SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Step-by-step guidance to help you start a practice

Matt Hester Partner Technology Solutions Professional

Microsoft US SMB

Welcome to SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance Session 1

Today’s Agenda

Overview of the Program

Program schedule & topics

First lesson: Introduction to StorSimple and use cases for SMB customers

Resources and Support

Next Steps

SMB JumpStart

What is SMB JumpStart?

What you will get:

▪ Targeted weekly training webinars on specific marketing topics.

▪ Hands-on independent learning assignments to help insure engagement and

individual comprehension.

▪ A private Yammer Group to answer any questions you might have about weekly

tactics.

This 4-week Program is designed for partners who are interested in extending the customer

network into the Azure cloud while better understanding all the Microsoft tools.

The more you engage, the more chances to win

As you participate in the JumpStart program, you will get entries into the

JumpStart Sweepstakes.

Gain entries as you participate in:▪ Webinars (1 point/session)

▪ Homework assignments (email screenshot of completed work to smbin@microsoft.com)

(1 point/ HA)

▪ Asking a question on Yammer and interacting with your peers (1 point per yammer post)▪ Signing up for the JumpStart StorSimple Virtual Machines Yammer group (1 point)

▪ End of series survey (2 points)

Prize: 90-min session with an Azure Technical Expert

➢ The top 2 point-earners will be selected as winners (the more entries, the higher your chances)

SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance – Program Overview

Engage with your fellow partners in the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group

Questions? Email smbin@microsoft.com

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Week’s Topic

Introduction to StorSimple and use cases for SMB customers

Deploy and configure

the virtual array as an

iSCSI target.

This session will

include demos

Deploy and configure the virtual array for File SharesHow to price exercise?

This session will

include demos

StorSimple pricing exercise. Overview of other scenarios for files.

This session will include pricing calculator demo

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Networking

Storage

Servers

Virtualization

OS

Middleware

Runtime

Application

Data

Customer

Managed

Private | Hosted

DataCenter

Customer

Managed

Cloud

Managed

Infrastructure

Services

Customer

Managed

Cloud

Managed

Platform

Services

Cloud

Managed

Software

Services

Data Center

Management

Stack

The Microsoft Cloud

Why Change?

• Save Money

• Mitigate Risk

• Enable Services

Storage Challenges

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

Storage = Hardware, CAPEX

Storage cost

and

infrastructure

sprawl

Complex data

protection &

recovery

Resource

constraints

Rapid data growth - 40% YoY*

* Source: EMC Digital Universe with Research and Analysis by IDC, 2014

Why does StorSimple provide compelling value?A

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

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk-based Backup

Remote Replication

Tape backup and DR

Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimpleConnect on-

premises

datacenter to

cloud in minutes

Lower storage

costs 40-60%

Storage DR

complete in

minutes,

independent of

volume size

Deploy a

secondary

datacenter in

Azure in < 1

hour

Single solution

scales on-

demand to

500TB

Consolidate

primary, archive,

backup, tape,

and DR solutions

StorSimple

Azure StorSimple | Addressing Storage ChallengesEnabling cloud adoption with minimal overhead to reduce costs and simplified on-premises storage infrastructure

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

How does it work?

The H

ybrid

Clo

ud

Applications Active Data Backup Data Archive Data

Active Storage Nearline StorageApplications Archive Storage

>_

Azure Portal

Standby Apps Offsite ArchiveBackup ReplicaStandby Data

Clo

ud

Back

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Tie

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Clo

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Arc

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Cloud Gateway Cloud BackupsStreaming Tape Offsite Storage

Hyb

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Clo

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Ded

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Local Snapshots

Encr

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Snapshot Replication

HTTPS Port 443

Cloud Snapshots

Encr

ypt

Live Data AutoTiering

HTTPS Port 443Cloud StorageStorSimple

Target Disk Replicated Disk

>_

Servers Primary Storage Staging Disk

Backup Software

Virtual Array

Encr

ypt

Tiering+Replication

HTTPS Port 443Cloud Storage

StorSimple + Azure Value Proposition

StorSimple

Hybrid Cloud

StorageLocal BackupsLocal Storage

Cloud BackupsCloud Storage

Cloud Integration

Azure

Management

Console

SMB JumpStart Next Steps & HomeworkNext Steps Homework

Sign up for the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer

group

• Ask questions to the Microsoft team and your

peers

Set a weekly recurring calendar invite to block the

time to view each webinar session. We

recommend you attend one Webinar session per

week to optimize your program engagement.

Questions? Post them to our JumpStart

StorSimple Virtual Appliance Yammer group and a

technical expert will provide you a response

within 72 hours.

Activate your Azure IUR (if you haven’t already)

Prepare a Hyper-V server for deployment of the

StorSimple VHD. Minimum requirements for the

Virtual Machine include:

• 4 cores

• 8 GB of RAM

• One network interface

• 500 GB virtual disk for local data

Read the following online documentation:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-overviewhttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-system-requirementshttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-limitshttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-best-practices

Questions? Join the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group

Thank you for joining!

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