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Exploring the Edge of NEC
Fault-tolerant Servers
and Storages Solution By Kevin
Cheung Business Solutions Services NEC Hong
Kong Limited 28 Nov 2003
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Agenda

• Product Line Overview
• NEC FT Server
• NEC iStorage SAN Solution
• Q A

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Diversification of IA servers
The Expansion of the IA servers role to become
the backbone of the internet
society Importance in choosing the most
appropriate machine that suite your needs
from a variety of servers
Itanium (IA-64) server
Year2001
Year2000
ft Server
IA-32 Server (Baseline) / BladeServer
The mainstream machines were Standard IA servers
NAS / SAN
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NEC iStorage Product Lineup
NEC offers - Full line of storage products to
meet all user needs - SAN/NAS products of high
performance/reliability developed with NECs
leading technology
SAN
NAS
Storage management solution Software
S4300
NV series
NV8200
S series
S3300
NV7200
NEC developed
S2300
S1300
WB series
NS series
NEC developed
MS-NAS
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FT Configuration Features
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Hardware Configuration
Dual Modular Redundancy (DMR) design

• I/O Module
• Hard Disk Drives
• PCI bus
• LAN

• Processing Module
• CPU
• Memory
• Chipset

M320Lb-R
Duplicated Power FAN
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FT Hardware Architecture
Fault Tolerant System DMR architecture
CPU Module 1
I/O Module 1
Memory
Fault Detection Isolation
Fault Detection
CPU
Disk
CPU
CPU
CPU
Chipset
CPU Lockstep
Fault Detection Isolation
Memory
Fault Detection
CPU
Disk
CPU
CPU
CPU
Chipset
CPU Module 2
I/O Module 2
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Software Configuration
No customization required for Applications and
middleware
Applications
Applications
Middleware
Middleware
No customization required
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Standard OS
Standard IA server HW
ft server HW
HAL and Drivers developed for the ft architecture
ft server
IA server
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NEC EXPRESS5800/ft series Technical Specification
The Cost-Effective FAULT TOLERANT Linux Server
NEC Express5800/FT Linux

• Available in Tower or Rack types
• Up to 2 Logical Pentium III 800MHz, 256K Cache
• Champion Chipset 3.0LE
• Up to 2GB Memory (logical)
• Dual channel Ultra 160 SCSI
• 3x Hot-Swap 1 HDD (logical)
• 6x 32bit PCI Slots
• 10/100 Ethernet (Redundant)
• PCI Video Card (Redundant)
• Hot-Swap Power Supply (Redundant)
• Two 5.25 Media Bays (tower model only)
• 24x IDE CD-ROM 3.5 Floppy Drive
• Linux for NEC Express5800/ft series

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NEC EXPRESS5800/ft series Technical Specification
The affordable mid-range FAULT TOLERANT Server
NEC Express5800/320Lb-(R)

• Available in Tower or Rack types (4U)
• Up to 2 Logical Intel Xeon 2.4GHz, 512K Cache
• ServerSet III GC-LE chipset
• Up to 3GB Memory (logical)
• Dual channel Ultra 160 SCSI
• 3x Hot-Swap 1 HDD (logical)
• 4x 64bit PCI Slots
• On-board 1000 100BASE Ethernet (Redundant)
• PCI Video Card (Redundant)
• 24x IDE CD-ROM 3.5 USB Floppy Drive
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• 
  Veritas Volume Manager

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NEC EXPRESS5800/ft series Technical Specification
The powerful high-end FAULT TOLERANT Server NEC
Express5800/340Ha-R

• Up to 4 Logical Intel Xeon processor MP 1.6GHz,
  1MB Cache
• ServerSet III GC-LE chipset
• Up to 6GB Memory (logical)
• Single channel Ultra 160 SCSI
• 7x Hot-Swap 1 HDD (logical)
• 8x 64bit 2x 32bit PCI Slots
• 100BASE Ethernet (Redundant)
• PCI Video Card (Redundant)
• Hot-Swap Power Supply (Redundant)
• 24x IDE CD-ROM 3.5 Floppy Drive
• Windows 2000 Advanced Server
• 
  Veritas Volume Manager

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Who need FT Server?
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FT Server Target Markets

