Dell EMC Software Defined Solutions: Storage & Networking · Dell Networking VxRail, XC, VSAN & SIO Ready Nodes on PE R630/R730/ R730xd VxRack Flex, SDDC and DSSD on PowerEdge R630/R730xd

Dell EMC Software Defined Solutions:Storage & Networking

Kostas Koumiotis

Sales Engineer - Infrastructure Solutions Group

Dell EMC | Central & Eastern Europe

[email protected]

Nikolaos Nikolaou

Sr Systems Engineer - Infrastructure Solutions Group

Dell EMC | Central & Eastern Europe

[email protected]

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Our world is changing

Everythingis at risk

Work is no longer a location

We’re drowningin information

We want it now

90%of all the data in the world has been created in the past 2 years

One million cyber-

attacks released every day

80-90% Employees

telecommute at least part time

8 seconds Average

human attention span: one second less than a goldfish


Cloud-native

ITIL-based

IT processes

Client-server

scale-up apps

Infrastructure

resiliency

Coexisting IT paradigms

DevOps based

IT processes

Distributed

scale-out apps

Application

resiliency

CIO challenge:Next-generation infrastructures are needed

CONTROLLER CONTROLLER

Traditional


Drivers for adoption

HYPER-CONVERGED

Integrated storage & compute

Scale out efficiently

CAPEX and OPEX savings

Lower

TCO

Speed and

Agility

Operational Simplicity

Scale

Easily

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Data Domain Virtual

Edition (DDVE) &

CloudArray software

certified on

PowerEdge

ECS software certified

on R730xd &

DSS7000

Software certified on

multiple PowerEdge

platforms

Certified Rack &

Modular Servers +

Dell Networking

VxRail, XC, VSAN &

SIO Ready Nodes on

PE R630/R730/

R730xd

VxRack Flex, SDDC

and DSSD on

PowerEdge

R630/R730xd

PowerEdge – The foundation for Dell EMC solutions

Traditional arrays

Objectstorage

SDS: block& file

Data protection: appl. & S/W

HCI ready nodes &

appliances

Industry leading it

building blocks

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The PowerEdge advantage

#1in the U.S., U.K., China

and APJ

~$12 Bin salesa year

over

2 M serversshipped annually to

>75,000customers

Over 27.5 M

serverssold

Ship almost

4 SERVERSevery minute

55,000serversmanaged by

OpenManage at a single customer

Dell was the

fastest growing blade vendor

in 2016

Y/Y BladeGrowth

CY16 Q1-3

8.8%

Largest Rack Server Vendor in the world6


IT environment

Characterize the environment including people, process and technologies.

Considerations for potential HCI or SDS customers

Consumption model & scope

Storage? Or storage & server? Or, storage, server and networking?

Who performs the integration?

Workload requirements

What are the requirements of the solution? SLA? Performance? Capacity? Data Flow? Etc.


Workload & storage requirementsEnsure the workload fits the solution

• What workload/application is running? • What are the requirements of the workload?

Capacity

PerformanceFilePrint

HRPayroll

Email

Decision support

Database

ERP

CRM

Analytics

Supply chain

IoT Emerging

Apps

Big Data

OLTP

Archive

Media

VDI

1. Scale (min, max, & frequency of adding capacity

2. RAS

3. QoS

4. Performance: Aggregate IOps/GBps, Latency

5. Costs: $/GB, $/IOps

6. Solution integration

7. Data types

8. Security/certifications/…..

9. Time to solution

10. Etc.

Collaboration

Surveillance

Engineering


Customer environmentUnderstand the key aspects today and in the future

• Organizational structure – full time storage admins? Managed by virtualization admins? Etc.

• Skill sets

• Early adopter? Risk averse?

• Are there processes in place that favor one solution over another?

• What is the support model? Development model?

• How are vendor relationships managed?

• Where is the solution deployed? One data center, multiple, geographically dispersed?

• What standards are in place? Consider OS, virtualization, backup, etc..

• Technologies currently deployed? Especially evaluate storage or data protection. Consider opportunities for synergy?

• How is backup done today? Will the new deployment use the same?

People

Process

Technology


Consumption model and scopeStorage only or more? Who performs integration?

