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Storage Solutions 2010

Storage Solutions 2010. By Mark Leedy October, 2009. Agenda Storage – why should you care? Storage primer HDD technology RAID levels & descriptions Storage topologies Nexsan product overview SataBoy SataBeast AutoMAID Sales strategies Conclusion. Storage Solutions 2010.

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  1. Storage Solutions 2010 By Mark Leedy October, 2009

  2. Agenda • Storage – why should you care? • Storage primer • HDD technology • RAID levels & descriptions • Storage topologies • Nexsan product overview • SataBoy • SataBeast • AutoMAID • Sales strategies • Conclusion Storage Solutions 2010

  3. Storage is at the core of what we do… • Capture & transmit Information • Safely store it • Retrieve it upon demand Storage - Why Should You care

  4. Storage demand is outpacing cost reduction • Megapixel cameras will accelerate this trend • Storage vendors are penetrating the DVS market • If you let them take the storage… • You lost half of the deal!!! Storage - Why Should You care

  5. #1 reason why you $hould care… • $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ • Storage represents a huge revenue opportunity for you • Pitch it before someone else does • But how? Storage - Why Should You care

  6. StoragePrimer

  7. HDD & Buss Technologies IDE/ATA SATA – Serial ATA • SCSI- Small Computer • System Interface Fiber channel SAS - Serial Attached SCSI Storage Primer SATA Connector SCSI Connector

  8. RAID Levels • - RAID O Striping, no parity • - RAID 1 Mirroring orDuplexing • -RAID 10 Mirrored striping • -RAID 3 byte-level striping with • dedicated parity disk • -RAID 4 block-level striping with a dedicated parity disk • - RAID 5 Block Striping w/parity - RAID 6 Block Striping w/ dual parity Storage PrimerRAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks)

  9. RAID 0, Striping, no parity (fault tolerance) Storage Primer A B D C E F H G I L J K M N P O Q S R T

  10. RAID 1 - Mirroring or Duplexing Storage Primer A F F A B G G B = = C C H H D I D I E E J J Mirrored Pair Mirrored Pair

  11. RAID 10 (0+1) Mirrored striping Storage Primer A F A F B B G G = C H H C D D I I E J E J Striping Striping Mirroring

  12. RAID 5, Block striping w/distributed parity Storage Primer P Parity Generator Server A0 B0 D0 P3 PARITY C0 P3 PARITY A1 B1 C1 E1 A2 B3 D2 E2 P3 PARITY P3 PARITY A3 C3 D3 E3 B4 C4 E4 P4 PARITY D4 A Blocks B Blocks C Blocks D Blocks E Blocks

  13. Striped set with dual distributed parity • RAID 6 – Block striping, dual parity Storage Primer P Q XOR Parity Generator (P) ECC code Generator (Q) Server P2 PARITY A0 B0 Q0 PARITY C0 P1 PARITY A1 B1 Q1 PARITY E1 P2 PARITY A2 Q2 PARITY D2 E2 P3 PARITY Q3 PARITY C3 D3 E3 P4 PARITY B4 C4 Q4 PARITY D4 A Blocks B Blocks C Blocks D Blocks E Blocks

  14. Software RAID - OS based disk controller • Advantages • Low cost – no hardware requires • Cost effective alternative for small server environments • Disadvantages • Dependant upon OS for all storage functions • Shares CPU processing cycles w/OS and other apps • Proprietary to specific OS • Not scalable to enterprise class data centers Storage PrimerRAID Controllers

  15. Firmware RAID • Driver based disk controller • Uses generic HDD controller with firmware driver set • Sometimes known as “HostRAID” or “fake RAID” • Advantages • Off-loads some processing to HW ASIC • Less costly than HW RAID • Disadvantages • Limited drive selection - Specific to controller • Still requires server CPU to do most RAID processing Storage PrimerRAID Controllers

  16. Hardware RAID - the Gold standard • Advantages • Requires no server/CPU resources • Supports multiple HDD formats • Can support many operating systems • Can support multiple HDD formats • Usually supports non-volatle cache - protects against data loss during loss of power • Disadvantages • Usually higher cost than SW or FW RAID Storage PrimerRAID Controllers

