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Trends in Storage Migration

Marti Baldwin, Manager, SGI Solutions Lab

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Speaker

Marti Baldwin, Manager of SGI Solutions Center is responsible for the technical development, testing and integration of technologies. Marti has extensive background in many aspects of IT processes, performance and data management. Her career has spanned across a number of areas addressing the requirements of large compute and storage environments for organizations including Amdahl Corporation, EMC and Sun Microsystems.

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Agenda

– SGI Overview– Migration – why is it important? – Migration trends and challenges – How virtualized environments impact migration– Checklist for evaluating migration tools/requirements – The basics of the SGI solution – Case study of SGI solution – Final business thoughts – Q & A

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SGI Today

The company• 1600+ employees• 4000+ customers• In 60 countries• $530M in revenue (Non-GAAP)

Core market sectors• Classic HPC

− Government− Industry− Research

• Enterprise

Geo Mix

Segment Mix

Business Mix

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25 Years of Performance Computing

• Leading shared memory compute platforms– Up to 128TB globally addressable memory (GAM)

• High performance, high volume data management systems– Strong software offerings

• Linux® commitment• Renown for deep vertical expertise of

employees– More than 200 employees with security clearances

• World class customer service organization

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Market Focus

Research

Industry Enterprise

Government

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Storage VisualizationServers

SGI Product Platforms

•SGI® Altix® 4700 High-End Blade With Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor

•SGI® Altix® 450 Mid-Range Cluster & Server Solution With Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processors

•SGI® Altix® ICE With Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor

•SGI® Altix® XE Cluster Solutions with Dual & Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors

•SGI® InfiniteStorage

•SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXISNetwork-Attached Storage (NAS)

•SGI® InfiniteStorage

Storage Area Network (SAN)

•RAID & SATA

•DMF, ILM, NAS Appliance Software

•Cluster-Attached Storage

SGI® Visual Supercomputer

SGI® Remote Visualization

SGI® Visualization Solutions

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Migration – from A to B

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Migration Challenges: Business

• Operational concerns – includes risk from exposure to data loss or corruption plus strain on personnel

• Financial pressure to complete migrations versus business pressure to preclude application downtime

• In general, it has not been in the interests of vendors to ‘play as nice’ as they might.

• Personnel ‘migration hangover’ effect

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Data Migration – from A to B

Data

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Why Migrate? Storage Lifecycle Management

• Technology refresh• New applications, data center or relocation• Consolidation• Processing needs (e.g., test environment, tiering

capabilities)• Test new product/supplier• Data growth or performance balancing• Asset management

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Data Migration Trends

Customers have a broader selection of array products to choose from than at any other time

Customers want simplified management and a heterogeneous storage environment, giving them flexibility and cost benefits

IT needs to respond faster to changing business requirements

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Customer Challenges in Data Migration

Disruption to operations and application availability during implementation

Inability to roll back and recover from a migration until satisfied that migration is successfully accomplished

Risk of data loss and data integrity

Complexity of multiple vendor-specific tools required to perform migrations

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Benefits of an Effective Data Migration Strategy

Support a Storage Technology Refresh

Assets and Storage Portfolio Management– Leases, warrantees, maintenance, and amortization schedules– Transition to new technology before existing outdated storage hardware’s warranty or lease

expires

Improve TCO by taking advantage of new storage technology

Storage infrastructure refresh: Apply storage services to storage infrastructure as opposed to adding point product features

Improve Flexibility to Align Technology With Business Objectives

Support continuous growth of data

Gain advantage of new storage services

Corporate and regulatory governance requirements

Improve application performance with multi-tier storage infrastructure

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Traditional Migration Solutions

• Backup

• Copy to Disk

• Network Copy

• Snapshots

• Mirror

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Storage Migration Drivers

Support a Storage Technology Refresh

Assets and Storage Portfolio Management– Leases, warrantees, maintenance, and amortization schedules– Transition to new technology before existing outdated storage hardware’s warranty or lease

expires

Improve TCO by taking advantage of new storage technology

Storage infrastructure refresh: Apply storage services to storage infrastructure as opposed to adding point product features

Improve Flexibility to Align Technology With Business Objectives

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Non-Disruptive Heterogeneous SAN

Data Migration

The SGI Solution

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SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration Solution Any-to-Any Data Migration

Fabric-BasedIntelligence

Host-Based

Services distributedacross hosts

• SAN-based solution

• Supports heterogeneous devices

• SAN-wide centralized management

• Rollback capability

• Supports all major OS and storage devices

• Delivered by experienced SGI consultantsArray-Based

Services tied to array

Block-level, non-disruptive, Block-level, non-disruptive, heterogeneous data migrationheterogeneous data migration

