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RAID and SAN

RAID and SAN. Mylex Internal-PCI and External RAID solutions for High Performance Servers, Clusters, and Storage Area Networks (SAN). Corporate Summary. Founded in 1983 Headquarters in Fremont, California Publicly traded on NASDAQ as MYLX

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RAID and SAN

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  1. RAID and SAN Mylex Internal-PCI and External RAID solutions for High Performance Servers, Clusters, and Storage Area Networks (SAN)

  2. Corporate Summary • Founded in 1983 • Headquarters in Fremont, California • Publicly traded on NASDAQ as MYLX • #1 Supplier of RAID controllers in the worldwide non-captive marketplace • Shipped over 725,000 RAID controllers to date • $123.6M in revenue in 1997 • Market cap of approx. $200M • 350 employees

  3. Product Strength, Depth and Breadth • Cost Effective PCI RAID Solutions for: • Entry Level Servers • Win/tel based Workstations • High-end Desktop Systems • High Performance PCI RAID Solutions for: • Mid-level Servers • High-end Servers • External RAID Solutions for: • Enterprise Class Servers • Clustering and High Data Availability Applications • Storage Area Networks

  4. Quotes from Industry Leaders Microsoft Corporation “Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition is being used in more and more mission-critical roles. Our mutual customer base will benefit from Mylex’s technology and sophistication in this vital area of system engineering and performance optimization.” Edmund Muth Group Product Manager Intel Corporation “We are excited about the ability of Intel Architecture SHV Server customers to get greater functionality out of their on-board storage devices through the integration of Mylex AcceleRAID products. Hot-Plug PCI, ECC and improved RAID management/expansion support, combined with low cost, position Mylex AcceleRAID products to meet the demands of today’s SHV Server platforms.” John Haas Enterprise Server Group Industry Marketing Manager

  5. Market Leaders • Acer • Amdahl • Andataco • Arrow ICP • Artecon/Storage Dimensions • AT&T • Bell Micro • Bull S.A./NEC • Compaq/DEC • Data General • Fujitsu Japan • Fujitsu ICL • Goldstar • Hitachi • Ideal Hardware • Infodip • Ingram Micro • Innoquest • Intel • Lobster Computer • Lucent • Micron • MTI • NCR • NEC Japan • nStor • Octel • Packard Bell • Procom Technologies • Samsung • Seachange • Sequent • Siemens Nixdorf • Tech-Data • Toshiba • Tulip Computers • Unisys • Wyle Labs • Zenith

  6. DAC-FL • A host independent external RAID controller combining Fibre Channel and Ultra2 SCSI LVD to provide exceptionally high performance with multiple disk drive architectures for extremely large system solutions.

  7. Up to 256 MB Data Cache Dual PCI Bus design 5 1/4” form factor 2 Copper FC-AL host channels Burst cache transfer rates: Up to 97 MB/s per host channel 4 Ultra2 SCSI LVD channels 15 devices per Ultra2 SCSI channel - 60 devices/controller Up to 1.08TB per controller Sustained disk transfer rates: over 52MB/s DAC-FL: Technology Two RISC Processors 2 Fibre Channel loops Ultra2 SCSI

  8. DAC-FL: Hardware Dual RISC Processors (i960RD + i960RD) 256 MB memory 2 FC-AL channels 4 Ultra2 SCSI

  9. RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50 and JBOD Write Through and Write-back or Read-ahead support Onboard Firmware Variable Stripe size per controller Variable Cache Line size per controller Mirrored Cache Clustering Support -- Windows NT, UNIX, SCO UNIX, NetWare Designed to fit in an Industry standard 5 1/4” half-height form factor External RAID: Features

  10. External RAID: Features • Network Security Levels • Guest Access • Admin Access • Online capacity expansion • Remote Instrumentation • DMI • SNMP • SMART Support • SAF-TE and SES enclosure management • Wizard Configuration • Global Array Manager (GAM)™ software • Flash upgradeable F/W • OS-Independent Server API • Performance Monitoring • Controller Statistics • Drive Statistics • Historical Statistics

  11. DAC-FL: Target Applications • Designed for $15K to $150K servers • Departmental to Enterprise NT Servers • Low-end to Mid-Range UNIX Systems • 3,000 to 30,000 IO’s per second • 10’s of GB’s to 10’s of TB’s • Designed for Clusters • NT (Microsoft Cluster Server), NetWare Wolf Mountain and UNIX clusters • Support for Storage Area Networks (SAN) • Active / Active Duplex Configurations • Concurrently operation --> performance • Transparent failover / failback --> non-stop operation • Mirrored cache architecture --> guaranteed data integrity

