Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 1 CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 1

CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION


Storage is Growing At an Unsustainable Rate

Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.

Data Grows 60% per Year

1.2 ZB

Businesses have to manage, access, share, and protect their data


STOPCOMPROMISING

YOUR PERFORMANCE

Empower Your Business to Win the Storage Battle


Empower Your Storage ForNon-Stop Business Operations


STOPCOMPROMISING

YOUR PERFORMANCE

Free Your Business From The Hardware Trap Lock-in


STOPCOMPROMISING

YOUR PERFORMANCE

Empower Your Storage forBusiness Performance


Performance

Costs

Management

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Challenges of Storage Architectures

Heterogeneous storage management is non-existent Planned downtime is impossible Vendor lock-in cripples innovation

Applications are becoming more demandingServer/desktop virtualization creates bottlenecks

Low utilization of storage Hardware maintenance and refresh cycles are a pain


The Typical Solution?

MORE Incompatible Hardware


3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management

In theory, software should be able to do a few things…

1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another

Why Software-defined Storage?

Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy4

Separate advances in software from advances in hardware2


DataCore is committed to creating an enduring and dynamic software-driven storage architecture liberating storage from static hardware-based limitations

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The DataCore Vision

“George TeixeiraDataCore CEO1998

“


Global leader in software-defined storage

Over 28,000 deployments world-wide

Flagship product is our hardened 10th generation virtualization platform

Privately held and profitable for 15 years

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DataCore Overview



Apps

Server Hypervisor

Users

Desktop Hypervisor

Disks

Storage Hypervisor

Virtualization


A Better Solution Has Emerged

The DataCore Software-defined Storage Solution

Runs on x86 servers

Sits in the data path between applications/users and storage hardware

DataCore nodes operate synchronously leaving no single point of failure

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Core Benefits

3-5x Performance Increase

3x Capacity Utilization

Eliminate planned and unplanned

downtime

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15 years of development into a complete set of storage services

No other vendor provides these in a hardware agnostic, universally compatible format

Feature Rich Storage Control

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Technology Highlights

Automatically tier shared storage resources

3-5x performance on existing storage

Eliminate Planned and Unplanned Downtime

Investment protection


Long-term Investment Protection

Inexpensive or EOL Storage

High-endArrays

MidrangeArrays

Flash / SSDs

INVESTMENTPROTECTION

Future devices

?

• 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

• Leverage whitebox or JBOD devices


Hardware

Software Intelligence→ Features

Components→ Storage space

(Source: IHS iSuppli Research, August 2012)




Hardware

SoftwareABSTRACTION LAYER




ABSTRACTION LAYERINVESTMENTPROTECTION



Cross-Platform, Metro-wide Synchronous Mirroring

Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems

Replicate, failover and failback between unlike platforms

Seamlessly move data from one platform to another

SYNC MIRRORING(CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)


Virtualization Layer

active

Preferred Path down

Automaticswitch to alternate Path

severalKilometers

active

Synchronous Mirror

Pooling, Thin Provisioning,Auto Tiering


Transparent Failover

ABSTRACTION LAYERSYNC MIRRORING

(CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)


active

Path goes activeAutomatic

Switch back to preferred path

severalKilometers

active

Synchronous Mirror

Transparent Failback

Re-Synchronisation





Writes in synchronous mirroring

SynchronousMirroring

“Virtual Disk”

1

4

2

35 6

Node A

• Separate hardware• Different Location• Independent Power• Independent

Cooling• Separate UPS

Active Partner

Cache Cache

Mirror (P) Mirror (S)Node

B

Host



Mirror (P)

Automatic and transparent failover“Virtual Disk”

1

4

2

Node A

Host

Offline Partner

Cache Cache

Out-of-Sync Mirror (S)

Node B

MPIO

Preferred

Alternate

1

Retry

3

Log Updates



Mirror (P)

Resynchronisation of a mirrored disks“Virtual Disk”

Node A

Host

Online Partner

Cache Cache

Out-of-Sync Mirror (S)

Node B

MPIO Alternate

Log Updates

Send all modified blocksSYNC MIRRORING

(CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)


Mirror (P)

Back to initial state“Virtual Disk”

