azure and storsimple for disaster recovery and storage management - softwareone - november 2014
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Slides from webinar demonstrating the disaster recovery and storage management capabilities of Microsoft Azure and StoreSimple. The webinar was hosted on Friday 14th November 2014 and the recording can be viewed here: http://1drv.ms/1vovwKFTRANSCRIPT
Transform your Storage Management with Azure and StorSimple
Jeremy Lloyd
Solutions Architect
@jeremylloydIT
Agenda
• Introducing Azure Storage
• Storage challenges
• StorSimple 8000 series
- Overview
- Cloud integration, tiering, deduplication, compression, and encryption
- StorSimple Manager in Microsoft Azure Management Portal
- StorSimple Virtual Appliance
- Data protection and disaster recovery
• Question & Answers
More than 35 trillion stored objects
3.5+ Million requests/sec on average
Storage challenges
Storage Today = Complex & Expensive
Storage cost
and
infrastructure
sprawl
Complex data
protection &
recovery
Resource
constraints
Rapid data growth - 40% YoY*
* Source: EMC Digital Universe with Research and Analysis by IDC, 2014
Addressing storage challenges with StorSimple
Primary Storage
Archival Storage
Disk-based Backup
Remote Replication
Tape backup and DR
Storage Today Microsoft Azure StorSimple
Manage
data growthLower storage
costs
Simplify data
protection and
disaster recovery
Increase business
agility
Reduce storage costs by 40-60%
StorSimple
Series 8000 modelsModels
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 4 x 1Gbps and 2 x 10Gbps
Enclosure Form Factor 1 X 2U 2 X 2U
Fault tolerance of enterprise class storage
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.
Redundant Power Supplies
Dual Controllers
Network Interfaces
Local redundant and geo redundant storagePrimary Location
Secondary Location
Automatic tiering
Low Threshold
High Threshold
Time
Data exceeds high watermark
Old data spills to next tier
Tier is empty in the beginning
New data is written at start of free space
Tier returns to low watermark level
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
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SSD Deduplicated
SASDeduplicated
Compressed
Cloud
Deduplicated
Compressed
Encrypted
SSDLinear TierA B C A B D E
C D E
D E
E
Consolidated management of appliances
Microsoft Confidential
StorSimple_PhysicalAppliance1
StorSimple_PhysicalAppliance2
StorSimple_VirtualAppliance1
Azure StorSimple Manager
All device will need the Registration Keyand Service Data Encryption Key to be added to the Service
(Service Data Encryption Key is generated, on device console, when first device is registered)
Storage accounts and volume containers
Microsoft Confidential
Isolating volume data with volume containers
Microsoft Confidential
Storage_Account1
File_Share_VC SharePoint_VC
Cloud Encryption Key 1 Cloud Encryption Key 2
Volumes and data protection policies
StorSimple Virtual Appliance
VM
Data
Local and Cloud snapshots
SSD
SAS
Local Snapshot
Cloud Snapshot
Example Group Of Data Protection Policies
Backup Type Snapshot
Type
Frequency Retention
Period
Short-term
backup
Local &
Cloud
Daily ~1
week
Medium-
term backup
Cloud Weekly ~4
weeks
Long-term
Backup
Cloud Monthly ~52
weeks
Local snapshot
Instantaneous
and provide
short term
data recovery
Volume Data
Volume Metadata
Snapshot 1
Snapshot 2
Snapshot 3
Reference to
data chunk
Cloud snapshot
Metadata is
preserved in
its entirety
Only changed
blocks are
copied to
Cloud
SSD
SAS
StorSimple Snapshot Manager
MMC UI snap-in
that lives on
application host
and
communicates
with appliance(s)
Orchestrates
application
consistent
snapshots
Manages backup
policies
Restores
volumes and
mounts them as
NTFS
folders/drives
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
DR to secondary datacenter or Virtual Appliance
Filer ServerPhysical Appliance
(Appliance1)
Datacenter 1
File Server
Azure Storage
Virtual Appliance (Appliance3)
Filer ServerPhysical Appliance
(Appliance2)
Datacenter 2
StorSimpleManager1
Recover data to Appliance2 (physical) or Appliance3 (virtual) by rehydrating data
from a Cloud snapshot stored in Azure BLOB storage.
Azure and StorSimple Offers
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Jeremy Lloyd
Solutions Architect
@jeremylloydIT