Software Defined Storage - TN

Software Defined Storage
Maximise availability, increase performance and reduce costs
HIGH AVAILABILITY &
DATA SECURITY
INTELLIGENT & FLEXIBLE
STORAGE SOLUTIONS
EASY
MANAGEMENT
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Data is the lifeblood
of any company
The IT landscapes of many SMBs and large organisations
often feature heterogeneous storage infrastructures
with distributed storage systems, remote management
tools and high operating and admin costs.
Alongside server consolidation and virtualisation, the
focus is increasingly on storage systems as the stored
data is a company’s essential asset. Data is vital to
ensure a seamless transaction of critical business
processes in your organisation.
If data becomes unavailable, production stops, delivery
deadlines cannot be met and an organisation suffers
a drop in sales.
A vast range of systems and technologies are available
on the market. This is why it makes sense for companies
to cooperate with an experienced IT service
provider such as ttec to analyse which products
and solutions are best suited for their application
requirements.
Application scenario:
high performance
Performance improvements over the
last 10 years
CPU 8-10x
DRAM 7-9x
Network 100x
Bus
20x
DISK ONLY 1.2x
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Virtualising servers and storage systems has become
a vital part of an organisation’s IT strategy, no matter
how small the company is. The key objectives behind
virtualisation include optimising hardware resources
by consolidating them, increasing flexibility and
reducing the costs for energy, cooling or space requirement.
Storage virtualisation, just as server virtualisation,
leverages the existing physical resources,
centralises and simplifies management and can increase
availability by deploying live migration. In this
way, your administrators can transfer virtualised
environments from a physical server to another without
any system or operating downtimes.
Storage virtualisation leverages existing capacities
by delivering a fast and flexible supply of the required
storage capacities. For a long time, individual applications
were allocated with fixed storage resources in a
storage pool.
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Although the average IT budget grows by a
maximum of 5% each year, the IT landscape
is faced with increasingly more tasks that it
has to manage within the organisation.
Virtual storage machines
This created a typical over-provisioning scenario as
many of the applications did not utilise the storage
resources allocated to them. This is now over – thanks
to thin-provisioning which provides a method for optimising
utilisation of available storage capacities.
This results in an efficient allocation of data to improve
fast access and performance.
Virtual storage
identity
Host I/O and copy
management
Virtual
hardware
Processors, cache,
front-end ports,
storage media
Virtual storage
identity
Host I/O and copy
management
Virtual
Hardware
Processors, cache,
front-end ports,
storage media
Virtual storage software
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Software Defined Storage (SDS)
– an overview
Vendor independence
Supports hardware of any vendor
Unlimited scalability
Easily expand the environment with
extra capacity or performance
Storage virtualisation
Centrally manage individual systems
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Cost efficiency
Reduce management work-load and
energy consumption by optimum re-use
of existing hardware components
Complete automation
Increase efficiency by reducing
manual maintenance
Efficient storage
“Information Lifecycle Management” and
optimised “Backup and Restore” features
Did you know that on average…
80% of data is inactive (once created,
this data is never or virtually never accessed)
20% of data is active (this data is regularly
accessed and edited)
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Multi-functions to cover all requirements
ttec offers storage systems from the IBM
Storwize family which deliver convenient management
features, low TCO, excellent performance and
high availability for all storage requirements.
The IBM Storwize V3700 storage system is suitable for
use in SMB IT environments and can be integrated in
all FC, FCoE or IP-SAN networks.
IBM Storwize V3700 features IBM Easy Tier which delivers
optimised performance and faster access times
by automatically outsourcing frequently used data to
enterprise solid state drives.
IBM Storwize V5000 is a flexible and user-friendly
solution which can reliably manage high storage and
scalability requirements.
This storage solution supports uninterruptible migration
of data from existing storage systems so that
IBM Storwize V5000 can be conveniently integrated
into an existing system with only minimum interruption
for users.
With IBM Storwize V5000, organisations can virtualise
and continue to use hard disk systems they already
have in operation. In this way, companies can maximise
the rate of return of their investments.
IBM Storwize V3700
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Virtualisation platform (Hyper-V, VMware)
Centralised storage capacity for
SMB environments
Data backup target (Backup2Disk)
www.ttec.nl/en/go/v3700
IBM Storwize V5000
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Virtualisation platform (Hyper-V, VMware)
Over 50 TB storage capacity for SMBs
Integration of remote storage via external
virtualisation
www.ttec.nl/en/go/v5000
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IBM Storwize V7000 features cutting-edge thin-provisioning
and replication technologies to achieve more
efficiency and flexibility in complex storage landscapes.
A hardware-accelerated real-time compression
can reduce storage acquisition costs up to half
by using significantly less disk capacity.
These block systems can be both scaled up and out
for increased performance and capacity. IBM Easy
Tier also delivers advanced technology for automatically
migrating data between storage tiers based on
real-time usage analysis patterns. IBM Storwize V7000
offers maximum scaling to additional hard disks in
the Storwize environment.
