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Advan cing

Application storage in todays cloud Todays IaaS performance options Core functionality

Agenda

Cloud scale-ability Performance virtualization Profitable efficiency Complete management automation

Fueling new opportunities in your cloud Live Product Demonstration

Why dont all applications run in the cloud today?

Cloud not seen as ready for business-critical applications Concerns about security, availability, performance Limited storage options are a huge limitation

Capacity is cheap, performance is expensive Dedicated storage cost prohibitive Multi-tenant storage performance highly variable

Cant replicate the consistency and control of an enterprise datacenter

Application Storage Options in todays cloud

DAS limited capacity and performance, no HA, limited flexibility Object suitable for backup and archive, poor choice for primary storage SAN / NAS no performance guarantees within shared infrastructure, costly, complex to manage, unable to automate, lacks multi-tenant security features

VDI

What if cloud providers could achieve

Guaranteed performance to thousands of applications Storage QoS with firm SLAs Provision storage as quickly as compute PB scale within a single management domain Complete automation and end-user self-service Differentiation on cost, quality, and breadth of services

Its time for a bold new direction.

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Only SolidFire offers the solution for running Master subtitle style business-critical applications in the cloud.

All-SSD storage system designed specifically for datacenter scale clouds

Click to edit Master subtitle style Clustered Scale-Out Architecture

Combine 100 nodes, 5M IOPS Industry-Standard Hardware Native 10 GigE iSCSI Usable $/GB similar to traditional SANs

Core functionality
Cloud Scale-Ability
Simultaneous capacity and performance scaling

Performance virtualization
Guaranteed fine-grain performance per volume

Profitable efficiency
In-line data reduction and 85% utilization requires less purchased capacity

Complete automation
REST-based API for complete control

Cloud Scale-Ability

Expand primary storage infrastructure as needed and without performance impact Confidently guarantee performance within a high-density, multi-tenant infrastructure

100 nodes / cluster 100,000 volumes 5,000,000 IOPS

Performance Virtualization

Manage volume performance and capacity independently Guaranteed QoS / sustained performance to every volume Enables volume-level performance throttling Create and bill against fine grain tiers of performance Real-time performance adjustments via API

Burst IOPS

QoS in Practice

Max IOPS Min IOPS

Profitable efficiency

High capacity utilization 85% Data Reduction Technologies proactive and in-line

Deduplication Compression Thin Provisioning

Executed across the entire data store, w/o performance

Data Reduction Techniques

Provisioned vs. Utilized Space

Sold to customers
100 100 TB TB Pro visi one d Spa ce ce 60T 60T B B Utili Utili zed 50T 50T B B

Typical Thin Provisioning SolidFire Thin Provisioning

Compression De-duplication 8X Savings in Provisioned vs. Used Space

25T 25T B B
12T B

Utilized vs. Purchased Space

Traditional SAN
Snap shot Rese rve

Und er Utili zati on

RAI D10 Red und anc y

SolidFire SAN
Provision / Sell . 100TB Utilized ... 12TB Purchase .. 25- 30TB+ raw 5 11x Savings in Purchased Space
12TB

60T B Utili zed

2X

Provision / Sell . 100TB Utilized ... 60TB Purchase .. 120- 360 TB+ raw

Complete management automation

REST-based API, enables automation of any SolidFire function Multi-tenant provisioning, reporting, and performance isolation Designed around CSP need to automate storage management and provisioning Extremely simple to build user-facing storage controls with your own business rules

Space-efficient snapshots & clones

Unlimited number, no performance penalty

Comprehensive feature set

Thin Provisioning, De-duplication, Compression

Always on, cluster wide, no performance penalty

Built-in point-in-time backup & restore to secondary storage Non-disruptive expansion and upgrades RFC3270 standard iSCSI

SF 3010

SolidFire product family

Form Factor: 1U, 10 drives, all SSD Capacity: ~12TB effective IOPS: 50,000 per node Network: iSCSI

2, 1GB and 2, 10GB ports

To be announced

Expanding cloud providers competitive edge.

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Together with SolidFire, providers can advance their cloud Master subtitle style solution portfolio and enable new application deployment with guaranteed performance.

Programmatic Go-to-Market support from SolidFire

Pricing / Packaging / Positioning SLA Definition Solution-centric co-marketing around your Fueled by SolidFire solution Sales team training and support

Fueling New Opportunities in the cloud

Legacy architectures not built for this magnitude of scale and multi-tenancy Current technologies massively restrict cloud applicability and use Cloud providers need a new approach to application storage

SolidFire gives cloud providers the solutions required to advance the way the world uses the cloud.

Architecture Discussion
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SAN 1.0

Data laid out contiguously Thick provisioned Simple map from start of LUN to physical space offset No sharing of data blocks between LUNs Enables:

Capacity virtualization

SAN 2.0

Data laid out mostly contiguously Physical space allocated in chunks (1MB-1GB) Controller = mapping engine Enables:

Thin provisioning Storage tiering

SolidFire Era

Completely separate data storage from higher level representations Allocate physical space in bytesize chunks Optimize storage of small blocks Utilize entire drive pool for every volume Enables:

Performance virtualization

Block Storage

Stores all data blocks from all volumes Implemented as a distributed CAS/SIS Duplicate blocks never stored Hides details of underlying storage from higher levels No direct mapping of blocks back to volumes

Volume Metadata

Compact representation of data in a volume Allows for standard volumebased abstraction of data Tracks BlockID for each LBA in the volume Allows for efficient:

Thin provisioning Cloning & Snapshots Remote replication

SolidFire Helix High Availability

Configurable replication levels Native cluster-wide Data Replication Self Healing / Fail-in-Place Design No single points of failure or performance impacts No RAID sets to manage or rebuild Only lose capacity & performance proportional to failed nodes

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