1. What is WFA? Scenario – FC Provisioning
May 2011
Munich Grasbrunn
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2. The Reality of Storage Automation
Processes are manual
Consist of many steps and ad-hoc decision making
Key processes
Provision storage for virtualized environments
Provision storage for key applications
Decommissioning, migration, set-up
Home-grown software is an expensive alternative
Used by a small portion of customers
Hard to scale and maintain
Impact
Maintenance cost, longer time to roll-out and modify services, erroneous, not scalable 2

3. Key customer process needs
Automate existing customer processes
Don’t limit to vendor-defined processes
Allow storage experts to define and adjust processes
Do not require software engineering skills
Resource selection a key part of storage processes
Allow customized resource selection
Enable integration with various IT systems
Storage process execution triggered by
Orchestration tools
Operator or user portal 3

4. Current approaches don’t hit the mark
Flexible
VMware
Orchestrator
BMC
Orchestrator
Flexible
enough
Specialized Orchestrators
SRM Provisioning
(ECC, TPC)
Simple
enough
Element managers
Rigid
Complex
Simple 4

5. Storage Workflow Automation Platform
A series of steps that complete an end-to-end process
Focus on storage-centric workflows
Design
Experts use Designer GUI to create workflow
Leverage rich library of pre-defined components
Flexible platform allows for adding new components
Integrate
Publish workflow to portals & orchestration systems
Activate workflows via web services
Operate
Storage operators use portals to activate workflow
Scale, performance and RBAC as key design points 5

6. Key operational aspects
Audit logs & history for automation activities
Monitor workflow execution
Alert on activation and completion of workflow execution
Identify & troubleshoot failures
Support delayed execution (scheduling)
One instance to support automation across multiple data centers
Template/policy enforcement for process object
Gold volume, Silver volume, etc. 6

7. Workflow Automation Platform Benefits
Operator doesn’t have to be a storage expert
Architect can customize workflows upon need
Workflow best practices enforced consistently
Quick time to execution
Eliminate manual errors in planning and execution 7

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Sample scenario
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9. VSU FC provisioning scenario
Goal: FC storage provisioning for various applications
Layout: Scenario based on 5 volumes
2 data volumes for DB and Application
2 log volumes for DB and Application
1 temp volume for various needs
Single qtree in each volume
LUNs in 500GB allocation units as per size needed
Storage admin is performing a ticket that was received via remedy
He has the data in front of him and he operates one of the workflows
As per input, the platform will locate an applicable aggr for the provisioning operation,
Create volumes, qtrees and LUNs as per VZ operation policies,
Create an igroup for mapping purposes
And finally – sec volumes to trigger protection activities such as VSM
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10. FC provisioning – use case flow
1. Input parameters
7. Map LUNS to Igroup
2. Find Aggregates
8. Create Secondary Volumes
3. Create Volumes
9. Trigger Protection
Storage admin is performing a ticket that was received via remedy
He has the data in front of him and he operates one of the workflows
As per input, the platform will locate an applicable aggr for the provisioning operation,
Create volumes, qtrees and LUNs as per VZ operation policies,
Create an igroup for mapping purposes
And finally – sec volumes to trigger protection activities such as VSM
4. Create Qtrees
5. Create Igroup
6. Create LUNs
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11. FC provisioning for Oracle
Standard repetitive storage allocation (FC, protected)
Create Primary Volume
Create Qtree
Create igroup
Create and Map LUN
Create
Secondary
Volume
Protect (VSM)
Array
Aggregate
Qtree
Igroup
LunID
Ora1_db_data
qtree01
LUN01
LUN02
array1
array2
Ora1_db_log
qtree01
LUN05
PriAggr
SecAggr
Ora1_host_app
qtree01
LUN06
LUN06
LUN08
Ora1_app_log
qtree01
LUN10
Bkp_Ora1_db_data
Ora1_tmp_vol
qtree01
LUN12
Bkp_Ora1_db_log
Ora1_igroup
Bkp_Ora1_host_app
Bkp_Ora1_app_log
Bkp_Ora1_tmp_vol
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