ETERNUS CS8000 Unified Data Protection Appliance

Business-centric Storage
ETERNUS CS8000
Unified Data Protection Appliance
Hot spots
in data protection
Data protection challenges
Enterprise data is one of the most valuable assets in any company.
Some examples of data requiring backup are databases, customer
information or logistics data.
Today’s IT managers are confronted with enormous data growth.
About 75 percent of the data in any company is backup data. This
underlines the importance of the backup environment when searching for ways to optimize IT costs. As data volumes continue to grow
at a breathtaking pace, backup windows quickly reach their limits
and can become serious storage bottlenecks. That’s why a very important aspect of any backup infrastructure is optimal utilization of
the underlying resources.
The growing importance of data in business processes requires higher
protection levels that include things like disaster recovery solutions.
And secure long-term storage is demanded for some types of data,
especially when it comes to compliance regulations. The problem for
storage administrators is to maintain service levels, for example, for
data availability, disaster recovery, compliance and long-term storage
while keeping costs down.
Business cost pressure means that IT managers are constantly coping
with shrinking IT budgets. They are required to do more than ever
before, but with fewer resources. IT infrastructure and administration
budgets are always under scrutiny.
Sooner or later the IT department will face technological challenges
which must be addressed in order to fulfill requirements in providing
sufficient data protection, especially when budgets are limited.
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Technology challenges
Generally speaking, IT departments are usually cost centers rather
than profit centers in most business enterprises. Data backup and
archiving are defined by a company’s business needs, regardless of
balance sheet totals.
Different kinds of backup and archiving target systems, like tape
libraries, virtual tape libraries (VTL) and deduplication appliances,
can be deployed in data protection environments. Each of them
comes with individual strengths and weaknesses – but they are still
effective tools for safeguarding data. Quite often various target
systems are used simultaneously, but this has a number of disadvantages:
■ Limited capacity and performance scalability in many appliances
is a critical issue.
■ Multiple storage systems are deployed, resulting in diverse isolated
solutions.
■ Management of the entire environment becomes extremely inflexible and requires manual intervention, not to mention the
skyrocketing costs of maintenance and administration.
And the larger the IT department, the more complex the data protection environment. This complexity poses three significant challenges to effective data protection – namely rapid data growth, cost
pressure and SLA management.
Enterprises need to cope with backup windows, and running backups
is necessary in order to be in a position to recover data. No more,
no less. The key is how to make this more efficient – in a businesscentric way.
Unified Data Protection
The concept that differs from others
Business-centric Storage
“Business-centric” means allocating storage resources for data protection according to business priorities: To fulfill the right levels in
terms of speed, capacity and data availability, and at the same time
to minimize investments and the total cost of ownership.
Successful and proven platform
The Fujitsu appliance is used around the world by the largest data
centers in data-intensive segments such as financial services, insurance, telecommunications, public administration, industry and IT
service provisioning.
The elements for the most efficient data protection solution are:
■ Y our preferred backup and archive software
■ FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS CS8000
ETERNUS CS8000 is a platform designed on the basis of real-world
best practices. Its ongoing development has continued for many years
in collaboration with a well-established user group. That translates
into optimal support and keen awareness of the demands arising
from daily system use.
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS CS8000
The ETERNUS CS8000 unified data protection appliance provides a
most economical way to overcome the challenges in complex backup and archiving environments. Unlike other data protection appliances, ETERNUS CS8000 does much more than just provide storage
capacity. It consolidates the backup and archiving infrastructures of
open systems and mainframes. Thanks to the uniform management
of disks, deduplicated disks and tapes, flexible service levels governing
capacity, speed and cost are possible. And support of a cloud gateway
functionality makes ETERNUS CS8000 an ideal and future-proof
solution for a unified and optimized data protection infrastructure.
ETERNUS CS8000 virtualizes target systems and creates one logical
data protection platform. In so doing it provides more flexibility and
higher service levels at lower cost.
