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Learn to stretch family food dollars During the holidays, it is important to use consumer savvy to stretch your family dollars.
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This year we have to decide if we should keep our IBM N-series 6040 (Netapp 3140) stretch metrocluster, upgrade to Netapp 3200 (or rather the IBM alternative) or move to another manufacturer.
And from what I can see, EMC VNX is one of the most serious alternatives. My boss agrees and so we have aranged meeting with EMC to hear about their storage solution including ATMOS.
So, I would like to hear from you other guys what I should be aware about if we decide to go EMC VNX instead of keeping the Netapp/IBM track.
It could be implementation wise or things like "hidden" costs, ie volume based licensing.
I'm having trouble finding EMC manuals to see what can be done and what can't.
Our CIO has set up one big goal for the future user/filestorage: The storage has to cost at most as much as it would if you go and buy a new Netgear/DLink NAS (with mirrored disk) a year.
This would mean that $/MB for the system has to be as close as possible to this goal. Today the cost is at least tenfold more.
Unless we come close to that, we have a hard time convincing the Professors with their own fundings to store their files in our storage instead of running to nearest HW-store and buy a small NAS (or two) for their research team.
It's called "academic freedom" working at a university...
Initial investment might be a little higher, but the storage volume cost has to be a low as possible.
Today we have basic NFS/CIFS volumes, SATA for file and FC for Vmware/MSSQL/Exchange 2007.
No addon licenses except DFM/MPIO/SnapDrive. Blame the resellers for not being able to convince us why we needed Snap support for MSSQL/Exchange.
We didn't even have Operations manager for more than two years and has yet to implement it as it was recently purchased.
The Tiering on Netapp is a story for itself.
Until a year ago our system was IOPS saturated during daytime on the SATA disks and I had to rechedule backups to less frequent full backups (TSM NDMP backup) to avoid having 100% diskload 24/7.
So the obvious solution would be PAM and statistics show that it (512GB) would catch 50-80% of the reads.
But our FAS is fully configured with FC and cluster interconnect cards so there is no expansion slot left for PAM.
So to install PAM we have to upgrade the filer, with all the costs associated BEFORE getting in the PAM.
So the combination of lack of tiering and huge upgrade steps makes this a very expensive story.
What realy buggs me is that we have a few TB fibrechannel storage available that could be used for tiering.
And a lot of the VM images data would be able to go down to SATA from FC.
EMC does it, HP (3Par) does it, Dell Compellent does it, Hitachi does it ...
But Netapp doesn't implement it. Despite having a excellent WAFL that with a "few" modifications it should be able to implement it even years ago.
Things we require are
* Quotas
* Active Directory security groups support (NTFS security style)
* Automatic failover to remote storage mirror, ie during unscheduled powerfailure (we seem to have at least one a year on average).
Things we are going to require soon due to amount of data
* Remote disaser recovery site, sync or async replication.
Things that would be very usefull
* Multi-domain support (multiple AD/Kerberos domains)
* deduplication
* compression
* tiering (of any kind)
So I've tried to set up a number of good/bad things I know and what I've seen so far.
What I like with Netapp/Ontap
* WALF with its possibilities and being very dynamic
* You can choose security style (UNIX/NTFS/Mixed) which is good as we are a mixed UNIX/Windows site.
Things I dislike with Netapp/Ontap/IBM
* No tiering (read my comment below)
* Large (read: expensive) upgrade steps for ie. memory or CPU upgrade in controllers
* Licenses bound to the controller-size and has essentialy to be repurchased during upgrade (this I'm told by the IBM reseller)
* You can't revert a disk-add operation to a aggregate
* I feel a great dicomfort when switching the cluster as you first shut down the service to TRY to bring it up on the other node, never being sure it will work.
* Crazy pricing policy by IBM (don't ask)
* A strong feeling of being a IBM N-series customer we are essentialy a second rate Netapp user.
Things I like so far with VNX from what I can see
* Does most, if not everything our that FAS does and more.
* Much better Vmware integration, compared to the Netapp Vmware plugin that I tried for a couple times and then droped it.
* FAST Tiering
* Much easier smaller upgrades of CPU/memory with Blades
I have no idea regarding negative sides, but being an EMC customer earlier I know they can be expensive, especially after 3 years.
That might counter our goal of keeping the storage costs down.
I essentialy like Netapp/Ontap/FAS, but there is a lot of things (in my view) talking against it right now with Ontap loosing its technological edge.
Yes, we are listening to EMC/HP/Dell and others to hear what they have to say.
I hope I didn't rant too much.
Please drop me an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, so I could share my storage selection story with you.
Good luck
Hi Henry,
Any chances you can post some of your key thoughts here as well?
Not yet Radek
Interesting stuff - I am really keen to see how other members view this.
Few, quick thoughts from me:
Things I like so far with VNX from what I can see
* Does most, if not everything our that FAS does and more.
Actually it doesn't do everything - e.g. there is nothing even remotely resembling MetroCluster functionality you are utilising at the moment (unless I am missing some new EMC functionality I haven't heard about before)
Regarding EMC VNX 'unification' - have you seen this: http://communities.netapp.com/people/radek.kubka/blog/2011/02/11/objects-in-the-mirror-are-closer-than-they-appear?
* Much better Vmware integration, compared to the Netapp Vmware plugin that I tried for a couple times and then droped it.
Have you seen this in action? Personally I haven't (other than few slides), so I am somewhat skeptical how slick this EMC / VMware integration is. I am using NetApp VSC, and although it isn't perfect, it is very useful in my opinin, most of ther time, it genuinely does what it says on the tin.
* FAST Tiering
Always read the small print . FAST works on 1GB sub-LUN granularity - that's a *lot* of data to mve around! Also it doesn't work on NFS datastores (EMC offers archiving functionality for file shares, which isn't feasible for moving VMDK files around). Also, interestingly enough, EMC introduced so called FAST Cache, which in essence is the same approach as NetApp Flash Cache - it makes me thinking this approach may be actually more feasible that sub-LUN tiering.
* Much easier smaller upgrades of CPU/memory with Blades
I am not familiar with their upgrade process, but again: always read the small print to double-check how convenient this upgrade will be in a real-life scenario! E.g. I know for a fact there is no upgrade path from VNXe to VNX (which not necessarily will be applicable to your case).
FAST not being able to work with NFS is news to me. Good to know and I will ask EMC when we meet them tomorrow. FAST Cache sounds interesting.
Regarding the Vmware plugin I have been checking out what Chad Chakac is presenting on his blog, but of course I will demand a real life view of it ASAP.
