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THE POWER OF SOFTWARE WHEN DEALING WITH

TODAY’S STATE OF ENTERPRISE IT

RESHAPE IT ASSETS TO FULFILL

MULTIPLE ROLES Steve HouckDATACORE WESTERN [email protected]

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SURPRISESTHE ONE THING YOU CAN’T

CONTROL

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The overhang of uncertainty and an unpredictable economic environment creates an environment of

business uncertainty:

• Unpredictable demand • Challenging financial environment• Long term planning takes a back seat / focus shifts to short term justification • Preserve investment funding only for the most compelling projects

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UNCERTAINTY

Source: Firebrick Consulting

CIOs have to adapt by being able to turn on/off new capabilities faster“ ”


We’re just over 11 PB of fiber channel block storage, and we’re at roughly two petabytes of NAS. ... it’s

pretty big, and it’s growing.

BEYOND KNOWN DATA-RELATED CHALLENGES

Dealing with Data/Capacity Growth

High Cost of Storage (Capex)

Meeting Disaster Recovery Requirements

Meeting Backup Windows

Lack of Skilled Staff

Dealing with Storage Migrations

Other

55.4%34.0%

30.4%29.3%29.0%

17.7%17.1%16.6%

14.2%14.2%

13.1%9.5%

4.5%

Source: 451 Research, Voice of the Enterprise Storage, Q4 2015

n = 639

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• Mergers and acquisitions• Competitive threats• Revised regulations

• Facility relocation• Lease expirations• Data migrations

UNANTICIPATED …

DISASTERS FAILURES PREMATURE OBSOLESCENCE


IMPACT OF DOWNTIME AND DATA LOSS

Source: EMC Survey of 2120 respondents

ESTIMATED ANNUAL COST FOR DISRUPTIONS

$1.7TRILLION

TOTAL

Downtime$954 BILLION

Data Loss$754 BILLION

There Have Been no Commercial Con-sequences

Loss of Costumers

loss of an Incremental business Opportunity

Loss of a New Business Opportunity

Delay in Product /Service development

Loss of Employee Productivity

7%13%14%15%15%

17%20%

24%34%

36%47%


• Respond to demands that were completely unexpected

• Adjust to changes that couldn’t be predicted

• Tap quickly into appealing innovations

• Swiftly redirect existing resources to urgent priorities

• Harness diverse & underutilized assets before spending on more

• Inject new technology without disruption or concern for backwards compatibility

PROSPERING FROM SURPRISES


• Unproven paradigms prove costly to undo a year from now• Rip-and-replace no longer makes financial sense• All or nothing ultimatums polarize organizations, hurt morale, and

ignore benefit of tribal knowledge

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ADAPT TO BIG CHANGES WITHOUT MAKING BIG BETS

Reshape rather than destroy“ ”


SOFTWARE-DEFINED SOLUTIONS

Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

Software-Defined Networking (SDN)

OpenStack

Software-Defined Storage (SDS)

0100 200 300 400 500

“Eliminates need for high-priced proprietary storage hardware… Deploy storage software on industry-standard server hardware [to] significantly lower opex of storage upgrades and maintenance costs.”

Source: Gartner (April 2016) Client Inquiries


OTHER DRIVERS BEHIND MIGRATION TO SDS

Storage-as-a-software package on x86 servers

52%LONGEVITY

extend the life of existing storage assets

/ future-proof the storage infrastructure

49%LOWER COST

avoid hardware lock-in /

Shop among differentStorage manufacturers

45%SIMPLIFY

management / automate

Storage operations

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FACE UNCERTAINTY

WITH CONFIDENCEEnduring, Invaluable

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• Generate far more value from existing assets