New

• Industry Wide - Infrastructure Build-out
• Windows Applications Server
• Share Point Portal, Exchange, IIS, SQL, BizTalk,
  Firewall...
• Branch Office Application Server
• Healthcare
• Hospital Application Infrastructure
• Health Clinic Systems
• Specialty - Embedded Systems
• Tele-communications
• Messaging, ATM, Telephony Services
• Financial / Banking
• Stock Market, Trade Exchange
• Bank Branches
• Call centers

New
New

• CTI server

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FT vs. Cluster
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FT Series vs. Cluster System
ft series
Cluster systems
Separation of failure component
Operation in case of failure
Switch to other server
1/1
OS/upgrading
At least 2/2
Less than second
Service
Several minutes
Additional CPU
Performance
Additional CPU node
Application
Standard AP
Setting for transferring in every AP (Script
Batch)
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FT vs. Cluster
FT Series vs. Cluster System
FT Series
Cluster Solution
Availability Recovery time Data
loss System performance Implementation Applicat
ion modification Operating System IT support

• 99.9
• (gt8 hrs average per year)
• Approximately 1 Minute to failover
• Disk protection
• Server nodes scalability
• Script development testing
• Recommended
• Multi-system cluster (at least 2)
• Extensive

• 99.99 (DMR) / 99.999 (TMR) (43min / 5min
  average per year)
• Near instant switchover
• None (memory disk)
• 2way 4way
• No work required
• None required
• Single system image (1 OS)
• Lights out

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Cost Comparison Chart
Type of System Type of System Cluster system (Shared Disk) ft server
Initial Cost Hardware Two any type of servers and shared disks required Only single server required
Initial Cost Software Expensive Two software licenses required in each BPUs Economical One software license required basically
Initial Cost Installation Expensive Two times installation required Economical One time installation
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Case Study
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Case Study Smartics Project

• Reliability / Low-Cost / Short Period Design
• Only one month required for Implementation using
  
• Windows 2000 Compliant Packages

Multi branches
Headquarter
A-branch
B-branch

Storage Area Network
Express5800/320Lb
N-branch
Application Server
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Why FT Server?
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Why NEC FT Server?

• Application Independent
• - Saving implementation time cost (No need
  to do software customization)
• One time installation
• 1 OS License - Saving software license cost
• Simplified Maintenance process
• More Reliability (Up to 99.999 avaliability)
• gt Lower Total Cost of Ownership

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A Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
TCO
COSTS
Cluster
Traditional System
Software
Install.
Hardware
Service
Admin.
Outage
PHASE
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Awards for Best Server
Best of COMDEX 2001 WINNER Best Server
November, 2001
Best of Interop 2002 in Network servers category
May, 2002
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Awards for Best Server (Cont)
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Why choose a server designed to recover from
failure rather than a server designed not to
fail in the first place? Source Vernon
Turner, IDC (2001)
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Introduction of NEC iStorage SAN Solution
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NEC storage strategy
Now
Storage solution platform iStorage - WW
No.1 class performance - Rich storage
solution
Next Step

• Focusing on IP Storage(IP-SAN,NAS)
• in addition to FC-SAN
• WW No.1 performance IP-SAN
• WW No.1 performance NAS
• Enhancing performance scalability for
  10Gbps interface

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Interoperability
Focus on Big5 OS connectivity

• Certification verification
• with major ISVs and server vendors
• -Long and close relation
• with Veritas,MS, HP and
• Oracle on both storage
• and server areas
• Enhancing storage
• management software
• for Large scale SAN

