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Microsoft Azure StorSimple –Hybrid Cloud Storage

Manu Aery, Raju S

Agenda• Storage challenges

• Addressing storage challenges with StorSimple

• StorSimple 8000 series Overview

• Demo & Use cases

• Summary

Storage challenges

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive

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

Addressing storage challenges with StorSimple

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk-based Backup

Remote Replication

Tape backup and DR

Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple

Manage

data growthLower storage

costs

Simplify data

protection and

disaster recovery

Increase business

agility

Reduce storage costs by 40-60%

StorSimple

StorSimple 8000 Series –Overview

Applications in Physical or Virtual Servers

StorSimple

Customer Data Center

StorSimple connects Windows, Linux and VMware servers to Azure Storage in minutes with no application modification

Fundamental value of StorSimple

Enterprise SAN storage

Inline de-dupe,

compression &

automatic tiering

Automated offsite data

protection using cloud

snapshots

Highly efficient,

location independent

disaster recovery

Microsoft Azure StorSimple Big PictureON-PREMISES DATA CENTER

StorSimple

Virtual

Appliance

BLOB

DataBLOB

Data

Administrator

CLOUD DATACENTER

Server

StorSimple Snapshot Manager Plug-in

Series 8000

Hybrid Storage Array

StorSimple Manager

Fault tolerance of enterprise class storageSoftware

Feature

Protects

Against?How it works?

Controller

failover

Protection

against the failure

of a controller.

The dual controllers are

active/passive. In the event

the active controller fails

the passive controller

automatically takes over.

NVRAM mirrored across

controllers via NTB.

Storage Spaces

Protection in the

event of one or

more drive

failures.

Disk insert into and

removal from pools.

Nondisruptive

software

upgrades (NDU)

Allows updates to

be made to the

operating system

without taking

downtime.

The software is

downloaded and updated

on each controller. One

controller is up at all times

to continue processing

and serving data.

Redundant Power Supplies

Dual Controllers

Network Interfaces

Key Features•Automated storage tiering

•Deduplication

•Compression

• Secure data storage

How customers benefitA

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

Microsoft Azure StorSimple Manager

Consolidated management of appliancesAzure StorSimple Manager

Registration Key Service Data Encryption Key to be added to the Service

StorSimple Manager

Login to Azure Management Portal

Create a StorSimple Manager Service

Generate a registration key for the created StorSimple Manager

Register device (from device console)

Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Cloud snapshot

Metadata is

preserved in

its entirety

Only changed

blocks are

copied to

Cloud

DR to secondary datacenter or Virtual Appliance

Filer ServerPhysical Appliance

(Appliance1)

Datacenter 1

File Server

Azure Storage

Virtual Appliance (Appliance3)

Filer ServerPhysical Appliance

(Appliance2)

Datacenter 2

StorSimpleManager1

Recover data to Appliance2 (physical) or Appliance3 (virtual) by rehydrating data

from a Cloud snapshot stored in Azure BLOB storage.

Enable efficient disaster recovery

Storage Recovery Times from

Offsite Backups in a Disaster

Reco

very

Tim

e

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

Storage

availability after

DR is

independent of

volume sizes

Rapid recovery

enables DR

testing and

validation

Microsoft Azure StorSimple Virtual Appliance

StorSimple Virtual Appliance

VM

Data

IT agility in Azure with StorSimple Virtual Appliance

The StorSimple Virtual Appliance facilitates data mobility of production datasets for the purpose

of:

• Disaster recovery

• On-demand development and test infrastructure and

• Cloud applications.

Series 8000 models

Models

Model Number 8100 8600

Max Volume Capacity 64TB 64TB

Max Capacity (including cloud) 200TB 500TB

Network Interface Cards 4 x 1Gbps and 2 x 10Gbps

Enclosure Form Factor 1 X 2U 2 X 2U

Demo

Use Cases and Workloads

Application and workload focus

Cloud

Apps

Virtual Machines

SharePointFile shares Archives SQL Server

Azure

Workloads

On-premises

workloads

DR Dev/

test

File shares and archives

Before

Applications

(Tier 2, & Tier 3

data) On-premise footprint Capacity on-demand

Applications

Primary

StorageDisk-based

Backup Storage

Tape

Infrastructure Archival

Storage

After

Rand Morimoto,

President

“StorSimple 8000 Series

greatly simplifies both the

data protection and

disaster recovery

functions. The new

StorSimple Manager

allows you to manage

both physical and virtual

appliances from the same

console.”

Zac Saunderson,

Network Engineer

“The addition of the

StorSimple Virtual

Appliance is a major

game-changer. We no

longer need to copy data

over landlines, making the

data protection process

much more fluid, flexible

and economical.”

StorSimple customer testimonials

Cynthia Weaver,

Vice President of IT

“We needed to find a

cost-effective new

technology that could

help us cope with

explosive data growth.

With StorSimple and

Microsoft Azure hybrid

cloud storage, we found

exactly what we were

looking for.”

Wes Owen,

Senior IT Performance

Manager

“StorSimple has far

exceeded expectations by

cutting our incremental

storage and archiving

costs by 90% with no loss

in performance.”

Summary

Hybrid Cloud Storage provides major benefits

40-60% lower TCO versus traditional enterprise storage1

2Primary storage with automated data protection and

highly efficient disaster recovery

3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation

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