1. Tivoli Storage Network Manager Executive Presentation
Keeping information available has always been a challenge for an IT executive. But today, IT extends way beyond the computer center and touches every aspect of our company’s existence.
Everyone here knows a little something about Storage Area Networks, but perhaps not about how to manage them and the tremendous data volumes that they hold.

2. Agenda Environment/Issues Review Tivoli Solution Focus
Solution/Value Review
We’re going to discuss the evolution of stored information in recent years, and the impact major initiatives such as e-business have played on information availability.
We’re going to discuss not only the challenges, but also the opportunities that today’s dynamically changing environment is bringing.
We’ll address how new storage strategies like SANs are helping build the infrastructure that is ready for the challenges that lie ahead, because we believe that executives who are savvy about how to implement, manage, and protect their information infrastructure are those who will propel their businesses into market leadership positions.
We’ll also take a look at how the newest category of SAN management tools are helping to manage the burgeoning growth and implementations of SANs.
And, of course, we’ll show you how Tivoli is solidly positioned to support your growth and evolution.

3. Data Explosion - The Information GridTM
In today’s world, there are many types of devices and methods of storing and using information. In the past, things were relatively simple to manage as everything was usually associated with a particular server or operating system. With the advancement of the Internet, mobile computing, hand held devices and satellite communication, a corporation’s information is spread out across the massive highway of data. Tivoli refers to this as the Information GridTM. Being able to manage that information, and most importantly gain access to that data is critical for today’s information intensive organizations.
Today’s storage and network management tools are not equipped to handle this new information grid. Most companies have no idea what information is available or at risk outside their corporate “fire wall”. What is needed is a comprehensive solution suite that can manage all aspects of the Information Grid from a single location, improve timeliness and quality of information to the knowledge worker. This includes the Data Storage, the Network, and the emerging Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastrcuture being implemented.
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4. New Dynamics in Today’s Business
Stored information is growing in the e-customer base at %
In 2000, 70% of systems expenditures will be on Storage.
Enterprise is spending 5 times more on managing and protecting information than acquiring storage.
Companies bought more storage in 1999 than in all years before combined.
It used to be that information volumes doubled each year. Now industry magazines report that companies who use the Web to perform business transactions via the Internet or extranets can see information volume increases at ten-fold per year. In addition, according to IDC, more storage was sold in 1999 than all prior years combined, bringing the world’s data storage to 1,000 petabytes (1 million terabytes). *
* (actually the petabytes information came from the National Storage Industry Consortium as reported in Datamation 10/98.)

5. Storage Driving Forces
Heterogeneous Platforms
Connectivity & Security
Data Explosion
Total Cost
Manageability & Scalability
Mission Critical
Availability & Performance
STORAGE
What is happening in your IT infrastructure that is driving the need for advanced storage strategies? The business trends toward E-business, telecommuting, and supply chain management are all conspiring to put a tremendous draw on your systems.
As we noted, data is multiplying very quickly, and companies are forced to look past the “quick fix” and find a strategic solution that will allow them to proactively manage data volumes without expending valuable resources.
In addition, the aggressive ramp-up of systems and storage often leaves many IT infrastructures with a mixed bag of vendors, platforms, and operating systems, making it very difficult for users across the enterprise to share data, files, and storage resources. The answer to these problems can be found in Storage Area Networks.
Consolidated
Externalised
Networked

6. The Evolution To SAN Enterprise Storage Captive Storage
Centralized Storage
Fibre Channel
Storage Area
Network
SCSI
Servers
Servers
Servers
Messaging
Network
(LAN)
Messaging
Network
(LAN)
Messaging
Network
(LAN)
Storage strategies have evolved as client/server networking took hold of the enterprise computing landscape. The original captive storage units were connected directly to specific servers, which allowed the servers to act as the gateway to the data stored on those disks. The problems was that there was no failover or alternate processing strategy, and file servers that got overwhelmed simply shut down cutting off user access to that data.
Centralized network-attached storage made great advances in data availability by allowing several servers to access data from the LAN, thus eliminating the single-point-of-failure inherent in captive storage. However, in today’s connected marketplace, data volumes are extremely heavy, and data from e-business, ERP, and supply chains can quickly bog down a network trying to move data across the LAN.
All of which brings us to the Storage Area Network; a dedicated network focused on data movement independent of the network.

7. SAN Opportunity SAN market accelerates 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2 4 62 4 6 8 10 12 14 16
Unix
NOS
Win2000
ECKD
SAN array market revenue ($ billion)
Companies all over the world are turning to SANs as the premier strategy for managing their data. IDC has identified the SAN market as one of the fastest growing technology segments.
Still, there have been several arguments against SANs along the way. Most concerns have fallen into three camps: high cost of entry, lack of interoperability, and lack of SAN management tools. With vigorous market competition, the cost to implement a SAN solution is at an all time low, and movement toward open standards has lessened the concerns for interoperability. Today, the most commonly heard complaint is “how can I manage it all?”

