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Business  Continuity  with  Violin’s    7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  Layers  of  protection  for  Here,  Near  and  Anywhere  Data  Availability  

Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  Continuous  Data  Protection  (CDP)  feature  set  provides  data  protection  functions  against  problems  in  the  rack,  the  data  center,  in  a  metro  environment,  or  anywhere  based  on  the  application  needs  for  primary  storage  data  protection.    

The  Challenge  Data  protection  for  a  business’  primary  storage  used  to  be  complex,  and  there  is  a  lot  at  stake…  Big  Data…  Clouds…  Virtualization…  Application  performance…  upgrades…  patches…  migrations….  End  user  SLA’s…  A  lot  to  juggle  and  in  many  cases  the  company’s  ability  to  do  business  rests  on  fast  continuous  access  to  vital  data.  Lose  access  to  data,  lose  revenue.  Lose  revenue,  lose  job.  All  Bad.  

The  Solution  The  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  eliminates  issues  of  complexity  and  reliability  for  business  continuity  by  providing  robust  mirroring  and  replication  options  for  the  enterprise’s  entire  primary  (i.e.  active)  data  storage  needs,  all  easily  managed  at  a  granular,  group  or  global  level,  on  a  single  platform  running  a  single  code  base.    

The  CDP  features  on  Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  deliver  the  performance  expected  from  an  all  flash  platform  and  data  protection  resulting  in  comprehensive  and  automated  recovery  for  all  critical  applications,  business  data,  and  services.  Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  enables  organizations  to  define,  meet,  and  even  exceed  Line-­‐of-­‐Business  SLAs,  while  protecting  data  in  a  way  that  supports  application  and  organizational  goals.    

The  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  provides  application-­‐specific  data  protection  for  all  critical  primary  storage  applications,  along  with  near-­‐instant  recovery,  remote  replication,  and  disaster  recovery  automation.    

     

Protection  for  Here  

• Synchronous  mirroring  for  local  protection  

Protection  for  Near  • Stretch  clusters  for  regional  protection  

Protection  for  Anywhere  • Asynchronous  replication  to  remote  disaster  recovery    locations  with  automatic    fail-­‐over      

 

   

   

Solution  Brief:  7700  Business  Continuity

Violin  Memory,  Inc.    |    4555  Great  America  Parkway,  Santa  Clara,  CA  95054  USA    |    Tel:  1-­‐650-­‐396-­‐1500  •  Fax:  1-­‐650-­‐396-­‐1543    |    www.violin-­‐memory.com  ©2015  Violin  Memory,  Inc.  All  rights  reserved.  These  products  and  technologies  are  protected  by  U.S.  and  international  copyright  and  intellectual  property  laws.  Violin  Memory  is  a  registered  trademark  of  Violin  Memory,  Inc.  in  the  United  States  and/or  other  jurisdictions  

Protection  for  Here    7700  synchronous  mirroring  provides  block-­‐level  data  mirroring  across  7700s.    Data  synchronizes  to  a  second  storage  device  independent  of  the  servers  involved  with  just  a  few  mouse  clicks.    There  is  no  need  for  system-­‐specific  host-­‐based  tools.  

Once  the  mirror  is  online,  all  future  data  is  written  simultaneously  to  both  the  primary  volume  and  the  mirror.    Built-­‐in,  tunable  mirror  monitoring  algorithms  continually  check  for  lag  time  in  the  write  speed  between  each  side  of  the  mirror,  which  would  reside  on  two  separate  devices.    If  lag  times  are  too  large,  the  mirroring  process  will  automatically  suspend  to  minimize  the  impact  to  the  production  server.    The  mirror  will  then  re-­‐synch  as  soon  as  possible  without  impacting  server  performance.      

Protection  for  Near    Primary  storage  cannot  fail:  High  Availability  is  a  firm  requirement.    The  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  can  be  configured  into  a  scale  up  stretch  metro  cluster.  A  special  communication  link  between  7700  nodes  continuously  synchronizes  I/O  and  metadata  between  the  pair  of  7700s.  The  HA  pair  tolerates  node  failures  or  temporary  upgrades  with  minimal,  if  any,  disruption  to  primary  storage  volumes.    Combining  the  benefit  of  HA  and  site  disaster  recovery,  the  stretch  cluster  functionality  allows  you  to  deploy  an  HA  solution  between  two  geographically  separated  sites.  In  case  of  failure  on  one  site,  data  is  immediately  available  at  the  other,  as  the  data  sets  are  constantly  synchronized.  

Protection  for  Anywhere    As  organizations  grow,  they  often  accumulate  disparate  hardware  and  networking  resources.  In  addition,  monthly  bandwidth  costs  increase  significantly  with  each  higher  telecommunication  link  (T1,  T3,  OC3,  OC12,  and  others).  Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  delivers  efficient  and  robust  replication  between  data  centers,  leveraging  storage  from  any  vendor  at  any  office  location.  To  minimize  bandwidth  requirements,  the  7700  provides  WAN-­‐optimized  replication  with  compression  for  improved  bandwidth  efficiency  and  data  encryption  (in-­‐flight)  to  guard  against  unauthorized  disclosure.    

Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  technology  minimizes  the  amount  of  data  transmitted  with  user-­‐selectable,  block  level  inline  deduplication  and  compression  and  by  eliminating  redundancy  at  the  application  and  file  system  layers.  Rather  than  arbitrarily  transmitting  entire  blocks  or  pages  (as  is  typical  of  other  replication  solutions),  the  7700  technology  maps,  identifies,  and  transmits  only  unique  blocks,  reducing  network  traffic  and  bandwidth  requirements  by  as  much  as  95%.  Meanwhile,  adaptive  replication  automatically  switches  between  continuous  and  periodic  data  transmission  in  the  event  of  temporary  bandwidth  link  outage  or  throughput  degradation.  Periodic  replication  queues  data  for  subsequent  transmission,  while  preserving  write-­‐order  fidelity.  

The  Result  Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  delivers  optimized  performance  based  on  consistent  sub-­‐millisecond  latencies:  The  Flash  Storage  Platform  also  brings  mirroring,  metro  clustering  and  asynchronous  wide  area  replication  recovery  and  backup  to  enterprise  –wide  primary  storage  with  sophistication  and  performance  that  enables  enterprises  to  employ  a  single  solution  for  all  their  active  data  storage  needs.    The  ability  to  replicate  and  backup  data  from  a  high  performance  all-­‐flash  array,  such  as  the  7700,  means  that  the  overall  speed  and  efficiency  of  your  cloud  or  data  center  are  preserved.    

Violin’s  7700  Flash  Storage  Platform  capabilities  are  easily  configured,  monitored  and  tuned  via  Symphony,  a  single  pane  browser-­‐based  interface  capable  of  controlling  petabytes  of  flash  storage  across  hundreds  of  Violin  Memory  Flash  Storage  Platforms  at  a  granular  level.  Symphony  revolutionizes  the  storage  management  experience  with  granular,  real-­‐time,  SLA-­‐based  data  protection  management,  data  efficiency  reporting,  health  monitoring,  and  customizable  dashboards,  all  under  centralized  management  and  administration.  

Symphony  enables  one  click  monitoring  and  management  of  Violin  Memory  Flash  Storage  Platforms,  even  if  they  are  geographically  distributed  across  the  data  center,  across  town  or  across  an  ocean  through  a  unified  web-­‐based  user  interface.    

With  Violin’s  7700  you  get  protection  for  Here,  Near  and  Anywhere  to  keep  your  data  safe.  For  more  information  go  to  www.violin-­‐memory.com.