DS8000 Accelerate

IBM North America Technical Leadership Team
Accelerate with ATS:

DS8000 Release 7.5
Technical Update
Brian Sherman, Paul Spagnolo, Hank Sautter,

Craig Gordon, Sofia Baquero, Charlie Burger,
Jason Peipelman
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Advanced Technical Skills (ATS) North America
Agenda
Introduction and Announcement Overview

zSeries Synergy Enhancements
Hardware Enhancements
IBM Storage Appliance
Multi-target PPRC
Performance Update
RAS Enhancements
Easy Tier Heat Map Transfer Utility
OpenStack Update
Rest API and IBM iOS Mobile App
DS8000 Storage Management
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DS8870 Release 7.5 Announcement Summary – GA May 22, 2015

Forward Error Correction code
FICON Fabric Priority
FICON Dynamic Routing
zHPF Performance at distance
Read Diagnostic Parameters
16Gb Host Adapters
Further multi-thread optimization to improve system IOPs
with High Performance Flash Enclosure (HPFE)
New Storage Appliance for Encryption key serving
T10 DIF support extended to 16Gb HBA on AIX/Linux
Heat map transfer enhancements
RESTful API
OpenStack Kilo support
Performance reporting in GUI
DS8870 Unique Technology Advantages Provides Value

Infrastructure Matters for Business Critical Environments - Don’t settle for less than optimal
IBM Servers and DS8870 Integration

– z Systems, Power i and p
– Available years ahead of competitors
OLTP and Batch Performance
– High Performance FICON (zHPF) advantages and DB2 integration
– Cache efficiency and optimization algorithms
– Easy Tier advancements and DB2 integration
– QoS - IO Priority Manager (IOPM), FICON priority and Workload Manager (WLM)
Proven Availability
– Built on POWER7+ technology, fully non-disruptive operations
– Designed for highest levels of availability and data access protection
State-of-the-art Remote Copy
– Lowest latency with Metro Mirror
– Best RPO and lowest bandwidth requirements with Global Mirror
– Superior automated failover/failback with GDPS / TPC for Replication
Ease of Use
– Common GUI across the IBM platform
– Simplified creation, assignment and management of volumes
Total Cost of Ownership
– Longer hardware and software warranties
– Bandwidth and infrastructure savings through GM and zHPF
Business Critical Storage for the World’

’s Most Demanding Clients
Synergy is much more than just interoperability:

DS8870 and z Systems – Designed, developed and tested together
Designing, developing,
and testing together is key
to unlocking true value
IBM owns the z Systems I/O architecture: z Systems and DS8870 are jointly developed
IBM is best positioned for earliest delivery of new server support; shared technology between
server team and storage team
No other disk system delivers 24/7 availability and optimized performance for z Systems
Compatible ≠ identical – other vendors support new z Systems features late or never at all
18 of the World’s top 20 Largest Banks use DS8000 and z Systems for Core Banking
Approximately 50% Market Share WW (IDC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwdG-faV_Q8

IBM z Systems / DS8870 exclusive I/O enhancements

Reduce transactional latency, improve performance over distance, and increase scalability
Forward Error Correction Code (FEC)

– Allows FICON channels to operate at higher speeds, over longer distances, with
reduced power and higher throughout while retaining traditional RAS levels Performance
– Used for controlling errors in data transmission over unreliable or noisy
communication channels
– Sender encodes messages in a redundant way by using error-correcting code (ECC)
– Allows the receiver to detect a limited number of errors that might occur anywhere in the
message and often corrects these errors without retransmission RAS
FICON Fabric Priority

– Extends the z/OS Work Load Manager (WLM) to the SAN infrastructure providing Performance
improved resilience and autonomic capabilities while enhancing the value of
FICON Dynamic Routing
FICON Dynamic Routing (FIDR) Management
– Enables exploitation of SAN dynamic routing polices in the fabric to lower cost
and improve performance for supporting I/O devices
• Share ISLs for FICON traffic and FCP Metro Mirror traffic
• Better utilization of available ISL bandwidth Performance
• Simplified Management of ISLs

IBM z Systems / DS8870 exclusive I/O enhancements cont’d

Reduce transactional latency, improve performance over distance, and increase scalability
zHPF Performance at distance (zHPF Extended Distance II)

