STO2615PU vSAN Technical Customer Panel or distribution · 2019-06-27 · Peter Keilty, Joachim...

Peter Keilty, Joachim Heppner, Michael DiBenedetto, Alexander Szwez , Joseph Barker

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#STO2615PU CONFIDENTIAL 2



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Agenda

3#STO2615PU CONFIDENTIAL

1 Panel Introductions

2Individual Panelists Company and vSAN

Infrastructure Overview

3Q&A

– Moderator Questions

– Audience Questions



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Meet Today’s Guests


Peter KeiltyOffice of the CTO, Global Field

Sr. SE Manager, SDS East

Storage and Availability

VMware, Inc.

Jaime GurrolaWorldwide Manager of Linux

& VMWare

Herbalife International of

America

Joachim HeppnerDirector, Virtualization

Engineering Services

Sanofi

Michael DiBenedettoDirector, Global IT

Sekisui Diagnostics

Alexander SzwezSr Systems Engineer

Travelers

PANELISTSMODERATOR



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SanofiJoachim Heppner, Director, Virtualization Engineering Services

• Industry: Pharma

• Employees: over 120,000

• Offices: 87+

• Market Cap: $121.7B

• Over €5 billion per year in R&D


In 2016 this large pharma needed to refresh their Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) sites. After a successful proof of concept, 2 Node vSAN on HP ProLiant Servers was chosen. Since then, vSAN has been deployed for management clusters and VDI in USA and EMEA as well as in 2 of their 13 regional data centers. Next, Cloud Foundation is being considered to replace their legacy Blade servers & Storage arrays.

Overall vSAN

Customer Since 2003 2016

vSphere Versions 5.5, 6.0, 6.5 6.5, 6.5 U1

vSAN Versions 6.6, 6.6.1 6.6, 6.6.1

# Sites 50+ 50+

# vCenter’s 45+ 6

# Hosts 1200+ 60

# Clusters 100+ 6

# Guest VMs 25,000+ 250



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SanofivSAN for ROBO, Management, VDI, Regional & Enterprise Data Centers

VMware Cloud Foundation

SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

Virtual SAN 6.6.1

vSphere 6.5 Cluster

USA VDI(same in EMEA DC)

Considering Replacing Legacy Blade & Storage in Enterprise DC’s2 x 16 node clusters per region

2 out of 13 Regional Data Centers - 20+ Node vSAN clusters each

Virtual SAN 6.6.1

vSphere 6.5 Cluster

USA Management(same in EMEA DC)

Virtual SAN 6.6.1

vSphere 6.5 Cluster

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Sekisui DiagnosticsMichael DiBenedetto, Director, IT

• Industry: Life Sciences

• Employees: 450

• Offices: 6

• Market Cap: private

• Over 1.7 billion tests are performed each year using our clinical chemistry products


In early 2014 this mid-size pharma needed to build a DR site and chose a 4 Node vSphere cluster with vSAN enabled. They used vSphere Replication and SRM to test and automate DR. This year they are replacing their production data center with HCI and vSAN.

Overall vSAN


vSphere Versions 6.0, 6.5 6.0, 6.5

vSAN Versions 6.2, 6.6.1 6.2, 6.6.1

# Sites 2 2

# vCenter’s 2 2

# Hosts 8 8

# Clusters 2 2

# Guest VMs 150 150



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Sekisui DiagnosticsvSAN for DR and now Production


vSAN 6.6

vSphere 6.5 Cluster

Disaster Recovery Cluster

vSAN 6.0

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Production Cluster

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

vSphere Replication + SRM


vSAN 6.6

vSphere 6.5 Cluster

Production Cluster


Lexington, MA Chicago, IL


vSAN 5.5

vSphere 5.5 Cluster

Production Cluster

vSphere 5.5 Cluster


2014Implement vSAN

2016Upgrade vSphere & Reconfigure vSAN

2017Upgrade vSphere

& vSAN and migrate Production

to vSAN



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TravelersAlexander Szwez, Sr. Systems Engineer

• Industry: Insurance

• Employees: 30,000

• Offices: 120

• Independent Agents: 13,000


• Second largest writer of U.S. commercial property casualty and the third largest writer of of U.S. personal insurance through independent agents.


vSAN was chosen to support production and test/dev Hadoop workloads. Two other vSAN clusters are used for new application workload POC’s. In addition, 2 Cloud Foundation configurations, each with a management cluster and a VM workload cluster are being implemented to POC how the automation simplifies operations.

