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Achieving efficiencies through software-defined storage (SDS)

Session MT8

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Storage industry trends

Budget constraints continue

Growth in unstructured data

Technology dramatically

changing traditional

storage architectures

Seeking to build upon virtualization for

incremental efficiency

Need to leverage data to make better business

decisions

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The Optimized Enterprise, future-ready IT

Key enablers

• Service oriented infrastructure and workload automation

• Flexible modular platforms

•Enable service-centric IT

• Increase business agility

Key benefits

Optimized enterprise; future-ready IT

Servers

Storage

Storage

Networking

Servers

Software-defined infrastructure

The Software-defined Enterprise

Networking

Best-of-breed systems

System of systems

Fully integrated & software-driven

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SDS is an emerging paradigm

Storage software

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Decouples the basic elements of a storage system Traditional / physical

Multiple implementations

Hyper-converged

Software-only Virtual appliance

Physical appliance

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SDS is an emerging paradigm

Decouples the basic elements of a storage system

Multiple implementations

Hyper-converged

Software-only Virtual appliance

Physical appliance

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SDS is an emerging paradigm

- a technology that decouples the basic elements of a storage system

Hyper Converged

Virtualize CPU

Virtualize Storage

Virtualize CPU

Virtualize Storage

VM VM VM VM

Scalable CPU

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SAN

Converged Solution

Multiple implementations

Hyper-converged

Software-only Virtual appliance

Physical appliance

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Customer expectations

Data Services: Management, automation and orchestration

Flexibility

Cost

Scalability

Reliability

Decouples the basic elements of a storage system

SDS is an emerging paradigm

Multiple implementations

Hyper-converged

Software-only Virtual appliance

Physical appliance

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Businesses seek to enhance data center efficiency Evolve current IT, embrace new IT Evolve current IT, embrace new IT

Customer-driven path

There is no one-size-fit-all solution

Server-side storage

External SANs

Appliances

Converged solutions

Scalable solutions for

private cloud & XaaS

Software-driven solutions

Hyper Converged

Physical to virtual to software-defined

New IT Current IT

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Evolve current IT

Embrace new IT

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Dell software-defined storage strategy Broadest, most aggressive approach keeps your options open

1 Evolve your IT with enhanced flexibility and orchestration

Best computing platform • Modern, single storage stack • Industry-standards, open approach • Broadest partner ecosystem

Our platform

Your path

2 Deploy web-scale converged appliances

3 Deliver XaaS faster and more efficiently with hypervisor-integrated and open source solutions

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Modern storage stack to evolve IT with enhanced flexibility & orchestration

Data mobility

Abstraction

Industry Standard HW

Automation

Server to Storage

Compute

• Next-generation abstraction • Software-Defined Abstraction for improved

flexibility

• Next-generation orchestration • Integration into orchestration frameworks

(Openstack, VMware, Microsoft, Dell ASM) • Restful APIs • MultiTenancy and Quality of Service

• Next-generation data mobility

• Federation- data movement across arrays

Fluid Cache/Server Storage Pool

Industry leading automated intelligent data placement

Transparent movement of data across servers, arrays, drives

Ground-up storage virtualization abstracts data from underlying HW

Leverages Industry Standard HW

Storage

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Differentiated partner solutions Web-scale converged appliances that deliver XaaS faster & more efficiently

Enterprise-class

infrastructure

Optimized hardware and

monitoring

Appliances and bundled

solutions

End to end solution

architectures

Global services and

support

Storage Spaces

VSAN, EVO:RAIL

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Dell software-defined storage portfolio

