Hybrid Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure StorSimple … Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series Shane Snipes, Sen. Microsoft Specialist Agenda

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Hybrid Cloud Storage

Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series

Shane Snipes, Sen. Microsoft Specialist

Agenda


• Storage challenges

• Addressing storage challenges with StorSimple

• StorSimple 8000 series

- Overview

- Cloud integration, tiering, deduplication, compression, and encryption

- StorSimple Manager in Microsoft Azure Management Portal

- StorSimple Virtual Appliance

- Data protection and disaster recovery

• Use cases and workloads

Storage challenges


Resource

constraints

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

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

Complex data

protection &

recovery

Storage cost

and

infrastructure

sprawl

Rapid data growth - 40% YoY*

Addressing storage challenges with StorSimple


Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

Lower storage

costs

Manage

data growth

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk-based Backup

StorSimple

Remote Replication

Tape backup and DR

Simplify data

protection and

disaster recovery

Increase business

agility

Here is how customers benefit


Time

StorSimple provides enterprise storage with cloud economics

Working data set

stays fairly

constant

Unstructured data

growing 40% YoY

SSD HDD Cloud

Hybrid storage

array performance

for working set

Inactive data is

tiered to the cloud

Acce

ss


StorSimple 8000 Series Overview


Fundamental value of StorSimple

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

Inline de-dupe,

compression &

automatic tiering

Enterprise SAN storage

Customer Data Center

Applications in Physical or Virtual Servers

StorSimple

Automated offsite data

protection using cloud

snapshots

Highly efficient,

location independent

disaster recovery


What is new with StorSimple 8000 Series


Administrator

Microsoft Azure StorSimple Big Picture

ON-PREMISES DATA CENTER CLOUD DATACENTER

Server Series 8000

Hybrid Storage Array StorSimple

Virtual

Appliance

BLOB Data

BLOB Data

StorSimple Manager

StorSimple

Snapshot Manager Plug-in


Series 8000 models

Models

Model Number 8100 8600

Total usable capacity 15TB 40TB

Usable SSD Capacity 800GB 2TB

Effective Local Capacity 15-45TB 40-120TB

Max Volume Capacity 64TB 64TB

Max Capacity (including

cloud)

200TB 500TB

Network Interface Cards 4 x 1Gbps and 2 x 10Gbps

Enclosure Form Factor 1 X 2U 2 X 2U

Fault tolerance of enterprise class storage


Redundant Power Supplies

Dual Controllers

Storage Spaces

Protection in the

event of one or

more drive

failures.

Disk insert into and

removal from pools.

Network Interfaces

Software

Feature

Protects

Against? How is works?

Controller

failover

The dual controllers are

active/passive. In the event

Protection the active controller fails

against the failure the passive controller

of a controller. automatically takes over.

NVRAM mirrored across

controllers via NTB.

Allows updates to The software is

Nondisruptive be made to the downloaded and updated

software operating system on each controller. One

upgrades (NDU) without taking controller is up at all times

downtime. to continue processing and serving data.

Networking


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)

Physical,

Virtual Servers

VLAN1 VLAN2

If external DNS server is used, ports

for DNS should be open

8000 Series

WAN

NIC

D1

NIC

MGMT

NIC

D2

NIC

D3

NIC

D1

NIC

D3

NIC

D2

NIC

MGMT

If external SMTP server is used for

notification, port 25 should be open

(Corporate)

NIC NIC

Local redundant and geo redundant storage


Primary Location

Secondary Location

Automatic tiering


Time

Low High Threshold Threshold

Tier is empty in the beginning

DATA New data is written at start of free space

DATA Data exceeds high watermark

DATA Old data spills to next tier

DATA Tier returns to low watermark level

Deduplication


HDD

0xabc123

0xaab123

0xccc123

SSD

64KB Chunks

Dedupe Algorithm

Recor hash ke alread

d of

ys y

generated

0xabc123 0xaaa123 0xbbb123 0xccc123

0xaac123 0xbbc123 0xbcc123 0xabb123

0xaab123 0xccc123

Compression


Deduped Data

0xaab123

0xccc123

Compress Data

Performed on data

already deduplicated

Heuristics based

compression to reduce

CPU overhead when

data is not compressible

Default algorithm is the

standard DEFLATE (loss

less compression)

HDD

Encryption


Compress Data

Performed deduped and

compressed data

Encryption key is

generated based on the

seed value provided

Encryption algorithm is

AES-256 with CBC

Security keys maintained

by the customer, stored

securely on the

appliance

Data chunk before encryption

Data chunk after encryption

Secure data throughout the solution


anagement portal

tion D,

IT administrator

ta Center

rest

On-premise Data Center

Windows Azure

On-premise Da

Data At-

m

Account authentica with User I Password

Account Access AES-256 bit

encryption

(customer)

