s t o r s i m p l e D a t a s h e e t Cloud-Integrated Enterprise Storage Appliance Family I/T organizations struggle with meeting the storage demands of high-growth business critical applications, and the challenges caused by storage when deploying these applications at scale. Cloud storage provides the promise of low-cost utility storage with numerous operational benefits, but does not meet enterprise requirements for data center storage due to the following challenges: - Security: Lack of visibility into provider security policies and encryption of customer data. - Performance: Cloud storage performance limited by bandwidth, latency, and packet loss, creating a large disparity between traditional storage and cloud storage. - Integration: Servers expect SCSI-based block protocol access, whereas storage clouds speak SOAP or RESTful HTTP. - Data Protection: Cloud storage replicates data, but provides little to no facilities for snapshots, backup, restore, or disaster recovery which are of paramount importance to data recovery. Cloud-integrated enterprise class storage overcomes the typical issues associated with cloud storage, making it usable in the data center as traditional storage without compromising on the stringent requirements I/T organizations place upon storage infrastructure. Further, cloud-integrated enterprise class storage seeks to reduce the infrastructure footprint typically required of traditional storage architectures for end-to-end management of data from primary storage, archival storage, backup, and disaster recovery, using a single integrated system rather than multiple disjointed products and management dashboards. S t o r S i m p l e 5 0 2 0 & 7 0 2 0
Datasheet Appliances, fig.1 Storage Today Cloud and StorSimple 2 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t A p p l i a n c e F a m i ly App OS Primary Storage Disk Based Backup Storage Archival Storage Tape Infrastructure and Management Replicated Storage for Disaster Recovery Offsite Locations Geo-Resilience Virtual Machines Cloud Integrated Enterprise Storage Optimized Local and Cloud Snapshot Automated Tiering to the Cloud Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones Cloud Snapshot Replication Global Access for Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones App OS Virtual Machines One box for all your storage needs integrated into the cloud Complex-$$$$$ Simple-$ Diag_1b StorSimple s enterprise class, cloud-integrated storage appliances are deployed in the data center, overcome the challenges associated with cloud storage services enabling organizations to take advantage of these services as though they were data center storage resources, and consolidate infrastructure from multiple storage systems into a single, integrated form factor. Using StorSimple and cloud storage, organizations are able to enjoy the financial and operational benefits of cloud storage while addressing capacity needs and resolving storage scalability issues for high-growth applications such as VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft File servers, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, data protection (backup, restore, disaster recovery), and environments where archival and long-term retention are required. StorSimple eliminates the need to deploy multiple products and technologies to address the end-to-end management of data, consolidating the functions of primary storage, archival storage, backup, and disaster recovery, into a single cloud-integrated system. Datasheet Appliances, fig.2: Typical StorSimple Deployment Application Servers StorSimple Appliance Public or Private Cloud Storage Service iscsi Volume Access Cloud Storage Protocols Automated Tiering Cloud Backup Cloud Disaster Recovery T y p i c a l S t o r S i m p l e D e p l o y m e n t StorSimple s appliance is deployed in the data center as an on-premises storage device. StorSimple blends the best of on-premises storage with primary storage deduplication, compression, military-grade encryption, and an on-ramp to storage clouds, enabling cloud economics for primary and secondary storage applications.
