VMworld 2013: Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage

Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the

Evolution of Enterprise Storage

Alberto Farronato, VMware

Vijay Ramachandran, VMware

STO5715-S

#STO5715S

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Agenda

VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage

Product announcements

Overviews

• VMware Virtual SAN

• Virtual Volumes

• Virsto

Summary and call to action

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Virtualization Changed The Storage Workload

OS

App

Physical Virtual Infrastructure

• 1:1 app to datastore

• Predictable, static workload

• 1:1 QoS to datastore

• N:1 app to datastore

• Random, mobile workload

• N:1 QoS to datastore

Hypervisor OS

App VMotion

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Applications And Storage Are Becoming Increasingly Diverse

Virtual Storage

Arrays

vSphere

Hybrid

Arrays Object / BLOB

Traditional Applications

• Traditional enterprise storage

• HW-based resiliency, QoS

Next Gen Cloud Apps

• Scale out, DAS

• Application specific storage

All SSD

Arrays

Server-side

Flash

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Customer Pain Points With Storage

Configuring takes too much guesswork

Management is manual and siloed

Provisioning takes weeks

Performance degrades with time

Lack of end-to-end visibility

Troubleshooting is hard

Overprovisioning for performance

Management inefficiencies

New opportunities with DAS

How do we break silos?

How do we match the right storage to

the applications?

How do we increase efficiency?

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The Virtualization Platform Opens Up New Opportunities

The virtualization platform

• Has Inherent knowledge

of application

• Has global view of

infrastructure

• Is hardware agnostic

Hypervisor abstracts the plumbing and match the right storage to the app

vSphere

BLOB

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SDS Is the Next-step in VMware’s Storage Innovation

Software-Defined

Storage

vSphere

Today

Software-defined Storage

vSphere

Physical

App App App

• VMFS

• VAAI

• VAS

• S-VMotion

• S-DRS

• VADP

• vSphere Replication

vSphere Data Services

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Software-Defined Data Center

Software-Defined Storage

Software-Defined Storage Brings The Operational Model Of Compute To Storage

All infrastructure is virtualized

and delivered as a service, and

the control of this data center is

entirely automated by software

Heterogeneous storage resources

are abstracted into logical pools,

consumed and managed through

app-centric policy-based automation

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BLOB

vSphere

Policy-Driven Control Plane Matches The Right Storage To The App

Policy-Driven Control Plane

Policy-Driven Control Plane:

Intelligent placement

Auto-provisioning of app-

centric data services

Ongoing remediation of

service levels

Backup

VM Storage Policy

Capacity

Performance

Availability

…

App-centric Data Services:

Extensible framework for

integration of third-party data

services

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vSphere

Virtual Data Plane Provides Abstraction and Integration

Virtual Data Plane

BLOB

SAN & NAS

Converged Infrastructure Pool

External storage Pool

All SSD DAS

Virtual Data Plane:

Pooling of heterogeneous

resources

VM-centric storage

operations

Virtualization platform

awareness of native HW

capabilities

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VMware Approach To Software-Defined Storage

vSphere

App-centric

Data Services

Policy-Driven Control Plane

Virtual Data Plane

External storage Pool

Converged Infrastructure Pool

Backup

VM Storage Policy

Capacity

Performance

Availability

…

BLOB

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Driving Storage Innovation With Our Partner Ecosystem

Software-Defined Storage

Virtual Data Plane

App-centric Data Services

Policy-Driven Control Plane

BLOB

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VMware Software-Defined Storage – Product Announcements

Virtual SAN

Converged

Infrastructure

Virsto Virtual Volumes vSphere Flash Read

Cache

VVols

External

Storage App-centric Data Services

Now available Now Available as

Public Beta (GA target H1 2014)

Tech Preview, Partner Demos

Now available with vSphere 5.5

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Agenda

VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage

Product announcements

Overviews

• VMware Virtual SAN

• Virtual Volumes

• Virsto

Summary and call to action

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Introducing VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN)

vSphere

VSAN

Hard

disks

SSD

…………….

Hard

disks

SSD Hard

disks

SSD

VSAN Datastore

VMware vCenter Server

Product Overview

• Scale out Storage built into the

hypervisor

• Clusters ESX host attached

storage

• Flash-optimized converged

compute + storage solution

• Software solution - Uses industry

standard components

• vSphere integrated management

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Introducing Virtual SAN (VSAN)

vSphere

VSAN

Hard

disks

SSD

…………….

Hard

disks

SSD Hard

disks

SSD

VSAN Datastore

VMware vCenter Server

Features

• Dynamic and capacity

performance scaling

• Shared storage properties

• High Performance – Flash based

read & write cache

• High Resiliency – Distributed

RAID; No single points of failure

• VM-Centric management

• Automated SLA management

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Today: Profile-driven Storage Management

Provision VM using profiles

Match VM profiles to

Datastore Tags

vSphere

…………….

Create/Discover Datastore tags

based on storage tiers

Placement based on pre-defined

profiles/buckets

Availability = 99.99%

Back up = daily

Storage capacity = 10 TB

Performance = Hiigh

Availability = 99.9%

Storage capacity = 10 TB

Performance = Med I/O Place VMs on Datastores with

matching profiles

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VSAN: Radically Simple Storage For Virtual Machines

Instantly provision

VM using policies

Each VM maintains its

unique policy in the

VSAN datastore

vSphere

VSAN

Hard

disks

SSD

…………….

