HyperFlex for Mission Critical Apps

Francisco GuerraHyper-Converged Solutions – EMEAR

24-Jun-20

HyperFlex forMission Critical Apps

@F_Miller_Guerra

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AgendaHCI Overview

Integrating HCI in your DC

HyperFlex Use Cases

Boost and NVMe

Data Protection


Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Cloud Like Resource

Model

Speed and Simplicity

Improved Cost Efficiency

Streamlined Operations

Why Hyperconvergence? To Overcome Infrastructure Challenges

Continuous Innovation

1-click upgrade


HyperFlex Summary

Advanced & Flexible Management

Integrates easily with existing Data Centres

Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity

High Performance Data Platform

Hybrid

All Flash

Enterprise Class Data Services and Storage Optimization

De-duplication, Compression, Snapshots, Clones

Deployment Automation & Fully Integrated Upgrades

Out-of-the-box service profiles, install/upgrade automation, automated cluster scaling

Integrated High Performance Network

10G/25G/40GFactory installed, integrated

networking, fabric QoS

Data Protection and Resiliency

Encryption, native replication, stretched clusters, backup

integrations

All NVMe

C o m p l e t e a n d I n t e g r a t e d S o l u t i o n w i t h S i n g l e P o i n t o f S u p p o r t


How Should you Pick an HCI Vendor?

LegacyHyper

Converged

Cloud

Your Data CenterHCI Must Knows:

• Some workloads might

continue to go with

traditional architectures

• Analysts, experts agree that

networking is often

overlooked by HCI vendors

leading to poor results

• HCI market has matured

and Gen 1 players might

not make it to the

enterprise

• Simplicity must also include

deployment and end to end

support

What to Look for?

• Can HCI co-exist with

traditional & offer a

migration path? Protect

past investments?

• Can your HCI vendor co-

design hardware and

software to deal with fast

deployments, expansion,

upgrades, security?

• Is a new silo

(management, support,

etc.) being created?


Mainstream Computing

One Architecture for Operational Simplicity

HyperFlex

UCS MANAGEMENT CLOUD CENTER ACI

UCS Mini 5th Gen UCS Storage Servers

UCS Appliances

UCS Manager, Service Prof i les, Virtual Interface Card, Fabric Interconnects, Restful API, UCS Director

Hybrid Cloud - Cloud Management – Workload Optimisation - Security - SDN

Converged InfrastructureHyperconverged

InfrastructureSAP HANA, Backup, …

Scale Out

U N I F I E D M A N A G E M E N T M O D E L


Traditional StorageHyperconvergedUCS Servers

HyperFlex Integrates Into Your Existing DC

Common Network Fabric

VM VM VM VM

Storage (FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NAS)

Common Management Policy

VM VM VM VM

HyperFlex Nodes

Blade

Rackmount

VM VM VM VM HX Data Platform


HyperFlex leverages UCS Servers

HX220c – 1U8 capacity disks

HX240c - 2U23 capacity disks

All FlashClusters

(SSD/NVMe)

HX240c - 2U23 SFF capacity disks12 LFF capacity disks

HX220c -1U8 capacity disks

Hybrid Clusters (HDD SFF/LFF)

+

+

40 / 25 / 10 GbpsNetworking

Single Fabric, Single Management Domain

Simple Software

Subscription

vSphere

Hyper-V

Containers (ESX/KVM)


HyperFlex Use Cases

Core Cloud

Edge


Agile provisioning

Frequent iterations

Instant cloning and snapshots

Low upfront costs

Consistent performance

Predictable scaling

Reduce operational complexity

Adaptive scaling

Always-on resiliency

Simple deployment

Centralized management

No “fly-and-fix”

missions

Consistent, low-latency

High IOPS

All-NVMe nodes

Simple & seamless experience

Enterprise grade container storage

Cloud native development on

prem

HyperFlex Use Cases

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Server Virtualization

Test and Development

Branch Offices

Databases & ERP

Containers

Performance & Mission

Critical


Enabling Mission Critical Applications

Hybrid/Multicloud

Containers / Cloud Native Apps

Core Cloud

Edge

Enterprise Apps

Cisco Container Platform

Cisco Cloud Center

Validated

Designs

Virtualization and

Container Options#1 in

Performance


• HyperFlex All-Flash Systems for Oracle Real Application Clusters Reference Architecture

• HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Oracle Database: Reference Architecture

• HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Oracle Real Application Clusters: Reference Architecture

• HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Oracle Database: Reference Architecture

• HyperFlex and Microsoft Exchange Server: Best practices for Microsoft Hyper-V

• HyperFlex HX Data Platform Stretched Clusters

• HyperFlex Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution for SAP HANA

• HyperFlex Hyperconverged Infrastructure All Flash Solution for SAP HANA

• Data Protection for SAP HANA on Cisco HX with Veeam Backup and Replication

• Deploy a Cisco HyperFlex All-NVMe Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution for SAP HANA

• Deploy a SAP Landscape with Cisco UCS Server, Hyperflex System and Intel Optane DCPMM

• HyperFlex Boost Mode

Lots of White Papers…

12Presen

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/whitepaper_c11-739679.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/hx-oracle-wp.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/oracle-rac-on-cisco-hx-wp.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/white-paper-c11-743596.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/le-68001-wp-hx-exchange.pdf

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/operating-hyperflex.pdf

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/sap-hana-whitepaper.pdf

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/whitepaper_c11-741728.pdf

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/whitepaper-c11-742310.pdf

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/2201042-hx-all-nvme-hci-on-saphana-wp.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/white-paper-219364.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/hyperconverged-infrastructure/hyperflex-hx-series/white-paper-c11-743595.html


• HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2016 with Hyper-V

• HyperFlex 3.5 All-Flash Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2016 with VMware ESXi 6.5

• HyperFlex 3.5 Stretched Cluster with Cisco ACI 4.0 Multi-Pod Fabric

• HyperFlex 3.5 Stretched Cluster with Cisco ACI 4.0 Multi-Pod Fabric Design Guide

• HyperFlex Platforms for Big Data with Splunk

• HyperFlex 4.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with Microsoft Hyper-V

• HyperFlex 4.0 for Virtual Server Infrastructure with VMware ESXi

• HyperFlex All-NVMe Systems for Deploying Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Databases with VMware ESXi

• HyperFlex with Cohesity Data Protection

• HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite

• HyperFlex with Veeam Availability Suite for Multisite Deployments

…And Cisco Validated Designs

13Presen

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_5_1a_hyperv_mssql.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_3_5_1a_esxi_mssql.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx_35_vsi_aci_multipod.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx_35_vsi_aci_multipod_design.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_HX_bigdata_splunk.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx40_vsi_microsoft_hyperv.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hx_4_vsi_vmware_esxi.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/hyperflex_All_NVMe_4_0_1b_esxi_mssql.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/CiscoHyperFlexWithCohesityDataProtection.pdf

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/HX181_dataprotection_Veeam95.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/dataprotection_hx_veeam_multisite.html


ESG Evaluates the Impact of HCI Performance on Solutions TCO

Technical Validation


Performance Testing for Mission Critical Workloads Evaluation Metrics and Key Considerations

Technical Validation

Quantify the Tax in Performance and TCO across approaches

Common HW platform for evaluation

Workloads to Evaluate Performance

Quantified Criteria

Cisco UCS with similar minimal vendor specs

Complex Mixed Workload

Differences in: IOPS, Latencies, Impacts of Dedupe/Comp, and Consistency










Introducing HyperFlex Boost Mode

Configuration Controller VM vCPU Caveats

AF 220*/240 12 vCPU (from 8) 12 cores CPU and above only

All NVMe 220 16 vCPU (from 12) 16 cores CPU and above only

• Increase Controller VM Configuration to deliver additional storage performance (online)

• It shows up to 30% improvement in storage performance

• Improvement varies based on configuration and workload

• This is a reservation in case of contention only. If CVM does not need CPU resources, they are available for VMs


HX Boost: SQL Mixed Workload

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HX Boost HX HX Boost Latency HX Latency

• UP to 36% more IOPs

• Up to 35% lower latency


HX Boost: Oracle Mixed Workload

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HX Boost HX HX Boost Total Latency HX Total Latency

• Up to 20% more IOPs

• Up to 19% lower latency


• Industry standard for PCIe SSDs (direct attached NVM)

What is NVMe?

CPU

PCIe

Storage controller

SAS SSD

CPU

NVMeSSD

SAS/SATA System NVMe System

vs

SATA SSD

NVMeSSD

PCIe


All NVMe – Opportunity & Challenges

• NVMe drives have higher performance than SAS/SATA SSDs

• Need PCI lanes in the platform to leverage drive performance

• Need low latency, high bandwidth network

• Performance without compromising RAS

• Ability to handle hot-plug, surprise removal, etc.

