25th June 2014

On-premise virtualisation platforms with Storage Spaces:- Integrating technology solutions for 21st century business

Technical Data Presentation

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About us

CEO - Russell John Barley

Russell Barley has spent 15 years within the IT industry and has a multitude of achievements to his name. His most notably achievements include the project management of a series of IT configurations which included both the Milton Keynes and Hertfordshire college network infrastructures.

COO - Marc Damian Adams

Marc Adams has spent 15 years within the field of Operations Management. He has a multitude of achievements and projects to his name. The most recent achievements include the strategic restructuring and inventory optimisation of a Medium Sized Enterprise.

: Company Overview

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The Business

To market, sell, install and configure Hyperconvergence Platforms to SME & Multi-Nationals at a significantly lower price-point than any of its competitors.

The Focus

RBMA Solutions Limited is a disruptive technology service provider of Virtual Server and Data Storage solutions. Formed in 2014 and based in Milton Keynes, the business has an aggressive growth strategy with the aim of becoming the preferred UK supplier of cost effective, highly scalable on-premise configurations that incorporate the technologies of Windows Server 2012 R2, Hyper-V and Storage Spaces. RBMA also specialise in Networking and Cloud Security, all within the B2B & B2E market sectors.

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RBMA vs Competitors

Benchmarking RBMA Company X/Y/Z

Cost effective Data Storage Solutions Provider X

A reduced level of depreciation to customer assets (CAPEX) X

Price-point for services and instillation X

Cost of Hardware (Supplier) X

Future Proofing of Hardware and Software Configurations X

Customer Centric over Profit X

Agile and Responsive X X

Members of the Microsoft beta software development programme

X

R&D links to Dell and Microsoft product development teams

X

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The RBMA Virtualisation Topology

Manage Server Environment with SCVMM

Network Layer

Hyper-V Virtual Server NodesFailover Cluster

Storage Spaces Failover Cluster

RDMA Technology

Infiniband Network Support

Hyper-V over SMB

Scale-Out File Server

6/12Gb SAS

Manufacturer Independent

Tiered Storage with SSD

JBOD Array

: Storage Spaces Overview

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Microsoft Storage Spaces

Utilisations Server Virtualisation Desktop Virtualisation File Services

Storage SpacesSMB Share (\\fileserver\share)

Failover Clustering Storage Intelligence Storage ManagementHighly AvailableStorage Server Layer

Virtual Disk Layer

Physical Disk Layer

Disk Pools/Virtual Disks Tiered Storage (SSD) Resilience/RedundancyParity/Mirroring

Multi-Vendor Support All Disk Types/Speeds Fast AccessJBOD Support

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Microsoft Hyper-V

System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is Microsoft's virtual machine support canter for Windows-based systems. SCVMM upholds Microsoft's focus on efficiency with features to help administrators consolidate multiple physical servers within a central virtualized environment. CVMM can manage you on premise virtual machines, your Cloud Based Virtual machines, and can migrate between the two.

The use of RDMA Network cards mean that the host CPU power is free to compute for its purpose, and the network interfaces can transfer data across the network. This permits high throughput, low latency networking.

InfiniBand is a switched fabric computer network communications link used in high-performance computing and enterprise data center's. Its features include high throughput, low latency, quality of service and failover, and it is designed to be scalable.

This is the process of running Hyper-V virtual machine resources on the file sharing protocol SMB 3.0. Your Virtual Machines use all the processing power of your virtual server infrastructure but the storage for the virtual machines is on an SMB v3 network share (Storage Spaces).

SCVMM

RDMA

InfiniBand

Hyper-V over SMB

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Microsoft Storage Spaces

Storage Tiers allow for use of SSD and hard drive storage within the same storage pool as a new feature in Windows Server 2012 R2. Storage Tiers provides the ability to store more frequently accessed data on SSD media to drastically increase performance, with both types of media used as block based storage for the same virtual disk.

