Business and Partnering Opportunities: “Windows Server 8” Continuous Availability Designing...

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Platform storage evolved

Rajeev NagarGroup Program ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

SAC-474T


What We’ve Covered So Far …Business and Partnering Opportunities:

“Windows Server 8” Continuous Availability

Designing Systems for Continuous

Availability and ScalabilitySession 446


Availability – Multi-node with

Remote File Storage

Session 444

Building Continuously Available File Server NAS AppliancesSession 449

Platform Storage Evolved

Session 474


Availability – Multi-node with Block StorageSession 450

Building Continuously

Available Systems

with Hyper-V Session 451

Session 443


Agenda

• Windows 8 enables partners to deliver differentiated, continuously available, scalable, cost-effective storage solutions

• Evolution of the storage platform• Availability• Manageability• Optimal Utilization

• Delivering cost-effective business-critical storage solutions with industry standard storage

• Maximizing value from external storage subsystems

• OEMs• System Integrators• Storage ISVs• Storage IHVs• Server application

developers

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS TALK

TOPICS WHAT YOU’LL LEAVE WITH


Windows 8 is the most cost-effective platform for continuously available and highly scalable data

access


Storage Platform (r)EvolutionOverview• Availability & Manageability

• Maximized file system availability• Comprehensive storage management

• Cost-effective business critical storage solutions• Windows virtualized storage: Storage Spaces

• Maximized utility from external storage subsystems• Offloaded data transfer

• Optimal utilization• Thin-provisioning notifications• Storage optimization• Data deduplication


Maximized File System AvailabilityNTFS – Online scan & repair

• Prioritized volume availability for service uptime• Online repair• Online scan & corruption logging

• Minimal downtime• Scheduled repair• Downtime proportional only to # logged corruptions• Failover Clustering & CSV integration

• Better manageability• File system health via Action Center, PowerShell, Server

Manager

Confidently deploy 64TB NTFS volumes with Windows 8

Attend session #446 for more information


Operational SimplicityComprehensive storage management• Extensible Storage Management API• WMI programmatic interfaces• PowerShell for remote access & scripting – easy E2E

provisioning• All new in-box applications moving to one new API• Foundational infrastructure for reducing operational

expenditure• Multi-vendor interoperability - common interface for

IHVs• SMI-S standards conformant: proxy service enables broad

interoperability with existing SMI-S capable storage hardware

• Storage Management Provider interface enables host-based extensibility


Operational SimplicityComprehensive storage management

Microsoft Applications ISV or Storage Vendor Applications

One Storage Management Interface

Vendor array SMI-S compliant array

Storage

Spaces

Storage Spaces compatible JBOD


Operational SimplicityComprehensive storage management

Management Software

Unified Storage

Mgmt. API

Windows Storage Management API (PowerShell and WMI)

Pass-through API for extensibility (WMI)

Storage Vendor

Hardware and

Software

Third-party application System CenterFile Server

Administration Console

SMI-S Hardware Provider

SMI-S Hardware Provider

Storage Management Provider Interface (+ pass-through for extensibility enabling all of SMI-S and vendor proprietary extensions; Transport = WMI)

Proprietary Transport and/or Protocol

SMP: UniversalSMI-S Service (Proxy)

SMP: 3rd Party Providers

SMP: Storage Spaces

Storage Array / RAID Controller



PowerShell Based E2E Storage Management#Enumerate available physical disks and form a Storage Pool

(New-StoragePool -StorageSubSystemId (Get-StorageSubSystem).ID -FriendlyName “DemoPool” -PhysicalDisks (Get-PhysicalDisk))

#Create a Virtual Disk from the Storage PoolNew-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName "SQLLogs" -StoragePoolFriendlyName "DemoPool" -StorageAttributesName Simple -ProvisioningScheme Sparse -Size 5TB

#Obtain the OS disk object for the Virtual Disk, initialize it, and create a partition$SQLLogDisk = Get-VirtualDisk -FriendlyName “SQLLogs” | Get-DiskInitialize-Disk -InputObject $SQLLogDisk New-Partition -InputObject $SQLLogDisk

#Retrieve the partition for use by the file-system$SQLLogPartition = Get-Partition -DiskId $SQLLogDisk.ID | Where-Object {$_.Type -ne "Reserved"}

