netapp vtl by martin medhurst, vtl channel business manager netapp and tobias diener, ceo logicare,...

HeartBeat08Utilizing Virtual Tape Library to develop scalablecost effective Healthcare IT-Services.

Martin MedhurstVTL Channel Development Manager

Tobias DienerCEO Logicare

Logicare AG | Sonnentalstrasse 5 | 8600 DübendorfTel: 044 556 60 00 | [email protected]

Building up a complex VTL-Environment:Advantages and lesson

Tobias Diener, Logicare Ltd., CEO

Building up a complex VTL-Environment:Advantages and lessons learned

Logicare, founded in 2006, provides IT-Services for Hospitals. Logicare hasset-up an IT-Environment, which allows to integrate the IT-operations ofseveral hospitals in a flexible and cost efficient way. The trade off we facedwas: How to integrate the different IT-environments in order to achievesubstantial economies of scale and at the same time leave the hospitals asindependent as possible. Netapp's VTL solution helped Logicare to closethis gap. The presentation presents the deployed solution and explains thelessons learned.

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The challenge for Swiss hospitals

focusOn corebusiness

Increasing cost pressure

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Increasing complexity within the hospitaland in between health care providers

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Market segmentation hospitals in Switzerland

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Market size is 18 BCHF p.a. Tangible market (IT) is 600

MCHF. Growth rate 8% p.a.

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Growth rate 8% p.a. A lot of small hospitals

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Our main business driver is the ongoing integrationof (small) hospitals

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operation structures

Outsourcing-Potential Integration I existing network Low entry barriers, becoming

more difficult

Existing demand is covered Fit with Logicare‘s offering

difficult

Outsourcing-Potential Integration in existing co-

operationsGrowth through acquisitions

Search for the critical size toachieve Economies ofScale

Integrated as well asdiversified hospitalorganisations

Independent niche strategyas a specialist possible

Hospital compound Bundling / outsourcing of non

core activities Competence centers / build-

up of functional co-operations

Bundling of small and mid-size hospitals

Focus on core competenciesand dedicated hospitalswithin the Group

Horizontal and geographicDiversification

Network structure with aclear leader

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Our choice

Togrow fast

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Todie fast

250 years ofIT-Know-how

Founded in 2006, Logicare bundles IT-skills withprofound understanding of the hospital processes

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IT-operations andSupport

Innovation

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190 years of experiencein hospitals

(Administration, Medicineund Care)

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Our strategy

Mission

Strategic goals Values

Logicare is a leading supplier of IT-Services for Hospitals and similar institutions in Switzerland

Logicare focuses on providing support services in the area of IT-Outsourcing („Run theBusiness“) und ITC-Consulting („Build the Business“)

As an ITC Service provider, Logicare develops standards and innovative solutions

Customer focused Logicare achieves a profitable growth until 2012 with a

Vision

Logicare evolving from

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Strategic success factors

Customer focused Entrepreneurial Fairness

Logicare achieves a profitable growth until 2012 with aCAGR of 30%

Logicare achieves fast economies of scale and sets the basefor a sound financial situation

Logicare wins until 2012 8 new full outsourcing customers

The market perceives Logicare as a competent and efficientOutsourcing-Partner and Consulting partner for Hospitals

Value for money PartnershipsQuality and

SecurityKnow-How Innovation Communication

Logicare evolving froman IT-Outsourcer to aleading supplier ofConsulting servicesand ITC-Innovationsfor hospitals andsimilar institutions

Diversification inniches is possible

Our strategy: implementation status

2006– Company founded Jan 26– First 2 full-outsourcing customers in June 2006

2007– 11 MCHF turnover– 36 highly qualified, experienced employees

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– 36 highly qualified, experienced employees

2008– Growth Goal will be overachieved– Outsourcing gains momentum– Our Technology is ready for growth– Financing of growth is settled– Main challenge is to find skilled employees

Structure follows strategy

Our IT needs to be- scaleable- centralised / decentralised- available 7/24/365- flexible- optimal performance- simple and easy to maintain

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- simple and easy to maintain

IT-Infrastructure: initial situation

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Infrastructure today

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NASVirtualisation (VMWare)MS-StandardRedundancyStandardisationProactive Mgt of active components

Netapp‘s contribution: VTL300 configuration today

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Customer 1

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Logicare

Current storage quantity: 15 TBGrowth rate: 70% / year

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Customer 2

VTL300

VTL300

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VTL300

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ASIS

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Alternatives to Traditional Tape

Disk Staging– Benefits: Improved reliability and recoverability; native to most backup

apps– NetApp Solutions: NearStore® with A-SIS, SnapVault® for NetBackup™

Virtual Tape

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Virtual Tape– Benefits: Simple to deploy and scale, highest

performance backups– NetApp Solutions: NearStore VTL

Replication-based Backup– Benefits: More frequent backups, long distance replication, efficient

backups– NetApp Solutions: SnapVault and OSSV

What is a VTL ?

