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The Challenges Associated with Deploying VDI Storage Acquisition Costs – VDI Requires Enterprise Class Storage Data Protection High Availability Backup – VDI Provides Central Desktop Updates Requires Additional Storage Lengthy Mass Deployment Timeframes – Cloning 100 s – 1, 000 s of Virtual Machines Takes Time Backup Production VDIs RAID Build 2 nd Gen Desktops RAID Build Desktops Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays 6 -12 Minutes Per Virtual Desktop or 5 -10 Virtual Desktops deployed per Hour © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 2

The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDI With Net. App Storage Virtualization Acquisition Cost Reductions Unmatched Data Availability A-SIS and Flex. Clone storage savings of 90% RAID-DP provides RAID 10 data protection RAID-DP reduces data protection costs by 50% Snap. Mirror allows de-duplicated data to be backed up without losing the de-duplication Admin Time Reductions Flex. Clone provisions new Datastores which are immediately available and online © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Simplified Management Single storage architecture serves all data protocols 3

Net. App RAID-DP Data Protection A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Available RAID 10 Current Disk Drives have more physical imperfections/errors and are less reliable RAID-DP™ Time to rebuild increase with disk size RAID 5 does not provide enough Data Protection RAID 10 doubles the cost of Data Protection Protects against double disk failure 40% lower cost than RAID 10! RAID-DP provides the unmatched data protection and cost efficiencies required by VDI © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 4

Storage Virtualization makes a difference Volumes: not tied to physical storage Non-fixed storage allocation allows continuous rebalancing across spindles. App Flex. Vol App App Aggregate ity ac ap C Available IOPs (work I can do) Better Capacity Management No stranded spindles / capacity RAID Optimization Sharper Data Focus Deduplication Thin Provisioning Policy Based Space Management Quality of Service Backup / Recovery Data Replication Aggregate: Efficient resource utilization Capacity and IOPs are pooled © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 5

Extending Asset Optimization Utilization savings with Net. App Deduplication 4 Net. App FAS Deduplication 4 Advanced Single Instance Storage 4 Dramatic Space Savings for Vmware 4 Integrated with Data ONTAP Some real customer results 4 Managed Service Provider: 45% 4 Medical Services: 65% 4 Retailer: 70% 4 Internet Service Provider: 75% 4 Title Management: 72 - 84% 4 Insurance / Banking (VDI): 94% 4 General-purpose volume deduplication 4 Identifies and removes redundant data blocks 4 Application Agnostic 4 Primary Storage 4 Backup Data 4 Archival Data “We decided to utilize Net. App Snap. Mirror for replication and deduplication, and these became a driving factor in our solution achieving 80% storage savings on VMware backup data with deduplication. ” A Global Financial Services Firm © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 6

VMware: An Opportunity for Deduplication Each Virtual Desktop stores the same data repeatedly: A OS software, patches, software drivers, application data P P VI 3 Server . VMDK O S A P P . VMDK A P P O S . VMDK Data Store A O S A P. VMDK P O S A P P . VMDK RAID Layer Traditional Enterprise RAID Arrays © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 7

Shrink VMware Storage Footprint Net. App deduplication removes the redundant blocks ® All copies still Aappear intact to the ESX server P P VI 3 Server . VMDK O S A P P . VMDK Data Store A O S A P P . VMDK Duplicate Data Is Eliminated Flex. Vol® Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 8

Net. App Multiprotocol Support VDI Environments have multiple storage requirements – VI 3 Server Storage Options Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP) i. SCSI & NFS via Ethernet – VDI End User Storage Requirements CIFS for the storage of User Roaming Profiles and Documents A single Net. App FAS system provides all 4 storage protocols & is certified with VI 3 & VDI © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 9

Net. App Multiprotocol Support Diagram Flex. Clone E Flex. Clone D Flex. Vol A Flex. Clone C LUN Flex. Clone B Simultaneously Server Both VDI Architecture & End User Data CIFS File Shares Store User Profiles & Data De-Dupe w/ A-SIS Flex. Vol B Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore A Datastore B VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore C Datastore D VMDK VMDK Datastore E VI 3 Server 10

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning Instantly Provision Cloned Datastores or RDMs – Supports FCP, i. SCSI, VMFS, RDM, & NAS – Clones are Immediately Available – Clones Require Zero Additional Storage – Flex. Clone Reduces the storage of Multiple Datastores down to that of a Single Datastore Flex. Clone provides the ability to provision 1000 s of Virtual Machines in minutes © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 11

Traditional VDI Storage deployment Virtual Infrastructure Deployment Storage is Provisioned and connected as a Datastore Virtual Desktops store their data on Virtual Disks (VMDKs) Virtual Disks are copied one at a time to create new Virtual machines 500 GB Data. Store VMDK VMDK 500 GBs of Storage VMDK Traditional Storage Array 500 GB Data. Store VMDK © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VMDK 500 GB Data. Store VMDK VMDK 12

