Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple

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Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple

Training for Implementers & Pre-Sales

• Asif Khan

Microsoft

• Chris Schweiter

Storage Migration Services LLC

• Milind Naphade

Storage Migration Services LLC

• Rajeev Jain

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All the content shared in this session is Microsoft Confidential & is meant for

partner training & learning. No part of this presentation should be shared or

posted on a public forum / medium.

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Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Azure

 Introduction | Business Value, Concepts, How to Buy  Architecture

 High availability, networking, and MPIO  Security

 Tiering

 Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance  Data protection

 Summary

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Introduction

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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

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Primary storage growth Growth of infrequently used data Growth of backup and long term data retention Growth in datacenter sprawl and equipment High-cost, untested disaster recovery infrastructure

Traditional Storage Data Center Architecture

Primary

Storage Archival Storage

Disk based backup storage Tape infrastructure and management Off-site DR and geo-resiliency

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Microsoft has a unique solution

Applications in Physical or Virtual Servers

StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array

Customer Data Center

Enterprise SAN storage Inline de-dupe, compression & automatic tiering

Integrated 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

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How do customers benefit

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk-based Backup

Remote Replication

Tape backup and DR

Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple

Manage data growth Lower storage costs Pay as you go Simplify data protection and disaster recovery Increase business agility

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

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How do customers benefit

A

ccess

StorSimple provides enterprise storage with cloud economics

Unstructured data growing 40% YoY

Working data set stays fairly

constant

Hybrid storage array performance

for working set

Inactive data is tiered to the cloud

SSD HDD Cloud

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How Does it Work : StorSimple + Azure

StorSimple

Hybrid Cloud

Storage

Local Storage Local Backups Device Failover Cloud Backups

Cloud Storage _{Cloud Integration}

Azure

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Primary Storage Staging Disk

Backup Software

Streaming Tape Offsite Storage Cloud GatewayTarget Disk Microsoft CloudReplicated Disk

Local SnapshotsStorSimple

Cloud Snapshots

Cloud Storage

AutoTier Live Data

Replicate Backups

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2

Transactional Workloads Low Impact Workloads HTTPS Port 443 Deduplicate Compress Encrypt HTTPS Port 443 Deduplicate Compress Encrypt

How Does it Work: Cloud-Based Data Protection

MOVE DATA

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User Group A

StorSimple B Cloud Backup B

StorSimple A

Cloud Backup A StorSimple VMs

User Group B

Virtual IP Switch/Global Namespace

Cloud VMs

Azure

Management Console

Orchestration _{Test Failovers}

Access Control Cloud Integration

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8000 series

ASAP+ 601 _{ASAP+ 100}1

What customers pay for

$60K/year on Azure EA for managed storage2

• Covers ~60TB of managed storage capacity3 _through

StorSimple

$100K/year on Azure EA for managed storage2

• Covers ~100TB of managed storage capacity3 _through

StorSimple

What customers get at NO additional cost

8100 storage array (worth $100K)

• StorSimple Standard support with NBD parts through next EA anniversary

• Shipping and handling charges

• Deployment via Azure Offers (T&Cs apply)3

8600 storage array (worth $170K)

• StorSimple Standard support with NBD parts through next EA anniversary

• Shipping and handling charges

• Deployment via Azure Offers (T&Cs apply)3

Additional costs borne by customer

• $6,000 per year for StorSimple Standard support in years 2 & 3

• Additional $2,500 per year for upgrade to StorSimple Premium support

• Import duties, taxes and applicable fees

• Any partner services like assessment, data-migration etc.

• $6,000 per year for StorSimple Standard support in years 2 & 3

• Additional $2,500 per year for upgrade to StorSimple Premium support

• Import duties, taxes and applicable fees

• Any partner services like assessment, data-migration etc.

How do customers buy StorSimple?