Customer Use Cases StorSimple provides compelling value, reducing complexity and cost while simplifying data management and data protection in the following use cases. Use Case File Server Storage Big File Archives StorSimple Value StorSimple allows you to deploy performant, cost-effective storage for Microsoft Windows file servers (physical or virtual) with no changes to clients, servers, or security policies, with seamless integration into Active Directory. - Automated tiering to the cloud and archival - Simple, fast backup to the cloud with global accessibility using Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones - Fast recovery of file server volumes to anywhere in the world from the cloud - Integrated deduplication and compression reduce storage capacity growth from redundant file content - Primary storage performance for frequently-used files via WSL and integrated SSD StorSimple allows organizations to leverage cloud storage for fast and secure file archives for electronic medical records (EMR), oil and gas exploration, engineering, media, legal, financial, logs, and other general user content. - Fast access to frequently-used archive data through integrated SSD and WSL - Automated tiering to the cloud with integrated deduplication and compression - Data in motion security through HTTPS access to cloud storage services - Data at rest security through AES-256 encryption with keys that remain in your data center - Low-cost, always online storage capacity from the cloud 3 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t A p p l i a n c e F a m i ly Tape Elimination and Cloud Disaster Recovery StorSimple allows customers to dramatically reduce data center footprint and eliminate dependency on costly data protection components including deduplication appliances, virtual tape, physical tape, and off-site vaulting services. By using the cloud for data protection, StorSimple also allows customers to enable cloud-based disaster recovery to any site, anywhere in teh world that has a StorSimpe appliance and Internet access. - Integrated deduplication and compression reduce backup storage costs - Data-in-motion and data-at-rest encryption secure your data and help ensure compliance with regulation - Cloud Snapshot and Cloud Clone backups are available for fast restore from any location with a StorSimple appliance, enabling cloud disaster recovery Elastic, Performant Storage for VMware Virtualization StorSimple allows you to rapidly deploy performant storage for VMware virtualized environments while simplifying data protection for virtual machine libraries. - Snapshots, Cloud Snapshots, and Cloud Clones protect VMware datastores - Thin-provisioned elastic storage provided immediately with pay-as-you go economics - Primary storage performance for frequently-used data via WSL and integrated SSD - Efficient storage utilization through primary storage deduplication - Low-cost VM archival using vsphere 5 and Storage DRS Scale SharePoint 2007 or 2010 Deployments StorSimple helps customers scale their SharePoint 2007 and 2010 deployments by eliminating storage-related bottlenecks that can cause performance, data management, and cost issues as the deployment grows in size. - Enable performance consistency at scale through EBS/RBS BLOB externalization - Simplified geographically-distributed global collaboration - Automatically address database hotspots through WSL and SSD - Simplify and reduce cost for data protection, DR using Cloud Snap and Cloud Clones - Low-cost, elastic BLOB storage repository using cloud storage - Take advantage of version control, recycle bins using primary storage deduplication - Item, folder, and site-level recovery using StorSimple Data Restore Console (SDRC) Deploy Exchange 2010 Confidently StorSimple enables customers to deploy Exchange 2010 without concern over the cost associated with the storage architectural changes and new features that it includes, enabling on-premises deployments with cost models similar to hosted services. - Deploy 3-replica or 4-replica DAG without ridiculous storage costs or use of DAS - Take advantage of larger user mailbox quotas and PST centralization - Enjoy benefits of unified messaging without massive storage cost increases - Eliminate hotspots in mailbox data using WSL and SSD - Flexible backup, cloud-based DR architectures using Cloud Snap and Cloud Clones - Item, folder, and mailbox recovery using StorSimple Data Restore Console (SDRC) Enable Cloud-based Data Protection StorSimple allows you to eliminate tape, simplify data protection, and reduce cost for a number of applications. - Deploy volumes as a backup target with virtually any disk-to-disk backup application - Deduplication, compression minimize backup windows - Encryption secures your backup data stored in cloud storage services - Fast, online restores of data minimize recovery time objectives - Protected off-site backup copies using Cloud Snap and Cloud Clones
