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Storage Business Unit

January 2015
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Contents

• Storage Challenges and Pain Points [3]

• Software Defined Storage and Emergence of a New Storage Architecture [4]
• Virtual SAN Overview [9]
• Virtual SAN: A Closer Look [19]
• Customer Case Snapshots [40]
• Additional Resources [44]

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Customers Face Several Challenges with Storage Today
Specialized Expensive HW Device-centric Silos Complex Processes

App VI
Admin Admin

Storage
Admin

✖ Not commodity ✖ Static classes of service ✖ Time consuming processes

✖ Low utilization ✖ Rigid provisioning ✖ Lack of automation
✖ Overprovisioning ✖ Lack of granular control ✖ Slow reaction to request
✖ Frequent data migrations

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A New Approach is Needed: Software-Defined Storage

Storage Today Software-Defined Storage

New Control Plane

From Hardware-centric • Policy-driven automation
to App-centric • Common across arrays
• Dynamic control

New Data Plane

From Specialized to • Server SAN
Industry Standard Hardware • Flash accelerated
• Distributed

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The Hypervisor is Best Positioned to Deliver the
Software-Defined Storage Transformation

Why the Hypervisor:

• Over 70% of x86 server workloads
are virtualized1
• It’s inherently app-aware
vSphere
• Sits directly in the I/O path
• Has global view of underlying storage
resources
• It’s hardware agnostic

(1) Gartner Market Trends: x86 Server Virtualization, Worldwide, 2013 5

The VMware Software-Defined Storage Vision
Transforming Storage the Way Server Virtualization Transformed Compute

VMware® vSphere ® Storage Policy-Based Mgmt

• App-centric storage automation

• Common mgmt across heterogeneous arrays

vSphere

VMware® Virtual SAN™

• Hyper-converged architecture
• Data persistence delivered from the hypervisor

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vSphere Virtual Volumes Extends the Control Plane of
Software-Defined Storage to the Ecosystem
VMware
VMware Software-Defined Software-Defined Storage
Storage

vSphere vSphere

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt Storage Policy-Based Mgmt

Virtual SAN vSphere Virtual Volumes

vSphere

VVOL-enabled arrays

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The Storage Partner Ecosystem has Rallied behind
Virtual SAN and Virtual Volumes

VMware Software-Defined Storage

vSphere

Storage Policy-Based Mgmt

Virtual SAN vSphere Virtual Volumes

VVOL-enabled arrays

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VMware Virtual SAN 6.0
Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage for VMs
VMware Virtual SAN 6.0
Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage for VMs

Overview

• Software-defined storage optimized for VMs

vSphere + Virtual SAN • Hypervisor-converged architecture

… • Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore
SSD Hard disks SSD SSD
• Delivers enterprise-level scalability and
Hard disks Hard disks
performance
• Managed through per-VM storage policies
• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

Virtual SAN Datastore

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Virtual SAN Can Be Deployed With A Tiered Hybrid Or All-Flash
Architecture
New!
Hybrid All-Flash

Caching
SSD PCIe SSD PCIe Ultra DIMM
Ultra DIMM

Read and Write Cache Writes cached first, Reads go direct to capacity tier

Data
Virtual SAN
Persistence
Capacity Tier
Capacity Tier Flash Devices
SAS/NL SAS/SATA/Direct-attached JBOD Reads go directly to capacity tier

40K IOPS per Host 90K IOPS per Host

+
sub-millisecond latency
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 Virtual SAN Is Hypervisor-converged

+ Virtual
Storage
Appliance

vSphere
 Virtual SAN is embedded in the vSphere Kernel
• Consumes <10% CPU

 Simple to manage
• No need to install and manage separate virtual
... appliances
• No single point of failure
Virtual SAN is • Provides the shortest path for I/O
Embedded
inside VM  Seamless integration with vSphere and VMware
Kernel
stack

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 What’s New in Virtual SAN 6.0

