nexsan e-series™ best backup to disk
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NEXSAN E-Series™ Best Backup to Disk. Nexsan At-a-Glance. Established in 1999 28,000 systems installed in over 60 countries Over 10,000 customers Proven, Enterprise-class 100% Channel. Markets Served. Digital Surveillance. Video & Entertainment. Financial. Local & National Government. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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NEXSAN E-Series™Best Backup to Disk
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Nexsan At-a-Glance
Established in 1999 28,000 systems installed
in over 60 countries Over 10,000 customers Proven, Enterprise-class 100% Channel
Markets Served
Video & Entertainment
Digital Surveillance
Medical Scientific& Research
Cloud Storage
Financial Law Enforcement
TransportationLocal & National
Government
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Agenda
Backup and Restore Key Considerations
Backup to Disk vs. Tape
Primary Disk Storage• SAN-based vs. LAN-based Backups• The Role of Snapshots• Asynchronous Replication and Disaster Recovery
Backup Disk Storage• Best place to De-duplicate• Key Criteria• Nexsan’s Data Protection Software Partners
Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays
Capacities, configurations, features
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Disk vs. Tape
Disk No single point of failure architecture No human errors in loading / unloading tapes Does not stretch RAID Always online Asynchronous Replication to a remote site Fast restores and easy to verify backups are correct
Tape Can be a single point of failure Human errors in loading / unloading tapes Tapes stretch and shoeshine Not online, slowing restores Not automatically sent to a remote site
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LAN-based vs. SAN-based Backups
LAN
SAN
Clients
BackupServer
StorageSystem
ApplicationServers
BackupArray-based
Snapshot
LAN-based Snapshot
Backup Software
Backup Agent
1. LAN-based (no array-based snapshot) Data takes the full round trip, bogging down
application servers, the LAN, and the SAN
2. SAN-based (with array-based snapshot) Data is copied within the disk array or across the
SAN, with no impact to LAN or application servers
1.
2.12 1 2
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Asynchronous Replication for Disaster Recovery
Remote Storage System
LAN
SAN
Clients
BackupServer
ApplicationServer
ApplicationServer
ApplicationServer
LocalStorageSystem
Protection Against Site-wide Failure Frequent snapshots are transmitted to target side Snapshots may be mounted on target side Backups may be performed at the target side Good way to protect remote/branch offices Failover / Failback to remote storage system Pause / Resume, checkpoint restart, deduplication
LAN
SAN
Clients
BackupServer
ApplicationServer
ApplicationServer
ApplicationServer
LocalStorageSystem
AsynchronousReplication
AsynchronousReplication
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De-duplicate as close to the source as possible
LAN
SAN
Clients
De-duplicatingAppliance
BackupServer
ApplicationServer
ApplicationServer
LocalStorageSystem
Why not de-duplicate right before the backup disk?
Inline de-duplicating appliances either slow backups or are costly
Application servers and networks become bogged down transmitting information that likely will not make it onto the backup disks
De-duplicating appliances fragment data, which hinders restore rates
To test the validity of a backup, a full rehydration of data from the deduplication appliance to a free storage pool is necessary, hindering restore time objectives
Backups cannot be quickly tested to ensure
they are correct with de-duplicating appliances
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Nexsan Partnerships for Data Protection Software
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Backup Disk Criteria
Reliability of Storage System
Storage Density / Rack Space
Modular Capacity Additions
Easy to Maintain Storage
High Throughput
Energy Efficient
Low Cost per Terabyte and Operation
Array-based Snapshots & Replication
Microsoft VSS Compliant & VMware Ready
Compatible with popular backup/restore applications
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Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays Overview
Ultimate Reliability Storage Hard drives individually stress tested Then tested in the storage system Anti-vibration Design™, Cool Drive Technology™ Hot-swappable, redundant active components Array-based Snapshots and Asynchronous Replication
Industry-leading Storage Density E18: 18 drives, 72TB in 2U E48: 48 drives 192TB in 4U E60: 60 drives, 240TB in 4U
Active Drawer Technology™ Administer storage with no downtime, heavy lifting or
pulled wires
Active/Active Controllers With dual RAID5/6 engines per controller
Up to 87% Energy Savings with AutoMAID®
Ideal for backup to disk or bulk storage scenarios
Leading Cost per Terabyte
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Nexsan E-Series: Industry-leading Design
Fans in front pull in air Fans in back push out air Air channels go straight through chassis Even if a fan fails, air flows over drives Variable speed fans with temperature sensors
Cool Drive Technology™
Anti-vibration Design™
Mount drives counter-rotating Thick plates in chassis eliminate
vibrations
Active Drawer Technology™
Service drives without getting hurt Drives remain active when drawer is open Service system with no downtime Increased reliability with less external wires to manage
