IXOS ECR / IXOS-eCONserver

& EMC Centera

Dr. Hella Horst

Product Manager
Open Text Corporation
Overview

Livelink Business Application Groupware ERP / CRM

IXOS ECR / IXOS-eCONserver

Document Service
STORM

Harddisk

HSM NetApp Optical Devices EMC EMC

TSM HDS
StorageTek ASM SnapLock Jukeboxes Centera Symmetrix
SUN SAM FS
CD DVD WORM
HDWO: Hard Disk Write Once
Opticals
Harddisk
Centera’s Architecture and
Implementation - I
Lead application servers
 A disk-based solution
deployed on a
Redundant Array of
IXOS ECR
Independent Nodes
(RAIN)
Network
API

Access Nodes Storage Nodes

 Enhanced by highly
sophisticated and
automated software:
- Centera software runs
across all nodes and
 Self-configuring completely virtualizes the
 Self-healing architecture
 Self managing - No need to worry about data
storage logistics
Centera Repository
Centera’s Architecture and
Implementation - II

 Standard hardware deployed in one or more six-foot

racks
- Up to 8,16,24 or 32 nodes* possible per rack
- Up to 16 racks can be configured as a single cluster
 Protocol / Connection
- TCP/IP - connected via IP address
 No single point of failure
- Two AC power sources
- Automatic failover of client ethernet connections
- Always two copies of data objects
- Self-healing if capacity component fails
- Continous background data validation
one node corresponds to one PC
Solution Components

IXOS-eCONserver Centera Software

Lead Application Servers

Homogenous support of  Content addressing



different platforms: Win, UNIX  Location-independent persistent ID

Transparent document access  Non-reputable content protection


for lead applications  Metadata abstraction

Distributed scenarios  Application-based API
S
 

Backup, remote-standby and  Optimized for store / retrieve

A
high availability T P
Logical Archives
O I
    

Single Instance Archiving Centera Hardware

Compression R Scalable RAIN architecture
TimeStamps
Encryption M  Incremental storage and throughput
 Plug & Play adaptability
 IP-based network access
 Self managing and self healing
 Readily supports new technologies
Integration into IXOS-eCONserver

 Integrated into STORM

Virtual Jukebox 1  Treated as HDWO* media
ISO images  Stored as ISO Image - Read
only !
 Advantage:
- Reduced number of content
addresses
- Easy backup to optical media -
planned
Network
IP addresses - Device independent integration
 Centera treated as virtual
jukebox
IXOS ECR  Read access to single
documents or parts of
documents possible
Virtual Jukebox N - Centera characteristics are
transparent to the clients

* HDWO: hard disk write once

How IXOS ECR Accesses the
Centera Repository - I

Centera

IXOS ECR

ISO image is created by IXOS- 
eCONserver image is sent to Centera via
Centera API over IP


 Content Address returned to
IXOS-eCONserver
Content Address is stored on
for example:
IXOS-eCONserver for future
39HLTTT2H04O4xEU6M4A9MURETE
reference

Centera generates unique
Content Address
 How ECR Accesses the Centera
Repository - II
 Contains hash value of blob
CA of C-Clip is returned  C-Clip is union of
CDF and BLOB
& Meta information
to STORM and stored CA of BLOB metadata
in TOC file are inserted into XML file &
CA of C-Clip is calculated
Centera
IXOS ECR Calculate
CA
TOC file of C-Clip
XML C-CLIP

CDF
STORM

Metadata +
CA of Blob
BLO
Calculate B
CA
API
ISO Image

  
API calculates Centera repositorys stores
ISO image is created Content Address CA BLOB and mirror object
by CONserver
contains ISO image
has a unique hash value
128-bit fingerprint MD5
Integration into
IXOS ECR Administration

 Pool configuration
 Media type: HDWO
 Max. size of ISO image MB):
HDWO:5120

Configure media
type HDWO in
pool
configuration

Configure Centera as
device

 Create a device description file (DDF)

 Add device to STORM device list: server.cfg
Centera Compliance Modi

Enforce
Remote
Retention Purge allowed
Management
Period

Basic Operation No Enabled Yes

Compliance Edition Yes Disabled Yes

Compliance Edition Plus Yes Disabled No

IXOS recommends to use Compliance Edition

Support of Retention Periods by IXOS
ECR

 Add retention=x
to DDF* of virtual jukebox
 x: retention period in DAYS
 If no retention period is specified, STORM sets a
default of 365 days
 Use several virtual jukeboxes to define different
retention periods
 After retention period has expired, data CAN be
deleted, but will not be deleted automatically
 Centera just allows deletion.
An application is needed to actually delete the data.
 Deletion of data has to be in sync with leading
application!
Device Description File
Supported Scenarios:
Local Backup of Media

 Backup by IXOS-eCONserver either opticals or

Centera
- IXOS ECR writes original to Centera
- IXOS ECR writes a copy to optical medium
- Load balancing during read
- Read failover if one Centera fails
EMC Centera Optical Jukebox (DVD, WORM)
or EMC Centera

IXOS ECR

Write original Write Backup

Supported Scenarios:
Remote Standby

 Supported backup media

 Centera or Opticals (DVD, WORM)
 Disk buffer and HDWOs replicated by IXOS tools
 IXOS read failover if original server fails

IXOS ECR Optical Jukebox (DVD, WORM)

EMC Centera IXOS ECR
Remote Standby or EMC Centera
Original

Replication disk buffers

Replication of media
Supported Scenarios: High Availability

 IXOS ECR writes original to Centera

 IXOS ECR writes a copy to optical or Centera
 Load balancing during read
 Œ IXOS ECR: active
Read failover IXOS ECR: dormant

if Centera fails Shared

Disk System

Network / SAN

Backup
Original

EMC Centera
Optical Jukebox (DVD, WORM)
or EMC Centera
Target Customer Profile

Customer / Requirements Benefit

 Application Service Provider -  Centera can be used for several
ASP customers

 Groupware Archiving -  One single storage

large number of emails

 SAP DataArchiving -  No limitations by media

hugh amount of data

 Telecommunication -  Rapid access by users

large amount of invoices online  No additional cache
 Banking -
payment transactions