Information Infrastructure for Vmware

Information Infrastructure

for Vmware

Considerations & Solutions

Erez Etzyon

Agenda

•

Evolution of VMWare infrastructure requirements.

•

Considerations for VMWare deployments.

•

Clariion – The best Mid Range solution for VMWare.

•

Celerra – The ideal platform for VMWare.

Evolution of VMware Infrastructure Requirements

Infrastructure Requirements



High availability



Replication (local/remote)



Storage resource management

Infrastructure Requirements



Continuous availability



Service level management



Server/storage management

Tier 1

Mission-critical

applications

Tier 2

Business-critical

applications

Infrastructure Requirements



Basic storage connectivity



Tape-oriented backup and

recovery

Tier 3

Considerations for Advanced VMware Deployments

Storage

and Network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

New requirements in virtualized storage farms

Planning for growth and flexibility

Support for advanced VMware features

 Much duplicated data in VMware environments

 Backup windows can force additional

server/storage requirements if not addressed

Virtual machines must be considered differently than physical ones

Common approaches to virtual and non-virtual applications

SRM tools must understand virtual and non-virtual machines

Traditional discovery and root-cause analysis tools need to work with virtual and non-virtual machines

Storage and Storage Networking Considerations

Considerations



Storage network: FC, iSCSI, or NAS?



Interoperability and qualification?



Growth, scalability, and performance?



Support for advanced VMware features?



Enterprise-class customer support?

Storage

and network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

EMC Solutions



Thorough EMC E-Lab qualification

– Complex configurations that are qualified, proven, and supported, extensive documentation and detail



Support for advanced VMware

features

– DRS—dynamic resource scheduler – VCB—VMware consolidated backup – HA—high availability configurations



Broadest range of qualified

storage offerings

– CLARiiON, Celerra, Symmetrix, Centera

– FC, iSCSI, NAS

– Fully supported by EMC Global Services



Solution blueprints for predictable

results

– Reference architectures

Backup and Recovery Considerations

Considerations



Growing data volumes



Redundant data in VMware environments



Expensive server and backup infrastructure



Need shorter windows

Storage

and network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

EMC Solutions



Traditional backup solutions

(full/incremental/tape images)

– EMC NetWorker

– EMC Disk Library

– Backup to Disk

– Integration with VCB



Advanced backup solutions

(data dedupe/mountable file systems)

EMC Avamar

– Minimize data redundancy

– Reduce backup windows

– Address performance and bandwidth concerns

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Considerations

Considerations



Physical and virtual server recovery



Multiple VMs per LUN



Dynamic VMs, clustering, HA



Shared infrastructure

Storage

and network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

EMC Solutions



Server-based replication solutions

– EMC RepliStor



Array-based replication solutions

– SRDF, MirrorView, Celerra Replicator



Network-based replication

solutions

– EMC RecoverPoint



Proven experience

– Building VMware business continuity solutions



Professional services

– To help assess, design, implement and manage business continuity solutions

– Expertise from thousands of engagements



Integrated solutions

Storage Resource Management Considerations

Considerations



Physical and virtual machine discovery



End-to-end mapping



CLI and API access from VMs



Managing replication

Storage

and network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

EMC Solutions



Discovery, visualization,

monitoring, and reporting

ControlCenter 6.0 introduces

virtual machine discovery

– Virtual and non-virtual servers

– Discover, monitor, and report on VMs

– Provides a mapping between VMs and LUNs

– Rapid fault isolation

– Single console approach



Scripting and control

– VirtualCenter qualified in EMC environment

– EMC CLIs and APIs supported from virtual machines and consoles



Automated replica management

EMC Replication Manager

Service Level Delivery Considerations

Considerations



Application and infrastructure discovery



Monitoring service delivery levels



Real-time root-cause analysis



Common view of physical and virtual



Determining business impact

Storage

and network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

EMC Solutions



Application and infrastructure

discovery

Smarts ADM

– Discovers application in virtual machines as well as physical machines

– Agentless, reducing costs and risks

– Link a given application to its virtual machine, ESX server

– Q4 2007 (VM support)



Model-based root-cause analysis

Smarts

– Correlates interactions

– Identifies root cause

– Determines business impact

– Common view of virtual and non-virtual machines

Service Level Delivery Considerations

Considerations



New issues with virtualization



Limited time and resources



New methodologies



Skill set transfer



No surprises

Storage

and network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

EMC Solutions



EMC experience and expertise

– EMC is recognized leader in demanding VMware infrastructure implementations

– EMC-developed whitepapers, solution guides, best practices and professional service offerings

– EMC is member of VMware’s highest partner category:

• Global Premier Technology Alliance Partner



Complete solutions and services

portfolio

– Plan: infrastructure strategy, virtualized infrastructure and data center design, migrations