Reduces reliance on tape– Virtual Tape Library

Behaves like tape– Presents Library and Tape Drives to OS

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Disk based– D2D, VTL as final destination for backup– D2D2T,VTL can offload to physical tape

Transparent to backup applications

Optimized for large streaming I/O– Very large block size

NearStore VTL

Optimizing the backup infrastructureWhat customer’s would like to have

Each client would be backedup to a single tape

Tape drives would optimize toclient performance

No contention for physical

SimilarBusinessFunction


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No contention for physicaltape drives

Backups scheduled bybusiness needs, not limited byresources

Immediate access to weeks ofbackups for operationalrestores

Variety ofclients

Similar Speed~30 MB/s each

Introducing the NearStore VTL

NearStore VTL looks like a tapelibrary to systems and applications

Easily deployed in existing backupenvironments

Existing tape infrastructure

The SolutionData Center

BackupServer

NetAppStorage

NearStoreVTL


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Existing tape infrastructuresatisfies off-site requirements

Benefits vs. Tape

Performance

Reliability

Simplified management

UNIXServers

WindowsServers

HeterogeneousStorage

Tape Library

LinuxServers

NearStore VTL advantages

NetApp Total VTL Technology Ownership– Design simplicity, better long term support and product enhancement

Scalability– From 5TB – 512TB without any “forklift” replacement

Hardware Accelerated Compression– Reduces storage costs by 50 - 67% without sacrificing performance

Self-Tuning


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Self-Tuning– Automatically optimizes performance; no manual tuning is required

Direct Tape Creation– Fast and efficient out-of-band physical tape creation– Shadow Tapes for fast offsite tape creation and disk speed restores– Tape Smart Sizing for 50% savings in physical tape vs. other VTLs

Investment Protection– Common hardware architecture provides flexibility

Scalability and performance

Feature VTL300 VTL700 VTL1400

Max. Raw Capacity 35 TB 168 TB 336 TB

Max. Usable Capacity at 2:1 53 TB 256 TB 512 TB

Max Sustained WriteThroughput (2:1 compr.)

1.8 TB/hour(500 MB/s)

3.3 TB/hour(950 MB/s)

6.6 TB/hour(1,900 MB/s)


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Throughput (2:1 compr.) (500 MB/s) (950 MB/s) (1,900 MB/s)

Max Virtual Libraries 256 256 512

Max Virtual Drives 1,500 1,500 3,000

Max Virtual Cartridges 10,000 10,000 20,000

NearStore VTL700

Fifth generation VTL O/S Proven NetApp hardware platform

Intuitive appliance interface designed fortape backup workflows


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3rd Party VTLSoftware & GUI

Linux OS

NetApp VTL technology ownershipSimplicity, long-term support andenhancementsOther VTLs NearStore VTL

Standard WebBrowser


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3rd Party Server

Array Mgmt SW

Disk Array OS

Array Controller

SATA disk shelves

Browser

NetApp VTL OS

NetApp VTLController

NetApp SATAdisk shelves

Investment protectionCommon hardware architecture providesflexibility

NetApp FAS SystemNetApp NearStore VTL

On-site System Conversion


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Virtual Tape Personality

• VTL OS• Journaled Object Store (JOS™)• Fibre Channel connectivity

Disk Personality

• Data ONTAP• WAFL• Fibre Channel, iSCSI or NAS

connectivity

Improves speed of backups

Improves reliability of backups

Improves operational efficiency for backup tasks

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Business benefits of NetApp VTL Solutions


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Improves recovery point objectives

Reduces spending on tape drives & libraries

Provides better utilization of existing tape assets √

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NearStore VTL dramatically improves backup and recovery

service levels with minimal risk and disruption

The set-up tomorrow

customer

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Snap Mirror

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FilerFAS2050

Save a running environment Save open files Deduplication will help! If we centralize all storage: no lost investments

SnapVault® Operations

Block-level incrementalchanges only

Backup Storage

Full File SystemViews

Snapshot™ pointers of

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NetApp and Third-PartyPrimary Storage


Rapid Snapshot backup

Transfer only block-level incremental changes

Store only changed data

Instant recreation of full file system in original format

Snapshot™ pointers offile system

Remote Site Backups

Data Center

Servers

BackupServerTape Library

Remote Offices

NetAppStorage

SnapVault

OpenSystems

SnapVault®

NetApp


Storage

NetApp to NetApp remotereplication

Replicate over as little as 56Klines

Eliminate the need for remote sitephysical tape infrastructure

Optimal restore of files andvolumes

SnapVault Remote Backup

Host to NetApp remote replicationHost-based agent runs on remote

serversEliminates the need to remote

tape and remote storage systems

Open Systems SnapVault

NetAppStorage

Remote Office BackupSwinton Insurance

Back up 442 locations

Backups are nownondisruptive

88% faster recoveries

Eliminated tape at

442

Remote Branches

DataCenter

DR Site


Eliminated tape atremote sites

Replicating over shared256Kb line

Third mirrored copy

“With NetApp, we can back up each office in 15 minutes and can run 32 backups in parallel. Andinstead of 2½ to 3 hours of downtime every night for our sales applications, we have reduced

downtime to zero.” - Rob Davidson, head of IT Infrastructure at Swinton

Our experience with NetApp

Products:- supports our approach of central management of a decentral IT-infrastructure- simple to deploy and run- reduces time to backup with high performance-architecture- simply virtualize classical jukeboxes incl. barcode-management to exportvirt. Tapes to physical one’s

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Company:- customer focused- reacts fast and reliable- not cheap, but: value for money- a strong, consistent corporate culture is perceptible

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