• 2 machines can do the work of 10• Put idle processors & stranded disk

space to work• Reach better decisions, sooner

• Answers come back 10X quicker • Respond today, not a week from now

• Avoid / defer tech refreshes• Extend value of existing investments

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STRATEGIC PAYOFF

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• Cloud-like economics with on-premises control• Flexible software-defined data services

platform • Range of deployment models for data center,

ROBO and Cloud• Hyper-converged, converged, distributed SAN

• Unheard of performance and price/performance through DataCore™

Parallel I/O Technology• Zero-downtime, zero touch architecture

INFRASTRUCTURE-WIDE DATA SERVICES

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Range of Deployment Alternatives


Traditional Converged (Server SAN) Hyper-Converged Hybrid-Converged

Integrate, manage, and enhance existing

storage

Leverage internal storage, reduce complexity and

maintain compute segregation

Consolidate all functions for smallest footprint and highest

performance

Consolidate all functions for smallest footprint and highest performance while

serving storage externally

Same software, with an integrated management console across all four!

Deployment Model Independent

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Hosts

Virtual Disks

Virtual Storage Pools

ManagementConsole

Co-Existence of All Deployment Models

Traditional SAN Controller Model

Converged Model

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Hyper-converged Model

Hybrid-converged Model


SURVEYED DATACORE™ CUSTOMERS

REPORT UP TO

17

75%reductio

n in storage costs

10xperformance increase

4xcapacity

utilization

100%reduction in

storage-related

downtime

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Results of Parallel I/O: Performance and Cost View


Understanding DataCore Parallel I/O

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Parallel Application I/O(Databases, Hypervisors)

Storage Admin: Performance is terrible, we need to add more disks.

Serial Storage I/O(Typical Storage)


I/O ParallelizationApproach

Storage Admin: Performance is unbelievable, takes up little space, and is

very affordable.


Hardware ParallelizationApproach

Storage Admin: Latency is still very high, takes up a lot of space, and this is getting

expensive.


Characteristics DataCore Nutanix SimpliVitySANsymphony-V XCP OmniStack

Hypervisors supportedESX, Hyper-V, x86 VMs on XEN, KVM, Oracle &

Physical WS2012ESX, Hyper-V, KVM Nutanix Acropolis ESX, KVM

Storage devices supported

DAS, Flash, SSDs, external

RAID arrays & SANDAS, Flash, SSDs DAS, Flash, SSDs,

ISCSI, NFSExtend to external SAN Yes No Yes# of Servers for HA (min) 2 3 2Hardware prerequisite X86 Server X86 Server X86 Server + special

PCI-e CardFlash required for caching No No NoSoftware prerequisite WS2012 Hypervisor ESXPricing per Server

Based on TBs Per node Per nodeMax capacity per server 1 Petabyte 32 TB 26 TBMax SAN capacity 64 Petabytes 2 Petabytes 820 TBVirtual storage type LUN & VM VM-centric VM-CentricFirst release 1999 2011 2013Runtime O.S. WS2012 NXOS SimpliVity

Hyper-Converged Systems (Nutanix and SimpliVity)


Features DataCore Nutanix SimpliVitySANsymphony-V XCP OmniStack

Auto-tiering 15 tiers sub-LUN 2 tiers 2 tiersCaching RAM - Fastest

(read and write) RAM /Flash (read) RAM /Flash (readiSCSI access Yes Yes YesFibre Channel Yes (option) No NoSync Mirroring Yes Yes YesMetro-cluster support Yes (up to 100km) Yes NoNAS NFS/SMB-CIFS via

WS2012 NFS, SMB NFSThin Provisioning Yes Yes NoDe-duplication Yes Yes YesEncryption File System Yes NoCompression Yes Yes YesCopies of data 2 (4 with DPM) 2 or 3 2Async remote replication Yes (option) Yes YesAdvanced site recovery Yes (option) Yes (SRA) NoSnapshot Yes Yes YesCDP Yes (option) No NoRandom-write Accelerator Yes No NoQoS Yes No NoSystem Center Integration Yes No No

Hyper-Converged Systems (Nutanix and SimpliVity)