• Higher performance requires very high endurance write cache

• No compromise on manageability

• Software stack that can leverage higher performance

• Software optimization required to network and I/O data paths

Performance RASReliability, Availability, Serviceability

Optimized


Introducing All NVMe HyperFlex

All NVMe UCS C220 M5 Servers Integrated Fabric Networking Ongoing I/O optimizations

NVMe Optane Cache, NVMeCapacity (up to 64TB/Node), 40GB Networking

RAS with Intel VMD for Hot-Plug, Surprise Removal, etc. Fully UCSM Managed for FW, LED

© 2020 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Copyrighted1. Responsiveness defined as average read latency measured at queue depth 1 during 4k random write workload. Measured using FIO 2.15. Refer to Intel documentation for exact testing configuration.2. Source – Intel Data Sheets3. Source – Intel: General proportions shown for illustrative purposes.

Higher endurance+Drive Writes Per Day (DWPD)2

Intel® Optane™SSD DC P4800X60 D

WPD

Intel® SSD DCP4600 (3D NAND) 3 D

WPD

Intel® Optane™SSD DC P4800Xas cache

More efficient=Cache as a % of Storage Capacity3

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Lower and more consistent latency

8xlower

40xlower

Lower latency + higher endurance = greater SDS system efficiency

Storage

Storage

HyperFlex uses Intel Optane Cache


HyperFlex All NVMe Delivers Higher PerformanceAll-NVMe numbers relative to HyperFlex All-Flash

Databases

Higher IOPS

Engineered and Optimized All NVMe

28-57%

Lower Total Latency

22-40%

Higher IOPS

%

Lower Total Latency

%

57-71%

%

General WorkloadsComplex Mixed Workload

Lower Total Latency

Higher IOPS

34-37

66-90

31-39

ESG Report: https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/ciscohyperflexallnvme/Toc?Note: Results are not to be used as an application or cluster performance sizer. Leverage the HX Sizer

https://research.esg-global.com/reportaction/ciscohyperflexallnvme/Toc?


New All-Flash and All-NVMe Drive Options

7 . 6 T B S S D S F F

• 7.6TB 2.5in. Enterprise Value 6G SATA

SSD (1X endurance)

• PID: HX-SD76T61X-EV

• Supported with HyperFlex release 4.0(2a)

or later

• Supported in HXAF220 & HXAF240 nodes

New Capacity Drive Option

Not currently supported on HX EdgeSupported on clusters with up to 16 converged nodes in 4.0(2b)

Maximum of 12 x 7.6TB capacity drives supported in HXAF240

ESXiHyperFlex

Only

8 T B A L L - N V M E S F F

• 8TB 2.5in U.2 NVMe High Performance

Value Endurance Drive

• PID: HX-NVMEHW-I8000

• Supported with standard HyperFlex and Stretched Cluster, no Edge support

• Supported in 1RU HXAF220 chassis only

New Capacity Drive Option

Supported on clusters with up to 16 converged nodes in 4.0(2b) including Stretched Cluster


PerformanceLatency Focus

ResiliencyRAS, Data Services

High VM Density(High IOPS and Storage Density)

Mission Critical Applications(Resiliency and Consistent Low Latency)

HyperFlex with All NVMe Pricing

1UCapacity Choices, Lowest Latency,

2 x T4 GPU, Stretched Clusters

up to 90% More IOPs

up to 50% Lower Latency

Sustained Latency

10% premium over

All Flash!!(8 x 8TB drive conf)

(3 year SW license)

All NVMe VS All Flash

SolutionsOracle, Oracle RAC, SQL etc

Storage DensityUp to 64TB in 1RU

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Data Protection


HyperFlex Data ProtectionHX Snapshot API Integration with 3rd Party Backup Vendor

Primary Platform

VMwareCisco HyperFlex

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Secondary Platform on UCS C240/S3260

API Integration

Secure & Fast Data Transfer

SLA Driven Automation

SimpleUCS Advantage: Fast deployment, easy intuitive operations, easy maintenance, single solution for all secondary data operations, Primary & Secondary Hyperconverged

Reliable Better than redo log snapshots, 24x7 Backup & Restore, Long distance DR, DR to Cloud