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Nexsan E-Series: Industry-leading Storage DensityRack Space Required for 240 3.5” Drives
NexsanE60s
Dell EqualLogic PS6510Es
Dell Compellent Series 40s
NetApp FAS3240
EMCVNX5500
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
16U
24U
40U43U
22U
Nexsan E-Series up to ½ of the rack
space
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f Rac
k Sp
ace
Req
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Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays
100 / 200 / 400 GB SSD
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 TB SATA
2U, 18 Drives
450 / 600 GB 15K SAS
(4) 1Gb iSCSI & (0-4) 1Gb iSCSI or (0-8) 8Gb FC or (0-8) 10Gb iSCSI or (0-8) 24Gb SASx4
4U, 60 Drives4U, 48 Drives
NEXSAN E48™NEXSAN E18™NEXSAN E18X™
NEXSAN E60™NEXSAN E60X™NEXSAN E48X™
Drives
In-Chassis
with 1 Expansion
I/O
with 2 Expansions
(4) 1Gb iSCSI & (0-4) 1Gb iSCSI or (0-4) 8Gb FC or (0-4) 10Gb iSCSI or (0-4) 24Gb SASx4
72 TB
144 TB 480 TB
240 TB192 TB
384 TB
216 TB 720 TB 576 TB
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Recovery time
AutoMAID® Industry-leading Power Efficiency
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
75%60%
40%
15% 13%
Power Savings Levels
<1 second 15 seconds 30-45 seconds 30-60 seconds
Unload heads
Slow to 4000 RPM
Stop rotating
Drive electronics off
Can use less than 1/5 of the
power of competitive
products
Ideal for backup to disk or long-term bulk storage applications
30-60 seconds
Exp. Chassis electronics off
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Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays - High Availability
Dual Active/Active controllers All ports can access all LUNs Multi-path I/O No single point of failure Hot-swappable Battery-backed cache Sends alerts for important events
NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE
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E-Series Snapshots (1 of 2)
Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2
Snapshot 3
Snapshot N
Snapshots of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS connected SAN volumes Snapshots are instantly taken Initiated via scheduler, manually, or scripted Microsoft VSS Hardware Provider to install on Windows servers Application-consistent snapshots for Windows servers Initiate snapshots from any VSS Requestor such as popular backup
applications Initiate backups from Nexsan Storage Tools Utility (a VSS Requestor) All security information is preserved for the volume at the point in time the
snapshot was taken Policy-based retention and deletion of snapshots Mount snapshots as READONLY for backups or to restore individual files or
entire volumes Mount snapshots as READ/WRITE for data mining and testing
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E-Series Snapshots (2 of 2)
Rollback a volume to a prior point in time Volume is instantly available, even though the rollback is still in process for
that point in time Restore operations are reversible and all existing snapshots are preserved
(space permitting) Delete snapshots in any order Uses copy-on-write algorithm and requires data protection storage to be
pre-allocated Size of the data protection storage pool can be grown, and can flexibly
assigned to volumes Up to 4096 snapshots per volume or RAID set Easy to set up and manage via GUI Nexsan utilities to manage snapshots from Linux, AIX and Solaris
Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2
Snapshot 3
Snapshot N
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E-Series Asynchronous Replication (1 of 2)
IP NETWORK(LAN OR WAN)
E-Series
E-Series
AsynchronousReplication
Asynchronous Replication of individual iSCSI, Fibre Channel or SAS connected SAN volumes
Separate systems by any distance and communicate over TCP/IP One-to-One and Many-to-One Based on snapshots, which are retained on the source and destination sides
of the replication Can replicate older existing snapshots, as well as snapshots taken after
replication is set up Only the changed blocks since the last snapshot need to be transmitted Checkpoint restarts efficiently resume replication if the transport has a
temporary outage Can mount snapshots on the destination side while replication is active Full security is preserved for volumes on the destination side
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E-Series Asynchronous Replication (2 of 2)
IP NETWORK(LAN OR WAN)
E-Series
E-Series
AsynchronousReplication
Manual failover to the secondary system on the destination side Useful for data migration to a new system or for storage rebalancing 128 concurrent replications, of which 16 can be active per system Easy to set up and manage via the GUI Replication can start when a snapshot is taken or on a schedule Replication can be paused, resumed, or canceled
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Nexsan E-Series: Best Backup to Disk Summary
Ultimate Reliability Storage Hard drives individually stress tested Then tested in the storage system Anti-vibration Design™, Cool Drive Technology™ Hot-swappable, redundant active components Array-based Snapshots and Asynchronous Replication
Industry-leading Storage Density E60: 15 drives per U, 240TB in just 4U E48: 12 drives per U, 192TB in just 4U E18: 9 drives per U, 72TB in just 2U
Active Drawer Technology™ Easy to manage storage with no downtime
Active/Active Controllers With dual RAID engines per controller
Up to 87% Energy Savings with AutoMAID®
Ideal for backup to disk or bulk storage scenarios
Leading Cost per Terabyte
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