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Presented by: [Name of Presenter] [Title of Presenter] TrueSAN Networks, Inc. truesan

The Storage Operating System™. Presented by: [Name of Presenter] [Title of Presenter] TrueSAN Networks, Inc. www.truesan.com. Topics of Discussion. Company Overview Market Trends Our Technology Customer Benefits Summary Beta Program Next Steps. Company Overview.

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  1. The Storage Operating System™ Presented by: [Name of Presenter] [Title of Presenter] TrueSAN Networks, Inc. www.truesan.com

  2. Topics of Discussion • Company Overview • Market Trends • Our Technology • Customer Benefits • Summary • Beta Program • Next Steps

  3. Company Overview FoundedHeadquartersOfficesEmployees June 1999 25 Metro Dr., Suite 300 New York, Texas, 72 San Jose, CA 95110 California, Virginia Industry Storage Management Software Executive Team • Tom Isakovich: Founder, President and CEO [Oracle] • Marc Birnkrant: Chief Operating Officer [NEC] • Jon Auriemma: VP, Operations & Services [Western Digital] • Paul von Stamwitz: VP, Engineering [Adaptec] • Ken Epstein: VP, Sales [SiteSmith] Board of Directors • Tom Isakovich: President and CEO, TrueSAN Networks • Ed Zschau: Former General Manager, IBM Storage Systems • Vincent Occhipinti: Managing Director, Woodside Fund Investors Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse First Boston, QLogic Corporation, Finisar Corporation, Woodside Fund, JT Venture Partners

  4. Market Trends • High complexity and inefficiency are driving up storage management costs. • SANs are being adopted to consolidate storage and gain economies of scale. • But without new software, the ROI benefits of SANs cannot be attained. • Storage management intelligence must converge into the network. • Interoperability across multiple vendors must be available. • Integrating multiple point utilities is not an acceptable solution. • Intelligent, policy-driven management will further extend ROI. • Rapid ROI with minimal IT impact drives purchasing decisions.

  5. Problems & Challenges • SANs promise to reduce management costs through storage consolidation. • But fundamental problems remain • Inefficient utilization of storage hardware assets • Multiple points of management • Lack of interoperability between multi-vendor systems • Inconsistency among non-integrated point utilities • Inadequate data availability • Reactive storage administration • Separate camps battle for control • Host-based software does not deliver centralized management. • Storage system-based software is proprietary to that vendor. • An open and comprehensive network-based platform for storage management is needed to realize the ROI benefits of SANs.

  6. New Software Emerges • Analysts point to new software to tackle storage management challenges. • Storage Virtualization: Provides heterogeneous consolidation of storage assets. 50% CAGR • Storage Resource Management: Provides intelligent reporting tools to identify inefficiencies. 43% CAGR • Storage Network & Device Management: Provides centralized management of heterogeneous storage networks. 36% CAGR • Business Continuance: Provides data protection and disaster tolerance with mirroring and replication. 30% CAGR • While point products exist, none deliver a comprehensive management platform.

  7. Solution: TheStorage Operating System™ TrueSAN has developed a comprehensive, network-based software platform, orStorage Operating System, for maximizing the ROI potential of SANs.

  8. Cloudbreak Business Values • Consolidate storage management • Eliminate multiple points of management • Maximize storage asset utilization • Extend ROI of existing capital investments • Enable interoperability across vendors • Reduce vendor-specific hardware/software costs • Increase data availability • Deploy cost-effective disaster recovery • Forecast future storage requirements • Proactively manage the SAN to reduce downtime • Automate storage administration • Manage more storage with fewer trained staff

  9. Cloudbreak Architecture Through the combination of network-based management software and host-based agents, Cloudbreak provides a single point of management for the entire SAN infrastructure.

  10. Cloudbreak Features • Open Platform • Storage network-based: not storage-resident or host-based • Device independent: storage systems, fabric infrastructure, operating systems • Centrally manageable: one console for end-to-end SAN management • Integrated Platform • Combines essential SAN management technology in a single platform • Robust feature-set including storage virtualization, storage network and device management, business continuance, and storage resource management • Integrated platform and policy manager enable intelligent storage management • Scalable Platform • Distributed I/O architecture maximizes reliability and scalability • Offers rapid implementation without hardware cost and scalability concerns • Maintains integrity of existing service levels without re-architecting the SAN

  11. Cloudbreak Solution Components • Cloudbreak Operating System Provides the core functionality of the Cloudbreak solution • Cloudbreak Server Attaches to the storage network and runs the Cloudbreak Operating System • Cloudbreak Manager Java-based graphical user interface for accessing Cloudbreak’s functionality • Cloudbreak Enabler Host-based software that enables the Cloudbreak management features