All Flash 4x Performance Enterprise Data Broader Hardware

Architecture 2x Scale Services Support

 New high performance  Expand scalability for

 Data persistence on SSD  90K IOPS/host (4.5x more)
snapshots & clones blades with direct-attached
 Intelligent caching and two-  Scale to 64 nodes (2x more)
 Rack awareness to tolerate JBODs
tier architecture  200 VMs/host (2x more)
rack failures  Expanded HCL and more
 62 TB max. virtual disk size
 HW-based checksum & ready nodes
encryption
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Virtual SAN 6.0 Now Ready For Business-Critical Apps

Best storage for VMs

Virtual Infrastructure

Optimized for Virtual Infrastructure

Enterprise-class

VDI DR Test/Dev

Ready for business critical apps

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Virtual SAN Trophy Room!

Best of Interop – Storage Winner (2014) Best of TechEd Winner InfoWorld – Technology of the Year (2015)
Best of Interop – Audience Choice Winner (2014) North America 2014 InfoWorld – Editors Choice Award (2014)

“By 2017 one-third of midmarket organizations will deploy Virtual SAN for at least 30% of their total storage capacity...”

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Unprecedented Customer Momentum

1000+ Customers in
the first 9 months

“In my experience VMware solutions are

rock solid…we’re ready to nearly double “ It really did work as advertised…the fact
that I have been able to set it and forget

” ”
our VSAN deployment. it is huge!
Why Customers Love Virtual SAN?
High, Predictable Performance
Radically Simple Lower TCO
with Elastic Scalability

• Two click install • Flash-acceleration and SSD • Server-side economics

persistence • No large upfront investments
• Single pane of glass
• Consistent IOPS with sub- • Grow-as-you-go
• Policy-driven
millisecond response times
• Easy to operate with powerful
• Self-tuning • Linear, non-disruptive scaling automation
• Integrated with VMware stack • Embedded in vSphere kernel • No specialized skillset needed

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What Virtual SAN Customers Were Able to Achieve…

TIME TO MANAGE REDUCED REDUCED

STORAGE STORAGE LATENCY STORAGE COST

-90% <1 ms -60%

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Virtual SAN 6 – A Closer Look

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 Virtual SAN Architecture
• Minimum of 3 hosts in a cluster configuration
• All 3 host MUST!!! contribute storage
• Recommended that hosts are configured with
VSAN datastore similar hardware
• Hosts: Scales up to 64
• Disks: Locally attached disks
o Hybrid: Magnetic disks and flash devices
REPLICA-1 REPLICA-2 o All-Flash: Flash devices only
• Network
o 1GB Ethernet OR
o 10GB Ethernet (preferred)
vSphere Cluster
• “Witness” component (only metadata) acts as
tie-breaker during availability decisions
esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03

VSAN network

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Virtual SAN All Flash Architecture
Performance with Predictable Latency

Virtual SAN All-Flash

• Flash devices used for caching as well as data
persistence
vSphere + Virtual SAN • Cost-effective all-flash 2-tier model:
o Cache is 100% write: using write-intensive, higher
… grade flash devices (SSDs, PCIe, Ultra DIMM)
o Persistence tier: can leverage lower cost read-
intensive SSDs
SSDs SSDs SSDs

• Up to 90K IOPS/Host
• Consistent performance with sub-millisecond
latencies

Virtual SAN All-Flash Datastore

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Virtual SAN Simplifies Storage
If You Know vSphere, You Know Virtual SAN

Two clicks to deploy!

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Virtual SAN Health Services
Designed to deliver troubleshooting and health reports about Virtual SAN subsystems

• Cluster Health
• Network Health
• Data Health
• Limits Health
• Physical Disk Health

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Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack
Ideal for VMware Environments

vSphere Virtual Desktop Data Protection

vMotion DRS VMware View Snapshots vSphere Data Protection

vSphere HA Storage vMotion Linked Clones vSphere Replication

Cloud Ops and Automation Disaster Recovery Storage Policy-Based Management

vCenter Operations Manager Site Recovery Manager

vCloud Automation Center

IaaS
Site A Site B

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Virtual SAN Simplifies And Automates Storage Management
Per-VM Storage Service Levels From a Single Self-tuning Datastore

Per VM Policies Set Based Software Automates

Storage Policies on Application Needs Control of Service Levels

Capacity
Storage Policy-Based Management

vSphere + Virtual SAN

Performance
SLAs

Availability
Virtual SAN
Shared Datastore

No more LUNs/Volumes!

