R MOD 09-Advanced Storage Concepts

Advanced Storage Concepts
Upon completion of this module, you should be able

to:
Describe LUN Migration
Describe FAST VP
Describe FAST Cache
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Lesson 1: LUN Migration and LUN Expansion

During this lesson the following topics are covered:
Benefits of LUN migration
Migrating a LUN
Pools LUNs expansion procedures
Classic LUNs expansion (MetaLUN) concept
LUN Migration Benefits
Storage system tuning feature used to change:

LUNs type
LUNs storage pool topology
Location within the storage system
LUNs capacity
No disruption to applications running on the host

Can enhance performance or increase disk
utilization
Thin LUN space reclamation via LUN Migration
Move from a Classic LUN or a Thick LUN
LUN Migration Restrictions
Neither LUN may be a private LUN

Neither LUN may be binding, expanding, or
migrating
Either or both may be metaLUNs
Destination LUN may not be in a Storage Group
Destination LUN may not be part of SnapView or
MirrorView operations
Destination LUN may be larger than Source LUN
LUN Migration Operation
Data is copied from Source LUN to Destination LUN

Source stays online and accepts I/O
Destination assumes identity of Source when copy

completes
LUN ID, WWN
storage group membership
Source LUN is unbound after copy completes

The migration process is non-disruptive
There may be a performance impact
LUN Migration may be cancelled at any point

Source LUN returns to its previous state
Destination LUN is destroyed
Starting a LUN Migration: Source LUN

Storage > Storage Configuration > Storage Pools
Starting a LUN Migration: Destination LUN
Viewing LUN Migration State

LUN Migration Completion

LUN Migration Considerations
Ensure FAST Cache is OFF on LUNs being migrated

Prevents the migrations I/O from consuming capacity
in the FAST Cache
LUN migrations into FAST VP pool-based LUNs

Tiering policy determines which tier will be first
allocated to
LUN migrations with virtual provisioning pool thin

LUNs
Lower rate of migration when thin LUN is involved
Depends on thin LUN is populated and how sequential
the data is
Use ASAP priority LUN migration with normal cache

settings with caution
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Pool LUN Expansion
Capacity immediately available

Thick LUN
Pool must have enough storage for the expansion to
succeed
Thin LUN
Storage does not need to be available
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Classic LUNs Expansion (MetaLUN) Concepts
Aggregation of multiple LUNs to make a new

storage object
Aggregation via striping or concatenation
MetaLUN preserves personality of base LUN
Striping can preserve performance profile of base

LUN
Same RAID type and LUN size must be used
Restriping data from a populated base LUN takes time
Concatenation is immediate
Performance profile of components may vary
RAID type and LUN size do not have to be the same
Volume Managers and concurrency

Volume Managers can increase concurrency to the
storage system
No
with a metaLUN
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Classic LUNs Expansion (MetaLUN) Guidelines

Concatenation immediate
No performance impact because no data must be moved or copied
Striped metaLUN built from scratch immediate

Create a new base LUN, then expand it
No performance impact; VNX Block OE is aware that no data needs
to move
Stripe expanding a populated Base LUN - time depends on size

of Base LUN
All Base LUN data is read and restriped even if only one block was
written
Expand a LUN while app is running time depends on size and

workload
All data must be read and striped

Host workload and metaLUN expansion operations share storage
system resources
Re-stripe time is independent of element size multiplier

Expanding more than one LUN at a time per RAID Group is not
recommended
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Classic LUNs expansion (MetaLUN) Wizard
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Pool LUN Expansion: Host (Part 1)
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Pool LUN Expansion: Host (Part 2)
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Lesson 1: Summary
During this lesson the following topics were covered:
Benefits of LUN migration
Migrating a LUN
Pools LUNs expansion procedures
Classic LUNs expansion (MetaLUN) concept
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Lesson 2: FAST VP
FAST VP functionality
Benefits of FAST VP
Configuring a heterogeneous Pool
Configuring FAST VP
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FAST VP Functionality
Software that automates
Pool
BEFORE
movement of data based

on level of activity
More active data on faster
Flash
drives
LUN 1
drives, less active data on

slower drives
Less active data can
usually be moved from Tier

1 storage without users
noticing the difference
Uses I/O statistics at a 256
MB slice granularity
AFTER
SAS
drives
LUN 2
NL-SAS
drives
Most active
data
Moderately
active data
Least active data
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Benefits of FAST VP
Eliminates the need to manually migrate LUNs

between pools
Automatic data relocation within a tier
Rebalances data when drives are added to a Pool