Discrete

Storage only

Rack-scale

Storage, compute, networking

Hyper-converged

Storage and computeScope

• Validation & problem resolution

– Reliable deployments require a hardware validation lab where engineers test, qualify, integrate

and provide problem resolution. This can be done by the customer or by the vendors.

• Hyper-converged deployments

– Increasingly, software vendors are incorporating awareness of the hardware into their systems

– Integration can facilitate day-to-day management in addition to initial configuration, upgrades,

scaling etc.

• Range of options

– Many vendors offer a range of options from certified hardware lists to reference

architecture/validated configurations to fully integrated appliance like offerings

Integration

Build

Use components to Do-It-Yourself

Buy

Turnkey ownership experience


Different hyper-converged consumption models

VALIDATED SOLUTIONSBuild from Components

RA, Bundles,

Validated Systems

Hyper-converged

Appliances

Hyper-converged

Rack-Scale Systems

DEPLOY FASTER, IMPROVE AGILITY, SIMPLIFY IT

ENGINEERED SYSTEMSBuy Experience


Applications

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COMPLEX!

COMPLEX!

COMPLEX!

COMPLEX! Closer to the business

Further from the business

Orchestration

Platform

Virtualization

Servers, storage & network

The Business

This is why private cloud is so hard

THINK LIKE A CUSTOMER.

>70% of IT

resources & budget

go to “snowflake” variations

& don’t differentiate anything.


Engineering validated reference

architectures

Server and VDI software, no

software defined storage

Highly configurable but requires

highly skilled IT Staff

Simplified deployment

Validated engineered SDS Solution

with hyper-converged software and

servers

Essentials and Expanded bundles

scale to meet desktop and

functional needs

Turnkey experience

Fastest time to value with hyper-

converged appliances

Essentials and Expanded bundles

scale to meet desktop and

functional needs

Fully validated and supported VDI solutions with configs starting as low as $8 per month, per seat

Ready Nodes for VDI

Build Experience

Ready System with VxRail

Buy Experience

Ready Bundle for VDI

Starter Kit Components

READY CHOICES THROUGH AN EXAMPLE: VDICLOUD CLIENT COMPUTING!


SDS offers, additional detail

Enterprise-class infrastructure | Optimized hardware and monitoring | Appliances and bundled solutions

End to end solution architectures | Global services and support | Dell Data Protection for SDS

Dell

Offering

XC Appliance

Powered by Nutanix

SW

Dell’s VSAN Ready

Nodes,

Validated PE 730 +

MD JBOD + Nexenta

SW

Qualified Dell

Servers + MD JBOD

+ MS Storage Spaces

PowerEdge servers +

Red Hat Inktank

Ceph + Openstack

Customer

Value

• Hypervisor

agnostic

• Richer Storage

Features

• Familiar and easy

management for

VMware admins

• Built on VMware

investments

• Highly flexible,

feature-rich storage

built on ZFS

• NetApp

Replacement

• Seamlessly

connect to

Windows Server

based compute

layer

• Integrate into

Microsoft

management

• Open-source

technology

designed for highly

scalable

environments with

strong ties into

Open Stack

Primary

Use

case

High performance

VDI

Small scale, non

mission critical

storage for VMware

Cheap and deep;

backup/archive

Scale-out storage

platform for Microsoft

Cloud

Advanced private

cloud

Hyper-Converged

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INTRODUCING

VXRAIL

Industry's broadest HCI Appliance portfolio

exclusively from Dell EMC and VMware


• The best technology for the leading virtualization ecosystem

VxRail is powered by VMware vSAN

• Maximizes resource

utilization with kernel

layer integration and

optimized I/O data path

• Delivers enterprise

availability for demanding

business applications

• Configurable resiliency

though software defined

polices

• Automatically rebalances

storage to align with per-

VM service policies

• Designed to deliver an

optimized VMware

experience

• Manage VM’s not storage

• Simple management of

storage and compute with

existing tools

• Complete interoperability

with the VMware stack

• Extensive pool of

technology partners and

most developed HCIA

ecosystem vSAN


In-kernel vSAN makes VxRail more efficient

vSphere

Storage VM(per server)

Typical HCI VxRail with VSAN

vSphere / vSAN

Storage VM consumes resources

Data paths are inefficient

Management must be bolted on

Coarse storage management

2x CPU and 3x memory efficiency

Native vMotion and DRS

Simple, single management pane

Per-VM management and polices


Fully loadedEverything included

Data Efficiency

ServicesData

Protection

Quality of

ServiceCloud

Storage


What is inside VxRail?