  12. Cloudbreak Operating System

  13. Cloudbreak Server • Features: • Runs the Cloudbreak Operating System • Provides a central point of management • Connects to the existing SAN via 2 FC ports per server • Resides out of the data I/O path (can manage any size SAN) • Low cost and upgradeable to support iSCSI • High-availability configuration standard in 2U (2x1U)

  14. Cloudbreak Manager • Single IP address and interface for the Cloudbreak solution • Java-based Graphical User Interface (GUI) • Full Command Line Interface (CLI)

  15. Cloudbreak Enabler

  16. Cloudbreak Virtualization • Virtualization enables users to manage heterogeneous storage devices as a common pool of storage capacity. • Aggregate storage capacity from multiple systems into one centrally managed pool • Maximize utilization and increase productivity with centralized volume management • Overcome proprietary vendor lock-in • Deliver heterogeneous storage management to large scale, diverse storage infrastructures • Storage virtualization will reduce storage costs of ownership by 25%. – Gartner

  17. Improved Storage Utilization • Non-virtualized Storage Model • Leads to over-provisioning… • which results in wasted space… • and excessive upfront investment. • Virtualized Storage Model • No need to over-provision… • with just-in-time capacity allocation… • reducing upfront investment.

  18. Storage-based virtualization • PROs • Centralized management • CONs • Support limited to one system or vendor • Decentralized in multi-vendor scenarios • Expensive and proprietary • Inefficient utilization in large environments Virtualization Approaches Host-based virtualization • PROs • Storage vendor independent • CONs • Decentralized management • Limited operating system support • Costly to deploy • IT personnel resource intensive

  19. SAN Virtualization Approaches Symmetric Virtualization Asymmetric Virtualization • PROs • Host and storage agnostic • Centralized storage management • Good security and application features • CONs • Reduces throughput performance • Creates negative availability impact • Cannot scale easily • Difficult and time-consuming to implement • Expensive hardware required • PROs • Host and storage agnostic • Centralized storage management • Highly scalable without availability impact • Inexpensive hardware required • CONs • May require proprietary HBAs • Creates potential rogue-server security hole • May have limited application and QoS features

  20. Distributed Storage Virtualization • Cloudbreak’s distributed approach • Delivers performance, availability, and cost advantages of asymmetric virtualization • Provides value-added applications and QoS features in addition to enhanced security • Benefits of distributed virtualization • Switch, storage, OS, server, and HBA agnostic • Maximizes scalability and performance • No availability impact • Provides HBA load-balancing and failover • Delivers high security through rogue server protection • Low hardware cost • Quick and elegant implementation • Provides value-added SRM functionality

  21. I/O Sequence of Events • Cloudbreak masks virtualization and value-added functionality from the application • Distributed I/O control prevents any single point from becoming a bottleneck • Application acts as if storage is directly attached • Uses minimal host CPU resources to eliminate need for costly virtualization controllers or proprietary switches • Maintains performance of storage devices • Supports all major server operating systems and clustering applications

  22. Cloudbreak Storage Pooling • Heterogeneous storage pooling • Consolidates heterogeneous storage devices into one logical pool • All storage devices on the storage network can be pooled, even across distances • Dynamic storage pool management • Centrally create and manage multiple storage pools of up to 250TB each • Define each storage pool based on attributes, such as vendor, application, performance, or availability • Expand storage pool capacity with new storage devices on-the-fly • Simple implementation • Allows existing LUNs to be added to the storage pool without reformatting • Offers seamless migration to centralized network storage

  23. Cloudbreak Volume Management • Flexible volume management • Centrally create and manage volumes from storage pools • Quickly allocate volumes to servers on the storage network • Grow volumes on-the-fly from unused storage pool capacity • Decommission volumes and return capacity to the storage pool • Advanced features enhance value • Set shared read/write privileges for clustering or SAN-based file sharing applications • Set single read/write host with multiple read-only hosts for data sharing • Create RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 0/1 volumes • Automatically re-stripe RAID 0 volumes when new capacity is added • Create volumes that span geographies using WDM, IP gateways, etc.

