Nexenta Enterprise class storage for everyone

NexentaStor provides enterprise class unified storage capabilities via a software solution that ends vendor lock-in while delivering superior storage management functionality with a particular focus on virtualized environments

WHAT IS NEXENTASTOR?

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Unified storage: block and file

Leading OpenStorage solution

• Runs on standard hardware

Offers unmatched enterprise features at 70-80% savings:

• End to end data integrity

• Unlimited file size & snaps

• Synchronous and ZFS replication

Superior storage for virtualized environments

THE NEXENTA PICTURE

Leveraged existing value chains, improved price performance by 10x, addressed untapped demand

Hardware Software Integration

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Value Added by transtec

NEXENTASTOR ARCHITECTURE

Enterprise Edition + search + synch replication

+ ease of use + remote management

Additional modules VM Management + WORM + HA +

pNFS

• Hardware independent • NAS/SAN/iSCSI/FC • CDP via ZFS snapshots • CDP via block sync • Advanced graphics • Event based API

Illumos kernel multi-core + clustering

Debian / Ubuntu #1 community + packaging

NexentaOS: • Loves multiple cores • Boot level ZFS • >1 million downloads

ZFS: File system • universal: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC • performance: variable block size +

prefetch • Software RAID that identifies and

corrects data corruption

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POWERFUL UI WITH REAL-TIME DISPLAY

NEXENTASTOR FEATURES

• Supports NAS and SAN

– NFS/CIFS and iSCSI/FC

• Highly scalable capacity and performance

– Benchmarked at over 4,000MB sec – bigger than the largest NTAP

– Takes advantage of current technology e.g. SSD for performance

• Unlimited snapshots and clones

– With fully integrated search

• Full active/active HA configuration

– No single point of failure

• Heterogeneous block and file replication

– Allows easy DR configurations

– Synchronous or Asynchronous

• Internal RAID-Z and spares

• VM integration

– Vmware, XEN and Hyper-V

– Nexenta VDI

• Cloud storage capabilities

• Compression, Dedupe and in box virus scan

– Encryption in 2012

– All in band – not post process

• End to end data integrity

– No silent data corruption

• Thin provisioning

• Non-disruptive volume grow

• DTrace based analytics

DATA PROTECTION WITH CLUSTER

NEXENTA CUSTOMERS

TECH PARTNERS

WHY NEXENTASTOR? 80% lower TCO with no vendor lock in

Eliminates costly platform dependent software

Maximizes utilization of existing storage resources

One solution supports all storage tiers

SAN and NAS support

Zettabyte capacity

Unlimited snapshots and clones

Thin provisioning

Virtual machine integration

Non-disruptive volume Grow/Shrink

No vendor dependencies; Open source file system

Storage is a normal application – manage and scale like other critical applications

Open interoperability: Any host, Any O/S, Any Storage

Heterogeneous block and file replication

Hybrid storage pools – increase performance and reduce power by 80%

Open management API

Cost Effective

Scalable &

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Open Solution

HOW DO CUSTOMERS USE NEXENTASTOR?

User Scenarios • Primary & Tiered Storage • Application Servers • Data Protection • Streaming Media • Virtualization and Cloud

Back-Up In-line deduplication, replication and potential as a multi-protocol target make us an

ideal backup target Virtualization Hybrid storage pooling (native SSD), hot data optimization, management, deduplication,

snap shots, replication, compression make us an ideal solution for virtualization Cloud Strong virtualization, low cost enterprise HA cluster, replication make NexentaStor a good

platform for cloud infrastructure

PLUG-INS

Software Plug-ins

High Availability Cluster - Single and dual active-active fail-over configuration options to increase availability

VM Data Center - View and manage your entire virtualized VMware, Citrix Xen or Microsoft Hyper-V infrastructure from a simple point and click interface. Setup backups, provision storage, setup replication & retention policies, and perform common tasks, such as stopping & starting VMs or creating template-based clones.

Delorean - Windows Back-up, Restore & Search Application - ZFS-powered backup for Windows with VSS clients. Select files and folders to protect via built-in File Explorer interface.

NAMESPACE CLUSTER

• Scales out NexentaStor NFS clusters • Distribute load across systems through intelligent analytics and background migration • Adds penultimate level to industry leading multi-level data protection • Scale limits have to do with simultaneous access to single file or directory • No limit on amount of storage, number of clients, number of clusters • Manage the entire name space from any node, on demand