© 2007 DataCore Software Corp DataCore Announces SANsymphony 6.0 Enterprise Edition.

© 2007 DataCore Software Corp

DataCore AnnouncesSANsymphony 6.0 Enterprise Edition

2Briefing TopicsSANsymphony 6.0: A New User-Driven Era…

SAN Domains -Intelligent Quality of Service Virtual SANs

‘Span the SAN’ Network Configuration versus Device level

-Group Operations, Wizards, etc.

Unified Channel Architecture Fibre Channel and iSCSINew Intelligent Storage Infrastructure Diagnostic Sub-system High-Availability GRID N+1 Data Protection and ScalabilityState-of-the-art Automation and Auto-provisioning New Virtualization Services

-SANmotion data migration for Windows

-CDP and time addressability through Traveller CPRSANsymphony 6.0 the first half of Virtualization II

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SANsymphony 6.0: A New User-Driven Era in Storage and SAN Infrastructure Management

“Just buying more hardware would not have solved our problems. We needed a smarter approach that would allow us to control and automate storage across our entire environment, and decided to ‘go virtual’ with DataCore.” “Once you do so and look back, the old storage box approach seems so primitive. SANsymphony 6.0 made the jump easy. We run DataCore in tandem with VMware and together they allocate resources as needed, where needed, over our IP and Fibre Channel networks. Instead of wrestling with hardware, SANsymphony has made storage a network utility – a service for our users and applications.”

- Michael Gayle, Director of IT, Calvary Chapel.

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SANsymphony 6.0: A New User-Driven Era in Storage and SAN Infrastructure Management

“Storage virtualization is a game for experienced players. During the six years that DataCore has been in business they did the basics and learned a lot from their customers. They are applying this knowledge now in building a platform for the future that addresses a range of services that newcomers have yet to fathom. After the announcement of Enterprise Edition 6.0, if someone thinks DataCore is a niche player, think again! The timing couldn't be better as we see 2007 as the "year storage virtualization goes mainstream."

– Arun Taneja, Founder, President and Consulting Analyst of the Taneja Group.

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SANsymphony 6.0: A New User-Driven Era in Storage and SAN Infrastructure Management

“DataCore Software’s SANsymphony 6.0 represents the next generation of virtualization. It begins to change the focus of the conversation from how companies manage their storage to how they manage their enterprise.” - Jerome M. Wendt, Chief Analyst and President, Datacenter Infrastructure Group Inc.

- Industry-standard storage and infrastructures can be managed as sets of services and shared resources that can be dynamically defined for and allocated to different business units or projects.

- IT Managers can regulate and automate adding capacity, data protection levels, and performance non-disruptively based on business demand.

- Storage hardware failures can be automatically overcome with no or minimal disruption.

- Business data can be protected with no impact to production SLAs.- Applications can be provisioned with storage instantly and recovered at the same or

remote locations easily regardless of the operating system and hardware.

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SANsymphony 6.0: Next Generation Storage Services

Intelligent SAN Domains Quality of Service (QOS) Management Hybrid FC and Enterprise iSCSI Automatic Thin Provisioning Tiered Storage Classes Data Replication Services Remote IP Mirroring Mirror & Spanned Storage Pools Distributed Resource Pooling Resource & Performance Monitoring Extensive Diagnostics and Report Tools Data Protection Services Performance Acceleration ‘Span the SAN’ Group and Pool Commands New Virtualization Services and more…

- CDP Time Addressability, SANmotion, etc.

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SAN Domains: Intelligent Virtual SANs within the physical SAN whichdramatically improve Resource, Performance, and Quality of Service (QOS)Level Management.

Flexible SAN Domains match organizational needs

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Tiered Storage Classes

Storage matched to application

Takes into account- Criticality differences- Performance Level- Cost for service delivery

Premium arraysPremium arrays

Lower cost storageLower cost storage

9Centralized Storage and SAN Infrastructure Management and Control

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SAN Domains: Performance, Usage and Monitoring

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Multiple collaborating SANsymphony storage domain server nodes manage and control the SAN infrastructure, SAN domains and the

network storage pools; working to allocate resources, regulate performance and services, define mirror relationships, automate

capacity provisioning, monitor status…

‘Span the SAN’ Usability and Productivity Services

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‘Span the SAN’ Usability and Productivity Services

Manage, Monitor & Control the Many!

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Enhanced ProductivityManage Groups of Objects

Apply operations and policies against

Entire groups of resources.

Example: Select Group

Enable: Snapshots, AIM Async IP Mirroring

H/A Network Mirrors, Set Volume Size…

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Consolidate & Automate Storage Resource Management

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Simple Point, Click, Drag and Drop Mappings

16Extensive Command and Control Structure Plus Intelligent Diagnostic Sub-systems

- Disk Manager

- Fibre Channel Manager

- iSCSI Manager

- Disk Path Manager

- Diags and Support Info

- Trace Console

17Next-Gen N+1 GRID Scalability, Business Continuity and Data Protection

Map any virtual volume to any app server Only virtual volumes are paired not SDS

(not a cluster, not a dual controller) Nodes do not share state High-availability (H/A) virtual volumes are

independent of hardware failures including any SDS

Faster restoration of H/A on failure Optimally amortizes cost of redundancy

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Performance and Availability Beyond Dual…N+1

Ultra High-Level Availability

Enterprise Performance Scalability

Beyond Dual Controllers…

Beyond Clusters…

1

2

3,4,5…

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Each SANsymphony Storage Domain Server SDS adds to SAN’s I/O Budget

Incremental Cache Incremental Bandwidth Incremental Ports Increased Resiliency

0

100,000

200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

600,000

One SDS Two SDS Three SDSI/O Operations

Per Second

2.2 GB/sec

1.1 GB/sec

3.3 GB/sec

Throughput Per Second

N+1 GRID Scalable Performance

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High-Availability and Disaster Recovery

Between unlike storage Sync or Async Mirroring IP mirroring No channel converters Unlimited distances Bi-directional One-to-many Many-to-one

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Enterprise iSCSI and Network Agnostic

"SANsymphony 6.0 makes it practical to build robust, scalable SANs usingstandard IP networks and LANs utilizing iSCSI protocols."

