SAN and NAS in

Perspective

CF Chew
NAS Technical Architect,
South Asia
 Topics

■ Information Flow

■ SAN

■ NAS

■ SAN + NAS = MPFS

■ EMC Offerings

■Q & A

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 Information

Consolidati Collaborati Distribution

on on

■ Reduce total cost ■ Improve ■ Improve service

of ownership productivity levels
■ Better leverage IT
■ Improve product ■ Improved network
resources quality utilization
■ Improve service
■ Improve time to ■ Efficient recovery
levels market

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How can the Server access the Data
Storage?

Server

?
Data Storage

Server
Data Storage

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 First layer of choice
IP Channel
s

NAS MPFS Access to

File
Information
Method:
• File level
• Block level
Protocol:
SAN • Channel
Block TNT
(SCSI,Fibre)
• Network (TCP/IP)

MPFS = Multi-path file syste

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 Information Infrastructure, Topology
Summary
Directly Server Data Storage
Attached
Storage Server
Device Data Storage

TCP/IP

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 A focus on Storage Area Network
IP Channel
s

File NAS MPFS

Block
SA
SAN

N
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 Typical Storage Area Network (SAN)
Implementation
LAN

Switch
Fibre Channel
Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)
Tape B/R

Storage

Storage Consolidation.

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 SAN Pros and Cons
✔ Block level access to storage
✔ Highly scalable
✔ High performance for large block transfers
✔ Excellent availability through multiple paths
✔ Sharing of consolidated storage
✔ High-speed LAN-less or server-less backups
✔ Data sharing through proprietary filesystem solutions
✖ Expensive to deploy and manage
✖ Expensive HBAs (compared to NICs)

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 When SAN is appropriate
■ Parallel Databases
— Decision support systems
— Data mining
— CRM
— ERP
■ High bandwidth streaming video

■ Process intensive applications

— Billing

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 Information Infrastructure, Topology
Summary
Directly Server Data Storage
Attached
Storage Server
Device Data Storage

Server
Storage Fibre Data Storage
Area Server
Switch
Network Server Data Storage

TCP/IP

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A focus on Network Attached Storage
IP Channel
s

NANAS MPFS
File
S

Block
SAN

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Typical Network Attached Storage(NAS)
Implementation

Server Consolidation.

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 NAS Pros and Cons
✔ File level access to storage

✔ High performance for small block transfers

✔ Data sharing through proven standard network

protocols (NFS, CIFS, HTTP), heterogeneous system
environment
✔ Availability through high bandwidth clustering and
data replication
✔ Simple and inexpensive to deploy - inexpensive NICs

✖ Limited security

✖ Difficult to manage large installations

✖ Must overcome scalability and availability limits of direct
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 NAS Implementation

■ Network Attached Device ■ Network Appliance

— Integrated storage and
server function
— Smaller configurations
■ Server Attached Storage
— Generalized file server
function
— Can be optimized for
storage access only
— Uses I/O interface for ■ Intelligent Network File
storage attachment
— e.g. HP N4000, IBM
RS/6000 S80
— Reduced server
functionality for storage
only
— Server and storage
integrated and often in
same device
— Optimized for file server
— e.g. F820/840, IP4700
Servers
— Only used for file serving
— Storage functionality is
done by the storage
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 Using NAS in an Enterprise

Internal/Lo
Local PC cal
Serving
Up Files
Shared
Resources
Network/NAS

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 Information Infrastructure, Topology
Summary
Directly Server Data Storage
Attached
Storage Server
Device Data Storage

Server
Storage Fibre Data Storage
Area Server
Switch
Network Server Data Storage

Network Server File

Attached Server Server
Storage Data Storage
Data Storage

TCP/IP

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 EMC Networked Storage – NAS & SAN

Finance
Network Sale Finance Network Sales
Clients s Clients

File
Serve Orac Exchange SAP
rs le File
Serve Oracle Exchange SAP
rs

SAN SAN

CLARiiON
IP4700
NAS
Celerra
CLARiiO
NAS
N Symmetri
Midrange Networked FC4700
Storage Architecture x
High End Networked Storage Architecture

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only

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File Server

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 A focus on Multi Path File System
IP Channel
s
MPFS = Multi-path file system

File NAS M
MPFS “Highroad”

PFS

SAN
Block

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 Multi-path File System (High Road) - SAN / NAS
Integration

Network request,
channel or network
Network Infrastructure
delivery

IP Network Servers Delivery

optimization
Data
Cont rol Performance and
and D ata Fibre Channel sharing
Ad Server
Best of
Content both worlds
Web Content
BLOBs, Flat Files
Celerr Symmetri
SAN
a x
switch
NAS Intelligent Data Delive
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Complimentary benefits - why you need
choice
IP Channel
s
NAS MPFS
File
Distance Performance
Sharing Sharing

SAN

Block Performance
Control

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 Choice can be confusing: how do I choose?

