SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance

Step-by-step guidance to help you start a practice

Jeff StoffelTechnology Solutions Professional

Microsoft US SMB

Welcome to SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance Session 4

Today’s Agenda

Recap of the StorSimple offering for SMB customers

Other Azure options

Pricing Example

Resources and Support

Next Steps

SMB JumpStart

What is SMB JumpStart?

What you will get:

▪ Targeted weekly training webinars on specific marketing topics.

▪ Hands-on independent learning assignments to help insure engagement and

individual comprehension.

▪ A private Yammer Group to answer any questions you might have about weekly

tactics.

This 4-week Program is designed for partners who are interested in extending the customer

network into the Azure cloud while better understanding all the Microsoft tools.

The more you engage, the more chances to win

As you participate in the JumpStart program, you will get entries into the

JumpStart Sweepstakes.

Gain entries as you participate in:▪ Webinars (1 point/session)

▪ Homework assignments (email screenshot of completed work to smbin@microsoft.com)

(1 point/ HA)

▪ Asking a question on Yammer and interacting with your peers (1 point per yammer post)▪ Signing up for the JumpStart StorSimple Virtual Machines Yammer group (1 point)

▪ End of series survey (2 points)

Prize: 90-min session with an Azure Technical Expert

➢ The top 2 point-earners will be selected as winners (the more entries, the higher your chances)

SMB JumpStart: Reimagine Hybrid Cloud Storage with the StorSimple Virtual Appliance – Program Overview

Engage with your fellow partners in the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group

Questions? Email smbin@microsoft.com

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4

Week’s Topic

Introduction to StorSimple and use cases for SMB customers

Deploy and configure

the virtual array as an

iSCSI target.

This session will

include demos

Deploy and configure the virtual array for File SharesHow to price exercise?

This session will

include demos

StorSimple pricing exercise. Overview of other scenarios for files.

This session will include pricing calculator demo

Hybrid Cloud Storage

Overview | StorSimple Flavors

StorSimple Physical Array

A physical 2U iSCSI SAN device, located

in the on-premises datacenter running

the StorSimple software.

3. StorSimple Virtual Array

iSCSI SANSoftware version of

StorSimple solution,

installed on a VM,

located in a branch

or remote office

3. StorSimple Virtual Array

SMB NASSoftware version of

StorSimple solution,

installed on a VM,

located in a branch

or remote office

Windows OS

StorSimple Software

StorSimple Manager Service

StorSimple Manager Service, in Microsoft Azure Management Portal,

managing on-premises & cloud storage

1. Local

1 Latency sensitive workloads 2

Higher performance & capacity plus latency sensitive workloads

3Cloud-storage plus latency sensitive workloads

Hybrid

NAS or SAN

storage

Automated offsite data protection

using cloud snapshots

Local or tiered volumes

Azure Data Centers

StorSimple

Virtual Array

NAS

StorSimple | On-premises & in the cloudStorSimple connects devices and users to Azure Storage, seamlessly, with no application modification

Hyper-V

Linux

VMware

SAN

SMB Customer Environment

Manage through Azure

Resource Manager (ARM)

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DemoStorSimple Solution Pricing

10

Backup Site Recovery

Azure Backup

Efficient backup

and recovery

Reliable offsite

data protection

Simple and integrated service

Azure Site Recovery

On-prem

VMs & Data

• site-to-site

• to Azure

Health

monitoring

Orchestrated

recovery

Automated protection

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Reliable offsite data protection: Backups are encrypted before transmission and stored encrypted in Microsoft Azure.

Backups are off-site, away from your datacenter, protected by reliable Azure storage.

Contoso Private Cloud(On-premises)

MicrosoftAzure

Encrypted data sent to Microsoft Azure

Windows Server instances with the Microsoft Azure Backup Agent installed and configured

ContosoBackup

Vault

Efficient and flexible backup and recovery: Incremental backup transfers only delta changes to the cloud.

Supports Point-in-Time Recovery of multiple versions of your data.

Configurable data retention policies, data compression, and data transfer throttling offer added flexibility and efficiency.

Simple, and integrated solution: Integrates with GUIs of Windows Server Backup or System Center Data Protection Manager.

Microsoft Azure Backup

Hybrid Cloud Connectivity

IP Address Space: 10.1.0.0/16 IP Address Space: 10.2.0.0/16

Azure Usage Scenarios

80/443

Cloud Service

VPN Tunnel

SQL DB Mirroring / AlwaysOn

Fileservers

Web Based Applications

Azure File ServicesAzure Virtual Machine

C:\OS Disk

E:\, F:\, etc.Standard Data Disks

D:\Temporary Disk

Disk Cache

Y:\, Z:\, etc.SMB Share

E:\, F:\, etc.Premium Data Disks

SSD Read Cache

• Azure File storage is a service that offers file shares in the cloud using the standard Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol.

• SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 are supported• Access based on Access Key. No ACL• Max size of a file share 5 TB• Max size of a file in a file share 1 TB• Max 1000 (8 KB) IOPS per share• Target throughput for single file share Up to 60 MB per

second• Primary focus is using SMB Shares for hosting files used

by multiple application hosts.

Summary

Cloud economics - agility with drop in replacement1

2 Local plus cloud storage with management in Azure

3 Pivot from infrastructure management to innovation

Next Steps & Homework

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SMB JumpStart Next Steps & HomeworkNext Steps Homework

Sign up for the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer

group

• Ask questions to the Microsoft team and your

peers

Set a weekly recurring calendar invite to block the

time to view each webinar session. We recommend

you attend one Webinar session per week to

optimize your program engagement.

Questions? Post them to our JumpStart StorSimple

Virtual Appliance Yammer group and a technical

expert will provide you a response within 72 hours.

Take a minute to complete the short survey to share

your program feedback and maximize your chances

to win the Sweepstakes!

aka.ms/jumpstorsimplesurvey

Complete any remaining homework from the

previous sessions

Write and submit a brief (one to two paragraphs)

summary of where you see StorSimple providing

value to your customers. Detail how you can deliver

on this value as your customers’ trusted advisor.

Please email smbin@microsoft.com .

Build your own customer offer leveraging StorSimple

Complete your first StorSimple deployment

Questions? Join the SMB JumpStart Private Yammer group

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Post-JumpStart program Immediate Next Steps

Practice-building partner communities Technically focused, expert led

Get the guide aka.ms/uspstayinformed

Title Description Link

Hybrid Cloud Storage Understand Hybrid Cloud Storage with

StorSimple

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/storsimple-hybrid-

cloud-storage-solution/

Get Started Get started with the StorSimple Virtual

Array

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/videos/get-started-with-the-storsimple-virtual-array/

Title Description Link

Overview Learn about the StorSimple Virtual Array https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-overview

Review

requirements

StorSimple Virtual Array system requirements https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-ova-system-requirements

Deploy Walk through the steps to deploy your StorSimple Virtual

Array

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-virtual-array-deploy1-portal-prep

Manage Learn how to manage your StorSimple Virtual Array

through the Azure Portal

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-

us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-virtual-array-manager-service-administration

Release Notes Discover the latest enhancements by reviewing the

StorSimple Virtual Array Release Notes

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storsimple/storsimple-virtual-array-update-06-release-notes

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