“The ETERNUS CS concept completely convinced
us. In particular, the high level of scalability and
openness for all systems at both the frontend
and backend represent major advantages.”
Oliver Heuser, Platform Manager for Database and Storage, Postbank Systems AG
“ I don’t know of any other solution that could provide total backup and restore functionality for both
our mainframe and open system worlds.”
Bernd Bohne, Department Head Central Systems Technology,
Sparda-Datenverarbeitung eG
Open systems
Mainframes
Backup/Archive
Backup/Archive
ETERNUS CS8000
Unified Data Protection Platform
Target System Virtualization
Dedup
(VTL Disk)
(NAS Disk)
(Dedup)
(Tape)
(Cloud)
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One solution for backup and archiving
Huge consolidation potential
Connectivity
ETERNUS CS8000 is the solution for consolidating complex and
heterogeneous data protection environments on a large scale. To
provide full consolidation, ETERNUS CS8000 can connect to all
well-known platforms, including open systems and mainframes. All
physical and virtual server environments can use the same backup
and archiving infrastructure.
Backup
From the backup software perspective, the ETERNUS CS8000 appliance
appears as a virtual tape library. The unified data protection platform
provides intelligent management of the media mix – known as
automated Information Lifecycle Management (ILM). It combines
the strengths of disk and tape with rule-based management, providing seamless and automated backup-to-disk-to-tape (B2D2T)
processes.
ETERNUS CS8000 is also the only solution on the market which supports complete parallel operation of B2D2T, as well as backup to deduplicated disks, with the same appliance. Data can be easily stored
on the appropriate media to fulfill the required service level.
Advantages:
■ Consolidation with ETERNUS CS8000 delivers tremendous cost
savings in complex environments.
■ Lighter workloads for IT administrators.
■ Better infrastructure utilization means lower costs.
Second-tier file storage
By moving old or non-critical data from production storage to secondtier file storage, administrators can increase the usable storage capacity
on the systems which run their mission-critical data. The reduction
of data volume stored in productive environments results in faster
backup and recovery. The data stored in second-tier file storage can
then be managed with more ease at a different data protection
service level.
To benefit from this “data offloading” to second-tier storage targets,
care must be taken not to underestimate the infrastructure complexity that can result from bringing additional “storage islands” into
the IT infrastructure. Thus, in addition to, or instead of serving as a
backup target, ETERNUS CS8000 provides optional standardized NAS
interfaces with NFS and CIFS protocols. The result is a scale-out NAS
system which can act as a second-tier file storage target supporting
billions of files.
Archiving and long-term storage
Thanks to the optional NAS interfaces, ETERNUS CS8000 can also be
used as an archive and long-term storage system. The support of
billions of files results in an enormous storage pool.
Furthermore, direct integration with tape enhances the unified data
protection appliance for Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
to automatically save data to disk and tape, according to defined
migration policies and retention periods.
Advantages:
■ Archiving and second-tier file storage frees up resources in the
production environment and in the backup infrastructure.
■ Backup and recovery are much easier.
■ HSM leverages the advantages of tape, which is the most reliable
and cost-effective media for long-term storage.
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“The ETERNUS CS data protection appliance from
Fujitsu gives us investment protection in terms
of data backup scalability, plus freedom of
choice when it comes to deploying server platforms such as mainframe and Linux systems.
By consolidating our infrastructure, we can vary
workloads and capacities as needed.”
Urs Haeringer, Director of Technology Management, Helsana Insurance AG
Enable legally compliant archiving
ETERNUS CS8000 is a platform which allows for legally compliant archiving. It ensures that the files are stored in a secure way, making
them revision-proof for a defined retention period to fulfill specific
requirements like compliance regulations. This is possible with the
integrated WORM functionality.
Furthermore, Fujitsu has developed a solution for trusted long-term
storage which ensures evidential value preservation and the physical
preservation of the data itself:
■E
TERNUS CS8000 takes care of the physical preservation of the
data. It is a storage solution which fulfills all the requirements of
storing archive data, including files with compliance demands.
