Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd'

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Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd.

• Secured Storage

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Todays Presentation

• Corporate Overview
• Current IT Set-up
• Need for Centralized Storage
• Strategies for Storage
• Tiered Storage Architecture
• Nerolac Storage Architecture
• Criteria for Performance Growth
• Meeting the Demand of Storage Growth
• Security Features of Storage
• Conclusion

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Corporate Overview

• Kansai Nerolac Paints Ltd. - A subsidiary of
  Kansai Paint Co., Japan
• Indias second largest paint company with a
  turnover of Rs 1613 Crores-2007-08
• Reputation for innovation, Superior Technology,
  Value Engineering, Quality, and Service.
• Kansai Paints is One of the top 15 paint cos. in
  the world.
• 39 Joint Ventures, Subsidiaries around the world.
• RD Expenditure of over Rs. 200 Crores per annum
• Business Line
• Decorative Coatings
• Industrial Coatings Automotive, General
  Industrial, Powder Coatings, High Performance
  Coatings Pre Treatment Chemicals
• Geographical Presence
• Four Major Plants, Sixty Five Sales Offices and
  eight Divisional Offices spread across All over
  India

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Current IT Set - Up

• Business Applications
• KNP has deployed SAP R/3 across the entire
  spectrum of business
• KNP has deployed BI APO SCM Solution
• KM Solutions W/flow Application (Intranet)
• Vendor Portal HRMS is in place
• Data center
• 30 servers, SAN Box, Auto Backup Solutions
• High-end Router and Gigabit Backbone Switches
• Bio-metrics FM200 Gas Fire System

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Current Set Up (continued)

• Communication
• KNP has MPLS, Leased Line, VSAT ISDN Links at
  all sites with redundant links
• KNP has implemented Conferencing Solutions like
  Video, Web Audio
• Security
• KNP has Formal Information Security Policy
  structure in place
• KNP has been awarded ISO 27001 Certification
• Corporate Governance
• Balance Score Card system in place
• Monthly Information Security Score Card

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Need for Centralized Storage

• Entire business hedged on the Data
• Business applications centralized
• Real-time online business transactions 24 / 7
  operations
• Business with many OEM customers , who operate on
  JIT
• Any IT infrastructure downtime has a huge
  business impact
• Growth in Database Post SAP Upgrade
• Three-tier landscape of Server, as per SAP
  standards, necessitated the requirement
• Refresh of Production data to Quality hence
  size of Production database QA remains the same
• Centralized Web Based Mailing Solutions storage
  need

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Strategies for Storage

• Provisioning cheap vs. expensive disk, based on
  availability or performance needs
• Allocating different levels of data protection,
  based on recovery requirements (RAID)
• Migrating data to different classes of storage as
  requirements evolve
• Deciding the data which requires mirroring, local
  or remote replication to meet availability and
  recovery requirements
• Scalability Inter-opertability (Server OS) of
  Storage Box
• Each of above has its own implementation issues'
  and tradeoffs between savings, operational
  complexity, cost and risk

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SAN Consolidation pros Cons

• Simpler Storage Management
• A Higher degree of storage resource utilisation
  (capacity, bandwidth, storage controller, I/Os ,
  storage management team).
• Increased reliability of storage infrastrcture
• Enables Tiered storage
• Simpified compliance and Disaster recover (DR)
  processes

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Tiered Storage in SAN

• Tiered storage is the assignment of different
  categories of data to different types of storage
  media in order to reduce total storage cost
• Categories may be based on levels of protection
  needed, performance requirements, frequency of
  use, and other considerations.
• Since assigning data to particular media may be
  an ongoing and complex activity, some vendors
  provide software for automatically managing the
  process based on a company-defined policy.

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Servers connected to SAN Storage

• Tier 1 Storage
• FCAL Disk of 143 GB
• Raid 1,0 Arhitechture

SAN Storage Box
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Criteria Storage Performance

• Layout of Disks has to be planned to get better
  performance of applications (Disks arrangement in
  arrays)
• Provisioning of Hot Stand-by Disks within Storage
  array
• Selecting of Data Archival Solution
• Archival of old database in Low-end Storage Box
  at determined frequency
• Re-organizing and Re-indexing of database, post
  Archival
• Audits to know the Storage Processor utilizations
  at Pre-defined frequency

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Meeting the Demand for Data Storage

• IT must implement practices policies that
  clearly define the storage options available to
  business users
• New applications, need to meet regulatory
  requirements Complex business analytics are
  major contributors for demand of storage
• Avoid keeping too many copies of data
• Archive purge the data, which are not needed
• Time Pressure when there is time pressure IT
  Manager forgets to explore long term implications
  of storage decisions
• Avoid Buying excess capacity
• Planning Process quarterly cycle after talking
  to Process owners

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Security Features of Storage

• No single point of Failure in SAN Box
• Two SAN Switches, Two power Supply Two Storage
  processors (Fully Redundant Architecture)
• Two HBAs in Each Server connecting to two
  Switches
• Pro-active alerts thru system for any part
  failure (operational statistics that fall outside
  tolerance limit)
• In-built Modem, for Dialing out for any issues
• 24 / 7 Monitoring Self Monitoring S/w
  continuous monitoring
• Remote Management
• Enable compliance (Logs of all access events)

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Conclusion

• As the gap in price between classes of storage
  technology continues to widen, the justification
  for implementing a tiered Virtulised storage
  strategy is becoming more compelling

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