Performances

#PARTAGE
INFINIDAT chez Solvay,
des Performances révolutionnaires
en toute Simplicité
Badie MAROUANI – Storage , Virt. Expert
Christophe PUZENAT – Technical manager Solvay Scientific IT
@CRIP_ITIFORUMS
11/02/2016
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Company general overview
• Scope : Solvay Saint Fons Belle Etoile datacenter
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120 applications WW
1000 users
Local file services for research & development + engineering : 50 TB
WW file replications
High performances Computing storage
Main WW IT ressource for Scientific IT
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Our situation before…
• Environment
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94TB raw: 7 years old EMC Cx320 SAN
4Gbs FCP
30 physical servers
40 virtual servers
D2Tape backup
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No more hardware maintenance possible
Several critical breakdown on the SAN
Very low performances, high latency
Very complex administration
24/24 backup to tape, backup windows very long
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Infrastructure before …
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The project …
• After RFP, provider selection during 1 month
• Main key drivers
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Have a flexible and performant storage environment
Increase the storage capacity
Very high availability
Review and modernize the backup
Simplify system administrator life
Price
• INFINIDAT / VEEAM chosen
• 2 INFINIDAT F2000 : 2 x 100 TB purchased , 2 X 330 TB installed
• Veeam backup software
• VMware cluster extension
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INFINIDAT F2000 selected
3 Active-Active-Active Nodes
Infiniband Interconnectivity
24 x 8 Gbit FC Ports
6 x 10 GbE Ports
384 GB RAM
100 TB usable storage
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After migration …
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Additional information …
• Performances tests : x 100
• Installation in 0,5 days
• 53 TB migration in less than 2 weeks
• P2V : All file servers virtualization
• Successful DRP test plan, on each rack :
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One node shutdown
2 disk removed
Shutdown one battery
One of the dual Electrical circuit shutdown
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Outcome in figures
EMC Clarion CX3-20C
InfiniBox
IOPS
5K
300K
Number of Raid Group
6
No HW raid : Infiniraid
Backup Time
24/24
One night Max
Admin Time per operation
20 min
2 min
Max Latency
Availibility
Disk Rebuild
Deploy VM from template
300ms to 1s ( during rebuild)
95%
from 1 to 10 days
20min
6ms
99,9999999%
< 40minutes
15 to 30s
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General Benefits Outcome
• Clear administration interface (HTML 5)
• Performances : Files services + applications
• VMware integration
• Reliability
• End users very happy
• Efficient support, high technical level
• Sustainability
• Pay per use for extension beyond 100 TB up to 333 TB
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INFINIDAT chez Solvay,
des Performances révolutionnaires en toute Simplicité
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