vnx overview

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VNX Overview

Presenter: Allan Trotman EMC – Unified Infrastructure

Group Advisory Technical

Consultant


IT Challenges: Tougher than Ever Four central themes facing every decision maker today

Overcome flat budgets

Manage escalating complexity

Cope with relentless data growth

Meet increased business demands


EMC Unisphere

Next-Generation Unified StorageOptimized for today’s virtualized IT

Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

VNXe3100 VNX7500VNX5700VNXe3300 VNX5100 VNX5500VNX5300


Positioning - Customer Segments

Enterprise

Mid Market

Mid Market

SMB

Limited Opportunity: Server Affinity / Cloud Services

Buyer: • IT Infrastructure• Storage Specialist

Buying Criteria:• Efficiency• Performance • Feature/Function• Upgradeability

VNXseries

Data Center

Buyer: • IT Generalist /Application specialist

Buying Criteria:• Price & Simplicity • Application Performance• Flexibility

VNXe series

SMB/Mid

Buyer: • IT Generalist /Application specialist• Remote-Office/Branch-Office (ROBO)

or Department within Enterprise

Buying Criteria:• Price and Simplicity• Application Performance • ROBO: central management• Departmental: “vertical” app

affinity

VNXe series

Dept/ROBO


Purpose Designed ArchitecturesVNXe series: Integrated Unified• Designed for IT generalist

– Maximizing simplicity and easy of use (no X-Blades, Control Stations etc.)

– Providing balanced performance, scalability and flexibility

Virtual Storage Pool

Storage

Processor B

Storage

Processor A

HighestCapacity (NL-SAS)

GoodPerformanc

e(SAS)

iSCS

INFS CI

FS

HighestCapacity (NL-SAS)

GoodPerformanc

e(SAS)

HighestPerformanc

e(Flash)

Virtual Storage Pool

VNX series: Modular Unified• Configurable for purpose: File,

Block and/or Object– Maximizing performance, scalability

and flexibility as you grow

Xblade

Xblade

Xblade

Xblade

Xblade

Xblade

Xblade

XbladeStorage

Processor BStorage

Processor A

FC FCoE

iSCS

INFS CI

FSSO

APRE

ST


VNXe Series ModelsSimple. Efficient. Affordable.

VNXe3100 VNXe3300Form factor 2U 3U

Maximum drives 48 or 96 120

Drive types 3.5” SAS, NL-SAS 3.5” SAS, NL-SAS

Protocols NFS, CIFS, iSCSI

Configurable I/O slots 1 or 2 4

Embedded I/O ports per SP2 or 4 SAS ports2 or 4 Gigabit Ethernet ports

4 SAS ports8 Gigabit Ethernet ports

Storage processors (controllers) 1 or 2 2

System memory 4 or 8 GB 24 GB


VNX Family Common FunctionalityVNX Series and VNXe Series

Capacity Optimization

Services Virtual Provisioning,

Compression, File Dedupe

PowerfulNew multi-core Intel

CPUs &6Gb/s SAS backend

Unified PlatformOne platform supporting

File, Block and Object Easily UpgradableStart with File or Block

and upgrade to Unified

High Availability Designed to deliver 5

9’s availability

Centralized ManagementOne management

framework

Packaged SoftwareSimple software suites

Optimized For All Virtual Applications

VMware and Hyper-V integration


VNX Series HardwareSimple. Efficient. Powerful.

