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Higher Ed:How to Build a Cloud NAS on Azure
Matt Blanchard, Principle Solutions Architect, SoftNAS
Paul Singh, Cloud Solutions Architect, Microsoft Azure
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Introducing
Matt BlanchardPrinciple Solutions
ArchitectSoftNAS
Paul SinghCloud Solutions
ArchitectMicrosoft Azure
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Housekeeping
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Agenda
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• SoftNAS Overview• Microsoft Azure Overview• SoftNAS Cloud for Azure• Create SoftNAS Cloud VM (demo)• Q&A
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Who is SoftNAS?
• Powerful enterprise-class storage products for public, private and hybrid clouds
• Easy to try, buy, learn and use – rapid time to value
• Freedom from platform lock-in– Works with most popular cloud
computing platforms• Microsoft®, Amazon EC2®, VMware®
vSphere™, Azure™
We believe in powerful, hassle-free storage
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The SoftNAS mission
• Public• Private• Hybrid
To be the fabric for business data across all clouds
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SoftNAS products
• SoftNAS Cloud– Microsoft Azure– Amazon AWS– VMware vCloud Air
• SoftNAS File Gateway– VMware vSphere– Microsoft Hyper-V
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Brands you know trust SoftNAS
500+ Customers
Paul SinghCloud Solution Architect, Microsoft
As a Cloud Solution Architect for Microsoft, Paul Singh helps shape and deliver on a strategy to build broad use of Azure services (e.g., Infrastructure, DR, Identity, SQL, Big Data) directly with Education customers by providing deep technical expertise and guidance on cloud solutions. He also works closely with the Microsoft ecosystem of system integrators and solution providers and partners.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Paul was the Datacenter Manager at the University of California, Davis and created the national [email protected] community DL. Paul has been involved in Education for over a decade.
Paul was instrumental in developing and creating the latest Microsoft Azure Exam, 70-534: Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions.
Paul resides in the San Francisco, CA Bay Area.
What is Microsoft Azure?
Microsoft Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can also create an on-demand infrastructure that scales and adapts to your changing school or business needs, allowing you to integrate your existing school or organization environment with the Microsoft Azure public cloud.
Always up. Always on.
Unlimited servers. Unlimited storage.
Open.
Microsoft Azure In EDU – Some Use Cases
Azure SQLBackup & Recovery
Identity & Access
Management
Storage/Infrastruc
ture
Dev &Test
MediaServices
Remote App & Mobile
Web
Backup & Recovery
Identity & Access
Management
Storage/Infrastruct
ure
Two new, higher performing storage arrays
– Faster network connectivity (10G)
– Expanded workloads
Two new integrated Azure-based functionality
– Consolidated management through Azure
– Azure VM access to enterprise data
Microsoft AzureStorSimple Manager
Microsoft AzureStorSimple Virtual Appliance
StorSimple 8100 StorSimple 8600
What's new with StorSimple 8000 series
–Reliable - enterprise class data protection–Robust – extensive feature set–Affordable – low cost, pay-as-you-go–Simple – no training required–Powerful – multiple layers of read/write caching–Agile – on-demand, where and when you need it–Economical – no hardware investment required
SoftNAS Cloud - Features & Benefits
• Continuous Data Protection• Block Checksum• RAID Array• Highly-available
– Automatically detects and recovers from failures– SnapReplicate™– Patent-pending SnapHA™ technology
• Online Array Rebuild• Make this unique why we are different from
other NAS.
The BEST Data Protection
• Use Azure®– Cloud SoftNAS provides the powerful, low
cost enterprise-grade storage to manage your data without having to maintain your own data center
• Also available for hybrid clouds– Instantly turn your existing or Microsoft®
Hyper-V® or VMware® hypervisor, with commodity servers and disks, into powerful, low cost, enterprise-grade storage with SoftNAS
Azure and Private Cloud
DemoCreate the SoftNAS Cloud VM
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• Industry Standard Protocol Support – SMB/CIFS, NFS and iSCSI
• Active Directory Integration– Including advanced permissions
• Storage Pools• Storage Volumes
Powerful & Full-Featured
• Caching– Supports up to 2 TB of RAM and SSD caching to
increase performance and minimize latency– Supports SSD for read and write caching
• Deduplication– Compares data patterns to eliminate
redundancy and save space
• Compression– Compresses data to save disk space, increase
read/write speeds, and allow for greater data caching to improve performance and storage density
Performance Tuned
• Simple Admin Interface– Any IT professional can use simple
StorageCenter™ GUI
• No Training Required– GUI Interface, configuration wizards, and
detailed installation guide mean no tedious training
• Getting Started Wizard– Cuts initial setup time to 15 minutes
• Console or Command Line– Command Line Interface (CLI) and API’s
available for storage as part of their cloud infrastructure
Easy, no specialized training required
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Add Storage Resources
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Create Resource Pools
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Publish Volumes and Shares
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Add Replication and High Availability
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Next Steps
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• Learn More – bit.ly/softnas-azure
• Contact Us – softnas.com/contact
• Follow Us – @SoftNAS
Try It!
softnas.com/tryazure
Questions?
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Thank you
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