Hybrid Cloud Storage with StorSimple

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 Microsoft

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Topics 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 Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

Introduction Microsoft Confidential 4

Storage challenges Rapid data growth - 40% YoY * Storage cost and infrastructure sprawl Complex data protection & recovery Resource constraints Storage Today = Complex & Expensive * Source: EMC Digital Universe with Research and Analysis by IDC, 2014

Traditional Storage Data Center Architecture Primary Storage Archival Storage Disk based backup storage Tape infrastructure and management Off-site DR and georesiliency 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 Storage Today = Complex & Expensive (and not necessary for all workloads)

Microsoft has a unique solution StorSimple connects Windows, Linux and VMware servers to Azure Storage in minutes with no application modification Applications in Physical or Virtual Servers Enterprise SAN storage Inline de-dupe, compression & automatic tiering StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array Integrated offsite data protection using cloud snapshots Highly efficient, location independent disaster recovery StorSimple Manager SVA Customer Data Center Access in Azure to enterprise data with StorSimple Virtual Appliance Consolidated storage and data management

How do customers benefit Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple Primary Storage Archival Storage Manage data growth Lower storage costs Pay as you go Disk-based Backup Remote Replication StorSimple Simplify data protection and disaster recovery Increase business agility Tape backup and DR Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

Access How do customers benefit SSD HDD Cloud 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 Time StorSimple provides enterprise storage with cloud economics

How Does it Work : StorSimple + Azure StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage Azure Cloud Storage Cloud Backups Cloud Integration Local Storage Local Backups Device Failover Management Console

How Does it Work: Cloud-Based Data Protection Transactional Workloads Backup Software Low Impact Workloads Primary Storage Local Snapshots StorSimple Staging Disk Deduplicate Compress Encrypt Deduplicate Compress Encrypt 1 2 Cloud Streaming Target Gateway Disk Tape AutoTier Live Data HTTPS Port 443 Replicate Backups HTTPS Port 443 Microsoft Replicated Offsite Storage Cloud Disk Cloud Storage Cloud Snapshots MOVE DATA COPY DATA

How Does it Work: Cloud-Based Site Protection Azure Management Console Cloud Backup A Cloud Backup B StorSimple VMs Orchestration Test Failovers StorSimple A StorSimple B Cloud VMs Access Control Cloud Integration Virtual IP Switch/Global Namespace User Group A User Group B

How do customers buy StorSimple? 8000 series ASAP+ 60 1 ASAP+ 100 1 What customers pay for $60K/year on Azure EA for managed storage 2 Covers ~60TB of managed storage capacity 3 through StorSimple $100K/year on Azure EA for managed storage 2 Covers ~100TB of managed storage capacity 3 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. 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 3 Azure Offers, if applicable, can be used for StorSimple deployment. More information about Azure Offers can be found by contacting your Microsoft representative.

Economics Traditional vs Hybrid Cloud Storage Illustrative cost comparison for 60TB of primary data Function Traditional Storage Products Traditional Storage Cost Cost with Microsoft Azure StorSimple 1 Primary and Archival Storage Backup and Disaster Recovery Storage Array with Associated Software $90,000 $0 2 Backup Media Server and Software $30,000 Disk Backup with Deduplication Licenses $120,000 $0 2 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 40 60% Savings Additional Customer Benefits None Tape eliminated Tested, location independent DR Cloud used as secondary DC Power/space/cooling savings IT time/productivity 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

StorSimple: Use Cases Azure Workloads DR Dev/ test Cloud Apps Proceed with caution VM storage for line of business (LOB) apps some may be highly transactional workloads Archives requiring e-discovery or active cataloging/indexing on-premise Don t Sell! Fileshares Archives Mission-critical, high performance OLTP/OLAP On-premises workloads Virtual Machines SharePoint SQL Server workloads Storage target for backup software Storage target for DPM Exchange (DAG) MICROSOFT CONFIDENTIAL FOR PARTNER INFORMATION ONLY

File shares and archives Applications FC/iSCSI Before Primary Storage Archival Storage Disk-based Tape Backup Storage Infrastructure After iscsi StorSimple Applications (Tier 2, & Tier 3 data) On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

SharePoint SharePoint metadata Before SharePoint Farm FC/iSCSI BLOB data Primary Storage Archival Storage Disk-based Tape Offsite Facility Backup Storage Infrastructure BLOB data After SharePoint Farm iscsi SharePoint metadata (SQL) StorSimple On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

Virtual machines and eliminating VM sprawl Active VM data (VHDs, VMDKs) Before All Hyper-V/ VMware VMs FC/iSCSI Free space Primary Storage Archival Storage Storage migration/ vmotion Disk-based Tape Backup Storage Infrastructure & Management After VMs using Tier 2/Tier 3 data iscsi StorSimple On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

