Storage Virtualization: IBM SAN Volume Controller

Tony Pearson – IBM Master Inventor and Senior IT Specialist
September
• Click to2014
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Storage Virtualization
IBM SAN Volume Controller
© 2014 IBM Corporation

IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller and Storwize Family
The Storwize Family
Comprehensive range of virtualized software defined storage systems

•One code base on all platforms
•One set of functions (selectively licensed) New!
•One client experience SAN Volume
Controller
FlashSystem
V840
Storwize V7000
Unified
Storwize V7000
Storwize V5000
Storwize V3700
Storwize V3500
(China only)
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IBM Vision: Software Defined Storage - Virtualization
OpenStack SmartCloud VMware FCP iSCSI FCoE

Linux
Software Defined Environment z/VSE Linux
Windows
z/VM Windows
Linux UNIX UNIX
Windows VMware VMware
UNIX … …
VMware
…
SAN TCP/IP
Storage Hypervisor Other

SmartCloud VSC, SVC, Storwize, IBM and
FlashSystem V840 non-IBM
Disk
XIV FlashSystem systems
DS8000
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SVC Advantages—with application across the Storwize family

 Industry-leading storage virtualization offering
 Only storage virtualization system with integrated Real-time Compression
designed to be used with active primary data
 Best performing storage virtualization system in industry-standard benchmarks
 First storage virtualization system with fully integrated SSD support
 Integrated iSCSI server attachment support and support for FCoE protocol
 Fully upgradable without disruption from smallest to largest configurations
 “Future proof” with ability to replace current hardware with new hardware
without disruption
 Network-based virtualization with SVC supports diverse server environments
including VMware, other virtualization, and non virtualized servers
 IBM has shipped over 40,000 SVC engines running in more than 10,000 SVC
systems
 From 2006 to present, across this entire installed base, SVC delivered better
than five nines (99.999%) availability
 SAN Volume Controller is a proven offering that has been delivering benefits
to customers for over ten years
 SAN Volume Controller can virtualize IBM and non-IBM storage (over 170
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systems from IBM, EMC, HP, HDS, Sun, Dell, NetApp, Fujitsu, NEC,© Bull)
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SVC Supported Environments (sample view*) – applies to Storwize

Linux Citrix Xen
IBM IBM Power (Intel/Power/z) Server
Microsoft HP-UX 11i RHEL 4/5/6
z/VSE Novell IBM AIX Solaris Tru64 IBM TS7650G
z/VM VMware Windows
IBM i 6.1 SUSE 9/10/11 Apple ProtecTIER IBM 1024
NetWare OpenVMS SGI IRIX
vSphere 4, 5Hyper-V (VIOS) Mac OSGateway BladeCenter
Hosts
z/Linux OES2 Flex System
PureFlex
iSCSI or FCOE
Point-in-time Copy SAN
Full volume, Copy on write 1Gb or 10Gb 8Gbps SAN fabric Continuous Copy
256 targets, Multiple Cluster Mirror
Incremental, Cascaded, Reverse, Metro/Global Mirror
Snapshots, FlashCopy Mgr Stretched Cluster
Thin Provisioning Easy Tier Real-time Compression Internal SSD
Virtual Disk Mirroring
IBM
Compellent IBM IBM Hitachi HP EMC Sun NetApp NEC Fujitsu TMS
Fluid DataDS XIV N series Lightning MA, EMA CLARiiON StorageTek FAS iStorage Eternus RamSAN
Thunder MSA, EVA, CX4, StorEdge
DS3000, DS4000 FlashSystem TagmaStore XP, P9500, Symmetrix,
DS5000, DS6000 Storwize Family AMS, WMS, 3Par XioTech Bull NexSAN Pillar
Violin DS8000 USP, USP-V DMX, VMAX, Emprise Storeway SATABeast Axiom
VSP VNX, VNXe
* Confirm all supported configurations at ibm.com/storage/support/2145 and click on “Support”
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Storwize Hardware Family Significant Milestones Through

September
 Over 36,000 systems purchased
 Includes Storwize V7000, Flex System V7000,

Storwize V5000, Storwize V3000 and
Storwize V7000 Unified systems
 Over 80,000 total enclosures deployed

