1. Software Defined Storage Storage Built for the Virtualized Data Center Kelly Murphy Founder / CTO Gridstore

2.  Context - The Software-Defined Data Center  What problem is SDS trying to solve  SDS is a new architecture for storage  How Gridstore Delivers SDS Today

3. Compute Network Storage Virtualization – Increased availability, flexibility and utilization. Logical networks – Defined in minutes and bound to workloads. Built for virtualization. Reduce cost and complexity – increase performance and scaling. Management & Orchestration

4. New Container - VM Virtualized Resource Pool Nothing above or below the hypervisor knows anything changed

5. Top Virtualization Issues #1 – Application performance (57%) #2 – Capital cost of storage (38%) #3 – Storage complexity (36%) Gridstore Survey, May 2013, ESG Report 2013, Taneja Report 2013

6. Complexity Manage LUNs not VMs. Bloated data services. Costs Explode Overprovision servers, storage, data services. Poor Performance Unpredictable. No visibility. No Resolution. many-to-one

8. New Container

9. many-to-one

10. Virtual Storage Stacks Predictable — optimized performance. Virtualized Storage Resources Simple, scalable resource pools. Manage VMs not LUNs Simple, efficient, visible.

11. Patented Server-Side Virtual Controller Technology

12. Only available from Gridstore

13. C - Class Nodes High Performance Streaming I/O H – Class Nodes High Performance IOPS D2D backup, Archive & Less I/O-demanding apps  4 x 3TB Hot swap HDD  2 x 1 GbE / 4 x 1GbE NICs  32GB RAM, 4 Xeon Cores  Dual hot swap PSUs  Next day service standard / 4hr available Hyper V, Database, Demanding I/O apps  PCIe Write-back Flash Cache + 12TB HDD  2 x 10 GbE / 4 x 1GbE  32GB RAM, 4 Xeon Cores  Dual hot swap PSUs  Next day service standard / 4hr available 1U appliance that racks and stacks

14. 250 Nodes Per Pool: 1000 Xeon Cores, 8 TB RAM, 100 TB Cache, 5 TB Bandwidth, 3 PB Capacity NodesCapacity C-Class MB/S H-Class 8K random IOPS 336TB1,30040K 672TB2,60080K 9108TB3,900125K 901PB39,0001.2M ……… 2503PB120,0003M

15. 8X Price / Performance

16. vmOptimized™ TrueQoS™ GridScale™ Dynamically accelerates all VMs without manual tuning. Guarantees performance for your most important VMs. Simple scaling with massively parallel performance. Accelerate your VMs. Built for Hyper-V ™

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