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FTS Overview
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Design Considerations
Modes of Operation
Feature Support
Director and Zoning considerations
Miscellaneous
Internal
disk 1
Hyper 1
Hyper 2
Hyper 1
Internal
disk 2
Volume
(RAID 0)
Volume
(RAID 1)
Hyper 2
Hyper
External
Array
RAID 5
LUN
Hyper 1
eDisk
Unprotected
Volume
Hyper 2
Hyper
Unprotected
Volume
7E0, 7E1
8E0, 8E1
DX Director Pair
DXs connect
disksto
external
LUNs
Added
and
removed in
Ensures that the LUN ownership is balanced across peer
pairs
directors
Configured on the same slice across directors within an engine
(i.e. 7E and 8E)
Host
External Array
6 -Present Volume(s) to
Host
DX
Ports
FA
Ports
FF
FF
FD
FD
AA
AA
AX
AX
Volume(s)
4 - Create
eDisk(s)
1 - Configure DX
pair(s)
VMA
X
Cac
he
Writ
e
Ack
Volu
me
eDi
sk
LU
N
VMAX 20K or
VMAX 40K
External
Array with
RAID
protection
Ho
st
DX
Ports
FA
Ports
T10
DIF
FTS
CRC
Global Memory
VMAX 20K or VMAX 40K
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FTS Architecture
12
Two Modes of
Operation
Externally
Provisioned
Encapsulated
FA Ports
Standard
Vol(s)
Standard Provisioned
DX
Ports
External
Disk Group
eDisk
eD
isk
Thin Pool
Thin
Virtual Provisioned
Data
Vol
Data
Vol
Data
Vol
External
Disk Group
eDisk
eD
isk
FA Ports
DX Ports
Thin Pool
Data
Vol
Virtual Provisioned
Data
Vol
Data
Vol
FAST Policy
FTS Pool
External
Disk Group
eDisk
eD
isk
FTS Tier
MUST be the lowest
FAST VP
Tier
50
GB
500
GB
500
GB
Meta
Vol
Stand
ard
Volu
me
240
GB
240
GB
20
GB
eDi
sk
eDi
sk
LU
N
FA Ports
Thin
Virtual Provisioned
DX
Ports
Thin Pool
External
Disk Group
Data
Vol
eDisk
TF/Snap
TF/VP Snap
TF/Clone
Externally Provisioned
Encapsulated Non-Geometry
Limited
Encapsulated Geometry Limited
*= Partial support
*
*
Externally
Provisioned and
Encapsulated
Encapsulated
Geometry Limited
ype of
eDisk
Externally Provisioned and
Encapsulated
Encapsulated Geometry Limited
Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights
SRDF/S and
Only used as R1
volumes Only supported for
migrations Meta volumes
Number of Meta
members o and R2 must
equal
Cylinder size
must be the s
each meta member
SRDF/S
SRDF/AR TAR
T
(SAR)
n both R1
ame for
Open
Replicator
(ORS)
Recover
Point
(RP)
Externally Provisioned
Encapsulated NonGeometry Limited
Encapsulated Geometry
Limited
* = Partial support
Federated
Live
Migration
(FLM)
Zero-space Reclamation
Key
Takeaways
Always check the support matrix for supported External
arrays
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References
Course Title: Symmetrix Federated Tiered Storage Design
and Deployment
Course Title: Symmetrix Federated Tiered Storage Monitoring
and Troubleshooting
Design and Implementation Best Practices for EMC
Symmetrix Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) Technical
Notes P/N 300-014-165
Simple Support Matrix for Federated Tiered Storage
EduTube
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Miscellaneous
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29
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FTS FAQ
1.
If we propose using the external array for
should
we VP
encourage
additional
space, Raid-6 to avoid potential DL if
external array drive fails but takes down our VP as
The
same best practices that we employ for our arrays
well?
and those
provided by the 3rd Party vendors to avoid DL events,
should be
applied to the external array. From the VMAX
management interfaces
(SymCLI
2.
Will
FTS work with
RecoverPoint
(VMAX virtual
or Unisphere
for VMAX)
an unprotected
Yes,
splitter)
FTS
islike
supported
SRDF? with RecoverPoint CRR and CDP.
RAID
group
New
5876,
gets with
created
for each eDisk that gets added to the
the
RecoverPoint
system.
The RAIDsplitter resides natively within the
VMAX
group system.
is unprotected because eDisks rely on the
Some
restrictions
apply if the volumes at target are to
protection
provided
land
onexternal
externalarray.
by the
luns that are geometry limited. Please reference
FTS training materials.
Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights
FTS FAQ
3.
What is the effect of the loss of the external array.
vault
in any
circumstance? Extending VP with a lower
Will the
VMAX
availability array will lower the overall availability of the
The
I/O would have to fail because the Symm Devices would
solution.
go Not Ready if
their underlying storage were not available. Devices should
be protected in the some manner no different than we
protect our S ymmetrix volumes. A
failure in the FTS pool is not any different from a double
drive failure taking an EFD or FC pool down (less likely in
SATA because hopefully everyone is using RAID 6). All
devices
that
in that
pool
will suffer on
data
4.
Doeshad
FTSdata
support
thin
provisioning
unavailability
andispossible
data
If external
an external
arrays?
lun
presented
to loss.
FTS, the lun will be fully
All
edisk to
are
expanded
itsconsidered Raid 0 (unprotected) from the VMAX
perspective
with the FTS lun initialization process. Thin
maximum size
the
protection is considered to be the responsibility
LUNRAID
management
of
to the
the external
front endarray.
hosts will be handled by the VMAX. FTS does
not have the
capability to communicate with the management functions of
the remote
FTS FAQ
5.What is the maximum external capacity supported as
Maximum
compared
capacity
to HDS?is determined by VMAX 20K and
VMAX
6.My40K
understanding
cache.
is that Encapsulation does not perform
checksum. Only
Provisioning has checksum capability. Is that true, or do both
have the checksum capability?
Both Externally Provisioned and Encapsulated volumes have
checksums. Checksums
will take place once the lun is under VMAX 20/40K control and
any I/O activity is
generated
to theany
lun.documentation
CRC information
is saved
the Symmetrix
7.Do we have
or slides
outinthere
that discuss
with
edisks
when utilized with VP, additional hops between the
cache.
This
CRC
the I/O
flows
arrays, I/Oismisses,
information
then checked upon subsequent reads to confirm
etcthe
- basically
that
externalwhat
LUN are the areas of performance concern when
The
I/O flow
is the
as it would be with any other I/O to an
using
edisks
in same
has
not been
altered
outside of Symmetrix control.
internal
The change is that read misses or backend write
certaindisk.
use cases?
operations, instead of going through a DA to access the back end
physical drives, the I/O would go through a DX port,
through the SAN to the external array, and then back.
FTS FAQ
8.
Does FTS enable mainframe access
No.
to FTS
VNX does
etc? not support CKD volumes at
this
9. time.
Will this work on
VG2/VG8
data? in
Not
at this point
time.
10. I saw in a presentation that FTS are
mean
that we
can have 100TB eDisks
free - does
that
without additional
FTS
itself
is free. Enginuity and Management
cost
for customer?
S W titles will NOT incur charges associated
with the external FTS
capacity. The only titles where FTS capacity
tier charges
apply include:
VMAX 20K SRDF/S, SRDF/A,SRDF/Star,
TF/Clone,
TF/Snap, Advanced FAST S uite, Advanced