Dell Converged Infrastructure

Agenda

• Microsoft Software Defined and Storage Economics

• Summary of all Dell SDS offerings

• Storage Trends (SAN > JBOD > Internal Disks)

• Legacy Storage and JBOD Enclosure Trends

• Software Defined Storage & Private Cloud (end to end solution)

• Dell Private Cloud Reference Architectures Overview

Dell Converged Infrastructure

As technology progress’s we see an increased need for

prescribed and more predictable hardware and software

solutions that covers the spectrum of SMB, Public Sector,

Enterprise , Hoster & Service Provider customers.

Changing the Economics of Storage for

Service Providers

Dell Software Design Storage Summary

Dell Offering XC Appliance Powered by Nutanix SW

Dell’s VSAN Ready Nodes, Dell Engineered solutions for

VMware EVO:RAIL

Validated PE 720 + MD JBOD + Nexenta SW

Most Dell Servers + MD JBOD + MS Storage Spaces

PowerEdge servers + RedHat Inktank Ceph +

Openstack

Value Proposition

Hyper converged; Fast time to value; Pay-as-you-grow; Hypervisor

agnostic; Simplified data center

Hyper converged; Familiar and easy management

for VMware administrators; Build on VMware investments

Highly flexible feature-rich software-based file storage built

on opensource ZFS

Free feature in the OS w/ no additional licensing cost; Familiar management for Windows administrators; Build

on MS investments

Opensource technology that is designed for highly scalable environments with

strong ties into Openstack

Primary use case

High performance VDI where simple highly linear scalability is required

SMB storage for VMware: Small virtualization and Test&Dev

workloads for VMware

Cheap and deep file storage; Storage for Low-end private

Cloud /Hosting

Small-Medium & Large hosting/cloud service providers using Hyper-V; Cheap and deep storage for Test&Dev; Small file

server

Advanced private cloud, public cloud users looking

to add cost-effective massively scalable storage

to their environment Other use cases Departmental Virtualization, Multi-hypervisor Private Cloud

Low-end VDI Archiving Private/Hybrid Cloud for

Microsoft + iAAS & VDI Scalable Object store

Enterprise-class infrastructure | Optimized hardware and monitoring | Appliances and bundled solutions | End to end solution architectures |

Changes in Storage usage and the Economics

• The move away from expensive legacy storage to commodity JBOD’s

• The move toward even cheaper internal SSD/HDD SATA disks (shared nothing)

• SSD’s getting larger and cheaper - will these become the standard tier 1 storage? HDD’s now at 6TB, soon to be 8TB and beyond

1. 12GB SAS 3.5” 7.2K spin rate and 4K sector drives becoming the norm

2. Will the use of internal SATA drives for virtualisation push 12GB SATA into the frame? 3. 2.5 “ drives moving to 2TB and beyond

4. 3.5 “ drives have moved from 2TB to 6TB in 1 year

Software Defined and the Economics

• The move to commodity everything (storage, network & compute) for flexibility & costs

• Reduces cost to build on premise MS private clouds as using standardised prescribed/validated BOM • Building blocks to meet requirements and budget

• Software defined storage with commodity storage is cheaper than legacy storage • Provides for more IOPS, capacity and resiliency for less monies

• MS private clouds enables resiliency for the following • Network

• Compute • storage

• MS private cloud solution based on commodity and Software Defined is more resilient, scalable and performant compared to an equivalent legacy solution.

• incremental storage and compute costs are far less as designed for scale up and scale out

Dell MS Reference Architecture Configuration Overview

Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 with Clustered Storage Spaces (Converged Compute/Storage options + NAS (SMB,NFS and iSCSI Target) options

Enterprise (4x4) 1000-2000 VMs 160TB-1.3PB Large (4x3) 750-1000 VMs 120TB-985TB Mid-Range (3x4) 350-750 VMs 160TB-1.3PB Small (3x3) 200-350 VMs 120TB-985TB Entry (2x3) 50-200 VMs 120TB-985TB Starting at $55,000 (without compute) Enterprise (Custom 5-100 + VMs NAS 2TB-1.3PB Starting at $20k -$150k Large (4x3,4x4) 50-75 VMs NAS 120TB-1.3PB Starting at $90k >$130k Mid-Range (3x3,3x4) 25-50 VMs NAS 120TB-1.3PB Starting at $65K-$110k Small (2x2, 2x3, 2x4) 5-25 VMs NAS 80TB-1.3PB Starting at $35k -$100k Entry (2x1) 5-25 VMs NAS 2TB-300TB Starting at $20k Starting at $65,000 (without compute) Starting at $75.000 (without compute) Starting at $90,000 (without compute) Starting at $110,000 (without compute)

Highly Available Next Generation NAS & Virtualisation Able to Link to Hoster/Azure services (via ASR/DPM)

