The document discusses Datacore SANsymphony-V, a software-defined storage solution that provides virtualization, pooling and provisioning, continuous availability, performance acceleration, backup/recovery, and remote replication capabilities. It summarizes key features like virtualization of servers, storage and desktops; infrastructure management functions; benefits like cost savings and high utilization; and integration with VMware vSphere.

1. Datacore SANsymphony-V_R9
Marc van Schijndel
Country Manager ttec

2. Topics
 Virtualization Technology
 Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
 Systems Management
 Pooling & Provisioning
 Continuous Availability
 Performance Acceleration
 Backup & Recovery
 Remote Replication
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3. Virtualization Technology
Desktop
USERS Virtualization
Server
Virtualization
APPS
Storage
Virtualization
DISKS
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4. Layered, flexible solution
Desktops
Servers
Virtual Disks
Storage Hypervisor
Tiered
storage pools
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5. Infrastructure wide functions
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6. Benefits
 Maximize combined value
of storage assets
 Take cost out of storage
infrastructure Customers report up to:
 Simplify management &
60% COST SAVINGS
migration
 Overcome device-specific
90% UTILIZATION
differences 100% UPTIME
 Provide higher levels of 200% FASTER
service
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7. IAAS (Infrastructure as a Service)
 Adaptive techniques for addressing growth
► And subscriber variability
 Dynamic allocation of tiered resources
► Tuned to different classes of service
 Coordinated actions across related objects
 Resiliency in the face of:
► Frequent changes
► Equipment failures &
obsolescence
► Facility outages
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8. Centralized systems management
Control / monitor diverse resources from one console
► Intuitive to set up and operate
► Automates repetitive tasks
► Self-guided wizards for
key workflows
► Comprehensive diagnostics
& troubleshooting tips
► Role-based, administrative
permissions & audit trail
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9. Intuitive, self-guided workflow
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10. Visualize the “big picture”
 Leverage system monitoring  Intervene early to prevent
tools outages
► Microsoft System Center
Operations Manager
 Correlate behavior
► VMware vCenter of co-dependent
► Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer components
Isolate potential
 Understand system-wide
►
trouble spots
health at a glance ► Expedite root-cause analysis
Apps, servers, networks,
►
storage, …  Increase overall system
► SNMP v1 queries & traps performance
& availability
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11. VMware vCenter plug-in
 Access key SANsymphony-V
functions from the same vCenter
Server used to manage vSphere
environment
► Rapidly provision virtual disks
to vSphere / ESX servers
► Track status & properties of virtual
disks used by vSphere hosts
► Coordinate snapshots of
VMs (datastores)
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12. VMware vCenter plug-in
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13. VMware integration
 VAAI
► Offload vSphere hosts & SAN from low-level storage
operations that are performed faster & more efficiently
by SANsymphony-V
• Full copy
• Block zeroing
• Hardware-assisted locking
 SRM (Site Recovery Manager)
► Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) responds to SRM
requests for replication services
► Used to achieve fully automated vSphere
site recovery & migrations
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14. vCenter native integration
 SANsymphony-V console  DataCore administrator can:
communicates directly with ► See hosts, VMs,
vCenter Server clusters, datastores
& ports
► Serve virtual disks to
them
► Set path selection
preferences
► Create VMFS
datastores
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15. Analyzis and Reporting
Assist with capacity planning, tuning & asset tracking
► Configurable views of system
behavior and performance
► Drill down into I/O
characteristics
► Save configuration snapshots
for change management
► Export resource allocation
to billing & chargeback tools
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16. Reports
 Exportable to:
► Image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc)
► PDF (Adobe)
► HTML (website)
► MHT (single file website)
► RTF (Rich Text)
► XLS (Excel)
► XLSX (Excel 2007+)
► CSV
► TXT (plain text)
 Customizable
► Sort / Filter / Search
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17. Real time performance charts
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18. Virtual disk pooling
Consolidate like or unlike disk resources
► Split pool into tiers of different
price/performance/capacity
► Create and assign virtual disks
of desired sizes
► Define access rights
► Explicitly assign virtual disks
to hosts or groups of hosts
► Eliminate stranded disk space
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19. No need to be a storage specialist
 Simplify & automate
best practices
► Auto-discovers available
space
► Thin provisions
► Selects best path
► Sets adaptive cache
► Creates HA mirrors
► Load balances
back-end ports
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20. Thin provisioning
Allocate just enough space, just-in-time
► Appears to computers as very
large drives (e.g. 2 TB disks)
► Takes up only space actually
being written to
► Dynamically allocates more
disk space when required
► Reduces need to resize LUNs
► Reclaims zeroed out
disk space