 Averaging more than 2 expansion units per system
(Storwize V7000)
 Over 1.1 exabytes of capacity
 That’s over a million TB

 Delivering five nines availability
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Storwize Family Continuing Delivery of

Enhanced Capability and Value
October 2010 October 2011 November 2012 October 2013

New Standard for Unified Storage Storwize V3700 IP replication
Midrange Storage Active Cloud Flex System Integrated SANSlide
Storwize V7000 Engine V7000 Mobile dashboard
Storwize V7000 Enhanced Stretched
Unified Cluster
Storwize V5000
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
July 2003 - 2010 May 2011 April 2012 June 2013 June 2014
SAN Volume Controller Clustering Real-time Compression Easy Tier 3
Remote Copy (async, sync) VMware APIs Compression performance Auto-rebalance
FlashCopy (incremental, 10Gb iSCSI FCoE Easy Tier and Compression
cascaded, multi-target) compression acceleration
Thin provisioning Capacity and VM Storwize V7000
Volume Mirroring scalability Gen. 2
Split cluster Global Active Cloud
iSCSI, VAAI, and more Engine
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Transformation to Software Defined Storage

Heterogeneous, integrated storage services over open interfaces
Orchestrators - IaaS Storage

End User
Admin
REST/OSLC TOSCA
IBM Software Defined Storage Virtual Controller

Storage Advanced Self-Service
Integration Management Portal
Integratio Storage Policy Analytics & Backup Storage

n & API Virtualizatio Automati Optimizatio and Copy Cloud
Services n on n Managem
ent
IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center

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IBM integration, innovation and holistic approach

Storage Infrastructure Automated Storage Advanced Data
Management & Virtualization and Replication
Analytics Optimization
SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

• Enables storage for cloud computing
• Easy to buy and deploy
• Pay-as-you-go pricing
SAN
SAN and Storage External Storage Snapshot

Resource Management Virtualization Management
and Analytics
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IBM Virtual Storage Center (VSC)
OpenStack VMWare Storage Cloud
• Integration and support for

OpenStack, Vmware and
private storage cloud
• Standardized storage services
from service catalog
• Mobility of storage volumes
• Self service storage cloud
• Policy-based analytics and
optimization of storage
resources
VSC transforms heterogeneous storage into Software Defined Cloud Storage

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Storage Virtualization is . . .
Technology that makes one set of

resources look and feel like another set
Logical
Representation of resources, preferably with more
desirable characteristics
A logical representation of resources
not constrained by physical limitations
Virtualization
Hides some of the complexity
Adds new functionality
Improves flexibility
Physical
Resources
Source: Evaluator Group

Virtualize Your Infrastructure
Virtual Server
Infrastructure
Enterprise
Tivoli Storage
SAN Volume Controller
Virtual Storage
Productivity
Center Storage Hypervisor
Infrastructure
Tivoli
FlashCopy
Manager

Storwize Family – Terminology
Volumes:
Belong to one or more I/O Groups
Volume Size 16 MB to 256 TB
Dynamically Expandable
Thin-Provisioned, Compressed
I/O Group 0 … I/O Group 3
Cluster:
1-4 Node-pairs (I/O Groups)
Cache, Copy Services
Storage Pools:
Managed Disks from 256 disk
systems
Assign LUNs to Storage Pools
Define Extent size (16MB to 8GB)
Gold Silver Bronze

Server Management
 Only one device driver regardless of the

number of types of storage controllers
being managed by the SAN Volume
Controller
– Multipathing, failover/failback, load-
balancing
– Server does not see storage systems
managed by SVC
– Adding a new storage system requires no
SAN
additional maintenance to servers
Virtual  Choice of Driver is yours:
SAN Disk
Volume Controller – IBM SDD (Subsystem Device Driver)
– MPIO (Window, AIX), MPxIO (Solaris)
– VMWare Qlogic MPP
– DM-MP (Linux)
– PVLinks (HP-UX)
– Symantec DMP
Storage Management
Optimize IT • Mitigate Risk • Enable Business Flexibility
Only the SAN Volume Controller

seen by the storage system
– No costly device drivers
needed to support the storage
subsystem SAN
– No advanced function software Virtual
licensing required on the SAN Disk
Volume Controller
storage controller
– Simply provision storage to the
– Replacing storage does not
require changes to the host

