The Intelligent, Automated IT Infrastructure

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The Intelligent, Automated IT Infrastructure
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EQUALLOGIC IS CHANGING THE WAY PEOPLE EXPERIENCE
STORAGE
By delivering dynamic virtual storage solutions
that enable IT organizations to address changing
business needs in real time at a reasonable cost
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PS Series Comprehensive Data ManagementAll-Inclus
ive with NO Additional Costs
BASESOFTWARE FEATURES
Advancedsoftware features

• Management
• Instant on set-up manager
• Group manager
• Rapid provisioning
• Roles-based management
• Data Protection and Availability
• RAID 5, 10, and 50
• Automatic RAID placement
• Multi-path / IO support
• Maintenance
• Phone home
• Enclosure monitoring system
• Performance monitoring

• Storage Virtualization
• Complete SAN virtualization
• Thin provisioning
• Auto-load balancing
• Automatic storage pools tiering
• Array evacuation
• Data Protection and Recovery
• Writeable snapshots
• Multi-volume snapshots
• Instant restore / cloning
• Multi-way replication for disaster recovery

• Server Management Integration
• VSS and VDS Providers
• Automatic MPIO Connection Management
• Auto-Snapshot Manager/ Microsoft Edition
• Exchange , SQL Server and Windows file systems
  data
• Auto-Snapshot Manager/ VMware Edition
• Hypervisor-aware SAN-based snapshots and rapid
  recovery
• VMware SRM Storage Adapter
• Automated DR for thevirtual data center

New
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Single-View ManagementSingle SAN Manager Any
Size, Any Form
Group Manager Simple Intuitive GUI
Storage Configuration Assistant best practice
hints and clues
SAN Virtualizer
System Load Balancer
Multiple Storage Pool Creation online volume
movement between pools
Volume Manager
Data Replication Control
Enclosure Monitoring System in-depthSAN
reporting

• Instant Volume Creation
• Name
• Size
• Snapshot size
• Security
• Online Volume Modification
• Clones
• Snapshot
• Replication
• Volume expansion

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SAN economics
Fibre Channel
IP SAN
HBA (x2)
2,000
NIC (x2)
250
SAN Port (x2)
2,000
SAN Port (x2)
200
MPIO
500
MPIO
0
450
Total
Total
4,500
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Conventional architecture
iSCSI
Snapshots
Replication
Storage Processor
Capacity
Performance
Free Space
Free Space
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PS5000 virtualizationFrameless architecture
Unified Storage Pool
Switch
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VirtualizationOptimizedStorage
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Virtualization key driver of NEW storage landscape

• Advanced features dependent on networked storage
• Changing server infrastructure drives need and
  desire to rethink storage
• New abstraction layer create new opportunities
  and new challenges
• Storage infrastructure becomes barrier to
  reducing complexity

SAN Fabric
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Dell storage in 2008

• Growing fast in growth markets
• 1 in iSCSI units
• 1 in Windows/Linux storage
• Growing 67 faster than the overall storage
  market
• Growing 92 faster than the Windows/Linux storage
  market
• with respected products
• EqualLogic PS5000 Series Uniquely simple
  virtualized iSCSI SANs
• Dell EMC CX3/4 SAN family Industry leader in
  Fibre Channel SANs
• Dell PowerVault family Affordable, flexible
  storage for SMBs

Data Source Gartner Qstats May 2008
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WHY iSCSI IS IMPORTANT TO VIRTUAL INFRASTRUCTURES

• Simplifies Networked Storage
• Uses more affordable hardware and existing
  infrastructure
• Leverages ubiquitous networking knowledge
• Enhances Consolidation ROI
• Simplifies virtual server deployments
• Reduces acquisition, deployment, and ongoing
  management costs
• Enables a Simple Virtualized Storage Architecture
• Natively supports virtualization primitives
• Allows scalable, flexible networked storage grid
  implementations
• Load balances across all SAN resources

IDC's Top Storage Predictions for 2008 Virtual
servers will emerge as the killer application for
iSCSI
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DELL EQUALLOGIC PS SERIES
Intelligent, seamlessly expandable virtualized
iSCSI SAN
Innovative virtualized architecture enables

