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With HP Converged Storage and Microsoft Windows Server 2012, you can chart a simple, non-disruptive path from your current IT infrastructure to a Microsoft Private Cloud in order to respond faster to business needs and drive greater operational efficiency. For example, you can improve agility and efficiency in the face of unpredictable application workloads and the growth of big data.

HP Converged Storage not only simplifies deployment of Microsoft Windows Server 2012, but also provides an extremely flexible foundation for optimizing, managing, and protecting data as part of a Microsoft Private Cloud.

Windows Server environment challenges

Are you struggling to deliver maximum data availability to end users, serve diverse workloads quickly and efficiently, and control costs in your Windows Server environment? Has past growth led to over-provisioned and underutilized hardware, and increased management overhead? Ifso, you should consider what a Microsoft Private Cloud can do for you, and why HP Converged Storage provides the ideal foundation for building a private cloud using Windows Server 2012. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 is designed to deliver enhanced virtualization, scalability, availability, and efficiency to meet user demands in private cloud environments. New features in Windows Server 2012 have expanded the storage options available to you for implementing a cloud-optimized environment. With our broad storage portfolio, HP offers products that help you make the most of your storage options by maximizing the benefits specific to your environment.

HP and Microsoft partnership: building cloud-optimized IT

For more than 30 years, HP and Microsoft have worked together to simplify Microsoft Windows Server environments and reduce total cost of ownership. As a Microsoft Global Technology Partner across storage, servers, networking, and technology services, HP enables you to deploy Windows Server solutions with confidence. HP has the industrys most comprehensive storage offerings for Windows Server environments. HP is the infrastructure partner of choice for Windows Server, and the only vendor to be named Microsoft Enterprise Partner of the Year five times. HP is Microsofts largest Gold Certified partner, with nearly 200 HP sites enrolled worldwide. Since 2010, HP and Microsoft have worked together to invest $250 million USD in joint marketing and R&D projects as part of an enhanced partnership agreement. The HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft is just one of a number of new products emerging from that agreement. HP expertise in Microsoft Windows Server helps you evaluate needs, rapidly plan and deploy solutions, and cost-effectively operate your Windows Server environment. Even as your business grows and your circumstances and requirements evolve, HP and Microsoft deliver the software, hardware, and services necessary to keep you moving forward.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 new storage features andenhancements

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 new storage features and enhancements include: Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX) ODX enables rapid provisioning and migration of virtual machines (VMs) and provides significantly faster transfers of large files, such as database or video files. By offloading the file transfer to the storage array, ODX minimizes latencies, maximizes the use of array throughput, and reduces host resource usage, such as CPU and network consumption. Thin Provisioning Thin Provisioning provides a synchronous view and ensures the robustness of the thin provisioned logical unit number (LUN), by LUN identification, thresholdnotification handling, temporary and permanent resource exhaustion, storage spacereclamation, and inquiry into the mapping state of logical blocks. Data deduplication Data deduplication reduces storage usage by finding and removing duplication within data without compromising data fidelity and integrity, thereby enabling storing more data in less physical space.

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Server Message Block (SMB) SMB is the file sharing protocol used by default on Microsoft Windows-based computers. Windows Server 2012 provides a set of new SMB features that greatly enhance the reliability, availability, manageability, and performance of file servers. SMB transparent failover, together with SMB Multichannel and SMB Direct, enables deployment of storage for workloads such as Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server on costefficient, highly available, high-performance Windows Server 2012. Comprehensive Storage Management (PowerShell-based) The storage stack in Windows Sever 2012 is managed through the Windows Storage Management API by using Windows Management Instrumentation and Windows PowerShell, and also through the File Services GUI in Server Manager. Event notifications can be consumed for automated actions by sophisticated management applications such as Microsoft System Center. Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) CSV simplifies the configuration and operation of VMs. New enhancements in Windows Server 2012 include better security and performance as well as support of other application workloads and flexible file storage solutions.

Building a Converged Infrastructure

HP Converged Infrastructure delivers a systematic approach to accelerate time-to-business value for IT organizations in large and mid-sized enterprises and service providers. This is achieved by helping overcome the inflexibility and high costs created by data center, application, and IT sprawl. A fundamental element of HP Converged Infrastructure, HP Converged Storage enables you to eliminate silos by enabling the integration of technologies into shared pools of interoperable resources. A Converged Infrastructure built with HP Converged Storage enhances the efficiency, simplicity, and agility of your Windows Server deployment so that your IT department can spend less time maintaining corporate communication tools and more time initiating new projects that add value to the business.

