Rethinking Enterprise Storage · A Hybrid Cloud Model by Farley, Marc -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model Foreword Introduction

Conventions Acknowledgments Errata & book support We want to hear from you Stay in touch

Next steps 1. Rethinking enterprise storage

The hybrid cloud management model The transformation of enterprise storage with cloud storage services

The constant nemesis: data growth Increasing the automation of storage management Virtual systems and hybrid cloud storage Reducing the amount of data stored

Best practices or obsolete practices?

Doing things the same old way doesn’t solve new problems

Introducing the hybrid cloud storage architecture

Change the architecture and change the function

Snapshots Data tiering Thin provisioning

Summary

2. Leapfrogging backup with cloud snapshots

The inefficiencies and risks of backup processes

The many complications and risks of tape

Tape media Media management and rotation Synthetic full backups Restoring from tape

Backing up to disk

Virtual tape: A step in the right direction Incremental-only backup Dedupe makes a big difference For the love of snapshots

A big breakthrough: Cloud snapshots

Fingerprints in the cloud

Scheduling cloud snapshots Efficiency improvements with cloud snapshots

Comparing cloud snapshots

Remote office data protection The role of local snapshots

Looking beyond disaster protection

Summary

3. Accelerating and broadening disaster recovery protection

Minimizing business interruptions

Planning for the unexpected

Practicing is a best practice Recovery metrics: Recovery time and recovery point Shortening RPOs and RTOs with remote replication

Storage-Based Replication Server Software Replication Dedupe VTL Replication

Replicating data growth problems is a problem Unpredictable RPOs and RTOs with tape

Disaster recovery with the Microsoft HCS solution

Introducing the metadata map Recovery times with the Microsoft HCS solution

Deterministic, thin recoveries Comparing recovery times with cloud storage as virtual tape The working set Application coverage and data protection continuity More cloud snapshots = more recovery points Recoveries with spare and active CiS systems Recoveries and cloud storage buckets

Windows Azure Storage as a recovery service

Redundancy as a service: local and geo-replication Location-independent recovery

ROBO protection and recovery

Summary

4. Taming the capacity monster

The need for flexible storage

Migrating data with server virtualization technology Thin provisioning brings relief

Storage architectures: Scale-up, scale-out, and scale-across with cloud storage as a tier

Scale-up and scale-out storage Scale-across storage

Separating dormant data from active data with cloud-as-a-tier

The life cycles of fingerprints

Remapping pointers for dormant data and accessing it in the cloud Cumulative results of data growth and data life cycles Windows Azure Storage as a “bottomless” tier for dormant data

CiS designs for efficient working set storage

Data reduction and tiering within the CiS system

Deduping primary storage Compression completes the reduction

Summary

5. Archiving data with the hybrid cloud

Digital archiving and electronic discovery

Protecting privacy and ensuring integrity and availability Policies for managing data archives Storage options for data archives

Archiving to tape Archiving to disk Archiving to cloud storage

Archiving with the Microsoft HCS solution

Data archiving with Windows Azure Storage Compliance advantages of Windows Azure Storage Integrated archiving with the Microsoft HCS solution A closer look at data retention policies with the Microsoft HCS solution

Fingerprint expiration and managing temporary data Cloud snapshot policies for long-term digital archives Snapshot granularity and aligning volumes with snapshot policies Using the Microsoft HCS solution as secondary storage for enterprise data archiving

Meeting regulatory requirements for privacy, data integrity, and availability Archiving data from ROBO locations

Summary

6. Putting all the pieces together

The complete picture of hybrid cloud storage

The system of fingerprints and pointers

Following the fingerprints Reprising the metadata map

Understanding hybrid cloud storage performance

Establishing the working set Application volatility matters Migrating data to a CiS system

Deployment scenarios for the Microsoft HCS solution

Refreshing file-server storage technology Replacing backup technologies and processes Establishing DR competency Externalizing BLOBs on large SharePoint installations Controlling capacity for enterprise document management Automating compliance coverage Migrating archived data to secondary storage Managing VM sprawl storage ROBO data protection compliance

Summary

7. Imagining the possibilities with hybrid cloud storage

Thanks to VMs, everything done in data centers today can be done in the cloud tomorrow

Infrastructure virtualization

Orchestrating clouds Managing data growth in a hybrid cloud

Data portability in the hybrid cloud

Migrating applications and copying data Can you get there from here?

Virtual disks as a porting medium Emulating on-premises storage methods as a service

Recovery in the cloud

Recovering with a CiS system VSA in the cloud Recovering with backup software running on a VM in the cloud Recovering with server software and services in the cloud Recovering with storage system VSAs and replication in the cloud

Big Data and discovery in the cloud

Discovering new discovery techniques in the cloud

Summary

A. Considerations and recommendations for networking, privacy, and data protection

A bifurcated data path from application to cloud

iSCSI considerations Internet connection considerations

Privacy and data integrity technologies Data protection considerations

B. Glossary C. About the author Index Copyright

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