Emprise® 5000

High-performance, low-cost
storage building block

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The Problem – Shrinking Budgets,
Growing Storage Requirements

With typical SANs:

• Costs are high
 You often pay for features you don’t need

• Performance potential is not reached

 Storage controllers and back-end switches clog performance
 High-level functions consume performance (and add complexity)

• Reliability could be better

 Disks fail – the more disks you have, the worse it gets
 Storage controllers and back-end switches also can fail

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Emprise 5000 SAN Architecture

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Emprise 5000 Highlights

• Built on patented Intelligent Storage Element

(ISE™) technology
 Better performance: More IOPS/MBps, linear performance scale
 Dense capacity: 30% less data center space, linear capacity scale,
efficient capacity utilization
 Greater reliability: More than 100x the reliability of traditional disk drives,
no more disk replacements

• Flexible storage building block: Attach one directly to a server

or many via a switch
• Easy to use, with minimal attention or tuning needed
• Like nothing else on the market, providing the lowest TCO of
any SAN-like system

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Intelligent Storage Element (ISE)
The heart of Emprise 5000 – unmatched reliability, performance, and scalability

Reliability
• Reduced heat & vibration
• Drive reconditioning
• Granular recovery
• Self-healing/sparing

Performance
• Integrated drive &
controller software
• Cache, RAID, and
drive management closer
to drives
• 1GB cache per ISE

Scalability
• 10-20x typical drive size
• Linear performance scale
• DAS to SAN

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Emprise 5000 vs. Traditional SANs

With Emprise 5000, you:

• Don’t pay for what you don’t need
 Emprise 5000 is all muscle, no fluff

• Get everything you pay for

 Emprise 5000 gives you full performance and capacity every time
you add a system

• Keep your data safe

 ISE technology dramatically reduces disk drive failures
 Removing controllers and back-end switches removes potential for
failure of those components

• Do it all for the lowest possible cost

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Don’t Pay for What You Don’t Need

• Typical SANs provide high-level functionality you may

not need – that adds complexity and cost
• Emprise 5000 is a no-frills, high-powered storage
building block
 Complete, self-enclosed virtual storage solution
 Easy incremental growth – just plug and play
 Industry-leading performance for the price – unrivaled solution
for Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Exchange, Web serving, etc.
 Up to 16 terabytes of ultra-reliable capacity in just 3U –
outstanding backup and archive target
 Unbeatable storage for use with virtual storage controllers
(logical volume managers) and other storage applications

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 Emprise 5000 Performance
Superior, multidimensional performance for all data types

• Updated, integrated Data Type

software (drives, Large Block/
controllers) Small Block/ Large Block/
Parallel
Random Access Streaming
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• Reduced processing
complexity (RAGS)
OLTP, mail servers, Data warehousing,
• Improved cache Video
Applications file/print servers, decision support
on demand
management database read-write systems

• Linear performance
scale
High IOPS, small Streaming data
Requirements High MBps
response times with no drop-outs
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Get Everything You Pay For

• Typical SANs limit true performance and scalability

 Performance is slowed by controllers and back-end switches
 Scalability is limited by how many drives you can effectively put
behind the controllers

• Emprise 5000 systems eliminate controllers and back-

end switches
 Data can flow freely at top speed
 Scalability is easy: Start with one Emprise 5000 system
connected to a server or connect multiple systems via a switch
 Performance and capacity scale linearly

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Keep Your Data Safe

• With typical SANs disk failure is inevitable and costly

 Drive failures cost you time – someone must replace the failed drive
 During rebuilds you are at risk of a second disk failure, causing data loss
or the need to recover from backup – plus performance often plummets
 Human errors, such as replacing the wrong disk, are all too common and
can lead to data loss
 Cost of replacing failed drives is built into most other vendors’
maintenance contracts

• The controllers and back-end switches in typical SANs

introduce additional components that can, and do, fail
• Emprise 5000, built on ISE technology, provides
reliability other storage systems can’t touch

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Emprise 5000 Reliability

Xiotech’s Tests
• 15 months
• 208 ISE containing
5,900 drives
• NO service events