– Reduces the impact of distance on I/O response times by 50% for large data
Performance
writes, providing significant response time improvements when leveraging
HyperSwap at distance
Read Diagnostic Parameters

– New T11 Read Diagnostic Parameters Extended Link Service (RDP ELS)
defines a method for SAN management software in the fabric to retrieve
standard counters that describe the optical signal strength (send and receive), RAS
error counters and other critical information for determining the quality of the link
– Diagnostic parameters can assist you in finding the root cause for problematic
links in the SAN
• After a link error is detected (for example, IFCC: CC3, reset event, link incident
report), link data that is returned from RDP is used to differentiate between errors as Management
a result of failures in the optics versus failures as a result of dirty or faulty links
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5134.html?Open

Forward Error Correction (FEC)

Enhanced Signal Condition
New T11 standard that provides Flow

error correction on top of 64b/66b
encoding and improves reliability by
reducing bit errors
– Provides the ability to correct up to 11
bit errors in a 2112 bit block Bit
• Efficiency improved to 97% vs. 80% with 8b/10b errors
encoding
• Adds equivalent of 2.5 dB of signal strength
Ensures high data reliability
Guarantees higher and more
deterministic performance
Provides robust data security at
IBM Provides this on FICON Express16S and DS8870 16G Links
these extremely high data rates

SAN Fabric I/O Priority

Application driven Quality of Service
DS8000 echoes
priority back on
Translate application importance into reads
Channel passes priority
Fabric Priority (Quality of Service) in frames for I/O (fabric
uses priority for writes) Tier
WLM assigns priority
Persist priority levels across a fabric based on goals
ISLs 1
between host and end devices
Fabric I/O Priority (QoS) is
preserved in each frame Tier
2
Fabric I/O Priority works in
conjunction with z/OS workload High, Medium,
manager in Goal Mode
Low Priority carried Tier
Three levels of prioritization: through the fabric 3
– User can prioritize the frames between
a host and target with a high, medium,
or low priority
Complete end to end application priority when combined with DS8870 Quality of Service – IO Priority Manager

FICON Dynamic Routing (FIDR)

Brocade Exchange Based Routing (EBR) or CISCO Open Exchange ID (OxID)
Dynamic Routing provides the most effective load

balancing distribution over available ISLs
– ISL assigned at I/O request time
• I/O traffic is better balanced between all available ISLs
– Dynamically changes the routing between the channel and

control unit based on the “Fibre Channel Exchange ID”
• Each I/O operation has a unique exchange id
FICON Channel is enhanced to exploit Exchange

Based Routing efficiencies
FIDR enables sharing of ISL fabric resources
(FICON, FCP Metro Mirror)
Supplements existing policies
– Device Based Routing (DBR)
– Port Based Routing (PBR)

High Performance FICON (zHPF) architecture levels
Main value of zHPF is I/O performance

– Fewer Fibre Channel sequences are needed to execute an I/O operation
– I/O latency is reduced and there is less contention at the channel, control unit ports and in the
SAN fabric
Phases of zHPF implementation

zHPF for Media Manager (phase 0) - DS8000 R4.1
zHPF Multi-Track support for Media Manager + z196 Support - DS8000 R4.3
zHPF for QSAM/BSAM (phase 1) - DS8000 R6.2
– Includes format writes that also accelerate DB2 table space provisioning
zHPF List Prefetch Optimizer - DS8000 R6.2
z196 + DS8000 BiDi support for the List Prefetch Optimizer - DS8000 R6.2
zHPF Extended Distance Enhancements - DS8000 R7.5

Pre-zHPF Extended Distance II

Channel Pre-HyperSwap
zHPF
Secondary
DB2
Utilities
(256K Write)
Metro Mirror (FCP)

Primary Metro Mirror pre-deposit write
Interlocked and stream of tracks
exchanges
At least four interlocked

Post-HyperSwap exchanges at long distance. At 10
zHPF km, ~400 usec added to each I/O
Channel (50% penalty).
DB2
Utilities
(256K Write) Secondary
Note: DB2 utility writes in

V11 moved to 512K, so the
Primary disparity increases

zHPF Extended Distance II

Channel
Pre-HyperSwap
zHPF
Command Secondary
Data
Status
Metro Mirror (FCP)

Primary Metro Mirror pre-deposit
write and stream of tracks
zHPF Extended Distance II

