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2 SANmelody 2.0 Solves Fundamental Storage Issues Manage Protect Control Provision With: Minimum disruption Highest performance Least cost Compelling Value: Storage Network Services (Utility) + Record Performance Acceleration (eg, SATA disks), Powerful LAN (iSCSI) and SAN storage, Consolidates, Pools, and Serves Disks (Open Auto –Grow Virtual Capacity Provisioning)

3 Why SANmelody? Now more reasons… Users get Open choice in disk, servers, and network The cost savings and productivity of a Virtual SAN over Fibre Channel or LAN/Ethernet with iSCSI The cost savings and productivity of a Virtual SAN over Fibre Channel or LAN/Ethernet with iSCSI The foundation for a flexible Virtual Infrastructure Virtual Storage and Virtual Servers Make Sense! Industry best price performance Industry best price performance Speed ups: Acceleration of disk storage I/O performance for transaction and video/streaming…Enhances SATA… Unique Open & Automatic Virtual Capacity Unique Open & Automatic Virtual Capacity Enterprise level Data Protection & Failover over iSCSI Lowest-cost platform built to scale in performance and high-end disk services Lowest-cost platform built to scale in performance and high-end disk services Plus New Powerful Application Services & Capabilities….

4 SANmelody Application Support Services SANmelodys Powerful New Capabilities and Solution Services Simplify Storage Networking and Disk Management Simplified Centralized Windows Volume Administration – Eliminate Steps Consolidation of disk resources – Greater Flexibility Supports Immediate use of pre-existing Volume data – Saving time Windows Disk Data Migration made easy – Re-purpose or Move Rapidly Simplified backup – Efficient Disk to Disk Backup & Disk to Disk to Tape NAS/SAN co-existence – Best of Both Worlds Non-disruptive use of SANmelody features – Power up all your disks! Harness the full power and capabilities of SANmelody!

5 SANmelody Application Support Services Simplified Centralized Windows Volume Administration – Eliminate Steps Make your administration more Productive! Central vs. distributed Windows volume administration Create, manage and map Windows file systems Windows Disk Manager used to create FAT or NTFS file systems Managed directly by SANmelody Map file system volumes to application servers Consolidation of disk resources – Greater Flexibility Migrate disparate Direct Attached Storage (DAS) disk hardware off of independent Windows Application servers and workstations to a centralized location managed by SANmelody Network services. Disks can continue to be used as is (mapped back to the owning application server) or re-purposed and re- configured into Virtual Capacity pools of available storage that will provide more effective use of the disk resources and provide wider use and access to these resources.

6 Centralized Volume Administration App Server (iSCSI) (FC) (iSCSI) (FC) SATA Disks SANSAN MELODYMELODY SANSAN MELODYMELODY High Availability Virtual Volumes Create and Format Volumes Map Volumes to Servers & Workstations NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Virtual Volumes NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS FAT FS Virtual Volumes

7 SANmelody Application Support Services Supports Immediate use and access of pre-existing Volume data – Save time Mount existing Windows data volumes Consolidate external direct attached storage (DAS) that is currently connected to individual servers and workstations Accelerate I/O performance of pre-existing data volumes and deliver to owning Windows Application Servers and Workstations over existing Ethernet NICs (iSCSI) or Fibre Channel Introduces the benefits of SAN technology and storage virtualization Improve data redundancy Create high availability Migrate data to newer, faster or lower cost storage Increase storage performance All with one (1) reboot of servers and workstations SANmelody provides the ability to manage and immediately utilize ("As is" ) formatted (NTFS/FAT) Windows volumes. Being able to utilize formatted volumes (NTFS or FAT) allows the user the immediate use of pre- existing data that resides on the file system of that volume.

8 Access pre-existing Windows Data (iSCSI)(FC) Disk Server SANSAN MELODYMELODY App Server Move Physical Disks to SANmelody Map the same Volumes to Application Servers Physical Disks NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Virtual Volumes NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Physical Disks NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS 3 Clicks Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Virtual Volumes NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS

9 SANmelody Application Support Services Windows Disk Data Migration made easy – Re-purpose or Move Rapidly External Physical DAS is moved to SANmelody Server SANmelody presents original volumes with existing data to owning application servers and workstations Application servers run normal I/O loads to presented virtual volumes Volumes can continue to be used or removed from service once data has been migrated Re-purpose for other uses (Virtual Capacity pools that can be allocated to any server in the IP or SAN network Retire from use Windows file system data can be migrated transparently in real time Host based mirrors Synchronous Mirrors Snapshot Complete Image

10 Data Migration (Host Based Mirrors) (iSCSI) (FC) (iSCSI)(FC) New SATA Disks App Server SANSAN MELODYMELODY SANSAN MELODYMELODY Initialize Mirror set Writes to both Volumes Virtual Volumes NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Virtual Volumes NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Old Physical Disks NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Old Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS 1 Click