Optimizes the use of high performance and high
eb
R
n
ci
an
al
New
FLASH
Rebalancing
capacity drives
Improves performance and cost efficiency
Recommended for applications that have workloads
that are fairly stable over time
Pool
Data Optimization
VNX provides a unified approach to auto-tiering
for
FLASH
file and block data
SAS
NL-SAS
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Heterogeneous Pools
Drives
Flash
NL-SAS
SAS
Storage Tiers
Flash
SAS
NL-SAS
Flash - Extreme Performance
Storage
SAS - Performance
Pool
NL-SAS - Capacity
Most active
data
Moderately
active data
LUNs
Least active data
Optimized auto-Tiering
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Per-Tier RAID Configuration

RAID Type
Preferred Drive
Count Options
RAID 1/0
4+4
RAID 5
4+1, 8+1
RAID 6
6+2, 14+2
Only one RAID type per tier

Mix and match in Pool, e.g.
RAID 5 (4+1) for Flash
RAID 5 (8+1) for SAS
RAID 6 (14+2) for NL-SAS
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Storage Tiers
Tier
Drive Technology
Criteria for Storage
Extreme Performance
Flash (SSD)
Response times
Performance
Performance
Serial Attach SCSI

(SAS)
Performance and
Capacity
Capacity
Near-Line SAS (NLSAS)
Maximum capacity
at a modest
performance level
POOL
AUTOMATIC
AUTOMATIC DATA
DATA OPTIMIZATION
OPTIMIZATION
Flash
SAS
NL-SAS
(Extreme
(Performance) (Capacity)
performanc
e)
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Creating a Heterogeneous Pool

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Configuring a Heterogeneous Pool
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FAST VP Policies
Start High, then Auto-Tier

Data initially placed in highest tier, then allowed to
relocate
Auto-Tier
Moves data to a tier based on LUN performance
statistics
Highest Available Tier

Moves data to the highest tier available
Lowest Available Tier

Moves data to the lowest tier available
No Data Movement
Moves no data between tiers, and retains the current
tier placement
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Managing and Monitoring FAST VP

Storage Pool
Properties
Use the dropdown to display

additional options such as
Manual
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Managing Auto-Tiering with Unisphere
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Starting and Stopping Data Relocation
Array-wide Relocation Schedule allows the user to
define the days and duration for relocations

Each pool has the option of using the array-wide
scheduler:
For existing Pools, when FAST VP is installed, the
default setting is OFF

For Pools created after FAST VP is installed, the
default setting is ON
Users can over-ride the setting as needed

All Pools have a manual relocate now option
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Starting and Stopping Data Relocation
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Unisphere Tiering Summary
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Lesson 2: Summary
FAST VP functionality
Benefits of FAST VP
Configuring a heterogeneous Pool
Configuring FAST VP
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Lesson 3: FAST Cache

FAST Cache functionality
Benefits of using FAST Cache
Configuring FAST Cache
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VNX FAST Cache Definition and Functionality
Storage system-based licensed software

Uses Enabler
FAST Cache extends storage system cache capacity

Adds a second cache tier
Promotes frequently accessed data to Flash drives
FAST Cache acts as an application accelerator

FAST Cache operations are non-disruptive
Uses existing memory allocation interface and does
not use host cycles
Can be enabled on Classic LUNs and Pools
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Benefits of VNX FAST Cache
Leverages the lower response time and better IOPS

of Flash drives
Without dedicating Flash drives to specific
applications
Provides Flash drive level performance to the data
which is accessed most frequently
Reduces the load on other storage system resources

Improves Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the
system
Works in a complementary way with FAST VP
technology
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VNX FAST Cache Components

Host I/O
Policy Engine
Manages the flow of I/O
through FAST Cache

Decides when I/O should be
copied to HDD and vise versa
Maintains statistical information
about the data access patterns
Multicore
Cache
(De-stage &
Read Miss I/O)
Memory Map
Memory Map
Tracks extent usage and
ownership in 64 KB chuncks of
granularity
Maintains information on the
state of 64 KB chunks of
storage and the content
A copy is stored in DRAM
memory
SSD
(Hit)
Multicore
FAST
Cache
SSD
HDD
(Miss)
HDD
SSD
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VNX FAST Cache Operations
Host read/write operation

Flash drives are configured as RAID 1 mirror pairs
Application gets the acknowledgement for an IO
operation
FAST Cache promotion

