1. 1 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. NEXSAN E-Series™ Best Backup to Disk

2. 2 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan At-a-Glance  Established in 1999  28,000 systems installed in over 60 countries  Over 10,000 customers  Proven, Enterprise-class  100% Channel Markets Served Video & Entertainment Digital Surveillance Medical Scientific & Research Cloud Storage Financial Law Enforcement Transportation Local & National Government

3. 3 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Agenda Backup and Restore Key Considerations  Backup to Disk vs. Tape  Primary Disk Storage SAN-based vs. LAN-based Backups The Role of Snapshots Asynchronous Replication and Disaster Recovery  Backup Disk Storage Best place to De-duplicate Key Criteria Nexsan’s Data Protection Software Partners Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays  Capacities, configurations, features

4. 4 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Disk vs. Tape  Disk  No single point of failure architecture  No human errors in loading / unloading tapes  Does not stretch  RAID  Always online  Asynchronous Replication to a remote site  Fast restores and easy to verify backups are correct  Tape  Can be a single point of failure  Human errors in loading / unloading tapes  Tapes stretch and shoeshine  Not online, slowing restores  Not automatically sent to a remote site

5. 5 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. LAN-based vs. SAN-based Backups LAN SAN Clients Backup Server Storage System Application Servers Backup Array-based Snapshot LAN-based Snapshot Backup Software Backup Agent  1. LAN-based (no array-based snapshot)  Data takes the full round trip, bogging down application servers, the LAN, and the SAN  2. SAN-based (with array-based snapshot)  Data is copied within the disk array or across the SAN, with no impact to LAN or application servers 1. 2. 1 2 12

6. 6 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Asynchronous Replication for Disaster Recovery Remote Storage System LAN SAN Clients Backup Server Application Server Application Server Application Server Local Storage System  Protection Against Site-wide Failure  Frequent snapshots are transmitted to target side  Snapshots may be mounted on target side  Backups may be performed at the target side  Good way to protect remote/branch offices  Failover / Failback to remote storage system  Pause / Resume, checkpoint restart, deduplication LAN SAN Clients Backup Server Application Server Application Server Application Server Local Storage System Asynchronous Replication Asynchronous Replication

7. 7 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. De-duplicate as close to the source as possible LAN SAN Clients De-duplicating Appliance Backup Server Application Server Application Server Local Storage System  Why not de-duplicate right before the backup disk?  Inline de-duplicating appliances either slow backups or are costly  Application servers and networks become bogged down transmitting information that likely will not make it onto the backup disks  De-duplicating appliances fragment data, which hinders restore rates  To test the validity of a backup, a full rehydration of data from the deduplication appliance to a free storage pool is necessary, hindering restore time objectives  Backups cannot be quickly tested to ensure they are correct with de-duplicating appliances

8. 8 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan Partnerships for Data Protection Software

9. 9 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Backup Disk Criteria  Reliability of Storage System  Storage Density / Rack Space  Modular Capacity Additions  Easy to Maintain Storage  High Throughput  Energy Efficient  Low Cost per Terabyte and Operation  Array-based Snapshots & Replication  Microsoft VSS Compliant & VMware Ready  Compatible with popular backup/restore applications

10. 10 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays Overview  Ultimate Reliability Storage  Hard drives individually stress tested  Then tested in the storage system  Anti-vibration Design™, Cool Drive Technology™  Hot-swappable, redundant active components  Array-based Snapshots and Asynchronous Replication  Industry-leading Storage Density  E18: 18 drives, 72TB in 2U  E48: 48 drives 192TB in 4U  E60: 60 drives, 240TB in 4U  Active Drawer Technology™  Administer storage with no downtime, heavy lifting or pulled wires  Active/Active Controllers  With dual RAID5/6 engines per controller  Up to 87% Energy Savings with AutoMAID ®  Ideal for backup to disk or bulk storage scenarios  Leading Cost per Terabyte

11. 11 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan E-Series: Industry-leading Design  Fans in front pull in air  Fans in back push out air  Air channels go straight through chassis  Even if a fan fails, air flows over drives  Variable speed fans with temperature sensors Cool Drive Technology™ Anti-vibration Design™  Mount drives counter-rotating  Thick plates in chassis eliminate vibrations Active Drawer Technology™  Service drives without getting hurt  Drives remain active when drawer is open  Service system with no downtime  Increased reliability with less external wires to manage

12. 12 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan E-Series: Industry-leading Storage Density Rack Space Required for 240 3.5” Drives Nexsan E60s Dell EqualLogic PS6510Es Dell Compellent Series 40s NetApp FAS3240 EMC VNX5500 Nexsan E-Series up to ½ of the rack space U of Rack Space Required

