The document discusses NexentaStor 3.0 and its benefits in a virtual environment. It provides an overview of NexentaStor's features such as unlimited snapshots and clones, end-to-end data integrity, and synchronous and asynchronous replication. It also compares NexentaStor's functionality to NetApp, EMC, Sun, and EqLogic and highlights NexentaStor's superior price to performance ratio.

1. Benefits of
NexentaStor 3.0 in a
virtual environment
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2. Who is Server Storage Solutions or S3 ?
- Startup in 1994 as a box moving distributor
- First Intel Premium Provider in Benelux 1998
- First Supermicro distributor since 1999
- First Supermicro Service provider in the Benelux
- First Nexenta Certified Partner in Belgium
- Located in Lokeren - Industriepark E17
Our Mission
Consult - Sell - Serve server & storage solutions
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3. What do we sell ?
- Built to order Supermicro Servers
- NexentaStor Storage Solutions
- Storage Network infrastructure from LSI, Emulex, Qlogic, ...
- SERVICE!
Our Mission
Consult - Sell - Serve server & storage solutions

4. Who is Nexenta?
- Founded by Alex Aizman & Dmitry Yusupov who the iSCSI storage stack as well as the Open iSCSI
development community
- Combined components of Linux with OpenSolaris and Open storage resulted in Nexenta.
- Brought to market in mid-2008 - 2000 commercial deployments today - 1M downloads worldwide
- Present in California, New York, Russia, India & Germany to support all mayor time-zones
- Grows 60% in revenue per Q
Mission
Enterprise class open storage for everybody!
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5. What is Nexenta?
iSCSI NFS
CIFS - Unified Storage Solutions delivering iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FC (SAS 2.0 coming soon)
FC
and uses iSCSI, SAS 2.0, FC, Infiniband, AoE diskprotocol
iSCSI AoE
SAS
FC
InfiniBan
Superior storage for virtualized environments
Offers unmatched enterprise features at
70‐80% savings:
• End to end data integrity
• Unlimited file size & snaps
• Synchronous and ZFS replica@on
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6. What is Nexenta?
iSCSI NFS
CIFS - Unified Storage Solutions delivering iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FC (SAS 2.0 coming soon)
FC
and uses iSCSI, SAS 2.0, FC, Infiniband, AoE diskprotocol
Closed source
iSCSI AoE
SAS
FC
InfiniBan
Superior storage for virtualized environments
Open source
Offers unmatched enterprise features at ZFS: File system
70‐80% savings: ZFS • Universal: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC
• Performance: Variable block
checksums
• End to end data integrity not volumes
size + prefetch
• SoJware RAID that iden@fies
• Unlimited file size & snaps 128 bit and corrects data corrup@on
• Synchronous and ZFS replica@on
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7. What is Nexenta?
iSCSI NFS
CIFS - Unified Storage Solutions delivering iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FC (SAS 2.0 coming soon)
FC
and uses iSCSI, SAS 2.0, FC, Infiniband, AoE diskprotocol
Closed source
iSCSI AoE
SAS
FC
InfiniBan Debian / Ubuntu NexentaOS:
#1 community + packaging • Loves mul@ple cores
Superior storage for virtualized environments Solaris kernel • Boot level ZFS
mul@‐core + clustering •>1 million downloads
Open source
Offers unmatched enterprise features at ZFS: File system
70‐80% savings: ZFS • Universal: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC
• Performance: Variable block
checksums
• End to end data integrity not volumes
size + prefetch
• SoJware RAID that iden@fies
• Unlimited file size & snaps 128 bit and corrects data corrup@on
• Synchronous and ZFS replica@on
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8. What is Nexenta?
iSCSI NFS
CIFS - Unified Storage Solutions delivering iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, FC (SAS 2.0 coming soon)
FC
and uses iSCSI, SAS 2.0, FC, Infiniband, AoE diskprotocol
OpDonal modules
+ VM management + WORM + • Hardware independent
Closed source
Windows ‘Deloreon’ + Pomona • NAS/SAN/iSCSI/FC
• CDP via ZFS snapshots
iSCSI AoE Enterprise EdiDon • CDP via block sync
+ search + synch replica@on • Advanced graphics
SAS + ease of use + remote management
• Event based API
FC
InfiniBan Debian / Ubuntu NexentaOS:
#1 community + packaging • Loves mul@ple cores
Superior storage for virtualized environments Solaris kernel • Boot level ZFS
mul@‐core + clustering •>1 million downloads
Open source
Offers unmatched enterprise features at ZFS: File system
70‐80% savings: ZFS • Universal: SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FC
• Performance: Variable block
checksums
• End to end data integrity not volumes
size + prefetch
• SoJware RAID that iden@fies
• Unlimited file size & snaps 128 bit and corrects data corrup@on
• Synchronous and ZFS replica@on
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9. Nexenta Features
• Supports NAS and SAN • Internal RAID‐Z and spares
– NFS/CIFS and iSCSI/FC • VM integra@on
• Highly scalable capacity and – VMware, XEN and Hyper‐V
performance • Integrated Windows back up &
– Benchmarked at over 2,500MB sec ‐ 3x restore
the largest NTAP available
– Takes advantage of current technology • Cloud storage capabili@es
e.g. SSD for performance • Compression, Dedupe and in box
• Unlimited snapshots and clones virus scan
– With fully integrated search – Encryp@on in 2010
• Full ac@ve/ac@ve HA configura@on – All in band – not post process
– No single point of failure • End to end data integrity
• Heterogeneous block and file – No silent data corrup@on
replica@on • Thin provisioning
– Allows easy DR configura@ons • Non‐disrup@ve volume Grow/
– Synchronous or Asynchronous Shrink
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10. Nexenta Features
Functionality NexentaStor 3.0 NetApp EMC Sun EqLogic
Unified storage
NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FC
   
