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Open Standards for Storage & Networking David Dale, Industry EvangelistChairman SNIA IP Storage Forum

8th National e-Governance Conference BhubaneswarFebruary 4, 2005

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Contents

Computer Industry Today Standards – the Lifeblood of Open

Systems Network Appliance and Standards Types of Standards Participation Current Key Initiatives

– Grid Alliance– Storage Management Initiative– IP Storage Forum

Summary


Computer Industry Pre-Open Systems

Vendor 1 Vendor 2 Vendor 3 Vendor 4 Vendor 5

Network

Applications

Operating System

Server

Storage


Vendor 1 Vendor 2 Vendor 3 Vendor 4 Vendor 5

Open Systems Industry

Cisco

OracleSAP

MicrosoftLinux

Dell

EMCNetApp

Network (Ethernet)

Applications (DBMS)

Operating System (Unix, Windows)

Server (Intel Architecture)

Storage


Standards: the Lifeblood of Open Systems

Without industry standards, the world of open systems would not exist

– Networking standards (IETF)

– Applications standards (IETF, Open Group)

– OS standards (Linux, Windows APIs)

– Servers (IEEE, ISO, card, chassis and component interface standards)

– Storage (STA, FCIA, SNIA, IETF, etc)


Network Appliance and Standards

Network Appliance– $1.2B (FY 2004) global storage vendor– Established 1992– Based in Sunnyvale, CA, USA– R&D facilities in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Boston,

Pittsburg, and Bangalore– World’s leader in Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Active participant in industry standards:– IETF, FCIA, SNIA, Open Group– Special interest trade associations

• Grid Alliance; DAT Collaborative; etc – Participant in industry interoperability plug-fests

• UNH, Storage Networking Industry Association


Types of Standards Participation

Participate in creation of new standards– Example: IETF; NDMP; SNIA SMI-S

Determine need for new standards and seed development– Example: Enterprise Grid Alliance

Develop reference implementations of new standards– Example: iSCSI target

Develop of high-performance implementations of standard interfaces– Examples: NFS, CIFS, and iSCSI clients for Linux

Drive promotion and adoption of new standards– Example: SNIA IP Storage Forum; SNIA Storage Management

Forum


The Enterprise Grid Alliance

Consortium of vendors and customers focused on developing Enterprise Grid solutions

Founders:– Board of Directors:

• EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, NEC, Network Appliance, Oracle, Sun

– Members: • Ascential Software, Brocade, Cassatt, Cisco,

Data Synapse, EMC, Force 10 Networks, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, NEC, Network Appliance, Novell, Optena, Oracle, Sun, TopSpin


Activities of Alliance

Ensure movement to an open grid environment with standards and interoperability– Create solutions– Endorse and support existing specifications– Define new specifications where needed

Provide practical, achievable near term benefits– Useful in Enterprise data centers

Resolve issues with enterprise grid computing

Develop reference implementations for new specifications

Test and certification procedures and compliance programs

Test and promote interoperability between enterprise grid software and hardware

Build demonstrations

Document best practices

Grow the grid computing market


Phase 1: Core Capability

Core Commercial Enterprise applications only– Applicable to every Enterprise– Validate that basic support is possible now– Encourage or develop needed specifications ensuring

openness

Capability within a single Enterprise only– Not between Enterprises– Focus on a data center, but include interaction with

other data centers first for availability and then for load balancing and cooperative processing

– Interoperation between vendors, within a data center


Core Capability

2004-2005

Between EnterprisesInternet

Within an EnterpriseIntranet

Technical Enterprise Apps

Modeling, Simulation

Commercial Enterprise AppsERP, CRM, BI


Phase 2: Include and Extend

Include support for Technical Grid applications– Enables Technical Grid processing when Commercial

applications don’t need the resources– Off hours capacity encourages development of more

Technical Grid applications– Boundary between application types begins to blur

Extend multiple data center support to other organizations– Message passing applications such as supply chain,

trading applications– Web service calls between applications– Grids between Enterprises begin to interoperate


Include and Extend






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Phase 3: Unify and Complete

Unify Grid computing within and between Enterprises– True cooperative processing, not just message passing – Dynamic capacity addition: Virtually extend the data

center– Final capacity on demand capability delivered

Complete support for all Enterprise applications– In all configurations, inside the data center and

outsourced to data center providers– Complete interoperation between Enterprise Grids– Final computing-as-a-utility model begins to emerge


Unify and Complete

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SNIA Storage Management Initiative (SMI)

A major initiative of the Storage Networking Industry Association– To drive the creation and proliferation of open

standards for the management of heterogeneous storage networks

The SMI drives four major programs – Creating a Storage Standard (SMI-Specification)– Educating the Industry– Driving the implementation of SMI in vendors

products– Testing product compliance with the SNIA

Conformance Test Program (CTP)


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Today: Proprietary Interfaces


SMI-S Storage Management Solution

Storage Management Applications

LAN/WAN

UNIX WindowsUNIX

Storage Area Network‘Providers’

‘Clients’

