on-premises storage hybrid cloud storage public cloud storage

Deliver scalable software defined storage anywhere

Session Objectives And Takeaways

Microsoft’s Storage Strategy

On-PremisesStorage

Hybrid CloudStorage

Public CloudStorage

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Cloud + Enterprise

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Trends

Source: multiple research sources

Public IT cloud services spending will reach $56.6

billion in 2014 and grow to more than $127

billion in 2018

$127B

More than 65 percent of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud technologies before 2016

>65%

Data volume growing at 40% or more, will reach 44 zettabytes by 2020

40%

Storage Spaces (SDS) and traditional SAN/NAS connectivity to support Private Clouds and Virtualized environments.(future: Microsoft Azure Stack)

On-PremisesStorage

StorSimple and 3rd party solutions providing on-premises storage integrated with Azure Storage.Azure Site Recovery and Backup providing Availability on Demand.

Hybrid CloudStorage

Azure Storage for scalable, reliable, and economical cloud storage for data big and small.

Public CloudStorage

Customer

ServiceproviderMicrosoft

ONEconsistent platform

Cloud + Enterprise Approach to Storage

Cloud + Enterprise Strategy

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Microsoft offers industry leading portfolio for building on-premises clouds

Microsoft embraces your choice of storage Microsoft offers solutions to reduce storage

costs

Choice: On-premises Storage

NAS

File Based Storage

SAN Partners

Block Storage

Storage Spaces

SAN Alternative

Storage Spaces Direct

Hyper-Converged

Microsoft Azure Stack/Object Storage

Cloud Fabric

Fibre Channel / iSCSI / FCoE SMB3

Hyper-Converged

Reliability, scalability, flexibility • Fault tolerance to disk, enclosure, node failures• Scale pools to large number of drives• Simple and fine grained expansion• Fast VM creation and efficient VM snapshots

Simplifying the datacenter• Collapsing Storage and Compute• Removes storage area network• Storage controller is a software service

Cloud design points and management• Standard servers with local storage• New device types such as SATA and NVMe SSD• Prescriptive hardware configurations• Deploy/manage/monitor with SCVMM, SCOM &

PowerShell

Hyper-converged with Windows Server 2016Storage Spaces Direct

Hyper-converged Infrastructure

Storage Spaces Direct Development Partners

Quanta D51PH

HP Apollo 2000 System

Dell PowerEdge R730xdCisco UCS C3260 Rack Server

Intel® Server Board S2600WT-Based Systems Lenovo System x3650 M5

Fujitsu Primergy RX2540 M1

DEMOHyper-converged

Performance using tiered flash drives with Storage Space Direct “shared nothing” storage

Scaling from Commodity to Cloud

Sca

le

Converged

Hyper-converged

Cost: Customers desire the economics and simplicity of hyper-converged

Cloud Scale: Large scale private and hosted clouds need the flexibility to independently scale compute and storage

Choice: Windows Server Software-defined Storage empowers both models giving customers flexibility

Converged

Converged Software-defined StorageStorage Spaces

Flexibility: Compute and Storage scale independentlyScalability: Ability to scale each layer for the highest demandsManageability: Segments layers to admin roles

Hyper-V Cluster

SMB3 storage network fabric

Scale-out File Server

Shared JBOD Storage

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Scale-out compute with low cost commodity servers

Low cost NIC’s at scale

Inexpensive Ethernet for storage fabric

Elastic, reliable, optimized with Storage Spaces

NAS head

3rd Party NAS

Choice: Converged Infrastructure

HYPER-V

SMB3 storage network fabric

SoFS with Storage Spaces

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SoFS with Storage Spaces Direct

Choice: NAS or Software-defined Storage with either shared or shared nothing disksFile Based Storage: Ethernet / Infiniband with SMB3 for storage fabricLeverage Existing Investments: Repurpose existing storage into Software-defined Storage stackManageability: Entire stack manageable with System Center with any solution

SoFS with SAN

Shared JBOD Storage

An easy solution to leverage the learnings from the cloud model in your own IT environment, allowing for full control and maximum efficiency.

Cloud Platform System Standard

Azure-consistent cloud in a box, based on proven technology and ready to run in your IT environmentSoftware-defined datacenter technologies and integrated Azure services for better economicsSingle point of support and fully automated patch and update process

Customer stories

“ In the past, a customer bought a SAN with expensive RAID [redundant array of independent disks] drives for an initial purchase price of more than $3,000 a terabyte. With Storage Spaces, our customers can use storage that costs less than $300 a terabyte.”

