FalconStor NSS Presentation

© FalconStor Software 2008 · All Rights Reserved

FalconStorNetwork Storage Server (NSS)

Storage, Virtualization, Provisioning, Protection and Management

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FalconStor Confidential for Internal and Partner Use OnlyUS only © FalconStor Software 2008 · All Rights Reserved

FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)

Agenda

• FalconStor Overview• Storage Challenges• FalconStor NSS Solution• Data protection features• Enhanced storage performance• Increased storage efficiency• New and enhanced management


FalconStor Corporate Overview


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FalconStor at a Glance

• Founded in Feb. 2000 by veterans of Cheyenne Software which was acquired by CA for $1.2B in 1996

• Leading provider of data protection software– Deep understanding of backup & recovery– Innovators in leveraging disk to optimize backup & recovery– Over 4,000 enterprise and 30,000 SMB sites around the world

• Strategic industry OEM partnerships– Acer, Brocade, Copan, EMC, Huawei, H3C, IBM, Intel, Sun…– Superior interoperability, compatibility in the field

• Global channel and 24x7 support Infrastructure– 23 in-country offices– 400+ Employees - 76% headcount in Engineering & Technical Services– High maintenance renewal

• Financial Sound/Strong Growth– Public company (NASDAQ: FALC)– Profitable with positive cash flow since 2005 and no debt

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FalconStor IPStor Platform

• IPStor® software is a highly optimized, scalable, and flexible virtualization platform

• Leverages all open storage and tape libraries• A data provisioning and protection platform based on

standard industry server and storage technology working with all connectivity protocols

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FalconStor Solutions

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

Disk-based library for backup optimization

Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP)

Disk-based data protection with instant data recovery

Network Storage Server (NSS)

Storage, virtualization, provisioning and management

Data Deduplication

Dramatically reducing data across the enterprise

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TOTALLY Open Network Storage Solution Platform

Application ServersTape Backup Servers

MS Exchange, MS SQL, MS SharePoint,VMware, Oracle, SAP, etc

Tivoli, Symantec, EMC/Legato,CA, Commvault, etc.

Network Storage Server (NSS)

Continuous Data Protector (CDP)

Virtual Tape Library (VTL)

Self-protecting storage Disk-based data protection Disk-based library

Clustered deduplication

Replication with Encryption and Compression

IPStor Platform v 6.x Virtualization, Thin Provisioning, MAID enabling, Snapshot, Mirror

Industry Standard Disk Arrays and Tape Libraries

Centralized

managem

ent

FalconStor Client Agents

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Representative customers

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Kicking off 2008 with awards and accolades

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Kicking off 2008 with awards and accolades

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Breaking News - Word on the Street

FalconStor's skinny bird flies higher, faster “FalconStor has enhanced the technology in its foundation IPStor platform with virtual storage appliances, and released significantly improved network storage server and continuous data protection products, extending thin provisioning to replication and disaster recovery. It can also accelerate storage performance through solid state disk (SD) appliances.” --Paul Roberts, news editor.

FalconStor Offers Software Version Of IPStor “The Melville, N.Y.-based software vendor also made its continuous data protection software into a stand-alone appliance for small and midsize businesses and remote offices, and made it available for bundling with servers that come with the embedded version of the ESX server virtualization software from VMware, Palo Alto, Calif.” --By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb

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Breaking News - Word on the Street

FalconStor releases IPStor 6.0 “FalconStor has enhanced IPStor in the areas of disaster recovery, business continuance, and virtual server support and is now selling its software as three separate products: Network Storage Server (NSS), Continuous Data Protector (CDP), and Virtual Tape Library (VTL). New to the overall platform is so-called "thin disaster recovery," which extends the concept of thin provisioning to data mirroring and replication and eliminates the need for identical storage allocations at the data center and the disaster-recovery site.” --By Kevin Komiega

