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1 An IT Briefing produced by Optimizing Data Efficiency with Windows File Server

2 and Storage Consolidation By Pete Brey 2008 TechTarget BIO Pete Brey is the Technical Marketing Director for HP s Enterprise NAS group in Colorado. Brey is responsible for the development and delivery of innovative network-attached storage solutions, based on the HP PolyServe File System technology. This IT Briefing is based on a HP/TechTarget Webcast, Optimizing Data Efficiency with Windows File Server. This TechTarget IT Briefing covers the following topics: Current Windows File Server Environments The HP Model: Windows File Server Consolidation Cost Relief Customer Scenarios Consolidating with Shared Data An HP Adaptive Storage Solution: Enterprise Virtual Array File Services EVA File Services Architecture Managerial and Operational Efficiencies Common Questions Copyright 2008 Hewlett-Packard. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction, adaptation, or translation without prior written permission is prohibited, except as allowed under the copyright laws. About TechTarget IT Briefings TechTarget IT Briefings provide the pertinent information that senior-level IT executives and managers need to make educated purchasing decisions. Originating from our industry-leading Vendor Connection and Expert Webcasts, TechTarget-produced IT Briefings turn Webcasts into easy-to-follow technical briefs, similar to white papers. Design Copyright TechTarget. All Rights Reserved. For inquiries and additional information, contact: Dennis Shiao Director of Product Management, Webcasts dshiao@techtarget.com

3 Optimizing Data Efficiency with Windows File Server and Storage Consolidation Current Windows File Server Environments Many IT Managers today see a chaotic picture when they look at their Windows computing resources. Windows servers dot the landscape, each with their own dedicated resources typically deployed and managed by individual workgroups. These servers primarily host user home and workgroup share applications and are characterized by Windows servers with direct attached storage or NAS appliances. This amalgam produces silos of server and storage resources throughout the enterprise, which make it very difficult for a centralized IT department to manage direct access or to deploy resources consistently within the enterprise. At the same time, corporate management is calling for more application uptime and lower IT budgets. Business demands often require levels of collaboration or access to data wells across departments that are next to impossible for IT departments to support. Yet, while storage resources in many organizations can be better characterized as puddles rather than pools, businesses cannot afford the time to take down those servers one by one to consolidate storage. One technology that appeals to every IT manager facing these problems today is shared, or pooled, storage. Shared storage is more efficient, less expensive, and much easier to manage. These current chaotic Windows file server environments are known as sprawl. Sprawl makes inexpensive cheap systems very expensive for several reasons. First, the management burden is substantial because there are: Numerous separate puddles of storage Multiple points to backup and maintain throughout the environment Difficulties with capacity growth in a fragmented system Large amounts of time consumed in data replication between individual departments or groups Second, sprawl is an expensive use of hardware and software assets. Storage capacity in particular is wasted. HP s research shows that server utilization is sometimes below 15% in these environments. Third, the availability of solutions is suboptimal. Individual servers are typically not fault tolerant, so system crashes can have seriously damaging consequences. Also, downtime, whether scheduled or accidental, is very expensive because the user community cannot work while the system is down. Figure 1 shows that server and storage consolidation is currently one of the most prominent areas of focus within the IT industry. It is not only of managerial importance, but also of strategic importance. The majority of the IT budget, fully 70%, goes to maintenance and operations. Upgrades and capacity growth also take enormous amounts of time. This leaves relatively little time or money for new initiatives and proactive, strategic IT projects. Businesses can benefit enormously from redirecting some of their maintenance and operations resources toward new initiatives that drive strategic competitive advantage for the organization. The HP Model: Windows File Server Consolidation The HP model, shown in Figure 2, is built on an adaptive infrastructure, which takes individual user applications and web silos and moves them to a modular, unified environment. This enables HP to help IT departments reduce costs, increase agility, and improve the overall quality of their IT infrastructure. HP s new File Server Consolidation technology is making the process of storage and Windows file server consolidation much more practical for resourcechallenged IT managers. The technology essentially combines hundreds of disparate file servers and their individual puddles of storage spread throughout the organization into a single, consolidated, network- 1

