NexentaStor is enterprise-class unified storage software that runs on standard hardware, providing block and file storage capabilities. It offers superior storage management functionality focused on virtualized environments at 70-80% cost savings compared to proprietary storage. NexentaStor provides features such as unlimited file sizes, snapshots, replication, and end-to-end data integrity.

1. Nexenta Unified Storage
Enterprise class storage for everyone
NexentaStor provides enterprise class unified
storage capabilities via a software solution that
ends vendor lock-in while delivering superior
storage management functionality with a
particular focus on virtualized environments

2. WHAT IS NEXENTASTOR?
Enterprise class functionality
75% Savings
Unified storage: block and file
Leading OpenStorage solution
• Runs on standard hardware
Offers unmatched enterprise features at
70-80% savings:
• End to end data integrity
• Unlimited file size & snaps
• Synchronous and ZFS replication
iSCSI
SAS
FC
AoE
InfiniBand
CIFS
iSCSI NFS
FC
Superior storage for virtualized and cloud
environments

3. OpenStorage today
Disruption Innovation
“Better, faster, less
expensive and open”
“The first to solve the pain
of storage for VDI and
Cloud”
Unified storage
•iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FC, Infiniband
•Storage w/o limits
•HA, DR, back-up, metro cluster
VDI and Cloud
•VSA 4 View
•All SSD
•CloudStack & OpenStack
•Hadoop

4. Application (software)
- Software obviously, runs on any hardware even virtual
- Using modern design techniques scalable to thousands
Virtualization (software)
- Software that runs on commodity hardware
- Scalable and easy hardware refresh
How about your storage (appliances)
- Appliance made by transtec in combination with Nexenta software
- Scale by simply adding industrial standard hardware; the concept works
Nexenta Systems analogy to VMware
- Virtualize industrial standard hardware to a SAN/NAS using Nexenta software
SIMILARITIES ACROSS THE STACK

5. A typical high level deployment
- Hypervisors may use file, block or both
Every dataset has specific tunable
- compression, primary cache, etc.
Accelerate rotational drives
- SSD for cache (L2ARC) or write (ZIL)
WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE

6. HYBRID STORAGE ZOOM IN
Hybrid Storage Pool
- (3 way) Mirror, single dual and triple parity
Have multiple pools per system
- Performance, capacity and reliability
The right device for the right job
- Money can buy bandwidth latency is forever

7. ARC and L2ARC CACHE
ARC is an intelligent algorithm
- who-what-where ?
Balance between SSD and DRAM
- L1; RAM L2; SSD, scale both
Other caches
- Per virtual device cache
- Intelligent pre-fetch

8. LOG DEVICE ACCELERATES WRITES
Two types of operations
- Sync and Asynchronous writes
Performance gets dictated by SSD
- Provide fast acknowledge to client
ESX does only sync NFS writes
- Raise the bar; low latency SSD
Random writes become sequential writes
- When timer fires data is flushed to disks

9. THE NEXENTA PICTURE
Leveraged existing
value chains,
improved price
performance by
10x, addressed
untapped demand
Hardware Software Integration
Sales,
marketing
and
support
Value Added by transtec

10. REAL-TIME DISPLAY

11. NEXENTASTOR FEATURES
• Supports NAS and SAN
– NFS/CIFS and iSCSI/FC
• Highly scalable capacity and performance
– Benchmarked at over 4,000MB sec –
bigger than the largest NTAP
– Takes advantage of current technology
e.g. SSD for performance
• Unlimited snapshots and clones
– With fully integrated search
• Full active/active HA configuration
– No single point of failure
• Heterogeneous block and file replication
– Allows easy DR configurations
– Synchronous or Asynchronous
• Internal RAID-Z and spares
• VM integration
– Vmware, XEN and Hyper-V
– Nexenta VDI
• Cloud storage capabilities
• Compression, Dedupe and in box virus scan
– Encryption in 2012
– All in band – not post process
• End to end data integrity
– No silent data corruption
• Thin provisioning
• Non-disruptive volume grow
• DTrace based analytics

12. DATA PROTECTION WITH CLUSTER

13. NEXENTA CUSTOMERS

14. TECH PARTNERS

15. WHY NEXENTASTOR?
• 80% lower TCO with no vendor lock in
• Eliminates costly platform dependent software
• Maximizes utilization of existing storage resources
• One solution supports all storage tiers
• SAN and NAS support
• Zettabyte capacity
• Unlimited snapshots and clones
• Thin provisioning
• Virtual machine integration
• Non-disruptive volume Grow/Shrink
• No vendor dependencies; Open source file system
• Storage is a normal application – manage and scale like other critical applications
• Open interoperability: Any host, Any O/S, Any Storage
• Heterogeneous block and file replication
• Hybrid storage pools – increase performance and reduce power by 80%
• Open management API
Cost
Effective
Scalable
&
Efficient
Open
Solution

16. HOW DO CUSTOMERS USE NEXENTASTOR?
User Scenarios
• Primary & Tiered Storage
• Application Servers
• Data Protection
• Streaming Media
• Virtualization and Cloud
Back-Up
In-line deduplication, replication and potential as a multi-protocol target make us an
ideal backup target
Virtualization
Hybrid storage pooling (native SSD), hot data optimization, management, deduplication,
snap shots, replication, compression make us an ideal solution for virtualization
Cloud
Strong virtualization, low cost enterprise HA cluster, replication make NexentaStor a good
platform for cloud infrastructure

17. PLUG-INS
Software Plug-ins
• High Availability Cluster - Single and dual active-active fail-over
configuration options to increase availability
• VM Data Center - View and manage your entire virtualized VMware, Citrix
Xen or Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure from a simple point and click
interface. Setup backups, provision storage, setup replication & retention
policies, and perform common tasks, such as stopping & starting VMs or
creating template-based clones.
• Delorean - Windows Back-up, Restore & Search Application - ZFS-powered
backup for Windows with VSS clients. Select files and folders to protect via
built-in File Explorer interface.

18. NAMESPACE CLUSTER
• Scales out NexentaStor NFS clusters
• Distribute load across systems through intelligent analytics and background migration
• Adds penultimate level to industry leading multi-level data protection
• Scale limits have to do with simultaneous access to single file or directory
• No limit on amount of storage, number of clients, number of clusters
• Manage the entire name space from any node, on demand