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Optimizing and managing File StOrage in WindOWS envirOnmentS

A Powerul Solution Based on Microsot DFS and Brocade Tapestry StorageX.

The Microsot Distributed File System (DFS) is a storage service that can help solve many complex problems in Windows environments. Organizations that deploy DFS can achieve immediate and signifcant fle management benefts. In addition to making it easier to manage fles, DFS provides a core set o capabilities on which powerul enterprise storage management solutions can be built. Brocade® Tapestry™ StorageX® is a solution or managing distributed fle storage in Windows environments. Built on DFS, Tapestry StorageX enables the integrated management o logical and physical storage elements, making it the most comprehensive Windows storage management solution available. InTRoducTIon

Organizations in every industry are experiencing exper iencing explosive grow growth th in their requirements or le storage capacity. The prolieration o application data and user-generated documents—such as presentations, spreadsheets, graphics, and scanned documents—  is driving continued expansion o network storage requirements. As a result, Windows storage congurations are growing in both size and complexity. This growth and complexity creates challenges or storage administrators as well as users. And it is a direct cause o increased storage management costs, as well as sub-optimal storage utilization and data availability. EnTERPRIsE sToRAgE MAnAgEMEnT cHAllEngEs

Storage requirements are outpacing most organizations’ ability to eciently manage them. There are our key challenges relative to the growing requirements or le storage, described in the ollowing sections:  Explosive  Explosive growth in enterprise storage: Many actors are contributing to an enormous increase in network storage requirements, including the pervasiveness o  wide area networking and users’ ability to create and duplicate huge volumes o data.

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Underutilization Underutilization o distributed storage: According to a Gartner Group study, only 30 to 40 percent o storage in distributed environments is utilized, which is low compared to 80 percent storage utilization in mainrames. Complexity in distributed storage s torage management: Another Gartner Group study ound that storage and storage-related management consumes as much as 75 percent o corporate IT budgets, and or every dollar spent on storage hardware, much more is spent on administrative costs. Given the act that storage requirements are increasing as much as 100 percent annually, organizations cannot aord to continue “throwing hardware” at the problem or hiring more administrators to handle the additional workload. Achieving cost-eective high availability availability or distributed storage: Organizations ace a daunting task tr ying to make data that is spread throughout throughout the enterprise enterpr ise highly available. Doing so requires a well-planned, well-designed network storage architecture that can be centrally managed. Until now, it has not been possible to centrally manage distributed storage in Windows Windows environments, so organizations have have ound it very dicult to create and manage distributed le storage environments. environments.

DFS and Tapestry StorageX provide a means or addressing and solving many o these storage management problems. Based on DFS, Tapestry StorageX is the most powerul automated storage management sotware or Windows Windows environments. It can signicantly enhance storage availability availability and scalability while reducing the cost and complexity o  storage management. lAyIng THE FoundATIon FoR FIlE sToRAgE MAnAgEMEnT WITH dFs

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Historically, with the Universal Naming Convention (UNC), a user or application was required required to speciy a physical server and share in order to access le inormation (that is, the user or application had to speciy \\Server \Share \Path\Filename ). ). A UNC is typically mapped to a drive letter where x: might be mapped to \\Server \Share. Users must know the physical name/location o the machines and shares they want to access. And users must map to many drive letters (d:, e:, :, g:, h:, etc.) to access inormation stored on dierent servers. As a result, users can be overwhelmed by complicated share names and the number o places where data can be stored. This storage management paradigm creates major problems or both users and administrators. The administrator must orever maintain the server name once it is published to users. Changing a \\servername\share  name requires the administrator to notiy each user (perorm “desktop touches”) so that their machines can be recongured to access the renamed server and shares. With this approach, administrators have very little fexibility in the way they manage users and storage. Machine name dependencies lead to inecient administration and underutilized storage, both both o which increase costs and reduce the eectiveness o storage management. However, DFS services in Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 provide a signicant change to the traditional storage management paradigm.  A Patfrm fr fr ditribte Fie Maaemet 