VNX5100 VNX5300 VNX5500 VNX5700 VNX7500Minimum Form factor 4U 4U–7U 4U–7U 5U–8U 5U–8U

Maximum Number of drives

75 125 250 500 1000

Drive types 3.5” Flash, SAS, and NL-SAS and 2.5” SAS

File system module

s

I/O slots per X-Blade n/a 3 4 4 5

X-Blades n/a 1 or 2 1, 2, or 3 2, 3, or 4 2–8

MemoryPer X-Blade n/a

6 GB 12 GB 12 GB 24 GB

Max. 12 GB 36 GB 48 GB 192 GB

Protocols n/a NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS

Storage

Pool module

s

Storage Processors 2

Embedded I/O ports per SP

4 Fibre Channel ports, 2 back-end SAS ports

n/a

Configurable I/O slots per SP

n/a 2 2 5 5

Total System Memory 8 GB 16 GB 24 GB 36 GB 48 GB

Protocols Fibre Channel Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI


3XFaster

3x Better Performance More users, more transactions, better response time

FAST Cache

FAST VP

VNXPlatform

CX/NS Platforms


Virtualization Changes EverythingTo move to virtual servers demands new storage solutions

Virtual server pool

Self-Optimizing Storage Pools

Storagesystem

Discrete servers

Static RAID Groups

Storagesystem

RAID groups Storage pool

AUTOMATIC DATA OPTIMIZATION

AUTOMATIC APPLICATION OPTIMIZATION


Flexible Storage Tiers

SAS back-end connect for performance and reliability

• Up to 24Gb (4x6 Gb) per SAS bus

• Point-to-point, robust interconnect

Flash (SSD) options

• Highest performing drives

• 3.5” – 100 GB, 200 GB

– ~3,000 IOs per second

Optimize TCO with tiered service levels


Highest capacity

Good performance

Highest performance

Near-line SAS(7.2K rpm)

SAS(10K /15K

rpm)

Flash

SAS (HDD) options

• 3.5” drives (195 drives/ rack)

– 300 GB and 600 GB– 10K and 15K RPM– ~ 140 (10K) to ~ 180

(15K) IOs per second

• 2.5” Drives (500 drives/ rack)

– 300 GB and 600 GB – 10K RPM

Near-line SAS (HDD) options

• 3.5” drives (195 drives/ rack)

– 2 TB– 7.2K RPM– ˜ 90 IOs per second


The FAST SuiteHighest performance & capacity efficiency – automatically!

Real-time caching with FAST Cache

Scheduled optimization with FAST VP

FlashSSD

High Perf. HDD

High Cap.HDD

FAST Cache continuously ensures that the hottest data is served from high-performance Flash SSDs

FAST VP supporting both file and block optimizes storage pools automatically, ensuring only active data is being served from SSDs, while cold data is moved to lower-cost disk tiers

Together they deliver a fully automated FLASH 1st storage strategy for optimal performance at the lowest cost attainable


FAST Cache Approach Page requests satisfied from

DRAM if available

If not, FAST Cache driver checks map to determine where page is located

Page request satisfied from disk drive if not in FAST Cache

Policy Engine promotes a page to FAST Cache if it is being used frequently

Subsequent requests for this page satisfied from FAST Cache

Dirty pages are copied back to disk drives as background activity

MAPPolicyEngine

Driver

Exchange SharePointOracle

DatabaseFileVMwareSAP

DRAM

FAST Cache Disk Drives


FAST VP for Block and File Access

Automates movement of hot or cold blocks

Optimizes use of high performance and high capacity drives

Improves cost and performance

Optimize VNX for minimum TCO

LUN 2

LUN 1

Tier 2

Tier 1

Pool

BEFORE AFTER

Tier 0

Most activity Neutral activity Least activity


3 Times the PerformanceRun applications faster than ever

• 3X the number of users

• 3X the number of transactions

• 3X faster VMware View boot time

• 3X quicker VMware View refresh time

• 3X the number of users

• 3X the number of transactions

Proven ResultsReference Architecture,

White Papers, etc. Available at GA


FAST and FAST Cache Optimal performance at lowest possible costs

System CostNo FAST, no FAST Cacheno tiering

Management

Power and Cooling

Three-Year OpExNo FAST, no FAST Cacheno tiering

Three-Year OpExFAST and FAST Cachewith Fibre Channel and SATA

System Cost FAST and FAST Cachewith Fibre Channel and SATA

29% lower 3-year TCO

50% lower operating cost

CLARiiON CX4-960130 TB raw

All Fibre Channel220 x 600 GB 15K

Unisphere,Unisphere Analyzer

Maintenance

CLARiiON CX4-960130 TB rawFAST Cache8 x 73 GB FlashTiered Storage30 x 600 GB 15K57 x 2 TB SATA

