Innovation storage

technology for Business

Continuity
Andrey Pilipenko
Senior Solutions Consultant
November 2014
Customer Challenges
and Market Dynamics
 Customer Challenges

Site Failure
Catastrophic events like an
airplane taking down a datacenter
& recovery issues
Business Challenge
Non-Stop Operation
Reaching zero RPO & RTO
Limited Failure Scenarios
Gaining Connectivity from BUSINESS
Surviving Cluster CONTINUITY
Market Dynamics

Game changer for customers needing active-active compute and

storage configurations
Global-active device will allow customers to move to an active-
active fully fault tolerant storage configuration
All that is required is global-active device, multipathing software, and
VSP G1000 systems, excluding the quorum.
Enterprise-class customers seeking the strictest IT availability
requirements will gain from global-active device when failure is not an
option
New HDS Storage
Main directions

NONDISRUPTIVE INTEGRATED UNIFIED

MIGRATION ACTIVE-ACTIVE MANAGEMENT
Active Active - Active

Virtual Storage
Seamless Workload Mobility Self-Managing
Machine
Availability Agility Policy-Driven
OLD
OLD NEW Site A Site B
Continuous
Seamless identity
Extensible Streamlined
App Level SLA and
absorption and transfer Business Customization

3X Performance Zero Downtime Flexible Mobility

Unified File and Block
Continuous Cloud Infrastructure Foundation:
Powered By Hitachi

Storage Virtualization Virtual Storage Command Suite

Operating System Platform G1000 V8

Redefining Mission-Critical
Storage Virtualization
Hardware Product Packaging

Unified Block and File Configurations Entry, Small,

File Modules Medium, Large,
Extra-Large
Add up to 8 nodes
to address customers
Models
file sharing needs

Up to 2 controller Block-Only Configurations

Flash-Only
chassis
Configuration
Up to 6 racks

Same upgrade
flexibility options as
with VSP
Mainframe-Only
Package
Storage Virtualization Operating System
VSP G1000: Block Storage Specifications
VSP G1000 VSP G1000 VSP
Single Chassis Dual Chassis
96 FMD 192 FMD 192 FMD
Maximum flash devices
192 SSD 384 SSD 256 SSD

1152 2.5-inch disks 2304 2.5-inch disks (2.7PB max) 2048 2.5-inch disks (2.4PB max)
Maximum internal drives
576 3.5-inch disks 1152 3.5-inch disks (4.5PB max) 1280 3.5-inch disks (5.0PB max)

Maximum Data Path 384GB/second 768GB/second 128GB/second

Bandwidth Control Path 64GB/second 128GB/second 64GB/second

Maximum Virtual Storage Director pairs 4 VSD pairs 8 VSD pairs 4 VSD pairs
and total # of cores Total of 64 cores Total of 128 cores Total of 32 cores

64 (96) Fibre Channel 128 (192) Fibre Channel 192 Fibre Channel
Maximum Host ports (if no BEDs) 64 (80) IBM FICON 128 (176) FICON 176 FICON
80 FCoE* 176 FCoE* 88 FCoE

Maximum Cache Memory 1TB 2TB 1TB

Power comparison: Dual controller, (4) VSD
pairs, 1TB cache, (2) BEDs, (2048) 900GB - 30.1 KVA 34.0 KVA
drives, 160 Fibre Channel ports
Max Local copy pairs 32K 32K 16K
Max Remote copy pairs 64K 64K 32K
LUNs/LDEVs 64K 64K 64K
Simplified Data Center Planning

AGILE Deploy to Fit Data Center Requirements

Traditional
Increase floor space efficiency
System Eliminate data center hotspots
Layout Flexibly scale performance and capacity

Separate
Today: Storage
VSP G1000 Controllers
Flexible
5M, 30M,
Deployment 100M Options

Coming Soon:
Ultimate Deployment
Flexibility
Separate Controller Racks
and Disks Racks
New storage
functionality
Virtual Storage Machine
CONTINUOUS Distributed Multi-Tenancy

Virtual setting

Resources Resources Resources

Group Group Group Virtual Storage Machine

System 1 System 2 System 3 System 1 System 2 System 3

VSP VSP G1000

Virtual disk controller which enables multi-tenancy and collaboration of
distributed resources group across physical storage system boundaries
N-Way Scale-Out
EXTENSIBLE Dynamic and Intelligent

Virtual Storage Machine Virtual Storage Machine (expansion)

System
Add new system

Growth
System 1 System 2 System 1 System 2 System 3

Virtual Storage Machine Virtual Storage Machine

Load
Balancing
Data
migration

System 1 System 2 System 1 System 2

Non-Disruptive Migration
CONTINUOUS Maintain application and data copies relationship

Support LDEV migration

with replication works
Virtual Storage Machine Fault protection in the
event of failure of Target
storage during migration
Support SCSI-3
Data
SIMPLEX
&
PAIRED DEVICES
migration
SIMPLEX
&
PAIRED DEVICES
reservations
System 1(Source) System 2(Target)
Possibility of NDA
customers / partners and
(not GSS)
Hitachi Innovation: Global Storage
Virtualization

