Storage Optimization: Simplify and Save

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Storage OptimizationSimplify and Save

• Sun StorageTekTM 5000 NAS
• Technical Overview

Name Alexandru Tecuceanu Title Engagement
Architect alexandru.tecuceanu_at_sun.com Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
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Agenda

• Overview and benefits
• Compliance
• Sun StorageTek 5000-series NAS
• Software capabilities

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StorageTek NAS Design and Packaging

• Architecture
• Higher scalability
• Higher sustained performance
• Enterprise-class storage
• Ease of use
• Installs in 15 minutes
• Customer doesnt need Black Belts - intuitive
  GUI
• Licensing structure is simple
• We dont charge extra to add a protocol
• No hidden costs
• Affordable
• Low cost entry point
• Lower TCO than competition

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StorageTek NAS Advantages
Simple management Growth on demand Exceptional
performance Choice of storage
Fast, online e-record access WORM protection with
expiration dates Low-cost, nearline storage
Built-in data protection Fast recovery Remote
data protection High availability
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More for Your Money
Share data across platforms Eliminate performance
bottlenecks Increase uptime Improve data
protection and availability
Reduced management overhead Lower systems
costs Fewer and less frequent upgrades
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It All Starts with Innovation
Reliability
Performance
Scalability
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Enterprise-Class NAS
End-to-end Hot-SwapRedundancy
SIMPLE Completely Integrated Plug Play
Windows CIFSSolaris/UNIX NFS/iSCSI
15 Minute Deployment
AVAILABLE Multi-Level redundancy Clustering
MULTI-PROTOCOL CIFS / NFS / FTP / iSCSI
High Performance HW RAID Data Protection
SCALABLE 448 Drives, FC or SATA
FAST Scale RAID Controllers for Performance
Advanced Remote Management
Superior Scaling to 448 Drives
RELIABLE Hardware RAID data protection
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Sun StorageTek 5000 Family
Common StorageTek 64-bit NAS OS

• Ease of management - 15 minute install
• Remote mirroring (replication)
• Compliance archiving software
• Sun connection-ready for customer networked
  services

• Multi-protocol (NFS/CIFS) file sharing
• iSCSI-based block access
• 64-bit journaling FS with checkpoints (snapshots)
• Antivirus software support

Enterprise
Gateways
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Suns New N-way Scaling Approach
Aggregating multiple controllers and disk loops
into one unified system enables linear scaling of
both capacity and performance, preserving ROI.
Optimum number of drives per StorageTek 5320 NAS
head
160 drives
56 drives
SPECsfs performance
28 drives
Capacity scaling only
Capacity andperformancescaling
Number of drives
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Sun StorageTek 5320 HA-ClusterRock-solid NAS
Redundant NAS servers
Redundant storage controllers and power
StorEdge6130
Redundant switched back planes
RAID-protected data
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NAS Gateway
IP service network
Supported arrays StorEdge 6130, 6920, 9970,
9980, 9985, 9990 StorageTek 6140, 6940 FlexLine
240, 280, 380 EMC DMX
Single node
Cluster
9000
6000
NAS Gateways
Leverage existing SANs
Note Support for StorageTek 6940 will be
avaialable with NAS OS 4.20
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What is Compliance?
What is the Role of the StorageTek 5320
Compliance Archiving System?

• Compliance is a business process for records
  management from birth-to-death in accordance with
  regulations.
• The solution must ensure that records are
  preserved, protected, and accessible when needed.
• Storage is only part of the solution.
• Compliance-aware content management applications
  exploit the compliance-aware storage.

Compliance
People/procedures
Applications
Sun StorageTek 5320Compliance Archiving System
Software
Hardware
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Sun StorageTek 5320 Compliance Archiving System

• What it does
• Centrally stores, manages, shares, retrieves, and
  secures regulated and non-regulated information
  for its useful life through to final disposition
• Provides fast, disk-speed access to your
  information assets
• What it is
• Integrated hardware and software
• Sun StorageTek Compliance Archiving Software
• Sun StorageTek 5320 NAS Appliance or Gateway
• Designed to stringent requirements for electronic
  storage media
• Meets SEC 17a-4
• CIFS/NFS for heterogeneous host support
• Checkpoint, remote mirror, cluster, tape backup

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Compliance Archiving System Benefits

• Integrated with key applications for enterprise
  content management
• Vignette, AXS-One, iLumin complete
• Mobius, Oracle, Opentext, FileNet in
  process/discussions
• Others planned
• Mandatory compliance, stringent design
• Retention management per-file retention period
• Immutable media software-enforced non-erasable
  non-rewritable WORM disk
• Provable data integrity and protection
• Advanced security audit trail, access control,
  authentication, identity
• Administrative restrictions for added security
• Advisory compliance
• Provides additional ability for authorized
  administrators to reduce retention period
• Mandatory and voluntary file system volumes can
  coexist in the same system
• Performance, scalability, availability
• Large scaling up to 179 TB raw (S-ATA) in a
  single system (134.4 TB if FC)
• High-performance or high-capacity storage
• Configurable for no single point of failure
• Remote mirror all data for extra copy protection
  and business continuance

