iSCSI Storage Area Network What is Nexsan iSeries™ Complete iSCSI SAN for Storage Consolidation and Virtualization Nexsan iSeries™ Includes enterprise-class storage services High reliability and performance High density, scalable to 1PB with Nexsan Storage Nexsan “GREEN” AutoMAID Includes: Storage consolidation, tiering and virtualization Snapshots, mirroring and replication Redundancy and multi-pathing Suitable for: Server Virtualization Exchange, SQL, Oracle, other databases Storage and data consolidation iSCSI Storage Area Network Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A

Nexsan iSeries™ Includes Nexsan iSeries Appliance (s) Nexsan iSeries Storage Services Nexsan Storage (New or Existing) Integrated into a single highly scalable – high performance iSCSI SAN Enterprise SMB Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A

Nexsan iSeries™ Storage Services Online Data Migration Migrate volumes between storage systems Reduce per TB costs by moving data to lower cost storage tiers Move volumes to more green storage Replace old storage systems with new storage systems while remaining online Migrate data off 3rd party, legacy or obsolete storage systems to Nexsan iSeries Data Striping Stripe data across multiple storage systems For added read and write performance A -NEW A- OLD AA AB AC Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A

Nexsan iSeries™ Data Protection Data Mirroring Mirror data across multiple storage systems, locally or to another location using FC Stay in production – even if a storage system goes offline Protect data if your main site is damaged Snapshots Multiple snapshots per volume Eliminate the backup window, backup from snapshots and remain on line Eliminate need for incremental tape backups Integrated with Microsoft VSS for live database backup (SQL, Exchange) Quickly recovery any volume Convert snapshots to read and/or write for data mining and testing A A A A-S1 A-S2 A-S3 A-S4 Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A

Nexsan iSeries™ Remote Data Replication and Disaster Recovery Asynchronous or Synchronous remote data replication Reduce or eliminate tape backup – dramatically reduce recovery time Failover services to another site in the event of disaster Agent and server free, non-disruptive - done in the background Replicate only block changes to maximize connection bandwidth Use consistency groups for multi-volume applications like databases Use remote snapshots to test DR functionality without disrupting replication or production volumes Keep it simple with wizard and policy based management IP – LAN, MAN, WAN A-1 Primary Volume Secondary Volume A-2 Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A 5

Nexsan iSeries - Entry Level iSCSI SAN Clients on an IP LAN Application Servers – iSCSI connected 1Gb IP Switch 1Gb non-blocking IP network Nexsan iSeries (200i, 400i) Nexsan SAS storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries Nexsan SATA storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A

Nexsan iSeries - Enterprise Level iSCSI SAN Clients on an IP LAN Application Servers – iSCSI dual path connected Redundant 1Gb non-blocking IP network 1Gb IP Switch 1Gb IP Switch Redundant Nexsan iSeries (200i, 400i) Nexsan SAS storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries Nexsan SATA storage pool with redundant FC connections to iSeries

Nexsan iSeries™ - Ultra-Green Storage Less Power – Less Cooling Next Generation Green Storage Speed with Green Green without impacting application performance Reduce power by up to 52% (The StorageIO Group – MAID Jan. 2008) Nexsan storage supports AutoMAID Nexsan Green means less electricity Nexsan Green means less cooling Nexsan Green means more TB/s per shelf. Nexsan Green means LOWER COSTS! Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A 8

Nexsan iSeries Unique Advantage What Makes Nexsan iSeries™ Special Nexsan iSeries Enterprise iSCSI SAN Nexsan iSeries Unique Advantage 1000TB of capacity Twice as scalable Up to 4 RAID engines per storage module Up to 4x higher performance 4.0 GB cache per storage module Up to 8x more responsive High speed real-time metro mirroring Supports server virtualization requirements for real-time HA Multiple RAID sets Supports data base configuration requirements for performance Use SAS and SATA together High performance and high capacity in one solution AutoMAID energy saving Ultra-green storage Affordable Tier 1 iSCSI for Tier 2 prices Nexsan iSeries™ Partner Training GA012709-A