Isilon's innovative scale-out NAS storage solutions are designed to help enterprises overcome the most pressing storage challenges facing their businesses. From streamlining content production to enhancing the reliability of file services to supporting key disaster recovery initiatives, clustered storage solutions from Isilon combine the OneFS® operating system with the latest advances in industry-standard hardware to enable customers to accelerate their critical applications, workflows and processes, while reducing their capital and operating expenditures.

1. Eliminating Storage Sprawl: Scale-out NAS for Virtualization

2. ASP WEB Linux DEV HR Legacy Legacy SQL LOB File Servers SQL Finance CAD / CAM Random Application and Server Sprawl Many underutilized servers and storage devices Costly to Manage Software updates and patches OS Versions Maintenance releases Security upgrades Backups Power consumption Underutilized Low CPU, RAM, and Disk usage In the 2 to 20% range Sub-optimal Availability Drives and storage components fail Traditional clustering unreliable

3. Physical Storage VMware Solves the Server Sprawl Problem Servers are virtualized and stacked Isilon’s Focus Run applications side-by-side VMware safely partitions servers into shared resource pools Stack applications within server Reduce physical server footprint Fewer servers to manage and backup Increase server utilization Since Virtual Machines (VMs) share server resources, each effectively can run at a higher utilization rate Server resources shared Centralize server management Example: backup multiple VMs (within one server) from a single point

5. Increased staff time

6. Trade-offs in protection levels, backups, and performance

7. Supply-side approach inflates capitol costs

8. Inefficient, unused system resources

9. Hinders business agility

10. Limits business agility

11. Systems hard to adapt

13. File Server Sprawl on NAS Easy to Buy—not soEasy to Own, Scale, and Manage LUN sprawl (hidden complexity) “SAN”: RAID groups > Aggregates > Volumes > LUNs > File Systems > HBAs > Host File Systems (VMFS) NAS: all of the above except HBAs and VMFS File system sprawl (complexity at scale) Other issues: availability, cost, etc. /fs/01, /fs/02 RAID Groups & LUNs Storage Device #1 /fs/03, /fs/04 RAID Groups & LUNs Storage Device #2 /fs/05, /fs/06 RAID Groups & LUNs Storage Device #3

14. Scale-out NAS for Virtualization Reduce the cost of deploying and managing storage for large-scale virtual environments by over 35% Non-disruptive scalability Performance Capacity Maximize efficiency Higher utilization Pay-as-you-grow Volume-free provisioning Protect all Virtual Machines Cost-effectively Variable protection levels Clustered: NO SPOF All-Active HA failover Right-size on-the-fly Re-balance VMs across nodes and SmartConnect performance zones Rapidly deploy and consolidate storage for hundreds of Virtual Machines in minutes Setup and deploy a multi-terabyte cluster in minutes! Single File System Isilon’s OneFS Storage Device #1 Storage Device #2 Storage Device #3

15. Isilon IQ Enterprise-class hardware OneFS™intelligent software complete storage system Rapidly Deploy and Consolidate Storage Unprecedented simplicity Easy to setup, provision, manage, and change! Build a cluster in 30 minutes Enterprise-class, integrated storage system Storage nodes: performance and capacity Expansion nodes: pure capacity Accelerators: pure performance Deploy virtual machines in minutes

16. Core Innovation The Virtualization behind Clustered Storage Creates one giant Datastore Single file system, single volume Highest performance, fully symmetric cluster Easy to manage and grow Single unified platform across all products 9

17. Non-disruptive Scalability platform nodes Pure Performance Accelerator S-Series Backup Accelerator X-Series Linear Scaling of Performance & Capacity Independent Performance Scaling Capacity nodes EX-Series NL-Series Performance Independent Capacity Scaling Capacity

18. Maximize Storage EfficiencyScale-up vs. Scale-out Architecture Considerations Source: The Total Economic Impact of Isilon’s Clustered Storage System, Forrester 2008

19. 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY 100% AVAILABILITY FAILED FAILED Comprehensive Data Protection Protect all Virtual Machines–at the Right Protection Level VMs stored on OneFS directory. For example:/ifs/farm1/vmachines OneFS protects all data, across all nodes in cluster All VMs striped across all nodes N+1  N+4 set on various levels File (individual VMs), Directory (multiple VMs), or Cluster (all VMs) 12 12

20. Reducing Acquisition Cost through Precision Right-Sizing "Large organizations feel the pain of traditional SANs in large VMware deployments. With horizontal scaling of Isilon storage, we can right-size storage and performance for VMware, literally on the fly. -- Storage Architect, World Leader in Jet Aircraft Engine Manufacturing and Testing Start small From 10 TBs to 250 TBs Pay-as-you-grow Single file systems image never change Non-disruptively scale capacity up to 3.4 PB in a single cluster Add pure capacity independently of performance Easy to scale Add performance in minutes Add capacity nodes in minutes Core platform nodes S-Series X-Series NL-Series Linear Scaling of Performance & Capacity “Isilon’s scale-out file storage is inherently more power efficient than NAS silos—adding what you need in granular increments, versus the gross over-provisioning that normally accompanies monolithic infrastructure silos. Adding processing power independently also saves floor and rack space, improves performance, and significantly reduces power consumption.”