– Build: infrastructure deployment, migration implementation

Achieving Optimized Results in Advanced VMware

Deployments

Storage

and Network

Backup

Replication

Storage

Management

Resource

Management

New Skills

Breadth and depth of choices

EMC support

Traditional or advanced models

Server, network, or storage-based replication

Unique capabilities with virtualized applications

SRM for both virtual and non-virtual environments

Discovery of applications and infrastructure

Real-time correlation of service level delivery

CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale Series

Maximum scalability for consolidation and tiered storage Industry-leading price/

performance for data center requirements New levels of

flexibility and ease of use for

tiered storage

CX3-80

CX3-40

CX3-20

More Customers Choose EMC CLARiiON for VMware than Any Other

Networked Storage Array*

Why Customers Choose CLARiiON for VMware



Highest availability for virtualized IT

environments

–

99.999% availability



Ease of use

–

Entire storage management process

made easier with EMC CLARiiON

hardware, software, and services



Best economics

–

LUNs dynamically expanded as VMs

deployed using MetaLUN technology



Best price/performance in midrange

–

More scalability and performance mean

best SLAs for virtual machines



Flexibility

–

Virtual LUNs enable ILM for VMs

–

iSCSI and Fibre Channel connectivity

CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale Series

CLARiiON CX3: Highest Availability for Virtualized IT

Environments



Server virtualization provides

–

Resource resiliency

–

Resource flexibility



Benefits of server virtualization realized with

highest availability storage

–

UltraScale



Peer-to-peer fault logging between SPs

–

UltraPoint



Signal-integrity improvements

–

Enhanced fault detection, isolation, error-correcting



Advanced FLARE diagnostic capabilities

Virtual machine availability only as good as the storage it’s on

CLARiiON CX3 Series

Reference Architecture

Remote

Office NetWorker server

EMC CLARiiON CX3-20

• FLARE 24

• Tested in 15 – 45 disk configurations

• iSCSI configuration shown

• 146 GB 15K rpm

Replication Manager V5.0 Mount Host

Server 2—Quad Xeon, 3.0 GHz, 16 GB

• VMware ESX (DC/GC)

Server 3—Dual Core Xeon 3.0, 4 GB

• PowerPath V4.6

• Replication Manager V5.0 Agent

• RepliStor V6.2 Server 1 • Quad Xeon, 3.0 GHz, 16 GB RAM • VMware ESX – Loadsim clients – EMC EmailXtender Server E-mail Application

EMC Centera (4-Node)

MetaLUN Technology

MetaLUN Technology: Efficient Storage Provisioning



Real-time LUN expansion

supports the creation of new

virtual machines on the fly



New capacity immediately

Virtual LUN Technology: Enable ILM For VMware



Tier virtual machines within

EMC CLARiiON

–

ILM for efficient usage of storage

resources



As virtual machines become

less critical—ability to move

onto cost effective storage tier



Alter performance

characteristic of your virtual

machine file system without

disruption

–

Move VMs from RAID 5 to RAID 1

LUN



Non-disruptive to virtual

machines and applications

–

Reconfigure system layout

Virtual Machines

VMware

ESX Server

FC FC FC FCFC FCFC FCFC

VMware ESX Server APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS

CLARiiON Flexible Deployment Options for VMware



iSCSI can provide the right

level of performance for

typical VM based e-mail and

OLTP apps



FC is ideally suited for DSS,

backup to disk, and other

streaming media applications

CLARiiON Customers Choose the Right Connectivity for their Virtual Machines

IP SAN—iSCSI

Ethernet

iSCSI SAN

Cost-effective connectivity

VMware ESX Server APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS

Combine iSCSI and Fibre Channel

Flexible connectivity options

Ethernet

Complementary Quality of Service Functionality



Dynamically allocate IT

resources to the highest

priority applications



Create rules and policies to

prioritize how resources are

allocated to virtual machines



Benefit from consolidation

while optimizing the

performance of

mission-critical applications

Navisphere Quality of Service Manager (NQM) with VMware Distributed

Resource Scheduler (DRS) Enable Virtual Machine Service-Level Management

Before NQM

After NQM

High Priority Medium

Priority PriorityLow

A va il a b le P e rfo rm a n ce Applications

Navisphere QoS Manager and DRS in Action



Application performance

policies enforced through NQM

–

Throughput

–

Bandwidth

–

Response-time



DRS balances capacity to

ensure each virtual machine

has access to appropriate

resources at any point in time

–

CPU/Memory utilization

–

Resources constrained additional

capacity made available by

migrating live VMs using VMotion

VMware ESX Server

Navisphere Task Bar



VMware

–

New applications provisioned in tens

of seconds, not days



Task Bar

–

Provision storage in minutes, not hours

–

Provides management and allocation

of LUNs and replicas

Up to 70% fewer steps for common management tasks

“The Task Bar wizards take complexity out of managing

a storage network. It’s amazing how it can be made to

look and feel so easy to manage and use.”

