"With Violin Memory, the data is ready, waiting for us whenever we need it." In this presentation you will learn the kind of performance advances and cost savings that result from using the Concerto 7000 All Flash Array, with comprehensive data services. The Concerto 7000 comprehensive data services provide * business continuity * data protection * data scaling

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Concerto 7000 All Flash Array
Comprehensive Data Services
Business in a Flash.
Eric Herzog
Chief Marketing Officer and SVP of Business Development
June 2014

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Global 500 Traction
9 of the Top 15 Largest IT Companies
4 of the Top 10 LargestU.S. Banks
350+ Fortune 500 Class Customers
Billions of Dollars Saved by Customers
NYSE
VMEM
Fortune Global 500 leaders
Web/Cloud, Telco, Banking, Retail, Government, Healthcare, etc.
1000s deployed
10s of Petabytes delivered
Wide Variety of Enterprise and Cloud Deployments/Workloads
Flash
Leader
3 of the Top 10 Largest Corporations
5 of the Top 10 Largest Telcos
3 of the Top 10 Largest Retailers
5 of the Top 5 Largest Software Companies

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Global Customer Success
Public Sector
& Education
Telecom Media &
Entertainment
Healthcare
& Medical
Retail Services &
Manufacturing
Finance & Technology
Insurance
ROI in >1 year with 90% reduction
in report time for its billing
application
“With Violin technology the data is
ready, waiting for us whenever
we need it”
ERP system is running 4X faster on
the Violin platform.

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Violin Flash Arrays Transform Your Data Center
Unmatched Operational Cost
Violin Density provides lower power, cooling and floor space
Remove caching & overprovisioning to reduce management expense
Near Instant Payback
Optimize servers and licenses: more workloads at less expense
Combine OPEX and CAPEX savings + Business Transformation
Flash is faster, easier, and pays for itself

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Example is from an EMEA global financial organization
Annual expense by category
After Violin All Flash Arrays were installed, next year’s spend changed dramatically
Multiple workloads = high ROI
Violin Flash Arrays Dramatically Reduce Costs
$ / year

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Violin Symphony
vMOS& Embedded Platform Software
Concerto™ and Windows Flash Array
3rdParty Storage
6000 All Flash Array
Maestro 2510
REST APIs &
3rdParty Management
Host Software &
Application Plug-Ins
Maestro
Enterprise Data Management
Data Movement Services
Windows Flash Array
Enterprise All Flash Storage Solution Portfolio
Concerto 7000 All Flash Array
Interface
Data Services
Hardware
“Violin has led the adoption of all-flash storage systems by both enterprises and service providers. Now, Violin is driving flash usage to encompass a wider range of applications. Data center operators need storage systems that not only meet ever-growing performance challenges, but also offer sophisticated data management and protection services.”
Tim Stammer, Senior Analyst 451 Group

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Comprehensive Data Services Software
Business Continuity
Data Efficiency
Data Scaling
Data Protection
Designed for Concurrent Mixed and Multiple Workloads
“Hardware architecture –hardware design -matters. To extract maximum performance the molecule to start with is the flash chip, not SSD. Enterprise-caliber data services matter…It will actually change the way you do business.”
ArunTaneja, Founderandconsulting analyst
The TanejaGroup

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Business Continuity
Metro Area
Data Center
Global

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Comprehensive Data Services Software
Business Continuity
Remote asynchronous replication
Synchronous replication
-Local/Metro
Zero RPO and RTO for stretch clusters
Consistency Groups for replication
Automated App DR management
WAN optimized replication
Data Efficiency
Snapshots (app consistent, writable)
Thin Provisioning
Thin Clones
Data Scaling
Scale-up to 280TB raw
Capacity pooling across shelves
Online expansion of capacity
Online LUN expansion
Single name space across shelves
Data Protection
Snapshots (app & crash consistent)
Consistency Groups for Snapshots
Continuous data protection
Transparent LUN mirroring
Backup app integration
“The storage market has always been plagued by an over emphasis on dollar per gigabyte. Now it's about the cost per data center. An all-flash array is a negative cost to the CIO when a solution brings together a one-of-a-kind hardware architecture and advanced software features to sustain enterprise workload performance while reducing hardware, software licenses and power.”
Greg Wong, Founder,
Principal Analyst Forward Insights

