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ProtecTIER on IBM i May,2011

ProtecTIER on IBM i May,2011. Bob French Dynamix Group, Inc. bobfrench@dynamixgroup.com. Agenda – ProtecTIER on IBM i. Product Overview What does it do? Deduplication Algorithms Product Family ProtecTIER on IBM i – where it fits ProtecTIER on IBM i – how it attaches

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ProtecTIER on IBM i May,2011

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  1. ProtecTIER on IBM iMay,2011 Bob French Dynamix Group, Inc. bobfrench@dynamixgroup.com

  2. Agenda – ProtecTIER on IBM i • Product Overview • What does it do? • Deduplication Algorithms • Product Family • ProtecTIER on IBM i – where it fits • ProtecTIER on IBM i – how it attaches • ProtecTIER on IBM i - sizing • Next Steps

  3. ProtecTIER Product Overview

  4. No other dedupe technology meets all these criteria! ProtecTIER Vision and Design Criteria • Data-agnostic factoring of up to 25 times or more • Unmatched performance up to 1000 MB/s or more • Unequaled scalability: up to 1 PB physical data • Enterprise-class data-integrity: Not hash-based • Simple, non-disruptive deployment • Supported in most hardware and software environments

  5. IBM i TS3500 ProtecTIER Optional duplication to physical tape (at local or remote site) Ohio IP Replication Minimized bandwidth since data is de-dup’d before sending Virtual Tapes C B A C B A What is DeDuplication? C C A A B B A A B B A A C B A C A B A B A What does ProtecTIER do? New York IBM i ProtecTIER Disk Local Saves to Virtual Tape with De-dup

  6. MemoryResident Index “Filtered” data Hyperfactor Deduplication in Action New Data Stream Repository HyperFactor Disk Arrays SAN Switch TS7650G Existing Data IBM i Servers

  7. Hash Value Pointer Deduplication Algorithms - Types Content Aware Hash Based ProtecTIER HyperFactor • Assumes the best candidate to de-dup against is an object with similar attributes (eg file name, file type) • De-dup ratios are lower since even a tiny difference within the boundary causes the match to fail • Sepaton • Very fast algorithm since it processes backup stream to find possible matches then offloads work to disk to confirm the match • Algorithm can index 1 PB of physical disk using a 4 GB index that fits in memory, hence no performance degradation as the repository grows • Hence scalable for large repositories • Hash table grows as more backup data is stored • As the repository fills, backup speeds decrease since it takes longer to check the bigger table • Eventually the Hash Table can’t fit in memory and backup speeds decrease seriously • Hence this algorithm is only suited to smaller devices: it doesn’t scale well • Data Domain, FalconStor Text

  8. Production Customers Deployment Results

  9. Deduplication Algorithms – Post vs Inline Post Processing Deduplication Inline De-Duplication (eg HyperFactor) • De-dup runs as part of backup process • Uses less disk • Once save is done, the entire process is done • Only possible with a fast de-dup algorithm like ProtecTIER HyperFactor • Backups run first without de-dup • Separate de-dup algorithm runs thereafter • Requires extra disk space to hold the interim full-sized copy of the backup • Used when the de-dup algorithm is not fast enough to run inline

  10. Capacity and Performance Active-Active Cluster Up to 1500 MB/sec 1 PB useable Single Node Up to 900 MB/sec 1 PB useable Active-Active Cluster Up to 500 MB/sec 36 TB (31.5 TiB) useable Single Node Up to 500 MB/sec 36 TB (31.5 TiB) useable Single Node Up to 250 MB/sec 18 TB (15.8 TiB) useable Single Node Up to 100 MB/sec 7 TB (6.3 TiB) useable Single Node Up to 85 MB/sec 5.9 TB (5.5 TiB) useable Single Node Up to 85 MB/sec 4.4 TB (4.0 TiB) useable IBM TS7600 ProtecTIER® Deduplication Family New in July 2010 TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway Highest Performance Largest Capacity High Availability TS7650 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance High Performance High Capacity Flexible Storage Highest Performance Largest Capacity High Availability TS7610 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance Express Highest Performance Largest Capacity Better Performance Larger Capacity Scalable Good Performance Highly Scalable Low cost Good Performance Entry Capacity Very Low cost Nominal Space Available = “useable” space * HyperFactor Ratio 1 TB = decimal TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes or 1,000 GB (i.e. 10^12 bytes) 1 TiB = binary TB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes or 1,024 GiB (i.e. 2^40 bytes)

  11. Notes: (1) IBM i has a max of 32 drives in a virtual library attached to a given server, and 92 drives total in a virtual library (2) IBM i has a max of 4096 cartridge locations in each library (slots + drives + IO slots + grippers) ProtecTIER Details LTO-2 & LTO-3 Emulation TS7650 Gateway TS7650 Appliance TS7610 Appliance