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Virtual SAN Is Resilient To Rack, Host, Network or Disk Failures

• Automated and controlled through VM-level policy

• Zero data loss and zero downtime despite hardware

failures:
Virtual SAN Datastore
 Disk

 Host

 Network

 Rack NEW

• Interoperable with vSphere HA and Maintenance

Mode

Rack A Rack B Rack C

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Virtual SAN Enables Elastic Scaling of Performance and Capacity
No More Complex Forecasting & Large Upfront Investments

 Elastic
Grow or shrink on demand
Scale OUT
 Granular
Add more nodes
Add single nodes or disks
Scale UP
Add more Disks  Non-disruptive
No app downtime

8.8 PB

100 TB “Virtual SAN lets us buy what we need

when we need it. With non-disruptive
10 TB scaling we can add capacity or increase
performance at any time without
Capacity IOPS interrupting our operations.”
— Chris Reynolds
Senior Systems Engineer
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Virtual SAN 6.0 – Ready for Enterprise-Class Applications

Virtual SAN 6.0 Virtual SAN 6.0

Virtual SAN 5.5
Hybrid All-Flash

Hosts per Cluster 32 64 64 2x

VMs per Host 100 200 200 2x
IOPS per Host 20K 40K 90K 4.5x
Snapshot depth
per VM
2 32 32 16x
Virtual Disk size 2TB 62TB 62TB 31x

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Virtual SAN 6 Delivers New High Performance Snapshots And
Clones

10 • New redirect-on-write snapshot

9 Snapshot Performance
8
<2% impact(1) • Greater snapshot depth (up to 32
% Degradation

7
6 snapshots per object)
5
4
3 • Minimal performance degradation
2 – As low as 2% from base(1)
1
0
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10111213141516171819202122232425262728293031

Snapshot Depth

(1) Note: Depends on type of workload

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High Performance with Elastic and Linear Scalability

Up to 7M IOPs in 64 Node Cluster

VSAN Hybrid 5.5 VSAN Hybrid 6.0

7M
“We now have an environment that we can
grow organically or shrink organically
4M
depending on what our needs are… very
linear scaling. It allows to scale our
IOPS

deployments the way we want to and not

2M 1.5M
get locked in. This is the right way to do
1M 1M
505K 505K
storage, it really is!”
253K
— Alan Sprague
4 8 16 32 64 System Administrator
Oregon State University, College of Business
Number of Hosts In Virtual SAN Cluster
Notes: based on IOMeter 100% Read benchmark

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Virtual SAN Delivers Enterprise-Grade Scale
Maximum Scalability per Virtual SAN Cluster

64 6,400
Hosts VMs “I am looking for cost-savings, efficiency
and the ability to expand when we need
to, quickly. And that’s something the
Virtual SAN lets us do in every case.
For the Doe Fund, you know, it is the

7M 8.8
holy grail of storage.”
— Ryan Hoenle
Director of IT, The DOE Fund, Inc.

IOPS Petabytes

Notes: based on IOMeter 100% Read benchmark 31

Virtual SAN is Hardware Independent
Software + Hardware VMware EVO:RAIL
Component Based Virtual SAN Ready Node Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Choose individual components … 40 OEM validated server configurations A Hyper-Converged
ready for Virtual SAN deployment (2) Infrastructure Appliance
Any Server on
(HCIA) for the SDDC
vSphere Hardware
Compatibility List

SSD or PCIe

SAS/NL-SAS/ SATA
HDDs Each EVO:RAIL HCIA is pre-built on
a qualified and optimized
2U/4 Node server platform.
HBA/RAID Controller
Sold via a single SKU by qualified
…using the VMware Virtual SAN EVO:RAIL partners (3)
Compatibility Guide (VCG) (1)