Unisphere,Advanced FAST Suite

Maintenance

Management

Power and Cooling


3XMore Efficient

3 Times More EfficientMore storage, better utilization, lower cost

FASTSuite

File De-Dupe &

Compression

Thin Provisioning

ClassicProvisioning


VNX THIN PROVISIONING

VNX Thin Provisioning

• Capacity oversubscription allows intelligent use of resources

– File systems– FC and iSCSI LUNs– Logical size greater than

physical size

• VNX Thin Provisioning safeguards to avoid running out of space

– Monitoring and alerting

• Automatic and dynamic extension past logical size

– Automatic NAS file system extension

– FC and iSCSI dynamic LUN extension

Only allocate the actual capacity required by the application

Logical application and user view

Physical allocation

User B10 GB

User A10 GB

User C10 GB

4 GB

2 GB2 GB

Physical consumed storage

Capacity on demand


VNX Virtual Provisioning• Thick pool LUN

– Full capacity allocation– Near RAID-Group LUN

performance– Capacity reserved at LUN

creation– 1 GB chunks allocated as

relative block address is written

• Thin pool LUN– Only allocates capacity as

data is written by the host– Capacity allocated in 1 GB

chunks– 8 KB blocks contiguously

written within 1 GB– 8 KB mapping incurs some

performance overhead


3 Times SimplerSmarter management, greater automation, faster results

Manage it all :

• VNX, CLARiiON and Celerra

• Storage pools, virtualization, replication

• File, block and object

…from a single pane of glass with Unisphere™

3XSimpler


Instant Expertise Best-practice wizards configure storage with just a few clicks

Share WizardSet up NFS and CIFS shares in minutes

Volume WizardSet up iSCSI volumes in minutes

Hyper-V WizardSet up 1 TB Hyper-V

datastore in 10 minutes

Email WizardSet up hundreds of Exchange mailboxes in fewer than 10 clicks

VMware WizardSet up 1 TB VMware

datastore in 10 minutes


VNX Series SoftwareSoftware Solutions Made SimpleManagement

Software Unisphere

Base Software (no

additional charge)

File DeDupe/Compression,Block Compression, Virtual

Provisioning, SAN Copy & Protocols

FAST VP, FAST Cache, Unisphere Analyzer, Unisphere Quality of Service Manager

Event Enabler (anti-virus, quota management, auditing), File-level Retention, Host Encryption

SnapView, SnapSure, RecoverPoint/SE CDP

Replicator, MirrorView A/S, RecoverPoint/SE CRR

Replication Manager, Data Protection Advisor for Replication

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FAST Suite

Security and Compliance Suite

Remote Protection Suite

Application Protection Suite

Local Protection Suite

Attractively Priced Packsand Suites

VNX5100 does not support FAST VP, Event Enabler, FLR, Replicator, or SnapSureIt also does not support the FAST Suite or the Total Efficiency Pack, but a Total Value Pack instead


RecoverPoint/SE

Unified Remote ReplicationNext GenToday/2011:

MirrorView/S

MirrorView/A

Celerra Replicator

RecoverPoint

SIMPLIFYsingle remote replication solution for any data type

INTEGRATEintegrate with

Unisphere array manager

File System support starting in 1H’11Granular RPO via journalingLess bandwidth via Dedupe/CompressionFlexibility – Synch, Asynch


Total Protection: Better than Ever

• Local and remote data recovery with DVR-like (SKY+) rollback/roll-forward

• Restore individual or multiple virtual machines with a single click

• Define and enforce custom recovery point objectives and service level agreements across virtual infrastructure