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5 attached pool. This means that direct-attached storage can look to any server on the network as if it were part of a shared resource. Over time, at their own pace, IT organizations can move these puddles of storage into a centralized pool. In the process, they realize the benefits of reduced hardware costs, simplified and more efficient management, and better availability and performance. HP s File Server Consolidation technology provides immediate cost savings as well as dramatic improvements in utilization and uptime. Cost Relief Hardware and software are easy targets of cost containment efforts but, as shown in Figure 3, they are actually very small parts of the IT pie. In fact, staffing is the dominant piece of the cost equation. Consequently, ways of increasing staffing efficiency will drive even higher levels of cost relief in maintenance and operations, thereby freeing up more resources for new initiatives. Figure 4 shows the results of the HP solution from a total cost of ownership (TCO) perspective, including both hard and soft costs. In this example, a corporation had 50 servers with an average utilization rate of 15%. By means of the HP consolidation process, the IT group was able to drive its server count down to 12 and its average utilization rate up to 70%. The chart shows clearly that soft costs dominate. Well over 80% of the total savings produced by the consolidation effort were derived from reductions in soft costs. This made it possible to shift staffing resources from maintenance initiatives to new initiatives that drive strategic competitive advantage for the organization. Customer Scenarios Several customer case studies clarify the advantages associated with employing the HP solution to file server and storage consolidation. The first presented an environment with 50 file servers hosting Windows home shares on a plethora of platforms, from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and Windows 2003, with direct access storage (DAS), and a single NAS appliance system. Storage usage was inconsistent, with some systems tapped out and others at less than 15%. The NAS box in particular was running at 78%. Managing this chaotic environment was problematic and labor intensive, requiring five people and over 200 person-hours per week to oversee user management, conduct backups, fix crashes, install patches, and perform other vital IT functions. With 3 Figure 3

6 Figure 4 the HP solution, the IT environment was consolidated to 15 servers with just two management points. This reduced the overall cost structure by 75% and reduced management time to less than 40 personhours per week (only one person.) The HP solution also increased overall performance, data availability, and security. In the second customer scenario, enterprise file shares were hosted all over the organization. IT had unused space on their SAN, but was experiencing data growth of over 30% that forced them to migrate data constantly. IT also faced particular challenges related to user management and general growth in their storage environment. With the HP solution, they were able to leverage their SAN into flexible storage architecture. They eliminated the need for data migration, load balancing, and user movement by creating a single data pool from which all filers could be served. The HP solution also enabled online capacity growth of up to 2 PB. Furthermore, the solution provided unified block- and file-level access, which was hugely beneficial for the IT organization, and failover capabilities without additional cost. In the third customer scenario, a British Media Sharing company had gone through several IT consolidations as a result of corporate mergers. They had 16,000 corporate users with home shares and thousands of online users loading profiles. The performance of their own in-house solution was limited because they had a nonscalable system. Furthermore, they were experiencing massive data growth. With the HP solution, they were able to consolidate to an integrated, shared data solution. They reduced their infrastructure and operating costs by over 50% and reduced their file server hardware significantly. These reductions drove a greater than 200% performance improvement at peak load and enabled the creation of a robust fault-tolerant system that produced no user downtime. The HP solution clearly produced a very attractive IT environment for this company. Consolidating with Shared Data Consolidating with shared data provides several benefits. First, consolidating servers and storage can lead to server count reductions of up to 75% and improve storage utilization by 30%. Second, it allows modular scaling, enabling IT departments to add server or storage capacity as needed and to scale beyond the 4

7 limits of a single system. In old environments, with puddles of storage and individual systems that need to be maintained, the limits of the collective system are defined by the limits of the individual systems. With HP s shared data approach, these systems are aggregated to exceed the limits of any individual system. Third, consolidating shared data also provides for integrated high availability. Failover is accomplished in a matter of seconds with a full Active/Active configuration. Furthermore, there is no single point of failure, which is extremely valuable in providing high availability environments for user and departmental shares. Fourth, it simplifies and centralizes management of the overall solution. It creates a single data pool to manage, allocate storage, and backup. Also, it works with all Windows server-based tools that exist today. An HP Adaptive Storage Solution: Enterprise Virtual Array File Services The typical IT environment has about 25 managed entities or file-serving silos. Correspondingly, there are 25 different free-space puddles to manage and 25 different backup jobs needed to protect those managed entities. The average utilization rate is around 15%. Because of the number of managed entities, storage utilization is uneven and the maximum file system throughput achieved is the throughput of any one given system, which is generally between 100MB and 300 MB per second. Also, it is not possible to do hard upgrades with this type of architecture. HP has a specific solution to these problems: Enterprise Virtual Array File Services (EVA.) Figure 5 shows a comparison between the traditional environment and an environment with HP s EVA File Services utility. The number of managed entities is reduced from 25 to 1, as are the number of free space pools and the number of backup jobs required. Correspondingly, the utilization rate is driven from 15% to 65% on average. Storage utilization across this environment goes from being very uneven and sparse to very consistent and high. The maximum file system throughput achieved with this system is approximately ten times better than is likely in the traditional environment. Finally, incremental upgrades are possible with this solution. The IT productivity improvements delivered by HP EVA File Services are clearly substantial. 5 Figure 5

