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Today’s Datacenter – Not Yet A Private Cloud Dev ice Mgm t. Dev ice Mgm t. Dev ice Mgm t.
SAN NAS All-flash
Hypervisor
Snapshot
Encryption Replication
Compute challenge largely resolved • Hardware abstracted and pooled • Dynamic provisioning
• Self-service / automation through APIs + vRealize Automation, Openstack, ..
Storage still an inhibitor:
• Storage costs major share of overall datacenter spend
• 41% YoY data growth
• Maintaining SLAs (performance, troubleshooting)
Hot-Edge / Cold-Core Scale-Out Hot Edge • CPU/Memory-bound • Low Latency • Dominated by flash Cold Core • Capacity-centric • Increasing commodity hardware • Scale-out, multi-geo
• Extends into cloud Object Storage
All-SSD All-Flash
Cloud Storage Hybrid
x86 Servers
SAN / NAS with abstraction (VVOL, ViPR + Cinder)
Hyper-converged storage (VSAN, Nutanix, Simplivity)
Commodity storage tier
(Ceph, ScaleIO) Today
DAS, non-shared (KVM / AWS model for
non-persistent disks)
Hot-Edge – What Does The Future Look Like?
Hot-Edge – VMware Virtual SAN, Where Does It Fit?
5 Radically simple hypervisor-converged storage
vSphere + Virtual SAN
…
• Software-defined storage embedded in vSphere
• Pools HDD/flash into a shared distributed datastore
• Runs on any standard x86 server
• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event of hardware failures
• High performance through flash cache acceleration
• Elastically scalable
• Managed through Storage Policy-Based Management
• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack The Basics
The Basics
HDD
SSD SSD HDD SSD HDD
Cold core – Capacity Centric Storage
Assumptions
• Performance not a factor
• Use cases: Write-once/Read many, Unstructured data, Big data
Questions
• What type of data do you consider as capacity tier (Backup/Archival, Traditional Files, Hadoop/Big data)
• What type of storage do you use for your capacity tier (NAS, Object, etc)? • Is on-premise object storage replacing traditional NAS for capacity tier? • Have you considered cloud storage for your capacity
• Is cloud file sharing replacing NAS?
Next-gen Applications
• What type of storage do you use for next-gen applications? • Is server virtualization considered for these applications? • Who maintains the infrastructure (DevOps?)?
• Is Linux container/Docker being considered?
vSphere
Common Control Plane For Storage Service Automation
8 Storage Policy Based Mgmt.Storage Policy Based Mgmt.
Virtual Volumes
…
HDD SSD
Virtual SAN Shared Datastore …
HDD
SSD SSD HDD
Virtual SAN
Virtual Datastore
SAN / NAS SAN / NAS
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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Appendix
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
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
Virtual Datastore
Storage Policy
VMware Software-Defined Storage Vision For External Storage
vSphere Storage Policy-Based Mgmt. Virtual Volumes Device Mgmt. Device Mgmt. 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
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
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
Agenda
• VMware’s Vision for Software-defined Storage
• Overview of key VMware Technologies:
– Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-based Management
– Partner implementation of Virtual Volumes – NetApp
– VMware Virtual SAN
Virtual Volumes Overview
17 Management and integration framework for VM centric operations with native array capabilities
VVOL The BasicsThe Basics
• Virtual disks are natively represented on arrays
• Enables VM granular storage operations using array-based data services
• Integrates with Storage Policy-Based Management for policy consumption
• Supports existing storage I/O protocols (FC, iSCSI, NFS)
3rdParty
Software Data Services
Extending to Software Based Data Services
vSphere API for IO Filtering
• Integration API for Software-based Data Services within vSphere
• Performance of kernel-mode with the stability of user-mode
• Tight integration with vSphere and Storage Policy Based Management
• Granular provisioning and control on a per VM basis
Overview Overview
Storage Policy Based Management
Virtual Volumes
Virtual SAN Shared Datastore
Virtual SAN
HDD
SSD SSD HDD SSD HDD
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Virtual Datastore
Solving Storage Provider Challenges Through Integration With Partner Solutions
21
vSphere
Storage Policy Based Mgmt. Virtual Volumes
Device Mgmt. Device Mgmt.
Third-party Storage Control Plane
Third-party storage control plane Example: ViPR Controller, NetApp OnCommand, etc.
• Common management layer across heterogeneous arrays
• vSphere, physical, non-vSphere
• Integration into policy-driven control plane • Automates storage administration
Agenda
• VMware’s Vision for Software-defined Storage
• Overview of key VMware Technologies:
– Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-based Management
– Partner implementation of Virtual Volumes – NetApp
– VMware Virtual SAN
Virtual SAN Simplifies Storage
If You Know vSphere, You Know Virtual SAN
Two clicks to deploy!
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
Storage Policy-Based Management
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)
300+
Customers in the first three months
Virtual SAN: Unprecedented Customer Interest
“Best of Interop and Audience Choice Award”
“Virtual SAN takes VMware a big step closer to the software-defined
datacenter...”
—Charles Babcock
“It’s really a no-brainer when the hypervisor you want to use also includes this virtualized storage.”
—Ryan Hoenle
IT Director of The Doe Fund
“Best of TechEd Virtualization
Winner”
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
SAN / NAS with abstraction (VVOL, ViPR + Cinder) Hyper-converged storage
(VSAN, Nutanix, Simplivity) Commodity storage tier
(Ceph, ScaleIO)
Today
p )
DAS, non-shared (KVM / AWS model for
non-persistent disks)
Software-Defined Storage – What Does Future Hot-Edge Look Like? x86 + Direct-Attached Storage x86, large scale storage tier Hypervisor Hypervisor x86, hyper-converged systems Hypervisor + storage SW Hypervisor Shared Datastore Shared Datastore Storage abstraction (VVOL, ViPR) SAN / NAS SAN / NAS • Inexpensive • Scales linearly
• But – no redundancy, no data services
• Single storage tier to server all apps, massively scalable • Storage kept separate from
compute
• But – still requires network hop, long-term performance limit
• Converged compute and storage
• Storage scales linearly with compute
• Best potential performance with data – compute proximity
• Trusted and proven SAN and NAS
• Well-developed data services • But – more expensive, not
