Choosing the Right Storage

for Your Applications

Michael McDermott, Regional Sales Director
Ray Cabana, Regional Sales Director
May 28, 2020
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Product Portfolio

Tier-0

Tier-1
Unity TM

Tier-2
E-Series

Data
Archive

Assureon ® On Prem

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 WHERE WE FIT

Large Mid-range
Enterprise Enterprise

High Transaction Workloads

High Performance Storage UnityTM

(Block & File)

High Density Block Storage

E-Series
BEAST
Data Vault Assureon®

On-Prem and Cloud Backup Enterprise Data Manager

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E-Series & BEAST
High-Density Storage
• Block Storage
• Enterprise-Class
• Easy to Use/Set it and
Forget it
• Industry’s best
price/performance value
• Density and power efficiency
for a small storage footprint
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UNITY™
Hybrid Storage
• Disk, All-Flash, or Hybrid for
• NFS, SMB (CIFS), FC, iSCSI
• NVDIMM and Flash caching
• Secure archive integration
• Supports advanced block and
file workloads
Assureon®
Data Vault
• Private Blockchain Protection
• Regulatory Compliant Storage
• Protects data from
ransomware attacks
• Guaranteed Data Integrity
• Chain of Custody and Audits
• Blazing-fast performance with
RDMA
Vexata
All-Flash NVMe Storage
• 10X Performance at lower
costs than conventional all-
flash arrays
• Lowest latency and highest
throughput on the market
• Simplified operations with
detailed visibility and
performance monitoring
 NEXSAN BEAST ELITE PLATFORM

 BEAST Elite
 25% better performance than BEAST
 960TB in 4U with 16TB HDD drives
 Accelerated RAID
 Supports 10K SAS, 7.2K SAS HDD & SSD
 Host connectivity
• 8x or 12x host ports of 10GbE iSCSI or 16 Gb/s FC, reducing the
need for switches or
- 12x host port configurations can be a mix of FC and 10GbE
- Host interfaces may be swapped between FC and 10GbE by end
user
• 4 ports of 12 Gb/s SAS Host Attach Optional (instead of
FC/10GbE)
• An additional 8 Ports of 1GbE iSCSI
 Max Capacity of 2.88PB in 12U in a standard 1m rack
 Simple disk maintenance via sliding/top loading
design
 E-Flex expansion
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 NEXSAN E-SERIES PLATFORMS

 Dense block storage system

 SAS, FC, iSCSI
 Enterprise class
 Active-Active Controllers, NDU
E18P  RAID, Accelerated RAID
 Snapshots, Replication
 Active Drawer Technology
 AutoMAID, Cool Drive Technology
 Self-Encrypting Drives
 Anti-vibration Design
 VMW vCenter plugin and vvols
 Veeam Certified
E48P  Performance and Scale
 7+ GB/s throughput
 960TB in 4U

 Drives
 HDD, SSD, HDD+SSD Hybrid
 E-Flex Architecture

 Robust OS support matrix

E60P
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UNITY: UNIFIED STORAGE – NAS AND SAN

UNIFIED
NAS / SAN SMB 1/2/3, NFS 3/4 iSCSI, Fibre Channel

HYBRID
FASTier® DRAM Flash Read Cache
NVRAM

STORAGE
Mix and Match
Up to 5 PB Hard Drives: 7200 RPM NL-SAS Flash
Performance – SAS: 10K, 15K RPM SSDs
 NEXSAN UNITYTM FAMILY LINEUP

 FASTier™ Flexible Hybrid Caching

 Provides high performance where it’s
needed, leveraging high speed memory Highly
Highly Scalable
Scalable Unified
Unified High
Performance
Performance
High

Performance*
and flash technologies

IOPs Performance*
Unity6900

 All inclusive licensing model

 In-line Compression Highly
Highly Scalable
Scalable Unified
Unified
 Thin Provisioning & Quotas

Random IOPs
Unity4400

 Replication

Random
 Snapshots Entry Unified

 Link Aggregation Unity2200

 FASTier caching 336 TB 2.23PB 5.66PB

Capacity Scalability
Mid-Sized
Mid-Sized Data
Data Center
Center Larger
Larger Data
Data Sets
Sets
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 Secure Data Offload / NAS extension / Protection

 High Value Data
• Meets data compliance/regulatory needs (HIPPA, GDPR, SOX)
 Secure, Multi-tenancy
• Detailed audit trails for forensic analysis
• Tamper-proof, Data-At-Rest and In-Flight Encryption
• Proper Chain of custody
- Encryption + Authentication + Audit Logging
 Dual-homed self-healing architecture for DR
 Single-instance store (Global File Deduplication)
 Assureon Client – Windows and Unity (Linux coming soon)

 Scale
 Scale number of files protected with additional nodes
 Scale capacity with High-Density E-Series storage

 Speed
 NAS extension - time to access
 RDMA support for fast access to your offloaded secured data

 Proven
 14+ years in the field securing users’ data
 Never lost a file (Guaranteed Data Integrity)
 True protection from malware / ransomware attacks

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 GUARANTEED FILE AVAILABILITY AND INTEGRITY

 Files entering the Assureon are given a unique

sequential serial number – an “asset tag” and
content-based fingerprint

 Every 90 days, every file is checked

 For availability in the archive and audited against original fingerprint
 Performed at both the primary site and the secondary site
 Guarantees that a file has not been changed for authenticity
 Reports any missing data or data corruption
 Self-heals data corruption using remote copy
 Provides an audit report for file availability and integrity

 Unique to Nexsan

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 ENHANCED DATA PRIVACY

 Audit Logs stored securely.

