Some non marketing slides on requirements for "cloudy storage" and NexentaStor. A few single slide example "case studies" included.

1. NexentaStor in the Cloud
Storage for Clouds and Cloud Storage
“Cloudy storage”
Prepared December 2010
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2. Agenda
• Corporate Introduction
• NexentaStor as “Cloudy storage”
• Customer case studies
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3. Opportunity
Storage is now 42% of total IT spending and growing
Legacy storage provider solutions are inadequate
• Aged software on commodity hardware
• Lock-in business models that mark up hardware
10x
• Poor alignment with IT trends including cloud and
virtualization and the exponential growth of
unstructured data
Enterprise class storage for everyone
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Nexenta Systems Inc. CONFIDENTIAL

4. NexentaStor
Additional modules • Hardware independent
Closed source
+ VM management + WORM + • NAS/SAN/iSCSI/FC
Windows „Deloreon‟ + HA + pNFS • CDP via ZFS snapshots
Enterprise Edition • CDP via block sync
+ search + synch replication • Advanced graphics
+ ease of use + remote management • Event based API
Debian / Ubuntu NexentaOS:
#1 community + packaging • Loves multiple cores
Illumos kernel • Boot level ZFS
• >1 million downloads
Open source
multi-core + clustering
ZFS: File system
ZFS • universal:
SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC
checksums
• performance: variable
not volumes block size + prefetch
128 bit • Software RAID that
identifies and corrects
data corruption
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Nexenta Systems Inc. CONFIDENTIAL

5. Solution: NexentaStor
iSCS NFS
I
Unified storage: block and file
CIF
S
FC Leading OpenStorage solution
Offers unmatched enterprise features
at 70-80% savings:
• End to end data integrity
iSCS AoE • Unlimited file size & snaps
I
SAS • Synchronous and ZFS replication
FC
InfiniBan Superior storage for virtualized and cloud
d environments
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Nexenta Systems Inc. CONFIDENTIAL

