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Open Storage PlatformEric Slack, Sr. AnalystEvaluator Group2016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

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Evaluator Group - Research CoverageInformationStorageStrategies andSolutionsDataVirtualiProtectionzation& ArchiveDataVirtualizationData ProtectiPerformanceAnalytics on &Data ArchiveSolid StateAnalytiStoragecsSolidVirtualizationSDS &HyperStateVirtualizati Cloud ConvergedHyperon Cloud ServiceServices sconverged&& OSP& ObjectObjectEvaluator SeriesResearch (ESR)Evaluation GuideProduct AnalysisComparison MatrixIndustry InsightTechnical Insight39/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

Agenda What the Open Storage Platform is What benefits it can provide Relationship between OSP and Hyperconverged How OSP can be used to build an HCI Tour of current OSP products42016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

Landscape ChangesHyper-scalers – Amazon, Google, etc. developedown storage platforms Servers with captive storage (HDDs, and now incl SSDs)Wrote their own storage function software (example:Google File System)Needed resiliency in the application software layer at cluster level, not in redundancy at hardware level Do-it-Yourself infrastructure - which they could handle9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.5

Information Technology DeploymentsTraditional StorageLargeTraditional onal StorageOn PremisesOff PremisesPrivate ficUsageSolutionsRemoteOffices9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.6

Hyper-scale DreamHyper-scalers’ approach was appealing Flexible, cost effective, independentTechnology ‘trickle-down’Made sense on whiteboard – others wanted to copy EnterprisesService ProvidersOpportunistic Integrators9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.7

Hyper-scale RealityHyper-scale systems Do-it-Yourself effortEnterprise IT: Operations vs DevelopmentEnterprises need Commercial products, implementation, supportA model for design and deploymentRoll your own approach, not DIY9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.8

Open Storage Platform ComponentsOpen Storage PlatformSoftware-DefinedStorageStorage Function Software Virtual SANs Clustered File SystemsStorage Services Software Data Protection Data ManagementServer-Based StorageIntel-based Servers Add-in features Special FunctionsDirect-attached storage Internal to serverdevices External to server9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.9

Open Storage Platform Offerings - SDSSoftware-defined storageStorage function software Atlantis USXDataCoreEMC ScaleIOHedvig Dist. PlatformHP StoreVirtual VSAIBM Spectrum AccelerateMaxta MxSPNexentaStorSoftNASStorMagic SvSANVMware VSANStorage services software Quantum StorNext9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.10

Open Storage Platform Offerings - HardwareServer based storage Server OEMs - Intel x86 CiscoDellHPEHuaweiInspurLenovoQuantaSupermicro Box builders Aberdeen45 DrivesEvolve MfgDirect-attach Storage SanDisk InfiniFlashX-IO ISEHGST?Seagate?9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.11

OSP – Big PictureSoftwaredefinedStorage129/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

OSP Deployment OpportunitiesLargeTraditional ITHyper-ConvergedIndependentDepartmentsOpen Storage PlatformPrivate emoteOfficesBuild it Yourself orHyper-ConvergedPublicServiceProvider9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.13

OSP Software Products149/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

Atlantis USX Open Storage Platform Scale-out, software-defined storage solution runs asVM on vSphere or XenServerAbstracts server (flash, DRAM, HDD) or networkedstorage (SAN or NAS) into shared poolData access via iSCSI, NFS, SMB or S3 protocolsReal-time, content-aware deduplication andcompression, up to 10x data reductionAdvanced feature setUSX is software foundation forHyperScale appliances9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.15

DataCore SANsymphony DataCore SANsymphony virtual SANRuns as VM on all major hypervisors or as Windows serverVirtualizes existing storage - SAN or DASScale up storage, scale out virtualization controllers2016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.16

DataCore Hyper-converged Virtual SAN Scale-out virtual SAN2 – 64 nodes per clusterRuns as VM on all major hypervisors / Windows serverLow-latency architectureLow price/performance (per SPC-1 IOPSTM)SDS layer for RYO Hyperconverged Infrastructure solution2016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.17

EMC ScaleIO Overview Clustered SDS solution scales 3 nodes to 1000, 16PBPools local server capacity or DAS, shares data via iSCSIRuns as VM or on Windows or Linux serverVolumes are parsed, mirrored, distributed across clusterData Server installs on contributing serversData Client installs on consuming serversInfrastructure agnostic, no cluster uniformityExpands or shrinks non-disruptivelySupports two types of configurations Hyper-converged – Data Client and Data Server on same boxTwo-Layer – Data Client and Data Server on different boxes9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.18

Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform Scale-out software solution abstracts local flash anddisk into pooled, virtual volumes“RAID-less” architecture distributes data blocksacross clusterRuns as VM on all major hypervisors, as Dockercontainer on Linux serverHyper-scale configuration scales storage separatelyfrom computeHyper-converged configuration scales storage andcompute togetherSupports iSCSI, NFS, S3, Swift and OpenStackCinder2016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.9/7/201619

Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.20

HP StoreVirtual VSA Overview Scale Out server-sideBlock StorageClustered nodes withdata distributionThin ProvisioningSnapshotsRemote ReplicationHypervisor advancedfeatures (vMotion, LiveMigration, etc ) Adaptive OptimizationThin ProvisioningLocal/Remote replication Remote Copy Reservation-less thinprovisioned snapshotsRemote ManagementZoningNon-disruptive upgrades9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.21

IBM Spectrum Accelerate XIV software for installation on public and private cloudsAll XIV features available for VM-based storageCan replicate between Accelerate and hardware-basedXIV systemsSame XIV GUI for managementSupports up to 144 VMs of Accelerate with IBM Hyper-Scale ManagerScales from 8 to 325TB per VM, 40PB for Hyper-ScaleManager9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.22

IBM Spectrum AccelerateOverall System Configuration9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.23

Maxta MxSP Overview HyperconvergedarchitectureAvailable as appliances orsoftware-onlyAppliances pre-configuredby channel partnersAggregates server DAS intosingle storage poolOpenStack, KVM, vSpheresoftware platformsFreemium model 3-node cluster, 12TB maxcapacity, w/out support VM-centric, VM-optimizedLocal and RemoteReplicationRead and write-backcachingChecksums to ensure DataIntegrityCapacity optimization -Thin provisioningInline data reduction(Dedupe & Compression)“Zero copy” snapshots andclones9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.24

Maxta MxSP SoftwareMaxta Global rDisk DrivesSSDServer 1SSDDiskDrivesServer 2DiskMaxta Aggregated Storage Pool DrivesSSDServer nEthernetVirtualization UI9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.25

NexentaStor Scale-Up Unified StorageUnified storage services(file and block)NFS, CIFS, SMBFC, iSCSIDeployed on bare metal x86servers 2 node active / active cluster Software RAID 1, N 1,2,3With SAS connected storage Up to 2PB (raw) Hybrid and all-flash configs HDDs, SSDs, PCIe flash9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.26

NexentaStor Scale-Up Unified Storage Up to 2PB storage capacity, unlimited namespaceFeature-rich, mature product Read and write caching, auto-tiering In-line deduplication and compression, thinprovisioning Snapshots and clones, synchronous mirroring Dual and triple parity RAID with auto-rebuilds Local and remote replication, incl. stretched clustersNexentaStor 5.0 NexentaFusion management layer Self-documenting REST APIs NVMe support9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.27

StorNext SAN-based File System StorNext File System runs on SAN-attached metadatacontrollerStorNext agent running on Win, Linux, UNIX or Mac OSXhostServes files to LAN-based clients through a gatewayPrimary capacity presented from Internal storage or DASSAN-attached block storage or object storageStorNext Storage Manager enables tape, tiered arch.Mature product with installed base in many verticalmarkets282016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

StorNext SAN-based File SystemDistributed LAN ClientsCIFS/NFSStorNext SAN ClientsLANApplication ServerGatewayCloud ArchiveSANDisk ArrayStorNextMetadata ControllerObject StorageTape Library292016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.

SoftNAS Cloud File GatewayOn-premise and hybrid cloud storage deployment as aunified shared file system for VMware vSphere Local caching and S3 object storage connectivityS3VolumesApplicationsand serversCIFSNFSAFPiSCSIStorage poolsEnd-userdesktops,devicesS3Public cloud:Object storageAWS, Azure Blob,CenturyLink Cloud, Private cloud:Object storageNetApp StorageGRID,CloudianPrivate cloud:Disk storageDAS – SSD, SAS, SATASAN – NetApp E-Series, EMC VNXSDS– VSAN2016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.30

StorMagic SvSAN Scale-out virtual SAN software Runs as VMware or Hyper-V VM or on Linux serverScales from two server nodes to thousands, 100s TB Aggregates internal HDDs orflash, plus DAS and SANSSD and PCIe flash read/write caching and tiering Advanced data services 1500 customersServer-side read cachingand tieringLocal synch mirroring withautomated failoverRAID with auto-rebuildsRemote replication, incl.target migrationStretched clusters for DRNon-disruptive scalingVMware vCenter integration9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.31

StorMagic SvSANClientsProduction NetworkNeutral Storage Host9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.32

VMware VSAN ArchitectureHypervisorVirtual SAN (VSAN)Virtual SAN Clustered Datastore9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.33

VMware VSAN Data Services & Features Built into ESXiLeverage all of the VMware vSphere clustering dataservices and featuresSynchronous Mirroring – 3 mirrored replicas, one copyas a witnessVSAN 6.2 Dedupe and Compression (claim 7x reduction) Distributed RAID 5, 6 (“erasure coding”) QoS – policy-based control IOPS consumed by VMs SAP support9/7/20162016 Storage Developer Conference. Insert Your Company Name. All Rights Reserved.34

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Sep 07, 2016 · IBM Spectrum Accelerate XIV software . for installation on public and private clouds All XIV features available for . VM-based storage Can replicate between Accelerate and hardwarebased - XIV systems Same XIV GUI for management Supports up to 144 VMs of Accelerate with IBM Hyper-Scale