Post-HyperSwap will execute most write
zHPF operations in one round trip
Channel Command
Data
Status
Secondary
Primary

Continued innovation to reduce z Systems I/O Response Times
IOSQ Pending Connect Disconnect

Time Time Time Time
Parallel Access Multiple Allegiance MIDAWs Adaptive Multi-Stream

Volumes (PAV) Pre-Fetching (AMP)
HyperPAV Fabric Priority z Systems High Intelligent Write

Performance FICON (zHPF) Caching (IWC)
Fabric Priority Sequential Adaptive

Replacement Cache
(SARC)
zHPF List Prefetch

Optimizer
zHyperWrite
FICON Express 16Gb Flash / SSD
channels
Integrated DS8000 functions and features to address response time components

Interface Verification - SFP Health through Read Diagnostics

Parameter
New z13 Channel Subsystem function
– A T11 committee standard
– Read Diagnostic Parameters (RDP)
• Created to enhance path evaluation and improve fault
isolation
• Periodic polling from the channel to the end points for
the logical paths established
Automatically differentiate between errors caused by

dirty links and those errors caused by failing optical
components
Provides the optical characteristics for the ends of the
link:
– Enriches the view of Fabric components
z/OS Commands can display optical signal strength
and other metrics without having to manually insert
light meters

New innovation - z13 and DS8870 Intelligent and Resilient IO

z13 announced on Jan 14, 2015
New FICON Express16S infrastructure

improves I/O latency for workloads such as
DB2 and reduced batch elapsed job times
zHPF Extended Distance II provides multi-site

configurations with up to 50% I/O service time
improvement when writing data remotely
which can benefit HyperSwap
FICON Dynamic Routing uses Brocade EBR or
CISCO OxID routing across cascaded FICON
directors
Substantially reduce I/O link errors with the
world’s first hardware to enable Forward Error
Correction
Extend z/OS workload management policies
into SAN fabric to route priority work around
congestion
Optimized for enterprise-scale data from multiple platforms and devices
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5134.html?Open

16 Gb Host Adapter

16 Gb Host Adapter
16 Gb host adapter now available for DS8870
– New installations or MES available at GA
• Requires minimum DS8870 R7.5 LMC
– Quad core Power PC processor
– Negotiates to connect at 16 Gb / 8 Gb / 4 Gb
– FICON or FCP attachment
• No FC-AL connectivity
• Fully supported as PPRC ports (paths)
– May coexist with 8 Gb adapters in other I/O slots
Ordering information
– #3353 16 Gb 4-port Short Wave FCP/FICON – LC
– #3453 16 Gb 4-port Long Wave FCP/FICON – LC
– Only 4 port cards are available – no 8 port option
• If all host adapter slots are filled with 16 Gb host adapters, then maximum of 64 16 Gb
ports

16 Gb Installation Options
Mix and match allow with 16 Gb and 8 Gb host adapters on DS8870
– Both 16 Gb and 8 Gb adapters use the same slots
– Maximum of 16 adapters can be installed
– Installation order:
• 16 Gb 4-port Long Wave host adapters (#3453) then
• 16 Gb 4-port Short Wave host adapters (#3353) then
• 8 Gb 8-port Short Wave host adapters (#3157) then
• 8 Gb 4-port Short Wave host adapters (#3153)
MES to plug into any empty slot

– May remove 8 Gb and install 16 Gb if desired
• May use CUIR to replace 4-port 8 Gb adapter with 4-port 16 Gb adapter
• May not use CUIR to replace an 8-port 8 Gb adapter with 4-port 16 Gb adapter

Possible Port Configuration Options (Maximums)

Number 4-port Number of 16 Number of 8 Number of 8 Gb Total
16 Gb Host Gb Ports Gb Host Ports Available Possible
Adapters Available Adapters (4-port / 8-port) Ports
Installed (4-port) Installed Available
0 0 16 64 / 128 128
1 4 15 60 / 120 124
2 8 14 56 / 112 120
3 12 13 52 / 104 116
4 16 12 48 / 96 112
5 20 11 44 / 88 108
6 24 10 40 / 80 104
7 28 9 36 / 72 100
8 32 8 32 / 64 96
9 36 7 28 / 56 92
10 40 6 24 / 48 88
11 44 5 20 / 40 84
12 48 4 16 / 32 80
13 52 3 12 / 24 76
14 56 2 8 / 16 72
15 60 1 4/8 68
16 64 0 0/0 64
IBM recommends that similar host adapters be installed in groups of two

