Transcript Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications and store your data across a global network of Microsoft managed.

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Windows Azure is
Microsoft’s cloud platform
that enables you to quickly
build, deploy and manage
applications and store your
data across a global
network of Microsoft
managed datacentres.
Infrastructure
(as a Service)
Windows Azure Global Presence
North America Region
West
– U.S. Sub-region
East
– U.S. Sub-region
N. Central
– U.S. Sub-region
Europe Region
Asia Pacific Region
N. Europe
Sub-region
W. Europe
Sub-region
S. Central
– U.S. Sub-region
E. Asia
Sub-region
S.E. Asia
Sub-region
Major datacenter
CDN node
Microsoft Confidential - Signed NDA Required
Equipment
Sprawl
Primary
Storage
Data Growth
and Footprint
Archival
Storage
Data
Management
Complexity
Disk-Based
Backup Storage
Backup Issues
Tape Infrastructure
and Management
Replicated
Storage for DR
Untested
Disaster
Recovery
Offsite Facility for
Georesilience
Storage Today = Complex & Expensive
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Application Servers
HTTP/REST API
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Azure + StorSimple = 60–80% Lower TCO
Cloud-Integrated
SAN Storage
Primary
Storage
Automated
Cloud-as-a-Tier
Archival
Storage
Thin, Reduced
Snapshots
Disk-Based
Backup Storage
Cloud Snapshots
Tape Infrastructure
and Management
Recover in Cloud
or Any DC
Replicated
Storage for DR
Use Cloud as
Secondary DC
Offsite Facility for
Georesilience
Storage Today = Complex & Expensive
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Target Use Cases
Capacity
CapEx, OpEx
of Traditional
Storage
File Share
• File servers
• NAS
Data Grows Exponentially
(50–60% Annually)
CapEx,
OpEx of
StorSimple
Cloud
Storage
SharePoint
• Collaboration
• Content and records
management
• Business
intelligence
Archives
• Media
• Engineering
• Logs, records
However, Most I/O
Happens to the
“Working Set” Data
Local
Storage
Time
• CIFS
• NFS
• EMR/PACS
• Legal
• Construction
VMs
• VM sprawl
• VM archives
• Regional office
storage
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Application Servers
Most Active
Data on SSD
SAS
Local Tier
Speed of SSD/SAN
+ Elasticity of Cloud
Inactive Data +
Backup Copies
on Azure storage
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%
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Scalability / Performance
7520
20-100TB* usable local
500TB max capacity
5520
10-50TB* usable local
300TB max capacity
7020
4-20TB* usable local
200TB max capacity
5020
2-10TB* usable local
100TB max capacity
Capacity
* Denotes usable local storage capacity with compression and de-duplication, varies by use case.
* Additional details about appliance specifications can be found at: http://storsimple.xyratex.com/storsimple/specifications
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SAN Storage
• iSCSI SAN with auto-tiering (SSD/SAS)
• Automated snapshots
• Primary dedupe/compress
With Cloud Data Management
Seamless Cloud Integration for:
• Tiered primary + archives
• Cloud snapshots: mountable for DR
On an Enterprise-Class Platform
• Certified: VMware-ready and Microsoft Windows Server-certified
• HA: full redundancy + hot swaps + non-disruptive upgrades
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Total data capacity required = 10TB
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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
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Works at the block-level and replaces duplicate data
blocks with a meta data map (pointers to the original
block)
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Data is de-duped in the SSD tier and compressed in
the SAS tier before being tiered to Azure
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On-premise data capacity can be increased by 2x – 5x
based on the type of data stored
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Backup de-dupe: Cloud snapshots are differential and
thereby eliminate copies of redundant blocks across
backups
Data
blocks
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F
E
F
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B
B
D
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C
A
D
C
C
B
D
C
D
C
5x
de-dupe ratio
Data blocks
Capacity used = 2TB
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B
D
E
C
F
Metadata
map
+
• De-duped
