Windows Azure Conference 2014 Hybrid Cloud Storage: StorSimple and Windows Azure

Windows Azure Conference 2014


Paresh Patel

Hybrid Cloud Storage: StorSimple and Windows Azure

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Introduction



Primary storage growth

Growth of infrequently

used data

Growth of backup and long term

data retention

Growth in datacenter sprawl and equipment

High-cost, untested disaster recovery

infrastructure

Traditional storage data center architecture

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk based backup storage

Tape infrastructure

and management

Off-site DR and geo-resiliency

Storage Today = Complex & Expensive (and not necessary for

all workloads)


StorSimple Cloud Integrated Storage

(CiS)

Hybrid cloud storage: a simplified approach

Primary Storage

Archival Storage

Disk based backup storage

Tape infrastructure

and management

Off-site DR and geo-resiliency

Hybrid Cloud Storage = Simplified + Cost Optimized (ideal for many standard datacenter use

cases)

Primary storage growth

Pay-as you-grow for

infrequently accessed,

“cold” data

Pay-as you-grow for

backup and long term retention

A single, consolidated

solution provided by one vendor

Simplified DR to any

StorSimple solution

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Hybrid cloud storage ideal for unstructured data

Data grows exponentiallyMost I/O happens to the “working set” of data

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StorSimple is ideally suited for workloads generating lots of data that is accessed only briefly in its lifecycle.

Working-set of data


Single vendor for hybrid cloud

storage (integrated on-

premise and cloud storage)

Lower infrastructure and management cost 60-80% Lower

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Reduced cost associated with: • Cloud integration• Data management • Media management • Data center resources • Secondary storage for data

protection (and licensing)• CAP-EX storage for growth

Automated data tiering to

the cloud

Automated local and

remote backup

Pay-as-you-grow OP-EX

model for data stored in the

cloud

Use cloud as secondary

datacenter; recover data

anywhere


Architecture


ENTERPRISE-CLASS HARDWARE PLATFORM

1. Full MPIOs

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

Highly available - no single point of failure


StorSimple ModelsSca

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Capacity

552010 TB usable local1.2 TB SSD300TB max cloud capacity

752020 TB usable local2 TB SSD500TB max cloud capacity

50202 TB usable local400 GB SSD100TB max cloud capacity

70204 TB usable local600 GB SSD200TB max cloud capacity2

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4U


Connects Windows Servers to Windows 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%

Application Servers

Inactive Data + Backup Copies in Cloud

Speed of SSD/SAN + Elasticity of Cloud

SAS Local Tier

Most Active Data on SSD

StorSimple CiS

Azure Storage

Learn more: microsoft.com/storsimple


StorSimple and automatic tiering Data is automatically

tiered across on-premises storage and

cloud storage. On-premise storage and

cloud storage are viewed as one pool of

storage

On-premise storage retains frequently

accessed, “hot”, data; cloud storage retains

infrequently accessed, “cold” data

Data spills from SSD to HDD to cloud storage. The oldest data in the tier spills to the next

tier, when more data is stored, in the tier, and

the threshold is exceeded

Automatic tiering reduces activities associated with data management for performance optimization, cost optimization, and archival


Flow of data with automated tiering

SSD

Application or File servers

SAS

Linear Data

Deduplicated Data

Deduplicated & Compressed Data

Deduplicated, Compressed, & Encrypted Data

Automatically moving data to the next tier

occurs when tiers are about 80% full

The least recently accessed

fingerprint in the tier is the first to move to the next

tier


Deduplication and compression

Deduplication is done at the block level; across all volumes

within a cloud account

No duplicated blocks between snapshots

Optimizes the utilization of SSD

capacity, improving performance

Minimizes size of data transfer and storage in

Azure. Also, reduces data download and

recovery times

Fingerprints are content addressable, enabling transparent capacity expansion to

Azure storage

On-premise data capacity can be

increased by 2x – 5x based on the type of

data stored


Demo


StorSimple Offers


Compelling Economics: ASAP Offer

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$100K for ~100TB1

with 7020 appliance2 OR7520 appliance2 (no additional cost)

$50K for ~50TB1

with 7020 appliance2 (no additional cost)

1 Provides geo-replicated storage for a wide range of use cases. The actual storage available may vary by discount, use case and use of other Azure services2 Appliance built and distributed by Xyratex

$50K/year on Azure EA for storage

• Covers ~50TB of Azure storage through StorSimple solution for a wide range of use cases

What customers are

paying for

$100K/year on Azure EA for storage

• Covers ~100TB of Azure storage through StorSimple solution for a wide range of use cases

What customers get

at NO additional cost

7020 appliance (worth $70K)• Gold support for the appliance for 1 year with Next

Business Day (NBD) parts

Option-1: 7020 appliance (worth $70K)• Gold support for the appliance for 3 years with

NBD parts

Option-2: 7520 appliance (worth $120K)• Gold support for the appliance for 1 year with

NBD parts

Additional costs

(Xyratex charges customer directly)

• $5,000 per year for Gold support for the appliance in years 2 & 3

• Additional $2,500 per year for upgrade to platinum support for the appliance

• Additional $10,000 for upgrade from 7020 to 5520

Option-1 – 7020 with 3 years of Gold support• Additional $7,500 for upgrade to platinum

support for the appliance for 3 years

• Additional $10,000 for upgrade from 7020 to 5520

Option-2 – 7520 with 1 year of Gold Support• $7,500 per year for Gold support for the

appliance in years 2 & 3

• Additional $2,500 per year for upgrade to platinum support for the appliance

Offers valid till June 30th, 2014


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