CentricStor Virtual Tape Intelligent Data Protection
Radu Climescu Bucharest, January, 2009
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Why Tape Virtualisation? CentricStor Integrating the best of both worlds – disk and tape Saving costs with consolidation
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Why Tape Virtualisation?
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Why Companies look at VTLs
Tape Drive
Backup Job
Backup jobs not completing? Tape drive utilisation low? Tape drive quality problems? Aggressive recovery time objectives (RTO)? High operating costs of nearline infrastructure? © by Sophie Graf
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How Tape Virtualisation Helps Backup Appl. CentricStor LD
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Enough tape drives for all backup jobs
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Successfully completed backup tasks LV
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Better utilisation of physical tape drives
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logical physical PD
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No stressful start stop operation Faster response on restore requests
Physical Tape Library
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Integrating the best of both worlds
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Disk Back-up Disk enables …
Tape virtualisation
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Robust backup jobs
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Optimised throughput Better quality in real tape operation Tape
Faster restores
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Tape
L_Vol
Tape back-up … But Tape is Still Important
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Best economy of scale Best medium for long term archiving Most energy efficient way of storing data Less error prone than disk
52% of disk & tape users plan to increase tape usage* 13% decrease of disk only systems in 2007* 58% of disk only users plan to start using tape* © by Sophie Graf
*) according to Fleishman-Hillard
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Integrating the best of both worlds How CentricStor addresses both worlds Focus Backup Application on Core Competence No need to actively manage the storage location of a saveset
Backup Appl. CentricStor
Offload media mgmt tasks to CentricStor
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No stressful start/stop operation
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Critical data on mirrored disk / multiple tape copies
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Automatic tape reorganisation
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Automatic tape refreshing
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Short term data on disk only
logical
Improve Quality of Tape Operation
Seamless migration to new tape technologies
Long term / less access on tape Demanding RTO on disk
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Dual / Triple Save / Vaulting
Policy Driven Mgmt of Storage Location
Physical Library
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Saving costs with consolidation
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CentricStor Support in the Frontend CentricStor True Tape Virtualization Multivendor server environments Superior connectivity for almost any server and operating system Certified for all major backup applications Integrates seamlessly into existing infrastructures Self-contained Various tape and disk technologies Hides the complexity of backup storage devices from all servers Autonomous control of the total storage backup infrastructure
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CentricStor Software Support CentricStor Support in the Frontend*) UNIX / LINUX
Windows
Mainframe
Open Systems Backup
Mainframe Backup
Tape Mgmt Systems
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FICON
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LAN ctrl Jukebox ctrl
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Virtual Lib Ctrl
CentricStor *) for details refer to http://partners.fujitsu-siemens.com/teams/cpc/default.aspx --> Quick Links / CS Support Matrix
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CentricStor Support in the Backend ADIC/Quantum
Scalar i500, Scalar i2000, Scalar 10k, Scalar 100, Scalar 1000, AML/J, AML/E, AML/2
Fujitsu
ETERNUS LT130, LT160, LT270
Fujitsu Siemens 3560, 9084-221, FibreCAT TX24, SL500 3494, 3584 / TS3500 IBM T50, T120, T950 StreamLine SL500, SL8500; L180, L700e, Sun StorageTek L1400, L5500, Powderhorn 9310, TimberWolf 9740 Spectra Logic
LTO Ultrium IBM Fujitsu Siemens Sun StorageTek
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Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3, Gen 4 Magstar 3590, Jaguar 3592 / TS1120 Magstar 3591 T9840, T9940, T10000
Support future growth and standards: No limits – unmatched scalability CentricStor Grid Architecture The “centric” storage for data protection Modular building blocks Designed for unlimited disk cache Performance actual models with
> 2 PB capacity (compressed) 1.500.000 Virtual Volumes
Scalability in all dimensions Frontend
- Virtual tape drives - Throughput Backend
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Business continuity: Protected data needs to be replicated CentricStor Grid Architecture
Redundant data protection
Building blocks spread across different physical locations
Active-active disk cache mirroring Immediate recovery after a site outage
Long distance connections Automatic failover against site outages Unmatched disaster resilience
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Automated triple save for tape: - two local copies against media errors - third copy at the vault location
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Seamless change to future technology: Some data has to be stored for years
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True Tape Virtualization
Without server drawback
Always the newest tape technology
¾ Seamless swap
Technology change by CentricStor VT
¾ Maintain only one current standard
Easy doubling physical library capacity
¾ Always the most economic footprint
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Support different retention policies: ILM with disk and tape CentricStor VT - the only “Dual Target” virtual tape solution on the market Optional choice of Î D2D2T / long term Î D2D / short term lifetime of your backup
Economic use of disk Compression of tape data before entering disk Tape encryption Protection against loss of data Seamless plug-in integration Best of breed encryption appliances 17
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The most energy efficient technology: Green Storage – CentricStor VT The most advanced integration of tape Not all data needs to be stored on disk Resource usage appropriate to the value of data Tape is still the most energy efficient way to store data Managed tape storage needs less power than comparable disk solutions
Consolidation reduces Total cost of backup storage Footprint for backup and archiving Power consumption Data center air conditioning 18
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