Also, I will ask it the blade upgrades realy provide scalability. You might be limited to one CIFS/NFS server only being able to use one blade anyway and not scale with the number of blades.
Regarding the Tiering and movement size, I have been looking at Dell Compellent and are about to visit HP to see 3Par in action.
At least Compellent can move smaller blocks, but it is missing the NAS functionality that we require (unless combined with Microsoft Storage Server solution).
As long as Dell isn't presenting ExaNet soon, I'm not sure it would be the way to go for our enduser files. HP seems to have Windows and Samba-based NAS gateways to the 3Par system.
I'm still not impressed with Netapp's total dismissal of tiering without PAM. They (tiering and PAM) could easily live side by side, both adding value to the Netapp system.
At least in my case the PAM-requirement actualy is one of the reason to make us look the other way instead of keeping the current setup and adding life to the system..
I'm still not impressed with Netapp's total dismissal of tiering without PAM. They (tiering and PAM) could easily live side by side, both adding value to the Netapp system.
That's actually a very interesting topic in itself. I've mentioned something along these lines few times to different NetApp folks and the answer usually was: "we don't need automated tiering as caching is better". That's arguably not true in every case (e.g. a random write heavy workload), yet EMC following NetApp footsteps with their FAST cache proves the point that the Flex Cache / PAMM concept is doing its job great in many situations.
That being said, from a marketing standpoint having a feature (automated block movement between tiers), even if not using it, is almost always better than not having it!
Well Dejan let look at the tiering is like the VMotion in the VMWare it is a nice function to have but if you did not tune it correctly then you will have too many movement of data at the FAST tiering layer that will cause you a serious performance issue. I think you might need to reconsider the need of FAST tiering but the Fast Cache is a better option for long run. Well in OnTap 8 you also have the option of using the data motion which allow you to perform the data movement from FC/SAS with out impacting the production system only drawback it will be a manual job.
The thing that impress me is the unisphere that provide a unified view and also execution makes easy for replication, provisioning, backup and DR. The only thing that worries me is the cost that going to impact me as my data grows. There is no saying is the price of the data protection suit is following the controller price or raw data tiering pricing.
Looking back at the Deduplication it only works for the NAS and not for SAN which is not impressive to me but yet this going to be a argument point cause most of the consolidation will happens on NAS area where most of the files being stored. Well on the Ontap 8 you are be able to turn on the compression as well take note it does have performance impact on the vol/lun that you turn it on.
Correct me if I am wrong I just whack thru the VNX documentation i dont think they are having the Metro Cluster solution. they may have the mirror view or netapp snapview equivalent.
I agree that Tiering inappropriatly used can worsen the situation as a lot of data will be doing ping-pong "in transfer" between tiers.
Also, FAST without FASTCache could make you having quite slow system until next rearangement in the tiers when the accessed data is moved up, by then the target data might be "uninteresting" until next week, month etc...
Looking at the FASTCache more closely it seems to be the right combination with tiering on SAS/SATA level.
The granularity FASTCache operates at 64K block level, making it decent sizewize, compared to FAST 1GB granularity.
Now compare that to DataMotion granualrity of whole volume, never ranging less than a few hundred GB and probably getting closer to TB size.
And you don't move ie. the volume with the whole Sharepoint database disk to a slower tier just because 90% is static data.
So the DataMotion is more useful (for me) in situations where I wish to rebalance aggregates or move data from aggregates to replace aging/small disks
What does worry me regarding any kind of tiering is ie. the location of file's metadata.
Much, if not most, of the pressure on my SATA-disks is metadata-access.
I'm a little worried that metadata will "pull along" data filling the cache, depending on the actual location of metadata on ie. VNX.
While Netapp PAM can be configured to cache only metadata, but I haven't seen any configuration to prioritize metadata when replacing the PAM content.
EMC FASTCache "detailed review" paper : http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8046-clariion-celerra-unified-fast-cache-wp.pdf
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Just my biased 2 cents :-)
NetApp (FAS32xx) pro's:
* Room for 50% more IO cards compared to FAS3140 / N6040
* 6Gbps SAS with new DS2246 shelf (remember 4x 6Gbps lanes in a SAS cable)
* vfilers for multiple domains
* Free deduplication
* Free compression (inline, as with almost all things inline, it can impact performance)
* Free My Autosupport/upgrade advisor (only available for N Series customers if they go through IBM support)
* Flash cache is dedup aware, works at 4kb block level, set it & forget it.
* Plenty of snapmanagers to pick from.
* IBM always lags behind with new software versions for the N Series: snapmanagers, ontap versions
EMC VNX con's:
* Deduplication at the file level, not block level
* Deduplication only on CIFS/NFS, but not for: VMware/Oracle over NFS.
* No metrocluster functionality
* Different replication techniques for block/file, each with its own limitations !!
* Big performance impact with raid6 over raid5.
* VNX means: multiple operating systems to learn !
* FAST cache can have a big performance impact (moving data around)
* Unisphere is nice, but ask EMC what other software you might need, based on features you want to use.
* Entry level VNX5100 is FC only, and you can't upgrade.
In the end a consumer grade NAS will always have a much lower price per GB.
But I don't think I need to elaborate on why you don't want that in an enterprise environment.
Hope this helps.
Hi Niek,
* FAST cache can have a big performance impact (moving data around)
Just to be pedantic - I think this bullet point should say "FAST can have a big performance impact".
There are two different things with very confusing names:
- FAST as automated sub-LUN tiering which moves data around (http://uk.emc.com/about/glossary/fast.htm)
- FAST Cache which in essence mimics NetApp Flash Cache / PAM II, with no data movement, just dynamic caching (http://uk.emc.com/about/glossary/fast-cache.htm)
Hello Radek,
you're correct !
Thanks for the clarification.
Yup Agreed
I agree with niek.
Look at the VNX it is no different with celerra box added on functionality of Clariion and Avama. But they did not bled it good enough and too many software you need to learn.
Snap sure for NAS
Snap View for Block
Replicator for iSCSI
where else with netapp just one simple snapshot cover it all. It could be more technology involve when it comes to the replication and also database consistency aware software. You can look it at the video that publish at the youtube they might looks easy but when the actual setup and performance tuning comes in you notice that it is a nightmare.
