Steffen Bartsch Technical Integrator Agenda HDS Corporate - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Steffen Bartsch Technical Integrator Agenda HDS Corporate - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Steffen Bartsch Technical Integrator Agenda HDS Corporate Profile Hitachi Freedom Storage Solutions Product Family Enterprise <-> Midrange SAN: 1Gbit / 2Gbit ? SAN NAS or both? Virtualisation
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Agenda
- HDS Corporate Profile
- Hitachi Freedom Storage Solutions
– Product Family – Enterprise <-> Midrange – SAN: 1Gbit / 2Gbit ? – SAN – NAS – or both? – Virtualisation – Freedom Storage Thunder 9200
- Thunder 9200 Features
- Thunder 9200 Software Offering
Duration: ~ 30 minutes
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HDS: Company Data at a Glance
- Founded 1989
- Wholly-owned subsidiary
- f Hitachi,Ltd. (NYSE:HIT)
- Total Employees - 2,900
- Operations in 48 countries
- Hitachi Freedom Storage
software, hardware, and services
- Hitachi, Ltd.’s focal point for
storage technology
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Netherlands Balkans Poland Sweden Finland France Turkey Denmark UK Germany Spain
Italy
Romania Bulgaria Greece Belgium Portugal Norway
Russian Federation
Hungary Austria Switzerland Czech Republic Slovakia Albania
Hitachi Data Systems Europe Countries Not Covered yet! Hitachi Data Systems Distributor Countries
Saudi Arabia Israel Kuwait
South Africa
Baltic States Ire. Slovenia
Hitachi Data Systems Reseller Countries
Hitachi Data Systems EMEA
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Wit SoundView
How do you rate the following vendors disk storage?
(on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being best)
Source: Wit SoundView survey of Gartner conference attendees (July/01)
2.4 2.4 3.0 3.0 2.9 2.7
2.0 2.0
Hitachi Data Systems Hitachi Data Systems
Compaq EMC IBM Dell HP Storage Technologies
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Product Family
- 4 – 100 Disk‘s
- Open-Systems
- 4 - 512 Disk‘s
- Mainframe
- Open-System
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HiStar Architecture – 9900 Enterprise Class
Connect up to 32 servers directly or hundreds through switches
Up to 512
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FC Architecture 9200 Midrange Class
- High Speed FC-AL
backend
- Quad 100MB/s Full
duplex FC loops
- 2 Tachyon chips per
controllers
- Loop switching
architecture
– Primary / Alternate – Alternate used if Primary is busy or unavailable
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The Hitachi Data Systems Vision
Any Data, Any Computer, Anytime, Anywhere Any Data, Any Computer, Anytime, Anywhere
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1Gbit – 2Gbit ?
Backup ! Backup ! Multiplexing Multiplexing ! !
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Networked Storage for the Networked World
- Concept of storage
as “Utility”
- Connectivity
technology is irrelevant: availability and simplicity are everything!
Where is all the data coming from?
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SAN or NAS?
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- IT Departments
– Consolidation of hosts with small storage requirements – NT storage consolidation
- Enterprise data centers
– Storage pooling with NAS and SAN – Offload file services from general purpose processors
- Internet Data Centers
– Web hosting front-ends – Streaming media applications
Where Does NAS Fit ?
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NAS SAN
LAN
SAN + NAS : Freedom !
Thunder 9200
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Virtualisation Strategy
- We already have virtualisation integrated in
- ur storage solutions!! (but failed to call it that way…)
- Partnering with ISV’s for truly open
virtualisation solutions
– Investment in Datacore (SAN Symphony) – Potential partnership with other vendors – Involved with the development of Veritas’ virtualisation solution with Brocade
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Server
Volume Manager
RAID Group e.g. RAID5 (4D+1P)
Storage
RAID Group RAID1 (2D+2P)
Storage
... ...
„Storage Consumer“ „Storage Admin“
Virtualisation: So what?
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Freedom Storage Thunder 9200
- Full Fibre Architecture
- Modular, building-block design for flexible
configurations
- Rackmount and Deskside
- From 18GB to 18TB RAW capacity
- High speed18GB*, 36GB*, 72GB and 180GB
disk drives (*15.000RPM)
- Up to 5 global dynamic hot spares
- RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 3*, 5 intermixed
- Up to 4GB cache
- Fibre or SCSI host connectivity
- Redundant, hot-swappable components
- Online microcode upgrade, LUN expansion,
LUN mapping
- Extensive software offering
- NT/2000, Netware, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX
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Performance vs. Capacity
1 RK 1 RK + 1 RKA 2 RK + 2 RKA 2 RK + 4 RKA 2 RK + 6 RKA 2 RK + 7 RKA 3 RK + 4 RKA 3 RK + 6 RKA 1 RK + 9 RKA
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Multi platform support
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Heterogeneous Connectivity
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Thunder 9200 Management
- Easy to use Java based GUI:
– Resource Manager 9200
- Supports multiple 9200 units
- Supports Windows, Solaris, Irix, HP/UX
- Web enabled monitoring of critical components
- Internet based Hi-Track call home
- Remote Management via LAN / RS-232 port
- SNMP Compliant
– Integration in CA Unicenter, HP Openview, Tivoli, etc.
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Enterprise Copy Functions
Local Volume copy
- Complete physical mirror
- Backup applications
- Application dev.
Hardw are based copy through Fibre Channel