Dell Compellent Unified Storage:

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1 Dell Compellent Unified : Combining SAN/NAS to Consolidate Enterprise Data Damon Zaylskie NX3000 for Compellent Product Specialist Dell Compellent Jim Lester - znas Product Specialist Dell Compellent

2 NAS Portfolio Dell NX3000 for Compellent Windows-based NAS, Microsoft look and feel Entry-level price point Fixed software pricing Ideal for Windows-based customers, pure CIFS environments znas ZFS based NAS, Compellent look and feel Mid-range price point Scalable software pricing Ideal for pure Unix environments and mixed environments Available July

3 Benefits of Unified from Dell Compellent Single virtualized pool of storage Block- and File-level access No carving spindles Fluid Data Architecture for NAS Reduce storage costs with Data Progression Protect data with Remote Instant Replay Additional capacity without downtime Provides customer end-to-end solution Copilot support 3

4 Comparison Scale Scale-up 4 nodes Scale-up 2 nodes Administration Active Directory LDAP or mixed OS Environment Windows CIFS UNIX or mixed Dedupe Volume Management File Level (Single Instance ) Windows & Center integrated volume creation No Integrated Volume creation 4

5 Dell NX3000 for Compellent 5

6 Dell NX3000 for Compellent: Overview Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition CIFS & NFS file access protocols 2U form factor 24GB RAM, Quad core processors idrac remote management Dual internal 15K SAS drives QLogic 8Gb FC or Intel 10Gb iscsi Adapter 1Gb or 10Gb network connectivity options 6

7 Dell NX3000 for Compellent: Features Single Instant (SIS) Uses pointers to identify duplicate files (which frees up space) Distributed File System Replication (DFS-R) Provides quick access to remote data; managed from central location Built-in VSS snapshots for CIFS/NFS Consistent backups Rapid recovery Active/Active Clustering Support up to 4 nodes File Services Resource Manager (FSRM) Single management interface for managing file services across CIFS/NFS Integration with Dell Compellent Enterprise Manager Thin provisioned file-level volume 7

8 Comparison to Existing Center NAS Center NAS Dell NX3000 for Compellent OS Version WSS 2008 Enterprise WSS 2008 R2 Enterprise Clustering Failover Clustering Failover Clustering CPUS 8 CPU Sockets 8 CPU Sockets Memory 8GB 24GB SAN connectivity 1Gb iscsi or 4Gb Fibre Channel 10Gb iscsi or 8Gb Fibre Channel LAN connectivity 4x1GbE 4x1GbE or 2x10GbE Remote Connections Snapshots Unlimited Integration w/cml Replay Manager Unlimited Integration w/cml Replay Manager Boot Options Boot from SAN Local boot and future boot from SAN BranchCache Support Cross-file Replication (DFS- R) Not available Not available Supported Supported 8

9 Compellent znas 9

10 znas Overview HA two node configuration 1U appliances racked with Center One shared pool of spindles No carving up your SAN into SAN spindles and NAS spindles Center Functionality Leverages core Center features like Data Progression and Remote Instant Replay NFS and CIFS support NFSv4 with Kerberos CIFS support with Active Directory Integration Online file system Snapshots Snapshot history exposed via CIFS and NFS

11 znas Features Primarily-purposed as NFS server Provide NFS v3 and v4 access to clients Join existing LDAP domain for authentication Additional benefits: Able to support CIFS Able to join existing AD domain User IDs mappable between AD and LDAP Managed via Web UI or Command Console Web UI available from any browser Command Console accessible via SSH Hardware monitoring and alerting through Enterprise Manager

12 znas Hardware 1U Server Dual port 8Gb QLogic FC Backend Two onboard GigE ports (management) Choice of 10 Gb of 1 Gb PCIe Card Quad port GigE Intel Dual port 10 Gb Intel SFP+ Supports Network Aggregation (LACP) Dual Quad Xeon Nehalem CPUs 24 or 48 GB RAM File system metadata & read cache IPMI Remote Management

13 Deployment Deploys like any regular server FC Connections through a switch only All volumes MPxIO multipath by default Server objects on Center Must be in a cluster object for znas Clusters Boot from SAN BMC Cache BMC Cache

14 Volume concept \\tank\public \\tank\users \\tank\backup znas Shares Virtual IP znas Volume znas Controllers Center Controllers Center Volume

15 znas Snapshots Distinct from Center Replays History exported via both CIFS and NFS Instantly browseable Permissions enforced Read-Only Persistent latest folder Shortcuts Scripting Independent schedules for any share on the znas Grandfather-father-son rolling schedules Ability to Rollback share to a Snapshot Ability to Clone Snapshot into new Read-Write share 15

16 Additional features Compression Enable on specific shares or volume wide Variety of compression algorithms Slow/efficient Fast/light Perfect for text files and documents Folder Indexing Search file names and content Remote Tiering Automatically ingest or push data from/to remote servers NFS/rsync Example: Pull log data nightly from web servers and snapshot for retention Example: Push build data to test team s unmanaged servers NDMP Backup 3-way NDMP backup

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