Best Practices for Managing Storage in the Most Challenging Environments

Best Practices for Managing Storage in the Most Challenging Environments Sanjay Srivastava Senior Product Manager, Symantec

The Typical Virtualization Adoption Path Today, 20-25% of server workloads are virtualized - Gartner, December 2010 Test & Dev File, Print, DNS Line of Business Apps Businesscritical Apps Private Cloud Increasing IT Confidence Quality of Service Resiliency and Compliance Business Agility The road to the Cloud goes straight through businesscritical virtualization

Storage Challenges Virtualized Environments Server Costs Virtualization Storage Costs

Storage Challenges in the Cloud: Elasticity, Scalability Storage needs spike as site traffic spikes Storage needs increase as holiday site traffic increases Normal storage needs for normal site traffic Storage needs return to normal

Best Practices for Managing Storage in Virtual and Cloud Environments Achieve End-to-End Visibility Optimize Storage For Virtual and Cloud Environments Drive Storage Efficiencies Reduce Acquisition Cost Use Affordable Enterprise Storage Physical Logical Claimed Consumed Hos t Usa ge Know what you have & create accountability Ap p Usa ge Reclaim under-utilized assets Commoditize storage & switch vendors nondisruptively Leverage Virtual-aware Data Protection Highly available, scalable NAS solution Leverage V-Ray to help manage and optimize data protection

Discover, Report, and Optimize Your Private Cloud Veritas Operations Manager Advanced Achieve End-to-End Visibility Site 1 SF / VCS / DMP / AppHA Site 2 Accelerate operations and decision making with better visibility Site 3 Eliminate user errors with automated operations File Systems Volume Management Clustering Hypervisors Native OS stack Maximize storage utilization with end-to-end reporting and remediation

Map Applications to Their Components Achieve End-to-End Visibility SERVER DB Tablespace File System/Volume Free Free Detailed application-tostorage Information Virtualization support Virtual Storage Pools Free RAID5 LUN Snap Replication LUN Detailed device information ARRAY

Achieve Accountability Chargeback! Veritas Operations Manager Advanced Achieve End-to-End Visibility Define storage cost using tiers Aggregate by geo, business unit or application Control private cloud and virtualization costs Quarterly Chargeback Report for Retail Services Division Allocated Capacity (GB) Total Charge ($USD) Retail Banking 8,652 $ 165,963 Home Loan 5,889 $110,414 Credit Cards 3,472 $ 65,092 Small Biz 57 $ 1,070 Total 18,070 $ 342,539 Small Business Credit Cards Home Loans Retail Banking 0 50 100 150 200

Large Telecom Provider: Achieve End-to-End Visibility: Cost Avoidance of $1.8M Lack of Visibility of Heterogeneous Storage, Poor Utilization Visibility ECC AppIQ Fragmented Storage Utilization Rate 30% End-to-End Visibility of Heterogeneous Infrastructure Storage Purchase Deferred 180 TB Storage Utilization Rate Operations Manger & CommandCentral 42% Cost Avoidance $1.8 million

Drive Storage Efficiencies Leverage Thin Provisioning to Deliver a Pooled Storage Thin provisioning = on-demand allocation Real potential to reduce storage waste Benefits not fully recognized with OS native stack How do I get thin without downtime? How do I stay thin without working at it?

Reclamation Get Thin and Stay Thin Automatically Reclaim During Online Migration Drive Storage Efficiencies Continuously Reclaim All Unused Storage One and Only Solution For Non-Disruptive Thin Optimization Works with all leading storage HW Unix, Linux and Windows!

Reclamation Automatically Optimize Storage Pools Drive Storage Efficiencies 1 -Data Deleted File System Shrinks 2 Thin Storage Remains Unchanged Reclaim easily across diverse hosts and arrays Deliver elastic storage Schedule for zero intervention using VOM Report on reclaimed space for forecasting

75% 50% Monitor Your Storage Cloud to Mitigate Risks of Over Provisioning Drive Storage Efficiencies Check thin pool consumption for your hosts Easily ID top 10 thin pools at risk + hosts affected Set and get alerts per pool Thin Pool Report (TB) 180% 150 100 50 0 85% 65% 100 130% 150 25 30 75 Total Physical Storage Storage Seen by Hosts Host Consumption Available Physical Fault Threshold Risk Threshold