Netapp technology is easier to setup and also learning cycle is shorter compare to VNX
Hi there,
im regularly involved in pre-sales and 9 out of 10 times the customer choses a netapp solution over an existing emc solution. and that 1 customer who choses the emc solution has to do so because he was forced to do so by his boss. but lets stop the political stuff, go to the facts:
the vnx series is nothing else as a rebranded clarion/celera nas-head combination which emc is selling for ages, its old whine in new bottles. you still have to work on different layers of operating systems if the navisphere gui failes to give you the specific wizard driven task you need.
netapp has transparent cluster failover in a metro cluster environment, vnx doesnt. we have post processed dedup over all primary data as well as optional inline compression over all primary data. we have proper thin provisioning as well as up to 255 snapshots, even integrated in windows previos version client. we dont hassle around with linux or windows ce or whatever, we "talk" cifs native with proper acl integration as well as v1-4 nfs and we even support both, means we map windows to unix users and vice versa.
the thing about qnap/dlink nas stuff, you really dont want to go down that road. we are talking about netapp ENTERPRISE storage for a reason. we talk about 520 fromated hard disks or a 8+1 sektor checksumming, we talk about constant scrubbing and self aware fast raid rebuilds and a 24x7 4h service level, nothing of which those small nas can provide. and have 10 users + working on a 3 disk nas, try to reach 50mb+ file transfers using smb2 and have up to 255 snaps per volume. if they are not aware of these security and reliability features, let them have their nas and one day it will crash on them and all their data is lost.
if you are not happy with ibm, is there any reason why you wouldnt buy directly from netapp and its partners to have a proper FAS3240AE and not an N Series?
> netapp has transparent cluster failover in a metro cluster environment.
Yes, but I had a bad experience with failover that didn't work during a power failed. This time due to a mixture of human factor and incomplete signaling on the main distribution powerboard (fixed after the incident).
We did buy metrocluster to handle that kind of situation, just to find out the hard way that when we completly lost power to one of the datacenters, the one thing we missed to check when we bought the equipment, metrocluster didn't kick in!
Instead that half simply stopped working, just to do a failover (!) the moment we got power back. So I had to do another failover to get it back to normal. And I seriously dislike failover procedure as it is today as I can't check anything before Ontap stops the service on the working (redundancy) node.
I had expected that the other node kicked in and took over when we lost the power, now the complete virtual system stopped for 2h. Not a good PR for neither IBM/Netapp or the virtual system.
Later I found out it is per design not to fail over in case a whole datacenter is lost, but you have to do a manual forced cluster failover, including an unconfortable failback afterwards.
VNX not having anything close to metrocluster is good to know. I will ask them how they handle situations like that.
> if you are not happy with ibm, is there any reason why you wouldnt buy directly from netapp and its partners to have a proper FAS3240AE and not an N Series?
Well, we do have a sizable investment in the IBM N-series and while I realy feel like moving to "pure" Netapp would provide us with with a better support/access to code earlier etc... it would mean replacing all the hardware, due to support contract reasons.
I doubt I could convince any boss to do that investment, unless Netapp steps in with a sizable buyback. But it will be on the discussion as IBM is not the list of cleared companies for Storage resales to Swedish goverment (inlcuding universities) since 3 years back (public tender reasons, nothing strange about that, Hitachi is missing too).
> netapp has transparent cluster failover in a metro cluster environment.
there is a transparent failover IF PROPERLY CONFIGURED ;-) we strongly suggest our customers to follow the given best practices and we actualy plan and roll out these practices with them, eg setting proper time outs, install host utils etc.
for your total dr scenario, a netapp MC cannot handle a site disaster if the complete datacenter receives a power outage, you have to do a "cf forcetakeover -d" then, there are a few caveats we lead our customers around, so you just have been unproperly consulted ;-( we have several big strech/fabric metroclusters who takeover/giveback within 10-15 seconds without any system going down.
> if you are not happy with ibm, is there any reason why you wouldnt buy directly from netapp and its partners to have a proper FAS3240AE and not an N Series?
ok, seems like a political/sales issue, you might be able to solve it with your local netapp sales representative or at least i'd stick with ibm before buying an emc machine
good luck mate! ;-)
EMC doesn't have Metrocluster in the VNX, but offers VPLEX Metro as an equivilent configuration. VNX + VPLEX can be the same cost as a NetApp Metrocluster. With their 5.0 code, they have transparent failover (no similair "cf takeover" command), if you install a witness at a third site running in a VM or standalone server.
It would be good for NetApp to offer similiar witness support to handle the total datacenter failure/split-brain scenerio. I'm currently comparing NetApp MetroCluster and EMC VPLEX Metro in my own blog http://dctools.blogspot.com.
No one ever has it all. EMC's VPLEX will rely on VNX or RecoverPoint to do snapshots. NetApp has snapshots nicely integrated into one package. NetApp doesn't offer redundent nodes at each datacenter, EMC VPLEX does. NetApp MetroCluster will have storage traffic trombone, EMC VPLEX will offer local access at each site.
The point is, no one vendor has everyone. Most are wearing blinders to what other's can do and their own limitations. I would love NetApp to offer sub-lun tiering within an aggregate. I would love NPIV-style virtual target FC ports into a vFiler. I would love NetApp to offer a web-based GUI to all the administrative commands people use (vFiler...).
VNX may have two different OSes for block and NAS, but customers don't usually see it or have to learn it, as Unisphere covers that up.
I am a huge NetApp fan and sell a lot of NetApp boxes. They work well. They offer some of the richest functionality, but the user interface (GUI, web-based) is often lacking in NetApp's best features.
NetApp does provide witness support (MetroCluster tiebreaker); in the past it was separate solution (I believe integrated with OM); today it is offered as part of ApplianceWatch PRO. See as example http://communities.netapp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadBody/6314-102-1-9571/Partner%20Academy%20Workshop%20MetroCluster%20June%202010.pptx or http://communities.netapp.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/49558-22659/ApplianceWatchPROBestPracticesGuide.pdf
Unfortunately it is very poorly documented and marketed; the only available link is NetApp internal, couple of paragraphs in ApplianceWatch PRO documentation and whatever you can find on community or kb sites.
You mention in your blog that NetApp MetroCluster needs 4 FC connections – do you count backend only? Because MC requires 2 ISLs; 4 can be used but is optional.
I wonder how VPLEX implements simultaneous write support on both sites without introducing read latency for local access (due to necessity to verify that data had not been changed remotely).
> Yes, but I had a bad experience with failover that didn't work during a power failed.
False. MetroCluster has an inbox solution to failover during power outage. If management cards are proprely configured, the takeover is automatic during MetroCluster rack power failure (please, read documentation).
Also, if network goes down at the same time, an UPS solution (about 800e by MetroCluster head) can resolve the problem (again, read the documentation it's documented).
Finally, if MetroCluster is used with "complicated" inter-links (like DWDM), a third referee could be used (like Tie Breaker) and NetApp provides some solutions like this.