Cabling Options – Maximum Distance

Link Speed OM1 Link OM2 Link OM3 Link OM4 Link OS1 Link
Distance Distance 50 Distance 50 Distance 50 Distance
62.5 um um um um 9 um
(short wave) (short wave) (short wave) (short wave) (long wave)
1 Gb 300 m 500 m 860 m Undefined 10 km

2 Gb 150 m 300 m 500 m 500 m 10 km
4 Gb 70 m 150 m 380 m 400 m 10 km
8 Gb Not recommended 50 m 150 m 190 m 10 km
16 Gb Not recommended 35 m 100 m 125 m 10 km
IBM recommends OM3 or OM4 type cabling for 16 Gb FC shortwave
When ordering cables from IBM

• #1410 50 um = OM3 LC-LC
• #1420 9 um = OS1 LC-LC

IBM Storage Appliance

2421-AP1

2421-AP1 IBM Storage Appliance

Replaces server that was associated with DS8000 feature #1760 (known
as TKLM isolated key server)
– Disassociates encryption key manager with DS8870 feature code
– New storage appliance is its own MTM
– Primary usage at GA will be for encryption key manager platform to install and
run SKLM
– GA date is scheduled for Friday, July 17, 2015
2421-AP1 is rack mounted 1U server manufactured for IBM in the United
States
– Includes one year IBM warranty
– Installed by IBM SSR in customer supplied rack
– Operating system and SKLM updates are done by customer personnal
• May also install additional software as needed for operational support (i.e., virus
scanning software)
– In the future, IBM plans are that the appliance platform will be enabled for
additional IBM storage software products

Storage Appliance Details

Operating System
– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system is default
Software Indicators
– CD-ROMs containing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system
– #0204 ships SKLM software DVD
• SKLM software license still required
– #0206 will ship no operating system (no Linux nor Windows)
• Customer will procure and install their own operating to support SKLM
– #0983 US government TAA (Trade Agreement Act of 1979) compliant system
• Use when US Government customers and customers ordering on behalf of the US Government.
Hardware Features
– #1761 provides a single 1U rack mounted server
• Includes rack mounting kit, monitor, keyboard and mouse
– #1762 provides a second 1U rack mounted server
• Shares the same monitor, keyboard and mouse as #1761 and includes a KVM switch
– Must therefore be installed in the same rack
– If customer desires two appliances to install in separate location
• Order two 2421-AP1 appliances each with #1761
DS8870 Introduction and Planning Guide provides planning information for the Storage
Appliance

Multi-Target PPRC for Machine Migration (RPQ)

Multi-Target PPRC for Migration from Previous DS8000 Models via RPQ
Background:
– Multi-Target PPRC (MT-PPRC) provides the capability to
have two PPRC relationships on a single primary volume
so that data can be replicated to two different secondary
volumes
• H1 H2 operate independently of H1 H3
• The PPRC relationships may be Metro Mirror, Global Copy or
Global Mirror but only one relationship can be Global Mirror
– 2 MM
– 2 GC
– 1 MM / 1 GC
– 1 MM / 1 GM
– 1 GC / 1 GM
– Full function provided only with DS8870 at R7.4 or higher
• Full function includes failover/failback, incremental
resynchronization and internal paths dynamically created when
required between H2:H3

Multi-Target PPRC for Migration from Previous DS8000 Models – Continued
Migration of secondary (RPQ)
– MT-PPRC can be used to migrate a PPRC

secondary to another DS8000
– Primary must be DS8870 at R7.5

• Expected to be supported also at R7.4 SP3 ebuild
scheduled for release in July 2015
• Secondary can be DS8870, DS8800, DS8700,
DS8300, DS8100
• No PPRC paths can be established between H2 and
H3 if not DS8870 at R7.4+
– No capability for incremental resync if secondary is
DS8800 or older model –not needed for migration
of secondary

MT-PPRC Migration Examples – Metro Mirror Secondary

1 2
3 1. Single Metro Mirror relationship between H1 (DS8870) and

H2 (DS8800)
2. Add a new DS8870 Metro Mirror relationship (H1:H2’)
3. Remove original DS8800 (H2) leaving H1:H2’ intact

