1. 1 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. with For Continuous Operations, VMware and Oracle RAC

2. 2 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VPLEX enables users to: – Have the exact SAME information ▪In two separate locations Accessible at the SAME time from both locations Why is VPLEX Unique?

3. 3 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VPLEX & AccessAnywhere TM Provides shared storage, concurrently read and write accessible, with the same storage identifiers, across sites. Supports all major EMC and Non-EMC FC storage platforms. Supported by nearly all open systems application clustering technologies. Simplifies High Availability and Disaster Recovery design and operations. Enables 100% storage availability. Enabled by Distributed Virtual Volumes Datacenter A Active Failure Domain LUN 2 P LUN 1 P LUN 1 V Datacenter B Active Failure Domain LUN 2 P LUN 1 P Distributed Virtual Volume

4. 4 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VNX5300 Increase Availability, Increase Capacity, Increase Performance VPLEX makes VNX Active/Active Building Block Approach to Storage  Load balance across multiple VNX arrays to maximize utilization and performance.  With VPLEX, two VNX arrays can be configured to provide full online redundancy for each other within or across sites.  Data remains available and online, even if a whole array fails.  Lower cost of entry, size for now and scale non-disruptively in the future. SP ASP B APAPAPAP VNX5700 SP ASP B A PA P A PA P VNX5300 SP ASP B A PA P A PA P A AA A A AA A OR VNX frame-based licenses New

5. 5 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VPLEX: Availability From The Ground Up COM interfaces provide inter-director communication for scalable I/O processing and distributed deployment 4 front-end 8 Gb/s FC ports per director 4 back-end 8 Gb/s FC ports per director Large distributed cache maintains locality information, enabling fast cache read performance Dual quad core processors Host & Array Ports Core Host & Array Ports Core Front EndBack End Front EndBack End Engine Director ADirector B Distributed Cache Distributed Cache Inter-Cluster COM BA Intra-Cluster COM BA Inter-Cluster COM BA Intra-Cluster COM BA Up to 4 engines (8 directors) per VPLEX Cluster 2 directors per VPLEX Engine

6. 6 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VPLEX Witness plus Cross-Cluster Connect VPLEX Witness – Coordinates seamless failover – Enables longer distance for stretched server clusters – Provides zero RTO for storage changes or events Cross-cluster connect – Ideal for shorter distances – Leverages multipathing software – Trade off of higher host availability and CPU cycles – Reduces server failovers Site 1Site 2 Site 3 VPLEX WITNESS Active Federated AccessAnywhere No more than 5ms round trip latency between clusters With Cross Connect latency must be no more than 1ms Witness can have up to 1 second of latency

7. 7 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Introducing VPLEX into Your Environment Encapsulation Method Data-in-Place Migration (No data copy) 1.Connect to VPLEX and mask volumes 2.Import volumes into VPLEX (1:1) 3.Unmask old path 4.Present volumes from VPLEX 5.Remount volumes Array Host VPLEX Minimal Disruption

8. 8 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Use Host Based Tools : Storage vMotion or Volume Managers 1.Connect additional storage to VPLEX 2.Create volumes in VPLEX 3.Present volumes to the host 4.Use host copy tools to copy data from array to VPLEX volume Host Array VPLEX Array No Disruption Introducing VPLEX into Your Environment Host Migration Method

9. 9 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VPLEX for Migrations Limit Risk – Less complexity, fully reversible Save Money – Lower or eliminate services costs Faster Time to Value – Leverage new arrays in days Powerful TCO – All future tech refreshes are FREE! No Downtime – Non-disruptive process

10. 10 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Disaster Recovery Traditional VMware DR Active-Passive Solution Traditional Active – Passive Solution Active Failure Domain Passive Failure Domain SRM Array Replication HA  Manual intervention to initiate failover in the event of an outage  Dynamic job relocation (vMotion) only possible within the datacenter  Site failure or major infrastructure outage results in application disruption  Double the capacity, but only the I/O utilization of one array  Additional, inaccessible servers required at DR site Certified

11. 11 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Continuous Availability, Next Generation DR, Load Balancing VNX with VPLEX for VMware– Active/Active Solution  vMotion across datacenters for non- disruptive load balancing, maintenance, and workload re-location  Automatic failover and restart between the sites using VMware HA - no manual intervention  The loss of a storage array or requirement for planned downtime does not result in ANY application interruption  VMware DRS for full utilization of compute and storage resources across domains Active Failure Domain VPLEX Metro VMware DRS VMware HA VMware FT VMware vMotion Active – Active Solution Certified

12. 12 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Three Site (Synchronous and Asynchronous) Availability VNX with VPLEX + RecoverPoint for VMware Active Failure Domain Passive Failure Domain VMware SRM EMC RecoverPoint VPLEX Metro VMware DRS VMware HA VMware FT VMware vMotion  Combines short- and long-distance (1000s of km)  Leverages SRM for DR site  RecoverPoint integration eliminates HW requirement Enhanced Availability Automatic Failover Automated Failover Certified

13. 13 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Oracle RAC can now achieve dual- site continuous operation without complexity and ongoing management issues  Zero RPO and Zero RTO over distance  Full utilization of resources at both sites  Simple management  No customization – standard Oracle RAC implementation  Full certification from Oracle Extended Clusters for Continuous Application Availability VNX with VPLEX for Oracle RAC Certified

14. 14 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. What’s new with VPLEX 5.2 Extends VMware Integration: Support of hardware acceleration using VAAI Block Zero Virtual Volume Expansion: Expand local and distributed virtual volumes non-disruptively Larger and adjustable IO Block sizes: Increase VPLEX performance and network utilisation rates by increasing the IO Block sizes from 128KB up to 1MB Enhanced RecoverPoint Integration: Increases scale from 2K to 8K volumes via multiple RPA clusters VPLEX frame-based licensing with VNX: This new licensing option makes VPLEX easier to order with VNX arrays Free Migration License: Unlimited capacity, 180 day license for tech refresh SRM Suite VPLEX Report Pack: Delivers health reporting for the VPLEX directors: Frontend and Backend IOPS, bandwidth and status; Virtual Volume health; locality, read/write IOPS and status; storage volumes health; capacity planning and trending; performance metrics

15. 15 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VPLEX allows customers to never have planned or unplanned downtime again – all data is continuously available  Increased availability  Zero RTO and Zero RPO over distance  Full utilization of resources at both sites  Accelerated tech refresh  Ride through component or VNX array failures  Active-active data access  Increase resource utilization Improved Availability, Mobility And Accessibility VNX with VPLEX for Continuous Operations

17. 17 © Copyright 2013 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Autostandby  Currently in PowerPath, if you do not want a path used, you can set it to standby  Autostandby adds a trigger that causes a path to be put in autostandby mode –Behaves just like standby –User set standby always has precedence  Use cases –Detect a flaky path –Detect groups of paths connected to local and remote array controllers in a federation (VPLEX Metro)