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Introduction

Make it realEnterprise-class features delivered on cost-effective hardware

Storage solutions that deliver continuous application availability

Innovation with industry partners to maximize performance, scalability, and choice

Improved operational efficiency through simplified manageability

Flexible storage configurations for organizations of all sizes

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New apps

Device proliferation

Data explosion

Cloud computing

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Every app, any cloudBuild on an open and scalable web platform that supports

applications across premises

Modern workstyle,

enabledSupport a mobile and flexible work style

Beyond virtualizationScale and secure workloads, cost-effectively build a private

cloud, and securely connect to cloud services

The power of many

servers, the simplicity

of one

Efficiently manage infrastructure while maximizing uptime and

minimizing failures and downtime

CHALLENGES

Consolidate and maximize use of existing storage infrastructure

Control storage costs resulting from expanding data requirements

Deliver an enterprise-class application storage solution on cost-effective hardware

Deliver reliable, scalable, and continuously available applications with automated failure recovery

Flexible and dynamic datacenters across premises

Guaranteed high levels of service level agreement

(SLA)

Less expensive storage solution

High performance, scalable, and reliable storage

Efficient management of storage resources

NEEDS

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ALWAYS ON,ALWAYS UP SERVICES

CONTINUOUS APPLICATION AVAILABILITY

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

Application storage support

through SMB 3.0

Server Message Block (SMB)

DirectData Deduplication

Storage Spaces

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND MORE CHOICE THROUGH INDUSTRY INNOVATION

Virtual Fibre Channel

for Hyper-V

Windows Storage ServerWindows Cluster in a Box

Offloaded Data Transfers

(ODX)

SMB Transparent Failover

SMB MultichannelCluster-Aware

Updating (CAU)

File system enhancements Online backup

SIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITY

Unified storage

management

Management options

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High availability with iSCSI and

NFS

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Lowers the cost of

acquisition,

deployment, and

operations

Optimizes capacity

utilization

SMB Direct

SMB 3.0

Data

Deduplication

Storage SpacesDelivers enterprise-

class performance

Resilient to

component failures

• Virtualization of storage with Storage Pools and Storage Spaces

• Storage resilience and availability with commodity hardware

• Resiliency and data redundancy throughn-way mirroring (clustered or unclustered) or parity mode (unclustered)

• Utilization optimized through thin and trim provisioning and enclosure awareness

• Integration with other Windows Server 2012 capabilities

• Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial AT Attachment (SATA) interconnects

Windows

Virtualized

Storage

Windows Application Server or File Server

Physical or

virtualized

deployments

Physical

Storage

(Shared) SAS or SATA

Integrated

with other

Windows

Server 2012

capabilities

Storage PoolStorage Pool

File Server Administration

ConsoleHyper-V

Cluster Shared Volume

Failover Clustering

SMB Multichannel

NFS Windows Storage Mgmt.

NTFS SMB Direct

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Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space

ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES ON LESS

EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

• Highly available, shared data store for SQL Server databases and Hyper-V workloads

• Increased flexibility, and easier provisioning and management

• Ability to take advantage of existing network infrastructure

• No application downtime for planned maintenance or unplanned failures with failover clustering

• Highly available scale-out file server

• Built-in encryption support

File Server

Cluster

Cluster Shared Volumes

Single File System Namespace

SMB

Single Logical Server \\Foo\Share

RAID Array

RAID Array

RAID Array

SAN

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Windows

Virtualized

Storage

Physical

Storage

Storage PoolStorage Pool

Storage Space Storage Space Storage Space


EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

Hyper-V ClusterMicrosoft

SQL Server

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VHD Library

Software Deployment Share

General File Share

User Home Folder (My Docs)

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Average savings with Data Deduplication by workload type


EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

Maximize capacity by removing

duplicate data

• 2:1 with file shares, 20:1 with virtual

storage

• Less data to back up, archive, and

migrate

Increased scale and performance

• Low CPU and memory impact

• Configurable compression schedule

• Transparent to primary server workload

Improved reliability and integrity

• Redundant metadata and critical data

• Checksums and integrity checks

• Increase availability through redundancy

Faster file download times with

BranchCache

Source: “Microsoft Internal Testing"

