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Cloud Integrated Storage – StorSimple (e)Paul ChiolaTechnology Solutions Professional – Incubation WEpauch@microsoft.com

Agenda

• Overview• Primary Storage & Platform• Cloud Integrated Tiering• Cloud Security• Backup/Restore and DR• Demo• Cloud Economics• Summary

OverviewCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

Storage Challenges are Broad

Equipment Sprawl

Data Growth & Footprint

Data Management Complexity

Backup IssuesUntested Disaster Recovery

Primary Storage

Disk-based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure & Management

Archival Storage

Replicated Storage for DR

Offsite Facility for

Geo-resilience

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

CiS can help…StorSimple + Windows Azure

Primary Storage

Disk-based Backup Storage

Tape Infrastructure & Management

Archival Storage

Replicated Storage for DR

Offsite Facility for

Geo-resilience

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

StorSimple + Windows Azure = 60–80% Lower TCO

Recovery from Cloud

to Any DC

Cloud Snapshots

Thin, Reduced Snapshots

Automated Cloud-as-a-Tier

Enterprise SANStorage

CiS Focused WorkloadsC

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y

Time

Data Grows Exponentially

(50–60% Annually)Tier 2 – Tier 3

However, Most I/O Happens

to the “Working Set” Data

CapEx, OpEx of Traditional

Storage

CapEx, OpEx of

StorSimple

CloudStorage

Local Storage

Target Use Cases

File Share

• CIFS• NFS

• File servers• NAS

SharePoint

• Business intelligence

• Collaboration• Content and

records management

Archives

• EMR/PACS• Legal• Construction

• Media• Engineering• Logs, records

VMs

• Regional office storage

• VM sprawl• VM archives

CiS - StorSimple

Application Servers

Inactive Data + Backup Copies on Azure storage

Speed of SSD/SAN + Elasticity of Cloud

SAS Local Tier

Most Active Data on SSD

Connects Windows and VMware Servers to Azure Storage in Minutes with No Application Modification

Benefits

• Consolidates primary, archive, backup, DR thru seamless integration with Azure

• Cloud snapshots = revolutionary speed, simplicity and reliability for backup and recovery

• Reduces enterprise storage TCO by 60–80%

Primary Storage & PlatformCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

CiS Architecture

On an Enterprise-Class Platform

• Certified: VMware-ready and Microsoft Windows Server-certified• HA: full redundancy + hot swaps + non-disruptive upgrades

SAN Storage

• iSCSI SAN with auto-tiering (SSD/SAS)

• Automated snapshots• Primary dedupe/compress

Seamless Cloud Integration for:

• Tiered primary + archives• Cloud snapshots: mountable for DR

With Cloud Data Management

• Seamless iSCSI integration• Highly efficient storage

Thin provisioningPrimary storage de-duplication

• High performance + cloud elasticityIntegrated tiering: SSD, SAS &

cloud

• Full security for the cloudLocal keys + encryption of all cloud dataProtecting both data-in-motion and data at

rest• Fast, automated data protection + recovery

Automated snapshots to cloudFast online restores and elimination of tapeIntegrated disaster recovery – lowest cost &

complexity

Deduplication and Compression

• Maximizes storage of ‘hot or warm data’ on-premise for higher IOPS and/or lower response times for application access.

• Minimizes size of data transfer and storage in Azure

• Works at the block-level and replaces duplicate data blocks with a meta data map (pointers to the original block)

• Data is de-duped in the SSD tier and compressed in the SAS tier before being tiered to Azure

• On-premise data capacity can be increased by 2x – 5x based on the type of data stored

• Backup de-dupe: Cloud snapshots are differential and thereby eliminate copies of redundant blocks across backups

Total data capacity required = 10TB

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EDatablocks

5x de-dupe ratio

• De-duplicated

• Compressed

Metadata map

Data blocks

+Capacity used = 2TB

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CiS TieringCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

Weighted Storage Layout (WSL)

Optimized cloud

storage access

• BlockRank™

All volume data is dynamically broken into “chunks”, analyzed and weighted based on frequency of use, age, and others

• Frequently-used data chunks stored in SSD for fast access

• Real-time data deduplication enables capacity scalability

• Less frequently-used data chunks can be:

Optimized and stored on integrated SAS Optimized, encrypted and stored in the cloud High

performancelocal storage(SSD, SAS)

Frequently-used

working set data

SCSI data from application serversStorSimple

Cloud-integrated Storage

Infrequently used

non-working set data

StorSimple Tiered Architecture

SSDDeduplicated

SASDeduplicatedCompressed

CloudDeduplicatedCompressedEncrypted

SSDLinear Tier

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Cloud SecurityCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

Industry leading Security for Cloud Storage

• Obfuscation• Deduplication• Compression

Data in cloud• Deduplicated• Compressed• Encrypted

Application Servers

• Blocks encrypted with customer key

• SSL communication:• Authentication• Metadata• Data transfer

Local DataBroken into storage blocks, then:

Multiple layers of obfuscation through the system

• Original data is broken into storage blocks (chunks)

• Blocks are fingerprinted + deduplicated with data from other volumes

• Blocks are stored in compressed form

Encrypt everything before sending to Azure

• AES-256 CBC encryption is applied before transmission using customer key

• Additional SSL encryption of all data + meta-data operations with Azure

Encryption keys stay only with customer

• Microsoft/StorSimple doesn’t have access to customer encryption keys

• AES-256 passphrase keys performed at Cloud configuration step, before volumes are provisioned

Backup/Restore & Disaster RecoveryCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

