Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer's Guide the Insider’S Guide to Evaluating Enterprise Midrange Arrays

2014 ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY BUYER’S GUIDE

THE INSIDER’S GUIDE TO EVALUATING ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAYS

By Jerome Wendt and Ken Clipperton

www.dcig.com

TableTable of of Contents Contents

1 Introduction 18 Enterprise Midrange Array Models 19 Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA 47 IceWEB Unified Storage 3 Executive Summary High Availability ZFS SAN Appliance Model 7000 20 Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8GB FC 48 Imation Nexsan E60 5 How to Use this Enterprise 21 Aberdeen XDAS iSD41 49 Imation Nexsan NST5500 Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide 22 Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G 50 Infortrend EonStor 23 Aberdeen XDAS T42F DS B24F-R2852 24 Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC 51 Infortrend EonStor 6 Disclosures 25 Celeros SmartSAN XT235-iSCSI DS S16E-R2152-6 1GBE 26 Dell Compellent SC8000 52 Infortrend EonStor 6 Enterprise Midrange Array DS S16E-R2251 10GbE 27 Dell EqualLogic Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria PS6100/PS6110 Series 53 Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC 28 Dell EqualLogic 7 The 8-Step Process Used to Score PS6500/PS6510 Series 54 Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC and Rank Enterprise Midrange Arrays 29 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series 55 Infortrend ESVA E60-2230 30 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series 56 Infortrend ESVA F75-2830 8 DCIG Comments and Thoughts 31 Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series 57 NEC M500 on Enterprise Midrange Array… 32 EMC VNX5700 58 NetApp E2600-12 8 Value of Included Software 33 EMC VNX7500 59 NetApp E5460 8 Automation 34 EMC VNXe3300 60 NetApp FAS3250 9 VMware Integration 35 Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150 61 Oracle Pillar Data Systems 36 Hitachi Data Systems HUS VM 9 Flash Memory Support Axiom 600 37 HP EVA P6550 9 Reliability 62 Oracle Sun ZFS Storage ZS3 38 HP StoreEasy 5000 9 Performance and Pricing 63 Overland Storage 39 HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage SnapSAN S5000 10 Observations and Recommendations 40 HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 64 Overland Storage Regarding Each Midrange Array Ranking 41 Huawei OceanStor S2600T SnapScale X2 10 "Best-In-Class" Ranking 42 Huawei OceanStor S5800T 65 Scale Computing 11 “Recommended” Ranking 43 IBM DCS3700 ICOS Storage Nodes M Series 11 “Excellent” Ranking 44 IBM DS5300 66 Starboard AC4500 12 “Good” Ranking 45 IBM Storwize V7000U 67 X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series 12 “Basic” Ranking 46 IBM XIV Gen 3 68 X-IO ISE 200 Series

13 Enterprise Midrange Array Scores and Rankings 69 Product Rankings Dashboard 14 Overall Scores and Rankings 16 Management Software Scores Appendix and Rankings A-1 Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology B-1 Appendix B—Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information C-1 Appendix C—Author Contact Information D-1 Appendix D—Complete List of Midrange Arrays

Introduction

Amid the ever-changing nature of technology and the advancements continually showing up throughout the data storage industry, one important aspect is unchanging: corporate data is being created at in ever greater quantities, and the pace is increasing in unpredictable ways.

According to one recent multi-university study of 26 corporations and large nonprofits, the volume of data is expanding by 35% to 50% every year in most organizations, which essen- tially doubles the volume of data stored every two years. The highest rate observed was 150% growth. Additionally, the researchers observed that in every organization studied, data growth far exceeded revenue growth.1

Because of this accelerating data growth, many organizations are evaluating storage purchases. There are many enterprise midrange storage arrays available to meet this data explosion. This Buyer’s Guide includes standardized data sheets for 50 arrays from 19 providers. In most cases, each data sheet represents an array series. As a result, the 50 data sheets actually represent well over 100 specific array models.2

The word “Enterprise” is new in the title for this year’s refresh of the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. The term “Enterprise Midrange Array” is intended to reflect business expectations regarding continuous availability, comprehensive features, and storage capacity.

The arrays highlighted in this Buyer’s Guide offer organizations the redundancy they are looking for along with data protection features like snapshots and replication capabilities. Although there is no official maximum on storage capacity for the arrays included in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide, those products included generally scale to less than one petabyte.

Although the word “Enterprise” is often associated with high costs, it is notable that both new entrants and dominant vendors now make enterprise features available in arrays at prices within reach for mid-sized organizations. Illustrating this price shift, the overall top scoring array in the 2014 Buyer's Guide has a starting list price under $50,000.

Like all prior DCIG Buyer’s Guides, this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide does the heavy lifting for organizations as they look to purchase a midrange array by:

• Listing each individual midrange array model by storage provider

• Listing different midrange array features, whether or not they are supported and, where appropriate, how they are implemented

• Weighting these features according to what organizations consider most important

• Scoring these features

• Ranking each midrange array model

• Creating a data sheet for each midrange array model

1. Beath, Cynthia, Irma Becerra-Fernandez, Jeanne Ross, and James Short. "Finding Value in the Information Explosion." MIT Sloan Management Review RSS. MIT Sloan Management Review, 19 June 2012. http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/ finding-value-in-the-information-explosion/. 2. Each array model represented in this Buyer’s Guide by the most robust model in that array series. Detailed data was collected on each model in the series and is available in the associated DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide. A comprehensive list of array models is given in Appendix D-1.

Introduction continued

The end result is that this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide gives organizations the opportunity to do “at-a-glance” comparisons between many different arrays. This will enable them to more quickly sort through the many arrays to identify a short list of products that meet their specific needs. Prospective purchasers can focus their product evaluation energies on those selected arrays and move more quickly to the competitive bid process.

Note that this Buyer’s Guide is not intended to be a substitute for bringing individual midrange arrays models in-house for testing. That function should still be done, if possible, since every array will perform differently under different application workloads and data center environments.

We hope you find that this Buyer’s Guide meets its intended purpose in your environment.

Ken & Jerome

Executive Summary

The DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide is a tool designed to cut time and cost from the product research process. DCIG invested hundreds of hours design- ing a survey that would capture the data that matters most to prospective midrange array purchasers, gathering the relevant data, and then analyzing the results.

The data collection survey included 104 scored questions with 288 scored items per midrange array. The resulting data was categorized, standardized and distilled into summary scoring and ranking tables as well as a one-page data sheet for each array.1 This power- ful combination of summary data and data sheets make it easy to do quick, side-by-side comparisons of storage arrays.

On the demand side, multiple factors contribute to a newly dynamic and competitive environment. Enterprises are keeping more data and seeking to do more with the data they keep. Beyond data growth, consolidated virtual server environments create a highly random work load that is challenging for traditional storage arrays. Desktop virtualization creates yet another new set of challenging storage workloads.

On the supply side, advances in available CPU cores and DRAM capacity, coupled with the arrival of flash memory on the enterprise storage scene, have created new opportunities to meet storage capacity and performance demands through new storage architectures, super-sized caches, and storage software that provides advanced capabilities like dynamic automated storage tiering.

Meeting performance and reliability requirements at the lowest possible cost is a high priority for many enterprises; and they realize that gaining the ability to quickly understand what is happening in their storage environment and to automate manual processes gives them the opportunity to reduce the cost of managing their data center infrastructures. Therefore, this Buyer’s Guide incorporates data on integrated performance monitoring software and automation hooks for provisioning and ongoing management of storage arrays.

Like previous Midrange Array Buyer’s Guides, VMware integration is broken out from other software-enabled capabilities because VMware integration is so critical for enterprise data centers. The majority of enterprises use VMware in their environments.

In addition, the depth of VMware storage-related API support can enhance server and storage performance while reducing administration overhead. Extensive VMware integration from a storage array equates to higher performance and a lower cost of ownership.

Although VMware dominates the enterprise virtualization space, other hypervisors are gaining traction with the install base for Microsoft Hyper-V having risen to nearly 28% this year.2 Multiple hypervisors in the data center is now embraced as an organizational strategy not merely an accident of acquisition. Consequently, when compared to previous editions, this year’s DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide incorporates more data about support for hypervisors other than VMware.

1. Additional detail about the scoring and ranking process is included in “The 8-Step Process Used to Score and Rank Products” section of this Buyer’s Guide. 2. Jones, Steven D. “Microsoft Quietly Gains Share in Virtualization.” Digits: Tech News & Analysis from the WSJ. The Wall Street Journal, 31 May 2013. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/05/31/microsoft-quietly-gains-share-in-virtualization/

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Although software capabilities are critical, robust hardware options are still of great importance when selecting a midrange array. As such, this Buyer’s Guide still scores and places a greater emphasis on controller configurations, hard drive capabilities and available ports on each array. CPU cores, cache size, storage density and storage capacity are also scored. Enterprise-level organizations require standards like hot swap drives and redundant controllers to ensure there is no single point of failure, and those necessary hardware elements are addressed.

The DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide is our largest Buyer’s Guide project to date. Although the print edition of the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide includes 50 midrange array data sheets, at least 100 arrays are actually represented, because nearly every data sheet represents a series of arrays.

For example, the HP StoreVirtual 4130, 4330, 4530 and 4730 are represented only by the HP StoreVirtual 4730 in the print version. If you would like to more closely examine each model in a series, the data is broken out individually in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) module which users may subscribe to at http://www. dcig.com/interactive-buyers-guide.html.

It is in this context that DCIG presents its DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. As prior Buyer’s Guides have done, it puts at the fingertips of organizations a resource that provides them with a comprehensive list of midrange arrays that can assist them in this all-important buying decision while removing much of the mystery around how midrange arrays are configured and which ones are suitable for which purposes.

This DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide accomplishes the following objectives:

• Provides an objective, third party evaluation of midrange arrays that evaluates and scores their features from an end user’s viewpoint

• Includes recommendations on how to best use this Buyer’s Guide

• Scores and ranks the features on each midrange array based upon the criteria that matter most to end users so they can quickly know which midrange arrays are the most appropriate for them to use and under what conditions

• Provides data sheets for 50 midrange arrays from 19 different storage providers so end users can do quick comparisons of the features that are supported and not supported on each midrange array

• Provides insight into which features on a midrange array will result in improved performance

• Provide insights into what features midrange arrays offer to optimize their VMware integration

• Gives any organization the ability to request competitive bids from different providers of midrange arrays that are “apples-to-apples” comparisons

How to Use this Enterprise Array Buyer’s Guide, organizations can do a better job of Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide accomplishing that objective. In determining how to best use the information contained in • Separate the apples from the oranges. Just as this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide, important as doing apples-to-apples comparisons is it is important to note that it is intended to help enterprise identifying when an orange is thrown into the mix. organizations in their purchase of a midrange array. The Sometimes it is very difficult for an organization to know purpose of this Buyer’s Guide is NOT to tell users exactly if it is truly getting a good deal when bids come in from which midrange array to purchase. Rather, it is to help guide multiple storage providers that include different models. them in coming up with a list of competitive products that Now organizations can refer to the scores and rankings have comparable features that meet their specific needs. of each midrange array in this guide so they know when they are getting a good deal, a great deal or just a It is also important for users to note that just because a “so-so” one. product scored the highest in a particular category or is ranked a certain way does not automatically mean that it is • Gain perspective on how models from less well the right product for their organization. If anything, because known storage providers compare against estab- of the scope of the midrange array models evaluated and lished and better known brands. Anyone involved analyzed, it may have features that are too robust for the with storage has probably heard of Dell, EMC, HP, needs of an individual department or organization. IBM and NetApp. This creates a certain built-in level of comfort when buying products from these companies However, what this Buyer’s Guide does is give users some and a corresponding built-in resistance to buying sense of how each array compares to others classified as midrange arrays from companies that are perceived “midrange arrays” for enterprise organizations, as well as as unknown quantities. offers additional insight into what product offerings are avail- This Buyer’s Guide helps to remove some of that able on the market. apprehension about buying from a less well known DCIG recommends that you use this DCIG 2014 Enterprise provider or even a less well known model from an Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide in the following seven ways: established provider. Using this Buyer’s Guide organizations can see how these models from lesser known • Eliminate the painstaking research associated with companies as well as lesser known models from coming up with a short list of midrange arrays that established providers stack up. meet their needs. This Buyer’s Guide ranks, scores and contains data sheets for 50 different models from • Take advantage of normalized storage terminology. 19 different providers. Each midrange array is scored Every computing industry has a proclivity to adopt and then ranked as “Best-in-Class,” “Recommended,” acronyms and jargon that is specific to its lexicon. But the “Excellent,” “Good” and “Basic” based upon its score. data storage industry seems to go out of its way to not On each array, over 100 different features were evalu- only use unfamiliar terms but refer to the same technol- ated, weighted, scored and then ranked. All an organiza- ogy in different ways. This Buyer’s Guide sifts through the tion has to do is look at the scores and features of each acronyms and storage jargon and terms and normalizes product in order to come up with a short list of products them. This minimizes or even eliminates the need for for consideration. users to try to understand all of the industry terminology.

• Identify comparable apples-to-apples midrange • Do side-by-side comparisons. The product data arrays from different storage providers. In today’s sheets available from the different storage providers crowded storage market, it behooves organizations to are rarely laid out in the same way or contain the same get competitive bids from multiple storage providers. information. Some storage providers even have data After all, when they compete, you win! But that tactic sheet formats that vary from model to model within their only works well when organizations know that they are own product portfolio. This Buyer’s Guide tackles the receiving competitive bids on products that are roughly problem by creating a standard, easy to read data sheet comparable. Using this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange for every midrange array. In this way, product data sheets

for individual products can be printed out, laid down side • Because of the number of features analyzed, how these by side and then the features on them quickly compared. features were weighted and then how these enterprise midrange array models were scored and then ranked, • Justify technical buying recommendations to there was no way for DCIG to predict at the outset how business folks. Nothing is easier for those on the individual enterprise midrange array models would end business side to understand than a number when doing up scoring or ranking comparisons. So at the top of every midrange array model data sheet, a product score is included so the DCIG would like to emphasize that no storage provider business side of the house can quickly see how the was privy to how DCIG did the scoring and ranking of the different midrange array models compare. midrange arrays. In every case the storage providers only found out the scores and rankings of its midrange array Disclosures model(s) after the analysis was complete. Over the last few years the general trend in the US has been for both large and boutique analyst firms to receive some or Enterprise Midrange Array all of their revenue from storage providers. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria DCIG is no different in this respect as it also receives The term “midrange array” has become a nebulous term payment for the different services it performs for storage at best considering all of the new architectures and designs providers. The services that DCIG provides include blog- of midrange arrays that have emerged in the last decade. ging, case studies, product reviews, executive white papers, Terms like “scale-out storage” and “unified storage” have full length white papers and special reports. For more infor- only further served to blur the lines of what constitutes a mation on DCIG, visit www.dcig.com. “midrange array.”

In the interest of being fully transparent, a number of the DCIG incorporated input from key users and vendors into storage providers included in this DCIG 2014 Enterprise defining the criteria we would use to decide what arrays Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide are, or have been DCIG belonged or did not belong in this Buyer’s Guide. This Buyer’s clients. This is not to imply that they were given preferential Guide attempts to take into consideration as many of these treatment in the Buyer’s Guide. All it meant was that DCIG variables as possible, but likely failed to account for all of had more knowledge of their midrange arrays and that them. While this may have resulted in a specific model not DCIG was aware that they offered arrays that might qualify being covered in this Buyer’s Guide when it rightfully may have for inclusion in this Buyer’s Guide. belonged, DCIG believes the following criteria were consis- tently applied as we did our research and made our decisions. In that vein, there are a number of important facts to keep in mind when considering the information contained in this DCIG The rationale that was used to determine the inclusion and 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide and its merit. exclusion of specific models in this Buyer’s Guide is as follows:

• No storage provider paid DCIG any fee to develop • It had to support either the Fibre Channel (FC) this Buyer’s Guide or iSCSI block-based protocol. Well over half of the models included in this report supported both protocols • DCIG did not guarantee any storage provider that its but even if they supported only one, they were still enterprise midrange array(s) would be included in this included in the Buyer’s Guide. If the midrange array did Buyer’s Guide not support at least one of these protocols, it was not • DCIG did not imply or guarantee that a specific enter- included in this Buyer’s Guide. prise midrange array model would receive a good score • It had to scale to support at least 60 TBs of raw on this Buyer’s Guide ahead of time capacity. 60 TBs is a previously established benchmark as • All research was based upon publicly available informa- DCIG specifically wanted to exclude the large number of tion, information provided by the storage provider and midrange arrays that only supported a single drawer of the expertise of those evaluating the information sixteen (16) HDDs. It is understood that as arrays scale to

support 60 TBs or greater that many of the features that For example, “Maximum Raw Storage Capacity” are of the most interest to organizations begin to surface. was evaluated as a feature instead of “Maximum Usable Storage Capacity.” While usable storage • It had to support two controllers with some method capacity is what users ultimately care about, a for failover. It needed to support some type of two consistent objective answer cannot be arrived at controller configuration such that a second controller as most midrange arrays offer multiple RAID options. could take over the application workload should the So “Maximum Raw Storage Capacity” was selected primary controller fail. This failover switching could be as the feature to be evaluated since an objective a more advanced configuration with both controllers answer could be ascertained and supported. configured in an Active-Passive, Dual-Active, or Active- Active state. Configurations where the data is asynchro- 3. Each feature had a weighting associated with it. nously replicated by the primary controller to a second The weightings were used to reflect if a feature was controller for use in case of a failover were excluded from supported and potentially how well it was implemented. the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. For example, the “Concurrent RAID Mix” feature is more of a “Yes” or “No” type of response whereas the “Internal • There had to be sufficient information available to HDDs Connectivity” feature covered a number of DCIG to make meaningful decisions. DCIG made a different disk drive interfaces with varying connectivity good faith effort to reach out and obtain information from options. As such each of these features were weighted as many enterprise midrange array providers as possible and scored differently. by providing surveys to them for them to complete. However, in a few cases midrange array models may 4. A survey that asked about all of the features have been excluded because of a lack of reliable data. scored in this Buyer’s Guide was sent to each storage provider. In addition to using the information • The model had to be shipping as of September 1, 2013. that was publicly available on each storage provider’s A cut off date had to be put in place or this Buyer’s Guide website, each storage provider included in this Buyer’s would never be published. Some allowances were made Guide had the opportunity to respond to a survey sent for feature or product enhancements that were made in to it by DCIG. The survey elicits more data than was August 2013 that did not adversely affect the analysis available on any vendor web site to provide a more done in developing this Buyer’s Guide. thorough analysis of each midrange array. This was done to both verify that the information DCIG found on The 8-Step Process Used to Score the storage provider’s website was correct as well as and Rank Enterprise Midrange Arrays remove any ambiguities that existed regarding how To score and rank each midrange array model, DCIG went some of the features were implemented. through an eight step process to come to the most objective 5. All vendors were given the opportunity to review conclusion possible. their data sheets before the final scores and rankings were determined. To ensure the information 1. DCIG listed out all of the features available on all of presented in this Buyer’s Guide is up-to-date and the midrange arrays. Prior to selecting the features that reliable, DCIG provided each vendor a copy or copies were included in the final evaluation in the Buyer’s Guide, of their data sheets that appeared in this Buyer’s Guide DCIG went through and quantified what features midrange without the scores and rankings on them. In this arrays possessed. As part of this process, DCIG ‘normal- way they had the opportunity to validate the information ized’ the list of features available on midrange arrays such and correct it before it was publicly released. that a common name for each feature was established. 6. All of the features were scored based upon the 2. DCIG established which features would be included information that was gathered. The weighting and scoring in the Buyer’s Guide and which ones would not. One of the features were done by a DCIG research analyst. of the goals of this Buyer’s Guide was to try to only include features on each midrange array model that 7. The features were broken down into four general could be objectively and authoritatively analyzed. categories. The features included in this Buyer’s Guide

broke down into a total of four broad categories that are Separate license fees for features can reduce the agility reflected on each midrange array data sheet. These four of the IT department in responding to changing business categories include Management & Software, VMware requirements because the purchase approval and ordering Integration, Hardware, and Support. process may take several weeks. If implementation services are required, that may add additional weeks to the process. 8. The midrange arrays were ranked using standard scoring techniques. One of the goals of this Buyer’s Separate licensing fees may be minor, or they can have a Guide is to establish clear lines of differentiation between noticeable impact on the overall cost of ownership for an midrange arrays with conclusions that are arrived at enterprise midrange array. Therefore, the annual cost of objectively. To accomplish this goal, the mean or average software licenses and associated support contracts should score for each classification was first determined and then be incorporated into TCO (total cost of ownership) and ROI the standard deviation. (return on investment) calculations.