  12. Customer Profile for each Appliance Configuration • Ideal Customer for 7TB ProtecTIER Appliance • 1 TB or less incremental backups per day • 1-3 TBs full backups each week • Experiencing average data growth • Needs a cost effective solution • Ideal Customer for 18TB ProtecTIER Appliance • 3 TBs or less incremental backups per day • 3-6 TBs full backups each week • Experiencing rapid data growth • Needs good performance to meet backup window • Ideal Customer for 36TB ProtecTIER Appliance • 5 TBs or less incremental backups per day • 5-12 TBs full backups each week • Additional growth expected • Meeting the Backup window is an issue - higher performance needed * Note: These general guidelines are based on the backup workload that best fits each appliance configuration Please use Capacity Planning Tool to accurately size a solution to meet customer’s specific requirements

  13. IBM’s LTO Technology Roadmap

  14. ProtecTIER For IBM i

  15. ProtecTIER on IBM i – Where does it fit? Our Niche – Tired of Handling Tapes? Our Niche – Tiny LPARs For customers where a tape cartridge is much bigger than needed ProtecTIER VIOS / NPIV . . . Our Niche – ProtecTIER IP Replication For customers who are moving their tapes offsite via truck today and would like a safer, more automated solution ProtecTIER IBM i ProtecTIER IBM i Note: If the customer already has an HA/DR solution that replicates his data to his remote site, then that will likely provide a more economical solution for remote tape: • IBM i Software-based Replication (eg iCluster, MIMIX, Visions, iTera, etc) • External Disk Copy Services • IBM i Geographic Mirroring (formerly Cross Site Mirorring or XSM)

  16. ProtecTIER 40-90 MB/sec per stream 40-90 MB/sec per stream 40-90 MB/sec per stream 40-90 MB/sec per stream TS7650 ProtecTIER Full box Save capacity is 1500 MB/sec with 2 nodes Non-Infinite Resources Current Technology Physical Drives run at 60-280 MB/sec per stream (umix / largefile) Although virtual tape if flexible, remember the resources aren’t infinite Virtual Tape on IBM i – Questions to Ask Your Vendor Overall Speed and Single Stream Speed Backup Scheduling Virtual Tape Devices shine when they can run a large number of medium-speed backup streams. IBM i customers often need a small number of very fast streams. Be sure to understand the single stream performance provided to make sure your Virtual Tape Device will meet your needs Single Stream performance depends on the VTL disk type/amount IBM i Draw a Backup Gantt Chart to check the MB/sec and # streams at your peak

  17. IBM ProtecTIER is the ONLY External Virtual Tape product that is tested and supported by IBM Rochester ProtecTIER on IBM i – Support and Testing • Supported with: • IBM i V5R4 onwards • Any IBM i fibre card supported on your server • BRMS is strongly recommended • Tested with the same COMPREHENSIVE Test Buckets used for regular tape drives

  18. Fibre cards that don’t use an IOP (fc 5749, 5774/5276, 5735/5273, 5708 FCoE + Blades fibre cards) • IBM i V6R1M1 onwards with the following PTFs • IBM i 6.1.1: MF49234 + pre-reqs • IBM i 7.1.0: MF49235 + pre-reqs • POWER6 or POWER7 system • TS7650 ProtecTIER Code Level • V2.4.1.0 Server Code • V2.4.3.0 PT Manager Code (GUI) See Restrictions on next few pages ProtecTIER Attachment to IBM i - Details • Fibre cards that use an IOP (fc 2765, 5704, 5761) • IBM i V5R4M0 onwards • TS7650 ProtecTIER Code Levels • Min for Local Backups: V2.2.3.0 • Min for IP Replication: V2.3.0 • BRMS is recommended since TS7650 presents as a tape library

  19. Restriction #2: TS7650 IPL with VIOS VIOS IBM i D-IPL SAN Switch IPL TS7650 SAVSYS Tape Other Tape in VIOS Zone If TS7650 is attached to VIOS, remove TS7650 port(s) from the VIOS SAN Zone before IPLing the TS7650, otherwise it may disrupt other devices To D-IPL your IBM i, use TS7650 LUN masking so the adapter card can only see a single virtual drive (the one with the SAVSYS in it) IBM i IOPless Support for ProtecTIER - Restrictions Restriction #1: IBM i alt-IPL (reload) (this only applies to IOPless fibre cards, not the older IOP’d cards) IBM i TS7650 Node 0 Node 1 Virt Drive 0 Virt Drive 2 Virt Drive 3 Virtual Library

