PernixData FVP Overview

Re-think Storage Performance

Decouple Storage Performance from Capacity with PernixData FVP Software

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PernixData: The Leader in Virtualizing Server Flash Founded Feb. 2012 by virtualization experts

o Poojan Kumar, CEO (Exadata co-founder, head VMware data group)

o Satyam Vaghani, CTO (VMware Storage CTO)

Strong virtualization and storage experienceo VMware, NetApp, Data Domain, EMC, Quantum, Oracle, HDS,

IBM ...

Top tier investorso Lightspeed and Kleiner Perkins ($27 million raised to date)o Industry luminaries as advisors

• Mark Leslie, John Thompson & Lane Bess


Storage Can’t Keep Up With Virtualization

HypervisorHypervisor

Primary storage

Hypervisor

Read / write bottlenecks here

Cause performance problems here (ms latency)

>70% of VMware support calls are related to storage performance

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The Answer: PernixData FVP™ Aggregates flash across servers 100% software Any server, flash, or storage

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PernixData FVP

Primary Storage


A Fundamental Shift in Storage Design

Storage Performance+ +PernixData

FVP

Storage Capacity+Data

Services


Unique FVP Features:

Scale-out performance independent of storage capacity

Seamless deployment

Full support for VMware cluster operations

Full read and write acceleration with fault tolerance

An Enterprise Class Solution for Storage Performance


The New World: Scale Performance Linearly with Demand

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Issue: Poor VDI performance due to high utilization in iSCSI SANo Citrix XenDesktop with VMware vSphereo CPU & RAM <50% utilization, Storage >80% utilization

PernixData Results: o 5x more IOPS, with 80% lower VDI latency (0.2 to < 0.4ms)

• Up to 1,000 IOPS now available per virtual desktop (recommended 30 IOPS per desktop)

o Nightly SQL job seeing huge performance improvement • 360 MB / s throughput; Completing in < 30 minutes

o $17k investment in FVP + Flash vs $100,000 investment in SAN (w/ fewer IOPS)

Case Study: Tidelands Bank

5x more IOPS delivered in Flash vs SAN

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Issue: 10 TB of space available in HP storage cluster, but still suffering from poor SQL application performance

PernixData Results: o 94% lower average latency (30ms to 1.7ms)o 12x more IOPS (compared to just SAN)o 25,000,000+ IOs offloaded from SAN in 2 days!

Case Study: UK Based Consulting Agency


12x more IOPS delivered from Flash


Two Minute Demo

• Aggregate flash in < 2 minutes• No changes to VMs, server or storage

http://www.pernixdata.com/files/flash-cluster-video.html

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PernixData FVP Re-Defines Storage Performance

The industry’s first Flash Hypervisor

Fundamentally changes storage design by separating storage performance from capacity

A disruptive technology that is non-disruptive to deploy

A strategic software platform for virtual data centerso Microsecond performance for all virtualized applications o More IOPS than SAN aloneo Easily scale-out IOPS


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Next Steps…

Download our NON DISRUPTIVE FREE TRIALo 10 minute installo No changes to VM, hosts or storage

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Re-think Storage Performance

Thank You!

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100% Seamless Deployment


HypervisorFVP

Transparent to storage system

No changes to applications / VMs

HypervisorFVP

Works with any host & SSD / PCIe flash

Hypervisor-based


Unique Flash Cluster™ for Seamless Operations


PernixData FVP

No reboots

No changes to workflowsNo performance hits

Supports:• vMotion• DRS• HA• Snapshot• vCloud• SRM• Etc.

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Fault Tolerant Write Acceleration



Delayed writes

{0, 1, 2} x data replicas

PernixData FVP


Decouple Storage Performance from Capacity

+ +Storage Performance

+Data ServicesStorage Capacity

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Real Application and Storage Performance Benefits

Get more IOPS; Easily scale-out

performance


Increase performance for all applications

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Response Time of Financial Application with MS SQL

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