XtremIO 4.0 – XDP Enhancements (part1)
one of the best part of this release is the effort we put toward anything related to protection of the data, XtremIO is becoming a general all purpose flash array […]
Dell Storage, PowerStore, PowerFlex PowerMax & PowerScale, Virtualization & Containers Technologies
one of the best part of this release is the effort we put toward anything related to protection of the data, XtremIO is becoming a general all purpose flash array […]
one of the best part of this release is the effort we put toward anything related to protection of the data, XtremIO is becoming a general all purpose flash array and as such, customers demands nothing but the best when it comes to protecting their data, lets examine the features:
COPY Data Management
Improve the ease of use and productivity around snapshots, XtremIO will introduce:
•Read only snapshots
•Consistency management (CG)
•Snapshot set
•Local protection using scheduler
•Application aware (Native VSS)
•Refresh and recovery
Snapshots can now be
Read-Write (default)
*NEW* Read-Only snapshots
Read-only are immutable and cannot be changed
Main use case: protection from logical data corruption
New entity: Consistency Group
Manage snapshots on a set of volumes
Members: volumes or snapshots
Snapshot on a CG, creates a cross-consistent point in time snapshots from all members
The result of snapshot on a CG is a Snapshot Set that points to the created snapshots
Snapshot Sets are managed by the CG
New entity: Snapshot Set
An entity that points to related snapshots
Correlate a set of snapshots to a
single snapshot operation
Created as a result of a snapshot on:
Consistency Group
Snapshot Set
Set of volumes
Snapshot SCHEDULER
•Auto-creation of snapshots based on
policy:
–Supports definition of job (creation, deletion, suspension, modify)
–Each job define the scheduling of:
Snapshot creation
•Exact time
•Or Interval/Frequency
Retention policy (either age or number)
–Supports: CGs, Snapshots Sets, or a Volume
REFRESH & RESTORE
•Restore operation
–Enables recover of data from snapshots
–Allow restore from snapshots that are direct descendent
–Provides immediate Recover Time Objective (RTO)
•Refresh operation
–Enable to refresh/reassign any entity (within a VSG) to any entity
–Supports refresh to any direction
»Prod to snap
»Snap to snap
»Snap to prod
–Instantaneous refresh
•Immediate refresh (no copy of data or metadata)
•Keeps the SCSI face of the refreshed entities
•No change in the SCSI serial ID (NAA)
•No re-mapping
•No OS side device rescan
•Support volume resize (if was changed)
•Only requires to unmount before refresh, remount after refresh
•Create-snapshot command
•Create Snapshot and Reassign
VSS Hardware Provider
Native VSS support for application aware snapshots
•Native support for Volume copy shadow services using XtremIO provider
–Using MS framework to pause application
–Enable the creation of application aware snapshots
–Support for Windows Server 2012R2/2008
–Support all VSS writers
•Simple MSI installation
•Simple configuration
•In the control panel find the XtremIO VSS Panel
•Configure the XMS address and the user
Writers and Requestors
App-Consistent Copy Services
SIMPLE & COMPREHENSIVE
–Full scheduling and automation
POWERFUL COPY MANAGEMENT
–Full orchestration of XtremIO snapshots
–Empowers application administrators
USE IT FOR
–Policy-based protection
–Database repurposing
–Integration to Micrsoft SQL Server/Exchange
–Integration to Oracle
–Integration to VMware data stores
here’s a demo I recorded showing some of what we discussed above