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FalconStorNetwork Storage Server (NSS)
Storage, Virtualization, Provisioning, Protection and Management
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Agenda
• FalconStor Overview• Storage Challenges• FalconStor NSS Solution• Data protection features• Enhanced storage performance• Increased storage efficiency• New and enhanced management
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FalconStor Corporate Overview
FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
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FalconStor at a Glance
• Founded in Feb. 2000 by veterans of Cheyenne Software which was acquired by CA for $1.2B in 1996
• Leading provider of data protection software– Deep understanding of backup & recovery– Innovators in leveraging disk to optimize backup & recovery– Over 4,000 enterprise and 30,000 SMB sites around the world
• Strategic industry OEM partnerships– Acer, Brocade, Copan, EMC, Huawei, H3C, IBM, Intel, Sun…– Superior interoperability, compatibility in the field
• Global channel and 24x7 support Infrastructure– 23 in-country offices– 400+ Employees - 76% headcount in Engineering & Technical Services– High maintenance renewal
• Financial Sound/Strong Growth– Public company (NASDAQ: FALC)– Profitable with positive cash flow since 2005 and no debt
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FalconStor IPStor Platform
• IPStor® software is a highly optimized, scalable, and flexible virtualization platform
• Leverages all open storage and tape libraries• A data provisioning and protection platform based on
standard industry server and storage technology working with all connectivity protocols
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FalconStor Solutions
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
Disk-based library for backup optimization
Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP)
Disk-based data protection with instant data recovery
Network Storage Server (NSS)
Storage, virtualization, provisioning and management
Data Deduplication
Dramatically reducing data across the enterprise
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TOTALLY Open Network Storage Solution Platform
Application ServersTape Backup Servers
MS Exchange, MS SQL, MS SharePoint,VMware, Oracle, SAP, etc
Tivoli, Symantec, EMC/Legato,CA, Commvault, etc.
Network Storage Server (NSS)
Continuous Data Protector (CDP)
Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
Self-protecting storage Disk-based data protection Disk-based library
Clustered deduplication
Replication with Encryption and Compression
IPStor Platform v 6.x Virtualization, Thin Provisioning, MAID enabling, Snapshot, Mirror
Industry Standard Disk Arrays and Tape Libraries
Centralized
managem
ent
FalconStor Client Agents
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Representative customers
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Kicking off 2008 with awards and accolades
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Kicking off 2008 with awards and accolades
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Breaking News - Word on the Street
FalconStor's skinny bird flies higher, faster “FalconStor has enhanced the technology in its foundation IPStor platform with virtual storage appliances, and released significantly improved network storage server and continuous data protection products, extending thin provisioning to replication and disaster recovery. It can also accelerate storage performance through solid state disk (SD) appliances.” --Paul Roberts, news editor.
