EMC Symmetrix Is “Enterprise Proven” Gold Standard Remote Replication with SRDF Performance Leadership Including Flash Drives
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Storage Solutions for Enterprise Consolidation with VMware Peter C. Conway Vice President – Business & Product Operations Symmetrix Product Group EMC Agenda • Overview • Business Continuity • Customer Case Study • Scalable Performance • Customer Case Study • Scaling VMware VDI 22 EMC’s Storage 2008 Portfolio CLARiiON CX4 UltraScale Series DMX-4 950 Symmetrix CX4-960 NS80 NSX Flash drives Celerra CX4 CX4-240 CX4-480 -120 Flash NS40 drives Flash NS40G drives NS20 Fiber Channel and iSCSI NS80G DMX-4 NAS, FC, & iSCSI AX4 Virtual Provisioning EMC ControlCenter Consumer Storage SMC Navisphere Celerra Manager Connectrix SAN Connectivity Smarts PowerPath MPFSi RecoverPoint LifeLine SRDF TimeFinder MirrorView SnapView Mozy Remote Backup Replication Manager Replistor Xtender Family Powered by EMC Fortress RecoverPoint NetWorker Avamar CDP and CRR DLm DL4106 4080 DL4206 Software-as- a-Service (SaaS) DL3D 3000 Invista 2.0 DL210 DL3D SAN Virtualization Centera 1500 EMC Centera Rainfinity Gen 4 LP Node DL4406 Rainfinity Global File Virtualization EMC Disk Library 33 Enterprise Customers Prefer Storage Area Networks* SANs remain the preferred platform for virtualized environments by 2:1 margin and growing • - 12 Months: 43% SAN Favorable vs. 29% for NAS • Today: 46% SAN Favorable vs. 25% for NAS • +12 Months: 59% SAN Favorable vs. 24% for NAS “EMC remains well ahead of the pack as the most preferred storage vendor in virtualized environments, with IBM a distant second.” *Goldman Sachs, IT Spending Survey , 08 September 2008- p. 11 44 Enterprise VMware Storage Requirements • Virtualization drives physical consolidation • Server • Storage Tier 1 • Network Mission-critical applications • Consolidation requires 24 x 365 • Never lose data! Tier 2 Business-critical Business Continuity applications • Every application performs! Scalable Performance Tier 3 Business-support VMware Deployments VMware applications 55 Symmetrix DMX-4 Tiered Storage Platforms The World’s Most Trusted Storage Platforms Symmetrix DMX-4: World’s Largest High-End Storage Array • 96 to 2,400 disks • 2 to 12 channel directors * • 2 to 8 4Gb disk directors * • Fibre Channel, Flash, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet, FICON • Up to 512 (256 usable) GB Global Memory DMX-4 950: High-End Entry Point • 32 to 360 disks Current • 2 or 4 front-end/back-end directors customers power • Fibre Channel, Flash, iSCSI, Gigabit Ethernet connectivity over 6000 VMs • Up to 128 (64 usable) GB Global Memory with a single Symmetrix CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY *Combinations may be limited or restricted based on configuration 66 VMware + Symmetrix = High Availability VMware Cluster APP Both #1 Node APP APP APP in each OS APP APP Fails OS respective OS OS market OS OS VMware Symmetrix • Automatic restart of VM in case of • Non-disruptive upgrades and unplanned server failures operations • N-to-N failovers with VM's easily • Full component-level redundancy moved with hot-swappable replacements • Application management remains • Dual-ported disks and global-disk unchanged hot spares • VMFS shared storage allows hosts • Remote support and proactive call- to access and power-on VM's home capabilities 77 VMware and Multi-site Business Continuity Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) SRDF used in worlds largest mission critical environments Financial Industry, Telecom, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Retail, and Services SRDF with VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Single button kicks off recovery sequence for protected VM's for fast restart SRDF integrated and validated with major applications supported with VMware Best practices with Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft 88 SRDF – Most Widely Deployed Disaster Restart Solution APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS Source Target SRDF links APP Target Source APP APP APP OS OS OS OS Source/Target Target/Source Disk mirror in real time between Symmetrix systems Source to target architecture Supports bi-directional remote mirror operations Independent of host, OS, applications, and databases 99 VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) with SRDF APP APP APP APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP Production OS OS Disaster OS OS Data Center Recovery Site SRDF Source Target Disaster event VM’s restarted Site Recovery Manager initiates restart actions that includes having the SRDF Adapter Read/Write enable the SRDF Target 1010 Recovery Plan Testing with VMware Site Recovery Manager and TimeFinder APP APP APP APP Disaster Production OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP Recovery Site Data Center OS APP OS APP OS OS OS OS SRDF Source Target Activate/Split Time Finder Testing of a recovery with zero downtime to the protected VM's in the protected site