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The storage challenges of virtualized environments The virtualization challenge: Ageing and Inflexible storage architectures Mixing of platforms causes management complexity Unable to meet the

2 The storage challenges of virtualized environments The virtualization challenge: Ageing and Inflexible storage architectures Mixing of platforms causes management complexity Unable to meet the requirements of demand and growth All eggs in one basket means High Availability is a must Consolidation demands an effective disaster recovery solution For an optimal storage solution, customers need: Affordable storage platforms to fit any budget Simplified management with virtualization integration Data mobility to flex and redeploy resources on demand Investment protection as technology and requirements change Scale-out architecture to grow capacity & performance on demand Reliable data availability and disaster recovery features for business continuity

3 Built for virtualization HP Storage Technology Simple Simple management for virtualized environments Storage virtualization simplifies provisioning and ongoing growth Hypervisor integration for increased functionality and ease of use Non-disruptively scale performance and capacity Scalable Highly Available One homogenous storage pool with multiprotocol connectivity Scale performance as you scale capacity through wide striping Proven Five 9 s high availability and reliability Multi-site disaster recovery including metro cluster configurations Online data mobility across systems, locations, and technology changes

4 HP StoreVirtual Storage

HP StoreVirtual the versatile platform Whatever the

StoreVirtual VSA Turn any server into a virtual array and

storage on performance or capacity optimized tiers 4630

enterprise Scale from VSA to BladeSystem as the business

5 HP StoreVirtual the versatile platform Whatever the environment there s a StoreVirtual platform that fits StoreVirtual VSA Turn any server into a virtual array and now with Auto Tiering 4130/4330/4530/4730 Consolidate storage on performance or capacity optimized tiers 4630 Storage for a converged infrastructure ROBO SMB Midsize enterprise Scale from VSA to BladeSystem as the business grows or use a combination of StoreVirtual platforms same features, same management

Clustered Storage Architecture Buy for today, and then scale with

Leverage all critical resources Industry standard platforms 1GbE,

linearly Storage grows online Multi-tiered environments SSD, SAS,

6 Clustered Storage Architecture Buy for today, and then scale with demand Start with today s needs Use storage nodes to build clusters Leverage all critical resources Industry standard platforms 1GbE, 10 GbE & FC available Grow as needed Scale performance and capacity linearly Storage grows online Multi-tiered environments SSD, SAS, MDL SAS and VSA clusters Peer Motion: Migrate data online between clusters

remains available RAID 5 and 6 (Parity) Read heavy workloads (file shares) Storage is as HA as the

7 Storage HA for Virtualization Always on storage Protect data from any SPOF including the array RAID 10 (Mirror copy) Mixed workloads ( , DB, virtualization) Can lose up to half of nodes and data remains available RAID 5 and 6 (Parity) Read heavy workloads (file shares) Storage is as HA as the VMs A A C C E E F B B D D F A B C D P 1 E Volume level granularity Change Network RAID levels on-the-fly

HA for multi-site virtualized environments VM s remain online should the following go

availability for virtual environments NR10 volumes accessible at both sites VMware and

failed site comes back online Fully certified with vsphere Metro Storage Cluster and

8 HA for multi-site virtualized environments VM s remain online should the following go offline: Site/Rack 1 Site/Rack2 Rack Room Floor Building Single Cluster Higher availability for virtual environments NR10 volumes accessible at both sites VMware and Hyper-V volumes remain online during site failure Volumes automatically re-synch after failed site comes back online Fully certified with vsphere Metro Storage Cluster and Microsoft Clustering A A C C D B B D NRaid10 Single Cluster A C D B

9 HP StoreVirtual VSA - Where to use Start small then grow Fully featured shared storage for virtualization Upgrade to StoreVirtual appliances online Remote and branch offices HA storage for smaller VM environments Affordable disaster recovery Testing sandbox Repurpose existing DAS or SAN Migrate to production StoreVirtual arrays online Additional storage tier Create SSD tiers for high performance Build from blade or server disks Cloud service providers Utilize capacity of existing infrastructure Easily adapt to changing customer demands free 60 day trial -

11 Eliminating distinctions between Midrange and Tier 1 Polymorphic Simplicity Storage without Boundaries 1 ONE Architecture from Midrange to High-end Common 3PAR Operating System Common User Interface Common Feature Set Fully interoperable All Flash When Scale matte Up to 2.2 PB 7200 When Performance matter All Flash Array with 548k IOPS When Value matters Starting at $25k

12 Virtualized Storage a Modern Architecture Highly Available, Simple, High Performance, Cost Effective, Feature Rich Mesh-active controller design Every volume active on every controller can drive high utilization as well as high performance Mixed workload optimization Split path architecture automatically separates and processes control and payload data in parallel Policy driven Policies and a modern architecture means the system does the right things in the background, all the time, without manual tuning System wide striping There are no hot spots or stranded capacity every disk fills evenly

HP 3PAR StoreServ Effortless tier1 storage with midrange affordability Effortless: Reduce time spent managing storage by 90% Self-configuring, provisioning, and optimizing via autonomic

Quad controller resiliency, multi-tenant design, SSD models with QoS, and mixed workload optimization Multi-tenant: Double VM density per server Bulletproof tier-1 resilience for massive

