vFilO Ideal Customer Profile and

Deployment Bundles

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 Ideal Industry, Company, Job Title
• Industry-independent (any vertical requiring a global file system for file
sharing and collaboration)

• Mid-sized and large organizations with a minimum 50 TB of managed

capacity of active data on NAS devices and file servers (preferably
Linux/NFS environments)

• NAS/file server administrator, storage architect, IT manager/director,

CIO/CTO

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 Key Uses Cases: Time to Engage
• Leverage a global (or distributed) file system that creates a unified
namespace across file shares for improved collaboration between sites
• Pool/load balance resources from distributed NAS and file servers
• Need to replicate data between disparate filers to enhance BC/DR readiness
and response
• Switch workloads to remote sites during peak loads and planned downtime
• Plan to refresh or expand NAS/file storage infrastructure
• Interested in lower cost object or cloud storage for seldom used files
• Automate data placement across tiers of storage

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 Discovery Questions
• What steps do you go through each time one of your filers/NAS systems runs out of
space or has to be replaced? What impact does it have on day-to-day operations?
• How do you address data migration when one of or your filers/NAS systems has to
be replaced?
• How do you control where applications and users put new files – especially when
some filers are already overloaded?
• How much of your capacity is tied up with old, infrequently accessed data?
• What role do you see for object/cloud storage in your organization?
• How many different file servers / NAS devices do you employ? Spread over how
many locations?
• How do applications determine which filers/NAS systems to access? What problems
arise when those locations change because a folder has been relocated?

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 When is vFilO a Good Fit vs. It’s Not
 NAS aggregation – pool and load  Not a replacement for existing
balance resources from multiple NAS standalone NAS system (NetApp,
devices and NFS filers under one Dell EMC Isilon, etc.)
namespace

 Scale-out NAS with policy-based  Don’t focus on SMB

movement of files between different environments. NFS is a better fit
filers for vFilO.

 Multi-site global file systems (GFS) –  Qualify out small installations

enabling better file sharing and that cannot justify even minimum
collaboration between locations hardware requirements of vFilO
(either on-prem or hybrid cloud)

Best opportunities are in distributed NAS and NFS filer environments

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 vFilO Feature Overview
CONSUMERS

END USERS APPLICATION & WEB SERVICES DEVICES

ACCESS METHODS

NFS SMB

OPERATION & INSIGHTS DATA SERVICES COMMAND / CONTROL

EXTENSIBLE MULTI-SITE
ACTIVE ARCHIVE ACCESS CONTROLS
METADATA GLOBAL NAMESPACE

DATA MIGRATION PARALLEL NFS ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION

CLI
HISTORICAL / POOLING, ASSIMILATION
AUTOMATED DATA PLACEMENT
REAL-TIME CHARTS OF NAS/FILE SERVERS
CONSOLE
HEALTH & DEDUPLICATION /
SELF-SERVICE UNDELETE
PERFORMANCE GRAPHS COMPRESSION*
FILE GRANULARITY
ALERTS SNAPSHOTS / CLONES ENCRYPTION*

PROVISIONING SYNCHRONOUS MIRRORING LOAD BALANCING PLUG-INS

SUPPORTED STORAGE

FILE OBJECT BLOCK CLOUD

*FOR INACTIVE FILES PLACED ON OBJECT/CLOUD STORAGE

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 Software Components
ANVIL
• 2 major components • Metadata store
• Meta data service (ANVIL)
• Schedules jobs
• Data Service (DSX)
• Management and API
• Linux-based end-point
• Bare-metal or VM deployment METADATA
METADATA SERVICES
SERVICES

DSX
• Data Portal
• SMB 1,2,3 / NFS 3, 4.2,
CSI (K8s)
NAS • Cloud Connector
DAS
OBJECT • Data Mover
CLOUD AUTONOMIC
AUTONOMIC DATA SERVICES
DATA SERVICES • Data Store

