Steffen Bartsch Technical Integrator Agenda HDS Corporate - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Steffen Bartsch Technical Integrator

Agenda • HDS Corporate Profile • Hitachi Freedom Storage Solutions – Product Family – Enterprise <-> Midrange – SAN: 1Gbit / 2Gbit ? – SAN – NAS – or both? – Virtualisation – Freedom Storage Thunder 9200 • Thunder 9200 Features • Thunder 9200 Software Offering Duration: ~ 30 minutes Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 2

HDS: Company Data at a Glance • Founded 1989 • Wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi,Ltd. (NYSE:HIT) • Total Employees - 2,900 • Operations in 48 countries • Hitachi Freedom Storage  software, hardware, and services • Hitachi, Ltd.’s focal point for storage technology Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 3

Hitachi Data Systems EMEA Israel Kuwait Finland Norway Hitachi Data Systems Russian Federation Europe Countries Sweden Saudi Hitachi Data Systems Baltic States Distributor Countries Arabia Denmark Hitachi Data Systems Ire. Reseller Countries UK Netherlands Poland Germany Belgium Not Covered yet! Czech Republic South Africa Slovakia France Austria Hungary Switzerland Romania Slovenia Italy Balkans Bulgaria Albania Spain Portugal Greece Turkey Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 4

Wit SoundView How do you rate the following vendors disk storage? (on a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being best) Hitachi Data Systems 2.0 Hitachi Data Systems 2.0 2.4 Compaq EMC 2.4 IBM 2.7 2.9 Dell HP 3.0 Storage Technologies 3.0 Source: Wit SoundView survey of Gartner conference attendees (July/01) Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 5

Product Family • 4 - 512 Disk‘s • Mainframe • Open-System • 4 – 100 Disk‘s • Open-Systems Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 6

HiStar Architecture – 9900 Enterprise Class Connect up to 32 servers directly or hundreds through switches Up to 512 Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 7

FC Architecture 9200 Midrange Class • High Speed FC-AL backend • Quad 100MB/s Full duplex FC loops • 2 Tachyon chips per controllers • Loop switching architecture – Primary / Alternate – Alternate used if Primary is busy or unavailable Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 8

The Hitachi Data Systems Vision Any Data, Any Computer, Any Data, Any Computer, Anytime, Anywhere Anytime, Anywhere Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 9

1Gbit – 2Gbit ? Backup ! Backup ! Multiplexing ! ! Multiplexing Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 10

Networked Storage for the Networked World • Concept of storage Where is all the data coming from? as “Utility” • Connectivity technology is irrelevant: availability and simplicity are everything! Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 11

SAN or NAS? Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 12

Where Does NAS Fit ? • IT Departments – Consolidation of hosts with small storage requirements – NT storage consolidation • Enterprise data centers – Storage pooling with NAS and SAN – Offload file services from general purpose processors • Internet Data Centers – Web hosting front-ends – Streaming media applications Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 13

SAN + NAS : Freedom ! LAN NAS SAN Thunder 9200 Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 14

Virtualisation Strategy • We already have virtualisation integrated in our storage solutions!! (but failed to call it that way…) • Partnering with ISV’s for truly open virtualisation solutions – Investment in Datacore (SAN Symphony) – Potential partnership with other vendors – Involved with the development of Veritas’ virtualisation solution with Brocade Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 15

Virtualisation: So what? Server „Storage Consumer“ Volume Manager „Storage Admin“ ... ... Storage Storage RAID Group e.g. RAID5 (4D+1P) RAID Group RAID1 (2D+2P) Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 16

Freedom Storage Thunder 9200 • Full Fibre Architecture • Modular, building-block design for flexible configurations • Rackmount and Deskside • From 18GB to 18TB RAW capacity • High speed18GB*, 36GB*, 72GB and 180GB disk drives (*15.000RPM) • Up to 5 global dynamic hot spares • RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 3*, 5 intermixed • Up to 4GB cache • Fibre or SCSI host connectivity • Redundant, hot-swappable components • Online microcode upgrade, LUN expansion, LUN mapping • Extensive software offering • NT/2000, Netware, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 17

Performance vs. Capacity 3 RK + 6 RKA 3 RK + 4 RKA 1 RK + 9 RKA 2 RK + 7 RKA 2 RK + 6 RKA 2 RK + 4 RKA 2 RK + 2 RKA 1 RK + 1 RKA 1 RK Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 18

Multi platform support Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 19

Heterogeneous Connectivity Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 20

Thunder 9200 Management • Easy to use Java based GUI: – Resource Manager 9200 • Supports multiple 9200 units • Supports Windows, Solaris, Irix, HP/UX • Web enabled monitoring of critical components • Internet based Hi-Track call home • Remote Management via LAN / RS-232 port • SNMP Compliant – Integration in CA Unicenter, HP Openview, Tivoli, etc. Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 21

Enterprise Copy Functions Hardw are based copy through Fibre Channel Local Volume copy - Complete physical mirror - Backup applications - Application dev. Midrange April 2002 Rev. 1.5 SBA Page 22