Using the mean of the scores from all of the midrange arrays This Buyer’s Guide acknowledges the value of included from which the standard deviation was calculated, DCIG licenses by awarding a significant number of points to those developed a ranking for each midrange array model based arrays that ship with features already licensed. In particular, upon the following in each classification: we give attention to licensing for snapshots, replication and • Those models that were .5 or greater standard devia- thin provisioning features. tions below the mean were given the rank of “Basic” Automation • Those models that were .5± standard deviations above Data center automation is an area of emphasis for many or below the mean were ranked as “Good” organizations because it promises to facilitate efficient management of their data center infrastructure and enable a • Those models that were .5 – 1.5 standard deviations more agile response from IT to changing business require- above the mean were ranked as “Excellent” ments. Ultimately, automation means more staff time can be • Those models that were greater than 1.5 standard spent addressing business requirements rather than manag- deviations above the mean were ranked as ing the routine tasks of a data center. “Recommended” Organizations can implement automation in their environ- • The model(s) with the highest score were given the ment through management interfaces that are scriptable and designation of “Best-in-Class” offer additional enhancements with API and SDK support. • It is for this reason that in each classification the number Support for automated provisioning is an area where improve- of models that achieved a certain ranking varied. Using ment in the near future is expected. Currently, less than 20% of this scoring and ranking method, DCIG feels confident midrange arrays featured in this Buyer’s Guide expose an API that all of the models included in this report could be for third-party automation tools, while 11% provide an SDK for reasonably classified as midrange arrays suited for integration with management platforms. As more organizations enterprise organizations. place a premium on automating their storage environment, these numbers should go up.

DCIG Comments and Thoughts A higher percentage of these arrays support automated on Enterprise Midrange Array… storage tiering, which is offered by 45% of arrays. This automated tiering capability can be important for achieving Value of Included Software maximum benefits from flash memory when using flash for Vendors that sell their arrays with all software features fully more than just a larger cache. licensed as part of the standard array package create extra value for purchasers by reducing the number of decision Similarly, 40% natively support the reclamation of freed points in the purchasing process and by smoothing the path blocks of thinly provisioned storage. These freed blocks are to full utilization of the array’s capabilities. then available for reuse. Native support for this capability

eliminates the cost and additional infrastructure complexity Nevertheless, just 45% support automated storage tiering, a associated with licensing a third party product or the inef- technology that helps get the most benefit from the avail- ficiency associated with manual reclamation processes. able flash memory. Also, only 15% of arrays implement any of the flash memory optimization techniques—such as write Along the same lines, 21% of arrays are recognized by third coalescing—that enhance both performance and reliability. party software, such as Symantec Storage Foundation, So while support for flash memory in midrange arrays has that can simplify storage management by reclaiming freed grown dramatically, the depth of integration still varies widely. blocks of thinly provisioned storage automatically. Reliability VMware Integration This Buyer’s Guide only attempts to provide some insight In general, DCIG emphasizes advanced software features into a midrange array’s reliability by examining whether or in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. not it has redundant hardware, hot swappable components This is especially true of integration with VMware vStorage and what type of technical support it provides. APIs such as VAAI (vStorage APIs for Array Integration) and VASA (vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness). The For quick comparison purposes, all of the arrays in the DCIG VAAI and VASA APIs can dramatically improve overall data 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide include redun- center performance. dant fans and power supplies. Nearly all arrays in the Buyer’s Guide support hot-swap of drives, power supplies and fans, Given the wide adoption of VMware by enterprises, it follows though a few featured redundant, but not hot-swappable fans. that they are seeking hardware that can take advantage of the “force multiplication” these APIs provide for existing and It is a core expectation of the enterprise-level organization future VMware deployments. that the enterprise midrange array being purchased offers near continuous availability. The arrays in this Buyer’s Guide The good news is that 62% of the midrange arrays in this account for that baseline need. Buyer’s Guide support all of the VAAI 4.1 APIs. However, only 10% of the arrays support the full set of VAAI v5 features. Performance and Pricing Of the VAAI v5 features, Dead Space Reclamation (SCSI Two factors that strongly influence buying decisions are UNMAP) fares best with 26% of arrays supporting this feature. performance and cost. So it may come as a surprise to those who look at this DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Similar to the currently low support for VAAI v5.0, less than Array Buyer’s Guide to see no performance benchmarks a fourth of the arrays support VASA. These integrations are as to how any of the midrange arrays performed and only key to the software defined data center and to minimizing high-level pricing information. There are two core reasons ongoing management overhead for the large number of why performance or detailed pricing information were not data centers that utilize VMware. included in this Buyer’s Guide. Robust VMware support is a product differentiator that Performance will vary according to data center environment, matters to many potential array purchasers, and is an area the data being stored, and implementation decisions. So to where we expect to see further improvement in the coming introduce any type of performance metric would only result in year. Those organizations embracing VMware as their the analysis and evaluations of the midrange arrays included primary hypervisor will want to pay particular attention to in this Buyer’s Guide becoming more subjective, not less. how an array’s VMware support maps to their requirements The intent of this Buyer’s Guide is to provide a near real- Flash Memory Support time snapshot of the enterprise midrange arrays currently Flash memory is clearly of growing importance in data available in the marketplace. If DCIG had tried to test and center storage. Within the enterprise midrange array establish performance benchmarks for all of these midrange segment of the market, the importance of flash memory arrays, the next generation of midrange arrays from all of is demonstrated by the fact that 77% of the arrays in this these storage providers could well be available before the Buyer’s Guide now support the use of flash memory in addi- testing was completed, making this Buyer’s Guide obsolete tion to traditional disk drives. before it ever saw the light of day.

As for pricing, each midrange array data sheet provides only The HP 3PAR StoreServ is highly regarded for its perfor- a starting list price for that midrange array. These list prices mance due to its storage architecture and how it manages had no bearing in the weighting of any midrange array and data placement within its system. As part of its architecture, are provided for reference purposes only. HP 3PAR offers organizations the choice of using all hard disk drives (HDDs), a hybrid configuration consisting of both DCIG recognizes that features like price and performance HDDs and solid state drives (SSDs), or an all flash memory are relevant and even key considerations when buying an array in the form of its new HP 3PAR StoreServ 7450. Enterprise Midrange Array. However, it is also almost impos- sible for a third party like DCIG to objectively measure these To meet the increased performance demands that features on a large scale. Therefore, evaluating these factors is consolidated environments require as well as to deliver the a part of the buying process that is still best left to end users. higher levels of performance available on SSDs, HP 3PAR StoreServ scales up to four controllers in the 7400. As such there is minimal risk an organization's performance Observations and Recommendations demands will outstrip the ability of HP 3PAR StoreServ Regarding Each Midrange Array Ranking to deliver on them. The array further optimizes performance through the use "Best-In-Class" Ranking of its wide striping technology. Wide striping places small chunks of data across all of the drives in a system to The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 earned the “Best-in-Class” harness their collective throughput. Additionally, its Dynamic ranking among enterprise midrange arrays evaluated this Optimization software ensures the chunks of data are on year. In comparison to its counterparts, this array stood the right tier of storage. Wide striping places frequently out in the following ways: accessed data on the most responsive tier of storage while moving infrequently accessed data to slower drives. • Achieved the highest score in three of the four scoring categories, including Management and Software, HP 3PAR StoreServ conserves storage capacity through its VMware Integration, and Support thin provisioning feature. The array allocates only as much • A single array can be scaled out to 4 mesh active storage to the application as it actually uses while holding controllers managing up to 864 TBs of data the rest of the requested storage capacity in reserve until it is required. Another feature of thin provisioning is its Thin • Offers HP 3PAR Peer Persistence and Remote Copy Persistence feature, which identifies the storage capacity no software to synchronously replicate data and then longer used by the application and automatically returns it to implement uninterrupted VM failover and failback the available pool of storage. without needing to implement a third party appliance or replication software Storage capacity used by the array’s replication and snapshot features is efficiently managed by the unique methods that HP • Has “Best-in-Class” features, yet carries a starting list 3PAR StoreServ uses to provision storage so organizations price below $50,000—which puts it within reach of may use these features without detecting extra overhead on many midsized organizations the system or having to buy extra storage capacity.