8. The SAN Advantage
Consolidate / Share Valuable Resources and Data
Centralize Storage Administration
Improve performance / scalability / connectivity / availability
Faster data movement - backup, restore, disaster recovery, other applications
Lower management costs through consolidation, centralization
Storage Area Networks have evolved to offer benefits far beyond any of their predecessors:
SANs permit enterprise-wide access to consolidated storage resources, translating to higher availability, lower storage management costs, and better asset utilization.
Centralized storage administration allows companies to easily manage all storage assets without adding significant IT staffs.
SANs also offer vast improvements in performance, scalability, connectivity, and availability.
Advanced connectivity like Fibre channel encourages faster data movement for backup, restore, and disaster recovery, as well as mission-critical enterprise applications.
This year, 25% of all storage budgets will be allocated to SANs, and Dataquest expects the SAN market to increase five-fold by The question for most companies, then, is no longer “should we install a SAN?” – it’s become “How fast can we get it done?”

9. What Decisions Have You Made So Far?
Selected Hardware Vendors
Host Servers
Switches / Hubs / Routers
HBAs
Storage Devices
Selected Application/s to exploit SAN
Backup, Archive, Disaster Recovery, ERP etc.
Selected Services Organization to Install
If you’re considering installing a SAN, you’ve probably begun the discovery process regarding all the elements it takes to successfully implement one. And you may already have made some decisions on vendors and applications.
Hardware devices like hubs, routers, and switches are often as important as the storage servers and devices themselves, and are available from leading vendors as well as smaller startup manufacturers.
In addition, SAN exploitation software is available to optimize data availability across the enterprise.
Finally, storage installation and integration solutions are offered by small resellers and large enterprise solution providers alike.
However, there is one area of the equation that is not often addressed – the management of all these components.
What is left to decide?

10. The Dual-Edged Sword of SANs
Local Area Network
Host - NT
Host - Linux
Host - AIX
Host - Sun
Host - HP
Host - OS/390
Host - AS/400
Host - True64
other
Disk Subsystem -
IBM
Switch - McDATA
Bridge - Crossroads
Tape Subsystem -
STK
Switch - Brocade
Switch - Vixel
Switch - Ancor
Array -
Clariion
EMC
HDS
JBOD -
Dell
Compaq
Storage Area Network
Looks like a pretty scary place, doesn’t it?!? Lots of links, ties, and connections -- and every one of them is necessary to ensure continuous access and availability to information 24 x 7 x FOREVER. No wonder so many IT execs stay awake at nights!!!
That’s why we refer to the dual-edged sword of SANs. SANs may be the future of enterprise storage management, but they come with some very specific problems. Such network complexity coupled with massive data volumes make it a real challenge to maintain your existing business processes as well as make strategic decisions to enter new markets to expand your business.
Getting past the intimidation of so many components and connections, we realize there are 3 key requirements to managing a storage network:
Integrate new SAN and storage technologies quickly and easily into your enterprise infrastructures to alleviate the storage constraints you face
Simplify the management of existing and new technologies and reduce the overall cost of managing the environment.
Provide quick,reliable access to data for processing

11. How Will I Do SAN Management?
How will I maintain availability of the SAN allowing continuous data access for applications?
How will I provide a simple, secure method to allocate disk resources to host systems?
How can I apply automation to add needed disk resources to maintain application processing?
How do I gather needed data to assist in making intelligent decisions for growth and stability?
There are many specific concerns IT managers have about managing the multiple components of their SAN architecture:
Availability: there are many individual components of a SAN: how can I ensure they are all operational and can be brought together as a cohesive whole? Plus, how can I discover all the storage resources on the SAN that may be underutilized?
Disk allocation: how can I dynamically assign disk space on an “as needed” basis without expending valuable IT staff resources?
Application processing: how can I ensure my mission critical applications have continuous access to data, regardless of where its stored?
Decision support: how can I be absolutely clear on data movement and storage resource information to allow me to make strategic IT decisions about my infrastructure? Can I get the necessary data for event/capacity/performance analysis and decision making?
SAN management tools are the answer to many of the questions associated with managing the multiple components throughout the SAN infrastructure.
Without adding more personnel overhead !!

12. The Short List of Options
Draw/maintain Topology with Paper/Pencil and Sneaker-net.
Use multiple consoles and software apps for zoning/masking/monitoring/maintenance.
Switch Vendor Apps.
Intelligent Storage Sub-system Apps.
Individual Host Server Apps.
Adding Greater SAN Deployment Risk - More Complexity, Confusion and Costs!!
For small SANs, the paper and pencil blueprint can often help companies track storage resources on the SAN. Unfortunately, this method only works for so long, and many companies are turning to SAN management tools to help manage their SANs at the device level.
SAN management tools offer simplified / centralized management of the SAN infrastructure and its attached storage resources. As a category, SAN management tools can help optimize the connectivity of individual SAN devices without having to hire new IT storage administrators.
A major problem with some of the SAN management tools on the marketplace is that they are provided by hub and switch vendors using their own proprietary standards. While these management functions are necessary and evolving, they present only a limited view of the SAN (e.g., limited to only that vendor's particular switches and having only a limited view/understanding of endpoints like storage devices). Issues like device discovery, allocation, and monitoring can only be addressed through a single management solution that utilizes an open SAN standard and consolidates the management of all the individual SAN devices through a common interface.