using TimeFinder in the recovery site 1111 VMware with SRDF Advanced 3-Site Solutions Production Local/Regional Disaster Out-of-Region Disaster Data Center Recovery Site Recovery Site APP APP APP APP APP APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS OS OS OS OS OS SRDF/A SRDF/S R1 R21 WAN R2 Site A Site B Site C Achievable no data loss solution with improved RTO 1212 King & Spalding Skip McDowell Current Responsibilities: is the engineering lead for King & Spalding, responsible for server deployment and administration (virtual and physical) and overall data centers management. Past Experience: Prior to working at King & Spalding, Skip worked at an major pharmaceutical where he managed data center provisioning and deployment. Education: Skip has civil engineer degree from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1414 About Us • King & Spalding is an international law firm founded in Atlanta, Georgia in 1885. • Currently represents more than 250 public companies including half of the Fortune 100. Clients include The Coca-Cola Company, Sprint Nextel, General Motors and Bank of America. • 800 lawyers (2000 employees) with offices in Abu Dhabi, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Dubai, Frankfurt, Houston, London, New York, Riyadh, San Francisco, Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. 1515 The Environment 350 Virtual Machines 19 ESX Servers Both sides active Fail to alternate site Brocade Brocade 48000 48000 SRDF/S Over IP 1616 Benefits Data Center Consolidation • Decommissioned 100 physical production servers (265 more opportunities) • Replaced physical test lab consisting of 36 physical servers High Availability • Set up 2 geographically spanned clusters as part of Exchange 2007 migration • Fail -over in either direction • Exchange only today, • Looking at Site Recovery Manager for general case • Planning for possible three-site in the future Scalability • Use Dynamic Resource Scheduler to balance work across cluster • Distribute virtual machines across both data centers 1717 SCALABLE PERFORMANCE EMC Technology Leadership Analysts on: EMC’s Q1 2008 Symmetrix Flash Drive Announcement “EMC is the first enter prise infrastructure pla yer to incorporate flash disk into their arrays, which should give them a huge performance advantage at the very sector of the market that always seems to need more and more. “If it creates as big a gap in real life transaction processing shops as it does on paper, this could ver y well be one of those killer advanta ges that only appear every 10 to 15 years.” -Steve Duplessie Senior Analyst, The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc January 2008 1919 Ultra Performance via Enterprise-Class Flash Drives First and Only High End Array to support Flash Drives Fully integrated with Symmetrix supporting software functionality Multi-year planning and development program Design specifications, design, integration, qualification Technology optimized for enterprise environments Flash FC interface to front end RAM cache with many parallel read/write engines Drives Wear leveling algorithms and self-healing capabilities for reliability End -to -end ECC for data integrity Ideal for Low Latency, High Transaction Workloads Available for New and Existing Enables database acceleration Symmetrix DMX-4 Reduces batch processing windows Good for indices and frequently accessed tables Flash Drives becoming mainstream 2020 Enterprise Flash Drives Shatter Performance Barriers 10x faster response time 100% Read Miss Workload 60 55 30x more IOPS per Drive 50 45 32% less power per GB 40 35 98% less power per I/O 30 25 20 15K FC Drives 15 ~1 millisecond 10 Response Time Millisecond Millisecond Time Time Response Response Read-Miss 5 0 Response Time! 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 Workload - IOPs 2121 Developing Hotspots Hotspots Virtual Machines result from concentration APP APP APP APP APP of active data OS OS OS OS OS on a few disks VMFS Normal Volume Active Data Inactive Data 2222 Virtual Provisioning Virtual Machines Virtual Provisioning APP APP APP APP APP spreads active OS OS OS OS OS and inactive data evenly across all disks in pool VMFS Virtual Provisioned Volume Active Data Inactive Data 2323 Dynamic Cache Partitioning Test & Development Ordering System APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP APP OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS VMFS VMFS Internal App Cache CACHE Cache Data Order System Data 2424 FANNIE MAE Christopher Louis Current Responsibilities: Christopher J. Lewis is Fannie Mae's vice president for Networks and End-User Systems, reporting to the senior vice president – Technology Infrastructure and Operations. Lewis leads the vision and strategy for the development and operations of Fannie Mae's server and storage infrastructure. He manages the staff in multiple data centers, including two in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, and one data center outside of this region. Past Experience: Prior to joining Fannie