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THE VIRTUAL
DATA CENTER
OF THE FUTURE
An Introduction to VMAX and VPLEX
Ron Davidi
EMC Israel
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2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
10
1,000
EMC Petabyte Club
EMC Petabyte Club
The next decade: 100,000 customers
2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
1000
100,000
You Are
Here
EMC Exabyte Club
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Building the
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Building the Virtual Data Center
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2X FASTER
The World’s Most Powerful Storage System
The World’s Most Powerful Storage System
5,000,000
VIRTUAL MACHINES ON A SINGLE
SCALE-OUT STORAGE ARRAY
44%
4%
8%
19%
13%
12%
“Which is your storage
vendor of choice in
virtualized server
environments?”
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Cloud
Storage
Management
The World’s Most Trusted Storage System
Over 20 years running the world’s most critical applications
4000
5500
3000/5000
8000
DMX-1&2
DMX-3&4
VMAX
1988
1990
1994
2000
2003
2005
2009
2011
VM & z/OS
Integration
RSA Encryption
Secure Erase,
Audit, Service
ICDA,
Raid, NDU
SRDF
Con Groups
TimeFinder
PowerPath
Autoswap
SRDF Over FC
Concurrent,
STAR, GDDR
Efficient: FAST
VP, FLM, 100%
VP, RP Splitter
VMAXe
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Building the Virtual Data Center
TRUSTED
SMART
SMART
ANYWHERE
POWERFUL
The World’s Smartest Storage Array
FAST
Automation
+
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Flash – 3%
SATA – 73%
FC – 25%
Smart Automation with FAST
Flash – 10%
FC – 40%
SATA – 50%
FAST Development — What We Learned
20/80 Rules
Smaller is Better
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FAST Development — What We Learned
20/80 Rules
Smaller is Better
Reaction Time is Critical
Workload Skew
Heavy
Moderate
Low
Minutes
Days
Months
Statistics Engine
FAST Development — What We Built
FAST
Analytics Engine
Movement Engine
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FAST VP: 1,000+ Licenses and Over 250PB
“2X INCREASE IN
TRANSACTIONS”
“55%
MORE
IOPS”
“80% of DATA
ON SATA TIER”
“40% FASTER RT
½ FOOTPRINT”
FAST VP — Smarter than the Competition
EMC FAST vs. Competition
Re
spon
se Tim
e
Run Time
Auto
Tiering
Starts
Response
5X
Time
5X
Reaction
Time
Workload
Changes
None EMC
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Building the Virtual Data Center
TRUSTED
SMART
ANYWHERE
ANYWHERE
POWERFUL
Have the exact SAME information…
In two separate locations…
Accessible at the SAME time
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Access Data Around The Globe
Single, dual, or quad
engines
VS1
VS2
Distributed. Dynamic. Smart.
NEW
Within a data center
VPLEX Local
VPLEX Metro
AccessAnywhere at
synchronous
distances
VPLEX Geo
AccessAnywhere at
asynchronous
distances
NEW
Site B
Federated Data Access
Before EMC VPLEX
Site A
SYNCHRONOUS/ASYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION
Active-Passive Site
Data on DR Site is used on failure
Outage to move applications
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Federated Data Access
With EMC VPLEX
VPLEX Metro
Site B
Site A
FIBRE CHANNEL
Active-Active Site
VPLEX enables active use of
resources at two sites
DISTRIBUTED VIRTUAL VOLUME
- Availability
- Mobility
Availability
VPLEX
WITNESS
Enables stretched clusters with zero RTO
Automated recovery with near-zero RPO
High availability within and across VPLEX
Metro data
centers
VPLEX
advantage
KEEP
APPLICATIONS
RUNNING
Multi-site Cluster
Active
A C C E S S A N Y W H E R E
Active
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VPLEX Metro - With VMware HA
AccessAnywhere
Witness
VM
Mobility: Optimized with VPLEX
•
Move data between arrays
nondisruptively
•
Transition to active-active
data centers
•
Refresh storage technology
•
Improve asset utilization
Dynamic application and data movement
AccessAnywhere
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VPLEX Metro - With Vmware vMotion
AccessAnywhere
Witness
VM
On-demand concurrent data access at
multiple sites
Ensures data consistency and coherence
Reduced bandwidth requirement
VPLEX
advantage
Collaboration
SHARE DATA OVER
EXTENDED
DISTANCES
10101
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Oracle RAC – Single Data Center
LAN Backbone
Dual
SAN
switches
EMC storage
system
Oracle
RAC cluster
RAC
interconnect
LAN Backbone
Primary I/O
path
Primary I/O
path
Oracle RAC – VPLEX Configuration
LAN Backbone
Dual
SAN
switches
EMC storage
systems
Oracle
RAC cluster
RAC
interconnect
LAN Backbone
Mirror A (active)
Mirror B (active)
Primary I/O
path
Primary I/O
path
VPLEX interconnect
(dark fibre)
VPLEX
Clusters
VPLEX Witness
(virtual machine)
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Disaster Avoidance
VPLEX
AccessAnywhere
Data Center Migration
VPLEX
AccessAnywhere
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Workload Rebalancing
VPLEX
AccessAnywhere
Availability Ecosystem
Environment
LOCAL and METRO
GEO
Cluster Server
PowerHA
ServiceGuard
VCS
RAC
Cluster Server
HA
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EMC VPLEX
Same information
Separate locations
Accessible anywhere
Building the Virtual Data Center
TRUSTED
SMART
ANYWHERE
POWERFUL
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