IBM System Storage

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

Description

Raid
level

Width
Goal

Spare
Goal

Chain
Balance

SSD RAID-5

Striped with parity

Yes

SSD RAID-6

Striped with dual parity

12

Yes

SSD RAID-10

Mirrored then striped

data, only protected
against drive failure

10

Yes

SSD RAID-0

Striped for performance,

no redundancy

Yes

SSD Easy Tier

Use this for Easy Tier

Hybrid pools

10

Yes

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Storwize V7000 HDD RAID Presets

Preset

Description

Raid
level

Width
Goal

Spare
Goal

Chain
Balance

Basic RAID-5

Striped with parity

No

Basic RAID-6

Striped with dual parity

12

No

Basic RAID-10

Mirrored then striped,

only protected against
drive failure

10

No

Balanced
RAID-10

Protected against drive

and enclosure failure

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

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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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Storage Tier
Advisor Tool
(STAT)

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Easy Tier
SSDs (Solid State Drives)



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

Easy Tier is only supported with SSDs as Tier_0 and HDDs as

Tier_1

Example: SAS to NL SAS allowed but it is not supported

http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=591&uid=ssg1S1003703#_Easy


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Easy Tier algorithms are tuned specifically to optimize for SSDs

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Easy Tier

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Pool

Tiers

Volume

Easy Tier Activity

Off

One

Off

None

Off

One

On

None

Off

Two

Off

None

Off

Two

On

None

Auto

One

Off

None

Auto

One

On

None

Auto

Two

Off

Measure

Auto

Two

On

Manage+Measure

On

One

Off

Measure

On

One

On

Measure

On

Two

Off

Measure

On

Two

On

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

Measurement


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





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
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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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