VxVM-Overview-newhire.pptVIP

SYMANTEC confidential VxVM overview Volume Manager What problem does it solve and who needs it? VM capabilities VM components and architecture VM features Platforms and Hardware supported What problem does it solve? High availability Disk failure, HBA failure, Connection failure, Host failure, Site failure Performance Different workloads have different performance requirements Different use cases have different performance-availability-cost trade offs Flexibility and ease of storage management Need to have the capability to pool and name storage Need to grow, shrink or replace the devices online Need to have different class of storage service for applications need Need to migrate from one storage and/or server vendor to another Need to have short backup window Need to optimize on storage utilization Heterogeneity Need consistent look and feel to reduce training overheads Need independence from storage and server variances Who needs it? Volume Manager is for organizations that require constant and consistent access to mission critical data. Volume Manager provides easy-to-use, online storage management tools, which reduce planned and unplanned downtime. Volume Manager removes the physical limitations of disk storage, so you can configure, share, manage and optimize storage I/O performance online without interrupting data availability. VM capabilities VM capabilities (contd.) Storage virtualization Presents logical abstraction of a virtual device Applications not restricted by capability of a physical disk Storage aggregation Storage can be clubbed together and named as a pool Minimizes storage wastage by optimal storage utilization Capacity management Virtual disks can be grown/shrunk/replaced online Fault tolerance Protection for disk, HBA, path, host and site failure Performance Data distribution over multiple disks I/O through multiple paths Concurrent I/O through multiple hosts Manageability User defined configurations for virtual disks User friendly CL