Spark the future.

May 4 – 8, 2015Chicago, IL

StorSimple: Extending Your Datacenter into Microsoft Azure with Hybrid Cloud StorageMeghan Liese Technical Product Marketing, StorSimple

Jamie PeeblesTechnical Sales Professional, StorSimple

Leslie RowlandChief Architect, Textron

BRK2494

Session OverviewHybrid Cloud Storage for the EnterpriseHighly available and secure data storage with StorSimple Simplifying infrastructure with a single StorSimple solution

Integrated ManagementMicrosoft Azure StorSimple Manager enables end-to-end workflows for using and managing dataMicrosoft Azure Management Portal provides integrated management to build your virtual datacenter in Azure

Disaster Recovery and Data Mobility for Applications in Azure Location independent disaster recovery in Azure or a secondary datacenterPorting on-premises data to Azure to run on the StorSimple Virtual Appliance with Azure VMs

Agenda Overview of the StorSimple solution Integrated management with the

StorSimple Manager Service demo!

Disaster Recovery and Data Mobility for Applications in Azure demo!

Q&A with Textron

Hybrid Cloud Storage for the Enterprise

SAN and NAS storage

Private cloud with traditionalstorage

Microsoft Azure Stack Storage

Private cloud with Microsoft SDS

StorSimple with Azure storage

Hybrid cloudStorage

Azure storage

Public cloudStorage

Customer

ServiceproviderMicrosoft

ONEconsistent platform

Customerchoice

Addressing storage challenges with

StorSimple

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

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

StorSimple

End-to-end Microsoft hybrid cloud solution

iSCSI Internet

Cluster File Server Highly Available Device

Cloud Redundancy

StorSimple Manager

Secure and highly available enterprise storage

Cloud Data Management

• De-dupe, compression, encryption

• Auto-tiering• Cloud snapshots• Thin restores for DR• Security agent

Storage Spaces

Hot-spare drives

v

Non-disruptive software

upgrades

Certified by Microsoft

Full MPIO

Dual controllers w/ auto-failover

(Active/passive configuration)

Dual power

Dual cooling fans

SAN storage on enterprise-class platform*

* 8100 and 8600 storage arrays are built and distributed by Seagate

Security

Account authentication with User ID, Password

StorSimple Customer defined encryption keys stored on device 2 x 512 bit keys

Account Access

Data In-flight

IT administrator

AES-256 bit encryption

Data At-restAES-256 bit encryption

StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Automated data tiering

SSDDeduplicate

d

SASDeduplicatedCompressed

CloudDeduplicatedCompressedEncrypted

SSDLinear Tier

Metadata mapLBA FP

LBA = Logical block address

FP = Fingerprint pointer

High-water mark

for tieringInput data

FPA

FPB

FPC

FPA

FPB

1

2

3

4

5

A B C D E

C D E

A B

FPD6

FPE7

D E

D E

Cloud Snapshots

Point-in-time copy of

volume data

Stored in the Cloud

Metadata is preserved in its entirety

Only changed blocks are copied to

Cloud

SSD

SAS

Microsoft Azure

Production Data Production Data

Cloud Snapshots

Datacenter-1 Datacenter-2

Periodic VSS consistent cloud snapshots of production data

Location independent recovery from cloud snapshot

Location independent recovery with cloud snapshots

Thin Instant PredictableStorSimple Virtual

Appliance

StorSimple target use cases

* New with Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series

Cloud Apps

*

Virtual Machines SharePoi

ntFileshare

s

Archives SQL Server*

AzureWorkloads

On-premisesworkloads

DR* Dev/test*

Integrated Management

Microsoft Azure Management with StorSimple Manager

Physical Appliance

StorSimple Manager

Physical Appliance

Virtual Appliance

StorSimple Service in Azure Management Portal

Simple, integrated workflows with other Azure entities

Manages multiple devices from a single management interface

Provisioning storage with StorSimple Manager

vol4vol3

Volume Container2 (VC_2)

Vol2Vol1

Volume Container1 (VC_1)

Azure Storage

StorageAccount1000

StorageAccount2000

Backups

vol4vol3

Volume Container2 (VC_2)

Vol2Vol1

Volume Container1 (VC_1)

Azure Storage

StorageAccount1000

StorageAccount2000

Backup Policy

Volumes Backups

AM_dailyAM_daily_SS

1AM_daily_SS

2AM_daily_SS

3

PM_daily PM_daily_SS1PM_daily_SS2PM_daily_SS3

WeeklyWeekly_SS1

MonthlyMonthly_SS1

Vol2Vol1

Vol2Vol1

Vo4Vol3

Vol2Vol1

Vo4Vol3

Vol2Vol1

Vo4Vol3

Demo: StorSimple Manager Service

Utilizing StorSimple Manager Data in Azure

The StorSimple Virtual ApplianceBuilding your virtual datacenter in Azure

VM

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

StorSimple Managed Data with Applications in Azure

DR Testing Data mining,

searchTest & Dev

Clone or failover datasets to run with applications in Azure

Clone/Failover

Microsoft Azure

iSCSI Internet

StorSimple Manager

iSCSI

iSCSI

Ignite 2015

TechEd2012

TechEd2013

TechEd2014

Ignite 2015

Demo: Clone and failover datasets to the StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Voice of the Customer Textron

Textron’s business goals for their IT infrastructure

Lower Storage Costs

Simplify storage management

Simplify Disaster Recovery

Provide a scalable architecture

Ease of implementation

Dedicated ISP ArchitectureiSCSI isolated VLAN

(non routable)

Production VLAN

Management VLAN

Azure DMZ

Public DMZ

Firewall

Ethernet Connection

Azure storage

File Server StorSimple

Network Dedicated VLAN

for iSCSI Traffic Dedicated

switches for iSCSI (in most cases)

Jumbo frames

Virtual Machine (VMWare) 4cores x 32GB 2 iSCSI NICs Windows Server 2012

R2 SMB 3.0 Volume Shadow

Copy MPIO enabled vMotion for server

failover/redundancy

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

Sessions: BRK2458: Azure Storage Overview – Tuesday 3:15PM BRK4450: Azure Premium Storage – Thursday 5:00PM BRK4101: SharePoint and StorSimple – Friday 9:00AM BRK7702: Azure Storage Performance, Scale, and Security – Friday

10:45AM

MSDN Communityhttps://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/azure/en-US/home?forum=StorSimple

StorSimple Blog http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/storsimple/overview.aspx

Microsoft Technology Centers

Resources

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Free technical training resources: On-demand online training: http://aka.ms/learnhybrid

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Free ebooks:Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model: http://aka.ms/hybrid-storage-ebookMicrosoft Azure Essentials: Fundamentals of Azure: http://aka.ms/azure-fundamentals-ebook

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