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• Ken Ow-Wing,ST9900 Product Line Manger

ST9900 Program DMA Update November 14, 2007 Broomfield, CO Modifed June 2, 2008 2. Roadmap 3. Microcode Releases

V02 : 12-3-07

V02 +1 End of Dec. 2007 (means January)

V02 +1, +2, +3 (Figure this means 3QFY07)

V03Mid- 2008

4. Dynamic Provision Support

Dynamic Provisioning Support for External Storage

• Targeted for V02 or V02 +1

Tiered Storage Manager February 2008

TrueCopy V02 +3

Universal Replicator V02 +3

• P-Vol and S-Vol (no disk journal)

Universal Volume Manager V02 (Pool-Vol)

Copy on Write V02+2 (P-Vol)

5. Dynamic Provision Support

Volume Migration V02 +1

Volume Shredder V02

For More Completeness and Detail:

• Token 510266, ST 9990V Starter Kit

• Scroll down to the 15 thfile for HDPCompatibilityChart

6. Disk

400 GB 10KFC HDD

• For ST 9985V, ST 9990V, ST 9990, ST 9985

• Released

1 TB FC-SATA HDD

• RR=6-24-08, GA 6-17-08

• For ST 9990 V, ST 9985 V

• NOT for ST 9990, NOT for ST 9985

7. Future Data Cache

Increase Data Cache to 512 GB

• 16 GB Data Cache boards.RR=6-24-08, GA 6-17-08

8. Mainframe Releases of Interest

Universal Replicator 3DC 4X4X4 Cascade 10-15-07

Business Continuity Manager 5.3 support 4X4X4 Multi-Target 10-15-07

Business Continuity 5.6 will support 4X4X4 Cascade February 2008

HyperPAV Target Sun GA of 12-4-07

• Last minute release by HDS driven by specific customer

9. Program Notes 10. Tools Now Available

Hi Stat: Topology Discovery

Hi Cast: Cache sizing

Hi Past: Access Density and Array Design

Weight and Power

E-mail[email_address] .com

• We will give you User Name and Password

• Internal HDS website; process does not scale so making tools available to DMAs only for proliferation

11. Pre-Sales Performance alias

[email_address]

Eight volunteers worldwide

We will expand this

We have asked those requesting their assistance to state their configuration in clear terms to help our volunteers

12. Appendix 13. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results October 1, 2007 News Release: The ST9990V platform achieves the highest SPC-1 benchmark result in enterprise storage history , eclipsing results of every single enterprise storage system ever testedwith 200,245K SPC IOPS. This nearly doubles the performance levels achieved by competing enterprise storage systems with a single controlle r. Leads industry with 3.5M peak cache IOPS.A 75% - 300% advantage over other enterprise systems in the market.# 1 in Performance 14. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results What this new SPC-1 benchmark result means for customers is: Greater Productivity :Sustain significantly more business transactions than any other enterprise storage system in the market, boosting sales and profitability Increased Efficiency : Greatly improve application response time to single digit millisecond levels ands upport more users, more applications, and handle more capacity on a centrally managed platform that leverages years of mature and reliable microcode Lower TCO : Run a multitude of applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Database 11 g , concurrently on a single storage controller Reduced Risk : If your applications dont perform well then your business suffersperformance definitively matters to business success . 15.

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Thank You

16. Appendix 17. New/Interesting 18. ST 9985 V: What is new/interesting

Switched FCAL (same as ST 9990V)

• FSW contains meta data which allows only the target HDD to be addressed.

• Diagnosability is improved via isolation

• Performance is improved by avoiding multiple targets.

Multitasking on the Front End Director (FED) and Back End Director (BED)

• Under utilized MP (microprocessors) can take workload from other MPs (e.g. Task scheduling to BED)

• MPs moved from 400 Mhz to 800 Mhz,

• Combine this with end to end 4 Gbit = better performance

19. ST9985 VSwitched Loop Details ST9985 V introduces a switched back-end, where the drives are still on arbitrated loops but the switch logic bypasses all targets on that loop except for the one disk being addressed 20. ST 9985 V: What is new/interesting

Control Bandwidth

• 37% greater (4.8 GB/sec now, vs. 3.8 GB/sec before)

Shared Memory

• 260% greater (16 GB now, vs. 6 GB before

• Data bandwidth remains the same

• Take-Way: Investment was in improving control bandwidth and memory to support sophisticated new applications such as Dynamic Provisioning. Data bandwidth was seen as more than sufficient for customer requirements.

21. ST 9985 V Without Disks

Positioned as a virtualization engine for heterogeneous environments

• Compete as a Virtualization Engine against InVista and SVC

• Go in with a light configuration and grow the system as customers add more functionality

Some questions we always get.......