Big 5 OS support
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FC-SAN Roadmap
WW No.1 Performance?Technology leader
New Product
S4300
S4100
Next generation SAN
X-bar
X-bar
High End
X-bar Enhancement
Max.125TB 64FC
Performance enhancement 15krpm HDD
High speed Storage netwrok (10Gbps)
Function and PerformanceEnhancement
S3300
S3100
X-bar
X-bar
X-barEnhancement
Max.24TB 24FC
Midrange
S2100
S2200
S2300
Max.28TB 4FC
Performance enhancement15krpm HDD
S1100
Entry
S1300
S1200
Max.3.7TB 2FC
FY2001
FY2003
FY2002
FY2004
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iStorage S Series Renewal Line-up
All products improve performance and capacity.
WW No.1 Performance
IOPS (Cache hit)
S4300
Throughput (Read from HDD)
x2.5 (IOPS) than S4100
KIOPS
MB/S
64 FC Ports 125TB(max)
600
3000
S4300
S4300
S3300
x2.5 (IOPS) than S3100
24 FC Ports 25TB(max)
400
2000
S2300
x1.6 (IOPS) than S2200
200
4 FC Ports 26TB(max)
1000
S1300
x1.3 (IOPS) than S1200
2 FC Ports 3.7TB(max)
0
0
S4100
S4100
Hitachi 9980V
EMC Sym.
Hitachi 9980V
EMC Sym.
Shipment in Japan End of December
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Customers evaluation
iStorage gets No.1 customers satisfaction for
product point of view in open server connective
storage
NEC iStorage
Product satisfaction
No.1
HW performance
Product future
Hitachi
HW reliability
HP
Operability
Fujitsu
IBM
Compaq
DELL
HW price
iSM reliability
By Nikkei Computer June.17, 2002
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Example Bridgestone Ltd.
- Storage consolidation with Hitachi IA servers-
Beat IBM and Hitachi in the performance
SQL Check DB transaction
JOB process time
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S4100
H Co.
I Co.
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High Availability (1)
Full Redundant Architecture assures No SPOF for
all models
Host
Host
Host Adapter
Cache Memory
Cache
Cache
Cache
Cache
X-Bar
Clock/SVP
Clock
Clock
X-Bar
SVP
SVP
Disk Adapter
DA
DA
DA
DA
DA
DA
DA
DA
DD
HDD Path
RAID1,5
FAN
FAN
PS
S4300 / S3300
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High Availability (2)
NEC Original
Advanced Error Recovery by Phoenix Technology

1. HDD, once performance degradation is observed, is
   separated from RAID.

1. The HDD is put under special supervision and
   background diagnosis. Host access is processed
   without accessing the HDD under supervision.

1. In case diagnosis result is temporary performance
   degradation, the HDD in question is returned to
   the ordinary usage. If there are sector errors,
   the data is recovered on backup sectors, and the
   HDD is put back in RAID.

• Reduce HDD replacement rate to approx. ½
• Avoid response delay and improve performance

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High Operability (1)
S4300,S3300,S2300

• Data Replication feature supports 24x365 online
  operation
• Replication Volumes can be created instantly
• Replication Volumes can be used for backup,
  batch, etc

Effect
Offline
Online
Batch
Backup
Online Process
Online Process
Online Process
Online Process
MV
RV
RV
Backup
Parallel Processing
Create two RVs
Batch
Data Replication (DynamicDataReplication?RemoteDat
aReplication)
Non Stop Database Backup with collaboration with
Oracle, MS
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High Operability (2)
S4300,S3300,S2300
Data replication and Centralized Backup solution
for multiple hetero servers environment
server
server
server
server
server
server
S4300

lt1gtCreate RVs by DDR instantly
X-Bar
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Entry Disk Array S1300
Compact BodyDual Controllers, 15HDDs, in
3U(14.4cm) height Box
Specifications Maximum Capacity 3.7TB( 147GB,
RAID5) Maximum Interface 2 x 2Gbps/1Gbps
Fibre Channel Support HDD
36GB/73/147GB 10krpm Support RAID
RAID0,1,0/1,5 Maximum Cache
1GB(512MB/Controller) JBOD
2Gbps FC-AL
Basic Unit
(2Controllers Max. 15HDDs)
High Availability Full redundant Online
Maintenance Hot Spare Disk Advanced error
recovery technology Phoenix
Disk Enclosure Unit (Option)
(Max. 15HDDs)
Functions Storage Management iStorageManager
Access Control(WWN)
S1300
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S1300 Competitive Analysis

• S1300 offers best performance and scalability
• as well as the attracting compact size