Well, we did have the problem. I had more people commenting it should work, but unfortunatly the setup was initialy done by a Netapp consultant (not partner consultant, but a netapp techie) and this is our production envirovment so I can't touch it very much to resolve the problem.
Anyway, we didn't go for neither upgrade or vnx. Instead we are looking at cloud solutions for filestorage and DAS for our exchange 2010.
Only virtualization will be left when MSSQL 2012 with DAS-support for availability clusters is released.
And then we will have another look at if the N-series is worth the maintenance and expansion-cost.
If management cards are proprely configured, the takeover is automatic during MetroCluster rack power failure
As long as LAN switches do not suffer from the same power outage (e.g., do not located in the same rack )
Also, if network goes down at the same time, an UPS solution
Well, it is unrealistic to expect to protect against all possible permutaitons of component failures between two sites. It has to start with NetApp offering management port redundancy in the first place
Finally, if MetroCluster is used with "complicated" inter-links (like DWDM), a third referee could be used (like Tie Breaker) and NetApp provides some solutions like this.
MteroCluster TieBreaker solution is no more supported to the extent, that some user who posted here old TR referring to it was requested to remove it. It was replaced by Microsoft only SCOM plugin and now by MSCS plugin which is Microsoft only again. What can we offer to Unix only customer? And yes, I have Unix only customers and they would like to have automated failover (I will leave aside discussion whether automated failover in any long distance solution makes sense at all)
Hi, D from NetApp here (www.recoverymonkey.org).
Autotiering is a really great concept - but also extremely new and unproven for the vast majority of workloads.
Look at any EMC benchmarks - you won't really find autotiering.
Nor will you find even FAST Cache numbers. All their recent benchmarks have been with boxes full of SSDs, no pools, old-school RAID groups etc.
Another way of putting it:
They don't show how any of the technologies they're selling you affect performance (whether the effect is positive or negative - I will not try to guess).
If you look at the best practices document for performance and availability (http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h5773-clariion-best-practices-performance-availability-wp.pdf) you will see:
What I'm trying to convey is this simple fact:
The devil is in the details. Messaging is one thing ("it will autotier everything automagically and you don't have to worry about it"), reality is another.
For autotiering to work, a significant portion of your working set (the stuff you actively use) needs to fit on fast storage.
So, let's say you have a 50TB box.
Rule of thumb (that EMC engineers use): At least 5% of a customer's workload is really "hot". That goes on SSD (cache and tier). So you need 2.5TB usable of SSD, or about a shelf of 200GB SSDs, maybe more (depending on RAID levels).
Then the idea is you have another percentage of medium-speed disk to accommodate the medium-hot working set: 20%, or 10TB in this case.
The rest would be SATA.
The 10-million-dollar question is:
Is it more cost-effective to have the autotiering and caching software (it's not free) + 2.5TB of SSD, 10TB SAS and 37.5TB SATA or...
50TB SATA + NetApp Flash Cache?
Or maybe 50TB of larger-sized SAS + NetApp Flash Cache?
The 20-million-dollar question is:
Which of the 2 configurations will offer more predictable performance?
Hi D,
The devil is in the details. Messaging is one thing ("it will autotier everything automagically and you don't have to worry about it"), reality is another.
Couldn't agree more - with both sentences actually.
I was never impressed with EMC FAST - 1GB granularity really sucks in my opinion & it seems they have even more skeletons in their cupboard That said, e.g. Compellent autotiering always looked to me more, ehm, 'compelling' & mature. I agree it may be only a gimmick in many real-life scenarios (not all though), yet from my recent conversations with many customers I learned they are buying this messaging: "autotiering solves all your problems as the new, effortless ILM".
At the end of the day many deals are won (or lost) on the back of a simple hype...
Compellent is another interesting story.
Most people don't realize that compellent autotiers SNAPPED data, NOT production data!
So, the idea is you take a snap, the box divides your data up in pages (2MB default, can be less if you don't need the box to grow).
Then if a page is not "hit" hard, it can move to SATA, for instance.
What most people also don't know:
If you modify a page that has been tiered, here's what happens:
Again, the devil is in the details. If you modify your data very randomly (doesn't have to be a lot of modifications), you may end up modifying a lot of the snapped pages and will end up with very inefficient space usage.
Which is why I urge all customers looking at Compellent to ask those questions and get a mathematical explanation from the engineers regarding how snap space is used.
On NetApp, we are extremely granular due to WAFL. The smallest snap size is very tiny indeed (pointers, some metadata plus whatever 4K blocks were modified).
Which is what allows some customers to have, say, over 100,000 snaps on a single system (large bank that everyone knows is doing that).
Hi D,
Most people don't realize that compellent autotiers SNAPPED data, NOT production data!
Yep, I wasn't aware of this either. If that's the case then why actually Dell bought them? Didn't they notice that?
So how about 3Par autotiering? Marketing-wise they are giving me hard time recently, so I would love to discover few skeletons in their cupboard too!
Kind regards,
Is the problem in the way they do it or the granularity of the block?
There is talk that Dell/Compellet will move to 64bit software soon, thus enabling them to have smaller blocks and then the granularity will problably not be a problem.
You could turn the argument around and say that Ontap never tiers down (transparently) snapshots to cheaper disk, no matter how seldom you access it.
So you will be wasting SSD/FC/SAS disk for data that you might, maybe, need once in a while.
Well … I guess, NetApp answer to this would be snapvault,
For me one of main downsides of NetApp snapshots is inability to switch between them – volume restore wipes out everything after restore point; and file restore is unacceptable slow (which I still do not understand why) and not really viable for may files.
CLARiiON can switch between available snapshots without losing them. Not sure about Celerra, I do not have experience with their snapshot implementation.
From what I'm told with snapvault the users loose the possibility of doing "previous versions" restore from snapvaulted snapshots of the files, right?
So the "transparently" thing is kicking in and a system administrator has to be involved, with all the extra work and time it takes to restore a file.
That's true (except that previous versions does not work with block access anyway).
Does it (previous versions from snapshots) work with other vendors for SMB? Celerra in the first place (given we discuss VNX)?
Most disk storage vendors have support through previous versions.
Saying SnapVault is the answer is like saying RAINfinity is auto-tiering. It's a seperate poorly integrated product/option/feature.
Thats why netapp invented FlexClone, you do NOT need to completly whipe the source, you could clone the backup and split it if it fits your needs.
The granularity is part of the problem (performance is the other). Page size is 2MB now, if you move it to 512K the box can't grow.
With the 64-bit software they claim they might be able to go real small like 64K (unconfirmed) but here's the issue...
