storage provisioning for microsoft system center environments

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Storage Provisioning

for Microsoft System

Center EnvironmentsRalph Wynn

Technical Director, Product Marketing

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Copyright © 2013 FalconStor Software · All Rights Reserved

Storage Provisioning for Microsoft System Center Environments

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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!

http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/about/smi_member_companies

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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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Product Demo

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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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FREE Trial Product – 30 Days

Visit www.falconstor.com/downloads

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