This document discusses Infinidat's scale-out storage solutions. It highlights Infinidat's unique software-driven architecture with over 100 patents. Infinidat systems can scale to over 7 exabytes deployed globally across various industries. Analyst reviews show Infinidat receiving higher ratings than Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, and others. The InfiniBox systems offer multi-petabyte scale in a single rack with high performance, reliability, and efficiency.

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Rostislav Gemrot
September 2021
Empower Data-Driven
Competitive Advantage
at Multi-Petabyte Scale

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HYPER STORAGE – NO COMPROMISE !
Unique/Patented
Software Driven
Architecture
100+ Patents
COTS hardware
Virtualized NL-SAS Backend
Unique IO placement and protection

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INFINIDAT
About us
7+ Exabytes
Deployed
Cloud Providers, Financial,
Government, Academic,
Healthcare, Media, Internet,
Retail and more
Global Presence
USA, EMEA, Latin
America, Asia, R&D in
Israel and
Massachusetts
Innovation Spirit
180+ Patents: Data
Protection,
Performance, Scaling,
Automation, Energy
Savings and
Ease of Use
3 Generations of
Experience and
Knowledge
World-Class Resources
and Unparalleled
Pedigree
Unparalleled
Support Service
1st Class Support
Responsiveness and
Quality
Moshe Yanai
INFINIDAT Founder

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CUSTOMER AND ANALYST RECOGNITION
Infinidat Dell
EMC
HPE NetApp IBM Hitachi
Vantara
Pure
Storage
Huawei
Rating out of
possible 5.0
4.9 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.5 4.7 4.8 4.8
Number of
Reviews
369 381 445 603 96 107 475 142
Willingness to
Recommend
97% 81% 89% 92% 85% 90% 98% 94%

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INFINIBOX™
Performance Edge
Multi Petabyte Scale
115TB to 4.2PB net capacity
in a single 42U rack
Solutions
Rich integrations with leading
business platforms and
applications
Green Storage
Superior power efficiency
3kWh - 9kWh Max
Unmatched Reliability
Unique architecture enables
rock-solid uptime
Unified Storage
Truly unified storage built
from ground-up for multi
protocols
Easy
Simple and powerful management
interfaces – WebUI, RESTful
API, cross platform CLI
Disruptive pricing By design
Order of magnitude more usable
capacity per dollar

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Infinidat Design Principles
Faster
Latency
130
µSec
1mSec
900µSec
800µSec
700µSec
600µSec
500µSec
400µSec
300µSec
200µSec
100µSec
0
150-
400
µSec
Infinidat
Typical
All-Flash
Array
More Reliable
100%
data
availability
guaranteed
100%
6-9s?
5-9s?
4-9s?
Infinidat
Typical
All-Flash
Array
Less Expensive
$
$5000
$4500
$4000
$3500
$3000
$2500
$2000
$1500
$1000
$500
0
$3-5K
per
Usable
TB
$/Usable
TB
Infinidat
Typical
All-Flash
Array
Up to
4PB
Effective
Up to
10 PB
Effective
lowest cost
storage for
E2EE!
4.1PB
Usable
10PB
9PB
8PB
7PB
6PB
5PB
4PB
3PB
2PB
1PB
0
Infinidat
Typical
All-Flash
Array
More Capacity
Up to
4PB
Effective

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1U 3x ATS: Triple Redundant Power Management
3U 3x BBU: Triple Redundant Battery Backup
6U
3x Server Nodes: Active/Active/Active
• Up to 3TB DRAM
• Up to 368TB SSD
32U
Up to 8x High Capacity Drive Enclosures:
• 60 Drives per Enclosure
• 2, 4, or 8 Enclosures per System
• 120, 240, or 480 Drives
42U
InfiniBox Fx3xx/Fx2xx Hardware Configuration

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Flexible Business Models
* Not available in all regions. All business models are subject to commercial terms and conditions.
Up-front Purchase
• All-inclusive
software licensing
• Technical Advisor
NEW: Elastic Pricing
• Partial capacity Day 1
• Grow base over time
• Burst up/down above base
with opex payments
Initial Base
Capacity
FLX (Utility)
• Partial capacity Day 1.
“Rent” additional capacity
through ongoing payments
as needed
Opex
Capacity
Minimal
Capacity

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FC Hosts
InfiniBox Topology
Ethernet Hosts
Cache Layer
Up to 3TB DRAM
Up to 368TB SSD used for
non-persistent data
(with no overhead)
95% + Read
from cache
Host Connectivity
FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB, NVMe/TCP
(12) 10/25GbE ports
( 6 ) 10GbE only ports
(24) FC ports 16Gb/32Gb
Block and File simultaneously
all commodity hardware
Persistent Layer
Server to Disk = SAS
(all nodes access all drives
= massive parallelism)
All physical HDD’s are
virtualized.
Data is protected with
InfiniRAID (not hardware RAID)
Up to 8 HDD Enclosures
(up to 480 NL-SAS HDD)
Processing Layer
3 nodes
Active Active Active
InfiniBand mesh (no IB switch)
Active
Active
Active
Drive
Shelves
BBU’s
ATS
InfiniBox