■ F ujitsu SecDocs archiving middleware takes care of evidential value
preservation. It is an enterprise solution for long-term preservation
and legally secure archiving of electronic documents. The middleware combines a reliable archiving process for large numbers of
documents with the creation and preservation of evidential value –
flexible, cost-efficient and applicable across all industries. SecDocs
does not replace the archive software, but rather enriches it with
functions for evidential value preservation.
IT archives are easier to handle with the combination of SecDocs and
ETERNUS CS8000. Existing archive applications as well as storage
systems can be leveraged and enriched with functions for evidential
value preservation.
Investment protection for the entire data protection environment
ETERNUS CS8000 is a unified data protection platform for all applications and the complete physical and virtual server environment. It
integrates backup, archiving, compliant archiving and second-tier
file storage, while supporting the complete consolidation of heterogeneous environments. Infrastructures can be consolidated, the
resources are leveraged and the costs are dramatically reduced.
Changes in the infrastructure can be managed quite easily. The connectivity with all major open system and mainframe platforms allows
for easy adaptation to changes in the production environment, not
to mention the support of major backup and archive software.
The management process for tape libraries is integrated with the ILM
and HSM functionality. The tape libraries are decoupled from the
backup and archive software, so that it is very easy to make changes
in the physical tape infrastructure – for example, when introducing a
new generation of tape libraries or tape drives. ETERNUS CS8000 takes
care of data migration, from the old tape library to the new one.
Advantages:
■ ETERNUS CS8000 adds flexibility to data protection landscapes
while reducing complexity at the same time.
■ Easy adaptation to future requirements without the need to invest
in incompatible system architectures.
Advantages:
■A
ssurance that legal directives are fulfilled, including prevention
of data loss that could eventually result in serious penalties.
■K
PMG AG has confirmed that ETERNUS CS enables storage and
retrieval of electronic documents based on Generally Accepted
German Accounting Principles.
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Flexible service levels
Aligning capacity, speed and costs
Modular scale-out architecture
The basis of the ETERNUS CS8000 solution is a modular grid architecture. Independent building blocks provide a genuine scale-out platform. The main elements are:
■ Front-end processor nodes (which manage the data stream between
servers and ETERNUS CS8000),
■ Internal RAID systems (providing the disk storage)
■ Back-end processor nodes (which manage the data stream between
ETERNUS CS8000 and additional target systems)
Put simply, the basic backup-to-disk-to-tape workflow is as follows:
Data from the backup software is sent to ETERNUS CS8000 and received by the front-end processor node. It is stored in the internal
RAID storage. The data can then be copied to a tape library via the
back-end processing node.
Legend
x86 Servers
Front-end processor nodes
Backup
Front-end
processor nodes
■ V TL interface
Internal
RAID systems
■ Backup data repository (compressed or deduplicated)
■ NAS/file interface
Tape
UNIX Servers
■ Archive/file repository
■ Equipped with SAS / Nearline SAS / SAS SED (Self
Encrypting Disk)
Dedup
Archive
WORM
Tape
Mainframes
Back-end
processor nodes
■ Optional for integration of tape libraries at the
back-end
■ And support for the cloud gateway functionality
Back-end processor nodes
ETERNUS CS8000
Cloud
Capacity
ETERNUS CS8000 comes with great flexibility to grow, starting from
7 TB up to 22,200 TB (=22.2 petabytes!) of physical disk capacity. All
data received via the VTL interface is automatically compressed before being saved to disk. This reduces the amount of required storage
space without any loss in performance. The disk storage can act as
the final target or as a cache for data which should be copied to tape.
Physical tape libraries can be connected and data can be automatically moved to tape. The support of several tape libraries in parallel
increases the amount of data ETERNUS CS8000 is able to handle –
up to the exabyte range – and offers the best price/capacity ratio for
long-term storage.
