Azure Hybrid Storage

1. Hybrid Cloud Storage - IaaS
Carlos Mayol (carlosm@microsoft.com)
Premier Field Engineer - Microsoft

2. Carlos Mayol (MSFT since 2010, on IT since 1997)
• Actively working on Clustering ,Virtualization and Azure Infrastructure
Services at Microsoft
• Content contributor for Microsoft Press books, TechNet articles and
Webcast
• Speaker on System center and Azure User Groups
Premier Field Engineer focused on Proactive Services and Trainings for Microsoft products and solutions

3. • Azure Infrastructure as a Service
• Azure Data & Storage
• StorSimple
 Part 1 Tech slides
 Part 2 Demos
 Part 3 FAQ / Q&A
Download it here:
http://www.slideshare.net/CarlosMayol4

4. Hybrid Cloud Storage – Video

5. Storage challenges in the enterprise
Storage Today = Complex & Expensive
(Large, medium and small enterprises)
Storage cost and
infrastructure
sprawl
Complex data
protection &
recovery
IT resource
constraints to
drive business
growth
Rapid data growth - 40% YoY*
* Source: EMC Digital Universe with Research and Analysis by IDC, 2014

6. Traditional Storage
Primary
Storage
Archival
Disk-Based
Backup
Tape
Remote Disaster
Recovery

7. We have a complete solution
Enterprise platform for
multi-workload environment
Automatic tiering and data
reduction technologies
Integrated offsite data
protection using cloud
snapshots
Highly efficient, location
independent disaster
recovery
Consolidated storage and
data management
On-demand access in the
cloud to enterprise data for
new applications
StorSimple provides hybrid cloud storage across the enterprise
Customer Data Center
Azure Data Center
StorSimple
Manager
Internet
Azure
Applications
StorSimple
Cloud
Appliance
StorSimple
Virtual Array
Hyper-V
Linux
VMware
NAS
StorSimple
8000 series
Hyper-V
Linux
VMware
SANSAN
Remote/branch offices
SAN

8. How customers benefit: Simplify storage management
Primary Storage
Archival Storage
Disk-based Backup
Remote Replication
Tape backup and DR
Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple
Consolidate storage
infrastructure
Automatically
expand capacity
on-demand
Simplify data
protection and DR
with cloud as
secondary data
center
Focus on
maximizing
business outcomes
Reduce storage costs up to 60%
StorSimple

9. How customers benefits: Deploy multiple workloads
Search,
Data
mining
Virtual
Machines SharePoint SQL ServerFile Shares
Infrastructure on-demand
workloads
Capacity driven
workloads
DR Dev/Test
ArchivesCollaboration
Traditional on-premises workloads
Custom
Cloud
Apps

10. Workload focus: Capacity-hungry applicationsAccess
Get 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
automatically tiered
to the cloud
SSD HDD Cloud
Time

11. Workload focus: Latency-sensitive applications
Datacenter
Virtual
Machines SQL Server
Primary storage
retained locally on-
premises
Higher IO and LAN
latency for
performance
Cloud snapshots for
data protection
Location-
independent
disaster recovery
StorSimple
Cloud
Appliance

12. How customers benefit: Integrated data protection and DR
Periodic VSS consistent cloud
snapshots of production data
Production Data Production Data
Datacenter-1 Datacenter-2
StorSimple
Cloud
Appliance
Location independence for
disaster recovery
Capability to test and
validate DR
Shortened RTO for data
availability for
applications
DR automation and
single-click orchestration*
Large-scale, on-demand
capacity for data protection
No purchases, upgrades
and maintenance for
backups and tapes

13. How customers benefit: Test, validate and accelerate DR
StorSimple ‘instant recovery’ =
faster RTO than tapes and
cloud gateway backups
RecoveryTimefromoff-sitebackups
Primary Data
1 TB 5 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB
15 Min.
1 Hour
1 Day
7 Days
30 Days
90 Days
Cloud Backup
(target for backup software)
with 100 Mbps WAN Link
Tape
StorSimple
Cloud Snapshots
with 50 Mbps WAN Link
RTO is
independent of
volume sizes
>100x faster than
tapes and regular
cloud backup