Recommendations: HP pairs these native HP 3PAR StoreServ features with The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 brings together the best its HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller. Based on Windows of what both block and file have to offer: block storage Storage Server 2012, organizations have the immediate services in the form of its 3PAR StoreServ family and file assurance that the HP 3PAR StoreServ converged storage storage services with its 3PAR StoreServ File Controller. system will non-disruptively integrate with their existing The new HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller means organi- Windows environments. zations can trade up to the benefits that converged storage systems have to offer without needing to trade-off on either The HP 3PAR StoreServ File Controller brings data dedu- features or performance. plication and advanced file classification capabilities to

HP 3PAR storage. Files may first be classified based on comprehensive hypervisor and operating system support. their metadata. An organization can then create policies The EMC arrays also provide superior file system support, that perform tasks such as managing retention and plac- including NFS v4.1 (pNFS), SMB 2.1 and 2.2. The EMC ing files on the appropriate tier of storage based on each arrays provide API support for integrating into data center file's profile and classification. operations management tools and an SDK for integration with management software. The availability of the API may The emergence of OpenStack storage technology has, account for the ability of the EMC VNX arrays to integrate among other things, created more confusion for storage with CA Unicenter, HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli, purchasers. The good news is that HP's support for these Nagios XI and Zenoss Service Dynamics. OpenStack block storage Cinder drivers on its 3PAR (FC and iSCSI) storage arrays coupled with its support matrices, close The Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150 and HUS VM and alliances with hypervisor providers, back-end support and NetApp FAS3250 arrays also deserve serious consider- wide use of HP 3PAR StoreServ among top service providers ation among enterprise midrange arrays. These arrays makes HP 3PAR storage a safe bet for enterprises that may have native thin reclamation capabilities and Active-Active wish to implement OpenStack in the future. controllers. The HUS 150 also supports 16Gb FC and 40Gb Ethernet storage networking ports. The HDS arrays Some of the analysis presented above goes beyond feature larger caches (160 GB and 384 GB) than the the data collected for this Buyer’s Guide by drawing EMC (36 GB and 48 GB) or HP (64 GB) arrays. on earlier DCIG analysis. To learn more about DCIG’s business-value-oriented take on HP 3PAR storage, The NetApp FAS3250 tops this category with a Hardware see http://hpstorage.dcig.com. score in the “Recommended” range and all other scores in the “Excellent” range. The most comprehensive set of software and management features and the second highest “Recommended” Ranking VMware Integration score among “Excellent” arrays were key to its top ranking. Observations: The EMC VNX7500 and VNX5700 arrays share the “Recommended” label with the Hitachi Data Systems “Excellent” Ranking HUS 150 and HUS VM and NetApp FAS3250 arrays. Observations: The enterprise midrange arrays ranked as “Recommended” in The midrange arrays ranked as “Excellent” in this Buyer’s this Buyer’s Guide generally shared the following characteristics: Guide generally shared the following characteristics, with • Scored at least 1.5 standard deviations above the mean some exceptions: in at least three of the four scoring categories • Scored “Excellent” in Management and Software and • Support all VAAI v4 and v5 features, and nearly all of the VMware Integration while achieving only a “Good” or other VMware integration options measured—including “Basic” ranking in at least one category SIOC, Storage DRS, VADP, VASA and VASRM • Support the big three data management tools of • Support multi-tenancy snapshots, replication and thin provisioning • Scale well beyond 1 PB • Support all VAAI v4 but not all VAAI v5 features • Support unified block (SAN) and file (NAS) storage • Support unified block (SAN) and file (NAS) storage • Provide concurrent FC and iSCSI connections • All five arrays have a starting list price above $50,000 In total, nine arrays earned an “Excellent” ranking. Eight vendors are represented, including two that also have arrays Recommendations: in the “Recommended” category—HP and EMC. Most of Like the “Best-in-Class” HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400, these these arrays are from storage industry titans, but Overland arrays outshone the competition across the board. The Storage and startup Starboard Storage also have arrays EMC VNX7500 and VNX5700 arrays were distinguished by that achieved “Excellent” rankings.

Beyond their shared characteristics, half of which include and IBM XIV. Depending on business requirements, data exceptions, these arrays diverge in most other measures. center technologies and vendor relationships, any of these Seven of the nine arrays support FC and iSCSI, four are may be suitable for a given organization. scale-out architectures and three support multi-tenancy. Despite the diversity of options, all of these arrays are characterized by a solid enterprise feature set. “Basic” Ranking Observations: Recommendation: The 17 enterprise midrange arrays ranked as “Basic” in The Huawei OceanStor S5800T took “Best-in-Class” in each classification of this Buyer’s Guide generally shared the Hardware category. The Starboard Storage AC4500 the following characteristics: achieving an “Excellent” ranking is remarkable in large part because Starboard Storage is a startup founded in • Very limited or non-existent VMware integration 2010, and released their first arrays in February 2012. The • No multi-tenancy AC4500’s little brother—the AC4000—won the 2013 Flash Memory Summit’s Best of Show award for Most Innovative • No integration with Data Center Operations Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application. Starboard’s Management Software products are unified hybrid flash-HDD arrays. The manage- • Support only a single SAN protocol (FC or iSCSI) ment team includes founders/co-founders of multiple stor- at a time, except for IceWEB Unified Storage which age companies, including LeftHand Networks. supports both

• No support for NAS protocols, except for IceWEB “Good” Ranking Unified Storage and HP StoreEasy • Only 7 of the 15 arrays support all three of the big Observations: data management tools of snapshots, replication The enterprise midrange arrays ranked as “Good” in this and thin provisioning Buyer’s Guide generally shared the following characteristics: Recommendation: • All support the big three data management tools of snapshots, replication and thin provisioning When choosing an array ranked as “Basic” an organization must understand its needs, and then let those needs • Support all VAAI v4 features, except for the HP EVA determine which solutions are the best for its data center. P6550, which does not support any VAAI features A “Basic” array may address the need that prompted the • Limited or no support for VAAI v5 features and organization to begin looking at enterprise midrange arrays other VMware integrations in the first place. However, most of the Basic“ ” arrays provide significantly less deployment flexibility than their • Support iSCSI connections higher scoring competitors. • SAN block storage devices, with only the top scoring Nexsan NST5500 supporting unified block (SAN) and file (NAS) storage

Recommendation: Arrays achieving a “Good” overall ranking are still suitable for enterprise data centers. More than half of the arrays scored in the “Excellent” range for at least one scoring category, yet are less feature complete overall than the arrays that achieved a “Recommended” or “Excellent” ranking.

The “Good” arrays include innovative new products as well as the current arrays in established series like the HP EVA

ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY SCORES AND RANKINGS

The scores and rankings for the backup appliances contain the following information:

• A chart that includes the scores and rankings for all of the products • The mean and the standard deviation that were used to establish how each backup appliance was ranked • A summary of the primary findings

OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS

Enterprise Midrange Arrays Score Ranking

1. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 147.00 Best-in-Class

2. EMC VNX7500 145.90 Recommended

3. EMC VNX5700 143.70 Recommended

4. HDS HUS 150 139.60 Recommended

5. HDS HUS VM 139.60 Recommended

6. NetApp FAS3250 134.50 Recommended

7. Dell EqualLogic PS6100/PS6110 114.50 Excellent

8. Huawei OceanStor 5800T 110.70 Excellent

9. Dell Compellent SC8000 107.20 Excellent

10. Starboard Storage AC4500 104.15 Excellent

11. EMC VNXe3300 103.50 Excellent

12. IBM Storwize V7000U 103.50 Excellent

13. HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage 102.05 Excellent

14. Imation Nexsan NST5500 101.80 Excellent

15. Dell EqualLogic PS6500/PS65100 100.25 Excellent

16. Huawei OceanStor S2600T 99.35 Good

17. Oracle Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600 97.95 Good

18. Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000 95.85 Good

19. NetApp E5460 94.15 Good

20. Imation Nexsan E60 90.30 Good

21. Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series 90.05 Good

22. NetApp E2600-12 89.65 Good

23. Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC 86.45 Good

24. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3 84.55 Good

25. Infortrend EonStor DS B24F-R2852 80.85 Good

26. Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-E2251 10GbE 82.20 Good

27. Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC 82.20 Good

28. HP EVA P6550 80.35 Good

29. IBM XIV Gen 3 79.90 Good

30. Dot Hill AssuredSAN 300 Series 77.85 Good

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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS (continued)

Enterprise Midrange Arrays Score Ranking

31. X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series 73.85 Good

32. NEC M500 73.10 Good

33. Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GbE 69.90 Good

34. Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA ZFS SAN 69.70 Basic

35. Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series 68.05 Basic

36. Infortrend ESVA F75-2830 65.45 Basic

37. Infortrend ESVA E60-2230 64.65 Basic

38. X-IO ISE 200 Series 62.30 Basic

39. Scale Computing ICOS Storage Nodes M Series 58.80 Basic

40. Overland Storage SnapScale X2 54.60 Basic

41. IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000 53.55 Basic

42. Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8Gb FC 51.30 Basic

43. Aberdeen XDAS iSD41 49.55 Basic

44. IBM DS5300 49.10 Basic

45. IBM DCS3700 47.60 Basic

46. Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G 45.90 Basic

47. Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC 45.20 Basic

48. Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-iSCSI 42.20 Basic

49. HP StoreEasy 5000 42.05 Basic

50. Aberdeen XDAS T42F 34.85 Basic

Total Number of Products 50

Rankings Highest Score 147.00 Recommended 129.31 – 147.00 Lowest Score 34.85 Excellent 99.59 – 129.30 Average (Mean) 84.72 Good 69.86 – 99.58 Standard Deviation 29.72 Basic 34.85 – 69.85

Management Software Scores and Rankings

Enterprise Midrange Arrays Score Ranking

1. HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 66.70 Best-in-Class

2. EMC VNX5700 61.95 Recommended

3. EMC VNX7500 60.95 Recommended

4. HDS HUS 150 60.50 Recommended

5. HDS HUS VM 59.15 Recommended

6. NetApp FAS3250 52.90 Excellent

7. Starboard Storage AC4500 48.05 Excellent

8. Oracle Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600 47.35 Excellent

9. Dell EqualLogic PS6100/PS6110 46.20 Excellent

10. HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage 45.55 Excellent

11. Huawei OceanStor 5800T 44.95 Excellent

12. IBM Storwize V7000U 44.20 Excellent

13. Dell EqualLogic PS6500/PS65100 43.30 Excellent

14. Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000 43.15 Excellent

15. EMC VNXe3300 42.60 Excellent

16. Dell Compellent SC8000 41.30 Excellent

17. Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series 40.15 Good

18. Imation Nexsan NST5500 39.95 Good

19. Huawei OceanStor S2600T 39.95 Good

20. Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3 38.50 Good

21. Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC 34.85 Good

22. Infortrend EonStor DS B24F-R2852 34.85 Good

23. Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC 34.85 Good

24. Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-E2251 10GbE 33.85 Good

25. NetApp E5460 33.30 Good

26. NetApp E2600-12 32.80 Good

27. NEC M500 32.55 Good

28. Imation Nexsan E60 31.65 Good

29. HP EVA P6550 31.15 Good

30. IBM XIV Gen 3 28.85 Good

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Management Software Scores and Rankings (continued)

