EMC SAN Overview
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Networked Storage Technologies
Information Lifecycle Management
SAN
Storage-area network
Dedicated storage networkFibre Channel and IP Uses existing IP network Uses existing IP network
Consolidates Allows servers to storage securely share storage (disk or tape) Facilitates file sharing Consolidates servers and storage
NAS
Network-attached storage
iSCSI SAN CAS
Allows servers to Consolidates securely share storage storage (disk or tape) Archives unchanging Frees up data primary storage
Uses existing IP Content Addressed network
Storage
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SAN Benefits
SAN
Storage-area Network
Dedicated storage networkFibre Channel and IP
Consolidates Allows servers to storage securely share storage (disk or tape)
High availability and manageability
All servers access same storage Simplified management Service for multiple platforms
Application performance
SAN provides a dedicated network Database-management system/transaction processing Fastest record access
Fast scalability
Hundreds of servers Hundreds of storage devices Leverages existing infrastructure Overcomes distance limitations
Better replication and recovery options Storage consolidation optimizes total cost of ownership
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SAN Delivers Business Benefits
Reduce costs
Storage consolidation Server consolidation Result: Fewer resources to manage
Business continuity
Storage consolidation enables business continuity Consolidation reduces risks via multiple backup devices with multiple points of control Consolidated dataManaged, controlled, and synchronized more efficiently
Business flexibility
Let IT manage growth more easily More information moves faster Meet your existing service-level agreements
Manageability
Centralize storage management and automate control of devices Achieve storage-management efficiencies Fewer people manage more
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Typical Customer IT Issues
Issue
Costs of information management rising Longer response time for applications Decentralized storage is hard to manage and hard to change Need better processes for information backup and disaster recovery Company mergers require data migration and high-availability improvements
EMC SAN Solution
Consolidate storage and storage management to lower total cost of ownership Balance server, storage, and SAN workloads for optimal performance Increase storage usage and simplify management by pooling storage Centralized SAN-attached storage simplifies data protection, backup, and information recovery SAN infrastructures provide the greatest storage flexibility, widest interoperability, and most sophisticated data-migration and -availability options
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Customer Quote
Forsyth County, NC
Backing up direct-attached storage is much slower than backing up to data that resides on the EMC SAN. Our backup speed has greatly increased since we added the EMC SAN into the picture. This is a remarkable change. The SAN also has reduced the time it takes to restore data from the backup site. I can now restore a file in a matter of seconds, rather than the 20 or 30 minutes it took when I was getting it from the server. The access time for users is faster now. The EMC SAN has significantly enhanced our users abilities to acquire that data.
Alisa Phelps, Networking Analyst Forsyth County
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Customer Quote
El Camino Hospital
Consolidation is the mantra of our strategic plan from the hospital and IT level. The EMC SAN is providing a centralized way to manage our data, and we believe we will save over $2 million over the next five years.
Mark Zielazinsky, Chief Information Officer El Camino Hospital
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Customer Quote
Southern Ohio Medical Center
PACS has made a tremendous impact on the availability of information to our Physicians, and I attribute that largely to electronic archiving. All of our cost savings have resulted through archiving, and the EMC SANs proven ability to regularly handle large, terabyte-level volumes of data made it an ideal fit for the environment.
