Aviad Dagan Director, Product Management Switch-based Storage Services Today’s Storage Challenges • Increased storage utilization • Match user and application needs • Grow storage capacity without increasing administration labor • Improved application performance • Increased data availability, zero window backup, DR, migration • Cross Platform Copy Services The Current Answer + SAN Virtualization How It Works Virtualization is the technology which separates the logical representation of storage from the actual physical storage components. Different Implementations • Host based • Storage based • Network based Host Based • Capabilities q Agnostic to storage array q Multipathing q Highly scalable • Disadvantages q LUN allocation – low flexibility, non-efficient usage of capacity q Distributed management q Uses host CPU Storage Based • Capabilities q Server agnostic q Central management • Disadvantages q Vendor (product) lock-in q Scalability out of array Network Based • In-the-data path q Advantages • Central management • Highly secured • Cross storage platform q Disadvantages • Limited resources on appliance – CPU/Memory/HBAs • Scalability Network Based • Out-of-the-data path q Advantages • Central management • Cross storage platform • Highly scalable q Disadvantages • Management of host agents • Manual security management Next-Generation Network Based Virtualization • All Virtualization traditional challenges • Highly secured • Wire speed throughput • Central management • Highly scalable Mid-term Solutions • Centralized Switch based virtualization q Scalability? q Wire throughput? Modular Agent Capability Path Management Multi-pathing Host Based Agent Application Load balancing Security File System Volume Manager SVM Host Agent Failover Virtualization Agent SCSI Driver FC HBA Driver Application Agent Volume Management multiView Creation multiCopy Striping Allocation multiMirror Provisioning Host Application Integration Quiesce File system Scripts (CLI & API) StoreAge Solution • Central storage management deployment • Distributed virtualization fits switch implementation q Allows “point of translation” to be anywhere q Allows wire speed translation q Common metadata server synchronizes activity • Provide storage management to IP networks Distributed Switch Based Virtualization Management paths Data paths Management paths Intelligent Switch Intelligent Switch Fabric Data paths StoreAge Out-of-Band Appliance StoreAge Out-of-Band Appliance Storage Storage Storage Device #1 Device #2 Device #3 Point of translation Storage Storage Storage Device #1 Device #2 Device #3 Point of management Our agents can run anywhere Represents agent and “point of translation” Infiniband Cluster Customer site 5428 IP Network The True Scaling of SAN Company Confidential Benefits • Backward compatible with legacy devices • Scalability (distribution of Virtualization to switch ports) • Central management • Agent consolidation • Gathers all Virtualization architectures benefits with no drawbacks Questions?