Advantages of deploying SharePoint on top of Tegile Hybrid Storage Arrays

Companies are adopting SharePoint worldwide to centralize

knowledge, increase collaboration, realize actionable intelligence and

develop applications providing overall business agility.

Zebi arrays deliver a high number of low-latency I/Os (IOPs), which are

critical for delivering responsive pages and current analytics

information. In addition, Zebi arrays deliver in-line deduplication and

compression for any SharePoint server running on top of them. This

can result in a significant reduction of SQL Server licenses required to

serve the SharePoint farm. Since office content tends to be highly

repetitive, inline deduplication and compression result in significant

savings in storage space over time.

High performance: Intelligent use of DRAM, flash storage and hard disk

drives boost I/O throughput and IOPs in both physical and virtualized

SharePoint environments. DRAM and flash resources cache all

SharePoint indexes, collections and frequently accessed content.

Collection rebuilds and re-indexes are lightning fast, which keeps the

SharePoint portal current and effective.

Cost effective: Tegile Zebi Hybrid arrays deliver all-flash performance at

disk array prices. By enabling large unstructured content to be saved

outside SharePoint SQL Server databases, Remote BLOB Storage (RBS)

greatly reduces the size of SQL Server databases within SharePoint.

The performance of Zebi arrays combined with the benefits of RBS

enable Zebi arrays to simultaneously support other production

databases in addition to the SharePoint SQL Server databases.

Additionally, the reduction in SQL Server database sizes results in

dramatically better ROI for valued SQL Server Enterprise core licenses.

Data reduction for Remote BLOB Storage (RBS): Tegile‘s data reduction

technologies can dramatically cut down the amount of storage

required to host the unstructured RBS content. In-line deduplication

and compression can be applied to the extracted content inside the

storage array, delivering up to 10x savings over time. This means 2TB

of SharePoint data may fit into only 200GB on a Zebi array.

Public Cloud pricing: Tegile Agility Pricing allows customers to convert

capital intensive projects into modest monthly payments (OpEx). The

payment is tied to the capacity used on the storage

array, further reducing operational expenditures. Tegile

Agility Pricing delivers all of the advantages of public

cloud pricing with the advantages of a private cloud

deployment. Customers decide where their storage is

located and control all usage, data, security and

compliance with any regulatory requirements.

“With the implementation

of Tegile’s arrays, storage

is no longer an issue at

Aer Lingus. The

deployment has given us

more bang for our buck

and allowed a lot more

breathing space for our IT

team.” --Brian Price, IT Architect Aer Lingus

Highlights

Faster, more responsive SharePoint Portals and intranet

Better ROI on SQL Server Enterprise core licenses

Dramatic reduction in

SharePoint content footprint

Great match for Microsoft and 3

rd party Remote Blob

Storage components

Public Cloud Pricing

Actual customer production array capture © Tegile 2013

Single platform for multiple workloads: Zebi arrays support iSCSI, FC, NFS, and CIFS protocols for storage access. You

can use all protocols simultaneously on the same storage array. SharePoint, multiple SQL DBs, and other virtualized

server infrastructure can be deployed on a single Zebi array. For SharePoint using RBS, the SQL Server databases

can be deployed using block protocols and the unstructured content can be deployed using file protocols, on the

same array.

Simple to administer: Zebi arrays are easy to administer using a browser-based portal. In addition, Zebi delivers a

programmable REST API, which can be utilized with PowerShell and integrated into Microsoft System Center and

other management and monitoring frameworks. In addition to Microsoft Hyper-V, Tegile is fully integrated and

certified with VMware vSphere. Zebi arrays are certified with VMware and are easy to manage from the vCenter UI.

Reliable: Zebi Arrays are highly available with dual active-active array controllers and full hot swap capability. Zebi

storage arrays are designed for redundancy, with no single point of failure. The r ich set of high availability features

include multiple RAID options, application consistent snapshots, cloning, and remote replication, with proactive

monitoring and alerts for timely notification when issues arise.

Flexible product line: Tegile offers two hardware platforms for the Zebi arrays – Hybrid and All-Flash – to serve the

customers ’ IOPs and space requirements. Each array type can be expanded with flash and hard disk resources,

delivering the ultimate in flexibility when your environment grows.

Tegile Hybrid architecture accelerates over 90% of all SharePoint reads

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SharePoint:

Employees visit portals

and intranet at the start

of their workday

Cache Hit Ratio:

The percentage of all reads delivered from the Zebi

Array Flash and DRAM cache

Steady Sate

Steady Sate: Employees contribute new

and update existing

information

Virus Scan: Single VDI Virus Scan can take 30,000 IOs or

more. About 66% Read and 30% Write. On

disk arrays, this task is frequently pushed off to

weekends since it would never finish before the

morning. Tegile’s inline deduplication and

compression dramatically reduce the number

of actual GBs which need to be scanned.

Update and Patch: System wide patch and update jobs can require

100,000 IOs or more, for each desktop.

Traditionally, these updates would be

scheduled over the weekends or once a month.

This leaves the company exposed to security

threats. With Tegile’s arrays, updates and

patches can be run overnight, while allowing

user to continue to work.

Re-indexing:

Updates are

quickly

incorporated