Howard Stewart, RIS/PACS Manager Southern Ohio Medical Center
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Direct-Attached Storage (DAS)
Servers with unused storage
Uncontrolled storage growth Storage dedicated to one server
Backup is decentralized
Backup requires network bandwidth Backup requires downtime Recovery from tape is time-consuming
UNIX Windows
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Deploying a SAN
Easily allocate more storage
Increases storage utilization
Scale servers separately from storage Allocate storage to applications when needed Improves storage utilization Mix operating system environments
Increases flexibility
Leverage storage replicas for testing patches and applications
Provides higher availability
Eliminate downtime caused by backups Drastically reduce recovery time
Delivers highest performance
Eliminate islands of storage within physical servers using a SAN
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UNIX Windows Fibre Channel
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SANs Simplify Backup and Restore
Centralized backup is nondisruptive
Backups performed on clones, not production No network impact Eliminate backup windowImproves service-level agreements
Drastically reduce recovery time
Restore in minutes instead of hours Backup incrementally to ATA for fast recovery Backup to tape weekly
Backup server Clone
Centralized backup lowers total cost of ownership
Reduce number of tape drives Reduce backup-software licenses
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Backup to disk, or
...Backup to tape
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Implement SAN for a Disaster-Recovery Solution
Complete copy of your data in another locationremote mirroring
Business continuityFast restore to full operation
Minimize lost production time
Restoring from offsite tapes can take weeks
IP WAN
Leverage second site for:
Application testing, development, and training (productive protection) Relocation of your tape backups
Site A Site B
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Using Multi-Protocol Switches as iSCSI Gateway
Multi-Protocol Switching
Connects servers to SAN using iSCSI Consolidate storage of small servers Can reduce attachment cost Consolidate inside or outside the data center Use excess array capacity
IP SAN Fibre Channel SAN
IP MDS switch with IP Services Blade or MP-1620M/ MP-2640M
Ideal When You Have:
An existing Fibre Channel SAN Stranded applications requiring storage consolidation No file-server sprawl
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SAN Extension
Connect geographically dispersed SANs
Transparent to Fibre Channel devices Low-cost, simple-todeploy Ethernet connections
Remote mirroring, copy, and disaster-recovery solutions Consolidate SAN islands
MDS IP Services Blades and SAN Extension license, or MP-1620M or MP-2640M with iFCP license
Site B
Site A
Fibre Channel IP
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Todays SANFibre Channel or IP
Servers/applications Remote mirror of application data Fibre Channel SAN IP SAN
WAN
Saves money by improving storage usage Improves productivity by centralizing management
Storage/application data
iSCSI Fibre Channel FCIP or iFCP
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Connectrix MDS series provides choice and new flexibility, including lowercost SAN components and IP-based solutions
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EMC Connectrix Products
Deliver the Widest Range Service Levels
Connectrix Switches/SAN Routers
Redundant fans and power supplies High availability through redundant deployment Departmental and data center deployment Multi-protocol
MDS-9513 MDS-9509-V2 ED-10000M
Connectrix Directors
Redundant everything provides optimal serviceability and highest availability Data center deployment Maximum scalability Large fabrics Multi-protocol
MDS-9140 DS-4900B MDS-9120 MDS-9020 DS-4700M DS-4400M DS-220B DS-4100B MDS-9216i/A
MDS-9506-V2 ED-48000B ED-140M MP-2640M AP-7420B MP-1620M
COST
SERVICE LEVEL
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Guaranteed Interoperability
EMC ensures all SAN components work together System-level qualifications:
Switches and directors Hosts and operating systems Host bus adaptors Storage Clustering software Applications Backup Etc.
Cooperative Support Agreements (CSA) EMC Support Matrix published monthly on EMC.com
Content available through E-Lab Interoperability Navigator on Powerlink
EMC maintains documented best practices in wide range of areas:
Data migrations Storage consolidations Building and managing Internet data centers Etc.
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Centralized Management
Single dashboard Centralized control Remote management Framework integration Multi-vendor support
EMC ControlCenter Console
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EMC SAN Services
Custom ( la carte) offerings Business focus:
Assess Design Implement Train Service Support
7,200+ professionals are measured by one criterion your complete satisfaction
Making it work for you
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Why EMC for SAN?