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Intelligent IO Flow
Write Cache Attributes
• 100% writes to DRAM
• Dual Protected Across Nodes
• De-staging every 5 Min or less
Read Cache Attributes
• Aggressive read-ahead
• Primary & Secondary Layers
• Uncompressed for superior latency
Data Persistence Layer Attributes
• Intelligent data placement
• Always sequential access
• High performance dual parity data
protection method
Random
Reads
Host(s)
All
Writes
DRAM SSD
HDD
Sequential
Reads
Sequential
Writes
85-90% ns
10-20% μs
1-5% ms
Not compressed Not compressed
Compressed
Extended Read Cache
Sequential
Reads
3 Nodes of
Cache
DRAM + SSD
HOT
COLD

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Data Distribution
iSCSI Host
Nodes
Drive
Enclosures
InfiniBox
NFS Host
FC Host
InfiniRaid
Data is stored on persistent media in
64k + 4k meta data sections
Data is destaged using 14 data sections
and 2 parity sections: 68k x 16 = 1088kb
Data is always destaged sequentially
Each destage is a virtual InfiniRaid
stripe to 16 independent NL-SAS drives
spread equally across the enclosures
✓ No hardware RAID or disk groupings
✓ No Hot-Spots
✓ No Tuning
✓ No Tiering
✓ Always Balanced
ACK
FC Host

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MEDIA PRICE TREND
Source: Western Digital

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Black Friday - Cyber Monday
Average
DRAM
Hit Ratio
84%
Average
SSD
Hit Ratio
10%
Average
Cache
Hit Ratio
94%
Unmatched Performance

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InfiniBox Quality Of Service
Smart workload management aligned with cloud computing models
▪ Optimized for both service providers and IT workshops
▪ Enables SLO maintenance
▪ Enables Service level differentiations
▪ Eliminates Noisy neighbors
▪ Cloud optimized design
▪ Burst management allows for optimal resource utilization
▪ Hard and soft limits
▪ Graceful enforcement
▪ “artificial latency” added to slow exceeding entities
▪ Flexible and scalable
▪ Policy based management
▪ Up to 5000 policies
▪ Policy can span 500 entities
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InfiniBox Snapshots Architecture
Zero Penalty, optimal cost and maximum scale
• Zero Overhead
• Instantaneous creation based on timestamp (no Metadata overhead).
• Redirect-on-write backend IO
• No capacity overhead (64KB delta block)
• Cache fast override minimizes disk IO
• TRIE version management negates snapshot metadata
• Enterprise ready
• 100,000+ entities per system
• 16 cascade generations per volume
• Any generation can be read enabled
• Rollback from any generation to any generation
• Can be time locked (Immutable snapshots)
• Block and File supported
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Array Based Replication
• Leverages InfiniSnap Technology
• IP Based Replication
• Replicates Volumes, Filesystems &
Consistency Groups
• Asynchronous (4-second Interval)
• Synchronous
• Active/Active (Synchronous)
• Bi-Directional – Different Volumes
• VMware SRM Integration

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InfiniBox Replication Solutions
All InfiniBox replication
solutions:
• Based on InfiniSnap
• Leverage TCP/IP for lower
infrastructure costs
• Do not require any additional
hardware or software licenses
Active-Active Replication
• Based on Sync Replication
• Zero RPO at Zero RTO
Multi-site Replication
• 3-site (or more) integrating
Active-Active and Asynch
Replication
• Industry-leading lowest RPO
Infinidat Solutions RPO RTO
Asynchronous
Replication
Standard replication at
any distance
As low as 4 seconds Non-zero
Usually within 2 minutes
to break relationships
and make volumes
accessible on target
Synchronous
Replication
Zero data loss replication
for metro distances
Zero Non-zero
Usually within 2 minutes
to break relationships
and make volumes
accessible on target
Active-Active
Replication
Nonstop operation at
metro distances
Zero Zero

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Host A
Volume Volume
Host B
IP
• Both volumes are presented
as same LUN (same serial
number) to all hosts
• Both volumes can serve IOs
• Witness is a lightweight,
stateless, 3rd-site VM
• Solution is based on ALUA
(asymmetric LUN access)
across systems
• Standard and included!
Witness
Copy serial number
InfiniBox Active-Active Replication

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Infinidat Concurrent 3-Site Replication
Data
Acknowledge
Maintain IO ordering and Acknowledge
Data
Site B Site A
Site C
Application
Active-Active Synchronous Replication
Typical <5ms Latency
Asynchronous Replication
No Distance or Latency Requirements

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Infinidat Concurrent 3-Site Replication
Configuration Options
Site D
Site A Site B
Data
Data
Active-Active Replication
Site C
Asynchronous Replication
Asynchronous Replication

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• InfiniVerse
• InfiniMetrics
• RESTful API / Python SDK
• Host PowerTools / VMware plug-ins
• HTML5 User Interface
Easy to Manage Easy to Integrate
Code.Infinidat.com

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INFINIDAT –VMware Certified
Integration
Site A Site B
INFINIDAT
VMware Plug-Ins
Site
Recovery
Manager
(Replication)
VASA & VAAI
(Management &
Control)
INFINIDAT
HostPower Tools
(Configuration
Assurance &
Provisioning)
Third Party
Integration and
Customization
InfiniMetrics
Manage from
Server to Storage
Across and entire
Enterprise
Single
VM Restore
Single
VM Restore

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EASY TO MANAGE –INFINIDAT InfiniBox
User Interface –One Click Away!

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Reference architecture & usage
• InfiniBox v provozu cca 1 rok
• Všechny typy zátěže vyjma Oracle DB
• Celkově jsou velmi spokojeni
• Výkon
• Jednoduchost správy
• Spolehlivost

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