Characteristics DataCore VMware StorMagic Maxta HP EMCSANsymphony-V Virtual SAN SVSAN MxSP StoreVirtual ScaleIO

Hypervisors supportedESX, Hyper-V, x86

VMs on XEN, KVM, Oracle & Physical

WS2012ESX-only ESX and

Hyper-VESX

(future on KVM and Hyper-V)

ESX and Hyper-VVM on ESX,

kernel module on Hyper-V, XEN & KVM

Storage devices supported

DAS, Flash, SSDs, external

RAID arrays & SANDAS, Flash, SSDs DAS, Flash, SSDs DAS, Flash, SSDs DAS, Flash, SSDs DAS, Flash, SSDs

Extend to external SAN Yes No No No Yes No# of Servers for HA (min) 2 2* (4 rec.) 2 3 2 3Hardware prerequisite X86 Server X86 Server X86 Server X86 Server x86 Server X86 ServerFlash required for caching No Yes No No No NoSoftware prerequisite WS2012 ESX ESX or Hyper-V ESX ESX or Hyper-V Linux or WindowsPricing per Server per Server per 2 Servers per Server per Server per Server

Based on TBs Based on CPU cores Based on TBs Based on TBs based on TBs based on TBsMax capacity per server 1 Petabyte 138 TBs Unlimited ESX limit 50 TBs Very largeMax SAN capacity 64 Petabytes 8.8 Petabytes Unlimited Unknown 800 TBs UnknownVirtual storage type LUN VMDK (VM-centric) LUN NFS LUN LUNFirst release 1999 2014 2007 2013 2009 2012Runtime O.S. WS2012 ESX Hypervisor Linux CentOS (Linux) Linux OpenSUSE

Hyper-Converged Storage Software


Features DataCore VMware StorMagic Maxta HP EMCSANsymphony-V Virtual SAN SVSAN MxSP StoreVirtual ScaleIO

Auto-tiering 15 tiers sub-LUN No No No 2-tiers sub-LUN NoCaching RAM - Fastest

(read and write)Flash (read) and

write buffer No Flash (read and write)

No - relies on RAID controller caching

OptionalXtremCache

iSCSI access Yes Yes Yes No Yes YesFibre Channel Yes (option) No No No No NoSync Mirroring Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (Network RAID) YesMetro-cluster support Yes (up to 100km) Yes Yes No Yes NoNAS NFS/SMB-CIFS via

WS2012 No No NFS No NoThin Provisioning Yes Yes No Yes Yes NoDe-duplication Yes Yes No Yes No NoEncryption File System Yes No No No YesCompression Yes No No Yes NoCopies of data 2 (4 with DPM) 2 or more 2 2 2 or more 2 or more

Async remote replication Yes (option)Additional product

(vSphere Replication)

No Yes Yes (Remote copy of snapshots included) No

Advanced site recovery Yes (option) Separate product No No Yes NoSnapshot Yes Yes via Hypervisor Yes Yes YesCDP Yes (option) No No No No NoRandom-write Accelerator Yes No No No No NoQoS Yes Yes No No No NoSystem Center Integration Yes No No No Yes. SCVMM No

Hyper-Converged Storage Software


Value ComparisonCapability Atlantis DataCore Nutanix Simplivity

Min Nodes 3 2 3 2

Cost $$ $ $$$ $$$

Performance Mid Fastest Slow Slow

Virtualization Yes Yes Yes Yes

HW Flexibility Yes Yes No No

DeDupe InLine OOB Inline/Flash Tier InLine

iSCSI Yes Yes Yes Yes

FC No Yes No No

Start HC and scale compute and storage independently No Yes No No


• >10,000 customers across the globe• 30,000+ installations across all popular

server, storage & network manufacturers• Spanning several technology waves

• Centralized, distributed, virtualized, web-scale• 92% Customer satisfaction • 95% Renewal rate

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