EMC CLARiiON FC4700

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EMC CLARiiON FC4700

• The Next Generation Storage Infrastructure for
  Distributed Computing Environments

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Business Challenge
How do I provide data center best practices to
all computing environments?

• Best Practice Data Center Edge
• 1. Remote disaster recovery YES NO
• 2. Applications run while backup completes YES NO
• 3. Recovery from disk YES NO
• 4. Parallel information access YES NO
• 5. Centralized management YES NO

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EMC Provides Best Practices

• EMC provides best practices to every computing
  environment
• Protect distributed computing environments with
  data center best practices
• Remote disaster recovery
• Parallel access to production information
• Backup during production periods
• Restore from tape or disk
• Centralized management

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CLARiiON FC4700NEXT GENERATION STORAGE FOR
Distributed Computing ENVIRONMENTS

• Enhanced capabilities
• More horsepowerFour processors (two per storage
  processor)
• More connectivityFour Fibre Channel ports
• More throughputDouble the cache
• More availabilityDual redundant Fibre Channel
  back end
• Advanced storage-based information management
• MirrorViewStorage-based remote disaster recovery
• SnapViewPoint-in-time view for parallel
  information access
• Proven CLARiiON architecture
• EMC testing and support
• Part of the EMC Offering

CLARiiON FC4700
Powerful, intelligent, rock solid
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EMC CLARiiON Storage Subsystems

• Modular highly scalable, full Fibre Channel
  architecture
• Proven high-availability architecture
• Full internal redundancy
• Over 120,000 installations
• CLARiiON host / cluster support
• IBM AIX, Sun, HP-UX, Windows 2000, Windows NT,
  NetWare, Linux (not supported for clusters)
• CLARiiON FC4700 Windows NT, Windows 2000, and
  Sun Solaris
• Centralized management through EMC Navisphere
• Familiar Microsoft Windows Explorer interface
  runs on Windows NT and Windows 2000
• Automated, proactive fault notification via
  e-mail, FAX, or pager

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EMC CLARiiON Models
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CLARiiON FC4700 System Hardware THE CLARiiON
ARCHITECTURE IS BASED ON DUAL STORAGE PROCESSORS

• Each CLARiiON FC4700 storage processor has the
  following
• Two Intel 733MHz Pentium III processors
• Runs more software, faster
• Two front-end Fibre Channel ports with optical
  GBICs
• More connectivity to more hostsswitched or
  arbitrated loop
• Redundant backend FC-AL loops
• Greater redundancy and greater throughput
• 1GB of RAMBUS memory
• Improved system response time

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CLARiiON FC4700Direct, SAN, or Cluster
Attachable
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Multi-Personality FC4700 and IP4700

• Worlds first re-deployable SAN / NAS
• enterprise storage
• CLARiiON IP4700 (Network attach)
• CLARiiON FC4700 (Fibre Channel attach)
• Simply swap the personality between storage area
  network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS)
• Unprecedented flexibility
• Unique investment protection

Interface
CLARiiON IP4700 Network
CLARiiON FC4700 Fibre Channel
Industrys first personality change
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EMC Navisphere Management Software

• Centralized management for CLARiiON storage
  throughout the enterprise
• Information protection
• Information management
• Configuration management
• Array status and health monitoring
• Information access control
• Performance analysis tools
• Multiple server support
• EMC ControlCenter integration
• Management framework integration

Navisphere Suite

• Agent / CLI
• Event Monitor
• Integrator
• Analyzer

• Access Logix
• SnapView
• MirrorView
• ControlCenter integration

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CLARiiON FC4700NON-DISRUPTIVE UPGRADES

• A new level of information availability for
  continued operation
• Both the CLARiiON FC4700 and all host-attached
  servers remain fully operational during system
  level or maintenance upgrade procedures
• Application software
• FC4700 core code
• Totally transparent to all array-attached hosts

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Access LogixVOLUME ACCESS CONTROL
Servers

• EMC Access Logix is a software product for
  CLARiiON storage arrays
• Access Logix ensures only authorized servers have
  access to specific volumes (LUNs)
• Storage-based product uses no host cycles
• Transparent to server, operating system, and
  applications
• Centralized, simplified management via EMC
  Navisphere
• Access Logix protects data from unauthorized
  access
• Servers can access only authorized volumes
• Access control is maintained once on the CLARiiON
  array rather than on every attached server
• Volumes can be shared by server cluster pairs

Switches
CLARiiON
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EMC SnapViewPARALLEL INFORMATION ACCESS

• SnapView is a software product for the CLARiiON
  FC4700
• SnapView creates logical point-in-time views of
  production information
• Storage-based product uses no host cycles
• Takes only seconds to create a complete snapshot
• Snapshots can be created requiring only a
  fraction of the original file system space
• Snapshot allows parallel access to production
  data
• Are read/write mountable by a secondary host for
  increased productivity
• Minimizes time that production data is
  unavailable to users
• Eliminates scheduled downtime for backups
• Enables more frequent data warehouse refreshes

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Using SnapView for Parallel Operations

• Concurrent backups
• Decision support systems
• Management reports
• Data warehouse loads or updates
• Application testing against logical view of
  production data
• Complete daily batch routines during production
  periods
• File maintenance and other housekeeping tasks

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Example Using SnapView for Backups

• Quiesce application if required
• Establish SnapView instance containing the backup
  image
• Created within seconds
• Production application continues
• Execute backups from the snapshot while
  production processing continues
• Once backup is complete, retire the snapshot

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EMC MirrorView REMOTE DISASTER RECOVERY

• EMC MirrorView is a software product for the
  CLARiiON FC4700
• MirrorView maintains synchronous remote mirroring
  between two CLARiiON FC4700 arrays
• Storage-based product uses no host cycles
• Transparent to server, operating system, and
  applications
• Centralized, simplified management via EMC
  Navisphere
• MirrorView protects production information from
  unavailability and loss
• Protection from environmental, mechanical, or
  technical threats
• Continuous, bi-directional information integrity
• Failover production environment to remote site
• Enables concurrent information access at remote
  site

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MirrorViewSYNCHRONOUS MIRROR TO REMOTE SITE
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MirrorView and SnapView
Secondary Host (Site B)
Production Host (Site A)
Tape Backup
Report Generation
Decision Support Tools
MirrorView mirror

• Production site is protected from disaster
• Secondary site has standby failover server
• Secondary site offloads information processing

Production information
Production information
SNAP
Snapshot
Primary CLARiiON FC4700
Remote CLARiiON FC4700
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CLARiiON FC4700THE EMC EFFECT

• Financial benefits
• More efficient server and storage consolidation
• Integrated management capability, which reduces
  demand on staff
• Operational benefits
• Execute backup operations during production
  periods
• Single, complete disaster recovery solution for
  every CLARiiON-attached server platform and
  operating system
• Business benefits
• Ability to increase focus on core business
  through new information management tools
• Able to increase service level to customers

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Closing Slide
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CLARiiON FC4700 Hardware Block Diagram
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Up to 100 disks