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3 Introducing Scale Out File Servers

Introductions

4 StorSimple Overview

Agenda

5 Storage Summary

Empower people-centric IT

Enable modern business apps

Unlock insights on data

Transform the datacenter

With Microsoft’s Cloud OS vision, customers can…

1ConsistentPlatform

Windows Azure Pack

Service ProvidersPrivate Cloud

Public Cloud

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT IDENTITY VIRTUALIZATIONDATA

Azure Virtual Machines

Windows Azure Pack

Introductions

Introductions

Find us @

http://www.cloudoscommunity.com

http://systemcenter.ninja

Community Matters

PresentersSteve Beaumont(MVP)@StevybSC

Harry LowtonSolutions Specialist@HarryLowt

About PowerONPlatforms

• Formed from a collection of Industry Veterans

• Literally written the book on System Center

• IT Management & Cloud Automation Specialist

• Business Led not Technology Led

Focus Capabilities

Cloud Management PlatformDigital Datacenter

Alignment of IT Roadmap to Business Requirements – Function vs. Need

Enterprise Device Management

Unified Data Protection

Automated Deployment Solutions from Appliances to Deployment Toolkits

Enablement Support to continually support clients local teams to achieve maximum value

Market View

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Branchclients

VPNGatewa

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Routes &

Switches

Telecom

Systems

Heating/Cooling

Firesuppressio

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Security

devices

Firewalls

Storage

Backup

Storage

PowerBacku

pPower

Today’sdatacenter

Apps+

Servers

Today’s datacenterThe modern hybrid datacenter

Data

Applications

Compute

Storage Network Pooled Compute, Storage, and Network

Data

Applications

Capabilities

Workloads: OS + Applications

Identity & Security

Development

Management

Virtualization

Platform

ON-PREM PRIVATE CLOUD

IMPLEMENTATION

ON-PREMISES PRIVATE CLOUD

OUTSOURCED

WORKLOAD

AZURE

OFFICE 365

DYNAMICS CRM

HYPER-V VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMEN

T

OUTSOURCED

WORKLOAD (E.G., VDI,

HOSTED EXCHANGE)

PHYSICAL LAYER

HYPER-V VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMEN

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PHYSICAL LAYER

DESKTOP

VDI / RDS

PHYSICAL LAYER

HYPER-V VIRTUALIZED

ENV.

NEW

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WORKLOADS / APPS

HYPER-V VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONME

NT

DESKTOP / DEVICES

HOSTED PRIVATE CLOUD

HOSTED PRIVATE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTU

RE

HOSTED PRIVATE CLOUD

SERVICES

PUBLIC CLOUD

VALUE-ADDED CLOUD

SERVICES RESELL

PACKAGED SOLUTIONS

HYBRID CLOUD

HYBRID ENVIRONME

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WINDOWS INTUNE

Situation

Management Platform – Software Defined

Introducing Scale out File Servers

High-performance storage on industry-standard hardware.

Less expensive, enterprise-class storage solution

Continuous application availability and robust recovery.

Guaranteed high levels of Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Comprehensive storage management and backup.

Efficient management of storage resources

Storage spaces for inbox storage virtualization with automatic tiering

RDMA hardware offloading significantly improving scale for SMB traffic

SMB transparent failover for < 25ms failover time

Fine-grained, per-share SMB scale-out

Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager

Online VHDX resize

Storage QoS

Unified storage management

Windows Azure Backup

IT demandsWindows Server 2012 R2 delivers

High performance and resiliency at a fraction of the cost

Storage

Clustered

Demystifying Storage Appliances (NAS/SAN)

What’s in a storage appliance?

x86/x64 Processors

Memory

Network Adapters

Storage HBAs

Sound familiar?

Let’s peel back the layers…

“Back”

“Front”

Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple,

Mirrored, Parity etc. Presents

interfaces:iSCSI, FC, FCoE,

NFS, SMB

Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple,

Mirrored, Parity etc. Presents

interfaces:iSCSI, FC, FCoE,

NFS, SMB

Deploy two or more for a Scale Out Continuously Available Solution

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

SAS

Ethernet: 1Gb/10GbFC: 1/2/4/8/16 Gb

Clustered

Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server & Spaces

Windows Server 2012 Spaces

Windows Server 2012 File Server

Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple, Mirrored, etc.

