Innovative solutions in storage for capacity building

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Innovative solutions in storage for capacity
building

• Name Shekar Nairemail snair_at_netapp.com

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Agenda

• Background
• Challenges
• Customer Experience
• Storage Solutions

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Background

• Storage needs are increasing
• Volume of data
• types video, voice, encrypted
• quantity terabytes, petabytes, exabytes
• Accessibility to data
• Compliance
• Security
• High availability
• New ways to accommodate the needs
• Current models will not work
• Proven solutions exist

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IT Environment Challenges Increasing Complexity
and Resource scaling

• Poor asset utilization
• More users means more servers
• Storage cost not matched to data criticality
• Operational inefficiency
• Increasing data availability requirements
• Backup recovery issues
• Applications need to run more efficiently
• Heterogeneous management
• Unhappy users and administrators

WAN
SunSolaris
Linux
Windows NT
AIX
HP-UX
Oracle Servers
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Limited and Expensive Scalability

• Vertical scaling available only through expensive
  SMP and high-end servers
• Single-frame storage scaling requires expensive
  up-front investment

Users
HPSuperdome
SunE 12K
Traditional Direct AttachStorage
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Expensive Backup and Restore Windows

• Performance degraded during hot backup windows
• Cold backups leads to lower SLA
• Separate backups on each platform
• Time-to-recover from tape becomes prohibitive
• DBAs time spent on non-value-add backup/restore
  tasks

To Tape (60GB/hr best case)
Time toBackup
From Tape
Time toRecover
Redo Logs
Time many hours
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Disaster Recovery

• Initial requirement 1TB
• Primary storage 1TB(full mirror)
• Primary site (3 copies) 3TB
• DR site copies 5TB
• Total 10TB

Secondary Data Center
Primary Data Center
OracleServer
OracleServer
DedicatedLines andSwitches
RAID 0 1Mirror Copy
RAID 0 1Mirror Copy

• 10x actual storage requirement
• Expensive transport infrastructure
• Cumbersome to install and manage

3 Copies
3 Copies
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Visa Debit Processing Service (DPS)

• Challenges (Availability and costs)
• Distributed storage structure risks data
  availability, inflates costs, limits growth
• Solution Consolidate on highly reliable,
  adaptable NetApp unified storage
• Benefits
• Nonstop data availability
• Seamless scalability supports 25 annual growth
• Six-month return on investment plus ability to
  cut costs 450K
• "Painless" DR site setup
• Enhanced business flexibility enables rapid
  deployment of new services

Leader in check card processing with daily
settlements up to 1.5B
Complete details in case study
www.netapp.com/case_studies/visa.html
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Aviva Life Insurance Company India Pvt. Ltd.

• Challenge (Disaster recovery)
• Accommodate rapid growth and replace manual
  backup and disaster recovery process
• Solution
• Consolidate SQL Server and Oracle Databases,
  Lotus Notes, and Talisma CRM programs on NetApp
  storage
• Benefits
• Scalability for business expansion
• Robust data protection
• Elimination of hand-carried tapes
• Streamlined, centralized admin

One of Indias leading private life insurance
companies and a joint venture of Danbur and
Aviva, the seventh-largest insurer worldwide
Complete details in case study
www.netapp.com/case_studies/aviva.html
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Korea Financial Telecommunications Clearing
Institute

• Challenge (Availability, Security)
• Develop convenient electronic payment systems and
  demonstrate 100 security and availability
• Solution
• Oracle9i RAC with VERITAS Storage Foundation
  software
• NetApp Fibre Channel SAN solution using
  MetroCluster, SyncMirror and SnapMirror Sync
  software
• Benefit
• Multitiered data protection solution protects
  against logical data problems, hardware outages,
  and site-wide disasters

Processes 20 million Internet banking
transactions each day
Complete details in case study
www.netapp.com/case_studies/kftc.html
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Leuven University Hospital

• Challenges (consolidation, management)
• Consolidate fragmented DAS infrastructure serving
  over 6000 users
• Solution
• Support PeopleSoft ERP system and Exchange on
  NetApp IP SAN (iSCSI)
• Support 25TB of PACS imaging data on NetApp NAS
  storage
• Benefits
• Fast, reliable user service
• Rapid on-the-fly scalability
• Robust business continuance
• Simplified administration
• Fast access to archived PACS data

Leuven University Hospital is one of the largest
healthcare providers in Europe.
Complete details in case study
www.netapp.com/case_studies/leuven.html
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Mazda North American Operations

• Challenge
• Isolated storage islands and fragmented backup
  processes put critical data at risk
• Solution
• Comprehensive infrastructure solution from Trace3
  including NetApp unified iSCSI/NAS storage and
  NetCache
• Consolidate Windows storage at HQ
• Consolidate remote office storage on NetApp, then
  SnapVault back to HQ
• Benefits
• Centralized backup and recovery
• Ability to restore in minutes not days
• No need to increase IT headcount despite tenfold
  storage growth
• 10-month payback period
• Long-term solution capable of
  evolving with business requirements

