1. IBM Storwize Family for IBM i
Tim Fiedler
Technical Sales Specialist - Storage

2. IBM Storwize Family delivers …
IBM Storwize Family delivers …. Three Core Principles for Infrastructure That Matters
Store Less Data
Improve What You Have
Flash Optimized
Set it and Forget it….
Award Winning Simplicity
Start Small & Grow Big
Whether for in house data storage or for the cloud, efficiency, ease of use and dependability are critical.
Yesterday an easy answer to saving cost, looked to be storing on larger/cheaper drives.
Whilst drives were double the capacity and half the price, every eighteen months, that may have looked equitable.
But the reality is that wasn’t sufficient to contain costs associated with data growth.
So, does moving some data to cheap cloud storage today, still fix tomorrows problem?
Its essential to achieve a new level of data efficiency, both for applications that will remain onprem, as well as any data that is to be moved to the cloud, to ensure yesterday’s mistakes are not repeated tomorrow.
Storwize delivers on these principals.
Driving efficiency by reducing the amount of data being stored, and increasing utilisation, both of new as well as existing storage assets.
Maximising the ROI from Flash, to ensure business SLA’s are met or exceeded, and the value outweighs the cost.
Efficiency can not result in more complex environments.
Storwize has award winning simplicity, driving “Set it and forget it” functional capabilities.
The simplicity of implementation and deployment, enables full flexibility to buy only what you need today, and scale as data grows. This “start small, grow big” approach removes the need for a crystal ball to predict future storage requirements, that is necessary with other market solutions.
Data is a business critical asset, it must be protected and available 24x7 to meeting customer requirements for service delivery.
Leveraging the use of analytics, and based on a mature code base, of some 10 years, that had enterprise capability in its original design, Storwize is exceeding five 9’s availability in the field, so provides a dependable foundation for a data agenda, based on infrastructure that matters
Embedded Analytics
Proven Reliability
Enterprise Capability

3. The Storwize Family (inc
The Storwize Family (inc. FlashSystem V9000) Powered by IBM Spectrum Virtualize Software
Comprehensive range of virtualized software defined storage systems
One code base on all platforms
One set of functions (selectively licensed)
One client experience
SAN Volume Controller
FlashSystem V9000
Storwize V7000
Storwize V5010, V5020, V5030

4. Scale Up + + + + V5010 Control Enclosure V5020 Control Enclosure
Maximum of 10 Expansion Enclosures
264 Drives
Maximum of 10 Expansion Enclosures
264 Drives
Maximum of 20 Expansion Enclosures
504 Drives
Maximum of 20 Expansion Enclosures
504 Drives

5. Scale Out + + + + Maximum +20 Expansion Enclosures
V7000 I/O Group
V7000 I/O Group
V7000 I/O Group
V7000 I/O Group + + + +
SVCcustomers can scale using clustering (up to 4 I/O Groups)
V7000 customers can scale using a combination of clustering (up to 4 I/O Groups) and expansion enclosures
V5030 customers can scale using a combination of clustering (up to 2 I/O Groups) and expansion enclosures
Clustering can provide workload isolation (separate I/O Group)
Maximum
+20 Expansion
Enclosures

6. IBM Storwize Family is Efficient
Thin
provisioning
Recycle Waste
Purchase only the storage you need when, you need it
Dynamic growth
Real-time
compression
Store Less
Reduce data storage ingestion
Flash Optimized
With IBM
Easy Tier®
Perform Economically
Meet & Exceed business Service Levels
And Storwize delivers the efficiency features required to change the cost curve, So lets look at the key software features of Storwize, that drive to this new level of efficiency.
I mentioned previously how Thin Provisioning ensures only the storage that is needed today, needs to be installed on the floor.
But not all Thin Provisioning capabilities are the same.
We need to help our clients understand the difference between “Ticking” this capability box, and a thin provisioning implementation that can be deployed without adversely impacting application performance.
Storwize delivers Real time compression, changing the amount of data that needs to be stored.
Easy Tier, on Storwize does more than tick the automated tierring capability box
Active Cloud Engine, delivering easy, automated file management, through tiers or even to the cloud.
We will look into these last three in more detail.
Storwize ensures these efficiency capabilities actually deliver on their promise
without compromise
Without additional complexity
Function availability varies by system

