This document discusses how Catalogic ECX copy data management software can be used with IBM FlashSystem V9000 all-flash storage arrays to provide software-defined agility. The IBM FlashSystem offers high performance storage with data compression and disaster recovery capabilities. Catalogic ECX automates copy creation, tracking, usage, refresh, and deletion to simplify management of copies for use cases like disaster recovery, testing/development, and self-service. A live demonstration shows how ECX streamlines recovery and enables self-service access to copies. Resources for learning more about the joint solution are provided.

1. Software Defined Agility
Catalogic ECX and IBM FlashSystem V9000
Philip Clark, Sr. Offering Manager, IBM FlashSystem
Elias Pinto, Sales Engineer, Catalogic Software
Peter Eicher, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Catalogic Software

2. Agenda
• IBM FlashSystem V9000
• About Catalogic ECX
• Catalogic ECX Use Cases
• Live Demonstration
• Questions
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3. | 3IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
• Leverage IBM FlashCore technology to combine high performance, ultra-low
latency, cost-efficiency and extreme reliability with a rich set of storage
features found in Tier 1 storage solutions
• Optimize superior data economics by accelerating time to value through
agile, easy-to-implement, fully integrated solution architectures
• Deliver a feature-rich, software-defined storage layer with virtualization to
extend functionality to all managed storage
• Enable dynamic data migration to manage and scale storage capacity
without disrupting applications
• Increase effective capacity of Flash storage systems up to five times,
helping to lower costs, floor-space requirements, power and cooling with IBM
Real-time Compression
• Easily integrate with VMware, OpenStack and Microsoft platforms
Flash optimized
array for virtualizing
the tiered data center
IBM FlashSystem V9000:
All-flasharraysofferingversatileperformance,agile
integrationand enduring economics
Versatile Performance
for mixed workloads
IBM FlashSystem V9000

4. | 4IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
FlashSystem V9000 options for deployment
• Great for database and
critical applications
• Accelerate, migrate, tier,
clone, snapshot, replicate,
compress existing storage
• Up to 630K IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 57TB usable, 285TB
Effective
Small Data Center/App Accelerator
• Great for multiple mixed
workloads that drive huge I/O
• Replacement for tier 1 disk
• Scale out for more all flash
capacity, IOPS and bandwidth
• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 456TB usable, 2.2PB
Effective
Mixed Workload Accelerator
• Great for data centers with
heterogeneous storage
• Extends core feature set to
other storage arrays
• Up to 2.5M IOPS, 200µs
• Up to 32PB virtualized by a
single FlashSystem V9000
Virtualized Data Center

5. | 5IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
Flexible volumes
Generic – fully allocated
Thin-Provision – space consumed on-demand
Mirror – two copies of volume
Migrate between pools or change
volume type
Preferred read mirror between flash
and legacy storage (all reads from flash)
Thin mirror – a mirror with copies being thin
Compressed – volumes utilizing Real-time Compression

6. | 6IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
Mixed workload consolidation
ERP / SCM
Transaction
Big Data
Virtualization
Cloud
Qualities needed for
mixed workloads:
• Capacity scaling
• Performance scaling
• Automatic tiering
• Quality of service
• Strong mixed R/W
performance

7. | 7IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
Fully integrated system management
• Improve workforce productivity
• Simplify management
• Single name space

8. | 8IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
Real-time Compression
Database Office Files CAD/CAMGeoseismic
Virtual
ServersJPEG/ZIP
80% 30% 5% 50% 72% 70%Compression
Rate
Traditional
Storage
Average of
65% Compression
Real-time Compression Efficient
Half the Data Storage

9. | 9IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
Full set of disaster recovery tools
Metro Mirror – Synchronous
– Updates are committed to both sites
before acknowledged to server
– Supported up to 300 km, adds
additional latency to hosts
Global Mirror – Asynchronous
– Server update acknowledged in
parallel to update to remote site
– Supported up to 80ms of round-trip
latency, distance dependent upon
network quality
FlashCopy Options
• Full or “thick”
• Thin nocopy
• Incremental
• Cascading
• Multi-target
• Consistency groups
• Reverse
Snapshot – Instant space-efficient,
thin provisioned copy, capture state
of volume before a change
Clone – Creates a complete one-time
replica of source, testing data or
attaching to other servers
Backup – Complete point in time
replica that can be incrementally
refreshed

10. | 10IBM FlashSystem© 2016 IBM Corporation
7 year 24x7 Support:
Up to 7 years support available
with optional price protection and
flash media retention offerings
Enterprise Class Services
Data Reduction:
Flexible – up to 5:1 storage efficiency
savings, based on Comprestimator results
Estimate-free – sight unseen 2:1
guarantee for rapid workload deployment
Endurance:
MicroLatency modules
will be covered for
read/write endurance
while you are under
warranty or maintenance
Peace of Mind:
No Charge, complimentary IBM
services for Tier 1 opportunities
IBM FlashCore™ Forever program: New
controllers included with 3 year maintenance
extension
Performance:
IBM MicroLatency™
performance
IBM FlashSystem Tier 1 Guarantee

