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StoneFly SCVM

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The StoneFly SCVM Software-Defi ned Unifi ed Storage (SDUS) is a Virtual IP Storage Software Appliance that creates a virtual network storage appliance using the existing resources of your virtual server. This virtual IP storage platform for VMware ESX and ESXi environments provides an advanced, fully-featured iSCSI SAN and NAS within a VMware virtual machine. You will no longer need a separate box for your storage. Create networked IP storage along with your server virtual machines, all on the same hardware platform. Increase productivity, simplify management, and reduce power and rack space requirements while using SCVM with your existing hardware.

By creating a StoneFly iSCSI Target within a VMware virtual server, customers may reallocate existing hardware resources to create a business continuity and disaster recovery solution. StoneFly synchronous mirroring within the datacenter and distributed campus, along with asynchronous replication between remote facilities enables instant disaster recovery and eliminates loss of access to storage during disasters. Of the available data optimization technologies, data deduplication offers the greatest potential to deliver substantial and recurring impact on the cost and manageability of data growth. StoneFly’s optional deduplication technology provides optimized data deduplication for increased storage effi ciency, allowing users to fi t 5x to 137x more data (depending on the data mix) within the same storage footprint with minimal impacts to overall performance.

Other premium services for SCVM installations include StoneFly’s hardware-enabled block level AES 256 volume encryption, thin provisioning with space reclamation, NAS (support for NFS and CIFS protocols), Scale Out NAS, as well as VSS support for databases such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL.

The StoneFly SCVM lowers operational data-center costs and provides a quick RTO (Return to Operation) in the event of a local site failure. In essence, the StoneFly SCVM gives you the ability to create your own “DR Site in a box”.

If you are looking for all of the functionality of a network storage appliance, but lack of budget and space precludes purchasing new hardware, StoneFly SCVM is the only solution you need.

SCVM instances can be clustered to transform your existing server storage into a clustered storage system that is managed as a single SAN. This allows you to use all of VMware ESX’s advanced features that need shared storage. You can use SCVM to provide storage to multiple servers without disruption and you can also increase the storage as needed with no downtime. Easily installed onto any VMware ESX or VMware ESXi server, StoneFly SCVM provides server and storage consolidation with data protection and disaster recovery into a single platform while reducing capital expenditures and operating expenses by shrinking your footprint, reducing power and cooling consumption and simplifying management.

Add StoneFly Storage Concentrator Virtual Machine (SCVM) to your VMware ESXi Server and the possibilities are endless! Reduce your CapEx and OpEx by optimized utilization of servers and storage. Installing StoneFly SCVM for ESXi creates an even more dynamic datacenter by adding these advanced services:

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 Gain the benefi ts of an IP SAN without requiring a

physical SAN infrastructure

 Installs easily on any VMware ESX / ESXi server

with few system requirements

 Provides shared storage for VMware environments

leveraging your server’s current disk storage

 Provides the best in class iSCSI provisioning

storage appliance

 Logical volume creation and patented advanced

storage virtualization services

 200 iSCSI volumes supported with 1022 concurrent

host iSCSI sessions per SCVM

 iSCSI port teaming, failover and load-balancing  Volume-level access control and dynamic volume

management

 Support for iSCSI, SNMP traps, UPS, Nagios, RAID

monitoring and Call Home

 System-wide graphical performance & utilization

reporting; advanced report management

 Automated online volume / storage expansion  Scalable without disruption

 Offers cost-effective disaster recovery using

physical SAN replication to virtual SAN

 Multi-thread block level access to storage  Web-based intuitive user interface

 Multi-SCVM management

 No downtime volume or storage expansion  Easy to deploy and use

 Fully compatible with all StoneFly IP SAN appliances

StoneFusion 7.0 Advanced Feature Package:

 StoneFly snapshot services with 2520 delta-based

snapshots per subsystem

 Mountable read-write snapshot volumes  Command line interface utility

 Snapshot schedule utility

 StoneFly real-time synchronous mirroring of iSCSI

volumes and nodes (campus mirroring)

Multi-site/multi-appliance replication Unifi ed central management system

Tiered storage architecture with hardware and

software support

StoneFusion 7.0 Enterprise Upgrade Options:

 StoneFly active / active clustering services with

host and IP SAN load balancing, seamless failover and failback operations

 Asynchronous replication or mirroring with delta

transfer and schedules

 AES-256 block level volume-based encryption  Thin provisioning with space reclamation  NAS volume support for CIFS & NFS protocols  VSS snapshot agents for Exchange, SharePoint,

backup software, SQL, and other databases StoneFusion 8.0 Enterprise Upgrade Options:

 Data deduplication allowing users to fi t 5x to 137x

more data within the same storage footprint for more effi cient storage optimization

Features and Benefi ts of SCVM Optional Features

SCVM Usages

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Stone

F ly SCVM for ESXi Virtual Software Appliance

• Designed for VMware ESXi environments

• Advanced, fully featured iSCSI SAN/Storage within a VMware ESXi Virtual Machine • Hybrid Replication™ for disaster recovery or backup

• No additional systems required for storage

• Create an iSCSI Virtual Storage Appliance along with Server Virtual Machines, all within the same Hardware • platform

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StoneFly SCVM For LAN Synchronous Replication

• “Next Generation” performance, reliability and high data availability for critical applications • Provides continuous access to a volume without interruption

• Mirror volumes One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-One or any combination • Simpliﬁ ed disaster recovery

• System downtime reduced or eliminated

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StoneFly SCVM For Campus Mirroring

• Mirror volumes across the campus or across town

• “Next Generation” performance, reliability and high data availability for critical applications • Provides continuous access to a volume without interruption

• Mirror volumes One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-One or any combination • Simpliﬁ ed disaster recovery

• System downtime reduced or eliminated

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StoneFly SCVM For Remote Replication To Your DR Site

• Replicate volumes asynchronously

 Continuously or at scheduled intervals  To your hosted DR site

 To your Cloud DR site

• “Next Generation” performance, reliability and data protection for critical applications • Replicate volumes One-to-One, One-to-Many, Many-to-One or any combination • Simpliﬁ ed disaster recovery

• System downtime reduced

StoneFly SCVM™ for ESXi

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The Big Picture

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