Gavin Cole

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• Gavin Cole
• Storage Consultant SEE
• Gavin.cole_at_sun.com

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Data Protection Techniques
• Data Archiving Techniques
• Tools

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Data Protection Techniques
• Data Archiving Techniques
• Tools

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Difference between Backup Archive

• Backups are created to recover from errors
• Cost effective data protection
• Off-site storage
• Backup is important Restore is Critical
• Archiving for Information Lifecycle Management
• Storing data on different media based on policy
• Right Data, Right Place, Right Price

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Data Protection Techniques

• Disk Mirroring / Replication
• Disk to Disk Backup
• Disk to Disk to Tape Backup
• Virtual Tape Libraries
• Continuous Data Protection
• Disk to Tape

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Optimizing The Life Cycle of Data
RD
Data Criticality
Financial
Marketing
EMail
Time
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89 of all digital stored data is on tape and
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Why tape?

• All prices are ASP per gigabyte for working
  subsystems.
• The price per gigabyte decreases as the ratio of
  cartridges to drives increases, diverging from
  disk costs.
• Automated tape prices include drives, media and
  library and use a 2-to-1 compression factor.
• Tape cartridge capacity growing faster than disk
  drive capacity.
• Tape pricing per gigabyte now diverging from disk
  pricing.

Source Horison Information Strategies
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Data Protection Techniques
• Data Archiving Techniques
• Tools

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Traditional Tape Based Backup

• Primary storage to archival storage
• Direct relationship with tape devices
• Additional device sharing software

Tape automation
Backup servers
Application servers
Data moves directly from primary storage to tape
and is managed by the backup application
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Disk to Disk Backup

• Add secondary disk storage
• Part of existing disk subsystem or as an external
  appliance

Tape automation
Backup servers
Application servers
Data protection appliance

• Snapshot/mirrors
• Continuous data protection (CDP)

Disk based snapshot/mirroring
Data moves from primary storage to temporary disk
buffer. Backups usually take place from the
temporary location to tape.
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Disk to Disk to Tape Backup

• Add disk to existing backup servers
• No additional hardware or software

Tape automation
Backup servers
Application servers
Data moves from primary storage to the temporary
disk buffer and then on to tape. Data movement is
managed by the backup application. Recoveries
will normally come from the disk buffer(s).
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Disk to Disk with Virtual Tape

• Add virtual tape services with a storage appliance

Tape automation
Backup servers
Application servers
VTL virtual tape library
Data moves from primary storage to the VTL disk
buffer under control of the backup application.
Recoveries normally take place from the VTL
buffer. If a real tape cartridge is required then
the backup application is responsible for
creating it.
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Continuous Data Protection

• A disk-based data protection system that
  continuously echoes changes as they happen

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CDP Engine
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IP Subnet
C
C
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Data Protection Techniques
• Data Archiving Techniques
• Tools

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Data Access Requirements are Always
ChangingInferred by business use
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New Data Lifecycle JourneyChallenge is
Inclusive Mgt., Access Cost of 'new' Archive
Data
Data Consumers
NEW ACCESS
Security ID Mgt. Envelope
Eternal Data
Offsite Tape Vault
Creation
Data Archive
Ephemeral Data Disposal
Data In Use
Backup
Retention _at_Date
Data Management
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Archive Requirements Are Changing
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Agenda

• Introduction
• Data Protection Techniques
• Data Archiving Techniques
• Tools

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Tools of the Trade

• SATA disk arrays
• Virtual Tape libraries
• Nearline Robotic Libraries
• Tape Drives
• Software

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Sun StorageTek Tape Portfolio
Enterprise Libraries
Midrange Tape Libraries
Distributed Libraries
Entry Libraries
C2
C4
SL 8500
L1400m
SL500
Virtualization Solutions
Encryption Key Management
STK Brand Tape Media
Virtual StorageManager 4e/4/5
VTL
Tape Drives
DAT 72
LTO 2/3
T9x40
T10000
SDLT 320
SDLT 600
Tape-RelatedSoftware
Backup andRecovery
Library Software
Key Management
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Tape Technologies
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Tape Drive Technology Choices
Match the Technology to the Needs
Capacity
Access
T9840C T9840B T9840A
T10000 T9940B T9940A
DLT-S4 SDLT600 SDLT320 SDLT220
LTO-4 LTO-3 LTO-2 LTO-1
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Tape Drive Characteristics
All figures are native
Average access time includes 4 seconds robotic
time, load and average search
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Lets see the difference for archive!

• Components of recall time
• Mount tape (by robot)?
• Load tape
• Find block
• Transfer data
• Rewind
• Unload
• Dismount tape (by robot)?

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Choose the Right Tape Technology

• Capacity
• Important for backup
• Very important for most archive requirements
• Not so important for HSM functionality
• Throughput
• Important for backup and archive
• Backup must write several stripes because of the
  speed
• Loadtime
• Important for HSM functionality
• Reliabilty

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Nearline Technologies
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SL8500

• SL8500 has been adopted at more than twice the
  rate ofother new StorageTeklarge libraries
• Broad acceptance in financial,government and
  broadcastingsegments
• 39 shipped are to customers who have never
  purchased Sun/StorageTek enterprise libraries
  before

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StreamLine SL8500 architecture

• SL8500 can be share across heterogeneous
  applications and servers
• ACSLS software support
• Allow multiple tape drives and media types
• SL8500 designed for consolidation
• 24x7 design
• Multiple and simultaneous mounts/dismounts
• Scalability in capacity and tape drives from
  1448 to 70.000 slots cartridges, from 1 to 448
  tape drives
• Multiple media types
• High density
• High performance

