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CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION. Storage is Growing At an Unsustainable Rate. Data Grows 60 % per Year. Businesses have to manage, access, share, and protect their data. 1.2 ZB. Empower Your Business to Win the Storage Battle.

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CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

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  1. CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

  2. Storage is Growing At an Unsustainable Rate

  3. Data Grows 60% per Year Businesses have to manage, access, share, and protect their data 1.2 ZB

  4. Empower Your Business to Win the Storage Battle STOPCOMPROMISING YOUR PERFORMANCE

  5. Empower Your Storage ForNon-Stop Business Operations

  6. STOPCOMPROMISING YOUR PERFORMANCE Free Your Business From The Hardware Trap Lock-in

  7. Empower Your Storage for Business Performance STOPCOMPROMISING YOUR PERFORMANCE

  8. Challenges of Storage Architectures • Applications are becoming more demanding • Server/desktop virtualization creates bottlenecks Performance • Low utilization of storage • Hardware maintenance and refresh cycles are a pain Costs • Heterogeneous storage management is non-existent • Planned downtime is impossible • Vendor lock-in cripples innovation Management

  9. The Typical Solution? MORE Incompatible Hardware

  10. Why Software-defined Storage? In theory, software should be able to do a few things… 1 2 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another Separate advances in software from advances in hardware 3 4 Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management

  11. The DataCore Vision DataCore is committed to creating an enduring and dynamic software-driven storage architectureliberating storage from static hardware-based limitations “ “ George Teixeira DataCore CEO 1998

  12. DataCore Overview • Global leader in software-defined storage • Over 28,000 deployments world-wide • Flagship product is our hardened 10thgeneration virtualization platform • Privately held and profitable for 15 years

  13. Virtualization Users Desktop Hypervisor Apps Server Hypervisor Storage Hypervisor Disks

  14. A Better Solution Has Emerged The DataCore Software-defined Storage Solution • Runs on x86 servers • Sits in the data path between applications/users and storage hardware • DataCore nodes operate synchronously leaving no single point of failure

  15. Core Benefits 3x Capacity Utilization Eliminate planned and unplanned downtime 3-5x Performance Increase

  16. Feature Rich Storage Control • 15 years of development into a complete set of storage services • No other vendor provides these in a hardware agnostic, universally compatible format

  17. Technology Highlights Automatically tier shared storage resources 3-5x performance on existing storage Eliminate Planned and Unplanned Downtime Investment protection

  18. Long-term Investment Protection ? Inexpensive or EOLStorage MidrangeArrays INVESTMENT PROTECTION High-endArrays Flash / SSDs Future devices • Repurpose aging storage systems • Leverage whiteboxor JBOD devices • Complete set of cross-platform storage services • Avoid vendor lock-in and costly forklift upgrades • Centralize storage management • Easily take advantage of advances in hardware technology 19

  19. Long-term Investment Protection Software Intelligence→ Features INVESTMENT PROTECTION Hardware Components→ Storage space (Source: IHS iSuppliResearch, August 2012)

  20. Long-term Investment Protection Software ABSTRACTION LAYER INVESTMENT PROTECTION Hardware

  21. Long-term Investment Protection ABSTRACTION LAYER INVESTMENT PROTECTION

  22. Cross-Platform, Metro-wide Synchronous Mirroring • Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems • Replicate, failover and failback between unlike platforms • Seamlessly move data from one platform to another SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

  23. Transparent Failover Preferred Path down Automatic switchtoalternate Path ABSTRACTION LAYER Virtualization Layer active active SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY) Synchronous Mirror Pooling, Thin Provisioning,Auto Tiering • Pooling, Thin Provisioning,Auto Tiering 24 several Kilometers

  24. Transparent Failback Automatic Switch back topreferredpath Path goes active active active SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY) Synchronous Mirror Re-Synchronisation Pooling, Thin Provisioning,Auto Tiering Pooling, Thin Provisioning,Auto Tiering several Kilometers

  25. Writes in synchronousmirroring “Virtual Disk” Host • Separate hardware • Different Location • Independent Power • Independent Cooling • Separate UPS 1 SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY) Active Partner SynchronousMirroring 4 2 Node A Node B 3 6 5 Cache Cache Mirror (P) Mirror (S)

  26. Automatic and transparent failover “Virtual Disk” Host Preferred Alternate MPIO 1 1 SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY) Offline Partner Retry 4 3 Node A Node B Out-of-Sync Log Updates 2 Cache Cache Mirror (S) Mirror (P)

