Presentation: CentricStor VT - Intelligent Data

CentricStor Virtual Tape Intelligent Data Protection

Radu Climescu Bucharest, January, 2009

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Why Tape Virtualisation?

CentricStor  Integrating the best of both worlds – disk and tape

 Saving costs with consolidation

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Why Tape Virtualisation?

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Why Companies look at VTLs

Tape Drive

Backup Job

 Backup jobs not completing?  Tape drive utilisation low?  Tape drive quality problems?  Aggressive recovery time objectives (RTO)?  High operating costs of nearline infrastructure? © by Sophie Graf

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How Tape Virtualisation Helps Backup Appl.

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 Enough tape drives for all backup jobs

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 Successfully completed backup tasks LV

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 Better utilisation of physical tape drives

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logical physical PD

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 No stressful start stop operation  Faster response on restore requests

Physical Tape Library

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Integrating the best of both worlds

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Disk Back-up Disk enables …

 Tape virtualisation

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 Robust backup jobs

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 Optimised throughput  Better quality in real tape operation Tape

 Faster restores

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Tape

L_Vol

Tape back-up … But Tape is Still Important

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 Best economy of scale

 Best medium for long term archiving  Most energy efficient way of storing data  Less error prone than disk  52% of disk & tape users plan to increase tape usage*  13% decrease of disk only systems in 2007*

 58% of disk only users plan to start using tape* © by Sophie Graf

*) according to Fleishman-Hillard

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Integrating the best of both worlds How CentricStor addresses both worlds Focus Backup Application on Core Competence  No need to actively manage the storage location of a saveset

Backup Appl.

CentricStor

 Offload media mgmt tasks to CentricStor

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 No stressful start/stop operation

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 Critical data on mirrored disk / multiple tape copies

physical

 Automatic tape reorganisation

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 Automatic tape refreshing

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 Short term data on disk only

logical

Improve Quality of Tape Operation

 Seamless migration to new tape technologies

 Long term / less access on tape

 Demanding RTO on disk LD

 Dual / Triple Save / Vaulting

Policy Driven Mgmt of Storage Location

Physical Library

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Saving costs with consolidation

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CentricStor Support in the Frontend CentricStor True Tape Virtualization Multivendor server environments  Superior connectivity for almost any server and operating system  Certified for all major backup applications  Integrates seamlessly into existing infrastructures

 Self-contained Various tape and disk technologies

 Hides the complexity of backup storage devices from all servers  Autonomous control of the total storage backup infrastructure

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CentricStor Software Support CentricStor Support in the Frontend*) UNIX / LINUX

Windows

Mainframe

Open Systems Backup

Mainframe Backup

Tape Mgmt Systems

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LAN ctrl Jukebox ctrl

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Virtual Lib Ctrl

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*) for details refer to http://partners.fujitsu-siemens.com/teams/cpc/default.aspx --> Quick Links / CS Support Matrix

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CentricStor Support in the Backend ADIC/Quantum

Scalar i500, Scalar i2000, Scalar 10k, Scalar 100, Scalar 1000, AML/J, AML/E, AML/2

Fujitsu

ETERNUS LT130, LT160, LT270

Fujitsu Siemens 3560, 9084-221, FibreCAT TX24, SL500 IBM 3494, 3584 / TS3500 Spectra Logic T50, T120, T950 StreamLine SL500, SL8500; L180, L700e, Sun StorageTek L1400, L5500, Powderhorn 9310, TimberWolf 9740

LTO Ultrium IBM Fujitsu Siemens Sun StorageTek

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Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3, Gen 4 Magstar 3590, Jaguar 3592 / TS1120 Magstar 3591 T9840, T9940, T10000

Support future growth and standards: No limits – unmatched scalability CentricStor Grid Architecture  The “centric” storage for data protection  Modular building blocks

 Designed for unlimited disk cache  Performance  actual models with

> 2 PB capacity (compressed)  1.500.000 Virtual Volumes

 Scalability in all dimensions  Frontend

- Virtual tape drives - Throughput  Backend

- Physical tape drives - Backup capacity 14

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Business continuity: Protected data needs to be replicated CentricStor Grid Architecture

Redundant data protection

 Building blocks spread across different physical locations

 Active-active disk cache mirroring  Immediate recovery after a site outage

 Long distance connections  Automatic failover against site outages  Unmatched disaster resilience

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 Automated triple save for tape: - two local copies against media errors - third copy at the vault location

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Seamless change to future technology: Some data has to be stored for years

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True Tape Virtualization

Without server drawback

 Always the newest tape technology

 Seamless swap

 Technology change by CentricStor VT

 Maintain only one current standard

 Easy doubling physical library capacity

 Always the most economic footprint

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Support different retention policies: ILM with disk and tape CentricStor VT - the only “Dual Target” virtual tape solution on the market  Optional choice of  D2D2T / long term  D2D / short term lifetime of your backup

Economic use of disk  Compression of tape data before entering disk Tape encryption  Protection against loss of data  Seamless plug-in integration  Best of breed encryption appliances 17

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The most energy efficient technology: Green Storage – CentricStor VT The most advanced integration of tape  Not all data needs to be stored on disk  Resource usage appropriate to the value of data  Tape is still the most energy efficient way to store data  Managed tape storage needs less power than comparable disk solutions

Consolidation reduces

 Total cost of backup storage  Footprint for backup and archiving  Power consumption  Data center air conditioning 18

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More Information on ‌

http://www.centricstor.com

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