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Trends in Storage Migration
Marti Baldwin, Manager, SGI Solutions Lab
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Speaker
Marti Baldwin, Manager of SGI Solutions Center is responsible for the technical development, testing and integration of technologies. Marti has extensive background in many aspects of IT processes, performance and data management. Her career has spanned across a number of areas addressing the requirements of large compute and storage environments for organizations including Amdahl Corporation, EMC and Sun Microsystems.
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Agenda
– SGI Overview– Migration – why is it important? – Migration trends and challenges – How virtualized environments impact migration– Checklist for evaluating migration tools/requirements – The basics of the SGI solution – Case study of SGI solution – Final business thoughts – Q & A
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SGI Today
The company• 1600+ employees• 4000+ customers• In 60 countries• $530M in revenue (Non-GAAP)
Core market sectors• Classic HPC
− Government− Industry− Research
• Enterprise
Geo Mix
Segment Mix
Business Mix
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25 Years of Performance Computing
• Leading shared memory compute platforms– Up to 128TB globally addressable memory (GAM)
• High performance, high volume data management systems– Strong software offerings
• Linux® commitment• Renown for deep vertical expertise of
employees– More than 200 employees with security clearances
• World class customer service organization
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Market Focus
Research
Industry Enterprise
Government
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Storage VisualizationServers
SGI Product Platforms
•SGI® Altix® 4700 High-End Blade With Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor
•SGI® Altix® 450 Mid-Range Cluster & Server Solution With Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processors
•SGI® Altix® ICE With Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor
•SGI® Altix® XE Cluster Solutions with Dual & Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors
•SGI® InfiniteStorage
•SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXISNetwork-Attached Storage (NAS)
•SGI® InfiniteStorage
Storage Area Network (SAN)
•RAID & SATA
•DMF, ILM, NAS Appliance Software
•Cluster-Attached Storage
SGI® Visual Supercomputer
SGI® Remote Visualization
SGI® Visualization Solutions
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Migration – from A to B
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Migration Challenges: Business
• Operational concerns – includes risk from exposure to data loss or corruption plus strain on personnel
• Financial pressure to complete migrations versus business pressure to preclude application downtime
• In general, it has not been in the interests of vendors to ‘play as nice’ as they might.
• Personnel ‘migration hangover’ effect
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Data Migration – from A to B
Data
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Why Migrate? Storage Lifecycle Management
• Technology refresh• New applications, data center or relocation• Consolidation• Processing needs (e.g., test environment, tiering
capabilities)• Test new product/supplier• Data growth or performance balancing• Asset management
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Data Migration Trends
Customers have a broader selection of array products to choose from than at any other time
Customers want simplified management and a heterogeneous storage environment, giving them flexibility and cost benefits
IT needs to respond faster to changing business requirements
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Customer Challenges in Data Migration
Disruption to operations and application availability during implementation
Inability to roll back and recover from a migration until satisfied that migration is successfully accomplished
Risk of data loss and data integrity
Complexity of multiple vendor-specific tools required to perform migrations
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Benefits of an Effective Data Migration Strategy
Support a Storage Technology Refresh
Assets and Storage Portfolio Management– Leases, warrantees, maintenance, and amortization schedules– Transition to new technology before existing outdated storage hardware’s warranty or lease
expires
Improve TCO by taking advantage of new storage technology
Storage infrastructure refresh: Apply storage services to storage infrastructure as opposed to adding point product features
Improve Flexibility to Align Technology With Business Objectives
Support continuous growth of data
Gain advantage of new storage services
Corporate and regulatory governance requirements
Improve application performance with multi-tier storage infrastructure
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Traditional Migration Solutions
• Backup
• Copy to Disk
• Network Copy
• Snapshots
• Mirror
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Storage Migration Drivers
Support a Storage Technology Refresh
Assets and Storage Portfolio Management– Leases, warrantees, maintenance, and amortization schedules– Transition to new technology before existing outdated storage hardware’s warranty or lease
expires
Improve TCO by taking advantage of new storage technology
Storage infrastructure refresh: Apply storage services to storage infrastructure as opposed to adding point product features
Improve Flexibility to Align Technology With Business Objectives
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Non-Disruptive Heterogeneous SAN
Data Migration