— Rand Morimoto, President, Convergent Computing

“ By using Storage Spaces, we’re getting storage performance of 450,000 IOPS and roughly a gigabyte per second in throughput—more than 20 times the IOPS and four times the throughput of our SAN.”

— Daniel Weissenborn, Solution Architect, ClearPointe

These and other case studies are available at Microsoft’s web site.

A1 Telekom Austria AG – IT Services Provider Boosts Network Availability, Resilience with Server Upgrade

ABM – Facilities Solutions Firm Reduces IP Address Management Time by 90 Percent

Avanade – Microsoft Co-Venture Uses Server Solution to Eliminate Latency for Field Force

Chunghwa Telecom – Telecom Reduces Costs by 30 Percent, Downtime by 50 Percent with Server Upgrade

ClearPointe – IT Firm Boosts Storage Performance Tenfold, Trims Costs with Software-Defined Storage

Convergent Computing – IT Consultant Delivers Flexible, Hybrid Cloud Computing and 50 Percent Lower Costs

Dimension Data – Hosting Provider Upgrades Software to Reduce Costs, Expand Choice and Services

Edgenet – Data Services Provider Upgrades Operating System to Boost IT Management Efficiency

Equifax – Financial Services Firm Improves File Server Availability by 40 Hours a Year

Fasthosts – Hosting Provider Increases IT Efficiency and Agility with Software Upgrade

Fujitsu – Fujitsu Reduces Cloud Storage Costs by 35 Percent, Creates More Competitive Offering

Georgia Institute of Technology – Georgia Tech Students Gain Broad Access to Powerful Design Software with Virtualization

ING Direct Australia – Online Bank Boosts IT Efficiency by 20 Percent with Upgrade, Strengthens Innovation

iWeb – Hosting Provider Grows Revenue and Customer Base with Private Cloud Offering

Kennards Hire – Equipment Rental Firm Improves IT Efficiency and Business Agility with Software Upgrade

Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice – State Reduces IP Management Work by 25 Percent, Extends Virtualization with Upgrade

Lufthansa Systems – Lufthansa Systems Uses Hybrid Cloud to Trim IT Delivery to Hours and Reduce Costs

Microsoft – Microsoft Uses Operating System to Triple Storage Capacity, Reduce Time-to-Market

nGenx Corporation – Cloud Service Provider Builds Cost-Effective Storage Solution to Support Business Growth

NTTX Select – Hosting Provider Uses Industry-Standard Storage to Slash Storage Costs by 30 Percent

Pedcor Companies – Real Estate Firm Expects to Avoid $560,000 in IT Costs by Using New Operating System

Studio Moderna – Retailer Deploys File Share Storage, Saves 50 Percent in Storage Costs

Telekom Slovenije – Telecom Company Uses File-Based Storage to Reduce Costs, Not Performance

TrinityComputer.de – IT Provider Gives SMB Customers Flexible Cloud Options, Lower Costs with Upgrade

T-Systems International GmbH – Cloud Hosting Provider Aims to Improve Service, Lower Costs with Server Upgrade

VaiSulWeb – Hosting Provider Quickly Offers Cost-Effective Cloud Services to Small Businesses

Volkswagen Financial Services – Car Financer Improves Performance of Web Applications, Reduces Costs with Upgrade

Western Health – Australian Healthcare Organization Gains Efficiency, Lower Costs with Private Cloud

WorkITsafe – IT Provider Gives SMBs Greater Business Continuity, Lower Costs with Software Upgrade

Cloud Platform SystemPremium

Do-it-yourself Cloud Platform SystemStandard

Choice: Solution IntegrationFaster time to value

MoreCustomization

System Center

Windows Azure Pack

Standardization

CPS value in small package

• Azure services integration, WAP portal, automated patch and update

• 4-16 servers

• OEM-led support

• Ideal for small enterprises, departments and regional offices, local government and education

Maximum CPS scalability and resiliency

• Azure integration, WAP portal, automated patch and update, enterprise workload automation

• 1-4 racks (24-128 compute nodes)

• Microsoft-led support

• Ideal for enterprise datacenter consolidation and for hosting service providers

Maximum flexibility and customization

• Azure services and WAP portal

• Build your own infrastructure based on the well known and proven Microsoft platform

