building the software defined data center of tomorrow – vspex blue

Building the Software Defined Data Center of TomorrowA.J. Bergeron III – AdvizeX Presales [email protected]

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Agenda

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Who is Rolta AdvizeX Technologies?

Trending Now

Industry Challenges

Hyper-Convergence with EMC VSPEX BLUE

Q, A, and Next Steps

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We Are Local. We Are Global.

Over 39 years in business with a 5-year CAGR of ~20% revenue growth

Thousands of customers from across all industries

Over 2,500 software and hardware engineers

A Global 200 Best Company --------------

Over 1,000 IT hardware and software certifications

A 98% customer retention rate in 2013

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We Can Help You Do More

Plan Build Manage

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First Platform

Second Platform

Third Platform

Users: Apps: Devices:Data:

BillionsMillionsBillionsExabytes

The Third Platform Is Already Here

Big Data

SocialMedia

Mobility

Cloud

From 2013 to 2020, the Third Platform Will Drive 90% of All Growth in the IT Market…

Today’s IT Challenges

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• How do I forecast my IT budget for three years?

• Will my IT scale fast enough?• Will my choice satisfy my requirements?• Will it be agile enough?• How do I manage multiple components?• How do I deal with multiple vendors?• How do I move to the cloud?• How do I keep my applications online?

Architectural Evolution

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APPLIANCESBLOCKS RACKSBuild Your Own

Past-ish Present Just In

HYPERCONVERGED

Soon

HYPERCONVERGED

CONVERGEDINFRASTRUCTURE

REFERENCEARCHITECTURE

Software-Defined-Data-Center (SDDC)

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Network

Management

Storage

Backup DRSoftware

Hardware

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MEMORYCOMPUTE NETWORK

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MANAGEMENT

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STORAGE

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Introducing EMC VSPEX BLUE

Powered by Intel® Xeon®

Processors

• A hyper-converged infrastructure appliance- A software-defined building block approach combines

compute, storage, networking and management resources in a single, simple solution

- Powered by EMC hardware and VMware EVO:RAIL software

• Simplifies and automates deployment, operations, management and upgrades

- Linear scale-out of capacity and performance• No more need to pre-plan infrastructure purchases• Delivers the agility your business demands• Single point of global support from EMC

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Software, Software, Software…

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HYPER CONVERGED

SYSTEM

vSAN

vSPHEREENGINE

vSPEX BLUESOFTWARE

1. VSPEX BLUE SOFTWARE– VSPEX BLUE Manager extends hardware monitoring, and integrates

with EMC Connect Home and online support facilities– VSPEX BLUE Market offers value-add EMC software products included

with VSPEX BLUE2. VMWARE EVO:RAIL ENGINE

– Automates cluster deployment and configuration, as well as scale-out and non-disruptive updates

– Simple design with a clean interface, pre-sized VM templates and single-click policies

3. RESILIENT CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE– VSAN distributed datastore provides consistent and resilient fault

tolerance– VMotion provides system availability during maintenance and DRS

load balances workloads4. SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER (SDDC) BUILDING BLOCK

– Combines compute, storage, network and management resources into a single virtualized software stack with vSphere and VSAN

EMC and VMware = Better Together

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VMware vCenter Server

VMware vCenter Log Insight

VMware EVO: RAIL Engine

VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus

EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines

VMware Virtual VSAN

EMC Blue Manager

EMC Secure Remote Support

EMC Cloud Array Gateway

EMC Blue Marketplace

VMware VDPA based on Avamar and using Data Domain

EMC Blue Marketplace future expansions…

Specifications per Node

Intel® Xeon® Processor-Based Server Technology

PERFORMANCE MODELSTANDARD MODEL

PROC

ESSO

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Dual Intel Ivy Bridge E5-2620 V2 (12 cores, 2.1 GHz)

MEM

ORY

128GB

STOR

AGE 32GB SLC SATADOM

400GB eMLC 2.5” SAS SSD3 x 1.2TB 10K 2.5” SAS HDD

14.4TB (raw)

