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Unlock the Business Value of Spaces Direct with Western Digital and DataON

Global Storage Solutions Leader with Broad Diversification, Significant Scale and Growth Potential

Successful Transformation

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• Successful operational integration

• World class leadership team

• Strong customer and partner engagement

• Synergy realization

WesternDigital

HGST

Industry’s Largest Storage Solutions CompanyLTM Revenue1

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Source: Company website; Public filings; analyst reports; S&P Capital IQ1 Last 4 quarters ending Sep 30, 2016 for WDC, Seagate, Toshiba, Samsung, Micron and SK Hynix; ending Oct 1, 2016 for Intel; ending Oct 28, 2016 for NetApp; and ending Jun 30, 2016 for EMC2 For the LTM, Toshiba revenue converted to USD at an average exchange rate of 111.78 JPY/USD; Samsung and SK Hynix revenue converted to USD at an average exchange rate of 1160.00 KRW/USD3 Includes Non-Volatile Memory (Trade and Non-Trade) and Other

Non-Volatile Memory

NAND 2 Storage and Memory 2

Pro-formaIncluding SanDisk

NAND2Non-Volatile Memory 3

InformationStorage

$17.7B

$15.9B

$11.7B $11.1B $11.0B

$5.4B $5.2B$3.4B

$2.4B

Dell EMC Samsung Toshiba Seagate NetApp Micron SK Hynix Intel

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Client Devices

Client Solutions

Data Center Devices & Solutions

Leadership Across a Broad Range of Products & Solutions

Interface Performance

Tiered Storage with Spaces Direct

Flexibility – select the best storage configuration

Capacity Price

Interface Performance

Tiered Storage with Spaces Direct

Flexibility – select the best storage configuration

Capacity Price

Interface Performance

Tiered Storage with Spaces Direct

Flexibility – select the best storage configuration

Capacity Price

Interface Performance

Tiered Storage with Spaces Direct

Flexibility – select the best storage configuration

Capacity Price

• Performance optimized

- All NVMe™ – Lowest latency NVMe solution with “Essential” NVMe

- NVMe SSD Cache – High performance, high endurance SSDs

- SSD capacity – NVMe performance with SATA-like pricing

Tiered Storage with Spaces Direct Examples

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Performance

• Capacity optimized

- NVMe & HDD – Cached data for fast reads, process writes at SSD speed

- SSD & HDD – Cost optimized by using 12TB HDDs to reach capacity target

- The leading SSD/HDD products from one vendor

Tiered Storage with Spaces Direct Examples

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Capacity

S2D Solutions - More Impact for Your Deployments

• If you can achieve 3x more workloads on your current host server• How does that impact your CapEx?

• If you can get SSD performance at a fraction of the cost • How does that impact your SLAs

• If your software licenses support 3x more workloads• How does that impact your ROI?

• If your power and cooling are further reduced• How does that impact your environmental goals?

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3X

Flexibility = Choice

• Optimize your Spaces Direct configuration to match your workload

• Choose the right enterprise HDDs and SSDs to meet your needs- Western Digital’s broad product portfolio includes every product you’ll need

• Take advantage of the inherent reliability and QoS features from within Spaces Direct

• DataON brings it all together for you- Long standing relationship, valued for their dedication in providing new

Windows solutions based upon 2012 Storage Spaces and now 2016 Spaces Direct solutions

- Western Digital is pleased to have DataON in our booth, demonstrating a system populated entirely with Western Digital storage products, using our 2nd gen NVMe SSD Ultrastar® SN200 and Ultrastar He10 HDD featuring 3rd-gen HelioSeal® technology

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Flexibility

Storage Spaces Direct and Health Services overview

DataON – The Certified Microsoft PlatformHoward Lo, DataON

About DataON Storage

• Founded in 1987

• A pioneer of cluster-aware storage platforms

• Industry-leading provider of Microsoft-optimized storage cluster systems and hyper-converged appliances (HCCA) for Windows Server

Focused on MicrosoftAbout DataON

EXCLUSIVELYfocused on customers who have made the “Microsoft choice”

Over 500 Windows Server

2012 R2 deployments

All products are Windows Server

2016 certified

Trusted Provider of Microsoft SolutionsAbout DataON

Customer Deployments (500+) New Customers 2H16

DataON – The Microsoft Platform Strategy

• DataON and Microsoft share a common software-defined data center (SDDC) strategy• Windows Server 2016 certified

• Microsoft Azure Stack ready

• DataON has a complete Microsoft SDDC roadmap • Scale out with S2D Family

• Scale Up with CiB & DNS Families

• Advanced Windows Server platform management• MUST infrastructure visibility and

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Azure & Windows Server 2016 Hyper-Converged