Maximum Flexibility Maximum Ease of Use

Note: 1) Components must be chosen from Virtual SAN HCL, using any other components is unsupported – see Virtual SAN VMware Compatibility Guide Page
2) VMware continues to update/add list of the available Ready Nodes, please refer to Virtual SAN VMware Compatibility Guide Page for latest list 32
3) EVO:RAIL availability in 2H 2014. Exact dates will vary depending on the specific EVO:RAIL partner
 2015 & 2016

Support for Blade-only Direct Attached JBODs

• Manage disks in enclosures

• Enables Virtual SAN to scale on blade servers by
Blade Servers adding more storage to blade servers with few or no
local disks
SAS Connection

• Flash acceleration provided on the server or in the

subsystem

• Supported on both VSAN 5.5 and 6.0

Storage Blades
• Examples:
– IBM Flex SEN with x240 Blade Series

– Dell FX2 with 12G Controllers

Direct Attach Compute:Storage 1:1

Flexibly Configure Your Nodes

Virtual SAN Hardware Quick

Reference Guide
Different server and VDI profiles
for
• Hybrid, All-Flash, VDI Configs
• Different Performance/Capacity
Refer latest version here

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Virtual SAN Sizing and Configuration Tool

https://vsantco.vmware.com

Tool provides hardware sizing and

TCO guidance

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 Disaster Recovery For The Software-Defined Data Center
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery

• DR as a Service to vCloud Air shifts DR

vSphere Replication vSphere Replication investments from CapEx to OpEx

• VM-centric, storage-independent • Fully delivered and supported by VMware

replication simplifies protection
• Flexible storage topologies (External Site Recovery Manager
to Virtual SAN or vCloud Air)
Production Site Recovery Site • Centralized recovery plans enables
Site Recovery Manager Site Recovery Manager
DR scale for thousands of VMs
• DR workflow automation reduces
vSphere Replication
OpEx on DR management
vSphere vSphere
vSphere Data Protection
Virtual SAN
• Storage-efficient deduplication • Server side economics lower storage
VDP

reduces storage investments Virtual External Virtual costs

SAN Storage SAN
• WAN-efficient backup data replication VDP backup replication • Hyper-convergence on x86 platform
enables basic DR Backup Backup reduces DR footprint
datastore datastore
Why Virtual SAN Lowers TCO
CAPEX OPEX
• Server-side economics • Higher Admin Productivity
• Low Upfront Investment • Simpler Budgeting
• Granular Scaling • No Specialized Skillset
• Leverage Storage Hardware Cost
Trend
• Higher Resource Utilization
• Linear & Predictable Cost Curve

As Low as As Low as As Low as 2X-5X Lower Up to 50%

$0.25/IOPS $50/Desktop1 $0.50/GB2 OPEX4 TCO
Reduction5

1. Full clones 4. Source: Taneja Group

2. Usable capacity 5. Compared to conventional shared storage solution 37
3. Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs)
Thank You
Optional contact info
Use Cases and Case
Studies

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Customer Case Study: Oregon State University
High Performance for VDI with Budget-friendly Scaling
Challenge
Corvallis, Oregon
• Storage overburdened by VDI workloads
Academic Institution
26,000 students • User login took over 20 minutes during peak times
• Recomposing VDI environment took 10+ hours
• Manual resource-balancing not sustainable
• Limited storage budget

Solution
• Virtual SAN deployed on Dell servers

Results
• Drastically better performance: user login time reduced from 20 mins. to 1 min.
• Increased VDI scale: could support 170+ additional users on existing servers/network
• Simplified management: resetting virtual desktops reduced from 10 hours to <2 hours
Case Study: Oregon State University • Lower cost and ease of scale: lowered acquisition costs by 75% and enabled easier
Video: VSAN at Oregon State University scaling for future needs

“Before Virtual SAN, we had no ability to scale. Now…it’s a piece of cake; If I want to add additional capacity, I just add an additional server.
I don’t have to worry about whether my SAN can grow or not.” Alan Sprague,
System Administrator