7. IBM Storwize Family is Resilient
High availability
configurations
Continuous Data Availability
Highest levels of Data protection and availability
Data Replication
Data Protection
Remote site replication options
Application-aware
copies
Integrated Protection
Virtually eliminate application downtime for backup
Practice disaster
recovery
techniques
Business Continuity Test
Train staff & validate business continuity plans without disrupting applications
This leads us nicely, to the resilience at the core of Storwize.
Storwize can be configured in a very highly available, stretch cluster configuration.
This can provide continuous data availability, across datacenters, for those customers, where losing access to data, equals significant economic impact.
Data protection in a single site is no longer sufficient for organisations that truly understand that data is their most valuable asset. Loosing data can be the difference between staying in, or going out of business. IBM has very well proven replication capabilities, for both synchronous and asynchronous replication, depending on the distance between sites and the recovery point objectives.
With application-aware, copies of data, utilising Flashcopy, particularly in combination with Flashcopy Manager, application downtime typically associated with backup, is essentially eliminated.
With application aware copies, the application can control the backup, and the restore of data.
With the ability to replicate data between datacenters, take Flashcopies on the remote site, disaster recovery techniques can be practiced, without impact or disruption the product systems.
Again, for those customers where the economic impact of downtime is significant, being able train staff, validate business continuity plans, without disrupting production systems, is of significant value.
Encrypt data at rest
Protect From Disclosure
Encrypt data to protect from indavertent disclosure and enable “secure erase”
Function availability varies by system

8. IBM Storwize Family – Model Comparison
V5010
V5020
V5030
V7000
Large
V5020 plus…
Clustering (2-Way)
Higher scalability
Higher Performance
Compression
Ext. Virtualization
HyperSwap
Larger
V5030 plus…
Clustering (4-Way)
Higher scalability
Higher Performance
Hardware Accelerators
Unified Option
Small
Internal Virtualization
Thin Provisioning
Data Migration
Advanced GUI
Multi Host support
VMware & MS Integration
FlashCopy
EasyTier
Remote Mirror
Medium
V5010 plus…
Higher Performance
Encryption

9. IBM Storwize Family is Easy“ ”
“… managing an IBM Storwize [family] system with its management interface is 47 percent less time-consuming and 31 percent less complex than managing an EMC VNX system using the Unisphere software interface.”
Creating new volumes: Simply select new volume preset
Source: Edison Group, Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems

10. IBM Storage Mobile Dashboard
iPhone app provides monitoring and health checking for Storwize family systems
Available free from Apple App Store
As if Storwize wasn’t easy enough to manage, A storage mobile dashboard app is also available
This allows monitoring of the performance and health of Storwize systems.
One instance of the app can manage multiple systems.
It can display used capacity, with the bar changing colour as capacity usage increases.
Graphs can show recent latency or IOPS
You can even view alerts for the systems and this can be filtered to show only specific alert types.
So now customers can monitor their Storwize systems anywhere.
They could be playing golf, out for dinner, or even in the back of a taxi, and still be able to check the status of their environment.

11. IBM Storwize Family is Fast Easy Tier – Automated Storage Tiering
IBM Easy Tier delivers…
Analytics based Automated Storage Tiering
Constantly analyzes I/O and migrates data to optimize performance
Simple Efficiency
Set it and forget it … unlike competitive tiering offerings
Performance improvements up to 3x … using as little as 5% flash storage
Flash Arrays
Less Active Data
Migrates Down
Active Data
Migrates Up
The next efficiency feature of Storwize, is Easy Tier.
Automated tiering is the next Strategy and Best Practice.
And Moving data to the right place is an important Best Practice.
Easy Tier automatically moves data to the right tier, keeping costs under control, while delivering the right performance levels for active data.
quickly adjusting service levels to meet business requirements.
Activating it really is simplicity itself. Efficiency without complexity.
Easy Tier does this by leveraging the value of Flash storage, with minimal investment.
In fact delivering, Up to 3x performance, with as little as 5% of the storage being Flash based.
And its all automatic.
The customer does not need to perform studies, track trends, look at historical performance statistics.
Easy Tier uses embedded analytics, so you can set it and forget it.
Inactive data is held in a lower tier, and consistent monitoring and analytics, ensure data is always in the right place.
Easy Tier significantly improves the performance of new and existing applications, while lowering the cost per I/O
And with this latest enhancement, now supports automated data movement between up to three tiers of storage, so can leverage the performance of Flash drives, the price/performance of SAS drives and lower cost per GB of NL SAS drives.
Competitors either haven’t delivered this type of technology, or have chosen not to disclose their price/performance numbers.
IBM, on the other hand, publishes benchmarks, including this audited, Storage Performance Council benchmark, to help clients understand the reality behind the marketing.
HDD Arrays

12. IBM Disk Magic – Performance Planning Integration

13. IBM Storwize family Real-time Compression
Shrinks active data up to 80% without degrading application performance
Supports active data, unlike other storage compression solutions
More data = more benefit
Unique technology with over 35 patents
9/21
IBM Real-time Compression is the next new way to shrink data
IBM Real-time Compression works on primary, active data, so it can improve both efficiency and performance.
Traditional compression solutions can only compress inactive, backup or archive data.
Note: IBM Real-time Compression appliances support popular NAS environments from IBM EMC, NetApp and others. 13