Presents interfaces:

iSCSI, NFS, SMB

Multiple physical interfaces; Pools disks, presents LUNs, Simple, Mirrored, etc.

Presents interfaces:

iSCSI, NFS, SMB

Deploy two or more for a Scale Out CA Solution

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

Servers

SAS

SMB3/Ethernet: 1Gb/10Gb40Gb/56 Gb RDMA

Familiar Enterprise-Grade Capabilities

• Storage Tiering

• Data deduplication

• RAID resiliency groups

• Pooling of disks

• High availability

• Persistent write-back cache

• Copy offload

• Snapshots

• Storage Tiering (new with R2)

• Data deduplication (enhanced in R2)

• Flexible resiliency options (enhanced in R2)

• Pooling of disks

• High availability

• Persistent write-back cache (new with R2)

• SMB copy offload

• Snapshots

Traditional Storagewith FC/iSCSI Storage Array

Windows File Server Clusterwith Storage Spaces

Hard Disk Drives

Hot data

Cold data

Solid State Drives

Storage Spaces

Storage tiering

• Inbox storage virtualization solution with automatic tiering

• Improved storage cost-performance with industry-standard hardware

• Use solid-state drives (SSD) and hard-disk drives (HDD) in tiered storage space

• Can “pin” high priority files to the SSD tier

Storage Spaces – Storage Tiering

Storage Spaces – Storage Tiering

• Optimized Data Placement• Pool consists of both SSDs and HDDs• Tiers within a Storage Space• Hot Data (SSDs), Cold Data (HDDs)• Sub-File-Level Data Movement• Complements write-back caching

• Administrative Controlled Pinning• Pin hot files to faster SSD tier• Example: VDI Pooled VM’s VHD

Tiered Storage Spaces provides

persistent performance

improvement for hot data

The best of both worlds:

SSD Performance & HDD Capacity Storage Space

HDD Tier

Cold Data

SSD Tier

Hot Data

400GB EMLC SAS SSD

4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD

Virtual Machines

Storage Spaces - Write-Back Cache

• Random Disk Access• Inherent to storage access patterns with

virtualized deployments• SSDs provide higher IOPs for random access

• Improved performance for real-world workloads• SSDs absorb random writes at high IOPS levels• Seamless integration and familiar management

Windows Server 2012 R2 maximizes performance and

capacity

The Spaces Write-Back Cache absorbs spikes in random

write activity

Virtual Machines

Storage Space

HDD Tier

Cold Data

SSD Tier & WBC

Hot Data

400GB EMLC SAS SSD

4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD

Storage Space

Reduced Mean Time To Recovery

• Mirror Spaces Rebuild• Parallelized Recovery

• Increased Throughput• Optimized Disk Utilization• Utilization of spare capacity• Hot Spare no longer necessary

in R2

Performance improvements to radically

reduce MTTR

Rebuild Metric Measurement

Data Rebuilt 2,400 GB

Time Taken 49 min

Rebuild Throughput

> 800 MB/s3TB HDDs, 2-way, 4-column Mirror Space

Source: Internal Microsoft Testing, No Foreground Activity

Primary application data storage on cost effective, continuously available, high performance

SMB3 file Shares backed by Tiered Storage Spaces

1. Performance, Scale: SMB3 File Storage network

2. Continuous Availability and Seamless Scale Out with File Server Nodes

3. Elastic, Reliable, Optimized Tiered Storage Spaces

4. Standard volume hardware for low cost

Storage Spaces

Hyper-V Clusters

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric

Shared JBODStorage

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4

22

3

Scale-Out File Server Clusters

Windows Server 2012 R2 SDS deployment

JBOD = Just a Bunch of Drives

System Center

Windows Server

SMI-S Storage Service

Block storage

provisioning

File storage provisionin

g

Hyper-V Storage

Management

SAN based Rapid

Provisioning

SM API Integration

Storage Utilization Trending

PowerShell Support

Thin LUN provisionin

g

Thin Provision

Alert Monitor

SAS Array Support

Management

Private Cloud Software Defined Storage platform

Dedup

Tiering for efficient use of SSDs

Storage Spaces

NTFS with fast

chkdsk Flexible, Elastic,

Efficient Tiered Storage pools

SMB3 Direct for low

latency

SMB3 Multichannel for FT, Perf

SMB3 for Windows

clients

SMB3 Transparent

Failover

iSCSI Target block

storage

NFS 3, 4.1 for *nix clients,

VMware

CSV Scale Out

Multi protocol data access

SMB3 SoFS for Hyper-V, SQL Server

Low latency, Continuously

available, Fault Tolerant

Scale Out storage for Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 R2 SDS stack

VMware

Remote File Storage for Server Applications

New scenario in Windows Server 2012 Server apps storing data files on file shares

Examples: Hyper-V VHD, configuration files, snapshots etc.