The way Compellent does RAID with pages is two-fold:
It follows that for RAID-1 the 64K page could work (64K written per drive - reasonable), but for RAID-5 it will result in very small pieces going to the various drives, not the best recipe for performance.
At any rate, this is all conjecture since the details are not finalized but even at a hypothetical 64K if you have random modifications all over a LUN (not even that many) you will end up using a lot of snap space.
The more stuff you have, the more this all adds up.
My argument would be that by design, ONTAP does NOT want to move primary snap data around since that's a performance problem other vendors have that we try very, very hard to avoid. Creating deterministic performance is very difficult with autotiering - case in point, every single time I've displaced Compellent it wasn't because they don't have features. It was performance-related. Every time.
We went in, put in 1-2 kinds of disk + Flash Cache, problem solved (in most cases performance was 2-3x at least). It wasn't even more expensive. And THAT is the key.
Regarding Snapvault: it has its place, but I don't consider it a tiering mechanism at all.
I wish I could share more in this public forum but I can't. Suffice it to say, we do things differently and as long as we can solve your problems, don't expect us to necessarily use the same techniques other vendors use.
For example, most people want
If we can do all 4 for you, be happy but don't dictate HOW we do it
The 10-million-dollar question is:
Is it more cost-effective to have the autotiering and caching software (it's not free) + 2.5TB of SSD, 10TB SAS and 37.5TB SATA or...
50TB SATA + NetApp Flash Cache?
Or maybe 50TB of larger-sized SAS + NetApp Flash Cache?
This is all well and good in theory. But YMMV considerably.
I've just come from a rather large VM environment in the legal vertical... Incidentally also sold this same idea that a pair of PAM 512GB cards in front of oodles of SATA will save the day and drive down our TCO. That was a complete bust in this environment and if it weren't for a few available FC shelves, the 6080 HA cluster would have been ripped out by the roots overnight.
The thing about cache is its not just about quantity but also how advanced the algorithms are in the controllers. Something that neither the netapp nor vnx can compete with on arrays like the DMX or USP. Its down right amusing how much time our lead netapp engineer spent playing musical chairs with data on that HA 6080. NDMP copy, sVmotions, and metro cluster mirroring might have been 80% of his job. So much for the hands off PAM card tiering approach.
At the end of the day, both vendors offer a different solution for the same problem in a mid-tier/lower high-end enterprise space. What is better comes down to your requirements.
You mentioned "Incidentally also sold this same idea that a pair of PAM 512GB cards in front of oodles of SATA will save the day and drive down our TCO. That was a complete bust in this environment and if it weren't for a few available FC shelves, the 6080 HA cluster would have been ripped out by the roots overnight."
Sounds like your environment wasn't sized right, please send the names of the VAR and NetApp personell involved to email@example.com. Some "re-education" may be necessary
The solution always has to be sized right to begin with. All caching systems do is provide relief (sometimes very significant). But if it's not sized right to begin with, you could have 16TB of cache or 1000 FC disks and still not perform right (regardless of vendor). Or you may need more than 1 6080 or other high end box etc.
Take a look here: http://bit.ly/jheOg5
For many customers it is possible to run Oracle, VMware, SQL etc. with SATA + Cache, and for others it might not. Autotiering doesn't help in that case either, since many of those workloads have constantly shifting data, which confuse such systems.
Unless the sizing exercise is done properly or the system is intentionally overbuilt (or you just get lucky), it will usually end in tears regardless of vendor.
Oh, I hope that 6080 had the SATA in large aggregates and you weren't expecting high performance out of a single 16-drive pool. With ONTAP 8.1 the possible aggregate size gets pretty big on a 6080, 162TiB...
Your completely correct about sizing. Which is why when Netapp pundits go around selling the one size fits all cache + sata architecture I cringe.
Netapp came in saying we would save money over the type of storage we typically bought (symmetrix, USP) but in the end we needed as many Netapp controllers to satisfy the requirements where cost is back in enterprise storage array territory.
When trying to save money on storage, it's important to see where it's all going in the first place.
For example:
In the right environment, NetApp Unified can save companies a boatload of money.
In some other environments, it might be a wash.
In other environments still, going unified may be more expensive, and you may want to explore other options.
The problem with storage that has as much functionality as NetApp Unified, is that, in order to do a comprehensive ROI analysis, a LOT of information about how you spend money on storage is needed - often far beyond just storage.
For example, how much does it cost to do DR? And why?
How much time do developers spend waiting for copies to be generated in order for them to test something?
I've been able to reduce someone's VNX spend from 100TB to about 20TB. Yes - with 100TB the VNX could do everything the customer needed to do (many full clones of a DB environment plus local backups plus replication).
We were able to do it with 20TB and have space to spare.
The end result also depends on how much of the NetApp technology one is willing to use.
If you use our arrays like traditional boxes you get a storage system that's fast and resilient but it won't necessarily cost you any less...
We just published a white paper on the NetApp Virtual Storage Tier. The intent here is to show how intelligent caching provides a level of "virtual tiering" without the need to physically move any data among HDD types.
Hope this sheds some light on our approach.
Hi Dejan,
and what summary? do You choose NetApp or EMC?
May you share performance information about your new storage from your experience...
Right now I am in selection from NetApp FAS3240 and EMC VNX5300.
The VNX5300 is not equivalent to a FAS3240. You're comparing a box that scales to 120 disks and 400GB cache to something that goes to 600 disks and 1TB cache and has a ton more I/O expandability.
A better comparison is the VNX5700.
I understand.
It is possible to buy in my biudget:
VNX5100 with 100GB cache and VNX5300 with 400GB cache
FAS3210 with 2 x 256 GB cache and FAS3240 with 4 x 256 GB cache
For beggining we do not buy maximum cache, but our investment on storage will be 5 years. We will add if needed.
It is intresting to know experience from real life, not only compare lab test...
Technologies is different on NetApp/EMC - so that factors may help to deside to choise NetApp or EMC?
It has been probably already mentioned in this thread, but looking just at the physical layout:
- FAS3210 - single chassis, any cables for external connectivity only (plus of course cabling for disk shelves)
- FAS3240 - single chassis, no cables, or (if IO modules used) 2 chassis with just 2 cluster-interconnect cables
- any VNX (not VNXe though):
- 2 Storage Processors (in a single chassis, if memory serves right)
- 2 NAS Blades
- 2 Management Stations
*all* require cross-connecting, so imagine the cable mess *before* you start connecting any hosts and/or disk shelves!
VNX is 'unified' only in marketing terms - under the hood it is still well known Celerra, Clariion combo.
