Friday, October 31, 2014
Symantec Backup Exec 2014 /BE2014 tech note and licensing
BE2014 will have license below:
SYMC BACKUP EXEC 2012 SERVER WIN PER SERVER BNDL STD LIC EXPRESS BAND S ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS
SYMC BACKUP EXEC 2012 AGENT FOR WINDOWS WIN PER SERVER BNDL STD LIC EXPRESS BAND S ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS
SYMC BACKUP EXEC 2012 AGENT FOR VMWARE AND HYPER-V WIN PER HOST SERVER BNDL STD LIC EXPRESS BAND S ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS
SYMC BACKUP EXEC 2012 AGENT FOR APPLICATIONS AND DATABASES WIN PER SERVER BNDL STD LIC EXPRESS BAND S ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS
SYMC BACKUP EXEC 2012 OPTION DEDUPLICATION WIN PER SERVER BNDL STD LIC EXPRESS BAND S ESSENTIAL 12 MONTHS
Meaning:
BASIC = 8x5 support for 12 months
ESSENTIAL = 24x7 support for 12 months.
Then you get into the BUNDLE, INITIAL, and RENEWAL differences....
BUNDLE is what you typically see on new purchases of an agent.
RENEWAL.. This is your renewal SKU the following year, to renew maintenance/support/and retain product upgrade eligib
Symantec Backup Exec 2014TM Licensing Guide Also give details in the agent options and different licensing mode:
http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/b-backup-exec-2014-licensing-guide-or-21329872.pdf
Friday, October 10, 2014
Netapp Mutistore note
Netapp Mutistore
Multistore and Vfiler basics
How to Create Virtual Filer (Vfiler OnTap)
APPLICATION AND VOLUME
LAYOUT
NetApp storage controllers have
the ability to further logically partition the available storage into
containers called flexible volumes or FlexVol volumes. These FlexVol volumes
are carved out of the available aggregates. For isolation and security
purposes, these FlexVol volumes can be allocated to virtual storage controllers
called vFiler® units. These vFiler units, available by licensing
MultiStore®, allow specific datasets to be housed within their own IP spaces. The
applications provisioned in this environment are provisioned into vFiler units.
Figure 14 details the organization of the deployed applications and their
respective volumes.
Figure 14)
Base FlexPod unit: Application and volume layout.
Multistore and Vfiler basics
What is Vfiler:
Vfiler: A lightweight Instance of Data ONTAP Multi protocol
server and all the system resource are shared b/w Vfiler units.
Storage units in the vfilers are Flexvols and Qtrees
Network Units are IP Address ,VLAN,VIFs,aliases and IPspaces
Vfiler units are not hypervisors –vfiler resource cannot be
accessed and discovered by any other vfiler units
Multi store configuration:
Maximum vfiler can be created =64+vfiler0
Vfiler configurations is stored in separate volume/qtrees
Additional storage and n/w resource can be moved, added or
deleted
NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, HTTP, NDMP, FTP, FTPS, SSH and SFTP protocols
are supported
¡ Protocols can be enabled
/ disabled per vFiler
¡ Destroying a vFiler does
not destroy data
A best practice is to use FlexVols, not qtrees
as a base resource
Destroying a vFiler does not destroy the data – volume/qtree
resources are moved to vFiler0
Secure multi-tenancy capability with NetApp, Cisco, and Vmware.
Key Points:
• Cisco,
NetApp, and VMware have built the industry’s first, end to end secure
multi-tenancy solution.
• Multi-tenancy,
which securely separates different applications and data sets on the same
infrastructure, is particularly important for HIPAA and other applications that
are subject to strict compliance and security regulations.
• A
shared infrastructure requires strict isolation between the different tenants
that are resident within the infrastructure. The tenants can be different
clients, business units, departments or security zones. Previously, customers
with a shared cloud infrastructure were able to achieve “pockets” of isolation
within the virtual server layer, the network layer, and storage, but never
completely end-to-end. Without end-to-end isolation, customers had to spend
both money and additional resources to address the issue of isolation and
compliance (as it is mandated by some governments), creating inefficiencies
across the data center.
• The
pre-tested and validated Secure Multi-Tenancy Design Architecture is for
customers who have deployed the Cisco Unfied Computing System, Cisco Nexus
7000, 5000 and 1000V Series Switches; NetApp FAS storage with MultiStore
software, which creates logical partitions within a storage system; and VMware’s
vSphere virtualization software with vShield, another tool that creates secure,
logical partitions in virtual systems, and provides details about implementing
and configuring the architecture, as well as best practices for building and
managing these solutions.
