Cross-Platform Access

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2 Purpose This session will offer through interactive discussion the opportunity to learn how customers just like yours are meeting this year s Virtualization, Linux on System z Consolidation and Green Data Center objectives by using INNOVATION Data Processing business resiliency solutions to provide nondisruptive business continuance, enterprise data protection, high performance storage resource management and privacy information protection for z/os and Linux on System z, as well as SAN, distributed client/server enterprise scale AIX, Linux, Novell NetWare, Windows and UNIX Open Systems storage. Trademarks and statements IBM, ProtecTIER, DS8000, z/os, SHARK, MVS, FICON, ESCON, DFSMS, and DFSMS/MVS are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. EMC, V-MAX, Symmetrix, DMX, ESP and TimeFinder are trademarks of EMC Corporation. FDR, FDRPAS, FDRINSTANT, ABRINSTANT, FASTCPK, FDRCOPY, FDRSOS, FDR/UPSTREAM and FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS are service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of Innovation Data Processing Corporation. All other service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 2

3 Using point-in-time hardware replication, there is no reason for concern about the conflicting priorities a 24 by forever on-demand economy presents in the face of your responsibility to insure business resiliency with reliable and consistent backups. You can employ the same System z mainframe resources for all your backup needs. Open Systems backup is already a proven way for an organization to leverage the investments it has in a disciplined well-trained staff and ultra high-speed FICON (presently up to 4Gbps or 400MB/sec) access to existing System z disk and tape resources. Using the same direct cross platform access as z/os backup solutions, in lieu of a TCP/IP data transfer model, dramatically reduce network traffic while trading megabit network data transfer for megabyte FICON channel performance. You can apply these benefits with mainframe reliability and RACF security to your z/os mainframe, AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z data protection needs. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 3

4 Generally Open Systems backup solutions take much too long. Larger disk volumes may be necessary to handle data growth but are increasing backup time. Platform unique backup solutions make for costly integration projects. Consolidating Linux on System z exacerbates all these problems and has many complaining There s no good backup solution for all that Open Systems data being consolidated under Linux on the mainframe, Open Systems backup to the mainframe is congesting our corporate communication net works or There is a crying need to reduce the amount of backup data we have to store. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 4

5 Executive Summary Mainframe customers now have a new opportunity to leverage game changing direct z/os cross platform FICON access to Open Systems storage, use hardware replication to make backup non-disruptive and together with the use of high capacity de-duplication VTL appliances, to slip the constraints of conventional z/os mainframe, Linux on System z and Enterprise Open Systems data protection solutions. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 5

6 Gartner recognizes INNOVATION, as being one of just a few software companies with products in the market that provide much the same functionality as IBM DFSMS. INNOVATION Data Processing leverages the latest technological innovations to virtualize, simplify and green all of its enterprise business resiliency solutions INNOVATION Data Processing is a single source for non-disruptive enterprise business resiliency solutions addressing data protection issues for z/os, Linux on System z, Linux on Power, Linux on x86, Novell NetWare/OES2, UNIX, Windows, Client/Server, SAN and direct attach storage providing: High Performance Data Protection Enterprise Data Protection Non-Disruptive Business Continuance Storage Resource Optimization Privacy Information Protection Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 6

7 INNOVATION, in 1997, became the first ISV to seamlessly employ TimeFinder for non-disruptive backup of Symmetrix mainframe and open systems data. A joint TEAMING AGREEMENT, to exploit Symmetrix ESP cross platform data sharing technology led to FDRSOS, the industry s first direct access heterogeneous cross platform business assurance solution. INNOVATION, in 2010, remains the leading, premier EMC ISV software partner, providing first to market non-disruptive enterprise storage management solutions employing EMC Symmetrix/V-Max Technology to provide Data Protection, Business Continuance and Storage Resource Management solutions that strengthen Business Resiliency for IBM z/os, Linux on System z and UNIX on System z attached enterprise storage, as well as for Windows, UNIX and Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN distributed storage. Thousands of users in the United States and 35 other countries around the globe look to INNOVATION solutions for exceptional reliability and prizewinning price/performance. You see this in the solutions we deliver Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 7

10 INNOVATION Data Processing is a single source for enterprise business resiliency solutions addressing z/os, Linux on System z, Linux on Power, Linux on x86, Novell NetWare/OES2, UNIX, Windows, Client/Server, SAN and direct attach storage providing: Leading edge storage virtualization, replication and de-duplication technologies to help you achieve critical data center objectives such as Linux on System z consolidation and energy efficiency. FDR/UPSTREAM, FDRSOS and FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS are examples of Centralized Enterprise Data Protection Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 10

11 Enterprise Data Protection Solution Benefits Centralize scheduling, tracking and auditing. z/os controls data flow between Open Systems servers and mainframe tape or disk. Uses z/os Tape Management, Security and Scheduling systems. Virtualize to address backup window issues. Options for network free data transfer. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 11

