2. Software Defined Storage in the Next Release of Windows Server
4/17/2017
Software Defined Storage in the Next Release of Windows Server
CDP-B222
Siddhartha Roy
Group Program Manager,
Windows Server HA and Storage
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3. Customer Choice SAN and NAS storage Private Cloud with partner storage
Service Provider
Microsoft
ONE
Consistent Platform
SAN and NAS storage
Private Cloud
with partner storage
Windows SMB3 Scale Out File Server (SoFS) + Storage Spaces
Private Cloud
with
Microsoft SDS
StorSimple + Microsoft Azure Storage
Hybrid Cloud
Storage
Microsoft Azure storage
Public Cloud
Storage
Microsoft Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Breadth offering, unified platform for Microsoft workloads and Linux
Public Cloud scale and cost economics for Private Cloud customers

4. Today’s session SAN and NAS storage Private Cloud with partner storage
Windows SMB3 Scale Out File Server (SoFS) + Storage Spaces
Private Cloud
with
Microsoft SDS
StorSimple + Microsoft Azure Storage
Hybrid Cloud
Storage
Microsoft Azure storage
Public Cloud
Storage
Microsoft Software Defined Storage (SDS)
Breadth offering, unified platform for Microsoft workloads and Linux
Public Cloud scale and cost economics for Private Cloud customers

5. 4/17/2017
Looking back - starting the Software Defined Storage journey in WS 2012
Customers
Industry
Trends
Public
Cloud
inputs
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6. Windows Server Management Marketing
4/17/2017
Industry trends
Cloud scale services influencing design
Standard, volume hardware to build high-scale systems at low cost
Cloud design points in software
Data explosion
Device proliferation
Modern apps
Unstructured data analytics
What is Software Defined Storage ?
Cloud scale storage and
cost economics on standard, volume hardware
Virtualization
Mobility and flexibility within and across sites/clouds
More density
Scale Out with minimal operational complexity
Integrated solutions
Rapid time to solution
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7. Customers want Azure benefits in their Private Clouds
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Customers want Azure benefits in their Private Clouds
Efficiency. Low costs. Flexibility. Automation.
Integrated solutions.
Efficiency - automated and pooled resource
Maximize
scale, availability, performance at low costs
Enable seamless capacity expansion and mobility
Automation - minimize operational complexity
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8. Learnings from Public Cloud
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Learnings from Public Cloud
Microsoft Azure runs on Windows Server
XBOX ONE RUNS ON WINDOWS SERVER
Bing runs on
Windows Server
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9. SDS in the broader Microsoft Software Defined Datacenter
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SDS in the broader Microsoft Software Defined Datacenter
Best Guest & Host OS
Enable new Private Cloud cost economics both Capex and Opex
Bring Azure Scale, Availability, Reliability
Pay as you grow Scale Out while maintaining operational simplicity
Software Defined Compute
Software Defined Network
Software Defined Storage
Fabric - Simple & Consistent Resource Management
Hardware
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10. Where are we today in the SDS journey ?
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Where are we today in the SDS journey ?
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11. Windows Server 2012 R2 SDS deployment
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Windows Server 2012 R2 SDS deployment
Primary application data storage on cost effective,
continuously available, high performance
SMB3 file Shares backed by Tiered Storage Spaces
Storage Spaces
Hyper-V Clusters
SMB3 Storage Network Fabric
Shared JBOD Storage
Performance, Scale: SMB3 File Storage network
Continuous Availability and Seamless Scale Out with File Server Nodes
Elastic, Reliable, Optimized Tiered Storage Spaces
Standard volume hardware for low cost 1 2 2
Scale-Out File Server Clusters 3 4
JBOD = Just a Bunch of Drives
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12. Windows Server 2012 R2 SDS stack
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Windows
Server
System Center
Windows Server R2 SDS stack
Management
SMI-S Storage Service
Block storage provisioning
File storage provisioning
Hyper-V Storage Management
SAN based Rapid Provisioning
SM API Integration
Storage Utilization Trending
PowerShell
Support
Thin LUN provisioning
Thin Provision Alert Monitor
SAS Array Support
Private Cloud Software Defined Storage platform
SMB3 SoFS for Hyper-V, SQL Server
Low latency, Continuously available,
Fault Tolerant Scale Out storage for Hyper-V
SMB3 Direct for low latency
SMB3 Multichannel for FT, Perf
SMB3 for Windows
clients
SMB3 Transparent Failover
iSCSI Target block storage
NFS 3, 4.1 for *nix clients, VMware
CSV Scale Out
Multi protocol data access
Dedup
Tiering for efficient use of SSDs
Storage Spaces
NTFS with fast chkdsk
Flexible, Elastic, Efficient
Tiered
Storage pools
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13. Challenge: Solution: Results:
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Challenge:
Standardize to reduce costs and speed time to market
Solution:
Windows Server 2012
Results:
Storage costs reduced 30%
Simplified storage management .
“We are seeing an 80 percent disk utilization reduction with VHDX storage deduplication and tiered storage.”
Philip Moss Chief Executive Officer NTTX Select
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14. What’s new in Windows Server Technical Preview ?
4/17/2017
What’s new in Windows Server Technical Preview ?
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15. Continuing the SDS journey …
Greater efficiency and resource utilization
Reliability at Scale
Lower cost virtualized storage on volume hardware
More uptime: cross site scalable HA and DR
Faster time to value

