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Purpose
This session will offer through interactive discussion the opportunity to learn how customers just like yours are meeting this year’s “Virtualization”, “Linux on System z Consolidation” and “Green Data Center” objectives by using INNOVATION Data Processing business resiliency solutions to provide non-disruptive business continuance, enterprise data protection, high
performance storage resource management and privacy information protection for z/OS and Linux on System z as well as SAN distributed protection for z/OS and Linux on System z, as well as SAN, distributed client/server enterprise scale AIX, Linux, Novell NetWare, Windows and UNIX Open Systems storage.
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Using point-in-time hardware replication, there is no reason for concern about the conflicting priorities a “24 by forever”on-demand economy presents in the face of your responsibility to insure business resiliency with reliable and consistent backups. You can employ the same System z mainframe resources for all your backup needs. Open Systems backup is already a proven way for an organization to leverage the investments it has in a disciplined well-trained staff and ultra high-speed FICON (presently up to 4Gbps or 400MB/sec) access to existing System z disk and tape
to 4Gbps or 400MB/sec) access to existing System z disk and tape resources.
Using the same direct cross platform access as z/OS backup solutions, in lieu of a TCP/IP data transfer model, dramatically reduce network traffic while trading megabit network data transfer for megabyte FICON channel performance.
You can apply these benefits with mainframe reliability and RACF security to your z/OS mainframe, AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z data protection needs.
Generally Open Systems backup solutions take much too long. Larger disk volumes may be necessary to handle data growth but are increasing backup time. Platform unique backup solutions make for costly integration projects. Consolidating Linux on System z exacerbates all these problems and has many complaining “There’s no good backup solution for all that Open Systems data being consolidated under Linux on the mainframe”, “Open
S t b k t th i f i ti t
Systems backup to the mainframe is congesting our corporate
communication net works” or “There is a crying need to reduce the amount of backup data we have to store.”
Executive Summary
Mainframe customers now have a new opportunity to leverage game changing direct z/OS cross platform FICON access to Open Systems storage, use hardware replication to make backup non-disruptive and together with the use of high capacity de-duplication VTL appliances, to slip the constraints of conventional z/OS mainframe, Linux on System z and Enterprise Open Systems data protection solutions.
Gartner recognizes INNOVATION, as being “one of just a few software companies with products in the market that provide much the same functionality as IBM DFSMS”.
INNOVATION Data Processing leverages the latest technological innovations to virtualize, simplify and green all of its enterprise business resiliency
solutions…
INNOVATION Data Processing is a single source for non-disruptive
enterprise business resiliency solutions addressing data protection issues for z/OS, Linux on System z, Linux on Power, Linux on x86, Novell
NetWare/OES2, UNIX, Windows, Client/Server, SAN and direct attach storage providing:
High Performance Data Protection Enterprise Data Protection
INNOVATION, in 1997, became the first ISV to seamlessly employ TimeFinder for non-disruptive backup of Symmetrix mainframe and open systems data.
A joint TEAMING AGREEMENT, to exploit Symmetrix “ESP” cross platform data sharing technology led to FDRSOS, the industry’s first direct access heterogeneous cross platform business assurance solution.
INNOVATION, in 2010, remains the leading, premier EMC ISV software partner, providing first to market non-disruptive enterprise storage
management solutions employing EMC Symmetrix/V-Max Technology to provide Data Protection, Business Continuance and Storage Resource Management solutions that strengthen Business Resiliency for IBM z/OS, Linux on System z and UNIX on System z attached enterprise storage, as well as for Windows, UNIX and Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN distributed storage
storage.
Thousands of users in the United States and 35 other countries around the globe look to INNOVATION solutions for exceptional reliability and prize-winning price/performance.
INNOVATION Data Processing is a single source for enterprise business resiliency solutions addressing z/OS, Linux on System z, Linux on Power, Linux on x86, Novell NetWare/OES2, UNIX, Windows, Client/Server, SAN and direct attach storage providing:
Leading edge storage virtualization, replication and de-duplication technologies to help you achieve critical data center objectives such as Linux
on System z consolidation and energy efficiency.
FDR/UPSTREAM,
FDRSOS and FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS are examples of
Enterprise Data Protection Solution Benefits • Centralize scheduling, tracking and auditing.
• z/OS controls data flow between Open Systems servers and mainframe tape or disk.
• Uses z/OS Tape Management, Security and Scheduling systems. • Virtualize to address backup window issues.
