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Deploying Windows File Server for Exceptional IOPS/$
MDC-B217 Deploying Windows File Server for Exceptional IOPS/$ Bryan Matthew Program Manager

Agenda Discuss approaches to deploy storage with Windows
TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Agenda Discuss approaches to deploy storage with Windows Brief introduction to Storage Spaces How to best deploy storage that delivers Exception IOPS/$ How to actually deploy it with PowerShell! © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Storage Vision
Dramatically lowering the costs and effort of delivering IaaS storage services Disaggregated compute and storage Independent manage and scale at each layer Industry standard servers, networking and storage Inexpensive networks Inexpensive shared JBOD storage Hyper-V Clusters SMB Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency PowerShell & SCVMM 2012 R2 Management Shared JBOD Storage

Familiar Architectural Approach
TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Familiar Architectural Approach Traditional Storage with FC/iSCSI Storage Array Windows File Server Cluster with Storage Spaces Hyper-V Compute Nodes Hyper-V Compute Nodes FC/iSCSI (Block) SMB (File) Embedded CPUs and Controllers (proprietary hardware) Windows File Server Cluster (commodity hardware) FC/SAS Disk Shelf Storage Compute Shared SAS JBOD Storage Compute © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Consider for a moment some approaches to deploy storage

Storage Deployment Approaches
TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Storage Deployment Approaches Capacity Optimized High Capacity Cost-Efficient Minimized $/TB Balanced Mix of HDD and SSD High Capacity HDDs High Performance SSDs Best IOPS/$ Performance Optimized Extreme Performance Greatest throughput, highest IOPS © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Storage Deployment Approaches Capacity Optimized High Capacity Cost-Efficient Minimized $/TB Balanced Mix of HDD and SSD High Capacity HDDs High Performance SSDs Best IOPS/$ Performance Optimized Extreme Performance Greatest throughput, highest IOPS Case Study: Windows Release Team 2x increase… 3x increase… 5x increase… 6x reduction… in storage throughput in raw capacity in effective capacity with dedupe in number of servers “We’re able to use commodity hardware to achieve the same functionality [of traditional storage] at a far lower cost.” Jeremy Russell Senior Development Lead © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Storage Deployment Approaches Capacity Optimized High Capacity Cost-Efficient Minimized $/TB Balanced Mix of HDD and SSD High Capacity HDDs High Performance SSDs Best IOPS/$ Performance Optimized Extreme Performance Greatest throughput, highest IOPS Case Study: PDW SQL Appliance 2x reduction… 2x increase… 3x increase… 5x reduction… in hardware cost in storage throughput in data density in complex query execution time “Storage Spaces is a key foundation of SQL Parallel Data Warehouse, and enabled us to vastly improve our price/performance. It is truly a game changer for PDW.” Paul Dyke Principal Architect © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Storage Deployment Approaches Performance Optimized 1.45 Million IOPS 12GB/s Throughput Extreme Performance Greatest throughput, highest IOPS 144Gbps Shared SAS Links © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Storage Deployment Approaches How to build a deployment with: 16 TB Capacity 180,000 IOPS (4k, random) HDD Only Deployment Meet Capacity with 6 HDDs Miss IOPS by 179,100 SSD Only Deployment Miss Capacity by 12.8 TB Meet IOPS with 4 SSDs Balanced Balanced Deployment: Meet Capacity with 6 HDDs Meet IOPS with 4 SSDs Mix of HDD & SSD High Capacity HDDs High Performance SSDs Best IOPS/$ ? Option Capacity IOPS Cost SSD Only (20) 16 TB 1,000,000 $60,000 Mixed (6 + 4) 21.2 TB 200,900 $14,100 3TB SAS HDDs, 150 IOPS, $350 MSRP 800GB SAS SSDs, 50,000 IOPS, $3,000 MSRP © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

A brief introduction to Storage Spaces

Sampling of available Spaces Certified Hardware
TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Component Overview Industry standard commodity storage hardware Shared SAS JBOD arrays with power and data-path redundancy Dual-Port SAS drives Sampling of available Spaces Certified Hardware See under the “Storage Spaces” Category © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Capabilities Overview
Flexible Resilient Storage Spaces Native data striping maximizes performance Enclosure Awareness with certified hardware Data Integrity Scanner with NTFS and ReFS Continuous Availability with Windows Clustering Storage Spaces Mirror Space Parity Space Data Copy 1 Data Copy 2 Storage Pool

