VMware Software-Defined Storage Vision

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VMware Software-Defined Storage Vision

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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

and efficiency

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The Software-Defined Data Center

Transform storage

by aligning it with app demands

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Legacy Operational Model Creates Several Challenges

SAN NAS All-flash

vSphere

Storage Consumer Challenges: • Lengthy provisioning cycles • Difficult to make adjustments • Lack of granular control • Complex troubleshooting • Frequent data migrations Storage Provider Challenges: • Fragmented device management • Rigid capacity and data services

allocation

• Complex LUN/Volume management

Snapshot

Encryption Replication

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The Hypervisor Opens Up New Opportunities

vSphere

The Virtualization Platform:

• Knows the needs of all apps in real time

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

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The Hypervisor Opens Up New Opportunities

vSphere

Cloud Storage

SAN / NAS

Virtualize The Data Plane

• Abstract and pool infrastructure

• Make the virtual disk the primary unit of data management

• Enable new hot-edge for vSphere:

Hypervisor-converged storage tier on x-86 x86 Servers

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New application centric control plane • Common consumption model across all

storage tiers

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Storage Policy-Based Management Simplifies Provisioning And Delivers Agility

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Storage Policy-Based Management

• Application-centric

• Common management across heterogeneous devices

• Policy-based dynamic composition of services

• Granular control of data services to individual VMs SDS  Raid provisioning  No overprovisioning of resources  Efficiency through automation

 Simple change management

Today

• Hardware centric

• Vendor specific management • Static pre-allocation of shared

storage container (LUN)

• Data services aligned to storage container

✖ Long provisioning cycles

✖ Overprovisioning of resources

Today

✖ Management complexity

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vSphere

Enabling New Storage Tiers With Common Control Plane

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Virtual Volumes Cloud Storage vCloud Air … HDD SSD

Virtual SAN Shared Datastore

…

HDD

SSD SSD HDD

Virtual SAN

Virtual Datastore

SAN / NAS SAN / NAS

Cloud And Management Automation

vCloud

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VMware Software-Defined Storage

Bringing the Efficient Operational Model of Virtualization to Storage

Policy-driven Control Plane Virtual Data Plane

Virtual Datastores

Performance Mobility

Data Protection

Virtual Data Services

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Virtual SAN: Product goals

1. Targeted customer: vSphere admin

1. Compelling Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

– CAPEX: capacity, performance

– OPEX: ease of management

1. The Software-Defined Storage for VMware – Strong integration with all VMware products and

features

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Virtual SAN

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• Software-based storage built in ESXi

• No hardware RAID

• Aggregates local Flash (R/W

cache) and HDDs (Capacity)

• Cluster wide object datastore for

VM consumption

• Converged compute + storage

• Distributed architecture, no single

point of failure

• Deeply integrated with VMware

stack

What is Virtual SAN?

esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03

vSphere

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 No overprovisioning

 Less resources, less time

 Easy to change

Legacy

5. Consume from pre-allocated bin 4. Select appropriate bin

3. Expose pre-allocated bins 2. Pre-allocate static bins

1. Pre-define storage configurations

1. Define storage policy

2. Apply policy at VM creation

VSAN

VSAN Shared Datastore

Resource and data services are automatically provisioned and

maintained

✖ Overprovisioning (better safe than sorry!) ✖ Wasted resources, wasted time

✖ Frequent Data Migrations

Simplified Provisioning For Applications

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Virtual SAN Scale Out

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vSphere + Virtual SAN

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 Simple to set resiliency goals via policy

 Enforced per VM and per vmdk

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

 High availability even during network partitions

 Automatic, distributed data reconstruction after failures

 Interoperable with vSphere HA and Maintenance Mode

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Single Virtual SAN datastore scalability

Cluster: 3 - 32 nodes; up to 5 SSDs, 35 HDDs per host Capacity: 4.4 Petabytes

Performance: 2M IOPS – 100% reads

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How To Deploy A Virtual SAN Cluster

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Component Based

…using the VMware Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide (VCG) (1)

Choose individual components …

SSD or PCIe SAS/NL-SAS/ SATA HDDs Any Server on vSphere Hardware Compatibility List HBA/RAID Controller

Virtual SAN Ready Node

40 OEM validated server configurations ready for Virtual SAN deployment (2)

Note: 1) Components must be chosen from Virtual SAN HCL, using any other components is unsupported – see Virtual SAN VMware Compatibility Guide

Page

2) VMware continues to update/add list of the available Ready Nodes, please refer to Virtual SAN VMware Compatibility Guide Pagefor latest list 3) EVO:RAIL availability in 2H 2014. Exact dates will vary depending on the specific EVO:RAIL partner

Maximum Flexibility Maximum Ease of Use

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

A Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance

(HCIA) for the SDDC

Each EVO:RAIL HCIA is pre-built on a qualified and optimized

2U/4 Node server platform.

Sold via a single SKU by qualified EVO:RAIL partners (3)

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Data Protection

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Virtual Datastore

Storage Policy

VMware Software-Defined Storage Vision For External Storage

vSphere Storage Policy-Based Mgmt. Virtual Volumes D ev ice M g mt. D ev ice M g mt. Capacity Availability Performance Data Protection Security

Storage Policy Based Management • Policy driven, VM-centric control plane • Dynamic composition of storage

services

• Intelligent placement and transparent remediation

• Common across heterogeneous devices

Virtual Volumes

• Virtual disks natively represented on external storage

• Granular control of native array data services on a per VM basis

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Data Protection

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Ever Growing Challenges of Storage

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Unstructured* vs. Structured Data • Growth of unstructured data* is 5X times faster than

structured data

• 70% of this data is untouched after initial creation

• Traditional storage (NAS/SAN) is expensive and does not scale well for unstructured data

• Traditional file hierarchies does not support global access use cases

Static Storage Budgets

• Exponential growth of digital data but YoY decrease in storage budgets resulting in insufficient storage

resources to meet business demands

• Long term data retention regulations consumes a large part of storage budgets

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Extremely Scalable

• Petabyte scale data

• Single object can be up to 20 TB

• 1000 buckets and unlimited Objects per tenant

Easy Access & Dependable

• Easy access from any device, anywhere, anytime (Supports HTTP, HTTPS)

• High durability

• Granular object-level security

Cost Effective

• Pay only for what you use • Per minute metering

• Convenient monthly billing • Inexpensive and elastic

VMware vCloud® Air™ Object Storage

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Data Protection

Cloud Object Storage SAN / NAS

x86 Servers

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