FalconStor upgrades, repackages IPStor storage virtualization software “With the new release, FalconStor added features to each module. It added support to NSS for solid-state drives (SSD) and InfiniBand connectivity. NSS is used to manage and provision iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs. SSDs managed under NSS can also be used with a pre-existing feature called Hot Zone, which moves data from slower disks to faster disks, either on demand or automatically according to


Storage Challenges


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Growing Storage Demand

iSCSI and FC Host Connections

0

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

1,400,000

1,600,000

1,800,000

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009

Units

FC Server Attachments

iSCSI Server Attachments

Source: Gartner Presentation, “The Future of iSCSI SANs” by Robert Passmore. June 2006

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Top reasons for Storage Virtualization

* Source: IDC IT Management Survey - 2006

Improved back-up & recovery 46%

Server and storage consolidation 40%

On-going demands for additional capacity 37%

Improved application performance 31%

Improved disaster recovery 27%

New project or application deployment 23%


FalconStor NSS Solution


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NSS Solution

• Plug-and-play iSCSI storage appliance for SMB• Enterprise-class Fibre Channel support, virtualization and

provisioning for large organizations• TOTALLY Open™ solution enables IT to choose storage

vendors and devices– Virtualization and provisioning provides highest storage

utilization/efficiency at lowest cost– No vendor lock-in

• Multiple data protection features• Enhanced storage performance• Increased storage efficiency• Centralized management improves IT productivity

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Data

TOTALLY Open Storage Virtualization Platform

Physical Virtual

Existing SAN volumes via Storage

Service Enabler

Virtualized SAN volumes

Thin provisioned SAN volumes

Linux Solaris HP-UX AIX Netware

Exchange Oracle VMware

NotesSQL SAPDB2

Windows

Any application

Any operating system

Any storage protocol

Any diskarray

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#1 Storage Virtualization Solution

FalconStor NSS winsCRN Storage Virtualization

Test over EqualLogic, Hitachi and Compellent

FalconStor NSS winsCRN Storage Virtualization

Test over EqualLogic, Hitachi and Compellent

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Storage virtualization and provisioning

Virtualdisks

Physicaldisks

• Create volumes of any size from across physical disk resources

• Physical LUN and virtual devices up to 16TB each

• Expand volumes as needed

• Securely assign volumes to servers through NSS interface

• Storage pooling designates sets of physical disks for specific tasks

• Decreased risk of operator error

• Create volumes of any size from across physical disk resources

• Physical LUN and virtual devices up to 16TB each

• Expand volumes as needed

• Securely assign volumes to servers through NSS interface

• Storage pooling designates sets of physical disks for specific tasks

• Decreased risk of operator error


Data Protection Features


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NSS Data Protection Features

Linux WindowsUnix

SnapshotAgent

SnapshotAgent

SnapshotAgent Snapshot

Agent

Virtualmachines

TimeMark snapshots

• TimeMark® snapshots• Snapshot Agents for

applications, DBs, VMware

• IP replication• Data mirroring,

copying• Zero-impact backup• High availability

• TimeMark® snapshots• Snapshot Agents for

applications, DBs, VMware

• IP replication• Data mirroring,

copying• Zero-impact backup• High availability

Primary storage volumes

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Easy & Efficient Data Protection via TimeMark

Fibre orEthernet

Application-specific Snapshot Agent

• One TimeMark snapshot policy per disk• Flexible scheduling

• Mountable TimeView® images for instant data recovery of any captured point in time

• Delta-based snapshots minimize disk utilization

• 255 snapshots per disk

• Snapshot Agents and consistency groups for 100% data integrity

• One TimeMark snapshot policy per disk• Flexible scheduling

• Mountable TimeView® images for instant data recovery of any captured point in time