 Tamper Proof – files and metadata are
cryptographically chained together (US
Patent 7,801,871 et al)
 Encryption at Rest with unique key per
file.
 Separation of Data – physically and or
logically.
Encryption + Authentication + Audit Logging =
Proper Chain of Custody

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 163 ZETABYTES BY 2025 (IDC)

Workforce Artificial Media

Automation Machine Intelligence Streaming
Healthcare
Learning

Artificial Online
Internet of
Automated Intelligence Education
Things
Manufacturing Data Needs
Virtual & to Be Real-Time
Inventory
Social Media
Augmented
Reality
Lab Data
Read &
E-Commerce
Analyzed Big Data &
Bio-tech Deep Learning
Quickly Real-Time
Analytics Fraud
Prevention

eSports Genomic Surveillance

Climate Data
Analysis
WORKLOAD TRENDS

The Data Application Read to Write Ratio

Center IO
Pattern is
Shifting
Traditional
Data Center 4:1
5000:1
Deep
Learning - AI

Source: EnterpriseStorageforum.com: “Data Storage, AI, and IO Patterns”

SSD TECHNOLOGIES​

 Single-level cell ​
 Multi-level cell​
 Triple-level cell​
 Quad-level cell​ 
SSDS AND HDDS INCUR WEAR DIFFERENTLY

 HDDs developed roughly 50  SSDs

years ago  Instant on – better option for
 Low cost per GB performance
 Best for lower performance apps  NAND Flash Memory
 Magnetic platters  Minimal or no wear for Reading Data

2018
2007

2016
2011
 UNDERSTANDING DWPD (DRIVE WRITES PER DAY)

E60P

60 drives x 10TB SSD = 600TB system capacity

Drive Type System Writes every day Writes over 5 years

Capacity

1 DWPD 600TB 600TB (1x) 1095 Petabytes

3 DWPD 600TB 1800TB (3x) 3300 Petabytes
QLC DWPD 600TB ~300TB (0.5x) 550 Petabytes

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 E32F QLC & TLC WRITE COMPARISON

Utilize Micron’s new QLC FlexProtect technology to Increase Endurance in

small IO workloads

32 drives QLC TLC

1.92TB 12TB a day 18TB a day

4KB 3.84TB 18TB a day 18TB a day

7.68TB 18TB a day 18TB a day

32 drives QLC TLC

1.92TB 40TB a day 53TB a day

3.84TB 80TB a day 106TB a day
128KB
7.68TB 160TB a day 180TB a day

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WHERE DOES QLC FIT?

 Replacement for HDDs in Performance-Sensitive Workloads

 Fit for 99% of Use Cases

 Unrivaled Price / Performance – price of a 10K HDD, but 7X faster

 Accelerated Read Access to Extremely Large Datasets

Top Performance-Sensitive Workloads:

Real-Time Analytics and Big Machine & Deep Learning –
Data - Hadoop Data Lakes

Business Intelligence Content Delivery, Video

OnDemand & Content
Streaming
Read-Intensive Artificial
Intelligence – Data Lakes
 DENSEST CAPACITY IN 2U & UNBEATABLE ECONOMICS

E18F | E32F  Best Price/Performance/Density

 18 3.5”| 32 2.5” drives in just 2U
 With QLC SSDs: 138TB | 245TB
 With TLC SSDs: 276TB | 490TB
 E-Flex Architecture: 2PB+ in just 10U

 Specs
 Memory Cache of 72GB per system
 Sequential R/W (RAID 6)
• 2.8/2.3 GB/s | 4.0/2.6GB/s
 Host connectivity
• 4x 16Gb FC or 10GbE iSCSI or 12Gb SAS host ports
• An additional 8x 1GbE iSCSI host ports
 Host interfaces may be swapped between FC and 10GbE by end
user
 Enterprise Features Include: Snapshots, Replication,
VMware vCenter Plugin, Veeam Ready – Repository and
other 3rd Party Integrations

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BEAST ELITE F – INDUSTRY’S BEST PRICE/PERFORMANCE

 BEAST Elite F – All-Flash

 4X better random write performance
than HDD version - BEAST Elite
 QLC SSD drives
   461TB in 4U in a standard rack
 Also supports TLC SSDs
 918TB in 4U
 Up to 2.8PB of SSD performance in
12U of rack with E-Flex architecture

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VEXATA NVME ENTERPRISE FEATURES

 Full NVMe Support

 6M IOPS @ 150us
 55GB/s R, 25GB/s W
 425TB Usable
 Up to 16 Interfaces – 32Gbps FC (SCSI)

INTERFACE & OS SUPPORT RESILIENCE DATA SERVICES

16x 32Gb FC (SCSI) Active-Active Controller HA Thin Provisioning

Linux NDU Snapshots/Cloning
Windows RAID 5/6 Protection Data at Rest Encryption
Solaris Call Home
VMware ESX GUI, CLI, Restful API
HP UX Scale Up
VEXATA VX-100 – START SMALL AND SCALE UP CAPACITY

Add more
Enterprise Storage
Modules (ESMs)

Expand
Each ESM adds
450K IOPS and up to
Start small 29TB Maximum
capacity
3 data nodes 16 data nodes
58TB 425TB
1M IOPs 6M IOPs
VEXATA ACCELERATES I/O

Fully Utilized
Flash SSDs

SWITCH

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Low Latency 0.3 ms

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x
s

IO access
High Bandwidth ~50+ GB/s No Cache Required”
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