SQL Server database and log files

IIS content and configuration files

Benefits: Easy provisioning and management

Share management instead of LUNs and zoning

Flexibility Dynamically relocate server in datacenter without

needing to reconfigure network or storage access

Leverage network investments Specialized storage networking infrastructure or

knowledge is not required

Lower CapEx and OpEx

File Server

File Server

SharedStorage

Hyper-V Server

App Serve

r

Web Serve

r

DB Serve

r

SQL Server

IIS

Clustered File Server

Scale-Out File Server for Application Data

New clustered file server

Targeted for server app storage

Key capabilities*: Dynamic scaling w. active-active file shares

Fault tolerance with zero downtime

Fast failure recovery

Clustered Shared Volume cache

CHKDSK with zero downtime

Application consistent snapshots

Support for RDMA enabled networks

Simpler management

Requirements Windows Failover Cluster with Clustered Shared

Volumes

Both application server and file server cluster must be running Windows Server 2012

Application Servers

Single File System Namespace

Cluster Shared Volumes

Single Logical File Server (\\fs\share)

Data Center Network

(Ethernet, InfiniBand or combination)

*) Capabilities highlighted in orange are unique to Scale-Out File Server

Introduction to StorSimple

Storage challenges

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

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

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

Microsoft has a unique solution

Applications in Physical or Virtual Servers

StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array

Enterprise SAN storage

Inline de-dupe, compression &

automatic tiering

Automated offsite data protection

using cloud snapshots

Highly efficient, location

independent disaster recovery

Consolidated storage and data

management

Access in Azure to enterprise data with StorSimple Virtual

Appliance

StorSimple connects Windows, Linux and VMware servers to Azure Storage in minutes with no application modification

SVA

On-premises datacentre

Public Cloud Infrastructure

How customers benefit

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk-based Backup

Remote Replication

Tape backup and DR

Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple

Managedata growth

Lower storage costs

Simplify data protection and

disaster recovery

Increase business agility

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

StorSimple

Application and workload focus

* Only available with StorSimple 8000 series

Cloud Apps

*

Virtual Machines SharePoi

nt

Fileshares Archives SQL Server*

Azureworkloads

On-premisesworkloads

DR* Dev/test*

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

Increase IT agility to meet business

priorities

No need for incessant planning and worrying about running out of capacity for primary storage and compliance data

On-demand storage

No need to manage separate data protection solutions or be on-site. Up to the minute status and consistent control in all sites

Consolidated management

No need to setup or maintain on-premises equipment for new or special projects, since enterprise data can be accessed in the cloud

On demand infrastructure

Storage Summary

Storage In Review

Reducing Costs

Performance

Scalability

Manageability

Reliability

• Improved IOPS performance with Write-Back Cache support• Improved hot data performance through storage tiering using

SSDs and HDDs in the same storage space• 50% performance improvement for small IO in SMB Direct

• Hyper-V hosts automatically directed to the “best” file server node avoids unnecessary redirection traffic

• CSV volumes are automatically distributed across the cluster• Hyper-V Live Migration using SMB3

• Improved MTTR from drive failures through parallel rebuild• Resilient to dual-drive failures in parity spaces• SMB instances dedicated for CSV traffic

• Grow or shrink a virtual disk (VHDX) with no downtime• Hyper-V Storage Quality of Service (QoS)• Enhanced SM-API for remote management of scale-out file servers with

storage spaces and improved performance

• Data deduplication of VDI storage on Scale-Out File Servers• Tenant clustering without requiring Fibre Channel or iSCSI storage

Scale-Out File Server ClustersStorage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency

Hyper-V/SQL/IIS Clusters

SMB

Shared JBODStorage

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