DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION on DELL POWEREDGE SERVERS the Combined Power of Dell Servers and Data Domain

DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION ON DELL POWEREDGE SERVERS The combined power of Dell servers and Data Domain

ABSTRACT This white paper provides an overview of the new Dell EMC® data protection solutions that highlight the combined power of Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition® and Dell PowerEdge® servers for efficient protection of VMware® and Hyper-V® environments leveraging pre-qualified and pre-tested configurations .

October, 2016

WHITE PAPER

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...... 5 Introduction ...... 5 Audience ...... 5

DATA DOMAIN OVERVIEW ...... 5 The Data Domain Operating System ...... 5 High speed deduplication ...... 5 Seamless integration ...... 5 Network-efficient replication...... 6 Reliability and security ...... 6 Cloud readiness ...... 6 Data Domain software ...... 6 Data Domain Boost ...... 6 Data Domain Replicator ...... 6 Data Domain Cloud Tier ...... 6

DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION...... 7 DD VE feature set ...... 7 DD VE use cases ...... 8

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY ...... 9 Dell PowerEdge server technology overview ...... 9 Dell PowerEdge server models ...... 9 Dell PowerEdge R530 server feature set ...... 9 Dell PowerEdge R730 server feature set ...... 10 Dell PowerEdge R730xd server feature set ...... 11

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW ...... 12 Data protection solution ...... 12

DELL EMC PRE-TESTED DATA PROTECTION CONFIGURATIONS ...... 12 4TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R530 server solution ...... 13 Configuration details ...... 13 Test results ...... 13 4TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R730 server solution ...... 14 Configuration details ...... 14 Test results ...... 14

8TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R730 server solution ...... 15 Configuration details ...... 15 Test results ...... 15 16TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R730xd server solution ...... 16 Configuration details ...... 16 Test results ...... 16 32TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R730xd server solution ...... 17 Configuration details ...... 17 Test results ...... 17 48TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R730xd server solution ...... 18 Configuration details ...... 18 Test results ...... 18 96TB DD VE on Dell PowerEdge R730xd server solution ...... 19 Configuration details ...... 19 Test results ...... 19

DD VE CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES...... 20 VMWARE NETWORK CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES ...... 20 HYPER-V CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES ...... 21 CONCLUSION & CUSTOMER BENEFITS ...... 21 ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ...... 21

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This white paper provides the reader with background information about the technical differentiation of Data Domain, Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE), and Dell PowerEdge servers. Specific Dell PowerEdge servers were tested with Data Domain Virtual Edition for efficient protection of VMware and Hyper-V environments. Best practices for configuration are documented in this paper since DD VE is not limited to only the tested Dell server configurations.

INTRODUCTION Data Domain protection storage has been a technology leader for many years providing industry first features and cost effective data protection for the masses. EMC recently announced Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) giving customers the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage and the simplicity, flexibility and efficiency of a software-defined solution. The combined power of Dell and EMC now gives customers tested and proven solutions where the end result value for the customer is more than 1 + 1.

This white paper provides background information, configuration information, best practices recommendations, test results, and highlights all the customer benefits of new Dell EMC data protection solutions for VMware and Hyper-V.

AUDIENCE This white paper is intended for presales engineers, technical architects, implementation specialists, technical consultants, Dell and EMC Partners, and individuals interested in leveraging Dell EMC integration of Dell and EMC products and emerging technologies.

DATA DOMAIN OVERVIEW Dell EMC Data Domain systems reduce the amount of disk storage needed to retain and protect data by ratios of 10-30x and greater. Data Domain Virtual Edition can scale up to 96TB in a single instance and Data Domain purpose built backup appliances can scale up to 150 PB of logical capacity in a single system to protect data for longer retention periods. The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence behind Data Domain that makes it the industry’s most reliable and cloud-enabled protection storage.

THE DATA DOMAIN OPERATING SYSTEM The Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) is the intelligence that powers Dell EMC Data Domain. It provides the agility, security and reliability that enables the Data Domain platform to deliver scalable, high-speed, and cloud-enabled protection storage for backup, archive and disaster recovery.

