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VxRail: Level Up with New Capabilities and Powers

Erez Batish

Sr. vArchitect | Dell EMC | Central & Eastern Europe

© Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.2

High-speed Ethernet

• Connects nodes together to create

cluster

• Enables HCI to deliver high IOPS and

reduced latencies

x86 servers

• High-performance processors, large

memory

• Flash media delivers consistent,

predictable performance

Virtualization

• Abstracts compute and network functions

• Enables physical resources to be shared

• Greatly improves utilization, mobility and

security

Software-defined storage

• Abstracts storage functions from hardware

• Virtualizes direct-attach storage into

shared pool

• Automates provisioning, load balancing

Key building blocks for HCI

Server

SAN


Fundamental system design shift

Fast network

Scale-out Scale-out

Software-defined storage


2017: HCI goes primetime

>60% customers to adopt HCI by 20171

75% deployments in core data center1

HCI market $1.5B to $6B by 20202

Customers are already

modernizing with HCI

Main drivers: simplify operations, start

small and scale efficiently, lower TCO

Standardized building blocks to help

accelerate your on-premises cloud

Why are they

embracing HCI?

Dell EMC has fastest-growing HCI portfolio: VxRail, VxRack, XC series

1. 451 Research, December 20162. Gartner Group, October 2016

ScalabilitySimplicityAgility Modernize


DellEMC.com/VxRail

ACCELERATES

TRANSFORMATION

SEAMLESS

INTEGRATION

FULLY LOADED

SERVICES

HIGHLY

CONFIGURABLE

SINGLE END-TO-END

LIFECYCLE SUPPORT

ONE

Fastest growinghyper-convergedsystems worldwide

16X 30% 42%

TCO

advantage

vs. DIY HCI

Lower total

cost of

serviceability

Lower install

and upgrade

admin costs

The standard for transforming VMware infrastructures

http://www.emc.com/en-us/converged-infrastructure/vxrail/index.htm#collapse=


Why VxRail


VxRail delivers more value than a DIY solution

DIY HCI with vSAN Ready Nodes Dell EMC VxRail Appliances

Time to value with

same day deployment10X+Faster

Less risk200X

Through automated

upgrade and lifecycle

process

$35KIncluded data

protection software

and maintenance

43%Support costs from

integrated end-to-end

supportLower

Free

Time Consuming DeploymentsWeeks to months to install software, maintain dev lab, and test installation

Custom Data Protection A la carte and expensive, requires experienced staff for additional purchase, verification and lifecycle

Complex Expansion/Upgrades Ongoing planning, interoperability testing, implementation and manual workload movement

SupportMultiple support contacts and separate websites add complexity when you need help the most

70%Of budgets

80%Of downtime


What is inside VxRail?

A full suite of capabilities included at no additional charge

• VxRail Manager

• Secure Remote Support

Deployment and

support tools

• vSAN Enterprise

• vCenter Server

• vRealize Log Insight

• vSphere Ready*

Powered by

VMware vSAN

• RecoverPoint for VMs

• CloudArray

• vSphere Replication

• vSphere Data Protection

Included data

protection options

*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses


VxRail Manager

Delivers automation, lifecycle

management, and serviceability

• Deploy appliances with ease –

over 200 automated tasks

• Update all software in single click

• Monitor using dashboards for health,

events, and physical views

• Maintain with direct access to

support, articles, and community

Embedded server

management

iDRAC with Lifecycle Controller


VxRail simplifies lifecycle management Sustained and delivered as a single software update- no more testing, sequencing, and validating

1

2

2

3

1

4

1

2

BIOS

Data Protection and Backup

SDS

Hypervisor

Software governance

Virtualization Management

Media Firmware

Components Firmware & Drivers

NIC Firmware

1

2

5

4

3

6

1

4

2

3

Critical Releases Maintenance Releases

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug

* Example only, not reflective of actual

VxRail software packages

Go from

one good

known

state to the

next good

known

state!


