1. Faster return with less effort with Windows Server 2016 software-defined storage

2. Challenges customers face
Move faster
“Data volume grows faster than anything in my datacenter, and I have to be able to move faster than it does. Scaling current storage systems takes a lot of time and energy.”
Reduce cost
“Cost structure is too high for purchasing and maintaining SAN and NAS arrays.”
Gain flexibility
“I want to assign storage for each application based on priority and budget.” 
Trends impacting customer decisions:
Data volume growing at 40% or more, will reach 44 zettabytes by 2020.
More than 65 percent of enterprise IT organizations will commit to hybrid cloud technologies before 2016.
Public IT cloud services spending will reach $56.6 billion in 2014 and grow to more than $127 billion in
Cloud fabric storage features to meet customer challenges:
[SPEED, COST]
Resilient and Diagnosable
VM Storage resiliency – Preserve tenant VM session state in the event of transient storage disruption
Storage health monitoring – One place to look for all storage health events
[COST, SPEED, FLEXIBILITY]
Efficient at Cloud Scale
File System – ReFS delivers highest levels of scale and resiliency for virtualization
Deduplication –Scale-out optimized for lowest $ per GB
Multi-tenant Control and Security
Storage Quality of Service – QoS control and manage noisy neighbors
SMB Security – Pre-authentication integrity to prevent tampering & man-in-the-middle attacks
[FLEXIBILITY, SPEED]
Cloud Consistency and Availability
Blob storage – Run cloud born apps on-premises or in Azure
Rolling upgrades – Cloud design points for no downtime upgrades

3. “
We’re moving towards a world where we don’t need to know where our data is—on-premises or in the cloud. The combination of Storage Spaces Direct, Hyper-V, scale-out flash storage, and SMB3 allows us to focus on functionality rather than location. With Windows Server 2016, migration is no longer a project, just a task. “
Ulf Preisler
IT Director
Danske Fragtmænd

4. Opportunity to rethink your datacenter Think services, not servers
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Opportunity to rethink your datacenter Think services, not servers
Traditional datacenter
Tight coupling between infrastructure and apps
Expensive, vertically integrated hardware
Siloed infrastructure and operations
Highly customized processes and configurations
Cloud model
Loosely coupled apps and micro-services
Industry-standard hardware
Service-focused DevOps
Standardized processes and configurations
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5. Storage Quality of Service (QoS) for efficiency
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Storage Quality of Service (QoS) for efficiency
Control and monitor storage performance
Simple out of box behavior
Enabled by default for Scale-Out File Server (SOFS)
Automatic metrics (normalized IOPs latency) per VM & VHD
Scale-out File Server Cluster
Hyper-V Cluster
Virtual Machines
I/O
Sched
Policy
Manager
Rate
Limiters
SMB3 Storage Network Fabric
Flexible and customizable
Policy per VHD, VM, Service, or Tenant
Define minimum and maximum IOPs
Fair distribution within policy
Prioritize storage resources for critical apps
With Storage Quality of Service, administrators can centrally manage and monitor
storage performance and control workload access to storage resources. In this way,
critical workloads can receive higher-priority access to storage resources. Policies
define storage I/O minimums and maximums for virtual machines and ensure they
are met, providing consistent performance across VMs.
Management
System Center VMM and Ops Manager
PowerShell built-in for Hyper-V and SoFS
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6. Converged solution On-premises disaggregated solution
Hyper-converged Scale compute, storage simultaneously
Virtual machines on Hyper-V host
Virtual Machines
SMB3
Storage Software
Scale-out file server
Scale-out file server
Storage Software
Storage Software
Many customers increasingly want to achieve the economic and simplification benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure, which brings together storage and compute on lower-cost hardware. Large-scale private and hosted clouds, on the other hand, typically prefer the flexibility to scale compute and storage independently. Windows Server software-defined storage enables both models for customer flexibility with its Storage Spaces Direct feature.
-The disaggregated scenario separates Hyper-V servers from the Storage Spaces Direct servers, enabling scaling of compute separate from storage.
-In the hyper-converged scenario shown here, the Hyper-V (compute) and Storage Spaces Direct (storage) components reside on the same cluster to enable simultaneous scaling.
Talking points:
Microsoft’s on-premises strategy is for a converged / disaggregated architecture running Hyper-V over SMB. That could be either to a 3rd party NAS device, or to a Software-defined Storage solution with a Scale-out File Server as a NAS head which is backed by either Storage Spaces Direct or Storage Spaces with shared JBOD’s.
Microsoft is a cloud company and we embrace your choice of storage for your cloud. Be it traditional SAN or NAS, and for those looking to reduce costs we also offer Software-defined Storage solutions.
Flexible choices across a breadth of storage
Not just bits, but also choice in integrated solutions
Reduce storage costs
Complete storage options to meet your needs:
Industry leading portfolio for on-premises solutions
Your choice of design principle
Microsoft solutions reduce storage costs
Scale components separately in this model.
Simultaneous scaling is possible when compute (Hyper-V) and storage components (Storage Spaces Direct) reside on the same cluster.

