5 Critical Components of an Enterprise Storage Management Framework Steve Duplessie Founder/Senior Analyst The Enterprise Storage Group www.enterprisestoragegrou
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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
Enterprise Storage Management
• Why Bother?
– Because You Need To Become A Utility
• Deliver Storage QoS
• Create, Deliver and Prove SLA’s
• Know Your Costs, Collect Your Rent
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
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.
The Building Blocks of Information Availability
Information
Availability
Utility-Type Infrastructure
DynamicallyAble to Provision
Charge/Bill back
PolicyManaged
Enterprise StorageManagement
Network & System
Management
Network & System
Management
ApplicationManagement
Source: Enterprise Storage Group, May 2001
Enterprise Storage Management
• What Do IT Objectives call for?1. The ability to understand what they have2. Understand usage patterns by storage
assets 3. Understand usage patterns by line of
business4. An easier way to guarantee information
availability in order to meet business objectives
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
Enterprise Storage Network
Source: Enterprise Storage Group, July 2001
FC/SCSI FC/IP IP SCSIover IP
BlockStorage
FileStorage
InfiniBand
Fibre ChannelNetwork
EthernetNetwork
ApplicationDatabaseServers
ApplicationDatabaseServers
Heterogeneous Protocols
Heterogeneous Protocols
Heterogeneous Networks
Heterogeneous Networks
Heterogeneous Services:
• Raw Device•File Services•DB Services
Heterogeneous Services:
• Raw Device•File Services•DB Services
HeterogeneousDevices
HeterogeneousDevices
Enterprise Storage Management
• What’s Beyond ESM?– Automated Action based on
• Business Rules• Policies and Procedures• Best Practices• Attributes
Storage Requirements Differ by Industry
Val
ue
Time
Print Media
Engineering
Healthcare
Source: Enterprise Storage Group, 2001
Storage Requirements Differ By Line Of Business
Val
ue
Time
Marketing
Software Development
Financial
Rev 1.0 Rev 2.0
Source: Enterprise Storage Group, 2001
ESG’s Enterprise Storage Management Model
EnterpriseStorage
Management
StorageVirtualization
StorageResource
Management
StorageNetwork
Management
DataManagement
StoragePolicy
Management
Source: Enterprise Storage Group, June 2001
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 shouldn’t be.
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.
Enterprise Storage Management
• Data Management– Backup/Restore/Bus. Continuance,
H/A, HSM, etc. Data Management delivers the key components of information life cycle management.
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.
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.
What Needs to Be Considered?Type of Content
QualityOf
ServiceSize
ProtectionLevels
Locations
Backup &ArchivingPolicies
StorageManagement
Attributes
StorageManagement
Attributes
Enterprise Storage Management
• Who Contends For The Framework?– EMC
– CA
– HP
– BMC
– Tom Brady
– Sun (yes, Sun)
– IBM (Tivoli)
– Veritas
Enterprise Storage Management
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