SANGFOR HCI

(Hyper-Converged Infrastructure)

The 3rd Gen HCI, Driving Hyperconvergence

to Fully Converged

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Traditional Data Center

— Challenges & Limitations
IT is a fast changing industry. With organizations trying to follow the The revolution of x86 server virtualization over a decade ago
trend of digitalization and stay agile at all time, IT departments are marked the change of IT service delivery. However, the rest of the IT
looking at growing and seemingly endless requests for better and infrastructure in the data center haven’t kept up, namely the
virtualization of networking, security and storage.
operating environment. The driving force that ensures your business
stays ahead and evolves smoothly, is your data center.

What was the Time Spent On?

The traditional data center is very delicate in many ways, the work it takes to keep it running properly is complex and
tedious – deployment, expansion, resource scheduling, upgrade, maintenance, troubleshooting, fault tolerance and
release of new versions – these have occupied the majority of time of IT department’s daily work.

What was the Money Invested in?

With traditional data center, the provision of new services usually starts with planning and scaling of networking, and
hardware selection. Organizations also take into account their overall planning for the next 3-5 years. As a result, the
actual quantity of device purchased and model selected shall exceed the current business needs to a great extent,
thus leading to a considerable amount of investment in advance. Not to mention the speed data center technology is
evolving and the follow-up investment that comes with it.

Is Current Architecture Scalable?

Whenever new business needs to go online or data center needs expansion, it requires supplementary storage and
massive data migration; and the IT department have to go over the entire hardware planning/selecting process again.
Not to mention the manpower it takes to set it up and keep in running.

Is Your Data Center Cloud Era Compatible?

With the emergence of “The Era of Cloud”, increasingly people are resorting to Cloud to deal with the hurdles physical

it’s not the case that you could enjoy the full breadth of benefits that go with cloud at a snap of finger. Easily put your
IT architecture needs to be simplified and automated.

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Traditional Data Center Data Center with Sangfor HCI

One click
One deployment One stop One step
One hardware
management & modification solution to
consolidating simplifying
console cutting TCO enterprise
legacy the time to
removing up to 80% cloud
appliances market of
silos
application

Sangfor HCI Solution

Why Choose Sangfor as Your HCI Solution Provider?

Sangfor has over 15 years’ experience in network security and SSL VPN) in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. The R&D investment in
optimization and it has been the only Asian vendor with 5 products virtualization started since 2011 and the next year the Virtual Desktop
(NGAF, WAN Optimization, Internet Access Management, (VDI) has seen successful commercial deployment.
Application Delivery and EasyConnect for

Sangfor HCI at a Glance

5-Tier Architecture Consolidated into 1

1 Single User Interface Managing All IT Resources

Sangfor Hyper-Converged Infrastructure consolidates traditional aSV Server aSAN Storage aNET Network NFV Network
Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization Function Virtualization
hardware-appliance-based security, IP network, storage network,
server and storage into one tier of commodity hardware (x86 SANGFOR HYPER-CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
server). The foundation of all these are Server Virtualization (aSV),
Storage Virtualization (aSAN) and Network Virtualization (aNET), on
top of that we have NFV (Network Function Virtualization)
integration including all our network applications such as
NGAF/IAM/WANO.

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Highlights of Sangfor HCI

aSAN (Storage Virtualization)

2-3 copies of data are stored and data can be written synchronously
so as to ensure data consistency. SSD as cache is utilized for higher
IOPS. With the patented I/O localization technology, aSAN can
detect where VM’s data is stored and make it a priority to run the VM
on that physical host, dramatically increase IOPS in a clustered
environment.

aSV (Hypervisor)
Using distributed resources scheduler, dynamic resources
scheduling functions can be achieved by VMP without
installing agents.

High Availability
Applications can be restored from networking, host and
storage layer in an extremely short time if physical node
failed in the cluster.

Integrated Backup and Recovery

Daily incremental backup and hourly snapshot backup with
no need of backup software or host.

Ultra-Simplified Operation
1 integrated software stack. Deploy infrastructure to support business
in minutes. "What You Draw is What You Get" topology. Very limited
manual operation is needed. Virtualized data center displays real-time
flow based on ports, uplink and downlink of virtual machine
 Reduced TCO & Pay as You Grow
Minimum 70% reduction in overall CapEx & Opex than traditional data center. Up to 90% reduction in
power, cooling and space. Start with 1 commodity server and scale linearly according to your need without
limits. Shift your focus to business. IT could be a revenue generating department instead of a cost center.

High Performance
1 single server to achieve 10Gbps virtual network throughput, read
60,000+ IOPS, write 17,000+ IOPS and storage capacity 20TB. High
stability and reliability ensured by vAD business clustering, HA (High
Availability), distributed management platform, distributed virtual
networking device, multi-copies, back-up plans etc.

