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Tony Pearson – IBM Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist
March 2014
Backup Options
IBM PureData™ System for Analytics,
powered by Netezza

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Part of the IBM Big Data Platform
Workload Optimized Solutions for All Your Analytic Needs
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Solutions
Analytics & Decision Management
IBM Big Data Platform
Application
Development
Accelerators
Visualization
& Discovery
Systems
Management
Stream
Computing
Hadoop
System
Data
Warehouse
Information Integration & Governance
Big Data Infrastructure
PureData
System for Analytics

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Spend Less Time Managing and More Time Innovating
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No dbspace/tablespace sizing and configuration
No dbspace/tablespace sizing and configuration
No redo/physical/Logical log sizing and configuration
No redo/physical/Logical log sizing and configuration
No page/block sizing and configuration for tables
No page/block sizing and configuration for tables
No extent sizing and configuration for tables
No extent sizing and configuration for tables
No Temp space allocation and monitoring
No Temp space allocation and monitoring
No RAID level decisions for dbspaces
No RAID level decisions for dbspaces
No logical volume creations of files
No logical volume creations of files
No integration of OS kernel recommendations
No integration of OS kernel recommendations
No maintenance of OS recommended patch levels
No maintenance of OS recommended patch levels
No JAD sessions to configure host/network/storage
No JAD sessions to configure host/network/storage
Data Experts, not
Database Experts
Easy Administration Portal
No software installation
No indexes and tuning
No storage administration
IBM’s Advantage--FPGA
A Real-Time silicon
SQL accelerator
Dynamically
reprogrammed for each
individual query.
Eradicates ~95% of
system I/O before the
CPU ever sees it.
Completely unique to
PDA.
Simplicity and
Simplicity and
Ease of
Ease of
Administration
Administration

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PureData System for Analytics Hardware Overview: Model N200x
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12 Disk Enclosures
288 600 GB SAS2 Drives
• 240 for User Data
• 14 for S-Blades
• 34 Spare
RAID 1 Mirroring
User Data Capacity: 192 TB*
Data Scan Speed: 478 TB/hr*
Load Speed (per system): 5+ TB/hr
Active Data Slices: 96
Power Requirements: 7.5 kW
Cooling Requirements: 27,000 BTU/hr
* Assuming 4X compression
Scales from
1/4 Rack to 4
Racks
2 Hosts (Active-Passive)
2 Intel 2.7 GHz Sandy Bridge CPUs
7x300 GB SAS Drives
Red Hat Linux 6 64-bit
7 PureData for Analytics S-Blades™
2 Intel 8 Core 2+ GHz CPUs
2 8-Engine Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs
128 GB RAM + 8 GB slice buffer
Linux 64-bit Kernel

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IBM PureData for Analytics – Reasons for Backup
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IBM will take care of Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
Web Admin and other code as needed
–No need for you to back it up yourself
Firmware
• Linux
• Code
Metadata
• Host Catalog
• Global users, groups, permissions
User Data
Database 1
• Table A
• Table B
Database 2
• Table X
• Table Y
• Table Z
Backup this to protect host
configuration from data
corruption (rare)
Various reasons to backup database schema
and contents
–As part of firmware upgrade/downgrade
–To transfer data to another system
–Protect against hardware failure / disaster
–Protect against data corruption

6. Upgrade
Downgrade
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Compressed versus Text-format
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Firmware + 1
User Data
Database 1
• Table A
• Table B
Database 2
• Table X
• Table Y
• Table Z
Firmware
Firmware -1
Firmware
Compressed
database backup
Compressed
external tables
Text-format
external table
Other
Database
systems
Restore to same
or higher firmware
Restore to any,
but slower, takes
up more space

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Two Primary Approaches
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1. Filesystem Approach
Backup metadata and databases to
external NAS storage devices
Built-in CLI commands included
Scripts for large databases available
2. External Backup Software
Backup metadata and databases to
external backup server/media
User-initiated and Automatic scheduled
backups
Supports disk, tape and virtual tape
storage devices
Metadata
• Host Catalog
• Global users,
groups,
permissions
User Data
Database 1
• Table A
• Table B
Database 2
• Table X
• Table Y
• Table Z

8. Network Configuration using SAN or LAN as Backup Network
Backup
Network
External storage
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Metadata
• Host Catalog
• Global users,
groups,
permissions
User Data
Database 1
• Table A
• Table B
Database 2
• Table X
• Table Y
• Table Z
User
Network
• nzhostbackup
• nzbackup -users
• nzbackup –db
• (up to 16
multiple streams)
• CREATE
EXTERNAL
TABLE
• nz_backup script
for larger databases
device

