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Introduction to NetApp Products Module 2: NetApp Consolidation and Virtualization Solutions


Date: 17JAN2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
MODULE 2: MODULE OVERVIEW ............................................................................................................................... 4 MODULE OBJECTIVES ............................................................................................................................ 4 WINDOWS STORAGE CONSOLIDATION ............................................................................................... 4 NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS .... 5 NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS .... 5 THE BENEFITS OF EFFICIENCY IT ........................................................................................................ 6 RAID-DP TECHNOLOGY .......................................................................................................................... 6 SNAPSHOT TECHNOLOGY ..................................................................................................................... 7 THIN PROVISIONING ............................................................................................................................... 8 THIN PROVISIONING: FLEXSHARE TECHNOLOGY ............................................................................. 8 THIN REPLICATION ................................................................................................................................. 9 VIRTUAL COPIES: FLEXCLONE VOLUMES .......................................................................................... 9 FLEXCACHE TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................. 10 NETAPP DEDUPLICATION .................................................................................................................... 10 NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION ........................................................................................................... 11 NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION .................................................................... 11 SATA DRIVES AND FLASH CACHE ..................................................................................................... 11 MANAGEABILITY ................................................................................................................................... 12 VIRTUAL STORAGE CONSOLE ............................................................................................................ 12 SNAPMANAGER FOR HYPER-V ........................................................................................................... 13 APPLIANCEWATCH PRO ...................................................................................................................... 13 MULTISTORE SOFTWARE .................................................................................................................... 14 NETAPP: THE STORAGE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD ....................................................................... 15 LEARNING ACTIVITY INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 16 MODULE SUMMARY .............................................................................................................................. 16

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MODULE 2: NETAPP CONSOLIDATION AND VIRTUALIZATION SOLUTIONS


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MODULE OVERVIEW Microsoft Windows and virtualized environments continue to grow at an exponential rate and can provide storage administrators with a new set of complex and labor-intensive challenges. NetApp technologies offer several ways to meet these challenges.This module describes the NetApp storage-efficiency technologies that help to reduce the need for more storage and the NetApp technologies that facilitate management of these growing and complex environments. This module requires approximately 45 minutes.

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MODULE OBJECTIVES By the end of this module, you should be able to: Identify the key NetApp products that are part of the Windows consolidation and virtualization solutions Describe how the NetApp technologies help to increase storage efficiency Explain how NetApp is the storage foundation for cloud

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WINDOWS STORAGE CONSOLIDATION The more storage demands grow, the more businesses must reassess their infrastructure strategies. The traditional approach-deploying more systems for each particular application-results in islands of stranded assets that become difficult and timeconsuming to manage, are poorly utilized, and are expensive to operate. Systems administrators become mired in complexity and spend their days on routine and repetitive management tasks. These environments can no longer scale and businesses can't afford more people and resources to keep pace with data growth. The NetApp Windows Storage Consolidation enables businesses to create a common storage pool that can be networked and shared across a diverse set of applications with a common group of management processes. NetApp takes businesses beyond simple multiprotocol storage to integrated data management and data protection, support for all tiers of storage, quality of service, and other elements, all in a single platform.

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4 NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS Virtualized servers and desktops are the foundation of a virtual infrastructure; however, to take advantage of the virtualization, network storage becomes a critical part of the overall solution. Server virtualization has set the stage for those who are rethinking how they design and implement their IT solutions. Whether a business is looking for new ways to lower cost, improve scalability, or improve SLAs, integrating storage as part of the overall solution enables businesses to: Bring products and services to market sooner Scale to accommodate growth Save up to 50% on storage-cooling costsDesktop virtualization allows businesses to deploy and manage desktop environments and applications centrally.

Administrator scan provide user access to a virtual desktop over standard network infrastructure without affecting users' levels of control over their desktop environments. Network storage is also critical to the success of these deployments. Because NetApp solutions provide the best cost efficiency, manageability, and operational efficiency, these solutions are the virtualized infrastructure platform of choice. The NetApp technology differentiators include: The NetApp Unified Storage Architecture Storage-efficiency technologies Scalability Secure multi-tenancyNetApp partners with the best virtualization companies, including VMware ESX, Microsoft, and Citrix.