Best NFV Integration

More flexible and scalable network and service provisioning.
Virtualized network functions can be easily moved to various locations
in the network without having to install new equipment.3D protection
inside-out: Kernal built-in WAF to protect aSV from web threats;

Sangfor HCI

aCloud Hybrid Cloud

Transit Smoothly towards Cloud Era

Build Data Center by Simple Drawing Visualized Data Center

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Deployment Scenarios of Sangfor HCI

Server & Storage Virtualization

Think about the workload of running and maintaining various units in a legacy data
center; think about the increased investment in data center as business grows; think
about the amount of time left for IT to innovate; think about how the legacy data center is
going to deal with data explosion and the trend of digitalization. Sangfor HCI can reduce
TCO by 70% or more by eliminating IT silos, over-provisioning, and simplifying data
center operations.

Test/Development
Test/development environments tend to rely heavily on VMs, yet usually the number of
running VMs is limited due to the concern that things might be slowed down by them.
With Sangfor HCI that concern can be completely eliminated, as hyper-converged
infrastructure is based around real, enterprise-class hardware that is specifically
designed for virtualization, it is extremely agile and elastic in handling test/dev workload.
Moreover, the test/dev environments created on HCI are completely isolated from the
production environment, so that no bad code will ever be released into production.

SME
Due to budget constraints, SMEs sometimes are reluctant to upgrade their IT. Also, they
don’t think it’s worth stopping IT production just for upgrade. The consequence of that
kind of mindset is outdated technology, which then leads to frustrated employees with
limited IT functionality or even worse, disastrous system breakdown. However, with
Sangfor HCI, SMEs can now enjoy continuous technology refresh and implementation of
new systems via this on-premise solution that enables cloud-like elasticity, agility and
economics with superior performance, reliability and availability.

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hardware and support challenges for IT. They lack physical space and power resources

on site to manage servers, storage and backup at the branch. These will all have a
negative impact on business productivity and ultimately business results. The
implementation of Sangfor HCI can eliminate IT infrastructure cost, complexity and the

impact on business productivity and ultimately business results. The implementation of

Sangfor HCI can eliminate IT infrastructure cost, complexity and the need for specialized

scalability.
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1U Server with 4 disk slots

Model CPU Memory Disk Slots NIC Ports

E3-1230 V3
aServer 1000 (4C8T 3.3GHZ) 32G ECC DDR4 4*SATA/SAS 6*GE

1*128GB SSD for OS (integrated inside),

Storage Capacity
data disk optional (SSD, SAS, SATA)

2U Server with 8 disk slots

Model aServer 2000 aServer 2100 aServer 2200 aServer 2300

CPU 2*E5-2620 v4 2*E5-2630v4 2*E5-2650v4 2*E5-2680v4

(8C16T, 2.1GHZ) (10C20T, 2.2GHZ) (12C24T, 2.2GHZ) (14C28T, 2.4GHZ)
Memory 96GB ECC DDR4 128GB ECC DDR4 128GB ECC DDR4 128GB ECC DDR4
(max. 512 GB)

Disk Slots 8*SATA/SAS/SSD 8*SATA/SAS/SSD 8*SATA/SAS/SSD 8*SATA/SAS/SSD

NIC Ports 6*GE 6*GE 6*GE+2*10GE 6*GE+2*10GE

1*128GB SSD for OS (integrated inside),

Storage Capacity
data disk optional (SSD, SAS, SATA)

2U Server with 12 disk slots

Model aServer 2005 aServer 2105 aServer 2205 aServer 2305

CPU 2*E5-2620 v4 2*E5-2630v4 2*E5-2650v4 2*E5-2680v4

(8C16T, 2.1GHZ) (10C20T, 2.2GHZ) (12C24T, 2.2GHZ) (14C28T, 2.4GHZ)
Memory
(max. 512 GB) 96GB ECC DDR4 128GB ECC DDR4 128GB ECC DDR4 128GB ECC DDR4

Disk Slots 12*SATA/SAS/SSD 12*SATA/SAS/SSD 12*SATA/SAS/SSD 12*SATA/SAS/SSD

NIC Ports 6*GE 6*GE 6*GE+2*10GE 6*GE+2*10GE

Storage Capacity 1*128GB SSD for OS (integrated inside),

data disk optional (SSD, SAS, SATA)

Sangfor HCI Data Sheet – Software Based

Sangfor can also provide a software-only HCI solution compatible with most of the commodity
servers commercially available on the market.

License aSV Server Virtualization, HA, DRS, Automated Hot

(Per physical CPU) (Server Virtualization) Add, Backup, Clone, Sub Administrator, etc.

License aNet Network virtualization, Distributed Firewall, Drawable

(Per physical CPU) (Network Virtualization) Topology, Visualized Network, aSwitch, aRouter, etc.

License aSAN 2-3 Copies, SSD Read & Write Acceleration, Storage
(Per physical CPU) (Storage Virtualization) Tier-ing, Data Locality, etc.

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