Hybrid Cloud Storage
Microsoft Azure StorSimple
Paul Chiola, Technology Solutions Professional at Microsoft, Azure Site Recovery and StorSimple Hybrid Cloud Storage
Agenda / Market positioning and business value
• Storage challenges
• Microsoft has a unique solution
• How customers benefit
• Application and workload focus
• StorSimple HCS platform
• Customer testimonials
• Technical Presentation
• Demo
• Summary
Are you empowered
to handle doubling your data
capacity in the next 3 years?
Data growth continues to challenge IT
operations - 35% growth rate per year
requires a doubling of on-premises storage
over a three-year period (source: Gartner)
Trends and Markets…
By 2016, the drive makers will be challenged to provide sufficient petabytes
to satisfy the world's hunger for storage (source: Gartner)
Cloud Storage spending for data management by 2019: $59B
Public Cloud basic storage service market will grow to $14.8B
by 2017 with CAGR (2012-2017) of 27% (source: IDC)
SAN storage cost = 4x Cloud storage (source: Forrester)
By year-end 2016, more than 50% of Global 1000 companies will have
stored customer-sensitive data in the public cloud, which is an increase
from the minimal amount in 2013 (source: Gartner)
Enterprise spending on public cloud storage market will
grow to $11.7B by 2015 (source: IDC)
Storage challenges
Rapid data growth
Cost
Increasing storage cost & infrastructure sprawl
Spending more money on dormant vs. active
(The average balance is 20% active vs. 80% dormant data )
Storage
Dormant Data
Active data
Time
Data protection & recovery getting more complex
Resource constraints
Requirements to focus on business priorities and away
from IT maintenance
Storage Today = Complex & Expensive
5
Microsoft has a unique solution
StorSimple connects Windows, Linux and VMware servers to Azure Storage in minutes
with no application modification
Applications in Physical or Virtual Servers
StorSimple Hybrid Storage Array
Enterprise SAN storage
Inline de-dupe,
compression &
automatic tiering
Automated offsite data
protection using cloud
snapshots
Highly efficient,
location independent
disaster recovery
Access in Azure to
enterprise data with
StorSimple Virtual
Appliance
Consolidated storage
and data management
Customer Data Center
StorSimple
Manager
SVA
StorSimple 8000 series: What’s new
Two new, higher performing
storage arrays
• Faster network connectivity (10G)
• Expanded workloads
StorSimple 8100
StorSimple 8600
Two new integrated
management services
• Consolidated management through
Azure
• Azure VM access to enterprise data
Microsoft Azure
StorSimple Manager
Microsoft Azure
StorSimple Virtual Appliance
Why customers benefit - setup
Storage Today
Microsoft Azure StorSimple
Primary Storage
Manage
data growth
Lower storage
costs
Simplify data
protection and
disaster recovery
Increase business
agility
Archival Storage
Disk-based Backup
StorSimple
Remote Replication
Tape backup and DR
Reduce storage costs by 40-60%
Why customers benefit - tasks
Application and workload focus
Azure
workloads
DR*
Cloud
Apps*
Dev/
test*
On-premises
workloads
Fileshares
Archives
Virtual
Machines
SharePoint
SQL Server*
* Only available with StorSimple 8000 series
Simplify offsite data protection
StorSimple
Virtual
Appliance
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Snapshots
Production Data
Datacenter-1
Periodic VSS consistent cloud snapshots
of production data
Production Data
Datacenter-2
Location independent recovery from
cloud snapshot
Enable efficient disaster recovery
Storage Recovery Times from
Offsite Backups in a Disaster
Recovery Time
90 Days
Regular Cloud
Backup
30 Days
with 100 Mbps WAN Link
7 Days
Tape
1 Day
StorSimple
Cloud Snapshots
Storage
availability after
DR is
independent of
volume sizes
Rapid recovery
enables DR
testing and
validation
with 50 Mbps WAN Link
1 Hour
15 Min.
1 TB
5 TB
20 TB
Primary Data
50 TB
100 TB
StorSimple customer testimonials
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.”
Kai Sookwongse
Group Manager,
Enterprise Infrastructure
Mazda Gains Better Data
Protection, 95 Percent
Lower Costs Using Hybrid
Cloud Storage.
With StorSimple, data is
copied to the cloud in half
the time, and files can be
brought back from Azure
in minutes instead of 24
hours
Wes Owen,
Senior IT Performance
Manager
Lee Bingham
Head of IT
“StorSimple has far
exceeded expectations by
cutting our incremental
storage and archiving
costs by 90% with no loss
in performance.”
