1. Software Defined Storage for VDI Neil Stobart – EMEA SE Director

2. 2 Market Trends – Data Explosion & Shrinking Budgets Workloads, IT Budgets and Trends Source: 2014 – Company, Gartner, IDC and Wall Street research.

3. 3 Nexenta Company Timeline Sun Microsystems open sources ZFS 2005 1 st POs from Stanford NexentaStor 1.0 Scale-up unified block & file services on any x86 hardware 2008 400 PB Under Management NexentaStor 3.0 First Cinder integration with OpenStack Essex 10 patents in play 2012 5,000 customer deployments NexentaStor 3.1 Dell and SuperMicro Reference Architectures NexentaConnect SDS for VDI 1 st patent 20 in play Tarkan Maner joins as CEO 2013 900 PB Under Management NexentaStor 4.x Enterprise class SDS NexentaConnect Horizon & XenDesktop On ESX NexentaEdge 1.0 Scale-out object NexentaFusion 1.0 Unified analytics and orchestration 3 patents 30 in play 2014

4. 4 All storage hardware vendors are software based Software-Based is about technology – good for vendors –Software used to justify high margins on systems built with standard x86 hardware –Exact same hardware can often be acquired off the shelf Software-Defined is about business model – good for customers –Standardize on software and make x86 hardware vendors compete –Allows customers to procure storage with server like economics Nexenta is the only provider of SDS for all stacks and all workloads Software-Based or Software-Defined? Software Based Software Defined … Stack Specific

5. 5 Comprehensive Software Defined Storage Portfolio * * * Future Scale-up, block and file Unified Storage Enterprise Apps Cloud backend and unstructured data repositories Scale-out object, block and file storage OpenStack Swift Amazon S3 Next Gen Cloud & Big Data Apps * * Unified analytics and orchestration Single pane of glass for entire storage infrastructure Storage Services for virtualized infrastructure VMware Virtual SAN, Horizon and Citrix XenDesktop

6. 6 VDI Deployment Challenges Storage Performance considerations Need equal or better performance than PC Requires low latency to deliver good end user experience High Write IOPS due to user profile updates need more resources than high read requirements Boot/login storms necessitate sizing for overall peak performance requirements therefore need more spindles High performance storage required to support workload means that storage cost consideration severely impact decision for VDI deployment Monitoring Storage Calibration – ensuring storage resources are applied for the right desktops No insight into performance at the desktop level Different categories of user require different levels of performance therefore important to understand when and where additional storage resources are required to ensure good end user experience

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