16. Storage Quality of Service (QoS) – Greater efficiency
Control and monitor storage performance
Virtual Machines
Simple out of box behavior
Enabled by default for Scale Out File Server
Automatic metrics (normalized IOPs & latency) per VM & VHD
Hyper-V Cluster
Flexible and customizable
Policy per VHD, VM, Service or Tenant
Define Minimum & Maximum IOPs
Fair distribution within policy
Rate
Limiters
Rate
Limiters
Rate
Limiters
Rate
Limiters
SMB3 Storage Network Fabric
Scale-out File Server Cluster
Management
System Center VMM and Ops Manager
PowerShell built-in for Hyper-V and SOFS
I/O
Sched
I/O
Sched
I/O
Sched
Policy
Manager

17. Storage QoS Demo Patrick Lang 4/17/2017
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18. Rolling Upgrades – faster time to value
Simple
Rolling Upgrades with Win2012 R2 and vNext nodes within the same cluster
Easily roll in nodes with new OS version
Storage (Scale Out File Server) or Hyper-V Cluster
Win2012 R2
Win2012 R2
vNext
Seamless
Zero downtime cloud upgrades for Hyper-V and Scale-out File Server

19. Cloud Witness – Greater efficiency
Hybrid Cloud
Leveraging the power of the public cloud to increase resiliency of your private cloud
Azure blob storage as an arbitration point
Azure
Witness
https
Flexible Scenarios
Stretched clusters without a 3rd site
Clusters without shared storage
Guest Clusters in Azure VM role
Cluster
Site1
Site2

20. VM Compute Resiliency – Reliability
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VM Compute Resiliency – Reliability
Flexibility
Designing for cloud scale with commodity hardware
Configurable based on your SLA’s
VMs continue running when node becomes isolated
Cluster
Availability
VMs continue to run even when a node falls out of cluster membership ? ? ?
Network Communication Failure ? ?
Reliability
Resiliency to transient failures
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21. Quarantine of Flapping Nodes – Reliability
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Quarantine of Flapping Nodes – Reliability
Protection
Unhealthy nodes are quarantined and are no longer allowed to join the cluster
Prevents flapping nodes from negatively effecting other nodes and the overall cluster
Cluster
Quarantined
Resiliency
Node is quarantined if it ungracefully leaves the cluster three times within an hour
VMs are gracefully drained once quarantined
Control
QuarantineDuration: cluster property Default 2 hours
QuarantineState: Node read only common property for node substatus
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22. Storage Replica – More uptime
Cross site HA DR: Stretch clusters across sites with synchronous volume replication
Integrated management
End-to-end Windows Server disaster recovery solution
Failover Cluster Manager UI and PowerShell
Multi-Site Cluster
Site1
Site2
Flexible
Works with any Windows volume, uses SMB3 as transport
Hardware agnostic - works with Storage Spaces or any SAN volume
Scalable
Block-level synchronous volume replication
Automatic cluster failover for low Recovery Time Objective (RTO)