• Is Diskless really diskless?

• • Yes, it is really diskless. You can operate without any disk. When diskless first came out, it required some disk, but this has changed

• Is Diskless a completely different product?

• • No, its just another configuration.

• Is a BED required even if there are no disks?

• • Yes, a BED is really needed even if there are no disks.

• Workload (such as task scheduling) distributed from Front End Directors to Back End Directors to improve performance

• Does DP work with Diskless? Not at this time . Look toward 4QCY07

• Is UR supported with Diskless? Yes. Performance measurement activity in queue.

22. Architecture 23. Hardware Comparison of ST9985V vs ST9985 Hi-Star Net Data Data path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch architecture Net: 8.5GB/s Data path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net: 8.5GB/s ST9985 ST9985 V 24. Hardware Comparison of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net Control Control path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net:3.6GB/s The number of paths from CHA/MIX to each SM is 12. Shared memory is installed on BASE PCB Control path bandwidth of Crossbar Switch Architecture Net :4.8GB/s The number of paths from channel adapter/disk adapterto each SMA is increased from 12 to 16. Shared memory is installed on SMA PCB. ST9985 ST9985 V 25. Hardware Comparison Cache Memory In order to improve access performance to CM, CMA, ST9985Vraised the transfer rate of the memorypath, advanced memory control method, and achieved twice thehardware performance as compared with Network Storage Controller Model ST9985 . ST9985 ST9985 V 26.

ST9990V Updates

SPC-1 Performance

Enhancements

Punchstock 1872016 27. Competition 28. ST9985V/90V vs Competition EMC DMX-4 & IBM DS 8xxx / 68xx VMware ESX Server / Thin Provisioning VMware ESX Server / External Storage VMware ESX Server / Internal Storage Thin Provisioning / External Storage Thin Provisioning / Internal Storage Tier 1 Storage & Virtualization 64 ports 64 ports 16 ports 112 ports ESCON Connectivity 128 ports 48 ports 16 ports 112 ports FICON Connectivity 1024/ 128 360 240 1152 Max HDD's SVC Invista!? FC-SAN Storage Virtualization Controller only Tier 1 FC SAN (FC & SATA) IBM DS 8xxx / 68xx EMC DMX-4 950 ST9985V ST9990V 29. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results October 1, 2007 News Release: The ST9990V platform achieves the highest SPC-1 benchmark result in enterprise storage history , eclipsing results of every single enterprise storage system ever testedwith 200,245K SPC IOPS. This nearly doubles the performance levels achieved by competing enterprise storage systems with a single controlle r. Leads industry with 3.5M peak cache IOPS.A 75% - 300% advantage over other enterprise systems in the market.# 1 in Performance 30. ST9990V SPC-1 Performance Results What this new SPC-1 benchmark result means for customers is: Greater Productivity :Sustain significantly more business transactions than any other enterprise storage system in the market, boosting sales and profitability Increased Efficiency : Greatly improve application response time to single digit millisecond levels ands upport more users, more applications, and handle more capacity on a centrally managed platform that leverages years of mature and reliable microcode Lower TCO : Run a multitude of applications, such as Microsoft Exchange and Oracle Database 11 g , concurrently on a single storage controller Reduced Risk : If your applications dont perform well then your business suffersperformance definitively matters to business success . 31. Program Notes 32. Tool Release Expanded

Tools

• Hi Stat: Topology Discovery

• Hi Cast: Cache sizing

• Hi Past: Access Density and Array Design

• Weight and Power

Request Access and Support

• [email_address]

• Include the following: Last Name, First Name,e-mail address, Geo (APAC, Americas, EMEA)

Go Easy, these guys are NOT field support

33. Performance Peer Review Alias

Size ST 9900s from a pre-sales perspective.

ST_9900_Performance_Pre-Sales-Peer_Review@sun.com

Please provide your current configuration.

Help these Volunteers Help You

A.Please be concise. We have about 8 volunteers Worldwide in Asia, US, Europe who are volunteering their time for this.

# of volunteers will be increased

34. Thank You Questions? Photos.com 34606297 35. Competition 36. 37. Links to Original Data: Teneja Group

Article

• http://www.infostor.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&C=Feat&ARTICLE_ID=282032&KEYWORDS=virtualization&p=23

Presentation

• http://www.infoworld.com/event/virtualization/docs/Mon GB 11.45 Taneja.ppt

38. EMC 39. ST 9985 Advantage: EMC and IBM

Partitions

• ST 9985 8 partitions

• ST 9990 32 partitions

• Match cache in ST 9900 and external storage

• Dedicate resources when consolidating

106 GB Aggregate bandwidth

• Point to point, non-contention

Scalability Integrated in Single device

• ST 9985 96 PB

• ST 9990 247 PB

Avoid appliance/sprawl

40. The Sun StorageTek ST9990V Platform High Availability Architecture

Cluster of 128 processors connected by a crossbar switch sharing a global cache

4Gb/sec end-to-end internal architecture including front-end, disks, and back-end 41. IBM 42. Recent Analyst Quotes re: Hitachi Storage Virtualization

When Hitachi decided to offer a heterogeneous storage virtualization product,it made a smart move . Unlike competitors that started from scratch to write new controller software, it chose instead to add external storage support to itsmost robust ,most highly featured ,most market provenstorage array.

