Symantec announced enhancements to Symantec FileStore N8300, the latest version of its clustered, network attached storage appliance, designed to help customers address the business challenges associated with building out virtual environments and cloud storage, managing large volumes of data and controlling the associated storage costs. Certified with VMware, FileStore N8300 is seamlessly integrated with VMware vCenter Server, and enables organizations to optimize storage costs associated with virtual machine sprawl and rapidly provision servers and virtual desktops, through efficient cloning and de-duplication of virtual machine images.
2. Summary - FileStore N8300 5.7 New Features
• Virtualization:
– Support for efficient cloning and storage of VMware images
– Integrated with vCenter and is VMware certified
• De-duplication:
– Primary block-based storage de-duplication
– Leverages recent Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 code
• Robustness:
– Enhancements to replication and failover capabilities
– Added automated failover capabilities
• Available Now in U.S., Canada, U.K., Italy and Middle East
• Press Release: October 19, 2011 – VMworld EMEA
• Pricing Starts at $50,000
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3. NAS Storage Market Is Large and Still Growing Rapidly
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• NAS storage market is $5B+, with 5-year CAGR of 10.7% (IDC)
• Scale-out storage driven by mega trends: data growth, virtualization, cloud (5-year CAGR:
45.3%, IDC)
• Gartner “Visionary” product – March 2011
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4. Data Center in Transition
Virtualization Cloud Computing Data Growth
New workloads require new storage technologies
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5. Storage Challenges for the Next-Generation Datacenter
Dedup High Availability
Centralized Data Protection
Tiering
Anti-Virus
What do customers
want?
System Modularity Smaller Backup Windows
WORM Encryption
Datacenter Consolidation
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7. New FileStore N8300 5.7 Features
• Virtualization:
– Support for efficient cloning and storage of VMware images
– Integrated with vCenter and is VMware certified
• De-duplication:
– Primary block-based storage de-duplication
– Leverages recent Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 code
• Robustness:
– Enhancements to replication and failover capabilities
– Added automated failover capabilities
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8. A Unique Combination of Performance and Features
Performance Security and Availability Cost Effectiveness
• Built on affordable hardware
• Industry-leading • Integrated Symantec data
• VMware integration to
performance protection and anti-virus
streamline operations
• Independently scale • End-to-end archiving with
• Dedup and tiering reduce
performance and capacity WORM
storage costs
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10. Key Use Cases for FileStore
Cloud Storage
Archiving
VMware Storage
Archiving
Cloud Storage
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11. VMware Storage: Store VMware Data on FileStore
Key Benefits
View Client
• Scale performance quickly
to meet any VMware vSphere FileStore
VMDKs stored on
performance challenge Client plugins
NFS mounts
• Rapidly provision
users/servers with
VMware console plugins
Cache common data for fast access
• Optimize capacity with
deduplication FileStore N8300
• Overcome boot-storm Scale up to 16 nodes
challenges with page
caching
VM.vmdk
• Plus: VMware certified Deduplicate common data
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12. Archiving: Enterprise Vault + FileStore
Exchange SharePoint
Key Benefits Archive data
collected from
sources
• Simple single archiving
solution from Symantec
• Secure storage solution Symantec Archiving Solution
with: Symantec Enterprise Vault
– Partition Secure Archive stored on Index stored on
Notification (PSN) CIFS CIFS or FC
– WORM
FileStore N8300
PSN ensures
redundant data
– Full data protection always available
WORM option enables
• Single throat-to-choke immutability
support from Symantec
Replicate data to other sites
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13. Summary - FileStore N8300 5.7 New Features
• Virtualization:
– Support for efficient cloning and storage of VMware images
– Integrated with vCenter and is VMware certified
• De-duplication:
– Primary block-based storage de-duplication
– Leverages recent Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 code
• Robustness:
– Enhancements to replication and failover capabilities
– Added automated failover capabilities
• Available Now in U.S., Canada, U.K., Italy and Middle East
• Press Release: October 19, 2011 – VMworld EMEA
• Pricing Starts at $50,000
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15. Exceptional Performance at the Right Cost
Up to 16 nodes for extreme
performance
• Industry-leading
performance
Cluster Heads
FileStore
– #2 NFS & CIFS performance N8300
– #1 performance by $/IOP
– Linear performance scaling
• Modular expansion:
Disk Arrays
– Independently scale
performance and capacity
– Never outgrow your N8300
• Redundant active-active Scalable controller architecture for
configuration high capacity
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16. Unparalleled Security and Availability
Campus Clustering Integrated NetBackup
Site A
Site B
Create highly available storage environment Improve performance with reduced backup window
Integrated Symantec Anti-virus WORM
Secure storage with Symantec Anti-Virus End-to-end archiving with Enterprise Vault
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17. Cost-Reduction Technologies
SmartTier Storage Tiering VMware Optimizations
Intelligently move files to lower cost disk and back Manage FileStore from vSphere; rapidly provision VMs
Deduplication Modular Deployment
Reduce capacity under management Grow storage as needed with modular parts
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