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The case for Flex. Pod Converged Infrastructure Do It Yourself + + vs. Ready Made! Business Values: ü Simplified IT ü Reduced Total Cost ü Increased agility ü Reduced risk 2 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL --- 2

Reduce risk Guides for high-quality, repeatable deployments § Design guides § Deployment guides § Technical specifications § Application workloads § Solution guides § Sizing guidance 3 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL --- 3

Flex. Pod helps IT accelerate business Service Available Service Request Traditional With • • Flex. Pod® Reference BOM Validated design Precise deployment Standard test plan Many Weeks or Months Design and Size DC Planning Procure X Detailed Design Deploy Test X > 50% Faster DC Planning Procure Deploy Test Service Available Preprovisioned Flex. Pod • Rapid deployment of applications • Shared pools meet most requirements DC Planning 4 Procure Deploy Test © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL --- Service Available 4

Cisco and Net. App: A Partnership That Stands by You 15+ years of partnership Mutual investments in research and Cooperative Support for Flex. Pod 140+ validated designs 7, 000+ Flex. Pod customers Cisco and Net. App help manage Flex. Pod, protecting your customer’s investment throughout the entire lifecycle Cisco and Net. App recreate customer environments in their labs for maximum support Jointly co-fund CPOC 250+ man-years of joint engineering have gone into Flex. Pod since its inception © 2016 Net. App, Inc. Cisco, Inc. All rights reserved.

Data Fabric and the Portfolio Enables IT’s Digital Transformation Data Fabric Solution For Cloud Backup 2015 On. Command Management Suite Other CSPs Alta. Vault-C ONTAP Cloud Snap. Center 2016 Off-prem ONTAP Select NPS Data Fabric End Points, Streams & Services Alta. Vault-C On-prem Cloud Control for Microsoft 365 Cloud Sync Service Alta. Vault NPSaa. S Solid. Fire Flex. Array FAS/AFF Non-Net. App Storage. GRID E-/EF-Series Webscale Flex. Pod

The next wave: flash going mainstream Number of applications Flash is almost the same cost as SAS and is exceeding HDD capacity Cheap and Deep Performance and Capacity Virtualization Engineering Home directories Database Public/private cloud, Iaa. S Low Performance at Any Cost Next-generation AFAs First-generation AFAs High Gartner: “Select SSAs for all primary applications and workloads, but do not restrict their usage for other applications. ” 7 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved.

New AFF portfolio AFF A 700 • Faster, smaller, and more flexible • AFF A-Series new naming AFF A 700 s AFF A 300 AFF A 200 AFF A Series AFF 8080 AFF 8060 AFF 8040 AFF 8000 Series 8 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. EOA Nov. 2016

Net. App FAS unified hybrid-flash storage Faster, simpler, more flexible FAS 9000 § FAS 9000: powerful modular design § FAS 8200: high performance, expanded I/O, small footprint § FAS 2600: integrated drives FAS 8200 § ONTAP 9. 1 or newer FAS 8080 EX FAS 2650 FAS 8060 FAS 2620 New Portfolio FAS 8040 FAS 8020 FAS 2554 FAS 2520 Current Portfolio 9 © 2016 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved FAS 2552

FAS 9000: intelligent modular design for superior RAS § Two independent controllers with: § 10 PCIe I/O slots per controller § 2 NVMe slots per controller § Service independent of I/O cards § Flexible, high-performance I/O § § 10 Add and upgrade as needs evolve 40 Gb. E, 10 Gb. E 32 Gb FC, 16 Gb FC 12 Gb SAS-3 © 2016 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. FAS 9000 / A 700 Rear View

Flex. Pod is. . . . A prevalidated flexible, unified platform featuring: 11 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL ---

The Flex. Pod Portfolio Flex. Pod Express Flex. Pod Datacenter Flex. Pod Select ROBO, Retail, SMB and Edge Enterprise Apps, Private and Hybrid Cloud VDI Big Data and Analytics • Compact, cost-effective • Consolidates your entire IT infrastructure on a single, easy-to-manage platform • Saves money, simplifies management, enhances data protection • Massively scalable shared virtual data center infrastructure • Speed the deployment of cloud-based data center infrastructures and business-critical applications • Reduce cost, complexity and risk • Dedicated application infrastructure • Preconfigured, scalable solutions combine storage, networking and servers • Gain flexibility, speed deployment and reduce risk © 2016 Net. App, Inc. Cisco, Inc. All rights reserved.

Secure Multi-tenancy 13 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL ---

Flex. Pod Cooperative Support An ecosystem of technology partners § Newest support partners include Citrix and Microsoft § Coordinated support with Net. App, Cisco, Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware and a Cooperative Support lab § Strong relationships among best-in-class alliance partners Flex. Pod® OSP 14 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL --- § Formal processes in place to expedite cross-company escalations when necessary

Choose Your Support Experience Flex. Pod Cooperative Support • You decide which vendor to call • Flex. Pod partner product experts provide cooperative support via a defined engagement model • Included with Flex. Pod Solution Support • Contact Cisco at our 1 -800# Flex. Pod Cooperative Support Lab • Single point of contact owns your case and coordinates vendor support • Purchase from Cisco or Partner Flex. Pod Partner Authorized Support • Contact your partner • Each partner provides unique support services • Purchase from your partner 15 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL ---

Flex. Pod Lifecycle Management Pre-Sales Automation Rapid Install Prescriptive Upgrade Paths Web design-to-quote portal to accelerate Flex. Pod sales cycle Factory pre-racked solutions for quick, flawless installations Interoperability verification for hypervisor, firmware and software creates rapid, smooth software upgrade paths Sizing Inter-op Simple | Responsive | Accurate Solution Generation Hypervisor Compute and Network Config Advisor BOM Creation Ordering 16 Cisco Ordering System Net. App Ordering System © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL --- Storage Non-Disruptive

Config Advisor Dashboard 17 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL ---

Coming soon § Flex. Pod Express E 2800 and UCS Mini (NVA) § MSFT Exchange and Share. Point 2016 § Flex. Pod for MSFT Instant Hybrid Cloud (EMEA) § Refresh § § § v. Sphere/ESX 6. 5 and ONTAP 9. 1 Hyper. V 2016 and ONTAP 9. 1, … Oracle RAC 12 CR 2 and AFF MSFT SQL 2014 and AFF RHEL Open. Stack 10, Net. App 9. 1, E-series § Design and Automation Management 18 © 2017 Net. App, Inc. All rights reserved. --- NETAPP CONFIDENTIAL ---

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