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Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Configuration
Storwize V7000 Unified comprising
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–Two file modules (2073-700)
–One V7000 control enclosure (2076-324)
–Code level 1.4.0.1
File modules connected via 4 x 10 Gbit interfaces
24 x 600 GB 10K SAS drives installed in V7000 control enclosure
Test database:

10. Matching the GPFS block size
to RAID full stripe width is
beneficial
Matching the number of NSDs
to number of RAIDs is beneficial
When matching number of
NSDs to number of RAIDs,
usage of sequential NSDs is
beneficial
Small RAID-5 arrays (4+P) with
the matching number of NSDs
and mdisks (RAIDs) and 2
mount points shows best
performance (multiple streams)
Supports both
nzbackup/nzrestore CLI and
nz_backup/nz_restore scripts
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Test Conclusion / Best Practices
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4 NSD 8 NSD 20
NSD
2 NSD 10
NSD
3 NSD 6 NSD 8 NSD
4 x RAID-5 4+P 2 x RAID-5 8+P 3 x RAID-10 4+4
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
MB / sec
* ~1.7 TB/h compressed data
6+ TB/h
uncompressed data *
Focusing on backup performance
– Run multiple backup streams
Focusing on restore performance
– Run single backup stream

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Two Primary Approaches
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1. Filesystem Approach
Backup metadata and databases to
external NAS storage devices
Built-in CLI commands included
Scripts for large databases available
2. External Backup Software
Backup metadata and databases to
external backup server/media
User-initiated and Automatic scheduled
backups
Supports disk, tape and virtual tape
storage devices
Metadata
• Host Catalog
• Global users,
groups,
permissions
User Data
Database 1
• Table A
• Table B
Database 2
• Table X
• Table Y
• Table Z

12. • nzhostbackup to local file
• transfer to backup server
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Network Configuration
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Metadata
• Host Catalog
• Global users,
groups,
permissions
User Data
Database 1
• Table A
• Table B
Database 2
• Table X
• Table Y
• Table Z
User
Network
Backup
Network
• Nzbackup –users
• nzbackup –db
• (up to 1000
multiple streams)
• Specify
–connector –connectorArgs
• Create scripts for
automatic schedule
External Backup
server

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External Backup Architecture
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Client
code
Backup Server
Master
Catalog
Media
Management
SAN
Storage Hierarchy
•Disk
•Physical Tape
•Virtual Tape
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) server
LAN

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External Backup Architecture – TSM Proxy Node
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LAN
Proxy
node
Backup Server
Master
Catalog
Media
Management
SAN
Storage Hierarchy
•Physical Tape
•Virtual Tape
Proxy node
• Sends data directly to
physical or virtual tape
over SAN fabric
• Registers copies with
Master Catalog
• Can support multiple
PureData for Analytics
systems
TSM client code sends
backup to Proxy node
TSM server manages
media, tape reclamation,
backup copy pools, etc.
XBSA
code
LAN Free
Storage
agent

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External Backup Architecture – TSM LAN Free
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TSM client code registers
backup copies with Master
Catalog
XBSA
code
Backup Server
Master
Catalog
Media
Management
SAN
Storage Hierarchy
•Physical Tape
•Virtual Tape
LAN
TSM client code sends
backups directly to
physical or virtual tape
over SAN fabric
TSM server manages
media, tape reclamation,
backup copy pools, etc.
LAN Free
• Avoids congestion traffic
on LAN by using SAN
directly
• Will consume more CPU
resources on PureData
for Analytics system
LAN Free
Storage
agent

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Summary
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1.Use Filesystem Method with SAN or
NAS storage device such as
Storwize V7000 Unified
2.Use IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
server infrastructure to backup
PureData for Analytics systems

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tpearson@us.ibm.com
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About the Speaker
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Mr. Tony Pearson
Master Inventor,
Senior Managing Consultant
IBM System Storage
Tony Pearson
Master Inventor,
Senior Managing
Consultant
IBM System Storage™
Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior IT storage consultant for the IBM System Storage™ product line.
Tony Pearson joined IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. Over the past years, Tony has worked in
development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware and software products.
In his current role, Tony presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, as well as various storage software
products. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads workshops to help clients with strategic planning for IBM’s integrated
set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products.
Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners every week. This blog
was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine. The blog was published in book form as Inside
System Storage: Volume I and Volume II , both available from Lulu publishing.
Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University
of Arizona. Tony holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and software products.

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Additional Resources
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Email:
tpearson@us.ibm.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/az99Øtony
Blog:
http://ibm.co/brAeZØ
Books:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/99Ø_tony
IBM Expert Network:
http://www.slideshare.net/az99Øtony
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