Making Sense of SAN

Making Sense of SAN Brett P. Cooper Product Manager Brett.Cooper@VERITAS.com

The World of SAN • What is a SAN? • The promise of SAN • The issues facing SAN deployment today • SAN today-Reality vs. Marketing Hype • Managing the SAN • The role of the standards groups • VERITAS V3 SAN Management Products • Next Steps • Questions

On-Line DataAccess Data Protection & Recovery Automated Management SAN Application Servers Desktop Applications FS FS SAN=Storage Area NetworkThey are at the Core of the New e-business Infrastructure What is a SAN?

SAN Fabric Fibre Channel “Networks”Create the Basic Foundation for SAN • Any-to-Any connectivity • Increased distance and performance • Unlimited scalability of nodes • New interconnect devices

SAN todayReality vs. Hype • Challenges of New Technology • Interoperability and Evolving Standards • Legacy SCSI Limitations • Installation & Configuration Management • New SAN Management tools still evolving

VERITAS V3 SAN Initiative • “V” = Virtualization “3” = 3 elements of the program • Virtualization reduces the costs of managing physical storage through logical abstraction and is key to delivering on the promise of SANs • The V3 program enables VERITAS to evolve existing products & build on emerging standards • SAN Virtualization reduces TCO by: • Reaping benefits of physical centralization of storage resources in the data center • Delivering maximum application up-time • Adapting to rapid and unpredictable growth

Applications Filesystem SRM Agents Backup VxVM SAN Access Layer SCSI HBA Drivers Managing The SANVERITAS V3 SAN Access Layer SAN Services & APIs Host Host Host Host Host Host Discovery Services • Topology & Distance • Centralized Zoning Administration • Storage Attributes & Agents Common APIs for NT and UNIX • SAN APIs • Client APIs for SAN Management or storage management applications

Managing the SANVisualization

Managing the SANVirtualization

Managing the SANRoadmap Deliver on any OS, any Server, any Peripheral 1998 1999 2000 2001 Beyond Phase 1 SAN Enabled Phase 2SAN Editions Phase 3 SAN Applications • Storage Resource Management • Parallel Homogeneous Clusters • Off-host Backupand HSM • SAN-Aware Applications • Global StorageApplications • SAN Suites • LAN Free Backup • Backup EXEC SSO • NetBackup SSO • Scalable availability clusters - VCS • Foundation Suite • VxVM & VxFS • LAN Free HSM • SAN “appliances” • SAN Infrastructure

Standards Groups

The Promise of SAN • Managing costs through physical centralization • Sharing of expensive peripherals • Capacity management across pools of storage • Optimize highly trained staff with central administration • Increased availability without exponential costs • Virtualization permits non-disruptive on-line changes • Policy agents automate storage management tasks • Multiple paths between application and data • Data centers that grow at internet speed • Adapt to rapid and unpredictable change • Re-purposing of application servers

Next Steps • You Can Install SANs Today... • Identify solutions which can deliver ROI • Choose strategic SAN partners • Proof of concept before roll-out • Visit the Solutions Pavilion • V3 SAN Management and more…

Questions

Making Sense of SAN Brett P. Cooper VERITAS Software

Making Sense of SAN

Making Sense of SAN

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