Storage Devices


Interoperability Through Standards

SNIAHBA APIProvider

ArrayProvider Switch

Provider

SNIA-SMLProvider

CIM/WBEM(XML over HTTP)

Storage ManagementApplications

SMI-S Instrumentation

Disk ArraysTape Libraries

FC HBAsFC Switches

SMI-S


SMI-S Providers Deliver Properties and Services

CIM/WBEM(XML over HTTP)

Storage ManagementApplications

Disk ArraysFC HBAs

Tape LibrariesFC Switches

Management ServicesObject Oriented, Platform Independent, Automated Discovery,

Security, Configuration, Provisioning Operations, etc

Individual Device Properties


SMI-S v1.0 Functionality

Array Snapshot & Mirror ControlCreate, split, and synchronize

Snapshots and mirrors

IndicationsProvide device awarenessand operations monitoring

Fabric & Zoning DiscoveryDiscover the path between hosts,

switches and arrays; configure and

report on zones

Array LUN MaskingControl the visibility of

logical volumes to hosts(a form of security)

Tape Library ManagementTrack library health, capacity

and resources, plus LAN-basedmedia movement

Array Volume CreationCreate logical volumes

in an array and make themavailable to a host


BluefinContribution To SNIA

SMI-SpecificationSMI-SpecificationV1.0V1.0


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SMI-SSMI-SV2.+V2.+

CTP TestsCTP Tests

CIM Storage ProfilesCIM Storage ProfilesSLP DiscoverySLP Discovery

‘‘Recipes’ for Recipes’ for InteroperableInteroperableoperationsoperations

SMI-S Test SpecificationSMI-S Test Specification

SMI-Lab validationSMI-Lab validation

Arrays, Switches, Libraries, HostsArrays, Switches, Libraries, Hosts

NAS NAS

Storage SecurityStorage Security

iSCSIiSCSI

CascadingCascadingOwnershipOwnership

Management Services Management Services

PolicyPolicy

Health/FaultHealth/FaultManagementManagement

Policy Improvements Policy Improvements

Object Based Storage Object Based Storage

PerformancePerformance LockingLocking

DatabasesDatabases

ApplicationsApplications

QoS QoS

Single Sign-on Single Sign-on

ILMILMCIM 2.8

CIM 2.9

CIM 2.x

CIM 2.7

CIM-SoapCIM-Soap

CIM 3.x

SMI-S Technology Roadmap


SMI-S: an ANSI INCITS Standard

Successful completion of INCITS submission for approval

ANSI INCITS 388-2004, American National Standard for Information Technology – Storage Management

Based on version SMI-S v1.0.2, verifiable by the SNIA CTP.

SMI-S ISO certification submission expected in 2005


SMI Value

End-Users– Provides freedom

of choice– Reduce

management costs– Control agent

proliferation– Reduce overhead

and complexity

Industry– Accelerate product

acceptance and time to market

– Lowers development cost, spurs innovation

– Expand total market


SNIA IP Storage Forum

Mission– To drive the broad adoption of IP-based SAN storage

solutions IP Storage Protocols:

– iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP iSCSI is a standard SCSI block storage protocol

which uses TCP/IP for transport– Enables the creation of SANs based on Gigabit

Ethernet instead of Fibre Channel


Data growth and server proliferation– Large numbers of Intel-architecture servers– Broad deployment of Windows server applications– Distributed business apps generating huge data growth– Business apps becoming mission critical

Scalability and data availability can be a major problem with DAS in these environments

Over-provisioning and data protection complexity make DAS increasingly expensive

Applications in this space often require either a DAS or a SAN solution

Cost, complexity and lack of expertise can prohibit traditional FC SAN implementation

iSCSI Addresses These Issues

IT Pain Points


IP SAN Topology and Advantages

Servers w/ iSCSI Initiators

iSCSI Storage Systems

Users

Gigabit Ethernet

Switch IP SAN

LAN

Standard SAN storage– Block storage access– Supports all apps– Transparent migration from

direct attached storage Lower TCO than FC

– Less costly infrastructure– Easier to manage– Expertise in existing staff

Leverages IP Benefits– Plug-and-play

interoperability– Robust well-understood

management software– Enables global integration

of data assets


Where IP SAN Solutions Fit

StorageNetwork

InfrastructureEthernet

FC

Mostly Ethernet

Lots of both

StorageNetwork

StorageNetwork

Networked Storage in remote offices

DRNetwork

LAN WAN

Primary Storage

D/D Backup & DR

Secondary Storage

Secondary Storage

Core Production:Bus. Critical, some Bus.

Operations

Test/ Dev Layered ProductionBus. Internal, some Bus.

Operations Remote Offices


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iSCSI License Downloads

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Summary

Each of these standards will become important to the IT community– Particularly in e-Governance

Grid environments are starting to roll out– Linux based– Flexible and massively scalable– Best price performance

SMI-S compliant products exist today IP SAN (iSCSI) is now being adopted by mainstream IT

organizations– Accelerating rate of adoption– Excellent value proposition compared with direct-attached

storage solutions– Major installations in both local and national government

environments

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