Overview
FDR/UPSTREAM provides data protection for AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z storage. Control, metadata and backup data all travel on the TCP/IP LAN or WAN communications network as it moves between the Client on the Open Systems platform and the mainframe Backup Server providing:
• “Deferred Full Merge” virtualizes full volume backup without the network. • Hipersockets takes Linux on System z data off the network.
• Cross platform access takes enterprise data off the network.
• Hardware replication Point in Time Copy (PIT) allows non-disruptive backup.
• Efficient tape drive and tape media utilization.
Data De d plication i e Merge S nthetic F ll Back p D plicate File • Data De-duplication i.e. Merge - Synthetic Full Backup, Duplicate File
FDR/UPSTREAM an On-Network Enterprise Backup Solution Benefit
System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Storage Hardware Vendor Independent.
Considerations
Backup data travels across the communications network. TCP/IP CPU resource consumption.
Performance Expectations
Aggregate backup rate is limited by network speed and overall capacity. UPSTEAM performance on properly configured networks rarely achieves greater than 1/3 of the networks rated capacity. That might be about 30MB/sec on a 1 Gigbit network, with little or no other contesting traffic.
FDR/UPSTREAM for Linux on System z
A Virtual Hipersockets Off-Network Backup Solution Overview
Data protection for Linux data consolidate on System z. Control, metadata and backup data all travel across a virtual Hipersockets network via TCP/IP protocol between the Client running under Linux for System z in a LPAR, or under zVM, and the z/OS mainframe Backup Server.
B fit Benefit
System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Storage Hardware Vendor Independent.
Backup data does NOT go across the corporate communications network. Protection for Linux data resident on FICON ECKD and on FCP FBA disk. Considerations
Exclusively for data resident on Linux on System z storage Exclusively for data resident on Linux on System z storage.
Linux Server and z/OS image must reside within same System z machine. Hipersockets data transfer is still consuming TCP/IP CPU resources.
Overview
FDRSOS provides data protection for AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z disk volumes. Backup data is read directly by a z/OS backup application running on the System z from dually accessible disk storage. Dually accessible disk storage is an optional configuration feature on Symmetrix V-Max Storage Systems that allows applications running on System z processors to access both mainframe disks and Open System
di k I th d th O S t di k l b d
disks. In other words, the same Open System disk volume can be accessed by an Open System processor and by a System z processor.
This means that the Open System disks can be protected (backup/restore) by the System z mainframe using high-speed System z tape, VTL or disk, over high-speed System z FICON channels.
This backup/restore requires special z/OS software that understands the
O S t di k f t Th t ft i FDRSOS
FDRSOS –
A Cross Platform Access Off-Network Backup Solution Benefit
High Speed System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Backup at volume level does not need to read open system file systems. Data does NOT go across the corporate communications network. Data transfer does not consume TCP/IP CPU resources. Data transfer is FICON channel
d speed.
Considerations…
Data to be backed up must reside in a storage controller with the cross platform access feature. Presently this feature is available from a limited number of hardware vendors. i.e. EMC Symmetrix V-Max. However, anticipate in the future more vendors will be offering this feature. P f E t ti
Performance Expectations
The data transfer rate depends on physically accessing the source disks. Performance expectations on properly configured FICON channel
Understanding how Cross Platform access Works…
Modern storage systems virtualize logical volumes for both Open Systems and the System z mainframe access on internally managed FBA disk. Open Systems and System z mainframe operating systems each use a different disk recording format. The mainframe uses a variable length record block with a data length count, a record key and data fields. i.e. count key data (CKD) and extended count key data (ECKD) formats. Open Systems employ a fixed length block architecture (FBA ) format. Neither mainframe nor Open System programs conventionally are able to understand the other’s format. Consequently Open System processors were traditionally only given access to the Open System FBA disks and System z processors access to only the mainframe format ECKD disk.
A partnering agreements between INNOVATION Data Processing and EMC
h d ll th t bli th h i bi ti f i d
changed all that enabling , through a unique combination of microcode features and specialized software (FDRSOS), mainframe access to open systems disks.
This is a view of Open System disks in a typical V-Max.
Physical disks installed in the V-Max may have various capacities and speeds, i.e. Fibre or SATA or SSD.
The V-Max processor virtualizes the physical disks making them appear to be one or more V-Max logical volumes. The logical volumes do not have to match the physical disks. A number of 450GB physical disks internally connected within the V-Max as a Raid 5 configuration, for example, may be virtualized to appear simply as a number of individual 100GB logical volumes for open system FCP access or perhaps a single 1 TB volume.
