This document provides an overview and summary of various enterprise storage systems and concepts. It discusses IBM storage platforms such as DS3000, DS5000, SAN Volume Controller, Storwize, DS8000, FlashSystems, tape systems, and XIV. It also covers NetApp features, IBM Smarter Storage approach, IBM and NetApp management tools, storage tiers, and various industry terms.

1. C4090-959:
Enterprise
Storage Sales V3
Jason Wong
Global Knowledge

2. The Schedule
 IBM System Storage overviews – exam
related
 Exam Simulator
 The Actual Exam

3. IBM Storage Systems
 DS3500  DCS3700
 DS4000, DS5000, DS6000
 SAN Volume Controller
 Storwize V7000, V3700, V5000
 DS8000  DS8870
 FlashSystems 840  900/V9000
 Tape systems (TS series)
 XIV Gen3

4. XIV – features and warranty
 2810 is 1 yr warranty and 2812 provides 3 yrs
 All drives in system are fully used. Workload is evenly
distributed over all hardware
 Eliminates need for idle spare drives
 SSD are used as caching. Never on Easy Tier
 Scale up to 15 modules/frame, and scale out to 144 XIV
frames
114 214
Read cache 6TB 12TB
iSCSI-attached hosts 22 x 1 GbE 12 x 10 GbE
Energy Saving - 16% more than 114
Drive capacity 2TB or 3TB 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB
Processing - Up to 15 CPUs (90 cores)
and 180 threads (intel
HT)

5. Netapps features (1 of 3)
 FlexCache
 To scale out storage performance for read-heavy workloads
 By Caching only data access, rather than entire volumes or files
 FlexClone
 creates exact virtual copies of data volumes, files or LUNs without
additional storage space
 Application such as used for testing, fixing bugs, upgrading
firmware, staging
 FlexShare
 Provides workload prioritization for storage system.
 Host multiple applications on single storage system (without
impacting app’s performance)
 NearStore
 provide near-primary storage performance at a significantly lower
cost
 Enhance existing backup and restore operations by acting as a large
data cache or by replacing tape backup.

6. Netapps features (2 of 3)
 MultiStore (Secure multi-tenancy for Cloud architecture)
 Allow multiple users to share same storage resource without
compromising privacy and security.
 Information on one virtual storage system cannot be viewed, used,
or downloaded by users on another virtual storage system.
 SnapDrive
 NetApp SnapDrive automates storage provisioning tasks. It can back
up and restore business-critical data in seconds using integrated
NetApp Snapshot™ technology.
 SnapLock
 like WORM, it comply with records retention. ensure archived data
are in unalterable state for years. At the same time enables rapid
retrieval of data
 SnapMirror
 Data Replication features. Efficient disaster recovery feature
 SnapManager
 Backup , restore and disaster recovery operations. similar to IBM
TSM

7. Netapps features (3 of 3)
 SnapRestore
 Uses snapshot copies to recover file system or data volumes in seconds;
part of backup recovery operation
 SnapProtects
 Modernizes backup and recovery in virtualized infrastructure
 Leverages snapshot copies and replication
 SnapValidator
 is a software that is integrate with Oracle Database Architecture to
safeguard oracle data
 SnapVault
 Disk-to-disk backup software safeguards data at block level.
 It simplifies data backup and recovery
 It leverages block-level incremental replication and Netapp Snapshot
copies for reliable , low overhead D2D backup

8. IBM ® Smarter Storage
 More efficient, automated and intelligent approach to storage
 The approach to achieve these:
 Efficient by design
 storage technologies are built in and tightly integrated
 Requiring no manual intervention
 Management is intuitive
 Self-optimizing
 Analyzes data access patterns, adapts and improves performance
 Automatically place data on appropriate storage tier
 Cloud agile
 Fully participates in highly virtualized cloud environments
 Both IBM and non-IBM storage are managed as one virtual pool
 Data is automatically synchronized.
 Provides flexible storage and adapts easily to unpredictable new
demand.

9. IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity
Center vs System Storage PC
 SSPC
 Is hardware appliance with preinstalled with TSPC Basic Edition on Windows Server 2008 R2
Standard edition
 Tested support interoperability between server, software, and supported storage devices
 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC)
 is data and storage management software for managing heterogeneous storage
infrastructures.
 License by capacity
 Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) Select
 Same as TPC, but license by enclosure
 SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Storage
 License by capacity
 Same basic functions as TPC or TPC select plus more functionality (see redbook)
 TPC V5.2 transform storage wizard
 Transform fully allocated volumes to compressed or TP volumes and vice-versa
 Move volume to other pools, or pools enabled for ET

10. Storage terms
 Cloud Storage
 Deduplication
 Easy Tier
 Dynamic disk pool
 Parallel Access
 RAID
 RAID-X (XIV), RAID-4 &
RAID-DP (NetApp)
 Real-time compression
 Network-attached storage
(NAS)
 Storage area network (SAN)
 Storage Pool
 Storage Optimization
 Storage Tiering
 Thin Provisioning vs Thick
Provisioning
 Virtualization

11. Multi Tier Storage
Tier 0 Flash. Trading data, high value, extremely time
sensitive data. Subsecond response speeds.
Tier 1 SSD. Reliable and speed minus the cost.
Transactional data
Tier 2 balance between cost and performance. SAS .
XIV falls into this category
Tier 3 NL SAS drives. Slowest performance disk drives.
Cheapest storage
Tier 4 Tape storage. Backup and Archive