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Feature
Details
Storage Virtualization
Thin Provisioning, LUN expansion, multiple shelf single name space
Snapshot
Crash consistent snaps
Application consistent snaps
LUN group snaps
1000 snaps per LUN
Consistency Groups (128LUNs per group, best practice: <50)
RemoteSite Data Replication
Continuousand Periodic-by LUN for applicationcontrol
Local,Metro, WAN
WAN optimized traffic: Compression/reduction/bandwidth throttling to save on network costs
Encryption for Replication traffic
Clone
Thin Clone
Thick Clone
DR Automation Framework
Automated server recovery
Comprehensive Data Services Software

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Feature
Details
Scale Up
Dynamically scale to 280TB raw
Single name space across full scale up capacity
Dynamically scale LUNs
Dynamically utilize new capacity for thin LUNs and snaps
Continuous Data Protection
Copy on First Write (more efficient than continuous snapshots)
Eco-SystemIntegration
VAAI VMware ESX
SRM-VMware SiteReplication Manager
SMI-S Windows 2012
StretchMetro Cluster
Transparent Failover/Failback between two sites (upto 100km)
Mirroring
Transparentmirroring of LUNs between two storage devices
Near-ZeroRPO and RTO
Zero RPO and RTO
For replication
For stretch clusters
Eliminates the backup window, enables recovery of all files received
Comprehensive Data Services Software

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Concerto 7200 Array: Sample Deployment Overview
Replicas
Promotion for disaster recovery
DRServer
Datacenter
Disaster Recovery Site
Application consistency
Snapshot Agents
Thin, Snap, Clone, VAAI
Virtual disk
Scale up
Stretch Cluster
Replication (Continuous, Periodic)
Snapshot Agents
Snapshot Agents
Snapshot Director
IP
Multiple DBs or
DB + email + ERP + CRM

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Flash Fabric Architecture™
Performance
-Over 500K sustained IOPS at sub .5ms latency with mixed, heavy workloads using MLC Flash
-Automatic Quality of Service
Density
-70TB raw in 3RUs and low power (500W/RU)
Resiliency
-Automated, transparent GBC in the background without application performance impact
-Designed for long flash life with array-wide flash management, wear leveling and vRAID
64 Violin Intelligent Memory Modules –All FlashStriping across entire system
RAID Controller
RAID Controller
RAID Controller
RAID Controller
PCIeSwitched Storage Fabric
Array Manager
Built for Concurrent
Mixed & Multiple Workloads
“We now see the tipping point for all flash array adoption. Without sophisticated data services, most large enterprises hesitated to make the switch to support the entire business on flash. Now with Violin’s Concerto, these workload heavy organizations now have good reason to consider making the leap into an all-silicon data center for concurrent mixed workloads.”
David Hill,
Principal Mesabi Group

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Performance, Density & Resilience
Switched Flash Fabric Architecture
-Heart of the system
-4x vRAIDControl Modules (VCM)
Array control modules
-Controls flash fabric
-System level PCIeswitching
Active/Active Array Managers
-Storage virtualization
-LUN configuration
-Fully redundant hot-swappable hardware
-Fans, power, gateways, controllers
-No Downtime with non-disruptive upgrades (NDU) for firmware and software
SWITCHED
FABRIC
24 to 64
Hot Swappable
VIMMs

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Comprehensive Data Services Software
Mixed and multiple heavy workloads
Performance to transform your data center and your business
Up to 280TB raw capacity-ALL FLASH
Upgrades from 6000 available to 7000
Concerto 7000 All Flash Array
Concerto 7000
“Users are looking to go beyond tactical deployments that solve the need of a single application and therefore functionality like non-disruptive software and hot swappable components are essential to prevent down time. Violin Memory has combined its home grown data management features with its flash array architecture to do just that.”
Stu Miniman, Principal Research Contributor Wikibon

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Thank You
Business in a Flash.