Improved Application Availability
Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller

1. Stop the application 1. Move data
2. Move data
3. Re-establish host connections Host systems and applications are
4. Restart application not affected!
SAN SAN
Volume

IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware
 Server and storage virtualization offerings provide complementary benefits

 SVC supports VMware, Hyper-V, XEN, KVM, PowerVM, z/VM
 SVC provides common external storage virtualization
• Especially valuable for customers with a mixed
server virtualization environment
 SVC supports every VMware vSphere at GA
 SVC supports VMware vCenter
Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
with Metro Mirror and Global
Mirror functions
 SVC with VMware
“best practices” Redpaper
now available!
 Supports VAAI, VASA, VADP
 vCenter plug-in

Optimized Storage Resource Utilization

 Shared physical network  Hosts own “volumes”
 Limited capacity sharing  Capacity can be more easily
 Capacity purchased for, and reallocated
owned by individual  Capacity purchases can be deferred
processors until the physical capacity of the
 Poor capacity utilization SAN reaches a trigger point.
70%
capacity
25% 50% Volume Volume
capacity SAN SAN
capacity
95% SAN Volume Controller
capacity
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

Easy Tier
Host Host Host  Automatic storage hierarchy
– Mixed storage pool with 2 or 3 tiers
1. Flash tier (internal or external Flash, including
SSD)
2. Enterprise 15K/10K spinning disk
Host Volumes & Extents
3. Nearline 7200 RPM spinning disk
 Volumes belong to a single pool

– Each volume is a collection of extents on the
storage pool
– An extent is either on Flash, Enterprise or
Mixed storage pool Nearline disk
 I/O Monitor keeps access history for each

virtualisation extent
– Extent sizes already defined for the storage pool
(16MB to 8GB in size)
– Default is 1 GB extent size
– Every 5 minutes
SSD Enterprise Nearline
Automatic extent migration

FlashSystem integration with SAN Volume Controller

Production DB servers
ERP SCM SRM CRM BW

Non-prod DB
servers
Flash only Easy Tier pool HDD only pool
pool ERP SCM … … …
SVC storage pools (managed disk groups)
SVC nodes
• Put DB with a high IO/s per TB

ratio on Flash only
• Put Production DB
on Easy Tier™ tiered storage
FlashSystem • Put Non-production DBs
Storwize / XIV / on HDD only
DS8000
Thin Provisioning
 SVC and Storwize implement “thin provisioning”

 Traditional (“fully allocated”) Volumes use physical
disk capacity for the entire capacity of a virtual
disk even if it is not used
• Just like traditional disk systems
 With Thin Provisioning, it allocates and uses physical disk
capacity when data is written
• Can significantly reduce amount of physical disk capacity
needed
 Designed for no Application Performance Impact!
 Included at no additional charge with base software license
IBM Real-time Compression

More efficient for Primary Active Data than Deduplication
Active Backup • Fully Integrated feature of SVC, Storwize

Data Data
V7000 and Flex System V7000
Real-time 40-80% 40-80% • High-performance Real-time supports
Compression Best
active primary workloads
Data 20-30% 80-95 %
– Databases, VMs, CAD/CAM, etc.
Deduplication Best
– More effective and efficient than Data
Deduplication for Active data
• No restrictions on volume size or OS
• Compress existing data without downtime
• Compression helps to address:
– Storage hardware purchase costs
– Rack space
– Power and cooling
– Software license fees

IBM Real-time Compression

Expected Compression Ratios
 SAN Volume Controller Real-time Compression uses same proven Random-Access

Compression Engine (RACE) as IBM RTC Appliances
 Delivers similar levels of compression*
DB2 and Oracle databases ~ 80%

Linux and Windows 50% to 70%
Virtual Servers
(VMware) Virtual guest images
2003 ~ 60%
Microsoft Office
2007 or later ~ 20% Source: IBM internal tests.
CAD/CAM ~ 70%
 IBM Compresstimator* tool can be used to evaluate expected compression benefits for
specific environments
* This pre-sales tool is available to estimate compression savings, percentage savings

shown are typical results, based on client experiences, your mileage may vary.
Compression Acceleration Cards – Intel Quick Assist Technology

Intel Quick Assist technology integrated into new Compression Acceleration
cards.

