Headline in Arial Bold 30pt Trends in Storage Migration Marti Baldwin, Manager, SGI Solutions Lab

11/18/2015Slide 2 Speaker Marti Baldwin, Manager of SGI Solutions Center is responsible for the technical development, testing and integration of technologies. Marti has extensive background in many aspects of IT processes, performance and data management. Her career has spanned across a number of areas addressing the requirements of large compute and storage environments for organizations including Amdahl Corporation, EMC and Sun Microsystems.

11/18/2015Slide 3 Agenda –SGI Overview –Migration – why is it important? –Migration trends and challenges –How virtualized environments impact migration –Checklist for evaluating migration tools/requirements –The basics of the SGI solution –Case study of SGI solution –Final business thoughts –Q & A

11/18/2015Slide 4 SGI Today The company employees customers In 60 countries $530M in revenue (Non-GAAP) Core market sectors Classic HPC −Government −Industry −Research Enterprise Geo Mix Segment Mix Business Mix

11/18/2015Slide 5 25 Years of Performance Computing Leading shared memory compute platforms –Up to 128TB globally addressable memory (GAM) High performance, high volume data management systems –Strong software offerings Linux ® commitment Renown for deep vertical expertise of employees –More than 200 employees with security clearances World class customer service organization

11/18/2015Slide 6 Market Focus Research Industry Enterprise Government

11/18/2015Slide 7 StorageVisualizationServers SGI Product Platforms SGI® Altix® 4700 High-End Blade With Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor SGI® Altix® 450 Mid-Range Cluster & Server Solution With Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 Processors SGI® Altix® ICE With Quad- Core Intel® Xeon® Processor SGI® Altix® XE Cluster Solutions with Dual & Quad- Core Intel® Xeon® Processors SGI® InfiniteStorage SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS Network-Attached Storage (NAS) SGI® InfiniteStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) RAID & SATA DMF, ILM, NAS Appliance Software Cluster-Attached Storage SGI® Visual Supercomputer SGI® Remote Visualization SGI® Visualization Solutions

11/18/2015Slide 8 Migration – from A to B

11/18/2015Slide 9 Migration Challenges: Business Operational concerns – includes risk from exposure to data loss or corruption plus strain on personnel Financial pressure to complete migrations versus business pressure to preclude application downtime In general, it has not been in the interests of vendors to ‘play as nice’ as they might. Personnel ‘migration hangover’ effect

11/18/2015Slide 10 Data Migration – from A to B Data

11/18/2015Slide 11 Why Migrate? Storage Lifecycle Management Technology refresh New applications, data center or relocation Consolidation Processing needs (e.g., test environment, tiering capabilities) Test new product/supplier Data growth or performance balancing Asset management

11/18/2015Slide 12 Data Migration Trends Customers have a broader selection of array products to choose from than at any other time Customers want simplified management and a heterogeneous storage environment, giving them flexibility and cost benefits IT needs to respond faster to changing business requirements

11/18/2015Slide 13 Customer Challenges in Data Migration Disruption to operations and application availability during implementation Inability to roll back and recover from a migration until satisfied that migration is successfully accomplished Risk of data loss and data integrity Complexity of multiple vendor-specific tools required to perform migrations

11/18/2015Slide 14 Benefits of an Effective Data Migration Strategy Support a Storage Technology Refresh  Assets and Storage Portfolio Management –Leases, warrantees, maintenance, and amortization schedules –Transition to new technology before existing outdated storage hardware’s warranty or lease expires  Improve TCO by taking advantage of new storage technology  Storage infrastructure refresh: Apply storage services to storage infrastructure as opposed to adding point product features Improve Flexibility to Align Technology With Business Objectives  Support continuous growth of data  Gain advantage of new storage services  Corporate and regulatory governance requirements  Improve application performance with multi-tier storage infrastructure

11/18/2015Slide 15 Traditional Migration Solutions Backup Copy to Disk Network Copy Snapshots Mirror

11/18/2015Slide 16 Storage Migration Drivers Support a Storage Technology Refresh  Assets and Storage Portfolio Management –Leases, warrantees, maintenance, and amortization schedules –Transition to new technology before existing outdated storage hardware’s warranty or lease expires  Improve TCO by taking advantage of new storage technology  Storage infrastructure refresh: Apply storage services to storage infrastructure as opposed to adding point product features Improve Flexibility to Align Technology With Business Objectives

11/18/2015Slide 17 Non-Disruptive Heterogeneous SAN Data Migration The SGI Solution

