v/ Clemens Kalbfuss, Dipl.-Inf. Senior Technical sales, IBM Germany

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IBM SmartCloud
Virtual Storage Center (VSC)
Clemens Kalbfuss

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Virtual Server Infrastructure
Virtualize the complete infrastructure

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What you need to manage
FlashCopy
Application Integration
Data ProtectionExternal Virtualization
NAS
Split Mirror
Storage Tiering
SnapshotsSnapshots
FlashCopy
Application Integration
External Virtualization
Split Mirror
Data Protection
Storage Tiering
NAS
- Efficiency Improvement up
to 30% per Terabyte
- ROI in 12 – 18 months

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Key Virtualization Features
Thin Provisioning Satisfy provisioning requests but allocate
storage only when data is written
Improve capacity utilization across the
infrastructure
Value: Purchase only the storage you need
when you need it
IBM Easy Tier SSD Management Busiest data automatically moved to
highest performing Solid-state Drives
Up to a 3x performance improvement
with as little as 5% SSD
Value: Optimized performance at lower
overall cost
Real-time Compression Buy and maintain less storage
Compress active data up to 80% without
application performance degradation
For example, VMware ~75%,
Database ~80%, Exchange ~50%
Value: Store more data with less disk
Hot-spots due to poor data layout. Optimized performance and throughput.
Automatic
Relocation
SSDs HDDs SSDs HDDs
Without thin provisioning,
pre-allocated space is reserved
whether the application uses it or not
With thin provisioning, applications can
grow dynamically, but only consume
space they are actually using
Dynamic
growth

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Key Management Features
Practice Disaster Recovery Techniques
Practice application recovery procedures
Detect mirroring failure and automate failover
Value: Train staff and prove business continuity plans
work without disrupting applications
Application-Aware Copies
Integrated, instant copy for critical applications
Rapidly create clones for application testing
View inventory of application copies and instantly restore
Value: Virtually eliminate application downtime for backup
High Availability Configurations
Network
Synchronous and asynchronous mirroring between sites
Real-time data mobility between sites complements
VMware vMotion and PowerHA Live Partition Mobility
Integrated management with practice support
Automated fail-back after repair
Value: Enable near-continuous data availability

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Business Case
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What you need to manage
Data
Protection
Infrastructure
Management
Performance
Analysis

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TPC (with and without VSC)
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TPC (with and without VSC)
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TPC (with and without VSC)
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TPC (with and without VSC)
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TPC (with and without VSC)
Path Explorer:
– Phase 1 implementation of a web-based topology viewer
– Launch in context from web GUI to element managers (SVC
GUI etc)
– Introduction of capacity bars in many tabular views
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What you need to manage
Terabytes to
exabytes of
existing data
to process
Structured,
unstructured,
text, multimedia
Streaming data,
milliseconds to
respond
Uncertain,
inconsistent,
ambiguous
Variety
Volume Velocity
Veracity
Data
Optimization
Capacity
Provisioning
Performance
Boost

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TPC (only with VSC)
Storage Administrator
Find available LUN(s)
If none exist,
allocate new ones
Find available LUN(s)
If none exist,
allocate new ones
Find the best LUN(s)
for the application
Find the best LUN(s)
for the application
Assign the LUN(s)
to the application
server HBA(s)
Assign the LUN(s)
to the application
server HBA(s)
Match source / target
pairs
Match source / target
pairs
Determine current
zoning configuration
Determine current
zoning configuration
Adjust switch
zones
Adjust switch
zones
System Administrator
Submit
Storage
Request
Submit
Storage
Request
Need more or
additional
Storage
Need more or
additional
Storage
Contact
System admin
Contact
System admin
Contact
Storage admin
Contact
Storage admin
Adjust MultipathingAdjust Multipathing

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TPC (only with VSC)
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“Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a process for managing
information through its lifecycle, from conception until disposal, in a
manner that optimizes storage and access”
“Place the right data on the right storage at the right time”
Down-tier use-case Up-tier use-case
Performance

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Storage optimization scanarios
Rebalancing (Storage Optimizer)
Re-tiering (Tiered Storage Optimizer)
Provisioning (SAN Planner)
User defines volume properties
User selects allowed target pools
User provides workload characteristics
⇒ TPC suggest best matching pool
⇒ TPC will create the volume, map it and zone it to the server
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User selects source pools and target pools
⇒ TPC suggest which volumes to move to achieve almost equal
utilization in terms of workload
⇒ TPC provides a list of commands for SVC to migrate volumes
User executes the recommendations manually
User defines policies
User groups pools into storage tiers (not one tier may have more than one pool)
⇒ TPC suggest which volumes to move to different tier and shows the estimated
performance changes
User executes the recommendations manually

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Tiered Storage Optimizer
What this is:
• Integration with existing storage optimizer and storage
tiering reporting; policy-driven ILM leveraging
virtualization technology to provide recommendations for
storage re-location
• Developed by IBM Research and has been deployed in IBM
GTS to manage storage assets
Benefit to you:
• Provides recommendations for workload migration
based on user defined policy based on file system
level data, performance and capacity utilization
• Ensures only highest performing workloads are
allocated to most expensive storage
• Enterprise wide datacenter storage tiering solution
complementary to Easy Tier technology

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TPC (only with VSC)
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Down-tier use-case Up-tier use-case
Performance
A Service Point of View

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services
E-mail Video SAP Home
directories
…Database
TPC (only with VSC)

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services
2. For each catalog entry, define the appropriate service levels
Capacity Efficiency
Data Access Resilience
Disaster Protection
I/O Performance
Highest Lowest
E-mail Video SAP Home
directories
…Database
TPC (only with VSC)

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services
2. For each catalog entry, define the appropriate service levels
Capacity Efficiency
Data Access Resilience
Disaster Protection
I/O Performance
Highest Lowest
E-mail Video SAP Home
directories
…Database
TPC (only with VSC)

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1. Create the catalog of available storage services
2. For each catalog entry, define the appropriate service levels
Capacity Efficiency
Data Access Resilience
Disaster Protection
I/O Performance
Highest Lowest
E-mail Video SAP Home
directories
…Database
TPC (only with VSC)

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Flashcopy T1
Database
Production Disk
Flashcopy T2
Flashcopy T3
Local Filesystem
(Linux, AIX, Solaris,
HP-UX, Windows)
Lotus Domino Server
InstantBackup
InstantR
estore
Before
After
300% Better
Responsetime
Increase
Efficiency
Snapshot Based Data Protection

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VSC Offering Overview
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A suite of IBM storage management products that can be ordered as a single
PID using a ‘Tiered per Terabyte’ pricing metric
One PID includes:
- SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Virtualization
- SAN Volume Controller FlashCopy
- SAN Volume Controller Remote Mirroring (Metro/Global Mirror)
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center (TPC) with Advanced Analytics
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication (2-Site)
- Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager (FCM)
Use as many of the products as you like
Pay on a ‘per Terabyte’ basis for data within the
SAN Volume Controller storage pools, referred
to as Managed Terabytes
NOTE: This does NOT include
Real Time Compression

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Mail: clemens.kalbfuss@de.ibm.com
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