Windows 2012 R2 Clustering for NAS, Converged and Private Cloud

Two separate clusters

Cluster to host VMs – Scale Up Cluster to host storage – Scale Out Value Prop

Role Isolation – (Continuous Availability) Heterogeneous support (SMB 3.0 and NFS Tiering + Write Back Cache

50-2000 VM Private Cloud Approach

5-100 VM Converged & NAS Approach

Single cluster that contains Hyper-V and data nodes (Highly Available)

Value Prop

Automatic UNC management with CSV namespace

Unified security model Single cluster to manage Tiering + Write Back Cache

FC / iSCSI / SAS / FCoE / Spaces JBOD

SMB Direct V3.0

Hyper-V Cluster

SOFS/Storage Cluster

FC / iSCSI / SAS / FCoE / Spaces JBOD

SMB Direct v3.0

Dell SDS and MS Private Cloud Learnings

• Prescribed BIOS, Drivers, Firmware and MS hotfixes (it just works) • Tested & validated Reference Architectures

• 2012 R2 Logo certified components

• NICS • HBA’s • JBODS • DISKs • Network Switches • Servers

• Successfully completes Cluster validation • Locked Software Stack

• Dell Support Matrix

• Managing all software as an end to end solution • Dell Deployment Build Guides

• Step by Step to ensure consistency

Why is SDS and MS Private Cloud Important Together?

• SDS provides for cheaper storage, but --- requires

• MS Private Cloud to make the solution complete

• Can suffer more failures in a fault domain (storage, network & compute)

• Can still be performant with multiple failures occurring at the same time

• Can provide for 99.9 uptime

• Can use commodity JBOD’s (just a bunch of disks) instead of SAN’s as can

suffer multiple failures in the solution and can still function at scale

• Can also use SSD Tiering for greater IOPS with 6TB 7.2K spin rate drives

for greater capacity, achieving a better cost/performance balance.

Dell Power Tools Goals

Make Dell hardware provider of choice for partners, OEM customers and end users by enhancing customer experience and reducing investment required to offer appliances and software defined

solutions based on Dell servers.

• Automated HW and SW deployment

• Reduce deployment time & errors

• UI or SDK to allow

application orchestration / integration

• Holistic management of software and firmware • Enforce a “locked” stack • In-band or Out-of-band

management

• UI or SDK to enable awareness and handling of HW conditions • Server HW, Storage

monitoring and diagnostics

• Integrated SW monitoring

• Bare metal recovery of OS and appliance software • Recover from cluster node

Software Defined Storage Spaces Customers

FASTHOSTS (Hoster)

UK Government

AERIANDI (Service Provider)

MILTON KEYNES COLLEGE (Education)

OUTSOURCERY (Hoster)

FastHosts MS Private Cloud Platform Design

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Dell 32 x C6220 Hyper-V Compute

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Dell 4 x R620 Storage Compute

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Dell 4 x MD3060e Storage

Enclosures

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Cisco Nexus Switches

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Windows Server 2012 R2

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System Center 2012 R2

•

3-Way Mirror Spaces, clustered and

enclosure aware

Multiple C6220 Hyper-V Hosts Customer Storage System

Mixture of SSD and HDD s 4 x Scale-out File Servers Cluster Nodes

3-way Mirror Spaces

Cisco Nexus Switches

Backup Storage System Mixture of SSD and HDD s 2 x Scale Out File Cluster Nodes

Compare Familiar SAN deployment model and Private Cloud

Storage Spaces

Traditional storage

with FC/iSCSI storage array

• Storage tiering

• Data deduplication

• RAID resiliency groups

• Pooling of disks

• High availability

• Persistent write-back cache

• Copy Offload

• Snapshots

Windows File Server Cluster with Storage Spaces

• Storage tiering

• Data deduplication

• Flexible resiliency options

• Pooling of disks

• Continuous availability

• Persistent write-back cache

• SMB copy offload

• Snapshots

Hyper-V compute nodes

Shared SAS JBOD Shared SAS JBOD Shared SAS JBOD

Storage compute SMB direct (File) Hyper-V compute nodes

FC/SAS disk shelf FC/SAS disk shelf FC/SAS disk shelf

Storage compute FC/iSCS

I (Block)

Embedded CPUs and controllers

(proprietary hardware)

Windows file server cluster

(commodity hardware)

MS Storage Spaces-SDS: Solution Overview

Background

Layers multiple Microsoft technologies into a resilient and highly scalable storage stack

Allows for a disaggregated architecture with a true separation between compute and storage services

Key Technologies

Storage Spaces: Software Defined Storage technology combining resiliency with performance

Failover Clustering: Highly available Storage access for Hyper-v, SQL , VDI backup/Archival workloads

Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) and Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV):Scalable and unified storage access

Providing Synchronous and Continuous access for all SMBv3.0 supported workloads.

SMBV3.0:Resilient and performant leveraging SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct, and SMB Client

Redirection

System Center, PowerShell and In-box Windows Tooling: Management/configuration/troubleshooting

Value Proposition