21. Virtual disk migrating
Move contents from one disk to another
without impacting applications
► Eliminates downtime for
hardware disk upgrades
► Clears & reclaims space
occupied by original
► Provides pass-through
access to drives previously
connected directly to hosts

22. Pool housekeeping
 Remove disk from pool safely & non-disruptively
► Decommission a disk drive (age, problems, etc.,)
► Shrink size of physical pool (use resource elsewhere)
 Contents automatically distributed among
remaining disks
► No failover required
► No need to replace the volume

23. Continuous Availability (Sync Mirror)
Real-time I/O replication for continuous availability
► Eliminates storage as
a single point of failure
► Enhances survivability using
physically separate nodes
► Updates distributed
copy simultaneously
► Mirrored virtual disks behave
as one, multi-ported shared drive

24. High speed caching
Speeds up performance
► Accelerates disk I/O response
from existing storage
► Uses x86-64 CPUs and
memory from DataCore
nodes as powerful,
inexpensive “mega caches”
► Anticipates next blocks to
be read, and groups writes
to avoid waiting on disks

25. Automated Tiered Storage
Make best tradeoff between performance & cost
► Select tiers based on
price/performance/capacity
• SSD, SAS, SATA, …
► Dynamically migrates blocks
among classes of storage
► Best location at the time
determined by:
• Access frequency
• User preferences

26. Sub-LUN auto tiering
 Heaviest hit blocks take advantage of Tier 1 performance
 Other blocks moved to Tier 2 & Tier 3
Frequently SSD
VIRTUAL SATA
DISK
Accessed Tier 1
Tier 3
Moderately
Accessed
Infrequently
Accessed
SAS
Tier 2

27. Dynamically optimizes resources
 Based on average access frequency
for each tier
Tier 0 Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier n
Hot Warm Cold Archive
Above average Below average
moves up a tier moves down a tier 27

28. Cloud gateway
Extends disk pool to external clouds
► Supports the popular public
cloud hosting services
► Appears as on-premises
iSCSI-attached storage
► Caches transmissions &
controls bandwidth
Developed by*
*Trial license of TwinStrata CloudArray® virtual appliance software
is included with SANsymphony-V license

29. RAID striping
Better protection & performance
► Circumvents drive failures
► Spreads I/O across
multiple spindles
► Offloads RAID 0 & 1
► Supports popular RAID
devices in pool

30. Load balancing
Improve response and throughput
► Overcomes typical storage-related
bottlenecks
► Spread load on physical devices using
different channels for different virtual disks
► Bypasses failed &
offline channels
► Automatically balances I/Os
across pooled drives in a tier

31. Automatic fine-tuning
 Heat maps reveal hot spots of heavy disk activity
► SANsymphony-V automatically migrates disk blocks
to less active drives
High
activity
Low
activity

32. Backup/recovery (online snapshots)
Capture point-in-time images
► Recover quickly at disk
speeds to known good state
• Differential and full clones
• Thin provisioned
• Read / writeable
• Trigger via VSS
• Snap from premium storage to
lower cost equipment
► Eliminate back-up window
► Provide “live” copy for analysis,
development & testing

33. CDP (Continuous Data protection)
Return to any point-in-time without
taking explicit backups
► Restore arbitrary point-in-time
within a 48 hour period
► Logs and timestamps all I/Os
to the selected virtual disks
► No need to quiesce or
interrupt applications
► No host agents required
► Easy to enable and
revert from

34. Asynchronous replication
Update distant copies without impacting local performance
► Ideal for disaster recovery &
remote data center migration
► Standard IP-based links
► Optimizes bandwidth via
compressed, multi-stream,
transfers & prioritized QoS
► 1-many, many-to-1, bidirectional
► Test readiness non-disruptively
► Expedite initialization offline
using transportable media

35. Questions?
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