File Client

SMBBuffer

File Server

With RDMA

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Without RDMA

AppBuffer

SMBBuffer

OSBuffer

DriverBuffer

SMBBuffer

OSBuffer

DriverBuffer

AppBuffer

SMBBuffer

rNICrNIC NICAdapterBufferNIC

AdapterBuffer

AdapterBuffer

AdapterBuffer

iWARP

InfiniBand


EXPENSIVE HARDWARE

• Higher performance through offloading of network I/O processing onto network adapter

• High throughput with low latency and ability to take advantage of high-speed networks (such as InfiniBand and iWARP)

• Remote storage at the speed of direct storage

• Transfer rate of around 50 Gbs on a single NIC port

• Compatible with SMB Multichannel for load balancing and failover

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Patches operating systems and applications without service interruption

Makes applications resilient to underlying hardware failures

Provides low-cost, high availability solutions on cost-effective hardware

Supports continuous availability across storage, networking, and Hyper-V

SMB Transparent

Failover

Cluster-Aware

Updating

File System

Enhancements SMB Multichannel

Online Backup

High availability

with SMB, iSCSI,

and NFS

• Rapid recovery from file system corruption without affecting availability

• Resilient against power outage corruption

• Periodic checksum validation of file system metadata

• Improved data integrity protection

• Ideal for file server volumes

NTFS improvements

• Rapid recovery from file system corruption without affecting availability

• Data corruption virtually eliminated through allocate-on-write

• Period checksum validation of file system meta-data

• Seamless data integrity protection

CHKDSK

• Seconds to fix corrupted data

• No offline time when used with CSV

• Disk scanning process separated from repair process

• Online scanning with volume and offline repair


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100

200

300

400

100 Million Files 200 Million Files 300 Million Files

Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2012

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Source: “Microsoft Internal Testing"

Win

do

ws

Serv

er

file

serv

er

clust

er

\\foo1\share1 \\foo2\share1

\\foo\share• High-performance, continually available

fileshares for business critical applications

• Failover transparent to server applications with zero downtime and with only a small I/O delay

• Support for planned moves, load balancing, operating system restart, unplanned failures, and client redirection (scale-out only)

• Resilient for file and directory operations

• All servers involved should have Windows Server 2012


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Windows Server Cluster

Current Workload

Third-party plug-in for updates

U

• Reduces server downtime and user disruption by orchestration of cluster node updates

• Maintains service availability without impacting cluster quorum

• Detects required updates and moves workloads off nodes for updates

• Uses Windows Update Agent or extensible plug-in


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SMBclient

SMBserver

Filecopy

NIC NIC

NIC NIC

Filecopy

• Automatic detection and use of multiple network connections between SMB client and server

• Helps server applications be resilient to network failure

• Transparent Failover with recovery of network failure if another connection is unavailable

• Improved throughput

• Bandwidth aggregation through NIC Teaming

• Multiple nodes/CPUs for network processing with RSS-capable network adapters

• Automatic configuration with very little administrative overhead


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NFS SUPPORTALWAYS ON,

ALWAYS UP SERVICESISCSI SOFTWARE TARGET

Integrated with clustering to enable a high availability iSCSI

Target

Faster recovery from hardware failures

iSCSI network boot provides a reliable, cost effective, and highly available option for

Hyper-V host and HPC boot

Microsoft iSCSI Software Target now an in-box feature in

Windows

Create iSCSI cluster using Server Manager UI or Windows PowerShell

NFS 4.1 support for early adopters

Cost-effective alternative for virtualized deployments

Better reliability with stateful protocol

Continuous availability for applications deployed over

NFSv3 or NFSv2 (specifically VMware) with transparent

server-side failover

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Registration

• Sign up

• Billing

Third-party cloud

• Sign up

• BillingMicrosoft online

backup service

Microsoft online

backup portal

Third-party online

backup service

Third-party online

backup portal

Inbox engine

Inbox UI

Windows Server 2012

backup (extensible)Windows Server

2012

Agents

• Microsoft online backup

• Third-party agents

IT Pro

RegistrationBackup/

Restore


• Ability to leverage Windows Azure cloud services to back up data

• Reduced cost for backup storage and management

• Options for third-party cloud services

• Ideal for small businesses, branch offices, and departmental business needs

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Deliver enterprise ready performance on a wide

range of hardware

Offer a wide range of

choices to meet

customer needs

Maximize returns on

storage investments

Windows Cluster

in a Box

Offloaded Data

Transfer (ODX)