Enabling customers to choose the right enterprise-class solution

Dell Offering

XC Appliance Powered by Nutanix SW

Dell VSAN Ready Nodes + Dell Engineered solutions

for VMware EVO:RAIL

Validated PE 720 + MD JBOD + Nexenta SW

Dell Servers + MD JBOD + MS Storage Spaces

PowerEdge servers + RedHat Inktank Ceph +

Openstack

Value prop

Highly scalable converged appliance

supports multiple hypervisors

Converged appliance based on VMware vSphere/ PowerEdge for non-mission

critical workloads

Cost optimized software-based file storage

on PowerEdge

Cheap and deep storage based on Windows Server/

PowerEdge for non-mission critical workloads

Massively scalable opensource storage on

PowerEdge for advanced Openstack cloud

environments

Benefits

• Easy management • Predictable granular

scalability • High performance with

auto-tiering and caching

• Familiar/easy management for VMware administrators

• Moderate scalability

• High capacity file storage • Scalable with PowerVault

MD JBODs • Rich feature set incl. HA

over long distances

• Scalable with PowerVault MD JBODs

• Familiar mgmt for Windows administrators

• Massively scalable • Strong ties into

OpenStack • Self-service with

OpenStack

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Value of SDS varies by business objective Performance-intensive workloads

• Mission-critical

Price-Performance workloads

• Business-critical

Cost-optimized workloads

• Non-mission-critical & hosting

Databases & ERP

• Oracle

• SAP

• SQL Server

Unified communications, Server virtualization, VDI • Exchange, Lync • VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V

Backup/DR, Content & Hosting • Archive • Hosting

Microsoft Storage Spaces

FluidCache

SC Series

PS Series

MD Series

Investment protection Mature technology Pervasive IT skillset Ease of deployment Dedicated performance Capacity efficiency

Evolve Current IT

Deployment flexibility Scale-out scalability OpenSource Hyperconverged simplicity New service model

Embrace New IT

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Workload-optimized solutions for any enterprise The Dell Storage portfolio.

Workload-optimized solutions for any size enterprise

High performance

storage

Multi-protocol, enterprise

SC& FS

Series

Easy-to-use virtualized

storage

Unified, virtualized IP

PS & FS Series

Affordable, entry level storage

Modular disk

storage

MD & NX Series

Data Protection solutions

Tape Storage

ML & TL Series

PowerEdge Servers

Dell Networking

Dell Software

Dell Services

Nutanix Nexenta

VSAN, EVO:RAIL Storage Spaces RedHat Ceph

Software Defined Storage

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Thank you

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Offer summary

Dell Offering

XC Appliance Powered by Nutanix SW

Dell’s VSAN Ready Nodes, Dell Engineered solutions for

VMware EVO:RAIL

Validated PE 720 + MD JBOD + Nexenta SW

Most Dell Servers + MD JBOD + MS Storage Spaces

PowerEdge servers + RedHat Inktank Ceph +

Openstack

Value Proposition

Hyper converged; Fast time to value; Pay-as-you-grow;

Hypervisor agnostic; Simplified data center

Hyper converged; Familiar and easy

management for VMware administrators;

Build on VMware investments

Highly flexible feature-rich software-based file storage

built on opensource ZFS

Free feature in the OS w/ no additional licensing cost; Familiar management for Windows administrators; Build on MS investments

Opensource technology that is designed for highly

scalable environments with strong ties into

Openstack

Primary use case

High performance VDI where simple highly linear

scalability is required

SMB storage for VMware: Small virtualization and Test&Dev workloads for

VMware

Cheap and deep file storage; Storage for Low-end private

Cloud /Hosting

Small-Medium hosting/cloud service providers using

Hyper-V; Cheap and deep storage for Test&Dev; Small

file server

Advanced private cloud, public cloud users

looking to add cost-effective massively

scalable storage to their environment

Other use cases

Departmental Virtualization, Multi-

hypervisor Private Cloud Low-end VDI Backup & Archiving

Generalized Hyper-V workloads

Low-end VDI and Private Cloud for Microsoft

Scalable Object store

Enterprise-class infrastructure | Optimized hardware and monitoring | Appliances and bundled solutions | End to end solution architectures |

Global services and support

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Dell XC Series Web-Scale Converged Appliances Powered by software

Converged storage and compute

The solution

• Dell PowerEdge servers with Nutanix SW • Bundles for multiple virtualized workload types • Dell Installation & Implementation • ProSupport w/ Collaborative Nutanix SW Support

Target Markets

• Simple, scalable & high performance for VDI • Virtualized applications in mid and large-size

enterprises, including branch offices • Multi-hypervisor environments and migrations

Highly distributed, shared nothing software

High performance x86 hardware

Massive and linear scale-out architecture

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