Windows Server 2016 and 2012R2 Shared Storage

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S2D-3110• NMVe SSD• 1U HCCA

CiB-9112• Tiered Storage SSD/HDD• 2U/Dual CPU

S2D-3240• NVMe & SATA SSD • 2U 4Nodes • HCCA/24 Drives

CIB-9473• Capacity HDD• 4U/Dual CPU

CiB-9124• All SSD• 2U/Dual CPU

DNS-2608• Capacity HDD• 4U/ SoFS

S2D-3224• NVME, SATA SSD & SAS HDD • 2U HCCA w/ 24 drives per node

S2D-3212• SAS SSD & SAS HDD• 2U HCCA

DataON Portfolio

Shared StorageCluster-in-a-Box

CiB Series

EnterpriseJBOD Enclosures

DNS Series

Hyper-convergedS2D Platform

S2D Series

Category Hyper-Converged Standard

CPU Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 Family

HBA Avago SAS3008

RDMA Yes

TPM 2.0 Yes

SKU DataON S2D-3110 DataON S2D-3224 DataON S2D-3212

Availability November 1, 2016 December 1, 2016 December 1, 2016

Category Hyper-Converged Premium Hyper-Converged or Disaggregated SDS (Storage) Hyper-Converged or Disaggregated SDS (Storage)

Profile All-Flash (IOP & Performance Optimized) Hybrid (Balanced IOP & Density Optimized) Hybrid (Performance & Capacity Optimized)

Scale / Form Factor 4 Nodes / 1U Rack Server 4 Nodes / 2U Rack Server 4 Nodes / 2U Rack Server

Memory 128GB to 512GB per node 128GB to 512GB per node 128GB to 512GB per node

PCIe 3.0 Slots (2)x8 Mezzanine, (2)x8 LP MD-2 (6)PCIe 3.0 x 8 (3)x8, (1)x16; (2)x8 Mezzanine

NIC 2x40GbE RDMA NIC (RoCE/iWARP) 2x40GbE RDMA NIC (RoCE/iWARP) 2x40GbE RDMA NIC (RoCE/iWARP)

Drives (Per Node) Type Qty. Size Description Type Qty. Size Description Type Qty. Size Description

Cache NVMeSSD

2 2.5” 800 GB Low-Latency and High Endurance

NVMe SSD 4 2.5” 800 GB Low-Latency and High Endurance

NVMe SSD 2 2.5” 800 GB Low-Latency and High Endurance

Capacity NVMeSSD

8 2.5” 2 TBStandard-Endurance

SATA SSD 20 2.5” 2TB Data Center SSD SAS HDD 12 3.5” 10TBData Center SSD / Enterprise HDD

Exclusively focused on Microsoft

2.4M IOPS in VMFleet with 4-

node configurations

All flash NVMe offerings

Customer-proven with 500+ Enterprise

deployments

Highest capacity per density in 1U

form factor

DataON MUST visibility and management

S2D-3110IOP & Performance Optimized

• Windows Server 2016 Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)

• Hyper-Converged Standard• DataON All Flash NVME SSD Platform

(Endurance & Capacity)• 5x S2D-3110 Nodes

• Fault Tolerance = 2• 3-Way Mirror ~ 20%• MRV Efficiency ~ 47%• Usable Capacity ~ 44TB

• Benefits• Achieve 2.4 million IOPs• Support 40+ VM for Hyper-V• Leverage SMB 3.0 over RDMA

for low latency and CPU efficiency

• MUST Infrastructure Visibility and Management

MUST Management Utility Software Tool

Single pane of glass for monitoring your

Windows Server 2016 storage platform

Full integration with Windows Storage Health Service API

Mobile-friendlyuser interface

DataON MUSTVisibility & Management Tool

• Dashboard Level Metrics • Clusters, nodes and volumes• IOPS, latency, throughput• Resource monitoring (CPUs, memory and

storage pool allocations)• Volume level details (efficiencies, average

reads and writes, I/O sizes)

• System Alerts based on Health Services Faults• Hardware failure, configuration and

resource saturation• Multi-level assessment based fault

descriptions• Build-in root-cause analysis and monitoring

• SAN-like Call Home Server Support• Automated email alerts to administrators

including SNMP • Disk replacement services based on

categorization

• OOBE (Out-of-Box Experience) Wizard• Cluster configuration and setup• User account aggregation, domain creation• Performance tuning engine for optimizing

S2D cluster performance

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Remember 3 Things!

DataON isEXCLUSIVELY FOCUSED

on Microsoft SDDC

DataON’s S2D storage solutions are certified with Server

2012 & 2016

DataON MUST provides simple and

insightful visibility for a DataON/Microsoft

SDDC