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 System Requirements
Enterprise Scale Configuration Mid-Market Configuration*
 Metadata
Virtual Machine Bare-Metal Virtual Machine Bare-Metal
Service
24 vCPU 24+ cores 8 vCPU 8+ cores
CPU Cores Intel based 2.5+ GHz Intel based 2.5+ GHz
processor(s) processor(s)
Memory 64+ GB. 1 GB / vFilO Share 64+ GB. 1 GB / vFilO Share 16+ GB. 1 GB / vFilO Share 16+ GB. 1 GB / vFilO Share
200 GB 200 GB 200 GB 200 GB
Boot disk Hardware RAID recommended Hardware RAID recommended
(2x) 400 GB backed by (2x) 400 GB SSD (2x) 400 GB backed by (2x) 400 GB
Additional disks SSDs Supports up to 200 NVMe recommended SSDs Supports up to 100 NVMe recommended
million files Hardware RAID is not needed million files Hardware RAID is not needed
(2x) 10 GbE. One link is (2x) 10 GbE. One link is (2x) 10 GbE. One link is (2x) 10 GbE. One link is
Network adapter dedicated to HA services dedicated to HA services dedicated to HA services dedicated to HA services

 Data Service Virtual Machine Bare-Metal Virtual Machine Bare-Metal

8+ vCPU 8+ cores 4+ vCPU 4+ cores
CPU Cores Intel based 2.4+ GHz Intel based 2.4+ GHz
processor(s) processor(s)
Memory 16+ GB 16+ GB 8+ GB 8+ GB
100 GB 100 GB 100 GB 100 GB
Boot disk Hardware RAID recommended Hardware RAID recommended
Only needed when Data Only needed when Data service Only needed when Data Only needed when Data service
service instance is providing instance is providing additional service instance is providing instance is providing additional
Additional disks additional storage storage
additional storage storage
Network adapter (1x) 10 GbE (1x) 10 GbE (1x) 10 GbE (1x) 10 GbE
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 Bundles List
Virtual Deployment, SMB Bare-Metal, Enterprise

2 Nodes 4 Nodes
Hybrid
Capacity: 100TB Capacity: 100TB

2 Nodes 4 Nodes
All-Flash
Capacity: 50 or 100TB Capacity: 50 or 100TB

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 Deployment Example
• Virtual Deployment • Bare-Metal
Mgt / data MDS1
Mgt / data

Data Portal x 2
MDS1 DSX1 MDS2 DSX2
MDS2

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Heartbeat

DSX1 DSX2

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 Virtual Deployment - Hybrid
• 2U x 2 Nodes, Spec per node list as below:
• Processor (2 x Socket)
• Intel Xeon Silver 4215 (8C 2.5GHz) / 4309Y (8C 2.8GHz)
• Memory: 128GB
• Anvil 24GB / DSX 64GB (Caching)
• Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 960GB x 2
• Anvil: 200GB+400GB (meta-data) / DSX: 100GB
• RAID controller (4GB Cache) x 1
• Data drives
• 3.5” 37.68TB Read-Intensive SATA 6Gb SSD x 4 (R5, Tier1: 20.73TB Usable) + 3.5” 6TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb
HDD x 7 (R5, Tier2, 32.4TB Usable)
• vFilO 50TB Active License
• Network: 10GbE x 4
• Hypervisor: Windows Standard 2019 or VMWare Essential Plus

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 Virtual Deployment – All-Flash
• 2U x 2 Nodes, Spec per node list as below:
• Processor (2 x Socket)
• Intel Xeon Silver 4215 (8C 2.5GHz) / 4309Y (8C 2.8GHz)
• Memory: 128GB
• Anvil 24GB / DSX 64GB (Caching)
• Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 960GB x 2
• Anvil: 200GB+400GB (meta-data) / DSX: 100GB
• RAID controller (4GB Cache) x 1
• Data drives
• 2.5” 1.92/3.84TB Read-Intensive SATA 6Gb SSD x 16 (R5x2, 24.19/48.38 per node)
• vFilO 50/100TB Active License
• Network: 10GbE x 4
• Hypervisor: Windows Standard 2019 or VMWare Essential Plus

