SOLUTION OVERVIEW. Storage Performance Analytics

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1 SOLUTION OVERVIEW Storage Performance Analytics

products that provide unparalleled insight into the relationship of workload behavior and storage performance.

2 WHO IS LOAD DYNAMIX? Load DynamiX empowers storage professionals with the essential insight needed to assure the performance and optimize the cost of networked storage systems. Our storage performance analytics solutions are comprised of easy to use workload analysis, workload modeling, and workload generation products that provide unparalleled insight into the relationship of workload behavior and storage performance. Load DynamiX simplifies storage purchasing and deployment decisions and accelerates problem resolution. Load DynamiX storage workload performance analytics gives you the data to confidently introduce change and to intelligently evolve your IT infrastructure with the most innovative storage technologies such as flash, hybrid, software defined and converged offerings. Select Customers

I can t say enough good things about Load DynamiX.

Principal Architect GE WHY CONSIDER LOAD DYNAMIX?

storage infrastructure will meet performance requirements under their specific workloads.

system based on workload performance requirements; quantify the benefit and effects of flash/ SSDs,

Risk mitigation: Identify performance problems in the pre-production lab prior to production deployment;

3 I can t say enough good things about Load DynamiX. Their solution helped us choose the right storage technologies for both optimal performance and price. Principal Architect GE WHY CONSIDER LOAD DYNAMIX? By using Load DynamiX, customers realize benefits in the areas of cost, time, and risk by assuring storage infrastructure will meet performance requirements under their specific workloads. Storage cost optimization: Eliminate unnecessary over provisioning and choose the lowest cost storage system based on workload performance requirements; quantify the benefit and effects of flash/ SSDs, deduplication, compression, and tiering. Risk mitigation: Identify performance problems in the pre-production lab prior to production deployment; validate all infrastructure changes against workload requirements and troubleshoot more effectively by recreating failure-inducing workload conditions. Faster application roll-outs: Validate the infrastructure supporting new applications to make deployment decisions faster and more confidently. LoadDynamiX.com

WHY STORAGE PROFESSIONALS USE LOAD DYNAMIX Load DynamiX

operations managers to address the following key challenges

Technology Evaluation Which technology is best for your

Flash, Hybrids, NFSv4, FCoE, OpenStack, Ceph, etc?

product is best for each of your application workloads?

4 WHY STORAGE PROFESSIONALS USE LOAD DYNAMIX Load DynamiX empowers storage architects, storage engineers and storage operations managers to address the following key challenges across the storage life cycle. Technology Evaluation Which technology is best for your data center? Flash, Hybrids, NFSv4, FCoE, OpenStack, Ceph, etc? Change Validation Will patches, firmware and OS updates degrade performance? Storage Life Cycle Product Evaluation Which vendor and/or product is best for each of your application workloads? Problem Resolution Reproduce problems in the lab for faster troubleshooting Configuration Optimization Which mix of SSD/HDD is best for your workloads? What are the benefits of tiering and caching?

STORAGE PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS SOLUTION The Load DynamiX platform benefits both storage

Key components include: Load DynamiX Enterprise Workload Acquisition: Acquire workload

arrays, or the Workload Sensor, which gathers real-time data from network switches.

Engineering Workload Analysis: The Workload Analyzer statistically analyzes workload data

Workload Generation: The Workload Generation Appliance generates massive load based on

5 STORAGE PERFORMANCE ANALYTICS SOLUTION The Load DynamiX platform benefits both storage engineering and operations. Key components include: Load DynamiX Enterprise Workload Acquisition: Acquire workload profile data using the Workload Data Importer, which gathers historical data from storage arrays, or the Workload Sensor, which gathers real-time data from network switches. Workload Sensor for Storage Operations Workload Generation Appliance for Storage Engineering Workload Analysis: The Workload Analyzer statistically analyzes workload data and automatically creates prepopulated workload models. Workload Generation: The Workload Generation Appliance generates massive load based on the workload models to test the performance and scalability limits of any storage system. Workload Analytics: Assess throughput, IOPS and latency in easy to understand charts and reports. LoadDynamiX.com

HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT Load DynamiX offers a level of insight into storage system behavior that traditional approaches

Dedupable content generation Simplified, built-in reporting and analytics Extreme scalability to test any flash

Award Winning Technology Simplified storage performance planning and faster troubleshooting Freeware-based approaches

Interpreting results from multiple test systems and being able to repeat tests on different systems or at a later date

6 HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT Load DynamiX offers a level of insight into storage system behavior that traditional approaches (including freeware tools) can t deliver, including: Superior accuracy, realism, and repeatability Compressible and Dedupable content generation Simplified, built-in reporting and analytics Extreme scalability to test any flash configuration Faster time to results as no scripting is required. Award Winning Technology Simplified storage performance planning and faster troubleshooting Freeware-based approaches offer no automated ability to acquire and analyze production workloads and no reporting and analytics tools. Interpreting results from multiple test systems and being able to repeat tests on different systems or at a later date are extremely challenging when using freeware tools. Load DynamiX enables your storage team to be 10X more productive in creating tests, running product evaluations, and in trouble shooting performance problems.

7 Load DynamiX is like my smart phone I can t imagine my life without it! Performance Engineering Manager Go Daddy Load DynamiX is like Iometer on steroids! I ll never go back to freeware tools again. Storage Manager FireHost LoadDynamiX.com