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26. Juni 2014

StorSimple – Expand your Storage limits

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Agenda (1)

Presentation – the theory

• StorSimple in one

sentence

• Architecture comparison

• Use case scenarios

• The physical appliance

• The StorSimple tiers

• Backup and recovery

• StorSimple security

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Agenda (2)

Playback demonstration

• Web admin interface

• MMC interface

• Volume handling

• Reporting

• Alerts and notifications

• Bandwidth throttling

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StorSimple in one sentence

An all-in-one high performance file storage and backup solution, designed to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by leveraging combined tiered private and public cloud based storage.

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Primary Volume

Snapshot

Disk Array

Physical Tape

Infrastructure

Offsite Vault

Encryption

Appliance

Servers

Media Server

Disk Backup/ VTL

Architecture comparison

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Traditional approach

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Servers

Extended Primary +

Cloud Snapshots

Primary Volume

Local Snapshot

StorSimpleAppliance

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Architecture comparison

StorSimple with Azure

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Architecture comparison

StorSimple infrastructure overview

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Architecture comparison

StorSimple advantages

Simplified administration

Encrypted cloud backups (AES-256)

Fast backup and near instant restore using the cloud

Automatic block level tiering

Use case scenarios

Cold dataHot data = Working set

The difference between hot and cold data

SQL Databases

• low demand

Archiving

• Media• Logs• Legal

File Share

• CIFS• NFS• NAS

Sharepoint

• Remote Blob Storage

VMs

• archive• regional• office,

backup

Use case scenarios

Possible target use cases

Backup software target

• DPM or backup software storage target

High performance workloads

• SQL Servers with high demand

• VMs with high demand

High performance workloads

• Exchange• CRM• ERP

Use case scenarios

What it’s not intended to

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The physical appliance

Two Independent Contollers

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The physical appliance

Eight Network Interface Ports

Two Independent Contollers

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The physical appliance

Eight Network Interface Ports

Two Power Supply Units

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The physical appliance

Redundant Cooling Fans

Two Power Supply Units

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The physical appliance

Redundant Cooling Fans

Built for availability

The physical appliance

Built for availability

• Fully redundant design• Able to run on a single

power supply• Supports MPIO between

host and appliance

• Nondisruptive Software Upgrades (NDU)

• Hot swap controllers, PCMs, and cooling fans

• RAID 10 SAS, and SSD

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The StorSimple tiers

SSD SAS

Inactive Data, Snapshots and Backups

Local Disks

TheWorking

Set

ColdData

Public Cloud

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SAS

The StorSimple tiers

Inactive Data, Snapshots and Backups

Local Disks

Public Cloud

SSD

ColdData

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SAS

The StorSimple tiers

Local Disks

Public Cloud

SSD

Keep in mind, a file is made up of multiple blocks. Since tiering is block level, data can span all three tiers.

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Backup and recovery

Local Public Cloud

• Point-in-Time recovery options

• Stored as deduplicated and compressed

• Fast recovery in the case of accidental data loss

• Point-in-Time recovery options

• Stored as deduplicated and compressed

• Moderate recovery time in case of disaster or accidental data loss

• Multi-location restore options

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Backup and recovery

Volume Restore• Recover and entire volume in case of corruption or deletion• Can be done from either local or cloud snapshot

Deterministic Thin Restores• All meta-data is first restored• Applications requesting data bring it back to the working set as

needed• Application performance is initially slower, but speeds up with

normal tiering

StorSimple security

Administrators authenticate to the Windows Azure management portal with a UserID and Password

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StorSimple security

Additional Points

• Encryption key stays with the customer

• Data is encrypted before it leaves the appliance

• StorSimple allows for 64 storage accounts, each with its own set of 256-bit access keys

• Access to volumes can be secured

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Playback demo

Demo Environment

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Playback demo

Overview

•SSDPC (MMC)•Web console

Configure•General configuration•QoS•Access Control Records (ACR)•Cloud

Manage

•Alerts•Hardware

Volumes•Create Volume•Connect Volume (Servermanager)•Volume Groups•Data Protection Policies•Data Protection Jobs•Data Protection Status

What we are looking at

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Playback demo

VolumeVolumegrou

pData

ProtectionPolicy

CloudQoS

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ACR

ShadowCopy

DataProtectio

nJob

Symbolic object overview

Playback demo

Web console

Playback demo

MMC console

Playback demo

Configuration

Playback demo

Manage

Playback demo

Volumes

Playback demo

Volume Groups

Playback demo

Data Protection - Schedule

Playback demo

Data Protection – Jobs and status

Playback demo

Data Protection – Deduplication

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Q&A

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