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Storage Today
Victor Hatridge – CIO
Nashville Electric Service
(615) 747-3735
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Agenda
Challenges of today’s environment
Benefits of file server consolidation efforts
How to engage storage vendors
Summary
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Limited Storage Scalability & Compatibility
Windows® File Server
UNIX® File Server
Windows® File Server
Primary Data Center Growth managed by
adding servers
Windows® File Server
Servers unevenly utilized
Difficult for UNIX® and Windows® users to securely share data
User migration disruptive
Labor-intensive management
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Difficult, Slow Backup Process
Primary Data Center
Windows®
Server
Time: many hours
FullBackup
IncrementalBackup
Time: many hours
Tape backups required for each server
Tape management required for each server
Backup takes a long time
Duplicate tasks at remote offices
Remote Offices
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Difficult Restore Process
Primary Data Center
Windows® File Server
Off-site Tape Storage
Time to recover: many hours
Load full backup
Load incremental backups
Identify backup tapes
Load full and incremental backups
Downtime for users who need to access the data
Locate backup media
Tapes may be at off-site tape storage location
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Lack of Business Continuance
Primary Data Center
Offsite Tape Storage
Challenges:
Expensive Slow disaster
recovery Long user downtime Risk of unrecoverable
backup due to backup error or faulty media
Windows® File Server
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High Management Complexity
Primary Data Center
Protect from viruses and other security threats
Many file servers to manage
Manage OS patches and updates for each server
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Windows File Serving Consolidation
Return on Investment
Cost savings from:– Elimination of file servers– Cost avoidance as storage grows– Simplified backup & recovery
Complete details in Forrester TEI Report http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/ftp/analyst/ar1019.pdf
Start 12 Months 2 Years 3 Years
3 Year ROI139%
Prepared by Forrester Research from customers interviews Based on consolidation of 80 Windows file server customers
– Reduction in downtime– Increased flexibility
$2,500,000
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$1,500,000
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$500,000
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Payback
COST SAVINGS OVER 3 YEARS
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Large-Scale Consolidation
Primary Data Center
Consolidate user data
Deploy unified storage appliance
Enable heterogeneous file sharing
Benefits:
Simplified management Improved server
utilization Faster more reliable
backup Enhanced availability
Centralize backup
Cluster for higher availability
Add disks as needed
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Migration without VFM
Benefits:
Shortens migration time Simplifies migration effort Minimizes client
downtime Tremendous flexibility in
executing consolidation• Consolidate in stages
• Location transparency
Migrate data
Decommission old storage devices
Update scripts and applications
Migrate data
Inform users
Users to reboot
Field support calls forbroken links to data
Decommission old storage devices
Plan and communicate
Create groups and shares
Benefits: Effortless Consolidation
Policy-based management• Schedule
• Bandwidth
• Inclusions/exclusions
• Post-migration tasks
Multiple consolidation jobs simultaneously across locations
Automatic reconfigure client mappings
Migration with VFM
Deploy Global Namespace
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Marketing Dept
Benefits: Multi-domain Consolidation
Engineering Dept Each group manages its
own file servers
MultiStore™ allows single filer to be partitioned into smaller filers
Engineering Marketing
They want to consolidate, but each group wants control of administration and maintenance
Benefits:
Flexible administration and management
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Benefits: Non-disruptive Expansion
Benefits:
Easier to manage expansion
Minimized downtime
Reduced user confusion
Additional disks can be easily added with little or no impact on system performance
Upgrade performance with new filer head
Global namespace software - • Scales storage across filers
• Shields users from physical file storage changes
Marketing
Promotions
Programs
Sales
Presentations
Engineering
Executables
Libraries
Spec
Schedule
Global Namespace (VFM)
Promotions Sales
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Benefits: Simplified Backup Process
Benefits: Shortens backup
windows to seconds Incurs no performance
degradation running snapshot
Minimize data loss Fewer tapes to manage
Primary Data Center Snapshots provide
near-instantaneous backups
Stored on filer for immediate access
Snapshots can be backed up to tape
Tape backup process centralized
Time to backup: seconds
Snapshots
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Benefits: Scalable Virus Protection
Primary Data Center Virus protection is
CPU-intensive Off-load scanning to
AV server AV Scan Server finds
virus, repairs the file
Anti-virus Scan Server
All filers can use pool of AV Scan Servers
Benefits:
Secure valued data Minimize impact on filer Scalable architecture Repurpose former file
servers for AV scanning
LANLAN
Pool of Antivirus Scan Servers
LAN
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Benefits: Simplified Management
Benefits:
Simple, secure, centralized administration
Unified view of data infrastructure
Enhanced planning and storage provisioning
Improved resource utilization
Use tools provided by your storage vendor
Use alone or with third-party products
Develop your own management tools
Partner Solutions
Vendor Manager
VendorAPI Standards-Based Interfaces
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Know your environment
Know your storage picture today
Know your data change rate
Know your data growth rate
Know your staff