11/18/2015Slide 18 SGI ® Virtualized Storage Migration Solution Any-to-Any Data Migration Fabric-Based Intelligence Host-Based Services distributed across hosts SAN-based solution Supports heterogeneous devices SAN-wide centralized management Rollback capability Supports all major OS and storage devices Delivered by experienced SGI consultants Array-Based Services tied to array Block-level, non-disruptive, heterogeneous data migration

11/18/2015Slide 19 SGI ® Virtualized Storage Migration Solution Split-Path Architecture Storage Virtualization Manager Fabric 1Fabric 2 Storage Array Brand “A” Storage Array Brand “B” Win2K SolarisHP-UXNetwareAIX LinuxOracleRAC Data Path Point of translation VMware Data Path Module Control Path Solution Features SAN-based data services Split-path architecture Heterogeneous support Non-disruptive solution

11/18/2015Slide 20 Organizational Impact of an SGI ® Virtualization Strategy Enables non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades Maximizes uptime and performance of revenue-generating applications Enables non-disruptive infrastructure upgrades Maximizes uptime and performance of revenue-generating applications Business Impact Avoids costs and disruptions of lost access to applications and data Centralizes/simplifies data migration across servers/storage Enables Information Lifecycle Management (LM) process Avoids costs and disruptions of lost access to applications and data Centralizes/simplifies data migration across servers/storage Enables Information Lifecycle Management (LM) process Revenue-producing applications remain available during upgrades Accelerates introduction of new storage devices Reduces cost by putting data on the appropriate tier of storage Pay-as-you-go: license migration capacity as needed Revenue-producing applications remain available during upgrades Accelerates introduction of new storage devices Reduces cost by putting data on the appropriate tier of storage Pay-as-you-go: license migration capacity as needed Operational Impact Financial Impact

11/18/2015Slide 21 How the SGI Solution Differs from traditional technologies  Any-to-any data migration without storage vendor lock-in  Centralized heterogeneous storage management tool set  Ability to manage storage as a single entity, not as disparate storage islands defined by the manufacturer  Enables more multi-vendor support  A tool for tiered storage management  Pay for what you use — terabytes under management  Utilizes split-path technology  Creates foundation for additional advanced data services

11/18/2015Slide 22 Any-to-Any Data Migration Data movement, from any device, to any device, to any location Migrates data while production applications remain online Can create instant snapshots of migrating volumes for enhanced data protection Original volume remains for backup purposes SAN-wide, centralized management of all migration activities Supports all major OS and storage devices Storage Brand A Storage Brand B Before After Storage Brand A Storage Brand B => Pool 1 Pool 2

11/18/2015Slide 23 Mobile Satellite Communications Leader Migrates User Data … …with Minimal Impact to Its Operations and Budget “In evaluating our options, we looked at an upgrade and migration path with EMC, but staying with them would have meant a sizable cost increase. We selected the SGI solution because SGI offered clearly superior price/performance with the InfiniteStorage 4500 and a virtualization component that was literally unbeatable.” — Tad Martin UNIX Systems Administrator Iridium Satellite LLC The Challenge Meet rapidly growing data warehousing demands Running out of storage capacity Maintain 24x7 SLA while migrating data The Solution SGI® Virtualized Storage Migration Solution SVM Appliance SGI® InfiniteStorage 4500 SGI Professional Services Implementation Migrated mission-critical enterprise data from existing array to an SGI InfiniteStorage 4500

11/18/2015Slide 24 Migration Evaluation Checklist Life and value of data typically exceeds that of the storage asset…map storage tiers to life/value Move online and into storage network Demand heterogeneity Non-disruptive, so applications keep running Virtualization in order to span multiple device types and vendors and treat all equally Central management Test and fallback

11/18/2015Slide 25 Additional Advanced Data Services SGI ® Storage Migration Solution Storage Brand A Storage Brand B Storage Brand A Storage Brand B => BEFOREAFTER Pool 1Pool 2Pool 1Pool 2 Rapid Application Recovery Cost-Effective Disaster Recovery Site 1 ORIG MIRROR 1 MIRROR 2 Centrally Managed Storage Pool StoreAge SVM Storage Brand A Storage Brand C Storage Brand B Site 2Site 3 Production Servers Backup Server Production Data Snapshot 1 Centrally Managed Storage Pool StoreAge SVM Storage Device Tape Library Snapshot 2 Snapshot 3 Application Test and Deployment Production Servers Test Servers ORIGCOPY Centrally Managed Storage Pool StoreAge SVM Storage Brand A Storage Brand B

11/18/2015Slide 26 Final Thoughts Operational Do it!! Non-disruptive & heterogeneous Business/Solution Market, SGI, and product SGI in storage More than migration –A means as well as an end