Microsoft Cloud Platform System
Microsoft Cloud Platform System – powered by Dell
Cloud in a Box
Microsoft Designed, engineered and build Hyper-Scale hosting platform
A converged storage, network, compute and services system built on Dell hardware and Windows Server technology.
Directly installed and supported by Microsoft
Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2, Windows Azure Pack
Microsoft-designed architecture based on Public Cloud learning
Microsoft-led support & orchestrated updates
Optimized run-books for Microsoft applications
Dell PowerEdge servers
Dell dense Storage enclosures
Dell Networking switches
Tightly integrated components
Microsoft-led support & orchestrated updates
Pre-deployed infrastructure
Integrated Management
Switches, load balancer, storage, compute, network
Configure, deploy, patching
Pre-configured as per best practices
Monitoring
N+2 fault tolerant (N+1 networking)
Backup and DR
Hyper-Scale Performance in Every Rack
512 Cores |
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8TB RAM |
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282 TB usable storage |
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1360 Gb/s internal connectivity |
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560 Gb/s inter-rack connectivity |
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60 Gb/s external |
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Network designed for perf, scale, reliability
Flat layer 3 physical network with Hyper-V Network Virtualization for tenant networks
10Gbps x 2 connections to host for tenant traffic
10 Gbps x 2 for storage (SMB over RDMA)
40Gb connections to aggregation layers utilizing equal cost multi-path (ECMP)
N + 1
Multiple devices for redundancy
Optimized deployment and operations for Microsoft and other standard workloads
Storage to Meet the Highest of Demands
4 file servers |
Available Space |
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128 GB memory |
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Tenant: 152 terabytes |
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3 x pools |
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Backup: 126 terabytes (+ deduplication) |
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4 JBOD’s |
Storage Spaces configuration |
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192 HDDs @ 4 terabytes each = 768 terabytes RAW |
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Tenant: 3-way mirror |
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48 SSDs @ 800 terabytes each = 38 terabytes RAW |
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Backup: Dual parity |
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Tiered storage |
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