12. Financial/Business terms
 TCA
 Total cost of acquisition
 TCO
 Total cost of ownership.
 ROI
 Return of Investment
 RTO
 Recovery Time Objective
 Expect how long it will take to get the server up and
running at the DR site
 RPO
 Recovery Point Objective
 Expected amount of data loss expressed not in
amount of data but in an amount of time

13. Technical Delivery and
Assessment
 Pre-Sales
 Pre-Install
 Post-Install
 Mandatory
 Initiated and completed by IBM Business Partner
 Server/Storage system will not be shipped if
TDA checklist not completed

14. Warranty
 TS3500 : 1 year limited, on-site service, same-day 24x7,
service upgrades available
 XIV Gen3
 2810 : 1 yr, onsite service, same day 24x7
 2812 : 3 yrs, onsite service, same day 24x7
 V7000
 3 yr limited warranty, CRU, on-site service, next business
day 9x5
 DS8000
 All models (CRU) onsite, same day 24x7
 2424 4 yrs
 2423 3 yrs
 2422 2 yrs
 2421 1yr

15. HyperPAV - Parallel Access
Volumes
 1990, PAV created as component of IBM
storage subsystems and OSs to improve IO
response times.
 2006, Use in IBM System z platform (thru
FICON technology)
 Multiple IO operations on single logical
device ~ Improved efficiency and
performance
 Reduced I/O resources requirement

16. Linear Tape-Open (LTO)
LTO Capacity
(native|compress|rati
o)
1 100GB|200GB |2:1
2 200GB|400GB |2:1
3 400GB|800GB |2:1 WORM capable
4 800GB|1.6TB |2:1 Encryption capable
5 1.5TB |3TB |2:1 LTFS (2 partitions)
6 2.5TB |6.25TB |2.5:1 LTFS (4 partitions)
7 6.4TB |15TB |2.5:1 In roadmap
8, 9 and 10 >12TB In roadmap

17. Series of tape drives
 IBM 3480/3490 1984-2004
 IBM 3490 replaced by 3580
 IBM 3580 IBM Ultirum tape drives
 IBM 3590 was intro under nickname Magstar
 IBM 3592 was introduced under nickname
Jaguar, the next drive was TS1120
 IBM 3592-E05 also known as TS1120
(generation 2)
 TS1150 is the latest tape drives offering by
IBM

18. TS series family naming
convention
 1000 series is reserved for tape drives, example TS1140 or TS1060
 2000 series is reserved for storage enclosures, example TS2200 or TS2300
 3000 series is reserved for automation, example TS3500 tape library
 4000 series is reserved for automation, example TS4500 tape library
 7600 series is reserved for ProtecTIER Deduplication or gateway , example
TS7650, TS7620
 7700 series is reserved for virtualization engine, example TS7720 or
TS7740 for system Z only

19. Tape Systems
 Tape Library
 TS4500 – scale up to 35.5 PB, scale out to 4 frames
 TS3500 - scale out to 16 frames
 TS3310, TS3200 and TS3100 ~ entry level
 Tape Drive
 TS1120, TS1130, TS1140 and TS1150 (supported in TS3500)
 TS1040
 TS1050 and TS1060 (supported in TS4500)
 ProtecTIER Deduplication / Gateway
 TS7620
 TS7650A TS7650G
 Virtualization Engine (disk to tape)
 TS7700
 System z only

20. Tape Systems 7600 series (1 of 2)
 TS7610 ProtecTIER ® Deduplication Appliance
Express
 2U Minimum preconfigured repositories (4TB)
 Supports VTL and Symantec OpenStorage (OST)
 TS7620 ProtecTIER ® Deduplication Appliance
Express
 3U, Preconfigured with ProtecTIER and
Deduplication software
 Preconfigured repositories (6TB to 35 TB) – NL
SAS and SATA drive interface
 Supports VTL, Symantec OpenStorage (OST) and
FSI configuration (NFS and CIFS )
 11.5 TB expansion drawer attached

21. Tape Systems 7600 series (2 of 2)
 TS7650 ProtecTIER ® Deduplication
 withdrawn from market effective Nov 2012
 Replaced by TS7620 Appliance Express
 Preconfigured with ProtecTIER and Deduplication software
 Emulate up to 12 virtual libraries, 256 virtual tape drives, 128,000
virtual cartridges
 TS7650G ProtecTIER ® Deduplication Gateway
 Preconfigured with ProtecTIER and Deduplication software
 Supports File system interface for NAS backup, NFS for Unix clients,
and CIFS for Microsoft Windows clients
 Gateway term means the system does not include disk storage repo,
allowing customer to choose from variety of storage options
 Emulate up to 16 virtual libraries, 512 virtual tape drives
 Emulate TS3500 tape library (Ultrium 2 or 3 tape drives)
 Emulate Quantum P3000 tape library (DLT tape drives)

22. EMC products
 CLARiiON SAN block storage platform,
marketed as entry and mid range of EMC’s
SAN disk array products
 Celerra NAS platform
 Isilon Clustered NAS platform. Big data,
online streaming, unstructural data
 2011, EMC replaced CLARiiON and Celerra
products with VNX series
 VNX unified platform (SAN+NAS)
 VPLEX virtualization platform
 Symmetrix VMAX 10K, 20K, and 40K