When value, performance, and scale matter

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The world is moving to a new style of business NOW THEN Support growth without complexity Respond to unpredictable demand Provide instant access to information Deliver high service levels at xSP costs Reduce and manage business risk Deliver investment protection Required business outcomes Legacy storage infrastructure has not kept up Data explosion 50x Cloud User-driven control Software-defined Application-driven control Big data Mobility ITaaS Convergence Admin-driven control

HPE is leading in the next era of storage HPE 3PAR StoreServ Supporting virtualization, cloud, consolidation, and mission-critical application workloads NOW Our vision: simplicity One primary storage eco-system for your enterprise

Modern flash-systems Today’s customer storage requirements Efficiency optimization Enterprise availability Enterprise feature sets High performance and low latency Vendors’ general purpose arrays

Today’s customer storage requirements with HPE HPE 3PAR Efficiency optimization Enterprise availability Enterprise feature sets High performance and low latency

Same 3PAR OS Eliminating distinctions between Midrange and Tier When performance matters with up to 3.2 mio <1 ms latency with up to 1.6 mio <1 ms latency 8450 with up > 1 mio <1 ms latency When value matters 8200 AFA starting at $19k When scale matters with up to 6 PiB raw capacity 8440 with up to 3 PiB raw capacity ONE architecture from midrange to high-end Midrange – flash – high-end Interoperability end-to-end Only HPE ONE Operating System ONE Interface ONE Feature Set Block, file and object access

Common fabric OS HPE StoreFabric B-Series Gen5 SAN portfolio Brocade switch and director family B-Series Gen5 SAN network advisor software Fabric Vision ClearLink Flow Vision SN3000B FC switch Gb ports SN8000B 4-slot Gb FC ports 1Tb ICL bandwidth SN8000B 8-slot 32 – Gb FC ports 2.11Tb ICL bandwidth SN6500B FC switch Gb ports SN6000B FC switch Gb ports

Product families together! SN3000B FC switch Gb ports SN8000B 4-slot Gb FC ports 1Tb ICL bandwidth SN8000B 8-slot 32 – Gb FC ports 2.11Tb ICL bandwidth SN6500B FC switch Gb ports SN6000B FC switch Gb ports

4Gb/8Gb EOSL Fabric VisionPerformance HPE Follow the Wire FC QoS 3PAR IOPS SSD

HPE StoreServ 3PAR and StoreFabric B-Series Gen5 Why you should care…

HPE Leadership 3PAR peer persistence federated high-availability Never lose data access across metropolitan distances with Peer Persistence Respond to growth and changing demands – map and move workloads to the right resources with Peer Motion 3PAR peer motion data mobility Do-it-yourself lifecycle data migration from 3PAR, EVA, EMC CX, VNX, VNX2, VMAX and HDS USP, VSP arrays 3PAR online import built-in tech refresh

Beyond I/Os Benefits of 16Gb Gen5 Fibre Channel Reduced Latency 16Gb Switch 16Gb HBA 16Gb FC Gen5 HBAs and 16Gb FC Gen5 switches Newer chipsets & firmware Servers with PCIe 3.0 slots Advanced power management New SAN diagnostics functions VM Quality of Service (QoS) 16Gb FC Gen5 HBAs and 16Gb FC Gen5 switches Multi-VM server environment 16Gb Switch and HBA can create guaranteed performance to important VM Over-subscription on VM Server 16Gb HBA VM SAN 16Gb Switch LUN Quality of Service (QoS) 16Gb FC Gen5 HBAs and 16Gb FC Gen5 switches Priority assigned to LUN Flash disk is given priority access over other disk Important LUNs inside same array Flash disk Mechanical disk Server 16Gb HBA SAN 16Gb Switch

Three reasons why StoreFabric FC HBAs should be part of the upgrade mix 14 Greater efficiency Faster updates, simplified troubleshooting One solution for HPE server and HBA firmware updates via HPE Server Smart Updates Quality of service options on Gen5 16Gb products Greater reliability Best-in-class qualification HPE branded HBAs assume ProLiant Server 3-year support to which they are attached to and any uplifted service SPOCK Compatibility Matrix One HPE solution End-to-end integration and support Each HBA ships with one or two SFP+ optics 90% of all HPE Level 3 support issues are with 3 rd party adapters

Legacy 4Gb and 8Gb SAN’s constrain performance… Servers Hi density VMs + New processors Hi-demand compute Restricted IOPS SAN architecture Legacy architectures are too slow 3PAR Storage Flash/SSD High-IOPS capable

StoreServ & StoreFabric Gen5 – 16Gb end-to-end performance! SAN Architecture Max IOPS Proliant Gen9 Servers StoreFabric B-Series Gen5 StoreServ 3PAR Flash Storage

Let’s recommend a SAN Health Check! Produce detailed graphical reports and diagrams Inventory devices, switches, and firmware versions Capture and display historical performance data Compare switch configurations against best practices

Conclusion 18 HPE StoreFabric HBAs 16Gb HPE ProLiant Gen9 HPE StoreFabric B-series Gen5 16Gb HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage

HPE 3PAR StoreServ and StoreFabric B-Series Gen5 The right choice!