MT-PPRC Migration Examples – Global Mirror Secondary

1 2
3 1. Single Global Mirror relationship between H1 (DS8870) and

H2 (DS8800)
2. Add a new DS8870 Global Copy relationship (H1:H2’).
This maintains the existing Global Mirror (and recovery
capability) of H1:H2 Global Mirror session
3. When ready, terminate H1:H2 Global Mirror session and
convert H1:H2’ Global Copy to Global Mirror
4. Remove H2 system

16Gb Host Adapter I/O

Performance

Performance Benchmarks
• OLTP Database Simulation Benchmarks
• Simulates IO done by OLTP applications. Similar to SPC-1. A mix of random reads and writes
with cache hits and cache misses.
• DBO(Database Open): 70% read/30% write, 4KB IO’s, 50% cache hit
• DB zOS(Database System Z): 75% read/25% write, 4KB IO’s, 72% cache hit
• Sequential IO
• Large block sequential reads or writes to the storage server’s drives. Similar to SPC-2.
• Corner benchmarks
• Perform just one type of IO pattern. Most applications combine a mix of different IO patterns.
– Cache Hits: 4KB random reads or writes to the storage server’s cache.
– Cache Read Misses: 4KB random reads to the storage server’s drives.
– Writes Miss: 4KB random writes to the storage server’s drives.
All full box results are from a DS8870 p7+, 16-core unless otherwise noted
All results are on pre-GA code and are subject to change

16Gb vs 8Gb HA – DS8870 Open
2X
1.6X
2X
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16Gb vs 8Gb HA – DS8870 CKD zHPF
3X
3.3X
2X

16Gb vs 8Gb HA – DS8870 CKD FICON
2.6X 3.2X

Multi-thread Performance
with
High Performance Flash
Enclosure

Multi-thread Performance Enhancement

Enhancements allow for both increased overall system IOPs performance
as well as reduced response times at higher IOPs rates.
Improved system IOPs performance for High Performance Flash
Enclosure
16Gb infrastructure has improved system IOPs performance,
especially for CKD FICON I/O.

DBO(70/30/50) w/ 8 HPFE
R7.3 & R7.4 w/ 32 and 64 threads vs R7.5
17%
The DBO benchmark does 70% reads/30% writes with 50% read cache hits.

IBM Confidential
CKD OLTP Throughput Capacity with 16Gb HA’s on FICON
1.3x

Copy Services Performance

16Gb vs 8Gb HA – DS8870 PPRC
1.5X 1.3X

CKD Global Mirror Data Rate and CG formation
1.3x

T10-DIF (Data Integrity Field)
aka
T10-PI (Protection Information model)

SCSI End to End Data Protection

This ANSI T10 standard provides a way to check the integrity of data
read and written from the host bus adapter to the disk and back
through the SAN fabric. This check is implemented through the data
integrity field (DIF) defined in the T10 standard.
Selected commands have three data protection fields added to the
SCSI Command Descriptor Block (CDB)
– A Data Block Guard (CRC of the data field) 2 bytes
– A Data Block Application Tag (application defined) 2 bytes
– A Data Block Reference Tag (low order LBA) 4 bytes
DS8000 supports an additional LUN type - 524 bytes of data per
block (512 bytes user data, 8 bytes DIF, 4 bytes existing metadata)
Support for T10 DIF I/O with Linux on z Systems has been available
since 2012 with R6.3.1

T10 DIF for AIX/Linux 16Gb HBA and DS8870
DATA
DATA DIF
Provides advanced, end-to-end data integrity
for Power systems running AIX and Linux
T10-DIF microcode support available since R6.3.1
SAN
Checks data integrity to and from the host
bus adapter and the disk through the SAN
fabric
DATA DIF
Checking done by hardware, so no

DATA DIF
performance impact**
** Note that even without T10 DIF the DS8K still provides DATA DIF CHK
native internal end-to-end data integrity checking
T10-DIF Support
The ability to create T10-DIF volumes has been available on the
DS8000 since R6.3.1
– Hence it is available on DS8700/DS8800 and DS8870 although specific
OS support will depend on what has been tested for that OS – other
configurations would require an RPQ
– It is possible to create T10-DIF volumes and use them as standard
volumes so enabling later exploitation without configuration changes
– Also possible to migrate standard volumes to T10-DIF volumes thru
PPRC or host replication functions (not via FlashCopy)
The following option on the mkfbvol DSCLI command will create a
T10-DIF format volume
– mkfbvol -dev storage_image_ID -extpool extentpool_ID … -t10dif volume_ID
Note : T10-DIF volumes are created using the custom option with the GUI
The team has tested T10-DIF for both AIX and Linux on Power:
– AIX: 7.1 (Specific release requirements will be available post-GA)
– Linux on Power: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.1 (Maipo)
Differences between DS8000 and Storwize/SVC support
DS8000 provided T10-DIF end-to-end from the

