Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for Storage

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Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for
Storage

• Claude Lorenson, Ph.D.
• Senior Product Manager
• Windows Server Division clor _at_ microsoft.com
• Microsoft Corporation

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Session Outline

• Storage Challenges
• Current and Future Storage Trends
• Windows Storage Integration
• New technologies
• Market Impact
• Customer benefits
• Opportunities and Partners Solutions
• Strategy and Vision

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Session Goals

• Attendees should leave this session withthe
  following
• Understanding of the role of Windows in storage
  environments
• Knowing the integration points of the Windows
  platform with storage hardware
• A clear view of the opportunities in developing
  solutions for the Windows platform
• Understanding the key initiatives moving forward

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Storage Devices Key Windows Strategies
Storage Fabrics Server/Enterprise
Leading platform supporting storage fabrics
Optimized platform features enabling new customer
scenarios in Personal Storage
Personal Storage Client/Consumer
Timely, comprehensive, quality platform support
for optical devices
Optical Platform Client/Consumer
Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer
Preferred platform for developing, integrating,
and deploying storage devices
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Storage Pressures

• Storage growth estimates 60-100 per year
• Growth of e-business, e-commerce, and e-mail ?
  now common for organizations to manage many TB of
  data
• Mission critical data must be continuously
  available
• Regulations require long-term archiving
• More storage-intensive applications on market
• Storage and Security are the 1 pain points for
  the IT community (shared the 1 spot)
• Managing storage growth effectively is a
  challenge
• Adding more DAS
• increases complexity
• doesnt solve many data protection/high
  availability problems

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Current Storage Trends

• Costs of managing storage can be 10X the cost of
  storage
• DAS management costs and scalability issues have
  helped increase the popularity of networked
  storage

Sources McKinsey and IDC
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Current Storage Trends

• Storage consolidation in the center, caches at
  the edges
• Branch offices with no administrative staff
• Disk replacing tape for backup
• Automated backups, admin-less restores
• Fast recovery from viruses
• Management costs dominating acquisition costs
• Appliances, consolidation, virtualization reduce
  acquisition costs
• Security, compliance, help desk, SLAs all
  require people
• Systems adding automatic failure detection and
  self-healing
• Data moving to richer specialized storage
  platforms
• Email, SAP, SQL, Document Management Systems, CAS

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Future Storage Trends

• Hardware
• New form factors - storage bricks, consumer NAS,
  new disk formats
• Software
• Information Lifecycle becomes a reality
• Compliance paves the way for Reference Data
  platforms
• Global peer to peer storage
• Management
• Access to my data from anywhere
• Application centric storage management
• Self healing systems
• Seamless scale-out
• Fuller security model encryption, tamper
  proofing

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Microsoft Storage
Deliver simple, affordable, and manageable
storage solutions through investments in
platform, solutions, and partners.
Mission

• Bring high end storage features into the platform
  and make them available to everyone
• Deliver best of breed storage solutions by
  utilizing a great partner eco-system
• Differentiate by delivering end-to-end scenarios

Strategy
Products
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Windows Storage Integration
Architecture and Platform Development Has
Responded to Storage Trends in the Industry
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Storage Integration Windows Server 2003

• With integrated storage, Windows Server 2003
  facilitates
• Data Protection and Recovery
• Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS)
• ASR (Automated System Recovery)
• Availability, Scalability, and Performance
• Multipath IO (MPIO)
• Distributed File System (DFS)
• File and System Performance (SMB, NFS, Chkdsk,
  Vrfydsk)
• Interoperability and Management
• Support for both iSCSI and Fibre Channel
• Virtual Disk Service (VDS)
• SAN Integration
• SAN Boot
• Flexible Volume Mounting
• Storport
• HBA API
• Fibre Channel Information Tool

Hardware Partners Are Key Enablers for These
Solutions
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Storage Integration Windows Server 2003 SP1

• With SP1, Windows Server 2003 supports LUNs of
  size greater than 2TB
• Maximum NTFS Filesystem size 256TB
• Maximum Basic/Dynamic Volume size 273 Bytes
• Who benefits?
• Our premier server partners
• Storage array vendors, many of whom support LUNgt
  2TB
• Customers with large file applications like
  video-based applications, geo-exploration that
  want to stay on Windows

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Impact on Market Trends Storage Revenue per
Operating System

• According to IDC 2004, Windows is the number one
  platform for all key metrics
• Total storage
• External storage
• External RAID storage

Source Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2004-2008
Forecast and Analysis (IDC, 2004)
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Impact on Market Trends Data Center Growthby
Platform

• Annual price/performance improvements (est.)
• Mainframe 15-20
• RISC (Unix) 20-30
• Intel (Windows/Linux) 30-40
• Multi-tier application architectures
• Drives Wintel/Lintel application and Webserver
  deployment
• Unix recedes to back-end DBMS tier
• Windows surpasses proprietary Unix in 2007

Data Center Capacity Growth 2002-12
13x (20)
30x
25x
251x (26)
20x
( of capacity)
15x
10x
74x (51)
5x
2.6x (3)
0x
2002
2007
2012
z/OS
Windows
Linux
Unix
Meta Group Data
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Impact on Market Trends Fibre Channel Market

• Based on past data, IDC forecasts that Windows
  will overtake Unix as the leader in hosting Fibre
  Channel SAN storage

Source Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2004-2008
Forecast and Analysis (IDC, 2004)
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Impact on Market Trends iSCSI SAN Market

• Worldwide external disk storage (terabytes sold)
  for iSCSI SANs in 2003

IDC, Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2004-2008
Forecast and Analysis, August 2004