21. Scale-up vs. Scale-out NAS: TCOIf traditional NAS hardware were free – Isilon still offers a better 3-year TCO Why this happens: Staffing – ease of management Storage utilization Effectively scale reliably Business Impact – Isilon is a better way to spend corporate money – freeing money to fund innovation and sustain the business Source:The Total Economic Impact of Isilon’s Clustered Storage System, Forrester 2008

22. VMware on Isilon Customers

23. Server & Storage Consolidation Background Risk, financial and management consulting firm. Also provides compliance and litigation support, data analysis, e-discovery, and data archiving services. We love what both VMware and Isilon do; the solutions are exceptionally complimentary. We’ve been able to streamline our entire IT operations, provide reliability and high availability—all by standardizing on clustered VMware servers and clustered storage from Isilon. We even moved a mission critical VMware application off of our Hitachi SAN and found it performed better on the Isilon. --IT Director Infrastructure Challenge Managing storage for entire VMware environment Backing up multiple virtual machines quickly Managing more data with fewer people Solution Four Isilon IQ clusters in two locations—for production, e-discovery, archiving, and R&D SnapshotIQ used to clone virtual machines More than 70 virtual machines hosted on Isilon, including mission critical litigation app Only four people manage entire IT department, including all applications and 75TBs of storage.

24. Virtual Test Labs for Management Automation Background The market leader in self-service virtualization automation and lab management. Cloud hosting provider for test, development, and LOB application staging services. Delivers end-products to name-brand accounts for IT professionals, business users, and testers/developers. Benefits Easy of installation and management High availability Performance: exceeded goals by 2x: 4Gb/sec reads from 70 VMs Rapid provisioning: single point of management for batch-deployment of many Virtual Machines. Cloud Hosting Challenge Support dynamic, large scale cloud hosting environment for 1800+ Virtual Machines, reliably, at the right price-performance. Pass strict Surgient compliance testing. Performance on traditional NAS topped out—and scalability proved impossible. Required 2Gbps+ which traditional NAS could not provide Solution 5 IQ12000X, 1 Accelerator X with redundant IB switches Achieved 4Gb/sec reads from 70 VMs running Iometer Passed all other requirements Isilon Cluster NAS

25. Summary Scale-out NAS well suited to Large or dynamic environments—many VMs Smaller environments requiring simplicity Reduce storage management costs by 35% over traditional NAS Rapidly deploy and consolidate storage Non-disruptively scale performance and capacity, without changes to host servers Maximize efficiency—30% over traditional NAS Protect all Virtual Machines cost-effectively Fine grained data protection Choice of certified backup partners Optimize and right-size the system on the fly.

26. Backup Scenarios for Virtualization

27. Backup Options

28. Option 1: SyncIQ with VMware Could be used to replicate and restore VMs Best practice: Schedule snapshots in VirtualCenter on target Replicate snapshot delta files Extremely flexible: replicate single or multiple VMs VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for NAS on VMware roadmap Isilon will support SRM VM3 VM2 VM1 SyncIQ 2 transfers entire VMDK files SyncIQ 2.5 transfers only changed blocks

29. Option 2: VMware Tape BackupNDMP Backup full VMs directly from Isilon storage to tape Currently only 3-way NDMP Upcoming 2-way NDMP with Isilon IQ Backup Accelerator Use Isilon Snapshots to create point-in-time copies of VMs Compatible with all Isilon-certified NDMP backup applications Symantec, EMC, Commvault, Bakbone, Atempo Upcoming IBM TSM support with Isilon IQ Backup Accelerator VM3 VM2 VM1 NDMP file based incremental means entire VMDKs are always backed up

30. Option 3: VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) Use Backup Vendor VCB proxy to coordinate VMware snapshots with backup Backup full VM images or individual VM files on Windows VMs only. True fullncremental VM backups – only backs up changed blocks Compatible with all vendors that supply VCB agents. So far have only tested with Symantec. Uses ESX server as a resource to move backup data to VCB proxy tape

31. Option 4: SnapshotIQ with VMware OneFS snapshots could be used to store VM snapshots Storage-based snapshots Not crash consistent The process could be automated to create application consistent VM snapshot with VMware scripts Take VM snapshot Isilon snapshot Delete VM snapshot No instant snapshot restore: customer needs to copy snapshots manually or write scripts 8:00 VM snapped 9:14 VM restored 9:10 VM deleted

32. Options 5 and 6: Backup Agents Leverage licenses already purchased Functionality depends on Backup and Restore Application Most support granular, object-based restore Requires knowledge of applications inside VMs Primary Site

33. High Availability Scenarios

36. VMs are spread across all nodes

37. All VMs protected from server and storage failures

38. Rapid NFS failover provided for each ESX ServerSmartConnect All-active Storage High Availability OneFS NFS failover using SmartConnect takes 1 to 2 seconds

39. Isilon SmartConnect Advanced Highly Differentiated, All-active NFS Failover Solution for Virtualization SmartConnect failover supported in VMware VirtualCenter 3.x Dynamic IP addresses used in lieu of DNS zone name VirtualCenter features such as VMotion fully supported Capabilities Datastore shared across multiple ESX servers All-active NFS failover

40. Disaster Recovery

42. Host-based replication solutions from Partners such as Vizioncore

43. Certified Backup Partners: Symantec, Commvault, Bakbone, EMCPrimary Site Recovery Site VirtualCenter

44. SyncIQ for VMware Update Replicate and restore VMs from site to site Best-practice: Replicate ESX-based snapshots from source Extremely flexible, could be used to replicate single or multiple VMs SyncIQ 2 transfers entire snapshot delta or VM VM3 VM2 VM1 Roadmap VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) for NAS (Q209). Participating in beta program. SyncIQ 2.5: transfers only changed blocks.