Global Storage Virtualization

Create global-active device Leverage
Virtual Storage Virtual LDEVs: Global-Active
Machines 00:01
00:02
Device
Virtual Storage Virtual Storage
Functionality
Abstract Identity 12345 Identity 12345
addresses from Deliver shared
physical storage Resource Resource
Group 2
read-write
Group 1
controllers volumes
LDEVs LDEVs
ID: ID:
10:00
10:01 20:00
20:01
10:01
10:02 20:01
20:02
10:02 20:02

VSP G1000 S/N 12345 Hitachi VSP G1000 with VSP G1000 S/N 23456
Storage Virtualization Operating System
What is Global Active Device

Synchronous remote copy of a data volume

Active / Active configuration

Campus Distance configuration a host is connected to both

storage systems

Metro Distance configuration a host has a primary path and a

non-preferred path to insure the shortest path to the data is
always used
What is Global Active Device (cont.)

Host sees a single volume on a single storage system

Secondary storage system has a virtual storage machine (VSM) that
looks like the primary storage system
The primary and secondary volumes are assigned the same virtual
LDEV number in the VSM
Pair volumes are seen by the host as a single volume on a single
storage system
Both volumes receive the same data from the host
Global Active Device
Global Active Device achieves concurrent references/updates of
mirrored volumes, while keeping data consistency
Main DKC/Reserve DKC
Prod. Server-1 Prod. Server-2
(Active) App/DBMS (Active) HA mirrored volumes for production servers
clustering
App/ App/
DBMS DBMS
Mirrored volumes accept Read/Write I/O on
both sides
Requires 2 G1000 storage systems
Quorum DKC
HA
mirroring Quorum disk, determines HA owner node in
the case of a failure
Any storage system can be used as long as it
is supported by UVM
Main Reserve
DKC DKC Production Servers
QRM
Quorum Clustered App/DBMS
DKC
Active-Active processing with sharing the
same data
Global-Active Device with clustering management

HCS offers efficient management of Global-Active Devices

While providing central control of multiple DKCs
Storage Mgt
HCS
Storage Mgt Storage Management Server
Server(Active) Server(Passive)
clustering
HCS HCS Clustered HCS server is running,
where the local HCS server enables
HDvM
Prod. Server-1
(Active) App/DBMS
Prod. Server-2
(Active)
HDvM HA management
Agent Agent
App/ App/
CCI
DBMS
clustering
DBMS
CCI In the case of local site failure, the
Pair Mgt
Server
Pair Mgt remote HCS server takes over the
Server
HA management
HA HCS DB should be replicated with
CMD
mirroring CMD
either TC or HA
TC/HA
HCS
DB
mirroring HCS
DB Pair Management Servers
MDKC RDKC Runs HDvM Agent/CCI
QRM
Quorum HCS management requests to
DKC
configure/operate the HA mirrors via
the command device
GAD Failure Cases

Failure Cases and Failback procedures

Single path Failure

Primary Storage System Failure

Prod. Prod.
Server-1 Server-2
All Active path to P-Vol fail for a
single host in the cluster

Quorum Disk Failure

Primary Secondary
Storage Replication link failure Storage
System
Quorum
Storage
System

WAN Storage Connection Failure

Primary Site Failure

Secondary Site Failure

 System Configuration
- Planning Data Centers -
Site Configuration
3 Data Centers 2 Data Centers A Single Data Center
Each storage system is located on the Primary Storage System and Quorum All the storage systems are
separate site are located on the local site and located on the same site
Provides maximum level of business Secondary Storage System is located Provides business
continuity for any type of storage system on the remote site. continuity for storage
failures, or site failures (Local site, Remote Provides moderate level of business system failures, but cannot
site, Quorum site) continuity for any type of storage continue the business for a
system failures, or Remote site failure site failure

Primary Secondary
Primary Secondary Primary Secondary Storage Storage
Storage Storage Storage Storage System System
System System System System

Quorum
QRM QRM
Local site Remote site Quorum Remote site
QRM
Quorum
Quorum site
Local site
Local site
New management
functionality
Hitachi Command Suite V8

Operational Efficiency Through Simplified, Integrated Management

Hitachi Command Suite v8
STREAMLINED Management efficiency for the modern data center

Hitachi VSP G1000 support

HNAS support enhancements

Multipath management enhancements

64-bit Architecture

GLOBAL STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION REALIZED

Create Virtual Storage Machine
Global-Active Device
Setting Up GAD Set up global-active device dialog
Launching Set up global-active device
We have two launching points to invoke the landing page.
- General Tasks in the Replication Tab
- Shortcut in the [Actions] menu

Add a launching point in General Add shortcut in [Actions]

Tasks in the Replication Tab.

Replication Tab [Actions] Menu

Global-Active Device
Implementation Service
Global-Active Device Implementation Service from
Hitachi Data Systems - Scope of the Service

Implementation based on global-active device configuration:

Consulting service to arrive at optimum solution design
Integrate global-active device configuration into customers environment and
validate the system recovery
Configure global-active device, zoning for global-active device cluster, multipathing
software, and production pairs
Create design documentation, perform on a test server and demonstrate
recovering from various paths and quorum array failures
Provide best practices on platform to limited staff, demonstrate features,
functionality, and knowledge transfer
Provide project management and technical oversight
Thank You