• Automated failover and failback

• Proven Reference Architectures

Unified replication with the Total Protection Pack


Significantpoints in time

Any pointin time

Yesterday

Daily backup

Snapshots

RecoverPoint

Daily backup

Snapshot

Midnight Now

Daily recovery points—from tape or disk

More frequent disk-based recovery points

24 hours

Continuous Recovery Points

Databasecheckpoint

Pre-apppatch

Post-apppatch

Databasecheckpoint

Quarterlyclose

Any user-configurable event

Any point in time

Significant point in timeAll recovery points


SnapView with SnapSureSnapshots/Clones: Recovery point every 3 hours

Traditional BackupDaily Backup: Recovery point every 24 hours

RecoverPoint/SE CDP and CRRContinuous Data Protection: DVR like recovery

Unlimited recovery points, application bookmarks

(T) TIME

Checkpoint Patch Post-Patch Cache Flush QuarterlyClose

HotBackup

CheckpointPre-Patch

MirrorView with ReplicatorDisk Mirroring: Recovery point latest image replicated

Compared to Traditional Data Protection


EMC: The VMware ChoiceTwo out of three CIOs pick EMC for their VMware environments

• Trusted storage platform for the most critical and demanding VMware environments

• Advanced integration and functionality that maximizes the value of a virtualized data center

• Flexibility to meet infrastructure to business and technical needs

• Knowledge, experience, and partnerships to make your virtual data center a reality

“Which vendor(s) supplied the networked (SAN or NAS) storage used for your virtual server environment?”

“Which is your storage vendor of choice in a virtual server environment?”

“EMC remains the clear storage leader in virtualized environments.”


Optimized for VirtualizationSeamless virtualization experience and acceleration

Virtual Server Administrator

Storage Administrator

VAAI offloadvCenter Server

integrationUnisphere

less net I/Omore VMsfaster response Manage storage & VM

resources in unisonControl offload functions and

integrated replication

Manage storage & VMresources in unisonControl offload functions and integrated replication

Up To

10X


Virtualization Management

• Integrated point of control to simplify and speed VMware storage management tasks

EMC Virtual Storage Integrator plug-in

VMware vSphere

• One unified storage tool for all Symmetrix, CLARiiON, Celerra, VNX series, and VNXe series

Unified storage

EMC Virtual Storage

Integrator


• Improve desktop environment performance by up to 60% during boot storms leveraging EMC FAST Cache

• Reduce storage disk costs by leveraging VMware View Composer and advanced storage technologies from EMC like EMC FAST VP and FAST Cache

• Simplify your environment by reducing the number of disk drives, up to 77%

Enabled by EMC VNX, VMware vSphere 4.1, VMware View 4.5, and VMware View Composer 2.5

EMC Infrastructure for Virtual Desktops


EMC Integrated Infrastructure for Virtual DesktopsWhitepaper

• Automate and simplify storage provisioning for virtual desktops

• Accelerate deployment of virtual desktops

• Integrate application best practices

• Reduce management and operational costs


EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA)

• Based on the EMC File Management Appliance

• Provides tiering, archive and migration of file data from heterogeneous sources to the Hybrid Cloud (private and public)

• Retains the ability to tier, archive and migrate to traditional storage platforms


Tiering : Auto-tiering from the data

center to the cloud

Archive :Archiving to EMC platforms

such as Data Domain, Centera

MigrationMigrating files from NetApp

onto EMC storage (VNX, Isilon)