Master the Microsoft Private Cloud with HPConvergedStorage

HP Converged Storage provides the foundation for an efficient, simple, and agile Windows Server 2012 deployment as you optimize, manage, and protect your Microsoft Private Cloud environment. Optimize the cloud for efficiency HP Converged Storage features industry-leading deduplication and thin technologies to ensure that you get the most out of your storage capacity by reducing data duplication and eliminating the need for over provisioning. Manage the cloud for simplicity HP Converged Storage is easy to deploy and manage with best-of-breed provisioning, tiering, and change management to make system administration autonomicmeaning you dont have to think about it. Store and protect the cloud with agility HP Converged Storage offers federated, scale-out software that enables massive scalability, ease of migration, and dynamic, non-disruptive workload rebalancing across systems.

Overcoming Microsoft Private Cloud challenges in Windows Server 2012 environments with HP ConvergedStorage
HP offers a range of Converged Storage solutions to address your specific needs as you begin your journey to Microsoft Private Cloud with Windows Server 2012 (see Figure 1). HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage As the next-generation, tier 1 utility storage built for IT-asa-Service, HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage is ideal for virtual and cloud environments. Designed to deliver enterprise IT as a utility service simply, efficiently, and flexibly, HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage features a tightly coupled clustered architecture, secure multi-tenancy, andmixed workload support to fuel enterprise-class virtual and cloud data centers.

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Figure 1: HP Storage Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2012

Single discrete system (HP ProLiant, HP StoreEasy 1000)

Clustered discrete systems (HP StoreEasy 3000 Cluster)

2 node cluster + storage in a box (CiB) (HP StoreEasy 5000)

Shared SAS JBOD (HP MSA, HP disk enclosures)

External storage array (HP 3PAR StoreServ, HP StoreVirtual, HP StoreAll, HP XP)

Fibre Channel (FC) or IP storage area network(SAN) 2 to 64 nodes with CSV v2 scale-out External Storage Array FC or IP SAN Fabric Virtualization: Hyper-V Server Data center NAS: FS for Hyper-V, SQL Applications: SQL Server

HA Scale Storage

Internal HW RAID or storagespaces Single node Shared JBOD SAS

Clustered PCI RAID or storage spaces 2 nodes Shared JBOD SAS (discrete or CiB) Integrated SAS switch in JBOD Virtualization: Hyper-V Server Info worker: File Server shares Data center NAS: FS for Hyper-V, SQLApplications: SQL Server

Clustered PCI RAID or storage spaces 2 nodes to 8 nodes with CSV scale-out Shared JBOD SAS (discrete or CiB) SAS switch and fabric Virtualization: Hyper-V Server Data center NAS: FS for Hyper-V, SQLApplications: SQL Server

Workloads Virt: Hyper-V Server

IW: File server shares

HP StoreEasy Storage This is the best-in-class portfolio of general purpose file serving appliances and gateways for Microsoft Windows environments. The mid-range HP StoreEasy 5000 Storage is the industrys first active-active clustered controller file-serving appliance built on Windows Storage Server. Deploy easy-to-use and highly available file services, which are expandable to hundreds of terabytes for Windows Server 2012 environments, leveraging Cluster-in-a-Box, wizard-based tools, and a choice of drive types in an ultra-dense 3U chassis. Achieve greater storage flexibility, uptime and performance on cost-efficient storage for Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server with SMB 3.0 and for Linux/UNIX environments with NFSv4.1. HP StoreAll Storage With a pay-as-you-grow modular architecture designed to scale-out to 16 PB and 1000+ nodes in a single namespace, HP StoreAll 9000 Storage is the infrastructure to accommodate unprecedented unstructured data growth for archiving, big data, and cloud. Centralized management allows administrators to manage the all-inclusive features for data protection, retention, and mobility for many tens of TBs to multiple PB. HP StoreVirtual Storage The perfect fit for environments with a variety of virtual servers, client virtualization, database, email, and business applications, HP StoreVirtual Storage scales capacity and performance linearly to seamlessly grow with your business. HP StoreOnce Backup As a disk-based backup that offers deduplication and low-bandwidth replication, HP StoreOnce Backup is the only backup system that uses the same deduplication engine to easily move data across different backup platforms without the need to rehydrate the dataalso known as Federated Deduplication. In addition, HP Storage is one of the key building blocks in integrated systems that pave your way to Microsoft Private Cloud: HP CloudSystem A complete, integrated, open solution, HP CloudSystem enables the building and management of services across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments while increasing infrastructure agility and allowing service providers to drive top line growth. Extend HP CloudSystems core capabilities with HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage for an advanced cloud infrastructure. HP VirtualSystems for Microsoft Featuring a portfolio of precision-tuned HP Converged Systems and Services that help harness the power of virtualization, HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft with HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage as its storage foundation, delivers a faster path to agile and efficient virtualized applications solutions. HP VirtualSystems for Microsoft also provide investment protection through a clear upgrade path to HP CloudSystem.
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Challenge: Massive consolidation of unpredictable Windows Server 2012 workloads squeezes performance, scalability, and security demands, and creates a backup/restore dilemma. Need: Mixed workload support, and new efficiencies in performance and utilization while eliminating storage boundaries.