As an alternative to the backup-to-disk-to-tape process, ETERNUS
CS8000 can also act as a final backup-to-disk storage target with de6
duplication. ETERNUS CS8000 can be enhanced by including the deduplication functionality for this purpose. Physical disk capacity – from
1 terabyte up to a maximum of 4.8 petabytes (before deduplication!) –
can be used as deduplication storage.
Another option which may play a more important role in the future
is storing backup data in the cloud. The ETERNUS CS8000 concept is
perfect for caching the data dedicated for the cloud. As a future enhancement, ETERNUS CS8000 will be capable of using the cloud as
an additional target via a cloud gateway.
Advantages:
■ The great scalability of capacity makes coping with exponential
growth rates much easier.
■ Integrated data reduction technologies and tape automation
reduce the cost of storage capacity.
“ What impressed me was that ETERNUS CS makes
it possible to achieve uniform improvement in
data backup and recovery on physical tape
across our entire server environment.”
Curt Borschel, Manager Enterprise Storage Management, Lufthansa Systems
Speed
The great advantage of the ETERNUS CS8000 scale-out architecture
compared to scale-up architectures is the scalable system performance, which can be increased whenever necessary by adding frontend processor nodes. This decouples investments in performance
from the storage capacity. Enterprises only need to invest in what is
required: capacity or performance.
Optimized media mix for flexible SLAs
To provide flexible SLAs, ETERNUS CS8000 combines the strengths
of disks, deduplicated disks and tapes with rule-based automated
management. Disk capacity can be flexibly utilized as high performance disk storage, as a performance booster for tape storage and
as a final disk storage repository with deduplication. Performance
will stay in balance with the media cost.
ETERNUS CS8000 provides the highest levels of performance, in larger
configurations more than 150 TB/h for backup-to-disk. Due to the
support of more than a thousand virtual tape drives, many backup
processes can be carried out in parallel.
Tape:
■ Low power consumption
■ Best price/capacity ratio
■ Lifetime: 30 years
■ High streaming performance
■ Compression
■ Movable (vaulting)
The deduplication functionality also benefits from the scale-out
infrastructure. The deduplication workload can be parallelized between several front-end processor nodes, which will speed up the
entire process.
Investment protection of the appliance
In addition to safeguarding the investment made in the data protection environment, ETERNUS CS8000 provides investment protection
for the data protection appliance itself. A project may start with a
small configuration which can grow step-by-step. The modular scaleout architecture, with its flexibility in performance and capacity,
combined with comprehensive connectivity, enables customers to
adapt to changing requirements. Flexibility and consolidation mean
that the data protection infrastructure for maximum utilization is
directly aligned with business needs. Investment protection is ensured,
even when business requirements change, and up-front investments
can be avoided.
Disk:
■ Fast random access and single file handling
■ Support for deduplication and replication
Deduplicated Disk:
■ Reduced capacity requirements
■ Virtual server image files often contain large amounts of redundant
data that may be reduced by a factor of 50
Advantages:
■ An intelligent media mix combines the strengths of disks, deduplicated disks and tapes.
■ This enables flexible SLAs for balancing speed, capacity and costs.
■ Backup and archive targets can be achieved in the most economical way.
Advantages:
■N
o more bottlenecks in backup and recovery.
■E
TERNUS CS8000 grows with enterprises business.
■A
made-to-measure solution with great flexibility and scalability.
■N
o need for up-front investments or for unplanned migration
costs due to capacity or performance limitations.
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Comprehensive data availability
Robustness and disaster recovery
Data availability
■ Highly available appliance:
To ensure the availability of the consolidated storage pool of
ETERNUS CS8000, all components are redundant. The architectures
of traditional deduplication appliances have single points of
failure. The ETERNUS CS8000 architecture is different – there is no
such limitation, and even the deduplication storage repository is
completely redundant, including automated failover.
■ Disaster resiliency:
Not only are components redundant: ETERNUS CS8000 can keep
multiple copies of the data by writing data to local and remote
tape libraries, and by asynchronous replication within a range of
thousands of kilometers. This provides an easy way to introduce
disaster resiliency with a remote copy.