Hitachi's Universal Volume Manager brings external disk support to its high-end storage array. As a result, it hasno direct competitionfor its integrated heterogeneous virtualization features in the high-end storage array market.

IBM does offer the SVC, which like the USP/NSC family is a storage controller that supports external disk,but the SVC is a midrange product.

S ource: Gartner research report - Storage Virtualization: HDS Universal Volume Manager Publication - date: 22 December 2006 ID Number: G00141799,author: Robert Passmore 43. Virtualization and Tiered Storage - Sales Tips

Intelligent Tiered Storage

• Ask your customers to challenge the scalability of competitive virtualization solutions non-disruptive volume migration capabilities

• The resulting feedback should include

• • No support for application group volume selection, only volume selection capability

• • Application volume selection is a manual process as opposed to an automated process

• • Limited concurrent volume migration capability

• • Universal Storage Platforms 128 concurrent volume migration capability outscales all competitors

Dont Sell Product, Understand Customers Business Problems,Architect Solutions 44. The Competition How They Stack Up! (see notes page for detailed annotations) NO NO NO YES #15 YES Scalability NO YES YES YES ? ? ? ? NO #4 YES EMC InVista Dynamic Volume Mobility NO YES YES NO NO YES #13 NO NO NO #5 YES #2 VERITAS VxVM NO YES YES #16 MF support YES YES YES Open Systems support YES YES YES Heterogeneous support YES NO YES Leverage virtualization platform ( required for efficient data volume migration ) NO YES YES #14 Extensiveselection criteria ( enabled by device mgmt. integration ) YES #12 YES #11 YES #10 Application/host level support ( required for deep selection criteria ) YES #9 NO YES #8 Integrated with configuration manager ( supports deep selection criteria ) YES #7 NO YES #6 Tiered storage support ( mgmt interface for data volume migration ) NO #4 NO #3 YES Storage controller based migration ( based on virtualization architecture ) YES YES#1 YES Nondisruptive IBM SVC Migration Softek TDMF HiCommand Tiered Storage Manager Migration Function 45. IBM SAN Volume Controller Migration How it works?

IBM SVC Migration copies data from source to target volumes (between vdisks and/or vdisks to native).

SVC mapping table entries are dynamically swapped and as a result, the host/application is not disrupted.

Volumes to be migrated are identified by vdisk number or name, no logical grouping support or any other robust meta-data selection criteria.

46. IBM SAN Volume Controller Migration Strengths

100% non-disruptive for host/application

Does not consume host resources

Storage vendor agnostic

47. IBM SAN Volume Controller Migration Weaknesses

Issue with scalability. Resources are already constrained - adding a large migration would have serious impact. Constrained resources include;

• • cache resources (16GB per IO group) , ports (4), overall throughout.

SVC Migration is a migration tool and not a tiered storage management solution.

An SVC I/O group (2 SVC node pair) will only support 8 concurrent volume migrations (versus 64 on USP/NSC going to 128).

Rudimentary vdisk name or number as selection criteria only, no robust meta-data selection criteria

Additional hardware is required when additional SVC I/O groups need to be added, vdisk migrationsbetweenI/O groups require that applications be quiesced.

No MF support

48. 49. EMC Invista Dynamic Volume Mobility How it works?

Invista initiates the copying of data from source to target in the background

Invista mapping table entries are dynamically swapped and as a result, the host/application is not disrupted

Volumes to be migrated are identified by virtual disk number or name, no logical grouping support or any other robust meta-data selection criteria.

50. EMC Invista Dynamic Volume Mobility Strengths

100% non-disruptive for host/application

Does not consume host resources

Storage vendor agnostic

Should probably scale better than in-band appliance or smart switch solutions, due to out-of-band architecture

51. EMC Invista Dynamic Volume Mobility Weaknesses

Although EMC Invista will be more scalable than in-band appliance or switch solutions, there are still many moving parts compared to the Hitachi solution.

Rudimentary virtual disk name or number as selection criteria only, no robust meta-data selection criteria.

Is a migration tool and not a tiered storage management solution.

Additional hardware is required

No MF support

52. Program Notes