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IBM Storwize V7000

Using Capacity Magic to Build the Right Configuration in eConfig and Using the Storage Tier Advisor Tool (STAT) to Show SSD Value
Bill Wiegand ATS February 15, 2011

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Agenda
Part 1:

Capacity Magic (CM) Overview Demo: Using CM to Build the Ideal Configuration with eConfig

Part 2:

Storage Tier Advisor Tool (STAT) Overview Demo: Using the STAT Utility to Determine the Value of SSDs

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Storwize V7000 SSD RAID Presets

Preset SSD RAID-5 SSD RAID-6 SSD RAID-10 Description Striped with parity Striped with dual parity Mirrored then striped data, only protected against drive failure Striped for performance, no redundancy Use this for Easy Tier Hybrid pools Raid level 5 6 10 Width Goal 8 12 8 Spare Goal 1 1 1 Chain Balance Yes Yes Yes

SSD RAID-0

Yes

SSD Easy Tier

10

Yes

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Storwize V7000 HDD RAID Presets

Preset Basic RAID-5 Basic RAID-6 Basic RAID-10 Description Striped with parity Striped with dual parity Mirrored then striped, only protected against drive failure Protected against drive and enclosure failure Raid level 5 6 10 Width Goal 8 12 8 Spare Goal 1 1 1 Chain Balance No No No

Balanced RAID-10

10

Exact

RAID-0

No protection against drive failures, best used for temp volumes or if using volume mirroring

No

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Spare Drive Creation

The GUI uses the following algorithm to allocate spares when creating spares automatically:

For every 23 array members with the same drive class on a single chain a single spare will be created
24-46=2 spares 47-69=3 spares Excludes RAID 0 members

Examples:
24 identical drives on a single chain
1 spare and 23 members

Chain 1: 2 SSDs and 10 450GB SAS drives Chain 2: 2 SSDs and 10 450GB SAS drives
The system will create the following spares
Chain 1: 1 x SSD spare and 1 x 450GB spare Chain 2: 1 x SSD spare and 1 x 450GB spare

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Capacity Magic Overview

Capacity Magic (CM) supports Storwize V7000

It configures your storage pools, RAID arrays and spares just like the Storwize V7000 GUI does You can override some defaults in the Storwize V7000 GUI and always via the CLI, but Capacity Magic is designed to mimic the GUI
Previously CM did not allow for overriding spare configuration but V5.6.1 now does
Allows you to configure no SSD spares if desired Thus if you want just 2 SSDs and will use SAS drives as spares you will be able to do this in CM now

Currently the Storwize V7000 GUI will not allow you configure a SSD RAID array and add it to an existing pool with HDD backed MDisks unless you use the Easy Tier Preset
If you create a RAID-5 SSD array you must use the CLI to add it to an existing pool

CM now allows you to configure any SSD RAID array and add to an existing pool with HDD backed MDisks
Warning message popup explains you must use CLI to add to an existing pool

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Capacity Magic Overview

Report function very useful as it shows how to configure enclosures in eConfig to match what Capacity Magic suggests for layout based on Recommended Configuration of RAID arrays

E.g. if you have SSDs and more then one enclosure you want the SSDs divided between enclosures on different SAS chains
Capacity Magic does this for you in report section of final results

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Capacity Magic Overview

Decimal: Total drives times drive capacity

Decimal: # of extents times extent size

Binary: Capacity hosts can actually use

Twenty 300GB data drives: 300,000,000,000 * 20 = 6,000,000,000,000 6,000,000,000,000 / 268,435,456 = 22351.74 extents Two extents per data drive reserved for quorum disk use: 22351.74 40 = 22311.74 Five extents reserved per pool for future use: 22311 5 = 22306 .74 of an extent not available since less then a full extent: 268,435,456 * .74 = 198,642,237

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Capacity Magic Overview

Tool available for download at:

Business Partners:
https://www304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/mem/ContentHandler/capacit ymagic

IBMers:
https://w303.sso.ibm.com/sales/support/ShowDoc.wss?docid=E272838K7573 5I92&infotype=SK&infosubtype=S0&node=doctype,S0|doctype,STL|| clientset,IA|industries,&appname=CC_CFSS

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Capacity Magic Demo

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Easy Tier
SSDs (Solid State Drives) Easy Tier is only supported with SSDs as Tier_0 and HDDs as Tier_1

Very high performance but expensive per GB To get the most value from SSD investment must use them wisely

Nothing in the product will disallow other combinations

Example: SAS to NL SAS allowed but it is not supported http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=591&uid=ssg1S1003703#_Easy

Easy Tier algorithms are tuned specifically to optimize for SSDs

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Easy Tier
Pool Off Off Off Off Auto Auto Auto Auto On On On On Tiers One One Two Two One One Two Two One One Two Two Volume Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Off On Easy Tier Activity None None None None None None Measure Manage+Measure Measure Measure Measure Manage+Measure

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Easy Tier
To start using SVC/Storwize V7000 Easy Tier:

No license required Simply add SSD MDisks to a Pool containing regular HDD MDisks Easy Tier will then start collecting and measuring Volume extent usage statistics and managing all Volumes within the Pool performing appropriate extent migrations as needed The measurement functionality of Easy Tier can be enabled without purchasing SSDs
Using the CLI set Easy Tier to On from Auto for the pool to be measured

Measurement

SVC/Storwize V7000 will produce a performance summary file which can be copied from the system for analysis The data produced will help to determine if SSDs may be beneficial and if so which storage pools might be good candidates for Easy Tier IBM Storage Tier Advisor Tool (STAT) is available for download to allow analysis of Storwize V7000 statistics
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S4000935

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STAT Whitepaper
Whitepaper available for download at:

Business Partners:
http://partners.boulder.ibm.com/src/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101852

IBMers:
http://www.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP10185 2

Customers:
http://w3.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101852

Using your favorite Internet search engine use key words:

Using STAT Easy Tier

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Storage Tier Advisor Tool (STAT) Demo

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