Cloud Service Providers

Auto File Tiering

via EMC CTA

EMC VNX

VNX FAST VP

Data Center Cloud

NetApp

Isilon

NetApp EMC

Migrationvia EMC CTA

VNX

Primary NAS EMC

Archivingvia EMC CTA

Data Domain

CTA – Use cases


CTA options for tiering to the Cloud

• Migration– Move a file without leaving

a stub

• Tiering– Move a file and leave a

stub behind on the source– Within the box or outside

the box– Non-compliance

requirements

• Archive– Move a file and leave a

stub behind– Compliance (WORM) and

governance requirements

Multi-tier Platform Support

Primary Tier

Secondary Tier

Tertiary Tier

VNXNetApp

• VNX• Windows• NetApp

• VNX• Windows• NetApp• Centera• Atmos• Data

Domain• Isilon• AT&T• Peer1• Amazon

S3

VNXNetApp

CenteraAtmosDataDomain

None


CTA - Tiering/Archive

• Find a file that matches a policy– Last access time, last modified

time, file size, file type• Copy that file to another

location– Different tier within the box

(FC to SATA)– Off the box (VNX to Atmos)

• Replace the original file with a stub

– Meta-data in stub contains all info required for recall

– Stub is 8 K on VNX, 4 K on NetApp

• The stub looks and behaves like a normal file

– No need to train users or modify applications

• More primary storage space is now available

Stub


CTA - Migration• Stubless migration

– Move the file without leaving a stub on the source

• Supports standard CTA policies

– Full or partial file systems

– File size, file type, last access, last modified

– Include/exclude dirs

• Think “Robocopy” or “NDMPCopy” on steroids

• Multi-protocol– CIFS, NFS

• Out-of-band– Clients are able to r/w on

source until final cutover

Migration Support

Source Platform Target Platform

VNXCelerraNetApp

VNXVNXeCelerra

NetApp Isilon


THANK YOU


What Is The VNX Series?Yesterday Today

BlockCX4-960

CX4-480

CX4-120

CX4-240

CLARiiON

Block & File NS480

NS960

NS120

Celerra

Unified

NX4

AX4

VNX series

FileBloc

k

Start with file or block and EASILY upgrade to Unified

ArchitectureModular Unified (configured for purpose: File, Block & Object)

High performance – up to 3x performance

Optimized for Multi-core & Flash

6G SAS Back End Infrastructure

Denser Packaging Expanded UltraFlex I/O – FCoE, FC, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS (Parallel-NFS (pNFS), Multi-path File System (MPFS))

Green – High power efficiency Flash, SAS & NL-SAS drives (i.e. no FC drives)

Product Convergence Easily UpgradableUnified PackagingUnified ManagementUnified Replication (phase 1)Unified FAST Suite


VNX Unified StorageMaximum CPU cores of unified data processing power

NL-SAS(Highest capacity)

SAS(Good

performance)

Flash (Highest

performance)

NAS

VNX supports all protocols—today and in the future

CLOUD

OBJECTBuild a single cloud with “N” number

of systems

FILE AND OBJECT48 cores dedicated to object, networked file system management

and data sharing

AUTOMATIC SERVER OPTIMIZATION

StorageProcessor

StorageProcessor

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BLOCK12 cores dedicated to

storage pool management and high

performance block serving

MPFS/pNFS Host


Powerful, Flexible, Modular ArchitectureMore processing power, self-optimizing pools, any network