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StreamLineTM SL8500
Inside cartridge storage walls
Outside cartridge storage walls
Tape drives
Z elevators
Robot service area
Touch Screen Operator panel
Performance Robots
CAPs
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Library base size and expansion frames
1,500 cartridges
3,000/5,000 cartridges
10,000 cartridges
Customer Requirement Flexibility and Scalability
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24x7 availability

• Redundant powers
• All critical internal components are redundant
• Redundant robots
• Live library upgrades
• microcode
• Add and replacement of tape drives
• Add and replacement of robots
• Add and replacement of power and electronics
• Add new library
• Add cartridges slots

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THE L1400 TAPE LIBRARY EMPOWERS CONSOLIDATION

• Share library resources
• Grow with ease
• Customize your configurations
• Use multiple technologies
• Increase availability
• Work within flat or shrinking budgets

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KEY L1400 LIBRARY FEATURES

• Continuous CapacityTM technology
• Superior scalability - grow easily when you need
  to
• Partitioning
• Share the L1400 tape libraries without additional
  components
• High Performance
• Reduce backup times with high robotic and
  throughput performance
• Any Cartridge Any SlotTM technology
• Configuration flexibility and investment
  protection
• Sun Services
• Experience and coverage to support your
  consolidated data

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The Judges Reach Their Decision -Sun StorageTek
L1400M Product of the Year

• As one of our judges put it, it may be "somewhat
  contrarian" to give the gold to a tape library in
  2006, but Sun Microsystems Inc.'s L1400M solves a
  top problem in tape
• The ability to use four different tape formats
  within a single library
• It's a solution that's been a long time coming.

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Over 3000 Installed Worldwide...Sun StorageTek
SL500
Editors Choice Award StreamLine SL500
Product of the Year Enterprise Server
2005 StreamLine SL500modular library system
20042005
(UK Edition)
Most Valuable Product Award 2004 StorageTek L700e
Tape Library
25 Best Plants2004 Puerto Rico
ManufacturingOperations
MVP Award 2005 Backup Hardware StreamLine SL500
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THE SL500 MODULAR ARCHITECTURE SET A NEW INDUSTRY
STANDARD

• Modular rack-mount architecture
• Modular growth is simple to manage
• Scalability without sacrificing reliability
• Reliability without sacrificing scalability
• Cost effective TCO
• Improves TCO by 25-80 over alternative
  architectures

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SL500 Modular Library
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SL500 Modular Library
90 LTO slots4 tape drive bays10 CAP slots
120 LTO slots0 tape drive bays10 CAP slots
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Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader

• The Sun StorageTek SL24 Autoloader provides high
  capacity automated backup and recovery in a
  space-efficient, highly manageable product
• Features
• 2U form factor (24 slots)?
• Initially supports 1 LTO 3 SCSI or FC interfaces
  and up to 2 LTO 2 HH Drives with SCSI interface
• Two removable 12-slot magazines
• Web-based remote management capability
• Integrated barcode reader
• Rack ready or table top configurations

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Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library

• The Sun StorageTek SL48 is an entry level library
  for automated backup and recovery
• Features
• 4U form factor (48 slots)
• Initial support Up to two LTO3 SCSI or FC tape
  drives or up to four half height LTO2 SCSI tape
  drives
• Four removable 12-slot magazines
• Web-based GUI
• Tool-free drive upgrades
• Bar code reader
• Redundant power
• Rack ready, or table top configurations

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Choose the Right Tape Library

• Robotic speed
• Unimportant for backup
• Very important for most archive requirements
• Mixed media
• Support for different drive types
• Different drives for different requirements
• Size/Scalability
• Initially just a sizing exercise
• Growth is good plan for it!

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ArchiveSoftware
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Infinite Disk Technology
SAM-FS creates a virtualized or infinite disk
that extends primary or secondary storage onto
any number of additional media and devices.
Virtualization optimizes storage capacity
automatically migrating inactive data to
near-line secondary media while also giving
users immediate access to ALL of their data,
regardless of where it is stored.
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SAM-FS Function Archive Populate all tiers of
storage based on data policy
File Servers
Users
On-line Secondary Storage
Documents
Spreadsheets
Presentations
Images
Printstreams
Databases
Video/Audio
Messaging
LAN/SAN Clients
Generate up to 4 copies concurrently Data written
in TAR format Optimized writes based on file
size Shell command for immediate response
Off-Site Storage
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SAM-FS Function RELEASE Automate primary disk
space management
File Servers
Users
On-line Secondary Storage
Documents
Documents
Data copied to media by policy
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets
Presentations
Presentations
Images
Images
Printstreams
Printstreams
Databases
Automatically populate all desired tiers of
storage
Databases
Video/Audio
Video/Audio
Messaging
Messaging
LAN/SAN Clients
Release only after valid copy exists Release
directly after archiving Release at
Watermarks Never Release data stays on
disk Shell command for immediate response
Off-Site Storage
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SAM-FS Functions STAGE Managing retrievals from
secondary storage
File Servers
Users
On-line Secondary Storage
Data copied to media by policy
Automatically populate all desired tiers of
storage
LAN/SAN Clients

• Associative Staging
• Files can be staged in groups
• Read-behind Stage
• - Data immediately available while file is being
  retrieved
• Never Stage
• - Direct read on retrieval request from secondary
  storage

Off-Site Storage
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