14. How customers benefit: Focus on business outcomes
Highly scalable, cost-effective and secure
data storage without the need for incessant
planning, upgrade and maintenance
On-demand storage
No need to manage separate data protection
solutions or be on-site. Up to the minute
status and consistent control in all sites
Consolidated management
Cloud provides IaaS to deploy applications
that use StorSimple data in the cloud. No
long lead-times for new business projects
On-demand infrastructure

15. StorSimple Virtual Array
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16. New! StorSimple Virtual Array
Azure Data Center
StorSimple
Manager
Internet
Remote/Branch Office 2
SMB NASiSCSI SAN
Hypervisor
Remote/Branch Office 1
SMB NASiSCSI SAN
Hypervisor
Minimum Configuration
Specification Requirement
OS Disk 80GB
Data Disk 500GB (8TB max)
Memory 8GB
CPU 4 cores
Network
1 NIC with at least 5Mbps
cloud connection
Users and Applications
StorSimple Virtual Arrays
Microsoft Confidential

17. StorSimple Virtual Array
Virtual Array Hybrid Storage Array
Install requirements Requires virtualization infrastructure in-place Prepackaged appliance + software
(solution in a box)
Space requirement Installed on existing virtualization infrastructure Empty Rackspace available for installed of
array
Availability No high availability.
Requires a restore from cloud snapshot.
Highly-available.
Redundant controller architecture
Local capacity 8TB 15TB (8100)
38TB (8600)
Local + Cloud capacity 64TB 200TB (8100)
500TB (8600)
Protocols (native) SMB, iSCSI iSCSI
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18. Virtual Array local volume/share provisioning and tiering
Local* - no dedupe, compression for primary data.
100GB
SQL V1
100GB
SQL V2
100GB
FS V1
Local*
100GB
SQL V2
100GB
FS V1
200GB
FS V2
900GB
tiered
1.8TB
tiered
Minimum Configuration
Specification Requirement
OS Disk 80GB
Data Disk 500GB (8TB max)
Memory 8GB
CPU 4 cores
Network
1 NIC with at least 5Mbps
cloud connection
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19. Virtual Array: Data protection and DR
• Cloud snapshots provide a location independent
point-in-time copy of the volume
• Cloud snapshots enabled by default. Cannot be
disabled
• All volumes, shares backed-up at the same time
through a single backup policy
Production Data Production Data
Cloud Snapshots
Datacenter-1 Datacenter-2
Volume/Share restore:
Single file restore:
Disaster Recovery:
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20. StorSimple Manager
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 Service Data Encryption Key is generated, on device console, when first device is registered
Physical Appliance Cloud Appliance
StorSimple Service for the Datacenter StorSimple Service for the Branch(s)

21. * Available with Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series
Cloud
Apps*
Virtual
Machines SharePoint
File Shares
Collaboration
Infrastructure
on-demand
Capacity driven
workloads
DR* Dev/
test*
Archives
Performance driven workloads
Supported workloads
SQL Server*
Microsoft Confidential

22. Workload: Mixed workloads in customer datacenter
StorSimple 8000 with local & tiered volumes
Hypervisor
VMs
SQL DB
iSCSI
Customer Datacenter
StorSimple 8000 Series with local and tiered volumes:
 Ease-of-use: Customer happy with the improved
setup experience
 Workload Performance yielded 20-40% better
performance for their SQL workload
 Tiered volumes provided the scalability needed for
file share workload, which is also performing as
expected with integrated data protection and
simplified data management
Customer Profile:
 DAS for VM workloads in their datacenter
Customer pain-points:
 Multiple solutions for multiple workloads
File Share
100GB 70GB 300GB 1.5TB
“Local volumes has provided us a simplified solution to address both
high throughput storage needs for our SQL and Virtual Machine
workloads, as well as having effectively unlimited tiering to Azure for
content we don’t need on premise. We get the best of SSD
performance and cloud archiving!”