  24. Cloudbreak Business Continuance • Business Continuance applications ensure that mission-critical data is protected and available at all times. • Block snapshot functionality simplifies the backup process • N-way mirroring protects production data by creating multiple and exact copies • Hot copy enables enterprises to quickly “roll back” their data to a previous point-in-time • Remote replication provides a disaster tolerance and recovery plan for your business • The cost of downtime ranges from $330,000 to $3 million per hour. – Gartner

  25. Initiates Snapshot A B Block Snapshot • Log-based block snapshot technology • Point-in-time copy of a live volume • Up to 32 simultaneous snapshots per volume • Snapshots are available within 3 seconds • Supports scheduling of snapshots • Snapshot images can be assigned to multiple hosts • Offers parallel processing of a single source volume image • Simplifies online backup of live databases • Snapshots consume limited physical capacity • Physical blocks consumed only as data on source volume changes • Snapshot does not require free disk space equal to source volume A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A1 A B A1 A B A A A A A A

  26. Initiates 3-way Mirror N-way Mirroring and Hot Copy • Create exact copies of volumes for maximum data protection • Up to 10 concurrent synchronous mirrors per volume • Mirrors can be created in the background • Hot-copy functionality • Create a stand-alone and exact duplicate of a volume at a point in time • Perform backups quickly and without disruption to the production environment • Load or update data warehouses online • Provide production data for application testing processes without downtime • Ensure business continuance through rapid rollback to a last known good state

  27. Remote Replication Initiates Update both Locally & Remote • Synchronous remote replication • Provide disaster protection • Ensures 100% data integrity • Interconnect agnostic • Native Fibre Channel connections • CWDM/DWDM optical • IP/FC Gateways for extended distance • Heterogeneous replication • Replication implemented as part of the storage virtualization layer • Replicate data between multi-vendor storage systems • Replicate source data from primary storage to lower cost secondary storage devices

  28. Cloudbreak SNDM • SNDM (Storage Network & Device Management) enables users to centrally discover, visualize, manage, and monitor storage networks and devices. • Provides a topographical view of the storage network, easing day-to-day management • Maximizes IT administrator productivity by centralizing multi-vendor device management • Provides active monitoring of devices to ensure rapid response to storage availability issues • The market for SAN and device management software is projected to exceed $1.6 billion by the year 2005. – Gartner

  29. SNDM Lifecycle

  30. Device Discovery • Automatic discovery of • Hosts and HBAs • Disk subsystems • Tape devices • Switches • Gateways • Cloudbreak Servers • In-band and out-of-band discovery • IP network • Fibre Channel network • Ensures management remains available even after storage network failure

  31. Storage Network Visualization • Creates a graphical topology map of the SAN • Depicts SAN and LAN interconnects • Indicates connections, server operating systems, and storage device information • Provides raw storage, utilized capacity, and bandwidth data for the entire storage network • Depicts logical relationships • Shows all volumes available to a host • Shows hierarchy information (e.g. where the volume is located by pool and device) • Depicts relationships between volumes such as RAID 0 (striped sets) and RAID 1 (mirrored sets) • Shows volume utilization, allocation, and access privileges for all volumes from one view

  32. Device Management • Provides built-in switch management • Communicates with fabric switch APIs to centralize switch management • Easy to use port or WWN zoning capability • Configure switch name and IP address • View port-level information such as cable type, bandwidth, and connected device • View real-time performance data • View switch information such as power supply, cooling, and temperature data • Easily launch vendor-specific tool if desired • Single interface from which to configure other devices using vendor-specific tools • Disk subsystems • Tape devices • Gateways

  33. Storage Network Monitoring • Provides end-to-end monitoring • Displays in-depth information on connected hosts such as OS, HBA type, WWN, IP address, and more • Monitors health and status of hosts, switches, storage systems, and links • Monitors performance on individual links, switches, or storage network-wide • Provides complete alerting functionality • Fault and error detection • Breach of user-specified thresholds • Error log with timestamps • Color-coding of alerts according to severity • Correlation of errors with the topographical view • Email and pager notification with SNMP support

  34. Enhanced Security • Brings high security to storage networks • Ensures proper authentication of new hosts before allowing access • Overcomes potential “rogue server” breaches • Supplements WWN authentication with MAC address, host name, and IP address verification • Unauthorized hosts are locked-out of the storage network • Authenticated hosts have access only to assigned resources • Provides security level required for shared storage and “storage utility” environments • Secure login to web management • Username and password protection • Automated and warm logout • SSL support • Role-based access control (RBAC)

  35. Cloudbreak SRM • SRM (Storage Resource Management) enables users to understand the utilization and efficiency of storage network resources. • Provides detailed reports and charts of key metrics of the storage network • Performs trend analysis to help administrators strategically plan future IT demand • Offers threshold-based policy management for enabling automated storage management • Maximize utilization and exceed service levels • Manage more storage with fewer people • Storage utilization is 40% or less across a distributed storage environment. – IDC