4 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t A p p l i a n c e F a m i ly Customer Use Cases (Cont.) Feature Instant, On-Demand Storage for Development and Lab Environments Cost-Effective, Integrated Remote Office Storage Offload Data Center Storage to the Cloud Benefit StorSimple provides on-demand storage and a cloud storage on-ramp, enabling you to be more flexible, responsive, and cost-conscious to storage requirements supporting development, lab, and staging environments. - Snapshots, Cloud Snap, and Cloud Clones to duplicate production data sets - Thin-provisioned elastic storage provided immediately with pay-as-you go economics - Primary storage performance for key applications via WSL and integrated SSD In addition to providing a compelling solution for the data center, StorSimple s cloud-integrated enterprise class storage appliances can be deployed in remote offices where local storage for VMware, Microsoft applications, and other use cases is required. In such deployments, StorSimple provides a number of unique advantages compared to traditional architectures: - Lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) - Multi-function integrated storage appliance including primary, archival, data protection, and disaster recovery - Less footprint and power, fewer management interfaces than traditional architectures - Dramatic reduction in number of components required to support each location - Data portability from one remote office to another or the data center using the cloud - DR to any location from any location using Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones Existing data center storage can be re-deployed for other applications in your data center that are more transactional in nature or create high-throughput, random access workloads. StorSimple enables use of the appropriate category of storage based on the application s requirement, rather than deploying storage in a one-size-fits-all manner. Related Products In addition to the appliance family, StorSimple provides other products that enable an integrated, end-to-end solution for data management and data protection, including: StorSimple Product Function and Value Proposition StorSimple Management Console StorSimple s management console provides a streamlined experience for configuring, deploying, managing, and monitoring StorSimple appliances. SharePoint Database Optimizer StorSimple s EBS and RBS plug-ins for Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and 2010 enable externalization of SharePoint Binary Large Objects (BLOBs) to improve performance consistency at scale and simplify data protection and disaster recovery. StorSimple Data Protection StorSimple s Data Protection strategy revolves around snapshots, Cloud Snaps, and Cloud Clones, and is controlled either through the appliance GUI or the StorSimple Data Protection MMC snap-in. Both allow you to create, configure, and manage policies and backups, which dramatically simplify data protection, reduce cost, enable fast online restores, and leverage IaaS compute and storage clouds as disaster recovery sites. StorSimple Data Restore Console StorSimple s Data Restore Console (DRC) provides fine-grained restore functions for snapshot, Cloud Snap, or Cloud Clone backups of Microsoft Exchange (2010) or Microsoft SharePoint (2007, 2010). This is in addition to the in-place point-in-time restore and cloning functions provided by the Data Protection MMC snap-in and appliance web GUI.
Key Features and Benefits Feature One-Box Integrated Storage Primary Storage Archival Storage Benefit StorSimple uniquely couples advanced technologies including SSDs, automated tiering, deduplication, compression, encryption, and an on-ramp to cloud storage services to reduce the number of devices required to manage information end-to-end. With StorSimple, organizations are able to realize an 80% reduction in capital and operational costs, minimizing or eliminating the need for: - Primary storage devices - Archival storage systems - Backup appliances with deduplication and replication - Virtual tape libraries and expensive backup software - Off-site tape vaulting StorSimple s one-box integrated storage solution provides enterprise-class cloud-enabled storage with integrated management, configuration, and troubleshooting for all aspects of information management. StorSimple s appliance family provides primary storage performance for Microsoft applications and VMware-virtualized environments. By leveraging SSD and intelligent tiering, StorSimple automatically identifies hotspots and working set data, ensuring that critical application and user data resides in the fastest tiers of storage. StorSimple s appliance family provides integrated archival storage for deployments where large pools of low cost capacity using the cloud are required. Automated tiering ensures that integrated storage tiers are populated with working set data, whereas cloud storage is used to hold older and colder data at the lowest cost. 5 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t A p p l i a n c e F a m i ly Backup and Restore StorSimple simplifies data protection by enabling use of lower-cost storage media (cloud) and helps minimize backup windows and restore times through the following: - Snapshots: point-in-time, space-efficient copies of volume groups that are both application consistent and crash consistent to support restores of recent data - Cloud Snapshot: snapshots written fully to the cloud to enable recovery when device replacement is required, and point-in-time restores of historical data - Cloud Clone: snapshots written as truly-independent backup copies, stored separate from primary volume data, for off-site backup and disaster recovery purposes Using the above eliminates the use of tape and tape vaulting for most applications, and provide fast online restores. Backups can be managed either from the appliance web GUI or from the StorSimple Data Protection MMC snap-in for Windows. StorSimple supports data protection for Windows, Linux, and VMware environments. Additionally, StorSimple s Data Restore Console (DRC) provides fine-grained object-level restore for Microsoft Exchange (2010) and Microsoft SharePoint (2007, 2010). StorSimple leverages single-instance storage locally and