Worry-free Storage E-Series Simple SAN Storage 1
What are Midsize Businesses Struggling with Today? #1 pain point: managing data growth (62%)* #2 pain point: managing costs (33%)* 52% view poor storage hardware utilization as a challenge** 56% cite ease of management as the most important criterion in selecting a storage vendor** Most important consideration in justifying IT spending? Business process improvement** Sources * The InfoPro Storage Wave 16 (Oct 2012) ** ESG 2012 IT Spending Intentions Survey (Nov 2012) 2
E-Series Platform: Simple SAN Storage Easy to use, flexible, and highly configurable architecture. Application-driven storage. No performance impact during failure Dynamic Disk Pools. Best-in-class Price/Performance. Optimized to meet your performance requirements. NetApp Confidential - Limited Use
E-Series Platform: Simple SAN Storage Simple and flexible Efficient management Works with established Reliable Ability to fit into Value many allows your staff to focus on environments and leading environments from a simple to adding business value verses managing storage virtualization offerings to deliver worry-free business value. a complex and highly tuned IT infrastructure. Ability to automatically configure, expand and scale storage Ability to manage and move data anywhere without reconfiguration or Industry leader in Reliability, Availability & Serviceability Predictive analysis identifies issues disruption (RAS) before they are problems Integrated management in virtualized Light-weight SANtricity OS Dynamic rebalancing adjusts to environments(vmware, Microsoft) Ability to intermix drive types drive count changes, up or down Industry standard compatibility (SAS, SSD, NL-SAS) Easy capacity increases support Full suite of network connectivity High performance efficiency business growth Set it and forget it management power, density, cooling Time between maintenance Thin Provisioning windows can be extended or SSD Cache eliminated 4
Worry-free SAN Storage Imagine Enterprise functionality, simplified and affordable Storage that grows with you Worry-free data availability and performance Optimized for virtual environments Price/performance value Improves storage efficiency Over 650,000 systems sold Easy to use 5
E-Series Storage for Application-Driven Data Management Application- Driven Zones of Virtualization Private Cloud Public Cloud Apps Servers Network Storage E-Series FAS Application-Driven Data Management ONTAP Driven Data Management A flexible and efficient foundation is essential NetApp Confidential Limited Use 6
Worry-Free Storage Simple data management Configuration: Eliminate configuring for availability, load balancing, and hot spares Provisioning: Select a pool and size of volume; Dynamic Data Pools do the rest Management: Intelligent defaults and advanced options Maintenance: Drive pooling resiliency enables longer, non-urgent maintenance Improve storage efficiency Maximize drive investment: No idle spares, no management Dynamic Disk Pools allow pools to share functions, reducing the capacity required Maintain data availability and integrity Dynamic rebalancing of data reduces exposure to multiple cascade disk failures Ability to handle a third drive failure within minutes rather than days (RAID 5 and 6) Up to 1,000 times faster return to optimal condition Improve storage performance Consistent performance: Data balanced, no hot spots Sustained performance under failure 80%+ performance during rebuilds Up to 75x reduction in data exposure Simple, seamless, streamlined 7
1.3 DAYS 2.5 DAYS 4+ DAYS Data Rebalancing in Minutes Versus Days 120 Optimal Performance Impact of a Drive Failure 100 80 Acceptable Performance Business Impact DDP RAID 6 Business Impact 60 RAID Time DDP 40 99% Exposure Improvement 20 0 Hours 300GB Drive 96 Minutes! (estimated) 900GB Drive 2TB Drive Typical Rebalancing Improvements based on 24-drive mixed workload 3TB Drive No Impact 8
Innovative Traditional Worry-Free RAID Technology DDP Technology Traditional Balanced: RAID Algorithm sets randomly are fixed to spreads a specific data set across of drives, all drives, creating balancing hot workload spots and limiting the rebuilding number if of necessary. drives. Traditional Easy: No RAID or idle requires spares to management and active idle spares capacity that sit on dormant all drives. waiting for a failure With Dynamic Disk Pools, you can add or lose disk Traditional RAID falls short of Dynamic Disk Pools. drives without impact, reconfiguration, or headaches. Flexible: Once defined, Add any* redefining number a of drives RAID set for is additional complex capacity creating the challenging system automatically expansions and rebalances painful recovery data for from optimal failures. performance. Combining Only fixed RAID effort: sets All drives respond in the to unsynchronized pool sustain the workload workload perfect requests for excluding virtual mixed many workloads drives from or contributing. fast reconstruction when needed. * After the minimum of 11, of course. 9
E-Series - Simple SAN Storage Simple storage management No RAID or idle spares to manage Easily add drives, no RAID reconfiguration required Set it and forget it configuration for thin provisioning Checkbox enablement of Dynamic Disk Pools Unprecedented data availability and performance Rebalancing is dynamic, automatic, and fast Performance is stable during recovery Up to 75x faster in reducing data exposure Eliminates data exposure in minutes Ideal storage for virtualization environments Improve performance up to 57% Improve storage efficiency up to 33% 10
The E-Series Product Line EF540 FC, SAS, iscsi, IB connectivity 12 or 24 drives 24 drive enclosure (SAS) E5500 FC, SAS, iscsi, IB connectivity 384 drives 60, 24 and 12 drive enclosures (SAS) E5400 FC, SAS, iscsi, IB connectivity 384 drives 60, 24 and 12 drive enclosures (SAS) E2600 FC, SAS, iscsi connectivity 192 drives 60, 24 and 12 drive enclosures (SAS) SMB / Entry-level Workgroup Department Data Center Big Data SAS, iscsi connectivity SAS, iscsi, FC connectivity FC, SAS, iscsi connectivity FC, SAS or IB connectivity FC, SAS or IB connectivity DAS/shared DAS/IP SAN Simple management Snapshot replication Shared DAS, small SAN Simple management Snapshot replication Homogeneous SANs Performance value Configuration flexibility Local/remote replication Heterogeneous SANs Highest performance Configuration flexibility Local/remote replication System clusters Lustre, CXFS Maximum bandwidth Capacity density NetApp Confidential - Limited Use 11
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