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DataCore Software with Cisco UCS Complete Unification of the Data Center Servers.
- 1. DataCore Software with Cisco
UCS
Complete Unification of the Data Center
Servers, Networking & Storage
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- 2. FABRIC COMPUTING
“A set of compute, storage, memory
and I/O components joined through a
fabric interconnect and the software
to configure and manage them.”
The ability to reconfigure all system
components in sync
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Server, Network, STORAGE,
Specialty Engines
The flexibility to provide resources within
the fabric to workloads as needed
The capability to manage systems from a
more holistic standpoint
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- 3. THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL
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By delivering ViPR … we will provide our customers
with a lightweight, software-only approach to
storage management
”
VMware’s software-defined storage strategy will
bring the same levels of abstraction and automation
to the storage infrastructure…
”
We are a software defined storage company today.
While we are building storage systems out of
commodity disks, the value is in the software
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- 4. Disrupt Discrete IT Markets
Before Discrete IT
Components and Markets
Servers
$10.1Be
Future Convergence
Components – Markets
ES HDD
$55Be
1.2%
ES SSD
4.3%
Today
Appliances
Virtualization
Unified Storage
Applications
$3.2Be
36.9%
Storage
Systems
PELS
$6.3Be
10.6%
$36Be
4.1%
Storage
Software
Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms
$15.7Be
CPU
5.8%
Networking
Future
PCIe
Ntwk
VMs
H/SDD
SDD
$11.8Be
6.1%
Hyper Converged Infrastructure
Sources: IDC Quarterly storage , PELS and server trackers/forecasters, HDD #243703, SSD #240871, Networking #241281
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- 5. Embed Storage Control
into Fabric Computing
truly Unified Data Center
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- 6. CISCO UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEM
WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY
Revolutionizes the storage industry
Accelerates the commoditization
of storage
Abstracts storage management and
services from storage hardware
Leverages a hardened software
platform on cutting edge
compute technology
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- 7. CISCO UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEM
WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY
BEYOND EFFICIENCY
MORE EFFECTIVE IT
Cisco UCS with Storage
Virtualization Technology
breeds simplicity
Agile, flexible, high-performance,
self-integrating IT
Reduced staff costs
Increased uptime
Rapid return on investment
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- 8. The Path To aSoftware Defined DataCenter
Cisco UCS with
embedded storage
virtualization
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Introduce UCS based DataCore
virtual SANs
1
Abstract storage software
from storage hardware
2
Cisco UCS
Virtual SAN
Easily displace storage vendors
with high density UCS storage or
Whiptail appliances
- 9. CAPITALIZE ON SOFTWARE DEFINED
STORAGE
DAS popular again
Host-side flash for latency-sensitive apps
SAN for bulk shared storage
Value shift from storage arrays to layered software
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- 10. COMPETITIVE EDGE
1
3
Integral storage control from
server, to cloud
5
Bring continuous availability
Facilitate modernization
/ migration
7
2
4
Assimilate diverse storage
equipment already in place
6
Reduce admin effort through
extensive automation
Attain faster performance
from same assets
- Optimal use of CPUs/Memory/Channels
- Minimize back-end disk dependencies
Upgrade & expand
non-disruptively
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- 12. DataCore Software
Global leader in softwaredefined storage
Over 25,000 deployments
world-wide
9th generation platform
Privately held and profitable
for 15 years
Cisco UCS Ready ISV Partner
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- 14. N-WAY VIRTUAL SAN
Pool total capacity
Share across servers
Thin provision space
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Cache from DRAM
Mirror between servers
Auto-tier Flash/HDD
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- 15. 2-WAY CLUSTER (RETAIL STORES)
Hot-hot nodes
No single point of failure
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Compact
High-performance
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- 16. VIRTUAL DESKTOPS
High user density
No external SAN
Small disk
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Low-cost
No need for flash
Very responsive
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- 18. TURBO-CHARGED CROSS-OVER
Caching at host
Shared redundant node
Offload replicas to SAN
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- 19. N-WAY SAN STORAGE SERVERS
Front-end I/O nodes
Shared redundant node
Offload replicas to SAN
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