Introducing

SUSE® Enterprise Storage v2

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Today's Enterprise Storage Challenges

• Challenged to manage information explosion

• Asked to manage flat or declining budgets

• Constrained by integration and management complexity

• Locked in to expensive proprietary storage hardware

• Driven to improve service-level agreements

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Today’s Data Center Challenges

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Enterprise Storage are demanding

• Differentiated “Tiered” Information

– Timely identification, classification and efficient

placement of data

• Software-based Storage (OPEX)

– Open, extensible, unified and simple

• Industry-standard Hardware Building Blocks (CAPEX)

– Commodity off-the-shelf servers and drives

The challenge laid down by today’s CIO is to get the right data,

in the right place, at the right cost .

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Enterprise Data Capacity Utilization

50-60%of Enterprise

Data

20-25%

15-20%

1-3%

Tier 0

Ultra High

Performance

Tier 1

High-value, OLTP,

Revenue Generating

Tier 2

Backup/Recovery,

Reference Data,

Bulk Data

Tier 3

Object, Archive,

Compliance Archive,

Long-term Retention

Source: Horison Information Strategies - Fred Moore

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SUSE Enterprise Storage 2

A highly scalable and resilient software-based

storage solution that enables organizations of

any size to build cost-efficient, highly scalable

storage using off-the-shelf servers and disk

drives.

It is self-managing and delivers storage

functionality comparable to mid / high-end

storage products at a fraction of the cost.

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SUSE Storage Product Positioning

JBOD Storage

Mid-rangeArray

Mid-rangeNAS

High-endDisk Array

SUSE EnterpriseStorage

Fully FeaturedNAS Device

Entry-levelDisk Array

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SUSE Enterprise Storage

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Features aligned with Enterprise needs

• Unlimited scalability

• Self repairing

• Cache tiering for

performance

• Thin provisioning for

optimized utilization

• Copy-on-write clones for

application rollback

• Erasure coding for

space-efficient resilience

• Unified object and

block access

• No disruptive scalability of

capacity online

• Heterogeneous operating

system access

• Data "at rest" encryption

• Rolling upgrades

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SUSE Enterprise Storage Object Storage

Use Case:

Object Storage (Bulk)‒Use RESTful APIs

‒(Swift or Amazon S3)

‒Provide On Premise cloud storage

‒Similar/lower cost than AWS (Amazon)

High Density Deployment

‒Use Erasure Coding for redundancy

‒High capacity storage enclosure

LOW FUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

Video Audio

BigData

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

DRTarget

BulkStorage

VM-Aware

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SUSE Enterprise Storage Archive Storage

Use Case:

Archive Storage (Block or Object)

•Cold storage or active archive•Medical records

•Email archive

•Use customer's backup software•Veritas NetBackup

•CommVault Simpana

High Density Deployment

‒Erasure Coding for redundancy

‒Cache Tiering for cost efficient performance

‒Background data scrubbing

LOW FUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

Video Audio

BigData

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

DRTarget

BulkStorage

VM-Aware

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SUSE Enterprise Storage Bulk Storage

Use Case:

Bulk Storage (Block)‒Use as VERY LARGE disk or array

‒iSCSI heterogeneous access‒Windows, VMware, Linux, etc

‒Examples:‒Windows file store

‒General purpose block storage

Standard Capacity Deployment

‒Replicated copies for redundancy

‒Standard capacity storage enclosure

LOW FUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

Video Audio

BigData

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

DRTarget

BulkStorage

VM-Aware

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SUSE Enterprise Storage Data Backup

Use Case:

Data Backup (Block)‒Disk-2-disk copy

‒Very fast copy for short backup window

‒Replace existing mid-range array

Standard Capacity Deployment

‒Replicated copies for redundancy

‒Standard capacity storage enclosure

LOW FUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

Video Audio

BigData

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

DRTarget

BulkStorage

VM-Aware

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SUSE Enterprise Storage VM Repository or Data Store

Use Case:

VM Data Store (Block or Object)‒General block or object storage

‒Native KVM driver

‒ISCSI heterogeneous OS support ‒VMWare

‒Hyper-V

Standard Capacity Deployment

‒Replicated copies for redundancy

‒Standard capacity storage enclosure

LOW FUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

Video Audio

BigData

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

DRTarget

BulkStorage

VM-Aware

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SUSE Enterprise Storage Rich Media – Video/Audio

Use Case:

Rich Media‒Example:

‒Video streaming

‒Audio streaming

Tiered Deployment

Use Cache Tiering‒Active data in performance tier

‒Inactive data stored in capacity tier

LOW FUNCTIONALITY

HIGHFUNCTIONALITY

ObjectStorage

ArchiveStorage

DataBackup

Video Audio

BigData

DataAnalytics

OLTP

CRMERP

Email

HPC

ComplianceArchive

CAPACITYOPTIMIZED

PERFORMANCEOPTIMIZED

DRTarget

BulkStorage

VM-Aware

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SUSE Enterprise Storage Business Benefits

SAVINGS: Total cost of ownership

‒ Improved Storage CAPEX expenditure

‒ Reduced Storage OPEX expenditure

FLEXIBILITY: Adaptable to evolving business needs

‒ Reduced dependency upon proprietary “Locked In” storage solution

CONFIDENCE: Reliability and Availability

‒ Leverage SUSE world-class support and services

‒ Proven engineering expertise

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SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 - New Pricing

SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 Starting Bundle –

Priority Subscription: $10,000

SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 and limited use of SUSE Linux Enterprise

Server to provide:

– 4 SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 storage nodes

– 3 - 5 SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 monitor nodes

– 1 SUSE Enterprise Storage management node

SUSE Enterprise Storage Expansion Node –

Priority Subscription : $2,300

– Includes limited use of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

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The Bottom Line

• SUSE is the right kind of company, and SUSE Enterprise

Storage 2 is the right product to address the exploding cost

of bulk storage with a low-risk approach.

The general availability of open source based, software-

defined storage from SUSE marks the beginning of a new

era of much more agile, scalable and cost-effective storage

Software defined storage will displace traditional enterprise

storage as the dominant storage architecture and therefore

creates a strategic imperative for storage IT professionals.

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