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5 NETAPP TECHNOLOGIES FOR MICROSOFT WINDOWS AND VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS The NetApp Windows Consolidation and Optimization solution helps organizations to get the full benefit of virtualization and IT modernization by: Reducing IT infrastructure costs by up to 50% Simplifying management with up to 60% management-overhead savings through tools that are integrated with a Windows environment Improving the reliability of data protection and availability without compromising the protection of business-critical data Easily scaling with the ability to respond quickly to business changeClick on each benefit to learn more about it.

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THE BENEFITS OF EFFICIENCY IT Data growth is inevitable; however, data growth does not have to mean storage chaos. Blindly adding more hardware may help a situation temporarily but can lead to more complexity and many other problems later. NetApp storage-efficiency technologies store the maximum amount of data for the lowest possible cost; retain data on disks for longer periods of time; and reduce data-center power, cooling, and space costs. NetApp has eight primary areas of focus to help to achieve true storage efficiency: RAID-DP technology Snapshot technology Thin provisioning Thin replication Virtual cloning Deduplication Data compression SATA drives with Flash Cache

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RAID-DP TECHNOLOGY When a storage system employs a single-parity RAID protection scheme, data is at high risk. You cannot safely rely on any single disk not to fail during a RAID reconstruction. As ever larger disk drives are used to store ever more critical data, resiliency becomes paramount. NetApp RAID-DP technology provides protection against dual-drive failures at a fraction of the capacity that is required by RAID mirroring techniques. RAID-DP technology is a standard feature on all NetApp storage systems. It delivers 46% capacity savings over RAID 10 mirroring and allows the use of lower-cost, higher-capacity SATA disks for applications.

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SNAPSHOT TECHNOLOGY Another data-protection feature of Data ONTAP software is its Snapshot technology. Snapshot copies are online, read-only backups of a volume that can be created quickly and that typically use little disk space. Snapshot copies of a volume are not full copies of the volume. Rather, they are point-in-time "thin" copies that initially take up no space and begin to use storage only as the volume begins to change. Because additional storage is used only incrementally as a volume changes over time, many Snapshot copies of a volume can be retained for a long period with little additional storage being used. When initially created, each Snapshot copy comprises pointers to the blocks of storage of the volume. As changes are made to the volume, new blocks are written to disk for those changes while old blocks are retained to be pointed at by the Snapshot copies. Thus, the contents of the Snapshot copies never change. The more the volume changes, the more blocks are added but the original blocks that are pointed at by the Snapshot copy remain on disk. Only when a Snapshot copy is deleted are those original blocks possibly cleared as long as no other Snapshot copies still point to them. A common practice is for each volume to have Snapshot copies automatically created every hour, with a rolling window of hourly Snapshot copies being retained at all times, along with some daily and weekly copies. With this approach, if users must recall files that were deleted or changed within the last hour, they go back only to the previous hour's Snapshot copy to get the files. Likewise, if they must go back a day or a week, they can pull the changes from the last daily or weekly Snapshot copy.

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THIN PROVISIONING In the traditional storage-provisioning model, storage space is allocated beyond current needs in anticipation of a growing need for it. As a result, the utilization rate is low. Large amounts of storage space are paid for but may never be used. Thin provisioning is a way of optimizing the utilization of available storage. It relies on a storage systems ability to allocate storage dynamically and as needed. With thin provisioning, storage-capacity utilization efficiency can be driven up nearly 100% with little administrative overhead. Organizations can purchase less storage capacity up front, defer storage-capacity upgrades in line with actual business usage, and save the operating costs (electricity and floor space) that are associated with keeping unused disk capacity spinning. Added benefits of thin provisioning include reduced consumption of electricity, smaller hardware space requirements, and reduced heat generation compared with traditional storage systems. NetApp provides thin provisioning through the use of flexible volumes and the FlexShare tool. The flexible volumes can be managed independently of the storage beneath them. This layer of abstraction allows FlexVol volumes to run at nearly 100% capacity utilization because, if the volume runs out of space, it can be dynamically grown by using space from its aggregate. Likewise, if a volume is consistently running at 20% utilization, space can be dynamically removed from it and reallocated to other volumes that need that space.

