4 Best Practices for Protecting Enterprise Data on AWS with SoftNAS Cloud NAS

Greg Pellegrino, VP Products, SoftNAS

Brandon Chavis, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

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Introducing

Greg PellegrinoVP Products

SoftNAS

Brandon ChavisSolutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

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Housekeeping

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Agenda

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• SoftNAS Overview• Amazon Web Services Overview• Best Practices

– Security– Performance– Backup (demo)– Deployment scenarios (demo)

• Q&A

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Who is SoftNAS?

• Powerful enterprise-class storage products for public, private and hybrid clouds

• Easy to try, buy, learn and use – rapid time to value

• Freedom from platform lock-in– Works with most popular cloud

computing platforms• Amazon EC2®, VMware® vSphere™,

Microsoft® Azure™

We believe in powerful, hassle-free storage

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The SoftNAS mission

• Public• Private• Hybrid

To be the fabric for business data across all clouds

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SoftNAS products

• SoftNAS Cloud– Amazon AWS– Microsoft Azure– VMware vCloud Air

• SoftNAS File Gateway– VMware vSphere– Microsoft Hyper-V

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Brands you know trust SoftNAS

500+ Customers

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Introduction: Why choose AWS for storageCompelling Economics Easy to Use Reduce

RiskSpeed, Agility, Scale

• Pay as you go

• No upfront investment / commitment

• No risky capacity planning

• No need to provision for redundancy or overhead

• Self service administration

• SDKs for simple integration

• Durable and Secure

• Avoid risks of physical media handling

• Reduce time to market

• Focus on your business, not your infrastructure

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AWS Global Infrastructure

11 Regions

28 Availability Zones

52 Edge locations

Control your geographic locality for performance and compliance

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AWS Storage Features

Durable Secure Scalable

• Designed for eleven 9’s durability

• Redundant storage across multiple facilities and devices

• Identify and Access Policies

• Bucket policies

• Access control lists

• Query string authentication

• Encryption

• Unlimited capacity when you need it

• Easily scale up and down

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Key use cases

• Object storage• Backup• Archive• Disaster recovery• File storage• Storage for EC2 instances

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SoftNAS Architecture on AWS - Whitepaper• Architecture

considerations• Backup considerations• Deployment scenarios

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Best Practice #1: Security

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Data Protection

• Security & protection of customer data - #1 priority• AWS security features

– Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC)– VPC security groups– Identity and Access Management (IAM)– Data Encryption

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Data Protection Cont’d

• SoftNAS– CentOS Linux VM– SSL-encrypted administration console– Public/private key access control via SSH – Iptables firewall– SnapReplicate™ (between SoftNAS instances)

Best Practice #2: Performance

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Performance - Overview

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AWS• Amazon EC2 instance type• # and configuration of EBS volumes• Provisioned IOPS with EBS volumes• Application workloadSoftNAS Amazon Machine Images (AMI’s)• Paravirtual – use current-gen instance type• Hardware virtual machine – SR-IOV support

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Performance - Recommendations

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• Scale resources based on performance constraints• Use StorageCenter™ & Amazon CloudWatch to monitor

performance and throughput results• For best performance:

– Instance with large amounts memory (70% dedicated to DRAM)

– Instance with advanced networking or 10 Gpbs– EBS-optimized instance– Production workloads – do not use T1, T2 or C1 instances

(memory constraints) – R3 instance – best price/performance ratio for SoftNAS

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Provisioned IOPS vs General Purpose Volumes

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• Provisioned IOPS Volumes– Consistent performance workloads (databases)– Up to 16TB and 20,000 IOPS can be provisioned– Amazon EBS volumes deliver within 10% of IOPS performance

99.9% of time

• General Purpose Volumes– 1:3 ratio between gigabytes and IOPS provisioned

• 100GB general purpose volume will provide 300 IOPS

– Volumes < 1TB can burst for periods, up to 3,000 IOPS– Up to 16TB and 10,000 IOPS can be provisioned

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RAID

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• RAID 0 & RAID 10 recommended with Amazon EBS• RAID o provides linear performance

– 2x 4,000 IOPS volumes = 8,000 IOPS

• RAID 10 provides increased redundancy & aggregates the read performance

• RAID 10 drawbacks– 50% penalty to write performance– 50% reduction in available storage capacity

• DRAM cache dramatically increases read IOPS performance

Best Practice #3: Backup

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SoftNAS Snapshots

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• Volume based, point-in-time copies• Scheduling & on-demand via StorageCenter• Consume storage pool capacity• Integrated with MS Previous Versions via VSS API

– View and restore MS server & desktop deleted files– Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 & 2012

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SoftNAS SnapClones™

• Provide read/write clones of snapshots• Created instantly• Mountable as external NFS or CIFS shares• Manipulate copies of data too large or complex

– Example: testing new app versions against real data or selective file recovery

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Amazon EBS Snapshots

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• Backup EBS-based storage pools• Copies entire SoftNAS storage pool – backup & recovery

purposes• Use AWS console to manage snapshots• Snapshot capacity not counted against storage pool

capacity• Used for longer-term data retention

DemoHow to schedule snapshots in StorageCenter

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Best Practice #4: Deployment scenarios

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High-Availability Architecture

• SNAP™ HA– Provides high availability seamless failover across zones– Leverages secure block replication with SoftNAS SnapReplicate

• Recommended: SNAP HA in high-availability mode = 99.999% uptime

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Cross-zone HA: AWS Elastic IP

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Cross-zone HA: Private Virtual IP Addresses

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Single Controller Architecture

• Where 99.999% uptime is not required

• Example: 4 EBS volumes combined into a RAID 10, provides 2TB of storage – no driver failure redundancy

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Hybrid Cloud Architecture• Installed both in Amazon EC2

and on-premises• Allows for replication from on-

premises to Amazon EC2 & vice versa

• Useful for backup and disaster recovery scenarios

• Replication– SoftNAS deployed in EC2 as

replication target using SnapReplicate

– Enables backup, disaster recovery & development environment scenarios

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Hybrid Cloud Architecture Cont’d

• File Gateway to Amazon S3– SoftNAS Cloud File Gateway

– on-premises product– Deployed in data centers on

VMware vSphere & Microsoft Hyper-V

– Connects to S3 storage – treats as disk drive

– S3 disk drive added to storage pool

DemoHybrid Cloud Architecture

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