14. IBM Storwize Family is Protected …
V7000, V5030, and V5020 support Encryption
Internal storage and External Virtualized Storage
Encryption is performed in the control enclosure
Applies to all existing drives: no need to buy new drives
Operates with all existing functions including Real-time Compression and Easy Tier
No performance impact
Helps protect against disclosure of data if drives removed or assets repurposed
Provides secure data erasure capability

15. FlashCopy
FlashCopy is a data protection feature that can take a “snapshot,” a point-in-time copy of that data residing within a volume. The flashcopy can be reversed in order to restore the data.
FlashCopy
Reverse FlashCopy
Source
Target
Source
Target
Reverse FlashCopy - restores a volume’s data to a previous a point-in-time
FlashCopy – creates a point-in-time copy of a volume
Incremental FlashCopy
Source
Target
Source
Targets
Consistency Group FlashCopy - creates point-in-time copies of multiple dependent volumes in sync
Incremental FlashCopy - creates a point-in-time copy of only the data that has changed since the last FlashCopy
FlashCopy
FlashCopy
Source
Target/Source
Target

16. Remote Mirror
Remote Mirror (Replication) is an optionally licensed data protection / high availability feature that allows data to be seamlessly replicated (copied) from one site to another
Storwize V7000 Volume Controller supports two types of replication:
Metro Mirror
Global Mirror
Metro Mirror supports distances up to 300 km
Global mirror supports distances up to 8000 km
Replication can be performed via Fibre Channel or IP-based network (IP-based uses SANSlide technology)
Can replicate between all Storwize products as well as the SAN Volume Controller (SVC)
Metro Mirror (Synchronous Copy)
Multiple 2-Way Relationships
Site A
Site B MM
Up to 300 km
Site A
Site B MM GM
Ideal for applications that require a low RPO
Global Mirror (Asynchronous Copy)
Site C
Supports 2-Way Relationships
Can be a combination of Metro and Global Mirror
Can combine multiple 2-Way relationships for HA/DR solutions
Up to 8000 km
Site A
Site B
Ideal for applications with higher RPO and can handle latency up to 80 ms.

17. IBM Storwize Family IP Replication
Reduce costs and improve disaster recovery
Source
Volume
Destination
TCP/IP Network
Enables use of Ethernet connections for remote mirroring
Transparent to servers and applications
Includes Bridgeworks SANSlide network optimization technology
No separate appliances required
Uses artificial intelligence to improve network bandwidth utilization up to 3x
Deploy less costly network infrastructure
Speed replication cycles for better remote data currency and faster recovery
Can optionally utilize compression
One of the most important new functios in Storwize family is IP replication, which enables the use of lower cost ethernet connections for remote mirroring. The capability is available as a chargeable option on all Storwize family systems.
The new function is transparent to servers and applications (they have no idea it is being used) in the same way that traditional FC-based mirroring is.
All remote mirroring modes (metro mirror, gloal mirror, and global mirror with changed volumes) are supported although it is expected that GM with CV will be the preferred option.
Configuration of the system is straightforward: Storwize family systems will normally find each other on the network and can be selected from the GUI.
IP replication includes Bridgeworks SANrockIT network optimization technology and is available at no additional charge. That is to say, remote mirror is a chargeable option but the price doesn’t change with IP replication. Existing remote mirror users have access to the new function at no additional charge.

18. BridgeWorks SANSlide Optimization

19. IBM Storwize Family is Dependable
Storwize family systems offer five 9s (99.999%) availability
Average annual downtime less than 5 minutes
Storwize family is ideal for any organization’s disaster recovery plan
Data mirrored between production and disaster recovery sites in almost real time

20. Performance. Efficiency. No compromises.
IBM Storwize Family
Enabling clients to do more with less
Efficient
Easy
Dependable
Cut storage costs in half
3x performance with only 5% flash
47% less management effort
30% lower storage growth
Performance. Efficiency. No compromises.

21. two system storage based high availability (RPO of zero)
Application
Example: high availability configuration, PowerHA Standard Edition cluster
Application
Metro Mirror
Example: high availability configuration
PowerHA Enterprise Edition Cluster

22. SVC / Storwize HyperSwap configuration
Volumes visible as a single object across both sites, IO groups
Oct. 11, 2016: IBM PowerHA® SystemMirror® for i now supports SVC/Storwize® HyperSwap® with Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (IASPs) and the new HMC interfaces for Advanced Cluster Node Failure Detection.

23. two site global mirror configuration (RPO>0)
Application
Global Mirror
PowerHA Enterprise Edition with Global Mirror replication
Unlimited distance
Typically used for disaster recovery

24. two site three system combined HA/DR configuration
Requirements
Multi-site configurations
Data center/campus component for HA
Second site for DR
Solution Strategy:
Unified clustering solution for data center & multi-site resiliency
PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition
Application
Metro Mirror or Global Mirror

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