The Data Domain Operating System powers Data Domain to deduplicate data during either the backup or archive process, which maximizes performance while minimizing disk storage requirements. Deduplicated data can be stored onsite for immediate restores and longer term retention on disk. The deduplicated data can also be replicated over the WAN to a remote site or a service provider site in the cloud for disaster recovery operations, eliminating the need for tape-based backups, or for consolidating tape backups to a central location. Data Domain provides the capability to consolidate both backup and archive data on the same infrastructure allowing greater consolidation by eliminating silos of backup and archive storage and associated overhead.

The key that enables DD OS to provide industry-leading performance while minimizing disk requirements is the EMC Data Domain Stream-Informed Segment Layout (SISLTM) scaling architecture. Specifically, SISL leverages the continued advancement of CPU performance to continuously increase Data Domain system performance by minimizing disk accesses required to deduplicate data. SISL deduplicates data by identifying duplicate data segments in memory, which minimizes disk usage. This enables Data Domain throughput to be CPU-centric, not “spindle bound.”

HIGH SPEED DEDUPLICATION The EMC Data Domain Operating System delivers industry-leading speed and efficiency through variable-length deduplication. Organizations can meet the most challenging backup windows while reducing backup and archive storage requirements by 10 to 30 times, making disk a cost-effective alternative to tape.

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION DD OS enables Data Domain systems to integrate seamlessly with existing infrastructures including leading backup, archive, and enterprise applications. A Data Domain system can protect the entire enterprise including backup for Oracle, Microsoft, VMware, IBM i,

5 open systems, big data and mainframe environments as well as file and email, database, enterprise content management, and virtual machine archiving.

NETWORK-EFFICIENT REPLICATION With DD OS, organizations can replicate backup and archive data off-site faster, with minimal bandwidth for safe, tape-free disaster recovery. Data Domain systems provide flexible replication topologies to optimize backups such as full-system mirroring, selective, bidirectional, many-to-one, one-to-many, and cascaded.

RELIABILITY AND SECURITY The Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture is built into every system, providing the industry’s best defense against data integrity issues. Inline write-and-read verification, continuous fault detection, and self-healing ensure that backup and archive data is accurately stored, retained, and recoverable or accessible throughout its lifecycle on a Data Domain system. Combined with the ability to meet compliance regulations and security requirements, no other storage system provides this level of protection. Data Domain is designed as the storage of last resort – built to ensure you can reliably recover your data with confidence.

CLOUD READINESS DD OS provides secure multi-tenancy, which delivers data isolation for enterprises and service providers looking to deploy Data Domain systems in a private or public cloud. With secure multi-tenancy, a Data Domain system logically isolates tenant data, ensuring that each tenant’s data is only visible and accessible to them. Multi-tenant management and monitoring enables chargeback, trending, and tenant-level reporting.

DATA DOMAIN SOFTWARE Data Domain software components enhance the value of a Data Domain system allowing customers to benefit from advanced integration with backup and enterprise applications, simple and cost-effective tiering to the cloud, network-efficient replication, inline encryption, long-term backup retention, governance and compliance, and the ability to easily and efficiently replace physical tape.

DATA DOMAIN BOOST EMC Data Domain Boost software delivers an advanced level of integration with backup applications and database utilities, enhancing performance and ease of use. Rather than sending all data to the Data Domain system for deduplication processes, DD Boost enables the backup server or application client to send only unique data segments across the network to the Data Domain system. This reduces the amount of data transferred over the network by 80 to 99 percent. The Data Domain Boost software provides:

• Faster more efficient backups: Distributes parts of the deduplication process to backup server or application client - 50% faster backups and up to 99% less network bandwidth required.

• Simplified Disaster Recovery: Enables application to control Data Domain replication process with full catalog awareness.

• Advanced Load Balancing and Failover: Aggregates transport links for transparent load balancing and automatic link failover.