Hard

disks

SSD Hard

disks

SSD

VSAN Datastore

Create policies on a

per-VM basis

VSAN ensures policy

compliance

throughout VM

lifecycle

VM-centric, policy-based storage

management

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VSAN - Storage built for the Virtualization Admin

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VSAN Datastore

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VSAN Policy definition

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VSAN Value and Differentiation

vSphere

VSAN

Hard

disks

SSD

…………….

Hard

disks

SSD Hard

disks

SSD

VSAN Datastore

VMware vCenter Server

Native to ESX hypervisor -

improves resource efficiency and

low latency

First storage platform architected

for VM-level data operations and

management

Built from ground up using Policy-

Driven Management principles

vSphere integrated management

Natively integrated with Cluster

Resource Manager (DRS)

Radically Simple Enterprise Storage

Significantly lower TCO without compromising performance

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VSAN Is Uniquely Positioned In The Storage Landscape

Performance

Capacity

High Cost Low Cost

High End

SAN/NAS

Mid-Range

SAN/NAS

Low-End

SAN/NAS

Scale-out File/

Object

VSAN

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VSAN Delivers The Same VDI Density As An All SSD Array At 25% Of The Cost

• View Planner performance testing maximum VDI density on a 3 host scale

• Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, CAPEX (includes storage hardware + Software License costs). Additional savings come from reduced Opex

through automation.

• Virtual SAN configuration: 9 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 1 copy for availability and 10% SSD for performance

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VSAN All SSD Array

$79

$300

$600

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$100

$200

$300

$400

$500

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$700

Virtual SANFull Clones

All SSD ArrayLinked Clones

All SSD ArrayFull Clones

VSAN vs. All SSD $/desktop

288 VMs

VSAN cost per desktop is 75% less

than All SSD

View Planner Benchmark (3 hosts cluster, 36 cores)

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Virtual SAN Reduces The Cost Of Storage For VDI And Enables Granular Predictable Scaling

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per

deskto

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Number of desktops

• Compared to external storage at scale

• Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs)

• Additional savings come from reduced Opex through automation

• Virtual SAN configuration: 9 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 2 copies for availability and 10% SSD for performance

Virtual SAN External Storage

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• It’s free

• It’s as easy as installing vSphere

• It gives you the chance to win an iPad!

Register for Virtual SAN Beta Now!

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Deep Dive Sessions

Virtual SAN STO5391 VMware Virtual SAN

STO5027 VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices

STO4973 VMware Virtual SAN Customer Panel Discussion

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Agenda

VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage

Product announcements

Overviews

• VMware Virtual SAN

• Virtual Volumes

• Virsto

Summary and call to action

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Policy Based Management with Virtual Volumes

VMware vSphere

vVOL

Instantly provision

VM using policies

Each VM maintains its

unique policy in the

datastore

Create policies on a

per-VM basis

VVOL-enabled

storage systems

ensures policy

compliance

throughout VM

lifecycle

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VMDKs as Native Objects on Storage Systems

VMware vSphere

VMDKs as native

objects on storage

systems

VMware vSphere

vVOL

Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De-

duplication

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Virtual Volumes

VMware vSphere

vVOL

Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De-

duplication

Solution

• Existing SAN/NAS systems

become VM-aware

• Native representation of VMDKs

on SAN/NAS

• New API for data operations at

VMDK granularity

Value

• Snapshots, replications and other

operations at VM granularity on

external storage

• VM level storage SLA enforcement

• Works with existing SAN/NAS

storage systems

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VM requirements captured in a profile

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Broad industry support for VVOL

Visit these vendor booths for a demo of VVOL

And many more…

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Agenda

VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage

Product announcements

Overviews

• VMware Virtual SAN

• Virtual Volumes

• Virsto

Summary and call to action

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Introducing Virsto

VMware vSphere

Solution

• Software-only solution to deliver

predictable performance in existing

SAN systems

• Delivers highly performant VM-

centric data services

• Virtual Appliance form factor

Value

• Lower cost of SAN

• Faster storage provisioning

• Better SAN utilization

• Faster Data Services

Virsto

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Virsto Performance Consistency

Virsto on Mid-range storage for MS SQL

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2000

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IOP

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Number of Snapshots

Virsto Total

Virsto Read

Virsto Write

Snapshot Performance with Virsto

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VMware Approach To Software-Defined Storage

vSphere

App-centric

Data Services

Policy-Driven Control Plane

Virtual Data Plane

External storage Pool

Converged Infrastructure Pool

Backup

VM Storage Policy

Capacity

Performance

Availability

…

BLOB

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VMware Software-Defined Storage – Product Announcements

Virtual SAN

Converged

Infrastructure

Virsto Virtual Volumes vSphere Flash Read

Cache

vVols

External

Storage App-centric Data Services

Now available Now Available as

Public Beta (GA target H1 2014)

Tech Preview, Partner Demo

Now available with vSphere 5.5

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Deep Dive Sessions

Virtual SAN STO5391 VMware Virtual SAN

STO5027 VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices

Virtual Volumes

STO7449 Tech Preview: Accelerating data operations Using VMware VVols and

Storage Profile Based Management

vSphere Read Cache

STO5588 vSphere Flash Read Cache Technical Overview

Virsto

STO5359 VMware Virsto Technical Overview: Optimizing Your SAN Infrastructure for

VDI and Virtual Datacenter Environments

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Speaker Contacts

Alberto Farronato

Storage Product Marketing

afarronato@vmware.com

@alberto_f

Vijay Ramachandran

Storage Product Management

vijayramachandr@vmware.com

@vijay_ram

THANK YOU

Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the

Evolution of Enterprise Storage

Alberto Farronato, VMware

Vijay Ramachandran, VMware

STO5715-S

#STO5715S