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04/19/23 2
Making Storage Smarter
Fujifilm is the premier provider of quality tape media and storage intelligenceStorage Intelligence is part of our DNA StorageIQ helps improve the overall tape experience
Better performance from current systemsImprove utilization of resourcesEnsure long term data protectionEasier ongoing system support
The goal is to overcome tapes inherent complexity and let you focus on best practices and data protection
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ReadVerify Appliance (RVA)
Fujifilm’s ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) provides a proactive method for monitoring and validating the integrity of tape media, tracking the performance and utilization of tape devices to provide comprehensive reports on the health of the overall backup environment.
Maximize Tape Library Assets Complete view into the performance, utilization, and health of the tape library environment, providing visibility into the root cause of incomplete backups, unbalanced drive usage, and low performing assets.
Minimize Data RiskBy monitoring the health and integrity of tape drives and media, RVA provides a proactive indication of data at risk. Errors are tracked over the productive live of the component to provide clear metrics for corrective action to minimize data risk.
Real-time NotificationEnables proactive management and corrective action before failures occur.
Data Recoverability AssuranceThe optional ArchiveVerify (AV) feature reduces the risk of data recovery failure through scheduled, automated data validation, thus minimizing data risk and assuring regulatory compliance.
Seamless, Heterogeneous IntegrationRVA plugs directly into the SAN and begins monitoring immediately. Installation is agent-less, application agnostic, and heterogeneous.
ReadVerify ApplianceReadVerify Appliance
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Monitoring within the Cloud
• Stuck tapes• High error rates• Low performance –
“Shoe Shining”
• Load balance and utilization of tape drives
• Duty cycle of media changer
• Unhealthy media or degrading drives?
• Tape usage over its life
While contending with…While contending with…Meet SLAs
Manage capital and operating expenses
Improve utilization of existing assets
Mitigate risk of data loss
Address corporate green initiatives
Validate regulatory compliance
With lower IT budgets, reduced staff, and cost-cutting initiatives, how do you …With lower IT budgets, reduced staff, and cost-cutting initiatives, how do you …
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Seamless, Heterogeneous IntegrationNon-intrusive, agent-less deployment
Application agnosticOut-of-band of data path
Monitor multiple libraries in a data center
Independent fabricsDifferent library typesDifferent drive types
Real-time alerting – notification that backup may be in the process of failing
Media and drive failureUnder-utilized resourcesHigh error rates
Proactively assesses the Proactively assesses the backup system’s tape drive backup system’s tape drive
and media performance, and media performance, utilization, and health, over utilization, and health, over
its effective lifeits effective life
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Simple, Focused Issue Isolation
View all libraries in data center from single web-based console
Rapid navigation to critical issues
Real-time analysisLibraries
Drives
Tapes
Easy access to current reports and historical statistics
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Maximize Tape Library Assets
Utilization and performanceOptimal drive allocation
Resolve performance gaps
Improved backup times
Load balancingRebalance assets to delay additional equipment purchase
Identify under- or over-utilized assets
Reduce backup windows
Minimize premature wear on equipment
reduce maintenance calls
Remove unneeded assets, save maintenance costs
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Minimize Data Risk
Identify degrading drives and suspect media
Drive–tape error correlation rapidly isolates degrading components
Minimize diagnostic effort
Lower costs by reducing tape wastage
Identify over-utilized assetsMinimize premature wear
on equipment
Reduce maintenance calls
Isolate poor performanceMinimize drive “shoe-shining”
to mitigate data risk
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Real-Time Notification
Enables proactive action to prevent backup failures
Generated real-time on tape environment issues:
Libraries
Drives
Tapes
Alerts individually enabled on per-library basis
User-defined thresholds
Email & SNMP support
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Automated ReportingReports by library or drive pool
Analyze efficiency of application’s drive configurations
System analyticsFirmware revision
Drive status
Drive occupancy versus actual usage
Selective email or logEach report has unique email distribution
Reports accessible through UI
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ArchiveVerify (AV) Feature
Verifies crucial corporate assets are recoverable, before data is needed
Automatically validates readability of media
Validates all target media, over the entire length of tape
Verification based on user-defined policies and schedules
AV drives can be shared with backup/other applications
Provides audit trail for regulatory compliance requirements
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ArchiveVerify (AV) FeatureCompletely automated verification
Verification schedule on user-defined policies
Automatically loads selected media and verifies data can be read
Returns library to known state for normal storage activity
Seamless integrationUses existing library assets
Deployed out-of-band to library controller and storage applications
Independent of storage application
No load on existing servers
Automatically verifies the Automatically verifies the system’s ability to read tape system’s ability to read tape media, over its effective lifemedia, over its effective life
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Verification History and Reporting
Automated reportingMedia health
Verification success/failure
Total data on tape
Verification history
Automated alertsVerification failures
Verification disruptions
Administrators can reduce corporate risk Administrators can reduce corporate risk and improve regulatory compliance by and improve regulatory compliance by
retiring tapes before they become retiring tapes before they become completely unrecoverable.completely unrecoverable.
