Windows SAN: Resolving Technical Barriers To Adoption And Deployment

1. Windows SAN:Resolving Technical Barriers To Adoption And Deployment Keith Hageman Sr. Technical Evangelist Windows Server Division Microsoft Corporation

2. Agenda • Storage Trends • Windows customer challenges • Windows Simple SAN Initiative • Market opportunities • Program details(requirements and recommendations) • Categories • Storage product improvement WINS! • Solutions • Resources

3. Windows Server Storage Focus Team Charter

4. Storage Trends • Storage consolidation • Networked storage lowers TCO, provides higher availability • Branch offices with no administrative staff • Disk replacing tape for recovery • Tape used for archive only • Automated backups, admin-less restores • Fast recovery • Management costs dominating acquisition costs • Appliances, consolidation, and virtualization reduce costs • Security, compliance, help desk, and SLA’s 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

5. Windows Customer Challenges • “Build a SAN” usability studies • Small and Medium organization surveys • No storage administrators;only Windows administrators! • Backup is their only “storage’ related day to day work • No knowledge of storage technologies • No replication in use • Prefer GUIs over CLIs • Reactive not proactive • No server monitoring • Evaluate and deploy without reading whitepapers • Deployment is not a controlled process

6. St. Mary And All Angels Datacenter

7. Windows Simple SAN Program • Program goals • Structure of the program • Program benefits

8. Benefits all types of orgs Consolidate serversand storage Protect data Simplify managementand scalability Product requirements Easy to deploy/use/manage Configurable forcomplete solutions Priced right for small/medium Key Simple SAN Market Small IT (SIT): 1-3 servers 43% of all servers (US) Medium IT (MIT): 4-15 servers 20% of all companies Average 29 servers (US) Large IT (LIT): 16-99 servers Simple SAN target market Enterprise IT (EIT): 100+ servers

9. Bringing The Best Of Storage To All Small Business Enterprise

10. Program Goals • Help provide Windows customerswith simplified SAN solutions that are • Easy to deploy • Interoperate • Serviceable • Provide the programmatic frameworkto help meet customer needs by • Helping drive partnerships among SAN vendors • Providing a Simple SAN program that guidesthe development of simpler SAN componentsand solutions

11. Required And Recommended • Simple SAN – Requirements • Can be explicitly evaluatedand validated via specific metrics • Interoperability issues are solvedby these requirements • Simple SAN – Recommendations • Includes Out Of Box Experience,quality of documentation, and othernon-“Designed for Windows” testing • “Best practices” solved by recommendations

12. Solutions Out-of-Box Experience Documentation Serviceability Interoperability Components Storage Array HBA (FC and iSCSI) FC Switch Storage Provisioning Backup/Quick Restore Tape Drive/Library Multipath Solution Clustering Security Simple SAN Categories

13. Simple SAN ComponentsTo date

14. Storage Product Improvements • HBAs • BIOS LUN setting was HEX now decimal“boot from SAN” • LEDs don’t go “green” until drivers are valid • Storage arrays • No serial cable connections • Better labeling • “keyed” cables • Switches • Open zoning out of box • Storage provisioning • Simple management apps

15. Complete Solution Requirements

16. Complete Solution Requirements

17. Call To Action • Improve your products for SimpleSAN customers • Easy to deploy • Interoperate • Easy to use • Join the Simple SAN program • Qualify your products asSimple SAN Components • Submit products for listinghttp://www.microsoftstoragepartners.com

18. Community And Resources • Homepage • http://www.microsoft.com/windowsstorageserver/R2 • http://www.microsoftstoragepartners.com • Community Resources • http://www.microsoft.com/communities/default.mspx • Most Valuable Professional (MVP) • http://www.microsoft.com/communities/mvp • Newsgroups • Converse online with Microsoft Newsgroups,including Worldwide • http://communities2.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx • User Groups – Meet and learn with your peers • http://www.microsoft.com/communities/usergroups/default.mspx • Case Studies and Product Information • http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/storage/default.mspx • http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wss2003/default.mspx • http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/wss2003/productinformation/casestudies/default.mspx

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