2. About ProLion CEO, Robert Graf Headquarter in Austria
ProLion invented ClusterLion (automatic switchover for MC)
NetApp Alliance Partner and NetApp Certified Solution
Product distribution: ABO-Storage, Arrow, ALEF, ICOS, TIM
We are focused on NetApp Products

3. Portfolio

4. Data growth and Data aging
Warm
moderately active ~ 35%
Cold
inactive ~ 50%
Hot
active ~ 15%

5. Storage-sizing based on HDD
Customer requirement:
150TB Tier-1 Storage
IOPS
Because:
Offloading old and cold data will free up capacity but you still need the same amount of Disks to meet the IO performance requirements!
Cold data doesn’t need any disk performance!
Flash Cache
Flash Pool
Should you offload
cold data?
…..
…..
240 Disks
It depends, but
probably not!
312 Disks
144 Disks
312 Disks x 900 GB SAS = 250TB usable
282 Disks x 150 IOPS / Disk = IOPS
240 Disks x 900 GB SAS = 180TB usable
144 Disk x 6 TB SATA = 700TB usable

6. Safe 50% Capacity and still overachieve IO requirements!
Storage-sizing based on SSD
Customer requirement:
150TB Tier-1 Storage
IOPS
Because:
Offloading old and cold data will reduce the primary storage capacity and you still overachieve the IO performance requirements!
Cold data can be stored on low cost storage and doesn’t need IO performance anyway!
DataOptimizer
Should we offload
cold Data?
…..
24 Disks
YES!!!
…..
48 Disks
144 Disks
Safe 50% Capacity and still overachieve IO requirements!
24 Disk x 3,8 TB SSD = 80TB usable
48 Disk x 3,8 TB SSD = 160TB usable
144 Disk x 6 TB SATA = 700TB usable

7. Tiering within the Storage System
Customer requirement:
150TB Tier-1 Storage
IOPS
Migrate old and cold data from the performance aggregates to capacity aggregates!
Because data is aging!!!!
hot today
hot today
cold tomorrow
DataOptimizer
…..
24 Disks
…..
144 Disks
Data Aggregat 0
cold tomorrow
Data Aggregat 1

8. Storage-Sizing / Upgrade
No Capacity Upgrade at primary Storage!
cold
inactive ~ 50%
Flash Cache
warm
moderately acive ~ 35%
Flash Pool
Data grow
Data grow
hot
active ~ 15%
Data grow
DataAnalyzer
Disk Upgrade?

9. Transparent Data Tiering
No Capacity Upgrade at primary Storage!
Offload old and cold Data!
DataOptimizer

10. Tech-refresh (all-flash-ready)
A300 / A700
All Flash Storage
warm / hot data
cold data

11. Easy installation DataOptimizer Software Solution Windows Server
VMware HA
copy
Primary
Secondary
move
stubbing
SATA

12. Transparent Data Access
Classifyng files to be moved (tiered) 1
Copying classified files 2
Replacing original file with stub file 3
Accessing stubbed files through
primary storage 4 1 4 5
Providing file to application / user with “pass through read” 5 2
SATA 3

13. Transparent to User and Application
1,24 MB
4 kB
View on Win10 Client

14. DataOptimizer Software

15. Features / Benefits NetApp to NetApp policy based file tiering.
Transparent: User / App. access data exactly in the same way.
No changes on applications are needed.
Move data from SSD to low cost SATA or cloud.
Stubbing on primary storage and „path-through“ data access.
Multitenancy by separated “StorageVaults”.
Standardized formats and protocols (UDF, RESTful, HTTP, …).
Support for CIFS and NFS configurations.
Support for ONTAP 7-Mode and Cluster-Mode (cDOT).
Low latency:
Data caching
Optimized handling of FPolicy requests
Mimimized protocol overhead

16. In MetroCluster Environments
Summary
DataOptimizer
Flash is now!!!
50%
old and cold
But still too expensive
for old and cold data!
on-premise
low cost SATA
save
2.050,- € / TB
Reduce backup
restore time!
save 4.600,- € / TB
In MetroCluster Environments
Transparent to
users and applications

17. DataOptimizer vs FabricPool
ProLion DataOptimizer
NetApp FabricPool
Support for ONTAP 7.x, 8.x, 9.x Support for 7-Mode and CDOT
YES
No only ONTAP 9.2 or higher
Support for CIFS Protocol
No S3 only
offload "cold" file-content
No SnapShots only
Offload data from NetApp MetroCluster
No MetroCluster not supported
Support for file migration (copy to destination / delete file on source) No
Supports NetApp FAS systems as destination storage
Granular configurable policies based on file-types, -age, -size, etc.
Transparent user access to archived data

18. Thank you! DataOptimizer Robert Graf | CEO Mobile +43 664 1314403