13. Install Tivoli Storage Network Manager !
What is it?
Enterprise SAN Management Solution for Heterogeneous Computing Environments
Open SAN Standards Focused
Broad Support of IBM and non-IBM Platforms and Devices
Scalable from a single, application oriented SAN (SANlet is an IBM derived term) to Complex SANs
What does it do?
Provides a Single Solution for Enterprise SAN Management
SAN Device/Resource Discovery, Monitoring and Management
Disk Storage Identification and Secure Allocation
Automation of Key Storage Administrative Tasks
Data Gathering for Analysis and Trending
For enterprise customers who need to confidently deploy and maintain their SAN infrastructure and storage resources, Tivoli Storage Network Manager is a single comprehensive solution package that discovers, allocates, monitors, automates, and manages SAN fabric components and disk storage resources, and is built upon a scalable architecture to manage large and complex configurations.
Unlike other SAN offerings that are limited in function and may use limiting proprietary interfaces, Tivoli Storage Network Manager utilizes industry standards, reduces management interfaces and when integrated with Tivoli NetView provides LAN, WAN, and SAN management functions from the same console.

14. Today’s Tivoli SAN Solutions
Tivoli Storage Manager
Distributed data protection
Tivoli SAN Solutions
Tivoli SANergy
File sharing
Tivoli Storage Network Manager
SAN management
As we have already discussed in the executive over view, Tivoli Storage Management solution’s focus is built upon the strategic needs of our customers, and their strategic business requirements.
Tivoli Storage Network Manager is a key component of the overall Tivoli Storage Management Solutions Strategy. It is our first offering for comprehensive SAN and storage resource management that will establish our presence in the emerging SAN marketplace. In addition, it is a product that integrates with Tivoli NetView, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Decision Support (for SAN resource and management analysis) and other Tivoli applications that will feed an overall system management view of the enterprise for operational integrity of the business.
As part of the overall Tivoli Storage management solution set, companies utilizing Tivoli Storage Network Manager within their SANs can enjoy tremendous synergies with other Tivoli storage offerings:
Companies that deploy a SAN for backup/recovery operations would purchase Tivoli Storage Network Manager to establish the initial SAN installation and to manage SAN availability/growth, and Tivoli Storage Manager for backup/restore capabilities.
Companies looking for complete SAN / WAN / LAN management only would purchase Tivoli Storage Network Manager, Tivoli Netview and possibly Tivoli Enterprise Console for complete application integration.
Companies looking for complete SAN / WAN / LAN management plus backup/recovery operations would purchase Tivoli Storage Network Manager, Tivoli NetView (and possibly TEC), plus Tivoli Storage Manager for backup/restore capabilities.
All of these scenarios could be supplemented with Tivoli Decision Support Guides for Storage Resource and SAN Management analysis (new offerings coming). In addition, Tivoli SANergy provides complete file sharing capabilities, allowing companies to not only share storage resources, but the files and data sets themselves
As a part of the overall Tivoli Storage Management Solution set. Tivoli Network Storage Manager is a key component in Tivoli’s strategy to take advantage of new storage technologies, such as SANs. It can operate as a stand alone product for SAN Management or integrate with Tivoli Netview providing a single network (LAN, WAN, SAN) management console for an enterprise.

15. Tivoli Is Delivering ! Delivering TRUE End-to-End Storage Management
Protect data assets
Exploit the capabilities of storage technologies
Share data assets and data storage resources
Control the storage infrastructure
Manage the total lifecycle of data assets and data storage resources
When it comes to true end-to-end storage management, we at Tivoli provide solutions.
Leverage core Tivoli applications across devices and all networks protocols.
Single point of control for easier management
Minimizes skill set requirements
Hi speed, policy based recovery ensures that critical, revenue generating applications and data are restored first to get the business up and running.
LAN free data transfer removes data movement overhead from the IP network to a dedicated data network (SAN) freeing up the communications network
Tape resource sharing maximizes costly asset (tapes & tape library) utilization
Adaptive Differencing provides byte & block back ups, minimizing data transfer for the mobile user.
Multi thread client transfer allows clients to dynamically start multiple data transfer to a storage server, greatly increasing back up performance.
Open System storage network management products and concepts
Key partner alliances to provide customer the tools necessary for best technical and intelligent solution for their environment

16. Tivoli Storage Network Manager