With the massive growth of unstructured data in today’s enterprise environments, storage IT administrators are constantly seeking new ways to solve the performance and scalability challenges they face in their day-to-day operations. To resolve these challenges, they need a solution that will allow them to scale their data storage infrastructure reliably and elastically through a software-defined architecture.
VMware® Virtual SAN™ coupled with the Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform (MCSP) is the ideal solution to meet these pressing storage IT demands.
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Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform + VMware Virtual SAN
1. Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform +
VMware Virtual SAN
Next Generation Software-defined Storage
Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer
Rohit Goyal
rohit@maginatics.com
2. Evolving Enterprise CIO Storage Needs…
Needs:
1. Management Operations: Simplify day-to-day ops and
enable agile IT.
2. Data Management: Manage a large amount of
unstructured data at a fraction of the cost.
3. Accessibility: Securely enable a mobile and remote
workforce.
4. Lower TCO: Do more with less.
The Solution:
Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform + VMware Virtual SAN
Distributed, Scalable and Secure data storage in your data center and in the cloud.
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3. Why Maginatics for your data storage needs?
✓ Scalable
✓ Distributed
✓ Secure
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4. The Maginatics Difference
1. Built for the Cloud: scale-out
2. Distributed architecture
3. Enables file system as-a-service
4. Cloud-enabled NAS
5. Optimized for edge mobile access
6. Enterprise data security encryption
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5. The power of Maginatics + VMware Virtual SAN
Next-generation Software-defined Storage
Maginatics Cloud Storage Platform
• Built for the Cloud
• End-to-end security
• Modular and scalable
• Distributed
• Intelligent clients
• Mobile optimized
Enterprise Storage Solutions Today
• Monolithic
• Static
• Limited scale
• Poor edge performance
• No native mobility
• Inflexible
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6. VMware Virtual SAN Platform
Virtual SAN
…
vSphere
Client
Encrypted Encrypted Encrypted
Object Storage
SSD SSD Hard disks
Hard disks Hard disks
SSD
7. Maginatics + VMware Virtual SAN
Elastic virtual filer that runs on VMware Virtual SAN
• Modular/Scalable architecture
• Application compatibility
• Global namespace
• Strong data consistency
• Native WAN Optimization
• End-to-end security for mobile and remote access
New software-defined storage tier that extends the hypervisor
to pool both compute and direct attached storage.
• Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
• Resiliency across disk, server and network
• Distributed scale-out shared datastore
• Built-in fault tolerance
• Deeply integrated with vSphere
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8. Maginatics + VMware Virtual SAN
Next-generation storage solution
The power of the combined solution:
• Natively designed for software-defined data centers and cloud.
• Built-in failure tolerance.
• Multi-platform clients (e.g. Linux, Windows, Mac, iOS, Andriod).
• Interoperability with the VMware stack.
• Simplified operations and storage provisioning to enable agile IT.
• Improved productivity via remote access to centralized data.
• Seamless, secure, mobile access to data.
What a Maginatics + VMware Virtual SAN solution does for you?
• Improves network share performance and scalability.
• Reducing the costs of day-to-day operations.
• Highly available Virtual Filer spread across multiple hosts.
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9. Maginatics + VMware Virtual SAN
Benefits to the end customer and IT
Scale
Elasticity
Separation of Data,
Metadata Client endpoints
enables us to scale with the
object store
Lower TCO
Pay as you grow
Data Protection
Data security, integrity
and system resiliency
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Improved
Productivity
Data consistency across
locations
Simplified Operations
Ease of administration and
deployment
Maginatics +
VMware
Virtual SAN