Hyper-Converged Infrastructure with

Windows Server 2016

Dishan Francis

Technology Consultant

Microsoft MVP – Enterprise Mobility

Hyper-converged ?

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• Dedicated servers, waste of resource ?

• Virtualization in datacentre

• HA and shared storage

• Software defined datacentre

• Software defined compute

• Software defined networking

• Software defined storage

• Welcome to hyper-converged world!

Traditional Storage Array

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Storage Array

Fibre Channel / iSCSI / FCoE / SAS

Traditional Storage Array

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Storage Array

Disks

Backplane

Compute

Fibre Channel / iSCSI / FCoE / SAS

Controller Controller

Storage Software Storage Software

Shared Storage Spaces

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Scale-out File Server

Enclosure (JBOD)

SAS

Compute

SMB3

Storage Software

Shared Storage Spaces

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Scale-out File Server

Enclosure (JBOD)

SAS

Compute

SMB3

Storage Software

Converged with Storage Spaces Direct

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Scale-out File Server

Compute

SMB3

Storage Software

Hyper-converged with Storage Spaces Direct

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Compute and Storage

Storage Software

Hyper-converged trending

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Maxta

Pivot3

EVO:RAIL (VMWare)

ScaleIO (EMC)

Scale Computing

Microsoft

Nutanix

Simplivity

How do you want to scale?

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Converged

Hyper-converged

Compute and Storage

Compute

Storage

Cloud Scale

Modular Scale

Choice

Hyper-converged with Windows Server 2016

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Reliability, scalability, flexibility •

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Simplifying the datacenter •

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Cloud design points and management •

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Sizing

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4-Node Cluster

Erasure coding (dual parity)

50% efficiency

8-Node

Improves to 66% efficiency

16-Node

Improves to 72% (SSD and HDD) or 80% all SSD) efficiency

Sizing

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3 way mirror recommended

Lower cost of entry

Allows scaling out

Allows failure of 1 node and a disk and in some cases 2 nodes

No external cluster witness required for quorum (but is recommended)

File share witness

Cloud witness

3-Node Cluster

Sizing

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2 way mirror

Lowest cost of entry

Ideal for branch office scenarios

Allows scaling out

Allows failure of 1 node

Cluster requires external witness for quorum

File share witness

Cloud witness

2-Node Cluster

Questions ?

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Thank You !