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DAC-FLThe Ultimate External RAID Controller Solution for High Performance Servers,
Clusters, and Storage Area Networks (SAN)
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Corporate Summary
• Founded in 1983
• Headquarters in Fremont, California
• Publicly traded on NASDAQ as MYLX
• #1 Supplier of RAID controllers in the worldwide non-captive marketplace
• Shipped over 725,000 RAID controllers to date
• $123.6M in revenue in 1997
• Market cap of approx. $200M
• 350 employees
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Industry Leadership
• #1 supplier of RAID controllers in the world!– DataQuest/Gartner (Sept., 1998)– International Data Corporation (Oct., 1998)– Disk Trend (1998, 1997, 1996, 1995 reports)
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The Mylex Mission
To be the dominant
supplier of
intelligent products
for moving, storing,
protecting and
managing data
SCSI Chips and ASICs
Low-Cost PCI RAID
High-Performance PCI RAID
External RAID Controllers
System Board RAID
RAID Management Software
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Product strength, depth and breadth
• Cost Effective PCI RAID Solutions for: • Entry Level Servers• Win/tel based Workstations
• High-end Desktop Systems
• High Performance PCI RAID Solutions for:• Mid-level Servers
• High-end Servers
• External RAID Solutions for:• Enterprise Class Servers• Clustering and High Data Availability Applications• Storage Area Networks
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World Record Setting Enterprise Class Performance*
6 Processors- Pentium Pro (200MHz)
8 Processors - Pentium Pro (200MHz)
HP Mylex DACPJ 16,257 tpm
Mylex DACPJ
Mylex DACPJ
Mylex DACPJ
Mylex DACPJOther
Mylex DACPJ
Mylex DACPJFujitsu 13,391 tpm
16,216 tpm
16,216 tpm
16,101 tpm
14,144 tpm
13,728 tpm
13,391 tpm
Bull
NEC
DG
NEC
Unisys
Fujitsu
*As of 8/98
4 Processors- Pentium® Xeon™ (400MHz)
NEC Mylex DACPJ 18,322 tpm
Mylex DACPJ
Other
Mylex DACPJ
18,154 tpm
18,127 tpm
17,700 tpm
Unisys
Compaq
Unisys
8/5/98 Express5800 HX4500 C/S
7/16/98 Aquanta QS/2 Server C/S
6/26/98 Proliant 7000-6/400-MI C/S
6/29/98 Aquanta QS/2 Server C/S
3/30/98 NetServer LXr Pro 8
3/25/98 Express5800 HV8000 C/S
3/18/98 Express5800 HV8000 C/S
3/2/98 AViiON AV 8600 Server
3/18/98 Express5800 HX4500 C/S
4/10/98 Aquanta HS/6 Server C/S
2/5/98 GRANPOWER 5000 Model 670 C/S
2/5/98 teamserver M796i C/S
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Mylex Leadership
Technology Expertise
1993
1998
1995
1996
1994
• #1 in TPC-C Performance• #1 in TPC-C Price/Performance• Advanced I/O Design
• Ultra2 SCSI LVD• Fibre Channel• Ultra3 SCSI• Fibre Channel 2
• ASIC Development• RAID co-processor with XOR and memory
control• SCSI I/O co-processor chips
• Local and Remote RAID management software• Software drivers and utilities• Firmware Development
• RAID firmware for SCSI and Fibre Channel• I2O development
• Systems Level Redundant designs• PCI Advanced Architectures
• 64-bit• 66 MHz
1990
1989
1992
1991
1997
DAC-FL
A host independent external RAID controller
combining Fibre Channel and Ultra2 SCSI LVD
to provide exceptionally high performance with
multiple disk drive architectures for extremely
large system solutions.
DAC-FL
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DAC-FL: Target Markets
EnterpriseServers
Mid Range
Performance Desktop PCs Entry Level Servers
Commodity PC Market(Including Mobile)
AcceleRAID 200
eXtremeRAID-1100
DAC960-PJ
DAC960-PG
AcceleRAID 250
DAC-FF
DAC-FL
DAC-SF
DAC-SX
AcceleRAID 150
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DAC-FL: Technology
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DAC-FL: RAID Technology• Fibre Technology
– Fibre Channel Host connectivity– Data Transfer rates of 100MB/s over a 30 Meter serial link– Distances of several kilometers via Fibre Hubs and switches
• Ultra2 SCSI LVD– 80MB/s drive data transfer rates– Cable lengths: Up to 12 meters parallel SCSI – Backward compatible with Ultra, FAST and older SCSI
• Proven system architecture– Dual RISC processor– Common Management software
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DAC-FL: Hardware
Dual RISC Processors
(i960RP + i960RD)
Symbios 53C896 SCSI chips
Firmware: 1MB Flash
EEPROM
Up to 256 MB Data Cache
Dual PCI Bus design
5 1/4” form factor
2 Copper FC-AL host
channels
Sustained cache transfer rates:
Up to 97 MB/s per host channel
4 Ultra2 SCSI LVD drive
channels
Up to 15 devices per Ultra2
SCSI channel - 60 devices per
controller
Up to 1.08TB capacity per
controller
Sustained disk transfer rates:
over 52MB/s
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DAC-FL: Hardware
2 FC-AL channels
256 MB memory
Dual RISC Processors (i960RP + i960RD)
4 Ultra2 SCSI
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• RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50 and JBOD• Write Through and Write back or read-ahead support• Onboard Firmware• Variable Stripe size per controller• Variable Cache Line size per controller• Mirrored Cache• Clustering Support -- Windows NT, UNIX, SCO UNIX,
NetWare• Designed to fit in an Industry standard 5 1/4” half-height
form factor
DAC-FL: Features
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DAC-FL: GAM Features
• Network Security Levels• Guest Access• Admin Access
• Online capacity expansion• Remote Instrumentation
• DMI• SNMP
• SMART Support
• Wizard Configuration• Global Array Managertm
software• Flash upgradeable F/W• OS-Independent Server API• Performance Monitoring
• Controller Statistics• Drive Statistics• Historical Statistics
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DAC-FL: Advanced RAID Features
• Fault Tolerance:
– Automatic detection of Failed drives
– Automatic and transparent re-build of replacement drive
– On-line RAID expansion
– Hot Spare drive support
– Hot Drive Swapping support
– SAF-TE and SES enclosure management
– RAID configuration stored on disk and NVRAM
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Simplex Performance and Capacity
• PerformanceSX SF FL FF
Burst IO’s Per Second 1,800 4,100 4,100 6,000Burst (cache) Bandwidth (MB/s) 45 97 97 194Sustained (disk) Bandwidth (MB/s) 30 52 52 125
Note: Sequential read performance, small blocks, no coalescing driver.