Storage without limits
Unlimited file sizes & snapshots
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Multi-level data integrity
Find and correct silent data corruption
 
Hybrid Storage Pooling
SSDs, SAS and SATA tightly  
integrated in the data path
Superior price / performance
and total cost of ownership 
Improved VM support  
Storage efficiency
•Primary & secondary storage dedupe 
• Compression
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11. NexentaStor in-line dedup v.s. compression
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12. NexentaStor Webbased GUI
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13. Nexenta Auto-Sync feature for Disaster Recovery
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14. Nexenta Data protection with Cluster HA
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15. Nexenta redundant failover with Simple HA
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16. Nexenta VMDC 3.0
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17. Nexenta VMDC 3.0 Features
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18. Nexenta Delorean Backup
Delorean is a high-powered Windows Backup, Restore and Search tool, with multiple advanced capabilities.
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19. Nexenta saves you money!

20. Some NexentaStor References Benelux
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21. Enterprise-Class Clustering, Commodity Based Cost
The SBB is optimized for mission-critical, enterprise-level storage applications, and features a fully redundant, fault-tolerant storage server system. It
is combined with NexentaStorTM running in a highly available clustered configuration to
create an enterprise-class, high performance, “Cluster-in-a-Box” solution.
Super Micro Key Features NexentaStor Unique Features
- In-line deduplicaton
- 3U Mission Critical Storage Server
- Unlimited snapshots and clones
- Dual Head Nodes with Shared Storage
- Copy-on-write snapshots - Thin provisioning
- Up to 16x 3.5" Hard Drives (2TB Drives Supported)
- Block and file based replication - Hybrid storage pools via automateduse of SSDs
- High Performance 6Gb/s SAS 2.0 Controllers
- Asynchronous and synchronous replication - Virtualization management
- Robust Data Availability with Shared Controllers
- Unlimited file size - Write once, read many
- Dual 1Gbps and Dual Intel 10GbE Connections Available
- End to end data integrity - Index-based search for snapshot volumes
- External SAS2 Connection for Cascading JBOD's
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22. Thank you!
Roel De Frene
Server Storage Solutions
roel@s3s.eu
www.s3s.eu
+32 9 261 53 10
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