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We started off the afternoon at Dell, Talking about the Dell Acquisitions and Solutions, then diving into Scalable Storage Systems, and then Equallogic.
My two cents are, these are great for remote sights, and offices. But, I wish we could run these with the same licensing, as below, but within a virtual appliance.
Check out the Tech Field Day video also.
More info.
“Symantec Backup Exec 3600 Appliance
Backup Exec 3600 Appliance provides Backup Exec software and optimized hardware integrated into a single affordable backup solution from the industry leader in Backup – Symantec. Easily protect both physical and virtual environments while reducing storage costs and improving backup performance through integrated deduplication. Reduce business downtime with V-Ray technology that recovers data through a single pass backup in second”
Symantec understands the shifting needs of the data center and offers the NetBackup appliances as an additional option for customers to simplify deployment and maintenance of marketing-leading NetBackup and NetBackup deduplication.
The NetBackup appliances are ideal for customers looking for turnkey solutions for their organization. The appliances enable efficient, storage-optimized data protection for the data center, remote office and virtual environments.
Product Families
Symantec's NetBackup Appliance family consists of two series:
NetBackup 5200 series - a single-vendor enterprise backup appliance with deduplication
5200: enterprise backup appliance with 32TB storage
5220: enterprise backup appliance with expandable storage starting at 4TB.
NetBackup 5000 series - a scalable deduplication appliance for the enterprise
5000: global deduplication pool scalable from 16TB to 96TB
5020: global deduplication pool scalable from 32TB to 192TB “
“SolarWinds Virtualization Manager takes you from the early stages of virtualization deployment and all the way to implementation of private cloud initiatives and IT-as-a-Service. Our unified approach to VMware® capacity planning, VM sprawl control, performance monitoring, configuration management, and chargeback automation makes it easy to take control of your virtualized environment—regardless of whether you manage as few as fifty virtual machines or a corporate cloud the size of a small planet.”
“Storage management in a virtualized environment used to be a real nightmare. But not any longer! SolarWinds Storage Manager optimizes the performance and capacity of your physical and virtual storage infrastructure and delivers visibility and insight into how your storage infrastructure maps to your virtualized environment. And unlike element management tools from storage hardware vendors, Storage Manager gives you a comprehensive view into the real-time status of your entire multi-vendor SAN—through a single pane of glass.”
Earlier on my other blog http://itblog.rogerlund.net , I posted a blog post on Dell DX object based storage, with regards to the hands on labs at Dell Storage Forum 2011.
Here is the video , if you missed it..
Well, I wanted to show what was running the labs, and give you some more information on the architecture on Dell DX object based storage.
An Object-based Storage Device (OSD) is a computer storage device, similar to disk storage but working at a higher level. Instead of providing a block-oriented interface that reads and writes fixed sized blocks of data, an OSD organizes data into flexible-sized data containers, called objects. Each object has both data (an uninterpreted sequence of bytes) and metadata (an extensible set of attributes describing the object). The command interface to the OSD includes commands to create and delete objects, write bytes and read bytes to and from individual objects, and to set and get attributes on objects. The OSD is responsible for managing the storage of objects and their metadata. The OSD implements a security mechanism that provides per-object and per-command access control.
Several research projects have explored object storage and implemented prototype systems with various semantics. The early research spawned a standardization effort that lead to a standard OSD command set for SCSI.”
Here is Dell’s introduction to their product.
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What is object storage?
Object storage is the intelligent evolution of disk storage - creating, storing and distributing variable-sized data objects, and their associated metadata, rather than simply placing blocks of data on tracks and sectors. Each object has its rich metadata inextricably linked to it, enabling long-term preservation while ensuring data remains safe and accessible over time.
Simple architecture A flat-address-space design removes file-system complexity and the need to manage LUNs and RAID groups.
Cost-effectiveness Automated management, SATA and near-line SAS based storage and modular scaling approach offers low total cost of ownership.
Metadata By incorporating metadata into objects, you can apply preservation, retention and deletion policies, lower management resources, and facilitate enhanced discovery.
Enhanced scalability An extremely large number of available addresses means a common pool of storage can support literally billions of objects.”
I had a chance at Dell Storage forum 2011 to sit down with Commvault and talk through a design overview on Simpana 9 . I wouldn't call it a deep drive, but it was good overview, and involved white boarding.
