AltaVault

NetApp AltaVault Cloud-Integrated Storage
Appliance
AltaVault technical presentation
Insight on the Road
John Davis
March 2016
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Agenda
1) Product overview
 NetApp® AltaVault® overview
 Model specifications
2) Architecture
 Deduplication Overview
 Security
 Terminology
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Agenda (continued)
4) Platform deep dive
 Physical models
 Virtual models
 Cloud models
 NetApp® AltaVault® OS
5) Cloud storage overview
6) Resources

NetApp AltaVault cloud-integrated
storage appliance
Product overview

NetApp AltaVault cloud-integrated storage
 Optimized for managing data in public or private cloud storage
 Supports a wide range of cloud storage services
 Provides a NAS interface for backup applications
 Reduces backup data and creates a complete copy in the cloud
 Provides disaster recovery to physical or virtual appliances

Backup and recovery
 For organizations that want to
include cloud storage as part of
their backup architecture
 Keeps a local copy of recent
backups for rapid restore, but
immediately replicates them to
the cloud for off-site storage
 Optimized for meeting backup
and recovery windows
NetApp AltaVault primary use cases
Cold storage
 For organizations with large
volumes of data that are
infrequently accessed and/or
need to be retained for a long
time
 Only metadata is kept locally; all
data is immediately replicated to
the cloud
 Optimized for scale

Seamlessly
integrates into
existing
infrastructure
Deduplicates,
compresses, and
encrypts
Caches recent
backups locally,
replicates copies to
the cloud
Store data in the
public or private
cloud of choice
NetApp® SnapProtect®
Arcserve
CommVault Simpana
Dell vRanger
EMC NetWorker
HP Data Protector
IBM Spectrum Protect
Veeam
Veritas Backup Exec
Veritas Enterprise Vault
Veritas NetBackup
Amanda
Microsoft SQL Server
Oracle RMAN
Amazon (Glacier
and S3)
AT&T Synaptic
Storage as a
Service
CenturyLink
Dunkel Cloud
Storage
EVault LTS2
Google Cloud
Platform
IBM SoftLayer
Object Storage
Microsoft Azure
Rackspace
Swisscom
Telefonica
TELUS
Verizon
Terremark
NetApp
StorageGRID®
Webscale
Cleversafe
Cloudian
HyperStore
EMC Atmos
OpenStack Swift
Public cloud
Private cloud
FAS
E-Series
Non NetApp
Storage
NetApp AltaVault
Public or
private cloud
Cloud-integrated
storage appliance

NetApp AltaVault model highlights
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Cloud-based appliances
Virtual cloud-integrated
appliances
Physical cloud-integrated
appliances
Model AVA-c4 AVA-c8 AVA-c16 AVA-v8 AVA-v16 AVA-v32 AVA400 AVA800
Usable Disk
Cache Capacity
4TB 8TB 16TB 8TB 16TB 32TB
32TB–
192TB
48TB–384TB
Licensed Cloud
Capacity
20TB 40TB 80TB 40TB 80TB 160 TB
160TB–
960TB
240TB–
1.92PB
Backup
Throughput
(Maximum)
300GB/hr 350GB/hr 2.6TB/hr 900GB/hr 1.8TB/hr 2.6TB/hr 5.5TB/hr 8TB/hr
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Typical deployment
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Application Servers
Virtualization Servers
Backup Server
CIFS
NFS
Public or Private
Cloud Storage
NetApp® AltaVault®
Extensive API
support for
cloud
NAS interface
to backup app
NDMP Remote
or 3-way
Data flows via
backup server

Cloud backup and archive use cases
Backup modernization
Cloud
Storage
Adding cloud-integrated backup
Archive storage targetCold storage target
Backup server Backup server
PBBA
Archive or DB server
Enterprise
Vault
VTL/PBBA
Tape
Tape File store
File store

Disaster recovery options
Recover on-premises workloads
in the cloud
Public or private cloud
Backup server
Cloud-based
backup server
Recover to another site via the cloud
Backup server
Cloud
Storage
DR site

AltaVault with SnapProtect
OnCommand®
Server
Catalog
NetApp SnapVault®
NetApp SnapMirror®
Replicated
NetApp Snapshot®
copies
Virtualization
NAS Data
NetApp® SnapProtect® Server
Public or Private
Cloud Storage
App Data
1 Snapshots for fast backup
2 Block-level incremental replication
to mirror or vault
3 Backup snapshots for long term
retention to cloud
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NetApp AltaVault®

