1. Validate your solution on HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack!
Mark Evans, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

2. Expertise and try before you buy
Joint HPE-Microsoft Azure Stack Innovation Centers (ASIC)
Experience: State-of-the-art technical engagement facility
Customers immersed in Azure Stack technology with comprehensive programs from discovering, planning, designing, and producing proof-of-concept implementations
Workshops tuned to your customer’s needs
Goal of customers being 100% committed to further Azure Stack collaboration
Access: HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack
Azure Stack ASDK and Multi-nodes
Azure Stack subject-matter experts from Microsoft and HPE
Locations: Multiple options
Workshop in-person at the ASIC:
Microsoft Technology Center in Bellevue, WA, USA
HPE Customer Innovation Centers in Geneva and Singapore
Customer site and remote options available

3. ASIC integrations and demos
Cloud Migration
BC/DR
BC/DR, Migration
Load balancing across stamps
Multi-cloud management
Monitoring with OneView Global Dashboard and Azure Log Analytics
New
More information at azurestackinnovationcenters.com/solutions

4. New Hardware Options Component Default Options Environmentals Server
Rack, cables, PDU, factory build
Server
HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen10
4-16 nodes
4-8 DL380 Gen10 All-Flash
Processor1
Intel Skylake CPUs
10 – 28 cores
2.0 – 3.0 GHz
Memory
24 DIMM Slots 256 GB minimum
256GB2, 384GB, 576GB, 768GB, 1.5TB
Storage
12 HDD per server
6-SSD per server
4TB, 6TB, 8TB, or 10TB
800GB, 1.6TB, or 3.2TB
All flash: 800GB, 1.6 TB, 3.2TB, or 6.4TB (total capacity up to 102TB)
Network
25 GbE SFP28
1 GbE RJ45 (OOB Management)
FlexFabric SFP28
FlexFabric 5900 AF-48G-4XG-2QSFP+
Arista 7160 / 7020RA
Cisco C93180YC / C9348GC
Power
110V and 220V HPE Power Advisor
OOB server
HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10 8SFF CTO Server
Higher performance HLH
Factory Build
Onsite Installation
Rack, Stack, Cable, Load FW and SW, System Test and Validation, Connect to customer network, install Microsoft Azure Stack, Integrate with Azure AD
HPE Foundation Care for Azure Services running on Azure Stack
HPE Datacenter Care
DC care specialist advice / services
HPE GreenLake Flexible Capacity
HPE, Arista and Cisco switch options
Same HLH Management server for both solutions
HPE currently has two versions of the Azure Stack solution: Hybrid and All Flash. The hybrid solution uses a 2-tier storage solution with SSD drives providing cache and HDD providing capacity storage The Hybrid nodes are configured to achieve a 10% cache ratio.
The All Flash configuration is a single tier storage. Both solutions have flexible CPU configurations from cores and 2.1 to 3.1 GhZ to allow customers to customize the solution to meet workload requirements.
As of May 15, 2019 The latest changes include 256GB RAM option for the All Flash Array, with both scale to 1.5 TB and the addition of the Cisco Switch options.
Both solution configurations are flexible and can be configured based on customer standards and requirements for CPU, RAM, Storage and Networking options. HPE is currently the only vendor that offers 3 Network switch options as part of our standard solution. Additionally, HPE offers 42u racks, but can be configured with shorter racks or as a Virtual Rack solution for customer who want the solution installed into their rack onsite. PDU’s are also configurable as metered PDU or standard PDU. All solutions should leverage Power Advisor to ensure solution power requirements are met. based on their requirements or standards.
The solution is sold with all deployment and installation services including Rack, Stack, Cabling, Switch Configuraiton, and on-site deployment of Azure Stack software at the customer site.
DL380 physical nodes are “hyper-converged”
All nodes within an Azure Scale Unit must be homogeneous so hybrid and all-flash nodes can’t be mixed
120TB RAW cap TB RAW cap
16 Hybrid nodes All Flash nodes
1. Processors must be identical pairs
GB memory option results in 33% less memory bandwidth as compared with other options