• Just-in-time scalability
• Seamless scaling of both performance and capacity
• Hands-free management
• Intelligent and automated management that allows
  you to set it and forget it
• Perpetual self-optimization
• Automated load balancing across disks, RAID sets,
  connections, cache and controllers
• All inclusive functionality
• Advanced software capabilities included, no
  hidden costs

iSCSI SAN of the Year
For virtualization implementations, you can't do
better than a PS3800XV now PS5000XV"
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INDUSTRY TREND VIRTUAL SERVERS MEET VIRTUAL
STORAGE
An Extendable, Scalable, and Resilient
Infrastructure for Both Servers and Storage
Ethernet Fabric
Physical Infrastructure
Virtualized Assets
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High density PS5500E SCALes PS SERIES GROUP
capacity by 3x
48 drives per array 576 TBs
16 drives per array 192 TBs
New
3X Capacity
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COMING SOON TO A DATA CENTER NEAR YOU

• Fully virtualized storage pools gt petabytes in
  size
• Intelligent, heuristically defined data layouts
• Perpetual self-optimization across storage tiers
• Fully integrated into the virtualized server,
  network, client infrastructure

SSD
SSD
SSD
10GbE/ Data Center Ethernet
SAS
SAS
SAS
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Advanced SAN Integration Through VSTORAGE APIs
GOAL Leverage the SAN to optimize storage
functions CHALLENGE Coordinate between ESX and
Storage Arrays

• Available today for Dell EqualLogic
• VMware Site Recovery Manager Adapter
• Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition
• Advanced engineering
• SAN data copy offload
• Higher performance, lower overhead
• Thin provisioning
• Protect VMs from running out of thinly
  provisioned space
• Advanced multi-pathing
• Optimally exploit scale-out, multi-controller
  EqualLogic architecture

Virtual Center
SAN Fabric
APIs
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Equallogic storage adapter for VMware site
recovery manager
Streamlining disaster recovery management and
automation

• Affordable enterprise disaster protection and
  recovery
• Auto-Replication coordinates directly with SRM
  Server
• Seamless integration of virtualized iSCSI SAN
  further simplifies the virtual data center
• All-inclusive feature of PS Series arrays

EqualLogic Auto-Replication
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AUTO-SNAPSHOT MANAGER / VMWARE EDITIONBUNDLED
DATA PROTECTION WITH EQUALLOGIC PS SERIES SANS
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Automated, Consolidated VM Backup and Recovery

• High performance, space-efficient online data
  protection
• Hypervisor-aware, scalable SAN-based solution
• Reduced space overhead enhanced ESX performance
• Fast recovery of VMs and VMFS DataStores
• Easy to navigate GUI with SAN VMware-centric
  views
• Snapshot policies logically assigned to VM
  hierarchies

With ASM/VE, I can automate the virtual machine
backup process and recover a lot faster with a
simple, integrated feature. Cody Page, IT
Director Peterson Sullivan PLLC CPA
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How ASM/VE works

• To take a snapshot of all VMs in a VMFS
• Query VC to identify all VMs in VMFS
• Query VC to identify SAN volume VMFS is based on
• For each VM, command VC to take a VM snapshot
  (i.e., put each VM in snapshot mode)
• Command EQL to take SAN-based snapshot of VMFS
  volume
• For each VM, command VC to delete VM snapshots

ESX Server
Virtual Center
SAN Fabric
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SAN Data Copy oFFLOADExample Storage VMOTION
Without vStorage Integration

• Data must be read from SAN into server, then
  written back to SAN
• Inefficient data copy with significant CPU and
  network overhead

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VMFS-2
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SAN Data Copy oFFLOAD Example Storage VMOTION
With vStorage Integration

• Optimized data movement within the SAN
• Significantly lower CPU and network overhead
• Additional ProvisioningUse Cases
• Clone From Template
• Clone VM

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VMFS-2
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Equallogic VMware focus greater automation,
intelligence, advanced integration

• Core Technology
• Native 10GbE
• Data Center Ethernet
• Solid State Disk arrays
• Enhanced load balancing
• across tiers
• Advanced Integration
• Linked clones/deduplication
• - Thin provisioning
• Custom multipathing
• SAN data copy offload

• Core TechnologySAN Scalability
• Advanced Integration
• - Site Recovery Manager
• Auto-Snapshot Manager/
• VMware Edition

• Core Technology
• - iSCSI
• - Virtualized SAN
• Advanced Integration
• - HCL
• Auto-Snapshot Manager/
• Microsoft Edition

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2008
Future
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sUMMARY Architecting the Dynamic Data Center

• Automated, Policy-Driven Management Based on
  Real-time Intelligence
• Strategic Alignment Of Technology Suppliers
• Advanced Integration Across Multiple Layers of
  Infrastructure
• Virtualized Resource Pools
• Platforms Optimized for Virtualization