23. Storage Replica : Sync and Async modes
Deployment
Diagram
Steps
Synchronous
Zero Data Loss RPO
Mission critical apps
On-Prem or Metro setup
Short distance ( <5ms, more likely <30km)
Usually dedicated link
Bigger bandwidth
Application write
Log data written & the data is replicated to remote site
Log data written at the remote site
Acknowledgement from the remote site
Application write acknowledged
t, t1- Data flushed to the volume, logs always write through
Asynchronous
Near zero data loss (depends on multiple factors) RPO
Non-critical apps
Across region / country
Unlimited distance
Usually over WAN
Log data written
Data replicated to the remote site
Applications
(Primary)
Server
Cluster (SR)
Data
Log 1 t 2
(Remote) t1 3 5 4
Applications
(Primary)
Server
Cluster (SR)
Data
Log 1 t 2
(Remote) 5 4 3 6 t1

24. Storage Replica Demo Stretch Cluster scenario
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Storage Replica Demo Stretch Cluster scenario
Ned Pyle
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25. So what’s next beyond WS Technical Preview ?
4/17/2017
So what’s next beyond WS Technical Preview ?
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26. Storage Spaces Shared Nothing – Low cost
SoFS clusters with no shared storage. Doesn’t need shared JBODs and SAS fabric behind Scale Out File Server nodes
Cloud design points and management
Prescriptive configuration. Reduced hardware costs with SATA drives
Deploy, manage and monitor with SCVMM,SCOM
Hyper-V Cluster(s)
Reliability, Scalability, Flexibility
Fault tolerance to disk, enclosure, node failures
Scale pools to large number of drive
Fine-grained storage expansion
SMB3 Storage Network Fabric
Scale-Out File Server Cluster
Use Cases
Hyper-V IaaS storage
Storage for Backup and Replication targets

27. VM Storage Resiliency – Reliability
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VM Storage Resiliency – Reliability
Resiliency
Designing for cloud scale with standard hardware
Preserve tenant VM session state in the event of transient storage disruption
Cluster
Visibility
VM stack quickly notified on failure
Intelligent and quick VM response to block or file based storage infrastructure issues
Reliability
VM moved to PausedCritical state and will wait for storage to recover
Session state retained on recovery
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28. 4/17/2017
Not just software bits - integrated and validated SDS solutions Cloud Scale Reliability, Availability, Performance and Scalability
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29. Cloud Platform System (CPS) Integrated solution for HW and SW
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Cloud Platform System (CPS) Integrated solution for HW and SW
Networking
5 x Force 10 – S4810P (64 10GbE - Data)
1 x Force 10 – S55 (48 1GbE – Management)
Compute Scale Unit (32 x Hyper-V hosts)
Dell PowerEdge C6220ii – 4 Compute Nodes per 2U
Dual socket Intel IvyBridge 2.6GHz)
256 GB memory
2 x 10 GbE Mellanox NIC’s (LBFO Team, NVGRE offload)
2 x 10 GbE Chelsio (iWARP/RDMA)
1 local 200 GB (boot/paging)
Storage Scale Unit (4 x File Servers, 4 x JBODS)
Dell PowerEdge R620v2 Servers (4 Server for Scale Out File Server)
2 x LSI E SAS Controllers (shared storage)
2 x 10 GbE Chelsio T520 (iWARP/RDMA)
PowerVault MD3060e JBODs (48 HDD, 12 SSD)
4 TB HDDs and 800 GB SSDs
Per Rack
(1-4 racks)
512 Cores 8TB RAM
262 TB usable storage
1360 Gb/s internal
rack connectivity
560 Gb/s inter-rack connectivity
60 Gb/s external
2322 Lbs.
42U
16.6 KW Maximum
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30. Cloud Reliability: Cloud Operations Simulation
1 year in 7 days
Cloud Learnings
Design for loosely coupled system > Validate E2E
Fault Tolerance  MTTR
Continuous monitoring and measurements
Profile
Metric
Cloud Topology
Tenant VMs: 2000
VM Profile: 1 vCPU, 1.75GB
Compute Nodes: 30
Storage Nodes: 4 (SOFS+SPACES)
Failures:
Compute Node
Storage Node
JBOD Power
Shared Disk
NIC, Cable, Switch
SAS HBA & Cable
376 node drain & failovers
244 unplanned failovers
1 JBOD failure per day
2 drive failures per pool per day
28 NIC/Cable & 2 Switch failures
8 SAS Cable Pulls & 2 HBA failures
Tenant Workloads & SLA
VM Live Migrations
Storage Migrations
Variety workloads always running
SLA: Zero impact on workloads
SLA: Zero IO errors or timeouts
SLA: Failovers within a minute
10,152 VMs live migrated
5,734 VMs storage migrated
TOPOLOGY & TENANT WORKLOADS
CPS Full Rack or Stamp Configuration
IaaS VM Roles & variety workloads
TRIGGER FAULTS & ADMIN ACTIONS
Actions: Deploy, Live Migrate, VM Meta Ops
CSU Faults: Patching, Node drain/crash
SSU Actions: Rebuilds, Backup, Tiering
SSU Faults: Power, NIC, HBA, JBOD
MEASURE SUCCESS CRITERIA / SLA
Zero downtime for tenant workloads
Failover within minutes; zero app errors
Meet data consistency & resiliency SLA