Performant IO performance for enterprise applications, extremely short backup window, instant recovery

Optimized Dedupe and compression of primary and secondary data

Multi-Cloud attach

Primary applications

hosted on HX

3rd Party Backup Software


HyperFlex Replication & Disaster Recovery

▪ Point-to-Point (1-to-1) Replication▪ Different number of Cluster nodes

on each site▪ Replicate between HX220 and

HX240 Clusters▪ Replicate between AF and Hybrid

Supported Configuration▪ Recover from the Snapshot copy▪ Supports planned and unplanned

recovery▪ Active – Active and Active-Passive DR via

bi-directional replication▪ Support for Failover, Fast Failback & Test

Recovery

Underlying Technology Disaster Recovery

▪ Snapshot based, Periodic Replication▪ Scale-out, performant, reliable and network

optimized ▪ VM Centric Replication▪ PIT (latest) image for Recovery▪ Flexible RPO of 5mins to 24 hours▪ HTML 5 based , REST API & CLI based

operations and monitoring

DB

WebApp

Long Distance Replication on WAN

HX Data Platform

DB

App

HX Data Platform

Business Service

Business Service FailoverWeb


Disaster Avoidance Zero RPO Automated DR Maximum Uptime

HyperFlex Stretch Cluster Manage a single cluster across two physical locations

Power Mission Critical Apps with

Site-BSite-A

HX Data Platform

DBAPPAPPDB

Synchronous Replication

SSDSSDSSDSSDSSDSSD

Any Scale


HyperFlex Data ProtectionHyperFlex Stretched Cluster ZERO RPO ! NEAR ZERO RTO!

Site-B

VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM

Site-A

3rd site Configuration Support

✓ Single Stretched Cluster across 2 sites

✓ Symmetric Configuration ✓ Site to host a “Witness Server”

(small VM)

✓ 16 + 16* nodes on each site✓ Compute-only nodes

IO Path✓ Active-Active sites – VMs

Active on each site✓ VM Read IOs served locally ✓ VM Write IOs Sync-Writes

across sites✓ 2x copies on each site

HA Operations

✓ Recover from a Site failure ✓ Recover from a Local failure ✓ Failover of VM ✓ vMotion of VM✓ Split Brain handling

Management✓ Cross site Cluster creation✓ Non disruptive online rolling

upgrade✓ Site awareness in HX Connect✓ Site specific Alarm and Events

on a single Dashboard

Witness Server

• 16+16 and Compute-only node support in 3.5.

• 3.0 only supports 8+8.

• LFF configuration supports only 8+8


And last but not least…


HyperFlex Leadership

4000+ Customers

MQ Leader

Wave Leader

Cloud Deployed HCI

End to End HCI Deployment Automation

1- Click Upgrade Including HW

HCI & CI Integration

In HCI Performance

Cloud Based Management

Compute Only Nodes

Integrated Fabric Networking

40 Gbe Networking

Top #3 Market Share


Cisco HX Growing 5x Faster Than Market

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Plan your HX Deployment

• End to End Sizing

• Includes – compute (CPU & Memory), Storage performance and capacity

• Application templates to aid application based sizing

HX Sizer

• OVA deployed in existing environments

• Quantify usage for sizing

• Integration with sizer to automate end to end sizing of environments

HX Workload Profiler

• OVA with benchmarking built on vdbench

• Benchmarking made easy

• Follows industry standard benchmarking practices for a realistic readout

Benchmarking

https://hyperflexsizer.cloudapps.cisco.com/

https://hyperflexsizer.cloudapps.cisco.com/


Needs For a Fully Engineered All NVMe HCI

HCI usability for NVMe• Hot-plug, hot-swap, surprise drive

removal• NVMe SSD firmware mgmt.• LED drive status control• Software optimizations and engineering

co-development

Hardware engineered for NVMe• Dramatically different design than

SATA/SAS servers• Optimized motherboard needed

HCI node

HCI node

HCI node

End-to-end NVMe optimization beyond a simple drive qualification

All NVMe Server(Designed for NVMe drives)

RAS for NVMe drives(Reliability, availability, serviceability)

High performance network(To match drive capabilities)

Networking is central to HCI • All reads and writes always go

over the network• Network bandwidth and

latency both matter

CPU

Storage controller

SATASSD

PCIe

RAS delivery point

CPU

NVMeSSD

PCIe

?


Questions?


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