1. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 1 CHANGING THE STORAGE LANDSCAPE WITH STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION

2. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 2 Storage is Growing At an Unsustainable Rate

3. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Data Grows 60% per Year 1.2 ZB Businesses have to manage, access, share, and protect their data

4. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. STOP COMPROMISING YOUR PERFORMANCE Empower Your Business to Win the Storage Battle

5. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Empower Your Storage For Non-Stop Business Operations

6. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. STOP COMPROMISING YOUR PERFORMANCE Free Your Business From The Hardware Trap Lock-in

7. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. STOP COMPROMISING YOUR PERFORMANCE Empower Your Storage for Business Performance

8. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Performance Costs Management 8 Challenges of Storage Architectures  Heterogeneous storage management is non-existent  Planned downtime is impossible  Vendor lock-in cripples innovation  Applications are becoming more demanding  Server/desktop virtualization creates bottlenecks  Low utilization of storage  Hardware maintenance and refresh cycles are a pain

9. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 9 The Typical Solution? MORE Incompatible Hardware

10. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 3 Pool all storage capacity and provide centralized management In theory, software should be able to do a few things… 1 Enable different storage devices to communicate with one another Why Software-defined Storage? Make hardware maintenance, data migrations, and hardware refreshes easy 4 Separate advances in software from advances in hardware 2

11. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. DataCore is committed to creating an enduring and dynamic software-driven storage architecture liberating storage from static hardware-based limitations 11 The DataCore Vision “ George Teixeira DataCore CEO 1998 “

12. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Global leader in software- defined storage  Over 28,000 deployments world-wide  Flagship product is our hardened 10 th generation virtualization platform  Privately held and profitable for 15 years 12 DataCore Overview

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14. Apps Server Hypervisor Users Desktop Hypervisor Disks Storage Hypervisor Virtualization

15. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. A Better Solution Has Emerged The DataCore Software-defined Storage Solution  Runs on x86 servers  Sits in the data path between applications/users and storage hardware  DataCore nodes operate synchronously leaving no single point of failure 15

16. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Core Benefits 3-5x Performance Increase 3x Capacity Utilization Eliminate planned and unplanned downtime 16

17. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  15 years of development into a complete set of storage services  No other vendor provides these in a hardware agnostic, universally compatible format Feature Rich Storage Control

18. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 18 Technology Highlights Automatically tier shared storage resources 3-5x performance on existing storage Eliminate Planned and Unplanned Downtime Investment protection

19. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 19 Long-term Investment Protection INVESTMENT PROTECTION Easily take advantage of advances in hardware technology Complete set of cross-platform storage services Avoid vendor lock-in and costly forklift upgrades Centralize storage management Repurpose aging storage systems Leverage whitebox or JBOD devices

20. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Intelligence→ Features Components→ Storage space (Source: IHS iSuppli Research, August 2012) INVESTMENT PROTECTION Long-term Investment Protection

21. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. INVESTMENT PROTECTION Long-term Investment Protection

22. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. INVESTMENT PROTECTION Long-term Investment Protection

23. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 23 Cross-Platform, Metro-wide Synchronous Mirroring  Data is synchronously mirrored between unlike storage systems  Replicate, failover and failback between unlike platforms  Seamlessly move data from one platform to another SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

24. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. active Preferred Path down Automatic switch to alternate PathseveralKilometersactive Synchronous Mirror Pooling, Thin Provisioning, Auto Tiering 24 SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

25. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. active Path goes active Automatic Switch back to preferred path severalKilometersactive Synchronous Mirror Re-Synchronisation Pooling, Thin Provisioning, Auto Tiering SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

26. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Writes in synchronous mirroring Synchronous Mirroring “Virtual Disk” 1 4 2356 Node A Separate hardware Different Location Independent Power Independent Cooling Separate UPS ActivePartner Cache Mirror (P)Mirror (S) Node B Host SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

27. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Mirror (P) Automatic and transparent failover “Virtual Disk” 1 4 2 Node A Host OfflinePartner Cache Out-of- Sync Mirror (S) Node B MPIO Preferred Alternate 1 Retry 3 Log Updates SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

28. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Mirror (P) Resynchronisation of a mirrored disks “Virtual Disk” Node A Host OnlinePartner Cache Out-of- Sync Mirror (S) Node B MPIO Alternate Log Updates Send all modified blocks SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

29. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Mirror (P) Back to initial state “Virtual Disk” Node A Host Partner Cache Mirror (S) Node B MPIO Preferred Synchronous Mirroring Active Alternate OFF SYNC MIRRORING (CONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY)

30. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 30 Reduce unproductive hours spent on:  Data Migrations  Hardware Refreshes  Capacity Expansion  Hardware Maintenance  Unexpected Downtime Dramatic Productivity Improvements 62% “In our 24x7 environment, we leverage DataCore to bring in the new SAN, migrate all of the data…without any downtime and within normal business hours.” Neville Lee Director of Infrastructure at Englewood Hospital % of time spent on routine storage tasks BeforeWith DataCore 23%

31. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. DR Site DR Site Asynchronous replication Room 1 Room 2 Cluster synchronous mirror Active Replication for DR

32. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Very fast initial state return DR Site DR Site Room 1 Room 2 Out of date Up to date Reverse the réplication Up to date

33. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Snapshot and CDP Le snapshot is a picture at a given time (Point In Time) Le CDP is like a video with recorded pointers (Timeshifting) Le snapshot is a picture at a given time (Point In Time) Le CDP is like a video with recorded pointers (Timeshifting) CDPSNAPSHOTS 5 AM 6 AM 16h 8h00 20h

34. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Create up to 15 tiers of storage 34 Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 0 Tier n HotColdWarmArchive Above average moves up a tier Below average moves down a tier AUTO-TIERING Evaluates data at the block level so data from a single application can reside on multiple storage tiers Auto-tiering Dynamically Optimizes Resources

35. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 15 TB of Flash! Forced to use Flash 35 Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage AUTO-TIERING On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage Before 15 TB With DataCore 15 TB 5 TB of Flash +10 TB disk 1/3 Needs Flash 2/3 can use existing disk

36. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 36 Auto-tiering Reduces Cost of Flash Storage AUTO-TIERING On average, only 1/3 of tier 1 application data needs high performance storage BeforeWith DataCore 15 TB of Flash! 5 TB of Flash + 10 TB disk At €5,000 x TB = € savings Same data requires 10TB less Flash storage

37. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Uses x86-64 CPUs and memory from DataCore nodes as powerful, inexpensive “mega caches”  Run applications at electronic memory speeds vs slow spinning disks  Intelligently anticipates reads and streamlines writes to optimize performance 37 3-5x performance on existing storage HIGH SPEED CACHING

38. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Disk Subsystems Disk Drive 4000 – 6000 DataCore L1 Cache <20 Array L2 Cache 250 – 300 Avg. Response (µS) Cached Array Un-cached Array High-Speed Level 1 Caching CPU Poll for Input Write Coalesce Output from Cache Pre-fetch Up to 1 TB cache on DataCore Hypervisor CPU HIGH SPEED CACHING

39. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Miroir Synchrone Cache Cluster Write Coalesce Pre-fetch Writes Reads Writes Reads HIGH SPEED CACHING

40. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 40 5x Performance from existing disk-based storage HIGH SPEED CACHING 15 TB of Flash! Forced to use Flash Before 15 TB With DataCore 15 TB 0 TB of Flash +15 TB disk 0% need Flash 100% can use existing disk Do We Really Need Flash?

41. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 41 5x Performance from existing disk-based storage HIGH SPEED CACHING Do We Really Need Flash? BeforeWith DataCore 15 TB of Flash!15 TB disk At €5,000 x TB = € savings Same data requires NO Flash storage at all

42. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 42 Benefits of DataCore Software Defined Storage Automatically tier shared storage resources 3-5x performance on existing storage Heterogeneous storage replication and failover Investment protection

43. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 43 Addressing Storage Challenges Performance Costs Management  Simple, centralized management  Cross-platform storage services  3-5x performance on existing storage hardware  Seamlessly integrate Flash and other high-performance technologies  3x utilization  Decreases dependence on hardware vendor  Long-term investment protection

44. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  SCALE UP ► Larger Platforms, more efficient ► More ports, processors and cache  SCALE OUT ► Nodes ► IOPS ► Physical separation ► Consolidate over long distances Adaptive growth

45. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. VIRTUAL SAN Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN

46. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. VIRTUAL SAN Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN  Runs as a virtual machine on any application server

47. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. VIRTUAL SAN  Dramatically increase performance  Minimize flash/SSD investments  Auto-tier between DRAM, flash and disk Virtual SAN Full DataCore Feature Set Transform DAS, Flash & SSDs into a Virtual SAN

48. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. VIRTUAL SAN Federate Virtual SAN with Physical SAN  Auto-tier between virtual and physical SAN  Sync/ASync replicate between sites  Add resources only where you need them Virtual SAN

49. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. 49 When to get started with SDS Before your next storage purchase Using or considering flash/SSDs Prior to any data migration projects

50. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. QUESTIONS? Contact: info@datacore.com www.datacore.com

51. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Administration CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS & REPORTING

52. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Easy and step by step

53. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Powershell ► Universal Scripting ► All actions GUI driven by powershell too

54. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  vStorage APIs (VAAI)  VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)  vCenter Connection in Datacore Management Console  vCenter Plug-in vCenter Client Integration with VMware

55. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. vCenter hosts integration

56. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. vCenter Plug-in

57. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer Monitoring

58. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved.  Resource allocation ► Exportable for billing / chargebacks  Configuration reports  Exportable to: ► PDF (Adobe) ► HTML (website) ► MHT (single file website) ► RTF (Rich Text) ► XLS (Excel) ► XLSX (Excel 2007+) ► CSV (comma separated value) ► TXT (plain text) ► Image (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc)  Customizable ► Sort / Filter / Search Reporting

59. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. Real-time performance charts

60. Copyright © 2013 DataCore Software Corp. – All Rights Reserved. TO DO LIST Go to dry cleaning Virtualize your storage x www.datacore.com Call