31. Storage Choice - SAN or Microsoft SDS
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Storage Choice - SAN or Microsoft SDS
Block protocol fabric
Low latency network
Management of LUNs
Storage tiering
Data deduplication
RAID resiliency groups
Pooling of disks
High availability
Persistent write-back cache.
Copy offload
Snapshots
Traditional FC/iSCSI
SAN storage arrays
Microsoft SDS Storage
File protocol fabric.
Low latency with SMB3Direct
Management of Shares
Storage tiering (new with R2)
Data deduplication
Flexible resiliency options
Pooling of disks.
Continuous availability
Persistent write-back cache. (new with R2)
SMB copy offload, Snapshots
Storage QoS for greater efficiency
Storage Replica for cross site HA & DR
Rolling Upgrades for faster adoption
Cloud Witness for efficiency
Resiliency enhancements
Hyper-V compute nodes
Hyper-V compute
nodes
FC/iSCSI
Fabric
(Block)
SMB3 Fabric
(File)
FC/SAS disk shelf
SAN/NAS
Shared SAS JBOD or
DAS
Scale Out File Server +
Storage Spaces
New in WS preview
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32. Related content Storage Sessions in chronological order
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Related content
Storage Sessions in chronological order
CDP-B323: Delivering Predictable Storage Performance with Storage Quality of Service in Windows Server vNext (Wednesday Oct 29 8:30 AM)
CDP-B339: Leveraging SAN Replication for Enterprise-Grade Disaster Recovery with Microsoft Azure Site Recovery and System Center 2012 R2 (Wednesday Oct PM)
CDP-B352: Stretching Failover Clusters and Using Storage Replica for Disaster Recovery in Windows Server vNext (Wednesday Oct 29 5 pm)
CDP-B349: Storage Management in a Hybrid Cloud Environment with Windows Server and System Center (Thursday Oct PM)
CDP-B325: Designing Scale-Out File Server with DAS Storage in Windows (Friday Oct am)
Find Me Later At the Storage Booth
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33. Track resources Solution guide – Cost effective storage for Hyper-V
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Track resources
Microsoft Storage
Solution guide – Cost effective storage for Hyper-V
Windows Server Technical Preview (Storage)
Storage Replica
Intro -
Experience guide -
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34. For more information Windows Server System Center Azure Pack
Windows Server Technical Preview
Windows Server
System Center
System Center Technical Preview
Azure Pack
windows-azure-pack
Microsoft Azure
Come visit us in the Microsoft Solutions Experience (MSE)!
Look for the Cloud and Datacenter Platform area TechExpo Hall 7

35. Resources Learning TechNet Developer Network
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Resources
Sessions on Demand
Learning
Microsoft Certification & Training Resources
TechNet
Resources for IT Professionals
Developer Network
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