NetApp - FlexVol

Flex Volumes

1. data volumes
2. basic building block of data management
3. snapshots are taken at volume level
4. specific to a data SVM

CLI commands

mounting on client

• mkdir /mnt/vol1
• mount -t nfs <netappinterface>:/vol1 /mnt/vol1

Creating volume

• volume create -vserver demo -volume vol10 -aggregate aggr4 -size 50MB
• volume mount -vserver demo -volume vol10 -junction-path /vol4
• volume modify -vserver demo -volume vol10 -policy default

• volume create -vserver demo -volume vol50 -aggregate aggr20 -size 500MB -policy default -junction-path /vol50  --> all pieces in on command

Isilon Tasks

Isilon Tasks

Initial Installations

Capacity Expansions

Adding new capacity

Configuring Network

Creating Static, Dynamic pools

Create NFS shares

Create SMB shares

Create Quotas

Create SyncIQ Policies

Create SnapshotIQ

Configure SyncIQ failover and Failback

Dedupe

Simultaneous code upgrade

Rolling code upgrade

Node upgrades

disk upgrades

InsightIQ code upgrade

InsightIQ Virtual appliance deployment

InsightIQ Linux installation

Migrations

rsync

isi_vol_copy

isi_vol_copy_vnx

EMCOPY

Pure Storage

Dashboard

Hardware

M10 - 30TB
M20 - 250 TB
M50 - 500 TB
M70 - 1.5 PB
X70 - 1.1. PB

Operating System

Version: 3.0


Health status
latency
IOPS
Bandwidth

Storage

1) Create host - host1
2) Add FC ports
3) create volumes
4) create voluems
5) create clone -> copy snapshot to volume


Replications

1) Create Protection group
2) add members to the group
3) add ESX cluster
4) add targets  - > add pure storage array targets
5) define replication policy

SRM
site recovery manager to connect Pure storage to vmware

Analysis  for graphs

System

alerts configration, SNMP, system time, directory service,

Host Connections

Plugins - vCenter plug ins

VSS - application consistent snapshots for the windows



Pure storage architecture



Monitoring of the Pure storage through  PURE1 Cloud ( similar to ESRS)


Pure 3.0 features


Non-disruptive - >  software updates
                                Capacity expansion
                                performance expansions


ZeroSnap using vmware xCopy feature


More security through  Always on Encryption  AES

VAAI xcopy
VAAI thin prov
vSphere plugin

Support model - PureCloud

IBM XIV run guide

IBM XIV

Models:

GUI Tools: XIV storage management



Tasks: 

Provision Storage

1) Add Hosts
2) Add HBA ports to Hosts
3) Verify Host connectivity



Use snapshots

1) right click on data volume
2) Create snapshot
     snapshot is the pointers to original 1MB data blocks
3) Snapshot restore, copying the snapshot pointers to original data

Mirror -  Synchronous, Asynchronous

Monitor and view snapshots