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Virtualization: Reality Check

• 10x lower footprint

• Breakthrough performance and lower TCO

• Fully virtualized data center

• Simpler management

The Promise The Reality

Complexity grows with scale

Siloed storage management

Partial virtualization

Tier 1 workloads sometimesphysical

Infrastructure sprawl

x y


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Complexities of large scale virtualized data center


XtremIO Fundamentals


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XtremIO: Storage ReinventedSCALE-UP & SCALE-OUT

CONSISTENT & PREDICTABLEINHERENTLY BALANCED

DATA SERVICESINLINE ALL THE TIME

COPY DATA MANAGEMENTINSTANT & HIGH PERFORMANCE

APPLICATION & ECOSYSTEMINTEGRATION & AUTOMATION

Thin

Provisioning

Deduplication

Compression

Flash Data

protection

Encryption

Writeable

Snapshots


Best Practices for Virtualized Workloads


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Best Practices

• Scaling with consistent outcomes

• Operational agility and efficiency

• Management, monitoring and orchestration

• Protection and availability


Scaling with Consistent Outcomes


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Multi-dimensional scaling

Active Controller

Active Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

Scale-up X-Brick to

138TB raw

Active Controller

Active Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

Active Controller

Active Controller

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

SSDFLASH

….........

Scale-out a cluster to 4 X-Bricks of

1.1 PB raw

Up to

5.5PBof effective capacity*

*6:1 Data reduction


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Metadata de-staging in scale-up

Dual Controller arrays don’t have enough memory to hold all of the granular metadata in the controller DRAM

So they de-stage most metadata to the array

AND MUST ACCESS THE ARRAY TO RETRIEVE IT AS NEEDED

METADATA

METADATA

METADATA

METADATA


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XtremIO 100% in-memory metadata

XtremIO scales-out. Granular metadata is distributed across controllers in a shared memory fabric.

USER DATA USER DATA USER DATA USER DATA

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Operation Agility and Efficiency


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vStorage APIs for array Integration (VAAI)

XtremIO Cluster

Storage Network

Why VAAI?• vSphere offloads storage intensive tasks to storage tier

• Reduced network traffic between host and storage

• Free up host CPU cycles

• Improved outcomes for VM cloning, vMotion, block

zeroing and volume locking

VAAI primitives• Full copy (XCOPY)

• Hardware assisted locking

• Block zeroing

• Free space reclamation (UNMAP)

VAAI storage

offloading


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Conventional VM Cloning With VAAI XCOPY

XCOPY Command

Storage Array

VM VM

Array offloads the host

Still brute force copy on the array

Massive disc IO and performance hog

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

VMware

seconds hoursFLASH


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XtremIO efficient VM Cloning with in-memory metadata

Cloning a VM (or 1000s) With XtremIO

in-memory metadata

• Instant VM copies

• Metadata only operation; no storage IOs

• No capacity or performance overhead

XCOPY Command

RAM

FLASH

In-Memory Metadata

Unique Compressed

Data on Flash

APP

OS

APP

OS

APP

OS

VMware

seconds hours


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VAAI – free space reclamation (unmap)

XtremIO Cluster

Deleting a VM without VAAI• VM deleted from vCenter, but

storage space still occupied• Manual deletion on storage tier• Increased admin overhead for

high-churn VM environments

Deleting a VM with VAAI• Easy, schedulable UNMAP

command from vCenter• Efficient space utilization and

hands-free operations for high-churn VM environments

• Schedule UNMAP during off-peak hoursVM VM

Storage Network

UNMAPUpgrade

to vSphere 6.5 P1


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Easy Schedulable space reclamation


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Eager Zeroed Thick?


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Deploying a VM from an eager based disk vs thin based disk

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Agile app infrastructure with inline copy services

1 XTREMIO CLUSTER1 0DATABASEINSTANCES 0

BRUTE FORCE COPIESx

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

TEST/DEV COPIES HIGH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION

FREE, FAST DEV/TEST

ANALYTICS COPIES

FIN COPY

OPS COPY

SALES COPY

FREE, FAST ANALYTICS

FIN COPY

OPS COPY

SALES COPY

REPORTS

ANALYTICS

TRENDS

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

SCALE-OUTPERFORMANCE

ALL SLAs

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

DEV INST 1

DEV INST 2

DEV INST 3

XTREMIOFLASH FOR

ENTIRELIFECYCLE

FASTERAPPLICATIONDEVELOPMENT

MOREBUSINESS

PRODUCTIVITY

FIN COPY

OPS COPY

SALES COPY

FIN COPY

OPS COPY

SALES COPY

REPORTS

ANALYTICS

TRENDS


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Concurrent Clones (XCOPY)


Management, Monitoring and Orchestration


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Integrated management with VSI plugin for vCenter

Manage XtremIO from within

vCenter• Provision new datastores,

extend existing ones

• Monitor XtremIO storage

• Schedule space reclamation

at datastore level

• Take XtremIO snapshots

• Apply XtremIO best practices

with one click


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ESA (vROPS Adapter)


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Easy integrations with REST APIs

APPLICATIONS• Programmable Automation

• HTTP-based Interface

– Automation

– Orchestration

– Query, & provisioning

• Easily integrate with custom workflows and tools

HTTPS


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Simplify orchestration with vRealize Orchestrator


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Protection and Availability


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Disasters comes in many forms…


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Complete Business Continuity CoverageACROSS DATA CENTERS

IN THE DATACENTER

Data Domain, ProtectPoint Technology

IN THE ARRAY

XtremIO Virtual Copies (XVC)

• Heterogeneous

replication

• Sub-minute RPO

• Thousands of PIT’s

• Active/Active

• Continuous

availability

• Zero RPO/RTO

• Logical data corruption protection

• Near zero RTO

• Thousands of PIT copies

• XMS / AppSync Integration

• 20x faster backups

• 10-30x less protection storage

• Eliminates impact on production

VPLEX RecoverPoint

Native Replication


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Hosts Paths monitoringX2


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Granular VM / File restore with AppSync


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XMS / AppSync Integration

X2


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XtremIO Metadata-aware Native Replication

• RPO of <60 seconds

• Faster Recovery

• Thousands of recover points-in-time

• “Fan-in” configurations

• Supports XtremIO High Performance

• Efficient replication - dedupe &

compression aware

Easy Operation Best Protection Scale-out Performance

• Uses XtremIO in-memory snapshots

• Simple and Easy

• Full operational disaster recovery

The most efficient array based replication


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VMware SRM Advanced Parameters


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VMware SRM Advanced Parameters (cntd)


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VMware SRM Point In Time Integration


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Let’s recap

• Scale-out is critical

• In-memory metadata matters

• Hypervisor integrations for large scale

• Smart management and monitoring integrations

• Open APIs

• Recovery and replication

• Accelerated deployments and validated solutions


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