In todays virtual and cloud data centers, customers face unpredictability that causes resource planning constraints. With traditional storage solutions, you find yourself asking if adding a new Windows Server application will impact performance or security, or if you have enough capacity to deal with explosive growth. You are trying to find the right balance between cost and performance for your mission-critical and tier 1 data workloads without adding more complexity. Cloud-optimized storage architecture Built-in virtualization and wide striping in a storage array drive new efficiencies in both performance and utilization without compromising either. As a result, all system resourcesincluding disk drives, controllers, and cacheare utilized for all volumes. In addition, a scale-out storage architecture allows you to start small and grow as needed, adding new Windows Server applications and workloads affordably and non-disruptively. This eliminates stranded capacity, alleviates the performance concerns of running mixed workloads, enables a low entry price, and provides opportunity for massive and non-disruptive growth. Fast data transfers of large files Storage array support for the Windows Server capability to move large files (such as database or video files) and VMs directly between disks reduces host CPU and network resource consumption and offloads the file transfer to the storage array. Continuous availability across multiple sites Protecting against system downtime with automatic failover of application services and read/write enabling of remotely mirrored storage over metropolitan distances delivers continuous availability in a Windows Server environment. Storage integration with the CSV feature of Windows Server 2012 fully enables automatic failover of VMs in case of data center or component outages. Rapid backup and recovery at scale The ability to quickly back up data on HP storage arrays within a small backup window and then access that data faster within a short Response Time Objective provides simple and cost-effective disaster recovery. Storage federation A storage infrastructure that provides federated workload balancing and federated thin provisioning maps workloads to the right resources and enables efficient pooling of capacity across the data center, respectively. In addition, federated asset management enables administrators to keep operations running during upgrades. HP Solution HP Converged Storage enables you to build an agile Windows Server 2012 private cloud featuring a fully isolated, multi-tenant environment to guarantee service level agreements, enable chargebacks, and support self-service delivery. Heres how: HP 3PAR StoreServ Architecture The fine-grained virtualization and wide striping built into HP 3PAR StoreServ drives new efficiencies in both performance and utilization without compromising either. The ability to securely support multiple tenants on HP 3PAR StoreServ gives you the ability to massively consolidate mixed Windows Server workloads onto a single storage system. Secure segregation protects individual users, hosts, and data while delivering high performance and high availability. HP 3PAR StoreServ and Windows ODXHP 3PAR StoreServ and Windows Server 2012 ODX enable migration of large files, such as database or video files, seven times faster with near-zero network impact since blocks of zeros are not written due to the arrays zero-detection capability integrated into the HP 3PAR StoreServ ASIC. HP Cluster Extension (CLX) and Windows CSV HP CLX and Microsoft Windows CSV enable simple deployment of storage for cluster-enabled VMs on Hyper-V clusters, thereby protecting against system downtime with automatic failover of Windows application services and live migration of VMs over metropolitan distances. HP StoreOnce Backup The HP StoreOnce family provides disk-based backup that offers deduplication and low-bandwidth replication. It is the only family of backup systems that uses the same deduplication engine to easily move data across different backup platforms without the need to rehydrate the dataalso known as federated deduplication. HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software HP 3PAR Peer Motion Software enables you to load-balance I/O workloads across storage systems at will, perform a technology refresh seamlessly, cost-optimize asset lifecycle management, and lower capital expendituresall without disrupting your business.