Windows Server 2003 and Windows 2000 include DFS, a storage service that can help solve many storage management challenges. DFS enables the creation o a logical le system that can uniy multiple physical le systems. As a result, organizations can use it to improve storage-related unctionality, reduce costs, and provide more comprehensive storage management. DFS also is a strategic le server virtualization inrastructure on which sotware vendors can build value-added storage management solutions. DFS consists o a client and a server component. The client component is included with all Windows clients, and allows the client to make requests to the DFS server. The server component is included with Windows NT, NT, Windows 2000, 2 000, and Windows Ser Server ver 2003. The DFS server  component receives a client request and redirects or reers it to a physical target, similar to the way a browser receives a DNS call and reers the client to a Web site. DFS does or servers and shares what le systems do or hard disks. File systems provide uniorm named access to collections o sectors on disks. Likewise, DFS provides a uniorm naming convention and mapping or collections o servers, shares, and les. Another  way o thinking about it is that DFS is to le storage what DNS is to networking or  Active Active Directory is to users and computers.



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Because DFS is a component o Microsot Server, vendors can easily build storage solutions based on open standards with DFS at the oundation. Vendors such as Brocade signicantly leverage leverage the DFS plator m to create solutions that address critical storage issues such as disaster recovery, data migration, server consolidation, storage reconguration, and storage optimization. The cmpei cae fr depi dFs

DFS lays the oundation or enterpr ise le storage management by providing a core set o capabilities. In particular, DFS:  Eliminates  Eliminates machine name name dependencies: dependencies: DFS removes the “once-published, orever-maintained” requirement or server names, which creates tremendous fexibility or administrators to add or move move les and users without having to touch or recongure the desktop. Removing machine name dependencies enables the creation o a logical storage layer, which in turn enables the creation o strategic enterprise le storage solutions.

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 Enables  Enables a logical view view o physical physical storage: storage: DFS separates the logical and physical aspects o storage to enable the creation o a logical layer. This means that administrators can create logical views o physical storage that match what users and applications want to see instead o how and where les are physically stored.

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Protects investments i nvestments in Windows sotware: Because DFS is already included in all Windows clients and every Windows server product since Windows NT 4.0, organizations can take advantage o DFS without having to purchase, load, or  deploy additional operating system sotware. Protects investments in storage hardware: DFS supports le storage across multiple storage types—NAS, DAS, server-attached SAN—rom various vendors. This means that organizations can use DFS to aggregate and increase the utilization o their existing storage devices, which can signicantly reduce hardware costs.

 Enables  Enables the the development development o enterprise storage solutions solutions that are are easy to deploy: With DFS as the oundation, vendors can develop storage solutions that reside above the operating system and that do not require kernel-level sotware. This means that organizations can quickly and easily deploy these new storage solutions, as they will not have to retest applications or load new system-level sotware.

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Tapetr straeX A Vae t dFs

DFS is an immensely valuable service, but it is not a complete solution. Tapestry StorageX adds value to DFS because it: •

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Is a complete le virtualization solution that integrates management o the logical and physical layers layers Provides comprehensive DFS management Makes DFS enterprise-ready by enabling its use in complex, large-scale Windows environments Uses DFS to deliver a storage management solution

TAPEsTRy sToRAgEX Is A coMPlETE MAnAgEMEnT soluTIon

Tapestry StorageX is a complete solution or managing large-scale le storage in Windows environments. Built on DFS, Tapestry StorageX enables organizations to solve some o their most pressing storage management problems, such as aggregating heterogeneous heterogeneous NAS devices so that they can be managed as a single storage pool, managing user storage throughout its liecycle, migrating data, consolidating servers and storage, and providing near-continuous access to les in the event o a disaster.

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strae Trapare: What de It Mea?

