how to build microsoft scale-out file server without sas jbods
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StarWind Native SAN for Hyper-V 6.0
The Right Tool to Run Hyper-V
Creative Services2014 Global Marketing & Enablement
Max Craft
How to build Microsoft Scale-out
File Server cluster without SAS JBODs
Max KolomyeytsevStarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager
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About Max Kolomyeytsev
StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager
7+ years of QA and technical support
experience @ StarWind Software
10+ of professional IT experience
Host of the StarWind Technical Webinar series
Agenda
• The idea of simplifying storage for Hyper-V
• SMB 3.0 as Microsoft’s future primary network storage protocol
• Scale-Out File Server general overview
• SoFS Cluster hardware requirements
• Scaling down SoFS cluster hardware requirements
• Q&A
StarWind At-A-Glance
Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software
Ownership: Privately held since 2003
Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software
Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries
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R&D office in Europe
Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure
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Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM
Microsoft Software Defined Storage
for Hyper-V and SQL ServerProduct Microsoft iSCSI target Microsoft Scale-out File server
Protocol iSCSI SMB 3.0
Usage All applications*(initiator side clustering required)
Hyper-V 3.0 and SQL
Server Cache Flash SS Flash SS, SMBRX
Client Cache Memory Mgr, CSV
R/O
SMBRX, CSV R/O
Snapshots + Offloaded to the application level
Load balancing Microsoft MPIO SoFS CSV auto-rebalancing
High Availability Active-Passive Active-Active (1-to-1)
Maximum servers
in the cluster
2 8/16
StarWind At-A-Glance
Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software
Ownership: Privately held since 2003
Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software
Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries
Headquarters: Burlington, MA, USA
R&D office in Europe
Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure
Global Channel: Two-tier indirect sales channel, VARS & System Integrators
Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM
Scale-Out File Server General overview
• Designed for 2 most popular workloads: Hyper-V and SQL
• Provides easy to use file-based storage
• Scalable by design
• Boosts performance with RDMA (SMB Direct)
• Supports tiering, flash caching, and offline deduplication
(using Storage Spaces and Windows Server functionality)
SMB 3.0 is a future network storage protocol
Microsoft sees SMB 3.0 as a primary future storage protocol, iSCSI is
legacy. Reasons:
iSCSI spec is complex and controlled by community and SMB is fully
maintained by Microsoft
CSVFS has issues playing the clustered file system role
MSFT sees more flexibility in scaling compute and storage layers
independently by using commodity hardware
SoFS provides a cost-effective way to scale existing FC and SAS
infrastructures
StarWind At-A-Glance
Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software
Ownership: Privately held since 2003
Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software
Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries
Headquarters: Burlington, MA, USA
R&D office in Europe
Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure
Global Channel: Two-tier indirect sales channel, VARS & System Integrators
Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM
SoFS hardware requirements
About Bill Kindle
IT Administrator with 10+ years experience in SMB settings,
primarily focused on Windows Server and virtualization technology
support
Part time technical consultant
Currently works for a firm that develops software for the
engineering sector providing support and consulting services to
auto, aerospace and defense industry customers.
SoFS cluster:
Traditional (SAS JBOD/FC) VS Hardware-less
Shared SAS / FC Hardware-less
Storage fabric
performance
6 Gb (SAS) – 16 Gb (FC) 1 GbE – 100 GbE
Switchless*
Additional storage
hardware required
2 FC arrays /
3 JBOD arraysnone
Disk type FC / SAS only SATA / SAS
SSD support SAS/FC only SATA/SAS/PCI-E
Distributed
RAM & Flash cachenone both
StarWind At-A-Glance
Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software
Ownership: Privately held since 2003
Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software
Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries
Headquarters: Burlington, MA, USA
R&D office in Europe
Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure
Global Channel: Two-tier indirect sales channel, VARS & System Integrators
Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM
SoFS cluster:
Traditional (SAS JBOD & FC) Vs. hyper-conver
StarWind At-A-Glance
Leading Storage Virtualization and iSCSI SAN Software
Ownership: Privately held since 2003
Product: StarWind™ storage virtualization software
Users: 30,000+ customers in over 100 countries
Headquarters: Burlington, MA, USA
R&D office in Europe
Support: Worldwide, 24x7x365 support Infrastructure
Global Channel: Two-tier indirect sales channel, VARS & System Integrators
Global Alliance Partners: Microsoft, VMware, Citrix, HP, IBM, Dell, VEEAM
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