  12. Product Line Features • Fibre Channel ---> Performance/Scalability • Active-active ---> Performance/Fault Tolerance • Failover/failback ---> Data Availability • Cache mirroring ---> Data Integrity • Ultra2 SCSI LVD ---> Performance/Scalability /Legacy Support

  13. Up to 256 MB Data Cache Dual PCI Bus design 5 1/4” form factor 2 Copper FC-AL host channels Sustained cache transfer rates: Up to 97 MB/s per host channel 5 Ultra SCSI LVD channels 15 devices per Ultra2 SCSI channel - 60 devices/controller Up to 1.08TB per controller Sustained disk transfer rates: over 52MB/s DAC-SF: Technology Two RISC Processors 2 Fibre Channels loops Ultra2 SCSI

  14. 2 or 3 Ultra2 SCSI Channels Up to 4MB Flash EEPROM 32 or 64 MB parity SDRAM + BBU module Up to 3 internal and 3 external SCSI connectors PCI 2.1 compliance Dual Address Cycle PCI Hot Plug > 6000 Random I/O’s > 75 MB/second sustained data transfer rate eXtremeRAID™ 1100 Technology 233 MHz SA 110 Ultra2 SCSI 64 bit PCI

  15. Up to 256 MB Data Cache Dual PCI Bus design 5 1/4” form factor 2 Copper FC-AL host channels Burst cache transfer rates: Up to 189 MB/s 4 Fibre channels to drives 125 devices per Fibre channel - 500 devices/controller Up to 9.0TB per controller DAC-FF: Technology Two RISC Processors 2 Fibre Channels to host 4 Fibre Channels to drives

  16. Simplex Performance and Capacity • PerformanceSX SF FL FFBurst IO’s Per Second 1,800 4,100 4,100 6,000Burst (cache) Bandwidth (MB/s) 45 97 97 194Sustained (disk) Bandwidth (MB/s) 30 52 52 125Note: Sequential read performance, small blocks, no coalescing driver. • StorageSX SF FL FF Disks 75* 90 60 500** Terabytes (9 GB) 7 .8 .5 4.5 Terabytes (18 GB) 1.4 1.6 1.0 9.0* Single host channel **Single ported disks

  17. Duplex Performance and Capacity • PerformanceSX SF FL FFBurst IO/s Per Second 3,600 8,200 8,200 12,000Burst (cache) Bandwidth (MB/s) 90 194 194 388Sustained (disk) Bandwidth (MB/s) 50 100 100 225Notes: 1. Sequential read performance, small blocks, no coalescing driver. 2. Burst rates are 2x simplex configuration. 3. Sustained rates are generally 1.9x simplex configuration (active-active overhead). • StorageSX SF FL FF Disks 70* 94 56 496** Terabytes (9 GB) .6 .8 .5 4.5 Terabytes (18 GB) 1.2 1.6 1.0 9.0* One host channel ** Single ported disks

  18. Entry Level Fiber • Single Node, Single HBA and Host Loop, Dual FL’s FC HBA Port 0 Active Port 1 Active FL Controller 1

  19. Performance Scaling With Fibre • Single Node, Dual HBAs and Host Loops, Dual FLs FC HBA FC HBA FC Hub Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active FL Controller 0 FL Controller 1

  20. Fault Tolerant Fibre I/O • Single Node, Dual HBAs and Host Loops, Dual FLs FC HBA FC HBA FC Hub Port 0 Active Port 1 Inactive Port 0 Active Port 1 Inactive FL Controller 0 FL Controller 1

  21. FC Hub Fault Tolerant Computing - Wolfpack • Dual Nodes, Single HBAs and Host Loops, Dual FLs FC HBA FC HBA Port 0 Active Port 1 Inactive Port 0 Active Port 1 Inactive FL Controller 0 FL Controller 1

  22. Parallel App Clusters - Wolfpack-II • N-Node, Switched Fibre, N-FFs Arrays, FCAL to Disk FC HBA FC HBA FC HBA FC HBA FC Switch Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active FF Controller 0 FF Controller 1 FF Controller 0 FF Controller 1

  23. Parallel App Clusters -- SAN / VIA • N-Node, Switched ServerNet (?), N-FFs Arrays, FCAL to Disk SAN HBA SAN HBA SAN HBA SAN HBA SAN Switch Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active Port 0 Active Port 1 Active FF Controller 0 FF Controller 1 FF Controller 0 FF Controller 1

  24. Mylex RAID for SAN

  25. Mylex RAID for SAN MYLEX: SAN solutions for all your platforms from THE RAID COMPANY!

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