■ Integrated backup for the NAS subsystem:
Quite often data that is stored in an archive is not part of the backup process, leaving it unprotected. In addition to comprehensive disaster recovery concepts, ETERNUS CS8000 fills this gap by including
an integrated, automated backup for the archive and second-tier
file storage data stored on the ETERNUS CS8000 NAS subsystem.
Benefits include increased availability levels, or protecting organizations’ archive data, against user errors for example.
■ Automated continuation:
The core element of the most disaster resilient architecture is one
logical ETERNUS CS8000 system which is deployed over two geographically separated sites, the so called “split-site” configuration
with “cache mirror.” The internal ETERNUS CS8000 infrastructure is
thereby extended to a second site. The backup software still sees
one logical setup, without even being aware of the geographical
location. Data can be written to or read from both sites. The result
is a system with no single point of failure, which continues to run
even after a complete site failure. The ETERNUS CS8000 is the only
system worldwide that can do this!
Advantages:
■ No single point of failure.
■ Easy disaster resiliency with remote copies.
■ Integrated backup for the NAS subsystem.
■ The ETERNUS CS8000 architecture represents the best in disaster
protection for all mission-critical data, and can even cope with
worst-case scenarios.
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Enterprise-class deduplication
Site A
Site B
Application
Application
1
ETERNUS CS8000
Dedup
Dedup store 2
Cache Mirror
Dedup
3 Dedup store
1 Parallelized deduplication workload across multiplie processor
nodes to deliver high throughput
2 Fail-safe dedup: The clustered file system and all components
are redundant. There is no single point of failure
3 With the “split-site” configuration and “cache mirror” the deduplication store can be extended to a second site for disaster
resiliency
■ Flexible copy management:
ETERNUS CS8000 manages different levels of data availability.
Data can be mirrored between two sites, replicated over very long
distances and saved as multiple copies. This function is user-defined
and policy-based. Human administrator errors are prevented, and
there is almost zero management needed after setup, and yet different service levels for different applications will be supported – at
the lowest possible cost per service.
Advantages:
■ Automated copy management prevents human administrator errors.
■ Operational risk is minimized.
■ The backup network is not burdened with the workload.
■ The availability level of data can be aligned with its impact on
business.
“ Fujitsu’s ETERNUS CS solution perfectly meets our
high-availability requirements. And it alone supports all backups of the entire sever landscape.”
Alfonso Yeregui, Head of System Operations, Laboral Kutxa
Automated processes
■M
anagement of the tape infrastructure:
The management of tape media can be complex, time-consuming
and error prone. Therefore, ETERNUS CS8000 takes over the management of all the target systems and provides a highly available
virtualized tape robot. The redundant architecture of the appliance
enables reception of the backup data, even if a component should
fail. If the back-end-write process to the physical tape fails, then
the data will automatically be directed to another tape drive or tape
library to ensure that the data is safe.
■ T ape reorganization:
One purpose of the reorganization function of ETERNUS CS8000 is to
effectively utilize the tape capacity available. Furthermore, regular
reorganization of tape media (that have not been accessed for a
long time) refreshes the magnetization of the tapes and prevents
age-related loss of the magnetization. This can be initiated by the
administrator, or be defined as a regularly occurring automatic
process. The appliance can automatically make quality checks of
duplicate copies. If an error occurs on the tape media, the selfhealing functionality recovers the inaccessible information from
the other copy. This ensures the availability of data even over the
very long-term.
■ Self-healing:
If a data copy on tape is corrupt or not available for some reason,
then the recall request of the backup software is automatically redirected to the second tape copy. Of course, this presupposes that
the data was at least written in a dual-copy service level. The copy
will be provided and the job for the backup software is done. An
automated self-healing mechanism is initiated by ETERNUS CS8000
that will recover the failed copy. Thus the level of redundancy is
restored.
