auto-recall if accessed


V7000 Unified

V7000 Unified


Data Movement


Storwize V7000 Unified is a midrange disk system

– Customer set-up and maintained: built on proven Storwize V7000

– Intuitive GUI with wizards: built on proven Storwize V7000

– Support call flow starts in the same manner as Storwize V7000

Storwize V7000U is the first IBM-developed midrange unified storage offering

– Presenting both file and block interfaces from the same system

Storwize V7000U has a similar architecture to EMC Celerra and EMC VNX

– Unified management, ordering, and support but separate file/block devices

– File “module” hardware/software in front of block storage system

– File “module” only supports one type of storage (Storwize V7000), not a heterogeneous gateway

– Unified capability can be used only with single-control-enclosure systems

Storwize V7000U is a single orderable system with block and file capabilities

– Also available as an upgrade to an installed Storwize V7000 block-system (staged GA)

Storwize V7000U file module software based on IBM common NAS software and roadmap

– Enables faster delivery of file functions and file ISV certifications across multiple products

– Storwize V7000U software runs 2-way with embedded management (SONAS is n-way nodes with

separate management node)

Storwize V7000 Unified Key Points


IBM® Storwize® V7000 Unified

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