Transcript Virtual Disks in a Mechanical World

Do More. Save More.
Non-Stop, Lightning-Fast,
Waste-Free SANs
April 2009
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Non-Stop, Lightning-Fast, Waste-Free SANs
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Virtualization is Strategic
Virtualization ranks as the No. 1
strategic technology for this year,
not for its ability to virtualize servers, but for its
increasing capability to virtualize just about
everything else in a data center...
in storage, for instance, virtualization allows
users to "to combine different kinds and
generations of storage technology.“
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DataCore Solutions
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DataCore = Savings and Productivity
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Consolidate & Optimize Your Storage by 60%
Get full use of what you own, purchase storage on ‘as needed basis’
Save on floor space, capacity costs and energy
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Lower Initial and On-going Costs by 50% plus and
Future Proof Your Storage Investments
Value protection upgradability – pay as needed
Future proofing - enduring Software, lives beyond the hardware
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Slash Business Downtime Costs (From Weeks to
minutes or zero)
Cost-effective solutions make HA and DR practical
More Productivity - ‘True High-Availability” Business Protection
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Enhance Performance (2-4X) & Improve Admin
Productivity (3-10X)
Automation, SAN-wide Centralized Management, Thin Provisioning
Do more in the same timeframe – Accelerate Performance 2-4X!
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Storage Virtualization & the Economy
"It's a lot easier for customers to put off
the purchases of servers, some software
and applications, and even desktops than
it is to put off storage purchases. Once a
company moves into the digital world ...
information just piles up. You've got to
have some place to put it."
“Software - do more with less”
“Storage Virtualization let’s you get the
most from your existing investments.”
“ DataCore Software...I see their storage virtualization software today
offering even greater value in the context of the recessionary economy.”
- Jon Toigo, Storage Industry Analyst
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Savings & ROI from DataCore Virtual SANs
vs Traditional Direct Attached Storage (DAS)
 Better Storage Capacity Utilization:
Thin Provisioning/Reclamation, etc.
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DAS = 25%-40% (i.e., 60% to 75% of storage assets are wasted)
SAN = 85%-90% DataCore = Maximum Utilization!
 Faster Performance & Lower Admin & Environmental Costs:
Accelerate performance 2-4X: Get more work done faster!
Simplify Management: Universal Commands, Automation, etc.
• Ratio of DAS to SAN costs = 3 to 10X Better Productivity
• Pooling of cost-effective storage = Choice of Savings
Do More with Less in the same given time.
Avg. Admin Burdened Cost = $75,000+
 More Uptime – SANs dramatically increase availablity:
Auto Failover/Failback, Disk Backups, CDP, etc,
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Average revenue lost per employee-hour is $275.00
100 employee impact = $27,500 per hour
DAS = 98.0% uptime (60 hours/yr downtime)
SAN = 99.9%+ uptime (1hour/yr downtime or less)
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Virtualization & SAN
Storage growth never stops…
High-Availability SAN are critical to protect
against “all the eggs in one basket”
impact of virtual server consolidation…
Virtualization magnifies I/O load…
High Cost of traditional SAN limit and delay
Virtual Server deployments…
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Business Continuity
DataCore does high-availability better…
Sweet Spot – ‘High-Availability SAN for SMB’
“DataCore does high-availability better… making
business continuity and disaster recovery solutions
practical"
Simple Fail-safe SAN data protection
• Unique Automatic Failover and Failback
• Priced right for Small and Mid-size Business
• Full-featured HA SAN software from $10,000
• No-penalty upgradability and “future proofed”
growth path
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Before Server Virtualization: Physical Isolation
~15 Users
~30 Users
~20 Users
~35 Users
~30 Users
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 Few people depend on
each physical resource
 Hardware changes
more confined
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After: Concentrated Workloads
5X More
Users
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Result: Pronounced Dependency on Storage
5X More
Workload
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Magnifies impact of:
 I/O Bottlenecks
 Interruptions
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Overcome I/O bottlenecks & Business Disruptions
DataCore accelerates Storage I/O…
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Cost Effective & Fast Caching and Load Balancing
DataCore does high-availability better…
Simple Fail-safe SAN data protection
• Insulate Failures Transparent to Applications
• Unique Automatic Failover and Failback
• Priced right for Small and Mid-size Business
• Full-featured HA SAN software from <$10,000
• No-penalty upgradability and “future proofed”
growth path
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High-Availability & Disaster Recovery
Disaster
Recovery
Site
Main Computer Site
Virtual
Server Pool
Virtual
SAN
Auto
Failover
Auto
Replicate
Remotely
Internet
Known-good copy
Virtual
Disk Pool
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DataCore: Value, Cost Savings and R.O.I.
Waste-Free
Double disk utilization
40%
80%+
10X More
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Consolidation
Storage Pooling
Thin Provisioning
managed capacity
per administrator
Slash
Downtime
attributed to storage
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2X Performance
Perform twice the work
in the same given time
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Centralized
Management
&
Automation
Auto Failover/Failback
Business Continuance
Disk-to-Disk Backups
Disaster Recovery
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Unmatched
Price
Performance
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Case In Point
 300 Users
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SQL Server, Exchange
40 App Servers
Windows VMs
10TB
Customer Challenge:
$200,000 budgeted for virtual
infrastructure. Surprised to
learn that SAN alone
cost over $190K
Solution:
Business Continuity
within budget using DataCore
Police Station
10 Miles
Co-location
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DataCore = Savings and Productivity

Consolidate & Optimize Your Storage by 60%
Get full use of what you own, purchase storage on ‘as needed basis’
Save on floor space, capacity costs and energy

Lower Initial and On-going Costs by 50% plus and
Future Proof Your Storage Investments
Value protection upgradability – pay as needed
Future proofing - enduring Software, lives beyond the hardware

Slash Business Downtime Costs (From Weeks to
minutes or zero)
Cost-effective solutions make HA and DR practical
More Productivity - ‘True High-Availability” Business Protection
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Enhance Performance (2-4X) & Improve Admin
Productivity (3-10X)
Automation, SAN-wide Centralized Management, Thin Provisioning
Do more in the same timeframe – Accelerate Performance 2-4X!
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Get the Most From Your Storage
Fullest Utilization
Highest Availability
Fastest Performance
Yet, More Economical to
Acquire, Manage, Protect & Maintain
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Thank You …
www.datacore.com
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