DATA
host, through the SAN and DS8000 code to the
storage media
DATA
Storwize/SVC only provides T10-DIF from the

Storwize code stack down to the storage media.
SAN
Hence it does not protect against problems higher
in the stack
DATA
This is equivalent to the internal end-to-end

integrity checking that has always been provided DATA DIF
on DS8000
DATA DIF

Easy Tier HeatMap Transfer Utility – cascading support
R7.5 introduces support for cascaded PPRC

configurations with the HeatMap Transfer
Utility (HMTU) HMT software
Server
These configurations were previously

unsupported as they were not tested
Replication
HMC HMC
In a cascaded configuration the HMTU will H1 H2

transfer the Easy Tier HeatMap from H1->H2
and then from H2->H3 based on the PPRC HMC
relationships
H3
– There may therefore be a slightly longer lag
before workload changes are applied to the H3
device

Easy Tier HeatMap Transfer – GDPS configurations
GDPS 3.12 (GA on 31st March 2015) provided GDPS

HeatMap transfer support for GDPS/XRC and
GDPS/MzGM configurations HMT software
z/OS
– Easy Tier HeatMap can be transferred to either the
XRC secondary or FlashCopy target devices
The following support is planned to be delivered Replication

in 2Q-2015 HMC HMC
– GDPS/GM and GDPS/MGM 3/4-site support H1 H2

for transferring the HeatMap to FlashCopy
target devices HMC
H3
HMC
This completes the GDPS HeatMap Transfer H4

support for all GDPS configurations

OpenStack Kilo Update

Current DS8000 OpenStack Cinder Driver
DS8000 OpenStack Cinder Driver 1.4.1.1

• Available on Fix Central (Under IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack)
– http://www-
933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Enterprise%2BStorage%2BServers&product=ibm/St
orage_Disk/DS8870&release=All&platform=All&function=all#IBM%20Storage%20Driver%20for%20OpenStack
Official Supported OS
• RHEL 6.4, 6.5, 7.0
• Ubuntu 12.04LTS, 14.04LTS
DS8000 Microcode
• Officially supported
• DS8870 R7.4
• Tested
• DS8700/DS8800 R6.3, DS8870 R7.3
Current driver supports OpenStack Juno and Icehouse

DS8870 OpenStack Cinder – Current Capabilities

Capabilities in Current Driver (1.4.1.1)
• Create/Delete Volume
• Volume Attach/Detach (via Nova Compute)
• Snapshots, Clones (Flashcopy, BGC)
• Backups (Copy Volume Images to Object Store)
• Swift, Ceph and TSM Support
• Volume Types, Volume Retype
• Quotas
• Volume Replication (Metro Mirror)
• Consistency groups (Snapshot)
New Juno features in the DS8000 Cinder Driver:
• Volume Retype
• Ability to change the type/capability of an existing Cinder volume to a new tier, add
capabilities, etc.
• Volume Replication
• Supports Metro Mirror only for DS8000
• Volume Replication is a volume-type which can be set during volume creation or can
be added to existing volume using volume retype.
• Cinder automatically looks for an appropriate backend to create the secondary volume
and automatically enables establish of the pairs.
Kilo (R7.5 Timeframe) – Openstack Cinder Driver 1.5.0
• Consistency Groups – Enable consistency group support for Flashcopy. Integration with Juno CG
support.
DS8870 OpenStack Cinder – Volume Replication

Cloud Administrator configures DS8870 Cinder Driver to support volume replication (using
install script)
Volume Types can now be configured in Cinder to support volume type “Replicated”

DS8870 Openstack Cinder – Volume Replication Continued

When the User requests a volume, selecting the Volume Type with capability of
“Replicated” will automatically create a volume on MM Secondary and create a
MM relationship