• Delta-based snapshots minimize disk utilization

• 255 snapshots per disk

• Snapshot Agents and consistency groups for 100% data integrity

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IP-based disaster recovery

Linux WindowsUnix

SnapshotAgent

SnapshotAgent

SnapshotAgent Snapshot

Agent

Virtualmachines

TimeMark snapshots

Full replicas

Snapshots

Copy to tape

• Easily configured any-to-any remote replication

• Continuous or periodic modes

• Easily configured any-to-any remote replication

• Continuous or periodic modes

Block-level data replication

… …

DR Site

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Any-to-Any Remote Replication Benefits

• Flexibility– Operating system, protocol and storage agnostic

• Performance– Minimize bandwidth via sector-level differencing (MicroScan™)– Parallel TCP sessions (trunking, QoS, 100% switch friendly)

• Recovery– Guarantees RTO (less than 30 min.) with data integrity

• Resilience: Self-healing replication– Automatic reconnect/resume based on availability of WAN, DR site– Switch between Continuous & Delta Replication automatically based on

the availability of WAN, DR site

• Security– End-to-End Data Encryption

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Sending changed TracksHost updatesa disk sector

Sending Changed SectorsHost updatesa disk sector

512b512b512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b512b

32K Trackis replicated

512 byte Sectoris replicated

64 times more efficient

MicroScan vs Track-based replication

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Real world replication savings example• Legal Services firm benchmark, Nov-Jan 2006• 83 days worth of replicated data

Site File System Change in GB

Filtered by MicroScan

Actual GB Transferred

Percentage Reduction

Houston 4,869 4,017 852 82%

New York City

16,176 13,409 2,76783%

Wash D.C. 7,289 5,581 1,708 77%

Atlanta 73,376 62,527 10,849 85%

101,710 85,534 16,176 84%

Avg per Day 1225 1031 195 84%Min. Storage Unit to Track Changes on Disk

FalconStor NetApp HDS EMC

512 Bytes 4 KB 16 KB 64 KB

Storage Efficiency 1 8 x less efficient

32 x less efficient

64 x less efficient

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Data mirroring, zero downtime migration

• Any-to-any synchronous data mirroring

• Ultimate data protection across arrays

• Zero downtime data migration – Initiate disk mirror– Switch primary target when

synchronization completes

• Any-to-any synchronous data mirroring

• Ultimate data protection across arrays

• Zero downtime data migration – Initiate disk mirror– Switch primary target when

synchronization completes

Primary MirrorPrimaryMirror

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BU SW calls HyperTrac™ to mount snapshot disk for serverless tape backup

Eliminating Backup Window &Host Performance Impact

Ethernet

Files/Volume

SystemState

Database

Traditional Backup

Fibre orEthernet

Shrinking backup window & host

performance impact

Perform Tape backup anytime. Eliminate backup window, remove backup performance impact from

production servers

Backup server

Backup SW

HyperTrac

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NSS high availability deployment models

• A two-node NSS failover pair• Each NSS server supports its

own set of client servers

• For appliances with internal storage

• Volumes are mirrored across NSS devices for redundancy

• Clients can access disk along both paths

Shared Storage Failover Cross Mirror Failover

A A1BB1

SAN


Enhanced Storage Performance


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Enhanced storage performance

• Accelerated application performance from new NSS features– Native support for Infiniband protocol– Violin Memory solid-state disk cache supercharges

application read and write performance– Downstream Fibre Channel load balancing

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InfiniBand support

• InfiniBand target mode support for clients (application servers)– Red Hat Linux Enterprise, v 5– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, v 1.0

• Speeds of 20 Gb/s– Supports iSER using a Double Date Rate (DDR)

• Exceptional speeds for high performance computing needs

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Violin Memory solid state disk for cache

• Use of Violin Memory applianceas read/write cache device forany volume– On demand provisioning of resources– Dynamic allocation of memory where needed

• Ultra-fast response time charges performance– 10 or 20 Gbit/s PCIE interface

• Attainable cost ~ $300 per GB (MSRP)

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Downstream load balancing

• Automatically makes use of multiple FC paths to connect to downstream storage– Round-robin data flow