• In a survey of Storage Magazine readers (October
  2004), Windows was the preferred host platform
  choice for iSCSI SANs

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New Technologies Customer Benefits

• Technologies in Windows Server 2003 enables new
  scenarios
• New capabilities to restore data in seconds
  instead of hours (VSS)
• Simpler SAN management, one look and feel for all
  arrays (VDS)
• Easier maintenance and troubleshooting for HBA
  drivers and firmware (Storport)
• Easier support and deployment of high
  availability solutions (MPIO)
• Provide choice for storage architecture (iSCSI)

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New Technologies Customer Adoption

• The new technologies are an upgrade trigger
• Regional Law Office
• Moved from Novell to W2K3 to better integrate on
  SAN
• Digital Content Provider
• Moved from W2k on DAS to W2K3 on SAN take
  advantage of VSS restore
• Large Internet-based service provider
• Moved most servers to W2K3 take advantage of
  iSCSI and VSS restore for Exchange
• Large Financial Institution
• Moved from W2K on DAS to W2K3 on SAN to take
  advantage of quick restore with VSS

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Intersections with the Hardware Industry

• Working jointly with the industry to ease the
  complexityof storage networks
• Interoperability
• Reliability
• Management
• Security
• Performance
• Goal is to integrate storage capabilities into
  the operating system
• Alignment of the Windows platform and hardware
  capabilities
• Enable new classes of applications to use these
  capabilities
• Enable vendors to take advantage of their
  value-added functions
• Make sure end-to-end scenarios are covered

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Fast Recovery DAS vs SAN Comparison forWindows
2000 Server vs Windows Server 2003
W2K3 results on a 19 Million object Active
Directory at a large financial institution
Estimated results based on testing and
implementation by other groups
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Fast Recovery with Exchange at MicrosoftUsing
VSS Hardware Provider
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Simpler ManagementVDS Virtual Disk Service

• Software and hardwareRAID Management
• Create, Grow, Delete LUN
• RAID stacking
• Service handles
• Subsystem Discovery
• Formatting
• Hardware LUN masking
• Management enabler

Management Console
Windows 2003 Hosts
Switch
DAS
No user visible changes Manage DAS AND SAN
storage Storage resource provisioning
SAN
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Partner VDS Adoption QLogic SANSurfer

• VSD Manager
• Features
• SAN Component discovery
• Intuitive console for simple array management
• Manage heterogeneous storage subsystems
• Configure and monitor storage resources
• Virtualization of hardware and software logical
  volumes
• Fault analysis
• Monitoring of SAN devices
• Volume status
• Performance monitoring
• Health

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High Availability SolutionsMPIO Deployment
Compaq DL360/DL380 Servers Windows
2000/2003 QLogic 2200F
HAB0
HAB2
HAB4
HAB6

• Key features
• Remove single points of failure
• HBAs, switches, storage controllers
• Failover and Failback
• Move I/O to alternate path if primary fails
• Return to primary path after recovery
• Support multiple load balancing and
  failover/failback policies

Xiotech Magnitude Firmware v10.01

• Running
• SQL
• Exchange
• Citrix
• Liberty

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Storage Solution Flexibility

• Windows enables both Fibre Channel and iSCSI
  solutions
• Provides customer choice
• Enables multi-tier storage solutions
• Enables WAN solutions
• iSCSI solutions are
• Easy to deploy and manage
• Leverage well known IP technologies
• Lower support costs

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Partners
Storage Industry
Microsoft
Storage Partner Ecosystem
OEM
Systems Storage Components
Major/Strategic Industry Players
ODM
Networking
All others (including non-storage partners)
IHV
Software
ISV
Services
Larger Ecosystem
SI
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Next Wave Storage Solution Initiatives

• Small and medium businesses
• Simple SAN initiative aims to simplify SANs for
  the small and midsize market
• Program qualification for
• Simple SAN solution components
• Simple SAN complete solutions
• Large/Enterprise market
• Working on storage security and better
  interoperability
• Microsoft leadership
• Listening to customers, partners, industry
• Making storage infrastructure a better fit with
  industry standards and partner needs
• Leading on providing a programmatic framework for
  storage vendors to leverage their solutions on
  the Windows platform
• Promotion of industry standards such as
  WS-Management for a more structured approach to
  storage management

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Call to Action

• Find out the details on integrating with VSSand
  VDS APIs and with MPIO DDK
• Integrate with VDS1.1 beta
• Get to know the requirements for different types
  of hardware to be compatible with the Windows
  Simple SAN program
• Read the technical white papers related on the
  storage technologies

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Community Resources

• Windows Hardware Driver Central (WHDC)
• www.microsoft.com/whdc/default.mspx
• Technical Communities
• www.microsoft.com/communities/products/default.msp
  x
• Non-Microsoft Community Sites
• www.microsoft.com/communities/related/default.mspx
  
• Microsoft Public Newsgroups
• www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups
• Technical Chats and Webcasts
• www.microsoft.com/communities/chats/default.mspx
• www.microsoft.com/webcasts
• Microsoft Blogs
• www.microsoft.com/communities/blogs

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Additional Resources

• simpsan _at_ microsoft.com for Simple SAN program
  question
• Web Resources
• Whitepapers http//www.microsoft.com/windowsserve
  rsystem/storage/default.mspx
• iSCSI download http//www.microsoft.com/downloads
  /details.aspx?FamilyId12CB3C1A-15D6-4585-B385-BEF
  D1319F825displaylangen
• Related Sessions
• iSCSI Momentum, Deployments and Future
• The Storage Platform Defining Leadership
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