1. Native InfiniBand Storage Deployment & Customer Experiences Dave Ellis Director, HPC Architecture LSI Logic IBTA & OFA DevCon San Francisco September 25, 2006

2. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 2 Disclaimers l The material contains LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group technology overview information l Referenced features, functionality and capabilities may not all be supported by all LSI ESG Partners l Dates contained here do not reflect product testing/qualification conducted by LSI ESG Partners l Dates and features are subject to change l The opinions of the speaker do not reflect the opinions or policies of LSI Logic

3. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 3 Co-wrote SCSI industry specifications Developed first SCSI protocol chip First SCSI macro cell First PCI-Ultra2 SCSI chip First dual channel PCI-Ultra2 SCSI chip Achieved SNIA certification for SMI-S provider Industry’s first complete line of enterprise-class SANmark 2003 certification Industry’s first serial ATA enterprise storage Debuted Hotscale™ technology Native InfiniBand demonstration First SPC-1 results Shipped first production SAS silicon to leading OEMs First single chip RAID controller First to validate Ultra320 interoperability Industry’s first 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel storage system Shipped first SAS solution to the channel Achieved industry’s first SAS Windows qualification Sampled industry’s first PCI Express SAS controller First RISC-based SCSI chip RAID Storage System Industry’s first RAID-assist chip set Dual active RAID controller Industry’s first Fibre channel RAID system Industry’s first multi-mode RAID (0, 1, 3, 5) controller and system Industry’s first wide SCSI interface Caching RAID controller First fully functional PCI-Fast SCSI chip First fully functional PCI-Ultra SCSI chip First Multi-function dual channel PCI-Ultra SCSI chip First intelligent transportable battery backup module 1981 1982 1984 1989 1990 1991 1994 1996 1999 20012001 20032003 20052005 25 Years of Storage Innovation Same technology, same partners, different names… More than 180 Storage related patents issued and another 160 pending Shipped over 300,000 storage systems

4. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 4 LSI Logic Products and Markets Consumer Products Group Storage Components Group Custom Solutions Group Engenio Storage Group Silicon to Storage

5. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 5 The Storage Landscape Storage System Bridge FC Switch Server HBA Storage System Blade NAS Storage System Server HBA Server SCSI FC SAS JBOD External Storage Storage System Disk Drive FC Switch Tape Server Disk Drive Server Disk Drive PCI RAID RAID on Motherboard SCSI SAS JBOD PCI RAID Server

6. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 6 2006 2007 2008 2009 Technology Roadmap – Industry View Disk Drive Interface Host Interface Expansion Interface External Drive Form Factor 4 Gb FC 3Gb SAS 4 Gb FC SCSI 3.5” Low Profile (7.2K – 15K RPM) 1 Gb iSCSI 2.5” High RPM 10Gb iSCSI 10Gb IB 20Gb DDR IB 3Gb SAS 8 Gb FC 8 Gb FC 4 Gb FC 3Gb SATA 8 Gb FC 2 Gb FC 1.5 Gb SATA 6Gb SAS 6Gb SATA 6Gb SAS 2 Gb FC

7. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 7 LSI 6498 Overview l 6 th generation Redundant XBB architecture with Native InfiniBand Host l Four 10 Gb/s InfiniBand host-side interfaces l Eight 4 Gb/s Fibre Channel drive-side interfaces l Support for up to 224 FC and/or SATA disk drives – Over 100 TB Capacity l Switched drive modules reduce latency and improve RAS l LSI storage systems technologies are available through OEMs l Standard Management Interface

8. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 8 InfiniBand – Customer Experiences l Early Adopters – Strong opinions about direction – Insisted on co-development or alpha-level testing – Put resulting product into production and have not upgraded l Government Agencies and/or Labs – Co-development with very large test beds – Continue to push the technology to the limits – Have vision beyond capabilities of current generation of products

9. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 9 InfiniBand – Customer Experiences l Commercial Customers – Looking for less expensive alternatives – Looking for performance enhancements beyond existing alternatives – Grid systems becoming more viable as applications are developed l Grass-roots Efforts – Many OEM Partners are just now deciding it is a viable solution – Some Partners’ internal labs have been testing for months – Generating demand from within

10. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 10 InfiniBand – Development Experiences l IBTA Plugfest – Spring 2006 – University of New Hampshire – Storage array was connected, configured, and simply worked! – Commercial customers attended to observer the technology exchange – Valuable relationships formed l SC05 – Nov 2005, Seattle, WA – StorCloud – Interoperability pushed to the limits – Booth activity with many of our Partners – Lots of Customer interest – Post-SC05 Customer engagements ongoing

11. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 11 InfiniBand – Development Continues l Driver Development – Lots of ongoing activity with the IB component vendors to ensure interoperability – Lots of ongoing activity with our Partners to develop host-side device drivers – Introducing “Enterprise Ready” Storage concepts to component suppliers who have not worked in this area before l Multi-path I/O Drivers l Failover Drivers – Providing years of FC Enterprise Experience to the IB community to ensure that IB Storage is a viable unified wire option – Moving to OFED 1.1 SRP driver

12. Copyright © 2006 InfiniBand ® Trade Association. Other names and brands are properties of their respective owners. 12 InfiniBand – Upcoming Committments l IBTA Plugfest – Fall 2006 – University of New Hampshire – We will attend and continue to support the IB community l SC06 – Nov 2006, Tampa, FL – We will attend and continue to support our Partners and the IB community

13. Questions? Contact Info: Dave Ellis Director, HPC Architecture LSI Logic, Engenio Storage Group 770-330-9486 (Cell) 256-895-0517 (Office)