Microsoft Ignite 2015 4/16/2017 2:37 PM BRK3496 Deploying Private Cloud Storage with Dell PowerEdge Servers and Windows Server vNext Syama Poluri, Claus Joergensen , Shai Ofek © 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Agenda Brief History Microsoft SDS : Past , Present and Future Microsoft Ignite 2015 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Agenda Brief History Microsoft SDS : Past , Present and Future Dell’s Journey with Storage Spaces Learnings from field and Cloud Platform System (CPS) Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Storage Spaces Direct Technology Overview Physical View Logical View I/O Stack ReFS Storage Spaces Direct Deployment PowerEdge R730xd Platform Details Managing , Monitoring and Troubleshooting Dell & Microsoft Partnership © 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Microsoft SDS : Past , Present and Future Microsoft Ignite 2015 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Microsoft SDS : Past , Present and Future Pre Windows 2012 Windows 2012 Windows 2012 R2 Windows 2016 Dependent on Traditional Storage Relied on 3rd party SAN vendors 1st wave SDS Introduction to Storage Spaces “Remote File solution for Hyper-V using shared JBOD Introducied Scale Out File Server ( SOFS) RDMA and Multichannel SAN independence 2nd wave SDS Storage Tiering WriteBack Cache (WBC) Scale Out File Server improvements SMB Direct Improvements Volume Rebalancing Multiple instances JBOD monitoring Storage Spaces Direct Remote File solution for Hyper-V using shared nothing hardware Unlock use of DAS Reduce Cost  Software Storage Bus SATA and NVMe Node Fault Tolerance Health Services Storage Spaces Enhancements Scalable pools Data Rebalancing © 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Dell’s Journey With Storage Spaces Microsoft Ignite 2015 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Dell’s Journey With Storage Spaces May 2014: Support Storage Spaces using PowerVault MD3060e End-End VDI solution using PowerVault MD1220 Sept 2012: Windows 2012 Release: Understanding the technology and feedback to Microsoft Oct 2014: Launch Cloud Platform System (CPS) Powered by Dell Nov 2013: Worked closely with Microsoft in developing JBOD monitoring feature Oct 2013: Windows 2012 R2 Release Internal testing and active feedback to Microsoft Feb 2014: Support Storage Spaces using PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 Sept 2014: Additional Hardware Support with 12Gbps SAS . Select PowerEdge servers , PowerVault MD1400 and MD1420 Journey Continues… © 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Microsoft Cloud Platform System 4/16/2017 Visit Microsoft Cloud Platform booth to see full demo and hardware Microsoft Cloud Platform System Azure-consistent Cloud in a Box Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, Windows Azure Pack Microsoft-designed architecture based on Public Cloud learning Optimized run-books for Microsoft applications Dell PowerEdge servers Dell Storage dense enclosures Dell Networking switches Optimized racking & cabling for high density, servicing, reliability & redundancy Microsoft-led support & orchestrated updates © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Learnings from the field and CPS Planning real world deployments Capacity planning Performance planning Need guidance more than simple deployment guides Selecting the correct hardware Some HDD scale better than others HBA firmware , Network cards and driver information that are tested and qualified at scale Configuration complexities How many columns, HDDs and SSDs SAS and network cabling Pool configuration and RDMA configurations Validation with Windows features Optimal configuration of windows features Latest Hotfix / QFE information Change management for Storage Spaces clusters

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Microsoft Ignite 2015 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Announcing Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces © 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS) Supported Client Servers Any Dell PowerEdge Server 6 Supported Dell Switches (S4810, S5000, N4064, N4064F, N4032, N4023F) 10Gb iWARP or ROCE RDMA Client Communication 2, 3 or 4 Storage Nodes R630 or R730 SAS Direct Attach (HA cabling) 2 to 4 Storage Enclosures (MD1400, MD1420, MD3060e) Compute Networking Client I/O Controllers Storage I/O Storage More information at http://www.dell.com/microsoft o   Unable to generate color coded feedback. It would require additional programs/libraries to be installed on end user system. Still investigating solution. Work around is stating (X/X) systems are the same and present a warning when something is different. o   For validating specific version numbers, OS, KB, etc. when going to from release to release the scripts will either need to be hard coded (not ideal) or be able to take in a config file of some sort to check against (better solution but would require lifecycle control from release to release). ·         Current and future plans o   Improve the content gathered in the StorageInventory.ps1 §  Gather details on tiering configuration §  Develop python script to examine details of content gathered o   The end goal is to expand and improve the content created by each PowerShell Script and have a corresponding python module for each set of output files. o   As each module gets more robust, the plan is to unify them into one or pass them on to create an actual GUI tool developed in Java/C++ (most likely done by someone full time).