6. Key Attributes of “Cloudy Storage”
• Scalable
• Easy-to-manage
• Elastic
• Optimized for virtualized environments
• Commoditization & data integrity
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7. SCALABLE ARCHITECTURE
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8. Storage software designed to scale
• Multi-core support
• SSD support
• “No limits”
• Search capability
“just add hardware – and it
accelerates”
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9. ZFS - pushes boundaries on limits
Description Limit
Number of data volumes on a system 264
Maximum size of a data volume 278 bytes
Number of file systems in a data volume 264
Maximum size of a file system 264 bytes
Number of devices in a data volume 264
Number of files in a directory 256
Maximum file size 264 bytes
Number of attributes of a file 248
Maximum size of any attribute 264 bytes
Number of snapshots of a file system 264
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10. “Block level” Scalability
FC, iSCSI,
AoE, etc.
NFS, CIFS, etc.
Each system
exports volumes
I/O “striped” across
backend systems
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11. “File level” Scability
• Referrals
– Head node redirects to data servers
– NFS referrals (Q4 2010)
– DFS referrals (Q1 2011)
• pNFS
– Parallel requests across data servers
– 2011
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12. NFS Referrals – scale out NAS
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13. EASY TO MANAGE
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14. Comprehensive management tools
• Web GUI
• Command-line shell
– Auto-complete and help facility
• APIs
Auto deploy, auto configure
– Rest, Perl, PHP, C and configure
“We deploy
• Scheduled storage using Chef & pxe boot”
NexentaStor services
– Replication, snapshots, scrubs
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15. Analytics with real-time data
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16. Built in Data protection
• Asynchronous:
– Auto-Sync
• Copies ZFS volumes including metadata headers
• Can specify individual folders
Zero impact snapshot replication
– Auto-Tier
with de-duplication & WAN
• Copies folders to and from appliances
awareness
• Synchronous fastest replication”
“World’s
– Auto-CDP
• Optional module, block-based replication
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17. ELASTIC
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18. On-demand resource management
• Thin provisioning
• Reservations and quotas pool
Add hardware. Increase
• sizes. Improve utilization.
Volume grow
• automatically
• Global name space
• Compression
• Deduplication
– In-line and post-process options
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19. NATIVE SUPPORT FOR
VIRTUALIZATION
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20. Unified storage - Virtual machines
• Only solution that unifies management of
storage for Vmware, Citrix Xen and Hyper-V
$68,000 spent on NexentaStor &
• Native use of SSDSas fast as $1,000,000
hardware is 2x
• De-duplication
of legacy storage for VDI
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21. Hybrid Storage Pool
Adaptive Replacement Cache (ARC)
separate Level 2
Main Pool
Main Pool
intent log ARC
Write optimized HDD Read optimized
HDD
HDD
device (SSD) device (SSD)
Size (GBytes) 1 - 10 GByte large big
Cost write iops/$ size/$ size/$
Use sync writes persistent storage read cache
Performance secondary
low-latency writes low-latency reads
optimization
Need more more, faster
stripe stripe
speed? devices
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22. UI for VM Data Center
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23. COMMODITIZATION
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24. OpenStorage commoditization
• Customers own perpetual licenses
– Hardware refresh can proceed without any
additional payment to Nexenta
– Refresh of legacy storage is often more expensive
Every transaction atomic and
than the initial purchaseonly
checksummed. The
• NexentaStor with HA turns industry standard
solution to find and correct
silent data corruption.
hardware into enterprise class storage
– Superior data integrity than legacy hardware
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25. CASE STUDIES
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26. CloudCentral
Problem Solution
• Providing on-demand • NexentaStor 3.0
infrastructure in the cloud – Compression
– Pure play cloud solution – Snapshots
• Needed – De-duplication
– Proven work with OpenStack – Thin provisioning
– StorageLink integration • XenServer
– Price / performance • OpenStack
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27. Hosting.com
Problem Solution
• Transitioning hosting • NexentaStor 3.0
company to a cloud solution – Compression
– Snapshots
– De-duplication
• Needed
– Thin provisioning
– Flexible solution
– Software based provisioning • Vmware
– Strong Vmware support • Mezeo
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28. KT
Problem Solution
• Providing on-demand • NexentaStor 3.0
infrastructure in the cloud – Compression
– Hosting public and private IT – Snapshots
services – De-duplication
• Needed – Thin provisioning
– Low cost, reliable solution • Citrix
– Compatibility with a variety of • Cloudscaling custom
commodity hardware
software
– Support for a variety of
storage protocols • OpenStack and Cloud.com
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29. Lightedge
Problem Solution
• Hosting company • NexentaStor 3.0
transitioning to cloud with – Compression
Cisco and VMware – Snapshots
• Needed – De-duplication
– Ability to run as a VM and – Thin provisioning
also on bare metal • VMware
– iSCSI and FC boot • Cisco UCS
– High performance NFS
– Replication
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30. Bluefire – Dimension Data
Problem Solution
• Providing hosted • NexentaStor 3.0
applications in the cloud – Compression
• Needed – Snapshots
– Low cost, reliable solution – De-duplication
– Enterprise class data integrity – Thin provisioning
– Abiquio integration • Vmware
• Abiquio
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31. Comsquared
Problem Solution
• Storage as a service for • NexentaStor 3.0
utilities – Replication
• Needed – Backup
– Low cost, reliable solution – De-duplication
– Compatibility with VMware – Thin provisioning
virtualization • VMware
– Support for a variety of
storage protocols
– Ease of managing storage
pools
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32. Ballintrae
Problem Solution
• Providing 1,000 hosted • NexentaStor 3.0
desktops in the cloud – Compression
• Needed – Snapshots
– 18,000 IOPS at a reasonable – De-duplication
cost – Thin provisioning
– Low cost, reliable solution • Citrix
– NFS and iSCSI support • Desktone
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