5. Native Azure Stack Data Protection and High Availability Features
Native Azure backup
No Azure Stack Native High Availability
Snapshots and replication
Does not allow VM-level backups through hypervisor APIs
Lacks the enterprise capabilities of on-premises data protection solutions
Backs up data directly to Azure public cloud with no option to keep backed up data on- premises; high risk of missing SLAs (RTO)
Does not provide HA for Azure Stack Stamp, Tenant VM. Tenant Data, Application, or Workload
Not available in Azure Stack
Are primarily used for disaster recovery in Azure Public
Are not integrated with each application to ensure application- consistent recovery
Do not provide a viable long-term retention option
Today’s data protection solutions for Azure Stack don’t meet all customer needs. For example, the native Azure backup tool doesn’t provide backups at the VM level. Although there is a capability for backing up the data directly to the Azure public cloud, there is no option of keeping a backup copy on-premises.
Snapshots and replication are part of an end-to-end data protection spectrum. However, they don’t integrate with applications to ensure app-consistent recovery and can’t be relied on for long- term retention.
ISV Data Protection Suite protects data that is not taken care of with the built-in toolkit.
File System
NTFS Full+Incr+Diff, Change Log Provider, CSV, file and metadata filtering/options
Restore to different locations, Synthetic Full
Database
SQL VDI+VSS, SQL Always-On (AG), Clustered SQL, parallel streaming, tail log backup
Restore to any point in time, Restore to different locations
Exchange VSS, DAG, Clustered Exchange, +more granular recovery
Other apps and files systems? Yes, of course!
SAP HANA, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Lotus Domino, MaxDB ...

6. Migrate VMs and workloads to Azure Stack
IDA VM
IDA
VSA VM MA VM VM VM VM
IDA
Commvault leverages an API to provide protection to the tenant VM’s and data along with ability to migrate workloads.
VM protection: Virtual Server Agent (VSA) provides agentless protection of Azure Stack virtual machines using Azure Stack API integration – supports individual file or entire VM recovery
Blob storage protection: Protects backup and recovery of Blob storage
Application protection: Agents available for every major OS, application, and database
Backups stored on any target supported by Commvault: disk, tape, Microsoft Azure, or more than 40 other cloud providers
VSA
MediaAgent VM
IDA
Migrate Virtual Machines
Virtual Repository
Virtual Server Agent (VSA) provides agentless migration of VMware and Azure VMs to Azure Stack VMs
Workloads can be migrated from any source supported by Commvault® via client agent
Commvault automation can ease provisioning of Azure Stack VMs for workload migrations

7. Disaster Recovery of Azure Stack VMs
Live Sync
Additionally, Commvault provides a Live Sync replication capability to propagate changes to the target destination after source backups.
Virtual Server Agent (VSA) provides agentless DR of Azure Stack VMs
Live Sync replication automatically propagates changes to destination after each backup at the source

8. Veeam Data Protection: Architecture
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent
Agent V V V V V V VM VM VM VM VM VM
Tenant 1
Tenant 2
Veeam Backup & Replication Server with Cloud Connect
Veeam Backup Server VM
Veeam Backup Server VM
Veeam’s goal has been to provide the customers with data protection solution that maximizes application uptime and data availability. We set out on a journey to deliver the data protection best practices 3
Have three copies of your data
Primary data + two backup copies
Why? If something happens to one backup, you have another to fall back to 2
Store backup copies on two different media types
Example: Tape, disk, secondary storage or Cloud
Why? No one device will not affect the recoverability on another 1
Keep one copy offsite
Example: Send tape offsite, replicate to remote disk storage or cloud
Why? Physical separation between your backups incase of fire, flood or local ransomware infection
While not shown on the side, naturally tape can also be an offsite copy, while a StoreOnce could also be an onsite third copy used to maintain long term retention and a Nimble being used to for the most recent restore points and fastest restores.
7-30 days of backups
7-30 days of backups
Tenant 1
Backup Copy Job
Tenant 2
Backup Copy Job

9. Micro Focus Data Protector architecture for MS Azure Stack
The number of VMs you can backup in parallel
will depend on available network bandwith
and method used (data dedupe, compression
or original data). You can add a Media Server
any time to solve bandwidth/load issues. Any
DP client can be a Media Server!
VMs
Azure
Hosts
Bridged VM
Media Servers
Start at 2 Media Servers for
redundancy and load balancing.
Systems should be hosted outside
of the Stack to work independant.
Physical systems allow FC SAN
access to Backup devices.
10Gbe
Physical Tape
FC SAN
Virtual Tape
LAN/WAN
Cloud
(Incl. Azure BLOB)
Additionally, Data Protector supports backup targets including FC SAN to physical and virtual tape targets, Cloud repositories, and archive containers.
Archive
Container
From here you have many choices where
to store data. Since data can be moved or
copied any time you can always fine-tune.
The media format makes sure you swap any
device with another without losing payload
or meta-data.