• Maximizes available bandwidth for best possible performance

• Fault-tolerant pathingD:

I/O

IPStor platform

D: D: D:

I/O I/O I/O

LUNDisk Array

D:

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NSS performance stats

• Device seek time = 0• Testing of two NSS

servers with two Violin memory units– Sequential read up

to 2.7GB/s– Random read up to

2.7GB/s– Sequential write up

to 2.0GB/s– Random write up to

2.0GB/s


Increased storage efficiency


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Increased storage efficiency

• Better disk utilization, reduced power consumption and a greener data center– Thin provisioning of disk resources– Reduced Fibre Channel port requirements– TOTALLY Open model gives users freedom to

choose protocols and storage

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Thin Provisioning

• Create a virtual volume to match size of data provisioning request

• Allocate a smaller amount of actual physical disk space– Default is 20% of virtual size

• Physical space allocated automatically as needed

• Reduces wasteful over provisioning of storage

• Saves disk space and power consumption

Data

Virtual

Thin provisioned SAN volume

Physical

A Green feature

200GB

800GB

“800 GB”

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Reduced Fibre Channel port counts

• Leverages Qlogic Multi-ID for 4GB HBAs• IPStor platform no longer requires standby FC ports for

active-active configurations• Significant savings on HBA ports, switch ports, cabling

and complexity for each deployed CDP or NSS device

FC Initiator port

FC Target port

FC Standby port

FC Multi-ID port

Small device, HA configuration Large device, HA configuration

Before

After

66% port reduction 8 HBA ports and 8 switch ports saved

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TOTALLY Open storage model

• TOTALLY Open support for any vendor/brand of disk array– Avoid vendor lock-in; better price negotiation

• Seamless, easy, zero-downtime migration of data between disk arrays– Easily deploy new, lower cost, smaller footprint,

energy efficient disk technologies when old equipment comes off lease

• Full protocol support: FC, iSCSI, Infiniband– Take advantage of new speed innovations– Use lower cost protocols for tier-2 and tier-3 data

A Green feature


New and Enhanced Management


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New and Enhanced Management

• New and improved management tools lower operational costs and increase data protection– New Central Client Manager to centrally deploy and

monitor application server Agents– Enhanced centralized reporting to allocate storage

resources more efficiently and identify unprotected assets

– Numerous console enhancements reduce risk of operational mistakes

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Central Client Manager (CCM)

• New CCM management tool to install, update, monitor and configure SAN clients

• Works with SAN clients, Snapshot Agents, DiskSafe™ and FileSafe™ Agents

• Manage clients by groups– Enhances accuracy and consistency of policies across grouped

servers (e.g. Exchange group, SharePoint group, etc.)– Single action affects multiple servers to reduce management

time

• Easily identify clients running out of disk resources

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Central Client Manager console

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Enhanced reporting

• Consolidated replication status with properties– Easily identify unprotected assets

• Sort by replication status and map client source– Easily identify failed backups

• Historical disk usage statistics by application– Determine trends to allocate resources efficiently

• Scheduled reports with automatic emailing– Consistent record of resource usage and notice of failures

• Consolidated reports for several servers– Easily troubleshoot problem server

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Enhanced reporting sample

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Multiple console enhancements

• Webstart console automatically loads from NSS device– No need to install console application files

• Batch mode operations for updating properties and deleting objects

• iSCSI client creation with Mutual Chap Secret– Greatly reduces complexity of difficult iSCSI security

• Export of console data– Export console information into file

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FalconStor NSS Summary

• Plug-and-play iSCSI storage appliance for SMB• Enterprise-class virtualization and provisioning for large

organizations• TOTALLY Open™ solution enables IT to choose storage

vendors and devices– Virtualization and provisioning provides highest storage

utilization/efficiency at lowest cost– No vendor lock-in

• Multiple data protection features• Enhanced storage performance• Increased storage efficiency• Centralized management improves IT productivity


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