Used to offload the LZ compression and decompression processing

Each node supports up to two Compression Acceleration cards

SVC uses 4 parallel compression engines per card

To use compressed volumes, DH8 nodes require at least:

64GB of Cache Memory per node

One Compression Acceleration card

When compression is enabled,

38GB is used as a Compression Cache

Optionally upgrade each node to contain second Compression Acceleration
card

Upgrade recommended when normal data working set > 32TB

Local and Remote Copy Services

Transmit via:
Site 1
•FCP
Any Storwize
Family product
•FCIP
SAN
VDisks
•TCP/IP
with WAN
acceleration
Volume
Site 2
SAN
Any Storwize
Storwize
Family product
Family Product
SAN VDisks
Storage Storage
Pool 1 Pool 2
Local: Remote:
•FlashCopy •Metro Mirror
•Volume Mirror •Global Mirror
•Stretched Cluster •Global Mirror with Change Volumes
SAN Volume Controller – Stretch Cluster

Transparent Failover For high availability application
Application server needs, synchronously mirror
application data between two
separate disk systems
Mirrored copies
Stretched Cluster for For ultra-high availability application

High Availability needs, synchronously mirror
application data between two different
sites at campus distances
Eliminate single points of failure and

transparently failover data access from
one site to the other

IBM SAN Volume Controller - FlashCopy
Up to 256 Start incremental FlashCopy

FlashCopy:
targets
Volume level
Data copied as normal
FlashCopy point-in-time copy
relationships with any mix of thin Later …
and fully-allocated
Source Some data changed by apps

Incremental FlashCopy:
Volume Start incremental FlashCopy
Volume level
point-in-time copy
Only changed data copied
Map 1 Map 2 Disk2 by background copy
FlashCopy
target of Disk1
Ma
Disk0 Disk1
p3
Source FlashCopy Map 4 Disk4

target of Disk0
FlashCopy
target of Disk3
Cascaded FlashCopy:
Disk3 Copy the copies
FlashCopy
target of Disk1

Reduced Cost and Improved Flexibility for Replication Services

 Replication API’s differ by  Common replication API, SAN-
vendor wide, that does not change as
 Replication destination must be storage hardware changes
 Replication targets can be on
the same as the source
lower-cost disks, reducing the
 Lower-cost disks offer primitive, overall cost of exploiting
or no replication services replication services
ShadowImage SAN TimeFinder SAN

TrueCopy SRDF SAN Volume Controller SVC
HDS HDS EMC EMC IBM IBM EMC HP IBM

USP USP Sym Sym ESS SATA Sym EVA DS5000

Extended Distance Disk Mirorring
Synchronous “Metro Mirror” Asynchronous “Global Mirror”

 Up to 300km between sites for  Up to 8000km distance between sites for
business continuity business continuity
– As with any synchronous remote  Does not wait for secondary I/O before
replication, performance completing host I/O
requirements may limit usable – Helps reduce performance impact to
distance applications
 Host I/O completed only when data  Designed to maintain consistent
stored at both locations secondary copy at all times
 Operates between SVC clusters at  Operates between SVC clusters at each
each site site
– Local and remote volumes may be – Local and remote volumes may be on
on any SVC supported disk systems any SVC supported disk systems

IP-based Replication with Integrated WAN Acceleration
• Enables use of IP connections for remote

mirroring
– Transparent to servers and applications
– Supports all Remote Mirroring modes
– Global Mirror with Change Volumes
preferred
• Straightforward configuration on existing IP
infrastructure
• Integrates Bridgeworks SANSlide network
optimization technology
– No separate appliances required
– Uses Artificial Intelligence to improve
network bandwidth utilization up to 3x
• Included with Remote Mirroring license

Next Generation SVC Node Features
 Move SVC to 2U server for enhanced

processing capability and I/O
 Front mounted dual System Batteries
eliminates need for external UPS
 Flexible Hardware allows user to
configure CPUs, memory and I/O
 Optional compression acceleration cards
 Mirrored boot drives, No front panel
 Support for SAS card to allow external
SSD Expansion enclosures
 Dedicated Ethernet Port for Out-of-Box
and technician support
Investment protection
 SVC-DH8 nodes can cluster with
existing SVC nodes