Virtual Infrastructure Deployment VDI Storage & Provisioning with Flex. Clone 1 Create a Gold image Data. Store and deduplicate 2 Flex. Clone Data. Stores as required – instantly and with zero space 3 Datastores and virtual machines are immediately available 500 GB Data. Store VMDK VMDK Gold Master Data. Store 500 GBs Clone A – 0 GB Clone B – 0 GB Clone C – 0 GB Net. App FAS System 500 GB Data. Store VMDK VMDK Simplest, fast, and most economical Virtual Machine deployment option © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 13

Net. App Flex. Clone Mass Provisioning Process Summary Step 1: Build Gold Image Virtual Machine Create Datastore Create Virtual Machine (OS - Apps – Sysprep) Create base snapshot of Datastore Fill Datastore by VM cloning Gold Image Virtual Machine De-duplicate redundant data with A-SIS Register and start VMs. All are unique and auto join Active Directory 1000 s of VMs deployed in minutes at the storage cost of a single VM Step 2: Build Gold Image Datastore Flex. Clone and attach Datastore Step 3: Mass Deploy Virtual Machines Flex. Clone & attach clones of Gold Image Datastore © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 14

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning Begin by Building Template of the VM to Deploy VMDK Datastore A Flex. Vol Virtual Machine Template (VMX) V-Disk 0 Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VI 3 Server 15

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning Use VMware’s Cloning to Fill the Datastore with VMs VMDK VMDK Datastore A Flex. Vol Virtual Machine Template (VMX) V-Disk 0 Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VI 3 Server 16

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning Flex. Clone the Volume and Mount the Cloned Datastore A Datastore B VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore A Datastore B Flex. Vol Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VI 3 Server 17

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning …Continue to Build out Datastores with Flex. Clone… Datastore A Datastore B VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore A Datastore B Flex. Vol Datastore C VMDK VMDK Datastore C Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VI 3 Server 18

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning … and Continue… Datastore A Datastore B VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore C Datastore D Flex. Vol Datastore C Datastore D Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VI 3 Server 19

Net. App Flex. Clone Storage Provisioning Deploy VMs while not utilizing any additional storage capacity Datastore A Datastore B VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK VMDK Datastore C Datastore D Flex. Vol Datastore C Datastore D VMDK VMDK Datastore E Net. App FAS System © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. VI 3 Server 20

Backing Up a Virtual Desktop Infrastrucutre A Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Must be Backed Up – An interruption to storage would take 100 s to 1000 s of users offline – Traditional backup options Backup to tape – RTO? Disk to Disk Backup – – Time? Storage? Bandwidth? Cost? © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 21

Backing Up a VDI with Snap. Mirror Disk to Disk back up via Snap. Mirror –The only data de-duplication aware replication technology –Space savings are replicated to DR facility Lower time to recover than tape (RTO) Significantly lower costs than traditonal disk replicaiton Snap. Mirror provides superior solutions for backing up Virtual Desktop Infrastructures © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 22

Net. App Snap. Mirror Replication For VDI Backup and Business Continuance VDI Users Primary VI 3 Data. Center © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Secondary VI 3 Snap. Mirror Replication Data. Center 23

Net. App Snap. Mirror Replication For VDI Backup and Business Continuance VDI Users Primary VI 3 Data. Center © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Secondary VI 3 Data. Center 24

The Advantages of Deploying VMware’s VDI With Net. App Storage Virtualization RAID-DP RAID 10 data Protection and Performance at ½ the Cost A-SIS De-duplication Reduces storage requirements by 90% Flex. Clone Instantaneous zero cost storage provisioning © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Native Multiprotocol Support FCP, i. SCSI, and NFS for VI 3 Connectivity CIFS for storing VDI user profiles and documents Snap. Mirror Block level replication technology for de-duplicated data Business Continuance in minutes 25

Summary Net. App Value Proposition for Vmware – Extending asset optimization through storage virtualization – Accelerating deployment – Tackling the challenge of backup / recovery – Simplifying site recovery © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. 26

Joint Value Proposition (Virtualizing servers solves only half the problem) Increase ROI of server virtualization by aggregating, thin-provisioning, and dynamically managing resources across flexible storage pools. Net. App storage delivers: Architectural Flexibility – Unified Storage (FCP, ISCSI, NFS) – Tiered Storage (FC, ATA, SAS) – Multi-vendor virtualization (V-Series) Optimized Capacity – Virtual Partitioning of storage resources – Advanced RAID – Thin Provisioning – Data De-duplication Optimized Performance – Virtual Partitioning of storage resources – Dynamic Storage Resource management Optimized Provisioning – Rapid provisioning of storage pools – Policy based space management Superior backup and restore capabilities – Space efficient backups of virtual machine files and data – Rapid recovery of virtual machine files and data Flexible Data Replication – Architecture / transport independent – Replication and site failover at multiple levels of granularity © 2008 Net. App. All rights reserved. Virtual Machines Physical x 86 Servers Physical Storage Flex. Vol® Volumes 27

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