Front cover IBM Software-Defined Storage Guide Larry Coyne Joe Dain Eric Forestier Patrizia Guaitani Robert Haas Christopher D. Maestas Antoine Maille Tony Pearson Brian Sherman Christopher Vollmar Redpaper International Technical Support Organization IBM Software-Defined Storage Guide July 2018 REDP-5121-02 Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on page vii. Third Edition (July 2018) © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2016, 2018. All rights reserved. Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Notices . vii Trademarks . viii Preface . ix Authors. ix Now you can become a published author, too . xi Comments welcome. xii Stay connected to IBM Redbooks . xii Chapter 1. Why software-defined storage . 1 1.1 Introduction to software-defined architecture . 2 1.2 Introduction to software-defined storage. 3 1.3 Introduction to Cognitive Storage Management . 7 Chapter 2. Software-defined storage. 9 2.1 Introduction to SDS . 10 2.2 SDS overview . 11 2.2.1 SDS supports emerging as well as traditional IT consumption models . 12 2.2.2 Required SDS capabilities . 14 2.2.3 SDS Functions . 15 2.3 SDS Data-access protocols . 16 2.3.1 Block I/O . 16 2.3.2 File I/O . 17 2.3.3 Object Storage . 17 2.4 SDS reference architecture. 17 2.5 Ransomware Considerations . 18 Chapter 3. IBM SDS product offerings . 19 3.1 SDS architecture . 20 3.1.1 SDS control plane . 23 3.1.2 SDS data plane. 23 3.2 IBM Spectrum Connect . 23 3.2.1 VMware integration . 23 3.2.2 PowerShell . 25 3.2.3 Containers and Kubernetes . 25 3.3 IBM Spectrum Control. 26 3.3.1 Key capabilities . 26 3.3.2 Benefits . 26 3.3.3 IBM Data and Storage Management Solutions features. 27 3.3.4 IBM Spectrum Control Standard Edition . 28 3.3.5 IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition . 28 3.4 IBM Virtual Storage Center . 31 3.5 IBM Storage Insights. 31 3.5.1 IBM Storage Insights. 32 3.5.2 IBM Storage Insights Pro . 33 3.6 IBM Copy Services Manager . 34 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2016, 2018. All rights reserved. iii 3.7 IBM Spectrum Protect . 35 3.7.1 Key capabilities . 36 3.7.2 Benefits . 36 3.7.3 Backup and recovery . 37 3.7.4 Tool set . 37 3.7.5 IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center. 38 3.7.6 IBM Spectrum Protect cloud architectures . 39 3.7.7 Cloud Tiering. 40 3.7.8 IBM Spectrum Protect Plus. 40 3.7.9 IBM Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments . 41 3.8 IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot. 42 3.9 IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management . 43 3.10 Block, file, and object storage . 47 3.10.1 Block storage . 47 3.10.2 File storage . 47 3.10.3 Object storage. 47 3.11 IBM Block Storage solutions . 48 3.11.1 IBM Spectrum Virtualize . 48 3.11.2 IBM Spectrum Access Blueprint . 52 3.11.3 IBM Spectrum Accelerate . 54 3.11.4 IBM XIV Storage System Gen3 . 59 3.11.5 IBM FlashSystem A9000 and A9000R . 59 3.12 IBM File Storage solutions . 59 3.12.1 IBM Spectrum Scale . 59 3.12.2 IBM Spectrum NAS. 69 3.12.3 IBM Spectrum Archive . 70 3.13 IBM Object Storage solutions . 77 3.13.1 IBM Cloud Object Storage . ..