VxRail downloadable or auto upgrades

Fully automated and validated upgrade process for maintenance and major releases

* Upgrades for customers running vSphere Standard Edition or 3-nodes require services support to perform the upgrade

• Upgrade post-checks

• Pre/post upgrade hooks

• Execute the automated,

non-disruptive, rolling

node upgrade

• vMotion and

maintenance mode

ensure VMs remain

available and adhere to

fault tolerance setting

• Offline bundle upload

• Profile pre-checks

• Upgrade pre-checks

• VM protection pre-checks

• Alarm pre-checks

• ESXi/CloudVM state

pre-checker

• From VxRail Manager

• Includes all software

ready to update

as needed

• VxRail Manager

• VCSA and PSC

• vSphere and vSAN

• Firmware

Validation

post-checks

Update the

software

Readiness

check

Download

VxRail software


VxRail evolution

Q2 2016

All-flash appliances

Compression

Deduplication

Erasure coding

Quality of service

Q4 2016

Dell PowerEdge Servers

3-node starting point

Q1 2016

First turnkey VMware HCI for SDDC

Q3 2017

Higher performance

Native HCI security

Enhanced stretched clusters

Intelligent operations

VxRail3.5

VxRail3.0

VxRail4.0

VxRail 4.5


Meet VxRail 4.5

• vSphere 6.5u1,

vCenter 6.5, vSAN 6.6

• 50% better IOPS

and up to 35% faster

response times

Lifecycle Management

• Batch node

deployments

• Multi-node

expansion for faster

deployments at scale

Simplified Scalability

• vSphere 6.5u1 VM-

level encryption

• vSAN 6.6 Native HCI

data-at-rest encryption

• Local site protection

for stretched clusters

Enhanced Security

• REST-based APIs

• programmatically

deliver lifecycle

management

software upgrades to

an entire VxRail

cluster at once

Management at Scale


The best technology for the leading virtualization ecosystem

VxRail is powered by VMware vSAN 6.6

DATA AT REST ENCRYPTIONNATIVE HCI ENCRYPTION

ENHANCED STRETCHED CLUSTERSLOCAL AND SITE PROTECTION

50%FASTER ALL

FLASH

35%LATENCY REDUCTION


In-kernel vSAN makes VxRail more efficient

vSphere

Storage VM(per server)

Typical HCI VxRail with VSAN

vSphere / vSAN

Storage VM consumes resources

Data paths are inefficient

Management must be bolted on

Coarse storage management

2x CPU and 3x memory efficiency

Native vMotion and DRS

Simple, single management pane

Per-VM management and polices


Easily apply your VMware expertise to VxRailLeverage your investment in VMware management and orchestration

VxRail Manager

• Installation and upgrade

• VxRail Market

• Dell EMC support

• Optional Vision software

vRealize Automation

• Automation blueprints

• Governance and control

• Self-service catalog

vRealize Operations

• End-to-end analytics

• Proactive alerting

• Capacity management

vCenter Server

• Single-pane-of-glass view

• Familiar vCenter interface

• Single or multi-cluster

management

Optional software

licensed separately

Included software

capabilities


DPS for VMware

• Granular backup and recovery

• Monitoring and real-time analytics

• Metadata or full-content index search

Data Domain Virtual Edition

• Simple, flexible, cloud-enabled,

software-defined protection storage

• Flexible capacity up to 96 TB

• Includes DD Boost, DD Replicator, DD Encryption

Comprehensive data protectionIncluded and extended data protection capabilities

Included data protection Enhanced data protection options

Active/Active Stretched Clusters

• Continuous Availability for DR

RecoverPoint for VM

• Any point-in-time recovery

• Starter quantity of licenses included

vSphere Replication

• Specific point-in-time recovery (5min)

vSphere Data Protection

• 8 TB of deduplicated backup and recovery

• Single-step image recovery


VxRail protection to meet any RPO/RTO

AVAILABILITY, REPLICATION, BACKUP, AND ARCHIVE

Zero Seconds Minutes Years

Complementary Protection Levels Based on Need

Continuous

Availability

Synchronous

Replication

Asynchronous

Replication

Point-in-Time

Replication

Backup and

Recovery Archive

Stretched

Clusters

RecoverPoint for VMs

VR

VDP


vSAN is designed to ensure data is never lost in

case of failures

• Simple to set up via policy

• Delivered on per VM basis

• Zero data loss in case of disk,

network or host failures

• Ensures zero downtime from disk

or network failures

• Interoperable with vSphere HA and

maintenance mode

Protect against any hardware failure

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Overview

• Continuous data protection technology (DVR for your data)

• Synchronous and Asynchronous Replication

• Consistency groups

• Fully integrated with VMware vSAN Storage Policy Based Management

• Automated disaster recovery orchestration

Benefits

• Rewind data to any point in time seamlessly

• Manage dependencies across multiple virtual machines in a consistency group

• Advanced topologies (fan in, fan out, replicate to the cloud)