10. Classification. Discovery.
Veritas
Veritas NetBackup
Veritas 360° approach has all routes covered
Whether you’re looking to protect data, lower costs, or enable the transformation of your digital business, you can rely on Veritas to meet your information needs. We offer one of the most comprehensive multi-cloud data management solutions in the industry, 360 Data Management.
Classification. Discovery.
Policy Automation.
Intelligent Core
Data
Visibility
Data
Protection
HPE and Veritas have jointly delivered a data protection solution for Azure Stack on-premises with HPE StoreOnce and Veritas NetBackup. This involves backing up data pertaining to workload VMs running on HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack using Veritas NetBackup to the HPE StoreOnce appliance as the target backup appliance. The solution can enable fast backups and restores and provides an opportunity for efficient CPU utilization and optimized deduplication. In addition, the solution can be extended seamlessly to copy backups to the public cloud. The next slide explains this in more detail.
Digital
Compliance
Data and Workload
Portability
Business
Continuity
Storage
Optimization

11. High Level comparison of Azure Stack Data Protection ISV’s
Azure Backup Server
Azure Site Recovery
Commvault
Veeam
Veritas
Micro Focus Data Protector
Official Azure Stack Support
Yes
Azure Stack Data Protection Architecture
Uses agent to protect Azure Stack VM
For BC/DR and migration
Uses Azure Stack API with or without Agent-in-Guest
Uses Azure Stack API with Agent-in-Guest
Uses agent to protect an Azure Stack VM
Backup and Restore of full VM using Azure Stack APIs No
Application and File level backup 
(Agent-in-Guest support)
Only supports SQL, SharePoint, and Windows OS
Migration of VM
Disaster Recovery of VM
Yes, only supports Azure Stack to Azure
Azure Stack Blob storage backup and recovery
Looking at the chart from left to right, you see Azure Backup Server and Azure Site Recovery. These are core components of the Azure Stack deployment. These features do not backup VM’s, workloads, tenant data, etc. They are designed to backup / replicate to the cloud.
Site Recovery service: Site Recovery helps ensure business continuity by keeping business apps and workloads running during outages. Site Recovery replicates workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location. When an outage occurs at your primary site, you fail over to secondary location, and access apps from there. After the primary location is running again, you can fail back to it.
Backup service: The Azure Backup service keeps your data safe and recoverable by backing it up to Azure.
The key Data Protection ISV’s that HPE Azure Stack team has validated are Commvault, Veeam, Veritas, and Micro Focus Data Protector. All are Enterprise data protection ISV’s that have powerful backup, recovery, replication, and migration capabilities. There are others such as Acronis, Zerto, etc that do not offer official support for Azure Stack and they have not been validated.
All have the ability to support multiple types of backup targets such as tape devices, disk, backup appliances, and cloud. However you need to note that some use API integration and some use Agent services for data protection.

12. F5 Application High Availability:
Border Device
Border Device
Border Device
Border Device VE
TOR 1
TOR 2
Hypervisor
BMC
Leveraging the Azure Stack Innovation Center, we created 2 environment similar to what you see here. Using two HPE ProLiant for Microsoft Azure Stack stamps and installing a virtual instance of the F5 Big IP solution and ZeroDown to test and validate HA between workload virtual machines ( web servers 1,2,3,4) between the two stamps.
On MAS 11 we created two web server vm’s and synched them to the second Azure Stack instance MAS 12. Then we successfully performed the following HA tests:
Stop a web server 4 on Azure Stack MAS12
Web browser shows traffic no longer being delivered to node 4
Stop a web server 2 on Azure Stack MAS12
Web browser shows traffic no longer being delivered to MAS12
Web application remain functional.
TOR 1
TOR 2
Tenant Workload
LTM
Tenant Workload
Internal Self IP
Virtual Server
Pool Members
Load Balancing Method
Least Connection
Health Monitor
http:
BMC
Web 1
Web 3
Software Load Balancer
App
Web 2
Web 4
Software Load Balancer
App
Instance Public IP
:3387
Instance Public IP
:3388
Instance Public IP
:3390
Instance Public IP
:3391
MAS 11
MAS 12

13. ZeroDown Application High Availability:
In Addition to the F5 HA solution, we have also validated another HA ISV Partner – ZeroDown. They have a similar HA solution for Microsoft Azure Stack that has been implemented for a mutual customer in the Asia Pacific region.
This gives customers two options for application HA in Azure Stack.
We leveraged a similar test environment as F5 for validation testing and successfully tested the solution.
A solution brief and White Paper are in development.

14. Azure Stack in HPE Demonstration Portal
Recorded Demo
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15. Next steps Learn http://www.hpe.com/cloud/azure-stack
Visit online or in Person
Visit the HPE and Microsoft Azure Stack Innovation Center
Webinar
Try It Out
Single Node PoC

16. Thank you Marcus.evans@hpe.com