Result
• More than 100x
the reliability of
traditional disk
drives
• Unprecedented
5-year warranty

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Save with the Lowest Storage TCO

Switch-connected Emprise 5000 systems cost

less to buy and much less to maintain than
any other SAN-like system
• 30% smaller footprint than traditional SAN systems
 Plus efficient power and cooling for lower energy bills

• No expensive controllers or high-end software features

 Save on the initial system cost
 Eliminate complexity and the need for costly vendor services

• Powerful performance with far less disk than most SANs

• Exclusive 5-year hardware warranty
 Over 5 years, service renewals add 30% to the cost of most storage
systems

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Emprise 5000 Features & Specs

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Emprise 5000 Features
Feature Description
Host Interfaces 2 FC (4 Gbps), direct- or switch-attached
Configuration Dual, active-active Managed Reliability Controllers
DataPac Types High-Performance (1.2TB), Performance (1.2TB),
Balanced (2.4TB, 3.6TB), Capacity (4.8TB, 8TB)
Capacity 1.2TB to 16TB
RAID ISE RAID 5, ISE RAID 10
LUNs (max) 128
Cache 1GB – Dynamic, mirrored, write-back and read-ahead
Battery-backed, 96-hour hold time
Replication (local) Snapshot (full-reserve)
Replication (remote) InMage DR-Scout (optional, requires appliance)
Management Web-based interface, SNMP, CLI
Serviceability Nondisruptive, hot-swap FRUs, redundant data paths
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Emprise 5000 DataPac Options
One electro-mechanical footprint regardless of drive form factor or interface!
High-
DataPac Tier Capacity Balanced Performance Performance
Capacity* 4.6TB / 8.0TB 2.4TB / 3.6TB 1.2TB 1.2TB

Speed 10,000 rpm / 15,000 rpm 15,000 rpm 15,000 rpm

7,200 rpm
Performance: Baseline 2x better 2.25x better 3.3x better
Throughput (IOPS)

Performance: Baseline 40% better 45% better 76% better

Bandwidth (MBps)
Special Features Optimized for Sequential & Hardware IOPS acceleration for
sequential, large performance high-access density
block, archival enhancements
Replication Snapshot Snapshot Snapshot

Monitoring & Capacity-related Capacity/ Performance-related

Reporting perform- related
* 1 terabyte = 1 trillion bytes
Each Emprise 5000 system supports up to 2 DataPacs, which can be from different tiers – some restrictions apply

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Emprise 5000 Software and Features

• LUNs
 Up to 128
 ISE RAID 5 or ISE RAID 10
 LUN expansion

• Multipathing
 Active-active access to LUNs from both Managed Reliability
Controllers
 Native OS multipathing support
 Microsoft MPIO driver for Windows 2003
 MP Tools for Red Hat, Linux, Cent OS

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Emprise 5000 Snapshot

• Instant image
• Maintained with copy-on-write
• Snaps are to same DataPac
• Full-Reserve
 Prevents oversubscription of DataPac
 Sparse-reserve and full copy (future feature)

• Number limited by DataPac capacity or system LUN limit

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Emprise 5000 Management
Browser-Based, SNMP, CLI

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Emprise 5000 / Emprise 7000 Comparison
Feature Emprise 5000 Emprise 7000
Capacity 1.2TB to 16TB 1.2TB to 1,024TB
DataPacs (max) 2 128
System Components Single ISE 1 to 64 ISE
Dual system controllers
Host Interfaces 2 FC (4 Gbps) Standard: 4 FC (4 Gbps)
Direct- or switch-attached Optional: 4 FC (4 Gbps) or 4
iSCSI (1 Gbps)
Private storage fabric
RAID ISE RAID 5, ISE RAID 10 ISE RAID 5
Emprise 7000 RAID 10
Replication (local) Snapshot (full-reserve) TimeScale Copy w/Snapshot
(sparse), TimeScale GeoRAID
Replication (remote) Native: Future Native: TimeScale GeoRep
Appliance: InMage DR-Scout Appliance: InMage DR-Scout
Management Web-based interface ICON Manager

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