Rethinking Enterprise Storage:The Rise Of Hyper-converged Infrastructure

Charles Fan, VMware, IncAlexander Goretzki, Vice President, Cloud and Platform Services, IBM

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The Changing World of Storage

Application Needs

• Majority of applications virtualized

• Storage QoS must meet application needs

• Cloud native application models emerge

Technology Enablers

• High performance, high density flash devices become ubiquitous

• Next-gen non-volatile memories look promising (e.g. 3D Xpoint)

Commodity Economics

• Hardware increasingly standardized and commoditized

• Value delivered via software

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Overview

Introducing Hyper-converged Infrastructure

• Compute, storage, and networking resources virtualized in software

• Operates on standard x86 server nodes

• Directly-attached storage devices combined into shared pool

• Scale-out architecture extends across multiple nodes

Leverage x86 technical advances, cost economics

Maximize performance of directly attached flash devices

Unification streamlines provisioning and management

Storage

Virtualization

Networking

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: The Ideal Building Block for SDDC

Open Systems / Traditional Infrastructure

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Management

Compute Networking Storage

SDDC

Simplest Lowest Cost Most Scalable Highest Performance

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Storage Market Share TransformationMid-Market ($25-250K) External Storage Array Market, $B

Traditional Arrays

Converged Infrastructure

All-Flash

Hyper-converged1

Back-Up Appliances

$15.5

$1.8(12%)

$4.0(26%)

$2.5(16%)

$1.7(11%)

$1.6(11%)

$3.9(25%)$12.4

$6.1(49%)

$2.4(20%)

$0.3 (3%)$0.6 (4%)

$1.1(9%)

$1.9(15%)

Scale-Out NAS

CAGR5.6%

10.6%

31.4%

68.0%

13.0%

-26.4%

$∆+$3.0

+$0.5

+$1.1

+$2.2

+$1.5

-$4.3

-10% CAGR,-$2.8B revenue loss

19.9% +$2.0

Most rapid growth in terms of CAGR and dollars

1. Hyper-converged includes server and storage spend while other segments are storage spend only Source: MI / IDC Forecast January 2015

2014 2018

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VMware’s approach to HCI starts from vSphere and Virtual SAN

Virtualized Server Rack with Standalone Storage and Networking

External SAN Server Rack

Physical Convergence of Storage and Networking on Commodity x86 Hardware

Server Rack

InfrastructureShift

Network

Virtual SANvSphere

Networking

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VMware Virtual SANRadically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage for VMs

vSphere + Virtual SAN…

• Software-defined storage optimized for VMs

• Hypervisor-converged architecture

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore

• Delivers enterprise-level scalability and performance

• Managed through per-VM storage policies

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

Overview

Hard disksSSDHard disks

SSDHard disks

SSD

Virtual SAN Datastore

Multiple Paths to Hyper-converged Infrastructure

Software + Hardware

Virtual SAN Ready Node

Integrated Systems

Flexibility

Ease of Use

Virtual SAN

vSphere

Networking

vSphere + Virtual SAN

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Virtual SAN Delivers Unique Capabilities and Value

Integration: Full product-level integration, single software stack

Simplicity: Unified management, policy-based automation

Cost: Up to 50% TCO savings, leveraging x86 economics

Performance: Up to 7M IOPS with data sitting next to compute

Scale: Elastic, linear scale out or up

Choice: Flexibility of deployment models/vendors

Virtual SAN

vSphere

Networking

VMware HCI Solution Leads the Category in Customer Adoption

2000+ Customers

In my experience VMware solutions are rock solid…we’re ready to nearly double our VSAN deployment.

“”

It really did work as advertised…the fact that I have been able to set it and forget it is huge!

“”

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Virtual SAN Saves Customers 50% CapEx

HW

SW

Support

Series1

$96,387

$14,494

$38,555

$29,940

$23,952

Hybrid Array Virtual SAN

Hybrid Array

-49%

$68,386

$134,942

200 VMs24TB usable

HW + SW

$73,114

$27,229

$27,637

$8,982

$11,976

Other Hyper-converged appliance Virtual SAN

Other Hyper-Converged Appliance

-52%

$48,187

$100,751

HW + SW

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While Delivering Industry-leading Performance

• Identical 4-node hardware configurations were tested

• VSAN configuration was priced at less than half of the other HCI solution

• VMmark, a widely accepted industry test, measures how many workloads the clusters could handle– A “tile” is a standardized workload