• With
this capability, IT can enable different functional departments or business
applications to share server, networking, and storage infrastructure in a
secure fashion. The same is true for service providers who can now provide
secure server, network, and storage partitions across shared hardware. Shared
hardware means greater utilization and efficiency along with equipment,
operations, and utilities cost savings.
Transition: Another important capability is infrastructure
management.
How to Create Virtual Filer (Vfiler OnTap)
What
to consider for a vFiler
unit participation in an IPspace
There are some guidelines to remember when
assigning an IPspace to a vFiler unit.
- An IPspace can contain multiple vFiler units, however, a vFiler unit can belong
only to one IPspace.
- Each vFiler unit in an
IPspace must have an IP address that is unique within that IPspace, but a vFiler unit in one
IPspace can have the same IP address as a vFiler unit in a
different IPspace.
- Ensure that you assign an IPspace correctly because
once you assign an IPspace to a vFiler
unit, you cannot change the assignment without destroying the vFiler unit.
- Each vFiler unit must have one IP address on the interface that leads to the default gateway of the assigned IPspace. This requirement ensures that the vFiler unit is reachable from within the IPspace.
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
UCS C220 M3 VIC 1225 and Vsphere note
Cisco Unified Computing System Overview
The Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) is a next-generation data center platform that unites compute, networking, storage access, and virtualization resources in a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase business agility. The system integrates a low-latency, lossless 10 Gigabit Ethernet unified network fabric with enterprise-class blade and rack x86-architecture servers. The system is an integrated, scalable, multichassis platform in which all resources participate in a unified management domain.
Product Overview
A Cisco® innovation, the Cisco UCS Virtual Interface Card (VIC) 1225 (Figure 1) is a dual-port Enhanced Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP+) 10 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)-capable PCI Express (PCIe) card designed exclusively for Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. With its half-height design, the card preserves full-height slots in servers for third-party adapters certified by Cisco. It incorporates next-generation converged network adapter (CNA) technology from Cisco, providing investment protection for future feature releases. The card enables a policy-based, stateless, agile server infrastructure that can present up to 256 PCIe standards-compliant interfaces to the host that can be dynamically configured as either network interface cards (NICs) or host bus adapters (HBAs). In addition, the Cisco UCS VIC 1225 supports Cisco Data Center Virtual Machine Fabric Extender (VM-FEX) technology, which extends the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect ports to virtual machines, simplifying server virtualization deployment.
Figure 1. Cisco UCS VIC 1225
Features and Benefits
Stateless and agile: The personality of the card is determined dynamically at boot time using the service profile associated with the server. The number, type (NIC or HBA), identity (MAC address and World Wide Name [WWN]), failover policy, bandwidth, and quality-of-service (QoS) policies of the PCIe interfaces are all determined using the service profile. The capability to define, create, and use interfaces on demand provides a stateless and agile server infrastructure (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Virtual Device Support on the Cisco UCS VIC 1225
Network interface virtualization: Each PCIe interface created on the VIC is associated with an interface on the Cisco UCS fabric interconnect, providing complete network separation for each virtual cable between a PCIe device on the VIC and the interface on the fabric interconnect (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Cisco UCS VIC 1225 Architecture
Cisco SingleConnect Technology
Cisco® SingleConnect technology provides an exceptionally easy, intelligent, and efficient way to connect and manage computing in the data center. Cisco SingleConnect technology is an exclusive Cisco innovation that dramatically simplifies the way that data centers connect to:
● Rack and blade servers
● Physical servers and virtual machines
● LAN, SAN, and management networks
The solution addresses the challenges of today’s data center, and the result is a simple, intelligent, and efficient fabric:
● Easy: Cisco SingleConnect technology provides a “wire once and walk away” solution that eliminates traditional manual, time-consuming, error-prone processes and instead makes connecting servers to the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) fast and easy.
● Intelligent: the technology is intelligent because it uses a zero-touch model to allocate I/O connectivity (LAN, SAN, and management) across any type of server: physical rack and blade servers and virtual machines. The network intelligence helps Cisco UCS adapt to the needs of applications. Rather than limiting applications to specific servers, Cisco UCS makes it easy to run any workload on any server.
● Efficient: the technology is highly efficient because LAN, SAN, and management connections are shared over a single network, increasing utilization while reducing the number of moving parts compared to traditional approaches with multiple networks.
