Topics

• Intro hyperconverged storage solutions

• Cisco UCS Hyperflex Storage Platform

Storage Evolution, Dynamics & Trends

SAN / NAS Converged

Infrastructure

Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

Software Defined

Mainstream WorkloadsMainstream Workloads ROBO, VDI, VSI, Test/Dev Scale-Out File / Object

Operational Efficiency

Migration from Traditional Storage

Cloud-native apps & boom in unstructured data

MarketDrivers

Array-Based Server(x86)-Based

Technology Disruption and Application Drivers are Shifting Capacity into the Server

• The programming that controls the storage is decoupled from the physical hardware

• Consists of the DAS only

• Emphasizes storage services such as deduplication or replication, instead of storage hardware

• A shared pool that runs on commodity hardware

• Utilizes Policy Based Management

• Often referred to as Storage Virtualization and is part of a bigger industry trend of Software Defined Datacenter

What is Software Defined Storage (SdS)

Software Defined Storage

Local Physical Storage

Hosts

Storage Software can run on bare

metal or as a VM on a hypervisor host

Virtualized Software Defined Storage

Storage

Controller

VMVM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Hypervisor

VM VM VM

Storage Controller Software

Local Physical Storage

Storage Pool

• Software Defined Storage 2 ways for

deployment

• VM controller on hypervisor host

• Controller bare metal installation

• Pool local storage for distributed capacity

• Storage is presented via iSCSI LUN or

NFS

• Ceph, ScaleIO, Datacore, Stormagic

Operating System

Hypervisor

iSCSI or NFS

• Hypervisor managed storage on physical infrastructure

• Tight integration of x86 servers for compute and storage, networking and virtualization in all-in-one appliance.

• Simple Scale one unit/appliance at a time

• Simple Deployment measured in hours

• Centralized Management, intuitive UI

What is Hyper-Converged-Infrastructure?

VM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Hypervisor

VM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Hypervisor

VM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Hypervisor

Controller

Controller

Controller

Hyper Converged Architectures - FS based

Storage

Controller

VMVM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Hypervisor

Storage

Controller

VMVM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Storage

Controller

VMVM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Filesystem Storage Pool

• Storage VM installed on Hypervisor Host

• Storage Controller Virtual Machines have

direct access to all physical storage

• Pool storage for distributed capacity

• Hypervisor host presented with an NFS

Datastore

• Cisco UCS HX, Simplivity, Nutanix, Maxta

• hypervisor aware

Hypervisor

Hypervisor

Hyper Converged Architectures – Kernel based

VM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

VM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

VM VM VM

Local Physical Storage

Filesystem Storage Pool

• Storage SW integrated into Hypervisor Kernel

• Pool storage for distributed capacity

• Reduced resource overhead

• Hypervisor host presented with an NFS

Datastore

• VMware VSAN; Gridstore

• hypervisor dependent

HypervisorStorage

Controller

SW

Hypervisor

HypervisorStorage

Controller

SW

Storage

Controller

SW

Cisco UCS HX: HW

One System, One Management Model

UCS MINI SCALE OUT

Edge CloudCore Data Center

UCS C3260

Fourth Generation UCS

UCS B-SERIES

Current offering Current offeringNew Offering

Hyperconverged is an immediate gap in establishing UCS as the common platform for

heterogeneous workloads in the Data Center

Cisco Portfolio Completion

HyperFlex Systems

HYPERCONVERGEDINTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE

Fourth Generation UCS

Cisco HyperFlex Configurations

HX240c + B200 for HF

Hybrid NodesHX240c NodesHX220c Nodes

HyperFlex

Smallest footprint

HyperFlex

Capacity-heavy

HyperFlex

Compute-heavy hybrid

HX: Compute&Cache&Capacity Node

B200: Compute-Node

Category HX220C-M4S

HX220c

(Per Node)

HX240C-M4SX

HX240c

(Per Node)

Notes

Processor Options

(Dual Intel Haswell)E5-2698, E5-2697, E5-2695, E5-2690, E5-2680, E5-

2670, E5-2667, E5-2660, E5-2658, E5-2650, E5-2640,

E5-2630,

E5-2698, E5-2697, E5-2695, E5-2690, E5-

2680, E5-2670, E5-2667, E5-2660, E5-2658,

E5-2650, E5-2640, E5-2630

Storage Options6x [HDD] - 1.2 TB 12G SAS 10K

1 x [SSD] - 480GB EP 6G SATA

1 x [SSD] - 120GB EV 6G SATA

6-23 [HDD] - 1.2 TB 12G SAS 10K

1 x [SSD] - 1.6TB EP 6G SATA

1 x [SSD] - 120GB EV 6G SATA

220c/240c - # of SSD 2 per node

220c - # of HDD fixed at 6

240c - # of HDD configurable 6-23

Memory128GB – 768GB 256GB – 768GB

Options –

16GB/32GB DDR4 RDIMM

Network2x 10Gb SFP+ 2x 10Gb SFP+

Cisco UCS VIC1227 VIC MLOM - Dual

Port 10Gb SFP+ (Susanville)

Boot Device 2x 64GB SD Cards 2x 64GB SD Cards

VMware License (one

of both) Factory Installed - VMware vSphere6 Foundation SW

and Lic

Factory Installed - VMware vSphere6 Enterprise+ SW

and Lic

Factory Installed - VMware vSphere6

Foundation SW and Lic

Factory Installed - VMware vSphere6

Enterprise+ SW and Lic

Two Licenses per node

Customer/partner has option to use their

own License.