In the simplest terms, transparency is achieved by separating the logical and physical aspects o storage and enabling them to be scaled and managed separately. In other  words, Tapestry StorageX breaks the hard dependencies between le access and physical le locations. The goals o this transparency are to shield users rom the complexities o the storage architecture, and to enable administrators to manage the physical layer without aecting users’ access to data. In storage management ter ms, this this is the act o “pooling” distributed storage so that it can be viewed and managed as a single unit. Tapestry StorageX enables pooling o le storage across multiple, heterogeneous storage types (DAS, server-attached SAN, or NAS) rom various vendors—increasing the fexibility to manage data. It also enables the administrator to manage both the logical and physical layers layers in an integrated ashion. Iterate Maaemet 

Although the benets o separating logical and physical storage components are well documented, the creation o a logical layer adds administrative burden. The key to solving storage management problems problems is to enable their integrated management. This means automatic synchronization between the logical and physical layers so that changes to physical les are automatically updated in all the logical links that reerence those les. This integration reduces the administrator’s burden and increases the fexibility to manage users and les. Tapetr straeX ue dFs t deiver a Eterprie strae sti Patfrm

Tapestry StorageX adds several key services and applications to DFS to deliver an enterprise storage solution plator m. Tapestry StorageX includes the ollowing: ollowing: •

DFS management

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Windows storage management

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Enterprise namespace creation

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Data migration services

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Replication services

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By combining these services ser vices with DFS,Tapestry StorageX provides a complete platorm or storage solutions that can increase data availability, improve storage utilization, and reduce storage costs (see Figure 1).

Fire 1. DFS and Tapestry StorageX provide an integrated solution.

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Data Lifecycle Management Rapid Disaster Recovery and Cost-effective High Availability

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Intelligent Data Movement Global Namespace CIFS

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DFS-enabled Windows Clients

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Tapestry StorageX increases the management and usability o DFS in signicant ways. It provides provides a single point o management or distributed roots and enables logical visualization o an entire distributed storage environment. Tapestry StorageX also includes powerul powerul graphical tools or DFS server conguration and has a point-and-click, drag-and-drop interace to enhance DFS usability. Tapestry StorageX includes sophisticated management tools to monitor, diagnose, troubleshoot, and manage distributed DFS roots. And Tapestry StorageX management reporting and Web-based administration make it easy to administer and monitor DFS networks. Organizations that want to deploy DFS oten nd Tapestry StorageX invaluable because it makes DFS implementation, conguration, and management simple and reliable. Tapetr straeX Make dFs Eterprie-Rea 

Tapestry StorageX includes powerul eatures that enable DFS scalability and centralized management:  Enterprise  Enterprise view view o a namespa namespace: ce: Tapestry StorageX provides provides an enterprise-wide enterpr ise-wide view o le storage. It discovers and displays all DFS roots that exist in one or more namespaces and correlates logical views with physical machines or the entire enterprise.

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 Easy  Easy namespace namespace creation: creation: Administrators Administrators can easily create a namespace with Tapestry StorageX by using its graphical interace to dene how logical links tie to physical storage. With the ease o dragging dragg ing and dropping inormation inor mation rom Windows Explorer and Tapestry StorageX utilities such as Share Finder, an administrator can dene an entire namespace in just minutes.

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One-to-many management o DFS confgurations: Tapestry StorageX provides a single point o management or multiple distributed DFS roots, which means that an entire namespace can be managed rom a single, centralized location. Powerul eatures in Tapestry StorageX enable an administrator to perorm a single action simultaneously on groups o DFS roots, which provides scalability and reduces the amount o time required to set up and manage namespaces.

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Cross-reerence o logical views and physical storage: Tapestry StorageX provides a graphical view o DFS roots and links, and logical-to-physical as well as physical-to-logical physical-to-logical views. The administrator can see which users and applications are dependent on specic machines. This ability to visualize logical views correlated with physical congurations gives the administrator the fexibility to change/manage physical storage without disrupting users’ access to les. Data migration and integrated management: management: The Tapestry StorageX Data Migration Wizard Wizard allows the administrator administrator to migrate les rom one storage device to another with all o the le attributes intact. In addition, it automatically updates the namespace and synchronizes the logical and physical layers.