• Compressed
Highly available - no single point of failure
1. Full MPIO Support
2. Dual controllers with auto-failover
3. Dual power
4. Dual cooling
5. RAID drives
6. Hot-spare drives
7. Non-disruptive software upgrades
8. Certified by Microsoft & VMware
* 5020, 7020, 5520 and 7520 appliances are built and distributed by Xyratex
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SSD
A
B
C
A
B
D
E
Linear Tier
SSD
E
Deduplicated
SAS
C
D
D
E
Deduplicated
Compressed
E
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
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Backup, Restore & DR Today: Inefficient, Complex, Laborious, and Risky
Primary
Volume
Snapshot
Virtual Tape/
Replication
Physical
Tape
Offsite Tape
Storage
Backup, Restore & DR with StorSimple: Automated, Optimized, Reliable
Snapshots
Primary
Volume
Cloud Snapshots
1. Backup copy of data volume created in cloud
2. Changes to local volume automatically transferred
3. Cloud snapshots mountable for restore
Benefits
• Backup now as easy as snapshots
• Very fast restores from off-site backups
• Integrated, easy to test disaster recovery
• Truly eliminates tape
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Production Data
Production Data
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• Configuration import process populates
DR appliance with all information from
original appliance
META DATA
• Registry restore downloads available
backup information from the cloud
DATA
• Clone operation fetches volume metadata
from the cloud and creates the volume on
the DR appliance
• As and when data is requested, blocks are
downloaded from the cloud
Benefits
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Quick restore
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Download only the required data
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25
90 Days
Recovery Time
Application
Recovery Times
from Offsite
Backups in a
Disaster
Regular Cloud
Backup
30 Days
With 100 Mbps WAN Link
7 Days
Tape
1 Day
StorSimple Cloud
Snapshots
1 Hour
With 50 Mbps WAN Link
15 Min.
1 TB
5 TB
20 TB
Primary Data
50 TB
100 TB
Application
Servers
Local Data
Broken into storage blocks,
then:
• Obfuscated
• Deduplicated
• Compressed
• Blocks encrypted with customer key
• SSL communication:
• Authentication
• Metadata
• Data transfer
Data in cloud
• Deduplicated
• Compressed
• Encrypted with customer key
Scenario 1: Access key got compromised
Scenario 2: Storage admin employee leaves company
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Scenario 3: Cloud Provider decommissions server hardware or loses physical hard drives in maintenance process.
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• Large data storage footprint for storing
engineering docs and chip designs for various
products
• Rapid data growth (1.8TB/month @ single
location)
Total data size = 300TB
Total data size = 300TB
Vol1
• 95% of data not used
• Eliminate expensive on-premise storage
• 3x 7520 StorSimple systems with Azure
• Systems in two different locations for
providing file share/archive across
multiple volumes (~600TB)
Vol1
Vol2
…
VolN
• Dramatic cost savings, ease-to-use,
secure data storage in Azure
• Adoption of additional use cases
…
VolN
7520
appliance
7520
appliance
DR
site
7520
appliance
Chandler, AZ
Austin, TX
• 5-week PoC
• $900K Azure commit over 3 years
Vol2
• Live archives
• Automatic Backup
• Disaster Recovery
Phoenix, AZ
• Massive unstructured, geographicallydispersed data
• Struggled to deploy SharePoint for data
consolidation and sharing
• On-premise storage needed for specific
performance and scalability requirements
• Multi-tiered BLOB storage and data
management with StorSimple
• Optimized database layout with SSDO
(SharePoint Database Optimizer)
• Data stored across 5 appliances
• $600K Azure commit over 3 years
• Azure Storage footprint to double to
>400TB over 2 years
Site A
Servers
Site B
Servers
Site C
Servers
Site D
Servers
Site E
Servers
Site F
Servers
Site G
Servers
Site H
Servers
Tiering to the Cloud (No Backup)
DFS Replication to the Data
Center
Tiering to the Cloud with
CloudSnap Backup
Microsoft Azure
Cloud
Storage
Service
Existing Servers and Storage
Data Center - HQ
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Source Media
SP CDN
On-Premises
Transformation and
Experience
Data Center
Internet CDN
Carrier/Mobile CDN
Cloud Storage Service
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