SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE IN ACTION

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Storage is Growing

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3 Storage

Market in Midst of Disruption

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The Typical Solution?

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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

5 Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance,

data migrations, and hardware

refreshes

easy

4

Separate

advances in

software

from advances in

hardware

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6 One Software Platform

for any Storage Hardware

Accelerate

Centralize &

Automate

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7 One Storage Services Platform

across your entire infrastructure

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10 th

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16 Years of R&D

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25,000+ deployments worldwide

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Most comprehensive hardware-agnostic

storage stack in the industry

Cross-device Storage Services

Auto-‐&ering

Async Replica&on

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Repor&ng

Sync Mirroring

Adap&ve Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migra&on

Snapshots

CDP

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8 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

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9 Use Cases for SANsymphony-V10

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate Flash/

SSDs with existing

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10 Solution Overview

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate Flash/

SSDs with existing

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12 Long-term Investment Protection

• Easily take advantage

of advances in

hardware technology

• Complete set of cross-platform

storage services

• Avoid vendor lock-in and

costly forklift upgrades

• Centralize storage management

• Repurpose aging

storage systems

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Virtualize External Storage Hardware

FUNDAMENTALS OF DATACORE

STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

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Runs on standard x86 servers

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One set of common storage services

for all storage devices

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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

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Seamless scalability with no reason to commit

to a single hardware manufacturer

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Data is synchronously

mirrored between unlike

storage systems

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Replicate, failover and

failback between unlike

devices

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Seamlessly move data from

one device to another

Cross-Device

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17 Easily Connect Between Sites

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Snapshot

and CDP

Le snapshot is a picture at a given time (Point In Time)

Le CDP is like a video with recorded pointers (Timeshifting)

CDP

SNAPSHOTS

5 AM

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Uses x86-64 CPUs and memory

from DataCore nodes as powerful,

inexpensive “mega caches”

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Run applications at electronic

memory speeds vs. slow

spinning disks

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Intelligently anticipates reads

and streamlines writes to

optimize performance

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Miroir

Synchrone

Cache

Cluster

Write

Coalesce

Pre-fetch

Writes

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21 Solution Overview

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate Flash/

SSDs with existing

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Storage array

Intelligence→ Features

Components→ Storage space

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Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN

23 §

 

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

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Auto-tier between DRAM,

flash and disk

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Share capacity across

cluster of servers

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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

1

2

3

4 5…

… 32

Scale up to

32 PB

Scale out to

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26 Low Cost Storage at Remote Sites

and Branch Offices

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27 Solution Overview

Virtualize your

existing storage

hardware

Create virtual SANs

with server-attached

storage

Integrate Flash/

SSDs with existing

(28)

INTEGRATION AND

MANAGEMENT

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How do I integrate

this new technology

with my existing

environment?

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What new processes

do I need to manage

this investment?

28 Common Challenges With Flash Storage

AVAILABILITY OF

SOFTWARE FEATURES

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How do I get the

functionality I need like

high-availability and

failover?

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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

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Do I really need to

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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

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Easily add Flash anytime

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Realistic path to all Flash

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30 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-‐&ering

Async Replica&on

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Repor&ng

Sync Mirroring

Adap&ve Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migra&on

Snapshots

CDP

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Putting it all together

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32 §

 

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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33 Centrally Managed Environment

Major Data Centers

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34 When to get started with SDS

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QUESTIONS?

Contact:

SOFTWARE DEFINED STORAGE IN ACTION

1

2

Storage is Growing

3

Storage

Market in Midst of Disruption

4

The Typical Solution?

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

5

Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance,

data migrations, and hardware

refreshes

easy

4

Separate

advances in

software

from advances in

hardware

6

One Software Platform

for any Storage Hardware

Accelerate

Centralize &

Automate

7

One Storage Services Platform

across your entire infrastructure

§

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-­‐&ering

Async Replica&on

Virtual SAN

Storage Pooling

Storage Load Balancing

Centralized Management

Analysis & Repor&ng

Sync Mirroring

Adap&ve Caching

Thin Provisioning

Data Migra&on

Snapshots

CDP

8

Benefits at a Glance

75%

10x

4x

100%

90%

reduction

in storage

costs

performance

increase

capacity

₂

₄

_{generation product}

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