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 Bare-Metal Deployment – Hybrid
• Anvil Node (1U x86) • DSX Node (2U x86)
• Processor (2 x Socket) • Processor (1 x Socket)
• • Intel Xeon Silver 4215 (8C 2.5GHz) /
Intel Xeon Gold 5215 (10C 2.5GHz) /
4309Y (8C 2.8GHz) 4309Y (8C 2.8GHz)
• Memory: 128GB • Memory: 128GB
• Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 256GB x 2 • Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 256GB x 2
• Meta drives: 800GB Mainstream SAS • RAID Controller (4GB Cache) x 1
12Gb SSD x 2 • Data drives:
• Network: 10GbE x 4 • 3.5” 7.68TB Read-Intensive SATA 6Gb SSD
x 4 (R5, Tier1: 20.7TB Usable) + 3.5” 6TB
7.2K SATA 6Gb HDD x 7 (R5, Tier2, 32.4TB
Usable)
• vFilO 100TB Active license
• Network: 10GbE x 4
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 Bare-Metal Deployment – All Flash
• Anvil Node (1U x 2 Nodes) • DSX Node (2U x 2 Nodes)
• Processor (2 x Socket) • Processor (1 x Socket)
• Intel Xeon Gold 5215 (10C 2.5GHz) / • Intel Xeon Silver 4215 (8C 2.5GHz) /
4309Y (8C 2.8GHz) 4309Y (8C 2.8GHz)
• Memory: 128GB • Memory: 128GB
• Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 256GB x 2 • Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 256GB x 2
• Meta drives: 800GB Mainstream • RAID Controller (4GB Cache) x 1
NVMe PCIe 3.0 x 2 • Data drives:
• Network: 10GbE x 4 • 2.5” 7.68TB Read-Intensive SATA 6Gb
SSD x 16 (R5x2, 96.76TB Usable per
node, Total Aggregate = 193.52TB)
• vFilO 200TB Active License
• Network: 10GbE x 4
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 Competitive field: vFilO Advantages

• Multi-site global namespace without moving data

• Quick time to value (operation/assimilation)
• Business aligned / policy-driven data placement
• Seamless integration with object/cloud storage
• File level granularity

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 vFilO Pricing

ACTIVE DATA INACTIVE DATA

NAS, FILE SERVERS, & Deduped & Compressed in

DSX STORAGE S3 OBJECT / CLOUD STORAGE

• Based on capacity consumption in Terabytes (TBs)

• 1-year and 3-year subscriptions include support
• 10 TB minimum order in 1 TB granularity
• Volume discounts
• Scale data services (DSX) nodes as needed @ no extra charge
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 Capacity Under Management

30 TBs

25 TBs 20 TBs 10 TBs 5 TBs

= 60 TBs
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 • 2U Server
Virtual Deployment - Others
• Processor (2 x Socket)
• Intel Xeon Silver 4215 (8C 2.5GHz) / 4309Y (8C 2.8GHz) Mgt / data Mgt / data
• Memory: 128GB
• Anvil 24GB (Up to 24 shares) / DSX 64GB (Caching) Data Portal x 2

•
MDS1 MDS2
Boot drives: M.2 SATA SSD 960GB x 2(Mirror) DSX1 DSX2

• Anvil: 200GB+400GB (meta-data) / DSX: 100GB

Hypervisor Hypervisor
• RAID controller (4GB Cache) x 1
• Data drives Heartbeat

• 3.5” 1.92TB/3.84TB/7.68TB Read-Intensive SATA 6Gb SSD x 4 (R5, Tier1:

5.18/10.36/20.7TB Usable) + 3.5” 2TB/4TB/6TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb HDD x 8 (R5, Tier2,
12.6/25.2/37.8TB Usable)
• 17.78 (35TB) / 35.56 (71TB) / 58.5TB (117TB) per DSX volume (aggregated size)
• Network: 10GbE x 4
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