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Business and partnering opportunities: Windows Server 8 continuous availability

Thomas PfenningGeneral Manager, Windows File ServerMicrosoft Corporation

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WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS TALK

TOPICS WHAT YOU’LL LEAVE WITH

• Server and Storage OEMs• Storage ODMs • Storage, Network, RDMA

controller IHVs• Systems and Storage

management ISVs

• “Windows Server 8” Continuous Availability motivations

• Approach and investments• OEM system and appliance

opportunities • ISV and IHV partner

opportunities

• Understanding of “Windows Server 8” Continuously Available investments

• Learn how investments achieve end-to-end experiences

• OEM opportunities to deliver Virtualization and NAS appliances

• ISV and IHV partner opportunities

“Windows Server 8” Continuous Availability motivations


Customer Demand for Continuous Availability

Customer Focused Design & Areas of Investigation

• 200 CFD Sessions• 6000+ Voice of the Customer

Statements• 900+ Customer Prioritized Buckets• 22 Areas of Investigation

2+ years of research6,000+ customers

Continuous Availability of the OS, applications,

and data was ranked by

customers WW (US, Germany and Japan) as a must

have feature

Continuously available software and hardware platforms are designed to support transparent failover (planned or unplanned)without data loss


Single Node

Multi Node Scale Up & Scale Out

Multi siteSecondary site – cloud, hoster)

Continuous Availability investments

cost

SLA

Windows Server 8 will provide a continuum of availability options that protect from a wide range of failure modes. These options will enable higher levels of availability, cost-effectiveness, and easier deployment across all customer segments.

Server Availability •Kernel•Networking•Storage stack •File, block protocols

Server Availability •Clustering •Reliable shared storage•VM and Storage mobility •Guest VM HA •Continuously Available File Server•DHCP Availability

Cluster- Aware Updating

Business Continuity – Hyper-V Replica

Continuous Availability approach and investments

“Windows Server 8”

Local or External SATA, SAS, FC JBOD or Arrays

Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB, NFS)

Block (FC, iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking


Bring enterprise availability benefits to broader markets • Cost and availability continuum – pay for the availability you need • Build on standard, lower-cost, high-volume hardware components• OS platform enables partners to deliver a wide range of solutions• Easy for customers to procure, deploy and manage

Address resiliency and fault tolerance at various platform layers• Recoverable device failures and failure isolation • Transparent and fast recovery from failures without service

disruption

Continuous Availability tenets

Platform Storage “Windows Server 8”

Local or External SATA,

SAS, FC JBOD or Arrays

Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking

474 - Platform Storage Evolved LEARN MORE

• Availability & Manageability• Maximized file system availability• Comprehensive storage management• Improved NTFS integrity on SATA

• Cost-effective business critical storage solutions• Windows virtualized storage: Storage Spaces

• Maximized utility from external storage subsystems• Offloaded data transfer

• Optimal utilization• Thin-provisioning notifications• Storage optimization• Data deduplication

Clustering

450 - Designing Systems for Continuous Availability - Multi-Node with Block Storage

LEARN MORE

• Increase cluster scale

• Enable fast, transparent failover – Continuous Availability vs. High Availability

• Extend Clustered shared volumes (CSV v2) scale out support to new workloads

• Servicing clustered workloads without downtime and service interruption

. . .




Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking

Hyper-V, SQL Server storage on SMB2 File shares

444 - Designing Systems for Continuous Availability - Multi-Node with Remote File Storage

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• Resiliency to faults without service disruption

• Node fault tolerance • Network fault tolerance

• Fast, efficient access to app storage • Sustained scale by offloading Host CPU• Low latency • Bandwidth aggregation

• App data protection• Enable VSS backup of app data on SMB shares




Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking

Storage access in heterogeneous environments

449 - Building Continuous Availability File Server NAS Appliances

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• Robust NFS v3 client and server shipping today • Heterogeneous client (Linux, UNIX) storage• VMware storage

• Extend Continuously Available attributes to NFS v3 for app storage - Shared storage for VMware

• Continuously Available iSCSI Target in “Windows Server 8”

• Storage for heterogeneous workloads• Diskless boot• Shared storage for guest clusters• Shared storage for Hyper-V clusters




Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking

Scale Out file storage Hyper-V, SQL Server

444 - Designing Systems for Continuous Availability - Multi-Node with Remote File Storage

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• Continuously available scale out file server as a SQL Server and Hyper-V data store