New SVC 2145 Storage Engine with v7.3 Software
Based on IBM System x3650M4 (2U)

8-core processor with 32 GB RAM
Real-time Compression accelerator
Second 8-core processor/32 GB RAM
Redundant 600GB 10K SAS internal drives
for boot and hardened data dump No longer requires external UPS
Two Internal hot-swap batteries
Optional AC power (110 - 240v)
Flexible Port Configurations

Three 1GbE ports +
12Gb SAS connections Three HIC slots per processor for
FCP, iSCSI and FCoE
Enclosure with 24 SFF slots for SSD

48 drives per I/O Group
( 192 SSDs for 8-node cluster )

SCSI Target
7.3.0 Software Stack
Forwarding
 New Dual Layer Cache Replication

Architecture
Peer Communications
Upper Cache New
Interface Layer
− First major update to
Configuration
cache since 2003 FlashCopy
Clustering
− Flexible design for Mirroring
plug and play style
cache algorithm Thin Provisioning Compression
enhancements in the Lower Cache New
future
− Virtualization Easy Tier 3
“SVC” like L2 cache
for advanced functions Forwarding
New
 Upper Cache – simple
RAID
write cache
Forwarding
 Lower Cache – algorithm
intelligence SCSI Initiator
− Understands mdisks
Fibre Channel
 Shared buffer space
iSCSI
between two layers * Only 4F2 hardware limited to running no
FCoE later than 5.1 Software due to 32bit CPU
SAS
PCIe © 2014 IBM Corporation
SAN Volume Controller and SmartCloud VSC Deliver Value
Reduces the cost and Improves Strengthens Enhances

complexity of storage business personnel
managing storage utilization continuity productivity
 Creates tiers of  Combines storage  Supports data  Manage a single

storage capacity into a single movement without storage
resource – from interrupting resource from a
 Enables multi-
multiple vendors applications central point
vendor
strategies  Manage storage as a  Allocate more storage
business resource, not to applications
as separate boxes automatically


IBM Tucson Executive Briefing Center
• Tucson, Arizona is home for

storage hardware and software
design and development
• IBM Tucson Executive

Briefing Center offers:
– Technology briefings
– Product demonstrations
– Solution workshops
• Take a video tour!

– http://youtu.be/CXrpoCZAa
zg
SVC Supported Environments (sample view*) – applies to Storwize

•Linux •Citrix Xen
•IBM •IBM Power (Intel/Power/z) Server
•Microsoft •HP-UX 11i •RHEL 4/5/6
•z/VSE •Novell •IBM AIX •Solaris •Tru64 •IBM TS7650G
Windows
•z/VM •NetWare •VMware •Hyper-V •IBM i 6.1 •SUSE 9/10/11 •Apple •IBM
ProtecTIER BladeCenter
•1024
•OpenVMS •SGI IRIX
•z/Linux •OES2
vSphere 4, 5 (VIOS) Mac OS Gateway •Hosts
Flex System
•PureFlex
•iSCSI or FCOE
•Point-in-time Copy •SAN
•Full volume, Copy on write •1Gb or 10Gb •8Gbps SAN fabric •Continuous Copy
256 targets, •Multiple Cluster Mirror
Incremental, Cascaded, Reverse, •Metro/Global Mirror
•Snapshots, FlashCopy Mgr Stretched Cluster
• Thin Provisioning •Easy Tier • Real-time Compression •Internal SSD
•Virtual Disk Mirroring
Compellent •IBM •IBM •IBM •Hitachi •HP •EMC •Sun •NetApp •NEC •Fujitsu •TMS
Fluid Data DS XIV •N series Lightning MA, EMA •CLARiiON •StorageTek •FAS •iStorage •Eternus •RamSAN
•Thunder •MSA, EVA, • CX4, • StorEdge
•DS3000, DS4000 •FlashSystem •TagmaStore •XP, P9500, •Symmetrix,
•DS5000, DS6000 •Storwize Family •AMS, WMS, •3Par •XioTech •Bull •NexSAN •Pillar
Violin •DS8000 •USP, USP-V •DMX, VMAX, •Emprise •Storeway •SATABeast Axiom
•VSP •VNX, VNXe
* Confirm all supported configurations at ibm.com/storage/support/2145 and click on “Support”
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Find Out More