DATA DOMAIN REPLICATOR DD OS replicates only unique compressed data across the network, requiring a fraction of the time, bandwidth and cost of traditional replication methods. With cross-site deduplication only unique data is transferred across any of the WAN segments. This reduces WAN bandwidth requirements up to 99%, making network-based replication fast, reliable and cost-effective. For the highest level of security, data being replicated between Data Domain instances can be encrypted using the standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. Data Domain provides flexible replication topologies including full system mirroring, bi-directional, many-to-one, one-to-many, and cascaded.

DATA DOMAIN CLOUD TIER With Data Domain Cloud Tier, DD OS can natively tier data to a public, private or hybrid cloud for long-term retention. Only unique data is sent directly from Data Domain to the cloud and data lands on the cloud object storage already deduplicated. With deduplication ratios of 10 – 30x, the storage footprint is greatly reduced lowering overall TCO. DD Cloud Tier can scale up to 2x the max capacity of the active tier for long term retention in the cloud. With DD Encryption, data in the cloud remains secure. A broad ecosystem of backup

6 and enterprise applications and a variety of public and private clouds are supported with DD Cloud Tier including EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) and Virtustream Storage Cloud.

DD OS also provides secure multi-tenancy, which enables large enterprises and service providers to deliver data protection as a service with Data Domain in a private or hybrid cloud. With secure multi-tenancy, Data Domain logically isolates tenant data, ensuring that each tenant’s data is only visible and accessible to its owner. Secure multi-tenancy allows for tenant self-service by allowing tenants visibility only to the resources they are privileged to and catering to their needs for monitoring their resources. Physical capacity measurement allows you to capture how much physical capacity is being consumed at a file, directory, MTree, tenant, or tenant-unit level. This serves as an effective mechanism for managing shared Data Domain protection storage capacity between individual departments or tenants.

DATA DOMAIN VIRTUAL EDITION Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE) leverages the power of DD OS to deliver software-defined protection storage. DD VE is fast and simple to download, deploy and configure - and can be up and running in minutes. DD VE runs in VMware vSphere ESXi 5.5 & 6.0, Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012 R2), and supports VMware vSphere High Availability and Fault Tolerance to meet the availability needs of customers. It also supports VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), allowing VMware to balance workloads for optimal performance. DD VE provides customers with the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage and the simplicity, flexibility and efficiency of a software-defined solution as shown in Figure 1 below.

Figure 1: Data Domain Virtual Edition (DD VE)

DD VE can run on standard hardware so existing infrastructure can be utilized to deploy virtual protection storage. An assessment tool can be run during deployment to check the underlying infrastructure and ensure it meets recommended requirements. A single DD VE instance can scale from .5 TB to 96 TBs. Capacity can be easily moved between virtual systems and/or locations and can be purchased in 1 TB increments allowing you to grow capacity as the business demands it. DD VE maintains the core DD OS features and includes DD Boost, DD Encryption and DD Replicator. Configure and manage a DD VE instance using DD System Manager and centrally manage multiple DD VE instances through DD Management Center.

DD VE maintains the core Data Domain features that differentiate it as the industry-leading protection storage. This includes high- speed, variable length deduplication for a 10 – 30x reduction in storage requirements, unparalleled data integrity to ensure reliable recovery, and seamless integration with leading backup and archiving applications. DD VE also comes with DD Boost, which speeds backups by up to 50%, DD Encryption for enhanced security of data, and DD Replicator, which enables network efficient replication for faster time-to-DR readiness.

DD VE FEATURE SET DD VE features include:

• Scalability: Up to 96TBs per instance, licensed in 1TB increments

• Hypervisors: VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V

• Protocols supported: NFS, CIFS, DD Boost, BoostFS

• Manageability: DD System Manager, DD Management Center

• Replication: DD VE to physical, DD VE to DD VE, physical to DD VE (Restore)

• Security: DD Boost (in-flight encryption), Data-At-Rest Encryption (DARE), Data Domain Invulnerability Architecture

• Supportability: Call home support to EMC

• Data Domain advanced features supported: Data Domain Cloud Tier, Secure Multi-tenancy

• Data Domain features not supported with DD VE: DD VTL, DD Extended Retention, FC, DD Retention Lock, ProtectPoint

• Deployment assessment tool: simplifies deployment checks if customer environment infrastructure meets requirements

DD VE USE CASES DD VE is flexible in size and in powerful in its capabilities. Figure 2 below shows four example use cases where the DD VE solution can be a perfect fit.