Cloud Snapshots…

Primary Volume

Virtual Tape/Replication

Physical Tape

SnapshotOffsite Tape

Storage

Backup, Restore & DR Today: Inefficient, Complex, Laborious, and Risky

PrimaryVolume

Local Snapshots

Backup, Restore & DR with StorSimple: Automated, Optimized, Reliable

Cloud Snapshots

1. Backup copy of data volume created in cloud

2. Changes to local volume automatically transferred

3. Cloud snapshots mountable for restoreBenefits

• Backup now as easy as snapshots

• Very fast restores from off-site backups

• Integrated, easy to test disaster recovery

• Truly eliminates tape

…Enables Seamless Scalability and Rapid Recovery

CloudSnapshots

Enterprise Data Center 1 Enterprise Data Center 2

Connect Many Servers to Cloud Storage and Scale Data

Sets with StorSimple Solution

Rapidly Recover to Any Data Center, Location-Independent, via Mounting the

Cloud Snapshot

Production Data Production Data

Disaster Recover - Behind the Scenes

1. Configuration import process populates DR appliance with all information from original appliance

2. Registry restore downloads available backup information from the cloud

3. Clone operation fetches volume metadata from the cloud and creates the volume on the DR appliance

4. As and when data is requested, blocks are downloaded from the cloud

Benefits

• Quick restore • Download only the required data

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META DATA

DATA

Cloud Snapshots: Up to 100x faster RTO

Application Recovery Times from Offsite Backups in a Disaster Scenario

Reco

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Tim

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Primary Data

1 TB 5 TB 20 TB 50 TB 100 TB

15 Min.

1 Hour

1 Day

7 Days

30 Days

90 Days

Regular Cloud BackupWith 100 Mbps WAN Link

Tape

StorSimple Cloud SnapshotsWith 50 Mbps WAN Link

DemoCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

Cloud EconomicsCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

Cloud Economics: Traditional Storage vs. StorSimple

Traditional Storage + Data Protection Architecture

Servers

Primary VolumeSnapshot

Disk Array($100K; Double if

Replicated)

Media Server ($25K)

Disk Backup/ VTL($100K; double if replicated)

Encryption

Appliance

Physical Tape Infrastructure

($50K)

Offsite Vault

50 TB

TraditionalCapEx: $375K | Support: $75K per Year

Windows Azure + StorSimpleCapEx: $0K | Support & Cloud: $55K per

Year

Primary VolumeLocal Snapshot

Servers

Extended Primary + Cloud Snapshots

to nearby cloud storage service region

Hybrid Cloud Storage (StorSimple + Windows Azure)

Cloud Economics: Traditional Storage vs. StorSimple

Function Traditional Storage ProductsTraditional

Storage Cost

Cost with StorSimple/Windows

Azure*

Primary and Archival Storage

Storage Array with Associated Software $100,000

$0Backup and Disaster Recovery

Backup Media Server and Software $25,000

Disk Backup with Deduplication $100,000

Tape Backup Infrastructure $50,000

Storage System for Disaster Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of 1 Week or Less

$100,000

Capital Cost for the Customer $375,000 $0

Platinum Support Cost (20%/yr.) $225,000 $15,000

Cloud Storage Cost $0 $150,000

3 Year Customer Cost $600,000 $165,000

Other Customer Benefit None

• Tape eliminated• Ability to use cloud as

secondary data center• Power/space/cooling

savings• Administrator time

savings

50 TB

24* Based on ASAP $50K offer over 3 years

…CUSTOMER Solution – File and Branch Office Workloads

CloudSnapshots/Clones

Data.Center.XXXXData.Center.YYYY

(Optional)

DFS-R (Distributed File System

Replication)

Rapidly Recover to any Data Center, Location-Independent, via Mounting the Cloud Snapshot

Cloud Configuration A –e.g. Dublin

Tiering to the Cloud with CloudSnap – Cloud Configuration A

Windows 2012 File Cluster

File ServerLocation A

File ServerLocation B

File ServerLocation C

File ServerLocation D

File ServerLocation E

File ServerLocation F

Branch Offices

Windows 2012 File Cluster

Restore – Cloud Configuration A

…CUSTOMER Solution – Virtual Machine and File Workloads

CloudSnapshots/Clones

Data.Center.XXXXData.Center.YYYY

(Optional)

Rapidly Recover to any Data Center, Location-Independent, via Mounting the Cloud Snapshot

Cloud Configuration A –e.g. Dublin

Tiering to the Cloud with CloudSnap – Cloud Configuration A

Windows 2012 Hyper-V Cluster

Guest A (running)

Guest B (running)

Guest C (running)

Guest D (running)

Guest E (running)

Guest F (running)

Windows 2012 Hyper-V Cluster

Restore – Cloud Configuration A

Hyper-V Virtual Guest MachinesPer Customer (Project)

Virtual Machines

SummaryCloud Integrated Storage (CiS) - StorSimple

StorSimple is Globally Certified and Recognized

Windows Server 2012 & 2008 R2 / VMware-ready™ Certified: Only Cloud Storage Solution

Recognized Globally for Cloud Storage Innovation

Closing Statement

1.Consolidated primary + archive + backup + DR

2.Significantly better backup and recovery

performance

3.60–80% lower TCO versus traditional enterprise

storage

4.Faster adoption of hybrid cloud computing

Hybrid Cloud Storage (StorSimple/Windows Azure) Provides Major Benefits

Useful Links

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/storsimple

Microsoft Cloud Integrated Storage Home

Rethinking Enterprise Storage E-Book

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2013/07/26/free-ebook-rethinking-enterprise-storage-a-hybrid-cloud-model.aspx

StorSimple Chalkboard Talk - Short Video

http://youtu.be/Xxi6FBJQA_M

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