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EqualLogic Unified Storage with
the Dell Scalable File System
Travis Vigil
Executive Director,
Virtual era has changed the nature of digital
data
Value
61% of executives
surveyed want
more information
when making a
decision
Volume
Data will grow by
650% over the
next five years.
95%
unstructured
!
Velocity
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Servers
De-duplication at the source
Primary Unified Storage
Offsite - Replication Unified Storage
Highly Virtualized Storage
Deduplicated replication
Block Based File Based
Backup to Disk
De-Duplication Enabled Disk Based
Backup
Object-Based Archive Cloud Tier D
Move to cloud without rehydrating F D F D F D D D F D
Highly Scalable NAS (integration underway)
Content-Aware Compression and Dedupe
(Integration underway)
Fluid Data
Architecture
Strategy: Acquisitions
Exanet
February
Perot
November
2010
2008
2011
EqualLogic
January
Compellent
February
Scalent
JulyOcarina Networks
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Unified Storage at a Turning Point
Evolution is essential to address explosion of unstructured data
Scale Up Unified Storage/NAS is near
the end of its life cycle
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Rigid Architectural Boundaries
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Controller Bottlenecks,
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Fork Lift Upgrades
Storage vendors trying to resolve
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Major players struggle to shift architectures
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Development time and core features lost
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Existing product lines lose access to new
feature development
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Scale up vs.
Scale out
Monolithic
Modular
Complete SAN
Scale out intelligent automation
• Auto configuration
• Auto provision
• Workload balancing
• Auto scale out
• Push button protection
Scalability & performance
• No fork lift upgrades
• Linear scaling model = capacity, performance & network are elastic MB/s Disk MB/s Disk Scale up
• 3 yr planning cycle
• Over buying
• Poor utilization
• Replication = 2x
Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk Disk Cntlr $ Time $ Time Capacity planning
• Plan ahead vs. pay as you grow
• Modular = consistent predictable cash flow
• Buy what you need
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Dell Scale-Out Unified Storage
EqualLogic FS7500
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Major Step in Expanding
EqualLogic Ecosystem
– Constant commitment to growing the value of the EqualLogic
– Supports new and existing EqualLogic arrays
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Next Generation High Performance
Scale-Out Architecture
– Superior performance utilization
– Dell technology with a dedicated development roadmap
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EqualLogic Family Values
– New features included in base price
– Easy to use and manage
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EqualLogic FS7500
•Scale-out CIFS and NFS technology
•High performance
•Scale a single share to ½ PB
•Grow capacity on the fly
•Integrated easy-to-use EqualLogic management
•User accessible snapshots
•NDMP Back-Up
Scale-Out Unified Storage Deployment
EqualLogic PS6000
Series
•Scale-Out Design
•Scale Performance with Capacity
•Simple, Easy-to-Use
•Inclusive Software
Single Scale-Out Pool of
Storage
Load balancing across arrays
EqualLogic FS7500
•Scale-Out Design
•Scale Performance on Demand
•Simple, Easy-to-Use
•Inclusive Software
Single Scale-Out Namespace
Load balancing across systems
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Deploy Flexible Scale-Out SAN and NAS capability
– Load balancing across systems/arrays for maximum performance
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EQL PS Array EQL PS Array
EQL PS Array EQL PS Array
Scale-Out Unified Storage
Redundant Primary Active Logical Paths
//Namespace1/Datashare
Single Namespace
Controller 1 Controller 2
FS7500
Controller 1 Controller 2
FS7500
All paths active
Load balanced, improved performance utilization
Scale performance & capacity, load balance performance, Simplify management
Single namespace to manage, load balanced I/O
NAS Storage Pool
Single virtualExpand Capabilities of Existing EqualLogic
Environments
LUN 1
iSCSI
Single Management
Interface
LUN 2
LUN 3
CIFS/NFS
Application Servers
NAS Reserve LUN 4
Clients
EqualLogic FS7500
Additional EqualLogic
PS6000
More PS arrays
serving existing
iSCSI
applications
(in addition to NAS storage)
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Existing EQL PS Array Existing EQL PS Array
Evolving Scale Out Unified Storage
New EQL PS Array New EQL PS Array
//Namespace1/Datashare
Single Namespace
Controller 1 Controller 2
FS7500
Controller 1 Controller 2
Next Gen FS System
Incorporate next generation hardware without painful migrations
Single Namespace
Evacuate existing PS arrays with data is
online
Integrate next
What EqualLogic Delivers
Customer value
EqualLogic Capabilities
Buy more and do more on a limited
budget
Dynamic tiering, within & across platforms
Simplified administration so you
can focus on your customers
Scale out architectures to eliminate forklift
upgrades
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