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1. A BUYER’S
GUIDE TO
STORAGE
VIRTUALIZATION
1 © 2011 Hitachi Data Systems. All rights reserved.

2. WEBTECH EDUCATIONAL SERIES
MARK PETERS
SENIOR ANALYST
ENTERPRISE STRATEGY GROUP
MIKE NALLS
SENIOR PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER
HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS
A Buyer’s Guide to Storage Virtualization
In an IT world consumed by growth and complexity yet constrained by budget limitations,
storage virtualization offers a practical solution. In this webcast, you will learn what to
know and what to look for when purchasing storage virtualization. You will hear
explanations of the available approaches with advice on making an informed decision. IT
individuals looking for storage best practices should attend to gain insight in addressing
their top enterprise storage challenges.

3. UPCOMING WEBTECH SESSIONS
June
 Storage Service Level Management, June 29, 2011 at 9am PT, 12pm ET
July
 Hitachi Dynamic Tiering WebTech Series (3 Sessions)
‒ July 13, 20 and 27, 9am PT, 12 noon ET
‒ You‟ll learn how to
‒ Determine if an application‟s data is a good fit for automated tiered storage movements.
‒ Select and size tiers within a Dynamic Tiering pool.
‒ Use replication and migration with Dynamic Tiering virtual volumes
‒ Properly operate and monitor a Dynamic Tiering system
Please check www.hds.com/webtech for:
 Link to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
 Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

4. A BUYER’S
GUIDE TO
STORAGE
VIRTUALIZATION
4 © 2011 Hitachi Data Systems. All rights reserved.

5. AGENDA
 What Is Storage Virtualization?
 Alternative Approaches
 Evaluating the Options
 Real-world Benefits
 Solve the Top Challenges
 Storage Virtualization Results
 Summary and Resources

6. STORAGE LANDSCAPE OVERVIEW
 Storage doesn‟t matter!
‒ IOPS, apps and ops are not the point.
 Storage “tail” wagging the IT “dog”?
‒ Last bastion of awkwardness is “Ponzi storage”
 Major challenges: Scale and flexibility
‒ Change inevitable
 Industry consolidation and dynamics
‒ The converged, integrated, stacked, automated promise
 Is storage an anchor on server virtualization?
‒ Storage through the ESG Maturity Model phases
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7. WHAT TO KNOW, WHAT TO LOOK FOR
 The „Assumption Gap‟
 Why you even need to know (i.e. how we got here)
 99% of the time a non virtualized storage
environment = a sub optimal storage environment
‒ Close to an IT „no brainer‟
 Look for –
‒ Heterogeneity
‒ Commitment
‒ Proof
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8. VIRTUALIZATION MATURITY
Are you Building a Faster Horse or an Automobile?
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9. WHAT IS STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION?
 Technology as hope!
‒ Operational fluidity and utilization efficiency
‒ The foundation to balance [absolutely] escalating storage
demands with [relatively] constrained resources
 Disassociates physical hardware from system usage
‒ Part of overall virtualization (servers)
‒ Can address „Ponzi storage‟
‒ Not new or voodoo
 Should be on your „to do‟ list
 ESG‟s Server Virtualization Maturity Model
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10. ESG SERVER VIRTUALIZATION MATURITY
MODEL PROFILE
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11. STORAGE-SPECIFIC CHALLENGES RELATED TO SERVER
VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT, BY MATURITY PHASE
37%
Capital cost of new storage infrastructure 37%
38%
28%
Impact on overall volume of storage capacity 19%
21%
Difficulty backing up and/or recovering virtual 26%
14%
machines 7%
Need to conduct additional interoperability testing and 22%
21%
qualification 17%
22%
Operational cost of new storage infrastructure 27%
21%
Advanced
Sizing capacity required to support virtual server 20%
environment
17%
17%
(N=46)
Need different tools to manage storage environment 17% Progressing
10%
and virtual server environment 14%
(N=111)
15%
General lack of information or best practices 17%
24% Basic (N=33)
Sizing performance requirements (i.e., IOPS) required 15%
16%
to support virtual server environment 31%
11%
Scalability problems 30%
34%
11%
Security concerns 30%
28%
Lack of integration between storage system and virtual 9%
21%
machine replication capabilities 21%
13%
We have not encountered any challenges 5%
3%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Source: ESG Research Report, The Evolution of Server Virtualization, November 2010.
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12. STORAGE-SPECIFIC CHALLENGES RELATED TO SERVER
VIRTUALIZATION ENVIRONMENT, BY MATURITY PHASE
26%
Difficulty backing up and/or recovering
14%
virtual machines
7%
11%
Advanced
Scalability problems 30% (N=46)
34%
Progressing
(N=111)
11% Basic (N=33)
Security concerns 30%
28%
Lack of integration between storage 9%
system and virtual machine replication 21%
capabilities 21%
Source: ESG Research Report, “The Evolution of Server Virtualization,” November 2010.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
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13. TOP STORAGE CHALLENGES – BY MATURITY PHASE
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14. ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES
 Host Based
 Network Based
 Storage [Appliance]
 Array Based
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15. REAL WORLD BENEFITS
 Means to an end
‒ Addresses unsustainable model/finances
‒ Technology implementation but business implication
 Combined with server virtualization
‒ 1+1=>2
‒ Research-based best-practice recommendations follow
 White Paper gives guidance on how to choose
approach and vendor
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16. RETHINK YOUR PROCESSES & ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
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17. ‘THE BIGGER TRUTH’ : ESG
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Plan, plan, plan (SLAs and measurement).
• Size performance as well as capacity.
Basic
• Focus on training and best practices: to develop cross-
discipline resources (people/tools/technology).
• Choose scalable (performance / capacity) platforms–more
Progressing than “killer features”–to manage OPEX challenges.
• Focus on a) interoperability and b) integrating storage and
VM replication.
• Monitor and control and/or provision storage capacity
Advanced growth.
• Experience does not always equal ease–plan for complex
VM backup and recovery demands.
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18. SOLVE THE TOP 6
ENTERPRISE
STORAGE ISSUES
MEET THE CHALLENGES OF
RAPID DATA GROWTH

