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The road to clustered data ontap.
The document discusses the transition to clustered Data ONTAP (CDOT) and its benefits for IT infrastructure, focusing on flexibility, scalability, and data management. It outlines the processes involved in migrating to CDOT, including network design, storage layout, replication strategies, and implementation. The document emphasizes collaboration between technical staff and project management to ensure successful deployment and configuration.
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- 1. The Road toClustered Data ONTAP © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 1
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- 7. Top vendors. © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 7 • Enterprise leaders and emerging technologies • Vendors that can handle niche workloads and are experienced at developing markets
- 8. Why Clustered DataONTAP? Tony Lee, SE Manager for Western Canada © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 8
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- 10. Infrastructure Challenge © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 10 Infrastructure Rigid Resources Traditional IT Actual Demand
- 11. Infrastructure Challenge © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 11 Elastic Resources Cloud Cloud Infrastructure Actual DemandInfrastructure Rigid Resources Traditional IT Actual Demand
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- 30. Scalability © 2014 ScalarDecisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 30 24 Nodes
- 31. Infrastructure Class ofService © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 31
- 32. Hardware Virtualization © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 32 Virtualization
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- 39. Proven Efficiency © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 39 Compression Deduplication Cloning
- 40. Non-Disruptive Operations © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 40
- 41. Non-Disruptive Operations © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 41
- 42. Non-Disruptive Scaling © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 42
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- 44. Private Cloud © 2014Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 44
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- 46. The Migration Pathto CDOT Alex Dawson, Solution Engineer © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 46
- 47. • Pre-sales technicalstaff work closely with professional services staff • Validated technical solutions on your data centre floor • Scalar Project Management oversees all professional services engagements • Provide planning, status updates, project close-out The Scalar Process © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 47
- 48. • Design sessionsfor network connectivity • Design sessions for storage layout, SVM layout • Design sessions for replication • Data classification • System implementation • Migration and documentation High level process © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 48
- 49. To begin, aquick vocabulary check • Physical connections are PORTS • Access data or administration through INTERFACES (LIFs) • Each controller is a NODE • Data is served by a Storage Virtual Machine, or SVM Understanding Clustered ONTAP © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 49
- 50. • How manyports, to where, for what? • What will go on those ports? IP ranges, VLANs • LACP LAGs, VLAN trunks • Leads to requirements for upstream network design • Can be simple, or rich, depending on use case for SAN Design for network connectivity © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 50
- 51. • During thepurchasing process, there will have been discussions on how much storage, and for what, usually in broad terms • In this stage, we decide exactly which disks, shelves go where, with which controllers • Decide on aggregate layouts, SVM design • SVM design – less is better, but segregation of administration is a key benefit, so don’t be afraid to use them Design for storage layout © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 51
- 52. • All datais served by SVMs, through logical interfaces (LIFs), either over IPs or FC WWPNs • Decide which LIFs, for what, for which SVM • Including Administration and data access IPs Design for storage layout © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 52
- 53. • Are wereplicating data? If so, to where? • Mirroring? Or vaulting? (Different copies on primary and secondary) Or both? • How are we replicating? IP addresses dedicated to replication are used • Define data tiers, RPO and RTO for those tiers • Design replication schedules Design for replication © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 53
- 54. • 99% ofsystems we install are replacing something else, either a file server or servers or an existing SAN • What is on the old environment? How can we move it to the new environment? • Group data sets by migration options, outage tolerances Data classification © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 54
- 55. • Physical installation •Cabling • Formatting drives • Configure SVMs • Configure volumes, LUNs • Configure replication and protection Implementation © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 55
- 56. • Storage VMotionfor VMWare • Physical server options – disk mirroring/splitting (dynamic disks or LVM), server mirroring (P2V), local data migration using DoubleTake Move, local data migration using robocopy/rsync, SAN level migrations using NetApp DTA, or Foreign LUN Import • NAS migration using rsync/robocopy or third party tools (Some very good options from third parties) Migration and documentation © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 56
- 57. • Full configurationvalidation • NetApp Config Advisor tool run through • System Installation Workbook • Learningcenter.netapp.com • OnCommand System Manager • OnCommand Unified Manager Documentation & Training © 2014 Scalar Decisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 57
- 58. © 2014 ScalarDecisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 58 Read how Vancouver Community College addressed their escalating data demands with CDOT here.
- 59. © 2014 ScalarDecisions Inc. Not for distribution outside of intended audience. 59