Software-Defined Storage & VMware Virtual SAN

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Software-Defined Storage & VMware Virtual SAN

Luc Gallet

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VMware Delivers:

The Foundation for the Software-Defined Enterprise

Compute

Physical Hardware

Policy-based Management &

Automation _{Cloud Automation} _{Cloud Operations} _{Cloud Business}

Software-Defined Data Center

Private Clouds Public Clouds Hybrid Cloud VMware & vCloud Data Center Partners

Virtualized Infrastructure

Abstract & Pool

Compute Abstraction = Server Virtualization Network Network Abstraction = Virtual Networking Storage Storage Abstraction = Software-Defined Storage Applications

End User Computing Desktop Mobile

Virtual Workspace

Modern SaaS

Traditional

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The Software-Defined Data Center

Transform

storage

by aligning it with

app demands

Management

tools give way

to automation

Expand virtual

compute to all

applications

Virtualize the

network

for speed

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The Software-Defined Data Center

Transform

storage

by aligning it with

app demands

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Today’s Challenge: Massive Increase in Storage Demand &

Complexity

24% 26% 28% 28% 31% 42% Management Complexity Provisioning Time/budget Data Migrations Troubleshooting Meeting SLA

Most Pressing Storage Challenges

M 20M 40M 60M 80M 100M 120M 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Terabytes Sold Terabytes Sold

Source: IDC, Yezhkova, Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast, November 2013, #244293

Storage Growth

41% YoY

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Storage Market in Midst of Disruption

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Key Drivers

Server flash

Falling storage prices Abundant CPU cycles Hypervisor-converged infrastructure Cloud economics

Server Storage

20-30 years ago

Shared Storage

10-15 years ago

New Forms

Today

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New Storage Tiers Are Rapidly Growing

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• Flash: Enables New Storage Architectures

• Flash is 50x – 2,000x faster than HDD

– 110K/140K IOPs R/W from 360GB MLC PCIe card1

– Less than $0.10 per IOP

• Eliminates the need to stripe across 100s of HDDs

• Enables high performance server-side storage

• Cloud: Enables Cost-Effective Storage

• Highly scalable, pay-as-you-go

• Access through standard APIs

• Low cost for capacity

– $0.05 per GB per month2

• Forecasted to grow at 40% annually to 20183

Cloud Storage

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The Hypervisor Opens Up New Opportunities

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SAN / NAS

x86 Servers Cloud Storage

vSphere

The virtualization platform: • Knows the needs of all

apps in real time

• Sits directly in the I/O path • Global view of underlying

infrastructure

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Object-based Pool SAN/NAS Pool Hypervisor Converged Pool

Leveraging The Hypervisor We Can Transform Storage

Today Software-defined Storage

Abstract and pool

(Virtualized Data Plane)

Automate SLAs via VM-centric policies

(Policy-based Control Plane)

VM level Data services

(Virtual Data Services)

SAN / NAS x86 Servers Cloud Object Storage vSphere Replication Snapshots LUN Array A LUN LUN Array B LUN LUN

Device specific management Lack of VM awareness

Rigid SLAs management from LUNs

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VMware Virtual SAN

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Virtual SAN: Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage

vSphere + Virtual SAN

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• Software-defined storage embedded in

vSphere

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools HDD/flash into a shared datastore

• Managed through storage policy-based

management framework

• High performance through flash acceleration

• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event of

hardware failures

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

The Basics Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD

Virtual SAN Shared Datastore

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Two Ways to Build a Virtual SAN Node

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Completely Hardware Independent

1. Virtual SAN Ready Node

…with multiple options available at GA + 30 Preconfigured server ready to use Virtual SAN…

2. Build Your Own

…using the Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide* Choose individual components …

SSD or PCIe

SAS/NL-SAS/ SATA HDDs Any Server on vSphere Hardware Compatibility List

HBA/RAID Controller

⃰ Note: For additional details, please refer to Virtual SAN VMware Compatibility Guide Page

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Flexibly Configure For Performance And Capacity

Performance 2xCPU – 8-core 128GB Memory 2xCPU – 8-core 128GB Memory 2xCPU – 8-core 128GB Memory 1x 400GB MLC SSD (~15% of usable capacity) 1x 400GB MLC SSD (~10% of usable capacity) 2x 400GB MLC SSD (~4% of usable capacity) 5x 1.2TB 10K SAS 7x 2TB 7.2K NL-SAS 10x 4TB 7.2K NL-SAS IOPS1 Raw Capacity ~20-15K 6TB ~15-10K 14TB ~10-5K 40TB Capacity

1. Mix workload 70% Read, 80% Random

Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs)

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Why Virtual SAN?

