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VPLEX: Continuous Operations for VMware Environments

Ashish Palekar and Paul Danahy Data Mobility Business Unit Enterprise Storage Division (ESD) EMC

@logicalblock

Blog: http://logicalblock.wordpress.com

http://logicalblock.wordpress.com/


Agenda

VMware Environments today

What is VPLEX?

VPLEX Value Proposition for VMware Environments

Mobility and Availability with VPLEX

HA + DR for VMware Environments

Takeaways


VMware Environments today

Transformative technology from VMware

VMware HA: Automatic restart of virtual machines

VMware DRS: Dynamic movement of virtual machines

– vMotion: Non-disruptive movement of virtual machines

VMware FT: Non-stop virtual machine operation

HA / DRS Clusters


EMC VPLEX’s Unique Value

Same information

Separate locations

Accessible anywhere

Access Anywhere


B - Passive A - Active

Before VPLEX

Active-Passive Site

Site B data is used on failure

Outage required to move application


B - Active A - Active

With VPLEX

Active-Active Data Access

Utilize resources at both sites

Move and share data non-disruptively


Mobility. Availability. GeoSynchrony Operating Environment

VPLEX Local Within a data center

VPLEX Metro Across Data Centers synchronous distances

RecoverPoint Operational and 3rd

site recovery


Extend VMware Functionality Far Beyond the Array Boundary

VMware with VPLEX

VMware features including

vMotion, HA, DRS and FT

are no longer restricted to

a single failure domain

Automatic, hands-free failover

Dynamic cross-site application relocation for load balancing or maintenance

Elimination of CPU cycles spent on data movement

Higher utilization across all arrays

Fully certified by VMware

Certified


Continuous Availability, Next Generation DR, Load Balancing

VMware with VPLEX

vMotion across datacenters for non-disruptive load balancing, maintenance, and workload re-location

Automatic failover and restart between the sites using VMware HA - no manual intervention needed

The loss of a storage array or requirement for planned downtime does not result in ANY application interruption

VMware DRS for full utilization of compute and storage resources across domains

Active Failure Domain Active Failure Domain

VPLEX Metro

VMware DRS

VMware HA

VMware FT

VMware vMotion

Certified

Contemporary Active – Active Solution


EMC VPLEX Enhances IT Environments

Mobility

Availability

Access Anywhere


VPLEX Family Use Cases

MOBILITY

Disaster avoidance

Data center migration

Workload rebalancing

ACCESS ANYWHERE

SYNCHRONOUS

Cluster A Cluster B

Move and relocate VMs, applications, and

data over distance

AVAILABILITY

High availability

Eliminate storage operations from

failover

ACCESS ANYWHERE

SYNCHRONOUS

Maintain availability and non-stop access by

mirroring across locations



MOBILITY

Disaster avoidance



ACCESS ANYWHERE

SYNCHRONOUS

Cluster A Cluster B


data over distance

AVAILABILITY

High availability


failover

ACCESS ANYWHERE

SYNCHRONOUS




C U S T O M E R S P O T L I G H T

Solution EMC VPLEX Metro

EMC RecoverPoint

Unified Storage

VMware vSphere and SRM

Northern Hospital of Surry County Healthcare

Challenge • Data center infrastructure running out of capacity and

power as technology budget dollars shrink

• Needed to migrate production data to new data center while applications remained online

Results Saved over $500,000 during data center migration

Created 100% uptime for critical applications

Increased efficiency – available RAM increased from 33% to

71%, increasing redundancy

Applications Microsoft Exchange

Microsoft SQL Server

CareFusion

“Not only did we boost server performance and avoid $25,000 in memory upgrades, but better server efficiency will help us drive more quickly to 100% virtualization within the next 6 to 12 months. VPLEX is worth every penny because it’s an incredibly solid and versatile product.”

ROBERT HALL CIO


Online migration between arrays

Mobility with VPLEX Local

Benefits

– Non-disruptive to host applications

– Simplification of migration process

– Uniform migration process between heterogeneous arrays

Use-cases

– Lease roll-over / Tech refresh

– Load balancing between arrays


Online application migration between data centers

Mobility with VPLEX Metro

AccessAnywhere


Online application migration between data centers

Mobility with VPLEX

Benefits – Non-disruptive migration of the entire virtual stack between

data centers.