Deployment and support

tools

Powered by VMware

vSAN

Included data

protection options

vSAN Enterprise

vCenter Server

vRealize Log Insight

vSphere Ready*

RecoverPoint for VMs

CloudArray

vSphere Replication

vSphere Data ProtectionVxRail Manager

Secure Remote Support

*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses

A full suite of capabilities included at no additional charge


vSphere license choicesvSphere Enterprise Plus recommended for best VxRail experience

vSphere Enterprise Plus vSphere Standard

Dramatically increases administrator

productivity

Lower upfront costs;

manual administration

Automated workload rebalancing

Automated maintenance mode

Streamlined drive replacement

One-click software updates

Manual workload balancing

Manual maintenance mode

Multi-step drive replacement

Service-led software updates


ProcessorAll-flash or hybrid

disk packsRAM

Redundant power &

cooling

Network Connectivity

(1Gbps/10Gbps)GPU (V Series)

VxRail hyper-converged, self-contained infrastructure• What is in a node?


Meet VxRail 4.0

2XMORE FLASH STORAGE

250XMORE CONFIGURATIONS

40%MORE CPU PERFORMANCE

25%LESS EXPENSIVEENTRY POINT

• Dell PowerEdge Servers

• Intel Broadwell Processors

• Addresses more use cases –

storage heavy, graphics

intensive, and ROBO

• 3-node entry point

• One click software upgrades

WHAT’S NEW

Compared to previous generation appliances


Purpose built nodes for multiple use cases

Introducing the new, flexible VxRail 4.0 family

General purpose

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 19.2 TB/node

S Series NodesP Series Nodes

Entry level

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 30.7 TB/node

Storage dense

Hybrid only

Up to 48 TB/node

VDI optimized

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 46 TB/node

Performance

optimized

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 46 TB/node

E Series Nodes V Series NodesG Series Nodes


Power supply

100-240VACAuto-switching

Processor

Choice of 17 Intel Broadwell processors8 to 44 cores per node

RAM

24 DIMM slots

16 GB RDIMM32 GB RDIMM64 GB LRDIMM

GPUs

NVIDIA & AMD

Note: GPU SW & driverssold separately

Storage

Cache SSDs: 400 GB, 800, 1600 GBSSDs: 1.92 TB, 3.84 TB

HDDs: 1.2 TB, 2.0 TB, 4.0 TB

Networking

SFP+ or RJ45

2x 10GbE4x 1GbE

straightstraight

Even more configuration flexibilityAcross four new models based on Dell PowerEdge servers


VxRail G Series general purpose nodes

• Up to four nodes, 2U

• Updated Intel E5 v4 Processors (Broadwell)

• Single or dual socket, up to 16 cores/CPU

• Memory configuration expansion

– 64 GB,128 GB, 256 GB, 384 GB, 512 GB options

• Network options– 2x 10 GbE

– 4x 1 GbE

• 6x 12G SAS drive slots (2.5”) per node

– Single disk group, up to 5 capacity drives each

• Max capacity per node: 19.2 TB SSD or 10 TB HDD


• Unmatched capabilities and value as low as $1 per GB*

All-flash drives better economics

* Effective capacity at street price

• Modern data center in just 6 rack units– 132 cores– 138 TB of flash

• All-flash at hybrid prices– Lowest $/GB and TCO

• Rich data efficiency services– Deduplication– Compression– Erasure Coding

• Predictable, all-flash performance


Single node scaling and upgrades• Minimizes risk and enables pay as you grow

Start with what you needMinimize risk by closely

matching your requirements

3-64

nodes

Scale outAdd as few a one node to

increase performance and capacity

Predictable

linear pricing

by node

Scale upIncrementally add storage

as data grows

Best for

unexpected

storage

growth

Nodes within a chassis must be homogenous

Populate homogenous drives across all available nodes


• Evergreen clusters simplify tech refresh—no forklift migrations

Continuously modernize

10GbE

Add new appliance to cluster

vMotion workload to new appliance

Remove old node

Non-disruptively

VM


UP TO

30%LESS

Storage

Servers

Tech refresh

CAPEX cycles

Data migration

Capacity planning

Scale on demand

Pay-as-you-grow

No migrations

More automation

Lowers TCO

SAN

*Edison Group White Paper: VCE VxRail Appliance Costs and Maintenance Advantages (May 2016)


How is VxRail being used?

