1© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. EMC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MICROSOFT APPLICATIONS IN THE PRIVATE CLOUD EMC Symmetrix VMAX 10K, EMC VNX5700, EMC RecoverPoint/Cluster Enabler, Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server, Microsoft Hyper-V EMC Solutions Group Technical Presentation

2© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Agenda  Solution Overview  Application Design and Test Results  System Management  DR Design and Test Results  Summary

3© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Solution Overview

4© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Solution Objectives

5© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Solution Architecture

6© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Hyper-V Cluster and Virtual Machines  Distribute virtual machines in the same application role into different Hyper-V nodes for redundancy  200 GB boot LUNs for each virtual machine  All DB and log LUNs as pass-through disks

7© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Hardware resources EquipmentQuantityConfiguration EMC ® Symmetrix ® VMAX 10K ® 1 2 system bays and 1 storage bay Enginuity version: e 200 GB Flash drives: GB 15k rpm FC drives: GB 10k rpm FC drives: 82 2 TB 7.2k rpm SATA drives: 89 EMC VNX ® Block OE code: GB 10k rpm SAS drives: 56 2 TB 7.2k rpm NL-SAS drives: 160 RecoverPoint44 RecoverPoint appliances (two per site) FC switch28 Gb FC Switch (one per site) GbE network switch 248-port IP Switch Servers11 8 x Hyper-V servers (4 x 4 processors CPU and 128 GB RAM) 1 x management server (4 x 4 processors CPU and 32 GB RAM) 2 x Domain Controller servers (4 processors and 4 GB RAM)

8© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Software resources SoftwareConfiguration Microsoft Components Hyper-V cluster nodesWindows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 Virtual machine operating systemWindows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 SQL Server2012 RTM Enterprise Edition Exchange Server2010 Enterprise Edition with SP2 SharePoint Server2010 Enterprise Edition with SP1 System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)2008 R2 SP1 System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)2007 R2 EMC Components PowerPathVersion 5.5 SP1 RecoverPointVersion EMC Storage Integrator (ESI)Version 1.3 EMC Cluster EnablerVersion 4.1.2

9© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.  Each application has its own policy, but shares the same tiers FAST VP Configuration TierNo. of disksRAID Flash – 200 GB12RAID 5 (3+1) FC – 450 GB 15k rpm80RAID 5 (3+1) SATA – 2 TB 7.2k rpm68RAID 1 ApplicationTiersPolicy ExchangeFC and SATA10:90 SharePointFlash, FC, and SATA10:80:10 SQLFlash, FC, and SATA25:65:10

10© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Application Design and Test Results  FAST VP baseline testing without RecoverPoint replication in place  RecoverPoint CRR protection impact on applications: –25 ms network latency (round trip) –85 ms network latency (round trip)

11© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Exchange Server 2010 User Profile ItemValue Number of Exchange 2010 users10,000 Number of Mailbox Server virtual machines4 Number of DAGs and database copies1 DAG with 2 copies Number of users per Mailbox Server 5,000 total mailboxes (2,500 active and 2,500 passive during normal operating conditions) User profile (in DAG configuration)100 messages/user/day (0.10 IOPS) Read:Write ratio3:2 in a DAG configuration Mailbox sizeStart at 500 MB, grow to 2 GB Target average message size75 KB Deleted items retention window14 days Logs protection buffer3 days 24 x 7 BDM configurationEnabled

12© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Exchange Server 2010 Design  Exchange DAG configuration Role No. of VMs vCPU RAM (GB) Description Pass-through disks (GB) No. of pass-through disks per VM HUB/ CAS 4416N/A MBX448 Database LUNs1.8 TB10 Log LUNs100 GB10  Exchange virtual machine design

13© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Exchange Sever 2010 Performance Result FAST VP baseline –~60% CPU usage on MBX servers –Healthy disk latency FAST VP with RecoverPoint –RecoverPoint CRR replication has little impact on Exchange Server 2010 performance

14© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SQL Server 2012 User Profile ItemValue SQL database capacity and user profile 3 user databases per SQL Server: 1 x 50 GB (5,000 user) 1 x 100 GB (10,000 user) 1 x 150 GB (15,000 user) Number of SQL Server instances2 Number of user databases for each virtual machine 3 Number of virtual machines2 Total database size600 GB Number of total users60,000 Read/Write ratio85:15 online transaction processing (OLTP) Concurrent users Mixed (to simulate hot, warm and cold workloads across the databases)

15© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SQL Server 2012 Design Role No. of VMs vCPU RAM (GB) Pass- through disks (GB) Description No. of pass- through disks SQL Server Database LUN of 150 GB DB1 125Log LUN of 150 GB DB1 200Database LUN of 100 GB DB1 100Log LUN of 100 GB DB1 150Database LUN of 50 GB DB1 75Log LUN of 50 GB DB1 100SQL tempdb data4 50SQL tempdb log1

16© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SQL Sever 2012 Performance Result FAST VP baseline –~9,000 IOPS and ~80% CPU on two SQL Servers –Healthy disk latency FAST VP with RecoverPoint –RecoverPoint CRR replication has little impact on SQL Server 2012 performance

17© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile ItemValue Total user count10,000 Usage profile (%browse/%search/%modify)80%/10%/10% User concurrency10% Total data4 TB Content database size1 TB Total site collections count20 Sites per site collection10 Document size range10 KB–10 MB

18© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SharePoint Server 2010 Design Role No. of VMs vCPU RAM (GB) Pass-through disks (GB) Description No. of pass-through disks per VM WFE344120Query Component2 Index24880Index Component2 SQL Server Content DB data2 30Content DB log2 50Config/Admin DB Property DB80 GB and 20 GB Crawl DB220 GB and 50 GB 50Temp DB Content DB data2 30Content DB log2 50Temp DB5

19© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. SharePoint Sever 2010 Performance Result FAST VP baseline –58 Passed Tests/sec –35,308 heavy users at 10% concurrency –Healthy response time FAST VP with RecoverPoint –RecoverPoint CRR replication has little impact on SharePoint Server 2010 performance

20© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. VMAX 10K Performance Result  Array utilization: –BE UT: ~50% –FE UT: ~25% –Disk UT: ▪FC & SATA: ~60% ▪Flash: ~30%

21© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. System Management

22© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. System Management  SCVMM for VM deployment  ESI for storage provisioning  SCOM for monitoring

23© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. DR Design and Test Results  RecoverPoint compression ratio and RPO results  RecoverPoint/CE failover: –Planned failover (Live Migration) –Unplanned failover (site disaster recovery)

24© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. RecoverPoint Journal Sizing  Journal volume sizing formula  Journal sizing for this solution Production siteDR site Protection window 1 day3 days Journal size Exchange Mailbox75 GBExchange Mailbox250 GB Exchange HUB/CAS5 GBExchange HUB/CAS20 GB SQL Server75 GBSQL Server250 GB SharePoint SQL Server100 GBSharePoint SQL Server300 GB SharePoint Application5 GBSharePoint Application20 GB SharePoint WFE15 GBSharePoint WFE50 GB

25© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. RecoverPoint/Cluster Enabler Setup 1.Setup Hyper-V Cluster on Production site 2.Configure one consistency group per virtual machine and match names 3.Finish consistency group initial replication 4.Set the correct consistency group policy 5.Use Cluster Enabler to configure the cluster and add nodes from the DR site 6.Test failover using Live Migration 2 4

26© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. RecoverPoint Compression Ratio  3x compression ratio on Exchange Mailbox Server and SQL Server virtual machines  1.5x compression ratio on the SharePoint SQL virtual machines

27© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. RecoverPoint RPO in 85 ms latency  Data lag: –40 MB for MBX –20 MB for SQL –10 MB for others  Time lag: <3 sec

28© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Planned Failover  Failover time 25 ms latency85 ms latency Virtual machine Client unavailability time Cluster migration time Client unavailability time Cluster migration time SharePoint SQL105 sec 111 sec WFE90 sec96 sec80 sec92 sec APP0 sec86 sec0 sec95 sec SQL Server99 sec120 sec105 sec120 sec  SharePoint resumed serving clients after failing over

29© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Unplanned Failover  Site failover time  SharePoint farm behavior Event25 ms85 ms Virtual machine online5 min 40 sec4 min 57 sec Exchange responding to clients 16 min 39 sec16 min 18sec SQL Server responding to clients 13 min 35 sec18 min 7 sec SharePoint responding to clients 14 min 5 sec15 min 50 sec Benefits A comprehensive data protection solution for the entire data center Zero user intervention during site failover

30© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Summary

31© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Key Findings  Desired performance to meet the needs of the following application configurations: –SharePoint: 35,308 heavy users at 10 percent concurrency –SQL: 60,000 users with more than 4,000 SQL transactions processed and 9,000 IOPS –Exchange: 10,000 concurrent users at 0.10 IOPS profile  Ease of provisioning and simplified management of the whole infrastructure  A comprehensive data protection solution with 100% automatic site failover and good RTO and RPO –3x compression ratio for most data –3 second time lag and 18 minute freezing time to client (worst case) during site failover in 85ms network latency

32© Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved. Reference  Whitepaper:  infstr-msapps-private-cloud-wp.pdf infstr-msapps-private-cloud-wp.pdf  Demos:  =plcp =plcp –Hyper-V pass-through disks provisioning by ESI –Live Migration of a SharePoint SQL Server –Automatic site failover and SharePoint behaviors –Automatic site failover and Exchange behaviors