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Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for Storage

Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for Storage. Claude Lorenson, Ph.D. Senior Product Manager Windows Server Division clor @ microsoft.com Microsoft Corporation. Session Outline. Storage Challenges Current and Future Storage Trends Windows Storage Integration

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Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for Storage

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  1. Emergence of Windows as the Leading Platform for Storage Claude Lorenson, Ph.D. Senior Product Manager Windows Server Division clor @ microsoft.com Microsoft Corporation

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Storage Devices: Key Windows Strategies Storage FabricsServer/Enterprise Leading platform supporting storage fabrics Optimized platform features enabling new customer scenarios in Personal Storage Personal StorageClient/Consumer Timely, comprehensive, quality platform support for optical devices Optical PlatformClient/Consumer Preferred Storage Platform Partner/Customer Preferred platform for developing, integrating, and deploying storage devices

  5. 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 • doesn’t solve many data protection/high availability problems

  6. Current Storage Trends 90¢ 70¢ 50¢ 30¢ 10¢ DAS NAS SAN DAS NAS SAN • 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

  7. 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, 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

  8. Future Storage Trends • Hardware • New form factors - storage bricks, consumer NAS, new disk formats • Software • InformationLifecycle becomes a reality • Compliance paves the way for ReferenceData 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

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

  10. Windows Storage Integration Architecture and Platform Development Has Responded to Storage Trends in the Industry

  11. 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

  12. 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 LUN> 2TB • Customers with large file applications like video-based applications, geo-exploration that want to stay on Windows

  13. 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)

  14. 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

  15. 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)

  16. 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:

  17. 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)

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. Fast Recovery with Exchange at MicrosoftUsing VSS Hardware Provider

  22. 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

  23. Partner VDS Adoption:QLogicSANSurfer • 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

  24. High Availability SolutionsMPIO Deployment Fabric A Brocade 3800 Fabric B Brocade 3800 Compaq DL360/DL380 Servers Windows 2000/2003 QLogic 2200F HAB0 HAB2 HAB4 HAB6 Key features • Remove single points of failure • HBA’s, 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

  25. 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

  26. 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 Larger Ecosystem Services SI

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Community Resources • Windows Hardware & Driver Central (WHDC) • www.microsoft.com/whdc/default.mspx • Technical Communities • www.microsoft.com/communities/products/default.mspx • 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

  30. Additional Resources • simpsan @ microsoft.com for Simple SAN program question • Web Resources: • Whitepapers: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/storage/default.mspx • iSCSI download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=12CB3C1A-15D6-4585-B385-BEFD1319F825&displaylang=en • Related Sessions • iSCSI Momentum, Deployments and Future • The Storage Platform: Defining Leadership • Simplifying SAN Deployments on Windows

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