• Single File System name space • Active/Active access

• Zero app downtime during failover – both planned and unplanned




Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking

File Services consolidation for client storageUsers want

• Consolidation to more shares running in fewer servers

• More shares and users per server calls for higher scalability and performance

• Easier and cost efficient data management

• Unified File Storage

Users get• Continuous Availability of the consolidated

servers• Network, Node, and Disk fault tolerance• Scalable and reliable storage backends• Higher efficiency and lower costs • Meet retention, compliance and regulatory needs

of centralized data• Intuitive single-pane-of-glass manageability• Consolidate Information Worker and Application

workloads; support heterogeneous environments

File ServerSprawl

File ServerConsolidation

Investmentin File ServicesTechnologies

422 - Using Claims Based Access Control for Information Governance and Compliance

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Networking

446 - Designing Systems for Continuous Availability and Scalability

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• DHCP service availability • Simplified DHCP deployment• Dual modes - Hot standby and Load balancing

• Resiliency against network component failures

• Simplified, native NIC teaming • Vendor agnostic, heterogeneous vendors in a team

• App storage on SMB shares • Multipathing solution – multiple paths to storage via

SMB• End to end network resiliency – tolerate failure in any

segment, port, NIC




Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking

Hyper-V Platform

451 - Building Continuous Availability systems for Hyper-V

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• Compute and storage mobility • Standalone Live Migration and outside cluster

boundaries • Ability to move storage behind live VMs for

servicing, balancing, migration

• Disaster recovery for Hyper-V • Easy to use, low cost DR solution for certain Hyper-

V customer segments

• Availability of guest VMs on FC SANs• Leverage FC SAN investments and enable guest

clusters with virtual FC HBAs




Disk I/O subsystem

Local File system

Clustering

Access File (SMB,

NFS)Block (FC,

iSCSI)

Virtualization

Management

Networking


announcingStorage Spaces

Deduplication

Offloaded Data Transfers

SMB 2.2 Transparent Failover

SMB2 Direct

SMB2 Multichannel NFS v3 Transparent Failover

iSCSI Transparent Failover

Hyper-V Replica

Cluster-Aware Updating

Storage Live Migration

NIC Teaming

File based storage for server apps

Fast Chkdsk

OEM System and Appliance opportunities


Flexible storage options

Clustered discretesystems

2 node cluster + storage in a Box (CiB)

or

Shared SAS JBOD

External Storage ArraySingle discretesystem

Small Business and Branch

Midmarket and Departmental

Enterprise and Hosted Cloud

……

4 node cluster + storage in a Box

or

Disk FT

Scale

Storage

Workloads

Internal HW RAID or Windows virtualized storage (Storage Spaces)

Clustered PCI RAID or Windows virtualized storage (Storage Spaces)

Clustered PCI RAID or Windows virtualized storage (Storage Spaces)

Fibre Channel or IP SAN

Single node 2 nodes 3 to 8 nodes with CSV v2 scale-out*HW RAID node support partner-dependent

3 to 32 nodes with CSV v2 scale-out

Shared JBOD SAS

Shared JBOD SAS (discrete or CiB) Shared JBOD SAS (discrete or CiB) External Storage Array

Integrated SAS switch in JBOD SAS switch and fabric FC or IP SAN Fabric

Virt: Hyper-V Server IW: File Server shares

Virtualization: Hyper-V Server Info worker: File Server shares Datacenter NAS: FS for Hyper-V, SQL, IIS Applications: SQL Server

Virtualization: Hyper-V Server

Datacenter NAS: FS for Hyper-V, SQL, IIS Applications: SQL Server

Virtualization: Hyper-V Server

Datacenter NAS: FS for Hyper-V, SQL, IIS Applications: SQL Server


2 Node “Cluster in a Box”: OEM Systems

Example system: HP X5000 G2 Network Storage System• Two-node clustered system with HP BladeSystem technology

and integrated storage in a converged 3U chassis• High availability and greater storage density in one package• Available this fall with Windows Storage Server 2008 R2• Windows Server 8 storage technology demonstration at /Build • For more information

• HP Contact: Jim Hankins, HP Commercial NAS Worldwide Project Manager, [email protected], 970.898.0260

• See http://www.hp.com/go/X5000-G2


2 Node “Cluster in a Box”: ODM DesignsExample design: Wistron “Cluster in a Box”• Two-node clustered system with

integrated storage in 3U chassis• Dual-socket processor blades• Up to 96GB memory per blade• 24 SFF or 15 LFF HDDs• 2 available PCIe expansion slots per

blade• Prototype systems under development• For more information

• Microsoft contact: John Loveall, Windows Server PM, [email protected]

• Wistron contact: Joseph Chou , Storage Product Marketing, [email protected]


New Storage Controller device class for Continuous Availability

Example: LSI MegaRAID Controllers• Technology under development

demonstrating support for High Availability systems

• Currently working with server OEMs and ODMs to create high availability systems using LSI MegaRAID storage

• For more information• LSI Contact: Thomas Hammond-Doel, Senior

Alliance Manager, [email protected]