NEC S1300 EMC CX200 IBM FAStT200 IBM FAStT600 HPCompaq MSA1000 Hitachi SANRISE 953xV
Host Interface FC(2Gbps) 1/Controller 1(FCSW) or 2(FCAL) / Controller N/A 2/Controller 1 or 5(FCSW)/Cont. 1/Controller
Host Interface FC(1Gbps) Ditto Ditto 1/Controller Ditto Ditto Ditto
Number of Controller Number of Controller 2 1 - 2 2 2 1 2 1 - 2
Max Cache/Unit Max Cache/Unit 1GB 1GB 256MB 2GB 512MB 2GB
Max Number of HDD Max Number of HDD 30 30 66 112 42 13
HDD Interface HDD Interface FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) SCSI(320MB/s) FC(2Gbps)
HDD type 15krpm 36/(73)GB 36GB 18GB 18/36/73GB 36/73GB N/A
HDD type 10krpm 36/73/147GB 36/73/147GB 18/36/73GB 36/73/147GB 36/73/147GB 73GB
RAID Support RAID Support 0, 1, 10, 5 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 0, 1, 10, 5, ADG 5
Storage Management Software Storage Management Software NEC StorageManager Navisphere FAStT Storage Manager FAStT Storage Manager Insight Manager Resource Manager
Storage Replication Intra box Storage Replication Intra box N/A N/A FAStT FlashCopy FAStT FlashCopy SWVR ShadowImange
Height Base Unit 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 10HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD) 4U(Max. 14HDD) 3U(Max. 13HDD)
Height Expand Unit 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD) N/A
Performance IOPS 50kIOPS 40kIOPS 12kIOPS 45kIOPS 40kIOPS unknown
Performance Throughput 320MB/s 200MB/s 170MB/s unknown 320MB/s unknown
NEC estimate
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Midrange Disk Array S2300
High C/P Midrange Disk Array
(Front View)
Specifications Maximum Capacity
26TB( 147GB HDD, RAID5) Maximum Interface
4 x 2Gbps/1Gbps Host Fibre Channel
Support HDD
/36GB/73GB/147GB 10krpm Support RAID
RAID 0,1,1/0,5(2P to 14P) Maximum
Cache Memory 8GB(4 GB/Controller) JBOD(DE)
2Gbps FC-AL
3EIA 131mm
594mm
482mm
High Availability Full redundant Online
Maintenance Hot Spare Advanced error recovery
technology Phoenix
(Rear View)
Controller Unit
Functions Storage Management iStorageManager
Access Control(WWN) Replication
DynamicDataReplication Dynamic Expansion
Disk Enclosure Unit
S2300
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2300 Competitive Analysis
S2300 offers best performance as well as
scalability
NEC S2300 EMC CX400 IBM FAStT500 IBM FAStT700 HPCompaq Va7410 Hitachi SANRISE9570V
Host Interface FC(2Gbps) 1 or 2/Controller 1 or 2/Controller N/A 2 or 4(FC-Hub) /Controller 1 or 2/Controller 1 or 2/Controller
Host Interface FC(1Gbps) Ditto Ditto 2 or 4(FC Hub) /Controller Ditto Ditto Ditto
Number of Controller Number of Controller 2 2 2 2 2 2
Max Cache/Unit Max Cache/Unit 8GB 2GB 1GB 2GB 2GB 4GB
Max Number of HDD Max Number of HDD 210 60 224 224 105 224
HDD Interface HDD Interface FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps) FC(2Gbps)
HDD type 15krpm 36/(73)GB 36GB 18/36GB 18/36/73GB 36/73GB 36/73GB
HDD type 10krpm 36/73/147GB 36/73/147GB 36/73/147GB 36/73/147GB 73/147GB 73/147GB
RAID Support RAID Support 0, 1, 10, 5 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 0, 1, 10, 3, 5 Adoptive RAID 0, 1, 10, 3, 5
Storage Management Software Storage Management Software NEC StorageManager Navisphere FAStT Storage Manager FAStT Storage Manager Command View SDM Resource Manager
Storage Replication Intra box Storage Replication Intra box DDR SnapView FlashCopy FlashCopy Business Copy va ShadowImange
Storage Replication Inter box Storage Replication Inter box N/A MirrorView Remote Mirror Remote Mirror N/A TrueCopy Basic
Height Base Unit 6U(Max. 15HDD) 4U(Max. 15HDD) 7U(Max. 14HDD) 7U(Max. 14HDD) 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD)
Height Expand Unit 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD) 3U(Max. 14HDD) 3U(Max. 15HDD) 3U(Max. 15HDD)
Performance IOPS 85kIOPS 60kIOPS 60kIOPS 110kIOPS 34kIOPS unknown
Performance Throughput 700MB/s 400MB/s 170MB/s 390MB/s 330MB/s unknown
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Storage SoftwareStorage Management
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NEC Storage Manager
Effectively and totally manages NEC Storage
Configuration/Management Configures and totally
manages disk array
Status monitoring Monitors device status and
notifies the failures
Storage Management/Optional SW management
Performance monitoring/Performance Optimizer/Data
Replication etc.
Maintenance Center
Performance time-series graph
Data Replication
NEC Storage Manager
Config/Status Display
Notification
NEC Storage series
NEC Storage Manager Client
Performance Optimizer
Performance Analyzer
Optional products
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Storage SoftwareStorage Control (Replication)
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Data Replication Software
DynamicDataReplication / RemoteDataReplication/Rep
licationControl
Fundamental function to shore up 24H/365Day
business