8 EVA File Services Architecture The EVA File Services architecture, shown in Figure 6, is primarily multiple Windows servers combined to form a single logical NAS cluster. With specialized PolyServe clustered file system software, all file servers can cache and serve all files. As a result, there are no hot spots. Clients who connect to this cluster are load-balanced across all the file servers within the cluster. It is fully fault tolerant, because if one component in the cluster fails, the other components take up its load. It is also operationally efficient. There is one point of backup, no replication required to share data between clients, and one single pane of glass to manage all the servers and storage. One unique aspect of the HP EVA File Services product is that it was built on Windows technology; the filers that are part of the cluster run on standard Windows Server Thus, it supports CIFS with the native Microsoft protocols. It integrates directly with Active Directory (AD) and Direct File Service (DFS) and also supports native ACLs and oplocks. Another unique advantage of this approach is that it presents virtual mount points to the clients. Consequently, clients do not need to know about the internal workings of the cluster. Failovers or upgrades within the cluster happen in the background. Finally, because it works with Windows standard storage management tools, it also works with all the standard Windows management software that exists today, including backup software, antivirus software, replication, VSS, and DR software, and WAFS providers. Managerial and Operational Efficiencies Scalability This HP solution performs well in many ways. As shown in Figure 7, it is incrementally scalable, so capacity can be purchased for current needs and servers can be added as the load grows. It can support up to 16 servers for very large bandwidth approaching 3 GB per second. Also, old hardware can be refreshed without taking down clusters and impacting the service provided to users. Traffic is load-balanced, with client mounts spread across all nodes so that all servers can see the same data. Because of this shared data approach, there are no hot spots. 6 Figure 6

9 Figure 7 Availability The HP EVA File Services product provides comprehensive availability. In the event of a failover event, automatic CIFS client failover occurs. The client automatically reconnects to a surviving server through a virtual mount point. The cluster automatically updates the DFS replica state based on server health within the cluster. This eliminates planned downtime because it is possible to conduct online server upgrades, rolling OS upgrades, rolling security patches, and rolling software updates without ever having to impact the cluster itself. Simplicity The management capabilities of the HP solution are effectively simplified. With only one interface, IT management can: View and reallocate free space pools across the cluster See more volume information Connect from any node Provision storage from any node Maintain a single global namespace Manage up to 2 TB per file system and up to 128 file systems per cluster Audit storage usage easily The HP EVA File Services product also improves operational efficiency. It enables IT to improve storage utilization, simplify storage management, and enable consistent file server management. Figure 8 delineates these improvements in operational efficiency in greater detail. Figure 9 shows a picture of the actual management interface. The complete cluster can be seen from one single pane of glass. It is an intuitive point-and-click interface that allows a manger to transfer resources and look at the up-to-date health of individual components within the cluster. In sum, there are several important reasons to consolidate with HP s EVA File Services. First, it helps drive maximum IT efficiency by enabling higher levels of productivity for all IT resources, not just hardware and software. Second, it increases overall availability by providing higher levels of uptime and greatly 7

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11 simplified maintenance. Thus there is less disruptive impact on the business. Third, it improves scalability, so business has higher levels of performance in the right places at the right times. Additional information about HP s EVA File Services is available at Click on the mid range link and go to EVA File Services. Information concerning deployment, per event, consulting, and education services for HP storage is available at Information about HP Care Pack services for storage is available at cp_networked.html. General information about HP products is available at and Common Questions Question: How does this solution scale performance and capacity independently? Answer: The ability to scale performance and capacity independently is one of the hallmarks of this particular product. It is possible because of the way the product is architected. Performance can be scaled by scaling the number of nodes within the cluster. Capacity can be scaled by independently scaling the backend storage. Question: Is a particular kind of storage necessary to be able to scale backend storage? Answer: Yes, shared storage is required. HP requires a SAN backend configuration. This enables all of the nodes in the cluster to see exactly the same storage, which helps eliminate hot spots that common in the industry. Question: Are particular kinds of backup software necessary? Answer: HP supports a wide range of third party backup solutions, including HP s own Data Protector solution. Question: Is it possible to use iscsi storage with this approach? Answer: Absolutely. iscsi can be used in place of the Shared Storage SAN backend configuration. Some customers are doing that now. Question: Does each node in the cluster need to be backed up separately or can they all be backed up as a pool? Answer: No, each node in the cluster does not need to be backed up separately. One of the unique aspects of this product is that it is possible to take an individual node and provision it as a backup node. One backup job can be managed from a central location with a single backup license. Question: How does enhanced availability due to client failover work between the different nodes in the network? Answer: A virtual mount point is presented so any failover activity happening within the cluster is completely transparent to the clients. Clients will automatically migrate their connections to a new server on the fly. 9

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