• Eliminate manual DR steps

Advanced replication with RP4VM


Active-Active Stretched Clusters

Overview

• Site level protection with zero data loss and near instantaneous recovery

• Automated failover in case of site failures

• Third data center, vCloud Air or COLO

• Contains only metadata and runs no VMs

• FTT=1 only

• Up to 15 nodes per site

• Min is 3+3+1

• Max is 15+15+1

Benefits

• Disaster avoidance

• Planned maintenance

• Zero RPO

witness

5ms RTT, 10GbE

VMware vSphere & Virtual SAN

100Mbps200ms RTTL3

RPQ and Custom PS Required


Stretched clusters with local protection

3rd site witness

5ms RTT, 10GbE

vSAN

100Mbps200ms RTTL3

RAID-6 RAID-6

RAID-1

• Redundancy locally and across sites

• With site failure, vSAN maintains availability with local redundancy in surviving site

• No change in stretched cluster configuration steps

• Optimized site locality logic to minimize I/O traffic across sites

• RAID 1 of RAID1/5/6 for all-flash

• RAID 1 of RAID 1 for hybrid


Site affinity forstretched clusters

witness

5ms RTT, 10GbE

vSAN

100Mbps200ms RTTL3

EC 3+1(RAID5)

FTT=1(RAID1)

• Protect only critical workloads

• Keep non-critical data in one site

– e.g. for dev. QA, staging, etc.


Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE)

• Configured for entire cluster

• Works with both all-flash and hybrid

• Works with dedupe and compression

• Compliance with FIPS 140-2 Level 1,

AES 256

• Key management using KMIP-

compliant KMS vendors

vSphere + vSAN

vSAN Datastore

SSD SSD SSD

…


• Dedupe and Compression are enabled on a cluster level (all flash only)

• Dedupe domain is disk group

– This implementation minimizes CPU and network overhead

– Avoids the requirement of a global lookup table for fingerprints

• Deduplication happens when de-staging from cache tier to capacity tier

– No latency impact on writes

• Fixed block length deduplication (4KB Blocks), increases chances of finding duplicate blocks

› Dedup metadata consumes between 3 and 5% of usable capacity

• Data is compressed after deduplication, but only if compression results in less than 2KB

– This can result in endurance increase

Dedupe and Compression



Continuously modernize

10GbE

VM

Add new appliance to cluster

vMotion workload to new appliance

Remove old node

Non-disruptively


Purpose built nodes for multiple use cases

VxRail Models

V Series Nodes

P Series Nodes

G Series Nodes

E Series Nodes

S Series Nodes

General purpose

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 19.2 TB/node

Entry level

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 30.7 TB/node

Storage dense

Hybrid only

Up to 48 TB/node

VDI optimized

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 46 TB/node

Performance

optimized

All-flash or hybrid

Up to 46 TB/node


Benefits:

• Maximize productivity by leveraging Dell EMC scale and skill

• Minimize disruptions with around the clock access to highly trained experts

• Gain efficiency through a single source for all your support needs

Manage & Support

Experts• 24x7 support through phone, chat

and online

• 55,000+ Dell EMC & partner professionals

• Single point of support (HW & SW)

Insights• ESRS proactive monitoring, automated

issue detection, notification and case creation

• Proactive account management option available (custom)

Ease• 165 countries, 55+ languages

• Automated case creation with notification

• Support for up to 5 years

Comprehensive 24x7 support for VxRail Appliances

ProSupport for Enterprise


VxRail use cases

Business

applications

Virtual

desktops

Virtualized

environments

Test and

development

Remote

office


Dell EMC VDI Complete Solution – Powered by Horizon

Superior end-to-

end VDI solution

Simplified sales

& support model

Exceptional total

cost of ownership

Start small and

pay as you grow

Flexible

Consumption Model

Cost per seat for as

low as

$8 per seat per

month**

ONE place to pay

ONE hand to shake

ONE stop support


Upcoming Virtualized File Storage Options

• Provide Block and File storage

• Ideal for ROBO, dev/test

• All Unity data services and protocols

• Professional Edition in 10, 25 or 50TB options

• Simple upgrade to add capacity

• Validating on VxRail 4.0 and 4.5

• Target availability Q1’18

• Provide unstructured NAS / home directory

capability

• Ideal for ROBO and SMB file use cases

• All OneFS data services and protocols supported

• Scales to 36TB and up to 6 nodes per cluster

• Validating on VxRail 4.0 and 4.5

• Target availability Q4’17

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