Hybrid Cloud Storage Microsoft Azure StorSimple Paul Chiola, Technology Solutions Professional at Microsoft, Azure Site Recovery and StorSimp
Jun 27, 2015
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
*
Virtual Machines SharePoi
ntFileshare
s
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
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2Primary storage with automated data protection and highly efficient disaster recovery
3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation
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