#Format the volume & assign a drive letterFormat-Volume -inputobject ($SQLLogPartition | Get-Volume) -NewFileSystemLabel "SQLLogs" Get-Volume -FileSystemLabel "SQLLogs" | Get-Partition | Add-PartitionAccessPath -AccessPath N:\


Windows Virtualized Storage

Storage Spaces

announcing


Cost-Effective Business Critical StorageStorage Spaces• Powerful new platform abstractions• Storage Pools – Units of Aggregation, Administration &

Isolation• Storage Spaces (virtual disks): Resiliency, Provisioning &

Performance• Target design point• Industry standard interconnects: SATA or (Shared) SAS• Industry standard storage: JBODs

Storage Spaces enable partners to deliver a new category of highly capable storage solutions to all Windows customer segments at dramatically lower price-points & maximized operational simplicity


Windowsvirtualizedstorage

Storage SpacesConceptual deployment model

Windows Application Servers or Windows File ServersPhysical or

virtualized deployments

Physicalstorage

(Shared) SAS or SATA

File Server Administration

Console

Hyper-V

Cluster Shared Volumes

Failover Clustering

SMB2 Multichannel

NFS Windows Storage Mgmt.

Integrated with otherWindows 8 capabilities

NTFS SMB2 Direct

Storage Pool

Storage

SpacesStorage Pool

Storage

Spaces Storage Pool

Storage

Spaces


Storage SpacesPhysical Deployment Topologies

OR

Direct-Attached

Shared – Availability & Scale

SATA or SAS Shared SAS


Storage SpacesCapabilities• Optimized storage utilization• Resiliency & application-driven error correction• High-availability & scale-out with Failover Clustering

& Cluster Shared Volumes• Operational simplicity• Delegated administration & isolation for multi-tenant

deployments• Workload optimized performance via heterogeneous

media supportAttend session #446 for more

information


SpacesTransactional & Sequential

Workloads

demo


Demo Configuration & Overview

40x Intel® SSDs

Dell® Server5x LSI ® HBAs

ConfigurationComponents Quanti

ty

Dell® PowerEdge® T7102x Intel® Xeon® X5570, 48GB memory, 5x LSI® 9205-8e SAS HBA

1

Intel® X25-M 160GB SSD

40


Spaces: Failover Clustering & CSV Integration

demo



SpaceforCSV

Supermicro® 4U JBOD

.\VMLibrary Unified CSV Namespace

ConfigurationComponents Quanti

ty

Supermicro® 2U server2x Intel® Xeon® X5570, 12GB memory, LSI 9200-8e SAS HBA

2

Supermicro® 4U JBOD 1

Seagate® 2TB 3.5”near-line SAS HDDs

45

Node #1 [SFSDemo3

]

Node #2 [SFSDemo2

]

SpaceforFinance

FinanceVM

SpaceforVHDStore

VHDStoreVM


Maximized Utility: External Storage SubsystemsOffloaded data transfer

External Storage Array

Virtual Disk

Virtual Disk

Actual data transfer

Offload Read Token

OffloadWrite with

Token

ReceiveResult

Token


Maximized Utility: External Storage SubsystemsOffloaded data transfer

• Utilize storage subsystem capabilities for efficient data movement• Minimal-to-zero impact to host CPU and networking

resources• Offloaded transfers between virtual disks, arrays, and

across data centers – spanning physical and virtual machine boundaries

• Tight platform integration enables application transparency

• Sophisticated applications can transfer tokens using application-specific protocol and transport• Token represents point-in-time view of data

Efficient data transfer within & across storage arrays


Offloaded Data Transfer- VM Deployment

demo



Dell® EqualLogic®

PS5000

Node #1 [SFSDemo3

]

Node #2 [SFSDemo2

]

Anaheim

DELLEQ-ODX1

DELLEQ-ODX2

\\SFSDemo2\G

\\SFSDemo2\H

VHD

VHD

Non-Offloaded Transfer Offloaded Transfer

Redmond

Building 10, Room 2120

MSFT Main Campus

Offloaded Data Transfer – Read Token FSCTL_OFFLOAD_READ_INPUT ReadInput; FSCTL_OFFLOAD_READ_OUTPUT ReadOutput; ReadInput.Size = sizeof(ReadInput); ReadInput.Flags = 0; ReadInput.TokenTimeToLive = 0; ReadInput.Reserved = 0; ReadInput.FileOffset = 0; ReadInput.CopyLength = 0x1000000; Success = DeviceIoControl(SourceHandle, (DWORD) FSCTL_OFFLOAD_READ,