Radek said: "VNX is 'unified' only in marketing terms - under the hood it is still well known Celerra, Clariion combo."
I'd like to point out here that this is not nessesarly a bad thing.
Firstly, with both "DART" and "FLARE" under the hood of a VNX, each OS is optimized to run its type of storage access protocol. Swiss army knife storage OS's typically does not excel well in all areas.
Second point is availability. I've seen an issue with a CIFS bug in ONTAP 7 that took down both block AND file simultaneously. KERNEL PANIC.....Running under separate OS's would have minimized the outage exposure.
Again, no architecture is perfect. Always trade offs.
True, there are tradeoffs with every architecture.
With any system that uses a gateway on top of storage for NAS capability (every major vendor aside from NetApp) the NAS gateway is literally treated like a fileserver on top of the block storage. If that server goes down then you lost that server (your NAS) but you've not lost the block.
Of course if you have an issue with the block controller you lose that plus NAS... The protection you mention is only one-way.
And there have been plenty of cases recently of catastrophic block controller failure with you-know-who. Very public. Guess what happened to all the NAS heads connected to those controllers.
What I don't like with the gateway-type architectures, is explained in an article here. Most importantly IMO, they reduce the flexibility of storage allocation (which may be OK for those with tiny or fixed needs or unlimited funds).
For example - once you allocate space to the NAS gateway, it's done. You can't take it back. It's like allocating space to a server that can't have thin provisioning and can't shrink its filesystems.
You've allocated 100TB to NAS and have 10TB left for block and you changed your mind or your needs changed after a year?
Good luck.
Operational flexibility is a big deal.
Cabling simplicity is important for some larger deployments, too.
Non-truly-unified systems have (naturally) a whole other set of cabling for the network piece.
Which is probably OK for small systems but if you need a large installation then cabling simplicity is not something to be taken lightly.
The people that have worked in very large datacenters know what I mean
Customer education is important. Very few storage people think about the entire aspect of the business.
Most think about their piece of the pie (which is only natural).
Very easy to get lost in the minutiae with such a mentality.
Cabling simplicity is important for some larger deployments, too.
I just couldn't resist!
Below is the "unified" VNX - no host-side cabling & just a single disk shelf. Arguably you can route cables a bit tidier, but my point is about how many of them you need
The only way to answer your question is to understand what your requirements are. There's no way to say whether an architecture is always better than another one, since it will depend.
NetApp has some unique advantages (dedupe, cloning, write optimization and application integration are just some of them). Go to recoverymonkey.org for a lot more info...
I need to know what you need to do
Performance? And, within the performance question, random reads vs writes, I/O sizes, working set size, sequential reads vs writes...
What applications?
RTO/RPO for backups and DR?
What kind of connectivity?
Are you not working with NetApp already to have an engineer visit you in person?
i have read lots information on recoverymonkey.org...
Our needs of capacity is 5TB-7TB. Connectivity is FC.
1) MS SQL 2005 server + Microsoft Dynamics Axapta 2009 300 users online,
database size is small ~300GB. Growth ~5GB per month. Random reads vs writes - 75% vs 25%
2) Lotus Notes domino server 300 mailbox'es (ect Lotus Notes databases
I have NetApp person vizits, but looks like he is selling storage firstime in his life.
It's will be nice to look at real life performance example, to look at windows perfmon data on NetApp+MS SQL, but ir i see imposible... I asking NetApp seller, but...
Any idea how many IOPS you need? I/O size?
Based on the general info you provided and from past experience, I'd be shocked if you need a 3240. In all probability a 2040 with SAS will be more than enough. If you can afford it, a 3210 with SAS and Flash Cache, and you're done, with tons of room to grow. With such a small amount of data, no need to do SATA.
Get a couple of shelves of 450GB, that's close to 13TB usable, which should be enough space for some snaps and also provide some room for growth.
2 shelves of 600 would be 17.3TB.
3 shelves of 450 would be 21.5TB.
The more drives the faster of course. But I wouldn't do less than 2 shelves in the absence of more performance data.
Email me privately please at firstname.lastname@example.com with the names of the partner people that visited you, the partner name, location in the world, and NetApp personnel that you have talked to in person.
Regarding performance - we have methodologies to extract performance info for various applications. At a minimum you can use this collection tool and send me the data it collects after a week:
You should check out Avere Systems (www.averesystems.com) or send me email at email@example.com. We are working with lots of NetApp customers. Rather than overhauling your entire environment to EMC, we can bring the benefits you need to your existing NetApp environment. Here are the benefits we offer.
1) We add tiering to existing NetApp systems.
2) Our tiering appliances cluster so you can easily scale the tiering layer as demand grows.
3) We let you use 100% SATA on the NetApp.
4) We support any storage that provides an NFS interface, which opens up some cost-effective SATA options for you.
5) We create a global namespace across all the NAS/SATA systems that we are connected to.
6) We tier over the WAN also to enable cloud infrastructure to be built.
I am currently evaluating options to replace our 7 year old EMC SAN/NAS. EMC quoted us a VNXe 3300 and a VNX 5300. We pretty much ruled out the VNXe because it doesn't have FC and we would either need that or 10 GB Ethernet. Our NetApp vendor quoted a FAS2040 and then compared it to a VNXe 3100, which doesn't instill me with a lot of confidence that it will meet our needs for the next 5 years like we are expecting out of the what we purchase. Noted the quote for the 2040 was significantly less than either of the VNX quotes so NetApp has some wiggle room on better models.
My question is am I wrong to think the 2040 probably won't cut it performance wise if we are pretty sure that the VNXe won't? Would a 2240 be a better option or would it be better to look at a 3210? We are a small to medium sized company with around 12 TB's in our current SAN, 10 physical servers, and 40 servers in VMware. We will be running 3 SQL servers, Exchange, SharePoint, Citrix, etc off of the SAN and we need to make sure that the users of our ERP system never know that anything changed unless the comment is "everything is really fast". IIRC from one of the environment checks that a vendor ran our current server environment is running at around 260 MBps. I've never worked with NetApp, but I've been a fan for a few years now. I just want to make sure I can compare apples to apples with the competition. Let me know if you have any questions and I'll do my best to answer.
Hi and welcome to the Community!
It's a tough one - any solution should be sized against a particular requirement, so it is hard to say whether 2040 will suffice, or not. When comparing to EMC, it sits somewhere between VNXe 3100 and 3300.
Of course bigger (2240 or 3210) is better , but do you really need this?
How many (concurrent) users are we talking about? Did your reseller do any proper sizing against performance requirement, or was it a finger-in-the-air estimation?