Launching June 2015 Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS) Hyper-V Validated and tested solution blocks for reliable SOFS operation Pre-defined SKUs for 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 3x3 and 4x4 SOFS configurations Award winning, industry standard 13th Generation Dell Enterprise PowerEdge servers and PowerVault JBODs Low cost compute and networking with C-servers, FX, Blades, PowerConnect & Force 10 RDMA solutions using iWarp and RoCE Workload optimized turnkey solutions & Reference Architectures (Private Cloud & VDI) Private Cloud Backup & archival VDI Launching June 2015 SQL Standard management with MS System Center, iDRAC, OpenManage Validated & tested solution blocks SMB3 & RDMA Worldwide installation services and total solution support Sizing & performance guidance

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Advantage Visit Dell booth on Expo floor for demo and solution details Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Advantage Pre-Sales engagement & sizing for workload Fulfillment & Deployment Worldwide On Premise Management & Support Sizing Performance and Capacity sizing SKUs for pre-defined configurations Optimized solution SKUs using standard Dell servers and JBODs Deployment Installation and deployment option Dell services Validation assistance for deployment on-site Comprehensive Deployment Guide Management Leverages Dell & Microsoft management tools Solution updates with single payload for storage nodes and JBODs through Microsoft Cluster Aware Updating (CAU) Support Full solution-level support for all components Dell worldwide support services End-to-End Dell Engagement for lifecycle of entire solution

DSMS as a Building Block for Storage Solutions Customer- a la carte Partner & Dell Services Reference Architectures Fast Track Solutions Verified configuration Deployment guide Scalable & Customizable Validated configuration Simple setup High availability Easy scalability Sizing guidance & Best Practices Deployment Guide Best-in-class components System Center integration Best-in-class components Professional expertise and custom solution development Microsoft compatibility System Center integration Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces

Introducing Storage Spaces Direct

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric Storage Spaces Direct Enabling cloud hardware designs Support for DAS (shared nothing) storage hardware Prescriptive configurations Scale for Technical Preview 2 Minimum of four servers Maximum of twelve servers Maximum of 240 disk devices in a single pool Fault tolerance Fault tolerance to disk, enclosure and node failures 3-copy mirror and dual parity Resilient up to two node failures Management System Center and PowerShell Simple expansion Add node(s) and expand pool Rebalance for capacity Hyper-V Clusters SMB3 Storage Network Fabric Scale-Out File Server Internal Disks Shared JBOD Storage

Spaces Direct Logical View Storage Access (Scale-Out File Server) Remote data access for Hyper-V Data access resiliency File System (CSVFS/ReFS) System-wide data access Fast VHDX creation, grow and merge Data Repair Storage Spaces Storage pooling Virtual disks Data storage resiliency Software Storage Bus Spans all storage nodes Virtualizes physical disks Leverages SMB3 and SMB Direct Storage nodes with internal disks SATA, NVMe, SAS SMB3 Storage Network Fabric Software Defined Storage System Scale-Out File Server \\FileServer\Share Cluster Shared Volumes C:\ClusterStorage Storage Space Virtual Disks Storage Pool Software Storage Bus Storage Node Storage Node Storage Node Storage Node

Spaces Direct I/O Stack Server 1 Server 2 Write arrives from compute node SMB sends it downstream File Server \\fileserver\share1 C:\clusterstorage\volume1 CSVFS File System File System Access Layer VolMgr VolMgr PartMgr PartMgr Disk Disk Spaceport sends write to each copy on disk Virtualization Layer SpacePort SpacePort Virtual Disks SBL forwards write to block target on destination node with shortest queue ClusBT Volume Mgr Clusport Virtual HBA Clusport Virtual HBA ClusBT Volume Mgr Storage Bus Layer SBL Disks SBL on each node sends data to physical stack PartMgr PartMgr Physical Layer Disk Disk Physical Disks HBA Miniport HBA Miniport

