Technical Data Presentation
On-premise virtualisation platforms with Storage Spaces:- Integrating
technology solutions for 21st century business
25th June 2014
About us
CEO - Russell John Barley
Russell Barley has spent 15 years within the IT industry and has a multitude of
achievements to his name. His most notably achievements include the project
management of a series of IT configurations which included both the Milton
Keynes and Hertfordshire college network infrastructures.
COO - Marc Damian Adams
Marc Adams has spent 15 years within the field of Operations Management. He
has a multitude of achievements and projects to his name. The most recent
achievements include the strategic restructuring and inventory optimisation of a
Medium Sized Enterprise.
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: Company Overview
The Business
RBMA Solutions Limited is a disruptive technology service
provider of Virtual Server and Data Storage solutions.
Formed in 2014 and based in Milton Keynes, the business
has an aggressive growth strategy with the aim of becoming
the preferred UK supplier of cost effective, highly scalable
on-premise configurations that incorporate the technologies
of Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V and Storage Spaces.
RBMA also specialise in Networking and Cloud Security, all
within the B2B & B2E market sectors.
The Focus
To market, sell, install and configure Hyperconvergence
Platforms to SME & Multi-Nationals at a significantly lower
price-point than any of its competitors.
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RBMA vs Competitors
Benchmarking
RBMA
Cost effective Data Storage Solutions Provider
X
A reduced level of depreciation to customer assets (CAPEX)
X
Price-point for services and instillation
X
Cost of Hardware (Supplier)
X
Future Proofing of Hardware and Software Configurations
X
Customer Centric over Profit
X
Agile and Responsive
X
Members of the Microsoft beta software development
programme
X
R&D links to Dell and Microsoft product development
teams
X
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Company X/Y/Z
X
: Virtualisation Topology
The RBMA Virtualisation Topology
Hyper-V Virtual Server Nodes
Failover Cluster
Manage Server Environment with
SCVMM
RDMA Technology
Infiniband Network Support
Network Layer
Hyper-V over SMB
Scale-Out File Server
Storage Spaces
Failover Cluster
6/12Gb SAS
Manufacturer Independent
Tiered Storage with SSD
JBOD Array
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: Storage Spaces Overview
Microsoft Storage Spaces
Utilisations
Server Virtualisation
Desktop Virtualisation
File Services
Storage Spaces
SMB Share (\\fileserver\share)
Storage Server Layer
Failover Clustering
Storage Intelligence
Highly Available
Storage Management
Virtual Disk Layer
Disk Pools/Virtual Disks
Tiered Storage (SSD)
Parity/Mirroring
Resilience/Redundancy
Physical Disk Layer
Multi-Vendor Support
All Disk Types/Speeds
JBOD Support
Fast Access
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: Technical Data
Microsoft Hyper-V
SCVMM
System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is Microsoft's virtual machine support canter for Windows-based systems. SCVMM
upholds Microsoft's focus on efficiency with features to help administrators consolidate multiple physical servers within a central virtualized
environment. CVMM can manage you on premise virtual machines, your Cloud Based Virtual machines, and can migrate between the two.
RDMA
The use of RDMA Network cards mean that the host CPU power is free to compute for its purpose, and the network interfaces can transfer
data across the network. This permits high throughput, low latency networking.
InfiniBand
InfiniBand is a switched fabric computer network communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data center's. Its
features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable.
Hyper-V over
SMB
This is the process of running Hyper-V virtual machine resources on the file sharing protocol SMB 3.0. Your Virtual Machines use all the
processing power of your virtual server infrastructure but the storage for the virtual machines is on an SMB v3 network share (Storage
Spaces).
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Microsoft Storage Spaces
Storage Tiers
Storage Tiers allow for use of SSD and hard drive storage within the same storage pool as a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Storage Tiers provides the ability to store more frequently accessed data on SSD media to drastically increase performance, with both types
of media used as block based storage for the same virtual disk.