Cluster in a Box

App …Server 1

MR Controller

HA fw

MR fw

…Server 2

MR Controller

Shared Storage

App

Single Enclosure

Expander

HA fw

MR fw

Expander

Failover

SAS (fabric)

(optional) Capacity Scale

Up


Storage Spaces Compatible Shared SAS JBOD

Example : Supermicro 4USC847 Storage• All disks in enclosure enumerated by

all controllers within the enclosure• For SAS connected JBODs, support

SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)• Enables slot identification and LED-based

indication for disk failures• For SAS connected disks deployed

within a cluster, support Persistent Reservations

• For more information• Microsoft contact: Matt Garson, Windows

PM, [email protected]


Additional OEM and ODM 2-4 node “Cluster in a Box” Systems

• “Cluster in a Box” system designs in progress with server OEMs and ODMs

• For more information (Microsoft contact) • John Loveall, [email protected]• Paul Luber, [email protected]

WORK IN

PROGRESS

mailto:[email protected]



NICs for Continuous Availability

Example: Intel 10GbE iWARP Adapter For Server Clusters NE020

• In production today• Supports Microsoft’s MPI via ND in Windows Server 2008R2 and

beyond

• See Intel’s Download site (http://downloadcenter.intel.com) for drivers (search “NE020”)

• Drivers under development for Windows Server “8”

• Supports Microsoft’s SMB Direct via NDK

• Uses the IETF’s iWARP RDMA technology that is built on top of IP

• The only WAN-routable, “cloud-ready” RDMA technology

• Uses standard ethernet switches

• Beta drivers available from Intel’s Download site (http://downloadcenter.intel.com) for drivers (search “NE020”)

• For more information:• [email protected]

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/



NICs for Continuous Availability Example: Mellanox ConnectX®-3

Dual-Port Adapter with VPI (InfiniBand and Ethernet)

• Mellanox provides end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity solutions (adapters, switches, cables)

• Connecting data center servers and storage

• Up to 56Gb/s InfiniBand and 40Gb/s Ethernet per port• Low latency, Low CPU overhead, RDMA

• InfiniBand to Ethernet Gateways for seamless operation

• Windows Server “8” exposes the great value of InfiniBand for storage traffic, virtualization and low latency

• InfiniBand and Ethernet (with RoCE) integration

• Highest Efficiency, Performance and return on investment

• For more information, contact:

• Gilad Shainer, [email protected], [email protected]


Validation Programs for High Availability Hardware• Audience:

• IHVs developing clustered RAID controllers for Continuous Availability• OEMs and ODMs developing clustered systems using these controllers• IHVs, OEMs, ODMs developing clustered systems using Storage Spaces

(Windows virtualized storage)• Certification program for Storage Spaces compatible hardware

• Contact: Matt Garson, [email protected]• Validation Program for Clustered RAID Controllers

• Review the requirements today • “Windows Continuous Availability Hardware Validation Requirements” document - Available from

Microsoft Connect site (https://connect.microsoft.com)

• Evaluate the Partner Test Kit when available• October: Get started with Partner Test Kit supporting Windows Storage Server 2008 R2• CYQ1 2012: Beta kit supporting Windows Server “8”

• Contact: John Loveall, [email protected]



Partnering opportunities


Develop RDMA Provider to support SMB2 Direct

Get your RDMA adapter (Infiniband, RoCE, iWARP)

certified

Thin Provisioning and Offloaded Data Transfers

(ODX) integration

Smart data tiering and hybrid LUN

Storage management integration with SMP or

SMI-S

Enhanced data center servicing orchestration

with CAU APIs

Data center DR orchestration with Hyper-V

Replica APIs

Load distribution for app storage on Scale Out File

Server using load balancing APIs

Your roadmap to Continuous Availability opportunities

RDMA Adapter vendors External Storage Arrays

Systems Management

ISVs


Certification program for Storage Spaces-

compatible hardware


Shared SAS JBOD vendors

Manage heterogeneous storage with Windows

Storage Management API

Systems Management

ISVs


Replication for traditional (non-virtualized)

environments

Sync Replication

VSS Requestor enhancements to support

app data protection on remote SMB file shares

Integrate firmware and

BIOS updates with Cluster-Aware updating


Replication vendors (host and array based)

Backup and Data Protection

ISVs

HBA vendors (RAID, RDMA, NIC, SAS, FC HBA)


Other Sessions to Follow …Business and partnering opportunities:

Windows Server 8 continuous availability

Designing systems for continuous

availability and scalabilitySAC-446T


availability - multi-node with

remote file storage

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Building continuously available file server NAS appliancesSAC-449T

Platform storage evolved

SAC-474T


availability - multi-node with block storageSAC-450T

Building continuously

available systems with

Hyper-VSAC-451T

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