building an aws hybrid cloud

How to Build a Hybrid Cloud with AWSJoey WrightSolutions Architect, SoftNAS

May 5, 2016

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Agenda• Why Build A Hybrid Cloud with AWS?

1. Use Cases2. SoftNAS Architecture & Overview3. Demo: Building a Hybrid Cloud

with SoftNAS, AWS, and Existing Equipment

4. Best Practices5. Backups and Data Protection

• SoftNAS Cloud NAS Overview


Why Build a Hybrid Cloud with AWS?


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Hybrid Cloud: The Best of Both Worlds


Benefits:• Fully Customizable• Robust

Management• Secure by Design

Benefits:• Low Entry

Cost• Pay As You Go• Highly Elastic

Private Cloud

Public CloudBenefits: Maximize Returns on Existing IT

Investments Match Workloads to Best-Fit

Infrastructure Meet Capacity without Increasing

CapEx Highly Scalable: Add New

Capabilities Quickly

Hybrid Cloud = Better Outcomes

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AWS Hybrid Cloud Capabilities


• AWS provides a wide variety of hybrid use cases

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2016 Hybrid Cloud Adoption


• 82% of enterprises have a hybrid cloud strategy in place for 2016.

Poll 1:What is your main cloud architecture?


1. Benefits and Use Cases


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• Elastic Scaling– Allocate resources through one interface– Data can be moved to the public cloud as needed to save on costs and

remove the need to build new data centers• Backup & Archiving

– Create real-time backups in the public cloud• Business Applications

– Run your most important applications on your private cloud– Older applications with less use can be run on public clouds at a lower cost– Develop new apps on the public cloud at a reduced cost and move them to

your private cloud when ready for deployment– IT remains in control of when and where applications are deployed

Common Hybrid Cloud Use Cases


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• Allocate resources as needed through one interface

• Data can be moved to the public cloud to save on costs and remove the need to build new data centers

Elastic Scaling


Hybrid Capacity

Traditional Capacity

Demand

Backup & Archiving

• No additional CapEx

• No commitment• No risk capacity

planning

Metered usage:Pay as you go

Avoid OpEx and risks of physical media handling

Control your geographic locality

for performance and compliance

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• Backup private cloud data to the public cloud for easy access


Poll 2:How are you planning to use a hybrid cloud?


2. SoftNAS Architecture with AWS


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SoftNAS Cloud NAS on AWS


• Enterprise-class NAS filer software appliances

• Installed both in Amazon EC2 and on-premises

• Allows for replication from on-premises to Amazon EC2 & vice versa

• Replication– SoftNAS deployed in EC2

as replication target using SnapReplicate

– Enables backup, disaster recovery & development environment scenarios

On-Premise Private Cloud

SoftNAS Cloud NAS

HA Architecture on AWS

Patent-pendingtechnology


3. Demo: Building a Hybrid Cloud with AWS, SoftNAS and Existing Equipment


4. Best Practices


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Determine What Remains On-

Premise

Cost Savings Security Manage New Environments with Familiar Processes

• Mission critical environments are NOT good choices for the Hybrid Cloud.

• Seasonal workloads are a nice fit for the scalability that a Public Cloud provides, as well as non-essential workloads, and applications with a short shelf life.

• Every future CapEx expenditure for hardware should be scrutinized to see if a Public or Hybrid Cloud Solution would help reduce or eliminate those costs.

• Create individual AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user accounts so that each user managing AWS has their own security credentials

• Building out tools and workflows for cloud-based resources is time consuming. Maximize ROI with solutions that isolate and automate on-premise and cloud-based platforms to a single, unified environment that is easy to use.

Hybrid Cloud Best Practices

5. Backups and Data Protection


SnapReplicate™ Block Replication

Patent-pendingtechnology


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• Security & protection of customer data - #1 priority

• AWS security features– Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)– VPC security groups– Identity and Access Management (IAM)– Data Encryption

Data Protection


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• SoftNAS– CentOS Linux VM– SSL-encrypted administration console– Public/private key access control via SSH – Iptables firewall– SnapReplicate™ (between SoftNAS instances)

Data Protection (Cont.)


SoftNAS Cloud NAS Overview


Flexible, Adaptable Architecture

Linux Virtual Appliance

ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION DATA SERVICES

• API and CLI• Cross data center• Cross-zone VPC• Easy

administration• File gateway• HTML5 Admin UI• Software filer• ZFS on Linux

• AWS• Azure• CenturyLink cloud• CIFS w/ Active

directory• FC SAN• iSCSI LUN• iSCSI SAN• NFS• S3 Objects• SSD• VMware vSphere

• Block replication• Cloud disks• Compression• Inline deduplication• Instant snapshots• Multi-level caching• Storage pools• Thin provisioning• Writable

SnapClones™• Encryption


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SoftNAS Products


SoftNAS Cloud NAS• Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Microsoft Azure• CenturyLink Cloud• VMware vSphere

SoftNAS for Service Providers• VMware vSphere

Multi-tenant NAS replacement for use with iSCSI and object storage

Public cloud NAS filer

On-premises cloud NAS filer

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