Reduce Storage Footprint with Primary Storage Compression Drive Storage Efficiencies Without Compression Feature Overview Choose what to compress: files, directories, or the whole file system Transparent to applications Reduces replication and snapshot times With File Compression Use Case Archival storage, File Server - ideal for long term storage and read-mostly workloads Example 80,000 files, a mix of text and pictures from Symantec.com. Compression reduced storage needs by 70%

Reducing Storage Footprint with Primary Storage Deduplication Drive Storage Efficiencies Without Deduplication Feature Overview Enable deduplication per file system Transparent to applications Variable deduplication block size No performance impact on writes With Deduplication Use Case Virtual Machines storage Example ~100 virtual server images, a mix between Windows and Linux Deduplication reduced the storage footprint between 50-80% per VM

Drive Storage Efficiencies: Leverage Thin Provisioning to Reduce Storage Usage Drive Storage Efficiencies Significant storage wasted due to overallocation Storage Allotment 7PB Utilizing Storage Foundation Thin Awareness & Reclamation SF SF SF Storage Allotment 3.5PB Thin Reclamation Automatic

Leverage a Single Optimized Multi-Pathing Solution Across Multi-Vendor Storage-DMP Reduce Acquisition Costs One interface for all OS, storage & architecture Enables multi-vendor environment & standardization Industry s broadest hardware compatibility list ~1000 arrays supported Enterprise grade performance Best in class throughput Proactive path management Automated & reliable recovery

Perform Storage Migrations Online Over any distance Migrate Arrays Locally Migrate Over Distance Reduce Acquisition Costs Veritas Storage Foundation SF, VCS Synch/Asynch Replication SF, VCS Wizard based configuration Configured during business Hours / Scheduled for non- Business hours Unattended Migration No Application Downtime Utilize SmartMove to go Thin! Performed Over IP without expensive Infrastructure Data Center Migration Allows for easy back out if issues detected

Use Affordable Hardware, Leverage Software Affordable Enterprise Storage Performance and Scalability Data Security Cost Effectiveness Industry-leading performance Independently scale performance and capacity Integrated Symantec data protection and anti-virus End-to-end archiving with WORM Built on affordable hardware VMware integration to streamline operations De-duplication reduces capacity requirement

FileStore N8300 Store VMware Data on FileStore Affordable Enterprise Storage Key Benefits Scale performance quickly to meet any VMware performance challenge vsphere Client View Client VMDKs stored on NFS mounts Rapidly provision users/servers with VMware console plugins Optimize capacity with deduplication Cache common data for fast access Overcome boot-storm challenges with page caching Plus: VMware-certified Scale up to 16 nodes VM.vmdk Deduplicate common data

EMEA Service Provider: Optimize Storage in VMware Environments Unmanaged Physical Server Farm Running Business Critical Applications Before FileStore Physical servers connected to scattered storage FileStore Config 68 TB FC and SATA Powerful Applications Run in 100s of VMs on FileStore After FileStore Single storage repository hosting all VMDKs 99.99% uptime

Data Protection for Virtual & Physical The Virtualization Data Protection Challenge More data to protect (and store!) Recovery must span physical and virtual Can t compromise run-time or operational performance Need multiple recovery options files, servers, applications

Data Protection Modernized for Virtualization Data Protection Private Clouds for Virtual & Physical Symantec NetBackup with Deduplication Everywhere Virtual-aware data protection and recovery Deduplication at the source, media server, or target Reduce storage consumption with single backup, two recovery options

Simplify Virtual Machine Protection with NetBackup Easier Recovery & Operations One product for virtual & physical backup & DR Exclusive granular file or image recovery for VMware Data Protection for Virtual & Physical Faster & Lower Impact Backups Speed up backup times by over 300% with block & deduplication* Lower application impact with block-level and agent-less backup Greater Storage Reduction Intelligent deduplication across physical & virtual machines Up to 98% storage reduction with VMware and built-in dedupe

NetBackup Virtual Machine Intelligent Policy Automating VM protection Data Protection for Virtual & Physical Manage auto discovery and protection of virtual machines as they - Move Change or Come online VMs VMs Pain Point: VMs change constantly, creating administration and performance issues Key Benefits Automatically discover New, cloned, or migrated virtual machines vmotion, Storage vmotion, and DRS aware Protect VMs on-the-fly No editing of backup policy Enhanced load balancing/throttling Faster backups