EMC Symmetric DMX SAN Solution EMC Control Center EMC ControlCenter is an integrated family of enterprise storage resource

management (SRM) products that provide discovery, monitoring, automation provisioning and reporting across multi-vendor storage arrays, storage Networks and hosts. Storage Device Management Symmetrix Manager Symmetrix Optimizer SRDF/Time Finder Manager for OS/400

SRM Monitoring and Reporting Storage Scope Storage Scope File Level Report Workload Analyzer

SRM Planning and Provisioning SAN Manager SAN Advisor Automated Resource Manager

EMC Control Center Architecture Console - Allows the user to monitor and control their storage infrastructure from a central point. There can be many consoles open concurrently by different users. Server Contains common services, and business logic. There is only one Control Center Server per implementation Store(s) Are responsible for data management in the Control Center Repository. There can be one or more Stores for scalability and availability Repository A relational database that contains current and historical information collected about the storage environment Agents Monitor health, collect data and execute configuration operation against the elements of the storage environment. The Agents run on hosts in the environment and can be installed, managed, and upgraded remotely from a central Console. Wide Sky Storage management middleware that provides Control Center Agents a standard interface to the heterogeneous storage elements including hosts, storage arrays, and connectivity devices. The Agents can access Wide Sky APIs locally or remotely, thus extending the platforms supported.

Control Center Console Console is a seamlessly integrated graphical user interface(GUI) for enterprise storage management tasks, providing an environment for management applications to deliver their features and functions in a user-friendly, consistent way. The console communicates to the Server and Repository over TCP/IP. Storage Scope Storage Scope addresses the storage metering and capacity planning requirements of organizations interested in consolidating their storage and improving their storage utilization and asset management of both SAN and NAS storage resources. Through an intuitive easy-to-use Web Browser interface, it provides an enterprise-wide view of all your storage capacity. EMC Symmetrix DMX Introduction Symmetrix DMX-3 high-end storage system EMC Announces World's Largest, Fastest and Most Scalable High End Storage Array DMX-3 on July 25 2005 Up to 128GB/sec throughput Up to 1024 Terabytes raw capacity 512GB Global Memory Avoid data contention or latency High availability High scalability Future ready architecture Symmetrix Foundation Shared Model Design - All directors(channel and disk) are autonomous and work in parallel. - Access to global memory resources in system is symmetrical, any processor on a director can participate in any event with the system Enginuity storage operating environment - Enginuity is an event-driven storage operating environment that prioritizes multiple simultaneous events within the system and guarantees quality of service (QoS) for the most important events. For example, it ensures correcting a two-bit error in memory takes priority over a WRITE request. Symmetrix: A massively parallel storage system designed to multi-task numerous simultaneous events. For example: When a new WRITE I/O is committed to memory, the new data is immediately available to all of the CPUs on every director board. EMC Symmetrix DMX architecture

Core Components - Channel Directors for host communication - Disk Directors for disk communication - Memory Cache Director for I/O delivery from host to disk directors. Two major design points - The DMX global memory - The DMX interconnect The DMX interconnect The DMX interconnect uses a matrix of direct, point-to-point connections instead of conventional buses or switches. These direct connections are better for the same reason a direct airline flight is better: they're faster and more reliable. Every one of those data paths is dedicated. This architecture also allows great flexibility in scaling up and down to meet the specific capacity and connectivity needs of a given environment. Raw bandwidth of each connection Each of the point-to-point connections between director and global memory are composed of several serial links. Each pathway from director to memory is a two bit connection running at 1.25Gbit/sec transfers rate. Likewise, the pathway from memory to director is another two-bitwide connection also running at 1.25Gbit/sec. This makes the raw bandwidth between director and global memory 4bits x 1.25Gbit/Sec = 5Gbit/sec. Bandwidth after encode This raw bandwidth is encoded with an industry-standard 8b/10b, so every ten bits sent, eight can be counted as data. Thus, the data bandwidth of the connection is 5Gbit/s x 8b/10b = 4Gbit/s EMC Business Continuance Solutions TimeFinder/Mirror TimeFinder/Mirror is a software for the symmetrix that facilitates creation and maintenance of local multiple mirror images of production data without disruption to the primary application. The image are referred to as business continuity volumes (BCV) and ware widely used for backups, data warehouse loading, decision-support applications, application development and rapid data restoration. EMC Business Continuance Solutions Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) SRDF is a long-distance replication solution - SRDF/Synchronous - SRDF/Asynchronous - SRDF/Automate Replication