StorSimple hybrid cloud storage iSCSI SAN features automated tiering at the block level from its SSD to SAS to Azure tiers. Many customers have asked for StorSimple to support this workload. On 13 December 2016, Microsoft announced the support of using StorSimple 8k devices as a backup target. Compared to using an Azure A4 VM with attached disks (page blobs), StorSimple provides 7-22% cost savings over 5 years.When used as a primary backup target, StorSimple 8k devices are intended for SMB clients with backup files under 10TB/20TB for the 8100/8600 models respectively.Microsoft acknowledge the difficulty resulting from the maximum provisionable space being 200 TB on an 8100 device, which limits the ability to over-provision thin-provisioned tiered iSCSI volumes when expecting significant deduplication/compression savings with long term backup copy job Veeam files for example. “Backups will be written to array, such that they reside entirely within the local storage capacity”.The maximum recommended full backup size when using an 8600 as a primary backup target is 20TiB” “The maximum recommended full backup size when using an 8100 as a primary backup target is 10TiB. After a conference call with Microsoft Azure StorSimple product team, they explained:
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