6 Maggio 2016

Andrea Mauro IT Director – Assyrus Srl http://assyrus.it

Evento Dell-Assyrus sull'evoluzione dello

storage enterprise

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VMware Virtual SAN

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VMware Virtual SAN

• Storage scale out architecture built into the hypervisor

• Aggregates locally attached storage from each ESXi host in a cluster

• Dynamic capacity and performance scalability

• Flash optimized storage solution

• Fully integrated with vSphere and interoperable:

– vMotion, DRS, HA, VDP, VR …

• VM-centric data operations

vSphere + Virtual SAN

Hard disks Hard disks SSD SSD Hard disks

SSD

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Virtual SAN Shared

Datastore

• Hypervisor-Converged storage platform

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Management Clusters

Use Cases

Backup and DR

Target

DMZ / Isolated

Tier 2 / Tier 3

Test / Dev / Staging

Private cloud

Virtual Desktop

ROBO

VDI

Site A Site B

vSphere VSAN

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Two Ways to Build a Virtual SAN Node

Completely Hardware Independent 1. Virtual SAN Ready

Node

…with multiple options available at GA + 30

Preconfigured server ready to use Virtual SAN…

2. Build Your Own

…using the Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide*

Choose individual components …

Flash: SSD or PCIe

SAS/NL-SAS/ SATA

HDDs

Any Server on

vSphere Hardware

Compatibility List

HBA/RAID Controller

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Microsoft Storage Spaces

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Microsoft SDS : Past , Present and Future

Dependent on Traditional Storage

• Relied on 3rd party SAN vendors

1st wave SDS

• Introduction to Storage

Spaces

• “Remote File solution

for Hyper-V using

shared JBOD

• Introducied Scale Out

File Server ( SOFS)

• RDMA and

Multichannel

• SAN independence

Storage Spaces Direct

• Remote File solution for Hyper-V using shared nothing hardware

• Unlock use of DAS • Reduce Cost

Software Storage Bus

• SATA and NVMe

• Node Fault Tolerance

• Health Services

Storage Spaces

Enhancements • Scalable pools • Data Rebalancing

Pre Windows 2012 Windows 2012

Windows 2012 R2 Windows 2016

2nd wave SDS

• Storage Tiering

• WriteBack Cache

(WBC)

• Scale Out File Server

improvements

• SMB Direct

Improvements

• Volume

Rebalancing

• Multiple

instances

• JBOD monitoring

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Dell’s Journey With Storage Spaces

Sept 2012: Windows 2012 Release:

Understanding the technology and feedback to Microsoft

Oct 2013: Windows 2012 R2 Release

Internal testing and active feedback to Microsoft

Nov 2013:

Worked closely with Microsoft in developing JBOD monitoring feature

Feb 2014:

Support Storage Spaces using PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220

May 2014:

Support Storage Spaces using PowerVault MD3060e

End-End VDI solution using PowerVault MD1220

Sept 2014:

Additional Hardware Support with 12Gbps SAS . Select PowerEdge servers , PowerVault MD1400 and MD1420

Oct 2014:

Launch Cloud Platform System (CPS) Powered by Dell

Journey Continues…

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o Unable to generate color coded feedback. It would require additional programs/libraries to be installed on end user system. Still investigating solution. Work around is stating (X/X) systems are the same and present a warning when something is different.

o For validating specific version numbers, OS, KB, etc. when going to from release to release the scripts will either need to be hard coded (not ideal) or be able to take in a config file of some sort to check against (better solution but would require lifecycle control from release to release).

Current and future plans o Improve the content gathered in the StorageInventory.ps1

§ Gather details on tiering configuration

§ Develop python script to examine details of content gathered o The end goal is to expand and improve the content created by each PowerShell Script and have a corresponding python module for each set of output files.

o As each module gets more robust, the plan is to unify them into one or pass them on to create an actual GUI tool developed in Java/C++ (most likely done by someone full time).

