1. iSCSI Software Target for Application Storage and Boot
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WSV313
iSCSI Software Target for Application Storage and Boot
Jian Yan
Program Manager
Microsoft
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2. Agenda Simplified overview of SAN
What is iSCSI Software Target – Product Overview
Demo: How to set it up
Deployment considerations
Deployment Scenarios for production envrionment
Demo: HA solution for a small virtualized environment

3. Microsoft Exchange Server Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Simplified view of SAN
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft Hyper-V Server
Storage Device
e.g. FC/iSCSI

4. High Level Concept - iSCSI in Windows
iSCSI Software Target
iSCSI Initiator
Ethernet switch
Application Server
Storage Device

5. iSCSI Software Target 3.3 is available on Microsoft Download Center
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iSCSI Software Target 3.3 is available on Microsoft Download Center
announcement
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6. Agenda Simplified overview of SAN
What is iSCSI Software Target – Product Overview
Demo: How to set it up
Deployment considerations
Deployment Scenarios
Demo: HA solution for a small virtualized environment

7. Product Overview Low cost storage solution Easy deployment
Windows Server  a block storage device
Easy deployment
No additional hardware required
Easy management
Interoperability with a variety of iSCSI initiators

8. High level architecture
iSCSITarget_Client_public.msi
iSCSITarget_public.msi
Application Server
Windows Server/Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
VDS Hardware Provider
MMC snapin (WTSnapin.dll)
Powershell cmdlets
(iSCSI.Commands.dll)
Cluster resource DLL (WTClusRes.dll)
VSS Hardware Provider
Status Proxy (WTStatusProxy.exe)
Commandline (WTCli.exe)
WMI providers (WTWMIProv.dll)
Mgmt. IO
Application
WinTarget.exe
DataIO
MS iSCSI Initiator
File system
Storage stack
Network Stack
Localmount Driver (Wtlmdrv.sys)
iSCSI Initiator
Available in Windows (Not part of the download package)
Role: Connect to iSCSI Target
Storage Management Providers
Package: iSCSITarget_Client_public.msi
Role : VSS provider – application consistent snapshot, VDS provider – iSCSI Target management
iSCSI Software Target
Package: iSCSITarget_public.msi
Role : Provide block storage

9. Configure iSCSI Software Target
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Configure iSCSI Software Target
demo
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10. Agenda Simplified overview of SAN
What is iSCSI Software Target – Product Overview
Demo: How to set it up
Deployment considerations
Deployment Scenarios
Demo: HA solution for a small virtualized environment

11. Deployment considerations
Network
Bandwidth
Dedicated or shared network
Multi-pathing
TCP offload
iSCSI offload
Jumbo frames
Storage
Performance
Disk RAID
Security
CHAP
IPSec

12. Agenda Simplified overview of SAN
What is iSCSI Software Target – Product Overview
Demo: How to set it up
Deployment considerations
Deployment Scenarios
Demo: HA solution for a small virtualized environment

13. Storage consolidation
Before
After
Clients
Clients
Corporate Subnet
(10.10.xxx.xxx)
Corporate Subnet
(10.10.xxx.xxx)
Application server
Application server with DAS
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Hyper-V Server
Storage Device (iSCSI)
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Hyper-V Server
Storage Subnet
( xxx)

14. Storage virtualization
Before
After
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Hyper-V Server
Microsoft Exchange Server
Microsoft SQL Server
Hyper-V Server
iSCSI FC FC

15. Simple storage solution for Hyper-V
Hyper-V host
SQL (VM)
Web (VM)
C:\
C:\
D:\
Windows Server
iSCSI Software Target

16. Simple standalone solution
Hyper-V Host
SQL
SQL
D:\
D:\
Windows Server
iSCSI Software Target

17. Shared storage for Hyper-V cluster
SQL
Web
SQL
Web
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\
D:\
E:\
Windows Server
iSCSI Software Target

18. High Availability solution
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
SQL
Web
SQL
Web
SQL
Web
SQL
Web
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\
C:\
D:\
E:\
D:\
D:\
iSCSI Target HA solution
Windows Server
Windows Server
iSCSI Target
WFC
iSCSI Target
WFC
SAN Array
Controller
Controller

19. Hyper-v scalability testing
92 VM
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Backend Storage
HP StorageWorks MSA2324sa G2
24 physical disks exposed as 24 logic disks
23 cluster shared disks for VMs
1 quorum disk
iSCSI Target Server
Windows 2008 R2
Each node: HP Proliant DL380 G6
48G RAM
4 x1GbE used for iSCSI
1 1GbE for management and cluster heartbeat
Workload simulator: SqlIoSim
Unplanned failover time: brown timeout under 60 seconds, application experience ZERO IO failure
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
Hyper-V host
VM1
VM1
VM1
VM2
VM2
VM1
VM1
VM1
VM1
VM1
VM2
VM2
VM1
VM13
VM1
VM1
VM1
VM2
VM2
VM1
VM1
VM1
VM25
VM1
VM2
VM2
VM1
VM37
Windows Server
Windows Server
iSCSI Target
WFC
iSCSI Target
WFC
Controller
SAS array

20. Network boot scenario Benefit Use case Rapid deployment Quick recovery
Reduce CapEx and OpEx
Controlled OS images
Ease of management
Use case
HPC diskless cluster
Base Golden
Image
Diff VHDs
Diff VHDs
iSCSI Software Target

21. HPC boot scalability and performance
Deployment : Takes a Sysprep golden image to boot off diskless servers
Create diff VHD for each compute node
Create target, assign VHD to the compute nodes
Customize boot images
Boot
NIC queries DHCP
Logon to the target
Loads the VHD
# of computer nodes
Deployment (min)
Boot time (Min)
Storage configuration
128 30 4
20 disks
RAID 5 20 3
RAID 10
256 58 6 34 5

22. Agenda Simplified overview of SAN
What is iSCSI Software Target – Product Overview
Demo: How to set it up
Deployment considerations
Deployment Scenarios
Demo: HA solution for a small virtualized environment

23. Demo configuration 1 Adding iSCSI disks to a Failover cluster
Hyper-V Host
Failover Cluster
Adding iSCSI disks to a Failover cluster
Application Server VM
Application Server VM
iSCSI Target VM

24. Demo configuration 2 Failover of the iSCSI Target cluster
Hyper-V Host
Application Server VM
Failover of the iSCSI Target cluster
Application continuously running without errors
Failover Cluster
iSCSI Target VM
iSCSI Target VM

25. Building application cluster with iSCSI Target
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Building application cluster with iSCSI Target
demo
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26. Building an iSCSI HA solution
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Building an iSCSI HA solution
demo
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27. Summary Overview of SAN
Deploy and management of Microsoft iSCSI Software Target
Deployment considerations and scenarios
Microsoft iSCSI Software Target providing shared storage for Windows Failover cluster
Highly available iSCSI Target service for production environment

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