23. Workload: SQL & File Share workloads in the datacenter
StorSimple 8000 with local & tiered volumes
Hypervisor
SQL Server
iSCSI
Customer Datacenter
StorSimple 8000 Series with local and tiered volumes:
 Ease-of-use: Customer happy with the improved
setup experience
 SCVMM workload is meeting performance
expectations using local volumes
 File Share workload deployed on tiered volumes
Customer profile:
 DAS for SQL workloads in their datacenter
 Existing customer for file share workloads
 SCVMM Application server and backend SQL
server 150GB - monitors 7 hosts running 60 VMs
Customer Objective:
 Looking to consolidate workloads to a single
solution that meets the requirements for both
file share and SQL workloads
150GB
File Share

24. Workload: SQL & File share workloads across retail locations
StorSimple 8000 Series and StorSimple Virtual Array
StorSimple 8000 and StorSimple Virtual Array:
 8000 at each Tier 1 store
 StorSimple Virtual Array at each Tier 2 store. Tier 2
stores have virtualization environment, running an
update server, a file share, and a POS application. The
file share hosts local images and videos that are used
in the store displays.
Customer profile:
 750+ stores with 44K employees
 Each store has local compute, network and storage (DAS)
resources to service POS, CRM, management and
content services
Customer pain-points:
 Light weight solution in a lot of stores
 Cost
Tier 1 Store Tier 1 Store
Tier 2 Store Tier 2 Store
“StorSimple has allowed us to tie our retail stores directly into Azure which enabled
us to transform the entire customer experience to include features that our
customers had never seen before”

25. Workload: File share for datacenter and branch
officesStorSimple 8000 Series and StorSimple Virtual Array
StorSimple 8000 and StorSimple Virtual Array:
 Large sites deploying 8100 & 8600 for primary and
backup data
 ROBOs: StorSimple Virtual Array running on VMware
for scale of primary data and cloud-based data
protection
 Integration with Talon for collaboration at Tier 3 sites
Customer profile:
 File servers using VMware
 3 tiers of work environments
 50GB -2TB dataset
 AutoCAD, RevIT, Bentley and Office Suite to manage
large engineering updates
Customer pain-points:
 Large number of growing dataset
 Active dataset requires multiple teams collaborating
 Archive of inactive projects
 Full infrastructure at all sites at smaller scale
Customer Datacenter Customer Datacenter
Tier 2 Site(s)
(Medium)
Tier 3 Site(s)
(temporary location)
RemoteFAST™ Edge
RemoteFAST™ Edge

26. Workload: File share collaboration
LONDON
CORPORATE DATACENTER
(UK)
RemoteFAST™ Core
RemoteFAST™ Edge
Storage Infrastructure
RemoteFAST™ Edge
RemoteFAST™ Edge
StorSimple and Talon solution:
 Data is consolidated in your datacenter and centrally
managed with StorSimple
 The Talon RemoteFAST™ core extends CIFS file shares
into the remote workforce by connecting to a local
file share associated with a StorSimple iSCSI LUN
Storage blob
Storage blob
Storage blob
Storage blob
StorSimple
DUBAI
SYDNEY
StorSimple & Talon
Customer pain-points
Complex and expensive storage and infrastructure at the
branch
 No Centralized “Single set of data”
 Incomplete file storage backup
 Productivity affected by Inability to collaborate effectively
 No effective file locking resulting in duplicate file versions,
data loss and file integrity issues
Contact:
 sales@globalfilesharing.com
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27. Cloud based data protection and disaster recoveyr
Production Data Production Data
Cloud Snapshots
Datacenter-1 Datacenter-2
Periodic VSS consistent cloud snapshots
of production data
Instant
Predictable
8020
Location
Independent
Single-click
Orchestration*
8020 Up to 6X Faster
(compared to 8010)
* Integration with ASR to deliver DR for applications & storage