Data In-flight

2 x 512 bit keys

StorSimple

CiS

AES-256 bit encryption

Data Access


Microsoft Azure StorSimple Manager Consolidated management for multiple appliances in the

Microsoft Azure Management Portal


Azure StorSimple Manager

Consolidated management of appliances

Microsoft Confidential

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

Registration Key Service Data

Encryption Key to be added to the Service

Adding an appliance to a StorSimple Manager service


Will show up in Storage

tab of Azure Portal


XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Storage accounts and volume containers



Isolating volume data with volume containers


Cloud Encryption Key 1 Cloud Encryption Key 2


Storage_Account1

File_Share_VC SharePoint_VC


Volumes and data protection policies


Microsoft Azure StorSimple Virtual Appliance Facilitates data mobility of on-premises production datasets to

Azure that will run with VMs originating in Azure.

IT agility in Azure with StorSimple Virtual Appliance


The StorSimple Virtual Appliance facilitates data mobility of production datasets for the purpose

of disaster recovery, on-demand development and test infrastructure, and Cloud applications.

The StorSimple Manager service provides workflows for failover of datasets for disaster recovery

and clone workflows for replicating production datasets in Azure for Cloud applications and

development and test scenarios

StorSimple Virtual Appliance


VM

Data

Creating virtual networks in Azure


Virtual networks are

created in the Azure

Management Portal and

available to the StorSimple

Virtual Appliance when it

is provisioned.


Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Backups in Azure provide long term retention of backup data

and location independence for recovering data to secondary hybrid storage arrays or Virtual Appliances.

Local and Cloud snapshots


Example Group Of Data Protection Policies

Backup Type Snapshot

Type

Frequency Retention

Period

Short-term

backup

Local &

Cloud

Daily ~1

week

Medium-

term backup

Cloud Weekly ~4

weeks

Long-term

Backup

Cloud Monthly ~52

weeks

Local Snapshot

SSD

SAS

Cloud Snapshot

Local snapshot


Vol ume

olu me

Dat

Meta

S naps

Reference to

data chunk

a

V data

Snapshot 1

hot 2

Snapshot 3

Instantaneous

and provide

short term

data recovery

Cloud snapshot


SSD

SAS

Metadata is

preserved in

its entirety

Only changed

blocks are

copied to

Cloud

StorSimple Snapshot Manager


Manages backup

policies

MMC UI snap-in

that lives on

application host

and

communicates

with appliance(s)

Orchestrates

application

consistent

snapshots

Restores

volumes and

mounts them as

NTFS

folders/drives

Disaster recovery


• Thin restores provides fast recovery of data, downloading a small subset of data necessary data bring applications online. Not dependent on volume size.

• Recover data anyway: a secondary

datacenter or a StorSimple Virtual Appliance in Azure

• A volume container is failed over to

the destination appliance. Time to recover is the same for physical and virtual appliance

DR to secondary datacenter or Virtual Appliance


Datacenter 1

Datacenter 2 storage.

Filer Server Physical Appliance

(Appliance1)

StorSimpleManager1

File Server

Azure Storage

Filer Server Physical Appliance

(Appliance2) Virtual Appliance (Appliance3)

Recover data to Appliance2 (physical) or Appliance3 (virtual) by rehydrating data

from a Cloud snapshot stored in Azure BLOB


Use Cases and Workloads StorSimple 8000 Series supports use cases that take advantage

of workloads that originate on-premises and in Azure.

Application and workload focus


Azure

Workloads

On-premises

workloads

Archives

Virtual

Machines SharePoint

* New with Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series

DR*

Cloud

Apps*

Dev/

test*

Fileshares

SQL Server*

File shares and archives


pplication

Applications

Primary

Storage

Archival

Storage Disk-based Tape

Backup Storage Infrastructure

A s

(Tier 2, & Tier 3

data) On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

Before

After

SharePoint


harePoint Fa

BLOB data

SharePoint Farm

Primary

Storage

Archival

Storage Disk-based Tape Offsite Facility


SharePoint

metadata

(SQL)

S rm

On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

Before

After

Virtual machines and eliminating VM sprawl


All Hyper-V/

VMware VMs

Primary Storage

Archival Disk-based Storage Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure

& Management

VMs using

Tier 2/Tier 3

data

On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

Before

After

SQL for Tier-2 and Tier-3 applications


pplication

Applications

Primary

Storage

Archival

Storage Disk-based Tape


A s

(Tier 2, & Tier 3

data) On-premise footprint

StorSimple Virtual Appliance and Cloud backup and DR

Before

After

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Hybrid Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure StorSimple … Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series Shane Snipes, Sen. Microsoft Specialist Agenda