Reduced Mean Time to Recovery
Mirror Spaces Rebuild Parallelized recovery with spare pool capacity Increased Throughput Hot spare no longer necessary in R2 Rebuild Metric Measurement Data Rebuilt 2,400 GB Time Taken 49 min Rebuild Throughput > 800 MB/s 3TB HDDs, 2-way, 4-column Mirror Space Source: Internal Testing, No Foreground Activity Storage Space

Windows File Server Cluster
Continuously Available Storage Platform Supports VM migrations Storage moves with VMs Resiliency to disk, link, controller, power, JBOD, and node failure Cluster Shared Volume Unified namespace scales linearly as deployment grows Hyper-V Compute Nodes SMB SMB … … \\SRV\DB \\SRV\VDI_Mktg \\SRV\Ops Mirror Mirror Mirror Dual Parity 768Gb/s Shared SAS Links 60-bay SAS Array 60-bay SAS Array 60-bay SAS Array 60-bay SAS Array

Scaling the Windows File Server Cluster
TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Scaling the Windows File Server Cluster Hyper-V Compute Nodes Physical or Virtualized Workloads SMB SMB SMB High Speed Network (10GbE/InfiniBand) Unified Namespace (CSV) … … \\SRV\DB \\SRV\VDI_Mktg \\SRV\Ops Clustered Storage Spaces … … … … Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror Mirror 768Gbps Shared SAS Links 768Gbps Shared SAS Links 768Gbps Shared SAS Links 768Gbps Shared SAS Links Clustered File Servers with 10GbE/InfiniBand 60-bay Shared SAS JBOD Arrays 0.96PB 0.96PB 0.96PB 0.96PB © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

How to deploy with Exceptional IOPS/$...

TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Storage Deployment Approaches Capacity Optimized High Capacity Cost-Efficient Minimized $/TB Balanced Mix of HDD & SSD High Capacity HDDs High Performance SSDs Best IOPS/$ Performance Optimized Extreme Performance Greatest throughput, highest IOPS © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Match workload characteristics to drives
Common Workload Characteristics Large data set, and majority of data is cold Minority of data is in active use, and is hot The hot data is the “working set” Working set changes over time Common Drive Characteristics Hard Disk Drives, 7200RPM Capacity Optimized ( $/TB) Solid State Drives Performance Optimized ( IOPS/$) Data Set Current Working Set

Reads/Writes Accumulates Data Activity
Tiered Storage Spaces Leveraging File System Intelligence Data activity measured by File System Efficient Sub-File Tracking Granularity File deletion frees capacity on SSD Tier Heat follows file data Efficient utilization of SSD Tier Tiered Storage delivers balance between capacity and performance Hyper-V Compute Nodes Storage Space HDD Tier Cold Data SSD Tier Hot Data 400GB EMLC SAS SSD 4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD Reads/Writes Accumulates Data Activity

Tiered Storage Spaces (2)
Seamless Data Movement Daily and configurable as a Scheduled Task Background movement with minimal impact Administrative Control Assigning files to specific storage tiers to override placement based on heat Only possible with file system integration Example: Pooled VMs’ parent VHD file Hyper-V Compute Nodes Storage Space HDD Tier Cold Data SSD Tier Hot Data 400GB EMLC SAS SSD 4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD Reads/Writes Accumulates Data Activity

Tiered Storage Spaces (3)
Administrative Insight Performance Counters Post Tier-Optimization Analysis Report: “Is my SSD tier being efficiently utilized?” “What are the benefits of increasing the SSD tier size for this volume?” Hyper-V Compute Nodes Storage Space HDD Tier Cold Data SSD Tier Hot Data 400GB EMLC SAS SSD 4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD Reads/Writes Accumulates Data Activity

Write-Back Caching (WBC)
Complements Tiering Tiering – Balances capacity & performance WBC – Short-term absorption of I/O bursts Seamless Integration & Management Utilizes available SSD capacity from pool WBC enabled by default Configurable through PowerShell Hyper-V Compute Nodes Storage Space HDD Tier Cold Data SSD Tier & WBC Hot Data 400GB EMLC SAS SSD 4TB 7200RPM SAS HDD Reads/Writes Accumulates Data Activity Seamless Integration