Step 1: Redirect
Step 2: Self-healing
Application
ETERNUS CS8000
ETERNUS CS8000
Advantages:
■A
utomation of tape processes reduces operational workload.
■E
TERNUS CS8000 in combination with tape provides the most
reliable solution for short-term, mid-term and long-term storage.
Advantages:
■ The defined service level is guaranteed through an always available
self-healing backup copy.
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Reliable services
Maximum efficiency
100 percent service. No downtime.
Fujitsu provides complete support for data protection optimization.
The planning, design and integration services open up an economical,
effective and tailored approach to your backup and archive solution
with ETERNUS CS8000 for faster and easier adaptation to changes in
your business processes.
The trouble-free, swift implementation of an ETERNUS CS8000-based
data protection concept is realized via seamless integration in your
data center landscape. Fujitsu’s professional and integration services
deliver a simple startup of the ETERNUS CS8000 within your IT infrastructure, including maximum availability of data center processes.
Covering everything from consulting to integration services, this
support is designed to ensure uninterrupted operations with
ETERNUS CS8000 so that IT departments can satisfy their company’s
SLAs.
Reliable service for solution availability
The ETERNUS CS8000 SolutionContract provides proactive and reactive maintenance and support services for at least three years. The
remote or onsite response time and the recovery times can be selected
according to customer needs.
The proactive service elements are optional. They are highly recommended to enable the early identification of critical system conditions
and the initiation of preventive measures. Proactive service elements
include system health checks at regular intervals to ensure sustained
performance and high availability of the solution infrastructure. With
proactive services, Fujitsu offers a named contact - the Technical
Account Manager (TAM) - to support the customer, to provide information about the solution and to coordinate maintenance tasks and
change management processes. If updates are required, for example,
this can be taken care of without interrupting system operations.
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Managed Services
Managed Services go a step further: Fujitsu assumes responsibility
for system operations according to defined prices and SLAs. Storage
capacities are delivered in line with actual customer needs – quickly,
easily, flexibly – and with transparent costs. The offering includes
implementation and operation, and can also cover all tasks related
to online storage and data backup depending on requirements. Specialists from Fujitsu service centers worldwide keep systems up and
running with 24x7 remote support services.
Turning fixed costs into variable expenditures
In addition to the unbeatable cost benefits possible with
ETERNUS CS8000, Fujitsu also offers solutions that enable enterprises
to convert their fixed costs for data backup into variable costs. This can
be achieved with options like:
■ Pay as you grow, which supports implementation of business
growth plans without added investments.
■ Backup as a Service – data backup services from the global Fujitsu
Dynamic Cloud charged according to transparent monthly fees.
Advantages:
■ Service expertise on demand: The scope of cooperation can be
tailored according to available competencies and resources as
needed.
■ Storage on demand: Additional storage requirements are fulfilled
on a pay-per-use basis.
■ High quality and transparent system operations with processes
that comply with ITIL and ISO.
■ Savings thanks to efficient processes and the use of scaling effects.
Fujitsu ETERNUS
Business-centric Storage.
Summary
ETERNUS CS8000 is the most powerful, flexible and versatile scale-out backup,
archive and second-tier file storage appliance on the market.
By deploying this unified data protection appliance, enterprises can allocate
storage resources according to business priorities:
■ Backup / archive / second-tier file storage
■ Right media mix of disks, deduplicated disks, tapes and cloud
■ Appropriate data availability levels
■ Flexible SLAs
■ Scalable capacity and performance
■ Automated processes
■ Investment protection for the data protection environment and for the
appliance itself
ETERNUS CS8000 supports SLA fulfillment in terms of speed, capacity and reliability,
and at the same time minimizes the investment and total cost of ownership.
Fujitsu ETERNUS – Business-centric Storage.
Data protection without compromises
Where are the hot spots in your data backup and archiving environment? We will be glad to show you how
to eliminate these hot spots quickly and improve the
economics of your storage operations.
Contact us!
E-mail: storage-pm@ts.fujitsu.com
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