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Supported Client Servers Any Dell PowerEdge Server

6 Supported Dell Switches (S4810, S5000, N4064, N4064F, N4032, N4023F)

10Gb iWARP or ROCE RDMA Client Communication

2, 3 or 4 Storage Nodes R630 or R730

SAS Direct Attach (HA cabling)

2 to 4 Storage Enclosures (MD1400, MD1420, MD3060e)

Compute

Networking

Client I/O

Controllers

Storage I/O

Storage

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS)

http://www.dell.com/microsoft

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Private Cloud

Backup & archival

Validated & tested

solution blocks

VDI

Hyper-V

Worldwide installation

services and total solution

support

SQL

SMB3 & RDMA

Sizing & performance

guidance

Standard management

with MS System Center, iDRAC, OpenManage

Validated and tested solution blocks for reliable SOFS operation

Pre-defined SKUs for 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 3x3 and 4x4 SOFS configurations

Award winning, industry standard 13th Generation Dell Enterprise PowerEdge servers and PowerVault JBODs

Low cost compute and networking with C-servers, FX, Blades, PowerConnect & Force 10

RDMA solutions using iWarp and RoCE

Workload optimized turnkey solutions & Reference Architectures (Private Cloud & VDI)

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Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS)

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DSMS as a Building Block for Storage Solutions

Customer- a la carte

• Sizing guidance & Best Practices

• Deployment Guide • Best-in-class

components • System Center

integration

Fast Track Solutions

• Validated configuration • Simple setup • High availability • Easy scalability

Reference Architectures

• Verified configuration • Deployment guide • Scalable & Customizable

Partner & Dell Services

• Best-in-class components

• Professional expertise and custom solution development

• Microsoft compatibility • System Center

integration

Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces

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Traditional & New IT supporting software defined infrastructure

$0.09 Cost / Order per Minute

28.4 ms Average disk latency

5,640 IOPs

1x R720XD w/ 2.5” HDD

48TB total storage

1.62 ms Average disk latency

98,694 IOPs

1x R730XD w/ 1.8” SDD & 3.5”

94.7% lower response times

16.5x greater I/O performance

The Value

• Storage spaces uses any mix of drives in a storage pool. Combining HDD’s and SSD’s in the same pool using storage tiers can move “Hot” data files to SSD storage. Write-back caches speeds random writes to SSDs or other storage as needed.

• 18x 1.8” SSDs density drives increased performance beyond traditional 2.5”

• SanDisk DAS Cache for database

big data-optimized

Hadoop | Cloudera workload-ready

Oracle | SAP | Microsoft

cloud-ready

Azure | VMware | OpenStack Converged infrastructure-ready

VMware | Microsoft

Future-Ready Enterprise

software-defined SDN | SDS | SDDC

70TB total storage

software-defined

SDN | SDS | SDDC

workload-ready

Oracle | SAP | Microsoft

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Storage Spaces Direct

Scale for Technical Preview 2 Minimum of four servers

Maximum of twelve servers

Maximum of 240 disk devices in a single pool

Simple expansion Add node(s) and expand pool

Rebalance for capacity

Scale-Out File Server

Hyper-V Clusters

SMB3 Storage Network Fabric

Shared JBOD

Storage

Internal Disks

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ROBO

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Dell PowerEdge VRTX

Current environment Complex, Inefficient, Rigid

Simple, Efficient, Versatile

Consolidation, virtualization

capable

Optimal size, acoustics &

power

Easy to manage

Affordable

Versatile and scalable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IlDQnIMrk

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Dell PowerEdge VRTX LCD Display

Panel

Up to 4 PowerEdge M-Series Servers

Internal low latency, fast

storage

Shared Storage 25 x 2.5” or 12 x 3.5”

(expandable)

8 External PCIe Slots

Hot Plug Redundant

PSUs

Remote Management

Ports

Locking Front Cover

Shared DVD

KVM Ports

Hot Plug Redundant Blowers 8 RJ45

NIC ports

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Dell PowerEdge FX

Density and shared infrastructure efficiency

BLADES

Simplicity and cost benefits

RACKS

The 2U high rack-based FX2 converged infrastructure enclosure can host different blocks of compute and storage resources – depending on workload needs.