NetApp AltaVault
Model specifications

Product Family
NetApp AltaVault
Physical Appliances Virtual Appliances AWS AMIs/Azure AVMs
AVA400
6TB/Hr
Ingest rate
48-288TB
Supported Raw
capacity
AVA800
9.2TB/HR
Ingest rate
72-576TB
Supported Raw
capacity
8, 16, 32TB
Supported Usable
capacity
AVAv - ESXi
8, 16, 32TB
Supported Usable
capacity
AVAv - Hyper-v
* Up to 2.6 TB/Hr. ingest rate
* Up to 2.6 TB/Hr. ingest rate
4, 8, 16TB
Supported Usable
capacity
Amazon Machine Image
* Up to 2.6 TB/Hr.
4TB
Supported Usable
capacity
Azure Virtual
Machine
* Up to 300GB/Hr.
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Physical appliances—two models
NetApp AltaVault models
 AVA400
 AVA10S shelves (4TB HDD), up to 3 shelves total, disks added in 12 packs
 5.5TB/hr ingest
 48TB–288TB local storage
 10U–18U controller and disk shelves
 AVA800
 AVA10S shelves (6TB HDD), up to 4 shelves total, disks added in 12 packs
 8TB/hr ingest
 72TB–576TB local storage
 10U–22U controller and disk shelves

Physical appliances—common specs
AVA400 and AVA800 utilize same controller hardware
 Dual 64-bit CPUs, total 20 cores
 256GB RAM (8 x 32GB DIMMs)
 Hardware RAID 6
 Two LSI RAID adapter cards for storage (LSI9380-8e) with battery backup card
 Each card has two Mini-SAS HD ports
 Four on-board 10GbE ports
 Four on-board 1GbE ports
 One on-board 1GbE management port

AVA physical platform specifications
Cold storage mode
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Cold Storage Mode AVA400
CPU cores 20
Physical memory 256GB
RAID Hardware RAID 6
Max drive count 12
Drive type 4TB NL-SAS
Max local capacity 48TB
Max cloud capacity 10PB
Ingest performance 350GB/hr
On-board GbE 4
On-board 10GbE 4
PCIe 12Gb SAS 4
PCIe slots 4 (2 available)
HA configurations none
AVA OS 4.0 and higher

AVA virtual platform specifications
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Backup Mode AVA-v8 AVA-v16 AVA-v32
Hypervisor VMware ESXi and Hyper-V
Ingest performance 900GB/hr 1.8TB/hr 2.6TB/hr
Memory 24GB 48GB 96GB
vCPUs 4 8 12
OS disk size1 150GB 150GB 150GB
Local storage maximum2 8TB 16TB 32TB
Network (virtual NIC) 4
Licensed cloud capacity 40TB 80TB 160TB
Logical cloud capacity3 1.2PB 2.4PB 4.8PB
View IMT for hypervisor version support
Notes:
1 2 GB thin provisioned / 150GB thick provisioned.
2 User-provisioned second virtual drive for local data storage. VMware >2TB needs to be raw device mapping (RDM).
3 Assumes 30x space reduction with deduplication and compression of multiple full backups.

AVA virtual platform specifications
Cold storage mode
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Cold Storage Mode AVA-v8 AVA-v16 AVA-v32
Hypervisor VMware ESXi and Hyper-V
Ingest performance 350GB/hr 350GB/hr 350GB/hr
Memory 24GB 48GB 96GB
vCPUs 4 8 12
OS disk size1 150GB 150GB 150GB
Local storage maximum2 8TB 16TB 32TB
Network (virtual NIC) 4
Licensed cloud capacity N/A N/A N/A
Logical cloud capacity3 2.5PB 5PB 10PB
View IMT for hypervisor version support
Notes:
1 2GB thin provisioned / 150GB thick provisioned.
2 User-provisioned second virtual drive for local data storage. VMware >2TB needs to be raw device mapping (RDM).

AVA cloud platform specifications
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Backup Mode AVA-c4 AVA-c8 AVA-c16
Marketplace AWS and Azure AWS
Ingest performance 350GB/hr 350GB/hr 2.6TB/hr
Local storage maximum 8TB 16TB 32TB
Licensed cloud capacity 20TB 40TB 80TB
Logical cloud capacity1 600TB 1.2PB 2.4PB
Notes:

AVA cloud platform specifications
Cold storage mode
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Cold Storage Mode AVA-c4 AVA-c8 AVA-c16
Marketplace AWS and Azure AWS
Ingest performance 350GB/hr 350GB/hr 2.6TB/hr
Local storage maximum 8TB 16TB 32TB
Licensed cloud capacity N/A
Logical cloud capacity1 1.6PB 3.2PB 6.4PB
Notes:

NetApp AltaVault
Technology and architecture

Key components needed for backup to cloud
 Data optimization
 Shrinking data to the smallest size possible provides best usage of cloud storage as
well as fast replication
 High-performance ingest and replication
 Scalable local capacity (cache)
 Capacity of local cache scales by adding disk packs and disk shelves
 Virtual appliances offer up to 32TB local cache
 Physical appliances offer 32TB and higher local cache, up to more than 500TB
 Strong security and encryption
 Data is encrypted before being written to disk (encryption at rest)
 Replication to cloud through encrypted connect (encryption in flight)
 Data in the cloud remains encrypted
 Keys are kept on appliance, not stored with the data in the cloud

Data optimization
Inline variable segment length finds
more duplicate data than fixed-block
solutions
 More matches allow greater
reduction of data
 Yields maximum data reduction
 Compression further compacts data
 Data is grouped into slabs to
optimize transmission and storage
within the cloud
Deduplication technology overview
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SCAN
Variable Segment
Length
S1
Lookup table
Sn
S2
S
3
INDEX
Store references
Slabs
S1 S2
S
3
Sn
SLAB
For transmission
SHA-
HASH
Segment
Fingerprint
PACK
Compact
Encrypt
LZ
Compress
Encrypt
NetApp® AltaVault® storage decreases datasets, allowing you to store 10 to 30 times
more on average.

