The All-Flash Array for theNext Generation Data CenterSOLUTION OVERVIEW

The SolidFire SolutionScale-out high performance storage systems designed for large scale infrastructure

Largest and Fastest all-SSD storage system 4 - 100 nodes, 35TB - 3.4PB, 200K - 7.5M IOPS

Industry-standard hardware, 10 GigE iSCSI

20X performance of traditional SANs

Best-in-Class Quality of Service (QoS) Architecture

10x reduction in operational cost

Delivered near/below the cost of traditional 15K spinning disk SAN

Flash for the Next Generation Data Center

Scale-Out Architecture

New nodes are added as demand dictates Performance and capacity instantly available to all volumes Nodes added on the fly without down time

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375,000 IOPS

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Linear ScalabilityStarter 5 node SF9010 configuration

5, SF9010 Nodes 174 TB 375,000 IOPS

Allan Leinwand, ServiceNow CTO:“If your cloud has maintenance windows, you're doing it wrong.”

Performance Virtualization: Independent global pools of capacity and performance

Allocate: Storage performance independent of capacity

Manage: Performance real-time without impacting other volumes

Guarantee: Performance to every volume with fine-grain QoS settings

Deliver Guaranteed Storage Performance and Firm Performance SLAs

Guaranteed Performance - QoS

Eliminating Noisy Neighbors with QoS

The Noisy Neighbor Effect Individual tenant impacts other applications

Unsuitable for performance sensitive apps

SolidFire QoS in Practice Create fine-grained tiers of performance

Application performance is isolated

Performance SLAs enforced

Noisy Neighbor

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Cluster wide RAID-less data protection - SolidFire Helix™

No single points of failure Automatic self-healing – restores redundancy

after failure Maintains all QoS settings regardless of failure

condition Non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades Real-Time Replication Integrated Backup and Restore Encryption at Rest

Shared Nothing High Availability

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In-Line Efficiency

Always-on, in-line data reduction Deduplication Compression Thin provisioning

Executed across entire data store without performance impact

Space efficient snapshots and clones Delivers drastic reduction in power,

cooling, and floor space

User Error - Storage Complexity Others

Design• Initial size (GB or IOPS)

• Anticipated growth over lifecycle of array

• IOPS required lifetime of product

• Node size selection

• RAID type, RAID grouping

• Drive type (FC, NL, SSD)

• Drive quantities and ratio

• Cache requirements

• Drive Sparing

• Aggregate/CPG

• MetaLUN and Bin file layout

Installation• Bin File/RAID Layout

• Aggregate/MetaLUN creation

• Snapshot spare spacing

• Vol0/quorum drive layout

• Aggregate snapshot frequency

• Snapshot growth limits

Operating• GB required

• IOPs required

• Account Creation

• Host to HBA assignment and tracking

• Host initiator count limits

• RAID type required

• Primary Control Node assignment

• IOP limitation concerns

• Snapshot growth policy

• Thin Provisioning (or not)

• Aggregate/CPG assignment

• 40% CPU limit considerations

Scaling• IOPS needed

• GB needed

• Drive Shelves required

• Power/floor space restrictions

• Control node limitations (CPU storage)

Upgrade• HBA compatibility list

• CPU utilization on control nodes

• Maintenance window

• Mitigate risk during node outage

User Error - Storage Complexity SolidFire

Design• Initial size (GB or IOPS)

Installation• None

Operating• GB required

• IOPs required

• Account Creation

Scaling• IOPS needed

• GB needed

Upgrade• None

“Where SolidFire differs, though, is in its focus. It has made decisions with its product to reduce what I like to call “mental friction,” or the ongoing drag on IT staff from operational complexity.” – Bob Plankers, The Virtualization Practice

Automated Management

Integrated REST-based API Enables complete automation of any

SolidFire function Supports development of user-facing

storage controls Seamless integration into current

billing/charge-back systems and management stacks

API Integration Support from SolidFire

Not all flash is created equal…

Scale beyond 100TB

In-line Data Reduction

Native Remote Replication

Guaranteed Performance

Automated Management

High Performance

Shared Nothing HA

All Flash Array Type A

All Flash Array Type B

All Flash Array Type C

All Flash Array Type D

SolidFire Ranks #1 Overall in Gartner Critical Capabilities Study

▪ Report analyzes 13 SSAs across six high-impact use cases

▪ Quantifies product attractiveness against seven critical capabilities that are important to IT leaders.

▪ Overall Use Case▪ Online Transaction Processing ▪ Server Virtualization▪ Virtual Desktop Infrastructure▪ High Performance Computing▪ Analytics

Validated in the most demanding Enterprise and

Service Provider data centers

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VDI Success Story – Large Global Telco

• 3000 user VDI POD – 200K+ Deployment 2YR

• Selected solution after having analyzed and completed Proof of Concepts of(18) Hybrid, Traditional Raid, and Flash Array vendors

• Power savings key business driver SolidFire and Dell Networking helped cut this in ½ compared to competitive solution.

• Replaced existing standard POD which took up 2 44U Racks

• Inline efficiency was key benefit achieved greater than 10X

• API integration with custom management tool easily achieved with REST API

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Total Compute:· 12-14 servers· 24-28U rack space

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The All-Flash Array for theNext Generation Data CenterFor more information visit www.solidfire.com or email dell@solidfire.com

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