Many enterprises have recognized the need for cloud information protection. Amazon Web Services (AWS) together with SoftNAS protect your business-critical data in the cloud, to ensure your business and applications are safe from downtime and data loss. In this webinar SoftNAS and AWS discuss the 4 best practices for protecting your enterprise data in the cloud. The webinar will cover the 4 best practices: •Security •Performance •Backup •Deployment scenarios The video recording associated with these slides is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPY8vaRw6OE Try a 30-day free trial of SoftNAS Cloud on AWS - http://www.softnas.com/tryaws Visit http://www.softnas.com for more information

1. 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

2. Introducing
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Greg Pellegrino
VP Products
SoftNAS
Brandon Chavis
SolutionsArchitect
Amazon Web Services

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5. Agenda
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• SoftNAS Overview
• AmazonWeb 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
– MicrosoftAzure
– VMware vCloud Air
• SoftNAS File Gateway
– VMware vSphere
– Microsoft Hyper-V

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500+ Customers

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Introduction:Why choose AWS for storage
Compelling Economics Easy to Use Reduce Risk Speed, 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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15. Best Practice #1:
Security
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Data Protection
• Security & protection of customer data - #1 priority
• AWS security features
– Virtual Private Cloud (AmazonVPC)
– VPC security groups
– Identity and Access Management (IAM)
– Data Encryption

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Data Protection Cont’d
• SoftNAS
– CentOS LinuxVM
– SSL-encrypted administration console
– Public/private key access control via SSH
– Iptables firewall
– SnapReplicate™ (between SoftNAS instances)

18. Best Practice #2:
Performance
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19. Performance - Overview
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AWS
• Amazon EC2 instance type
• # and configuration of EBS volumes
• Provisioned IOPS with EBS volumes
• Application workload
SoftNASAmazon Machine Images (AMI’s)
• Paravirtual – use current-gen instance type
• Hardware virtual machine – SR-IOV support

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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 useT1,T2 or C1 instances (memory
constraints)
– R3 instance – best price/performance ratio for SoftNAS

21. Provisioned IOPS vs General PurposeVolumes
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• Provisioned IOPSVolumes
– 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 PurposeVolumes
– 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 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

23. Best Practice #3:
Backup
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24. SoftNAS Snapshots
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• Volume based, point-in-time copies
• Scheduling & on-demand via StorageCenter
• Consume storage pool capacity
• Integrated with MS PreviousVersions viaVSSAPI
– View and restore MS server & desktop deleted files
– Windows 7, 8, Server 2008 & 2012

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• 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

26. 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

27. Demo
How to schedule snapshots in StorageCenter
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28. Best Practice #4:
Deployment scenarios
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High-AvailabilityArchitecture
• 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: PrivateVirtual IP Addresses

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SingleController 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 ArchitectureCont’d
• File Gateway toAmazon 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

35. Demo
Hybrid Cloud Architecture
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37. Next Steps
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• SoftNASArchitecture on AWS
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• Contact Us – softnas.com/contact
• Follow Us – @SoftNAS
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38. Questions?
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39. Thank you
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