  36. Knowledge Base and Reporting • Centralized knowledge base • Captures and documents in-depth data about the storage infrastructure • Generates reports, charts, and trends on storage-related activity • Helps enterprises maximize current ROI and plan for the future • Complete capacity management • Reports on utilization at the volume, pool, and entire storage network level • Provides historical and future storage utilization reports and charts • Offers capacity usage reporting based on hosts, operating systems, zones, storage devices, and more • Offers quota management per host

  37. Policies and Automation • Policy-based thresholds and automation • Configure thresholds for utilization or performance • Identify high storage consumption rates and I/O bottlenecks • Set up policy-based automation, such as automatic expansion when a volume is near maximum capacity • Complete integration with other Cloudbreak components • Remote access and alerting • Managed via Cloudbreak Manager • SNMP notification • Charts and reports may be exported as JPEG graphics and Excel files

  38. End-to-end Enterprise Storage Management

  39. Cloudbreak Technology Summary • Distributed storage virtualization • Heterogeneous storage pooling • Centralized volume management • Reliable, scalable, and secure architecture • Business continuance applications • Block snapshot and hot-copy/rollback • N-way synchronous mirroring • Synchronous remote replication for DR • Storage network and device management • Discovery and visualization of the SAN • Centralized management of SAN devices • Health/status/performance monitoring • Storage resource management • Centralized knowledge base • Reporting, charting, and trend analysis capability • Policy-based, intelligent management and automation

  40. Pricing Models • Two pricing plans offer customers flexibility • Storage virtualization and SNDM included in base version • Business continuance and SRM available as options • Software license pricing plan • One-time fee for fixed amount of storage capacity support • $30,000 - $55,000/TB one-time depending on functionality • Annual maintenance contracts (15-25%) • Key-based activation of enhanced features • Provides cost predictability • Software utility pricing plan • Annually recurring fee based on storage capacity usage • $20,000 - $35,000/TB/year depending on functionality • Software maintenance included • Key-based activation of enhanced features • Provides simplicity and optimizes cash flow

  41. TrueSAN Support Programs • Two support plans available: • Standard • Premium • Technical Support Helpdesk provided by TrueSAN personnel • Onsite Field Support provided by IBM Global Services • Standard support plan • 15% of total software license per year • Includes 24 x 7 helpdesk technical support • Includes next business day replacement of Cloudbreak Servers • Premium support plan • 25% of total software license per year • Includes 24 x 7 helpdesk technical support • Includes same day, 4 hour replacement of Cloudbreak Servers • Includes spare Cloudbreak Server at customer site

  42. TrueSAN Partners Program • Enhance the management of products within the Cloudbreak platform • Cooperate on interoperability testing and certification • Co-marketing agreements and endorsement of the TrueSAN solution • Partners currently include Brocade, more to be announced • Storage Systems • To be announced • Fabric Infrastructure • Brocade, more to be announced • Operating Systems • Microsoft, Sun, IBM, HP, SGI • Applications • To be announced

  43. Qualified Environments v. 1.0 • Qualified environments have been tested and approved for use with Cloudbreak in TrueSAN’s SAIL (Storage Applications and Interoperability Lab).

  44. Qualified Environments v. 1.0 cont’d • Qualified environments have been tested and approved for use with Cloudbreak in TrueSAN’s SAIL (Storage Applications and Interoperability Lab). • Server operating systems • Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2 • Windows NT 4.0 SP6a • Solaris 8 • Red Hat Linux 7.1 • IRIX 6.5.x • AIX 4.3.3 • HP/UX 11i • Enterprise applications • Microsoft Exchange • SQL Server • Fibre Channel HBAs • Qlogic 22xx, 23xx • Emulex LP8000 • JNI FC64-1063 • HP Tachlite A5158A • Clustering applications • Microsoft MSCS • Veritas VCS • Backup applications • Veritas NetBackup

  45. Cloudbreak Beta Program • Beta program begins in March 2002 • Receive early access to evaluate upcoming latest technology • Receive close support and product training • Provide valuable feedback to influence actual product functionality • Receive a significant discount on Cloudbreak purchases • End-user Partners • Offer total Cloudbreak solution (OS, Server, Manager, Enabler) • Channel Partners • Resellers, integrators, and professional services providers • Offer total Cloudbreak solution (OS, Server, Manager, Enabler) • OEM Partners • Network infrastructure vendors • Storage system vendors • Offer software-only or co-developed embedded solution

  46. Next Steps • Become a Cloudbreak Beta Partner • End-user Partner • Channel Partner • OEM Partner • Become a TrueSAN Partner • Storage Systems Partner • Fabric Infrastructure Partner • Operating Systems Partner • Applications Partner

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