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SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance
Step-by-step guidance to help you start a practice
Jeff StoffelTechnology Solutions Professional
Microsoft US SMB
Welcome to SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance Session 4
Today’s Agenda
Recap of the StorSimple offering for SMB customers
Other Azure options
Pricing Example
Resources and Support
Next Steps
SMB JumpStart
What is SMB JumpStart?
What you will get:
▪ Targeted weekly training webinars on specific marketing topics.
▪ Hands-on independent learning assignments to help insure engagement and
individual comprehension.
▪ A private Yammer Group to answer any questions you might have about weekly
tactics.
This 4-week Program is designed for partners who are interested in extending the customer
network into the Azure cloud while better understanding all the Microsoft tools.
The more you engage, the more chances to win
As you participate in the JumpStart program, you will get entries into the
JumpStart Sweepstakes.
Gain entries as you participate in:▪ Webinars (1 point/session)
▪ Homework assignments (email screenshot of completed work to smbin@microsoft.com)
(1 point/ HA)
▪ Asking a question on Yammer and interacting with your peers (1 point per yammer post)▪ Signing up for the JumpStart StorSimple Virtual Machines Yammer group (1 point)
▪ End of series survey (2 points)
Prize: 90-min session with an Azure Technical Expert
➢ The top 2 point-earners will be selected as winners (the more entries, the higher your chances)
SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance – Program Overview
Engage with your fellow partners in the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group
Questions? Email smbin@microsoft.com
Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4
Week’s Topic
Introduction to StorSimple and use cases for SMB customers
Deploy and configure
the virtual array as an
iSCSI target.
This session will
include demos
Deploy and configure the virtual array for File SharesHow to price exercise?
This session will
include demos
StorSimple pricing exercise. Overview of other scenarios for files.
This session will include pricing calculator demo
Overview | StorSimple Flavors
StorSimple Physical Array
A physical 2U iSCSI SAN device, located
in the on-premises datacenter running
the StorSimple software.
3. StorSimple Virtual Array
iSCSI SANSoftware version of
StorSimple solution,
installed on a VM,
located in a branch
or remote office
3. StorSimple Virtual Array
SMB NASSoftware version of
StorSimple solution,
installed on a VM,
located in a branch
or remote office
Windows OS
StorSimple Software
StorSimple Manager Service
StorSimple Manager Service, in Microsoft Azure Management Portal,
managing on-premises & cloud storage
1. Local
1 Latency sensitive workloads 2
Higher performance & capacity plus latency sensitive workloads
3Cloud-storage plus latency sensitive workloads
Hybrid
NAS or SAN
storage
Automated offsite data protection
using cloud snapshots
Local or tiered volumes
Azure Data Centers
StorSimple
Virtual Array
NAS
StorSimple | On-premises & in the cloudStorSimple connects devices and users to Azure Storage, seamlessly, with no application modification
Hyper-V
Linux
VMware
SAN
SMB Customer Environment
Manage through Azure
Resource Manager (ARM)
Backup Site Recovery
Azure Backup
Efficient backup
and recovery
Reliable offsite
data protection
Simple and integrated service
Azure Site Recovery
On-prem
VMs & Data
• site-to-site
• to Azure
Health
monitoring
Orchestrated
recovery
Automated protection
Disaster Recovery as a Service
Reliable offsite data protection: Backups are encrypted before transmission and stored encrypted in Microsoft Azure.
Backups are off-site, away from your datacenter, protected by reliable Azure storage.
Contoso Private Cloud(On-premises)
MicrosoftAzure
Encrypted data sent to Microsoft Azure
Windows Server instances with the Microsoft Azure Backup Agent installed and configured
ContosoBackup
Vault
Efficient and flexible backup and recovery: Incremental backup transfers only delta changes to the cloud.
Supports Point-in-Time Recovery of multiple versions of your data.
Configurable data retention policies, data compression, and data transfer throttling offer added flexibility and efficiency.
Simple, and integrated solution: Integrates with GUIs of Windows Server Backup or System Center Data Protection Manager.
Microsoft Azure Backup
Azure Usage Scenarios
80/443
Cloud Service
VPN Tunnel
SQL DB Mirroring / AlwaysOn
Fileservers
Web Based Applications
Azure File ServicesAzure Virtual Machine
C:\OS Disk
E:\, F:\, etc.Standard Data Disks
D:\Temporary Disk
Disk Cache
Y:\, Z:\, etc.SMB Share
E:\, F:\, etc.Premium Data Disks
SSD Read Cache
• Azure File storage is a service that offers file shares in the cloud using the standard Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol.
• SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 are supported• Access based on Access Key. No ACL• Max size of a file share 5 TB• Max size of a file in a file share 1 TB• Max 1000 (8 KB) IOPS per share• Target throughput for single file share Up to 60 MB per
second• Primary focus is using SMB Shares for hosting files used
by multiple application hosts.
Summary
Cloud economics - agility with drop in replacement1
2 Local plus cloud storage with management in Azure
3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation
SMB JumpStart Next Steps & HomeworkNext Steps Homework
Sign up for the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer
group
• Ask questions to the Microsoft team and your
peers
Set a weekly recurring calendar invite to block the
time to view each webinar session. We recommend
you attend one Webinar session per week to
optimize your program engagement.
Questions? Post them to our JumpStart StorSimple
Virtual Appliance Yammer group and a technical
expert will provide you a response within 72 hours.
Take a minute to complete the short survey to share
your program feedback and maximize your chances
to win the Sweepstakes!
aka.ms/jumpstorsimplesurvey
Complete any remaining homework from the
previous sessions
Write and submit a brief (one to two paragraphs)
summary of where you see StorSimple providing
value to your customers. Detail how you can deliver
on this value as your customers’ trusted advisor.
Please email smbin@microsoft.com .
Build your own customer offer leveraging StorSimple
Complete your first StorSimple deployment
Questions? Join the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group
Practice-building partner communities Technically focused, expert led
Get the guide aka.ms/uspstayinformed
Title Description Link
Hybrid Cloud Storage Understand Hybrid Cloud Storage with
StorSimple
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/storsimple-hybrid-
cloud-storage-solution/
Get Started Get started with the StorSimple Virtual
Array
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/get-started-with-the-storsimple-virtual-array/
Title Description Link
Overview Learn about the StorSimple Virtual Array https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-overview
Review
requirements
StorSimple Virtual Array system requirements https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-system-requirements
Deploy Walk through the steps to deploy your StorSimple Virtual
Array
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-virtual-array-deploy1-portal-prep
Manage Learn how to manage your StorSimple Virtual Array
through the Azure Portal
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-
us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-virtual-array-manager-service-administration
Release Notes Discover the latest enhancements by reviewing the
StorSimple Virtual Array Release Notes
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-virtual-array-update-06-release-notes
Have your say!
Complete the short surveyaka.ms/jumpstorsimplesurvey
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