HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway. Technical Product Review. Sprawl Makes Inexpensive Servers Expensive

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1 HP StorageWorks Enterprise File Services Clustered Gateway Technical Product Review 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The inf ormation contained herein is subject to change without notice Sprawl Makes Inexpensive Servers Expensive Proliferation of file/print servers They are cheap, sometimes They offer a lot of convenience They re everywhere Growing operational burden Separate pools of storage Multiple points to backup and maintain Compliance nightmare Expensive use of hardware assets Wasted storage capacity Server utilization below 15% Poor file serving performance Most servers are not fault tolerant Planned downtime is expensive 1

2 Traditional NAS File Serving Architecture A file system lives on one and only one filer the file/print server owns that data File server is a performance bottleneck for all network traffic and I/O to that file system File server is a Single Point of Failure (SPoF) Multiple file servers can create uneven work load patterns and utilization is not even across filers Each file server is an operational burden backed up separately updated with new patches protected against virus Separate free space pool Client Client Client Client Client NAS File Server Storage NAS File Server Storage The HP Solution: EFS Clustered Gateway 2

3 HP EFS Clustered Gateway Customer Benefits Eliminates file serving performance bottlenecks Enables mission critical availability Drives high storage utilization rates Operationally efficient Has industry leading price/performance LAN Client Client Client Client HP Clustered Gateway s SAN Fabric 10g & 9i certif ied SAN Storage HP EFS Clustered Gateway Scalability and performance Linear scalability up to 16 nodes 16 TB file systems up to 200 TB total storage Throughput over 3 GB/s Availability Fully transparent failover preserving client state information Storage Utilization Create a single pool of storage Virtualization across heterogeneous storage Manageability Manage the cluster from anywhere Utilize standard HP management tools Standard OS integrates into data center Value Industry leading price performance Industry standard components LAN Client Client Client Client HP Clustered Gateway s SAN Fabric EVA Storage 10g & 9i certif ied 3

4 HP EFS Clustered Gateway: Scalability Performance & Availability HP EFS Clustered Gateway System Architecture Clients Public (data) Network IP Switch IP Switch Clustered Gateway s Private Network (Intra-Cluster) IP Switch FC Switch FC Switch SAN Storage Storage Storage Storage 4

5 HP EFS Clustered Gateway Symmetrical File System Client Network Storage Storage Storage SAN Each node sees the complete file system Any node can fail over for any other More efficient use of node hardware Eliminates hot spot & load balancing issues Distributed Lock Manager scales with cluster Linux :NFS Symmetrical Linux : CIFS is Shared Nothing /Dir1/File1 /Dir2/File2 /Dir3/File3 /Dir1/File1 /Dir2/File2 /Dir3/File3 /Dir1/File1 /Dir2/File2 /Dir3/File3 /Dir1/File1 /Dir2/File2 /Dir3/File3 /Dir1/File1 /Dir1/File1 /Dir2/File2 /Dir3/File3 /Dir2/File2 /Dir3/File3 While each node can see all the storage Each must present a shared nothing model for data integrity [ no cross-node locking in Samba - yet ] Same as NetApp & EMC Read-only workloads can be symmetrical 5

6 Windows : CIFS Symmetrical Windows : NFS is Shared Nothing \Dir1\File1 \Dir2\File2 \Dir3\File3 \Dir1\File1 \Dir2\File2 \Dir3\File3 \Dir1\File1 \Dir2\File2 \Dir3\File3 \Dir1\File1 \Dir2\File2 \Dir3\File3 \Dir1\File1 \Dir1\File1 \Dir2\File2 \Dir3\File3 \Dir2\File2 \Dir3\File3 While each node can see all the storage Each must present a shared nothing model for data integrity [ no cross-node locking in SFU or Hummingbird yet ] Same as NetApp & EMC Read-only workloads can be symmetrical Linux Edition Protocol Support NFS Fully Symmetrical Transparent Failover V2, V3 (UDP, TCP), V4 coming CIFS Shared Nothing Clustering (same as NetApp) Failover Additional Protocols FTP, HTTP Others as supported by SLES 9 No additional licensing costs for all protocols 6

7 WSS Edition Protocol Support CIFS Fully Symmetrical NetApp does not have native CIFS HP Does WSS! NFS Shared Nothing Clustering (same as NetApp) V2, V3 (UDP, TCP), V4 coming Future: Failover, Fully Symmetrical Additional Protocols FTP, HTTP Others as supported by Windows Storage Server No additional licensing costs for all protocols Client Load Balancing Mount Cluster N1 N2 N3 N1 N2 IP1 IP2 IP3 IP4 DNS Server OR Switch (F5, CICSO, etc) N1 N2 N3 Shared Storage SAN 7