  17. Network Attached Storage (NAS) • NAS is a network appliance which can allow file sharing and storage across the LAN or WAN • NAS stores specific files not blocks of data • NAS resources are identified by drive letter • A NAS Device IS a file server Storage PrimerExternal Storage Topologies Server Server Server Server LAN NAS Device

  18. Network Attached Storage (NAS) • Advantages • Most cost effective external storage topology • Uses existing LAN for connectivity • Can use low cost COTS HW • Disadvantages • Dependant upon LAN for all storage file transfers. • Must run OS based file protocol (NFS…) • Not usually enterprise class for availability • Not highly scalable • Possible CPU choke point in • Not usually good fit for mass data transfer – like DVS Storage PrimerExternal Storage Topologies

  19. Fiber Channel SAN Storage PrimerExternal Storage Topologies LAN Server Server Server Server FC Switch Storage Array

  20. Fiber Channel SAN • Advantages • Very fast block level data transfer • Requires no server/CPU resources • OS agnostic • Highly fault tolerant • Highly scalable • Disadvantages • Higher cost than NAS or DAS • Distance limitations Storage PrimerExternal Storage Topologies

  21. iSCSI SAN Storage PrimerExternal Storage Topologies LAN Server Server Server Server iSCSI over Ethernet GB Ethernet Switch Storage Array

  22. iSCSI SAN • Advantages • Requires no server/CPU resources • Uses standard Ethernet componentry • GB Ethernet & NIC devices • More cost effective than FC in many applications • Highly scalable • Disadvantages • Still subject to certain Ethernet overhead • Not as high throughput or redundancy as FC Fabric Storage Primer External Storage Buss

  23. Storage PrimerExternal Storage Topologies - iSCSI SAN

  24. Cloud computing is one of the hottest buzz words in the computer industry today.  All of the biggest companies -- Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Yahoo -- are trying to jump on it and figure out how to sell it to customers.  However, outages in service have led many to doubt whether the cloud -- offloading storage, computing and other resources to a centralized external location -- is really such a good idea.Microsoft's subsidiary Danger, purchased in 2008, is one of the most extensive adopters of cloud computing.  All customers of the company's Sidekick phones use cloud services from Danger to provide information to contacts, calendars, IM and SMS, media player, and other applications on phone, and conversely to store data from these apps.  The service seemed convenient and efficient.However, Danger has experienced a catastrophic cloud computing failure – starting Friday October 2, customers across the country began to lose their service.  The entire weekend the service remained out, with service finally being restored by Tuesday, October 6.Then came the bad news for Danger's customers -- it had lost all of their data, including personal items like pictures.  States a T-Mobile message to subscribers, "Regrettably, based on Microsoft/Danger’s latest recovery assessment of their systems, we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device – such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos – that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger." Cloud Storage?

  25. Or Thunder Cloud? Microsoft has demonstrated that the dark side of cloud computing has no silver linings. After a major server outage occurred on its watch last weekend, users dependent on the company have just been informed that their personal data and photos "has almost certainly been lost."

  26. Vicon Storage Products for 2010

  27. Shadow Extended Storage NVR • Small form-factor, 2U rack • Up to 6.5TB storage • RAIID protected • 8 hot swap HDDs

  28. Company Nexsan Products • Nexsan was founded in 1999 • Filed IPO in 2008 • Over 25,000 systems sold worldwide into over 60 countries • 9 offices in 7 countries • Proven technology 3rd generation design • Used by leading organizations • Similar size & history as Vicon

  29. Derby, UK plus regional European sales offices • Operations/Tech support • Sales in Norway, Italy, France, Germany • Montreal, Canada • System R&D Nexsan Locations • Thousand Oaks, CA • Headquarters • Regional Sales in CT, FL, NY, CA • Didcot, UK • RAID R&D • San Diego, CA • Operations/Tech support Sales representatives in all major regions Corp. Gen. GA120508-A