Automatically detects stream insertions and format
NetApp AltaVault automatic format optimization
 NetApp® AltaVault® storage intelligently optimizes deduplication
 Provides AltaVault’s highest level of deduplication
 Detects markers inserted to data streams by backup applications
 Not all competing appliances offer this feature
 Automatic detection of backup application files
 Handles multiple backup applications concurrently
 Automatic optimization of segments from 512 bytes to 32k bytes
1010010011011010101 101110 0011001110001100011110111

High-performance ingest and replication
Disconnect read / write to shares from the cloud
File Share
Backup
Data
Files
Local Disk Cache
Cloud Storage
HTTPS
AES-256
Replication
Engine
Optimization
Engine
Encrypted
Slabs
Complete set of data
asynchronously
replicated to cloud

Data pinning limits
 Up to 50% of data can be pinned by default
 Maximum pinned limit can be modified from:
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10% 80
%
Data pinned <50%
Data pinned = 50% (alarm raised)
Data pinned >50% + Δ (encodes into pinned shares fail)
Cannot be under-
provisioned,
cannot exceed
eviction limits

 Hardened version of Linux
 Export key with configuration for
disaster recovery
 Passphrase to protect exported keys
 Encryption at rest and in flight
NetApp AltaVault security
 Keys stored in secure vault
 Keys managed locally; not moved
without admin action
 Key rotation feature
 Compliant with FIPS 140-2 Level 1

Cloud agility
 Ability to migrate seamlessly from one cloud storage solution to another
 Migrate data to new cloud with minimum downtime
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Old Cloud Provider New Cloud Provider
NetApp® AltaVault® Storage

Cloud agility features
 Two-step process to enable the migration—provide new cloud
configuration and start migration
 Encodes are not stopped, so customer can continue to back up data
 New data is not replicated until the migration completes (replication
pauses)
 Customer can track the progress
 Clouds will be switched automatically in the end
 CLI only feature
 Not available for moving from AWS Glacier
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NetApp AltaVault
Virtual platform details

NetApp AltaVault virtual appliance
Virtual models
 AVA-v8, AVA-v16, AVA-v32
 Provided for either VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V
 Customer deploys in its datacenter
 Licenses
 Models come with a 90-day evaluation license
 Customers who purchase enter a license key for the appliance
 Getting the virtual appliance
 Download from the software download section on the NetApp Support site
 AVA-v8 model is downloaded and can be converted to a larger model after deployment

Provisioning a virtual appliance
 There is only one VM template for each hypervisor type
 Download the appropriate virtual appliance (ESXi or Hyper-V) from the
software downloads section on the NetApp Support site (NOTE: Some
configuration needs to be done before first boot!)
 When the VM boots it has the AVA-v8 personality
 For evaluation using the 90-day license
 Change to a larger model by using the model-upgrade command
 Log in to the CLI using SSH or open the console and from configure mode enter
license model-upgrade
 For purchases
 Enter the license key and the correct model will be set
Changing the model

 VMware hypervisor; greater than 2TB requires raw device mapping
(RDM)
 For best performance utilize thick provisioning
 Using a smaller data disk is supported; will also limit cloud capacity
 Recommended disk provisioning capacity
Virtual disk
Model Data Capacity Metadata Virtual Disk RDM Size (max)
AVA-v8 8TB 2TB 10TB
AVA-v16 16TB 4TB 20TB
AVA-v32 32TB 8TB 40TB

 The virtual memory allocation has to be set for the appliance
 It should be exactly the amount needed for the virtual model in use
 The optimization service will not start if there is not enough memory
 Adding more memory than is recommended does not provide a benefit
Virtual memory (RAM)
Model Memory Allocation
AVA-v8 24GB
AVA-v16 48GB
AVA-v32 96GB

 The virtual CPU allocation has to be set for the appliance
 It should be exactly the amount needed for the virtual model in use
 They can be either virtual CPUs or vCPU cores or a combination
Virtual CPU
Model CPU Allocation
AVA-v8 4
AVA-v16 8
AVA-v32 12

First boot of a virtual appliance
 On first boot of a virtual appliance the data disk will be formatted and
configured (the RDM or VMDK that was added to the VM settings)
 Open a console window
 After the boot completes, the login will be shown
 The default login is
 admin
 password
 After logging in, the setup wizard will ask for:
 Network settings for primary interface
 New admin password
 See the installation guides located in the NetApp Support site
documentation section for details on installation and configuration

 Use the installation guide located on the NetApp Support site for details
about deploying a cloud-based model
 Cloud-based models are
supported using
communities
 See the marketplace page
describing the
virtual appliance for the
latest details
Deploying cloud models

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