13. 13 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays 100 / 200 / 400 GB SSD 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 TB SATA 2U, 18 Drives 450 / 600 GB 15K SAS (4) 1Gb iSCSI & (0-4) 1Gb iSCSI or (0-8) 8Gb FC or (0-8) 10Gb iSCSI or (0-8) 24Gb SASx4 4U, 60 Drives 4U, 48 Drives NEXSAN E48™NEXSAN E18™ NEXSAN E18X™ NEXSAN E60™ NEXSAN E60X™ NEXSAN E48X™ Drives In-Chassis with 1 Expansion I/O with 2 Expansions (4) 1Gb iSCSI & (0-4) 1Gb iSCSI or (0-4) 8Gb FC or (0-4) 10Gb iSCSI or (0-4) 24Gb SASx4 72 TB 144 TB 480 TB 240 TB 192 TB 384 TB 216 TB 720 TB 576 TB

14. 14 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Recovery time AutoMAID ® Industry-leading Power Efficiency Power Savings Levels <1 second15 seconds30-45 seconds30-60 seconds Unload heads Slow to 4000 RPM Stop rotating Drive electronics off Can use less than 1/5 of the power of competitive products Ideal for backup to disk or long-term bulk storage applications 30-60 seconds Exp. Chassis electronics off

15. 15 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan E-Series Disk Arrays - High Availability  Dual Active/Active controllers  All ports can access all LUNs  Multi-path I/O  No single point of failure  Hot-swappable  Battery-backed cache  Sends alerts for important events NO SINGLE POINT OF FAILURE

16. 16 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. E-Series Snapshots (1 of 2) Snapshot 1 Snapshot 2 Snapshot 3 Snapshot N  Snapshots of iSCSI, Fibre Channel, or SAS connected SAN volumes  Snapshots are instantly taken  Initiated via scheduler, manually, or scripted  Microsoft VSS Hardware Provider to install on Windows servers  Application-consistent snapshots for Windows servers  Initiate snapshots from any VSS Requestor such as popular backup applications  Initiate backups from Nexsan Storage Tools Utility (a VSS Requestor)  All security information is preserved for the volume at the point in time the snapshot was taken  Policy-based retention and deletion of snapshots  Mount snapshots as READONLY for backups or to restore individual files or entire volumes  Mount snapshots as READ/WRITE for data mining and testing

17. 17 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. E-Series Snapshots (2 of 2)  Rollback a volume to a prior point in time  Volume is instantly available, even though the rollback is still in process for that point in time  Restore operations are reversible and all existing snapshots are preserved (space permitting)  Delete snapshots in any order  Uses copy-on-write algorithm and requires data protection storage to be pre-allocated  Size of the data protection storage pool can be grown, and can flexibly assigned to volumes  Up to 4096 snapshots per volume or RAID set  Easy to set up and manage via GUI  Nexsan utilities to manage snapshots from Linux, AIX and Solaris Snapshot 1 Snapshot 2 Snapshot 3 Snapshot N

18. 18 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. E-Series Asynchronous Replication (1 of 2) IP NETWORK (LAN OR WAN) E-Series Asynchronous Replication  Asynchronous Replication of individual iSCSI, Fibre Channel or SAS connected SAN volumes  Separate systems by any distance and communicate over TCP/IP  One-to-One and Many-to-One  Based on snapshots, which are retained on the source and destination sides of the replication  Can replicate older existing snapshots, as well as snapshots taken after replication is set up  Only the changed blocks since the last snapshot need to be transmitted  Checkpoint restarts efficiently resume replication if the transport has a temporary outage  Can mount snapshots on the destination side while replication is active  Full security is preserved for volumes on the destination side

19. 19 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. E-Series Asynchronous Replication (2 of 2) IP NETWORK (LAN OR WAN) E-Series Asynchronous Replication  Manual failover to the secondary system on the destination side  Useful for data migration to a new system or for storage rebalancing  128 concurrent replications, of which 16 can be active per system  Easy to set up and manage via the GUI  Replication can start when a snapshot is taken or on a schedule  Replication can be paused, resumed, or canceled

20. 20 ©2012 Nexsan Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nexsan E-Series: Best Backup to Disk Summary  Ultimate Reliability Storage  Hard drives individually stress tested  Then tested in the storage system  Anti-vibration Design™, Cool Drive Technology™  Hot-swappable, redundant active components  Array-based Snapshots and Asynchronous Replication  Industry-leading Storage Density  E60: 15 drives per U, 240TB in just 4U  E48: 12 drives per U, 192TB in just 4U  E18: 9 drives per U, 72TB in just 2U  Active Drawer Technology™  Easy to manage storage with no downtime  Active/Active Controllers  With dual RAID engines per controller  Up to 87% Energy Savings with AutoMAID ®  Ideal for backup to disk or bulk storage scenarios  Leading Cost per Terabyte

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