Enterprise Storage Management Steve Duplessie Founder Senior Analyst The

Enterprise Storage Management Steve Duplessie Founder/Senior Analyst The Enterprise Storage Group www. enterprisestoragegroup. com September, 2001

Enterprise Storage Management • To date ESM is an ad hoc collection of disparate tools, predominately independent device management utilities. • ESM is the number one cost (and potential cost saving) portion of the data 2000 IT departments moving forward. 2

The Building Blocks of Information Availability Utility-Type Infrastructure Policy Managed Enterprise Storage Management Dynamically Provisionable Network & System Management Charge/ Billback Application Management Source: Enterprise Storage Group, May 2001 3

Enterprise Storage Management • What Do IT Objectives Call for? 1. The ability to understand what they have 2. Understand usage patterns by storage assets 3. Understand usage patterns by line of business 4. An easier way to guarantee information availability in order to meet business objectives 4

Enterprise Storage Management • What Does IT Operations Want? : 1. The ability to modify their storage world 2. The ability to create storage policies 3. The ability to restore – 100% of the time 4. The ability to USE disparate hardware assets 5

Enterprise Storage Network Application Database Servers FC/SCSI FC/IP Infiniband SCSI over IP IP Fibre Channel Network Ethernet Network Heterogeneous Protocols Heterogeneous Networks Heterogeneous Services: - Raw Device - File Services - DB Services Block Storage Source: Enterprise Storage Group, July 2001 File Storage Heterogeneous Devices 6

Enterprise Storage Management • What Do Users Dream About? – Automated Action based on • Business Rules • Policies and Procedures • Best Practices 7

ESG’s Enterprise Storage Management Model Storage Resource Management Storage Virtualization Enterprise Storage Management Storage Network Management Data Management Storage Policy Management Source: Enterprise Storage Group, June 2001 8

Enterprise Storage Management • Storage Resource Management – SRM provides (at a base level) the ability to discover assets and correlate them to users/application, etc. – SRM provides the ability to visualize what data is where – what is duplicate, what is wasting space, what is being backed up that shouldn’t be. 9

Enterprise Storage Management • Virtualization – The great equalizer – it allows you to neuter the “brand”, creating equality among array vendors. Creates the ability to “use” disparate assets. Enables heterogeneity. 10

Enterprise Storage Management • Data Management – Backup/Restore/Bus. Continuance, H/A, HSM, etc. Data Management delivers the key components of information life cycle management. 11

Storage Requirements Differ by Industry Value Healthcare Engineering Print Media Time Source: Enterprise Storage Group, May 2001 12

Enterprise Storage Management • Storage Network Management – SNM delivers topology mapping and discovery, device management, zoning, multi-pathing, etc. in order to enable a visual overview with the ability to drill down. 13

Chronology of Storage Networking WAN Remote FC SAN blocks Remote Storage FC, ESCON, SCSI FC SAN to i. SCSI Gateway Remote IP Storage MAN SCSI or FC Ethernet Network Files NFS, CIFS NAS head i. SCSI Block devices i. SCSI Hba servers NAS BU boot Rich head media NAS Appliance DAS Source: Enterprise Storage Group, August 2001 NAS SAN Utility 14

Enterprise Storage Management • Storage Policy Management – User policies are implemented, which feed (ulitmately) automated processes in all other areas. Likewise, all other ESM areas feed into the Policy Engine. 15

What Needs to Be Considered? Type of Content Quality Of Service Size Storage Management Attributes Protection Levels Locations Backup & Archiving Policies 16

Enterprise Storage Management • Today we are still at the starting gate: – – SRM works Virtualization is new Data Management is proven SNM is really only device management and rudimentary topology mapping. – Policy Engines exist sporadically but are not well integrated. 17

How Many Terabytes Per Storage Admin? • • Now Projected Unknown What assumptions have you made ? – Tools – Training – Partners 18

Enterprise Storage Management • Questions? • Steved@enterprisestoragegroup. com 19