Data is copied from spinning media HDDs and placed
into FAST Cache
FAST Cache flush

A FAST Cache page is copied to the HDDs and the page
is freed for use
FAST Cache cleaning

Process that proactively copies dirty pages to the
underlying physical devices
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Configuring VNX FAST Cache
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Creating FAST Cache
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Enabling FAST Cache
Classic LUN creation

Pool creation
Classic LUN Properties
Pool Properties
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FAST Cache Column: Unisphere
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FAST Cache CLI Commands

Task
NaviSecCli command
Create FAST Cache
cache fast create
Destroy FAST Cache
cache fast destroy
Get FAST Cache info
cache fast -info
Configure FAST Cache when

creating a Classic LUN
bind ... fastcache 0 I 1
Enable or disable FAST Cache

on a Classic LUN
chglun -<LUN#> -fastcache 0 I 1
Get FAST Cache config info on getlun <LUN#> -fastcache

a Classic LUN
Configure FAST Cache when
creating a storage pool
storagepool create ... fastcache on I

off
Configure FAST Cache on

existing storage pool
storagepool modify id <#>

-fastcache on I off
Get FAST Cache state on

storage pool
storagepool list id <#> -fastcache
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FAST Cache Configuration Options

Storage System
Flash (SSD) Disk

Capacity
Maximum FAST
Cache Capacity
VNX5400
100 GB / 200 GB
0.5 TB / 1 TB
VNX5600
100 GB / 200 GB
1 TB / 2 TB
VNX5800
100 GB / 200 GB
1.5 TB / 3 TB
VNX7600
100 GB / 200 GB
2.1 TB / 4.2 TB
VNX8000
100 GB / 200 GB
2.1 TB / 4.2 TB
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VNX FAST Cache Summary
FAST Cache enables the system cache to be

expanded by using Flash drives as an additional tier
of cache
Allows the storage system to provide Flash drive
performance to the most heavily accessed chunks of

data
FAST Cache absorbs I/O bursts from applications

Reduces the load on backend hard disks
Improves the TCO of the storage solution
FAST Cache works in a complementary way with

FAST VP technology
Both technologies help in placing data segments on
the most appropriate storage tier based on their

usage pattern
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Lesson 3: Summary
FAST Cache functionality
Benefits of using FAST Cache
Configuring FAST Cache
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Summary
Key points covered in this module:
LUN migration restrictions include: No private,
binding, expanding, or migrating LUNs; Destination
not in a Storage Group or part of
SnapView/MirrorView operation
FAST VP feature automatically migrates the data
between storage tiers, and within storage tiers,
providing lowest TCO.
FAST Cache uses Flash drives and helps with read
and write performance for frequently accessed data
when this feature is enabled for or LUNs.
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Advanced Storage Concepts

Advanced Storage Concepts

Lesson 1: LUN Migration and LUN Expansion

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Advanced Storage Concepts

LUN Migration Benefits

Storage system tuning feature used to change:

No disruption to applications running on the host

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LUN Migration Restrictions

Neither LUN may be a private LUN

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LUN Migration Operation

Data is copied from Source LUN to Destination LUN

Destination assumes identity of Source when copy

Source LUN is unbound after copy completes

LUN Migration may be cancelled at any point

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Starting a LUN Migration: Source LUN

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Starting a LUN Migration: Destination LUN

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Viewing LUN Migration State

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LUN Migration Completion

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LUN Migration Considerations

Ensure FAST Cache is OFF on LUNs being migrated

in the FAST Cache

LUN migrations into FAST VP pool-based LUNs

LUN migrations with virtual provisioning pool thin

Use ASAP priority LUN migration with normal cache

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Advanced Storage Concepts

Pool LUN Expansion

Capacity immediately available

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Advanced Storage Concepts

Classic LUNs Expansion (MetaLUN) Concepts

Aggregation of multiple LUNs to make a new

Striping can preserve performance profile of base

Volume Managers and concurrency

Advanced Storage Concepts

Classic LUNs Expansion (MetaLUN) Guidelines

Striped metaLUN built from scratch immediate

Stripe expanding a populated Base LUN - time depends on size

Expand a LUN while app is running time depends on size and

All data must be read and striped

Re-stripe time is independent of element size multiplier

Advanced Storage Concepts

Classic LUNs expansion (MetaLUN) Wizard

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Pool LUN Expansion: Host (Part 1)