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EMC CLOUDARRAYCLOUD-INTEGRATED STORAGE

Darragh LawlessPresales Lead – Primary storage UK/I


PRIMARY STORAGE AND CLOUD

PRIMARY STORAGE

CLOUD STORAGE


BENEFITS OF TIERING TO CLOUD STORAGE

2. Reduce on-site storage footprint, management, life cycle

3. Maximize storage utilization

4. Enable initiatives that extend to cloud compute

1. Elastically increase storage capacity


*” The Copy Data Management Challenge” IDC. January 2014.

Inefficient resource allocation:

• Capacity restraints

• High management costs

• Larger local footprint

*65%of storage system capacity is used to store non-

primary, inactive data

WHO NEEDS CLOUD TIERING?


MOVE INACTIVE DATA TO THE CLOUD

Move archive, NAS, and other

infrequently accessed data to the

cloud for an elastic, more cost

effective storage strategy


CLOUD-READINESS: TIER NOW OR LATER

• Strategic

– Leverage investments in cloud/object storage

– Jump start cloud initiatives over next 3-5 yrs

• Beneficial

– Efficient use of storage resources• Improved utilization of primary storage

• Pay as you go capacity expansion (esp. public cloud storage)

– Centralized control of data • In a hybrid cloud/on-premise environment

• With enhanced interoperability, availability

– Future-ready, without cloud commitment• Start cloudless

• Add/change cloud providers in the future


TIER TO CLOUD VIA CLOUDARRAY®


WHAT IS EMC CLOUDARRAY

EMC-CloudArray is a data storage software technology that easily integrates cloud (object) storage into traditional enterprise IT environments


WHAT IS CLOUDARRAY?

I N T E G R A T I O N P E R F O R M A N C E S E C U R I T Y E F F C I E N C Y

SAN/NAS Virtually any

object storage API

Dynamic caching Bandwidth

management & controls

At-rest, in-flight encryption

Local key management

compression


CA Block

CA Files

DirectIntegration

Cloud Storage

FC

Volume-Based Dynamic Cache

Compression

In-Cloud Snapshots

Encryption

EasyRecovery

Bandwidth Scheduler

Cloud APIPublic Cloud

Private Cloud

CLOUDARRAY: CLOUD-INTEGRATED STORAGE

CloudArray


LOCAL DISK CACHINGMULTI-WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

100%Backup

File

Archive

Apps,Users

UseCases

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APIencryption

compression

Cheap Disk / Partially Cached 80%

Fast Disk / Partially Cached 30%

Cheap Disk / Partially Cached 10%

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100%

100%

Dynamically resizeindividual caches

Migrate volumes between policies

Policy based caching enables discrete management of individual volume characteristics and cache sizes

EMC CloudArrayDisk Cache


IN-CLOUD SNAPSHOTS FOR DATA PROTECTION

• Pointer based, in-cloud snapshots are space efficient and use no bandwidth

• Schedule recurring snapshots with customized retention policies

• Rapid recovery by mounting old snapshots

• Eliminate traditional backups


MINIMIZE NETWORK IMPACT & REDUCE OVERALL CLOUD FOOTPRINT

• Bandwidth scheduler & throttler enables you to minimize network impact during business hours

• Optimize WAN and reduce footprint in cloud with data compression

• Pre-flight compression reduces amount of data replicated and stored in the cloud


INCREASED SECURITY

• Cloud providers offer massive physical infrastructure protection

• CloudArray adds AES-256 bit, pre-flight encryption which protects data during replication as well as in the cloud

• Local key management prevents cloud providers from ever accessing encrypted data


CLOUDARRAY FOR VMAX

• Integrated with VMAX All Flash

• External FC appliance

• Centrally managed via Fast.X / Unisphere

• Phase 2

• Internally integrated software

• Policy-based local/cloud tiering

• Enhanced DR strategy

CloudArray

Private Cloud Public Cloud


EMC VMAX AFAEMC CLOUDARRAY + VMAX FAST.X

Hot

Cold

EMC CloudArray

20 TB / 40 TB Physical

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

Cache

Storage Array

FC

Migrate Application Data While Maintaining Accessibility


ONLINE MIGRATION (VMAX AF)

• Move LUNs or storage groups to cloud/object storage

– Free high-performance storage

– No disruption during & after migration

– Unified management and control of data

• Tools help identify inactive data

– Unisphere Performance Analyzer

– Storage group reporting• Sorted by back-end I/O metric

• Both average & max

• Can exclude certain SLOs


SRP(Default)

SRP(CloudArray)

CloudArrayVolume

LUNs / Storage Groups

Flash/HDD

Object Store


Applications

CAPACITY EXPANSION (VMAX AF)

• Handle unplanned burst in capacity demand– Online migration of less

active LUNs to cloud

– Online migration back to local when• Capacity is backfilled locally

• Demand is reduced

• Increase VMAX utilization


SRP(Default)

SRP(CloudArray)

CloudArrayVolume


Flash

Object Store


Applications

TIER2 STORAGE CONSOLIDATION

• Store inactive data or copies directly to cloud

• Can function as either

– Integrated tier within VMAX• Point application directly to

VMAX AF cloud storage

Primary CAVMAX

AF


• Applications that manage tiers of inactive or archive data

– Splunk

– Email

– Database

• Point directly to cloud tier

• Storage of snap clones off of primary storage

APPLICATIONS SUITABLE FOR CLOUD TIERS


CLOUDARRAY FEATURE SUMMARY

INTEGRATION

• Supports all major clouds and API’s

• Up to 32 simultaneous clouds

• iSCSI, CIFS & NFS protocols

DYNAMIC CACHE

• Multiple caches and disk types

• Move volumes across caches

• Resizable caches and data volumes

DATA REDUCTION

• Data deduplication and compression

• Reduce cloud footprint by up to 10x

• Lower overall storage costs

SET AND FORGET

• Auto configuration backups

• Auto software updates

• Alerts via CloudArray Portal

ENCRYPTION

• AES-256 at-rest, SSL in-flight

• On-appliance

• Local Keys (secure back up)

BANDWIDTH CONTROLS

• Optimize WAN transfers

• Scheduling and throttling of limits

SNAPSHOTS

• Instant access, cloud-based snaps

• Space-efficient

• Scheduler with retention policies

CLOUDARRAY

RECOVERY

• Rapid recovery to new appliance

• Onsite, offsite, or in-cloud recovery

• Live DR drills, cache auto-populate

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