within the cloud. Although every backup is a full backup, the amount of data stored in that of a deduplicated, compressed incremental, improving performance. Further, restore operations are optimized to ensure minimal data transfer using local snapshot metadata and volume contents where possible and bringing cloned backups online without having to move anything more than volume metadata from the cloud to provide fast recovery. Disaster Recovery StorSimple Cloud Snapshots and Cloud Clones are consistent, point-in-time backup copies of volumes stored in the cloud. These backup copies can be made globally accessible to any location where another StorSimple device is deployed, allowing you to turn virtually any company location into a disaster recovery facility. Optimized backup access ensures that only backup metadata is retrieved when bringing a cloned backup online, allowing you to expose volumes from the cloud in minutes, and cloud backups can be taken at granular intervals. Optimized restore operations require minimal movement of information from Datasheet: the cloud Data to Protection bring cloned backup 3 copies online for fast recovery. StorSimple ensures the shortest recovery point objective (RPO) and the fastest recovery time objective (RTO) with the most flexibility. Application Recovery Times from Off-site Backups In a Disaster 90 days Regular Cloud Backup With 100 Mbps WAN Link Recovery Time 30 days 7 days 1 day Tape StorSimple Cloud Snapshots With 50 Mbps WAN Link 1 hour 15 min 01 TB 05 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB Primary Data
6 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t A p p l i a n c e F a m i ly Key Features and Benefits (Cont.) Use Case Virtual Private Storage Automated Tiering to the Cloud Primary Storage Deduplication and Compression StorSimple Value Virtual Private Storage (VPS) enables secure, on-demand use of public cloud storage services as though they were within your data center. StorSimple overcomes security issues associated with cloud storage through HTTPS (SSL) for data-inmotion, and encrypts all data written to a cloud storage service using AES-256-CBC using keys that you supply and control. Keys are never shared with StorSimple or with your cloud storage service provider to ensure data confidentiality and control. Cloud storage access is simplified by providing data center servers with iscsi access to volumes while StorSimple manages all communication to cloud storage using APIs and protocols provided by the cloud storage service. StorSimple automatically tiers chunks of data and metadata across integrated SSD and SAS storage tiers according to frequency of use, age, and data relationship, ensuring that working set and hotspot data is stored in the fastest tiers to provide high performance. StorSimple s algorithm, called Weighted Storage Layout or WSL, is transparent, meaning the server s view of storage never changes. Additionally, StorSimple s tiering is automatic, continually optimizing the layout of data according to shifts detected in the working set. StorSimple s automated tiering helps improve performance and minimize ongoing storage costs by handling up to 99% of I/O operations locally within the appliance while allowing older and less frequently-used blocks of data to be transparently transferred to lower-cost cloud storage for integrated archiving. StorSimple eliminates the storage of repeated, previously-seen data patterns using variable-length data deduplication to minimize storage growth and reduce cloud storage costs by up to 99%. Further, StorSimple compresses all data written to the cloud, further reducing costs and improving performance when reading from or writing to the cloud. Asymmetric Cloud Acceleration StorSimple accelerates access to cloud storage through a combination of primary storage deduplication, compression, TCP optimization, and parallelization to overcome the impacts of latency, limited bandwidth, packet loss, and other factors. WSL mitigates the majority of cloud data transfer charges by optimizing integrated capacity usage to support application working set data, and deduplication and compression minimize cloud data storage charges. Extensive Cloud Storage Provider Support StorSimple has been tested and verified with leading cloud storage service providers to ensure end-to-end support for your deployment. Supported cloud storage service providers include: - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) - Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) with Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) - AT&T Synaptic Storage-as-a-Service - EMC Atmos Private Cloud Storage - with Windows Azure Storage Service - Rackspace - IIJ - Nifty Cloud-Enabled Application-Aware Thin Provisioning StorSimple enables you to configure application storage volumes using thin-provisioning with an on-ramp to the cloud, meaning capacity is immediately available without being physically present. - Minimize frequency of volume migration caused by space exhaustion - Pay-as-you-grow and pay-as-you-use flexibility provided by cloud storage services - Cloud storage cost reduction through primary storage deduplication - Cloud transfer cost reduction through WSL tiering that leverages integrated storage Simple, Fast Deployment Workflows to configure StorSimple using the StorSimple management GUI are simplified and streamlined, allowing you to deploy an appliance in a production environment in under 10 minutes, without compromising on features or capabilities that are needed to configure, manage, monitor, or troubleshoot an enterprise-class storage system.
