Three Advanced Use Cases

for VMware Cloud on AWS

Connect to any Virtual Private Cloud on AWS,
at other clouds, and on your premises.
 Today’s Speakers

Greg Newman Howard Young

VP, Partner Marketing Director, Solutions Architects
Zadara Zadara
Agenda
VMware Cloud on AWS
Adding Zadara Storage to VMware Clouds
Use Cases
Q&A
 Advanced AWS
Technology Partner
An AWS partner since 2011, Zadara has earned
Competency Partner designations for multiple
Storage Competency
specialties, including: storage; media; public
Media Competency sector; and AWS Marketplace seller.

Public Sector
Competency

Marketplace Seller
 Why Zadara?

Control of the enterprise.

Agility of the cloud.
 VMware Cloud on AWS: Good but Incomplete
A Virtual Private Cloud on AWS is useful — but does not offer a complete solution to the
challenge of enterprise-wide data sharing.

VPC
$ VPC
AWS VPCs

VPC
VPCs at Azure, GCP, OCI

VMware on AWS Cloud $ On Premises

 Take Control of All Your Clouds
Use Zadara’s Enterprise Data Cloud to connect to any Virtual Private Cloud on AWS, at
other clouds, and on your premises.

Zadara Enterprise Data Cloud

VPC
AWS VPCs
VPC
Integrated Data Services & Apps

VPC
Zadara Private Storage Cloud
VPCs at Azure, GCP, OCI
Virtual Private Storage Array

Object Store

VMware Cloud on AWS

On Premises
 Secure and Scalable Enterprise Storage
All your data stored in a single service. Any data type. Any protocol. Any location.

On Premises Service Provider Cloud Hyperscale Public Cloud

Zadara Fully-Managed Enterprise Data Cloud

Antivirus Backup DR VMware Containers FS&S

Integrated Data Services & Apps
HA Archive DFS MSFT ROBO More…

Virtual Private Storage Array Zadara Virtual Private Storage Virtual Private Object Store

Big Data/Analytics Dev Ops Field Sales IT Operations Production Remote Offices
 Multi-Tenant Efficiency. Single-Tenant Experience.
Dedicated CPU, cores, memory, drives, SSD cache. Elastic in all directions.

SSD

FILE FILE
HDD
+
FILE BLOCK
Cache

OBJECT BLOCK

HDD
FILE OBJECT

Colo
Private Data Center
Public Cloud
 Powerful Capabilities. Capably Managed.

Block, file and All-Flash + dedupe; Thin provisioned Large volume NFS, CIFS (AD),
object storage SSD cache options volumes sizes FC, iSCSI, iSER

Multi-zone Kubernetes Remote Cluster At-rest, in-flight

high-availability support mirroring support data encryption
Secure encryption.
You control the keys.
Zadara is built with security in mind. Your data is
stored on dedicated hardware, and protected
with in-flight and at-rest encryption. Also,
because you manage your keys, only you control
access to your data.
Visibility. Knowledge.
Control.
Zadara gives you total control over your entire
enterprise storage system, through a simple
web-based management interface.
• Analytics, performance metrics

• Automated alerts

• Elastic provisioning

• Chargeback actual usage

• Add or reduce storage capacity as needed

24/7 Management.
100% Guaranteed.

• Live, proactive management 24/7/365

• 100%-uptime guarantee
• Notifications, alerts based on operating
thresholds
• Periodic, non-disruptive hardware and software
upgrades at No Cost
• Expert DevOps team builds solutions to complex
storage challenges
Adding Zadara to VMware Cloud
VPC
VMware Cloud on AWS
Data replication flexibility
• Snapshots, Clones, Remote mirroring
Storage medium flexibility
• All-flash, all-HDD, hybrid flash plus HDD
Storage type flexibility
• File, block, and object (S3, Swift)
• File: NFS 3 & 4, CIFS
• Block: iSCSI, Fibre Channel
Learn more:
https://www.zadara.com/sol_vmware_cloud.php
File
Zadara VPSA
Block
Location flexibility
• Zadara-hosted, on-premises
• Private clouds, public clouds, multi-cloud
Microsoft enterprise application support
• Volume Snapshot Service (VSS)
• Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)
• Active Directory (AD)
Data Center Extension
VPC
VMware Cloud on AWS
File

Zadara VPSA
Block

VPC No migration required

VMware Cloud on Premises • Initial migration
• Subsequent bi-directional workload migrations
• Same copies of data can be shared between on-
premises and AWS-based VMware Clouds

Use cases
• Analytics & machine learning
• Application-consistent backups
• Test & dev
Business Continuity
VPC
VMware Cloud on AWS
File

Zadara VPSA
Block

Remote
VPC Mirroring
VMware Cloud on Premises

File

Zadara VPSA
Block
Cloned Production Volumes
VPC
VMware Cloud on AWS
File

Zadara VPSA
Block

VPC Use cloned production volumes to:

VMware Cloud Elsewhere
• Populate analytics data sets
• Test new versions and patches
• Anonymize data (GDPR)
• All of the above – make as many clones as you
want

Clone
 Zadara Storage AWS Regions
(16 and counting.)

Asia Pacific (Seoul)

Asia Pacific (Singapore)
Asia Pacific (Sydney)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)
AWS GovCloud (US)
Canada (Central)
China (Beijing)
EU (Frankfurt)
EU (Ireland)
EU (London)
EU (Paris)
South America (Sao Paolo)
US East (N. Virginia)
US East (Ohio)
US West (N. California)
US West (Oregon)
 Control Your Data. Control Your Costs.
Simplify your storage. Increase productivity. Decrease costs.

Series of Events:
• Avoid large investments in Y1: Initial Need + Growth

storage infrastructure Y2: Shrink (Lost Customer)

Y3: New Customer

• Convert CapEx storage to OpEx Y4: Tech Refresh (e.g. dedupe)

• Reduce storage administration Legacy Storage

(over-provisioning)
Wasted
costs; redeploy people to Spend
Actual Usage
higher-value tasks Zadara
100%-OpEx

• Scale up or down as needed;

never pay for unused capacity
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Source: The Evaluator Group 2016

Trusted by Leading Companies Worldwide
 Your Enterprise Storage Service Partner
Zadara delivers enterprise-grade data storage services in an agile cloud model,
with 24/7 expert management — leaving you free to focus on your customers.

Enterprise-Grade Performance Agile, Infinite Storage. Expert Management

and Security Pay Only for Usage. 24/7/365
Dedicated SSDs and HDDs, On premises and in the cloud, 24/7/365 proactive support,
in-flight and at-rest encryption, scale up or down, pay as you go, seamless migrations, upgrades,
snapshots, mirroring, HA, more hardware upgrades included from senior technical resources

Fully Featured Fully Elastic Fully Managed

 14-Day Free Trial

zadara.com/freetrial 1. Go to zadara.com/freetrial
(No credit card required.)

2. Configure your Virtual Private Storage Array:

drives, capacity, containers, more

3. Free training and support throughout your

trial. Reach out to us anytime at:
support.zadara.com
Enterprise control. Cloud agility.

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