“It’s about efficient data
archiving: maximizing the
capacity that we’ve got
within the data center and
leveraging the cloud,” says
Bingham. “From an end
user perspective, it’s no
different: if you need a file,
StorSimple retrieves it
from Windows Azure and
makes it available in the
local data center
Hybrid Cloud Storage
Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series
Technical Presentation
Microsoft Azure StorSimple Big Picture
ON-PREMISES DATA CENTER
Server
CLOUD DATACENTER
Series 8000
Hybrid Storage Array
StorSimple
Virtual
Appliance
BLOB
Data
BLOB
Data
StorSimple
Manager
StorSimple
Snapshot
Manager
Plug-in
Administrator
Fault tolerance of enterprise class storage
Dual Controllers
Redundant
Power Supplies
Network
Interfaces
Software
Feature
Protects
Against?
How is 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.
Here is how customers benefit
HDD
Cloud
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
Access
SSD
Time
StorSimple provides enterprise storage with cloud economics
Automatic tiering
Time
Low
Threshold
High
Threshold
Tier is empty in the beginning
DATA
New data is written at start of free space
DATA
Data exceeds high watermark
DATA
Old data spills to next tier
DATA
Tier returns to low watermark level
Local and Cloud snapshots
Example Group Of Data Protection Policies
Backup Type
Local
Snapshot
Snapshot
Type
Frequency
Retention
Period
Local &
Cloud
Daily
~1
week
Mediumterm backup
Cloud
Weekly
~4
weeks
Long-term
Backup
Cloud
Monthly
~52
weeks
SSD
Short-term
backup
SAS
Cloud
Snapshot
StorSimple Virtual Appliance
VM
Data
Disaster recovery
• Thin restores provides fast recovery
of data, downloading a small
subset of data necessary data bring
applications online. Not dependent
on volume size.
• Recover data anyway: a secondary
datacenter or a StorSimple Virtual
Appliance in Azure
• A volume container is failed over to
the destination appliance. Time to
recover is the same for physical
and virtual appliance
Consolidated management of appliances
Azure StorSimple Manager
Registration Key
Service Data
Encryption Key to be
added to the Service
(Service Data Encryption Key is generated, on device console, when first device is registered)
Microsoft Confidential
Secure data throughout the solution
On-premise Data Center
Windows Azure
management portal
Account
authentication
with User ID,
Password
Account
Access
On-premise Data Center
Data At-rest
AES-256 bit
encryption
IT administrator
(customer)
Data In-flight
2 x 512 bit keys
StorSimple
CiS
Data Access
AES-256 bit
encryption
Series 8000 models
Models
Model Number
8100
8600
Total usable capacity
15TB
40TB
Usable SSD Capacity
800GB
2TB
Effective Local Capacity
15-45TB
40-120TB
Max Volume Capacity
64TB
64TB
Max Capacity (including
cloud)
200TB
500TB
Network Interface Cards
Enclosure Form Factor
4 x 1Gbps and 2 x 10Gbps
1 X 2U
2 X 2U
Demo
StorSimple 8000 Series Demonstration.
Use Cases and Workloads
StorSimple 8000 Series supports use cases that take advantage
of workloads that originate on-premises and in Azure.
Application and workload focus
Azure
Workloads
DR*
Cloud
Apps*
Dev/
test*
On-premises
workloads
Fileshares
Archives
Virtual
Machines
SharePoint
SQL Server*
* New with Microsoft Azure StorSimple 8000 Series
File shares and archives
Applications
Before
Primary
Storage
Archival
Storage
Tape
Disk-based
Backup Storage Infrastructure
After
Applications
(Tier 2, & Tier 3
data)
On-premise footprint
Capacity on-demand
SharePoint
BLOB data
SharePoint Farm
Before
Primary
Storage
Archival
Storage
Tape Offsite Facility
Disk-based
Backup Storage Infrastructure
SharePoint
metadata
After
(SQL)
SharePoint Farm
On-premise footprint
Capacity on-demand
Virtual machines and eliminating VM sprawl
Before
All Hyper-V/
VMware VMs
Primary
Storage
After
Tape
Archival
Disk-based
Storage Backup Storage Infrastructure
& Management
VMs using
Tier 2/Tier 3
data
On-premise footprint
Capacity on-demand
SQL for Tier-2 and Tier-3 applications
Applications
Before
Primary
Storage
Archival
Storage
Tape
Disk-based
Backup Storage Infrastructure
After
Applications
(Tier 2, & Tier 3
data)
On-premise footprint
StorSimple Virtual Appliance
and Cloud backup and DR
Summary
Hybrid Cloud Storage provides major benefits
1
40-60% lower TCO versus traditional enterprise storage
Primary storage with automated data protection and
2
highly efficient disaster recovery
3
Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation
Learn more: microsoft.com/storsimple