– Flexibility in locating resources

Use-cases – Disaster avoidance

– Data center migrations

– Workload rebalancing



MOBILITY

Disaster avoidance



ACCESS ANYWHERE

SYNCHRONOUS

Cluster A Cluster B


data over distance

AVAILABILITY

High availability


failover

ACCESS ANYWHERE

SYNCHRONOUS




Munson Healthcare Munson Healthcare transforms patient care and business operations with ITaaS

Challenge Achieve high availability of critical clinical applications

Improve reliability, efficiency, and agility

Provide shared access of resources across two sites

Scale to meet growing demand for ITaaS offerings

Solution EMC VPLEX Metro

EMC VNX unified storage

VMware vSphere

EMC Infrastructure Solutions

Results Increased availability of critical medical applications

Eliminated downtime for storage upgrades from eight hours to minutes

Improved agility to share resources and optimize workload performance

Enabled business growth with ITaaS

Applications Citrix XenApp

Cerner EMR, McKesson, MEDITECH EMR, and others

Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server

“With ITaaS enabled by EMC VPLEX Metro, we can provide the services physicians need in a very timely manner and with minimal downtime. This brings the relationship between their offices and our hospitals closer, which leads to increased business referrals.”

SCOTT DINGMAN Senior Systems Engineer


Improving availability by protecting between arrays

Availability with VPLEX Local

Benefits – Non-disruptive to host

applications

– Uniform process to protect between heterogeneous arrays

Use-cases – Array maintenance

– Protection against unplanned array failure


VPLEX Cluster Arbiter: Ensures I/O continues in the event of a failure Availability: VPLEX Witness

• Coordinates seamless failover

• Connects to VPLEX via IP

• Runs as a VM

AccessAnywhere

Witness

VM

• Distinguishes site failure from site partition


Protection across arrays between data centers

Availability with VPLEX Metro and VMware

AccessAnywhere

Witness

VM


Availability: Cross Connect Configs

AccessAnywhere

SYNCHRONOUS VPLEX A VPLEX B

• Continuous operation

• Use with lower latencies

• Stretched fabric

• No server failover

Witness

VM


Protection across arrays in campus environments

Availability with VPLEX Metro Cross connect

AccessAnywhere

Applications Applications

Witness

VM

1 msec RTT


Automatic application restart between data centers

Availability with VPLEX Metro

Benefits – No storage intervention needed for failover between sites

– Reduction of RTO

Use-cases – Failure automation between data centers


Putting the picture together


Combining VMware HA / vMotion with VPLEX Metro

Mobility and Availability with VMware

AccessAnywhere

Witness

VM


vSphere Metro Storage Cluster

VPLEX is the first product certified to VMware vMSC


1. vMSC: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007545 2. HA KB (pre 5.0): http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026692 3. vMotion KB (pre 5.0): http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1021215

Combining VMware HA / vMotion with VPLEX Metro

Mobility and Availability with VMware

VPLEX Metro is officially supported on the VMware HCL

via vMSC (Metro Storage Cluster) starting vSphere 5.0

Knowledge Base Articles

vMotion support up to 10 msec vSphere HA rewrite

Other vSphere 5.0 changes

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007545




HA and DR together

VPLEX and RecoverPoint


Three Site (Synchronous and Asynchronous) Availability

VMware with VPLEX + RecoverPoint

Active Failure Domain Active Failure Domain Passive Failure Domain

VMware SRM

EMC RecoverPoint

Automatic Failover

Automated Failover

VPLEX Metro

VMware DRS

VMware HA

VMware FT

VMware vMotion

Combines short- and long-distance (1000s of km)

Leverages SRM for DR site

RecoverPoint integration eliminates HW requirement

Certified

Enhanced Availability


View your VPLEX LUNs with Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)

VPLEX vCenter Integration


Takeaways

Extend VMware HA / DRS / FT within and across data center with EMC VPLEX

– Dynamic highly available data centers

Provide simultaneous HA and DR with EMC VPLEX and EMC RecoverPoint

Platform for mission critical applications


Additional Resources: Blogs: Ashish Palekar: http://logicalblock.wordpress.com Sebastian Darrington: http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk VPLEX on EMC Customer Network: https://community.emc.com/community/connect/vplex Other Assets: • Big Ideas, Big Tech: Continuous Availability for VMware with EMC VPLEX animated video • Dissolving Distance: VPLEX for VMware overview video • Dissolving Distance: VPLEX for VMware technical overview/demo • vMotion Over Distance With EMC VPLEX – demonstration • Using VMware with vSphere with EMC VPLEX white paper • Big Ideas, Big Tech: Continuous Availability for Oracle RAC with EMC VPLEX animated video • Using VPLEX with Oracle RAC white paper

http://logicalblock.wordpress.com/

http://www.thestoragechap.co.uk/

https://community.emc.com/community/connect/vplex

https://www.brainshark.com/brainshark/brainshark.net/portal/title.aspx?pid=zGdzx1Bx5zAL5yz0

http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/dissolving-distance-emc-vplex-for-vmware.htm

http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/dissolving-distance-emc-vplex-vmware-demo.htm

http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/vmotion-over-distance-vplex-demonstration.htm

http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h7118-using-vmware-virtualization-platforms-vplex.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtl6dU2P_E

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=emc vplex oracle rac&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CEUQFjAB&url=http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8930-vplex-metro-oracle-rac-wp.pdf

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