Appliance Specifications The following are the specifications for each of the appliance models. Please refer to th e technical report for performance, scalability, and sizing to determine which appliance is best for your specific requirements. Appliance Model 5020 7020 Form Factor 2U Appliance Category Enterprise-class, cloud integrated primary storage array Dimensions (LxWxH in inches) 24.8 x19 x3.46 Weight (pounds) 57.2 pounds Network Interfaces (4) 1Gbps Copper per Controller Use Cases Primary storage, archival storage, backup/restore, disaster recovery for VMware and Microsoft environments iscsi Volume Access Multipath IO Support Weighted Storage Layout Primary Storage Deduplication Cloud Storage Acceleration Microsoft WHQL Certification VMware Certification Snapshots Cloud Snapshots Cloud Clone Data Protection MMC Microsoft VSS Support, via MMC Virtual Private Storage Data-in-Motion Encryption, HTTPS/SSL using RSA Data-at-Rest Encryption, AES-256-CBC Additional Security Features Multiple user accounts (local and Active Directory), secure web proxy support Volume Access Control (IQN, IP, CHAP) NVRAM Acceleration SSD Acceleration Capacity [1] 160GB 250GB Usable Integrated Capacity [2] 2TB 4TB Effective Integrated Capacity [3] 10TB 20TB Base Capacity License [4] 20TB 40TB Max Capacity License [5] 100TB 200TB Capacity License Increments 10TB WSL Integrated Storage SSD and SAS RAID Protection SharePoint EBS/RBS Plugins Redundancy and High Availability No single point of failure, redundant active/passive controllers with automatic failover, redundant power and cooling modules, RAID-10 protection, SAS hot spares, non-disruptive software upgrade Replaceable Components Power Supplies Manageability and Serviceability Controllers, power and cooling modules, SSD and SAS drives Dual, redundant, hot-swappable 745W power supplies, 100-240VAC Integrated web management GUI, email alerts with call-home, SNMP v1/v2c 7 s t o r s i m p l e D A t a s h e e t A p p l i a n c e F a m i ly Notes [1] SSD acceleration capacity indicates the amount of usable capacity available within the SSDs after RAID-10 protection and overhead. This number does not consider the capacity gains provided by snapshots or deduplication [2] Usable integrated storage capacity indicates the amount of capacity available within integrated SSD and SAS drives after RAID-10 protection and overhead. This number does not consider the capacity gains provided by snapshots, deduplication, or compression [3] Effective integrated storage capacity indicates the amount of capacity available within integrated SSD and SAS drives using an estimated 5:1 blended deduplication and compression ratio considering typical primary and backup storage scenarios [4] Base capacity license indicates the amount of primary and backup data that can be managed by the system in its default configuration. This data will be stored between the appliance integrated storage and cloud storage depending on many factors including deduplication ratios, compression ratios, and backup policies [5] Max capacity license indicates the maximum amount of primary and backup data that can be managed by the system when fully
A b o u t S t o r S i m p l e StorSimple is a leading provider of applicationaware, cloud-enabled primary and secondary storage solutions. StorSimple s vision is to help I/T organizations solve business-impacting application-specific storage challenges for high-growth applications while enabling seamless integration of cloud storage technologies to leverage simplified, streamlined, lower cost, and lower complexity data management and data protection architectures. C o r p o r a t e H e a d q u a r t e r s StorSimple, Inc. 2350 Mission College Blvd, Suite 1250 Santa Clara, CA 95054 408-550-2300 On the Internet www.storsimple.com Email Sales: sales@storsimple.com Support: support@storsimple.com P r i c i n g a n d O r d e r i n g I n f o r m a t i o n For pricing and ordering information, please contact your StorSimple sales representative. If you do not know who your StorSimple sales representative is, please contact StorSimple via email at sales@storsimple.com, or by calling 408-550-2300.