Hatsav.A , ProtecTIER Development © 2015 IBM Corporation IBM Confidential ProtecTIER Value Proposition– Tape Backup Pain Points Copper Mountain Backup Servers Large Tape Libraries Carrier and DR Services - Constantly adding disk to storage pools - Floor space - Expensive - Cleaning tapes, drive maintenance, hardware limitation regarding amount of drives - Lost, Stolen and Damaged tapes - Tape media storage and transport - Oversubscribed - Potential media failures - Manual labor processes - Potential mechanical defect - RTO limited by transport - Operator intensive - Security services for sensitive data - Reclamation - Database growth - Special transport boxes - Expensive! 2 ProtecTIER VTL Introduction – with Native Replication Primary Site Represented capacity Backup Server ProtecTIER Cluster High Availability & Performance Physical capacity Backup Server Deduplication enables a large amounts of data to be replicated with significantly less bandwidth IP basedWAN link CRC Verified Secondary Site Virtual cartridges can be cloned to tape at DR site Backup Server ProtecTIER Gateway Physical capacity Tape library ProtecTIER Introduction - Deduplication Principal New Data Stream Repository Memory Resident Index FC Switch TS7650G Backup Servers Ratio of Repository to Index: 25 : 1 “Filtered” data Disk Arrays ProtecTIER Introduction - Virtual Tape Library In-line deduplication vs. post processing Up to 25:1 deduplication factoring High performance (up to 2800/3600 MBs; backup/restore) Highly scalable (Up to 1PB physical storage per system) 100% data integrity Support Upto 16X virtual libraries and 512 virtual tape drives Clustering (Two node cluster for higher availability) Native replication (M – 1; M 2 M: 1 – M) VTL, CIFS & NFS capable Q1 2016 Q4 2016 2H 2017 Future 3.4 Customer Value Proposition • • • • Current DD5 PT Cluster More than 5x reduction in hardware footprint Eliminates external cluster hardware Eliminates single point of failure Simplifies deployment and management External cluster network ProtecTIER Node A DD6 ProtecTIER Cluster ProtecTIER Node B ProtecTIER Node A ProtecTIER Node B Q1 2016 Q4 2016 2H 2017 Future DD6 Single Node View • 2X10GB Nic replication eth ports ( vs 1Gb in DD5 ) • Micro SSD Drive 128GB OS • 600GB 15K RPM SAS for logging per node • New Emulex models LPe15004 & LPe15002 FE and BE . VTL Target FC Ports Back-End Repository Storage Customer & RAS Replication Q1 2016 Q4 2016 2H 2017 Today’s Activity Feature Abstract Outlook Dedup Estimator Customer and field tool allowing better monitoring of data types and cartridges/libraries dedup evaluation. Collaboration with Haifa Research Labs Q1 2015 – 3.3.7 PGA Reduce maintenance time during boot ( upto X3 times faster)by increasing number of running cash threads and parallelism during boot. Q1 2015 – 3.3.7 PGA Boot Time Improvement Link ProtecTIER development support Created By/: Vered Berenstein Jan 2015 ProtecTIER VTL Dedup Estimator © 2015 IBM Corporation Stat Fs Gfs Reduce boot time by increasing parallel running threads April 2015 3.3.8 PGA Available Improve MRC default settings to reduce long run housekeeping activity , Improve Check and Recovery run time , Better address Out Of Order lost frames return code . Q4 2015 – 3.3.8 PGA 1 3.3.8 Content ID 1 # Fix Jira 81025116.2 81026583 RTC 14984 Client - Description Impact Change deletes algorithm to round-robin + Improve delete backlog statistics . H 2 81026578 PTT-1576 50426 - Improved functionality - fix TxLog errors during Check and recovery H 3 81024072.2 PTT-570 27078 Trinity Emulex driver response for abort task set (0x2) flag when Out-Of-Order frames sent to avoid TARGET RESETS sent from the OS and eventually fail with IO errors . H 4 81026398 PTT-1549 - Check and recovery integrity risk + poor performance due to failure in the validation stage H 5 81026467.4 PTT-1779 50426 Discover Financial Check and recovery ended unexpectedly due to fencing issues H 6 81026487.10 PTT-1500 - Adding functionality to Stm_Diag to fix TxLog errors. H 7 81026072.2 81026073.4 PTT-1655 50758 Fes Develop The file system properties field usage is different from the NFS directory properties size. H 1 Q1 2016 Q4 2016 2H 2017 Today’s Activity Feature Abstract Outlook Link Performance tool Customer and field external tool, generates performance , history of long term statistics and other technical system in html graphical analysis report. Q1 2016 – 3.4.0 GA Html Demo Near online Check and Recovery. Reduce customer downtime impact by up to 80% when ProtecTIER C&R is required to recover data inconsistency. Q1 2016 – 3.4.0 GA April 2015 PT mobile app Monitor capacity and system performance , get software alerts and system information. ( Currently available for Andriod only) Q2 3.4.1 PGA? TBD ProtecTIER Mobile Dashboard ( Beta) Jesús Serrano May 2015 © 2014 IBM Corporation 1