  27. Resynchronisation of a mirroreddisks “Virtual Disk” Host Alternate MPIO Send all modified blocks SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY) Online Partner Node A Node B Out-of-Sync Log Updates Cache Cache Mirror (S) Mirror (P)

  28. Back to initial state “Virtual Disk” Host MPIO Preferred Alternate SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY) OFF Active Partner SynchronousMirroring Node A Node B Cache Cache Mirror (S) Mirror (P)

  29. Dramatic Productivity Improvements Reduce unproductive hours spent on: • Data Migrations • Hardware Refreshes • Capacity Expansion • Hardware Maintenance • Unexpected Downtime With DataCore Before “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 62% 23% % of time spent on routine storage tasks

  30. Replication for DR Room 1 Room 2 Cluster DR Site Active Active Asynchronousreplication synchronousmirror

  31. Veryfast initial state return Room 1 Room 2 DR Site Up to date Reverse the réplication Out of date Up to date

  32. Snapshotand CDP Le snapshotis a pictureat a given time (Point In Time) Le CDP islike a videowithrecorded pointers (Timeshifting) SNAPSHOTS CDP 8h00 16h 20h 5 AM 6 AM

  33. Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources Create up to 15 tiers of storage Tier n Tier 0 Tier 1 Tier 2 AUTO-TIERING Hot Warm Cold Archive Aboveaveragemovesup a tier Below averagemoves down a tier Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers

  34. Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage • On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage With DataCore Before 15 TB 15 TB AUTO-TIERING Forced to use Flash 1/3 Needs Flash 2/3 canuseexistingdisk 15 TB of Flash! 5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk

  35. Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage • On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage With DataCore Before 5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk At €5,000 x TB = € savings Same data requires 10TB less Flash storage 15 TB of Flash! AUTO-TIERING

  36. 3-5x performance on existing storage • 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 HIGH SPEED CACHING

  37. Avg. Response (µS) DataCore L1 Cache <20 Array L2 Cache 250 – 300 Disk Drive 4000 – 6000 CPU CPU HIGH SPEED CACHING Up to 1 TB cache on DataCore Hypervisor Output from Cache Poll for Input WriteCoalesce • CachedArray • CachedArray • Un-cachedArray CPU CPU Disk Subsystems High-SpeedLevel 1 Caching Pre-fetch

  38. Cluster WriteCoalesce Pre-fetch HIGH SPEED CACHING Cache Cache Writes Reads Writes Reads Miroir Synchrone

  39. Do We Really Need Flash? • 5x Performance from existing disk-based storage With DataCore Before 15 TB 15 TB HIGH SPEED CACHING Forced to use Flash 0% need Flash 100% canuseexistingdisk 15 TB of Flash! 0 TB of Flash + 15 TB disk

  40. Do We Really Need Flash? • 5x Performance from existing disk-based storage With DataCore Before At €5,000 x TB = €savings Same data requires NO Flash storage at all 15 TB of Flash! 15 TB disk HIGH SPEED CACHING

  41. Benefits of DataCore Software Defined Storage Automatically tier shared storage resources 3-5x performance on existing storage Heterogeneous storage replication and failover Investment protection

  42. Addressing Storage Challenges • 3-5x performance on existing storage hardware • Seamlessly integrate Flash and other high-performance technologies Performance • 3x utilization • Decreases dependence on hardware vendor • Long-term investment protection Costs • Simple, centralized management • Cross-platform storage services Management

  43. Adaptivegrowth • SCALE UP • Larger Platforms , more efficient • More ports, processors and cache • SCALE OUT • Nodes • IOPS • Physicalseparation • Consolidate over long distances

  44. Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN VIRTUAL SAN

  45. Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN • Runs as a virtual machine on any application server VIRTUAL SAN

  46. Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN • Dramatically increase performance • Minimize flash/SSD investments • Auto-tier between DRAM, flash and disk Virtual SAN VIRTUAL SAN Full DataCoreFeature Set

  47. Federate Virtual SAN with Physical SAN • Auto-tier between virtual and physical SAN • Sync/ASync replicate between sites • Add resources only where you need them Virtual SAN VIRTUAL SAN

  48. When to get started with SDS Before your next storage purchase Using or considering flash/SSDs Prior to any data migration projects

  49. QUESTIONS? Contact: info@datacore.com www.datacore.com

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