— Andrew Waithaka, Network Systems Manager,

St. Louis College of Pharmacy

Benefits of Server and Storage Consolidation



Simplifies management

–

Centralize storage management

–

Improve service levels



Increases flexibility

–

Optimize capacity planning

–

Eliminate scheduled downtime



Reduces total cost of ownership

–

Improve capacity utilization

–

Require fewer high-powered systems



Enables high speed non-disruptive

server workload movement

–

Migration (VMotion)

–

Failover (HA – High Availability)

–

Load balancing (DRS – Distributed

Resource Scheduler)

Server Virtualization and

Network Storage

Gateway

Shared storage Add NAS, iSCSI to Fibre Channel SAN Highest storage usage Consolidated management

Integrated

EMC New Celerra Platforms

N20

NS40

NS80

NS40G

NS80G

NSX

Availability

Failover

Failover

Advanced

_clustering

Failover

Advanced

_clustering

Advanced

_clustering

No. of blades

1 or 2

1 or 2

2–4

1 or 2

2–4

4–8

Gateway-upgradeable?

All in One

All in One

Yes

N/A

N/A

N/A

Storage

CLARiiON

CLARiiON

CLARiiON

CLARiiON,

_Symmetrix

CLARiiON,

_Symmetrix

CLARiiON,

_Symmetrix

Maximum

usable

capacity

20 TB

32 TB

60 TB

32 TB

60 TB

224 TB

The Industry-leading IP Storage Platform

Why Customers Choose Celerra for VMware



No-compromise availability for

virtualized IT environments

–

99.999% availability



Advanced functionality at no

additional cost

–

Most comprehensive suite of built-in

features



Flexibility

–

NAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel

connectivity



Ease of use

–

Simplify deployment, management and

monitoring



Price/performance leadership

–

More scalability and performance mean

best SLAs for virtual machines

Enterprise Servers VirtualCenter Management Server

Celerra: No-Compromise Availability for Virtualized IT

Environments



Server virtualization provides

–

Resource resiliency

–

Resource flexibility



Benefits of server virtualization realized

with highest availability storage

–

Advanced N+1 clustering



N+1 means no performance

degradation after failover.

–

Controller-based RAID



Consistent, predictable performance

during RAID events

–

Independent management



Independent management station notifies

and manages any failure events

Celerra Advanced Functionality: Virtual Provisioning



Thin Provisioning

–

File systems

–

iSCSI LUNs

–

Logical size greater than

physical size



Physical allocation “on the fly”

to logical size



Automatic File System

Extension past logical size



iSCSI Dynamic LUN

Extension past logical size

Maximize Storage Utilization



With Thin Provisioning enabled

–

Additional storage allocated only when needed

–

File system automatically extend when its utilization raises

–

Virtual Machines are presented with upper size storage limit



In this model

–

No need to over-provision

–

Unallocated space can be utilized across the virtual datacenter

Celerra Virtual Provisioning and VMware

Unused File system space

80 GB file system

5

GB 10 GB 15 GB 10 GB

Unused File system space

80 GB file system

5

Fibre

Channel

SAN

Celerra Flexible Deployment Options for VMware (All in One)

Ethernet

iSCSI SAN

Ethernet

NAS

VMware ESX Server APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS APP OS Flexibility

Flexible connectivity options:

Networked Storage Blueprints for VMware Environments



Reference architectures

–

Details about proven configuration

–

Accelerates end-to-end

deployment



Best practices and supporting

technical validation documents

–

Helps optimize the performance

–

How to install, configure, and

integrate the entire solutions stack



EMC eLab tested

Reference Architecture

Celerra NS Series

• VMware ESX (DC/GC)

Dell PE 2850—Dual Core Xeon 3.0, 4 GB

• Windows 2003 Ent. Ed. 32-bit SP1,

• Microsoft iSCSI Initiator V2.03, dual Gigabit Ethernet

• MPIO/MCS, Replication Manager V5.0 Agent, RepliStor V6.2

Dell PE 6850

• Quad Xeon, 3.0 GHz,16 GB RAM

• VMware ESX – Loadsim clients

– EMC EmailXtender Server

Application and File Servers:

Before

Current deployment



Dedicated application servers



Multiple file servers



Terabytes of direct-attached

storage

Issues



Poor utilization



Difficult to scale

EMC Replication Manager



Software that

simplifies

management of

disk-based replicas

 Automates

the creation,

management, and usage

of disk-based replicas for

multiple purposes from the

context of the application

 Maps applications

on the

host to the underlying

storage infrastructure



Enables storage managers

to

delegate replication

tasks to multiple human

resources

Replication Manager orchestrates disk-based

replicas from the context of the application

Testing

Replica 3

Reporting

Replica 2

Backup

Replica 1

Replication Manager 5.0 SP1 – Celerra Support

Mount Hosts Allowed

ESX Server

Celerra iSCSI

Replication Hosts Allowed

Replication Manager 5.0 SP1 – CLARiiON iSCSI Support

1 _{Manually register the VM on the CLARiiON.}

2 _{PowerPath is supported as single NIC and SP failover mode only.}

Replication Hosts Allowed

ESX Server Virtual Machine NO Naviagent NO PowerPath RDM Virtual Machine NO Naviagent1 PowerPath2 MS iSCSI Initiator CLARiiON iSCSI VMware iSCSI Initiator Physical Machine Naviagent PowerPath MS iSCSI Initiator ESX Server

Mount Hosts Allowed

Replication Manager 5.0 SP1 – CLARiiON Fibre Support

1_{Set environment variable}