HX Software1 year & 3 year 1 year & 3 year

1 year is default. Additional 2 years

comes at an additional cost.

Cisco HX-Series

Cisco UCS HX: SW

SPRINGPATH DATA PLATFORM

DATA VIRTUALIZATION

Log FS

DATA SERVICES

Cache Capacity

DATA ACCESS

HALO Architecture

H

A

L

O

DATA DISTRIBUTION

Log FS Log FS Log FS

DATA OPTIMIZATION

DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS

IOVisor

SSD

HD

D

Compute Node

Cache Node

Capa

city N

ode

B200 M4

HX

-Series (

C2x0)

Hyperconverged Scale Out and Distributed File System

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

Start with as few as three nodes

Hyperconverged Data Platform

installs in minutes

Add Servers, One or More at a Time

Linearly Scale Compute, Storage Performance and

Capacity

Distribute and rebalance data across servers automatically

Retire older servers

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

Software Modules inside a Server

VAAI Plugin offloads snapshots and clone

operations

Controller VM hasDirect access to drives

IOVisor Module Presents NFS to ESX and Stripes IO

CONTROLLERVM

HYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

CONTROLLERVM

HYPERVISOR/

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVM

HYPERVISOR/

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

DATASTORE/VOLUME

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VMVMVMVMVM

HDD

HDD

SDD

SDD

IOVisor

VAAI

Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity

Compute Nodes

(App VMs, HA), HDDless

Capacity Nodes

(GB/TB, HA), with

SSDs&HDDs

Scale Compute

Scale Storage Capacity

IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor

VMVM

VM

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

UCS B200

HX2x0c

HX2x0c

DATASTORE DATASTORE

Non-disruptive Operations

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

• Stripe blocks of a file across servers

• Replicate one or two additional copies to other servers

• Handle entire server or disk failures

• Restore back to original number of copies

• Rebalance VM’s and data post replacement

• Rolling software upgrades

File.vmdk

D1 E1A1 B1 C1B2 A2 A3C2 C3 D2D3 E2E3 D1E1 B3 B3

EDCBA

Fast and Flexible Native Snapshots for local backups

• Pointer-Based Snapshots

• Space Efficient

• Fast creations and deletions

• Fine-grained or coarse grained

• VM-Level or VM Folder Level

• VAAI integrated

• Quiesced and Crash-consistent

• Use vCenter Snapshot Manager

• Policy based

• Schedules, Retention period

• Pointer-Based Writeable Snapshots

• VM-level granularity

• VAAI integrated

• Batch creation GUI

• Apply unique names

• Use customization spec to apply IP

Native VM Clones for Rapid Provisioning

2-5X Data Reduction without impacting performance

• Inline Deduplication20-30% space savings

• Inline Compression30–50% Space Savings

• No Special Hardware

• No Performance Impact

Management Built for Server Admin

• 100% VCenter Based Management

• Extends virtualization management seamlessly

• No switching between management consoles

• View storage alerts/alarms alongside with ESX alerts/alarms

Insights: Cloud-based Monitoring and Analytics

• Cloud-based auto-support

• Daily reports

• Periodic heartbeats

• Instant alerts on critical events

• Cluster visibility

• Self-Service Portal

• Support Cases

Certifications/EcosystemVMware vSphere Storage APIs for

Array Integration (VAAI) Offload VAAI Certification

VAAI

VIB Installed

• Datastore advertises VAAI hardware acceleration capability

Clone

Operations

• If the Virtual disk has no Redo log based snapshots

• Full clone operations only (no linked clone)

• Cisco HX ReadyClonefeature is built on this

• Cloned Virtual disk is on the same datastore

Snapshot

Operations

• If the Virtual disk has 1 or more "native" snapshots

• Cisco HX Snapshot Now workflow ensures that the virtual disk has 1+ native snapshot

• Snapshot of the virtual disk is on the same datastore

Backup and DR

• Veeam (in progress)

• Zerto (certified)

HX Series Use Cases

• Instant cloning

and zero-

overhead

snapshots

• Frequent

iterations

• Faster time to

value

TEST & DEVELOPMENT

• Excellent

compute and

capacity

utilization

• Predictable

scaling

• Instant cloning

– real-time

VIRTUAL DESKTOP

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Consistent

performance

• Scale

capacity &

performance

independently

INFRASTRUCTUREand Custom APPS

Capacity Options

3 Node

HX220c

HX240c

4 Node 5 Node 6 Node 7 Node 8 Node

Assumes: Full HDD population. RF3.

Note: The above calculations are before deduplication & compression. Effective capacity will be higher.

Consult with your Cisco CSE for the latest sizing & design guidance.

6.02 TiB 8.03 TiB 10.04 TiB 12.04 TiB 14.05 TiB 16.06 TiB

23.09 TiB 30.79 TiB 38.48 TiB 46.18 TiB 53.88 TiB 61.58 TiB

Usable Cluster Capacity

• http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/index.html

Important links

Questions?

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