VSPEX - Dell EMC · EMC CONFIDENTIAL—INTERNAL USE ONLY 7 Three Paths to Cloud Infrastructure . Component-based . Best Of Breed Infrastructure . VSPEX . Proven Infrastructure

1 © Copyright 2012 EMC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Joe Catalanotti EMC Unified Storage Division [email protected]

VSPEX Transforming Infrastructure

EMC Live Josh Mello EMC VSPEX [email protected]


Topics Three Paths to the Cloud

What is VSPEX

Transform Application Delivery with VSPEX

VSPEX Configurations & Technical Validations – Server virtualization – End user computing

VSPEX Architectural Ecosystem – VNX and VNXe

• Additional Resources


Cloud – A New Architecture

Dedicated, Vertical Stacks

Old World – Physical New World – Virtual

Dynamic Pools Of Compute & Storage


“Will You Pursue A Private Cloud Strategy By 2014 ?”

Private Cloud Is A Top Priority for IT

78% Yes

5% No 17%

Maybe

Source: Gartner, "Top Five Trends for Private Cloud Computing,” February, 2012

EMC’s Mission To Lead Customers And Partners

On Their Journey To Hybrid Cloud Computing


Build Your Own Using Best Of Breed Components.


VCE Vblock

Converged Infrastructure. Single Product. Single Point Of Management. Single Point Of Support.

Vblock

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Three Paths to Cloud Infrastructure Component-based

Best Of Breed Infrastructure

VSPEX

Proven Infrastructure

Vblock

Converged Infrastructure

EMC BACKUP


Accelerate Your Journey To The Cloud With VSPEX

Proven Infrastructures

Simplified Deployment

Efficient Technologies

Flexible Choices

VSPEX are proven infrastructures and prove applications powered by technologies from an ecosystem of leading vendors.


EMC VSPEX Rich Ecosystem of Partners.

Storage

Network

x86 Server

Hypervisor

Application

Backup

• Low Risk, Modular, & Scalable • RAs for Repeatable Deployments • Investment Protection

• Flexible Choice of Hypervisor • Flexible Choice of Server • Flexible Choice of Network • Re-use existing HW/SW/ Licensing Assets

• EMC Financing


Transform Application Delivery with EMC VSPEX


EMC VSPEX VMware-based Solutions

Private Cloud VMware Private Cloud 50, 100, 125, 250 Virtual Machines

VMware View 250, 500, 1000, 2000 Users

End User Computing


VSPEX Server Virtualization for 125 Virtual Machines

Component Configuration

Servers Five Physical with two 6Core CPUs , 72GB RAM

Hypervisor VMware vSphere5 Enterprise

Network 2 x 24 Port Gigabit Ethernet

Unified Storage EMC VNX5300

Backup EMC Avamar and EMC Data Domain DD640


VSPEX Server Virtualization for 250 Virtual Machines

Component Configuration

Servers Ten Physical with two 6Core CPUs, 72GB RAM

Hypervisor VMware vSphere5 Enterprise

Network 2 x 24 Port Gigabit Ethernet

Unified Storage EMC VNX5500

Backup EMC Avamar and EMC Data Domain DD670


VSPEX End User Computing Solutions

• Best Of Breed Components • VMware vSphere • VMware View 5.1 • COMPUTE PARTNER XYZ • NETWORK PARTNER ABC • EMC Unified Storage • EMC Avamar


VNX Integration with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite Cross-domain view with rich storage analytics

New VNX Connector provides details on storage including FAST Cache and FAST VP

Proactively manage performance across virtual and physical environments

Gain end-to-end visibility into infrastructure health

Rapidly identify and resolve problems to ensure SLAs

VMware Cloud / vCenter

Cross-domain operations


Guest-level backup −Provides application consistency

Image-level backup

−Integrated with VMware vStorage API for

Data Protection and vCenter Server

One-step file-level recovery from image backup

Tight VMware vCenter Server integration

Deployable as a virtual appliance—Avamar VE

10-30x reduction in backup storage required

Backup And Recovery With EMC Avamar Deduplication Backup Software And System


Extensively Tested by ESG & BRS integration lab with VM defined based on real world configurations VDI validation with LoginVSI (simulates desktop and user load). Server Virtualization validation with VDBench. Testing includes: - Scale-Up and Steady State testing - High Availability Testing - Failure Simulations - SnapShot Testing - Backup and Recovery Testing

VSPEX Validation


Impact of VNX FAST Cache Performance

• Booted 1000 desktops in under 7 minutes utilizing FAST Cache


Impact of VNX FAST Cache Performance

• FAST Cache absorbed over 6,000 of the 8,000-11,000 IOPS during the Patch Download and Install

Total IOPS IOPS Serviced by FAST Cache

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2007 R3 Security Update


Consistent & Repeatable VSPEX Technical Enablement

Reference Architectures – Pre-sales tool for describing

the solution – Sizing Guides

– Determine the specific configuration of a VSPEX solution given the customer's needs.

