Hybrid Cloud Storage

Microsoft Azure StorSimplePaul Chiola, Technology Solutions Professional at Microsoft, Azure Site Recovery and StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage

Agenda / Market positioning and business

value• Storage challenges

• Microsoft has a unique solution

• How customers benefit

• Application and workload focus

• StorSimple HCS platform

• Customer testimonials

• Technical Presentation

• Demo

• Summary

Data growth continues to challenge IT operations - 35% growth rate per year requires a doubling of on-premises storage over a three-year period (source: Gartner)

Are you empoweredto handle doubling your data capacity in the next 3 years?

Trends and Markets…

By 2016, the drive makers will be challenged to provide sufficient petabytes to satisfy the world's hunger for storage (source: Gartner)

SAN storage cost = 4x Cloud storage (source: Forrester)

By year-end 2016, more than 50% of Global 1000 companies will have stored customer-sensitive data in the public cloud, which is an increase from the minimal amount in 2013 (source: Gartner)

Enterprise spending on public cloud storage market will grow to $11.7B by 2015 (source: IDC)

Public Cloud basic storage service market will grow to $14.8B by 2017 with CAGR (2012-2017) of 27% (source: IDC)

Cloud Storage spending for data management by 2019: $59B

Storage challenges

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Storage

Dormant Data

Time

Cost

Active data

Spending more money on dormant vs. active (The average balance is 20% active vs. 80% dormant data )

Rapid data growth

Data protection & recovery getting more complex

Requirements to focus on business priorities and away from IT maintenance

Increasing storage cost & infrastructure sprawl

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

Resource constraints

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

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

StorSimple

Manager

Two new, higher performing storage arrays

• Faster network connectivity (10G)

• Expanded workloads

Two new integrated management services

• Consolidated management through Azure

• Azure VM access to enterprise data

Microsoft AzureStorSimple Manager

Microsoft AzureStorSimple Virtual

Appliance

StorSimple 8100 StorSimple 8600

StorSimple 8000 series: What’s new

Why customers benefit - setup

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

StorSimple

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

Why customers benefit - tasks

Application and workload focus

* Only available with StorSimple 8000 series

Cloud Apps

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Virtual Machines SharePoi

ntFileshare

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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

Enable efficient disaster recovery

Storage Recovery Times from Offsite Backups in a Disaster

Reco

very

Tim

e

Primary Data

1 TB 5 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB

15 Min.

1 Hour

1 Day

7 Days

30 Days

90 Days

Regular Cloud Backupwith 100 Mbps WAN Link

Tape

StorSimple Cloud Snapshotswith 50 Mbps WAN LinkStorage

availability after DR is

independent of volume

sizes

Rapid recovery enables DR testing and validation

Kai SookwongseGroup Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure

Mazda Gains Better Data Protection, 95 Percent Lower Costs Using Hybrid Cloud Storage. With StorSimple, data is copied to the cloud in half the time, and files can be brought back from Azure in minutes instead of 24 hours

Zac Saunderson,Network Engineer

“The addition of the StorSimple Virtual Appliance is a major game-changer. We no longer need to copy data over landlines, making the data protection process much more fluid, flexible and economical.”

StorSimple customer testimonials

Lee BinghamHead of IT

“It’s about efficient data archiving: maximizing thecapacity that we’ve got within the data center and leveraging the cloud,” says Bingham. “From an end user perspective, it’s no different: if you need a file, StorSimple retrieves it from Windows Azure and makes it available in the local data center

Wes Owen,Senior IT PerformanceManager

“StorSimple has far exceeded expectations by cutting our incremental storage and archiving costs by 90% with no loss in performance.”

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series

Technical Presentation

Microsoft Azure StorSimple Big Picture

ON-PREMISES DATA CENTER

iSCSIInternet

connection

StorSimple Virtual Applianc

e

BLOB Data

BLOB Data

Administrator

CLOUD DATACENTER

Server

StorSimple Snapshot Manager Plug-in

Series 8000 Hybrid Storage

Array

StorSimple Manager

Fault tolerance of enterprise class storage

Software Feature

Protects Against?