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Challenge: Diverse Windows Server 2012 workloads result in underutilized and over provisioned storage. Need: Storage efficiency thateliminates the need forover provisioning.

Storage inefficiencies can make your environment more complex and can run up costs. With traditional storage, this means that your organization is not only managing more storage than needed, but also paying to house, power and cool that unnecessary capacity. In addition, a complex Web of network cards, interconnects, cables and switches is required in virtual and cloud data centers to keep pace with the server-to-server and server-to-storage network traffic. However, these interconnects can lead to performance bottlenecks, higher costs, and complexity in building, maintaining, and securing your cloud at scale. Thin provisioning With traditional storage platforms, capacity is typically fully provisioned to accommodate anticipated application growth. In Windows Server 2012 environments, this can lead to over-provisioning, both to avoid the need to request additional storage too frequently and to ensure that capacity is readily available for new application requests. Thin provisioning is an end-to-end storage provisioning solution that requires planning for storage deployment and execution on both the host and client application. A host operating system thin provisioning feature serves as the interface between the thin provisioning-capable storage and the host server. With support for thin provisioning, the storage infrastructure and Windows Server 2012 together eliminate inefficiencies by ensuring that applications consume only what they need and by allowing virtual volume capacity to be allocated without actually committing physical storage up front. Storage tiering In Windows Server 2012 environments, different users have varying workloads. Tiered storage provides the flexibility to meet varied workload requirements while minimizing cost. This flexibility delivers consolidated, tiered application services as well as cost and performance optimization. Flat SAN architecture Flattening a complex multi-tier SAN infrastructure into a single-tier flat SAN, eliminates half of the SAN fabric cost and simplifies the storage infrastructure. HP Solution HP Converged Storage and Windows Server 2012 help improve storage efficiency and reduce SAN fabric cost, complexity, and bottlenecks. Heres how: HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning, Thin Conversion and Thin Persistence Software Startthin, get thin, and stay thin with HP 3PAR StoreServ thin technologies, which reduce capacity requirements by at least 50%1 and enable nearly 100% of unused space to be reclaimed by automatically and continuously freeing and reclaiming unused capacity. HP 3PAR StoreServ thin technologies also support Windows Server 2012 automatic reclamation of storage, resulting in automation of storage growth and shrinkage. HP 3PAR Adaptive Optimization Software Optimize storage cost and performance by non-disruptively converting data service levels at the sub-volume level across SSD, FC, and Nearline storage tiers, thereby delivering the right quality of service to the right data at the right time on a large scale. HP Virtual Connect for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage With HP Virtual Connect Direct Attach FC, deploy a single-layer FC storage network and optimize your fabric management with 86% fewer parts, 55% lower latency and 2.5x faster FC storage provisioning. Set up zones with automated zoning capabilities in one click versus hours. Deploy efficiency and agility in cloud-scale with the industrys first flat SAN on HP 3PAR StoreServ by attaching 48 BladeSystem c7000 enclosures with HP ProLiant Gen8 server blades to support more than 25,000 VMs and run a real-world mix of applicationsall with zero dedicated SAN infrastructure.

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Challenge: Infrastructure deployment and management must keep up with the rapid pace of business. Need: Simple storage administration, and rapid provisioning of infrastructure and applications.