DS8870 Openstack Cinder – Volume Replication Continued
User can also use Volume Retype to change an existing volume to support
Volume Replication
“Promotion” (PPRC Failover/Failback) is also supported allowing to switch roles of

Primary and Secondary devices

DS8870 OpenStack Cinder – Consistency Groups

Enable consistency group support for FlashCopy
• Consistency Groups will be similar to Volume Replication
Cloud Administrator must enable consistency group per Volume Types
User can then create new volumes into a consistency group with CG capability (cinder
consistencygroup-create)
When a “Snapshot with CG” is invoked (cinder cgsnapshot-create), equivalence to mkflash –

freeze and –unfreeze will be invoked on the LSS
REST API
DS8870 iOS Mobile App

DS8870 REST API

Allows for web services to communicate, configure and control the
DS8000 using industry standard HTTP.
– Control plane applications, Mobile, custom software and more
– Removes the need for loading DS8k specific ESSNI JAR files
Secure Authentication: HTTPS, ESSNI Authentication
Ability to upgrade/extend REST API concurrently without DS8000

microcode firmware update
Supported REST API constructs:

– System Information
– Logical Configuration – Query, Create, Delete, Modify
– Events with Notification support
– Performance – IOPS, Latency
Initial Software Users

– DS8000 Mobile App (R7.5)
– VMWare VASA 2.0 (3Q), Openstack Cinder (4Q)

REST Interface Example

Authenticate with HMC using HTTPS to get valid token (json format)
curl -k -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d
'{"request":{"params":{"username":"USERNAME","password":"PASSWORD"}}}'
https://SYSTEM.tuc.stglabs.ibm.com:8452/api/v1/tokens |json_pp
* Connection #0 to host mb12h.tuc.stglabs.ibm.com left intact

{
"server" : {
"status" : "ok",
"message" : "Operation done successfully.",
"code" : ""
},
"token" : {
"max_idle_interval" : "1800000",
"expired_time" : "2015-04-12T22:58:55-0700",
"token" : "b39b774e5f1f4442ae4b0462be6859eb"
}
}

REST Interface Example - Continued

Using valid token, issue command to gather information
curl -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "X-Auth-Token:fa8469a2386142e6ace836dd6f2c5dce"
https://SYSTEM.tuc.stglabs.ibm.com:8452/api/v1/systems |json_pp
{
"server" : {
"message" : "Operation done successfully.",
"code" : "",
"status" : "ok"
},
"counts" : {
"total_counts" : 1,
"data_counts" : 1
},
"data" : {
"systems" : [
{
"capalloc" : "14986293223424",
"MTM" : "2421-961",
"capraw" : "88717918208000",
"sn" : "75KX511",
"state" : "online",
"bundle" : "87.50.100.0",
"release" : "7.5",
"capavail" : "45890972999680",
"cap" : "60877266223104",
"name" : »SYSTEM"
}
]
}
}

DS8870 iOS Mobile App
Allows for users to monitor multiple DS8870 R7.5 systems

– No methods to change or modify configuration
– Requires ESSNI Authentication
– Uses R7.5 REST API support
Publically available in the Apple App Store

– Search for “IBM Storage Mobile Dashboard” (Free Download)
– Shares same app as XIV, Storwize, others.
View Number of Events

Click on Icon to List Events
View full system Performance (IOPS and Latency)

Slide to switch between IOPS and Latency
Full System Capacity Percentage

DS8870 iOS Mobile App - Continued
Events screen equivalent to events shown on GUI

– SRCs and other events are described
– Both Warnings and Errors (more severe) are displayed
– Event timestamps
– Ability to Filter between Active Errors and Active
Warnings
Clicking on each event shows some additional

information

IBM Storage Studio
DESIGNING
STORAGE

IBM Storage Studio… what’s that?
Unified Design Organization

– No more multiple design organizations in IBM Storage
– User Researchers, GUI Architects, UX Designers, Visual Design
– Designing next IBM Storage products UI applications
Providing Design Leadership

– Making sure there is no aspect in Storage that is not designed
– Practicing and advocating for IBM Design Thinking
– Including all user interfaces within our scope
– Providing more user feedback and reviews through user studies and
sponsor user programs
– Working closely with program, product, development, test, and ID.