Cisco SingleConnect technology is implemented with an end-to-end system I/O architecture that uses Cisco Unified Fabric and Cisco Fabric Extender Technology (FEX Technology) to connect every Cisco UCS component with a single network and a single network layer. As customers expect from Cisco, the Cisco UCS I/O architecture is based on open standards and is reliable, available, and secure.
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX Technology: Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology extends fabric interconnect ports directly to virtual machines, eliminating software-based switching in the hypervisor. Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology collapses virtual and physical networking infrastructure into a single infrastructure that is fully aware of the virtual machines’ locations and networking policies (Figure 4). Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology is implemented by Cisco VICs with a pre-standard implementation of IEEE 802.1BR Port Extender.
Figure 4. Cisco Data Center VM-FEX with Cisco UCS VIC 1225
Table 1 summarizes the main features and benefits of the Cisco UCS VIC 1225.
Table 1. Features and Benefits
Feature
|
Benefit
|
x16 PCIe generation-2 interfaces
|
Delivers greater throughput
|
2 x 10-Gbps unified I/O
|
● Delivers 20 Gbps to the server
● Helps reduce TCO by consolidating the overall number of NICs, HBAs, cables, and switches because LAN and SAN traffic run over the same adapter card and fabric
|
Up to 256 dynamic virtual adapters and interfaces
|
● Creates fully functional unique and independent PCIe adapters and interfaces (NICs or HBAs) without requiring single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) support from OSs or hypervisors
● Allows these virtual interfaces and adapters to be configured and operated independently, just like physical interfaces and adapters
● Creates a highly flexible I/O environment needing only one card for all I/O configurations
Note: Cisco UCS VIC 1225 hardware is SR-IOV capable, and you can enable SR-IOV after SR-IOV is broadly supported by the popular operating systems. Please refer to UCS Manager configuration limits for your specific OS and environment in the configuration guide.
|
Cisco SingleConnect technology
|
A single unified network - the same network brings LAN, SAN, and management connectivity to each server
|
Cisco Data Center VM-FEX technology
|
● Unifies virtual and physical networking in a single infrastructure
● Provides virtual machine visibility from the physical network and a consistent network operating model for physical and virtual servers
● Enables configurations and policies to follow the virtual machine during virtual machine migration
● Provides a pre-standard implementation of the IEEE 802.1BR Port Extender standard
|
Centralized management
|
Enables the card to be centrally managed and configured by Cisco UCS Manager
|
Network architecture
|
Provides a redundant path to the fabric interconnect using hardware-based fabric failover
|
More than 600,000 I/O operations per second (IOPS)
|
Provides high I/O performance for demanding applications
|
Support for lossless Ethernet
|
Uses Priority Flow Control (PFC) to enable FCoE as part of the Cisco unified fabric
|
Broad OS and hypervisor support
|
Supports customer requirements for Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux, VMwarevSphere, and Citrix XenServer
|
Product Specifications
Table 2 lists the specifications for the Cisco UCS VIC 1225.
Table 2. Product Specifications
Item
|
Specifications
|
Standards
|
● 10 Gigabit Ethernet
● IEEE 802.3ae
● IEEE 802.3x
● IEEE 802.1q VLAN
● IEEE 802.1p
● IEEE 802.1Qaz
● IEEE 802.1Qbb
● Pre-standard IEEE 802.1BR
● Jumbo frames up to 9 KB
● Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)
● Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)-FCP
● T11 FCoE
|
Components
|
Cisco UCS custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC)
|
Ports
|
2 x 10-Gbps FCoE SFP+ ports
|
Connectivity
|
PCIe 2.0 x16 form factor
|
Performance
|
10-Gbps line rate per port
|
Management
|
Cisco UCS Manager Release 2.0 (2) and higher
|
Number of interfaces
|
256 virtual interfaces (approximately 8 are reserved for internal use; other factors such as the OS and
hypervisor may limit this number further)
|
Physical dimensions
|
Length = 6.6 in (16.76 cm)
Width = 2.5 in. (6.35 cm)
|
Typical power
|
12 watts (W)
|
System Requirements
The Cisco UCS VIC 1225 is designed for use only on Cisco UCS C-Series Rack Servers. Cisco UCS VIC 1225 is supported on Cisco UCS C260 M2, C460 M2, C220 M3, C240 M3, C22 M3, C24 M3, C220 M4, C240 M4, and C460 M4 rack servers. One or more Cisco UCS VIC 1225 cards are supported on these servers depending on the slot configuration. See the server configuration guide for details.
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