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Dell PowerEdge FX

Rear view of FX2s enclosure 1Gb passthru IO shown, 10Gb SFP+ & FN IO Aggregator options available

4 FC630 server blocks in a fully loaded FX2 enclosure each with 8 1.8” SSDs

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Virtual Storage Appliance

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Virtual SAN 6.1

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VDI

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2U vs 24U rack space occupied

New IT supporting software defined infrastructure

72% more users

The Value

400 vs 232 supported users – power

user profile

• Horizon View VDI is about delivering performance and responsiveness to support massively scalable solutions.

• Huge rack space savings

• FX delivers modularity, density, scalability, and better economics for VDI

• Less servers equals cost savings on power and headcount required to manage

$123 Cost/user

big data-optimized

Hadoop | Cloudera workload-ready

Oracle | SAP | Microsoft

cloud-ready

Azure | VMware | OpenStack virtual infrastructure-ready

VMware | Microsoft

Future-Ready Enterprise

software-defined SDN | SDS | SDDC

4x B200m2 w/ NetApp 3200

4x FC430 W/ 2x FD332

92% less rack space

software-defined

SDN | SDS | SDDC

Converged infrastructure-ready

VMware | Microsoft

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Configurability Availability Expandability, I/O, Storage

• 4 half width or 8 quarter width configurations • Optional IO aggregator, 8:1 cabling

simplification • Choice of chassis or rack based management • Choice of entry-level or switched

configuration

• Redundant hot-plug PSUs (1100 or 1600W)

• Redundant hot-plug cooling fans

• Redundant out-of-band management fabric

• iDRAC on every node

• Entry “Express” and advanced “Enterprise” levels of chassis-level management

• Front KVM access; LCD Display; USB;

• Up to 2 pass-thru modules. 1Gb and 10Gb capable

• Up to 8 PCIe Gen 3 I/O expansion slots (low profile/half length)

PowerEdge FX2 Enclosure

Overview

• The Dell FX2 is a new 2U rack-based hybrid computing platform that provides a greater dimension of functional flexibility along with a higher density of processing power. It combines the density of blades with the advantages of rack-based systems.

Benefits

• Its modular design lets it hold varying sized building blocks of resources that can be any combination of compute nodes and storage nodes configured in a number of variations, depending on the intended use of the platform and the amount of resource needed.

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PowerEdge R730xd

Overview A mainstream 2S/2U rack server that offers highly dense, flexible storage options – including in-box storage tiering and an industry leading cost effective 100TB storage footprint for future scale out storage. Designed for the scale out storage efficiency demanded by today’s XaaS providers, Hadoop / Big Data users and co-location hosting.

Performance Availability Expandability, I/O, Storage

• 2S Intel Xeon Haswell processors (14 cores max each CPU; 28 total max cores)

• 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 1.5 TB memory • Up to 4 optional NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs provide

extremely high IOPS over standard drives to reduce I/O bottlenecks

• High performance PEC9 and dual PERC capability on 24 drive configuration

• Redundant power supply units (PSU’s) • Hot plug and swappable PSU’s, HDDs and fans • Dual SD card option for Failsafe Hypervisors • iDRAC8 Express or Enterprise with Lifecycle

Controller, OpenManage • OpenManage Mobile access

• Up to 24 x 2.5” HDD + 2 x 2.5” (rear) or 16 x 3.5” HDD + 2 x 2.5” (rear) or 12 x 3.5” or 18 x 1.8” + 8 x 3.5”

• Up to 4 optional NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs

• Dell Fluid Cache support

• Choice of RAID options including dual PERC option for even higher perforrnance

• 6 x PCIe Gen3 expansion slots and 1 dedicated PCIe lane for RAID

• SNA: 4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10GbE, 2 x 40GbE (post launch)

Targeted Workloads • Great database server with 1M+ IOPS in a 24 drive, dual PERC

configuration • The best NAS / file server with integrated caching /tiering capabilities • Excellent Collaboration, UCC, SharePoint, and Exchange server in low

cost, high capacity local drive configurations

Benefits • Best scale out storage • Best $/GB in a 2U form factor • Easy lifecycle manageability with intuitive management tools

Grazie per il vostro tempo!