• Certified for Windows Server components

DEMOSDS Performance

ReFS file system enhancements make major contributions to an overall SDS architecture

Block Storage

Single Pane of Glass Management• End-to-end management with SCVMM• SMAPI for broad ecosystem interoperability• Deep health and availability insight of storage• Storage QoS for control of noisy neighbors

Reducing Disaster Recovery Costs• In-box software replication with Storage Replica• Lowering RPO with both sync & async replication• Lowering RTO with Stretch Cluster and ASR

automation

Cloud Powered SAN• Azure Site Recovery (ASR) management of hardware

replication and cross site failover• Backup of traditional storage array to the cloud

Choice: Partner SAN

Hyper-V

Fibre Channel / iSCSI / FCoE

Storage Array(s)

Managed by

System Center

DEMOStorage Replica

Stretch Cluster scenario

Cloud Fabric

Opportunity to rethink your datacenter approach: think services, not serversTraditional datacenterTight coupling between infrastructure and apps

Expensive, vertically integrated hardware

Silo-ed infrastructure and operations

Highly customized processes and configurations

Microsoft Azure datacenterLoosely coupled apps and micro-services

Industry-standard hardware

Service-focused DevOps

Standardized processes and configurations

Microsoft Azure

APP INNOVATION

HybridHyper-scale

Enterprise-grade

Power of Azure with the control of the datacenterMicrosoft Azure Stack

Microsoft Azure StackDatacenter

Windows Server Linux

Portal IaaS | PaaS services

Cloud-inspired infrastructurePowered by Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure technologies

Windows Server Linux

Portal IaaS | PaaS services

Cloud infrastructure

Efficient at Cloud Scale• File System – ReFS delivers highest levels of scale and resiliency for

virtualization• Deduplication –Scale-out optimized for lowest $ per GB

Resilient and Diagnosable• VM Storage resiliency – Preserve tenant VM session state in the event of transient

storage disruption• Storage health monitoring – One place to look for all storage health events

Multi-tenant Control and Security• Storage Quality of Service – QoS control and manage noisy neighbors • SMB Security – Pre-authentication integrity to prevent tampering & man-in-the-

middle attacks

Cloud Consistency and Availability• Blob storage – Run cloud born apps on-premises or in Azure• Rolling upgrades – Cloud design points to for no downtime upgrades

Cloud Fabric Storage Features

Microsoft Azure Stack

Azure-consistent storage

Microsoft’s Cloud Storage offering for Microsoft Azure Stack

Delivers Azure-consistent Blobs, Tables and Storage accounts down to API/library level

Comprehensive private cloud service provider manageability designed for Microsoft Azure Stack

Ready to deploy in either enterprise-private clouds or hosted public clouds from service providers

IaaS storage (page blobs), and PaaS storage (block blobs, append blobs, tables)

Integral part of Microsoft Software-Defined Storage (SDS) vision - highly-reliable, resilient, and scalable cloud storage based on standard hardware, or can just as well leverage existing SAN investments

SMB3 storage network fabric

Scale-out File Server

For Administrator

Azure Stack storage cloud admin service

For Tenant

Azure-consistent blob

service

Azure-consistent

table service

Azure-consistent account service

Flexible choices across a breadth of storage Not just bits, but also choice in integrated

solutions Slashing storage costs with Software-

defined Storage

On Premises Storage Summary

NAS

File Based Storage

SAN Partners

Block Storage

Storage Spaces

SAN Alternative

Storage Spaces Direct

Hyper-Converged

Microsoft Azure Stack/Object Storage

Cloud Fabric

Fibre Channel / iSCSI / FCoE SMB3

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Storage challenges

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

Storage cost and

infrastructure sprawl

Complex data protection &

recovery

Resource constraints

Rapid data growth - 40% YoY*

* Source: EMC Digital Universe with Research and Analysis by IDC, 2014

StorSimple Consolidates Storage Functions

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk-based Backup

Remote Replication

Tape backup and DR

Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple

Consolidate storage

infrastructure

Simplify data protection

Accelerate disaster recovery

Increase IT agility to meet business needs

StorSimple

StorSimple hybrid cloud storage delivers primary storage, data protection and disaster recovery in a single solution that integrates Azure storage services