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Customer Case Study: Union Hospital
Accelerating Performance For Tier-1 Applications
Challenge
Terre Haute, Indiana
Healthcare • Aging SAN reaching end of life; too expensive to replace/upgrade
2 Hospitals, 18 Clinics • SAN overload resulting in frequent database latency issues; application crashes, slow
screen refreshes, delays accessing patient records and slow reports
• Did not want to introduce new vendors in the mix

Solution
• Business-critical Applications on Virtual SAN
o GE Centricity EMR application, PM application, PACS application
o Siemens Soarian Clinicals
o Oracle database, SQL database
• Cisco UCS C-series servers

Results
• Super fast application and database response times: 200 millisecond latency
reduced to under 1 millisecond; reports completed 6 times faster

Case Study: Coming soon

• Reduced maintenance time by 1/10th
• Budget-friendly scaling enabled new projects on Virtual SAN

“We actually had clinics calling us up to say how much faster the apps were running once they were in a pure Virtual SAN environment….
It seems like the more applications we migrate to the Virtual SAN, the more departments are requesting to be on it.” Chad Elliott
Network Systems Consultant

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Customer Case Study: Peter Cremer (Global Chemicals
Manufacturer) transforms storage in secondary datacenter
Cincinnati, Ohio Challenge
Global • Rapid business growth strained storage resources
Chemicals • Aging IT infrastructure causing system crashes and expensive outages
Manufacturer • Customers demanded failsafe business continuity

Solution
• Virtual SAN deployed on Dell servers
• vSphere Replication and vSphere Data Protection
• Applications virtualized: Microsoft Dynamics ERP, Microsoft SharePoint, Targit
Business Intelligence, Quality Control software

Results
• Higher performance for data warehousing applications: queries that took 15
minutes now take less than 15 seconds
• Quickly double storage resources: positioned company to quickly scale storage in fast
moving business
• Assured system uptime: Improved data protection and ability to quickly recover in the
Case Study: Peter Cremer, N.A. event of any outage

“We can maintain our mission-critical manufacturing, ERP, data warehousing onsite…. We started the project from a perspective of risk
management but we soon realized its actually a competitive differentiator. Our IT infrastructure is now something we can show off to our
customers.” Steve Taylor
IT Manager

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Customer Case Study: IBC Bank
Challenge
Laredo, Texas • Insufficient storage for Mirage environment; wanted to scale storage without
Regional Bank impacting existing environment
• Traditional SAN vendors quotes for buying new storage were beyond budget and not
sustainable to grow capacity in long run
• Preferred solution that worked with VMware vSphere and Horizon suite

Solution
• Virtual SAN deployed on HP servers

Results
• Significant cost savings: saved 50%-60% in setting up VSAN for VDI than buying
storage arrays
• Ease of upgrading hardware in future: can leverage latest servers and hardware by
swapping out a few components at a time
• Lower day to day maintenance: could grow VDI environment without adding any
Case Study: IBC Bank additional management overheads

“Virtual SAN lets us buy what we need when we need it. With non-disruptive scaling, we can add more capacity or increase performance at any
time without interrupting our operations. ” Chris Reynolds
Senior Systems Engineer

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Additional Resources

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Additional Resources
Product Page
http://www.vmware.com/products/virtual-san/

VSAN Community
https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsan

Virtual SAN Sizing Tool

http://vsantco.vmware.com

Hands-On-Lab
http://vmware.com/go/vsanlab

Virtual SAN 60-day Free Evaluation

http://www.vmware.com/go/try-vsan-en

Software-defined Storage Sales Team

sdssales@vmware.com

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Appendix
Predictable Linear Cost
Offers lowest cost for VDI Storage

$/VDI Storage Cost

Virtual SAN Midrange Hybrid Array

Spikes correspond to
$240 scaling out due to
Storage Cost Per Desktop

IOPs requirements

$190

$140
VSAN enables
predictable linear
$90 scaling

$40
500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000
Number of Desktops

• Compared to external storage at scale

• Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs)
• Additional savings come from reduced Opex through automation
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• Virtual SAN configuration: 9 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 2 copies for availability and 10% SSD for performance