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• Two click Install • Single pane of glass • Policy-driven

• Self-tuning

• Integrated with VMware stack

Radically Simple

• Embedded in vSphere kernel • Flash-accelerated

• Up to 2M IOPs from 32 nodes • Granular and linear scaling

High Performance Lower TCO

• Server-side economics

• No large upfront investments • Grow-as-you-go

• Easy to operate with powerful automation

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Virtual SAN Components

• Virtual SAN components are chunks of

objects distributes across multiple hosts in a cluster in order to tolerate simultaneous

failures and meet performance requirements.

• Virtual SAN utilizes a Distributed RAID

architecture to distribute data across the cluster.

• Components are distributed with the use of two main techniques:

– Striping (RAID0)

– Mirroring (RAID1)

• Number of component replicas created is based on the object policy definition.

disk group disk group disk group disk group disk group

VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network VSAN network vsanDatastore replica-1 replica-2 RAID1 HDD HDD HDD HDD HDD

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vSphere + Virtual SAN

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 Simple to set up via policy

 Delivered on per VM basis

 Zero data loss in case of disk, network or host failures

 Ensures zero downtime from disk or

network failures

 Interoperable with vSphere HA and Maintenance Mode

Virtual SAN Is Highly Resilient Against Any Hardware Failure

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Scale UP

Add more Disks

IOPS Capacity 40 TB 400 TB 4.4 PB Scale OUT Add more nodes  Elastic

Grow or shrink on demand  Granular

Add single nodes or disks  Non-disruptive

No app downtime

Virtual SAN Enables Elastic Linear Scaling

of Performance and Capacity

No More Complex Forecasting & Large Upfront Investments

“Virtual SAN enables us to scale our storage infrastructure and while

providing the necessary redundancy. This allows us to be more agile and bring our solutions to market faster.”

— Frans Van Rooyen Cloud Architect, Adobe

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Virtual SAN Delivers Enterprise-Grade Scale

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2M

IOPS

3,200

VMs

4.4

Petabytes

Maximum Scalability per Virtual SAN Cluster

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High Performance with Elastic and Linear Scalability

80K 160K 320K 480K 640K 253K 505K 1M 1.5M 2M 4 8 16 24 32 IOP S

Number of Hosts In Virtual SAN Cluster

Mixed 100% Read 286 473 677 767 805 3 5 7 8

Number of Hosts In Virtual SAN Cluster

Number of VDI VMs

VSAN All SSD Array

Notes: based on IOmeter benchmark

Mixed = 70% Read, 4K 80% random Notes: Based on View Planner benchmark

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Two clicks to deploy!

Virtual SAN Simplifies Storage

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Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack

Ideal for VMware Environments

vMotion vSphere HA DRS Storage vMotion vSphere Snapshots Linked Clones VDP Advanced vSphere Replication Data Protection VMware View Virtual Desktop

vCenter Operations Manager vCloud Automation Center

IaaS

Cloud Ops and Automation

Site Recovery Manager

Disaster Recovery

Site A Site B

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Virtual SAN

Virtual SAN Puts The App In Charge

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Simpler and Automated Storage Management Through Application-centric Approach

Today

1. Pre-define storage configurations

2. Pre-allocate static bins

3. Expose pre-allocated bins

4. Select appropriate bin

5. Consume from pre-allocated bin

1. Define storage policy

2. Apply policy at VM creation

Virtual SAN Shared Datastore

Resource and data service are automatically provisioned and maintained.

✖ Overprovisioning

(Better safe than sorry!)

✖ Wasted resources, wasted time

✖ Frequent data migrations

 No overprovisioning

 Less resources, less time

 Easy to change

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Virtual SAN Simplifies And Automates Storage Management

Per VM Storage Service Levels From a Single Self-tuning Datastore

Storage Policy-Based Management

Virtual SAN Shared Datastore vSphere + Virtual SAN

SLAs

Software Automates Control of Service Levels

No more LUNs/Volumes!

Policies Set Based on Application Needs Capacity Performance Availability Per VM Storage Policies

“Virtual SAN is easy to deploy, just a few check boxes. No need to configure RAID.”