The V-Max presents these logical volumes to the Open Systems processor so that it sees the V-Max logical volumes as “physical disks”. Each physical disk having its own Fibre Channel (FCP) address.
The Open System operating system may access each logical volume the V-p y p g y y g Max presents as a single disk, or it may organize them into software
This is a similar view of a V-Max containing z/OS ECKD disks. We again have a set of physical disks which are virtualized by the V-Max to appear as logical volumes this time for access by a mainframe FICON channel. The V-Max virtualization in this case makes a number of 450GB physical disks internally connected in a Raid 5 configuration appear simply as some number of individual 3390 disk volumes which might be configured to be 3390-Mod 27, Mod 54 or even EAV volumes.
The V-Max presents these logical volumes to the mainframe processor so that it sees the V-Max logical volumes as “physical IBM 3390 disk volumes”. Each physical disk having its own FICON device address for inclusion in a z/OS I/O configuration.
The key to understanding FDRSOS is that the Cross Platform Access
Technology allows the same Open System “disk” to be assigned two storage systems hardware addresses. One, a FCP address for Open System access and the other is a FICON device address for z/OS access, that FDRSOS uses.
Overview
FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS employs cross platform data access to provide mainframe security for file level data protection of AIX, Linux, UNIX, Windows and Linux on System z, without putting backup data on the communications network.
Data travels between the Client running on the Opens Systems platform and the z/OS mainframe Backup Server via a dually accessible local backup volume (i.e. LBV aka transfer disk or transfer volume).
FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS - A Storage Controller Data Transfer Off N t k B k S l ti
Off-Network Backup Solution Benefit
System z Mainframe enterprise data protection. Back up at file level granularity.
Backup data does NOT go across the communications network. Backup data transfer does not consume TCP/IP CPU resources. Also is available for use by the UPSTREAM File Transfer Facility. C
Considerations…
Back up data is passed across a transfer disk volume that must reside in a storage controller with the cross platform access feature. Presently this feature is available from a limited number of hardware vendors. i.e. EMC Symmetrix V-Max. However, anticipate in the future more vendors will be offering this feature.
Performance Expectations
Data transfer is no longer constrained by communication network. It passes cross platform through the storage controller. The data transfer rate however maybe constrained by logical file processing as for example backup requires
System z Cross Platform Access Benefit to the customer
Takes backup off a company’s communication networks
Backup and recover very large amounts of data without any negative impact. Production schedule no longer constrained by shrinking backup window Hot backups for online open systems databases and non-disruptive volume backup for continuous operation of Linux on Systems z and Open Systems. backup for continuous operation of Linux on Systems z and Open Systems. Open Systems backup with System z Mainframe Strengths
z/OS Tape Management, Security and Scheduling systems
Maximize value by avoiding costly customized integration projects Totally integrated solution built on proven technology
Protects investments in System z mainframe existing resources
Storage Resource Optimization
Storage Resource Optimization
INNOVATION has been working in collaboration with Data Domain/ Luminex, BusTech and IBM to make mainframe VTL de-duplication appliances look their very best, when used in conjunction with INNOVATION Enterprise and Mainframe Data Protection (FDR, ABR, UPSTREAM, FDRSOS) and
Business Continuance (FDRInstant) Solutions.
Customer experience and de-duplication verification show an average de-duplication ratio for UPSTREAM open systems data in the 20:1 range,
i il t h t it hi FDR i f d t
similar to what it achieves on FDR mainframe data.
One Data Domain customer protecting about 5TB of data with ABR and another 4TB associated with 41 Open System Servers with UPSTREAM, saw an average de-duplication ratio in the 20:1 range. That is a 95% reduction in the amount of mainframe backup data stored as the appliance needs to record only about 5% of the amount of mainframe backup data that the customer had been writing to tape
the customer had been writing to tape.
The disclaimer is always there that your results may vary, but for example if only 4% of you data changes between backups you can expect to see a 25
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High-Performance Cross-Platform Solution for
Extending Mainframe Resilience to Enterprise Data Protection. Virtualize Cross-Platform Access to Protect zLinux Data
Take awayy Mainframe Linux users need to…
• Shake off the constraints of conventional Open Systems data
protection solutions.
• Seize the opportunity to meet their “Virtualization”,
“Consolidation” and “Green Data Center” objectives Ch INNOVATION D t P i b i ili
• Choose INNOVATION Data Processing business resiliency
solutions in conjunction with Symmetrix V-Max cross platform access, hardware replication and high capacity mainframe
