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 3

Today’s Agenda

Overview of the StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Third lesson: Configuring StorSimple as a File Server

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

What is StorSimple?

➢ Extends on-premises primary storage to Azure

➢ Seamless and transparent – no application changes

➢ Three types: Physical Array for Enterprise on-premises; Cloud Appliance for Azure VMs, dev/test, and BC/DR; and Virtual Array for SMB/Branch Office environments

➢ Simple implementation

➢ Common, familiar management through Azure Portal

StorSimple Virtual Array Characteristics

Form Factor Downloadable VHD, VHDX, or VMDK for on-premisesimplementation on existing Hyper-V or VMware Hypervisor

Available Local Capacity 512GB – 8TB(provided by Hypervisor before start of installation)

Maximum Capacity (local plus cloud) 64TB (assumes 8TB local storage provided)

Maximum number of Volumes 16

Maximum size of Tiered / Local Volume 5TB / 500GB

Availability No High-Availability. Array failure requires provisioning of new SVA and restore from cloud snapshot of failed array.

Use Case and Workload Guidance SMB or Enterprise Branch OfficesSAN (iSCSI mode as with Physical Array )

Overview | StorSimple Flavors

StorSimple Physical Array

A physical 2U iSCSI SAN device, located

in the on-premises datacenter running

the StorSimple software.

3. StorSimple Virtual Array

iSCSI SANSoftware version of

StorSimple solution,

installed on a VM,

located in a branch

or remote office

3. StorSimple Virtual Array

SMB NASSoftware version of

StorSimple solution,

installed on a VM,

located in a branch

or remote office

Windows OS

StorSimple Software

StorSimple Manager Service

StorSimple Manager Service, in Microsoft Azure Management Portal,

managing on-premises & cloud storage

1. Local

1 Latency sensitive workloads 2

Higher performance & capacity plus latency sensitive workloads

3Cloud-storage plus latency sensitive workloads

Hybrid

NAS or SAN

storage

Automated offsite data protection

using cloud snapshots

Local or tiered volumes

Azure Data Centers

StorSimple

Virtual Array

NAS

StorSimple | On-premises & in the cloudStorSimple connects devices and users to Azure Storage, seamlessly, with no application modification

Hyper-V

Linux

VMware

SAN

SMB Customer Environment

Manage through Azure

Resource Manager (ARM)

Workload: File share use case

USER SHARE DEPARTMENT/PROJECT SHARE

UNSTRUCTURED DATA

PERMISSION BASED USER ACCESS

PRIMARY

STORAGE

SECONDARY

STORAGE

(ARCHIVED)

DISK-BASED

STORAGE

(BACKUP)

PHYSCIAL OR VIRTUAL SERVERS

Unpredictable

growth between

20-60% YoY

FILE SHARE

Repository of digital content

▪ Collaboration

▪ providing access to same

documents between users

and/or groups of users

▪ Access to all data

▪ provide access to data for

reference or reuse

Storage Infrastructure

Primary, secondary, backup, & DR

▪ Reduce infrastructure costs

▪ Consolidate infrastructure footprint

▪ Backup and recovery of data per

business defined RPO/RTO

▪ Provide simple reuse of archived data

Over-

provisioning

storage &

complex

management

USE CASE HIGH-LEVEL VIEW

Workload: File share solution with StorSimple

UNSTRUCTURED DATA

PERMISSION BASED USER ACCESS

HIGH-LEVEL VIEW

SOLUTION OPTIONS

StorSimple Virtual Array

iSCSI SANSoftware version of

StorSimple solution,

installed on a VM,

located in a branch

or remote office

StorSimple Virtual Array

SMB NASSoftware version of

StorSimple solution,

installed on a VM,

located in a branch

or remote office

ON-PREMISES DATACENTER

AZURE DATACENTER

Workload: NAS File share for remote and branch officesStorSimple using on-premises virtual appliance

ON-PREMISES DATACENTER

Administrator

Tiered Volume (File share)

Local-only Volume

(VMs for project B)

AZURE DATACENTER

FILE USER(S) SERVER(S)

Tiered Volume (File share)

Data lifecycle management for cost optimized storage for

data

Automatic Tiering

Location independent DR and cost optimized snapshot retention

Cloud Snapshots

Provide a StorSimple Cloud Appliance with Compute in < 1 hour

for DR target

Disaster Recovery

STORSIMPLE

VIRTUAL ARRAY

1

2

3

SMB

Summary

Cloud economics - agility with drop in replacement1

2 Local plus cloud storage with management in Azure

3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation

15

Let’s take a look

StorSimple as a File Share

Next Steps & Homework

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SMB JumpStart Next Steps & Homework

Next 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.

Read the following online documentation:• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-

virtual-array-deploy1-portal-prep• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-

virtual-array-deploy2-provision-hyperv• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-

virtual-array-deploy3-fs-setup

Install and Configure StorSimple as a File Share

Minimum requirements for the Virtual Machine:• 4 cores

• 8 GB of RAM

• One network interface

• 500 GB virtual disk for local data

Create multiple volumes (at least one tiered and

one local)

Attach at least one workstation or server via File

share

Questions? Join the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group

Thank you for joining!

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