L50-503 LSI SVM5 Sales Consultant Questions and Answers

Improve asset utilization.

Improve the performance of DAS.

Improve operational efficiency by shrinking backup times by up to 80%.

Improve the connectivity of the SAN infrastructure.

Improve productivity by managing three times more storage and two times more servers per administrator.

Incipient iNSP

Kashya KXB

FalconStor NSS

Riverbed Interceptor

Developers will benefit from faster processing speeds on the snapshots.

Multiple developers can work on their own discrete copies of an application.

Multiple developers can work on their own full size copy of an application.

Instant copies of up-to-date production data can be taken without taking the live application offline.

They will need four more ports on each DPM.

They will need four fewer ports on each DPM.

They will need eight more ports on each DPM.

They will not need to change their DPM port count.

multiCopy allows applications to be copied and made available to the same server with no application downtime and allows the performance increases to the server to be measured.

multiCopy asynchronously mirrors data between arrays of heterogeneous storage, and testing can then be carried out on one side of the mirror.

multiCopy allows applications to be copied between different tiers of heterogeneous storage and then made available to test servers for performance testing.

multiCopy allows servers to read and write data from and to anywhere in the SAN allowing servers to write to the fastest disk available.

Using redirect-on-write and multiView, applications can be restored very quickly.

Using copy-on-write and multiView, applications can be restored very quickly.

Low capacity snapshots will reduce CAPEX by eliminating redundant copies.

Low capacity snapshots will reduce CAPEX by reducing hardware footprint.

the target storage devices

the Fibre Channel to IP converters

the communications links/bandwidth

the disaster recovery test mechanism

Consistency Volumes

Consistency Groups

Consistency Snapshots

Consistency Association

multiView can take a PiT of the application that can be kept for recovery from disk and then backed up to tape during quieter processing times.

multiView can take a PiT of the application and then copy it over IP to another site for resilience.

multiView will take a full copy of the application which the backup application can then backup offline during less busy processing times.

A view of a PiT can be mounted on a backup server and backed up to tape with no data flow or processing overhead on the application server.

Rapid application recovery is easier with SVM's snapshot capabilities.

SVM will make provisioning easy and fast.

Disaster recovery will be less expensive than using traditional methods.

SVM will eliminate the need for tape.

SVM will automatically size storage to fit the data.

to provision more physical capacity to a LUN than is actually needed

to cluster LUNs of similar type into one management entity

to add more volumes to a management domain than are supported by hardware

to create large virtual volumes based on a small amount of physical capacity

thin provisioning

striping

tiered storage

use of DPMs

MirrorView

RecoverPoint

SnapMirror

Business Continuance Volume (BCV)

reclaiming trapped capacity

creating empty volumes to reserve capacity

expanding volume capacity automatically

making multiple copies of volumes for backups

saving money on overall storage costs

A thin volume serves up only the data blocks called for by a read or write request.

A thin volume automatically provisions additional capacity for large I/O read requests.

A thin volume holds only the changes (writes) made by hosts to the thin volume.

A thin volume migrates data from an existing LUN into a new pool.

crash consistent

application consistent

user consistent

snapshot consistent

actual data

copies for protection

RAID protection

planned downtime

allocated but unused capacity

file deletion

hardware failure

loss of a site due to a disaster

split-path architecture

multiMirror will not corrupt data based on its internal ECC correction code.

Host-based mirroring uses IP which can be less reliable than FC.

multiMirror uses the reliability of the RAID devices to accomplish a much more reliable copy.

Snapshot-enabled mirroring allows multiMirror to retain several recovery points at the remote site for rollback purposes.

SVM snapshots will eliminate tape from the customer's environment.

SVM makes it possible to keep the point-in-time snapshots online for extended periods of time and to recover from them quickly.

SVM snapshots can eliminate the need to install backup agents on every virtual machine.

SVM snapshots will protect from physical failures.

SVM snapshots can be used to reduce time required to stage, test, and debug software applications.

SVM provides a common interface for all storage, allowing the customer to purchase less storage with different QOS and cost structures.

SVM requires additional hardware so the actual savings may take a few years to realize.

SVM has the ability to migrate data between devices giving the customer the capability to have just the right storage at all times.

The cost of SAN, NFS and DAS environment can be greatly reduced using SVMs common interface and heterogeneous device management.

Migrate data to less expensive tiers.

Deploy rapid application recovery.

Avoid Tier 1 storage where possible.

Stripe every volume.

Implement server and storage virtualization.

The ability to retire equipment before going off warranty and onto maintenance.

The ability to extend the useful life of an asset by repurposing it to a different use.

The ability to non-disruptively refresh the storage infrastructure as business requires.

The ability to pool storage by common storage systems.

The ability to snapshot entire applications space efficiently.

replacing existing hardware

undepreciated assets

salaries

benefits

EMC Control Center (ECC)

Navisphere

Element Manager

Replication Manager

The SVM server processes control frames.

The SVM server processes data frames.

The SVM server manages metadata.

The SVM server translates addresses.

The SVM server moves data.

SVM's multiMigrate feature allows for non-disruptive data migration from one storage device to another, regardless of vendor.

SVM's multiMigrate feature allows for minimal disruption due to its use of low-impact snapshots to migrate existing data to new storage.

SVM's multiMigrate feature allows for non-disruptive data migration from one vendor's storage to another model from that vendor.

SVM's multiMigrate feature allows for new data to be written to the new storage until a regular maintenance window is available to migrate the

existing data.

cost of downtime

storage labor costs

environmentals (e.g., power, cooling, floor space)

communications costs

SVM non-disruptively migrates volumes to appropriate tiers of storage.

SVM non-disruptively mirrors data to remote sites.

SVM-enabled snapshots provide space efficient utilization of storage capacity.

SVM-enabled snapshots provide zero backup windows.

lacks consistency groups

lacks host-based dynamic load balancing

lacks enterprise switch connectivity

lacks storage partition feature

10-25%

25-50%

50-75%

75-90%

ROW is RAID controller-based and works on all industry-standard arrays.

A heavily loaded array using COW will impact performance across all attached servers.

ROW writes the new data to the snapshot directly, eliminating one or more write processes.

COW provides consistency of data across different platforms.

Pooling the storage into a server virtualization model whereby different servers can emulate hosts and tier the data.

Pooling the storage into a networked virtualization model zoning the virtualized storage utilizing third-party tools.

Pooling the storage across different vendor’s storage arrays into a centralized pool and then assigning different applications and tiers to different pools.

Pooling the storage across different vendor’s storage arrays into assigned volume groups and use virtual servers to tier the data.