Multi-controller scale• Add processors as needed

• Scale up to 96 CPU cores and thousands of drives

Self-optimizing pools• Achieve lowest transaction cost

and lowest capacity cost dynamically and simultaneously—all the time

Unified multi-protocol• Share files and volumes on any

network

CLOUD

OBJECTRESTSOAP

SAN

BLOCKiSCSIFC

FCoE

NAS

FILECIFSNFS

pNFSMPFS

SSD HDD


VNX – Designed for FlashOptimized for all of your virtual applications

• Flash fully leverages the power of the VNX system

• End-to-end throughput improvements enable 2-3x performance improvements

All claims are subject to validation testing

BETTER BANDWIDTH PERFORMANCE

BETTER PERFORMANCE

FOR MIXED WORKLOADS

BETTER PERFORMANCE

FOR FILE SERVING

VNX5100 VNX5300CX4-120

VNX5500CX4-240

VNX5700CX4-480

VNX7500CX4-960

CX4

VNX Series

Bandwith - Typical DSS

MB/s

Platform

VNX5100 VNX5300CX4-120

VNX5500CX4-240

VNX5700CX4-480

VNX7500CX4-960

CX4VNX Series with Rotating drivesVNX Series with Flash drives

IOPS - Mixed Workloads

Platform

# ofUsers

VNX5300CX4-120

VNX5500CX4-240

VNX5700CX4-480

VNX7500CX4-960

CX4

VNX Series with SAS drives

VNX Series with Flash drives

NFS File Type Workload

Platform

KOPs


VNX—Faster than the Rest Highest number of transactions and lowest response time

3XFASTERTHAN IBM

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NetApp

HP

IBM


HDD

DRAM Cache

Flash

With FAST Cache

Appserver

Controller

9 of 10 I/Os from Cache

HDD

Storage InnovationFAST Cache for maximum application performance

• HDD (hard disk drive) performance has not kept up with server demands, leaving applications I/O deficient

• FAST Cache solves this problem by increasing controller cache by 64 times using Flash drives

• Most reads and writes are now served directly from high performance Silicon

• FAST preserves I/O slots for connectivity and is well positioned to take full advantage of any decrease in Flash drive costs

• FAST Cache’s persistent nature keeps data cached even after a power failure

DRAM Cache

4 of 5 I/Os from disk

1 of 10 I/Os from disk

Without FAST Cache

Appserver

4.5Xbetter

Controller

1 of 5 I/Os

from Cache


Celerra InnovationThe FAST Cache effect on applications

• Uses system Flash drives

• Turbo-charges applications with up to 2 TB of FAST Cache

– Database• Twice the number of users• Twice the number of transactions

– VMware • Half the boot time • Four-times faster response time• Vastly improved end-user experience• Scale users faster and further with

each system

Microsoft SQL Server

150 VMware virtual

desktops

Baseline

25,000

TPS*

1,228

Users

50,000

2445

with FAST Cache

TPS*Users

2,445

20minutes

2445

Baseline

Boot Time

4minutes

Resp.Time

with FAST Cache

>1 minute

Resp.Time

9minutes

BootTime

New

feature

* Transactions per second


FAST Cache Configuration• FAST Cache supported for all VNX based

platforms– Applicable to VNX for File (V7) and VNX for Block (R31)

• Highly scalable– Up to 2.1 TB EMC FAST Cache (using 100 GB drives)

extending System Cache by a factor of 90 – Reads and writes supported

• Applies to classic LUNs and pool LUNs– Thick and Thin pool LUNs

• A system-wide resource that benefits many workloads

– Host application data : VMware, Oracle, SQL; OLTP/DW etc– Array-based data services (e.g. Snaps, etc.)

• Two-click configuration in Unisphere

System Model

EMC FAST Cache Max Capacity*

VNX5100 100 GB/NA

VNX5300

500 GB/400 GB

VNX5500 1 TB/1 TB

VNX5700 1.5 TB/1.4 TB

VNX7500 2.1 TB/2.0 TB

* The two numbers are when using 100 GB/200 GB drives, e.g., 5100 does not support 200 GB Flash drives


SSD HDD

LUN

Highest Tier PreferredMaximize performancee.g. high-performance OLTP system

LUN LUNLowest Tier PreferredReduce TCOe.g., archived or infrequently accessed data

Auto-TierOptimize TCO and performancee.g. databases with varied levels of activity among tables, or file systems with varied levels of activity across files

FAST VP PoliciesPolicy ensures storage service levels are met

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FAST VP Operational Process• Statistics collection—cumulative I/O history (reads and writes)

– Weights recent I/O history above longer-term I/O history– Maintains relative ranking of all data in pool, based on tier preference and I/O history:

• Highest tier preference and high activity level get highest priority• Highest tier preference with less activity level get next highest priority• No tier preference (Auto-Tier) with high activity level gets next highest priority