Enterprise Midrange Arrays Score Ranking

31. Infortrend ESVA E60-2230 28.70 Good

32. Overland Storage SnapScale X2 27.50 Good

33. Dot Hill AssuredSAN 300 Series 27.25 Good

34. Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA ZFS SAN 26.75 Basic

35. X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series 26.35 Basic

36. Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GbE 26.00 Basic

37. Infortrend ESVA F75-2830 25.55 Basic

38. Scale Computing ICOS Storage Nodes M Series 24.65 Basic

39. Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series 21.15 Basic

40. Aberdeen XDAS iSD41 20.10 Basic

41. Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC 19.55 Basic

42. Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8Gb FC 19.10 Basic

43. X-IO ISE 200 Series 18.10 Basic

44. Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G 18.00 Basic

45. IBM DCS3700 17.80 Basic

46. Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-iSCSI 17.55 Basic

47. IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000 16.50 Basic

48. HP StoreEasy 5000 13.10 Basic

49. IBM DS5300 7.10 Basic

50. Aberdeen XDAS T42F 6.00 Basic

Total Number of Products 50

Rankings Highest Score 66.70 Recommended 55.66 – 66.70 Lowest Score 6.00 Excellent 41.26 – 55.65 Average (Mean) 34.06 Good 26.86 – 41.25 Standard Deviation 14.40 Basic 6.00 – 26.85

ENTERPRISE MIDRANGE ARRAY MODELS

DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 69.70 26.75 33.45 0.00 9.50 GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 16 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 1616 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) Unlimited 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 24 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 16 ports / 8 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 1 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 4 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 8 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability Business Day DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 1 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

* The DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) contains additional data elements for this category that are reflected in the scores assigned to each array, but which were not able to be included on this one-page data sheet. † The number specifies the number of different supported elements available. An “X” indicates no support for the feature. The specific elements supported for each product are available by accessing the IBG. ‡ See the IBG for a complete list of supported options. Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 51.30 19.10 22.70 0.00 9.50 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 2 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 696 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) Replication 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 2 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability Business Day DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 1 Network File Systems† 1 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 49.55 20.10 19.95 0.00 9.50 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 2 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 4 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 312 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 12 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 12 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 1 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 2 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Business Day Contract Support Availability (local time) DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 1 Network File Systems† 1 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 45.90 18.00 18.40 0.00 9.50 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) Unlimited 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 4 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 2 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Business Day Contract Support Availability (local time) DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 1 Network File Systems† 1 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 34.85 6.00 19.35 0.00 9.50 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 2 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 252 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Multipathing† (Total #) iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 6 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 1 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Business Day Contract Support Availability (local time) DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 1 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 45.20 19.55 20.15 1.50 4.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 192 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) Replication 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 2 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 3 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 3 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 7 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) Network File Systems† 1 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 42.20 17.55 19.15 1.50 4.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 1 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 3 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 3 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 107.20 41.30 34.80 18.00 13.10 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 12 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 128 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 960+ TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 44 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 20 ports / 20 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 32 ports / 12 ports (Max) Other VMware Integrations 9 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 7 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 8 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 3 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 1 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface FC-AL, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 8 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 114.50 46.20 33.90 23.00 11.40 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 8 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 36 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1,536 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 128 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 128 ports / 32 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 13 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 7 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 13 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 6, 10, 50 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 100.25 43.30 24.55 24.00 8.40 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 16 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 4 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 2,300 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 4 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 13 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 7 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 6, 10, 50 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 1 Year Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 77.85 27.25 25.60 12.00 13.00 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 2 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 4 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 384 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 4 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 7 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 3 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 68.05 21.15 25.50 9.00 12.40 GOOD BASIC GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 2 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 384 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 Replication 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 5 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 9 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 3 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 90.05 40.15 25.50 12.00 12.40 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 2 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 433 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 8 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 7 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 9 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 6, 10 3 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 143.70 61.95 37.15 30.50 14.10 RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED) Dual-Active, † Controller Config Snapshots (Total #) 4 Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 36 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 5 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1,500 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 72 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 10 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 64 ports / 36 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 10 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 40 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 17 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 8 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 15 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 4 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) 6 HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 9 Network File Systems† 4 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 145.90 60.95 39.35 31.50 14.10 RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED) Active-Standy, † Controller Config Snapshots (Total #) 4 Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 6 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 48 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 5 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 3,000 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 160 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 144 ports / 76 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 5 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 64 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 18 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 8 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 15 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 103.50 42.60 26.70 23.00 11.20 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED) Active-Standby, † Controller Config Snapshots (Total #) 2 Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 24 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 2 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 360 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 6 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 4 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 11 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 12 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 6, 10 4 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 6 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 139.60 59.15 38.45 30.00 12.00 RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 4 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 220 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 4 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 4 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 3,840 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 40 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 24 ports / 24 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 5 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 16 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 6 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 12 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 7 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) 1 HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 8 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 139.60 60.50 37.10 30.00 12.00 RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 4 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 16 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 688 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 4 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 5 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 4,608 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 56 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 24 ports / 16 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 5 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 48 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 16 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 8 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 12 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 6, 10 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 7 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 8 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 80.35 31.15 25.90 10.00 13.30 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 960 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 12 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 8 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 4 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 9 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 3 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 9 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 42.05 13.10 18.95 0.00 10.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 8 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 2 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 402 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 14 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 10 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 1 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 3 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 1 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 3 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 102.05 45.55 22.70 21.00 12.80 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT BASIC EXCELLENT EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED) Single Controller, † Controller Config Snapshots (Total #) 2 Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 6 cores FC or SAS HDD 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 32 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 4 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 22.5 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 2 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 2 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 14 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 15 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 6, 10 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 5 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 8 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 147.00 66.70 33.60 32.00 14.70 BEST-IN-CLASS BEST-IN-CLASS EXCELLENT BEST-IN-CLASS BEST-IN-CLASS

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 6 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 4 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 64 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 4 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 4 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 864 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 24 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 8 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 4 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 24 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 18 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 8 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 12 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6 7 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) 9 HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 9 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 99.35 39.95 33.20 17.50 8.70 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 2 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1,104 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 8 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 11 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 8 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 3 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 110.70 44.95 40.25 17.50 8.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT BEST-IN-CLASS EXCELLENT BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 8 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 192 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 5,760 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 24 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 20 ports / 20 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 20 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 11 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 3 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 47.60 17.80 21.80 0.00 8.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 48 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1,000+ TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 4 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 1 Year Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 49.30 7.10 31.00 0.00 11.00 BASIC BASIC EXCELLENT BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 64 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1,440 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 16 ports / 8 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 6 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 8 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface FC-AL, SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 103.50 44.20 27.50 22.00 9.80 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 8 SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 480 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 4 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 9 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 9 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 12 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 6 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) 1 HDD Interface FC-AW, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 79.90 28.85 27.75 15.00 8.30 GOOD GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 15 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 96 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 360 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 24 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 22 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 24 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 9 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 7 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 7 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 3 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 3 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 53.55 16.50 28.75 0.00 8.30 BASIC BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED) Active-Standby, † Controller Config Snapshots (Total #) 2 Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 1,024 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 960 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 26 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 26 ports / 12 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 12 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 1 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 6 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 3 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 1 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface FC-AL, FC-SW, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 3 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 90.30 31.65 31.15 14.00 13.50 GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 32 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 720 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 12 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 8 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 2 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 6 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 16 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 6 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 9 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 101.80 39.95 35.55 15.50 10.80 EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 12 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 384 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 4 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 5,040 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 12 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 2 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 12 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 8 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 6 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 6, 10 1 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 7 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 83.45 34.85 26.40 13.00 9.20 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 32 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 288 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 12 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 7 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50 1 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 69.90 26.00 27.40 7.50 9.00 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 960 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 12 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 12 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 2 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 7 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 82.20 33.85 27.15 12.00 9.20 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 960 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 4 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 5 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 1 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 86.45 34.85 29.40 13.00 9.20 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 7 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 82.20 34.85 25.15 13.00 9.20 GOOD GOOD BASIC GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K RPM

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) 1 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 4 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 7 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 5 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 1 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 64.65 28.70 27.45 0.00 8.50 BASIC GOOD GOOD BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 12 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 4,800 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 9 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 4 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 67.45 25.55 27.90 5.00 9.00 BASIC BASIC GOOD BASIC GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 12 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 4,800+ TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 12 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 11 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning 50, 60 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 73.10 32.55 26.55 10.00 4.00 GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 40 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 192 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 6 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 4 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 7 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60, AQDT † RAID Options Policy-based Provisioning Triple Parity (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 3 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 89.65 32.80 31.85 13.50 11.50 GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 2,048 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 768 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 10 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 8 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 94.15 33.30 33.85 15.50 11.50 GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Dual-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 2,048 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1,536 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 16 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 5 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 134.50 52.90 43.00 26.50 12.10 RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 16 cores FC or SAS HDD 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 24 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 2,048 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 4 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 2,880 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 52 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 52 ports / 24 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 4 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 24 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 17 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 8 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 13 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 4, 6 1 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 3GB, 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 97.95 47.35 33.10 9.00 8.50 GOOD EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 3 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 8 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 48 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 1667 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 32 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 32 ports / 16 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 7 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 6 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 9 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 1 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 3 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 1 Year Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface FC-SW Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 84.55 38.50 37.55 0.00 8.50 GOOD GOOD RECOMMENDED BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED) Active-Active, † Controller Config Snapshots (Total #) 2 Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 80 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 23,000 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 3 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 3,456 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 40 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 40 ports / 24 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 16 ports / 16 ports (Max) Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 2 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 13 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, Triple Parity 2 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 7 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 1 Year Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 9 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 95.85 43.15 26.20 16.50 10.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 16 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 2 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 1 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 384 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 4ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 4 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 4 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 6 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 4 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 3 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 5 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 8 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 5 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 54.60 27.50 18.90 0.00 8.20 BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 144 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 32 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 512, 000 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 4 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 4 ports / 4 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 1 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 6 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 5 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 1 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 1 Year Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 58.80 24.65 22.15 5.50 6.50 BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC BASIC