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THIN PROVISIONING: FLEXSHARE TECHNOLOGY The FlexShare tool gives administrators the ability to leverage existing infrastructure and increase processing utilization without sacrificing the performance of critical business applications. With the use of the FlexShare tool, administrators can confidently consolidate multiple applications and data sets on a single storage system. With the FlexShare tool, administrators can prioritize applications based on how critical the applications are to the business. The FlexShare feature of the Data ONTAP operating system allows an administrator to prioritize the Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL) file-system processing based on volume and on whether the request is a client request or an internal WAFL operation. For example, if the data on a particular volume of a NetApp storage system must be given preferential treatment for its reads and writes when multiple volumes are being hit with requests at the same time, the FlexShare feature can be turned on and that volume can be given a higher priority than other volumes. A similar prioritization can be done between client requests such as those from NFS and CIFS clients and system requests such as those for SnapMirror software, SnapRestore technology, and NDMP operations.

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THIN REPLICATION Thin replication refers to a method of disk-to-disk replication whereby after an initial baseline copy of a volume is created, all subsequent replications are performed only for the changed or incremental data. "Thin" refers to the relatively small amount of bandwidth that is needed to transfer those incremental changes. SnapMirror software replicates NetApp data to one or more NetApp storage systems and incrementally updates that mirrored data, which keeps it available and current. SnapMirror software allows data to be mirrored asynchronously, synchronously, or semisynchronously, based on how up-to-date you want your mirrored data to be and how quickly you want an application to receive an acknowledgment that the data was written. "Cascading" allows mirrors to be sources for other mirrors, rather than all mirrors being replicated from one data source. SnapVault software is a disk and IP-based alternative to tape backups. SnapVault software provides block-level incremental backups of data from NetApp storage to other NetApp storage systems. The read-only copies of data are created and kept up-to-date more quickly and more reliably than tape backups are. SnapVault backups can be taken as often as hourly, which, if done to tape, is expensive and time-consuming. If tape backups are still needed, they can be created directly from the SnapVault "secondary" system. Snapshot technology allows many Snapshot copies of the data on the SnapVault secondary to be retained inexpensively.

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VIRTUAL COPIES: FLEXCLONE VOLUMES A FlexClone volume is a logical read-write copy of a FlexVol volume. Like a Snapshot copy, when a FlexClone volume is first created, it shares all blocks of storage with the FlexVol volume and, thus, takes up no space. As changes are made to the original FlexVol volume, blocks are added while the FlexClone volume still points to the original blocks. Unlike Snapshot copies, FlexClone copies are read-write entities and can change, so, as changes are made to the FlexClone volume, blocks are added. The FlexClone volume can "split" from the original volume at any time, which causes it to become a complete copy that shares no blocks with the original FlexVol volume. A common use for this technology is an application test and development environment that uses production databases. Imagine a large enterprise software-development firm that performs active development on the production database. The firm is forced to create multiple copies of that database for multiple development and testing projects. Not only do these additional copies consume significant space, they take a significant amount of time to create. With FlexClone technology, when a business needs a duplicate copy for either development or testing, it simply creates FlexClone volumes, which are completely transparent to their users.

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FLEXCACHE TECHNOLOGY As the name implies, the FlexCache storage device is a storage-caching solution. It allows the most frequently read data from "origin" NetApp storage-system FlexVol volumes to be cached by-and then served locally from-FlexCache volumes on other NetApp storage systems. When NFS clients perform reads, the data is served from a FlexCache volume whenever possible. Typically, the FlexCache device is used to bring remote data "closer" to its destination, which shortens storage-response times. FlexCache volumes are also used to distribute and reduce the read workload on the origin system and volumes, which allows those origin systems to concentrate on servicing write requests.

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NETAPP DEDUPLICATION NetApp deduplication improves storage efficiency by finding identical blocks of data and replacing them with references to a single shared block. The same block of data can belong to several files or LUNs or it can appear repeatedly within the same file. When data is first written, a small digital "fingerprint" is saved in a separate, fingerprint file. When the deduplication function starts, it searches the fingerprint file for matching fingerprints. If a match is found, the corresponding data blocks are compared byte by byte to verify an exact match. If an exact match is found, the original block is retained and the redundant block is marked as free. The deduplication process runs as a low-priority background process and can be run manually or by using a schedule. The process also runs automatically when a certain amount of new data has arrived (20% by default). Depending on the type of data, the deduplication storage savings ratio may reach as high as 20 to 1.