12 Overview FDR/UPSTREAM provides data protection for AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z storage. Control, metadata and backup data all travel on the TCP/IP LAN or WAN communications network as it moves between the Client on the Open Systems platform and the mainframe Backup Server providing: Deferred Full Merge virtualizes full volume backup without the network. Hipersockets takes Linux on System z data off the network. Cross platform access takes enterprise data off the network. Hardware replication Point in Time Copy (PIT) allows non-disruptive backup. Efficient tape drive and tape media utilization. Data De-duplication i.e. Merge - Synthetic Full Backup, Duplicate File Reduction, Duplicate Segment/Chunk Reduction. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 12

13 FDR/UPSTREAM an On-Network Enterprise Backup Solution Benefit System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Storage Hardware Vendor Independent. Considerations Backup data travels across the communications network. TCP/IP CPU resource consumption. Performance Expectations Aggregate backup rate is limited by network speed and overall capacity. UPSTEAM performance on properly configured networks rarely achieves greater than 1/3 of the networks rated capacity. That might be about 30MB/sec on a 1 Gigbit network, with little or no other contesting traffic. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 13

14 FDR/UPSTREAM for Linux on System z A Virtual Hipersockets Off-Network Backup Solution Overview Data protection for Linux data consolidate on System z. Control, metadata and backup data all travel across a virtual Hipersockets network via TCP/IP protocol between the Client running under Linux for System z in a LPAR, or under zvm, and the z/os mainframe Backup Server. Benefit System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Storage Hardware Vendor Independent. Backup data does NOT go across the corporate communications network. Protection for Linux data resident on FICON ECKD and on FCP FBA disk. Considerations Exclusively for data resident on Linux on System z storage. Linux Server and z/os image must reside within same System z machine. Hipersockets data transfer is still consuming TCP/IP CPU resources. Performance Expectations The data transfer rate is no longer limited by physical network capacity, but rather depends on opening and logically reading file data off the source disks. UPSTREAM performance on properly p configured virtual Hipersockets is in 40 to 60 MB/sec per data stream. The aggregate data transfer rate is only limited by the number of Hipersockets links the processor has the capacity to support for concurrent use. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 14

15 Overview FDRSOS provides data protection for AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z disk volumes. Backup data is read directly by a z/os backup application running on the System z from dually accessible disk storage. Dually accessible disk storage is an optional configuration feature on Symmetrix V-Max Storage Systems that allows applications running on System z processors to access both mainframe disks and Open System disks. In other words, the same Open System disk volume can be accessed by an Open System processor and by a System z processor. This means that the Open System disks can be protected (backup/restore) by the System z mainframe using high-speed System z tape, VTL or disk, over high-speed System z FICON channels. This backup/restore requires special z/os software that understands the Open System disk format. That software is FDRSOS. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 15

16 FDRSOS A Cross Platform Access Off-Network Backup Solution Benefit High Speed System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Backup at volume level does not need to read open system file systems. Data does NOT go across the corporate communications network. Data transfer does not consume TCP/IP CPU resources. Data transfer is FICON channel speed. Considerations Data to be backed up must reside in a storage controller with the cross platform access feature. Presently this feature is available from a limited number of hardware vendors. i.e. EMC Symmetrix V-Max. However, anticipate in the future more vendors will be offering this feature. Performance Expectations ti The data transfer rate depends on physically accessing the source disks. Performance expectations on properly configured FICON channel connections are in the range of 100 MB/sec per data stream. The FDRSOS aggregate data transfer rate is only limited by the number of open systems disks available for concurrent access, the storage controller capacity and FICON channel configuration. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 16

17 Understanding how Cross Platform access Works Modern storage systems virtualize logical volumes for both Open Systems and the System z mainframe access on internally managed FBA disk. Open Systems and System z mainframe operating systems each use a different disk recording format. The mainframe uses a variable length record block with a data length count, a record key and data fields. i.e. count key data (CKD) and extended count key data (ECKD) formats. Open Systems employ a fixed length block architecture (FBA ) format. Neither mainframe nor Open System programs conventionally are able to understand the other s format. Consequently Open System processors were traditionally only given access to the Open System FBA disks and System z processors access to only the mainframe format ECKD disk. A partnering agreements between INNOVATION Data Processing and EMC changed all that t enabling, through h a unique combination of microcode features and specialized software (FDRSOS), mainframe access to open systems disks. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 17

18 This is a view of Open System disks in a typical V-Max. Physical disks installed in the V-Max may have various capacities and speeds, i.e. Fibre or SATA or SSD. The V-Max processor virtualizes the physical disks making them appear to be one or more V-Max logical volumes. The logical volumes do not have to match the physical disks. A number of 450GB physical disks internally connected within the V-Max as a Raid 5 configuration, for example, may be virtualized to appear simply as a number of individual 100GB logical volumes for open system FCP access or perhaps a single 1 TB volume. The V-Max presents these logical volumes to the Open Systems processor so that it sees the V-Max logical volumes as physical disks. Each physical disk having its own Fibre Channel (FCP) address. The Open System operating system may access each logical volume the V- Max presents as a single disk, or it may organize them into software managed volume groups. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 18