&ReadInput, ReadInput.Size, &ReadOutput,sizeof(ReadOutput), &NumberOfBytes, &Overlapped);

Offloaded Data Transfer – Write Token FSCTL_OFFLOAD_WRITE_INPUT WriteInput; FSCTL_OFFLOAD_WRITE_OUTPUT WriteOutput;

RtlZeroMemory( &Overlapped, sizeof(Overlapped) ); Overlapped.hEvent = CreateEvent (NULL, FALSE, FALSE, NULL); WriteInput.Size = sizeof(WriteInput); WriteInput.Flags = 0; WriteInput.FileOffset = 0; WriteInput.CopyLength = ReadOutput.TransferLength; WriteInput.TransferOffset = 0; RtlCopyMemory(WriteInput.Token, ReadOutput.Token, ARRAYSIZE(WriteInput.Token));

Success = DeviceIoControl(DestHandle, (DWORD) FSCTL_OFFLOAD_WRITE, &WriteInput,WriteInput.Size, &WriteOutput, sizeof(WriteOutput),&NumberOfBytes, &Overlapped);


Optimized UtilizationThin provisioning notifications

• Identification• Identify thinly-provisioned virtual disks via PowerShell, &

WMI• Query mapped/unmapped state of virtual disk extents

• Notification• Events indicate when capacity consumption crosses

threshold boundaries• Standardized notification mechanism consumable by

applications

Safely maximize utilization with thinly provisioned virtual disks


Optimized UtilizationStorage optimizer• Optimization• End-to-end transparency of application and file

system allocations (including Hyper-V and within virtual machines)• From the application through to storage

• Un-map requests provided both on real-time and scheduled basis

• Scheduled slab consolidation ensures smallest storage footprint

• Compatibility• Windows certification requirement for arrays that

support thin provisioning• Automatically works with Storage Spaces

VM

Virtual Disk Or Storage

Space

Hyper-V

NTFS

Filters

Spaces


Optimized UtilizationData deduplication High optimization savings

• State of the art chunking and compression• Typical savings by workload

Transparent to primary server workload

• Minimal IO impact through scheduled and selective optimization

• Minimal server impact through low resource use

Reliability and data integrity

• Built-in insurance against natural risk of data reduction

• Data integrity validation on all data and metadata• Redundancy for metadata and popular chunks

Storage & network optimization

• Integration with BranchCache for faster file download times and reduced bandwidth consumption over WAN

User Home Folder (MyDocs)General File Share

Software Deployment ShareVHD Library

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%


Optimized UtilizationData deduplication: Deployment view


Data DeduplicationEnhanced Storage Efficiency

demo

Ahmed El-ShimiPrincipal Program Manager


SummaryPlatform Storage Evolved

Focused enhancements to platform storage enable:• Significant reduction for customers in storage related capital and

operational expenditure• Best leverage of external storage arrays• Highly scalable & continuously available, physical and Hyper-V based

(virtualized) workload deployments

Extensive opportunities for partners to build on the new platform• ODM, SI, & OEM opportunity to deliver new cost-effective solutions• Application developer opportunity to optimally utilize and manage

storage• IHV opportunity to deliver against new Windows capabilities – follow

certification requirements (Storage Spaces, Thin Provisioning, ODX, Flush, Physical Sector Size)

For more information, contact [email protected]


A Big Shout Out …

These partners are currently building hardware solutions to light up the Offloaded Data Transfer and Thin

Provisioning capabilities

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For more information

• SAC-443T – Business and partnering opportunities: Windows Server 8 continuous availability

• SAC-444T – Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-node with remote file storage

• SAC-446T – Designing systems for continuous availability and scalability

• SAC-449T – Building continuously available file server NAS appliances• SAC-450T – Designing systems for continuous availability - multi-

node with block storage• SAC-451T – Building continuously available systems with Hyper-V

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