Note: All offers include geo-replicated storage (GRS) for a wide range of use cases; platinum hardware support upgrade option subject to availability on a per country basis

1 _{Azure commitment SKUs that customers can use to consume StorSimple storage services and all Azure services. The actual StorSimple managed storage available may vary by discount, use case and use of Azure services} 2 _{Managed storage typically includes capacity for primary storage, cloud snapshots and copies of cloud snapshots in Microsoft Azure; metering and billing done based on actual storage consumption in Azure}

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Economics – Traditional vs Hybrid Cloud Storage

Function Traditional Storage Products _{Storage Cost}Traditional _{Microsoft Azure StorSimple}Cost with ₁

Primary and

Archival Storage Storage Array with Associated Software $90,000 $02 Backup and

Disaster Recovery

Backup Media Server and Software $30,000

$02

Disk 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 recovery}

2_{8100 storage array list price $100,000; includes de-dupe and compression, data protection and disaster recovery software, and unlimited licenses for StorSimple Virtual Appliance}

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MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL – FOR PARTNER INFORMATION ONLY

StorSimple: Use Cases

Cloud Apps Virtual Machines SharePoint Fileshares Archives SQL Server Azure Workloads On-premises workloads DR Dev/ test Don’t Sell! • Mission-critical, high performance OLTP/OLAP workloads

• Storage target for backup software

• Storage target for DPM • Exchange (DAG)

Proceed with caution

• VM storage for line of business (LOB) apps – some may be highly transactional workloads • Archives requiring e-discovery

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File shares and archives

Before

Applications (Tier 2, & Tier 3

data)

FC/iSCSI

iSCSI

On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

Applications

Primary

Storage Backup StorageDisk-based

Tape Infrastructure Archival

Storage

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SharePoint

Before

After

SharePoint Farm FC/iSCSI iSCSI

SharePoint Farm

Primary

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Virtual machines and eliminating VM sprawl

Before

After

All Hyper-V/ VMware VMs Primary

Tape Infrastructure & Management Archival Storage FC/iSCSI VMs using Tier 2/Tier 3 data iSCSI Storage migration/ vMotion Active VM data (VHDs, VMDKs) Free space

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SQL for Tier-2 and Tier-3 applications

Before

Applications (Tier 2, & Tier 3

data)

FC/iSCSI

iSCSI

On-premise footprint

StorSimple Virtual Appliance and Cloud backup and DR

Applications

Primary

Tape Infrastructure Archival

Storage

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Summary

Hybrid Cloud Storage provides major benefits

Learn more: microsoft.com/storsimple

40-60% lower TCO versus traditional enterprise storage

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2

Primary storage with automated data protection and

highly efficient disaster recovery

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Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure

 Introduction  Architecture

 Tiering

 Summary

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Microsoft Azure StorSimple Big Picture

ON-PREMISES DATA CENTER

StorSimple Virtual Appliance Administrator CLOUD DATACENTER Server StorSimple Snapshot Manager Plug-in Series 8000 Hybrid Storage Array

StorSimple Manager

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Model

SSD

HDD

SPARE

8100

400GB X 4 SSDs

4TB x 8 HDDs

(7 data HDD)

1 spare HDD

8600

800GB X 5 SSDs

4TB x 19HDDs

(18 data HDDs)

1 spare HDD

Breakdown of local tier capacity

8100: 4(SSD) x 400GB = 1600GB/2(mirroring)= 800GB(SSD) 7(HDD) x

4TB=28TB/2(mirroring)=14TB(HDD) 800GB(SSD) + 14TB(HDD)=~15TB(SSD + HDD)

8600: 5(SSD) x 800GB = 4000GB/2(mirroring)= 2000GB(SSD) 18(HDD) x

4TB=72TB/2(mirroring)=36TB(HDD) 2000GB(SSD) + 36TB(HDD)=~38TB(SSD + HDD)*

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Storage components of StorSimple solution

StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft’s public cloud

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Management components of StorSimple solution

StorSimple Snapshot Manager

Microsoft Azure Portal

The primary management interface for the

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Consolidated management of appliances

Microsoft Confidential

(Service Data Encryption Key is generated, on device console, when first device is registered)

Physical Appliance

StorSimple Manager

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Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows

Azure

 Introduction  Architecture

 Tiering

 Summary

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High

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Network & MPIO Overview

iSCSI Switch2 (Ex. 192.168.20.X) iSCSI Switch1

(Ex. 192.168.10.X)

Corp Firewall (Port 443)

Corp LAN (Ex. 10.1.10.XX) Multiple, simultaneous paths from applications to storage MPIO on host couples with IP address failover between controllers HA against network and switch failures. Path failures to host do NOT cause failovers

MPIO on host load balances between

IP addresses within a controller

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Best Practices For Network

 Designate at least one port for use with the management interface

 When using multiple VLANs, disable iSCSI for the management interface

 Ensure that your StorSimple device has a dedicated 40 Mbps bandwidth (or more)

available at all times. This bandwidth should not be shared with any other applications