• DynamicDataReplication
• Makes replication volumes in a disk array device.
• RemoteDataReplication
• Makes replication volumes between disk array
  devices.
• ReplicationControl
• Provides CLI for DataReplication.

Backup Creates replication volumes and backs them
up under business operation
Parallel processing Concurrently processes online
transaction and query processing
Replication management Progress/status monitoring
and operation through NEC Storage Manager By
operation commands of NEC Storage
Manager/ReplicationControl
Testing environment Tests APs using the same data
as real one
Library
Backup Parallel processing Replica for test
purpose
Online
Online Data (Real business)
Replication data
NEC Storage
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Replication related software
Product ReplicationControl SQL
OptionReplicationControl Exchange Option

• Non-stop Backup
• Without interrupting Microsoft SQL Server 2000,
  instantly creates replicated DB.
• Instant Backup
• With a minimum stop of Microsoft Exchange 2000
  Server, instantly creates replication volumes of
  Exchange DB.

SAN infrastructure for24H/365Day business
Efficacy (Ex.)
Discontinuance
Online
Online
Backup
Batch
Before
Snap Shot Backup
Online
Online
After

• Backup
• Query processing
• Batch
• AP test environment

Business
Backup
Non-stopBackup

• SQL DB
• Exchange DB

Parallel Processing
Replication
Batch
NEC Storage
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NEC Storage RemoteDataReplication
To create a replication volume in remote
site.This protects the crucial data for daily
business and assures business continuity even
when a disaster occurs.
Synchronous mode Sequence guaranteed
asynchronous mode Asynchronous mode
Online server
?WAN? Exclusive IP network
Remote server
Extender
Extender
RemoteDataReplication
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Storage SoftwareStorage Control (Resource
Control)
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NEC Storage AccessControl
Access Controlling Software
To protect data leakage and destruction by
setting access privileges to the logical disk on
application server.

• Access privilege is configurable for each
• logical disks from client of NEC Storage Manager
• LUN mapping feature for each WWN of server
  HBA.(WWN Identification name specified to each
  Host Bus Adapter)

setting window
Server B
Server C
Server A
WWN
WWN
WWN
Volumes accessible from server B
Volumes accessible from server A
Volumes accessible from server C
Volumes accessible from server A and B
iStorage
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Storage Software Storage Control (High
Availability)
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Path Controlling Software
NEC Storage PathManager for Windows/Linux/AIX
Realizes high-availability of total system, as
well as storage device itself, by utilizing
software on server.
Server
Server

• Support Platform
• Supports HP, Windows, AIX, Linux
• Path patrol feature (HP, Windows)
• Periodically patrols all the paths including
• unused paths

Path SW
Path SW

• Path controlling software
• Path Failover
• Detects failure of connecting path to disk.
• (HBA, FC switch, CNT etc.)
• After identifying failure spot, Automatically
  switches the path.
• Load Balancing
• Improves I/O performance because of using
  multi-paths

HBA
HBA
HBA
HBA
Path
SAN
FC switch
CNT0
CNT1
CNT1
CNT0
NEC Storage
HBAHostBusAdapter CNT Disk Controller
?As for Solaris or HP-UX, Volume mgmt SW
(VxVM?LVM) is alternative.
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Why NEC iStorage?

• We offer higher capacity performance at a
  competitive price level
• We commit to provide a open platform
• We have strong customer base in SAN deployment

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