19. ISSUE #1
EXPONENTIAL DATA GROWTH AND DISRUPTIVE STORAGE UPGRADES
 Data is growing at over 50% per year.
 Data migration is disruptive.
‒ Several hours per server
 Tiering data by value can lead to isolated silos.
 Managing data becomes more complex.

20. SOLUTION #1
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION SIMPLIFIES MIGRATION
 Single management interface
 Move data across all tiers
 Move data in the background
 Applications continue running
 Reduce time by 80%

21. ISSUE #2
LOW UTILIZATION OF EXISTING ASSETS
 Ever-growing storage systems
 Utilization below 50%
 Half capacity is unused
 New systems continue to be purchased

22. SOLUTION #2
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION INCREASES CAPACITY UTILIZATION
 Thin provisioning eliminates waste.
 Tier data according to value.
 Automate data placement.
 Consolidate storage systems.
 Reclaim 20-40% capacity.

23. ISSUE #3
INCREASING MANAGEMENT COMPLEXITY AND FLAT BUDGETS
 Multiple hosts, VMs, OS
 Application and file data in petabytes
 Multiple storage systems
 Multiple management tools
 Data center constraints

24. SOLUTION #3
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION SIMPLIFIES MANAGEMENT
 Manage one virtual pool
 One set of tools for all storage
 30% more data per administrator
 Speed up provisioning

25. ISSUE #4
INCREASING COSTS TO MANAGE STORAGE
 Cost of acquisition and support
 License agreements
 Increased floor space
 Less budget for investment
US$
Time

26. SOLUTION #4
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION REDUCES CAPEX AND TCO
 Eliminate redundant licenses
 Consolidate more data
 Reduce power and cooling
 Defer future purchases
 Reduce labor costs
 Extend life of assets

27. ISSUE #5
ENSURING SERVICE DELIVERY TO BUSINESS
 Access, availability, reliability
 Service level agreements
 Competing applications on network
 Difficulty in metering and reporting
 Consistency in response time

28. SOLUTION #5
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION ENABLES METERED SERVICES
 Logical partitioning
 Dedicated to each business line
 Central administration
 Service level assurance

29. ISSUE #6
ACHIEVING COST-EFFECTIVE DATA RESILIENCE
 Increased focus on compliance
 Downtime intolerable
 Achieving mix of protection and investment
 Costly duplication of effort
 Application, local, remote

30. SOLUTION #6
STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION ALLOWS ANY-TO-ANY REPLICATION
 Local replication among tiers
 Distance replication
 Any storage to any storage
 Same services available to all
 Standardization to lower licensing costs

31. WRAP UP
SOLVE THE TOP 6 STORAGE PROBLEMS
1. Simplify migration – up to 80% less time
2. Increase utilization – up to 50%
3. Simplify management – 30% more storage per person
4. Reduce cost – 100% ROI in one year
5. Ensure service delivery – match performance to cost
6. Create data resilience – any storage at any distance
For all the storage virtualized!

32. STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION RESULTS
OVERSTOCK.COM PROVIDES FASTER, MORE RELIABLE SERVICE
Migrations that took  Scaled up to 32PB of
upwards of five hours now managed storage
capacity
take less than 30 minutes.
 Reduced technology
Provisioning tasks, which refresh time by up to
typically took two to three 90%
hours, now take less than  Reduced provisioning
30 minutes. tasks by up to 80%
 Yielded savings of
The unit cost of storage
approximately 50% with
was reduced by 43% in initial reclamation
Year 1 and by an
 Improved utilization rate
additional 37% in Year 2. to about 80%

33. RESOURCES
http://www.hds.com/go/virtualizeit/
• “Storage Virtualization. What to Know and What to Look For”
by Mark Peters, Enterprise Strategy Group
• “Solve the Top Six Enterprise Storage Issues. Learn How to
Meet the Challenges of Rapid Data Growth with Storage
Virtualization” by Hitachi Data Systems
• “Brand Name Online Retailer Overstock.com Provides
Faster, More Reliable Service with Hitachi Storage”
• “Storage Virtualization for Dummies” by Hitachi Data
Systems
http://www.dummies.com/go/hitachi_storagevirtfordummies

34. QUESTIONS

35. UPCOMING WEBTECH SESSIONS
June
 Storage Service Level Management, June 29, 2011 at 9am PT, 12pm ET
July
 Hitachi Dynamic Tiering WebTech Series (3 Sessions)
‒ July 13, 20 and 27, 9am PT, 12 noon ET
‒ You‟ll learn how to
‒ Determine if an application‟s data is a good fit for automated tiered storage movements.
‒ Select and size tiers within a Dynamic Tiering pool.
‒ Use replication and migration with Dynamic Tiering virtual volumes
‒ Properly operate and monitor a Dynamic Tiering system
Please check www.hds.com/webtech for:
 Link to the recording, the presentation and Q&A (available next week)
 Schedule and registration for upcoming WebTech sessions

36. THANK YOU