Overall vSAN


vSphere Versions 6.0U1B, 6.2, 6.5 6.2, 6.5

vSAN Versions 6.2, 6.5 6.2, 6.5

# Sites 130 1

# vCenter’s 35 2

# Hosts 1,200 34

# Clusters 70 8Hadoop Prod 6 Nodes,

Hadoop Dev 4 Nodes,

2 x Test/Dev 4 Nodes each,

2 x SDDC Racks each with

2 x 4 Node clusters

# Guest VMs 25,000 150



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TravelersvSAN for Hadoop Production, Hadoop Test/Dev & Other POCs

VMware Cloud Foundation

SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Hadoop Prod Hadoop Test/Dev

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

POC 1 POC 2 POC 3

POC 4



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Herbalife NutritionJaime Gurrola, Worldwide Manager of Linux & VMWare

• Industry: Nutrition

• Employees: 8200

• Offices: 100’s


• Network of company-owned manufacturing facilities and call centers around the world


In early 2014 this nutrition company wanted to modernize their data center by automating IT to simplify application access and management and transform Windows delivery. Today they run vSphere and vSANand are evaluating NSX in multiple call centers to support 4000 Horizon VDI as well as in 3 ROBO sites and their primary data centers for mission critical applications.

Overall vSAN


vSphere Versions 5.5, 6.0u3 6.0u3

vSAN Versions 6.2 6.2

# Sites 8 5

# vCenter’s 21 4

# Hosts 400 274

# Clusters 55 9

# Guest VMs 2781 Guests

2000 VDI

400 Guests

2000 VDI going to

~4000 by end of 2017



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HerbalifevSAN for VDI Call Centers, VDI DR, & Back Office Operations

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Los Angles VDI Call Center

vSAN ROBOBack Office Operations

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Winston-Salem, NCVDI Disaster Recovery

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

MemphisVDI Call Center

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Salt LakeVDI Call Center

Virtual SAN 6.2

vSphere 6.0 Cluster

Venray, NetherlandsVDI Call Center



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HerbalifeVMware – Infrastructure Comparison


VS

Key Benefits• Radically Simple

• High Performance

• Elastic Scalability

• Lower TCO

• Enterprise High Availability

• Advanced Management

• Non-disruptive Scale-up or

Scale-out

• Built-in Failure Tolerance using

distributed RAID

• $510,000 Initial Cost

• $102,000 Perpetual Support Cost

• Higher Cooling Requirements

• Higher Power Requirements

• Larger Footprint

• Higher Complexity

• Highly Expandable

• $130,000 Initial Cost (List Price)

• $26,000 Perpetual Support Cost

• Lower Cooling Requirements

• Lower Power Requirements

• Small Footprint

• Minimal Complexity

• Highly Expandable



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Meet Today’s Guests


Peter KeiltyOffice of the CTO, Global Field

Sr. SE Manager, SDS East

Storage and Availability

VMware, Inc.

Jaime GurrolaWorldwide Manager of Linux

& VMWare

Herbalife International of

America

Joachim HeppnerDirector, Virtualization

Engineering Services

Sanofi

Michael DiBenedettoDirector, Global IT

Sekisui Diagnostics

Alexander SzwezSr Systems Engineer

Travelers

PANELISTSMODERATOR



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Q&A

• What prompted your organization to explore hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)?

• What other hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions did you consider and test? Did you consider traditional architectures?

• What were the absolute requirements of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solution?

• Can you talk a little bit about your evaluation process - POC, testing?

• What made you decided on VMware VSAN?

• What is the Server platform you chose for VSAN? Can you tell a little about the VSAN server configuration such as type of disk, Flash, spinning, etc?

• What is the workload and/or use case for your VSAN implementation?

• How does VSAN benchmark against your legacy traditional storage infrastructure?

• Do you use Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) with VSAN?

• How are you protecting your data on VSAN? Backup, DR?

• What improvements have you seen after moving to VSAN (cost, performance, management, integration, provisioning efficiencies)?

• Are there any additional benefits or efficiencies you realized when moving to VSAN, that you did not even consider when evaluating hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI)?

• What management or support adjustment did your organization have to make, when moving from a traditional storage environment?Culture? Operational/Process?

• Audience Questions




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