— Jim Streit

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Virtual SAN Reduces CAPEX and OPEX for Better TCO

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CAPEX

• No Fibre Channel network

• Pay-as-you-grow

OPEX

• Simplified storage configuration

• No LUNs

• Managed directly through vSphere Web Client

• Automated VM provisioning

• Simplified capacity planning

As Low as $0.50/GB2 As Low as $0.25/IOPS 5X Lower OPEX4 Up to 50% TCO Reduction As Low as $50/Desktop 1 1. Full clones 2. Usable capacity

3. Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs)

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Management Clusters

Use Cases

Backup and DR Target

DMZ / Isolated Tier 2 / Tier 3

Test / Dev / Staging

Private cloud

Virtual Desktop

Small environments / ROBO

VDI

Site A Site B

vSphere

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Why Virtual SAN?

• Two click Install • Single pane of glass • Policy-driven

• Self-tuning

• Integrated with VMware stack

Radically Simple

• Embedded in vSphere kernel • Flash-accelerated

• Up to 2M IOPs from 32 nodes • Granular and linear scaling

High Performance Lower TCO

• No large upfront investments • Grow-as-you-go

• Easy to operate with powerful automation

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Introducing VMware EVO:RAIL

TM

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance Powered by VMware

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VMware EVO:RAIL

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EVO:RAIL software with vSphere and Virtual SAN technology is the key enabler

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Single SKU procurement model creates design and price predictability

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Simple, streamlined deployment and ongoing SDDC lifecycle management

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One support call

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VMware EVO:RAIL Offers Unique Customer Value

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• Built on core vSphere that you already know and use

• Built with Virtual SAN • Highly resilient by design

• Compatible with existing VMware infrastructure products and

ecosystem

100% Powered By VMware

Choice of

Qualified EVO:RAIL Partner

• Broad and expanding partner ecosystem

• Support from your Preferred EVO:RAIL Partner

• Single SKU purchase for

hardware, software, and support

• Time to Value to first VM in minutes

• Simple configuration and management

• Automated scale out

• Non-disruptive patching and upgrade

Transformational User Experience

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VMware EVO:RAIL Delivers Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

• Simplicity Transformed

– Power-on to VM creation in minutes, radically easy

VM deployment, one-click non-disruptive patch and upgrades, simplified management

• Software Defined Building Block

– Delivering compute, network, and storage resources

for server or desktop workloads

• Trusted Foundation – 100% VMware software

• Highly Resilient by Design

– Fault tolerance within and across appliances

• Infrastructure at the Speed of Innovation

– Simplify design with predictable sizing and scaling,

streamline purchase and deployment

• Freedom of Choice

2U/4-Node hardware platform optimized for EVO:RAIL

• 4 independent nodes for compute, network, and storage • Each node has dual processors & 192GB of Memory • Total of 16TB of Flash and HDD Storage via Virtual SAN

VMware EVO:RAIL Appliance

New

New EVO:RAIL Software Bundle

• EVO:RAIL rapid deployment,

configuration, and management engine • Compute, network & storage virtualization

with vSphere and Virtual SAN • VMware Support & Services (SnS) • Software bundle provided to qualifying

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Per Node

• Dual Intel E5-26x0v2 6 core processors

• 192 GB memory

• 3 x 1.2 TB HDD

• 1 x 400 GB Intel SSD

• 2 x 10 GbE NIC port

• 1 x 1GbE management port

Per Appliance

• 48 CPU cores ~ 100 GHz

• 768 GB memory capacity

• 14.4 TB storage capacity

• 1.6 TB flash capacity

• 80 GbE network bandwidth

• Dual redundant power supplies

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Configuration - Time to Value:

Power on to Creating VMs in minutes

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Configuration - Time to Value:

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Configuration - Time to Value:

Power on to Creating VMs in minutes

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Easy VM Creation & Management

• Intuitive UI with simplified VM creation and lifecycle management

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Easy VM Creation & Management

• Intuitive UI with simplified VM creation and lifecycle management

• Grid View of all the VMs across multiple appliances

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Simplified Hardware Management

• Hardware Summary Status of each node, appliance, or cluster

• Warning and fault notifications

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Zero-Downtime Patch and Upgrade Management

• Easy upgrade and patch with no workload downtime

– Full redundancy as each appliance has 4 independent nodes

• Updates pre-validated for the appliance before application

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Ideal Environments for EVO:RAIL

• Virtual Desktop Solution

– POC and Pay & Scale as you grow

• R&D and Test Environments

– Tight budget for compute/storage; Quick deployment of infrastructure

• Remote/Branch Office Locations

– Data Center in a Box

• Private Cloud Infrastructure

– On-site cloud for employees or customers; Off-site co-located

• Limited IT staff

- Simplified, repeatable deployment/management

• Geographic Data Locality

– Limited footprint for in-country solution

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Global Reach and Customer Choice

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