Trends driving IT pressures Cloud Big data Devices Apps Devices: Info Workers Will Erase Boundary Between enterprise And Consumer Technologies. Forrester Research. August 30, 2012 Apps: Gartner: Predicts 2013: Business Impact of Technology Drives the Futures Application Services Market. Nov. 21, 2012 Big data: Compiled from IDC digital universe forecasts Cloud: Prepare For 2020: Transform Your IT Infrastructure And Operations Practice. Forrester Research. Oct. 24, 2012
Cloud OS Microsoft s vision of the unified platform for modern business Transform the datacenter Unlock insights on any data Empower people-centric IT Enable modern business apps
Transform the datacenter Today s datacenter Hybrid cloud Cloud Datacenter options on without demand boundaries Reduced Cloud cost and innovation complexity everywhere Rapid Dynamic response to application business delivery Windows Azure Windows Server Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft System Center
Cloud innovation everywhere Windows Azure Storage Network Compute Microsoft System Center Identity Service Provider
Rethink storage Reduce cost and increase flexibility Improved performance Reduced cost Elastic capacity Traditional storage environments New on-premises storage options Hybrid cloud storage
New apps/services Device proliferation Data explosion Cloud computing
Windows Server 2012 System Center 2012 SP1 Storage Spaces 64-node clusters SMB3 Scale-Out File Server 8,000 VMs per Cluster Block storage provisioning iscsi Target SMI-S Provider Storage Utilization Trending Offload Data Transfer Dedup Hyper-V Replica Virtual Fibre Channel VM Prioritization File storage provisioning Thin Provision Alert Monitor Dynamic iscsi Target Array ReFS Cluster- Aware Updating iscsi Target Server VM Storage Migration VHDX Hyper-V Storage Management SAN based Rapid Provisioning SAS Array Support SM API SMI-S Storage Service NFS 4.1 NTFS Trim / Unmap CSVFS online CHKDSK Storage Pool Classification SM API Integration Thin LUN provisioning
File Based Storage High Performance SMB Protocol for Hyper-V Storage over Ethernet networks Storage Spaces Cost-Effective Business Critical Storage
Focused Scenarios for 2012 R2 wave Windows Server 2012 R2 is cloud optimized Private Clouds Hosted Clouds Cloud Service Providers Reducing capital and operational storage and availability costs
Hyper-V Clusters SMB Scale-Out File Server Shared JBOD Storage
Get-Command module [ ] SMBshare NFS FileServerResourceManager DFSN Deduplication iscsitarget Storage FailOverClusters
Hyper-V Clusters SMB Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Shared JBOD Storage
Virtualizing
Virtualizing Virtualizing storage on industry standard hardware provides flexibility with minimum investment
Performance 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 Scalability 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 Hyper-V Clusters SMB Reliability Manageability 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 Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Shared JBOD Storage Reducing Costs Data deduplication of VDI storage on Scale-Out File Servers Tenant clustering without requiring Fibre Channel or iscsi storage
Windows Azure Backup
Data protection challenges Storage costs growing. Backup costs scale with data It s expensive to protect all that data. Some data may go without protection.
Microsoft Confidential Introducing Windows Azure Backup Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud Offsite data protection in Windows Azure storage. Data is encrypted and secure. Efficient use of network and storage resources. Enhances Microsoft backup tools with cloud backup capabilities.
Windows Azure Backup Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud Reliable offsite data protection A simple and integrated solution Efficient backup and recovery
When to choose Windows Azure Backup Already using System Center Data Protection Manager? Windows Azure Backup integrates easily. Small business or branch office? Windows Azure Backup integrates with the in-box Windows Server backup tool. Suitable for any workload.
How Windows Azure Backup works 1. Sign up 2. Install agent 4. Back up encrypted data Window Server 2012 5. Recover to the same or a different server `
How Windows Azure Backup works 1. Sign up 2. Install agent 4. Back up encrypted data System Center DPM Server 5. Recover to the same or a different server
Security
Like a GIANT hard drive only better Highly durable and scalable. Multiple copies of your data.
Windows Azure Storage Defend against regional disasters
How to Simple and reliable server backup to the cloud can be up and running in a few easy steps Sign up for a Windows Azure account. www.windowsazure.com Enable Windows Azure Backup. Configure the service and schedule backups. Windows Azure Backup charges per GB/month
Next steps Sign up Windows Azure Subscription. www.windowsazure.com Discover Recovery Services on Windows Azure. www.windowsazure.com/enus/home/features/recovery-services/ Explore Windows Azure Backup on TechNet. http://technet.microsoft.com/enus/library/hh831419.aspx
Improved performance + Reduced cost + Elastic capacity Traditional Storage environments New on-premises storage options Cloudintegrated storage
Primary Storage Archival Storage Disk-based Backup Storage Tape Infrastructure & Management Replicated Storage for DR Offsite Facility for Geo-resilience
Traditional Storage + Data Protection Architecture StorSimple Cloud-integrated Storage Servers Disk Array ($100K; Double if Replicated) Media Server ($25K) Primary Volume Snapshot Disk Backup/ VTL ($100K; double if replicated) Servers Primary Volume Local Snapshot Encryption Appliance Physical Tape Infrastructure ($50K) Offsite Vault Cloud Snapshots To Nearby Cloud Storage Service Region Cloud Clones To Remote Cloud Storage Region for DR Traditional CapEx: $375K Support: $75K per Year Azure + StorSimple CapEx: $0K Support & Cloud: $55K per Year
Enterprise SAN Storage Automated Cloud-as-a-Tier Thin, Reduced Snapshots Cloud Snapshots Recover from Cloud to any DC Primary Storage Archival Storage Disk-based Backup Storage Tape Infrastructure & Management Replicated Storage for DR Offsite Facility for Geo-resilience
Application Servers StorSimple CiS connects Windows, Hyper-V and VMware servers to Azure Storage in minutes with no application modification StorSimple CiS Most Active Data on SSD Warm data on SAS Local Tier Speed of SSD/SAS + Elasticity of Cloud Azure Storage Inactive Primary Data + Backup + Archive + DR Consolidates primary, archive, backup, DR thru seamless integration with Azure Cloud Snapshots = revolutionary speed, simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery Reduces enterprise storage TCO by 60 80%
Capacity Focused CIS Applications and Workloads CapEx, OpEx of traditional storage File Share File Servers NAS CIFS NFS Archives Media Records Legal Medical Data grows exponentially (50-60% annually) CapEx, OpEx of StorSimple Cloud Storage SharePoint Collaboration Content Mgmt Business Intelligence Virtual Machines ROBO VM Archives DPM Backup Target However, most I/O happens to the Working Set data Time Local Storage SQL Databases Logs Active VMs E-Mail.OST files Any Active files
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For More Information Windows Server 2012 R2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205286 System Center 2012 R2 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dn205295 Azure Pack http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/servercloud/products/windows-azure-pack Microsoft Azure http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ Reference book Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model Marc Farley (Microsoft press)