  20. IBM i TS3500 Virtual Tape Saves are not compacted so take 3x as much virtual media (gained back with dedup) TS7650 With the PTF, DUPMEDBRM can request compaction so uses less media With PTF Before the PTF, dups used the same compaction parameter as the source volume, so more physical media was needed Before PTF BRMS DUPMEDBRM Compaction PTF • Exposes the COMPACT parameter soyou can compact the physical volumes when you dup from ProtecTIER • Part of June 2010 BRMS PTF • V5R4: SI38733 • IBM i 6.1: SI38739 • IBM i 7.1: SI38740 • Behavior: • V5R4: control via Data Area • Q1ADUPCOMP in QTEMP can be set to *FROMFILE, *YES, *NO • IBM i 6.1 / 7.1 • COMPACT(*YES) is available • help text via web • For new IBM i 6.1 auto-dup feature, need to change command default on DUPMEDBRM to *DEV • Future releases: • COMPACT(*YES) will be available with regular help text

  21. Sizing ProtecTIER For IBM i

  22. ProtecTIER on IBM i – Designing / Sizing Get the ProtecTIER on IBM i Introduction and Questionnaire Simple Environment: 1-2 hours of work Complex Environment: Several days of work IBMers: http://w3-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101536 Partners: http://partners.boulder.ibm.com/src/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101536 Build a Backup Schedule Gantt Chart (to figure out the peak MB/sec) Build a Repository Sizing Spreadsheet 60 60 60 60 20 20 80 80 80 80 80 60 60 Then ask the ProtecTIER FTSS to tell you how many disk arms you need

  23. Next Steps

  24. If you would like to consider ProtecTIER for your shop … Detailed ProtecTIER Presentation Backup Environment Review Attend the ProtecTIER Hands-on Workshop Text • Two-Day Hands-on Workshop in Gaithersburg, Maryland. • Runs 1-2 times per month • No charge to attend Ask your ProtecTIER team to engage an IBM i / ProtecTIER specialist to review your backup environment with you Invite your local IBM ProtecTIER Sales Team to give you a more-detailed presentation

  25. Questions?

  26. Deduplication Market at a Glance S2100-ES2 VTL 700 DD880 DXi7500 DEDUP TECHNOLOGY ProtecTIER with HyperFactor SIR Hash-based RockSoft Hash-based RockSoft Hash-based DeltaStor See Note (1) • Byte-level diff comparison • Potential Hash collision • Byte-level diff comparison • Potential Hash collision • Potential Hash collision See Note (2) • Inline Deduplication • Inline • Post process • Post process • Post process See Note (3) • Block Level See Note (4) • Block Level Deduplication • Block Level • Block Level • File Level PERFORMANCE • Single node performance 500 MB/s • 130 MB/s • 300 MB/s • 160 MB/s • 188 MB/s See Notes (5-6) • Dual node Cluster performance 1000MB/s • Clustering not available • Clustering with Global Dedupe not available • Clustering not available • Clustering with Global Dedupe not available See Notes (7-8) RESOURCE UTILIZATION • Staging area > twice the size of largest full backup • No disk staging area required • Staging area > than the size of largest full backup • No disk staging area required • Staging area > than the size of largest full backup See Notes (9-10) • Only 4GB RAM needed for a 1PB repository See Note (11) • Over 300GBs of RAM! • Over 300GBs of RAM! • Over 300GBs of RAM! • 24GB of RAM Not hash based

  27. Deduplication Market at a Glance S2100-ES2 VTL 700 DD880 DXi7500 ProtecTIER with HyperFactor SIR Hash-based RockSoft Hash-based RockSoft Hash-based DeltaStor PRODUCT STABILITY • IBM in business for nearly 100 years • Acquired by EMC • Over $400 million in debt • Small struggling company • Acquisition or failure imminent See Note (12-13) • ProtecTIER in production since 2006 • In production since 2006 • Post process • GA October 2008 • GA May 2008 • Over 25PBs of in production • Many small systems in production • Almost no deduplication in production See Note (14-15) • Very few small customers • Very few small customers CAPACITY-SCALABILTY • Single system can scale to 1PB capacity • Limited by rapid hash table growth • Limited by huge storage requirements • Limited by rapid hash table growth • 58TB Maximum useable capacity • Up to 16 virtual tape libraries • Up to 128 virtual tape libraries • Up to 192 virtual tape libraries • Limits not published • Up to 64 virtual tape libraries • Up to 512 virtual tape drives • Up to 1024 virtual drives • Up to 192 virtual tape drives • Limits not published • Up to160 virtual tape drives • Up to 512,000 virtual tape cartridges • Up to 64,000 virtual cartridges • Up to 5.3 million virtual cartridges • Limits not published • Up to130,000 virtual cartridges MEETS ENTERPRISE REQUIREMENTS? • YES • NO • NO • NO • NO

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