ReFS is the Primary File System Does not need to pre-fill new files and growing files with zeros Quickly creates large fixed VHDs Quickly grows dynamic VHDs Accelerated VHD creation and growth VM checkpoints have parent-child VHDs After backup completes, Hyper-V historically moved all data from child to parent (slow VHD “merge”) Using ReFS, Hyper-V now quickly reassigns blocks from the child to the parent Efficient VM checkpoint clean-up after backup HDDs are optimized for capacity SSDs are optimized for performance ReFS keeps hot data in SSDs and cold data in HDDs, providing both performance and capacity Affordable Performance of SSDs, capacity of HDDs SSD Available per-file integrity streams validate file contents Upon error detection, ReFS retrieves a correct copy from Storage Spaces, if available ReFS uses the correct copy to automatically repair the corruption Resilient Optional automatic error correction

BRK3474: Enabling Private Cloud Storage Using Servers with Local Disks ReFS: Resiliency Metadata Checksums Checksums protect all filesystem metadata User Data Checksums Optional checksums protect file data Checksum Verification Occurs on every read of checksum-protected data And during background scrubbing Healing of Detected Corruption Healing occurs as soon as corruption is detected Healthy version searched for in Spaces alternate copies (i.e. mirrors or parity data) Corrupt version overwritten by healthy version Spaces 3-Way Mirror with ReFS Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Reads striped across all three disks Checksums verified on reads On checksum mismatch, mirrors are consulted Good copies used to heal bad mirror

Storage Spaces Direct Hardware Deployment Options Visit Microsoft Cloud Platform booth to see full demo and hardware Storage Spaces Direct Hardware Deployment Options

PowerEdge R730xd Up to 2 Intel Xeon E5- 2600 v3 (18 core) CPUs 24DIMM slots (DDR4, 2133) Up to 16x3.5 “+2 x2.5“ Drive Slots 64 TB for Data with 4TB disk 96 TB for Data with 6TB disk Internal Storage ( SAS , SATA, NVMe 2U Height Up to 6 PCIe slots Network Select Adapter (choice of onboard NIC) Storage Spaces Certified HBA

PowerEdge R730xd Overview (Rear) Full Length, Full Height Slots PCIe3 x16 (x16 connector) Half Length, Low Profile Slots PCIe3 x8 (x16 connector) vFlash Media Card Slot Full Length, Full Height Slot PCIe3 x8 (x16 connector) 2 x 2.5” Drive Bays USB 3.0 / 2.0 Ports Dedicated Management Port Video Connector Up to 2 x Redundant Power Supplies – 495W, 750W and 1100W (AC or DC) options Network Daughter Card (choice of 4 x 1GbE or 2 x 10GbE + 2 x 1GbE); SFP+ Option Available Serial Connector

PowerEdge R730xd Overview (Internal Bay)

Exceptional performance and versatility for dynamic workloads Dell PowerEdge R730xd and R730 industry reviews Intel Technology Innovation Accelerated Award “The results are in, and the Dell PowerEdge R730 kicks some serious butt.” PowerEdge R730xd offers an “incredible range of configurability.” “The storage-centric R730xd offers new degrees of flexibility… to keep storage as close as possible to the compute layer.” “Dell has hit a long home run with the PowerEdge R730xd, delivering a powerful 2U server with lots of room to grow.”

DEMO @ Microsoft Cloud Platform Booth Dell S4810 Networking Switch PowerEdge R630 Hyper-V Cluster PowerEdge R730xd Spaces Direct Cluster Storage : 13x 4TB HDD+4x900 GB SSD Network : Intel 520 10GB+i350 GB RDMA : Mellanox Connectx-3 10GB SPF

Deployment Process TechEd 2013 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Install H/W Validate H/W (validation tests) Install OS, Configure Roles, Features and Network, Cluster, Set Cluster Property Validate Cluster Storage & File Share Run workload Ongoing Monitoring & Troubleshooting © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Simple deployment using PowerShell #Create cluster New-Cluster –Name cluster01 –Node machine1, machines2, machine3 –NoStorage # Enable Storage Spaces Shared Nothing (Get-Cluster).DASModeEnabled = 1 #Create file server Add-ClusterScaleOutFileServerRole -Name sofs1 #Create storage pool and define storage tiers New-StoragePool -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName *clustered* -FriendlyName DAS -ProvisioningTypeDefault Fixed -ResiliencySettingNameDefault Mirror -PhysicalDisk (Get-PhysicalDisk | ? CanPool -eq $true) #Create virtual disk New-Volume -StoragePoolFriendlyName DAS -FriendlyName vdisk01 -PhysicalDiskRedundancy 2 -FileSystem CSVFS_REFS –Size 4000GB #Create file share md c:\clusterstorage\volume1\share1 new-smbshare -name share1 -path c:\clusterstorage\volume1\share1 -fullaccess HyperV01, Hyper-V02 set-smbpathacl -sharename share1 <-New