SVC on ibm.com
ibm.com/storage/svc
Virtualization NewsCenter
ibm.com/systems/storage/news/center/virtualization/
SVC Support
ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sanvc/index.html
Storage Virtualization Blog

ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/storagevirtualization
SVC Sales Kit

IBM System Sales
tinyurl.com/ozhs3
PartnerWorld
tinyurl.com/z5u23

Tony Pearson
9000 S. Rita Road
About the Speaker Master Inventor,
Bldg 9032 Room 1238
Tucson, AZ 85744
Senior IT Specialist
+1 520-799-4309 (Office)
IBM System Storage™
tpearson@us.ibm.com
Tony Pearson is a Master Inventor and Senior Consulting IT Specialist for the IBM System Storage™ product line.
Tony Pearson joined IBM Corporation in 1986 in Tucson, Arizona, USA, and has lived there ever since. Over the past years, Tony has worked in
development, marketing and customer care positions for various storage hardware and software products.
In his current role, Tony presents briefings on storage topics covering the entire System Storage product line, as well as various storage software
products. He interacts with clients, speaks at conferences and events, and leads workshops to help clients with strategic planning for IBM’s
integrated set of storage management software, hardware, and virtualization products.
Tony writes the “Inside System Storage” blog, which is read by hundreds of clients, IBM sales reps and IBM Business Partners every week. This blog
was rated one of the top 10 blogs of 2006 for the IT storage industry by “Networking World” magazine. The blog was published in book form as Inside
System Storage: Volume I through Volume V , all available from Lulu publishing.
Tony has a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University
of Arizona. Tony holds 19 IBM patents for inventions on storage hardware and software products.

Additional Resources Email:

tpearson@us.ibm.com
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/az99Øtony
Blog:
http://ibm.co/brAeZØ
Books:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/99Ø_tony
IBM Expert Network:

http://www.slideshare.net/az99Øtony
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© 2014 IBM Corporation

The Storwize Family

Comprehensive range of virtualized software defined storage systems

IBM Vision: Software Defined Storage - Virtualization

OpenStack SmartCloud VMware FCP iSCSI FCoE

Storage Hypervisor Other

4 © 2014 IBM Corporation

SVC Advantages—with application across the Storwize family

SVC Supported Environments (sample view*) – applies to Storwize

Thin Provisioning Easy Tier Real-time Compression Internal SSD

Virtual Disk Mirroring

Storwize Hardware Family Significant Milestones Through

 Includes Storwize V7000, Flex System V7000,

 Over 80,000 total enclosures deployed

 Over 1.1 exabytes of capacity

 That’s over a million TB

Storwize Family Continuing Delivery of

October 2010 October 2011 November 2012 October 2013

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Transformation to Software Defined Storage

Orchestrators - IaaS Storage

IBM Software Defined Storage Virtual Controller

Integratio Storage Policy Analytics & Backup Storage

IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center

IBM integration, innovation and holistic approach

SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

SAN and Storage External Storage Snapshot

IBM Virtual Storage Center (VSC)

OpenStack VMWare Storage Cloud

• Integration and support for

VSC transforms heterogeneous storage into Software Defined Cloud Storage

Technology that makes one set of

12 © 2014 IBM Corporation

Virtualize Your Infrastructure

14 © 2014 IBM Corporation

Storwize Family – Terminology

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 Only one device driver regardless of the

Only the SAN Volume Controller

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Improved Application Availability

Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller

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IBM Storage Virtualization and VMware

 Server and storage virtualization offerings provide complementary benefits

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Optimized Storage Resource Utilization

Traditional SAN SAN Volume Controller

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 Volumes belong to a single pool

 I/O Monitor keeps access history for each

SSD Enterprise Nearline

Automatic extent migration

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FlashSystem integration with SAN Volume Controller

ERP SCM SRM CRM BW

SVC storage pools (managed disk groups)

• Put DB with a high IO/s per TB