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 1 Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 1 core FC or SAS HDD 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) 20 controllers SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 96 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 1 SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 160 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 80 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 80 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 5 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 3 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 2 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 1 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 1 Year Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SATA, SAS 3Gb Contract Support† (Total #) Network File Systems† 3 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 104.15 48.05 28.30 15.00 12.80 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT EXCELLENT

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) 2 Controller Config Active-Standby Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 8 cores FC or SAS HDD 7.2K, 10K, 15K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 6,400 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) 3 SSD Optimization† (Total #) 3 Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 576 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 10 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 10 ports / 2 ports (Max) VAAI v5† (Total #) 2 Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 2 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 8 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 4 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 3 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 10, 50, Triple Parity (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 2 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 3 Years Notification† (Total #) 3 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) 1 HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 7 Network File Systems† 2 Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 73.85 26.35 24.00 9.00 14.50 GOOD BASIC BASIC GOOD RECOMMENDED

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 10K RPM

Scale-out (Max controllers) SATA‡ Synch Replication Cache (Max) 8 GB SSD‡ Thin Provisioning† (Total #) SSD Optimization† (Total #) Raw Storage Capacity (Max) 36 TB 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Managed UPS/Battery Backup Inline Deduplication RoHS Compliant Feature License Included Inline Compression

Storage Networking Ports * 8 ports vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 Replication 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 3 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 6 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) 2 Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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OVERALL Management vSphere SCORE & Software* Hardware* Integration* Support 62.30 18.10 22.20 7.50 14.50 BASIC BASIC BASIC GOOD RECOMMENDED

* * * MANAGEMENT & SOFTWARE HARDWARE HARDWARE (CONTINUED)

Snapshots† (Total #) Controller Config Active-Active Supported Drives

Asynch Replication Cores (Max) 4 cores FC or SAS HDD 10K RPM

Storage Networking Ports * 8 vSPHERE INTEGRATION Snapshot (Max) VAAI v4† (Total #) 3 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports Replication 8 ports (Max) / VAAI v5† (Total #) Thin Provisioning 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports 8 ports (Max) / Other VMware Integrations 1 Re-striping Data on New Disk/LUN FC Snapshot Integration with vSphere‡ Mixed Drive Types in LUN FCoE Performance Metrics for VAAI

Multipathing† (Total #) 6 iSCSI vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Hypervisor/OS† (Total #) 10 Concurrent FC & iSCSI SIOC

AST† (Total #) Concurrent SAN & NAS VASA AQDT Policy-based Provisioning† RAID Options 5, 10 (Total #) VADP Multi-RAID / Erasure Codes / Multi-tenancy VASRM Redundancy† (Total #) 9 Storage DRS Performance Monitoring App Drives: Global Hot Spares Mgt Interfaces† (Total #) 4 SUPPORT Anti-vibration Hardware Warranty 5 Years Notification† (Total #) 2 Advanced HDD Spin Down Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 DCM Software† (Total #) HDD Interface SAS 6Gb Contract Support† (Total #) 5 Network File Systems† Concurrent HDD Mix (Total #) In Controller‡ Non-Contract Support‡

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OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT

Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA High Availability ZFS SAN Dell Compellent SC8000 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Aberdeen XDAS D42F7 8GB FC Dell EqualLogic PS6100/PS6110 Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Aberdeen XDAS iSD41 Dell EqualLogic PS6500/PS6510 Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Aberdeen XDAS iXD32 10G Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Aberdeen XDAS T42F Dot Hill AssuredSAN 4000 Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC Dot Hill AssuredSAN Pro 5000 Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Celeros SmartSAN XT235-iSCSI EMC VNX5700 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

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OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT

EMC VNX7500 HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

EMC VNXe3300 Huawei OceanStor S2600T Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Hitachi Data Systems HUS 150 Huawei OceanStor S5800T Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Hitachi Data Systems HUS VM IBM DCS3700 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

HP EVA P6550 IBM DS5300 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

HP StoreEasy 5000 IBM Storwize V7000U Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

HP StoreVirtual 4730 Storage IBM XIV Gen 3 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

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OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT

IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000 Infortrend EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16Gb FC Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Imation Nexsan E60 Infortrend ESVA E60-2230 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Imation Nexsan NST5500 Infortrend ESVA F75-2830 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Infortrend EonStor DS B24F-R2852 NEC M500 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GBE NetApp E2600-12 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Infortrend EonStor DS S16E-R2251 10GbE NetApp E5460 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Infortrend EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC NetApp FAS3250 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

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OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT OVERALL SCORE MANAGEMENT & SOFTWAREHARDWARE vSPHERE INTEGRATIONSUPPORT

Oracle Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600 X-IO ISE 200 Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Oracle Sun ZFS Storage ZS3 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Overland Storage SnapScale X2 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Scale Computing ICOS Storage Nodes M Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Starboard AC4500 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Appendix B—Storage Provider Contact Information

APPENDIX

Appendix A: Definitions, Explanations and Terminology

Appendix B: Storage Provider Contact Information

Appendix C: Author Contact Information

Appendix D: Complete List of Midrange Arrays

Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology

Definitions, Explanations and Terminology This section contains brief definitions and/or explanations of the terms used and assumptions made when developing the data sheets found in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. These terms are in the same order as they appear on the individual data sheets.

Management & Software Snapshots (Total #) Synch Replication This score indicates if the array can do snapshots and, if it Indicates if the array can synchronously replicate data to can, how many snapshot options it support. A numeric another midrange array from the same storage provider. score (if present) represents the number of snapshot Write I/Os need to be received at the primary or source options it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this array and then copied and written to the secondary, or feature. A check mark indicates support for this feature target array, with the write confirmed as complete by both though insufficient information was provided by the vendor before processing can continue. A check mark indicates or vendor website to confidently ascertain which snapshots this feature is supported. were supported. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported snapshot options for any Thin Provisioning (Total #) particular array. Snapshot options covered in the IBG are: Using thin provisioning, only as much storage capacity as the host consumes on the array is actually allocated to the AoW: Allocate-on-write snapshot. Blocks of data are host. The rest of the storage capacity remains in the locked down until all snapshot pointers to those blocks storage array’s free storage pool until it is needed by the are no longer referenced. array. A numeric score (if present) represents the number of CoW: Copy-on-write snapshot. Copies changes to stored thin provision options the array supports. An “X” indicates data every time new data is entered or existing data is no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support updated to a new location before the existing data is for this feature though insufficient information was provided updated. by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain which thin provisioning features were supported. See the Split-Mirror: References all data on a set of mirrored DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of volumes and, every time a snapshot is created, one of supported options for any particular array. the LUNs or volumes and all of its data is split off from the other one. 3rd Party Storage Reclamation Indicates if the array is recognized by third party software, Full Copy: References all data on a volume and, every such as Symantec Storage Foundation, that can reclaim time a snapshot is created, copies all of the data on the freed blocks of its thinly provisioned storage put back in a volume to another. free storage pool. A midrange array may also natively support its own storage reclamation features. Asynch Replication Indicates if the array can asynchronously replicate data to Feature Software Included another midrange array from the same storage provider. A check mark indicates if the array includes the Snapshot, Asynchronous replication may be continuous or periodic. Replication or Thin Provisioning feature without an extra See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of licensing fee. supported options for any particular array. Supported options may include: Re-striping data on new disk/LUN Continuous: Every write I/O is copied, stored in a local A check mark indicates the array offers the capability disk cache and then replicated as soon as possible to a for data to be re-striped across all its disks or LUNs secondary midrange array. when new disks or LUNs are added to the Virtual Storage Pool. Possible options available to re-stripe data include Periodic: A snapshot of one or more volumes is periodi- Automatic (re-striping occurs as soon as disk or LUN cally taken with that snapshot and then replicated to a is added), Manual (re-striping occurs only when the secondary midrange array. process is explicitly initiated), or Scheduled (re-striping

Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology (continued)

occurs when the process is scheduled). See the DCIG Policy-based Provisioning (Total #) Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of Policy-based provisioning automates some aspect of the supported options for any particular array. provisioning process. Answer options include: Policy-based storage selection, create storage templates to include SLA/ Mixed Drive Types in LUN QoS requirements, provisioning via server groups linked to A check mark indicates that a Virtual Storage Pool can storage templates, self-service portal for server and/or contain disks of various types (SAS and/or FC, SATA, SSD) storage administrators, automated reclamation when virtual and/or LUNs of mixed RAID types (1, 5, 6, etc.). server is decommissioned, scheduling and notification of provisioning activities, exposes APIs for use by 3rd party Multipathing (Total #) storage automation tools, support integration with ITSM Indicates if the array supports third party multipathing products (Remedy, Tivoli), and SDK for integration with software. A numeric score (if present) represents the management software. A numeric score (if present) number of multipathing options it supports. An “X” indicates represents the number of policy-based provisioning options no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. for this feature though insufficient information was provided A check mark indicates support for this feature though by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain insufficient information was provided by the vendor or which multipathing software was supported. See the DCIG vendor website to confidently ascertain which policy-based Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list provisioning options were supported. See the DCIG of supported options for any particular array. Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported options for any particular array. Hypervisor/OS (Total #) Indicates the extent to which hypervisor host and/or client Multi-tenancy operating systems are certified with the array and on the The array can securely serve multiple customers by operating system provider’s hardware compatibility list controlling what resources on the array each customer can (HCL). Possible options supported include Microsoft access through either hard or soft provisioning of storage Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Windows, and HP-UX, array resources. It also offers the ability to control and among others. A numeric score (if present) represents the allocate the resources to which they do have access. number of hypervisors/OSes it supports. An “X” indicates A check mark indicates this feature is supported. no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support for this feature though insufficient information was provided Performance Monitoring App by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain The array provides an application that monitors and reports which hypervisors/OSes were supported. See the DCIG on how resources (disk drives, storage networking ports, Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of cache, LUNs, VMs, etc.) within it are being utilized and supported hypervisors/OSes for any particular array. how well they are performing. A check mark indicates this feature is supported. AST (Total #) Automated Storage Tiering (AST) places data on the Mgt Interfaces (Total #) appropriate tier of storage (SATA, SAS, FC or SSD) within Answers the question, “In what ways is the array able to the array based upon policies that are either built into the be managed?” Possible answers include: Web-based, storage array, set by the storage administrator or some Client/Server application, Command Line Interface (CLI), combination of both. Moving data between tiers may Telnet, SSH, Console, Application Programming Interface occur at pre-scheduled times or dynamically. A numeric (API), and mobile application. A numeric score (if present) score (if present) represents the number of AST options it represents the number of management interfaces supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A supported. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. check mark indicates support for this feature though A check mark indicates support for this feature though insufficient information was provided by the vendor or insufficient information was provided by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain which AST vendor website to confidently ascertain which management options were supported. See the DCIG Interactive interfaces were supported.. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported options options for any particular array. for any particular array.

Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology(continued)

Notification (Total #) though a drop in performance may occur. This is consid- Indicates the type of system logging the array supports ered an enterprise class feature. between available options of SMTP Notification, SNMP Active-Standby: All LUNs are controlled and assigned to Logging and Notification, or Syslog. A numeric score (if a single active controller through which all storage I/O traffic present) represents the number of notification and logging is routed. A secondary standby controller takes over the options it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this storage I/O traffic for the active controller should it fail or be feature. A check mark indicates support for this feature taken offline. The secondary controller also assumes though insufficient information was provided by the vendor control of the array’s LUNs at any time. or vendor website to confidently ascertain which notification and logging options were supported. See the DCIG Dual Active: Both controllers are active and have concur- Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of rent access to the disk drives that are presented as LUNs to supported options for any particular array. the attached hosts. The difference from Active-Active is that half of the array’s LUNs are assigned to and controlled by DCM Software (Total #) one controller, and the other half of the LUNs to the other, DCM software indicates the number of data center opera- so a LUN can only be accessed down one path through tions management (DCM) software options offered by the one controller at a time. If a controller should be taken offline array. Options include CA Unicenter, CENTOROS, EMC or fail, the other controller assumes control for its LUNs. Control Center, HP Operations Manager, IBM Tivoli, Nagios XI, nlyte Enterprise Edition, Quantum Vision, and Zenoss Cores (Max) Service Dynamics. A numeric score (if present) represents The number listed indicates the maximum number of the number of DCM software options it supports. An “X” processor cores available in the array’s controller. indicates no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support for this feature though insufficient information was Scale-out (Max controllers) provided by the vendor or vendor website to confidently Indicates the maximum number of controllers that the ascertain which DCM software options were supported. model can support in a single logical configuration. An “X” See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a complete indicates that this array does not support a scale-out SAN list of supported options for any particular array. configuration.

Network File Systems (Total #) Cache (Max) Network File System (NFS) is a protocol that allows the The maximum number of gigabytes (GBs) of cache that the “mounting” of devices or file systems on other systems array controllers can support. This cache may consist of over a network. A numeric score (if present) represents the any combination of DRAM, NVRAM and SSD. number of NFS options it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support for Raw Storage Capacity (Max) this feature though insufficient information was provided by The maximum amount of raw storage capacity in the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain terabytes (TBs) that the array can have under its which NFS options were supported. See the DCIG management. However, this number only includes the Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of array’s footprint and not the storage capacity of other supported options for any particular array. systems it may have virtualized.

Hardware Inline Deduplication Deduplication is a specialized data compression technique Controller Config for eliminating duplicate copies of repeating data. Inline Active-Active: Two controllers are configured with deduplication is the process where the deduplication hash multipathing software and have concurrent access to the calculations are created on the target device as the data disk drives that are then presented as LUNs to attached enters the device in real time. If the device spots a block hosts. In the event a controller fails or is taken offline, that it already stored on the system it does not store attached host(s) may detect little or no interruption in another new block, but instead references to the existing service as the other controller takes over for the failed unit block. A check mark indicates this feature is supported.

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Inline Compression Concurrent FC & iSCSI Compression involves encoding data to take up less The ability for the storage array to connect to hosts over storage space by finding repeatable patterns of binary 0s Fibre Channel and iSCSI at the same time. A check mark and 1s. The more patterns can be found, the more the indicates this feature is supported. data can be compressed. Inline compression is a process where data is compressed as it is stored in the array, rather Concurrent SAN & NAS than being compressed at a later time using the post- The ability for the storage array to communicate with process method or left uncompressed. A check mark applications using both block (SAN) and network file indicates this feature is supported. system (NAS) clients at the same time.

Storage Networking Ports (Max) RAID Options The maximum number of ports available in any Lists the RAID levels supported by the array. configuration to connect the array to hosts or to a dedicated storage network. Controllers that support Multi-RAID/ Erasure Codes both Ethernet and Fibre Channel may also support Indicates if the array concurrently supports different RAID concurrent use of both technologies. See “Concurrent levels on different HDDs. (E.g., within a single array FC & iSCSI” for additional clarification. Controllers may controller, some HDDs can be configured as RAID 1, others also include ports for managing the array or interconnect- as RAID 5 and still others as RAID 50.) A check mark ing multiple storage controllers. Those ports are not indicates this feature is supported. included in this count. Erasure codes can be used to protect beyond the 1/10 Gb Ethernet Ports (Max) two-drive failures tolerated in RAID-6. Combining erasure Indicates the maximum number of 1 Gb and 10 Gb coding with information dispersal algorithms can enhance Ethernet ports supported by the array in any configuration. storage durability by protecting data against multiple An “X” indicates no support for the feature. component failures and unrecoverable read errors. A check mark indicates this feature is supported. 8/16 Gb Fibre Channel Ports (Max) Redundancy (Total #) Indicates the maximum number of 8 Gb and 16 Gb Fibre Channel ports supported by the array in any configuration. The elements that make up the Redundancy score include An “X” indicates no support for the feature. redundant and hot swap power supplies, fans, and drives. A numeric score (if present) represents the number of FC (Fibre Channel) Redundancy features it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A check mark indicates support Fibre Channel (FC) is used as a networking protocol to for this feature though insufficient information was provided transmit data between computer devices, such as a by the vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain server and a storage device. A check mark indicates this which Redundancy features were supported. See the feature is supported. DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list FCoE of supported options for any particular array. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) allows Fibre Channel Drives-Global Hot Spares communication over selected full duplex IEEE 802.3 Indicates if the array permits a disk drive to be designated networks. A check mark indicates this feature is supported. as a global hot spare, and be used to automatically replace iSCSI a failed HDD in a RAID set. A check mark indicates this feature is supported. Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCI) is a block-based protocol for running SCSI commands Anti-vibration over Internet Protocol (IP) on Ethernet to access Indicates if the array has anti-vibration technology to storage resources. A check mark indicates this minimize and control HDD vibrations to prevent HDD feature is supported. failures. A check mark indicates this feature is supported.

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Advanced HDD Spin Down RoHS Compliant Indicates the array offers advanced, user definable The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) is a spin-down HDD functions, where the disk(s) can be set movement intended to limit certain dangerous substances to sleep after a set timeframe, or period of inactivity, to commonly used in electronic and electronic equipment. save energy. Compliant components are tested for substances such as lead or mercury. A check mark indicates the array has HDD Interface achieved RoHS compliance. Indicates the interface(s) the controller uses to connect to the back-end HDDs. Options that may be supported VMware vSphere Integration include FC-AL, FC-SW, SATA SAS 3Gb and SAS 6Gb. VAAI v4 (Total #) Concurrent HDD Mix in Controller vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration is a set of Indicates if the array supports a mix of HDD connection APIs introduced in ESX/ESXi 4.1 that provides for types (FC-AL, FC-SW, SATA, SAS) concurrently. hardware acceleration of certain storage operations, reducing CPU overhead on the host. Answer options Supported Drives include: Block Zeroing, Full Copy, and Hardware Assisted FC or SAS HDD: Indicates disk speeds (7.2K, 10K, 15K Locking. A numeric score (if present) represents the RPM) of the FC and SAS HDDs, as supported on the array. number of VAAI v4 options it supports. An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A check mark indicates SATA: Indicates if the array supports Serial Advance support for this feature though insufficient information Technology Attachment (SATA) drives. was provided by the vendor or vendor website to SSD: Indicates if the array supports Solid State confidently ascertain which VAAI v4 options it supported. Drives (SSDs). See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported options for any particular array. SSD Optimization (Total #) VAAI v5 (Total #) Indicates the extent to which specialized SSD techniques are supported by the array. Optimization techniques that vSphere Storage APIs for Array Integration is a set of may be supported include: Wear leveling, Wear monitor- APIs introduced in ESX/ESXi 4.1 and extended with the ing and alerting, Buffering and/or coalescing of writes to release of VMware 5.0. Answer options include: Thin match erasure block size (EBS), Variable RAID stripe Provisioning Dead Space Reclamation (SCSI UNMAP), sizing to match erasure block size (EBS), Tuning of data Full File Clone, Out-of-Space Conditions, Reserve Space, aging timers for write buffering, Inline deduplication, and Extended Statistics. A numeric score (if present) Block level compression, and Hardware accelerated represents the number of VAAI v5 options it supports. compression. A numeric score (if present) represents the An “X” indicates no support for this feature. A check number of SSD Optimization techniques it supports. An mark indicates support for this feature though insufficient “X” indicates no support for this feature. A check mark information was provided by the vendor or vendor indicates support for this feature though insufficient website to confidently ascertain which VAAI v5 options information was provided by the vendor or vendor it supported. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide website to confidently ascertain which SSD Optimization (IBG) for a detailed list of supported options for any techniques it supported. See the DCIG Interactive particular array. Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported Other VMware Integrations options for any particular array. This numeric score reflects all data related to VMware Managed UPS/Battery Backup integrations other than VAAI v4 and VAAI v5. Data about Indicates if the array offers a battery backup (i.e. integrated specific integrations of particular interest are shown below UPS in the array) in case of power failure. A check mark this heading. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) indicates this feature is supported. for a list of supported options for any particular array.

