1. Storage Replica: Save your job with Windows Server 2016
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Storage Replica: Save your job with Windows Server 2016
Ned Pyle
Principal Program Manager
@nerdpyle
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2. Disaster: is it any film by Michael Bay?
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Disaster: is it any film by Michael Bay?
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3. Audience participation time:
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Audience participation time:
Harvey or
Irma?
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5. Superstorm Sandy That’s 880 miles!
NYC
Atlanta
For you Europeans, that’s 1,416,222,720 millimeters!

6. Storage-agnostic,
block-level,
SMB3-based,
zero RPO replication

7. Synchronous or asynchronous data replication
between floors,
buildings,
campuses,
cities,
& continents

8. Today we talk about SR capabilities,
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Today we talk about SR capabilities,
what’s new in version 1709,
what we learned,
& interesting trickery
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9. When you see a dog, it’s question time
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When you see a dog, it’s question time
Thatcher. Worried as h*ck about your DR plan. 13/10 would replicate
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10. Storage Replica capabilities

11. Stretch Clusters
Single cluster
Automatic failover
Asymmetric storage

12. S2D and shared disk supported
Cluster to cluster
Two separate clusters
Manual failover
S2D and shared disk supported

13. Two separate servers Manual failover Server to self too
Server to server
Two separate servers
Manual failover
Server to self too

14. Demo “Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy” 5/22/2018
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15. Datacenter Edition (Full, Core)
Requirements
Datacenter Edition (Full, Core)
Kerberos
≥2GB RAM, ≥2 Cores
Data & logs storage
Network
Firewall ports

16. Replicating blocks under CSVFS, NTFS, or ReFS volume
Blocks, not files
Not DFSR
Replicating blocks under CSVFS, NTFS, or ReFS volume
File in use? Don’t care!
Write IOs only

17. File sys filters & dedup
Driver layering
NY Site
NJ Site
SMB server
Not here!
Dismounted Volume
Volume
File sys filters & dedup
CSVFS/NTFS/ReFS
VolSnap filter
BitLocker Filter
Volume Manager
Storage Replica
Storage Replica
Here
Partition manager
Partition manager
Disk driver
Disk driver
Disk
Disk

18. Synchronous workflow The async difference? Applications
(local or remote) 1 5 2
Source Server
Node (SR)
Destination Server
Node (SR) 4 t 2 t1 3
Data
Log
Data
Log
The async difference?

19. No, I have not been digging up the dark fiber link.
Questions so far?
No, I have not been digging up the dark fiber link.
Why do you ask?

20. Storage Replica in version 1709

21. Demo “Everybody loves PowerShell – right?” 5/22/2018
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22. Reduces need for PowerShell
Honolulu Support
Reduces need for PowerShell
Server to server
More to come

23. It’s called Windows, Snover!
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It’s called Windows, Snover!
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24. Demo “Is this thing on?” 5/22/2018
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25. Test Failover in Windows Server, version 1709
Mount destination storage
Read and write to it
Discard when done
Test & validate DR

26. What we’ve learned in a year of Storage Replica

27. Microsoft Ignite 2016
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Microsoft Marketing
Hello. I am an IT pro person. I like the computers and such. They work fine always
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28. Gaze upon the real face of storage…
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Gaze upon the real face of storage…
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29. Storage Best Practices
Log performance
Initial sync performance
Log size

31. Network Best Practices
RDMA
Network Constraints
SMB Bandwidth

32. What’s performance worth? RDMA is about efficiency Downsides?
RDMA vs legacy NIC
What’s performance worth?
RDMA is about efficiency
Downsides?
SMB Direct has outstanding partner relationships

33. Why does the SR team love iWARP?
Microsoft Ignite 2016
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Why does the SR team love iWARP?
Perf
Uses existing infrastructure
Simple setup
Scalable
10, 25, 40, 50, & 100 Gbps speeds
Naturally long haul
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34. Compute Best Practices
VSS
Cluster sites

35. Cluster sites
New-ClusterFaultDomain -Name Seattle -Type Site -Description "Primary" -Location "Seattle Datacenter"
New-ClusterFaultDomain -Name Bellevue -Type Site -Description "Secondary" -Location "Bellevue Datacenter"
Set-ClusterFaultDomain -Name sr-srv01 -Parent Seattle
Set-ClusterFaultDomain -Name sr-srv02 -Parent Seattle
Set-ClusterFaultDomain -Name sr-srv03 -Parent Bellevue
Set-ClusterFaultDomain -Name sr-srv04 -Parent Bellevue
(Get-Cluster).PreferredSite="Seattle"

36. Compute Best Practices
VSS
Cluster sites
VM Resiliency

37. Cluster VM resiliency
(Get-Cluster).ResiliencyDefaultPeriod=n

38. Compute Best Practices
VSS
Cluster sites
VM Resiliency
VM Start Ordering
Consistency Groups for SQL

39. Encryption, Signing, none of the above?
Use conscientiously
Understand the hit
Disables RDMA(!)

40. Avoid
SOFS
All same speed storage

41. Firmware, Drivers, Updates
Know your vendor
Have a plan
Be proactive

42. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica

43. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume

44. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface

45. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface
Write Ordering
Yes

46. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface
Write Ordering
Yes
Replication Modes
Asynchronous (30 sec, 5/15 min)
Synchronous & Asynchronous (cont.)

47. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface
Write Ordering
Yes
Replication Modes
Asynchronous (30 sec, 5/15 min)
Synchronous & Asynchronous (cont.)
Test Failover
Yes
No RS1, Yes RS3(!)

48. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface
Write Ordering
Yes
Replication Modes
Asynchronous (30 sec, 5/15 min)
Synchronous & Asynchronous (cont.)
Test Failover
Yes
No RS1, Yes RS3(!)
Consistency
Application
Crash + VSS

49. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface
Write Ordering
Yes
Replication Modes
Asynchronous (30 sec, 5/15 min)
Synchronous & Asynchronous (cont.)
Test Failover
Yes
No RS1, Yes RS3(!)
Consistency
Application
Crash + VSS
Scale
See calculator app
Massive (100TB+ already seen in field)

50. Hyper-V or Storage Replica?
Hyper-V Replica
Storage Replica
Recovery
Per VM
Per Volume
Dedicated network support
Cert-based replication + host/DNS
Per network interface
Write Ordering
Yes
Replication Modes
Asynchronous (30 sec, 5/15 min)
Synchronous & Asynchronous (cont.)
Test Failover
Yes
No RS1, Yes RS3(!)
Consistency
Application
Crash + VSS
Scale
See calculator app
Massive (100TB+ already seen in field)
Inter-op
Hyper-V, Azure (ASR)
WS2016 Guest & Host

51. Customers.microsoft.com

53. Storage Replica offering:
2xDataON CiB-9112
Intel® Xeon® E5-v2600 v4 family, up to 22 cores
256GB – 1536GB
Tier Storage SAS SSD + HDDs
10GbE RDMA NICs

54. Microsoft 2016
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For over a century, Mead & Hunt has build a reputation as an engineering and architectural firm powered by innovative thinkers and steadfast experts
Mead & Hunt chose DataON CiB-9112 solution based on Windows Server 2016 to replace its aging FC SAN and deploying cluster-to-cluster replication leveraging Storage Replica (SR)
“Once we have Storage Spaces running, enabling Storage Replica between our two sites were just three (3) lines of PowerShell-
It’s so Simple.”
– Joseph Anich
Systems Infrastructure Engineering
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55. Storage Replica offering
2xDataON CiB-9473
Intel® Xeon® E5-v2600 v4 family, up to 22 cores
256GB – 1536GB
Tier Storage SAS SSD + HDDs
10GbE RDMA NICs

56. Microsoft 2016
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The Kotter Group is made up of small, energetic team of IT enthusiasts who have spend 21 years working in the insurance industry
Kotter Group chose DataON CiB-9473 solution based on Windows Server 2016 to replace its aging FC SAN and deploying cluster-to-cluster replication leveraging Storage Replica (SR)
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57. R730 Stretch Cluster BOM
4x nodes
4x MD3060E JBODs
1.5PB raw
Many deployments

58. Look into my eyes: you should take me to Shula’s tonight
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Questions so far?
Look into my eyes: you should take me to Shula’s tonight
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59. Interesting Storage Replica trickery

60. Answer? Definitely maybe!
Can I replace DFSR now?
Yes!
RPO and RTO
Don’t need to access secondary
No!
Folder & file granularity
Multi-master, complex topology, read-only secondary
Answer? Definitely maybe!

61. Fun with Robocopy and SR
Save time & CPU
Down & dirty migrations

62. Demo “I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain!” 5/22/2018
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63. Migration and Data Mover
Disparate arrays*
Local replication migrations
Data consolidation
Server decommission
Seeding

64. Site: aka.ms/storagereplica Blog: aka.ms/serverstorage Feedback:
Camera time!
Site: aka.ms/storagereplica
Blog: aka.ms/serverstorage
Feedback:
windowsserver.uservoice.com

65. If you rub my belly, I’ll add Honolulu support for clusters
Final questions
If you rub my belly, I’ll add Honolulu support for clusters

66. Enjoy the rest of the week and grab a laptop sticker!
5/22/2018
Enjoy the rest of the week and grab a laptop sticker!
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