get your on-premises nas in the azure cloud
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Agenda
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• On-Premise vs Cloud• Azure Overview• Architecture• SoftNAS Demo
– Enterprise-class NAS on Azure– Extending Azure Blob Storage
• Use Cases• SoftNAS Overview• Q&A
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This is new…
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On premise vs. in the cloud
HighLow High
LowControl Economy of
Scale
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On premise vs. in the cloud
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HighLow High
LowControl Economy of
Scale
Application runs on-premise
Buy my own hardware,
and manage my own data
center
Application runs at a hosting provider
Co-location or Managed
servers
Application runs using
cloud services
“cloud fabric” (elastic,
infini-scale)
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Flexible, adaptable architecture
Linux virtual appliance
ARCHITECTURE INTEGRATION DATA SERVICES• API and CLI• Cross data center• Cross-zone VPC• Easy
administration• File gateway• HTML5 Admin UI• Software filer• ZFS on Linux
• AWS• Azure• CenturyLink cloud• CIFS w/ Active
directory• FC SAN• iSCSI LUN• iSCSI SAN• NFS• S3 Objects• SSD• VMware vSphere
• Block replication• Cloud disks• Compression• Inline deduplication• Instant snapshots• Multi-level caching• Storage pools• Thin provisioning• Writable
SnapClones™
SoftNAS Cloud NAS Virtual Storage Appliance on Azure Compute and Front-end Azure Blob
Native Object
NFS
CIFS/SMB
iSCSI
AFP
Azure Blob
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SoftNAS + Azure Architecture
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End-userdesktops, devices
Applicationsand servers
Volumes
AFP iSCSI
Storage pools
Cloud NAS
CIFS NFS Site ASite B Public
Cloud
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Challenge:• Company needs to quickly
SaaS enable a customer-facing application on Azure but app does not support Azure Blob
• Needs AD/LDAP integrationSolution:• Re-write app to support
Azure Blob (unlikely)• Do not change application:
Use SoftNAS Cloud NAS on Azure for NFS/CIFS/iSCSI
Use Case:NFS/CIFS/iSCSI Storage on Azure Cloud
Azureor
On-prem hosted VMs
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Challenge:• Major publishing company
needs reliable offsite data protection
• Large hardware capital investment
• Need metered usage• Simple and integrated
solution
Solution:• Branch office backup to
cloud• Core data center backup
to cloud• Cloud backup to cloud• Hybrid cloud backup
Use Case: Disaster Recovery on Azure Cloud
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Use Case: Hybrid On-Premise Storage Gateway to Azure CloudChallenge:• Major publishing
company has performance-sensitive applications that need local LANs
• Need off-site protection and/or capacity
Solution:• On-prem virtual
appliance• Replication,
snapshotting or back-up to Azure
• Capacity expansion to Azure
On-prem hosted VMs
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SoftNAS ProductsSoftNAS Cloud
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)• Microsoft Azure• VMware vCloud Air• CenturyLink Cloud
Public cloud NAS filer
SoftNAS Cloud File Gateway• VMware vSphere
On-premise cloud NAS filer
SoftNAS Object Filer• VMware vSphere
Software-defined NAS for object storage
SoftNAS for Service Providers• VMware vSphere
Multi-tenant NAS replacement for use with iSCSI and object storage
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