• When a pool is created, it is detected in the next poll cycle for inclusion in statistics collection

– LUNs created in pool are likewise detected in the next poll cycle for inclusion in statistics collection

– Poll occurs every hour– Relocation estimate—“amount to move up/down”—updated every hour

• Tier utilization– Algorithm attempts to gain greatest utility from highest tiers

• Data is demoted as space is needed in top tiers

• Relocation granularity– Sub-LUN “slices” are 1 GB granularity


FAST Virtual Pool

NL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SAS

FAST Suite in Action—FAST VP

SAS SAS SAS SAS

FLASH FLASH

FAST VPtiers across drives in pool Optimizes drive

utilization Relative ranking over

time 1 GB slices ideal for

deterministic data


FAST Suite—FAST VP + FAST Cache

DRAM Cache

FAST Cache

FLASHFLASH FLASHFLASH

FAST Virtual Pool

NL-SAS

SAS SAS SAS SAS

FLASH FLASH

NL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SAS NL-SASNL-SASNL-SAS

FAST VP tiers across drives in pool Optimizes drive



deterministic data

FAST Cache copies hottest data to Flash Optimizes Flash

utilization Dynamic movement in

near real time 64 KB sub-slices ideal

for bursty data


FAST Suite—FAST VP + FAST Cache

DRAM Cache

FAST Cache

FLASH FLASHFLASHFLASH

FAST Virtual Pool

NL-SAS

SAS SAS SAS SAS

FLASH FLASH

NL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SASNL-SAS

FAST VP tiers across drives in pool Optimizes drive



deterministic data

FAST Cache

copies hottest data to Flash Optimizes Flash

utilization Dynamic movement in

near real time 64 KB sub-slices ideal

for bursty data


VNX Series for SQL Server More than 3x Performance Improvement with VNX and FAST Cache• 4.5X performance

improvement vs. previous generation

• Achieves optimized performance without expensive data base and application tuning

• Configuration: – VNX utilized 20 SAS and 4

SSDs drives with FAST Cache – vs CX4 with 20 FC drives

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Virtualized SQL Server with VNX and FAST Cache


VNX Series for Virtual Desktop4x the number of Virtual Desktop users with VNX Series, FAST VP and FAST Cache at Sustained Performance• Boot Storm

– 3x Faster: Boot & settle 500 desktops in 8 min vs. 27 min

– FAST Cache absorbs the majority of the Boot work-load (i.e. I/O to spinning drives)

• Desktop Refresh– Refresh 500 desktops in

50 min vs. 130 min– Fast Cache serviced the

majority of the IO during refresh and prevents Linked clones from overloading

Celerra NS183x

300GB 15K FC Disks

VNX series

5x 100GB SSD

21x 300GB 15H SAS

15x 2TB NL-SAS

Up to 70% reduction in storage cost for

same I/O performance


VNX Series for OracleOracle Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) benefits from VNX• Improved Oracle

transaction time by 3.25x – Using FAST Cache and

vSphere 4.1

• Reduces Storage Hardware cost by up to 50%

• Configuration: – VNX utilized 20 SAS and 8

SSDs drives with FAST Cache – vs CX4 with 45 FC drives

VNX Series vs. with previous CX generation

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Virtualized Oracle with VNX Series and FAST Cache

If you hear Oracle OLTP, VNX series is a great

solution


VNX Series for OracleOracle Decision Support Systems (DSS) benefits from VNX• Up to 5x increase in

bandwidth – From 800 MB/s to 4 GB/s

• Up to 2.25x increase in number of users

– With less storage, server and software infrastructure

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Oracle DSS with VNX


Enhanced Virtual ProvisioningStorage pool virtualizes the storage provisioning model

Drives

RAID Group

LUNs

IncludedFeatures

LUN Migration, MetaLUNs

LUN Migration, LUN Expansion,

LUN Shrink (Windows 2K8 only)

