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WHAT IS COPY DATA MANAGEMENT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE HOW CATALOGIC ECX HELPS YOU MANAGE YOUR NETAPP ONTAP® AND VMWARE® ENVIRONMENTS September 2014 CatalogicSoftware.com
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What is Copy Data Management and Why You Should Care

Dec 05, 2014

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VMware Administrators and NetApp ONTAP storage administrators benefit from tools that help them manage their growing environments. In this SlideShare, learn about CDM (copy data management) and how Catalogic ECX can instantly provide value by helping you reclaim storage space, improve performance and more. Once you see what ECX can do for you, you will wonder how you ever managed without it.
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Page 1: What is Copy Data Management and Why You Should Care

WHAT IS COPY DATA MANAGEMENT AND WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

HOW CATALOGIC ECX HELPS YOU MANAGE YOUR NETAPP ONTAP® AND VMWARE® ENVIRONMENTS

September 2014

CatalogicSoftware.com

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COPIES OF DATA ARE LIKE RABBITS

Primary Storage Storage

Growth Backup & ReplicatedCopies Copies for Multiple

Use Cases

The more I have, the harder it is to manage…1

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WOULD YOU NEED GOOGLE IF THERE WERE ONLY ONE WEB SITE?

In 1991, there was only 1 web site.

By 2015, there will be over 1 billion websites.

Google and other search engines are absolutely required.

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HOW DO YOU GOOGLE WITHIN YOUR DATA CENTER?

VM’s

FAS

One NetApp FAS and One VM is easy to search.But what happens when your data center grows…

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HOW DO YOU FIND FILES OR ALL THE COPIES WHEN YOU HAVE…

Multiple FAS arrays & VM’s …

Thousands of snapshots …

Billions of files …

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JUST LIKE GOOGLEUSE CATALOGIC ECX TO FIND ALL COPIES OF A FILE IN SECONDS

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Anywhere in Your Data Center -Even Across Remote Sites!

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AND NOT JUST FILES…

Files & Virtualization

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VM SCENERIO: WHAT HAPPENS IN A TYPICAL DATA CENTER

One VM, 100 GB disk, 4 GB RAM, quad-core processor

Multiple by

100 VM’s per ESX Server

Multiple by

Ten ESX Servers Per Data Center

10,000 VM’s

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ARE YOU EXPERIENCING VMWARE SPRAWL?

Which VM’s are not powered on?

10,000 VM’s

From Previous Scenario: If only 1% of VM’s are deleted, you reclaim 10 TB’s of disk space and improve performance with 100 VM’s no longer needing resources for memory and CPU cycles.

How many multiple clones exist?

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RECLAIM STORAGE AND IMPROVE PERFORMANCE WITH ECX

Identify and Delete Orphaned and Abandoned VM’s

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Not Just VM’s, but VM Resources Too!

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WHY FIND EXCESS COPIES?FIVE REASONS TO IDENTIFY COPIES

Reclaim Disk Space

Improve System

Performance

Validate Complianc

e

Improve Data

Protection

Save Money

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ADDING DISK STORAGE

Reclaiming Disk Space and Improving Performance Saves Money

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