technology partner nexenta and dell #1 software-defined storage and the #1 server platform combine...
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Technology Partner
Nexenta and Dell #1 Software-Defined Storage and the #1 Server Platform combine to Power your CloudLower TCO. SSD/HDD/Hybrid. Any Protocol. Any Workload.
100% Software. Total Freedom. All Love.
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Software-Defined StorageAchieving high value IT benefits with Dell-Nexenta solutions
CapEx Reduction
OpEx Reduction
Improved
Security
HA/Resilient
IT Service
Delivery
• Eliminate high cost legacy storage hardware.
• Higher utilization rates with inline compression/dedup.
• Streamline & unify management of all storage resources.
• High level of end-to-end data integrity.
• Single controller or active/active in HA pairs.
• Eliminate forklift adds, upgrades, migrations.• HW agnostic, hypervisor agnostic, protocol
agnostic, application agnostic, cloud agnostic.
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Strategic Partnership – Dell and NexentaNexenta – Inventor and Global Market Share Leader of 100%
SDS
• NexentaStor – open source OS, OpenZFS file system
• NexentaConnect for VSAN – file services for VMware VSAN &
EVO:RAIL
Dell | Nexenta Joint Engineering • Global Support through Dell
• Nexenta is a Dell-certified Technology Partner
• Tested/Validated Reference Architectures
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NexentaConnect for VSANKey Features
Integrated File Services• File: 10GbE NFS/SMB 3• SSD, HDD, or any hybrid combination• Fully integrated into vCenter
Performance & Capacity• Improves VSAN I/O performance up to
10x• Memory caching, inline
dedup/compression
Reporting and Analytics• Performance and health monitoring• Capacity reporting
Scale• Unlimited file sizes• Unlimited file and mount point level
snapshots/clones
HA & DR• 2 node active/active cluster• Snapshot, replication, backup for DR
Data Protection• Improves data integrity during
stresses
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NexentaStorKey Features
Unified Storage• File: 10GbE NFS/SMB 3.0• Block: 16Gbps FC/10GbE iSCSI • SSD, HDD, or any hybrid combination
HA & DR• 2 node active/active• Periodic async replication
Data Protection• ZFS powered end-to-end data integrity• Software based RAID 1, RAID N+1, N+2,
N+3
Scale• Unlimited file size• From 10’s of TBs to 2PB • Unlimited snapshots/clones
Performance & Capacity• Thin provisioning• 1TB dynamic read cache per head• Inline compression/dedup
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Customer Spotlight – M&EComcast Labs Innovation Center, Sunnyvale, CA
Create digital apps for connecting people to entertainment and information.
Use Case: Software lifecycle development, QA, testing;
need high performance storage for graphics.
Competition: EMC Isilon
Why Dell-Nexenta: Replaced EMC for two
reasons- price/performance advantage and data integrity of the ZFS feature set.
Solution: NexentaStor on Dual Dell R720 in HA
configuration fronting dual Dell MD1200s with 18 x 900GB SAS
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Customer Spotlight - Cloud/HostingWipro, Seattle, WA
US division of one of the largest global IT service providers
for consulting, integration, and managed/hosting services.
Use Case: storage backend for 2 new offerings -
Live Workplace - a desktop-as-a-service using Citrix XenDesktop and XenMobile; Open Source Services - integration and managed services. Live Workplace started with 14K VDI seats, across 4 sites, 2PB storage.
Competition: HP StoreVirtual
Solution: Dell R720 fronting Dell MD3060e
Why Dell-Nexenta: Lowest cost/seat, best scalability, Dell support
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Customer Spotlight – Government/ResearchU.S. Government, Washington, DC
Office of Financial Research (OFR), division of the Treasury
Dept.
Use Case: Storage backends for 3 different research projects
- home directories (NAS), backup target for another, and a cluster to be deployed in a DR site.
Competition: EMC and NetApp
Why Dell-Nexenta: Lowest TCO, allowed the government to
select best fit hardware platform for scalability. ZFS offered superior data integrity, data decay protection for their sensitive records.
Solution: Dual Dell R720 in HA configuration fronting dual Dell
MD3060e with 672TB raw storage.
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Contact us for more information
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