Deployment Guides – A how-to for building and

configuring a solution stack


Where Integration Happens

FC/FCoE, NFS & iSCSI

Array APIs/Mgmt

vCenter

VAAI SCSI cmds

ESX Storage Stack

Datamover

Vendor-specific Plug-In e.g. EMC Virtual Storage

Integrator

View VMware-to-Storage relationships Provision datastores more easily

Leverage array features (compress/dedupe, file/filesystem/LUN snapshots

VI Client VM

Storage Array

VMFS NFS

NFS client

Network Stack

VMware LVM

HBA Drivers

VSS via VMware Tools Snap request

SvMotion request VM provisioning cmd Turn thin prov on/off

Vendor-specific VAAI SCSI command support

vStorage API for Multi- pathing

NMP

VASA

NIC Drivers

vStorage API for Data Protection (VADP)

Vendor Specific vStorage API for

SRM

SRM

VM-Aware Unisphere

Co-op

Co-op


VSPEX Ecosystem: VNX, VNXe, EMC Backup EMC

Storage Integrator

Virtual Storage

Integrator

Unisphere™

ANALYTICS NETWORKER

AVAMAR DATA DOMAIN

VNX = UNIFIED: Get both SAN and NAS in One Storage Solution


More Power, Less Management Transforming Storage Efficiency and ROI

• Multi-protocol: FCoE, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS in one storage solution

• Optimized for Flash SSDs and high-capacity SAS drives

• Redundant 6 Gb/s SAS back end

• FAST Suite self-optimizing storage pools

• Flash optimized

• Ideal for virtualized applications and EUC

• High bandwidth option

• Intel Xeon 5600 multi-core processors

Designed for the enterprise


Make Your Storage Easier

Simple. Efficient. Affordable.

• Designed for the IT generalist

• Application-optimized wizards

• Streamlined ease of use

• Configurable with just a few clicks

• Built-in snapshots and replication

• iSCSI, CIFS, & NFS

• Ideal for small and remote offices

• Flash optimized

• Starting at less than $8,000

Streamlined for ease-of-use

VNXe is the ideal choice for SMB, Departmental, ROBO, and more

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Navigate all common tasks through an easy dashboard

View detailed reports of how resources are being used

Visually drill down to individual components

Enlist community help when solving problems

Unisphere™ - Manage Easier than Ever


VSPEX with VNX Optimized for Virtualization Seamless virtualization experience and acceleration

Virtual server administrator

Storage administrator

VAAI* offload vCenter Server

integration Unisphere

Less net I/O More VMs Faster response 10X Manage storage and VM

resources in unison Control offload functions and

integrated replication

Manage storage and VM resources in unison Control offload functions and integrated replication

* VAAI = VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration


VSI for Unified Storage Management

• Provision VNX/VNXe storage – Create VMFS and NFS datastores – RDM volumes – Access Control Utility support

• For VNX (Block) – Integrated support for Virtual Provisioning – Configure FAST-VP Tiering Policies

• Clone virtual machines (VNX File) – FullClone, FastClone – Provision/clone and refresh clone VMs to VMware

View • Compress virtual machines (VNX File)

– Reduce the storage space for VMs through Deduplication and Compression

– Uncompress VMs on demand

vCenter Plug-in

Increase storage efficiency while maintaining operational integrity

Celerra


EMC Storage Integrator (ESI) Storage Provisioning for

Windows Servers Application aware

Storage Provisioning – SharePoint Support

Windows MMC based Agent-less architecture Scriptable via PowerShell Hyper-V Support

Easy to use MMC Snap-ins for the Server/Application Admin


VSPEX with VNX & EMC’s FAST Suite

FAST Cache continuously ensures that the hottest data is served from high performance FLASH SSDs

FAST VP (Virtual Pools)* optimizes storage pools automatically, ensuring that active data is being served from SSDs, while cold data is moved to lower cost disk tiers

Together they deliver a fully automated FLASH 1st storage strategy for optimal performance at the lowest cost attainable

FLASH 1st strategy enabler

* Not available for VNX5100.

Real-time caching with FAST Cache

Scheduled optimization with FAST VP

FLASH FLASH SSD

15K HDD

High-capacity HDD


Short Long

Data Shelf-Life

Hig

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Dat

a G

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th 4%

2%

12%

7%

5%

A Little FLASH Goes a Long Way…


VNX5500

210 15K DRIVES

32 TB Usable. 50% Y/Y Growth. 60 Days Data Shelf-life.

FLASH 1st Example


VNX5300

30 200GB SSDs

16 600GB 15K

SAS

24 3TB

NL-SAS VNX5500

210 15K DRIVES


FLASH 1st Example

70 DRIVES

FAST Cache & FAST VP



FLASH 1st Example

Footprint Power IOPS

33K

3,938W 45RU VNX5300

30 200GB SSDs

16 600GB 15K

SAS

24 3TB

NL-SAS

70 DRIVES

FAST Cache & FAST VP 18RU

990W

74K


Enabling Application Availability

Results • Complete IT refresh was completed in 3 months • Freed staff to focus on creating new value-added services • 2500 users across 20 sites efficiently managed • Improved capacity dramatically in servers, storage and network

Challenge • Current IT infrastructure was at its limits • New Applications needed to be deployed with minimal outage • DR needed to have systems online in minutes not hours or days

“Some of the technical benefits of the VSPEX solution enabled us to rapidly deploy our solution with near-zero downtime – solution took us ahead in leaps and bounds.”

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST


VSPEX Is Simple • Reduce server and data sprawl challenges with a single

Proven Infrastructure.

• Wizard Driven Storage Provisioning for Hypervisors and

Applications.

• Easy Single Step recoveries for files.

• Simply manage 1000s of desktops from a single

interface.

• EMC tested and Proven for faster, worry free deployment.


VSPEX Is Efficient • Centrally deploy, manage, and protect virtual machines with

tight API integrations.

• Reduce backup times by 90%, speed VM image recoveries by

30x, reduce backup storage by 10-30x

• Thin provision, compression & dedupe save up to 50% storage

costs.

• Access Virtual Desktops and resources from any device,

anywhere.

• Support Bring Your Own Device initiative, attract & retain staff


VSPEX Is Flexible

• Reference Architectures for businesses of

different sizes and needs.

• Scale up or down to meet changing business

requirements.

• Choose Server and Network vendors to suit

your environment.

• Use and integrate existing hardware and

software into your VSPEX.


VSPEX With Unified Storage

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Simple

Efficient

Flexible

Proven Infrastructure

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