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SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration SolutionSplit-Path Architecture

Storage Virtualization Manager

Fabric 1 Fabric 2

Storage ArrayBrand “A”

Storage ArrayBrand “B”

Win2K Win2K Solaris HP-UX Netware AIX AIX Linux Oracle RAC

Data Path

Point of translation

VMware

Data Path Module

Control Path

Solution Features• SAN-based data services • Split-path architecture• Heterogeneous support• Non-disruptive solution

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Organizational Impact of an SGI® Virtualization Strategy

• Enables non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades

• Maximizes uptime and performance of revenue-generating applications

• Enables non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades

• Maximizes uptime and performance of revenue-generating applications

BusinessImpact

• Avoids costs and disruptions of lost access to applications and data

• Centralizes/simplifies data migration across servers/storage

• Enables Information Lifecycle Management (LM) process

• Avoids costs and disruptions of lost access to applications and data

• Centralizes/simplifies data migration across servers/storage

• Enables Information Lifecycle Management (LM) process

• Revenue-producing applications remain available during upgrades

• Accelerates introduction of new storage devices

• Reduces cost by putting data on the appropriate tier of storage

• Pay-as-you-go: license migration capacity as needed

• Revenue-producing applications remain available during upgrades

• Accelerates introduction of new storage devices

• Reduces cost by putting data on the appropriate tier of storage

• Pay-as-you-go: license migration capacity as needed

OperationalImpact

FinancialImpact

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How the SGI Solution Differs from traditional technologies

Any-to-any data migration without storage vendor lock-in

Centralized heterogeneous storage management tool set

Ability to manage storage as a single entity, not as disparate storage islands defined by the manufacturer Enables more multi-vendor support

A tool for tiered storage management

Pay for what you use — terabytes under management

Utilizes split-path technology

Creates foundation for additional advanced data services

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Any-to-Any Data Migration

• Data movement, from any device, to any device, to any location

• Migrates data while production applications remain online

• Can create instant snapshots of migrating volumes for enhanced data protection

• Original volume remains for backup purposes

• SAN-wide, centralized management of all migration activities

• Supports all major OS and storage devicesStorage

Brand AStorageBrand B

Before After

StorageBrand A

StorageBrand B

=>

Pool 1 Pool 1Pool 2 Pool 2

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Mobile Satellite Communications Leader Migrates User Data …

…with Minimal Impact to Its Operations and Budget

“In evaluating our options, we looked at an upgrade and migration path with EMC, but staying with them would have meant a sizable cost increase. We selected the SGI solution because SGI offered clearly superior price/performance with the InfiniteStorage 4500 and a virtualization component that was literally unbeatable.”

—Tad MartinUNIX Systems Administrator

Iridium Satellite LLC

Iridium Satellite LLCThe Challenge• Meet rapidly growing data warehousing

demands• Running out of storage capacity• Maintain 24x7 SLA while migrating data

The Solution• SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration

Solution• SVM Appliance• SGI® InfiniteStorage 4500• SGI Professional Services

Implementation• Migrated mission-critical enterprise data

from existing array to an SGI InfiniteStorage 4500

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Migration Evaluation Checklist

• Life and value of data typically exceeds that of the storage asset…map storage tiers to life/value

• Move online and into storage network• Demand heterogeneity• Non-disruptive, so applications keep running• Virtualization in order to span multiple device types

and vendors and treat all equally• Central management• Test and fallback

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Additional Advanced Data Services

SGI® Storage Migration Solution

StorageBrand A

StorageBrand B

StorageBrand A

StorageBrand B

=>

BEFORE AFTER

Pool 1 Pool 2 Pool 1 Pool 2

Rapid Application Recovery

Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery

Site 1

ORIG MIRROR1

MIRROR2

CentrallyManagedStoragePool

StoreAgeSVM

StorageBrand A

StorageBrand C

StorageBrand B

Site 2 Site 3

ProductionServers

Backup Server

ProductionData

Snapshot 1 CentrallyManagedStoragePool

StoreAgeSVM

StorageDevice

Tape Library

Snapshot 2

Snapshot 3

Application Test and Deployment

ProductionServers

TestServers

TestServers

ORIG COPY COPY

CentrallyManagedStoragePoolStoreAge

SVM

StorageBrand A

StorageBrand B

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Final Thoughts

Operational• Do it!!• Non-disruptive & heterogeneous

Business/Solution• Market, SGI, and product• SGI in storage• More than migration

– A means as well as an end