Virtual Fibre

Channel in Hyper-V

Windows Storage

Server

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External Intelligent Storage Array

Virtual Disk Virtual Disk

Token

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE,

MORE CHOICE

Benefits• Rapid virtual machine provisioning and

migration

• Faster transfers on large files

• Minimized latency

• Maximized array throughput

• Less CPU and network use

• Performance not limited by network throughput or server use

• Improved datacenter capacity and scale

Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)Token-based data transfer between intelligent storage arrays

Live migration maintaining

Fibre Channel connectivity

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Hyper-V host 1 Hyper-V host 2

Worldwide Name Set B

Worldwide Name Set A

Worldwide Name Set A

• Virtualize workloads that require direct access to FC storage

• Live migration support

• N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) support

• Single Hyper-V host connected to different SANs

• Up to four Virtual Fibre Channel adapters on a virtual machine

• Multipath I/O (MPIO) functionality

Access Fibre Channel SAN

data from a virtual machine


MORE CHOICE

Shared SAS

Clu

ster

in a

Bo

xFail

over

Clu

ster

Storage Spaces

• Appliance built on Windows Server 2012 that supports continuous availability

• Pre-packaged, pre-connected—no additional setup required

• Direct attached JBODs connected through Storage Spaces or Clustered RAID controller

• Ideal for a “Business-in-a-Box”, “Branch-in-a-Box,” or enterprise-level storage server solution

• Multiple vendors

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RAID Array

RAID Array

RAID Array

Clu

ster

in a

Bo

xFail

over

Clu

ster


MORE CHOICE

• Windows Server for NAS appliances that are preconfigured and enterprise ready

• Ideal file-based storage solution that is fault tolerant, continuously available, scalable, and cost effective

• Workgroup and Standard editions

• Multiple vendors

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Workgroup Standard

NAS SegmentsEntry level

50 users

Scale up

Continuous availability

Architecture/maximum memory X64 – 32 GB X64 – 2 TB

Active Directory Lightweight

Directory ServicesYes Yes

CPU sockets/virtual machines 1 + 0 2 + 2

Hardware RAID Yes Yes

Disks 6, No external SAS Unlimited

iSCSI Software Target Yes Yes

File sharing (SMB/NFS) Yes Yes

Microsoft BitLocker Yes Yes

Data Deduplication No Yes

Hyper-V No Yes

BranchCache – Hosted Cache No Yes

Clustering No Yes

DHCP, DNS, and WINS No Yes

Active Directory DC, Certificate,

Federation, Rights Management,

Application Server, Network Policy,

Terminal Services, WDS, Fax Server

No No


MORE CHOICE

Windows Cluster in a Box ODX SMB Direct

Quanta Computer

HP

Wiwynn

Violin Memory

Dell

IBM

HP

NetApp

Fujitsu

Intel

LSI

XyratexXio

EMC

Hitachi

Fujitsu

NEC

Mellanox

Intel

Chelsio

HA-DAS.com

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Windows Storage Server 2012

DELL

XTORE

MaXXan

AREA

Western Digital

LACIE

Unibrain

CM

Pyramid

Thomas-Krenn.AG

Broadberry

Pivot 3

N-TEC

AMAX

ABERDEEN

BOSCH

Acma

DNF

Storageflex

BUFFALO

Variel

WINCHESTER SYSTEM

Fujitsu

SIEMENSIBM

HP

NEC


MORE CHOICE

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Enables consistent, repeatable, and reliable

automation

Provides a richer

set of tools for IT

Pros and

developers

Makes

complex

tasks easier to

perform with a

simple wizard-

driven experience

Comprehensive storage management with

SMI-S support

Windows PowerShell

SMI-S and WMI

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Management software

Storage management APIs

Storage vendor hardware and

software

File server managerThird-party management

applicationMicrosoft System Center

Windows storage management API (Windows PowerShell and WMI)