13 HP 3PAR StoreServ Effortless tier1 storage with midrange affordability Effortless: Reduce time spent managing storage by 90% Self-configuring, provisioning, and optimizing via autonomic management Efficient: Reduce capacity requirements 50% Hardware enabled thin technologies, advanced tiering, and thin persistence for both file and block data Bulletproof: Tier 1 features Quad controller resiliency, multi-tenant design, SSD models with QoS, and mixed workload optimization Multi-tenant: Double VM density per server Bulletproof tier-1 resilience for massive consolidation of unpredictable mixed workloads Future-proof: Grow with freedom in any direction Scale-out hardware and federate with HP Peer Motion to for virtually limitless scale from SMB to Enterprise

HP 3PAR Leadership Efficient HP 3PAR customers

Reduce required raw capacity by at least 50% -

control ongoing storage consumption Deliver

wide-striping, automated tiering and QOS Reduce

14 HP 3PAR Leadership Efficient HP 3PAR customers reduce TCO by 50% Efficient Autonomic Optimized Reduce required raw capacity by at least 50% - Double your VM Density Simplify provisioning & control ongoing storage consumption Deliver high performance to all applications with wide-striping, automated tiering and QOS Reduce the acquisition & operational cost of data center storage

HP 3PAR Peer Persistence for VMware HP 3PAR Remote Copy Peer Persistence for VMware Never lose data access with Peer Persistence Non disruptive movement of applications and storage between data

15 HP 3PAR Peer Persistence for VMware HP 3PAR Remote Copy Peer Persistence for VMware Never lose data access with Peer Persistence Non disruptive movement of applications and storage between data centres Quorum Witness Benefits No middleware required No third party hardware dependencies No compromise to local data availability Integrates with wider 3PAR Disaster Recovery tools Aligned with VMware s Metro Storage Cluster initiative Maintain service during server, storage and entire site failures

16 HP StoreOnce Deduplication

HP StoreOnce Backup Wherever you need data protection there s a StoreOnce

branch offices and mid-sized data centers HP StoreOnce B6200 Scale out

2600 HP StoreOnce VSA Service Provider, ROBO s SMB Data Protection for

17 HP StoreOnce Backup Wherever you need data protection there s a StoreOnce platform that fits HP StoreOnce 4200 & 4400 Data Protection for large branch offices and mid-sized data centers HP StoreOnce B6200 Scale out Data Protection for Enterprise data centers and DR sites HP StoreOnce 2600 HP StoreOnce VSA Service Provider, ROBO s SMB Data Protection for small branch offices POLYMORPHIC SIMPLICITY -- From VSA to B6200

18 What is HP StoreOnce VSA? Cost-effective data protection for virtualized branch offices and SMB environments Scalable capacity with up to 10TB usable capacity, configurable in 1TB increments Flexible Protocol support: VTL, CiFs, iscsi, Catalyst Low bandwidth replication capability for DR, also fully compatible with StoreOnce hardware appliances HP StoreOnce deduplication engine delivered in a hardware agnostic virtual machine Simple management of backup, DR, and data restores using Veeam VMware ESXi x86 Architecture

19 Why StoreOnce with Veeam HP StoreOnce - Optimized for backup. Robust and secure access to prevent unwanted deletions and data corruption. Dedicated management interface to control and report on data protection features. More cost effective to manage and more robust than general purpose disk. HP StoreOnce - Reliable performance Fine-grain chunking and Sparse Indexing reduces memory and disk I/O requirements, Better utilization of storage capacity with more efficient and higher ratio deduplication Consolidated backup appliance Deduplication across backup jobs for increased efficiency and improved storage utilization. SAN Volume (using Veeam dedupe and compression) Time Source Data Size Data Transferred to Target Final Size on Target 80 Minutes 540 GB 223 GB 223 GB (2.4:1) HP StoreOnce (using Veeam dedupe) Time Source Data Size Data Transferred to Target Final Size on Target 86 Minutes 540 GB 362 GB 52 GB (10:1)

20 Bringing it all together Veeam Explorer for SAN Snapshots

Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots Fast recovery and low RPO from storage snapshots Low RPO Snapshots can be taken frequently with no impact to VMs Fastest RTO

21 Veeam Explorer for Storage Snapshots Fast recovery and low RPO from storage snapshots Low RPO Snapshots can be taken frequently with no impact to VMs Fastest RTO fast, granular recovery using HP/Veeam technology Unique integration with HP StoreVirtual/VSA & HP StoreServ Granular Microsoft Exchange & SharePoint item-level recovery

Restore from Snapshot Veeam Backup HP StoreOnce HP Cloud RPO Efficient Long and term RTO

22 HP Storage + Veeam Remote Repository Unique to HP HP StoreOnce Backup Archive Backup Repository HP StoreEver Tape StoreVirtual Backup Copy from and Snapshot StoreServ Restore from Snapshot Veeam Backup HP StoreOnce HP Cloud RPO Efficient Long and term RTO off cost host measured effective de-duplication in archival MINUTES & of offsite data!! replication

23 HP Storage + Veeam Better Together Tightly integrated solution for virtualised environments HP Storage built for Virtualization Efficient, scalable and simple to use Feature rich, high performance scale out architectures Provides Fastest backup and restore for Virtual environments Backup direct from StoreVirtual and StoreServ snapshots to offload traffic Recover direct from StoreVirtual and StoreServ snapshots for more frequent protection Provides great long term retention and protection Efficient inline deduplication, automatically offsite data with low bandwidth replication StoreVirtual and StoreOnce VSA s available for free 60 day trial - Take advantage of tapes superior ROI for long term data retention

24 Unlock the power of HP Storage Snapshots with Veeam Backup & Replication

HP Storage Summit 2015 Transform Now.

HP Storage Summit 2015 Transform Now. Flash Class Data Protection Andrew Dickerson Data protection from software-defined to scale-out Data Protection Challenges Even more pressure to prevent downtime High