 Configure QoS to enable variable throttling

 Use a dedicate switch for iSCSI traffic or separate VLAN (if using a shared switch)

 iSCSI should be on the storage network and it is not recommended to route the iSCSI

traffic

 To access azure, the firewall should allow HTTPS port (443)

 If external DNS server is used, ports for DNS should be open

 If proxy is used, connection to proxytest.storsimple.com should be available

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Best Practices For MPIO

 Each iSCSI host should have more than one

network interface card (NIC) and be connected to more than one network switch for physical data path redundancy.

 The appropriate MPIO policies (round robin,

failover, etc.) should be selected based on the

desired behavior across the multiple network paths

 Ensure the same interface on each controller are

on the same VLAN

 No NIC teaming on application servers for iSCSI

 Ensure the MGMT interface is on a separate

network

Note: MPIO is an

optional feature and not installed by default on the Windows Server. This feature can be

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Local, Zone, and Geo Redundant Storage Options

Primary Location

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Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows

Azure

 High availability, networking, and MPIO  Security

 Tiering

 Summary

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Data

Security

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Secure data throughout the solution

Account authentication with User ID, Password

StorSimple

Customer defined encryption keys stored on device 2 x 512 bit keys

Account Access

Data In-flight

IT administrator

AES-256 bit encryption

Data At-rest AES-256 bit encryption

StorSimple Virtual Appliance

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Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows

Azure

 High availability, networking, and MPIO  Security

 Tiering

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Tiering

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Best Practice For Optimal Tiering

 For index search or virus scan applications:

 Configure incremental operations. New data still on the local tiers will be scanned and data will not be brought back from the cloud tier

 Disable automatically configured full scan operations and ensure the correct search filter and settings are configured so that only the intended file types get scanned, i.e. JPEG, GIF and TIFF files should not be scanned

 Ensure that there is consistent read performance. If the appliance gets to a point where the “working-set” of data is exceeding available on-premise storage capacity then performance will be impacted. Contact StorSimple

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Read/Write throughput

for

storage tiers

Maximum client read/write throughput (when served from the SSD tier)*

920/720 MB/s with a single

10GbE network interface Up to 2x with MPIO and two network interfaces. Maximum client read/write

throughput (when served from

the HDD tier)* 120/250 MB/s

Maximum client read/write throughput (when served from

the cloud tier)* 11/41 MB/s

Read throughput depends on clients generating and

maintaining sufficient I/O queue depth.

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Deduplication &

Compression

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Deduplication And Compression

Deduplication is done at the block

level; across all volumes within a cloud account No duplicated blocks between snapshots Optimizes the utilization of SSD capacity, improving performance Minimizes size of data transfer and storage in Azure. Also, reduces data

download and recovery times Fingerprints are content addressable, enabling transparent capacity expansion to Azure storage On-premise data capacity can be increased by 2x – 5x based on the type of

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Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows

Azure

 Tiering

 Summary

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Introduction To

StorSimple Virtual

Appliance

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StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Microsoft Confidential 48

Microsoft Azure StorSimple

Model Number 1100

Capacity (Local/Maximum) 30TB

Storage Azure BLOB

Network Connects to VMs via a virtual

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Virtual Network For StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Microsoft Confidential 49

File Server

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StorSimple Virtual Appliance Use Cases

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Summary Of Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure

 Tiering

 Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance  Data protection

 Summary

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Data

Protection

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An Integrated Data Protection Solution

SSD

SAS

Local Snapshots Point-in-time backup copy

stored in the on premise storage (pre-allocated capacity) providing the fastest recovery time to

restore data (lost accidentally)

Cloud Snapshots

Point-in-time backup copy stored in the cloud

providing medium recovery time and disaster

recovery

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Summary Of Topics

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Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure

 Tiering

 Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance  Data protection

 Summary

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Executive Overview Videos:

• _{StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage Concept Overview} • StorSimple 8000 Series Capabilities Overview

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Online Resources:

• Free E-Book: "Rethinking Enterprise Storage : Hybrid Cloud Storage Model“ • Microsoft Azure StorSimple Features and Specs

• _{Azure Documentation: StorSimple Overview} • StorSimple Education / Training Videos

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Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple

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