Series1

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

The other HCI solutioncould not complete 10 tiles

VSAN completed 18 tiles, resources to spare

80% more work at half

the price

Source: StorageReview.com

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• Low upfront costs based on commodity x86 servers• Predictably scale compute and storage with growing user counts

• All-flash, high-performance storage for up to 90K IOPS per host• Enterprise-class availability with continuous availability

• Deploy management clusters on simple, low TCO infrastructure • Support IT operations with low-cost, simple storage

• Powerful, simple storage for limited IT staffs or expertise• 2-node configuration for low cost, ROBO solution

Top Use Cases for Deploying Virtual SAN

Virtual Desktops (VDI)

Business Critical Applications

IT Operations

Remote IT (ROBO)

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Results from VSAN Customer SurveySample size: 58

Remote IT (e.g. branch offices)

Disaster Recovery

5 (9%)

15(26%)

IT Operations

22(38%)

Private Cloud

12(21%)

Business critical production apps

Virtual Desktop

25(43%)

Non-critical production apps

Test/Dev

31(53%)

36(62%) 28

(48%)

Most common Virtual SAN use cases- #of customers -

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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Launch Announcements

VMware ® Virtual SAN 6.1

Mature – 3rd release

Enterprise High-Availability

Simplified management: monitoring & troubleshooting

Even higher performance

VMware ® EVO SDDC

Fully integrated SDDC software to be deployed on pre-qualified BOMs

Automated bring up, integrated management of physical and virtual infrastructure and lifecycle management

Enhanced application security

SW + Certified HW Integrated Systems

Updates NEW

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What’s New in Virtual SAN 6.1

Advanced Management & Troubleshooting

Enterprise Availability and Data Protection

Stretched Cluster with RPO=0, metro-distance

5 min RPO vSphere ReplicationSupport for SMP-FTSupport for Oracle RAC and

Microsoft MSCS

Health Check plug-in for HW monitoring, compliance

vRealize Operations integration for capacity planning and root-cause analysis

Support cloud-native apps

New Hardware Options

2-node clusters for ROBONew SSD HW options:

• Intel NVMe• Diablo Ultra DIMM

From HCI To SDDC: VMware Delivers the Most Choice

Virtual SAN Ready Nodes

EVO:RAIL Appliance

EVO SDDC

Software-Defined Data Center

Cloud Automation

Network Virtualization

Software-Defined Storage

Server Virtualization ✔

✔✔✔

✔✔

✔✔

Optional OptionalvRealize

NSX

vSphere

Virtual SAN

Includes Lifecycle Management Software

HCI

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Three Ways to Get Started with Virtual SAN Today

VSAN Assessment32 Download

EvaluationOnline Hands-on Lab 1

• Test-drive Virtual SAN right from your browser—with an instant Hands-on Lab

• Register and your free, self-paced lab is up and running in minutes

• 60-day Free Virtual SAN Evaluation

• VMUG members get a 6-month EVAL or 1-year EVALExperience for $200

• Reach out to your VMware Partner, SEs or Rep for a FREE VSAN Assessment

• Results in just 1 week!• The VSAN Assessment tool

collects and analyzes data from your vSphere storage environment and provides technical and business recommendations.

 

Learn more…

vmware.com/go/virtual-san

• Virtual SAN Product Overview Video

• Virtual SAN Datasheet

• Virtual SAN Customer References

• Virtual SAN Assessment

• Virtual Blocks Blog

• @vmwarevsan

vmware.com/go/try-vsan-en vmware.com/go/try-vsan-en

FREEFREE

FREE

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Beta Preview: Maximize Space Efficiency and Data Integrity

Mirroring creates a capacity overhead How can we reduce the overhead?

Usable Capacity

P1P2

Erasure Coding

Deduplication

FTT=1 (Overhead drops: 2X 1.33X)

~50% increaseFTT=2

(Overhead drops: 3X 1.5X)

~100% increase

Ratio of Raw to Usable Capacity = ~2:1(~2x overhead)

Up to 8X

~1.5X – 16X

Beta

Checksum • End-to-end protection against software bugs, not only bit rot• Always on by default and uses CRC3c for best performance• Compatible with all Virtual SAN data services

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Help Us Test Space Efficiency

Beta

• It’s free

• Get a glimpse of VSAN future

VMware.com/go/vsanbeta

Wikibon Long-Term Projection of Storage Market

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World’s 1st 64-Node, All-Flash Array with Virtual SAN and NVMe See VMware Virtual SAN live and at scale in the HCI Zone!

4.2MIOPS

500Terabytes

64Nodes

Where:Intel Booth

When:Expo Hours

Sponsor:Intel

6,400VMs

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