Pass-through API for extensibility (WMI)

Windows standards-based

storage management servicesSMP: Third-party providers SMP: Storage Spaces

SMI-S hardware provider

SMI-S hardware provider

Storage array/RAID controller



Industrystandard storage

Proprietary transport and/or protocol

Storage management provider (SMP) interface

• Centralized storage

management interface

for administrators

• SMI-S compliant SAN

management from

Windows Server

Manager

• Remote management of

servers and server

storage

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Server Manager UI

Robust automation with Windows PowerShell and WMI

Get-Command –module [ ]

SMBshare

NFS

FileServerResourceManager

DFSN

Deduplication

iSCSITarget

Storage

FailOverClusters

Management Packs for Microsoft System Center include:• SMB

• NFS

• iSCSI

• Deduplication

• File Server Resource Manager and File Classification Infrastructure (FCI)

• DFS-N and DFS-R

Best Practice Analyzer (BPA) available for all components

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$ $

$

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Clustered discrete

systems

Two-node cluster and

storage in a box (CiB)

or

Shared SAS JBOD External storage arraySingle discrete

system

…

…

Four-node cluster and

storage in a box

or

Small business and branch

Midsize business and departmental

Enterprise and hosted cloud

Internal hardware RAID or Windows virtualized storage (Storage Spaces)

Clustered PCI RAID or Windows virtualized storage (Storage Spaces)

Clustered PCI RAID or Windows virtualized storage (Storage Spaces)

Fibre Channel or IP SAN

Single node 2 nodes 3‒8 nodes with CSV v2 scale-out

Hardware RAID node support partner-dependent3‒32 nodes with CSV v2 scale-out

Shared JBOD SAS

Shared JBOD SAS (discrete or CiB) Shared JBOD SAS (discrete or Cluster in a Box) External storage array

Integrated SAS switch in JBOD SAS switch and fabric FC or IP SAN Fabric

Virtualized: Hyper-V Server

Information worker: File Server shares

Virtualization: Hyper-V Server

Information worker: File Server shares

Datacenter NAS: File Server for Hyper-V, SQL, Internet Information Services (IIS)

Applications: SQL Server


Datacenter NAS: File Server for Hyper-V, SQL, IIS



Datacenter NAS: File Server for Hyper-V, SQL, IIS


Dis

k

FT

Sca

leSto

rag

eW

ork

load

s

Failover Cluster

File Server

Hyper-V

File Server

Flexibility (migration and shared storage)

Simplicity (file shares and permissions)

Low acquisition and operations

cost

Storage is fault tolerant

File Server is continuously

available

Hardware and OS pre-configured by

the OEM

Hyper-V virtual machines are fault tolerant

Pros/Cons

OFF ON

OFF

OFF

OFF

Storage SpacesStorage is fault

tolerant

ON


ON

Storage Spaces

ON

Shared SAS

Fail

over

Clu

ster

Clustered Storage Spaces


available

ON


Fail

over

Clu

ster

ON


the OEMShared SAS

Clu

ster

in a

Bo

x

Clustered Storage Spaces

Fail

over

Clu

ster

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OFF

Clu

ster

in a

Bo

xFail

over

Clu

ster

RAID Array

RAID Array

RAID Array

Fail

over

Clu

ster


the OEM

OFF

Fail

over

Clu

ster

Fibre Channel SAN

Fail

over

Clu

ster


the OEM



available


OFF

OFF

Hyper-V

Flexibility (migration and shared storage)

Simplicity (file shares and permissions)

Low acquisition and operations

cost

Pros/Cons

ON

40SAS/FC/iSCSI SAN

Fail

over

Clu

ster


ON


Fail

over

(MP

IO)

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ENTERPRISE-CLASS FEATURES


IMPROVED PERFORMANCE, MORE

CHOICESIMPLIFIED MANAGEABILITY

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server/2012-default.aspx

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http://www.microsoft.com/learning/

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