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Simplifying & Optimizing The SAN Environment

Virtualization Performance Measurements

SimplifyingData Storage

Nick Tabellion

Chief Technology Officer

Company Confidential

As you migrate from direct-attached storage, or expand your existing SAN environment, Softek SAN solutions can simplify and optimize the management and implementation of your SAN

– Highest performance

– Greatest flexibility

– High-availability

– Least cost

– Least complexity

– Least impact to your environment and operations

Delivering on the SAN Promise

Substantial ROILower TCO


How Softek Virtualization Works

Simplifying and Optimizing SAN


Centralizes Storage Management

Controls and monitors the virtualized storage pool under a consolidated, intuitive, graphical interface

Centralize mapping of virtual volumes, replication and business continuance



Virtualization Simplifies Provisioning to a Drag-and-Drop

Multi-Multi-vendorvendorNetwork Network StorageStoragePoolPool

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Softek Virtualization


Centralize Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery in One Tool

N+1 AvailabilityAlternate pathingMirroringPoint in Time ReplicationSnapshot Asynchronous on-site and off-site IP MirroringLinear scaling



Dramatic Asset Utilization Improvements

30% – 50%

300 – 600 GB

30% – 50%

300 – 600 GB80% +

8,000 – 15,000 GB

80% +

8,000 – 15,000 GB

Disk Utilization* GB Managed / Admin*

Substantial ROI and Lower TCO derived from deploying

Virtualization

Direct-AttachedStorage

VirtualizationStorage Pools

*Source: Gartner Dataquest



Performance Benchmark Results

104,000 I/Os per second– Many, frequent transactions

– Small block size, 512 bytes

– Example: database applications

560 MB/sec Throughput Rate– Few, continuous streams of data

– Large block size, 1MB

– Example: streaming video

208,000 I/O’s per second and 1.12 GB per second in minimum Softek configuration



Competitive Comparisons

Softek Can Improve the Performance of Leading Hardware Based Competitors by 2x or More

Softek Virtualization Can Extend the Life of Existing Hardware by Sitting Between It and the SAN

Softek Virtualization Can Provide the Magnitude Greater Performance for Less on Alternative Hardware

SYSTEM COST IOPS MB/S

Typical PC w/ HDD $1,000 low 20-40Server w/ RAID Controller and DASD $4,000 10,000 75AUSPEX NAS File Server - Record $86,100 20,000 40EMC Symmetrix (sans software) $240,000 50,000 180HDS 9910 (sans software) $300,000 85,000 100SOFTEK Virtualization (Complete (2) SDS, 1TB SAN) $151,000 208,000 1,120

Sources: Ideas International Limited, Competitive ProfilesRobert Frances Group Report referenced by the 451.com



Softek Delivers An Industry Leading 1TB SAN For $150K

Configuration Quantity Description Unit Cost Extended Cost

Network2 SDSs 3,500$ 7,000$ 12 HBAs 1,200$ 14,400$

Hardware Subtotal 21,400$

Softek Virtualization2 Network Edition 24,700$ 49,400$ 2 Network Mirroring 10,500$ 21,000$

Software Subtotal 70,400$

Network Subtotal 91,800$

Storage Subsystem

1 Storage Subsystem 1TB 60,000$ 60,000$

Mimimum Network and Storage Subsystem Total 151,800$

High availability, excludes switches, application servers, and HBAs.

Scales Linearly



Benefits of True VirtualizationImproves ROI and lowers TCOEliminates underlying complexitiesExpands storage without disrupting applicationsEliminates hardware dependenceOffers scalability and high availability at the least costCentralized Disaster Recovery in one toolExtends life of existing assetsDelivers the highest performance



Performance Benchmark Summary

Performance on Scale or Better than Competition

– Highly scalable

Priced at a Fraction of the Cost


Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)“You are in the data path”

– EMC, IBM, HDS and every storage controller of merit recognizes the value of being in the data path

– Provide multiple ways (N+1 architecture, Snapshot, Alternative Pathing, Replication/Migration, AIM) to ensure business continuance and disaster recovery

• No single point of failure• Multiple white papers and technical briefs are available

– Improve I/O and application throughput performance through advanced caching algorithms

• Unprecedented performance with 208,000 IOPS and 1.12 GB/sec throughput rates for our minimum SAN configuration

• Softek Virtualization can boost the performance of any storage subsystem in the network storage pool



“What is the real-life performance?”– Real-life performance depends on the customer’s application and environment

– As with any testing, we maximized our system to attain the highest performance numbers possible

– Our recently completed benchmark disproves any theory that an in-band virtualization solution negatively impacts performance, in fact, it can boost performance to unprecedented levels for systems such as EMC, HDS

– Our competency center is designed for customer demonstrations, testing, and benchmarking

• Fujitsu Softek encourages any customer to bring in their own application servers, storage subsystems, and business applications and test the performance in our center under real-life conditions

– Softek Virtualization’s performance will continually increase as technology advancements are made in the network hardware such as HBAs, processors, etc.

• Instead of replacing large, expensive storage subsystems like EMC or HDS (costs range from $250K to over $1M) in order to take advantage of the latest technology and performance, Softek Virtualization only requires a minimal asset investment (replacing the HBAs will cost $7K)


Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)


“Why a QLogic Card?”– QLogic makes a significant contribution to the

performance benchmark– As QLogic (or another company) releases the next

generation of HBAs and switches, Softek Virtualization will immediately be able to take advantage of the performance increases for minimal cost



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Fears, Uncertainties, and Doubts (FUDs)“You use NT servers for storage management”

– Actually, Softek Virtualization uses NT for the management console GUI interface platform

– The technology to manage zoning, I/O, application throughput, mirroring, etc. is a custom application

– NT is a proven commercial operating system, with advances being made everyday

• First to market with all the latest, best and relatively inexpensive hardware• No vendor lock-in to a proprietary platform• Price/performance continuously advances• Wealth of qualified I/O, networking interfaces, and 3rd party software

– Like all networks, customers must build in redundancy• Implement data, path, and platform replication through independent

storage control nodes running asynchronous to each other with N+1 redundancy



“Why an Intel Chip?”– Intel is a great chip in the market– Many of the world-class storage providers,

including Hitachi’s Lightning are running Intel chips in both the front-end (channel adapters) and back-end (device adapters)

– Softek Virtualization will immediately be able to take advantage of the new advances in Intel technology and performance for a minimal cost




Softek SANView

SANView is designed for customers who need to visualize, monitor and manage Storage Area Network assets

SANView is a SAN management product that provides:

– a topology view of the SAN – the most information for proactively monitoring and

managing SAN performance, communication, and connectivity.

I Have A SAN - I Need to See My Assets in Order to Manage Them


Today’s SAN is Difficult To Manage

It is difficult to trouble shoot and

pinpoint performance &

connectivity problems

SAN Problems


Real-time & Historical Performance Statistics

Detailed port I/O performance

statistics

Solution to SAN Problems


Rapid Problem Resolution

Beacon a port to assist in diagnosing problems

Solution to SAN Problems

Port blinks on screen and at the

switch

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