Is There Any Alternative To Your Enterprise UNIX Platform?Virtualization of your choice ‒ VMware...

Andrej Gursky

PosAm TechDays EAST, March 2015

Is There Any

Alternative To

Your Enterprise

UNIX Platform?

Why People

Like Their

UNIX systems?

Non-stop operation

Proven HW architecture

“Where is my server??”

Reliability

uptime

9:34am up 2050 day(s), 12:46, 2 users, load average: 2.27, 2.43, 2.55

SK Customer #1

SK Customer #2

SK Customer #3

OS optimized for HW

Multi-processing systems

Scalability

Internal bandwidth

OS tools and features

Performance and Utilization

Dynamic Reconfiguration

Direct access to HW

No performance impact

Mutlitenancy and application

security

Embedded Virtualization

Online replacement and

upgrades

Hot-pluggable “everything”

Long life support

Non-disruptive Maintenance

Costly to buy and maintain

Not user friendly

Dependency on proprietary UNIX

server environments

But…

Solution for your critical applications

Hitachi Compute

Blade

Hitachi LPAR Logical Partitioning

Co-Developed with INTEL since 2003

Logically divides physical compute resources

Implemented in firmware for security and stable

system performance

‒ Up to 30 LPARs per blade

Dedicated Mode

‒ High performance and isolated partitions for sensitive multitenant environments

Shared Mode

‒ Optimized utilization and dynamic load balancing

NEW! VMM on LPAR: http://www.hds.com/assets/pdf/hitachi-white-paper-high-performance-nested-virtualization-with-hitachi-lpar.pdf

RELIABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZED SERVER ENVIRONMENT

LPAR Migration w/o OS Shutdown & Reboot

Safe LPAR re-hosting (no data loss)

Dedicated and Dynamic mode supported

LPAR Migration

CB2500 (2)

Blade 1 Blade 2 Blade 3 Blade 4 Blade 5

CB2500 (1)

LP

AR

1

LP

AR

2

LP

AR

1

LP

AR

1

LP

AR

2

LP

AR

1

LP

AR

2

LP

AR

2

LP

AR

1

Use Cases:

• Maintenance

• Load Balancing

• Power management

High Availability

“N+M” AUTOMATED COLD STANDBY

Hitachi Compute Blade Hitachi Compute Blade

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

OS/HW CRASH

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Backup Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

OS/HW CRASH

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Active Server

Backup Server

Active Server

Backup Server

Backup Server

1 Blade 2 Blades 4 Blades

Sockets 2 4 8

Cores 30 60 120

Memory Slots 48 96 192

Memory Size (32GB) 1.5TB 3.0TB 6.0TB

Mezzanine Slots 4 8 16

PCIe Slots 2 8 16

Aggregate resources of up to 4 CB520X

blades into one environment

System can be single OS image or

partitioned system

Scale from 1 to 2 or 4 blades via a

front-side SMP connector

Memory and IO scale proportionally with CPU

Multi-blade SMP Scalability

2S (1 blade)

4S (2 blade SMP)

8S (4 blade SMP)

Grow Incrementally

2 C

PU

sin

gle

2 B

lad

e S

MP

4

CP

U / 4

0 c

ore

s

4 B

lad

e S

MP

8

CP

U / 8

0 c

ore

s

Windows

Linux

VMware

Hyper-V

Oracle RAC certified

Multiple OS Support

Integrated Platform Management

LPARs

Blades

Chassis

Service Processor

Introducing

Hitachi Compute

Blade 2500

HITACHI COMPUTE BLADE 2500

Hitachi Compute Blade 2500

Versatile enterprise blade chassis

12RU height

Up to 8 full width blades per chassis

‒ Up to 14 standard blades

‒ Up to 2 8-socket SMP configurations

‒ Blade types may be mixed

Latest Intel processor architecture

10GigE native ports, CNA cards

Native LPAR virtualization

High availability and reliability

Easy to support, manage and maintain

Flexible IO Architecture

Shared High Bandwidth IO Switches:

‒ Integrated switches shared across all blades

‒ Reduced complexity, reduced cost

Direct PCIe slots allow IO customization at the blade

level

‒ CB2500 Chassis: 28 slots built-in

‒ CB520H Blades: Expansion blades supported

Traditional blade shared switch architecture

OR Simplified rack style direct access to top-of-rack

switch

Hitachi “Hybrid IO” (Mix Direct and Shared IO)

Hot-pluggable PCI slots in blade chassis

Blade Type Xeon EX (Xeon E7) Xeon EP Dual Processor (Xeon E5)

8S

(4bd-SMP)

4S

(2bd-SMP)

2S

(1bd – SMP )

IO Expansion Blade in

use

(Double width)

IO Expansion Blade

not used

(Standard width)

Maximum 2 Systems

Maximum 4 Systems Maximum 7 Systems Maximum 7 Systems Maximum 14 Systems

CB2500 Blade Configurations

8S

8S

12PCIe+6 Mezzanine

16PCIe+8 Mezzanine

4S

4S

4PCIe+2 Mezzanine

8PCIe+4 Mezzanine

4S

4S

4PCIe+4 Mezzanine

2S

2S

10PCIe+1 Mezzanine

EP+ Expansion

EP+ Expansion

2PCIe+1 Mezzanine

EP

EP

Configuration

Variations

Why Hitachi Compute Blade?

RELIABILITY • 50y+ tradition of leadership in the enterprise compute market

• The lowest problem occurrence and highest satisfaction rates

among X86 vendors

kjkjkjkj

PERFORMANCE & UTILIZATION

• Multi-blade SMP scalability

• Dedicated LPARs for stable application performance and isolation

• Dynamic mode for high level of utilization

EMBEDDED VIRTUALIZATION

• Up to 30 LPARs per blade – implemented in firmware

• Devices are directly accessible from guest Oss

• Online reconfiguration of LPAR mode

NON-DISRUPTIVE MAINTENANCE

• Migration of LPAR without downtime

• N+M Automated Cold Standby

• Hot-pluggable PCI slots

PLUS • Enterprise-class long life support (up to 10 years)

• Grow seamlessly from CB500 to CB2500 for greater ROI

• Reduce dependency on proprietary UNIX server environments and

switched only I/O fabrics

One platform for all workloads

No separate islands

Turnkey solution

Flexibility and scalability

Virtualization of your choice ‒ VMware

‒ Hyper-V

‒ Hitachi LPAR

‒ Linux KVM (future)

Integration with Hitachi storage to build

converged solutions

IP

Compute VMware, Hyper-V and Bare Metal

Connectivity FC And IP

Unified Management UCP Director

Storage All Flash, Hybrid and Virtualized

Dedicated or Shared with legacy workloads

FC

UNIFIED COMPUTE PLATFORM

End-to-End Management with your favourite management tool

UCP manages Server to Storage interaction

Reduce complexity and risk

Improve productivity

Protect investment

Manage the Application Instead of Hardware

Se

rve

r N

etw

ork

S

tora

ge

UC

P D

ire

cto

r

Storage

Switch

Blade Server

VMware vCenter

- vMotion

- Site Recovery

- DRS

Microsoft

System Center

- Hyper-V

Questions and Discussion

Thank You