1. Remote offices

2. Small or mid-sized data centers

3. Backup as a service (BaaS)

4. Replication as a service (RaaS)

Figure 2: Data Domain Virtual Edition Use Cases

DD VE enables customers to gain the benefits of the world’s most trusted protection storage with the agility, flexibility and efficiency of a software-defined solution.

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW Dell PowerEdge servers let you construct and manage highly efficient infrastructures for data centers and small businesses. Accelerate time-to-production with automated deployment processes that use fewer manual steps and reduce the potential for error. Improve IT productivity with innovative at the-server management tools like iDRAC Direct and iDRAC Quick Sync to deliver in-depth system health status and speed deployment, Optimize data center energy usage with improved performance-per-watt and more granular control of power and cooling.

The Dell OpenManage system management portfolio includes innovative solutions that simplify and automate essential server lifecycle management tasks – making IT operations more efficient and Dell servers the most productive, reliable and cost effective in the industry. Leverage the incomparable agent-free capabilities of the PowerEdge embedded integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) with Lifecycle Controller technology to streamline server deployment, configuration, and updates across the OpenManage portfolio and integrate with third-party management solutions.

Monitoring and control of Dell and third-party data center hardware is provided by OpenManage Essentials and with anytime, anywhere mobile access, through OpenManage Mobile. OpenManage Essentials now also delivers Server Configuration Management capabilities that automate one-many PowerEdge bare-metal server and OS deployments, quick and consistent replication of configurations and ensure compliance to a predefined baseline with automated drift detection. The next section provides an overview of the Dell server technology used in this solution.

DELL POWEREDGE SERVER MODELS The data protection configurations described in this paper will focus on three specific server models: the R530, the R730, and the R730xd which are described in more detail in the following sections.

DELL POWEREDGE R530 SERVER FEATURE SET Designed for data centers that need an affordable, virtualization-ready, two-socket rack server, the PowerEdge R530 is an excellent platform for a wide range of common business applications and small scale virtualization. The R530 is also highly attractive as a dedicated development or backup server.

The Dell R530 server accelerates performance across a wide range of workloads with the latest Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family. The RT530’s 12 DIMM slots and DDR4 memory drive greater memory performance. The five PCIe slots, including three PCIe 3.0 slots drive 2x data throughput compared to the previous generation boosting I/O performance.

The Dell R530 server easily accommodates data growth with support for up to 8 x 3.5” hard drives. Select from a range of RAID options for data protection and optimized performance. Adapt to changing workload conditions with an expandable platform, which is ready for virtualization and high-availability clustering.

Figure 3: Dell PowerEdge R530 Server (front)

The following table highlights the Dell PowerEdge R530 server Technical Specifications:

Form Factor 2U rack server

Processor Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family, 2 socket, C610 chipset

Memory DDR4 DIMMs at up to 2400MT/s; 12 DIMM slots: 4GB/6GB/16GB/32GB

I/O Slots Support for up to 5 x PCIe, 3x PCIe 3.0, 2x PCIe 2.0

Internal Storage Up to 8 x 3.5” SAS, SATA, nearline SAS, SSD drives

RAID Controller Internal controllers: PERC S130 (SW RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730, PERC H730P

Network Controller 4 x 1GbE

Power Supplies 495W, 750W, 1100W hot-plug PSU; -48V DC 1100W hot-plug PSU; 450W cabled PSU.

ReadyRails™ II sliding rails for tool-less mounting in 4-post racks with square or unthreaded round holes Rack Support or tooled mounting in 4-post threaded hole racks, with support for optional tool-less cable management arm.