IBM Storwize V7000
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Virtualisation platform (Hyper-V, VMware)
100 TB storage capacity for high-end SMBs
Integration of remote storage via external
virtualisation
www.ttec.nl/en/go/v7000
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), another member
of the IBM Storwize family, is a storage virtualisation
system that delivers centralised monitoring and control
of an organisation’s entire storage resources. The
result is higher availability of enterprise applications
and optimised utilisation of resources. In complex
configurations, SVC supports high availability and
data mobility between data centres located at distances
up to 300 km apart. IBM Storwize V3700, V5000
and V7000 have been designed specifically to be used
in an SVC environment as the identical Storwize GUI
is deployed.
IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Virtualisation platform (Hyper-V, VMware)
Over 50 TB high availability storage capacity
Migration of large data volumes without
downtimes
Maximum data availability
(on average over 99.999% uptime)
High performance requirements
Integration of remote storage via external
virtualisation
www.ttec.nl/en/go/svc
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Performance meets
availability
The new IBM FlashSystem V9000 completes the
portfolio of ttec IBM solutions for applications that
rely on maximum performance and availability.
It combines the advantages of software defined
storage with the speed of flash and is suitable for
applications with a high I/O demand and the same
level of availability – while delivering one of the
lowest latency times on the market when compared
to similar products.
IBM FlashSystem V9000 can also be combined and extended
with any other storage systems. Standardised
management functions for the entire Storwize family
are available with the Storwize GUI.
IBM FlashSystem V9000
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Platform for desktop virtualisation
(over 250 VDI desktops)
High-availability storage for databases
(SAP, Oracle, SQL)
Tiering storage for performance optimisation
of existing storage systems
www.ttec.nl/en/go/flash
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Appliances: the turn-key solution
for high availability
If your company requires high performance, uninterruptible,
real-time data migration and site replication,
then the VDSA appliances from ttec offer
you the right solution. They are based on the SANsymphony-V
Storage virtualisation platform from
DataCore, a leading provider of software defined
storage.
The appliances’ slogan is:
Connect, switch on and save
The DataCore software and ttec servers are best
tailored to offer a turn-key solution and guarantee
cost-effective operation. They have been specifically
developed to master challenges such as very high
performance and availability.
VDSA appliances are available with different storage
capacities and performance levels. You can operate
VDSA appliances either as stand-alone systems or in
clusters with synchronous and asynchronous replication.
In both scenarios, maximum data security is
guaranteed.
By selecting the right components, ttec can customise
the solution for your individual requirements.
When integrated into an array, VDSA appliances form
a high-availability storage infrastructure – without
users requiring in-depth knowledge of storage protocols.
This type of solution protects your businesscritical
applications from downtimes by enabling
uninterruptible access to virtual disks.
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ttec VDSA appliances mirror hard disk updates synchronously
with storage nodes in various firewalls.
You can extend, upgrade or replace nodes, hard
disk subsystems and other productive environment
components without having to switch off the
systems.
Your administrators can make sure that isolated applications
or operating systems have been updated
in a test environment before they are migrated to the
productive environment.
This is an important aspect that influences the
availability of your storage environment.
ttec VDSA appliances
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Virtualisation platform (Hyper-V, VMware)
Storage requirement up to 130 TB maximum
extension (65 TB in synchronous environments)
Fast & ready-to-use storage solution
www.ttec.nl/en/go/vdsa
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Flash-enabled storage or
adaptive storage
In today’s business environments, users expect data
to be available in real-time without any delay. Traditional
storage technologies are not always able to deliver
this efficiency. High-performance hard disks for
complex applications in organisations are expensive.
In contrast, more cost-efficient drives with high
storage capacity do not deliver the speed required
by many applications. The Flash Optimized Hybrid
Storage Arrays from Nimble offer a solution to this
problem. They combine extremely fast NVRAM
(Non-Volatile Random Access Memory) on the controllers
with a mixture of SSDs and NL-SAS hard disks.
At the heart of this storage solution is Nimble’s CASL
(Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout) architecture
and the integrated analysis service, InfoSight.
This function performs an extensive data analysis
and provides detailed information on the storage
utilisation of individual applications and shows how
to leverage your resources. With a flash-enabled
solution from Nimble, you can increase performance
and storage capacity independently of each other
and they can be optimally adapted to enterprise
applications such as MS-Exchange, Oracle or MS-SQL
server databases. In this scenario, rather than
adapting the application to the storage system,
the storage system is in fact optimised to suit the
application’s requirements.
If you need more storage capacity, you can simply
connect more hard disk subsystems. Two options are
available to increase the speed: additional CPU cores
in the storage arrays increase the entire throughput
and further SSDs improve the read-performance.
If your needs continue growing, you can connect up
to four Nimble storage arrays to create one cluster.
Nimble
Main areas of application recommended
by ttec:
Databases in Microsoft environment
(MS SQL, MS Exchange) or Oracle
Desktop virtualisations (Citrix, VMware)
Virtualisation platform (Microsoft Hyper-V,
VMware ESXi)
www.ttec.nl/en/go/nimble
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