7. Converged solution On-premises disaggregated solution
Microsoft Ignite 2015
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Converged solution On-premises disaggregated solution
Choice: NAS or Software-defined Storage with either shared or shared nothing disks
File-based storage: Ethernet / InfiniBand with SMB3 for storage fabric
Leverage existing investments: Add existing storage assets to a Software-defined Storage stack
Manageability: Entire stack manageable with System Center with any solution
Third-party NAS
Hyper-V
SMB3 storage network fabric
System Center
SoFS with Storage Spaces Direct
SoFS with SAN
SoFS with Storage Spaces
Shared JBOD Storage
Talking points:
Microsoft’s on-premises strategy is for a converged / disaggregated architecture running Hyper-V over SMB. That could be either to a 3rd party NAS device, or to a Software-defined Storage solution with a Scale-out File Server as a NAS head which is backed by either Storage Spaces Direct or Storage Spaces with shared JBOD’s.
Microsoft is a cloud company and we embrace your choice of storage for your cloud. Be it traditional SAN or NAS, and for those looking to reduce costs we also offer Software-defined Storage solutions.
Flexible choices across a breadth of storage
Not just bits, but also choice in integrated solutions
Reduce storage costs
Complete storage options to meet your needs:
Industry leading portfolio for on-premises solutions
Your choice of design principle
Microsoft solutions reduce storage costs
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8. Converged solution Scale compute and storage independently
Microsoft Ignite 2015
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Converged solution Scale compute and storage independently
Flexibility: Compute and storage scale independently
Scalability: Ability to scale each layer for the highest demands
Manageability: Segments layers to admin roles
Hyper-V Cluster
Scale-out compute with low cost commodity servers
Low cost NIC’s at scale
Inexpensive Ethernet for storage fabric
SMB3 storage network fabric
System Center
Talking points:
Microsoft believes in having your compute layer be low cost commodity scale-out. It is cost prohibitive to put expensive HBA’s in each compute node, so Microsoft believes in low cost Ethernet or InfiniBand as the storage fabric. Back end storage is NAS, which can be either 3rd party NAS or a Software-defined Storage NAS solution, consisting of a Scale-out File Server as a NAS head which is backed by Storage Spaces and low cost shared JBOD’s
Scale-out File Server
NAS head
Elastic, reliable, optimized with Storage Spaces
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9. 9/4/2018 “
With Storage Spaces Direct, Microsoft has handed customers the keys to the all-flash performance kingdom in a way that is financially attainable and technically accessible. It is quite simply, beautiful. “
Daniel Weissenborn Enterprise Architect
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10. Choice Cloud, partner, custom options to suit
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Choice Cloud, partner, custom options to suit
Cloud-powered storage
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) management of hardware replication and cross-site failover.
Backup of traditional storage array to the cloud.
Single-pane-of-glass management
End-to-end management with SCVMM.
SMAPI for broad ecosystem interoperability.
Deep health and availability insight of storage.
Storage QoS for control of noisy neighbors.
Reducing disaster recovery costs
In-box software replication with Storage Replica
Lowering RPO with both sync and async replication
Lowering RTO with Stretch Cluster and ASR automation
Hyper-V
Fibre Channel/iSCSI/FCoE
Storage Array(s)
Managed by System Center
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11. Choice On-premises storage
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Choice On-premises storage
Microsoft offers industry leading portfolio for building on-premises clouds.
Microsoft embraces your choice of storage.
Microsoft offers solutions to reduce storage costs.
Storage Spaces Direct
File Based Storage
Storage Spaces
SAN Alternative
SAN Partners Fibre Channel/iSCSI/FCoE
Block Storage
NAS
SMB3
File Based Storage
Microsoft Azure Stack/Object Storage
Cloud Fabric
Talking points:
Microsoft is a cloud company and we embrace your choice of storage for your cloud. Be it traditional SAN or NAS, and for those looking to reduce costs we also offer Software-defined Storage solutions.
Hyper-converged is perfect for branch office, remote office, and small/medium business. But for larger private or hosted clouds, having a converged architecture which can scale compute and storage independently gives the greatest levels of flexibility needed for large scale deployments.
Benefits of this approach:
Cost: Customers desire the economics and simplicity of hyper-converged
Cloud Scale: Large scale private and hosted clouds need the flexibility to independently scale compute and storage
Choice: Windows Server Software-defined Storage empowers both models giving customers flexibility
Find the right Cloud + Enterprise storage options to fit your needs:
[ON-PREMISES] Storage Spaces Direct and traditional SAN/NAS connectivity to support Private Clouds and Virtualized environments.
[HYBRID CLOUD] StorSimple and 3rd party solutions providing on-premises storage integrated with Azure Storage. Azure Site Recovery and Backup providing Availability on Demand.
[PUBLIC CLOUD] Azure Storage for scalable, reliable, and economical cloud storage for data big and small.
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12. Storage Spaces Direct development partners
Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server
Dell PowerEdge R730xd
Fujitsu Primergy RX2540 M1
HP Apollo System
Intel® Server Board S2600WT-based Systems
Quanta D51PH
Lenovo System x3650 M5

13. Storage Replica
Synchronous replication: Storage agnostic mirroring of data in physical sites with crash-consistent volumes ensuring zero data loss at the volume level.
Increase resilience: Unlocks new scenarios for metro- distance cluster to cluster disaster recovery and stretch failover clusters for automated high availability.
Flexible: Server to server, cluster to cluster, and stretch cluster. Local disks, Storage Spaces Direct, clustered disks. NTFS, REFS, CSVFS. TCP, RDMA. Synchronous and asynchronous.
Streamlined management: Graphical management for individual nodes and clusters through Failover Cluster Manager and Azure Site Recovery. Full PowerShell and SMAPI support.
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14. Demo Storage Spaces Direct

15. Next steps Take the next step: www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2016
Windows Server Blog:

16. 9/4/2018
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