Node A

Host

Partner

Cache Cache

Mirror (S)Node

B

MPIO

Preferred

SynchronousMirroringActive

Alternate

OFF



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 LeeDirector of Infrastructure at Englewood Hospital

% of time spent on routine storage tasks

Before With DataCore

23%


DR Site

Asynchronous replication

Room 1 Room 2

Cluster

synchronous mirror

Active Active

Replication for DR


Very fast initial state return

DR Site

Room 1 Room 2

Out of date

Up to date Reverse the réplication

Up to date


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)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 AM6 AM

16h8h00

20h


Create up to 15 tiers of storage

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Tier 1 Tier 2Tier 0 Tier n

Hot ColdWarm Archive

Above average moves up a tier Below average moves down a tier

AUTO-TIERING

Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers

Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources


15 TB of Flash!

Forced to use Flash

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Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage

AUTO-TIERING

On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage

Before

15 TB

With DataCore

15 TB

5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk

1/3 Needs Flash

2/3 can use existing disk


Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage

AUTO-TIERING

On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage


15 TB of Flash! 5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk

At €5,000 x TB = € savings

Same data requires 10TB less Flash storage


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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HIGH SPEEDCACHING


DiskSubsystems

Disk Drive 4000 – 6000

DataCore L1 Cache <20

Array L2 Cache 250 – 300

Avg. Response (µS)

CachedArray

CachedArray

Un-cachedArray

High-SpeedLevel 1 Caching

CPU

Poll for Input

WriteCoalesce

Outputfrom Cache

Pre-fetchUp to 1 TB cache on DataCore Hypervisor

CPU CPU

CPU

HIGH SPEEDCACHING


MiroirSynchrone

Cache Cache

Cluster

WriteCoalesce Pre-fetch

WritesReads

WritesReads

HIGH SPEEDCACHING


5x Performance from existing disk-based storage

HIGH SPEEDCACHING

15 TB of Flash!

Forced to use Flash

Before

15 TB

With DataCore

15 TB

0 TB of Flash + 15 TB disk

0% needFlash

100% can use existing disk

Do We Really Need Flash?


5x Performance from existing disk-based storage

HIGH SPEEDCACHING

Do We Really Need Flash?


15 TB of Flash! 15 TB disk

At €5,000 x TB = € savings

Same data requires NO Flash storage at all


Benefits of DataCore Software Defined Storage

Automatically tier shared storage resources


Heterogeneous storage replication and failover

Investment protection


Addressing Storage Challenges

Performance

Costs

Management Simple, centralized management Cross-platform storage services

3-5x performance on existing storage hardware Seamlessly integrate Flash and other

high-performance technologies

3x utilization Decreases dependence on hardware vendor Long-term investment protection


SCALE UP► Larger Platforms , more efficient► More ports, processors and cache

SCALE OUT► Nodes ► IOPS► Physical separation► Consolidate over long distances

Adaptive growth


VIRTUAL SAN

Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN


VIRTUAL SAN


Runs as a virtual machine on any application server


VIRTUAL SAN

Dramatically increase performance

Minimize flash/SSD investments

Auto-tier between DRAM, flash and disk

Virtual SAN

Full DataCore Feature Set



VIRTUAL SAN

Federate Virtual SAN with Physical SAN

Auto-tier between virtual and physical SAN

Sync/ASync replicate between sites

Add resources only where you need them

Virtual SAN


When to get started with SDS

Before your next storage

purchase

Using or considering flash/SSDs

Prior to any data migration

projects


QUESTIONS?Contact: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.datacore.com/


Administration

CENTRALIZEDMANAGEMENT

ANALYSIS &REPORTING


Easy and step by step


Powershell

► Universal Scripting► All actions GUI driven by powershell too


vStorage APIs (VAAI)

VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

vCenter Connection in Datacore Management Console

vCenter Plug-in vCenter Client

Integration with VMware


vCenter hosts integration


vCenter Plug-in


Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer

Monitoring


Resource allocation

► Exportable for billing / chargebacks Configuration reports Exportable to:

► PDF (Adobe)► HTML (website)► MHT (single file website)► RTF (Rich Text)► XLS (Excel)► XLSX (Excel 2007+)► CSV (comma separated value)► TXT (plain text)► Image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc)

Customizable

► Sort / Filter / Search

Reporting


Real-time performance charts


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