11 Old Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Old Physical Disks NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Data Migration (Synchronous Mirrors) (iSCSI)(FC) (iSCSI)(FC) New SATA Disks Write IO Flow App Server SANSAN MELODYMELODY SANSAN MELODYMELODY Virtual Volumes NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Virtual Volumes NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS 2 Clicks

12 Old Physical Disks NTFS FS FAT FS Data Migration (Complete Image Snapshot) (iSCSI)(FC) (iSCSI)(FC) Write IO Flow SnapShot (CI) SnapShot (CI) App Server SANSAN MELODYMELODY SANSAN MELODYMELODY Virtual Volumes NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS SNAP 2 Clicks Virtual Volumes NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS Old Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS FAT SNAP

13 SANmelody Application Support Services Simplify Your Backup Process – Gain Efficiency - Disk to Disk [D2D] Backup/Restore - Disk to Disk to Tape [D2D2T] Backup/Restore Offloads User LAN traffic Utilizes DataCore Snapshot technology Easy delivery of volumes to the backup server "Getting our backups back in control was the immediate need, but going forward the flexibility of virtual capacity makes a huge difference in managing the constant demand for more storage. SANmelody dramatically sped up disk performance by a factor of 3 times enabling the backup window to shrink by over 10 hours. " "Getting our backups back in control was the immediate need, but going forward the flexibility of virtual capacity makes a huge difference in managing the constant demand for more storage. SANmelody dramatically sped up disk performance by a factor of 3 times enabling the backup window to shrink by over 10 hours. " - Ann Schneider, IT Director for WEC

14 Simplified Backup ( D2D - Point-in-time Snapshot) (iSCSI) (FC) SATA Disks Virtual Volumes SANSAN SANSAN MELODYMELODY MELODYMELODY App Server Back Up (FC) Point-in-time Snapshots Back Up To Disk Point-in Time Snapshot of Source Volumes Map Point-in-Time Snapshots to BackUp Server NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS SATA Disks

15 Simplified Backup ( D2D2T - Point-in-time Snapshot) (iSCSI) (FC) SATA Disks Virtual Volumes SANSAN SANSAN MELODYMELODY MELODYMELODY App Server Back Up (FC) Point-in-time Snapshots Back Up To Tape Point-in-Time Snapshot Of Source Volumes Map Point-in-Time Snapshots to BackUp Server NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS Physical Disks NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS NTFS FS NTFS FS FAT FS

16 SANmelody Application Support Services Co-existence with NAS solutions Accelerate your NAS (e.g., Microsoft Windows Storage Server) and at the same time create a SAN, all on the same storage server. SANmelody delivers block level volume resources to co-existing NAS solution Static Volumes Virtual Capacity Auto Provisioned Volumes (NMVs) SANmelody accelerates NAS backend I/O operations SANmelody applies higher level storage features for virtual volumes being delivered to the NAS engine. Synchronous Mirrors SnapShot AIM NAS delivers file level resources over LAN to users and applications servers SANmelody delivers block level volumes over LAN (iSCSI) or SAN (FC)

17 Dual Personality NAS/ SANmelody Disk Server & NAS Engine (LAN Network Mount file level)(iSCSI or FC block level) NASNAS SANSAN MELODYMELODY Virtual Volumes SATA Disks JBOD Array Users & Application Servers Application Servers SANmelody Virtual Volumes VV5VV6VV7 1 Click VV4VV3VV2VV1

18 SANmelody Application Support Services Non-disruptive use of SANmelody features – Power up all your disks! Easy to apply SANmelody features (performance and function) to volumes. Volume performance is improved by SANmelodys built-in cache acceleration. The volume can be delivered (mapped) to Application servers over the FC or IP infrastructure. Synchronous mirrors can be configured so that the data is mirrored to a SANmelody partner in a high availability configuration. This provides continuous access to the data in case a failure occurs to the data volume. The Snapshot features can be used to generate a point-in-time snapshot of the data volume. Then other applications can utilize the point-in-time version for offline work. Asynchronous IP Mirrors can be used to transmit the volume to a remote site for disaster recovery or other remote site uses. All features can be utilized non-disruptively in real time as the volume is being utilized by the owning application servers. The administrator has the choice of "in the SAN or out" when required - no lock in, freedom to gain enhancements when needed.

19 Real Utility and Network Storage Services Now, Disk Servers have enabled storage to become a utility function in much the same way as a print or file server. "This approach to growing disk capacity makes real sense, but has never been possible before. Now, Disk Servers have enabled storage to become a utility function in much the same way as a print or file server. – IT Director, Warwick University SANmelody makes it possible to serve up high-performance and highly available storage. - CIO, Wasatch Advisors

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