Sansymphony v10 NOW WITH VIRTUAL SAN

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SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGEIN ACTION

Paul MurphyVice President WW Marketing

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Storage Market in Midst of Disruption

Server Storage

1985 CHALLENGES

Too many incompatible devices

New software for every device

Silos of storage

Management

NASSAN

2000

Server Storage

Hybrid Arrays

Today

NAS SAN

Server Storage

Flash Arrays

Flash

ConvergedSystems

Cloud


3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management

The right software must be able to do a few things…

1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another

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Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy4

Separate advances in software from advances in hardware2


One Software Platform for any Storage Hardware

Accelerate

Centralize & Automate

Pool & Protect


10th generation product

Runs on standard x86 servers

Most comprehensive hardware agnostic storage stack in the industry

25,000+ deployments worldwide

Introducing SANsymphony™-V10

Define Your Storage

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

Continuous Data Protection

NAS/SAN (Unified Storage)

Virtual SAN


Benefits at a Glance

75% 10x 4x 100% 90%reduction in storage

costs

performance increase

capacity utilization

reduction in storage-related

downtime

decrease in time spent on routine

storage tasks

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Use Cases for SANsymphony-V10

Virtualize your existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs with server-attached

storage

Integrate Flash/SSDs with existing storage


Solution Overview


hardware


storage



High-endArrays

MidrangeAppliances

CloudStorage

Flash Arrays

Virtualize External Storage HardwareFUNDAMENTALS OF DATACORE STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

Runs on standard x86 servers

One set of common storage services for all storage devices

All storage capacity in a single pool eliminating wasted capacity

Unlike storage systems communicate seamlessly reducing complexity and preventing downtime

Replicates data leaving no single point of failure

Seamless scalability with no reason to commit to a single hardware manufacturer

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Create up to 15 tiers of storage

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Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers

Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources

Below average moves down a tier

Tier 2 Tier 3Tier 1 Tier n

Hot ColdWarm Archive

Above average moves up a tier


Uses x86-64 CPUs and memory from DataCore nodes as powerful, inexpensive “mega caches”

Run applications at electronic memory speeds vs. slow spinning disks

Intelligently anticipates reads and streamlines writes to optimize performance

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10x performance on existing storage


Faster Apps / IT Advantage


Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems

Replicate, failover and failback between unlike devices

Seamlessly move data from one device to another

Cross-Device Synchronous Mirroring


O H I O

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Easily Connect Between Sites

N E W Y O R K

N E W J E R S E Y

Synchronous-mirroring between data centers

Asynchronous-replication to remote sites

C A L I F O R N I A

T E X A S

Any Application

Any Hypervisor

Any Storage Hardware


Peace of Mind


Solution Overview


hardware


storage



Virtual SAN

Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN

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Runs as a virtual machine on any application server

Pools local storage resources for all to share


Dramatically increase performance

Share Flash cards between application servers

Auto-tier between DRAM, flash and disk

Share capacity across cluster of servers

Speed up apps with DRAM caching

Full feature functionality with Virtual SAN

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Virtual SAN

Comprehensive Feature Set

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling




Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots




Low Cost Storage at Remote Sites and Branch Offices

No need to buy expensive external storage

Runs on any standard server hardware

Increases application performance

Scales up to 1000’s!

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN

Data Center

Central SAN


Massive Scale for Tier 1 Apps and VDI

1 2 5… … 3243

Scale up to

32 PBScale out to

32 nodesAccelerate up to

50 million IOPS


Solution Overview


hardware


storage



INTEGRATION AND MANAGEMENT

How do I integrate this new technology with my existing environment?

What new processes do I need to manage this investment?

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Common Challenges With Flash Storage

AVAILABILITY OF SOFTWARE FEATURES

How do I get the functionality I need like high-availability and failover?

What tools will I have to handle data migrations, tiering and thin provisioning to ensure that I’m making the most of my investment?

SHARING FLASH STORAGE BETWEEN

APPLICATIONS

Do I really need to buy dedicated Flash hardware for every application?


Flash/HDD Hybrid

One Software Platform for any Storage Hardware

The Premier Software Stack for Flash

Flash - SSD and Arrays


Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Storage Pooling




Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots



Virtual SAN


Easy Integration and Sharing of Flash Storage

Flash Cards inDataCore nodes

Flash Arrays in storage pool

Flash Cards in Virtual SAN

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Share Flash between servers and applications

Minimize downtime and risk of integration

Complete set of storage services

Block level auto-tiering

Easily add Flash anytime

Realistic path to all Flashenvironments

High-endArrays

MidrangeAppliances

BulkStorage High-end

Arrays

MidrangeAppliances

FlashArrays


Putting it all together

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Expand beyond limits of application servers

Fast local primary storage & secondary central pool

Same set of services across both topologies

Leverage central storage resources and services

► Replication, backups, etc.,

Managed from same console

Federate Virtual SAN with Physical SANVirtual SAN

High-endArrays

MidrangeAppliances

CloudStorage

Flash Arrays

Existing Physical SAN

CentralStorage Pool


Centrally Managed Environment

Major Data Centers[Central SANs]

Branch Office[Virtual SAN]

Cloud Storage

DisasterRecovery Site[Virtual SAN]

Branch Office[Virtual SAN]


New Economics of Storage Hardware Avoid hardware vendor lock-in Skip costly forklift upgrades Repurpose aging

storage systems Leverage lower cost storage

hardware Massive reduction in planned

downtime Integrate new hardware with

minimal disruption

‘The best hardware refresh is the one we didn’t do’*

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Reduce unproductive hours spent on:

Data Migrations Hardware Refreshes Capacity Expansion Hardware Maintenance Unexpected Downtime

Dramatic Productivity Improvements

62%“In our 24x7 environment, we leverage DataCore to bring in the new SAN, migrate all of the data…without any downtime and within normal business hours.”

Neville LeeDirector of Infrastructure at Englewood Hospital

% of time spent on routine storage tasks

Before With DataCore

23%


Long-term Investment Protection

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Inexpensive or EOL Storage

High-endArrays

MidrangeAppliances

Flash / SSDs

Future devices

?

• Easily take advantage of advances in hardware technology

• Complete set of cross-platform storage services

• Avoid vendor lock-in and costly forklift upgrades

• Centralize storage management

• Repurpose aging storage systems

• Leverage whitebox or JBOD devices


When to get started with SDS

Before your next storage

purchase

Using or considering flash/SSDs

Expanding Server/Desktop Virtualization

Developing yourBusiness

Continuity Plan


Personnel• ~250 people across the globe

Market Segment• Software-Defined Storage

Major Locations• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Headquarters)• Munich, Germany• Paris, France• Reading, UK (European Support Center)• Sophia, Bulgaria• Tokyo, Japan (APAC Support Center)

• Founded 1998• Privately owned• Investors

• Flagship Ventures• Updata Partners• Insight Venture Partners


One Storage Services Platformacross your entire infrastructure

10th generation product 16 Years of R&D 25,000+ deployments worldwide Most comprehensive hardware-agnostic

storage stack in the industry


Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling




Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots




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