The speed and scale of business growth is currently pushing traditional IT to the breaking point. IT organizations are expected to deliver Windows Server applications and services that are fast, predictable, scalable, and interoperable. For your IT organization to keep pace with the speed of business, a faster, simpler approach to infrastructure deployment and management is requiredone that accelerates time to application value and simplifies management of the cloud. Autonomic storage provisioning You need to deploy an integrated hardware, software, and services solution that helps you realize the full value of the cloud as quickly as possible. In addition, you need to automatically provision on-demand storage LUNs during the deployment of a service and automate reporting and management. This common approach to resource pool management reduces the time required to provision and deploy infrastructure for IT services. Turn-key virtualization solution The complexity of managing applications, deploying them faster, and keeping them up and running more reliably highlights the need for tightly integrated private cloud solutions that are built from the ground up to deliver virtualized environments that are predictable, easily managed, and optimized for better application performance. Access to ready-to-deploy solutions is a key to gaining greater benefits from virtualization today, while creating a path to a private or hybrid cloud that can deliver greater business agility and cost savings over time. Simplified and automated management Along with Microsoft Private Cloud comes the need for automation and simplified management of pooled IT resources. With this in mind, the storage infrastructure must deliver tight integration with System Center 2012 and Windows Server 2012 PowerShell commands, giving you full control and simplified management of your entire Microsoft virtualized environment. HP Solution HP Converged Systems and Services, built on HP Converged Storage, help businesses quickly harness the full potential of virtualization, cloud, and next-generation applications in a Windows Server environment. Delivering storage and server hardware, software, and services integrated into turnkey systems based on proven technologies, HP Converged Systems take the headache out of application integration, virtualized infrastructure, and cloud services. Heres how: HP CloudSystem MatrixHP CloudSystem Matrix is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service solution for private and hybrid cloud deployments, built on proven HP Converged Infrastructure technologies such as HP BladeSystem, Matrix Operating Environment, and Cloud Service Automation for Matrix. On-demand storage provisioning automatically provisions storage LUNs during the deployment of a service for HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage. HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft A turnkey virtualization solution that is integrated from the ground up, the HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft, featuring HP StoreVirtual Storage or HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage, includes Microsoft Hyper-V as the foundational virtualization platform, and Microsoft System Center as the foundation for a Microsoft Private Cloud. By deploying HP VirtualSystem for Microsoft, your organization benefits from easy-to-order delivery and on-site integration, maximized VM performance, availability, and scalability, application availability through storage optimized for high availability, and end-to-end solution support. HP Storage Management Pack and SMI-S providers HP Storage integration with Microsoft SCVMM 2012 and Windows Server 2012 PowerShell enables you to rapidly provision new VMs and discover and manage Virtual Volumes and snapshots. In addition, HP Converged Storage integration with Microsoft SCOM enables capabilities such as automated installation/discovery, monitoring of multiple HP storage systems, and consolidation and monitoring of events and alerts for HP storage arrays.

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Resources HP has a wealth of Microsoft Windows Server reference architectures and technical white papers to accelerate deployment with predictable results and reduced risk. Key resources include: HP 3PAR StoreServ delivers superfast and efficient data movement with Windows Server 2012 ODX: h20195.www2.hp.com/V2/ GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-3012ENW &cc=us&lc=en HP Storagethe simple, efficient and agilepath to Microsoft Private Cloud: storify.com/HPStorageGuy/hp-storage- an d -microsoft-windows-server-2012-2015

HP Services
HP Technology Services (TS) Center of Excellence (CoE) enhances expertise and accelerates adoption. Areas of technical expertise include data center transformation, Microsoft Private Cloud architecture, and data center system integration. HP TS CoE provides the following services: Migration to a Microsoft Private Cloud Services to accelerate adoption Transformation services for HP and Microsoft data center solutions that include transformation, business value, strategic architecture, and proof-of-concept/pilot services Evolve services, guide/develop/educate, offer quality assurance, and provide specialized pursuit and presales to complement our world-class integration and implementation services With more than 48,000 trained professionals, over 12,000 of whom are certified on Microsoft competencies, and over 2700 of whom are certified for Windows Infrastructure/Virtualization/ Management, HP has the knowledge to help you pave your way faster to the Microsoft Private Cloud.

Summary
When paired with Microsoft System Center 2012, Windows Server 2012 enables you to accelerate delivery of a private cloud through pooling and efficient use of infrastructure resources, dynamic resource migration, simplified service design, self-service delivery, and integrated management from infrastructure to applications. But a great cloud operating system and systems management are not enough. You also need infrastructure that delivers best-in-class performance and ensures that valuable compute, storage, and networking resources are never wasted. With HP Converged Storage powering your Windows Server 2012 environment you have the horsepower to take your organization beyond virtualization and simplify the path to a private cloud. HP Converged Storage provides the foundation for a cloud infrastructure with agility in performance and backup/recovery of multi-tenant applications, efficiency in getting the most out of every dollar and disk, and simplicity in speeding up deployment. With expertise offered by HP Services, you can use HP Converged Storage and Microsoft Windows Server 2012 to chart a completely non-disruptive path from your current IT infrastructure to a Microsoft Private Cloud.

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