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NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION Data compression is the process of reducing the physical capacity that is required to store data on a FlexVol volume by compressing data blocks. Data compression can be used for primary, secondary, and archive storage and is completed either inline or on a schedule. This process is transparent to applications, which means that application awareness is not needed. Users can compress pre-existing data. Inline compression begins as a file is written into a volume with data compression enabled. It is broken up into a 32-KB compression group and fingerprints are created for data as it is written. The largest repeating pattern within a "compression group" is identified and replaced and this process is repeated until no more repeating patterns exist. Each compression group is analyzed to determine if data compression can achieve at least 25% capacity savings.

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NETAPP DATA COMPRESSION AND DEDUPLICATION Data compression and deduplication work together to optimize storage space savings further. With compression and deduplication enabled, users see an immediate space savings (from compression) and cumulative savings (from postprocess deduplication). Compression can reduce the footprint of the initial data that is written to disk. Deduplication removes duplicate WAFL blocks once the data has been written to disk.

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SATA DRIVES AND FLASH CACHE The combination of SATA drives and Flash Cache further optimizes your NetApp storage infrastructure by increasing performance and capacity and reducing cost. The combination of these two hardware products: Provides maximum flexibility with large storage pools Leverages dynamic and policy-based performance tuning Provides the same performance at half the price Provides up to 50% more capacity Consumes up to 66% less power Requires up to 59% less rack space

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MANAGEABILITY In a traditional IT organization, application and server administrators call upon the storage administrator to accommodate even the most routine requests for storage services. The storage administrator acts as a help desk, troubleshooter, and recovery facilitator while trying to concentrate on higher-value storage-management activities. The NetApp OnCommand suite of management products makes the IT administrator self-sufficient, which leads to greater productivity and greater flexibility. This is accomplished by having the storage administrator retain control of policies and rolebased access while enabling other administrators to perform functions such as provisioning and data recovery. Storage administrators can focus their time on high-value activities and spend less time on help-desk-type activities while they increase the utilization of their storage from 35% to 70% or higher. Enhanced productivity of people and assets translates to a better TCO. The specific products that are associated with the OnCommand family are discussed in the next module of this course.

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VIRTUAL STORAGE CONSOLE With Virtual Storage Console (VSC), users can streamline and automate the virtual machine (VM) backup process. The keystone is the NetApp Snapshot technology, which enables users to create point-in-time copies of VMs or entire data stores and then restore from these backup copies at any level of granularity simply and quickly when required. This is all done on NetApp storage systems, which frees servers to run applications, not backups. VSC simplifies backup and recovery management by allowing the virtual infrastructure administrator to "set it and forget it." For example, administrators can: Schedule a postbackup script to send the latest backup to tape Set a time-based or number-based copy-retention period Replicate data after every backup to ensure that the business is disasterrecovery ready Schedule backups at the data-store level so that all VMs that are provisioned within that data store are automatically protected

VSC enables quick and easy recovery of VMware VMs. Users simply select the desired recovery point that is stored on disk to rapidly restore the VM. VSC also streamlines remote replication for automated, rapid disaster recovery. Replication from the primary system to the disaster-recovery site can be automatically triggered immediately following a backup and, in the event of a disaster, the Snapshot copy at the disaster-recovery site can be rapidly promoted to a production copy.

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SNAPMANAGER FOR HYPER-V SnapManager for Hyper-V (SMHV) enables users to group VMs into data sets and apply standard backup policies across entire groups. As new VMs are deployed, they are automatically identified within the SMHV dashboard. Any VMs without a backup policy are flagged. Users can easily define retention schemes for keeping backups available on disk and even automate tap offload by specifying custom scripts to run before or after a Snapshot copy is created. SMHV leverages the unique NetApp Snapshot point-in-time copy technology to offload backups from host servers to the NetApp storage system and eliminate backup bottlenecks. Backups of Hyper-V VMs can be made at any time of day, as frequently as desired, in a matter of seconds. Because only incremental changes are stored, Snapshot copies use little storage, which allows more backups to be cost-effectively kept on disk for rapid, granular recovery. Additionally, because SMHV uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) integration, the backups that it creates are Microsoft-application-aware. This moves all data out of memory and onto disk before a Snapshot copy is performed, which ensures that the application backups are recorded in a consistent state. The backup process covers the application binaries, the logs, and the application data, which in turn enables the restores to be that much faster and to return to a known state.