Business

applications

Virtual

desktops

Virtualized

environments

Test and

development

Remote

office


VxRail Appliance support experience

ESRSCustomer Environment Global Support

1 2 3Single point of support

for hardware and software

Dial home two-way

secure remote connection

Chat and web-based

service options


VxRail service options

* 9x5 Non-CRU (customer replaceable units) only

** Within 4 hours for Severity 1 issues (sev 2 = within 12 hours, sev 3/4 = NBD – next business day)

***See Dell EMC’s Product Warranty, Maintenance, & Service Descriptions page for details

Installation of operating environment updates

Onsite response with parts installation

Replacement parts delivery

24x7 remote monitoring and repair (ESRS)

Global technical support***

Rights to new releases of software

24x7 access to online support tools

Next business day

24x7 24x7

24x7x4**

24x7 Support for

production

environments

Mission-critical

support for fastest

resolution

Enhanced Premium

Next business day* 24x7x4**

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Lead the Market in

Converged & Hyper

Converged Platforms

Most

efficient

• Low CPU and memory overhead

• More direct IO path

• Full data efficiency services

• Per-VM policies and QoS

Tightest

integration

• Use existing VMware tools

• vSphere license flexibility

• External vCenter integration

• Full VMware ecosystem support

Highest

flexibility

• Configure for any use case

• Start small & pay as you grow

• Comprehensive data protection

• Broad set of availability profiles

• Simplify and extend your VMware environment with VxRail

Summary

Designed as one and powered by Dell EMC | VMware


VxRail™ hyper-converged applianceExclusive partnership between Dell EMC and VMware

VIRTUAL DESKTOPSDeploy hundreds of desktops

in minutes on one appliance

HYBRID CLOUDSeamless backup and replication to

the cloud

SERVER WORKLOADSStandardize and consolidate

infrastructure for all

remote/departmental workloads

DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISEManage and Orchestrate across locations

with no downtime

NON-DISRUPTIVE

SDDC SCALE OUT

INTEGRATED

REPLICATION

DATA SERVICES

FOR EFFICIENCY

MULTIPLE CONFIGS

and SCALE POINTS

INTRODUCING SW

DEFINED NETWORKING

SOLUTIONS


Recognized for our vision and execution

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2013

2014

2015

2016

Data Center Networking


Open Networking means unprecedented choice

Linux on the switch, unified server, network management

Feature-rich L2/L3 Campus networking

WAN, MPLS/VPLS functionality

SDN fabric & network tapping solutions

Virtualization-centric fabric optimized for Nutanix, Big Data, VDI

Plug-and-play Branch/ SMB networking

Data Center fabric & in-rack switching

OS6

OS9, OS10

OS3, OS6


NVO solutions with VMware NSX

Dell + VMware

• Best in class physical underlay with Dell’s 10-100GbE Open Networking switching portfolio, delivering non-blocking, active/active forwarding and line rate Layer 2 gateways for effective bridging to NSX virtual overlay

• Strong analytics, automated provisioning, programmability, and Layer 2 gateway support for NSX virtual overlay

• Micro-segmentation and granular securitydelivered to the individual workload

• Reduced network provisioning time from days to seconds through automation

• Workload mobility independent of physical network topology within and across data centers

&

Spine

Leaf


OS10—Software for the Open Networking era

Modern software for modern operations

Open Networking Software

NetOpsDevOps

OS10 Management Tools

IP Services

Linux Networking

Native Linux Apps

Common Management

Services (CMS)

L2/L3 Protocols

Policy Control

OS10 Apps3rd Party Apps

Automation Tools

Fabric Services

Security Services

Development Environment via Control Plane Services (CPS)

Platform Abstraction via OCP Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI)

Dell Networking OS10 Base (Native Linux)

Premium package

Base package


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Dell EMC Software Defined Solutions: Storage & Networking · Dell Networking VxRail, XC, VSAN & SIO Ready Nodes on PE R630/R730/ R730xd VxRack Flex, SDDC and DSSD on PowerEdge R630/R730xd