NETW

ORK 2 x 10GbE SFP+ (Twinax DAC cables)

or RJ45 ports (CAT 6 cables)1 GbE for BMC port

Dual Intel Ivy Bridge E5-2620 V2 (12 cores, 2.1 GHz)

192GB

32GB SLC SATADOM400GB eMLC 2.5” SAS SSD

3 x 1.2TB 10K 2.5” SAS HDD14.4TB (raw)

2 x 10GbE SFP+ (Twinax DAC cables) or RJ45 ports (CAT 6 cables)

1 GbE for BMC port

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NODE 3NODE 1

NODE 4NODE 2

Simplicity at Scale

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8 Nodes: 200 VMs/500 VDTs




Eight Enclosure (32 Nodes), 800 VMs, or 2,000 Horizon View Desktops


Integrated Management with VSPEX BLUE Manager

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Unique system dashboard– Seamless integration of EMC & vmware user

interface providing consistent look and feel EMC support

– Online chat– Customer forum/knowledge base

Tight integration with VMware log insight– Health/event monitoring– Hardware, application and VM alerts

VSPEX BLUE Market– Access to EMC VSPEX BLUE qualified software

Maintenance and upgrades– Automated patches– Software updates

Field service assistance– Remote access via ESRS– FRU/CRU replacement

Commodity without Compromise

EMC VSPEX BLUE

Market

EMC VSPEX BLUE

Manager

EMC Secure Remote Support VE

EMC RecoverPoint

for VMs

VMware Data Protection Advanced

EMC CloudArray

VE

Partner Ecosystem

(Future)

VSPEX BLUE Market

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Data Center Automation

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INITIALIZING CONFIGURING

BUILDING

FINISHING

• Registering ESXi hosts with vCenter• Creating storage policies on vCenter• Setting up host names on ESXi hosts• Renaming vCenter Server network on ESXi hosts• Setting up NIC bonding on ESXi hosts• Setting up VSAN, VMotion, VM networks on ESXi hosts• Setting up NIC teaming on ESXi hosts• Setting up DNS on ESXi hosts• Restarting loudmouth on ESXi hosts• Setting up clustering for ESXi hosts

• Renaming datastore• Configuring password on ESXi hosts• Copying file to VSAN datastore

• Configuring password on vCenter Server• Configuring private DNS server on vCenter Server• Setting up management network on ESXi hosts• Configuring time on ESXi hosts• Configuring Syslog on ESXi hosts• Configuring host name on vCenter Server

• Restarting loudmouth• Accepting vCenter Server EULA• Creating vCenter Sever database• Creating appliance architecture in vCenter Server• Configuring password on ESXi hosts• Initializing SSO subsystem• Starting vCenter Server

Benefits

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• Designed to respond quickly to changing IT demands

• Eliminates advanced IT forecasting & budgeting

• Speed time to deployment with single, elastic pool of software define resources

• Streamline operations with automated deployment, upgrades and patches

• Linear scale-out with small incremental, cost-effective building block approach

• Eliminates need for pre-planned infrastructure capacity purchases – just add an appliance

• EMC CloudArray provides access to unlimited cloud storage

• One call global support with single point of accountability for hardware and software

• EMC Secure Remote Services (ESRS) enables remote monitoring, diagnostics and repair

• Industry leading data protection safeguards entire system – hardware and software

AGILE SCALABLE TRUSTED

Use Cases and Customer Benefits

Use Cases Hybrid/Private Cloud End-User Computing (EUC/VDI) Datacenter in a box (SMB, Commercial) Remote/Branch Offices (Enterprise) Test/Dev Limited IT staff Disaster Recovery

Benefits Power on and provisioning of workloads in

15 minutes Simplified administration Predictable sizing and scaling Eliminate storage arrays Simplified deployment and expansion Single-click non-disruptive upgrades/patches Single SKU ordering Compatible with existing VMware solutions ELA licensing is transferrable

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Q, A,&

Next Steps

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