FalconStor Offers Software Version Of IPStor “The Melville, N.Y.-based software vendor also made its continuous data protection software into a stand-alone appliance for small and midsize businesses and remote offices, and made it available for bundling with servers that come with the embedded version of the ESX server virtualization software from VMware, Palo Alto, Calif.” --By Joseph F. Kovar, ChannelWeb
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Breaking News - Word on the Street
FalconStor releases IPStor 6.0 “FalconStor has enhanced IPStor in the areas of disaster recovery, business continuance, and virtual server support and is now selling its software as three separate products: Network Storage Server (NSS), Continuous Data Protector (CDP), and Virtual Tape Library (VTL). New to the overall platform is so-called "thin disaster recovery," which extends the concept of thin provisioning to data mirroring and replication and eliminates the need for identical storage allocations at the data center and the disaster-recovery site.” --By Kevin Komiega
FalconStor upgrades, repackages IPStor storage virtualization software “With the new release, FalconStor added features to each module. It added support to NSS for solid-state drives (SSD) and InfiniBand connectivity. NSS is used to manage and provision iSCSI and Fibre Channel SANs. SSDs managed under NSS can also be used with a pre-existing feature called Hot Zone, which moves data from slower disks to faster disks, either on demand or automatically according to
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Storage Challenges
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Growing Storage Demand
iSCSI and FC Host Connections
0
200,000
400,000
600,000
800,000
1,000,000
1,200,000
1,400,000
1,600,000
1,800,000
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Units
FC Server Attachments
iSCSI Server Attachments
Source: Gartner Presentation, “The Future of iSCSI SANs” by Robert Passmore. June 2006
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Top reasons for Storage Virtualization
* Source: IDC IT Management Survey - 2006
Improved back-up & recovery 46%
Server and storage consolidation 40%
On-going demands for additional capacity 37%
Improved application performance 31%
Improved disaster recovery 27%
New project or application deployment 23%
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FalconStor NSS Solution
FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
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NSS Solution
• Plug-and-play iSCSI storage appliance for SMB• Enterprise-class Fibre Channel support, virtualization and
provisioning for large organizations• TOTALLY Open™ solution enables IT to choose storage
vendors and devices– Virtualization and provisioning provides highest storage
utilization/efficiency at lowest cost– No vendor lock-in
• Multiple data protection features• Enhanced storage performance• Increased storage efficiency• Centralized management improves IT productivity
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Data
TOTALLY Open Storage Virtualization Platform
Physical Virtual
Existing SAN volumes via Storage
Service Enabler
Virtualized SAN volumes
Thin provisioned SAN volumes
Linux Solaris HP-UX AIX Netware
Exchange Oracle VMware
NotesSQL SAPDB2
Windows
Any application
Any operating system
Any storage protocol
Any diskarray
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FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS)
#1 Storage Virtualization Solution
FalconStor NSS winsCRN Storage Virtualization
Test over EqualLogic, Hitachi and Compellent
FalconStor NSS winsCRN Storage Virtualization
Test over EqualLogic, Hitachi and Compellent
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Storage virtualization and provisioning
Virtualdisks
Physicaldisks
• Create volumes of any size from across physical disk resources
• Physical LUN and virtual devices up to 16TB each
• Expand volumes as needed
• Securely assign volumes to servers through NSS interface
• Storage pooling designates sets of physical disks for specific tasks
• Decreased risk of operator error
• Create volumes of any size from across physical disk resources
• Physical LUN and virtual devices up to 16TB each
• Expand volumes as needed
• Securely assign volumes to servers through NSS interface
• Storage pooling designates sets of physical disks for specific tasks
• Decreased risk of operator error
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Data Protection Features
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NSS Data Protection Features
Linux WindowsUnix
SnapshotAgent
SnapshotAgent
SnapshotAgent Snapshot
Agent
Virtualmachines
TimeMark snapshots
• TimeMark® snapshots• Snapshot Agents for
applications, DBs, VMware
• IP replication• Data mirroring,
copying• Zero-impact backup• High availability
• TimeMark® snapshots• Snapshot Agents for
applications, DBs, VMware
• IP replication• Data mirroring,
copying• Zero-impact backup• High availability
Primary storage volumes
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Easy & Efficient Data Protection via TimeMark