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Sun StorageTek 5320 Compliance Archiving System
Summary

• Simple, Web-based management and UI
• No single point of failure
• Business continuity/DR
• Immutable media (software-enforced non-erasable
  non-rewritable WORM disk)
• Provable data integrity and protection
• Advanced security (audit trail, access control,
  authentication, identity)
• Large scaling
• Multi-client support (CIFS/NFS)
• Open
• High-performance or high-capacity disk

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Standard Features
Optional Features

• Management interface
• GUI, wizards, CLI, SNMP, SMTP
• Streamlined RTOS
• Designed for file sharing single system or
  clustered
• Protocol support CIFS, NFS v2, NFS v3, FTP,
  iSCSI
• DHCP, NTP, RDATE network services support
• Directory support for authentication
• NIS, NIS, LDAP, Active Directory
• Unified Windows and UNIX file security
• Coordination of UNIX permissions and Windows ACLs
• Journaling file system
• User and directory quotas
• Dynamic file system expansion
• File system checkpoints (snapshots)
• Fast recovery
• Antivirus scan on access
• NDMP support for backup

• StorageTek File Replicator
• Remote mirroring,
• 1 to 1
• Many to 1
• 2-way replication
• StorageTek Compliance Archiving Software
• WORM file, retention
• Administrative lock-down
• Audit trail

Purpose Built - OS
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Management

• Graphical user interface
• Intuitive
• Wizards
• Hierarchical
• Setup
• Management
• Measurement
• CLI
• SNMP/SMTP

Sun users also loved the product's ease of use,
ease of deployment, and the number of file
systems and capacity.
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Clustering

• Two identical NAS head servers
• Operate independently
• Each monitors its peer's health
• Must have interfaces on same set of subnets
• lt5 second failover sequence, 30 seconds in larger
  configurations
• Component failures that will not cause failover
• NIC port fails to second port
• FC HBA fails to second HBA
• Power fails to second power supply
• RAID controller fails to second RAID controller
• Disk RAID protected
• Second component failure of NIC port, HBA, or
  power will cause failover
• Software can up upgraded non-disruptively

Dedicated heartbeat
Active/activeRAID controllers
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Journaling File System

• Common repository for shared files (NFS/CIFS) as
  well as iSCSI volumes
• Unified security for NFS/CIFS
• 16 TB maximum file system and file size
• 4K segments
• Built file system with 256 KB segments across or
  within a LUN
• Journaling to disk
• 16 checkpoints (snapshots) per file system (64
  with NAS OS 4.20)
• Dynamic file system expansion
• User/group/directory tree quotas

iSCSI Volumes
NFS/CIFS
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iSCSI

• iSCSI target implementation
• Initial release (NAS OS 4.11)
• iSNS for authentication (MS iSNS server 3.0)
• Solaris 10 initiator support
• Microsoft initiator support
• Exchange
• SQL
• Others
• 256 targets
• One LUN per target
• 64 sessions
• One session per target
• Enhanced with NAS OS 4.20
• Linux initiator support
• Remote replication
• Clustering
• 14 connections per session

iSCSI Volumes
NFS/CIFS
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Checkpoints
Checkpoint Virtual file volume
Live file volume
File inode
Checkpoint inode
A
B
C
D
E
Old data blocks
A'
B'
C'
Changed data blocks
Data blocks
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NDMP
SE5x10w/NDMP
SE5x10w/NDMP
SE5x10w/NDMP
Backup server
Tape library
Tape library
Tape library
Local
Remote
Three-way backup
Note! Tape libraries can be SCSI or Fibre attached
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Virus Scanning
2. Verifies that example.doc has not been scanned
and checks for the extension list
3. Notifies the AV server of the file to be
scanned
4. Finds a virus and repairs the file
1. User requests or closes example.doc from
storage
NASSystem
Scheduled scan
Client desktop
AV server
7. Forwards clean example.doc if open request
5. Forwards clean example.doc
6. Stores clean example.doc
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StorageTek File Replicator
IP Network

• Mirror to a second, remote Sun StorageTek 5000 or
  StorEdge 5000 system
• Asynchronous mirroring ensures file system
  consistency at both source and target
• Block-level mirroring by file system ensures data
  structures existing on target are identical to
  those on source volume
• Disaster recovery
• Short or long distances
• One-to-one, many-to-one, and two-way mirroring

Remote replication
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