Storage Tiers

De-Duplication

Enclosure Awareness

Fast Failover Recovery

This feature recovers from a disk failure automatically and restores full functionality and resilience must faster than traditional methods. Traditionally the use of Hot Spares were used for this functionality, but the Hot Spare had to rebuild all data itself which can take hours meaning risk of another failure during recovery stage is high. This solution uses all disks so recovers in a much reduced time.

De-Duplication is a well known feature available in many high end SAN’s (Storage Area Network). Storage spaces solutions offer this feature too even though as a solution it is up to 70% cheaper. This block level storage feature saves up to 70% of required space by only storing pieces of information once. Any files or services that reference this block share this data and duplication of data does not take place.

In Storage Spaces implementations with 3 or more JBOD enclosures, the Enclosure Awareness feature is available. In addition to disk resilience that you choose to configure from your levels of Mirroring/Parity, this provides resilience for a full failure of an entire JDOB Enclosure.

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PowerVault MD1200 Direct Attached Storage

PowerVault MD3060e Dense Expansion Enclosure JBODPowerEdge R620 Rack Server

Hardware Technologies:

Dell PowerEdge R720 Rack ServerKeep pace with the exponential change of the virtual age using the state-of-the-art feature flexibility of the PowerEdge™ R720.

Affordable, high-density DAS for PowerEdge servers.Optimize your server space, and help cut power and cooling expenses with up to 240 HDDs (four MD3060e enclosures) per server in just 16U of space.

OS Supported: Microsoft® Windows Server® 2012 / Ubuntu / NexentaUp to 60 HDDs and SSDs in one 4U chassis6Gbps SAS connectivitySupports PowerEdge R620, R720 and R720xd serversScale to 240 HDDs (with four MD3060e enclosure) per serverMaximize capacity to almost 1PB per R620 or R720 serverStore over 1PB of data in less than one-half of a standard rack

Concentrated computing power in a 2S/1U form factorMaximize computing power without compromise in space-sensitive environments with the Dell PowerEdge R620.

Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processors and up to 24 DIMMsUp to ten 2.5" drives with optional hot-plug, front-access PCI Express flash drivesPCIe Gen3-enabled expansion slots and choice of embedded NIC technology.

FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY CX400 S2

The Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY CX400 S2 Multi-Node server system enables to Scale-Out Smart by packaging up to 4 independent dual socket server nodes and up to 24 local storage drives into a consolidated 2U rack enclosure. The system acts as a replicable Smart Scale-Out building block with conformity to conventional 19” rack infrastructure, providing a new compact server node density with high power efficiency to realize large scale-out solutions for HPC and Cloud Computing at lower overall costs.

FUJITSU Direct Attached Storage: ETERNUS JX40

The Fujitsu Storage ETERNUS JX40 is a reliable and innovative easy-to-use storage subsystem. As Direct Attached Storage (DAS), it extends the storage-capacity of Fujitsu’s PRIMERGY servers through a fastest 6 Gbit/s SAS connection by up to 230 Terabyte with the maximum of 6 enclosures. With a height of only two units per shelf, the ETERNUS JX40 subsystem meets the requirements for a compact design with 2.5 inch mixable SAS and SATA hard disk drives in 19-inch rack infrastructures.

A new era for blade serversHelp reduce the cost and complexity of managing blade resources with the PowerEdge™ M1000e blade enclosure.

PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure

• Powerful management tools

• Flexible remote management• Outstanding efficiency

Note: For use with Dell PowerEdge M520 & Dell PowerEdge M620

3.5-inch 6Gb/S SAS expansion array for mainstream and capacity-intensive applicationsSimple storage expansion delivering improved performance and versatility to support mainstream with optimal performance in sequential (streaming) applications. Connects to PowerEdge servers through a PERC H800 Host-RAID adapter

2U 12 - 3.5" (9 cm)- or 2.5" (6 cm) SAS or SSD drives per arrayExpand up to 8 arrays or 96 drivesConnects to PowerEdge servers through a PERC H800 Host-RAID adapter

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