Elastic Block storage services on Prem

Antonio Romeo Presales Director & Eitan Segal Advisory Systems Engineer

EMC Software Defined Solutions - EMEA

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ABOUT US

Antonio Romeo

EMC Presales Director – Software Defined

Solution

Europe, Middle East, Africa

Linkedin: https://it.linkedin.com/in/antonioromeo Twitter: @antonioromeoemc

Eitan Segal

EMC Adv. Specialist – Software Defined Solution

EMEA

Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/eitan-segal-4153229

Twitter: @eitansegal

Agenda

• Why “Elastic Storage” transformation: Current Challenges

• The world of Structured Data • Three steps to elastic block storage

Why we seek for Transformation

CEO OBJECTIVES

Business Opportunity

LINE OF BUSINESS OBJECTIVES

Innovative Business

Agile IT

CIO IMPERATIVE

MUST

HAVES

Increase growth and lower costs

Time-to-value and operational

simplicity

Fast and new business models

• Reduction of storage CAPEX for the next 4 years

• Expected Growth Rate 20% YY

• Need to allow for faster, elastic provisioning of resources

• Provide operational efficiencies to reduce costs and provide agility to respond to the business faster

• The use of Tier-1 or Tier-2 storage was based on location rather then using Block Service

SLA’s

• The actual storage and tier assignment was decided by the admins

• Day-1 operations ( provisioning ) was done by several teams each which his own toolset

• Production and test environment weren't logically and physically separated

• Block Storage SLA’s were defined but not linked to the type of applications or environment

• Lack of visibility created a big challenge to manage capacity and growth requirements.

Solution

Business Challenges

Current State

• In the next slides we will demonstrate the disruptive approach we took to transform this customer to deliver Elastic Block Service

• It’s a very good example of “one size doesn’t fit all”

Enterprise use case

Flexible Scale Data Protection PERFORMANCE

Block Storage

Cost

Flexible Scale Data Protection PERFORMANCE Environments

Dev/Test

PRE-PROD

PRODUCTION

Cost

Elastic Block Storage

Easy to consume by Users

Increase our speed to deliver Services

Reduce Cost

Deliver Elastic Block

Service

Can we

STEP-1

Conceptual your Menu

STEP-2 STEP-3

The ingredients

Cooking

The 3 Steps for Delivering Elastic Block

T-1 Production Apps

High performance OLTP

T-2 Production Apps

Non Production Apps

Dev. & test

Sandbox

Service Definitions

Block Storage Capacity

Block Storage Performance

Block storage Life cycle

Align with specific OS ,virtualization etc..

T-Shirt Definitions

Type of Protection Tiers

Local Protection

App Protection

OS protection

Type of Disaster Recovery

Active Passive

Application Replication level

Backup Data Policy definitions

OS Data

Data

Retention

Data Protection Definitions

Driving Standardization

What Ingredients we need

STANDARDIZED

Services

Policy based

Automation

Control &

visibility

New HW

Architecture

Software Defined

Technology

Software Defined

Data Center

• Service-based cloud scale datacenter

• Auto Scale

• Hardware of Choice

Software Defined Storage

• Truly Elastic • Multi Tenancy for service separation • Agnostic to Type of Hypervisors, OS, Compute HW • Supports blend of tiers, low-latency, capacity optimized • Choice of architectures; Nodes, Rack-scale, Hyper scale-

out • Automate – Open standard API support • Enable Business to gain “cloud scale” economics within 3-

4 years TCO Windows

Focus on

Software

Defined

Technology How SDS Helps us

New HW

Architectur

e

TO

Traditional

• Great Fit for dedicated workloads and specific use cases

• Scale Up architecture

• Can be used in a converge model

Servers

STORAGE

FC

Network

SAN

SAN.NEXT

• Scale Out Storage on COTS • No Storage Siloes • No expensive FC • Add storage independently to the App Hosts

ETH/IB

APPS Servers

SDS Servers

Infrastructure .NEXT

ETH/IB

APPS & STORAGE

A A A

A S Applications SDS

S S S

• Greater cost saving and efficiency • Cloud scale and elasticity • Infrastructure

mirrors IaaS consumption model

New Architecture

PRE-DEFINED Elastic Block Services

Financial

Transparency Operational Management

Self-Service and Automation

Traditional Arrays

All Flash

COTS Hyper-

Converged Converged

VIRTUALIZED Infrastructure

Storage Control Plane SDDC

Architecture for Elastic Block

Storage Tiers

Automation and Service Level Selection

ELASTIC BLOCK-SERVICE

Platinum Gold

Silver

Protection Tier

Add Disks

Tier Policy Automate Disaster Recovery

Self Service for Day-2 Operations

Expand Capacity Manage Snapshots

Env Selection; Prod , Dev./Test

Move between Policies

Bronze MONITOR SERVICE SLA SELF SERVICE COST TO SERVE

TIER-2 TIER-1

Sto

rage

Type

Platinum Gold Silver Bronze

Sto

rage

Perf

orm

ance T

iers

TIER-2

26%

34%

40%

Technology Split

Tier-1 Tier-2 Tier-2

10% 34%

26%

30%

Storage Classes

Platinum Gold

Silver Bronze

Class - A Class - B Class - C Class - D P

rote

ction L

evel

Block Service

20%

21% 35%

24%

Protection Classes

Class A Class B

Class C Class D

Customer storage Layout

Next Gen Storage Infrastructure

73%

7%

20%

End State Storage Layout

ScaleIO

All Flash

Tier-1

SDS Layout

• ScaleIO SDS using Hyper-converge Architecture

• Hyper converge Nodes in a VMware environment and Linux Bare metal

• SIO Storage Nodes for mix storage req and for 2 layer architecture

• 70% of the storage estate wont need data migration due to EOL HW-just add/remove servers.

• Most of Storage and Application will run on the same server

* 4 year Transformation plan

What Elastic and Open really means

Scale Out

Balance Rebalance Rebuild

Open

• Support for any Hypervisor, OS and HW Media

• Supports traditional and web scale applications

• Different type of tiers

• Blend of type of nodes

• Auto balance, Rebalance and rebuild

• Provides QOS per application

• Performance Scale Linearly

Elastic

SELF SERVICE

Operational Management

Self-Service and Automation

Traditional Arrays

All Flash

COTS Hyper-

Converged Converged

VIRTUALIZED Infrastructure

SDDC

MONITOR SERVICE SLA

COST TO SERVE SUPREME ELASTICITY

MASSIVE SCALABILITY

UNPARALLELED FLEXIBILITY

EXTREME PERFORMANCE

COMPELLING ECONOMICS

SPEED TO SERVE !

EFFICIENCY

50% Over Traditional Architecture

30-60% TCO Savings

Up To

CHANGE IN HEADCOUNT

0% PROVISIONING TIME

80%