Yes, there is a Santa Claus! Discover how to unify and automate your heterogeneous storage environment - including EMC and NetApp - using a single portal. Deliver storage services to end users while you retain control of your storage environment.

1. Yes, (your name
here), there is a Santa
Claus...
... Unified, Automated Storage Provisioning
for EMC & NetApp
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2. Agenda
Storage Automation Drivers & Benefits
Storage Responsibilities and Users
3 Keys to Automated, Unified Storage Provisioning
Rounding out the Process – Intelligence & ITSM
Best Practices for a Automated, Unified Process
Q&A
iWave Storage Automator Demo – Unified Provisioning of EMC,
NetApp and Compellent Storage
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3. Why Change Storage Admin
Status Quo?
Growth in storage requests
Proliferation of heterogeneous storage
environments
Change in end user expectation on
request and delivery times
Deployment of private cloud and “IT-as-a-
Service” initiatives
Introduction of public storage clouds
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4. Benefits of Automated Storage
Provisioning
YOU Automate your mundane and routine storage administrator
tasks, focus on the strategic (fun) stuff
STORAGE Maintain control of the process through best practices and
TEAM corporate policies; access by role-based service catalog
Empower your end users by providing storage services within
CIO your existing heterogeneous environment
Deliver high quality storage services within defined SLAs and
Business at a cost at or below public storage clouds
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5. Storage Responsibility Segregation
Storage Vendor
Storage Array
Storage/Host
File /Block
Virtual/Physical
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6. Organizational Users:
Who Needs Storage
Storage Administrators
Infrastructure Owners (DBAs, Server Admins)
Cloud Team
Development/QAT Group
Business Application Owners
Storage End Users
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7. 3 Keys To Unifying the Storage
Process
Storage User
Service Catalog
Access
Service Service Service Service Service
Control
Policy Policy Policy Policy
Abstraction
Array Array Array Array Array
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8. Key#1: Role-based Service Access
Services Access Management
LDAP/MS AD
Local
Services Scope
End-to-End
Segmented (tic-tac-toe)
Service Approvals (IT & Finance)
Service Auditing
Example VMware Services
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9. Key #2: Services Define Control, Not
Policies
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10. Service Comparison – Admin vs. User
Storage Admin Storage User
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11. Simplification- Configuration vs
Workflow
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12. Key #3: Array Abstraction –
Execution Plans
Use Case: VMware Administrator would like to create a Datastore for ESX Host
Note: Service used VNX Block Profile
Note: Service used NetApp Block Profile
Note: Service used Compellent Block Profile
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13. Execution Plans Mask Array
Complexity
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14. Execution Plans Mask Array
Complexity
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15. Admin Time Spent on Provisioning
Find Best
Available Provision
Storage Storage
Complete
Analyze Request
Storage
Approve &
Request
Schedule
Typical storage provisioning processes takes 3 – 25 business days in large organizations
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16. Storage Automation Intelligence
Rule-Based Policy Selection
Rules-Based Policies Infrastructure
Storage Application & Host • Tier
Fulfilled
Request Storage Profiles
• Capacity Request
– Performance
– Protection
• Tenants
Application Affinity
• Protection
Service Levels
• Accessibility
Cost
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17. And... Don’t Forget About ITIL
Processes
CMDB
IT & Business Management Change
Approvals & Monitoring Management
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18. Unified, Automated Provisioning -
Putting it all together
Goals Controls
&
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19. Unified Storage Best Practices
Build your policies and services now – don’t wait on the cloud
SMEs are for service definition, not service operation
Scripts are tribal knowledge, product is configuration
management
Keep number of services small, use profiles to customize
Storage placement intelligence is another level of abstraction
Don’t forget about change and approval processes
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20. Storage Automation Options/
Limitations
Storage Cloud Virtualization
Limitations
• API – offloads to storage
vendor
• Lack of physical host support
• Lack of formal storage
execution process
Limitations • No end user support
• Workflow-driven (time & $)
• Lack of storage expertise
Limitations
• Lack of support for policy-
• Single vendor/product
based storage automation Custom Solutions
• Array only
• Single vendor/product Limitations
• No ITSM process integration
• Lack of formal storage • Ongoing dev/support costs
• MC APIs, scripting & plug-ins
execution process • Delivery time/tribal
• Cloud process understanding
• No end user support knowledge
• HW/SW/process expertise
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21. #StorageSanta
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22. iWave Storage
Automator
Demonstration
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23. Resources
Webinars:
• Link to recording will be emailed by end of week
• www.iwavesoftware.com/resources/webinars-register/
Other Webinars available:
• 5 Keys to Delivering Storage-as-a-Service without Losing Control
• Feeding Your Storage-Thirsty Cloud: 4 Critical Processes to Automate
Coming in Jan: Best Practices for Automating NetApp Storage
Other Resources:
• EMA Impact Brief – iWave Storage Automator: An Essential Puzzle Piece for the Software
Defined Datacenter
• Datasheets, tech specs, videos
• iWave Storage Automator 30-Day Trial
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