Cheat Sheet

Symantec FileStore N8300 Cost-effective NAS for cloud and virtual workloads
What is it?
Symantec FileStore is a highly scalable, high performance clustered Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution that supports the most-demanding workloads such as Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Media, Information Management media, healthcare PACS systems and high performance computing. Built on the industry's highest performance and highly reliable file system*, Veritas Storage Foundation, FileStore is modularly scalable in terms of either performance or storage capacity. FileStore N8300 is a rack-mounted appliance engineered for granular, economic and non-disruptive scalability. *IDC Report: Worldwide Storage Software 2011-2015 Forecast and 2010 Vendor Shares: Virtualization, Efficiency, and Cloud Adoption Drive Continued Spending. Storage tiering important. Virtualization or virtual desktop infrastructure. Cloud Archiving Media Healthcare 5. What t types ypes of workloads are you planning to use your NA NAS S solution f for? or?

Key Features
Scaling Supports up to 16 clustered nodes, 256 TB file systems and up to 1.4 PB total storage with nearlinear performance. Enterprise V Vault ault Inte Integration gration Integration with Symantec Enterprise Vault and ideal infrastructure for endto-end archiving. Inte Integrated grated NetBackup Support Integrated Symantec NetBackup SAN client, NDMP. VMware inte integration gration vSphere plug-in supports space-optimized cloning of VDI and server virtual images; deduplicated caching handles boot-storm challenges efficiently. Deduplication and T Tiering iering Supports variable block storage deduplication (post-processing) and dynamic movement of data based on upon accesses patterns. Quick Specs: N8300 Clus Clustered tered NA NAS S Engine Supported Number of Nodes: 2 to 16 Expansion: OnlineCluster Mode: Active Active Cache Memory: 8 16 GB per node Client Interfaces: 4x 1GbE or 2x 10GbE per node Storage Unit: FC SAN Capacity: Up to 1.4 PB FC disk capacity: 8 x 4 Gb FC SAS disk capacity: 450 GB (15K RPM) SATA disk capacity: 2 TB (7.2K RPM) Power Consumption (2 nodes, with 24x1 TB SATA drives): 880W typical, at 208-240V Array-based RAID: Depending on model, RAID levels available are 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 Redundancy protection: Fully redundant Fibre Channel, controller module, power-fan module, mirrored battery-backend cache, and disk enclosures Backup: Integrated Symantec NetBackup SAN Client NDMP Replication: Included file-level asynchronous, file-based replication between FileStore clusters Connectivity: Provides connectivity to front-end clients via NFS, CIFS, HTTP, and FTP protocols AC: 200-240V

How can I order it?

Please visit PartnerNet to view the Pricing and Licensing guide for FileStore. You can also contact your channel representative for additional information.

Ask your customer

1. How are you managing your uns unstructured tructured data? What to listen for? Unstructured data is growing at a rapid pace Storage budget is declining. Target workloads: Virtualization (virtual desktop infrastructure), Cloud, Archiving, Media. Storage tiering key strategy to handle data growth. Cost of current NAS solutions troubling. Integrated software/hardware solutions appealing.

2. What are your challenges in scaling out your NA NAS S solution? What to listen for? Dynamic scaling not possible. Operational complexity to go from 10s of TBs to 100s of TBs or PB of storage. Limitations on # of nodes that can scaled. Current NAS solution not ideal for archiving or WORM compatible. Increasing need for more storage to support 100s of virtual machines.

Hardware

3. What are your plans f for or implementing a virtual desktop en environment? vironment? What to listen for? As we run out of storage. Delay in booting up multiple virtual machines at once. Evaluating solutions now. Concerned with performance impact of users. Concerned with security. SPECsfs benchmark an important indicator. Integrated archiving, backup and anti-virus is important. Integrated replication technology is important. Competitive per TB pricing.

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4. How are you ev evaluating aluating your NA NAS S solutions?

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Cheat Sheet

Symantec FileStore N8300 Cost-effective NAS for cloud and virtual workloads
Competition
Vs. NetApp NetApp (F (FA AS-7 mode) Expensive difficult to convince customer of purchase price. Limited to 16TB filesystem, weak performance. Protocols are priced separately. Based on architecture over 10 years old. Expensive difficult to convince customer of purchase price. No WORM or metro cluster features. No n-way failover. Scale-out performance tax. Expensive difficult to convince customer of purchase price. Hits capacity at 4 or 6 nodes. Single node file systems only. Complicated to use/deploy. virtual infrastructures with rapid provisioning of servers and virtual desktops and efficient cloning and boot up of virtual machines, all managed through VMware vCenter. Symantec ApplicationHA provides high availability for business-critical applications through application visibility and control in VMware, Solaris LDOM, IBM LPAR, and Red Hat KVM environments. ApplicationHA monitors the leading applications in the virtual environments. With VMware, ApplicationHA is integrated with VMware HA, vMotion, and Site Recovery Manager and can be managed through vCenter. ApplicationHA integrates with Veritas Cluster Server from Symantec to provide application monitoring and live migration abilities in LDOM, LPAR, and KVM virtual environments.

Vs. NetApp (F (FA AS-10 mode)

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Vs. EMC (VNX)

Cross-selling and up-selling opportunities

Symantec Enterprise V Vault ault is an archiving platform that bridges the gap between legal and IT by adding intelligence to the way organizations store, manage, and discover information. As the industry's most widely-deployed archiving solution, Enterprise Vault deduplicates information, reduces backup and storage costs, and enables a repeatable and defensible discovery process. Symantec NetBackup simplifies the protection of your information-driven enterprise by automating advanced technologies and standardizing operations across applications, platforms, and virtual environments. That means being able to protect completely, store efficiently, recover anywhere, and manage centrally across heterogeneous operating systems and storage hardware, including tape and disk. Symantec VirtualStore VirtualStore: Symantec VirtualStore helps you leverage your existing storage investments and rein in storage costs associated with virtual machine sprawl. VirtualStore solves the storage challenges of

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Additional resources
Full product details: http://www.symantec.com/business/filestore. SKUs, licenses, and ordering details: https://partnernet.symantec.com. Symantec N8300 Full Datasheet: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/fact_sheets/bdatasheet_filestoreN8300_21169516-1.pdf.

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