Experience in storage networking Extensive range of choices
Directors and switches
Guaranteed interoperability Centralized management Industry-leading Customer Service
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EMC Connectrix Qualification
E-Lab and Beyond
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The E-Lab Difference
Dedicated E-Lab Engineering team and equipment for integration and qualification testing Substantial investment in qualification and interoperability testing
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EMCs Unique Value: Qualification and Interoperability
Breadth
The most comprehensive coverage
When EMC gets it working, they fix it for the world
Nick Allen, Gartner Group
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EMCs Unique Value: Qualification and Interoperability
Breadth
The most comprehensive coverage
Depth
To address all of the details
Knowledge
To put it all together
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BreadthThe Most Comprehensive Coverage
E-Lab Interoperability Navigator
Displays database of tested and supported product relationships
E-Lab Interoperability Navigator
EMC Support Matrix
Comprehensive qualification and interoperability document
Benefits to you
Saves moneyAlready tested by EMC Reduces riskWorks the first time No finger-pointing
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BreadthThe Most Comprehensive Coverage
Proof points
EMC covers servers, storage, networks, software, drivers, and much more Competitors lack coverage
HDS provides general list of operating systems IBM mostly covers IBM environments
EMC has more than 450 Cooperative Support Agreements
Competitors offer no guarantees
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The E-Lab Promise
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DepthTo Address All the Details
EMC Topology Guide
Best practices from E-Lab
Benefits to you
Accelerate time to value with best practices Reduce risksAvoid traps and pitfalls
The EMC Topology Guide gets more than 300 hits per day from customers, partners, and EMC
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DepthTo Address All the Details
Proof points
EMC implements multi-switch SAN where competitors fail
HDS spent six months It didnt work HP spent several more monthsIt still didnt work EMC succeeded in six weeks, saving the project
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KnowledgeTo Put it All Together
SAN Design and Change Management
EMC ControlCenter SAN Advisor
Helps manages the entire lifecycle of SANs
Benefits to you
Validates the existing SAN environment Provides modeling for proposed changes involving interoperability, availability, and performance Builds an action plan to help implement changes
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Beyond E-Lab
EMC E-Lab tests integration and qualification Additional EMC testing also differentiates EMCs Connectrix offering:
EMC Supply Base Engineering EMC Corporate Quality EMC Services Engineering
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EMC Supply Base Engineering
Usability, serviceability, and longterm reliability tests
Power-cycling stresses Mechanical concerns, label quality, GUI interfacesmany more Examples:
Do boards insert without pin damage reliably? Does rework tape conduct electricity or pose a latent reliability risk?
Process auditing
Design Manufacturing and Contract Manufacturer facilities and related build processes Ongoing steady-state production-management procedures
Hardware test
Ensure performance to hardware specifications Environmental, voltage margining, configuration mix, network stress High-availability featuresEnsure proper failover of all high-availability system components
First article inspection
Ensures a completed, EMC-approved, final solution before GA
Management of all product-change notices
Example: Component changes due to part obsolescence
Destructive physical analysis
Test of unit construction; visual, x-ray, PCB cross-sectioning, ionic cleanliness methods employed Board and Component Build Specialists from CLARiiON and Symmetrix examine build quality All assemblies to meet both international and EMC-specific build criteria for finished assemblies
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Development-stage design reviews
Hardware design, electrical, mechanical, thermal
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EMC Corporate Quality
Reliability Demonstration Tests (RDT)
Done pre-general availability (GA) Vendors must demonstrate reliability based on specifications before GA Root cause must be specified and corrective action must be taken when problems are discovered
Ongoing Reliability Tests (ORT)
Post-GA Monthly reporting required from each vendor Tests are done with product off the assembly line
Plug-and-play (installation reporting)
EMC produces monthly reports on successful and failed units Reports Mean Time Between Parts Replacement (MTBPR) Data analyzed for failure trends, driving root-cause corrective action
Customer Satisfaction survey
Once per quarter, customers are surveyed three months after an installation Part of EMC Total Customer Experience (TCE) Any issues uncovered are delivered to closure
Other initiatives
RoHS compliance WEEE compliance
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EMC Services Engineering
Extensive regression tests of firmware from all vendors
Real-world code mixes
Call-home testing Documentation
Test all CLIs and all GUI menus Create custom documentation
Brocade and McDATA
Create extensive release notes (Brocade, Cisco, and McDATA)
EMC Technical Support Training
Levels 1 and 2 Technical Support (SAC)
Maintain EMC Primis Cases
Database of known issues/workarounds and fixes Provides up-to-the-minute information for EMC Customer Service
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