Feeding your Storage-Thirsty Cloud

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Feeding Your Storage-Thirsty

Cloud

Critical Storage Processes to Automate

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Today’s Agenda Reduce storage delivery and request times using storage automation

Deliver storage services that can be consumed by cloud orchestration workflow tools Identify top 4 critical storage automation processes needed to feed the thirsty cloud

Add service fulfillment flexibility using intelligent storage policies

Demonstrate integrated cloud and storage automation solution

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The Driver: Automated Server Provisioning

Request Approval Network

Server Notify Storage Provisioning

Patching & App Config

Backup

Source: Financial Services Company

45 Minutes 8 Minutes

SANS 3-5 days

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A Deeper View: Manual, Complex, Sequential Processes

Network Server Storage Patching/Application Back-up

Source: Public Cloud Provider

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CIO Spotlight is Focused on “Storage”

Source: http://www.slideshare.net/Zenoss/100-best-cloud-data-stats-of-2011so-far

• 74% of companies are using cloud services

• 28% of organizations are actively implementing or maintaining a cloud computing service

• 5.75 million new Servers are installed every year for new online services

• 63% of data center staffs are flat or decreasing

• 67% companies are using or planning to use cloud-based storage

SANS 3-5 days

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Reducing Storage Request Times

New Cloud Storage Requests

Options Available

Hire Outsource Automate Delegate

Service Provider: 2000 servers over 260 days = 8 new requests per day

Request Backlog

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Delivering Automated Storage - 5 W’s Who: Support range of end users

– End users, Dev/QA, Cloud Team, Internal IT, DBAs, Projects

What: Catalog of storage services (use cases) to be consumed by cloud provisioning workflow

– Provisioning, Workload, Lifecycle, DR, BU

When: Real-time or within maintenance windows fulfillment of “standard” requests

Where: Within the existing storage environment, formal storage procedures and change processes

Why: Storage is now on the critical path of your private cloud

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AND Solution Must “Fit” the Cloud Model

Services Service Catalog

Self-Service Portal Chargeback

Automation/Orchestration

Multi-Tenant

Automated Fulfillment

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The Storage Provisioning Process

•Performance •Capacity •Compatibility •Usage Profile •Data Protection

Analyze Storage Request

•Tier/ Service Level

•Storage Array •Device Group •Device Type •Data Path

Find Best Available Storage

•Change Approval •Scheduling •Maint. Windows •Resource Reservation

Approve & Schedule

•Storage Provisioning •Fabric Configuration •Host Configuration •Application Configuration

Provision Storage

•User Notification •Chargeback •Asset Mgmt

Complete Request

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Storage Automation Components

Service Tracking, Notification and Chargeback

Intelligent Storage Policy Selection

Storage Services Execution Engine

Service Catalog, Services and API



Approve & Schedule

Provision Storage

Complete Request

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Storage Automation Options/Limitations Storage Cloud

Limitations • Single vendor/product • Array only • No ITSM process integration • MC APIs, scripting & plug-ins • Cloud process understanding

Virtualization

Limitations • Workflow-driven (time & $) • Lack of storage expertise • Lack of support for policy-

based storage automation • Single vendor/product • Lack of formal storage

execution process • No end user support

Limitations • Ongoing dev/support costs • Delivery time/tribal

knowledge • HW/SW/process expertise

Custom Solutions

Limitations • API – offloads to storage

vendor • Lack of physical host support • Lack of formal storage

execution process • No end user support

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Ideal Storage Automation Solution

Services API/Portal

Service Abstraction

Heterogeneous

Full Storage Process

Role-based Access

Rule-based Policy Control

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Critical Processes for Feeding a Storage Thirsty Cloud 1. Provision Storage and Create Datastore

2. Provision Storage for Virtual Server (RDM)

3. Extend Existing Datastore or Mapped Drive

4. Remove RDM, Data Store and Supporting Storage

(BONUS Points) Provision Storage for a Physical Server

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Where Storage Admins Spend Their Time



Approve & Schedule

Provision Storage

Complete Request

Typical storage provisioning processes takes 3 – 25 business days in large organizations

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Rules-Based Policies

Application & Host Storage Profiles

– Performance – Protection

Application Affinity

Service Levels

Cost

Infrastructure

• Tier

• Capacity

• Tenants

• Protection

• Accessibility

Storage Request

Fulfilled Request

Adding Storage Automation Intelligence Rule-Based Policy Selection

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Relationship of Policies & Services to Storage Automation Control

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Delivering a Storage to Your Private Cloud Reduce storage delivery and request times using storage automation Deliver storage services that can be consumed by cloud orchestration workflow tools Identify top 4 critical storage automation process needed to feed a thirsty cloud Add service fulfillment flexibility using intelligent storage policies

A recorded version of this presentation will be available at: www.iwavesoftware.com

or email us: [email protected]

Now available: 5 Keys to Delivering Storage-as-a-Service without Losing Control

Q&A

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Integrated Cloud & Storage Automation Demonstration

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Feeding your Storage-Thirsty Cloud