DELL POWEREDGE R730 SERVER FEATURE SET The PowerEdge R730 excels as a data node for a wide range of very demanding workloads for midsized and large enterprises, such as data warehouses, e-commerce, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), databases and high-performance computing (HPC). When configured with 3.5” drives, the R730 provides up to 64TB of rapidly accessible storage for databases, business intelligence, and HPC applications.

The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family and state-of-the-art DDR4 memory drives peak compute performance across a wide variety of workloads. A maximum of 16 x 12Gbps SAS drives and high performance dual RAID controllers boost data access. Take advantage of advanced accelerators and GPUs to maximize performance in HPC, VDI and imaging environments.

With 24 DIMMs of high-capacity, low-power DDR4 memory, seven PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0 expansion slots and highly scalable local storage, the R730 is extremely flexible. Create a dense, resource-rich virtualization environment with up to 16 2.5” drives. Combine that with the R730’s GPU capability to save infrastructure costs and consolidate management operations in a scalable and centralized virtual desktop environment. The GPU option also makes the R730 an excellent choice as a midrange medical imaging solution.

Figure 4: Dell PowerEdge R730 Server (front)

The following table highlights the Dell PowerEdge R730 server Technical Specifications: 10

Form Factor 2U rack server

Processor Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family, Intel C610 series chipset

Memory Up to 1.5TB (24 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB DDR4 up to 2400MT/s

I/O Slots Up to 7 x PCIe 3.0 plus dedicated PERC slot

HDD: SAS, SATA, nearline SAS SSD: SAS, SATA Internal Storage 16 x 2.5” – up to 29TB via 1.8TB hot-plug SAS hard drives 8 x 3.5” – up to 64TB2 via 8TB hot-plug NL SAS hard drives

RAID Controller Internal controllers: PERC S130 (SW RAID), PERC H330, PERC H730, PERC H730P

Network Controller 4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10+2GbE, 4 x 10GbE NDC

Titanium efficiency 750W AC power supply; 1100W DC power supply; Platinum efficiency 495W, 750W, Power Supplies 1100W AC power supply

DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER FEATURE SET Designed with an incredible range of configurability, the PowerEdge R730xd meets the needs of many different workloads with the latest Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4 product family, 24 DIMMS of high-performance DDR4 memory and a broad range of local storage options. When configured with 3.5” drives, the R730xd provides up to 128TB of rapidly accessible storage for databases, business intelligence, and HPC applications.

The Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family and state-of-the-art DDR4 memory drives peak compute performance across a wide variety of workloads. In its 24-drive, dual PERC configuration, the R730xd can be an excellent database server delivering more than one million IOPS performance. Scale quickly and easily with front-accessible devices ranging from low-cost SATA hard drives to 1.8” ultra-fast, low-latency PowerEdge Express Flash NVMe PCIe SSDs.

With 24 DIMMs of high-capacity, low-power DDR4 memory, six PCI Express® (PCIe) 3.0 expansion slots plus a dedicated RAID card slot, and highly scalable local storage, the R730xd is extremely flexible. Unlike previous PowerEdge servers, the R730xd can be tailored for application performance by mixing high-speed 1.8” SSDs and low-cost, high-capacity 3.5” hard drives in a single hybrid chassis, enabling accelerated data access through in-server storage tiering.

Figure 5: Dell PowerEdge R730xd Server (front)

The following table highlights the Dell PowerEdge R730xd server Technical Specifications:

Form Factor 2U rack server

Processor Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 v4 product family, Intel C610 series chipset

Memory Up to 1.5TB (24 DIMM slots): 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB/64GB DDR4 up to 2400MT/s

I/O Slots Up to 6 x PCIe 3.0 plus dedicated PERC slot

up to 26 x 2.5” SAS, SATA, nearline SAD, SSD, PCIe SSD drives Internal Storage up to 18 x 1.8” SAS, SATA, nearline SAS, SSD + 8 x 3.5” SAS, SATA, SSD drives + 2 x 2.5” HDD up to 16 x 3.5" SAS, SATA, nearline SAS, SSD + 2 x 2.5” drives