  30. Nexsan built the first ATA based raid system • 1999 - First to include a management GUI on board not managed by the host. • 2000 – Create new concept of using disk for backup called D2D • 2001 – First enterprise ATA based RAID system • 2002 - First to do design and ship high density device, vertical drive mount, anti-drive vibration, unrestricted air flow design. • 2001 to 2003 – redundant controllers, hot swap critical parts • 2004 - First to get 10.5T per rack us • First to offer green technology Automaid • First to offer FC and iSCSI on the same system • First hardware RAID 6 Nexsan Firsts

  31. SataBoy Nexsan Products 14 drive SATA RAID system 14TB with 1TB drives Sustained RAID 5 reads 370 MB/s; writes 285 MB/s (with one controller) 2x2x2Gb FC host ports 2x2x1Gb iSCSI host ports Up to 4GB of cache Hardware RAID 6 Multiple RAID types, sets and LUNs2.0) Replaces Infotrend RAIDS

  32. SataBeast - 84TB in 4RU • Highest density in the industry! Nexsan Products

  33. SataBeast Nexsan Products 42 drive SATA RAID system 84TB with 42 2TB drives Anti-vibration design maximizes drive reliability Horizontal mid-plane maximizes airflow Very high performance RAID controllers: 800+ MB/s reads with dual controllers 2x2x4Gb FC host ports 2x2x1Gb iSCSI host ports Up to 4GB of cache Hardware RAID 6 Multiple RAID, types sets and LUNs2.0)

  34. SASBoy - 14 SAS drive bays • SATABoy - 14 SATA drive bays • SATABeast – 42 SATA drive bays • Hardware RAID 6 • Multiple RAID levels • Hot-pluggable • Global hot spare • 3 hot-pluggable fan door • (Cooling door for SATABeast only) Nexsan Beast & BoySystem Architecture • Dual redundant power supplies • Hot-pluggable • Redundant fans • One or two redundant controllers • High performance - hot-pluggable • Each controller equipped with: • 2 redundant 4GB FC ports • 2 redundant 1GB iSCSI ports • Up to 2GB battery protected cache per controller • Auxiliary cooling module • (Cooling module for SATABeast only)

  35. NEXSAN Enclosure Design Drive pair within SAS/SATA Beast chassis – counter positioned • SAS/SATA Beast Anti Vibration • Nexsan patented anti vibration technology prolongs drive life • Drives are positioned in pairs within the SAS/SATA Beast chassis • Drives in a pair are counter positioned to dampen rotational vibration • Drive mounting brackets as designed to act as vibration absorbers • SAS/SATA drive connection to the horizontal mid-plan is designed to eliminate insertion and connection stress • Drives are installed from the top by simply pulling out the Beast and opening the drive access door Drive bottom Drive bottom Drive access door RACK Drive Indicator lights – front and inside Beast Chassis Pulled out on supplied industrial slide rails 35

  36. NEXSAN Enclosure Design • SAS/SATA Beast Special Cooling • SAS/SATA Boy utilizes 4 fans for N+N Cooling • SAS/SATA Beast utilizes 11 fans for N+N Cooling • SAS/SATA Beast does not use a traditional vertical mid-plane common with other drive chassis - Air flow is unrestricted • SAS/SATA Beast has air channels that run between each pair of drives • Fans are controlled by a tachometer monitor • Each drive is separately cooled by the air channels Fan Air Ducts Drive Air Channels 36

  37. Boy and Beast Product Family Simple to Learn and Manage Nexsan NexScan onboard intuitive web/browser based GUI Nexsan Tele-Guard provides standard SNMP and phone home alerts Nexsan WorldView delivers active centralized monitoring of all Nexsan systems Use Nexsan WorldView to simultaneously manage several Nexsan SAS/SATA storage systems

  38. What is MAID? • MAID (massive array of idle disks) • Employs a select group of disk drives • Only drives in active use are spinning • Drives that are not active are not spinning • Slow - takes several minutes to access drives • Reduces power consumption Nexsan Products