• Storage SX SF FL FF
• Disks 75* 90 60 500**• Terabytes (9 GB) 7 .8 .5 4.5• Terabytes (18 GB) 1.4 1.6 1.0 9.0
* Single host channel** Single ported disks
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Duplex Performance and Capacity
• PerformanceSX SF FL FF
Burst IO/s Per Second 3,600 8,200 8,200 12,000Burst (cache) Bandwidth (MB/s) 90 194 194 388Sustained (disk) Bandwidth (MB/s) 50 100 100 225
Notes:
1. Sequential read performance, small blocks, no coalescing driver. 2. Burst rates are 2x simplex configuration. 3. Sustained rates are generally 1.9x simplex configuration (active-active overhead).
• Storage SX SF FL FF• Disks 70* 94 60 500**• Terabytes (9 GB) .6 .8 .5 4.5• Terabytes (18 GB) 1.2 1.6 1.0 9.0
* One host channel ** Single ported disks
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DAC-FL: Benefits• Unparalleled Performance
–Dual RISC Processors--i960RD & i960RP–Ultra2 SCSI (LVD) interface at 80MB/s per channel
–Sustained Disk transfer rates: over 52MB/s–Dual Loop Fibre host channels
–Burst Cache transfer rates: up to 97MB/s per channel–Mylex Firmware + Software
• Flexible Storage & Fault Tolerance–Feature rich RAID–NT and Unix Clustering–Storage Area Networks (SAN)–Mirrored Cache–RAID expansion (MORE1)
• Configuration & Remote Management–Global Array Manager (GAM)–Client Server GUI–Create, Manage, Expand and Monitor
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DAC-FL: Target Applications
• Designed for $15K to $150K servers
–Departmental to Enterprise NT Servers
–Low-end to Mid-Range UNIX Systems
–3,000 to 30,000 IOs per second
–10s of GBs to 10s of TBs
• Designed for Clusters–NT (Cluster Server), NetWare Wolf Mountain and UNIX clusters–Support for Storage Area Networks (SAN)
–Active / Active Duplex Configurations
–Concurrently operation --> performance–Transparent failover / failback --> non-stop operation–Mirrored cache architecture --> guaranteed data integrity
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Product Line Features
• Fibre Channel Support -->Performance/Scalability• Active-active ---> Performance/Fault Tolerance• Failover/failback ---> Data Availability• Cache mirroring ---> Data Integrity• Ultra2 SCSI LVD ---> Performance/Scalability
/Legacy Support
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Active / Active Operation Concurrent I/O service from single or multiple servers to dual
controllers increase performance
Controller 0 Controller 1Are you there and alive?
A B
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Active / Active Failover• If a controller fails, “failover” is transparently initiated
• Surviving controller assumes the failed controller’s address and services I/O’s from both servers
Controller 1A B
Controller 0
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Active / Active Failback When the failure is fixed, “failback” is automatically initiated
Failover / failback is transparent to users and applicationsand enables failure tolerant systems
Controller 0A
Controller 1B
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Entry Level Fiber
Single Node, Single HBA and Host Loop, Dual FL’s
FC HBA
FL Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
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Performance Scaling With Fibre• Single Node, Dual HBA’s and Host Loops, Dual FL’s
FC Hub
FC HBA
FL Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FL Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FC HBA
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Fault Tolerant Fibre I/O
• Single Node, Dual HBA’s and Host Loops, Dual FL’s
FC Hub
FC HBA
FL Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Inactive
FL Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Inactive
FC HBA
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Fault Tolerant Computing -- Wolfpack
• Dual Nodes, Single HBA’s and Host Loops, Dual FL’s
FC Hub
FC HBA
FL Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Inactive
FL Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Inactive
FC HBA
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Parallel App Clusters - Wolfpack-II• N-Node, Switched Fibre, N-FF’s Arrays, FCAL to Disk
FC Switch
FF Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FF Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FC HBA
FF Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FF Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FC HBAFC HBA
FC HBA
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Parallel App Clusters -- SAN / VIA• N-Node, Switched ServerNet (?), N-FF’s Arrays, FCAL to
Disk
SAN Switch
FF Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FF Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
SAN HBA
FF Controller 1
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
FF Controller 0
Port 0Active
Port 1Active
SAN HBASAN HBA
SAN HBA
DAC-FLThe Ultimate External RAID
Controller Solution for Departmental Servers and
Clusters