Consolidati Collaborati Distribution

on on

■ SAN or ■ SAN or ■ SAN or

NAS? NAS? NAS?

torage Area Network, NAS = Network Attached Storage

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 You can do it with SAN or NAS
NAS SAN
Storage and server Storage
Non-Deterministic performance Deterministic performance
Unlimited connections Limited connections
Any distance Limited distance
Consolidatio
n
File Sharing IP delivery MPFS - File sharing channel deliver
delive
IP performance Optimized performance
Core and/or edge work Core work groups
groups SAN distance
Collaboration
Any distance
Content Distribution DR, Backup,
Non-Deterministic performance Replication
Shared connections Deterministic
Core to edgeDistribution performance
Dedicated connections
Core to core
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 You can do it with SAN & NAS

SAN + NAS = Networked Storage

er environment determines technology choi

Application mix
Performance requirements
Location of computing resources

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 Networked Storage - EMC

Clariion IP 4700
NAS MPFS
Celerra SE Distance Performance
Celerra High Road
Celerra Sharing Sharing

Symmetrix
Connectrix
CLARiion ED-64M
SAN ED-1032
DS-32M
PerformanceDS-16M
Control DS-16B
DS-8B

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 EMC Connectrix Family (SAN)
ED-1032 ED-64M

Switches
■ High
availability
CONSOLIDATION

■ Departmental
and data
center DS-32M
locations Directors
■ Rack ■ Redundant everything
DS-16B
mountable ■ Non-blocking I/O
DS-8B DS-16M
■ Data center locations
■ Maximum scalability

Hubs

FUNCTIONALITY

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 EMC - NAS Platform

CLARiiON
■ High availability
■ Moderate function
CONSOLIDATION

■ Moderate scale Celerra Celerra and Symmetrix

SE ■ Continuous availability
■ Maximum function
■ Maximum scale

CLARiiON
IP4700
General Purpose
File Servers

FUNCTIONALITY

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 CLARiiON IP4700: EMC MIDRANGE NAS

■ Midrange leading architecture—CLARiiON

— No single point of failure
— Proven CLARiiON architecture
■ High availability built-in Cluster

■ Ease of use
— 10-minute installation wizard
— Web-based management

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 EMC Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Symmerix

Celerra

CLARiiON IP4700
Symmetrix Celerra (CFS14) Celerra SE

EMC High-End NAS EMC Midrange NAS

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 NAS Choices

CLARiiON IP4700 Celerra SE Celerra

Integrated high
Advanced clustering Advanced clustering
availability

2 Storage Processors 2–4 Data Movers 2–14 Data Movers

Scale to 8TB
Scale to 7TB Scale to 28TB
( 2TB internal )

10 - 10/100 E-Nets 32 - 10/100 E-Nets 112 - 10/100 E-Nets

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 SAN Choice
Ports Fabric* Availability Rack size / ports
Via redundant
DS-8B 128 1u/--
switches
Via redundant
DS-16B 256 2u/--
switches
Via redundant
DS-16M 128 1u/192
switches
Via redundant
DS-32M 256 1.5u/384
switches
Built in
ED-1032 256 18u/64
redundancy
Built in
ED-64 M 512 9u/256
redundancy
* Tested, delivered, and supported
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 The EMC Networked Storage

User network
NAS

DAS

SAN SAN
SAN
SAN
IP4700
NAS
DAS MPFS OR OR

FC4700

FC4700

= Direct Attached Storage EMC CLARiiON

Celerra
= Storage Area Network
= Network Attached Storage
Symmetrix EMC’s MIDRANGE SOLUTION
S = SAN and NAS sharing
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EMC NAS Value Proposition: NAS, SAN, or
Both?
SAN (Connectrix) NAS (Celerra/IP4700)
■ Generally, Where You’d ■ File Serving Consolidation
Implement a Direct
Attached Architecture ■ Share Info Among Hosts

■ Databases (eg. Oracle) ■ File Serving Applications

— Web Hosting (eg. InfoWeb)
■ Most Applications (eg. — Web Email (eg. USAnet)
SAP) — Engineering (eg. Lucent)
■ SAN Backup

Remember, EMC Offers Both NAS & SAN…

...Best of Both Worlds

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 Is NAS SAN ?
■ No - NAS (Network Attached Storage) has
connectivity to LAN/WAN systems normally
through TCP/IP
Server
LAN
NAS
Server

■ SAN (Storage Area Networks) normally have

connectivity
Server via Fibre Channel
SAN Storage
Server

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 Summary: NAS vs. SAN
NAS
■ LAN connectivity
(Ethernet/GbE NIC)
■ Part of a LAN & LAN over
WAN
■ Shares files, objects &
data
■ Object security through
network protocols
■ Paralleled on the network
■ Simple & easily configured
■ Operating System (OS)
independent
SAN
■ Fibre connectivity (Fibre
HBA)
■ Part of a server cluster
■ Shares data blocks &
volumes
■ Data security through
trusted servers
■ Switched to servers
■ Clustered storage
■ Fast, dedicated
infrastructure for backup
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 Benefits of Networked Storage
■ Lower costs of administration
— Centralized management of storage
— Resource sharing

■ Faster growth
— Improved scalability, flexibility

■ Better IT services
— Increased reliability and availability

■ Traditional battle: SAN vs. NAS

— But both types of services are needed!

■ Storage utility model

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Q&A
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Closing Slide

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