Write-Back Caching & Tiered Storage Demo
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Storage Spaces PowerShell Demo
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Certified Storage Spaces Hardware High-Performance Servers and Storage

TechEd 2013 11/11/2018 6:28 PM Takeaways Storage Spaces with Tiered Storage utilizes the best characteristics of SSDs and HDDs to deliver high-capacity, high-performance, and cost-efficient storage Windows Server 2012 R2 is a key component in your cloud: Cost-Efficient Scalable Data Access: Capacity & Performance Continuously Available Operationally Simple © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Related content Breakout Sessions
11/11/2018 6:28 PM Related content Breakout Sessions MDC-B218: What is Storage Spaces? MDC-B337: Failover Cluster Networking Essentials WCA-B314: Designing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Architecture for Scale & Performance ATC-B212: The Cloud Service Provider Architecture ATC-B203: Architecting a Cloud Infrastructure: A Practical Design Scenario MDC-B311: Application Availability Strategies for the Private Cloud MDC-B342: Reduce Storage Costs with Data Deduplication MDC-B333: Storage and Availability Improvements in Windows Server 2012 R2 Find Me Later At... The Storage Booth © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

11/11/2018 6:28 PM Track resources Learn more about Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview, download the datasheet and evaluation bits on Learn more about System Center 2012 R2 Preview, download the datasheet and evaluation bits on © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

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Scalability: More Disks, More Performance
TechReady 16 11/11/2018 Scalability: More Disks, More Performance © 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

Deployment Recommendations
Resiliency Name Number of Data Copies Maintained Workload Recommendations Mirror 2 (two-way mirror) 3 (three-way mirror) Recommended for all workloads Parity 2 (single parity) 3 (dual parity) Sequential workloads with large units of read/write, such as Archival Simple 1 Workloads which do not need resiliency, or provide alternate resiliency mechanism

SSD Cluster (from TechEd 2012)

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Spaces – Case Studies Windows Release Team PDW SQL Appliance
Problem & Needs Capacity: One month of data retention Cost: Need to dramatically lower $/TB Scalability: Platform for Future Expansion Using Storage Spaces … 2x increase in storage throughput 3x increase in raw capacity (at same cost) 5x increase in effective capacity with dedupe 6x reduction in number of servers PDW SQL Appliance Problem & Needs Capacity: Need at least 6PB capacity Cost: Need to dramatically lower $/TB Performance: Improve complex query performance Using Storage Spaces … 2x reduction in hardware cost 2x increase in storage throughput 3x increase in data density 5x reduction in complex query execution time

Checking the media type for physical disks
# Find all eligible disks $disks = Get-PhysicalDisk |? {$_.CanPool -eq $true} # Looking at the MediaType for the PhysicalDisks $disks | Select FriendlyName, Manufacturer, Model, MediaType # Changing the MediaType to SSD Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk1 -MediaType SSD # Changing the MediaType to HDD Set-PhysicalDisk -FriendlyName PhysicalDisk1 -MediaType HDD

Creating the storage pool
# Create a new Storage Pool New-StoragePool -StorageSubSystemFriendlyName *Spaces* -FriendlyName TieredPool -PhysicalDisks $disks

Define the pool storage tiers
$ssd_tier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName SSD_Tier -MediaType SSD $hdd_tier = New-StorageTier -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName HDD_Tier -MediaType HDD

Creating a tiered storage space
# Creation of a Tiered Storage Space with a Write-Back Cache $vd1 = New-VirtualDisk -StoragePoolFriendlyName TieredPool -FriendlyName TieredSpace $hdd_tier) -ResiliencySettingName Mirror -WriteCacheSize 5GB

Assigning a file to a storage tier
# Assign a File to SSD Tier Set-FileStorageTier -FilePath E:\MarketingPoolVMParent.vhdx –DesiredStorageTier ($vd1 | Get-StorageTier -MediaType SSD) # Assign a File to HDD Tier Set-FileStorageTier -FilePath E:\Archive1.vhdx –DesiredStorageTier ($vd1 | Get-StorageTier -MediaType HDD)

Getting the list of files assigned to tiers
# Get the list of assigned files, the tier, and the status for the Volume "D" Get-FileStorageTier -VolumeDriveLetter E # Get the tier and status of a specific file Get-FileStorageTier -FilePath E:\MarketingPoolVMParent.vhdx

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