1 Storage Strategy for the new Millennium

2 Today’s issues Across the Enterprise. Managing the growth. Managing across the Enterprise. Resources and skill sets. Budgets, justifications and ROI. The world today They said it was going to get easier.

3 What is the message?

4 Terabyte intensity index is increasing dramatically Disk storage system TB shipments are increasing almost 80% per year. Storage managers must improve efficiency more than 60% per year. Source:IDC

5 Skills shortage is increasing Unfilled IT positions are growing more than 5% per year. More than 1.8 million IT positions will be unfilled in The networked world makes job-switching easier. Storage management positions taking more than 4 months to fill. DBA positions taking 12 months to fill. Source:IDC

6 Chairman/CEO 3Com AOL Time Warner Cisco Compaq Dell EMC Eastman Kodak Hewlett-Packard Intel Lexmark Microsoft Motorola StorageTek Unisys

7 Storage Related Business Issues: Storage Management - the REAL cost of Storage … the cost of managing data per megabyte can range from five to ten times the cost of the physical storage medium. John Webster - Illuminata Inc. Storage Analyst and IT adviser For every dollar that a company spends on storage, it can expect to spend ten times that sum in management costs. “The Holy Grail of Data Storage Management” by Jon Toigo Prentice Hall, 2000 As storage hardware becomes an increasingly smaller portion of the total cost of storage infrastructure ownership, the value for suppliers and the largest expense for the customer moves from hardware to the management of storage. Storage Infusion by Fred Moore President Horison Information Strategies

8 Storage Related Business Issues: Storage Growth & Too few People TIME RESOURCES Storage Admin. Staff Storage How do my people keep up with this growth rate?

9 Application Server/Storage Population

10 Application Server Heterogeneity NT HP-UX NT IRIX NT Linux Solaris AIX Solaris Win2000 HP-UX Solaris

11 Problem Space Characteristics 40% 50% 90% 60% 80% 40% 50% 90% 60% 80%

12 How can I at least minimize my “Planned” downtime? Storage Related Business Issues: The Cost of Downtime The Effects of:  Adding new Storage  Upgrading Existing Storage  Servicing  Replacing  New Technology Change is a constant in the Open Systems World

13 The SAN Today Cost of Storage Management (People & Administration) Storage Area Network Today’s SAN solutions Partially address this issue  Storage is centralized  People Resources are Centralized  Homogeneous Solutions - One Vendors Storage, Server, or Software  Hosts are communicating to actual devices Storage Administration and Management

14 SAN Management

15 What happens when you don’t have a strategy?

16 HOW? Virtualization Doing more with LESS… Less Storage Assets Less People Less Time Less Administration and Management = $

17 Virtualization Products I/O Subsystem Mainframe CPU I/O Subsystem DASD I/O Subsystem SSD LUNs I/O Subsystem Disk Arrays LUNs I/O Subsystem Disk Arrays SNAP

18 Types of Virtualization Host based  Volume managers Storage based  Virtualization done at a controller level – host platform independence Network based  In band appliance All data (control and user) flow through the appliance High degree of security when volumes are accessed  Out of band appliance Separate communication and data path Agent software or special driver software required

19 Virtualization Results Server ViewStorage Admin/Mgmt View RAID 5 RAID 6+ RAID 3

20 Virtualization Results Storage Admin/Mgmt View RAID 5 RAID 6+ RAID 3

21 Virtualization Results Storage Admin/Mgmt View RAID 5 RAID 6+ RAID 3 media proximal probe tip XYZ movable suspension Electronics Tip Arrays Media Coating on Bottom Surface 1 cm 2 mm Electronics Media Sled Probe Tip Pitch 100µ x 100µ Sled motion - 100µ x 100µ

22 Measure the $avings !!!! Change Assets Count Asset Utilization Planned Downtime Staff Efficiency Storage Mgmt. Virtualization SAN Plumbing

23 Creating a storage strategy Audit your environment Think long term (5+ years) Review current challenges Prioritize business needs Understand the data life cycle

24 What Data goes where? Nearline Application requirements SLA’s Disaster recovery needs Regulatory issues Offline Bulk Online Storage High Performance Nearline

25 What Technology do I use? DAS SAN NAS ISCSI Brocade DAS Inrange GigE Cisco McData SAN Point Control WideSky 1Gb 2Gb 10Gb

26 Extended Coax Robot control TCP/IP LAN MM Fibre Channel SM Fibre Channel Switches Location A Location B FC tape drives Cross Site Backup Configuration

27 Summary A strategy is long term (not tactical) Technology WILL change Virtualization simplifies management Business applications are driving technology Need to react quickly to remain competitive

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