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sAMPlE TAPEsTRy sToRAgEX soluTIons

DFS and Tapestry StorageX can solve critical enterprise storage management problems. For example, an organization that is preparing or disaster recovery can use Tapestry StorageX replication and disaster recovery recovery management services in conjunction with DFS to address its need or business continuity. The ollowing examples show how Tapestry StorageX can be deployed deployed in the enterprise. Mtiver Fie server (nAs) Areati Areati

The goal with NAS aggregation is to enable the seamless addition o new NAS devices without having to set up new shares or server names, inorm users, or recongure client machines. Tapestry StorageX can be used to aggregate les across multiple heterogeneous heterogeneous (and geographically distributed) storage devices so that the les appear  as a single “pool” o storage. When storage is pooled in this manner, all storage is available to all users and applications, which enables the administrator to allocate storage eciently and transparently. Using Tapestry StorageX, an administrator can create multiple logical views o a le system without having to move or recongure physical les. This is especially benecial in the event o a corporate merger or reorganization, as it allows aggregated views o data to be created quickly.

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Disaster events range rom a single server to an entire site ailure, both o which can interrupt user access to data and aect business continuity. Tapestry StorageX enables multi-site ailover, including cascaded ailover rom local to remote sites in the event o a disaster. Beyond protecting data, the true test o any disaster recovery solution is in how quickly clients regain access to data ater a ailure. A Tapestry StorageX-based disaster recovery recovery solution provides provides near-continuous client access to data by shortening the restore window rom hours/days to minutes without client reconguration or  network rerouting.

Before StorageX 

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Manual Failover

Global Namespace WAN

WAN

One-to-One Failover

Many-to-One Failover

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Ater server name dependencies are eliminated, it becomes possible or organizations organizations to add, expand, and consolidate storage seamlessly and transparently. DFS eliminates server name dependencies, and Tapestry StorageX enables data migration and load balancing without aecting users or applications. Organizations can use Tapestry StorageX to optimize utilization o existing hardware, which can lower costs by reducing the need or additional hardware.

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WindowsPowered NAS

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dami Expai f strae a uer

With Tapestry StorageX, when a le server or a NAS device is added to the network, administrators are relieved o tasks such as setting up network shares and inorming users o the new device’s existence so that they can map to it. Similarly, when a new user is added, Tapestry StorageX eliminates the need or any desktop touch, and users simply get access to the logical pool o storage. This method o managing users and storage eliminates complicated script management and avoids desktop touches when physical les are moved.

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In this manner, Tapestry StorageX reduces the administrative complexity involved in growing a distributed distri buted le storage environment environment and distributed di stributed Windows Windows user environment.

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Global Namespace

Windows 2000

IBM (SAK)

Dell (SAK)

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IBM (SAK)

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New  Storage 

data lifee Maaemet 

Tapestry StorageX enables the creation o “tiers o storage” across heterogeneous servers and NAS appliances, while while making user access to distr ibuted data transparent across all tiers o storage through the Global Namespace. Tapestry StorageX accomplishes this by the policy-driven movement movement o data across heterogeneous devices based on cr iteria such as age, usage, and size—enabling IT to match storage policies with business priorities prior ities (placing important data on higher-cost storage and less-important data on lower-cost storage). By enhancing overall storage capacity utilization, reeing up space on higher-cost storage, and consolidating the tape backup inrastructure, administrators can signicantly reduce the liecycle costs o data storage.

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Disruptive to Users

Global Namespace Transparent to Users

Tier One

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Manual Classification and Migration

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 Automated Policy-Based Migration

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conclusIon

Tapestry StorageX is the most powerul automated storage management sotware available today or managing Windows storage. It can signicantly enhance storage availability and scalability while reducing the cost and complexity o storage ownership—  thereby beneting beneting both administrators and users. user s. As a DFS-based solution or managing large-scale storage in Windows Windows environments, environments, Tapestry StorageX provides an easy way or administrators to create and manage both the logical and physical storage layers. It allows them to: •

Better utilize distributed storage capacity

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Gain fexibility by shielding users rom changes in the storage implementation

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Easily support and administer heterogeneous storage devices

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Protect users rom the complexity o the storage inrastructure

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Increase data availability

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Seamlessly accommodate growth and changes in storage requirements

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Decrease storage management costs

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