The SGI Solution
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SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration Solution Any-to-Any Data Migration
Fabric-BasedIntelligence
Host-Based
Services distributedacross hosts
• SAN-based solution
• Supports heterogeneous devices
• SAN-wide centralized management
• Rollback capability
• Supports all major OS and storage devices
• Delivered by experienced SGI consultantsArray-Based
Services tied to array
Block-level, non-disruptive, Block-level, non-disruptive, heterogeneous data migrationheterogeneous data migration
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SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration SolutionSplit-Path Architecture
Storage Virtualization Manager
Fabric 1 Fabric 2
Storage ArrayBrand “A”
Storage ArrayBrand “B”
Win2K Win2K Solaris HP-UX Netware AIX AIX Linux Oracle RAC
Data Path
Point of translation
VMware
Data Path Module
Control Path
Solution Features• SAN-based data services • Split-path architecture• Heterogeneous support• Non-disruptive solution
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Organizational Impact of an SGI® Virtualization Strategy
• Enables non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades
• Maximizes uptime and performance of revenue-generating applications
• Enables non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades
• Maximizes uptime and performance of revenue-generating applications
BusinessImpact
• Avoids costs and disruptions of lost access to applications and data
• Centralizes/simplifies data migration across servers/storage
• Enables Information Lifecycle Management (LM) process
• Avoids costs and disruptions of lost access to applications and data
• Centralizes/simplifies data migration across servers/storage
• Enables Information Lifecycle Management (LM) process
• Revenue-producing applications remain available during upgrades
• Accelerates introduction of new storage devices
• Reduces cost by putting data on the appropriate tier of storage
• Pay-as-you-go: license migration capacity as needed
• Revenue-producing applications remain available during upgrades
• Accelerates introduction of new storage devices
• Reduces cost by putting data on the appropriate tier of storage
• Pay-as-you-go: license migration capacity as needed
OperationalImpact
FinancialImpact
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How the SGI Solution Differs from traditional technologies
Any-to-any data migration without storage vendor lock-in
Centralized heterogeneous storage management tool set
Ability to manage storage as a single entity, not as disparate storage islands defined by the manufacturer Enables more multi-vendor support
A tool for tiered storage management
Pay for what you use — terabytes under management
Utilizes split-path technology
Creates foundation for additional advanced data services
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Any-to-Any Data Migration
• Data movement, from any device, to any device, to any location
• Migrates data while production applications remain online
• Can create instant snapshots of migrating volumes for enhanced data protection
• Original volume remains for backup purposes
• SAN-wide, centralized management of all migration activities
• Supports all major OS and storage devicesStorage
Brand AStorageBrand B
Before After
StorageBrand A
StorageBrand B
=>
Pool 1 Pool 1Pool 2 Pool 2
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Mobile Satellite Communications Leader Migrates User Data …
…with Minimal Impact to Its Operations and Budget
“In evaluating our options, we looked at an upgrade and migration path with EMC, but staying with them would have meant a sizable cost increase. We selected the SGI solution because SGI offered clearly superior price/performance with the InfiniteStorage 4500 and a virtualization component that was literally unbeatable.”
—Tad MartinUNIX Systems Administrator
Iridium Satellite LLC
Iridium Satellite LLCThe Challenge• Meet rapidly growing data warehousing
demands• Running out of storage capacity• Maintain 24x7 SLA while migrating data
The Solution• SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration
Solution• SVM Appliance• SGI® InfiniteStorage 4500• SGI Professional Services
Implementation• Migrated mission-critical enterprise data
from existing array to an SGI InfiniteStorage 4500
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Migration Evaluation Checklist
• Life and value of data typically exceeds that of the storage asset…map storage tiers to life/value
• Move online and into storage network• Demand heterogeneity• Non-disruptive, so applications keep running• Virtualization in order to span multiple device types
and vendors and treat all equally• Central management• Test and fallback
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Additional Advanced Data Services
SGI® Storage Migration Solution
StorageBrand A
StorageBrand B
StorageBrand A
StorageBrand B
=>
BEFORE AFTER
Pool 1 Pool 2 Pool 1 Pool 2
Rapid Application Recovery
Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery
Site 1
ORIG MIRROR1
MIRROR2
CentrallyManagedStoragePool
StoreAgeSVM
StorageBrand A
StorageBrand C
StorageBrand B
Site 2 Site 3
ProductionServers
Backup Server
ProductionData
Snapshot 1 CentrallyManagedStoragePool
StoreAgeSVM
StorageDevice
Tape Library
Snapshot 2
Snapshot 3
Application Test and Deployment
ProductionServers
TestServers
TestServers
ORIG COPY COPY
CentrallyManagedStoragePoolStoreAge
SVM
StorageBrand A
StorageBrand B
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Final Thoughts
Operational• Do it!!• Non-disruptive & heterogeneous
Business/Solution• Market, SGI, and product• SGI in storage• More than migration
– A means as well as an end