IBM Storage Studio… what products do work on?
Spectrum Family Storage Offerings
Accelerate XIV
Virtualize SAN Volume Controller
Scale Storwize Family
Archive Elastic Storage System
Protect SONAS
Control Flash Systems
DS8000
Tape

IBM Storage Studio… what do we do?

Not only GUI…
– We do more – Marketing, Branding, Lading Pages, Mobile, Customer Relations, …
6 Experiences
1. Discover, Try and Buy
2. Get Started / Install / Setup
3. Everyday Use
4. Manage and Upgrade
5. Leverage and Extend
6. Get support

DS8000 Storage Management GUI
R7.5 OVERVIEW

Our three hills for R7.5
1. Performance monitoring
A storage administrator can view
performance metrics going back up
to 1 week showing down to 1 minute
intervals in order to troubleshoot a
wide variety of issues.
2. Simplified encryption support
A storage administrator can configure
encryption within 5 minutes of
finishing system setup.
3. Comprehensive system settings
A storage administrator can manage
advanced system settings from any
customer interface.

DS8870 – UX Roadmap
2014 2015 2016
Release 7.3 Release 7.5 Release 8.1
Performance Monitoring Copy Services

Encryption Custom Event Notifications
Settings …
Release 7.4 Release 7.5.5/8.0
System Health Monitoring Remote Authentication

Logical Configuration DSCLI Interlock
User Access Settings SVC Auto-configuration

PERFORMANCE
MONITORING

Monitoring performance using the GUI

Opening a graph

Opening a graph

Opening a graph

Opening a graph

Opening a graph

Opening a graph

Saving a graph as a favorite




Pin to toolbar

Pin to toolbar

Metrics Supported
System

Metrics Supported
Pools

Metrics Supported
I/O Ports (Fibre Channel Ports)

ENCRYPTION

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

Enabling encryption

OTHER HANDY
STUFF

Exporting system summary
Export System Summary

Exporting system summary

Information for the following resources…
– Storage System
– Licensed Functions
– Function Switches
– Nodes
– HMCs
– Storage Enclosures
– Drives
– I/O Enclosures
– Host Adapters
– I/O Ports
– Device Adapters
– UPSs
– Arrays
– Pools
– LLSs
– Volumes
– Hosts
– Host Ports
– Users

Fibre Channel Ports (I/O Ports) under “Settings > Networking”

New: View the error rates for a port

Moved other pages into settings

System
Security

Navigation dock settings under “Settings > GUI Preferences”

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Brian Sherman, Paul Spagnolo, Hank Sautter,

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Introduction and Announcement Overview

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IBM is Committed to Storage

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DS8870 Release 7.5 Announcement Summary – GA May 22, 2015

DS8870 Unique Technology Advantages Provides Value

IBM Servers and DS8870 Integration

Business Critical Storage for the World’

Synergy is much more than just interoperability:

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IBM z Systems / DS8870 exclusive I/O enhancements

Forward Error Correction Code (FEC)

FICON Fabric Priority

FICON Dynamic Routing (FIDR) Management

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IBM z Systems / DS8870 exclusive I/O enhancements cont’d

zHPF Performance at distance (zHPF Extended Distance II)

Read Diagnostic Parameters

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Forward Error Correction (FEC)

New T11 standard that provides Flow

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SAN Fabric I/O Priority

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FICON Dynamic Routing (FIDR)

Dynamic Routing provides the most effective load

– Dynamically changes the routing between the channel and

FICON Channel is enhanced to exploit Exchange

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High Performance FICON (zHPF) architecture levels

Main value of zHPF is I/O performance

Phases of zHPF implementation

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Pre-zHPF Extended Distance II

Metro Mirror (FCP)

At least four interlocked

Note: DB2 utility writes in

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zHPF Extended Distance II

Metro Mirror (FCP)

zHPF Extended Distance II

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Continued innovation to reduce z Systems I/O Response Times

IOSQ Pending Connect Disconnect

Parallel Access Multiple Allegiance MIDAWs Adaptive Multi-Stream

HyperPAV Fabric Priority z Systems High Intelligent Write

Fabric Priority Sequential Adaptive

zHPF List Prefetch

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Interface Verification - SFP Health through Read Diagnostics

Automatically differentiate between errors caused by

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New innovation - z13 and DS8870 Intelligent and Resilient IO

New FICON Express16S infrastructure

zHPF Extended Distance II provides multi-site

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