1. Hybrid Cloud Storage StorSimple 2.0 Perl Tsai

2. StorSimple, on-premises & in the cloud StorSimple connects Hyper-V, VMware and Linux servers to Azure Storage, seamlessly, with no application modification Enterprise Hybrid NAS or SAN storage Local or tiered volumes Automated offsite data protection using cloud snapshots Highly efficient, location independent disaster recovery Consolidated storage & data management Data mobility for enterprise data Customer Data Center Azure Data Center StorSimple Manager Internet Azure-based Applications StorSimple Cloud Appliance StorSimple Virtual Array Hyper-VLinuxVMware SAN NAS StorSimple Physical iSCSI Hyper-VLinuxVMware SAN Smaller Enterprise Environment Microsoft Confidential

3. Components StorSimple Physical Array A physical 2U iSCSI SAN device, located in the on-premises datacenter with Servers running the StorSimple software. StorSimple Virtual Array iSCSI SAN Software version of StorSimple solution, installed on a VM, located in a branch or remote office StorSimple Virtual Array SMB NAS Software version of StorSimple solution, installed on a VM, located in a branch or remote office StorSimple Software Windows OS StorSimple Cloud Appliance iSCSI SAN Software version of StorSimple solution, installed on Azure, StorSimple Manager Service StorSimple Manager Service, in Microsoft Azure Management Portal, managing on- premises & cloud storage

4. On-premises StorSimple Virtual Array

5. StorSimple Virtual Array Azure Data Center StorSimple Manager Internet Remote/Branch Office 2 SMB NAS iSCSI SAN Hypervisor Remote/Branch Office 1 SMB NAS iSCSI SAN Hypervisor Minimum Configuration SpecificationRequirement OS Disk80GB Data Disk500GB (8TB max) Memory8GB CPU4 cores Network 1 NIC with at least 5Mbps cloud connection Users and Applications StorSimple Virtual Arrays Microsoft Confidential

6. StorSimple Virtual Array specifications Virtual ArrayHybrid Storage Array Install requirementsRequires virtualization infrastructure in-place Prepackaged appliance + software (solution in a box) Space requirementInstalled on existing virtualization infrastructure Empty Rackspace available for installed of array Availability No high availability. Requires a restore from cloud snapshot. Highly-available. Redundant controller architecture Local capacity8TB 15TB (8100) 38TB (8600) Local + Cloud capacity64TB 200TB (8100) 500TB (8600) Protocols (native)SMB, iSCSIiSCSI Microsoft Confidential

7. StorSimple software

8. Provisioning and tiering of volumes/shares 100GB SQL V1 100GB SQL V2 100GB FS V1 200GB FS V2 Local* Tiered Local* - no dedupe, compression for primary data. Microsoft Confidential 100GB SQL V1 100GB SQL V2 100GB FS V1 Local* 100GB FS V1 200GB FS V2 900GB tiered 1.8TB tiered 8000 SERIES HYBRID STORAGE ARRAY StorSimple Virtual Array

9. Microsoft Azure StorSimple Cloud Appliance Facilitates data mobility of on-premises production datasets to Azure that will run with VMs originating in Azure.

10. StorSimple Cloud Appliance iSCSI 80208010 Maximum Capacity64TB30TB Azure VM Standard_DS3 (4 cores, 14GB memory) Standard_A3 (4 cores, 7GB memory) StorSimple Version Compatibility Versions running Update 2 or laterAll versions Region AvailabilityRegions that support premium storagesupportAll Azure Regions SCA Internal Storage Type Uses Azure premium storageUses Azure standard storage Workload GuidanceDR, DR test, Cloud dev/test scenarios. Low latency, higher performance workloads. Item Level Retrieval from backups  A software version of StorSimple that runs on a VM in Azure  The StorSimple Cloud Appliance is an iSCSI target for Azure VMs to rehydrate data from cloud snapshots  A virtual network joins VMs and the StorSimple Virtual Appliance.