Responsible for U.S. sales and marketing plus
parts and service operations for Mazda, one of
the largest auto manufacturers in Japan.
Complete details in case study
www.netapp.com/case_studies/mazda.html
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Universal Tax Systems

• Challenge
• Processing six million tax returns in 6 weeks
  requires high performance and flawless
  availability
• Solution
• Standardize on Oracle9i Real Application
  Clusters and NetApp unified storage
• Benefits
• 200,000 cost savings running Oracle9i RAC on
  iSCSI
• Performance for heaviest tax loads
• Efficient workload distribution
• Systems reliability

Publisher of TaxWise professional tax preparation
software used to process over six million returns
annually.
Complete details in case study
www.netapp.com/case_studies/uts.html
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Oracle Corporation

• Challenge
• Support a complex and rapidly evolving global
  business
• Solutions
• NetApp solutions for EBSO, multiple product
  development organizations, internal operations,
  and more
• 1,000TB of NetApp storage (including 5TB
  single-DB instance)
• Benefits
• Business flexibility
• High storage availability
• Management overhead cut 50
• Streamlined dev. environment
• EBSO architecture scaled 3x

Fortune 500 company with annual revenues in
excess of 9 billion and 40,000 employees
worldwide
 
Complete details www.netapp.com/case_studies/orac
le.html
www.netapp.com/tech_library/3330.html
www.netapp.com/news/press/2004/news_rel_20040127.h
tml
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Opportunities for Simplification

• Improve asset utilization
• Storage consolidation for database
• Tiered storage architecture
• Grid computing
• Increase operational efficiency

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Solution Storage Consolidation

• Multiple instances consolidated on single storage
  management platform
• Leverages existing IP or block infrastructure
• Scale on-the-fly with zero downtime
• High availability with Clustering

SunSolaris
Linux
Windows NT
AIX
HP-UX
NFS, FCP, iSCSI
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Solution Tiered Storage Architecture
Primary Storage
Archive Targets
Nearline Storage

• Match storage cost to storage need
• Extremely cost-effective architecture
• Increased operational efficiency
• Immediate access to archived data

Optical Library
Oracle Servers
FAS Servers
Tape Library
NearStore
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Solution Grid Computing and Storage Grid

• Large number of small servers with Grid
  architecture
• Support for various clustering solutions on major
  OSs including UNIX, Linux, and Windows
• Seamless vertical and horizontal scaling of data
• Low-cost, standard, modular parts for entire
  infrastructure

Users
OracleServers
NetAppFASClusteredFilers
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Opportunities for Simplification

• Improve asset utilization
• Increase operational efficiency
• Data availability
• Application development and upgrades
• Application acceleration

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Solution Efficient Backup and Restore

• Snapshot provides multiple point-in-time
  recovery points for Oracle data files
• Replace tape backups with NearStore backups
• Time to restore is improved with online and
  near-line backups
• Consolidated storage means consolidated backups
• Rapid failover supportedwhen a server fails you
  can remount the database volumes to another
  server

SnapRestore
Snapshot
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Solution Disaster Recovery

• Initial requirement 1TB
• Primary file storage 1.2TB(includes 255
  Snapshot copies)
• Primary site Snapshot
• copies 0TB
• DR site copies 1.2TB
• Total 2.4TB

Secondary Data Center
Primary Data Center
OracleServer
OracleServer
SnapMirror

• NetApp environment needs 2.4 times actual storage
• Multiple mirroring options of DR site async,
  semisync, full sync
• Easy to install and manage over existing IP
  infrastructure (WAN)

NetApp Clustered Filers
NetApp Clustered Filers
Snapshot
Snapshot
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Partial list of successful implementations
Energy Anadarko ChevronTexaco ConocoPhillips EnCa
na ExxonMobil Norsk Hydro Petrobras Saudi
Aramco Schlumberger WesternGeco Shell Statoil Tot
al Energy Services
Federal Air Force Boeing Department of
Interior Joint Intelligence Center
(Pacific) Lockheed Martin Los Alamos National
Laboratory National Security Agency
(NSA) NGA Raytheon US Army US Forces Korea J2
High-Tech Appshop Broadcom Corporation Cisco
Systems EDS GreTech Hitachi IntelIron Mountain
Motorola Navitaire Nokia Oracle SAS Institute
Inc. Siemens Synopsys Texas Instruments
(TI) Yahoo!
Manufacturing BMW Infineon Technologies AG John
Deere Matsushita Electric Works Mitsubishi
Electric Philips PSA Peugeot Citroën Sony
Life Sciences Amgen Bayer Corporation
Financial Services ABN AMRO AEGON Citigroup Edward
Jones Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase Morgan
Stanley Wells Fargo
Use with caution. Not referencable to vendors.
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Agenda

• IT Challenges and solutions
• Customer examples
• Summary

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Summary

• Storage needs will continue to grow
• Data is precious.
• Existing models of Direct Attached is costly,
  cumbersome and does not scale
• Customers in various verticals have successfully
  deployed new model of storage
• As e-governance gets rolled out, capacity
  building is made easy and practical using these
  techniques.

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