JBOD storage Server Message Block (SMB) PowerShell & SCVMM 2012 R2 Management Scale-out file server clusters Storage Space Hyper-V clusters

Windows Storage Spaces support on high density Dell PowerVault MD3060e JBOD Dual EMM’s Dual power supply units What’s new? Storage Spaces compatible EMM firmware Storage Enclosure Management Software Documentation

PowerEdge rack servers Excellent performance, functionality and outstanding reliability. Complete portfolio of 1-, 2-, and 4-socket rack servers designed to reduce complexity and deliver superior value. High quality and reliability at a consistently low acquisition cost with exceptional price for performance. Complete tower server portfolio with a side choice of performance and functionality. PowerEdge tower servers MD1200 : 2U – 12 drive 3.5” enclosure MD1220 : 2U – 24 drive 2.5” enclosure Supports Nearline, 10K and 15K RPM SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs Connectivity : Dell SAS 6Gb/s HBA SAS Ports : 4 PowerVault MD1200/ MD1220 storage 4U – 60 drive 3.5” enclosure Supports 2.5” and 3.5” drives Supports Nearline, 10K and 15K RPM SAS HDDs and SAS SSDs Connectivity : LSI e SAS Ports : 6 PowerVault MD3060e storage *MD3060e dense JBOD enclosures validated with R620, R720, R720xd only

Mirror Space Parity Space Mirror Space Disk Failure! Data is rebuilt to multiple disks simultaneously, using spare capacity

Compute Nodes SSD Tier HDD Tier I/O Activity Accumulates Heat on Sub-File Granularity

Minimum number of drives required to optimally expand storage space: Columns x Copies

Resiliency Scheme Resilient to Minimum # of Disk Failures Capacity Efficiency Minimum Number of Enclosures Required for EA Min.Disks Required for Clustered Spaces Recommended Workloads Simple0100%N/A3 Suitable for workloads where resiliency is not required, or provided by another mechanism. Two-Way Mirror 150.0%33 Recommended for all workloads(Ex:VDI) Three-Way Mirror 233.3%35 Dual Parity (4+3 LRC) 257.1%47 Recommended for archival workloads.

Resiliency Type24-bay JBOD (2 columns) 60-bay JBOD (4 columns) Two-Way Mirror48 Three-Way Mirror612

OS/APPS DATA USER DATA Diff disks DIFF DISKS Diff disks

LoginVsi Medium Workload Configuration:

Gold Image: 25GB User Profile Disk VHD: 1GB/User Diff Disk State: 3.5 GB /user* ProvisionBootLoginSteady State Logoff Diff Disk Capacity/VM 1GB1.5GB2.0 GB3-4 GB1.5 GB

ConfigurationUsersConsumed Capacity Usable Capacity Total IOPS IOPS from SSD IOPS/user 4*400GB SSD GB750GB %20.7 4*400GB SSD 20*1TB(7.2k)HDD Tiering On WBC=1GB TB10TB SSD 840 HDD 90%22.4 4*400GB SSD 20*1TB(7.2k)HDD Tiering On WBC=1GB 7003 TB10TB SSD 4000 HDD 80%23.2 Results Linear Performance 4*400GB SSD 20*7.2K 1TB HDD 4*400GB SSD

20*7.2K 1TB HDD

ConfigurationUsersTotal IOPS IOPS from SSD Capacity Savings IOPS/user 4*400GB SSD 20*1TB(7.2k)HDD Dedupe +Tiering %92% %88% %86%23 Results Linear IOPS 4*400GB SSD 20*7.2K 1TB HDD

Total IOPSIOPS/user Pooled Persistent

Data Center Networking Dell Management Software and Plug-ins for System Center Scale-out file server clusters Storage Space Hyper-V clusters Dell-Microsoft End –End Solutions (VDI,Private Cloud)

“Dell is Microsoft’s largest OEM partner to have implemented support for Storage Spaces. Dell provides the most complete Storage Spaces implementation – server, controller, JBOD and disks form an end-to-end solution, and this support includes new features such as JBOD monitoring.” Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform Team February 11, 2014 TechNet Server & Cloud Blog

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Storage Spaces Data De-Stage Solid State Drives (SSD) Tier Hard Disk Drives (HDD) Tier Reads/Writes Accumulates Data Activity Hyper-V Compute Nodes

Ideal I/O distribution with current SSD tier size for the current workloads Total I/O Tracked by Tiering Engine (indicates the majority of I/O) Current I/O distribution post-optimization

Supports SAS and SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) protocol Allows controller to send and receive diagnostic information to connected storage devices PowerVault MD1220 By Dell Inc PowerVault MD1200 By Dell Inc PowerVault MD3060e By Dell Inc