Fujitsu ETERNUS AF250 S2 Configuration Manual
Non-stop storage eternus af series and eternus dx s4/s3 series
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FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3
series
Non-Stop Storage Reference Architecture
Configuration Guide
Non-stop storage is a high-availability solution that combines ETERNUS SF products with the ETERNUS AF
series or ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series. It provides an ideal system environment for enterprise systems that
need to cater for future business growth and data accumulation.
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- Page 1 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series Non-Stop Storage Reference Architecture Configuration Guide Non-stop storage is a high-availability solution that combines ETERNUS SF products with the ETERNUS AF series or ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series Table of Contents Preface 1. Overview of Non-Stop Storage Solution 1.1. Features of Non-Stop Storage Solution 1.2. Suitable Systems for Non-Stop Storage 1.3. Protecting Investment and Optimizing Investment Cost 1.4. -
Page 3: Preface
A non-stop operation is possible during problems and disasters with a cluster configuration created by combining FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF products with the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series or ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series. This document provides an overview of the non-stop storage solution and describes its configuration. -
Page 4: Overview Of Non-Stop Storage Solution
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 1. Overview of Non-Stop Storage Solution Redundancy has long been adopted for servers, with this also providing redundancy for any internal hard disks in the server. While configurations such as the shared disks in cluster systems or server virtualization have involved servers using external disk storage, redundancy for the storage systems themselves has relied on the server software and its use has remained limited. -
Page 5: Protecting Investment And Optimizing Investment Cost
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF Software for Non-Stop Storage Operation The FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS SF storage software is used by this solution to provide non-stop operation and to handle the operation and management life cycle. With an extensive product range that extends from resource management of storage systems to the provision of additional functions such as replication, it flexibly supports administration of the storage environment and system-wide optimization. - Page 6 - Storage cost reduction by using compression and high-speed queries ETERNUS SF MA uses Fujitsu's highly efficient data compression for long-term storage of performance and event information. Performance analyses covering long periods of time can be performed quickly using in-memory processing.
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Page 7: System Configuration
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2. System Configuration Non-stop storage systems use the transparent failover feature of Storage Cluster. The system is configured with two ETERNUS AF/DX storage systems, the business servers, the Fibre Channel switches, and the management servers running ETERNUS SF products. -
Page 8: Example Of A Non-Stop Storage Configuration
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2.1. Example of a Non-Stop Storage Configuration 2.1.1. Overview of System Configuration The system uses VMware vSphere 6 for virtualization. Storage Cluster is used to provide duplicate storage systems and vSphere HA is used to provide duplicate ESXi servers for the business servers. -
Page 9: Management Server
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2.1.2. Software Block Diagram This section describes the software used to provide non-stop storage. Business servers VMware vSphere 6.0 is set up on ESXi servers and used for the hypervisor layer. - Page 10 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2.1.3. Overview of Business Server Operation This section describes how the business servers work with non-stop storage. The storage system (ETERNUS DX200 S4) is clustered at the storage system layer. If a failure occurs on the Primary storage, the storage connected to the servers is switched over automatically by making the Secondary storage active.
- Page 11 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2.1.4. Overview of Monitoring Server Operation ESF Server is used to manage the storage system (ETERNUS DX200 S4). It handles all aspects of storage operation, including configuration changes, AST settings, and Auto QoS policy settings.
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Page 12: Example Of A Non-Stop Storage Configuration (With Redundant Management Servers)
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series Example of a Non-Stop Storage Configuration (with Redundant Management Servers) 2.2. System Configuration Overview 2.2.1. This configuration is intended to improve the availability of the management servers in a non-stop storage system. -
Page 13: Hardware Layout
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2.3. Hardware Layout Protection against power supply problems or other disasters at the installation site requires that hardware units be physically installed in different sites. Accordingly, install duplicate hardware units in different buildings, on different floors, or in different racks. - Page 14 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series System availability can be further improved by providing redundancy for the management servers and by installing them in different sites. The following figure shows a layout in which WSFC is used for management server clustering.
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Page 15: Workflow For System Configuration
FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series 2.4. Workflow for System Configuration This section describes the sequence of steps for setting up the example non-stop storage system configurations. When the management servers are configured as VMs on vSphere, the steps to be performed are as shown below (from "Advance preparation"... - Page 16 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series Operations for the ETERNUS DX200 Operations for clustering Item Operations for VMware S4/ETERNUS SF and Fibre Channel switches management servers Create datastores Creation of business servers Configure a business server VM environment...
- Page 17 FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS AF series and ETERNUS DX S4/S3 series When clustering the management servers using WSFC, perform the following steps in the workflow after Storage Cluster is configured in one of the management servers. Operations for the ETERNUS DX200...
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Page 18: Conclusion
The product names and company names in this document are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective companies. Disclaimer FUJITSU Limited is not responsible indemnity that might be caused by the contents in this documentation or any damage related to contents in this documentation. Copyright 2016-2017 FUJITSU LIMITED Page 18 of 18 http://www.fujitsu.com/eternus/...