Fibre orEthernet
Application-specific Snapshot Agent
• One TimeMark snapshot policy per disk• Flexible scheduling
• Mountable TimeView® images for instant data recovery of any captured point in time
• Delta-based snapshots minimize disk utilization
• 255 snapshots per disk
• Snapshot Agents and consistency groups for 100% data integrity
• One TimeMark snapshot policy per disk• Flexible scheduling
• Mountable TimeView® images for instant data recovery of any captured point in time
• Delta-based snapshots minimize disk utilization
• 255 snapshots per disk
• Snapshot Agents and consistency groups for 100% data integrity
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IP-based disaster recovery
Linux WindowsUnix
SnapshotAgent
SnapshotAgent
SnapshotAgent Snapshot
Agent
Virtualmachines
TimeMark snapshots
Full replicas
Snapshots
Copy to tape
• Easily configured any-to-any remote replication
• Continuous or periodic modes
• Easily configured any-to-any remote replication
• Continuous or periodic modes
Block-level data replication
… …
DR Site
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Any-to-Any Remote Replication Benefits
• Flexibility– Operating system, protocol and storage agnostic
• Performance– Minimize bandwidth via sector-level differencing (MicroScan™)– Parallel TCP sessions (trunking, QoS, 100% switch friendly)
• Recovery– Guarantees RTO (less than 30 min.) with data integrity
• Resilience: Self-healing replication– Automatic reconnect/resume based on availability of WAN, DR site– Switch between Continuous & Delta Replication automatically based on
the availability of WAN, DR site
• Security– End-to-End Data Encryption
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Sending changed TracksHost updatesa disk sector
Sending Changed SectorsHost updatesa disk sector
512b512b512b 512b 512b 512b 512b 512b512b
32K Trackis replicated
512 byte Sectoris replicated
64 times more efficient
MicroScan vs Track-based replication
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Real world replication savings example• Legal Services firm benchmark, Nov-Jan 2006• 83 days worth of replicated data
Site File System Change in GB
Filtered by MicroScan
Actual GB Transferred
Percentage Reduction
Houston 4,869 4,017 852 82%
New York City
16,176 13,409 2,76783%
Wash D.C. 7,289 5,581 1,708 77%
Atlanta 73,376 62,527 10,849 85%
101,710 85,534 16,176 84%
Avg per Day 1225 1031 195 84%Min. Storage Unit to Track Changes on Disk
FalconStor NetApp HDS EMC
512 Bytes 4 KB 16 KB 64 KB
Storage Efficiency 1 8 x less efficient
32 x less efficient
64 x less efficient
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Data mirroring, zero downtime migration
• Any-to-any synchronous data mirroring
• Ultimate data protection across arrays
• Zero downtime data migration – Initiate disk mirror– Switch primary target when
synchronization completes
• Any-to-any synchronous data mirroring
• Ultimate data protection across arrays
• Zero downtime data migration – Initiate disk mirror– Switch primary target when
synchronization completes
Primary MirrorPrimaryMirror
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BU SW calls HyperTrac™ to mount snapshot disk for serverless tape backup
Eliminating Backup Window &Host Performance Impact
Ethernet
Files/Volume
SystemState
Database
Traditional Backup
Fibre orEthernet
Shrinking backup window & host
performance impact
Perform Tape backup anytime. Eliminate backup window, remove backup performance impact from
production servers
Backup server
Backup SW
HyperTrac
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10:0010:00 11:0011:00
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NSS high availability deployment models
• A two-node NSS failover pair• Each NSS server supports its
own set of client servers
• For appliances with internal storage
• Volumes are mirrored across NSS devices for redundancy
• Clients can access disk along both paths
Shared Storage Failover Cross Mirror Failover
A A1BB1
SAN
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Enhanced Storage Performance
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Enhanced storage performance
• Accelerated application performance from new NSS features– Native support for Infiniband protocol– Violin Memory solid-state disk cache supercharges
application read and write performance– Downstream Fibre Channel load balancing
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InfiniBand support
• InfiniBand target mode support for clients (application servers)– Red Hat Linux Enterprise, v 5– SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, v 1.0
• Speeds of 20 Gb/s– Supports iSER using a Double Date Rate (DDR)
• Exceptional speeds for high performance computing needs
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Violin Memory solid state disk for cache
• Use of Violin Memory applianceas read/write cache device forany volume– On demand provisioning of resources– Dynamic allocation of memory where needed
• Ultra-fast response time charges performance– 10 or 20 Gbit/s PCIE interface
• Attainable cost ~ $300 per GB (MSRP)
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Downstream load balancing