11. Catalogic ECX Copy Data Management

12. All-Flash vs. Hard Disk Drives
• Because of performance constraints, HDD systems require full clones, to
move data to other spindles. Flash does not have this limitation, so one
copy does the work of many HDD copies.
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Hard Disk
LUN
Snapshot Workload
Workload
Full Clone
Workload
Workload
Workload
Full Clone
Workload
Workload
Workload
All-Flash
LUN
Snapshot
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload
Workload

13. Two Required Storage Functions
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Making Copies Using Copies
• Snapshots
• Replicas
• Local recovery
• Remote recovery
• Disaster Recovery
• Test/Dev
• Cloud
• Reporting, analytics
• DevOps
• Forensics
• And so on…

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But successfully managing multiple copies
requires automation, governance, insight and
control…
…which is just what Catalogic ECX provides.

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What Catalogic ECX Does…
• Creates copies
• Tracks copies
• Lets you use copies
• Refreshes copies
• Transitions copies, e.g. test to production
• Deletes copies when they aren’t needed
One ECX user protected 8
TB of data in 11 seconds.
“Copies at no cost, no
impact and in no time.”

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How Catalogic ECX Works…
• Leverages – but does not replace – array copy
processes (snaps, replication)
• Talks directly to storage array and hypervisor
• Catalogs all copies
• Uses template-based workflow model

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Catalogic ECX Push-Button Recovery
Recovers LUNS/Volumes Recovers Systems
Map Snapshot(s) to System(s)
Automated or Ad Hoc
IT controlled or Self-service
VM
Spin up full systems
Automated or Ad Hoc
IT controlled or Self-service
Let’s see how that works in the real world…

18. ECX Use Case: Disaster Recovery without Complexity
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Automates
Replication
• Replication schedules
• Data retention
VM VM
LUNs, VMs LUNs, VMs
DR SiteData Center
Array
Replication
Automates
Recovery
VM
LUNs, VMs
DR Site
Push
Button
• Recover systems in sequence
• Uses latest good copy
VM-1 VM-2 VM-3
Automates
Testing and
Refresh
VM-1 VM-2 VM-3
• Recover systems in sequence
• Recover in fenced-off network
VM
LUNs, VMs
DR Site
Push
Button
Schedule

19. ECX Use Case: DevOps and Test/Dev
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Access
rules
Test/Dev
• Storage-centric
• Self-service via ECX GUI
• Fully automated
DevOps
• API-centric
• Self-service via API calls
• Fully automated
Copies of Production
Data and/or VMs
Data Center,
Remote Site or Cloud
VM VM VM
• On request
• Scheduled
Provision access to data or systems in minutes
One user reduced Test/Dev infrastructure management from 60 hours a
month to 3 hours, a 95% productivity gain
DevOps
Automation Tools

20. ECX Use Case: User Self-Service
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Storage Team
• Sets policies
• Defines access
• Creates templates
SLA Templates
• Gold
• Silver
• Bronze Access
rules
“We can access data
on our own now!”
“Our team is more
productive than ever!”
“No more reporting on
stale data!”
Dev team
Business team
Reporting team
“IT organizations are experiencing a cultural revolution…
They want to empower users with self-service and enable
them to make value-based consumption decisions.”
-- VMware report, The State of IT Transformation

21. ECX Use Case: Leverage Cloud Compute
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Make use of Cloud compute on enterprise data
Automatically spin-up and spin-down workloads
Limitless Cloud
Compute
Equinix Storage Hosting
System of
Record Data
Data
Center Native Array
Replication
Catalogic ECX Orchestration & Automation
SoftLayer
Cloud
Cloud Use Cases
Test/Dev
DevOps
Automated DR
Reporting
Analytics

22. Live Demonstration
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23. Catalogic Software Resources and Contacts
Key Resources
• For enablement and client materials:
Data.CatalogicSoftware.com/IBM
• To reach out directly please email:
IBMinfo@catalogicsoftware.com
Private Demos on Request
• IBMinfo@catalogicsoftware.com
Webinar Schedule
• catalogicsoftware.com/en/about/webinars/
IBM Whitepaper: Catalogic ECX
and IBM FlashSystem V9000:
Software-defined Agility
IBM Redbook: IT Modernization using
Catalogic ECX Copy Data Management
and IBM Spectrum Storage
These and other resources:
Data.CatalogicSoftware.com/IBM
IDC Report: Solving the Copy Data
Problem with In-Place Copy Data
Management: IBM Focus

24. Questions
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