Thin LUNThick

LUNClassic LUN

Meta LUN

OptionalFeatures

Replication Features, UQM, Analyzer, FAST Cache

Replication Features, UQM, Analyzer, Virtual

Provisioning, Compression, FAST VP, FAST Cache

Storage

Pool

Traditional RAID Groups Flexible Pools

Flash SAS NL-SAS


Thickly Provisioned Data

Freed CapacityReturned to pool for usage

by other LUNs

Thinly Provisioned Data

Reduced storage capacity

Migrate to ThinUsing LUN Migration or SAN Copy

Space Reclamation with Thin

Storage Pool


Storage Pool

Fully Provisioned Data

Freed CapacityReturned to pool for usage

by other LUNs

Thinly Provisioned Data

Reduced storage capacity

Compressed DataMax storage savings

Enable Compression

Compression for More Capacity Savings

Migrate to ThinUsing LUN Migration or SAN Copy


Unisphere Quality of Service ManagerApplication-based service level management

• Manage block resources based on service levels– Monitor and achieve performance objectives for

applications

• Optimize performance based on policy management

– Set performance goals for critical applications– Set limits on lower-priority applications– Schedule policies to run at different intervals

• Measure and control storage based on different metrics

– Response time (e.g., Exchange) – Bandwidth (e.g., backup to disk)– Throughput (e.g., OLTP applications)

• Complements FAST VP and FAST Cache– Adds additional dynamic service level management to

FAST VP and FAST Cache

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Applications

Before Unisphere Qualityof Service Manager

MediumPriority

HighPriority

Low Priority

Availa

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Perf

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Applications

With Unisphere Qualityof Service Manager

FA S T S U I T E


EMC VNX Family Positioning

Existing CLARiiON

Existing Celerra

New Product Attribute Use Case

CX4-960 NS960 VNX7500

• Maximum performance

• Maximum scale• Maximum connectivity

• Flash optimized

• Large scale consolidation

• Virtualized Tier 1 applications

• Mixed workloads • Multi-application• High Performance apps

CX4-480 NS-480 VNX5700 • Balanced

performance• High capacity scaling

• Flash optimized• Non disruptive upgrades

• Enterprise applications (Oracle, Email, SAP)

• Storage consolidation• Server virtualization• Advanced storage tiering

• Data protection

CX4-240 NS-480 VNX5500

CX4-120 NS-120 VNX5300

CX4-120 & AX4

VNX5100

CX4-120 & AX4

NS-120 & NX4 VNXe3300

• Simplified• Application aware• Online ecosystem• Small form factor (2 -3U)

• Basic consolidation• Simple email• Entry server virtualization

• IP-only infrastructureVNXe3100


CTA - Recall Policies• Full recall

– File is recalled from the archive and replaces the stub– Requires adequate space on primary to rehydrate data– Used less than 5% of the time

• Pass-through recall– Data is recalled and available to user– File remains in archive and stub remains on primary– Used 95% of the time in production environments– Important for backup and anti-virus

• Partial recall– Primarily used for media files– Application requests a specific byte range to be returned– Does not replace the stub


CTA - Migration Details (cont.)

• Supports stub migration

– Auto-convert NetApp to Celerra/VNX stubs

– Maintains deduplication• Audit trail

– Log files that were migrated

– Log files that were not migrated

• Reporting– Provides standard

graphical reports • Number of files• Total size of files

• CPU throttle– Limit migration impact

during peak usage hours


CTA - Migration details (cont.)

• Multiple source• Multiple target• Concurrent

migrations• Based on

NDMPCopy– Fixes cleanup

issues with NDMPCopy

– Purges deleted files/dirs

– Syncs renames

NetApp

EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance

Celerra

Celerra

EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance

Isilon

NetApp


‘Try before you buy’

Blue Chip and EMC are offering a 45 day no obligation trial on VNX/e*

Contact your account manager or email [email protected] for further details.

*Terms and conditions apply

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