19 This is a similar view of a V-Max containing z/os ECKD disks. We again have a set of physical disks which are virtualized by the V-Max to appear as logical volumes this time for access by a mainframe FICON channel. The V-Max virtualization in this case makes a number of 450GB physical disks internally connected in a Raid 5 configuration appear simply as some number of individual 3390 disk volumes which might be configured to be 3390-Mod 27, Mod 54 or even EAV volumes. The V-Max presents these logical volumes to the mainframe processor so that it sees the V-Max logical volumes as physical IBM 3390 disk volumes. Each physical disk having its own FICON device address for inclusion in a z/os I/O configuration. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 19

20 The key to understanding FDRSOS is that the Cross Platform Access Technology allows the same Open System disk to be assigned two storage systems hardware addresses. One, a FCP address for Open System access and the other is a FICON device address for z/os access, that FDRSOS uses. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 20

21 Overview FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS employs cross platform data access to provide mainframe security for file level data protection of AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z, without putting backup data on the communications network. Data travels between the Client running on the Opens Systems platform and the z/os mainframe Backup Server via a dually accessible local backup volume (i.e. LBV aka transfer disk or transfer volume). Enables UPSTREAM File Transfer Facility with off-network capability. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 21

22 FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS - A Storage Controller Data Transfer Off-Network Backup Solution Benefit System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Back up at file level granularity. Backup data does NOT go across the communications network. Backup data transfer does not consume TCP/IP CPU resources. Also is available for use by the UPSTREAM File Transfer Facility. Considerations Back up data is passed across a transfer disk volume that must reside in a storage controller with the cross platform access feature. Presently this feature is available from a limited number of hardware vendors. i.e. EMC Symmetrix V-Max. However, anticipate in the future more vendors will be offering this feature. Performance Expectations Data transfer is no longer constrained by communication network. It passes cross platform through the storage controller. The data transfer rate however maybe constrained by logical file processing as for example backup requires opening and logically reading files. Performance expectations on properly configured transfer disks are in the range of 40 to 60 MB/sec per data stream. The aggregate data transfer rate is only limited by the number of transfer disks concurrently in use, the storage controller capacity and FICON channel configuration. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 22

24 System z Cross Platform Access Benefit to the customer Takes backup off a company s communication networks Backup and recover very large amounts of data without any negative impact. Production schedule no longer constrained by shrinking backup window Hot backups for online open systems databases and non-disruptive volume backup for continuous operation of Linux on Systems z and Open Systems. Open Systems backup with System z Mainframe Strengths z/os Tape Management, Security and Scheduling systems Maximize value by avoiding costly customized integration projects Totally integrated solution built on proven technology Protects investments in System z mainframe existing resources Utilize existing mainframe CPU, ATL, tape silos, VTL, tape drives, tape library management software and staff. Extends mainframe automated operations and mainframe security to non-disruptive Open Systems data protection Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 24

26 INNOVATION has been working in collaboration with Data Domain/ Luminex, BusTech and IBM to make mainframe VTL de-duplication appliances look their very best, when used in conjunction with INNOVATION Enterprise and Mainframe Data Protection (FDR, ABR, UPSTREAM, FDRSOS) and Business Continuance (FDRInstant) Solutions. Customer experience and de-duplication verification show an average de-duplication ratio for UPSTREAM open systems data in the 20:1 range, similar il to what it achieves on FDR mainframe data. One Data Domain customer protecting about 5TB of data with ABR and another 4TB associated with 41 Open System Servers with UPSTREAM, saw an average de-duplication ratio in the 20:1 range. That is a 95% reduction in the amount of mainframe backup data stored as the appliance needs to record only about 5% of the amount of mainframe backup data that the customer had been writing to tape. The disclaimer is always there that your results may vary, but for example if only 4% of you data changes between backups you can expect to see a 25 to 1 reduction in the amount of data you store as a backup, because you will only backup and store that 4% that is changing. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 26

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28 Joint EMC & INNOVATION High-Performance Cross-Platform Solution for Extending Mainframe Resilience to Enterprise Data Protection. Virtualize Cross-Platform Access to Protect zlinux Data Take away Mainframe Linux users need to Shake off the constraints of conventional Open Systems data protection solutions. Seize the opportunity to meet their Virtualization, Consolidation and Green Data Center objectives Choose INNOVATION Data Processing business resiliency solutions in conjunction with Symmetrix V-Max cross platform access, hardware replication and high capacity mainframe deduplication VTL appliances. Copyright 2010 INNOVATION Data Processing. All rights reserved. 28