Eliminate the High Cost of a SAN but not the SAN

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All SAN Vendors, HP, IBM, DELL, EMC, are moving toward distributed storage platforms on commodity based systems.

What is Distributed Storage / Clustered Storage?

Where did it come from?

Created ByIn Partnership WithGeneral Parallel File System (GPFS)

Distributed parallel fault-tolerant file system

For Commodity Based Intel Hardware

GPFS, GPFS Derivates, ZFS, and Similar Technologies Power the Majority of Today's Supercomputer Centers

And MANY many more..

Traditional Storage

Traditional SANs – Previous GenerationController Based Storage (arrays with cluster features)

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Controller Units manage Reads/Writes of data as well as Controller Failover.

Control units track where data is stored in the array, thus mimicking a clustered environment.

The Control units have limited scalability. Traditional SANs also have a high acquisition cost, limited lifespan and a high replacement cost.

In addition disaster recovery options are expensive and limited with traditional SANs

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Who Makes Intelligent Clustered Storage?

NexentaGluster

ZFSGPFS

NetAppSeanodesAmazonGoogle

And Many More

Pre-Packaged Solutions

Many other SAN vendors OEM ICS technologies

The Good & The Bad of Pre-Packaged SolutionsGood:

• Complete solution• One source for support

Bad:

• Cost

The Good & The Bad of Self-Built SolutionsGood:

• Cost

Bad:

• Complexity of integrating multiple products• Multiple support arrangements

Cubes CubeSTOR

Server -Storage -DesktopVirtualization

VMware + Intelligent Clustered Storage in a Single Appliance 3TBu Starter SAN 6TBu Starter SAN 12TBu Starter SAN

Advanced Vx• High End Storage Systems

• High + Low end Apps

• Multiple Disk Choices

• Multiple Options + Features

• Built on Standard Hardware

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SupportBC / DRBackupStorageDesktopsServersVMware

Vx Cubes

Image & File Level

1TB -> 50TB

100 Virtual

Desktops

15 Virtual Servers

vSphere Standard

Vx Cubes

Model 1000Base 3 Cube Config

Image & File Level

2TB -> 50TB

200 Virtual

Desktops

30 Virtual Servers

vSphere Enterprise

Vx Cubes

Model 2000Base 3 Cube Config

Vacation• High Availability (No Critical Outages)

• Test, Patch, & Upgrade During Work Hours

• Backups Finish On Time

• Provision New Desktops and Servers from Templates in Minutes

• Manage all Servers & Desktops from One Screen

• Remote Access to all Servers & Desktops

• Get Home on Time