Monitoring and Troubleshooting 4/16/2017 Monitoring and Troubleshooting © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Dell OpenManage Integration Suite for Microsoft System Center Deploy Update Monitor Virtual Management Dell Server and Client Deployment Packs Dell Server and Client Update Catalogs Dell Hardware Management Pack Suites Dell Server PRO Management Pack Dell Lifecycle Controller Integration

Storage Diagnostic Logs Cmdlets 4/16/2017 Storage Diagnostic Logs Cmdlets #Starts storage tracing sessions in the given subsystem Start-StorageDiagnosticLog -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName “RemoteSQLCluster” #Repro the issue #Stops currently running storage tracing sessions in the given subsystem Stop-StorageDiagnosticLog -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName “RemoteSQLCluster” #Gathers storage event logs, trace logs & live dumps from each node in the cluster Get-StorageDiagnosticInfo -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName “RemoteSQLCluster” –DestinationPath D:\StorageLogs\ © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

SCOM Storage Monitoring Microsoft Ignite 2015 4/16/2017 2:37 PM SCOM Storage Monitoring Storage subsystem determines health Focus on relevant objects Storage subsystem, volumes and file shares Automatic remediation when possible Actionable alerts Alert specifies urgency Alert specifies remediation action Alerts automatically resolve when issue is addressed Easy to determine affected objects Consumable through PowerShell or 3rd parties SMAPI System Center vNext Operations Manager Virtual Machine Manager User notifications Dashboard Actions Discovery 3rd Party Monitoring Actions Storage System Health Logic PowerShell © 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Dell & Microsoft Key Value Dell-Microsoft End –End Solutions (VDI,Private Cloud) Hyper-V clusters Dell Management Software and Plug-ins for System Center Dell PowerEdge Servers Tested and Validated for Scalable and Reliable Deployment Dell Network Switches Data Center Networking Scale-out file server clusters Storage Space Dell PowerEdge Servers Dell PowerVault JBOD Storage

Dell and Microsoft Partnership Continuous and Co-Engineering 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Dell and Microsoft Partnership Continuous and Co-Engineering Storage Spaces (Windows Server 2012 R2) Microsoft and Dell validated Hardware and solutions Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Cloud Platform System Built on Dell Hardware Best Practices, Driver optimization, etc. Storage Spaces Direct (Windows Server vNext) Co-Engineer Solution Joined TAP Dedicated Engineering teams: Microsoft and Dell © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Leverage the power of Dell and Microsoft alliance US Windows Deployment Partner of the Year US Windows Partner of the Year Most complete Full, end-to-end capabilities – from tablets to the data center 2 years running 2013 Single Point of Contact Dell provides a single contact for total solution Global Solutions Centers Joint IP/development TAP participation Broad participation in Technology Adoption Programs Demonstrate the full Microsoft stack running on Dell Engineering labs, technology centers, centers of excellence

“Dell is Microsoft’s largest OEM partner to have implemented support for Storage Spaces. Dell provides the most complete Storage Spaces implementation – server, controller, JBOD and disks form an end-to-end solution, and this support includes new features such as JBOD monitoring.” Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team TechNet Server & Cloud Blog

Summary Storage Spaces (Windows Server 2012 R2) 4/16/2017 2:37 PM Summary Storage Spaces (Windows Server 2012 R2) Scalable , Resilient and Efficient SDS solution Dell and Microsoft collaborate , innovate and optimize for real worked deployments For today’s Storage Spaces needs deploy Dell DSMS solutions Visit Dell’s Booth on Expo Floor Storage Spaces Direct (Windows Server vNext) Join TAP Visit Microsoft Cloud Platform Dell Booth in Expo Floor Visit www.delltechcenter.com for updated information Leverage the power of Dell and Microsoft alliance © 2014 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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