Software defined datacenter

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Software Defined Data Center Dell Solutions Tour Helsinki 2014

Santeri Stolt

Senior Systems Engineer

VMware, Inc.

Software-Defined Data Center

VMware Strategic Initiatives Overview and Focus Areas

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• Management &

Automation • Hybrid Cloud • Virtual Infrastructure

End-User Computing Virtual Workspace

VMware + DELL – Our common journey

x86 Virualization Convergence Hyperconvergence

SDDC

Two Different Paths Forward: Hardware-Defined or Software-Defined Architecture?

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Software-Defined Approach Hardware-Defined Approach

Proprietary

Hardware Intelligence

Software Layer

Manual Operations

IT Struggles to Keep Up IT Moves at the Speed

of the Business

Existing

Hardware

Software

Layer

Intelligence

Automated Operations


All infrastructure is virtualized

and delivered as a service, and

the control of this data center is

entirely automated by software.

The ideal architecture for private,

hybrid and public clouds.

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The Software-Defined Data Center

Transform storage by aligning it with app demands

Management tools give way to automation

Expand virtual compute to all

applications

Virtualize the network for speed

and efficiency

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One Destination, Three Approaches

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Build your own Converged infrastructure Hyperconverged

infrastructure

DELL HW

VMware vCloud Suite

VMware VSAN, vVOLS & NSX

DELL HW

Poweredge M1000e

Poweredge VRTX

VMware vCloud Suite

VMware VSAN, vVOLS & NSX

VMware Delivers the Foundation for the Software-Defined Enterprise

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End-User

Computing

Desktop Mobile

Virtual Workspace

Applications Modern SaaS Traditional

Compute

Physical

Hardware

Policy-Based

Management &

Automation Cloud Automation Cloud Operations Cloud Business


Private

Clouds Public

Clouds

Hybrid Cloud VMware &

vCloud Data Center Partners

Virtualized Infrastructure Abstract & Pool

Compute Abstraction =

Server Virtualization

Network

Network Abstraction =

Virtual Networking

Storage

Storage Abstraction =

Software-Defined

Storage


VMware Software Defined Storage

Virtual SAN Shared

Datastore

Software Defined Storage

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vSphere + VSAN

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt.

…

HDD SSD

…

HDD SSD HDD SSD

vSphere + VVOL

… …

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt.

Cloud And Management Automation

SAN/NAS VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 • 300+ customers

• Best of Interop and TechEd

• 30+ Ready Nodes from all major OEMs

• View Ref. Arch. And bundles

Control Plane Integrations • Self-service consumption of SDS

• SPBM integrations with vCAC, OpenStack,

PowerShell

Virtual Volumes • Extends SDS to SAN/NAS

• Beta Program

• Day 0 support announcements from

partners

Launched

Q1 2014

Virtual SAN: Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage

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vSphere + Virtual SAN

…

• Software-defined storage embedded in

vSphere

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools HDD/flash into a shared datastore

• Managed through storage policy-based

management framework

• High performance through flash acceleration

• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event of

hardware failures

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

The Basics

Hard disks SSD

Hard disks SSD

Hard disks SSD

Virtual SAN Shared

Datastore

Virtual SAN Implementation Requirements

• Virtual SAN requires:

– Minimum of 3 hosts in a cluster configuration

– All 3 host MUST!!! contribute storage

• vSphere 5.5 U1 or later

– Maximum of 32 hosts

– Locally attached disks

• Magnetic disks (HDD)

• Flash-based devices (SSD)

– Network connectivity

• 1GB Ethernet

• 10GB Ethernet (preferred)

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esxi-01

local storage local storage local storage

vSphere 5.5 U1 Cluster

esxi-02 esxi-03

cluster

HDD HDD HDD

Why Virtual SAN?

