5 Critical Components of an Enterprise Storage Management Framework

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5 Critical Components of an Enterprise Storage
Management Framework

• Steve Duplessie
• Founder/Senior Analyst
• The Enterprise Storage Group
• www.enterprisestoragegroup.com

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Enterprise Storage Management

• Why Bother?
• Because You Need To Become A Utility
• Deliver Storage QoS
• Create, Deliver and Prove SLAs
• Know Your Costs, Collect Your Rent

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Enterprise Storage Management

• Is It Even Possible?
• The Patriots Won The Super Bowl, Anything is
  Possible
• It Will Take a New Infrastructure Paradigm
• Pirus, Cloverleaf Communications and a slew of
  smart switch makers are on the horizon
• It Will Take Enterprise Storage Management

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Enterprise Storage Management

• To date, storage management is an ad hoc
  collection of disparate tools, predominately
  independent device management utilities (aka just
  buy 3X what we need).
• ESM is the 1 cost (and potential cost saving)
  portion of the Data 2000 IT departments moving
  forward.

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The Building Blocks of Information Availability
Information Availability
Utility-Type Infrastructure
Dynamically Able to Provision
Policy Managed
Charge/ Bill back
Enterprise Storage Management
Network System Management
Application Management
Source Enterprise Storage Group, May 2001
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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

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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

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Enterprise Storage Network
Application Database Servers
Heterogeneous Protocols
Heterogeneous Networks

• Heterogeneous
• Services
• Raw Device
• File Services
• DB Services

Heterogeneous Devices
Source Enterprise Storage Group, July 2001
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Enterprise Storage Management

• Whats Beyond ESM?
• Automated Action based on
• Business Rules
• Policies and Procedures
• Best Practices
• Attributes

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Storage Requirements Differ by Industry
Healthcare
Engineering
Value
Print Media
Time
Source Enterprise Storage Group, 2001
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Storage Requirements Differ By Line Of Business
Financial
Software Development
Value
Rev 2.0
Rev 1.0
Marketing
Time
Source Enterprise Storage Group, 2001
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ESGs 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
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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 shouldnt be.

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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.

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Enterprise Storage Management

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

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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.

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Enterprise Storage Management

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

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

• Who Contends For The Framework?
• EMC
• CA
• HP
• BMC
• Tom Brady
• Sun (yes, Sun)
• IBM (Tivoli)
• Veritas

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Enterprise Storage Management

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Questions?

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