8 Scalable Performance - NFS 400% better NFS throughput than NetApp 980C MegaBytes per Second (MB/s) 1,200 1, ,084 1, Cluster Size (s) NetApp 980c cluster Max: s, 303MB/s # Servers Total bytes (Mbytes) Time (sec.) Mbytes/Sec. Gbits/Sec Scale Factor Scaling Coefficient 1 16, % 2 32, % 4 65, % 6 98, % 8 131, % 9 147, , % , , % HP StorageWorks Clustered File System is optimized for both READ and WRITE performance. Scalable Performance - CIFS Throughput (MB/s) 2,000 1,500 1, WRITE READ s # S erve rs M b yte s/s ec. S cale F acto r S calin g C o effic ien t % % % % % % 7 1, % 8 1, % 8

9 HP EFS Clustered Gateway: Storage Utilization HP Clustered Gateway Cluster Volume Manager Write Request Cluster Volume Manager Storage Storage Storage Provides Virtualization / Aggregation SAN Provides Performance Striping 9

10 HP Clustered Gateway Cluster Volume Manager Improve storage utilization across cluster Optimize servers and storage for price-performance Flexibly manage storage across your business Configurable striping optimize for price and performance Stripe across LUNS within an array or LUNs spanning multiple arrays Snapshot configuration To create a snapshot, select the file system on the Management Console, right-click, and select Create Snapshot. Mounted snapshots appear on the Management Console beneath the entry for the file system. 10

11 EFS Cluster Gateway: Value Special Purpose s Virus Scan Tape Storage Storage Storage SAN 11

12 Linux Edition AntiVirus / Backup Anything Supported By SLES 9 AntiVirus (no real time scanners exist/supported yet) McAfree LinuxShield 1.2 Sophos F-Secure Backup HP Data Protector 5.5 NetBackup 6 BackUpExec supported on clients only on SLES 9 now BakBone- Netvault Computer Associates- backup LEGATO Networker Commvault Syncsort No need for NDMP! Check with vendor for SLES 9 support WSS Edition AntiVirus / Backup Anything Supported By Windows Storage Server 2003 AntiVirus Real-Time McAfee Enterprise 7.1 [ real time & scanning ] Trend Micro Server Protect 5.58 [ real time & scanning ] CA etrust 7.0 [ scanning ] Backup HP Data Protector 5.5 CommVault 5.90 IBM TSM configuration information) Legato Networker Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 Veritas NetBackup No need for NDMP! 12

13 HP EFS Clustered Gateway: Customer Case Study Common Environment - File Serving Silos Managed Entities 25 Backup Jobs 25 Average Utilization 15% Hot Upgrades Number of Free Space Puddles Storage Utilization Max File System Throughput Three Year Acquisition Costs Three Year Operating Costs Total Three Year TCO No 25 Uneven MB/sec 879K 1,714K 2,593K 13

14 HP EFS Clustered Gateway The File Serving Utility CFS File Services HP Clustered File System (CFS) Clustered Volume Mgr SAN Storage Consolidate File Servers and Storage Reduce total server count by 5x Improve storage utilization by 400% Scale Modularly Add server and storage capacity as needed Scale beyond the limits of a single system Integrated High Availability Failover in seconds (Active/Active) No Single Point of Failure (SPOF) Simplify and Centralize Management Single data pool to manage One place to allocate and backup Works with all Windows Server-based tools Consolidated, Efficient Environment Traditional Environment Managed Entities 25 5 HP Clustered Gateway File Serving Utility CFS File Services Backup Jobs 25 1 Average Utilization 15% 65% Hot Upgrades No Yes Number of Free Space Pools 25 1 Storage Utilization Uneven High Max File System Throughput Three Year Acquisition Cost Three Year Operating Costs MB/sec 879K 2,000 MB/sec 248K 1,714K 209K Total Three Year TCO 2,593K 457K HP Clustered File System (CFS) Clustered Volume Mgr SAN Storage 14

15 Summary HP EFS Clustered Gateway Eliminates file serving performance bottlenecks Enables mission critical availability Drives high storage utilization rates Operationally efficient Has industry leading price/performance LAN Client Client Client Client HP Clustered Gateway s SAN Fabric 10g & 9i certif ied SAN Storage 15

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