Dell EMC Unity: Using Dell EMC UnityVSA in Converged Environments Wai Yim Development Midrange & Entry Systems

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Optimized for All-Flash Performance & Simplicity

What’s New with Dell EMC Unity

4 new Broadwell based All-Flash models New 80 drive 3U enclosure 4X file power with 256TB file system Compression for file AppSync integration, snapshots & thin

clones for iCDM Dynamic Pools

Up to 40% more cores; 2X the memory

650F

550F

450F

350F

Dell EMC UnityVSA Product Overview

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Reliable Block

Hypervisor

SOFTWARE DEFINED

Public Clouds Aggregated Server DAS

Multi-core Cache

Multi-core RAID

Backend Protocols

Pools

Data Services

Management

Protocols

FILE BLOCK

VSA

x86 Servers

Server SAN

VVOLS

Unisphere Mgmt

Virtual Storage Appliance Concept

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Dell EMC UnityVSA Dell EMC UnityVSA

Converged Compute/Storage

Remote & Branch Offices

Embedded

Hypervisor

CIFS NFS iSCSI

OS

APP APP

OS

COMPUTE STORAGE NODE

Cloud DR Bursting Backup Cloud File Services Archiving

Dell EMC UnityVSA Hypervisor

CIFS NFS iSCSI

OS

APP APP

OS

CLOUD DATA SERVICES

CLOUD

File as-a-service Multi-tenant VSA ROBO Converged

Infrastructure

OS

Hypervisor

… Node n Server SAN

Hypervisor

UnityVSA APP

OS UnityVSA

APP

SERVER SAN DATA SERVICES

SERVER SAN

Hypervisor

CIFS NFS iSCSI

Test/Dev Training & Demos

SINGLE NODE SERVER STORAGE

SERVER DAS (HA)

SPA SPB

Dell EMC UnityVSA Use Case and Futures

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Storage Processors (SPs) 1

vCPUs 2 (2GHz+)

Memory 12 GB

Virtual Network (vNICs)

Data

4 x 1GbE

or 4 x 10GbE

Protocols iSCSI, NFS, CIFS

Dell EMC UnityVSA Specifications

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CPU Dual-core 64-bit x86 Intel 2GHz+ Xeon E5 Series CPU or newer (SSE4.2)

Memory 16 GB for ESXi 5.5 18 GB for ESXi 6.0 20 GB for ESXi 6.5

Network Interfaces 4 x 1GbE

or 4 x 10GbE

RAID Controller • Select suitable RAID Level

• BE connectivity speed - 6Gbps • NV Cache- 512 MB (1GB recommended)

Operating System VMware ESXi 5.5+

Sample (or equivalent) Server Platforms

Dell PowerEdge R-series – R730

Cisco UCS C-Series - C22, C24, C220, C240

IBM xSeries 36xx M4 and 32xx M5 family

Lenovo ThinkServer RD Series - RD340

Sample Server Specifications

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COMMUNITY

LICENSING

4 TB

Community

Non-Production

CAPACITY

NODES

SUPPORT

USE

Free (Perpetual)

10, 25, 50 TB

1 Year Subscription

PROFESSIONAL

Single - Dual in future release

Dell EMC (Enhanced)

Production

FEATURES All

Dell EMC UnityVSA Product Offerings

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Common Code Base Feature Dell EMC UnityVSA Purpose-built

UFS64 over CIFS UFS64 over NFS

iSCSI FAST VP Tiering Capability

Asynchronous Unified Replication Unisphere HTML 5 GUI + REST API

Quality of Service Monitoring & Reporting

Thin Provisioning VVOLs CloudIQ

FAST Cache - Data at Rest Encryption -

Fiber Channel - Synchronous Replication -

Compression -

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Limit* Dell EMC UnityVSA

(based on max license)

Max # of vDisks 16

Max vDisk Size 50TB

Max # of NAS Servers 16

Max File System Size 50TB

Max # of File Systems 32

Max # of Pool LUNs 64

Max # of Snapshots 128

Max # of VVOLs 1750

*Limits are not architectural

VSA Limits

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Planning • Application coexistence – coexists with other VMs on an ESXi server

• Network storage – provides storage to apps running on any servers

• Multiple instances – >1 instances can be deployed on a single server

• Best practices – Reserve CPU and memory – Predictable backend IOPS and response time – Separate VSA root storage from virtual disks

• Server w/ 512MB raid card reference configuration sample frontend IOPS – 10,000 max 8k random read IOPS

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Monitoring and Management

• VSA management and operations – Use vSphere and vCenter for assigning CPU and memory resources,

network configuration, and virtual disk provisioning – Monitor virtual environment health through vSphere

• Dell EMC Unity management and operations – Local mgmt - Use Unisphere for Dell EMC Unity data services

management and monitoring – Federated mgmt – Use Unisphere Central for federated view of multiple

systems – CloudIQ - Use CloudIQ for cloud monitoring and analytics of virtual and

physical arrays

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Diagnostic

• Checks system for issues that could be caused by underlying issues with the hypervisor – CPU Steal – Network Latency – Disk Latency

• Reports active issues as well as issues that have been resolved

• Allows filtering by date range

• Allows use of custom thresholds

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Diagnostic

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Diagnostic: SVC_VP_Hostcheck

Example output:

Dell EMC Unity Architecture

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Dell EMC UnityVSA Environment

