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Storage Provisioning
for Microsoft System
Center EnvironmentsRalph Wynn
Technical Director, Product Marketing
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Agenda
• Storage Problems, Pains, & Issues
• Introducing FalconStor® Network Storage Server
(NSS)
– Storage Virtualization
– Features and Benefits
– Improving High Availability (HA)
• Supporting Microsoft Environments
• SMI-S & System Center Support
• Product Demonstration
• Next Steps
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Storage Problems, Pains, & Issues
• Explosive data growth; limited staff, equipment, & budget
• Complex management – too many consoles, no real integration
• No downtime window
• Heterogeneous storage platforms
– Different SAN vendors, different protocols, different disks, different
functions
– Poor or limited interoperation
– Complex migration: inter- or intra-array
• Stranded capacity; poor cost-effectiveness
• Mixed performance requirements
• Multiple locations, HA/DR not in place
• Cloud complicating storage management
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Simplify, Optimize, & Enhance Storage
• True heterogeneous intelligent storage virtualization
• Thin provisioning, tiering, migration, & consolidation
• Space-efficient snapshot with ultra-fast recovery
• SAN acceleration – FC performance with SATA disks
• WAN-optimized replication
• Integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager & Microsoft Hyper-V
• RecoverTrac™ automated disaster recovery (DR): P2P, P2V, V2V, V2P
• All-inclusive functionality, capacity-based pricing
FalconStor NSS
Intelligent Storage Virtualization
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Storage Abstraction Layer
• Storage provisioning; up
to 64TB LUNs
• Provide storage
virtualization services
onto existing equipment
– Thin provisioning
– Migration
– Snapshots
– Replication
– Storage tiers
– SAN acceleration
Hosts
Fabric
Storage
abstraction
layer
Disk
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How Storage Virtualization Works
• Quickly creates virtual
volumes from across or
within any physical disk
resources
– Simple wizard interface
– Physical LUN and virtual
devices up to 16TB
– Expand volumes as
needed
• Securely assign
volumes to servers
through FalconStor
NSS interface
Virtual
disks
Physical
disks
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Thin Provisioning:
Better Storage Utilization
• Requested capacity = logical
volume
• Physical capacity = written disk
space
• Additional physical space
allocated automatically as
needed
• Reduces wasteful over
provisioning of storage
• Saves disk space and power
consumption Data
Virtual
Thin provisioned SAN volume
Physical
A Green
feature
Application
server sees
virtual volume
size
200
GB
800
GB
“800 GB”
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Cross-array Mirroring for Increased
Availability
• Any-to-any storage array
synchronous data mirroring
• Ultimate data protection across
arrays
• Seamless data migration across
storage devices
1. Create mirror
2. Switch primary/mirror status
without any break in application
processing
3. Remove mirror (old array)
Primary MirrorPrimaryMirror
Writes
acknowledged
from both
arrays to
ensure
integrity
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Supporting Microsoft
Environments
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Make Storage Flexible for Hyper-V
Storage merges with Hyper-V layer
• Respond to VM growth on-demand
• Maximize storage investment
Move workloads between any storage
• Create a single touch point
• Ease storage administration
• Unify services across storage platforms
Protect/recover physical & virtual
resources
• Automated recovery included … for free!
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NEW! FalconStor SMI-S Support
For a full list of vendors, visit:
http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/about/smi_member_companies
FalconStor iSCSI Target SMI-S Provider • Enables end-to-end storage automation
• SCVMM managed private or hosted cloud
Integrated features designed by Microsoft• Discover/list iSCSI targets and properties
• Discover/list SCSI LUNs and properties
• Create new or delete SCSI LUNs
• Add capacity to Hyper-V cluster
• List, Create, Delete logical snapshots
• Mask/unmask LUs on SCSI targets
• All done from System Center Console!
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Microsoft System Center Integration
Centralize management
• Storage
• Cloud
• Deployments
Automate storage & VM rollout
− Templates for FalconStor NSS
storage locations
− Simply cloud rollouts
− Guarantee VMs achieve SLAs
Maximize storage
− Thin provision support
− Add capacity on demand
− Snapshot enabled
− Replication included
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Automated DR with Replication
for Hyper-V Environments
Hyper-V v2.0 Hyper-V v2.0
R RR
Thin/Full
Provisioning
Virtualization
Storage
Data
integrity
Snapshot
Thin/Full
Provisioning
Replica
Data
integrity
Snapshot
R R R R
Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G) Fibre iSCSI (1G/10G)
Generic Storage Generic Storage
Optimized Replication w/
MicroScan Technology
FalconStorRecoverTrac
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MicroScan™: WAN-optimized Data
Replication
• Applications and file systems write far more data to disk than actual changes
• FalconStor NSS scans the changes at a 512 byte level and replicates only the changed data
– Avoids constant re-sending of duplicate data
512
byte= empty disk sector
= data written by application or file system
= sector with actual data change
A typical 8k write of
data. Many systems
send all 8k or more.
FalconStor NSS sends
only the truly changed
sectors.
512
byte
Disk sectors
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Summary & Next Steps
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Why FalconStor NSS?
• Storage virtualization – for all storage type/vendors
• No „Function‟ fee/cost
– Mirroring, snapshots, journal, tiering, migration, replication;
flexibility: FC , iSCSI, or FCoE
• Thin provisioning, SAN acceleration, READ/WRITE
cache
• SCVMM integration for streamlined automation and
cloud deployment
• Heterogeneous remote replication – WAN-optimized &
standard
• Automated DR: RecoverTrac tool with Hyper-V
support
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