  39. Energy savings with application performance “Green with Speed” • Supported on SAS and SATA drives • Three levels of energy savings • Level 1, up to 20% • Level 2, up to 40% (SATA only) • Level 3, up to 60% • Fast response to 1st I/O requests • Level 1, sub-second • Level 2, less than 15 seconds • Level 3, less than 30 seconds • Fast and flexible response broadens use to include a wide range of applications • Save up to 60% in energy costs • Old MAID • Reduces application performance for energy savings • “On-or-off” approach to energy savings • Usually only supported on SATA drives • Minutes to spin up components to respond to IO requests • Slow response confines use to just a few applications Old MAID vsAutoMAID

  40. Level 1: Heads Unloaded 15% to 20% savings vs. idle SATABeast w/o AutoMAID Sub-second recovery time Level 2: Heads Unloaded, slows to 4000 RPM 35% to 45% savings 15 second recovery time Level 3: Stops spinning (sleep mode; powered on) 60% to 75% savings 30 to 45 second recovery time AutoMAID Provides Multiple Power Level Savings 42TB uses 620 watts when idle; drops to less than 250 watts in Level 3 AutoMAID

  41. Nexsan AutoMAID - Annual Energy Cost Savings Energy Costs in $1,000s Energy Costs in $1,000s Source – StorageIO Group – Solutions Brief – MAID 2.0 2008 – reflects 1.3PB of On-line Storage Nexsan Boy and Beast Gen Prod Family Pres GA051608-A

  42. Nexsan is Very Simple to Learn and Manage • Nexsan NexScan onboard intuitive web/browser based GUI • Nexsan Tele-Guard provides standard SNMP and phone home alerts • Nexsan WorldView delivers active centralized monitoring of all Nexsan systems • Secure password protection, LUN marking, access control, and read only volume support Use Nexsan WorldView to simultaneously manage all your Nexsan SAS/SATA storage systems

  43. Nexsan Products

  44. Pivot3 RAIGE is iSCSI storage • Pivot3 Databanks are appliances (servers with internal disk drives) • Databank hardware is manufactured by SuperMicro (Taiwan) • Uses Windows as the operating system • Pivot 3 is a soft RAID configuration ( CPU based process risky) • Pivot3 storage management software is loaded on the Databank appliance • One management station can manage up to 8 Databank appliances • Max capacity per Databank is only 7.2TB • Max capacity for the entire solution is only 82.3TB • Pivot3 Serverless allows Windows based NVR software to directly run on the appliance • How many systems has Pivot3 RAIGE shipped, and to how many customers? • Nexsan has shipped 21,000 systems • in over 60 countries, Nexsanvs Pivot 3

  45. SuperMicro Products Nexsanvs Pivot 3 Pivot3 RAIGE Products

  46. Nexsanvs Pivot 3

  47. Nexsan Technologies Inc. 555 St. Charles Drive Ste 202 Thousand Oaks, CA 9136 Stuart Quirke Director of Strategic Accounts O :805-418-2700 P: 805-418-2714 C: 805-358-8964 E: stuart.quirke@nexsan.com Nexsan Support www.nexsan.com Nexsan Partner site log-in Username: MarkL Password: vicvic If you need help with an opportunity, call me, call your manager; Call Stuart, Call Guy Arazi , Call Huy Lai

  48. Highest Performance • SAS and SATA Drive Technology • FC, SAS and iSCSI Host Connectivity • Highest Performance • Up to 4 hardware RAID engines per system • Enterprise Reliability • 3rd generation design • Over 21,000 systems shipped into 60+ countries • Used by leading organizations– GE, NASA, Agfa, Morgan Keegan • Highest Density • Expand to 42 SAS and/or SATA drives in a single 4U enclosure • Ultra Green • AutoMAID technology saves up to 60% in energy costs • Affordable • Tier 1 storage at a Tier 2 price ConclusionHighest Performance - Highest Capacity – Highest Density

  49. Storage is the biggest component in our bag Storage is at the core of what we do - Capture, Store, Retrieve Vicon now has the top product available How many of these can you sell?? Conclusion

  50. Thank YOU!

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