Top 10 Biggest Storage Downgrades in 2014

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1 SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE

IN ACTION

Ben Treiber

Director

Strategic Systems Engineering

[email protected]

Richard Drewelow

Sales Director,

Western Region

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2 Personnel

• ~250 people across the globe

Market Segment

• Software-Defined Storage

Major Locations

• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Headquarters & US Support Center)

• Austin, Texas

• Munich, Germany

• Paris, France

• Reading, UK (European Support Center)

• Sophia, Bulgaria

• Tokyo, Japan (APAC Support Center)

• Founded 1998

• Privately owned

• Investors

• Flagship Ventures

• Updata Partners

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3 Storage

Market in Midst of Disruption

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3

Pool

all storage capacity and

provide centralized

management

The right software must be able to do a few things…

1

Enable

different

storage devices to

communicate

with one another

4 Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance,

data migrations, and hardware

refreshes

easy

4

Separate

advances in

software

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5 One Software Platform

for any Storage Hardware

Accelerate

Centralize &

Automate

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6 

10 th

_{generation product}

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Runs on standard x86 servers



Most comprehensive hardware agnostic

storage stack in the industry



25,000+ deployments worldwide

Introducing

SANsymphony

™

-V10

Define Your Storage

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

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7 Benefits at a Glance

75%

10x

4x

100%

90%

reduction

in storage

costs

performance

increase

capacity

utilization

reduction in

storage-related

downtime

decrease in time

spent on routine

storage tasks

Surveyed DataCore

™

_{Customers Report Up To:}

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8 Use Cases for SANsymphony-V10

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate

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9 Solution Overview

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate

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Virtualize External Storage Hardware

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATACORE

STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

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Runs on standard x64 servers



One set of common storage services

for all storage devices



All storage capacity in a single pool

eliminating wasted capacity

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Unlike storage systems communicate

seamlessly reducing complexity and

preventing downtime

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Replicates data leaving

no single point of failure



Seamless scalability with no reason to commit

to a single hardware manufacturer

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Challenges



Space Launch System development 100TB

needed

►

1PB <40% utilization

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High availability required



No budget for additional storage

Solution



DataCore SANsymphony-V

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Servers - Dell R900



Storage - Infortrend, Promise, Dell MD3000

Benefits



400TB reclaimed



Automatic fail-over



Increase performance

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Challenges



400TB Capacity



High availability



Limited budget

Solution



DataCore SANsymphony-V



Dell R900 Servers



HDS VSP

Benefits



High Availability - Metro Mirror



Rapid implementation < 30 days



Successful launch of BlueCloud



Avoid Vendor Lock-in

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Challenges



Vendor Lock In (avoidance)



Multiple Brands of Storage



Additional Capacity Needs



Downtime avoidance (metro-cluster)

Solution



DataCore SANsymphony-V



Dell R720 Servers



New VNX-2 and EQL 6500 / 6510

Benefits



High Availability - Metro Mirror



Avoid Vendor Lock-in

Coexistence

DataCore1E DataCore2H Multiple Fiber Pairs

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14 Reduce unproductive

hours spent on:



Data Migrations



Hardware Refreshes



Capacity Expansion



Hardware Maintenance



Unexpected Downtime

Dramatic Productivity Improvements

62%

“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 Lee

Director of Infrastructure at

Englewood Hospital

% of time spent on routine storage tasks

Before

With DataCore

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New Economics of Storage Hardware



Avoid hardware vendor lock-in



Skip costly forklift upgrades



Repurpose aging

storage systems



Leverage lower cost storage

hardware



Massive reduction in planned

downtime



Integrate new hardware with

minimal disruption

‘The best hardware refresh

is the one we didn’t do’*

www.techvalidate.com/product-research/datacore-sansymphony-v

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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

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Create up to 15 tiers of storage

17 Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application

can reside on multiple storage tiers

Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources

Below average moves down a tier

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tier 1

Tier n

Hot

Warm

Cold

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Data is synchronously

mirrored between unlike

storage systems



Replicate, failover and

failback between unlike

devices



Seamlessly move data from

one device to another

Cross-Device

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20 Easily Connect Between Sites

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21

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22 Solution Overview

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate

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Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN

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Runs as a virtual machine

on any application server

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Pools local storage

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Dramatically increase

performance

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Share Flash cards between

application servers



Auto-tier between DRAM,

flash and disk



Share capacity across

cluster of servers



Speed up apps with

DRAM caching

Full feature functionality with Virtual SAN

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25 Massive Scale for Tier 1 Apps and VDI

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26 Challenge/s

• Aging infrastructure

• No high availability – outages cost $$$

• Limited remote management

DataCore SANsymphony-V

• HP M310e Servers

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• Microsoft System Center

Benefits

• HA = Business Continuance

• Remote Management

• Unattended installation

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27 Solution Overview

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate

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INTEGRATION AND

MANAGEMENT

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How do I integrate

this new technology

with my existing

environment?



What new processes

do I need to manage

this investment?

28 Common Challenges With Flash Storage

AVAILABILITY OF

SOFTWARE FEATURES



How do I get the

functionality I need like

high-availability and

failover?



What tools will I have

to handle data

migrations, tiering and

thin provisioning to

ensure that I’m making

the most of my

investment?

SHARING FLASH

STORAGE BETWEEN

APPLICATIONS



Do I really need to

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29 Flash/HDD Hybrid

One Software Platform

for any Storage Hardware

The Premier Software Stack for Flash

Flash - SSD and Arrays

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

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Easy Integration and Sharing of Flash Storage

Flash Cards in

DataCore nodes

Flash Arrays in

storage pool

Flash Cards

in Virtual SAN

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Share Flash between

servers and applications

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Minimize downtime and

risk of integration

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Complete set of

storage services

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Block level auto-tiering



Easily add Flash anytime

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31 Performance

Challenge/s



“Daily” Oracle reports taking 40hrs to

create – Manhattan Associates

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No high availability – outages cost $$$



No remote replication

Solution



DataCore SANsymphony-V

►

Dell R720 Server

►

Fusion-IO

►

VMware

Benefits

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Report creation time reduced 40hrs to

5hrs (+600% faster)

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Putting it all together

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33 

Expand beyond limits of

application servers

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Fast local primary storage

& secondary central pool

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Same set of services

across both topologies

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Leverage central storage

resources and services

► Replication, backups,

etc.,

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Managed from

same console

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34 Centrally Managed Environment

Major Data Centers

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35 When to get started with SDS

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36 One Storage Services Platform

across your entire infrastructure

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10 th

_{generation product}



16 Years of R&D



25,000+ deployments worldwide



Most comprehensive hardware-agnostic

storage stack in the industry

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-tiering

Async Replication

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Reporting

Sync Mirroring

Adaptive Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migration

Snapshots

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