SQL for Tier-2 and Tier-3 applications Applications FC/iSCSI Before Primary Storage Archival Storage Disk-based Tape Backup Storage Infrastructure After iscsi StorSimple Applications (Tier 2, & Tier 3 data) On-premise footprint StorSimple Virtual Appliance and Cloud backup and DR

Summary Hybrid Cloud Storage provides major benefits 1 2 40-60% lower TCO versus traditional enterprise storage Primary storage with automated data protection and highly efficient disaster recovery 3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation Learn more: microsoft.com/storsimple

Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection Summary Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

Architecture

Microsoft Azure StorSimple Big Picture ON-PREMISES DATA CENTER CLOUD DATACENTER Cloud Server Series 8000 Hybrid Storage Array StorSimple Virtual Appliance StorSimple Snapshot Manager Plug-in StorSimple Manager Administrator

Series 8000 models

Breakdown of local tier capacity Model SSD HDD SPARE 8100 400GB X 4 SSDs 4TB x 8 HDDs 8600 800GB X 5 SSDs 4TB x 19HDDs 1 spare HDD (7 data HDD) 1 spare HDD (18 data HDDs) Calculating usable 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)*

Storage components of StorSimple solution Microsoft Azure StorSimple Virtual Appliance Microsoft s public cloud Azure BLOB storage

Management components of StorSimple solution Microsoft Azure Portal StorSimple Snapshot Manager The primary management interface for the StorSimple solution

Consolidated management of appliances StorSimple Manager Physical Appliance Physical Appliance Virtual Appliance Microsoft Confidential (Service Data Encryption Key is generated, on device console, when first device is registered)

Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection Summary Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

High Availability, Networking, And MPIO

Hybrid storage array Dual Controllers 2U Enclosure Redundant Power Supplies Network Interfaces Microsoft Confidential 31

Network & MPIO Overview iscsi Switch1 (Ex. 192.168.10.X) iscsi Switch2 (Ex. 192.168.20.X) Multipath IO Multiple, simultaneous paths from applications to storage MPIO on host couples with IP address failover between controllers Corp LAN (Ex. 10.1.10.XX) 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 Corp Firewall (Port 443)

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 If external SMTP server is used for notification, port 25 should be open

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 enabled using Server Manager on Windows Server.

Local, Zone, and Geo Redundant Storage Options Primary Location Secondary Location

Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection Summary Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

Data Security Microsoft Confidential 37

Secure data throughout the solution Account Access Account authentication with User ID, Password StorSimple Virtual Appliance Cloud IT administrator Data At-rest AES-256 bit encryption StorSimple Customer defined encryption keys stored on device 2 x 512 bit keys Data In-flight AES-256 bit encryption

Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection

Tiering Microsoft Confidential 40

StorSimple and Automatic Tiering

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 technical support if an impact to read performance becomes inconsistent or unacceptable low threshold.

Read/Write throughput for storage tiers Maximum client read/write throughput (when served from the SSD tier)* Maximum client read/write throughput (when served from the HDD tier)* Maximum client read/write throughput (when served from the cloud tier)* 920/720 MB/s with a single 10GbE network interface 120/250 MB/s 11/41 MB/s Up to 2x with MPIO and two network interfaces. Read throughput depends on clients generating and maintaining sufficient I/O queue depth. * Maximum throughput per I/O type was measured with 100 percent read and 100 percent write scenarios. Actual throughput may be lower and depends on I/O mix and network conditions.

Deduplication & Compression Microsoft Confidential 44

Deduplication And Compression Optimizes the utilization of SSD capacity, improving performance Deduplication is done at the block level; across all volumes within a cloud account 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 data stored Minimizes size of data transfer and storage in Azure. Also, reduces data download and recovery times No duplicated blocks between snapshots

Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Windows Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection Summary Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Microsoft Confidential 47

StorSimple Virtual Appliance Microsoft Azure StorSimple Model Number 1100 Capacity (Local/Maximum) 30TB Storage Azure BLOB Network Connects to VMs via a virtual network in Azure *No MPIO Microsoft Confidential 48

Virtual Network For StorSimple Virtual Appliance File Server File Data Microsoft Confidential 49

StorSimple Virtual Appliance Use Cases Microsoft Confidential 50

Summary Of Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection Summary Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

Data Protection Microsoft Confidential 52

StorSimple Integrated Data Protection

An Integrated Data Protection Solution StorSimple 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) SSD SAS Cloud Snapshots Point-in-time backup copy stored in the cloud providing medium recovery time and disaster recovery

Summary Of Topics Hybrid Cloud Storage (HCS) with StorSimple and Microsoft Azure Introduction Architecture High availability, networking, and MPIO Security Tiering Introduction To StorSimple Virtual Appliance Data protection Summary Resources & Additional Training Opportunities

StorSimple: Resources Executive Overview Videos: StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage Concept Overview StorSimple 8000 Series Capabilities Overview 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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