StorageIQ™Daniel Greenberg

New Product Manager

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Making Storage Smarter

Fujifilm is the premier provider of quality tape media and storage intelligenceStorage Intelligence is part of our DNA StorageIQ helps improve the overall tape experience

Better performance from current systemsImprove utilization of resourcesEnsure long term data protectionEasier ongoing system support

The goal is to overcome tapes inherent complexity and let you focus on best practices and data protection

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ReadVerify Appliance (RVA)

Fujifilm’s ReadVerify Appliance (RVA) provides a proactive method for monitoring and validating the integrity of tape media, tracking the performance and utilization of tape devices to provide comprehensive reports on the health of the overall backup environment.

Maximize Tape Library Assets Complete view into the performance, utilization, and health of the tape library environment, providing visibility into the root cause of incomplete backups, unbalanced drive usage, and low performing assets.

Minimize Data RiskBy monitoring the health and integrity of tape drives and media, RVA provides a proactive indication of data at risk. Errors are tracked over the productive live of the component to provide clear metrics for corrective action to minimize data risk.

Real-time NotificationEnables proactive management and corrective action before failures occur.

Data Recoverability AssuranceThe optional ArchiveVerify (AV) feature reduces the risk of data recovery failure through scheduled, automated data validation, thus minimizing data risk and assuring regulatory compliance.

Seamless, Heterogeneous IntegrationRVA plugs directly into the SAN and begins monitoring immediately. Installation is agent-less, application agnostic, and heterogeneous.

ReadVerify ApplianceReadVerify Appliance

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Monitoring within the Cloud

• Stuck tapes• High error rates• Low performance –

“Shoe Shining”

• Load balance and utilization of tape drives

• Duty cycle of media changer

• Unhealthy media or degrading drives?

• Tape usage over its life

While contending with…While contending with…Meet SLAs

Manage capital and operating expenses

Improve utilization of existing assets

Mitigate risk of data loss

Address corporate green initiatives

Validate regulatory compliance

With lower IT budgets, reduced staff, and cost-cutting initiatives, how do you …With lower IT budgets, reduced staff, and cost-cutting initiatives, how do you …

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Seamless, Heterogeneous IntegrationNon-intrusive, agent-less deployment

Application agnosticOut-of-band of data path

Monitor multiple libraries in a data center

Independent fabricsDifferent library typesDifferent drive types

Real-time alerting – notification that backup may be in the process of failing

Media and drive failureUnder-utilized resourcesHigh error rates

Proactively assesses the Proactively assesses the backup system’s tape drive backup system’s tape drive

and media performance, and media performance, utilization, and health, over utilization, and health, over

its effective lifeits effective life

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Simple, Focused Issue Isolation

View all libraries in data center from single web-based console

Rapid navigation to critical issues

Real-time analysisLibraries

Drives

Tapes

Easy access to current reports and historical statistics

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Maximize Tape Library Assets

Utilization and performanceOptimal drive allocation

Resolve performance gaps

Improved backup times

Load balancingRebalance assets to delay additional equipment purchase

Identify under- or over-utilized assets

Reduce backup windows

Minimize premature wear on equipment

reduce maintenance calls

Remove unneeded assets, save maintenance costs

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Minimize Data Risk

Identify degrading drives and suspect media

Drive–tape error correlation rapidly isolates degrading components

Minimize diagnostic effort

Lower costs by reducing tape wastage

Identify over-utilized assetsMinimize premature wear

on equipment

Reduce maintenance calls

Isolate poor performanceMinimize drive “shoe-shining”

to mitigate data risk

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Real-Time Notification

Enables proactive action to prevent backup failures

Generated real-time on tape environment issues:

Libraries

Drives

Tapes

Alerts individually enabled on per-library basis

User-defined thresholds

Email & SNMP support

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Automated ReportingReports by library or drive pool

Analyze efficiency of application’s drive configurations

System analyticsFirmware revision

Drive status

Drive occupancy versus actual usage

Selective email or logEach report has unique email distribution

Reports accessible through UI

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ArchiveVerify (AV) Feature

Verifies crucial corporate assets are recoverable, before data is needed

Automatically validates readability of media

Validates all target media, over the entire length of tape

Verification based on user-defined policies and schedules

AV drives can be shared with backup/other applications

Provides audit trail for regulatory compliance requirements

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ArchiveVerify (AV) FeatureCompletely automated verification

Verification schedule on user-defined policies

Automatically loads selected media and verifies data can be read

Returns library to known state for normal storage activity

Seamless integrationUses existing library assets

Deployed out-of-band to library controller and storage applications

Independent of storage application

No load on existing servers

Automatically verifies the Automatically verifies the system’s ability to read tape system’s ability to read tape media, over its effective lifemedia, over its effective life

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Verification History and Reporting

Automated reportingMedia health

Verification success/failure

Total data on tape

Verification history

Automated alertsVerification failures

Verification disruptions

Administrators can reduce corporate risk Administrators can reduce corporate risk and improve regulatory compliance by and improve regulatory compliance by

retiring tapes before they become retiring tapes before they become completely unrecoverable.completely unrecoverable.