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APPLIANCEWATCH PRO OnCommand plug-ins for VMware and Microsoft provide access to OnCommand control and automation features from those respective management frameworks. For example, ApplianceWatch PRO integrates with Microsoft System Center. It allows administrators to view, monitor, and manage NetApp storage systems from within their current systemmanagement environments. ApplianceWatch PRO enables Microsoft Windows administrators to monitor and manage NetApp storage systems by using their existing management tools and skills. When combined with Microsoft Operation Manager software, ApplianceWatch PRO monitors NetApp storage systems by interpreting SNMP traps from the systems. It also provides access to a storage system's existing Webbased management tools. Included in ApplianceWatch PRO is ApplianceWatch PRO for Microsoft Hyper-V. This component adds capabilities in a virtualized environment by monitoring storage availability and capacity as they pertain to VMs that run on a Hyper-V host.

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MULTISTORE SOFTWARE MultiStore software allows a storage controller to be quickly and easily divided into multiple virtual storage systems. Each virtual storage system is completely segregated from every other one, which ensures that no information on a secured partition can be viewed, used, or downloaded by unauthorized users. Each storage partition is maintained separately from every other storage partition so that multiple users, departments, and customers can share the same storage system without compromise to privacy and security. MultiStore software provides secure multi-tenancy, like an apartment building. Only one "building" (or system) must be maintained but each "tenant" (or virtual storage system) has its own personal space and privacy. This is another way that NetApp provides storage consolidation. Each department or customer perceives that it has its own system but the administrator has only one system to maintain.

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NETAPP: THE STORAGE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD NetApp technologies are ideal for organizations that are looking to virtualize their IT infrastructures and for organizations that are ready to move to a cloud strategy. As this course has described, NetApp's storage and data-management technology capabilities are built on the Data ONTAP platform, which is the foundation of the NetApp Unified Storage Architecture and provides the following key capabilities that are critical to private cloud computing: Storage-efficiency technologies through a single unified storage architecture The ability to scale up and scale out the storage environment Nonstop operations that allow users to move data to balance workloads as needed Secure multi-tenancy to cost-effectively and securely partition a single NetApp system to support multiple tenants ntegrated data protection that is built in to NetApp storageService automation and analytics are also critical for automated storage provisioning, comprehensive visibility, monitoring, and proactive alerts of availability, performance, and policy compliance. NetApp's capabilities that are provided in OnCommand are discussed in the next module of this course.

Click on each capability to learn more about it. Storage efficiency is provided through a single unified storage architecture and management interface that supports multiple protocols and multivendor arrays with NetApp technologies that are inherent in the Data ONTAP operating system for improving storage efficiency, such as thin provisioning, deduplication, cloning, and Snapshot copies. Scale up and scale out means having the elastic scalability to scale up, out, or down to meet the dynamic demands of a shared IT infrastructure that delivers IT as a service. Nonstop operations allow users to move data to balance workloads or other requirements, because planned downtime is impossible in a shared infrastructure. Data Motion allows businesses to easily and quickly migrate and move data across multiple storage systems without disrupting users or applications that are accessing that data. Maintenance, hardware, and software upgrades and technology refreshes can be conveniently performed by moving all data off a storage system, performing the desired activity, and then moving the data back. Secure multi-tenancy allows users to cost-effectively and securely partition a single NetApp system to support multiple tenants with MultiStore software that is combined in a secure multi-tenancy architecture with Cisco and VMware to segment, isolate, and deliver shared server, storage, and network resources to different users, groups, departments, and applications. Integrated data protection is built in to NetApp storage, with core features such as high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and compliance that can be activated as needed without having to deploy additional complex combinations of software and hardware.

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LEARNING ACTIVITY INTRODUCTION This learning activity reinforces the concepts that you learned in this module. This learning activity requires approximately three minutes.

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MODULE SUMMARY Now that you have completed this module, you should be able to: Identify the key NetApp products that are part of the Windows consolidation and virtualization solutions Describe how the NetApp technologies help to increase storage efficiency Explain how NetApp is the storage foundation for cloud

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