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Advanced Reporting
External RVA database accessibility
Expanded reporting via 3rd party applications
Integrate with existing management applications
Report templates available for major applications
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Advanced Reporting Examples
TapeBarcode Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB AffectSRA341 0.05 n 1.28 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.03 nSRB535 0.61 u 0.02 g 0.00 g 0 gSRB537 0.02 g 0.49 n 0.00 gSRB750 0.01 g 0.46 n 0.00 g 0.13 g 0.01 gSRA385 0.00 g 0.36 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA436 0.33 n 0 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA361 0.00 g 0.31 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB566 0.22 n 0.00 g 0 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA239 0.03 g 0.18 g 0.00 g 0.29 n 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB768 0.15 n 0.02 g 0 g 0.01 gSRB352 0.03 g 0.13 g 0.00 g 0.03 g 0.03 g 0.00 gSRA780 0.00 g 0.12 n 0.03 g 0.00 gSRB511 0.12 n 0.00 g 0.03 g 0.00 gSRB781 13.02 n 0.12 g 0.00 g 0.01 gSRB050 0.01 g 0.11 n 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB492 0.11 n 0.01 g 0 g 0.00 gSRA498 0.02 g 0.11 n 0.02 gSRA405 0.00 g 0.11 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB419 0.03 g 0.10 n 0.02 g 0.04 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB214 0.02 g 0.10 g 0.03 g 0.00 g 0.04 gSRB442 0.08 n 0.00 g 0.09 g 0.00 gSRA626 0.08 g 0.00 g 0.14 g 0.04 g 0.01 gSRB095 0.08 n 0.00 g 0 g 0.02 g 0.00 gSRB687 0.08 g 0.05 gSRB028 0.00 g 0.08 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB223 0.00 g 0.08 n 0.02 g 0.01 g 0.00 gSRB257 0.00 g 0.07 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB482 0.01 g 0.07 n 0.00 gSRA364 0.02 g 0.07 n 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB420 0.02 g 0.07 n 0.00 g 0.01 gSRB232 0.07 n 0.00 g 0 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA678 0.04 g 0.07 g 0.00 g 0.05 g 0.01 g
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Drive-Tape Error CorrelationDrive-Tape Error Correlation
Drives with high error rates across multiple tapes indicate that the drive may require maintenance.
Tapes with high error rates across multiple drives indicate a suspect tape.
Isolating suspect Isolating suspect components enables components enables
proactive adjustments proactive adjustments and minimizes data and minimizes data
risk.risk.
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Advanced Reporting Examples
Drive PerformanceDrive Performance
Some drives used heavily, but with poor performance.
Network capable of data transfers at native drive rate.
Low performance causes the Low performance causes the drives to “shoe-shine” – drives to “shoe-shine” –
causing premature wear to causing premature wear to media and drives and media and drives and placing data at risk.placing data at risk.
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Advanced Reporting Examples
Drive Occupancy versus UtilizationDrive Occupancy versus Utilization
High occupancy with low utilization indicates a tape could be stuck in a drive.
Drive usage is unbalanced.
Balancing drive usage Balancing drive usage reduces premature wear on reduces premature wear on over-used drives, and gets over-used drives, and gets
the most use out of existing the most use out of existing assets.assets.
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Making Storage Smarter
Fujifilm provides the following smarter storage services
StorageIQ12 months of RVA monitoring onsite
StorageIQ PlusArchive Verification
Validate the readability of tape archives
Library Overview AnalysisMonthly web accessible advanced reports with quarterly summary and recommendations
Tape Environment AnalysisDeep dive quarterly reports with detailed consultative analysis by storage engineers with architecture recommendations
Library Monitoring and AlertsRemote monitoring and support of tape systems
Thank You!For more information visit our website at
www.fujifilmusa.com/tape_storage
Fujifilm Recording Media USA, Inc.200 Summit Lake Drive Valhalla, New York 10595 800.488.3854 FAX: 914.789.8530