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Snapshot Integration with vSphere virtual machines, reduces ESX host resources to do A check mark indicates the array supports snapshot backup processing, and enables flexible backup windows. integration with VMware vSphere, allowing the creation of A check mark indicates this feature is supported. virtual machine snapshots to be offloaded to the array. VASRM Performance Metrics for VAAI vStorage APIs for Site Recover Manager (VASRM) offers A check mark indicates the array provides specific remote replication features enabling a device to failover performance metrics to show the impact of VAAI on the to a recovery site. A check mark indicates this feature array subsystem. is supported. vSphere Plug-in for Array Management Storage DRS A check mark indicates the array has a vSphere plug-in to Storage Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) provides perform array based management functions. virtual machine placement and load balancing mechanisms based on I/O and space capacity. A check mark indicates SIOC this feature is supported. Storage I/O Control (SIOC) for VMware is a dynamic control mechanism for proportional allocation of shared storage Support resources to VMs running on multiple hosts. A check mark indicates this feature is supported. Hardware Warranty Indicates the length of standard warranty for the array. VASA vSphere Storage APIs for Storage Awareness is a set of Contract Support Availability APIs that permit storage arrays to integrate with vCenter for Specifies the hours when support is available when under management functionality. Storage Awareness collects service contract. Examples include “business hours” configuration, capability and storage health information (9am–5pm, weekdays), “24x7” (24 hours a day, seven days from storage arrays. This allows the administrator to build a week, but not holidays) and “24x7x365” (24 hours a day, Storage Profiles based on capabilities. A check mark seven days a week, including holidays). indicates this feature is supported. Contract Support (Total #) AQDT Methods of support may include phone, email, web chat, VMware ESX 3.5 Update 4 introduced an Adaptive remote monitoring, remote login/problem resolution, Queue Depth (AQDT) algorithm that adjusts the LUN dispatch technician onsite, dispatch technician onsite with queue depth in the VMkernel I/O stack. This algorithm is 4-hour GTD response, same day delivery of replacement activated when the storage array indicates LUN I/O parts, and pre-failure shipping of replacement parts. A congestion by returning a BUSY or QUEUE FULL status. numeric score (if present) represents the number of When LUN congestion is detected, VMkernel throttles the contract support options available. An “X” indicates no LUN queue depth. The VMkernel attempts to gradually support available. A check mark indicates support for this restore the LUN queue depth when LUN congestion feature though insufficient information was provided by the conditions subside. AQDT prevents the array from being vendor or vendor website to confidently ascertain levels of flooded with LUN I/O requests and enables the array to support it provided. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide recover to a normal operational state. NOTE: This is not (IBG) for a detailed support list for any particular array. applicable for NFS mounted storage. A check mark indicates this feature is supported. Non-Contract Support A checkmark here indicates the array vendor provides VADP support for the model on a non-contract basis. Hours of vStorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) is a data availability and support methods may differ from those protection framework introduced in vSphere 4.0. VADP offered for on-contract arrays. enables centralized, off-host LAN free backup of vSphere

Appendix B—Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information

Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information

Aberdeen Huawei 10420 Pioneer Blvd. 5700 Tennyson Pkwy., Ste. 500 Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670 Plano, TX 75024 +1.562.903.1500 Phone: +1.214-919-6000 http://www.aberdeeninc.com http://www.huawei.com/us

Celeros IBM Corporation 949 Hamilton Court 1 New Orchard Rd Menlo Park, CA 94025 Armonk, NY 10504-1722 [email protected] [email protected] +1.650.325.6900 +1.800.426.4968 http://www.celeros.com http://www.ibm.com/storage

Dell IceWEB Storage Corporation 1 Dell Way 22900 Shaw Road, Suite 111 Round Rock, TX 78682 Sterling, VA 20166-9279 +1.800.671.3355 [email protected] http://www.dell.com +1.800.465.4637 http://www.iceweb.com Dot Hill Systems Corporation 1351 S Sunset St. Imation Nexsan Solutions Longmont, CO 80501-6533 1445 Lawrence Drive +1.303.845.3200 Thousand Oaks, CA 91320 http://www.dothill.com +1.866.463.9726 http://www.nexsan.com EMC Corporation 176 South Street Infortrend Hopkinton, MA 01748 A division of Virtual Graffiti, Inc. [email protected] 9979 Muirlands Blvd. +1.866.438.3622 Irvine, CA 92618 http://www.emc.com [email protected] +1.949-870-3500 Hitachi Data Systems Corporation http://www.infortrend.com 2845 Lafayette Street Santa Clara, CA 95050-2639 NEC Corporation of America +1.408.970.1000 2880 Scott Blvd http://www.hds.com Santa Clara, CA 95050 +1.408.844.1475 Hewlett-Packard Corporation http://www.necam.com 3000 Hanover Street Palo Alto, CA 94304 NetApp +1.866.625.0242 495 East Java Drive http://www.hp.com Sunnyvale, CA 94089 +1.877.263.8277 http://www.netapp.com

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Enterprise Midrange Array Provider Contact Information

Oracle Corporation 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 +1.650.506.7000 +1.800.392.2999 http://www.oracle.com

Overland Storage 9112 Spectrum Center Blvd San Diego, CA 92123 USA +1.800.729.8725 http://www.overlandstorage.com

Scale Computing 5225 Exploration Drive Indianapolis, IN 46241 +1.877.SCALE.59 http://www.scalecomputing.com

Starboard Storage Systems 12303 Airport Way, Suite 230 Broomfield, CO 80021 +1.855.790.9996 http://www.starboardstorage.com

X-IO Storage 9950 Federal Drive, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80921 Phone: +1.866.472.6764 http://xiostorage.com

Appendix C—Author Contact Information

Author Contact Information

DCIG, LLC 7511 Madison Street Omaha, NE 68127 +1.402.884.9594

CONTACT Jerome Wendt [email protected]

Ken Clipperton [email protected]

WEBSITE www.dcig.com

AppendixAppendix C—Author D—Complete Contact List Information of Midrange Arrays

Complete List of Midrange Arrays available in DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide Below is a complete list of all midrange array models, arranged by vendor, that were scored and ranked for inclusion in the DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Buyer’s Guide. Because the print edition of the 2014 Buyer’s Guide presents midrange array models as a complete series rather than individually, some arrays may appear only in the Interactive Buyer’s Guide. The 50 arrays found in both the print edition and the interactive edition of the Buyer’s Guide are presented in bold in the following list.

Vendor Midrange Array Model Name Vendor Midrange Array Model Name

Aberdeen AberSAN ZXP2 HA High Availability ZFS SAN HP 3PAR StoreServ 7200 XDAS D21F7/D22F7 3PAR StoreServ 7400 XDAS D21Hm/D22Hm P6500 EVA XDAS D31F7/D32F7 P6550 EVA XDAS D31H/D32H StoreEasy 5000 XDAS D42F7 8Gb FC StoreVIrtual 4130 XDAS D42F StoreVIrtual 4330 XDAS iSD11m/iSD12m StoreVIrtual 4530 XDAS iSD21/iSD22 StoreVIrtual 4730 XDAS iSD21m/iSD22m XDAS iSD31/iSD32 Huawei OceanStor S2600T XDAS iSD41 OceanStor S2200T XDAS iXD32 10G OceanStor S5500T XDAS T42F OceanStor S5600T OceanStor S5800T Celeros SmartSAN XT23S-FC SmartSAN XT23S-iSCSI IBM DCS3700 DS5020 Dell EqualLogic PS6100 Series DS5100 EqualLogic PS6500 Series DS5300 Compellent SC8000 Storwize V7000U XIV Gen 3 Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3000 series AssuredSAN 3003 series IceWEB Unified Storage Appliance Model 7000 AssuredSAN 4000 series AssuredSAN Pro 5000 series Infortrend EonStor DS B24F-R2842/B24F-G2842 EonStor DS S16E-R2152-6 1GbE EMC VNX5100 The EMC VNX2 has been announced EonStor DS S16E-R2251 10GbE VNX5300 but information on this product was EonStor DS S16F-R2852-6 8G FC available in time to make the cutoff VNX5500 for this Buyer's Guide. EonStor DS S48F-R2652-4 16G FC VNX5700 ESVA E10-2130 VNX7500 ESVA E60-2130 VNXe 3150 ESVA E60-2230 VNXe 3300 ESVA F10-2830 ESVA F60-2830 Hitachi Data Systems HUS VM ESVA F75-2830 HUS 150

AppendixAppendix C—Author D—Complete Contact List Information of Midrange Arrays (continued)

Complete List of Midrange Arrays available in DCIG 2014 Enterprise Midrange Array Interactive Buyer’s Guide

Vendor Midrange Array Model Name

NEC M100 M300 M500

NetApp E2600-12 E2624 E2660 E5412 E5424 E5460 FAS3220 FAS3250

Imation Nexsan E18 E48 E60 NST5100 NST5500

Oracle Sun ZFS Storage ZS3 Pillar Data Systems Axiom 600

Overland Storage SnapSAN S5000 SnapScale X2 SnapSAN S1000 SnapSAN S3000

Scale Computing ICOS Storage Nodes M Series

Starboard AC2000 AC4000 AC4500

X-IO Hyper ISE 7-Series ISE 19.2 ISE 200 Series ISE 9.6