Industry first solution to support path failover across either Fiber Channel or iSCSI or both. FC primary path and iSCSI secondary failover path or vice versa.

N+1 architecture upgrade and scale storage servers using iSCSI links Network-wide storage services available over iSCSI and or FC infrastructures. IP-based, Synchronous and Asynchronous remote site disaster recovery services SANmotion services over iSCSI for simple data migration. Diskless ‘Boot’ from SAN and rapid emergency recovery for iSCSI IP SANs. iSCSI serves: Microsoft Clusters, VMs (e.g., VMware ESX) and Blade Servers.

“In order to gain modern storage functionality and failover protection features,one often has to give up iSCSI altogether. DataCore rectifies that." - Ziya Aral, CTO and Chairman, DataCore Software

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First True Enterprise iSCSI

Altern

ate Path

sAlternate Paths

PrimaryPaths

Network H/A MirrorNetwork H/A Mirror

Flexible Multi-Pathing

Primary Paths can be FC

And Secondary Paths iSCSI

Or Vice Versa

Comprehensive End-to-End, Multi Path SAN Failover. Across FC, iSCSI or Both, resulting in true “wire agnosticism”

without sacrificing enterprise capability.

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Network Agnostic –Unified Channel Architecture

Multi-vendor Storage Devices

FC and or iSCSI

VMwareUNIX Windows MacOs Linux

Storage VirtualizationServer Nodes

ApplicationServers

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Powerful Data Migration and Re-Purposing Services

Easily migrate the old to the new

SANmotion, Proxy Volumes, New Thin Provisioning Storage Pool Classes

Simple to Replace or Repurpose old arrays

Enable Virtualization Features and Services as you need them

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Automated Storage Capacity ManagementState-of-the-art Thin Provisioning

Very large virtual disk assigned to each server

Small fraction of real capacity allocated to each virtual disk

Storage pool contains just enough space to meet near-term demand for all servers

SANsymphony automatically allocates additional space based on actual disk use

SANsymphony 6.0 adds new classes of H/A Thin Provisioning Pools plus “Hot Swap” capabilities

6 * 2 TB = 12 TB Virtu

al

4 TB

Physical

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Advanced Automation Services

Auto-Failover and Smart Auto-Recovery Services Prioritize data volume recovery to speed up critical business applications

Applications are not equal!E-mail Exchange, DataBase, Customer Support,

Order Entry….

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New Virtualization Services…SANsymphony + Traveller: Virtualization Meets CDPFlexible both in time (any) and space (virtual)

Hardware independent Software Design Timeshifting and Virtualization Productivity

Open and Scalable Cross-Application: Exchange, SQL, Sybase, Oracle, etc. Cross-System: Windows/Linux/VMware/Netware/MacOS/Solaris/AIX/UNIX Cross-Storage: Open and Mixed Vendor Storage Pooling Cross-Site: Failover protection (another room, building, campus)

Non Disruptive to Operations, Agent Free and Host Transparent Zero Impact Backups, Behind the Scenes Business Continuance and Recovery No software agents and host based mirroring impacts and bottlenecks

Time Addressable Storage: “Dial back the clock” true state restoration

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MakeTime #1

SANsymphony Integrates New Classes of Virtualization Services that span the SAN topology…Traveller CDP…

Traveller Timestamps and Logs All Changes

Application Layer

Image

MakeTime VirtualVolume

Change Log File

Test Servers

MakeTime #2

Time

Restored“Good” State

MakeTime #3

Backups

Application Transparent

Business Continuance

Other Apps.

MakeTime #4, #5, #6…

Travel in TimeFast Restoration

Highly Available Storage

ProtectsAgainstStorage Failure

Other Failures

Do More with TimeBe More Productive

Timeshifting

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SANsymphony 6.0 plus Traveller CPR Continuous Data Protection and Recovery Services

Travel in time for reliable True State restores

Backup with zero impact or halts to production

Restore systems and data at disk speeds

Optimize workflow and consolidate backups

Non-disruptive, agent free and host transparent

‘Dial Back the Clock’ timeshifting simplicity

“Like DVR for the Enterprise”Record, Playback, Copy, Save, View

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Virtualization II

“SANsymphony Enterprise Edition 6.0 is the first half of our Virtualization II strategy and as such it lays the architectural foundation for our future.”

“Many of the changes involved in the Virtualization II platform are internal and will remain largely invisible to the user. What is readily visible, however, is a new level of transparency and integration, grouped operations, and automated management. Several new and important concepts also appear for the first time. In the second half of Virtualization II, these capabilities will continue to be advanced and SANsymphony will be updated with an entirely new 64-bit storage micro-kernel."

-Ziya Aral, Chairman and CTO, DataCore Software.

© 2007 DataCore Software Corp

Thank You!

George TeixeiraCEO & President

DataCore Software Corporation

E-mail [email protected]