How is works?

Controller failover

Protection against the failure of a controller.

The dual controllers are active/passive. In the event the active controller fails the passive controller automatically takes over. NVRAM mirrored across controllers via NTB.

Storage Spaces

Protection in the event of one or more drive failures.

Disk insert into and removal from pools.

Nondisruptive software upgrades (NDU)

Allows updates to be made to the operating system without taking downtime.

The software is downloaded and updated on each controller. One controller is up at all times to continue processing and serving data.

Redundant Power

Supplies

Dual Controllers

Network Interfaces

Here is how customers benefitA

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

Time

Working set data

Inactive data

Automatic tiering

Low Threshol

d

High Threshol

dTime

0

1

2

3

4

Oldest

DataData exceeds high watermark

Old data spills to next tier

Tier is empty in the beginning

New data is written at start of free space

Tier returns to low watermark level

DATA

DATA

DATA

DATA

Local and Cloud snapshots

SSD

SAS

Local Snapshot

Cloud Snapshot

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

StorSimple Virtual Appliance

VM

Data

The Virtual Appliance is a software version of the physical array that runs on a VM in Azure and can be provisioned and turned-on as needed.

The StorSimple Virtual Appliance is an iSCSI target for the VMs in Azure.

A virtual network joins VMs and the StorSimple Virtual Appliance.

iSCSI Initiator

iSCSI Target

Disaster recovery

Cloud Snapshot

Secondary Datacenter

or Provisioned StorSimple

Virtual Appliance

• 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

What is

needed?

Consolidated management of appliances

Microsoft Confidential

StorSimple_PhysicalAppliance1 StorSimple_PhysicalApplia

nce2

StorSimple_VirtualAppliance1

Azure StorSimple ManagerStorSimple

Manager service in Azure

portal and manages one or

more StorSimple appliances

All device will need the Registration Key and Service Data Encryption Key to be added to the Service

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

Secure data throughout the solution

Account authentication with User ID, Password

On-premise Data Center

On-premise Data Center

2 x 512 bit keys

Account Access

Data Access

Data In-flight

Data At-restWindows Azure management

portal

IT administrator (customer)

StorSimple

CiS

AES-256 bit encryption

AES-256 bit encryption

Series 8000 modelsModels

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

DemoStorSimple 8000 Series Demonstration.

Use Cases and WorkloadsStorSimple 8000 Series supports use cases that take

advantage of workloads that originate on-premises and in Azure.

Application and workload focus

* New with Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series

Cloud Apps

*

Virtual Machines SharePoi

ntFileshare

s

Archives SQL Server*

AzureWorkloads

On-premisesworkloads

DR* Dev/test*

File shares and archives

Before

Applications (Tier 2, & Tier

3 data)

FC/iSCSI

iSCSI

On-premise footprint

Capacity on-demand

Applications

Primary Storage

Disk-based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure

Archival Storage

After

SharePoint

Before

AfterSharePoint

Farm

FC/iSCSI

iSCSI

On-premise footprint

Capacity on-demand

SharePoint Farm

Primary Storage

Disk-based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure

Archival Storage

Offsite Facility

SharePoint metadata

BLOB data

SSA

SharePoint

metadata

(SQL)

BLOB data

Virtual machines and eliminating VM sprawl

Before

After

All Hyper-V/ VMware

VMs Primary Storage

Disk-based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure & Management

Archival Storage

FC/iSCSI

VMs using Tier 2/Tier 3

data

iSCSI

Active VM data (VHDs, VMDKs)

Inactive VM data

Storage migration/

vMotion

Active VM data (VHDs, VMDKs)

Free space

InactiveSpin up

On-premise footprint

Capacity on-demand

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 Storage

Disk-based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure

Archival Storage

After

Summary

Hybrid Cloud Storage provides major benefits

Learn more: microsoft.com/storsimple

40-60% lower TCO versus traditional enterprise storage

1

2Primary storage with automated data protection and highly efficient disaster recovery

3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation

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