De-Duplication
De-Duplication is a well known feature available in many high end SAN’s (Storage Area Network). Storage spaces solutions offer this feature
too even though as a solution it is up to 70% cheaper. This block level storage feature saves up to 70% of required space by only storing
pieces of information once. Any files or services that reference this block share this data and duplication of data does not take place.
Enclosure
Awareness
In Storage Spaces implementations with 3 or more JBOD enclosures, the Enclosure Awareness feature is available. In addition to disk
resilience that you choose to configure from your levels of Mirroring/Parity, this provides resilience for a full failure of an entire JDOB
Enclosure.
Fast Failover
Recovery
This feature recovers from a disk failure automatically and restores full functionality and resilience must faster than traditional methods.
Traditionally the use of Hot Spares were used for this functionality, but the Hot Spare had to rebuild all data itself which can take hours
meaning risk of another failure during recovery stage is high. This solution uses all disks so recovers in a much reduced time.
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Hardware Technologies:
Dell PowerEdge R720 Rack
Server
Keep pace with the
exponential change of the
virtual age using the state-ofthe-art feature flexibility of the
PowerEdge™ R720.
PowerEdge R620 Rack Server
Concentrated computing power in a 2S/1U form
factor
Maximize computing power without compromise in
space-sensitive environments with the Dell
PowerEdge R620.
Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors and up to 24
DIMMs
Up to ten 2.5" drives with optional hot-plug, frontaccess PCI Express flash drives
PCIe Gen3-enabled expansion slots and choice of
embedded NIC technology.
PowerVault MD1200 Direct
Attached Storage
PowerVault MD3060e Dense Expansion Enclosure JBOD
Affordable, high-density DAS for PowerEdge servers.
Optimize your server space, and help cut power and cooling
expenses with up to 240 HDDs (four MD3060e enclosures) per
server in just 16U of space.
OS Supported: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 / Ubuntu /
Nexenta
Up to 60 HDDs and SSDs in one 4U chassis
6Gbps SAS connectivity
Supports PowerEdge R620, R720 and R720xd servers
Scale to 240 HDDs (with four MD3060e enclosure) per server
Maximize capacity to almost 1PB per R620 or R720 server
Store over 1PB of data in less than one-half of a standard rack
PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure
A new era for blade servers
Help reduce the cost and
complexity of managing blade
resources with the
PowerEdge™ M1000e blade
enclosure.
• Powerful management tools
• Flexible remote management
• Outstanding efficiency
Note: For use with Dell PowerEdge M520
& Dell PowerEdge M620
3.5-inch 6Gb/S SAS expansion array
for mainstream and capacityintensive applications
Simple storage expansion delivering
improved performance and versatility to
support mainstream with optimal
performance in sequential (streaming)
applications. Connects to PowerEdge
servers through a PERC H800 HostRAID adapter
2U 12 - 3.5" (9 cm)- or 2.5" (6 cm) SAS
or SSD drives per array
Expand up to 8 arrays or 96 drives
Connects to PowerEdge servers
through a PERC H800 Host-RAID
adapter
FUJITSU Direct Attached Storage: ETERNUS JX40
FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY CX400 S2
The Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS JX40 is a reliable and innovative easy-touse storage subsystem. As Direct Attached Storage (DAS), it extends the
storage-capacity of Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY servers through a fastest 6 Gbit/s
SAS connection by up to 230 Terabyte with the maximum of 6 enclosures.
With a height of only two units per shelf, the ETERNUS JX40 subsystem
meets the requirements for a compact design with 2.5 inch mixable SAS
and SATA hard disk drives in 19-inch rack infrastructures.
The Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY CX400 S2 Multi-Node server system enables to
Scale-Out Smart by packaging up to 4 independent dual socket server nodes and up
to 24 local storage drives into a consolidated 2U rack enclosure. The system acts as
a replicable Smart Scale-Out building block with conformity to conventional 19” rack
infrastructure, providing a new compact server node density with high power
efficiency to realize large scale-out solutions for HPC and Cloud Computing at lower
overall costs.
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Thank you
RBMA SOLUTIONS LIMITED, The Hub, Milton Keynes, MK9 2BQ
info@rbmasolutions.net
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