Thanks for your help. Our vendor did run EMC's check on our current SAN and sized the solution accordingly. We have 250 users. I'm not at all worried about the 2040 being good enough right now, it's just a few years down the road that I'm concerned with. I figure that we are getting a better discount now that we will when it comes time to replace the 2040 so it might be better to spend a little extra to buy a couple extra years before we need to look into replacing the controller unit.
Here is the IO and bandwidth info that our vendor pulled off of our current SAN, but that doesn't include email or Citrix since they are currently stand alone servers. Dell ran a similar report against our entire server environment and they had the 90th percentile for our bandwidth at 261 MB/s.
I have asked our vendor to quote out a FAS3210 just so we can get a better apples to apples price with the VNX 5300. Hopefully my assumption that the 3210 and the 5300 is reasonable. Does anyone know when the 2240 will start shipping?
We are also looking into starting up a DR site. IMO this will kill EMC since we don't think a VNXe will be good enough and the cheapest thing you can replicate a VNX 5300 to is another 5300.
Its interesting following your discussions. Have any of you had experiences of or heard of major disadvantages using a FAST cache like in the EMC?
It's much more difficult to do routine tasks on an EMC box. I know that is relative, and subject to everyone's opinion. I've worked on both, and NetApp just makes more sense to me, and it is so much easier to do basic stuff.
An example would be shrinking a volume. With NetApp, it is one command, and the FlexVol that contains the share is grown or shrunk to whatever size you want. With Celerra, you can't shrink the container that the share is in. They call it a file system, and it cannot be shrunk. If you want unused space back from a bloated file system, you've got to create a new file system, copy all the data, re-share everything from the new path, and destroy the old. This plays hell with replication. If you want to move your Celerra LUNs around in the storage array with the old CLARiiON LUN Migrator tool, too bad, you can't. Again, it's create new, copy data, and delete the old. Obviously, this would cause a loss of service to your users.
If you're running a small dedicated NAS array these may not be a big problem for you. If you're hoping to run a large array with CIFS/NFS/iSCSI/FC with dozens or hundreds of TB behind it, then these are useful features that you'll be missing out on.
I understand the FAST is a big deal for you. On the surface, it does sound pretty cool. There are some drawbacks, though, and of course EMC doesn't talk about them. Once you put disks in a FAST pool, they are there forever. You CANNOT pull drives out of a pool. You've got to create a new pool on new spindles, copy ALL the data, and then destroy the entire pool. Any SAN LUNs could be moved with CLARiiON Migration, but the LUNs you've allocated to the Celerra cannot be moved this way. It's a manual process with robocopy, rsync, or your tool of choice. Obviously, this would cause a loss of service to your users.
If you're running a small dedicated NAS array these may not be a big problem for you. If you're hoping to run a large array with CIFS/NFS/iSCSI/FC with dozens or hundreds of TB behind it, then these are useful features that you'll be missing out on.
Maybe some of these things have changed with VNX, but from what I understand it is still the same in these respects as Celerra. If someone in the community knows more about VNX than I do, please correct me.
Having both in my environment it's not quite as horrible as you make it to be.
In one way I've conceptually thought of a Celerra filesystem == a NetApp aggregate, both were limited to 16TB of space (until recently) and neither could shrink. I have a 600TB NS960 Celerra on the floor and not having to think about balancing aggregate space for volumes on it is very nice. I've only had to shrink a NetApp volume maybe two-three times (trying to fit a new 2TB or so volume into an existing aggregate), generally for our environment all that happens is storage consumption nobody gives back, unless they are completely done at which point we delete the volume. If you really want to shrink it there are a number of easier ways than using host level migration either nas_copy (similar to a qtree snapmirror copying at the file rather than block level) or using CDMS where you point your clients to the new filesystem and it hot-pulls files over on demand (still requires outage to point your clients to new location, but measured in minutes rather than hours)
While not suggested (because you can hurt yourself badly if done wrong) you can move Celerra luns around in the storage array using lun migrator. Caveat is that it needs to be the same drive type, raid type and raid layout else AVM will be confused on the state of the lun. i.e. AVM thinks it's a mirrored FC disk, you migrate it to a raid5 SSD disk, next time AVM queries the storage it will have a lun defined in a mirrored FC pool that has a different characteristic. If you aren't using AVM or are using thin devices from the array this might not be a problem but 99.9% of people don't run that way.
On shrinking a block level pool NetApp has the exact same drawback and they don't talk about it either. You want to shrink an aggregate... how do you do it? You do the same process you mention on the NetApp, drain the entire aggregate, pretty much just as painful. Additionally, if you aren't shrinking the volume on the Celerra you would replicate it to another pool on the same or different NAS head, only if you are shrinking a filesystem would you have to do anything at a per file level.
That's all on the older Celerra NS not the VNX (but at this time they basically have the same feature set, just more power, capacity, etc).
I'd say that the EMC pools with FAST tiering is better than NetApp fixed aggregates, but if you are using both SAN & NAS I'd say that it almost becomes a throw away value. It's nice to have one big storage pool for the array that can go to really huge sizes (100TB is certainly bigger than 16TB it isn't really that huge anymore): I don't have to worry about balancing space, wide striping just happens, etc. That's all great but to use the same thin block pool for SAN & NAS you give up NAS filesystem thin provisioning, you present the NAS head thin luns and create a thick filesystem on it; there is no thin on thin. While not the end of the world as it's still thin provisioned in the backend, nobody really does it. You have 200TB of storage and you want to split it evenly, you generally give 100TB traditional raid luns to NAS AVM pool and 100TB thin pool luns to SAN pool. I haven't explored using a thick provisioned pool lun... but still nobody really does it that way so why bother. With that quantity of storage you still would create 2x 100TB aggregates but there is no issue with mixing and matching NAS & SAN in the same aggregate.
I personally have found them both annoying in their own ways to manage. I'm more CLI type person, but I'd probably put the Unisphere interface higher than NetApp if you like GUI's (the previous version of Celerra manager not so much)
The NetApp is nice in it's similarity to traditional unix file structure: mount vol0; edit exports, quota, netgroup, etc done. It is a bit annoying in that depending upon the change you can't do everything from one location: i.e. change exportfs file, have to login to the filer to activate it. I can copy all those config files somewhere else for backup before I make a change (very nice!) or to apply if I'm moving from filer to filer: replacing filer A with B, copy exports from A to B done. General real-time performance stats are easy to get "login run sysstats -x", detailed not so much.
