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March 2015

Warren Bell VP, Worldwide Sales

Storage Performance Validation Introduce change with confidence

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Who is Load DynamiX?

Leader in storage performance validation

Mission Provide actionable insight into storage infrastructure behavior to assure performance & optimize cost

Product Suite Software: Load DynamiX Enterprise Hardware: LDX load generation appliance ;;

Award Winning Technology

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Why Customers Use Load DynamiX Introduce change with confidence

Configuration Optimization Tiering, caching, SSD/HDD mix

Product Evaluation Best product for your workloads

Technology Evaluation Flash, NFSv4, FCoE, OpenStack, Ceph, …

Change Validation Effect of H/W and S/W changes

Pre-Production Staging Validation Hot staging and burn-in

Storage Life Cycle

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Performance Profiling Fully characterize performance of arrays under wide variety of load parameters

Workload Modeling Simulate the I/O profiles of your production environment

Storage Performance Validation 2 core methodologies

Technology Evaluation Flash, NFSv4, FCoE, OpenStack, Ceph, …

Change Validation Effect of HW and SW changes

Pre-Production Staging Validation Hot staging and burn-in

Product Evaluation Best product for your workloads

Configuration Optimization Tiering, caching, HDD/SSD mix, …

Storage Life Cycle

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Optimize Storage Investment • Eliminate over/under-provisioning by aligning your

workload requirements to deployment decisions

Mitigate Risk • Identify issues before deployment by testing at

extreme scale and worst-case conditions

Innovate with Confidence • Adopt the latest storage technologies without the

fear of unpredictable performance

Improve Lab & Engineering Efficiency • Make better engineering decisions and reduce

testing costs

Benefits of Using Load DynamiX

“If you can’t validate technology before it’s deployed into production, then you’re flying blind.” Julia Palmer Performance Engineering Manager

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How Load DynamiX Works 3 steps to insight

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Optimize Storage Investment & Mitigate Risk In 3 simple steps

Create Model

Create storage workload emulations from production data or use our sample workloads.

Analyze Results

Find performance limits. Compare latency, throughput & IOPS of different products and configs.

Run Tests

Connect the storage systems to the Load DynamiX load generation appliance and run the tests.

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Create a Model

PRODUCTION STATS (Perfstats, .nar, .btp, NFSstat, etc)

ACCURATE, REALISTIC WORKLOAD MODEL

PRE-BUILT TEST SUITES (VDI, Exchange, etc)

PACKET CAPTURES (PCAPs)

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Run Tests 2

Load DynamiX

FC SCSI

SMB

NFS iSCSI

OBJECT HTTP-S

Systems Under Test

Workload Emulation

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Technology

Evaluation

Product Evaluation

Configuration

Optimizations

Pre-Production

Staging Validation

Change Validation

Analyze Results 3

Analytics Insight

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Real-World Results: Customer Quotes

“Load DynamiX is like my smart phone – I can’t imagine my life without it!” Julia Palmer Go Daddy

“Load DynamiX made it easy to migrate to a private cloud. We were able to determine real-world behavior and save money.” Sys Ops Director Ellie Mae

“Using Load DynamiX saves me a lot of time and provides insight into how my storage system actually works.” Todd Gleason Firehost

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Thank you!