SAN Pitch

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Simplifying Optimizing The SAN
EnvironmentVirtualization Performance
Measurements
Nick Tabellion Chief Technology Officer
SimplifyingData Storage
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Delivering on the SAN Promise

• As you migrate from direct-attached storage, or
  expand your existing SAN environment, Softek SAN
  solutions can simplify and optimize the
  management and implementation of your SAN
• Highest performance
• Greatest flexibility
• High-availability
• Least cost
• Least complexity
• Least impact to your environment and operations

Substantial ROI Lower TCO
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How Softek Virtualization Works
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Centralizes Storage Management

• Controls and monitors the virtualized storage
  pool under a consolidated, intuitive, graphical
  interface
• Centralize mapping of virtual volumes,
  replication and business continuance

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Virtualization Simplifies Provisioning to a
Drag-and-Drop
Softek Virtualization
Multi- vendor Network StoragePool
Hosts . . .
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Centralize Business Continuance and Disaster
Recovery in One Tool

• N1 Availability
• Alternate pathing
• Mirroring
• Point in Time Replication
• Snapshot
• Asynchronous on-site and off-site IP Mirroring
• Linear scaling

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Dramatic Asset Utilization Improvements
Direct-Attached Storage
Virtualization Storage Pools

• 30 50
• 300 600 GB

• 80
• 8,000 15,000 GB

• Disk Utilization
• GB Managed / Admin

Substantial ROI and Lower TCO derived from
deploying Virtualization
Source Gartner Dataquest
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Performance Benchmark Results

• 104,000 I/Os per second
• Many, frequent transactions
• Small block size, 512 bytes
• Example database applications
• 560 MB/sec Throughput Rate
• Few, continuous streams of data
• Large block size, 1MB
• Example streaming video
• 208,000 I/Os per second and 1.12 GB per second
  in minimum Softek configuration

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Competitive Comparisons

• Softek Can Improve the Performance of Leading
  Hardware Based Competitors by 2x or More
• Softek Virtualization Can Extend the Life of
  Existing Hardware by Sitting Between It and the
  SAN
• Softek Virtualization Can Provide the Magnitude
  Greater Performance for Less on Alternative
  Hardware

Sources Ideas International Limited,
Competitive Profiles Robert Frances Group Report
referenced by the 451.com
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Softek Delivers An Industry Leading 1TB SAN For
150K
High availability, excludes switches, application
servers, and HBAs.
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Benefits of True Virtualization

• Improves ROI and lowers TCO
• Eliminates underlying complexities
• Expands storage without disrupting applications
• Eliminates hardware dependence
• Offers scalability and high availability at the
  least cost
• Centralized Disaster Recovery in one tool
• Extends life of existing assets
• Delivers the highest performance

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Performance Benchmark Summary

• Performance on Scale or Better than Competition
• Highly scalable
• Priced at a Fraction of the Cost

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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)

• You are in the data path
• EMC, IBM, HDS and every storage controller of
  merit recognizes the value of being in the data
  path
• Provide multiple ways (N1 architecture,
  Snapshot, Alternative Pathing, Replication/Migrati
  on, AIM) to ensure business continuance and
  disaster recovery
• No single point of failure
• Multiple white papers and technical briefs are
  available
• Improve I/O and application throughput
  performance through advanced caching algorithms
• Unprecedented performance with 208,000 IOPS and
  1.12 GB/sec throughput rates for our minimum SAN
  configuration
• Softek Virtualization can boost the performance
  of any storage subsystem in the network storage
  pool

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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)

• What is the real-life performance?
• Real-life performance depends on the customers
  application and environment
• As with any testing, we maximized our system to
  attain the highest performance numbers possible
• Our recently completed benchmark disproves any
  theory that an in-band virtualization solution
  negatively impacts performance, in fact, it can
  boost performance to unprecedented levels for
  systems such as EMC, HDS
• Our competency center is designed for customer
  demonstrations, testing, and benchmarking
• Fujitsu Softek encourages any customer to bring
  in their own application servers, storage
  subsystems, and business applications and test
  the performance in our center under real-life
  conditions
• Softek Virtualizations performance will
  continually increase as technology advancements
  are made in the network hardware such as HBAs,
  processors, etc.
• Instead of replacing large, expensive storage
  subsystems like EMC or HDS (costs range from
  250K to over 1M) in order to take advantage of
  the latest technology and performance, Softek
  Virtualization only requires a minimal asset
  investment (replacing the HBAs will cost 7K)

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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)

• Why a QLogic Card?
• QLogic makes a significant contribution to the
  performance benchmark
• As QLogic (or another company) releases the next
  generation of HBAs and switches, Softek
  Virtualization will immediately be able to take
  advantage of the performance increases for
  minimal cost

QLogic 2310 HBAs
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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)

• You use NT servers for storage management
• Actually, Softek Virtualization uses NT for the
  management console GUI interface platform
• The technology to manage zoning, I/O, application
  throughput, mirroring, etc. is a custom
  application
• NT is a proven commercial operating system, with
  advances being made everyday
• First to market with all the latest, best and
  relatively inexpensive hardware
• No vendor lock-in to a proprietary platform
• Price/performance continuously advances
• Wealth of qualified I/O, networking interfaces,
  and 3rd party software
• Like all networks, customers must build in
  redundancy
• Implement data, path, and platform replication
  through independent storage control nodes running
  asynchronous to each other with N1 redundancy

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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)

• Why an Intel Chip?
• Intel is a great chip in the market
• Many of the world-class storage providers,
  including Hitachis Lightning are running Intel
  chips in both the front-end (channel adapters)
  and back-end (device adapters)
• Softek Virtualization will immediately be able to
  take advantage of the new advances in Intel
  technology and performance for a minimal cost

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Softek SANView
I Have A SAN - I Need to See My Assets in Order
to Manage Them

• SANView is designed for customers who need to
  visualize, monitor and manage Storage Area
  Network assets
• SANView is a SAN management product that
  provides
• a topology view of the SAN
• the most information for proactively monitoring
  and managing SAN performance, communication, and
  connectivity.

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Todays SAN is Difficult To Manage
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Real-time Historical Performance Statistics
Detailed port I/O performance statistics
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Rapid Problem Resolution
Beacon a port to assist in diagnosing problems
Port blinks on screen and at the switch
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