Celerra you change those values via a command which is rather esoteric, "server_export ...",etc once figured out not a big deal, but it's not as obvious as exports line. It's nice in that everything is done from the same system, login to the control station issue whatever command done, don't have to ssh into the NAS head to do anything. Having said that if you are using scripts for things because most everything is a command it makes things very simple. Don't have to edit a file, ssh in anywhere run a script and it's just done which for our environment with thousands of clients and petabytes of storage is very, very nice. Detailed real-time performance stats are very easily accessible via, "server_stat".
They both suck in long term performance stats without adding on additional packages, they both suck in finding out oversubscription rates with qtrees, etc.
Having read all these posts I feel compelled to respond. I have used all flavors of both the Netapps and EMC... The Netapp 2040 does compete with the EMC configuration. However, a 2240-4 or 2240-2 have ultra attractive price points these days. One thing I would like to say about day to day tasks on the EMC vs the Netapp is that I do observe most things being easier and more central on the Netapp. EMC's unisphere has bridged the gap to some respect, but Netapp is still ahead of the curve. Not too long ago I used a Celerra NS-120 backended by clariion CX4-120's. Most folks in a virtual environment are looking to leverage storage efficiencies and by and large the NAS portion of the devices. The Celerra consistently had issues with both replication and NFS. By issues I mean the head on the Celerra would kernel panic becuase of the NFS mounts and fail over to the other head. Talk about unacceptable. To further add to the pain; EMC admitted the issue and said there was no fix or workaround yet available. Also, they went further to say there was no projected date to alleviate the problem and their work around was to present via the clariion portion and use fiber channel. Really? Why did I WASTE money on a NAS head if all it could do were SAN operations effectively? To my knowledge EMC has now remediated these issues. However, how much confidence does this give me in EMC? Answer, NONE! EMC has a solid SAN that solidly replicates. As far as NAS and deduplication; NEVER AGAIN.
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First of all to remove any confusion, you should know that I am 100% in favor of EMC, that's what I sell, but that does not mean I cannot talk positive about other vendors, especially NetApp whom I always highlight as one of the 2 single best positioned
storage vendors for example for VMware projects (besides EMC off course).
A number of replies above resemble more a consumer Mac vs Windows forum, where it seems very important to create FUD, playing with the truth.
For example:
- FAST and FAST Cache not working with NFS: Not true, it does work with NFS
- FAST Cache having the same approach as NetApp Flash Cache: Not true, FAST Cache accelerates read and write I/O's, where Flash Cache accelerates read I/O's
- When replying on why it is not possible with NetApp to "tiering without PAM" the answer is; "we don't need automated tiering as caching is better". Come on, automated tiering is true almost in every case.
- then the dialog starts on routing cables ...
Whether EMC's FAST and/or FAST Cache makes sense or not, depends on the customer requirements, which can be identified true dialog and cooperation. I urge you all to read the article from the below
link on relevant usecases for FAST and/or FAST Cache and when NOT. Also I fully support the author to never go negative on the other guy, and I believe strongly in that to focus on how you're offering can
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I have to admit that I fell in love when I first saw it hanging in my music store. The flamed top is so nice! I plugged it in a SWR amp there, and the magic came out of it. The tone is so hot!! I love that "jazz bass" sound. Passive or active, it sounds good either ways.
I own it since a month now, and I think the oil finish on the neck is a little bit sticky, I need to rub it frequently... I suppose that the sticky effect will go away with time, but for now, it is a little annoying.
My biggest deception is under the pickguard: it is routed! I couldn't believe it when I removed the pickguard: I wanted to expose more of that marvelous flamed top, but under the pickguard, there's a big hole all around the neck pickup, and a route between the neck pickup and the electronics under the knobs plate. I cannot believe that Fender produces instruments like this one in the Select class, and don't make an effort on this. Since there is a layer on top for the maple flamed top, this could have been done easily. I'm really disappointed of this.
On the neck, I wish it had a binding, or the nice contoured heel, like the one on the Select Stratocaster HSS. But I like the nice rosewood finish and I'm really glad that Fender put the square pearl inlays marquers, it looks so good!
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|Model Name:
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|Body Material:
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|Number of Frets:
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|Position Inlays:
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|Truss Rods:
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|Neck Plate:
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|Neck Pickup:
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|Master Volume, Pan Control, Three-Band Active EQ with Treble Boost/Cut, Bass Boost/Cut and Mid Boost/Cut
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The Cleveland Cavaliers look to extend their longest winning streak since 2010 to six games when they host the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night. The Cavaliers rolled at Philadelphia 114-85 on Tuesday, scoring at least 109 for the third time during their run, but third-leading scorer Dion Waiters suffered a hyperextended left knee on a dunk and will be examined Wednesday. The Magic lost at Milwaukee 104-100 on Tuesday and are a league-worst 3-24 on the road.All Star Game MVP Kyrie Irving scored 14 points in the victory over Philadelphia and was one of seven Cavaliers scoring in double figures. The last time Orlando visited Cleveland on Jan. 2, it blew a nine-point lead in the final minute of regulation and lost 87-81 in overtime. The Magic had wins over both conference leaders before the break at home and lost to the team with the worst record Tuesday despite shooting 50 percent from the field.TV: 7 p.m. ET, FSN Florida (Orlando), FSN Ohio (Cleveland)ABOUT THE MAGIC (16-39): After a pair of off nights, leading scorer Arron Afflalo (19.4) regained his shooting touch by recording 21 points on 9-of-15 shooting against Milwaukee. Center Nikola Vucevic is averaging 14.8 points and 9.8 boards in nine games since returning from a concussion and was one rebound short Tuesday of his seventh double-double in that span. Reserve guard E'Twaun Moore took advantage of extra playing time to score a season-high 17 points against Milwaukee, one shy of his career best.ABOUT THE CAVALIERS (21-33): Center Anderson Varejao sat out his third straight game with a sore back Tuesday and Tyler Zeller responded by scoring a season-high 18 points and grabbing a career-best 15 rebounds. Zeller's emergence and the improvement of 2013 first-overall pick Anthony Bennett, who has scored in double figures four of the last seven games, gives the Cavaliers more weapons. Irving averages 21.3 points overall while Waiters and Luol Deng each score more than 14 per games for a suddenly potent offense.BUZZER BEATERS1. Cleveland is scoring 105.3 points per game over the last seven - more than eight above its season average.2. Orlando G Jameer Nelson needs 12 points to pass Shaquille O'Neal (8,019) for fourth on the franchise' all-time scoring list.3. The Cavaliers have won the last five meetings by an average of 11.2 points, including both this season. PREDICTION: Cavaliers 101, Magic 94
Preview: Magic at Cavaliers
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