• Automatically makes use of multiple FC paths to connect to downstream storage– Round-robin data flow
• Maximizes available bandwidth for best possible performance
• Fault-tolerant pathingD:
I/O
IPStor platform
D: D: D:
I/O I/O I/O
LUNDisk Array
D:
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NSS performance stats
• Device seek time = 0• Testing of two NSS
servers with two Violin memory units– Sequential read up
to 2.7GB/s– Random read up to
2.7GB/s– Sequential write up
to 2.0GB/s– Random write up to
2.0GB/s
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Increased storage efficiency
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Increased storage efficiency
• Better disk utilization, reduced power consumption and a greener data center– Thin provisioning of disk resources– Reduced Fibre Channel port requirements– TOTALLY Open model gives users freedom to
choose protocols and storage
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Thin Provisioning
• Create a virtual volume to match size of data provisioning request
• Allocate a smaller amount of actual physical disk space– Default is 20% of virtual size
• Physical space allocated automatically as needed
• Reduces wasteful over provisioning of storage
• Saves disk space and power consumption
Data
Virtual
Thin provisioned SAN volume
Physical
A Green feature
200GB
800GB
“800 GB”
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Reduced Fibre Channel port counts
• Leverages Qlogic Multi-ID for 4GB HBAs• IPStor platform no longer requires standby FC ports for
active-active configurations• Significant savings on HBA ports, switch ports, cabling
and complexity for each deployed CDP or NSS device
FC Initiator port
FC Target port
FC Standby port
FC Multi-ID port
Small device, HA configuration Large device, HA configuration
Before
After
66% port reduction 8 HBA ports and 8 switch ports saved
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TOTALLY Open storage model
• TOTALLY Open support for any vendor/brand of disk array– Avoid vendor lock-in; better price negotiation
• Seamless, easy, zero-downtime migration of data between disk arrays– Easily deploy new, lower cost, smaller footprint,
energy efficient disk technologies when old equipment comes off lease
• Full protocol support: FC, iSCSI, Infiniband– Take advantage of new speed innovations– Use lower cost protocols for tier-2 and tier-3 data
A Green feature
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New and Enhanced Management
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New and Enhanced Management
• New and improved management tools lower operational costs and increase data protection– New Central Client Manager to centrally deploy and
monitor application server Agents– Enhanced centralized reporting to allocate storage
resources more efficiently and identify unprotected assets
– Numerous console enhancements reduce risk of operational mistakes
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Central Client Manager (CCM)
• New CCM management tool to install, update, monitor and configure SAN clients
• Works with SAN clients, Snapshot Agents, DiskSafe™ and FileSafe™ Agents
• Manage clients by groups– Enhances accuracy and consistency of policies across grouped
servers (e.g. Exchange group, SharePoint group, etc.)– Single action affects multiple servers to reduce management
time
• Easily identify clients running out of disk resources
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Central Client Manager console
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Enhanced reporting
• Consolidated replication status with properties– Easily identify unprotected assets
• Sort by replication status and map client source– Easily identify failed backups
• Historical disk usage statistics by application– Determine trends to allocate resources efficiently
• Scheduled reports with automatic emailing– Consistent record of resource usage and notice of failures
• Consolidated reports for several servers– Easily troubleshoot problem server
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Enhanced reporting sample
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Multiple console enhancements
• Webstart console automatically loads from NSS device– No need to install console application files
• Batch mode operations for updating properties and deleting objects
• iSCSI client creation with Mutual Chap Secret– Greatly reduces complexity of difficult iSCSI security
• Export of console data– Export console information into file
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FalconStor NSS Summary
• Plug-and-play iSCSI storage appliance for SMB• Enterprise-class virtualization and provisioning for large
organizations• TOTALLY Open™ solution enables IT to choose storage
vendors and devices– Virtualization and provisioning provides highest storage
utilization/efficiency at lowest cost– No vendor lock-in
• Multiple data protection features• Enhanced storage performance• Increased storage efficiency• Centralized management improves IT productivity
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