Seamless Cloud Integration

Enterprise SAN storage

Inline de-dupe, compression, and automatic

tiering

Automated offsite data protection using cloud snapshots

Highly efficient, location

independent disaster recovery

Consolidated storage and

data management

Data mobility for enterprise

data

Applications in physical or virtual servers

StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array

CUSTOMER DATA CENTER

AZURE DATA CENTER

Linux File Server

VMware Server

Windows

File Server

StorSimple Manager

Azure-based applications

StorSimple Virtual

Appliance

iSCSI

Internet

iSCSI

Simplify offsite data protection

Microsoft Azure

Production Data Production Data

Cloud Snapshots

Datacenter-1 Datacenter-2Periodic VSS consistent cloud snapshots of production data

Location independent recovery from cloud snapshot

StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Application and workload focus

* Only available with StorSimple 8000 series

Cloud Apps

*

Virtual Machines SharePoi

ntFile

shares

Archives SQL Server*

Azureworkloads

On-premisesworkloads

DR* Dev/test*

Thinking ROI - Traditional vs Hybrid Cloud Storage

Function Traditional Storage Products Traditional Storage Cost

Cost with Microsoft Azure

StorSimple1

Primary and Archival Storage

Storage Array with Associated Software

$90,000 $02

Backup and Disaster Recovery

Backup Media Server and Software $30,000

$02Disk Backup with Deduplication Licenses

$120,000

Offsite Tape Storage $30,000

Capital Cost for the Customer $270,000 $0

Support Cost $130,000 $19,500

Cloud Storage Cost $0 $180,000

3-Year Customer Cost $400,000 $199,500

Additional Customer Benefits None

• Tape eliminated• Tested, location independent DR• Cloud used as secondary DC• Power/space/cooling savings• IT time/productivity savings

40–60% Savings

1 Based on ASAP+ $60k offer with StorSimple 8100 array and platinum support over 3 years (EA Level-A pricing); based on 1.5x de-dupe and compression with data backup and disaster recovery2 8100 storage array list price $100,000; includes de-dupe and compression, data protection and disaster recovery software, and unlimited licenses for StorSimple Virtual Appliance3 8100 storage array built and distributed by Seagate

Illustrative cost comparison for 60TB of primary data

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Public Cloud StorageAzure Storage & Data Services

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Azure Storage & Data Services

Blobs“Highly scalable, REST based cloud object store”

Tables“Key Value, high scale, auto-scaling NoSQL store”

Disks“Persistent block storage for Azure IaaS VMs”

Files“Fully Managed File Shares in the Cloud”

Data Lake Store“HDFS as a service”

DocumentDB“NoSQL document database service”

Azure SQL DB“Fully managed database-as-a-service built on SQL”

Storage for VMs

Unstructured Data

Structured Data

Storage for VMsDisks“Persistent disks for Azure IaaS VMs”

Files“Fully Managed File Shares in the Cloud”

Storage for VMs - Disks

Disks“Persistent disks for Azure IaaS VMs”

• Used by all Azure IaaS VMs – Both OS and data disks• Each disk is a stored as a “page blob” in Azure Storage’s distributed file system

• 3 synchronous, strongly consistent copies – No RAID for redundancy is required

• Two disk types – Standard & Premium• Standard – Magnetic disk based hardware

• 1TB and 500 IOPS per disk - Stripe for more capacity/throughput• Premium – SSD based hardware

• High IOPS, low latency• Provisioned model - Buy for capacity (up to 1TB) or IOPS performance (up to

5000 IOPS)

High I/O performance and low latency Ideal for IO-intensive workloads

Use with specific VM series: DS & GS Blob Cache - RAM and Local SSD used for caching: Very low cached read

latency Attach and stripe premium disks for maximum performance

DS – Up to 50,000 IOPS & 512 MB/s. GS – Up to 80,000 IOPS & 2GB/s Can still use standard disks for bulk data storage

Scenarios: Windows IaaS workloads

SQL Server, Sharepoint, Dynamics, Exchange Linux IaaS workloads

MySQL, MongoDB, Cassandra And more including

Oracle, SAP, Cloudera, etc.