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Advanced Reporting

External RVA database accessibility

Expanded reporting via 3rd party applications

Integrate with existing management applications

Report templates available for major applications

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Advanced Reporting Examples

TapeBarcode Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB Affect Err/GiB AffectSRA341 0.05 n 1.28 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.03 nSRB535 0.61 u 0.02 g 0.00 g 0 gSRB537 0.02 g 0.49 n 0.00 gSRB750 0.01 g 0.46 n 0.00 g 0.13 g 0.01 gSRA385 0.00 g 0.36 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA436 0.33 n 0 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA361 0.00 g 0.31 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB566 0.22 n 0.00 g 0 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA239 0.03 g 0.18 g 0.00 g 0.29 n 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB768 0.15 n 0.02 g 0 g 0.01 gSRB352 0.03 g 0.13 g 0.00 g 0.03 g 0.03 g 0.00 gSRA780 0.00 g 0.12 n 0.03 g 0.00 gSRB511 0.12 n 0.00 g 0.03 g 0.00 gSRB781 13.02 n 0.12 g 0.00 g 0.01 gSRB050 0.01 g 0.11 n 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB492 0.11 n 0.01 g 0 g 0.00 gSRA498 0.02 g 0.11 n 0.02 gSRA405 0.00 g 0.11 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB419 0.03 g 0.10 n 0.02 g 0.04 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB214 0.02 g 0.10 g 0.03 g 0.00 g 0.04 gSRB442 0.08 n 0.00 g 0.09 g 0.00 gSRA626 0.08 g 0.00 g 0.14 g 0.04 g 0.01 gSRB095 0.08 n 0.00 g 0 g 0.02 g 0.00 gSRB687 0.08 g 0.05 gSRB028 0.00 g 0.08 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB223 0.00 g 0.08 n 0.02 g 0.01 g 0.00 gSRB257 0.00 g 0.07 n 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB482 0.01 g 0.07 n 0.00 gSRA364 0.02 g 0.07 n 0.00 g 0.00 gSRB420 0.02 g 0.07 n 0.00 g 0.01 gSRB232 0.07 n 0.00 g 0 g 0.00 g 0.00 gSRA678 0.04 g 0.07 g 0.00 g 0.05 g 0.01 g

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Drive-Tape Error CorrelationDrive-Tape Error Correlation

Drives with high error rates across multiple tapes indicate that the drive may require maintenance.

Tapes with high error rates across multiple drives indicate a suspect tape.

Isolating suspect Isolating suspect components enables components enables

proactive adjustments proactive adjustments and minimizes data and minimizes data

risk.risk.

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Advanced Reporting Examples

Drive PerformanceDrive Performance

Some drives used heavily, but with poor performance.

Network capable of data transfers at native drive rate.

Low performance causes the Low performance causes the drives to “shoe-shine” – drives to “shoe-shine” –

causing premature wear to causing premature wear to media and drives and media and drives and placing data at risk.placing data at risk.

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Advanced Reporting Examples

Drive Occupancy versus UtilizationDrive Occupancy versus Utilization

High occupancy with low utilization indicates a tape could be stuck in a drive.

Drive usage is unbalanced.

Balancing drive usage Balancing drive usage reduces premature wear on reduces premature wear on over-used drives, and gets over-used drives, and gets

the most use out of existing the most use out of existing assets.assets.

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Making Storage Smarter

Fujifilm provides the following smarter storage services

StorageIQ12 months of RVA monitoring onsite

StorageIQ PlusArchive Verification

Validate the readability of tape archives

Library Overview AnalysisMonthly web accessible advanced reports with quarterly summary and recommendations

Tape Environment AnalysisDeep dive quarterly reports with detailed consultative analysis by storage engineers with architecture recommendations

Library Monitoring and AlertsRemote monitoring and support of tape systems

Thank You!For more information visit our website at

www.fujifilmusa.com/tape_storage

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