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• Two click Install

• Single pane of glass

• Policy-driven

• Self-tuning

• Integrated with VMware stack

Radically Simple

• Embedded in vSphere kernel

• Flash-accelerated

• Up to 2M IOPs from 32 nodes

• Granular and linear scaling

High Performance Lower TCO

• Server-side economics

• No large upfront investments

• Grow-as-you-go

• Easy to operate with powerful

automation

• No specialized skillset

VSAN Scale-Out Storage – Radically Simple

vSphere

VSAN

Hard disks Hard disks SSD SSD Hard disks

SSD

VSAN Aggregated Datastore

Hard disks SSD

Hard disks SSD

vSphere

VSAN


vSphere

VSAN


vSphere

VSAN

Virtual SAN and Virtual Volumes Simplify And Automate Storage Management

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Per VM Storage Service Levels From a Single Self-tuning Datastore

Storage Policy-Based Management

VSAN Datastore,

vVOL Container

vSphere + VSAN/vVOL

SLAs

Software Automates Control of Service Levels

No more LUNs/Volumes!

Policies Set Based on Application Needs

Capacity

Performance

Availability

Per VM Storage Policies

Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack

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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

VMware VSAN Hardware

Standard X86 server

from VMware Server HCL RAID Controller

From VSAN HCL

SSD/PCIe Flash

fromVSAN HCL

HDDs from

VSAN HCL

Build Your Own VSAN

VSAN Ready Node

+ + +

Preconfigured bundle

ready for VMware VSAN by DELL

Jösses! Mikä skaalautuvuus! OMG!

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vsanDatastore

4.4 Petabytes

2 Million IOPS

32 Hosts


VMware Software Defined Networking

Network Capacity…

Internet

Compute Capacity….

Internet

Data Center Virtualization Layer…

Internet

A “Network Hypervisor”

Internet

The Operational Model of a VM for the Networking

Internet

A Virtual Network?

A Virtual Network?

Non-Disruptive Deployment

Programmatically Provisioned

Services Distributed to the Virtual Switch

Any Network Hardware

Any platform

VMware

Microsoft

OpenStack

Data Services

VMware and partners

Dell, Trend, Riverbed,

Paloalto, Arista, Check

Point, RSA +++

VMware NSX, Software-Defined Networking

Hyperconvergence: 100% Software-Defined, No legacy HW

VMware platform vSphere – VSAN - NSX

Storage

Services

HA / DR

Services

Network

Services

Security

Services

Policy-Based Management & Provisioning

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• Datacenter in a box

• 100% VMware SW

• 100% SDDC

• Hyperconverged

– Compute

– Storage

– Networking

Available Q4 from Dell Tech Preview

• Prescribed 2U/4N platform from qualified partners

• Automated scale out up to 4 HCIAs

• Time to value to first VM in minutes from power on

• Non disruptive patch & upgrade

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x1

x2

x3

x4

TOR Switch

ROBO Virtual Private

Cloud VDI

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance (HCIA)

x1

x2

x3

x4

TOR Switch

1 x EVO Appliance

• 48 CPU cores

• 768 GB RAM

• 14.4 TB storage capacity

• 1.6 TB flash capacity

• 80 GbE network bandwidth

4 x EVO Appliance

• 192 CPU cores

• 3TB RAM

• 57 TB storage capacity

• 6.4 TB flash capacity

• 320 GbE network bandwidth

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Dell EVO:RAIL Appliance

Configuration - Time to Value: Power on to Creating VMs in minutes

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Easy VM Creation & Management

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Simplified Hardware Management

• Hardware Summary Status of each node, appliance, or cluster

• Warning and fault notifications

• Integration with vCenter® Log Insight™

• Zero Downtime Patch and upgrade management

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• Scale beyond EVO:RAIL

• Thousand of VM’s and desktops

• Includes VMware NSX & vCloud Suite

Tech Preview

Enterprise scale hyper-convergence

Thank you!

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The Right Technology

The Right Operating

Model

The Right Partner

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