Linux User Space

Linux Kernel Space

Hyper-visor

IP Fabric

Network

drive drive

vDiskvDisk vDisk

driveShared storage and

networks

Linux Driver Layerblkshim Para-virtual SCSI

Linux TCP/IPPV-Network

ext3Page/Buffer Cache

CSX interrupt mapping

Unified Container

UnisphereManagement

Multi-Core Cache

Storage Pool

LX-Fusion driver

Env

Multi-Core RAIDBackendFAST Cache

File Services

blkshim

Block Services

FC/iSCSIVVOL

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Native HA

• Current version works with VMware HA

• Native HA being designed – Hypervisor agnostic - targeting ESXi initially – Dual SP configuration – Uses multiple network and shared storage pings for

heartbeat – 3rd node tie breaker can be used for highest protection

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Native HA

DAS

Server

SERVER SAN

Hypervisor

DAS

Server

Hypervisor

APP

SPA SPB

Dell EMC UnityVSA

APP APP APP APP APP APP APP

HB Data Services Data Services

Tie Breaker

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Dell EMC Unity Operating Environment

SUSE/SLES Linux Kernel

IP StackblockFS database drivers

Platform Sequencer & Container Framework

Linux Services / Linux HA

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CLP

CLP DB

HA Policy

Controls

Logging

HA Policy

Controls

UnisphereMgmt

HA Policy

Controls

HA Policy

Controls

ESRS(CloudIQ Agent)

LOGConfig

LIC

CST

Logging Lockbox

HA Policy

Controls

config

Unified data pathCSX Container

HA Policy

Controls

New 64-bit FS

SCSI Target

Native VVOL

CMInet

StorageCluster HB

Heartbeat

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Heart Beat Protocol

SPA VM

Hypervisor

HBD0 vSwitch

SPB VM

Hypervisor

Compute networks

CMI vSwitch

CMI vSwitch

HBD0 vSwitch

HBD1 vSwitch

HBD1 vSwitch

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HB Protocol – Tie Breaker Node

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Storage HB Protocol

From the Lab: Dell EMC UnityVSA on KVM

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KVM Use Case

• Same binaries, different packaging

• Same functionalities

• Provide Dell EMC Unity data services in: – Various Linux platforms

– OpenStack

– Paves the road to Public clouds

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KVM Install • Self-contain executable script

– libvirt’s virsh - minimal dependencies – Verifies that dependencies are present on server

• Collects a variety of parameters to create a libvirt XML file: – libvirt connection URL – VM name, UUID, emulator path – Path to install disk images – Network information

› bridge vs. NAT, ports, IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6), friendly name, etc. – Whether to start automatically

• Three QCOW2 disk images are contained in script, and extracted to specified path (accessed as virtio-scsi)

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Dell EMC UnityVSA in virt-manager

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Dell EMC UnityVSA Parameters

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Adding Capacity

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Self-extracting Script

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Related Sessions for SC and Dell EMC Unity Series Session Title Day/Time Dell EMC Unity & SC Series: Midrange Storage Portfolio Overview Mon @ 12:00 PM + Wed @ 01:30 PM CloudIQ: Cloud-Based Storage Analytics for Dell EMC Unity and SC Series Mon @ 04:30 PM + Wed @ 08:30 AM Dell EMC Unity All-Flash: What’s New Tue @ 03:00 PM + Wed @ 01:30 PM Dell EMC Unity: Architectural Overview Mon @ 01:30 PM + Thu @ 08:30 AM Dell EMC Unity: Best Practices For Best Performance Wed @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 10:00 AM Dell EMC Unity: Performance Analysis Deep Dive Wed @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 01:00 PM Dell EMC Unity: Next Generation NAS & File Capabilities Mon @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 11:30 AM Dell EMC Unity: Data Protection & Copy Management Options Mon @ 08:30 AM + Wed @ 12:00 PM Dell EMC Unity: Virtualization & Cloud Integration Mon @ 12:00 PM Dell EMC Unity: Migration From VNX Tue @ 08:30 AM Dell EMC Unity: Using Dell EMC UnityVSA In Converged Environments Mon @ 08:30 AM Dell EMC Unity All Flash: Flash Technology Deep Dive Mon @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 01:00 PM SC Series: What's New Mon @ 04:30 PM + Tue @ 03:00 PM SC Series: Architectural Overview Mon @ 01:30 PM + Tue @ 03:00 PM SC Series: Performance Best Practices Mon @ 04:30 PM + Thu. @ 01:00 PM SC Series: Affordable Data Mobility & Business Continuity With Multi-Array Federation Mon @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 01:00 PM SC Series: Virtualization & Ecosystem Integrations Wed @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 08:30 AM

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Hands on Labs for SC and Dell EMC Unity Series Self-Paced Day/Time

Dell EMC Unity CloudIQ – Event Correlation & Analytics

Monday: 8:30AM – 9:00PM

Tuesday: 7:00AM – 5:30PM

Wednesday: 7:00AM – 5:00PM

Thursday: 7:00AM – 2:00PM

Dell EMC Unity – Simplified Storage Management & Administration

Dell EMC Unity – VMware vSphere Integration

Dell EMC Unity – Configuring Snapshots & Replication

SC Series: Introduction to SC Series and Dell Storage Manager

Guided Day/Time

Dell EMC Unity CloudIQ – Event Correlation & Analytics (Registration required and limited availability)

Tuesday: 1:30PM – 2:30PM

Thursday: 8:30AM – 9:30AM

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