Deeper Look - Premium Storage Disks

Premium Storage Disks – Customer testimonials“Serko®, one of Asia’s leading corporate travel solutions, handles over 300 million SQL

transactions per week using 8 SQL Server VMs. With Azure Premium Storage we envisage that the current VMs will scale to over 500 million SQL transactions per SQL server per week, reducing our overall costs is key as we scale globally.”- Philip Ball, Chief Technical Officer, Serko

“At JumpStart, we are using Premium Storage for SQL Servers running our educational games like School of Dragons and JumpStart, on Azure. The disk speeds have enabled us to both run the application and take back-ups two times faster than we have before.”- Michael Boldezar, VP Platform Technology, JumpStart

“After the implementation of a critical application for Chronodrive on Azure, we quickly noticed an additional need for I/O on our SQL Server. Thanks to Azure Premium Storage, we have finally the capacity to guarantee that our application runs smoothly, and we hope to save 2 million Euros a year with the new optimal performance!”-  Anthony Lewkowicz, Chief Information Security Officer, Chronodrive

Storage for VMs - Files

Files“Fully Managed File Shares in the Cloud”

• Map shares to Windows and Linux VMs without managing storage, servers, etc.• Based on industry standard SMB 3.0; Secure + Reliable• Connect securely to Azure Files from On-Prem or Cloud

• Scenarios:• Hybrid file sharing between on-premises and cloud; easy movement of data offsite

to the cloud• Migrate file or share based applications to the cloud with no code changes• Build modern applications with REST API that interoperate with older systems• HA workloads with SMB 3.0 persistent handles – IIS hosting backed by Files, SQL

Server failover instance, etc.

Creating and using Azure File shares

Azure Files Demo

Summary - Virtual Machine Storage Architecture

Azure Virtual Machine

C:\OS Disk

E:\, F:\, etc.Standard Data

Disks

D:\Temporary

Disk

Disk Cache

Azure Page Blob

Y:\, Z:\, etc.SMB Share

E:\, F:\, etc.Premium Data

Disks

Azure Page Blobs

(Premium Storage)

Azure Files

SSD Read Cache

Unstructured Data Services

Blobs“Highly scalable, REST based cloud object store”

Data Lake Store“HDFS as a service”

Unstructured Data Services

Blobs“Highly scalable, REST based cloud object store”

Scenarios: Cloud Service persistent data, Data sharing, Big Data, Backups

• Two Types of Blobs • Block Blobs (commonly used): Read and write

data in blocks. Optimized for sequential IO. Most cost effective Storage.

• Page Blobs: Sparse files, read/write in 512 byte pages. Optimized for random access

• Very high scale storage (PBs, 100s of K tps, 10s of Gbps bandwidth) - Partitioned across storage accounts

• Storage Redundancy levels: LRS (local 3 copies), GRS (Additional async Geo), RA-GRS (read-access to Geo)

Data Lake Store“HDFS as a service”

Scenarios: For Big Data Analytics Workloads

• Accessible to all HDFS compliant analytic applications (Hortonworks, Cloudera, MapR)

• No fixed limits file size (PB file sizes)• Very high throughput for read and write• Designed for diversity of analytic workloads• Fully Managed, monitored, and supported by

Microsoft• Enterprise grade features around security,

compliance & management• Currently in Private Preview, public preview soon

Structured Data Services

Tables“Key Value, high scale, auto-scaling NoSQL store”

DocumentDB“NoSQL document database service”

Azure SQL DB“Fully managed database-as-a-service built on SQL”

Structured DataTables“Key Value, high scale, auto-scaling NoSQL store”

Scenarios: User, device and service metadata, structured data

• No limits on number of table rows or table size

• Dynamic load balancing of hot tables and table regions

• NoSQL - Schema-less entities with strong consistency

• Best for Key/value lookups on partition key and row key

• Entity group transactions for atomic batching

DocumentDB“NoSQL document database service”

Scenarios: Modern applications that use JSON data stores (like MongoDB)

• Flexible schema for iterative application development

• Automatic indexing with SQL query interface

• Transactional support for multi-document operations

• Scalable database storage with predictable performance

Azure SQL DB“Fully managed database-as-a-service built on SQL”

Scenarios: Relational DBs without infrastructure/management hassle

• Fully compatible with SQL Server 2014 databases

• Built for both SaaS and Enterprise applications

• Elastic database pool for unpredictable SaaS workloads

• 99.99% availability built-in• Geo-replication and restore

services for data protection• Secure and compliant for

your sensitive data

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In Review: Session Objectives And Takeaways

On-PremisesStorage

Hybrid CloudStorage

Public CloudStorage

Customer

ServiceproviderMicrosoft

ONEconsistent platform

Cloud + Enterprise Strategy

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