RAID Controller Internal controllers: PERC H330, PERC H730, PERC H730P, External controller PERC H830

Network Controller 4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10+2GbE, 4 x 10GbE NDC

Titanium efficiency 750W AC power supply; 1100W DC power supply; Platinum efficiency 495W, 750W, Power Supplies 1100W AC power supply

REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

DATA PROTECTION SOLUTION By running Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition on Dell PowerEdge servers, customers gain the unique value of using DD VE software on pre-certified Dell PowerEdge Servers. So, they are assured the infrastructure will meet the requirements to deploy their software-defined protection storage. This combination gives customers cost optimized, flexible one-stop sales and support for their virtualized data protection. The pre-certified configurations have been sized at 4TB, 8TB, 16TB, 32TB, 48TB, and 96TB.

Data Domain Virtual Edition with qualified Dell Servers allows for two best of breed products to be brought together for customers who prefer software solutions for their infrastructure deployed in a standard non-proprietary hardware for data protection.

DD VE with Dell servers are intended for Remote Offices with scalability in the 4TB – 16TB range and for small and medium sized offices or for data centers with scalability in the 32TB – 96 TB range.

DELL EMC PRE-TESTED DATA PROTECTION CONFIGURATIONS Dell EMC has pre-qualified and pre-tested 7 configurations which are shown below and discussed in more detail in the following sections. In all cases the performance testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT tools with single stream and multi-stream writes into multiple Data Domain MTrees with a data change rate of 11.05%. The testing used DD VE 3.0 running on VMware & Hyper-V.

4TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R530 SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of a 4TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R530 server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 4TB DD VE on Dell R530 server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R530 server

• 4TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 2 cores

• Virtual Memory: 6GB

• Disk: 1x4TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 4TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R530 server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to 6 MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 140MB/s single stream and 551MB/s with 16 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below.

DD VE 3.0 (4TB) on Dell PowerEdge R530

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 4x1GbE 72 0.26 160 0.57 8 NFS 4x1GbE 83 0.30 145 0.52 16 DD Boost 4x1GbE 112 0.40 441 1.59 16

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 4x1GbE 61 0.22 74 0.27 4 NFS 4x1GbE 20 0.07 46 0.17 8

DD Boost 4x1GbE 61 0.22 78 0.28 4

4TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730 SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of a 4TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R730 server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 4TB DD VE on Dell R730 server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R730 server

• 4TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 2 cores

• Virtual Memory: 6GB

• Disk: 1x4TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 4TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730 server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to 6 MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 137MB/s single stream and 555MB/s with 16 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below.

DD VE 3.0 (4TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 4x1GbE 161 0.58 248 0.89 8 NFS 4x1GbE 162 0.58 223 0.80 16 DD Boost 4x1GbE 110 0.40 444 1.60 16

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 4x1GbE 59 0.21 73 0.26 4 NFS 4x1GbE 27 0.10 56 0.20 8

DD Boost 4x1GbE 61 0.22 74 0.27 4

8TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730 SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of an 8TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R730 server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 4TB DD VE on Dell R730 server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R730 server

• 8TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 3 cores

• Virtual Memory: 8GB

• Disk: 1x8TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 8TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730 server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to 6 MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 213MB/s single stream and 920MB/s with 16 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below.

DD VE 3.0 (8TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 4x1GbE 165 0.60 262 0.94 8 NFS 4x1GbE 220 0.79 246 0.88 16 DD Boost 4x1GbE 171 0.62 736 2.65 16

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 4x1GbE 86 0.31 86 0.31 4 NFS 4x1GbE 80 0.29 82 0.29 8

DD Boost 4x1GbE 74 0.27 86 0.31 4

16TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of a 16TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R730xd server. This configuration supports the Data Domain Cloud Tier option.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 16TB DD VE on Dell R730xd server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R730xd server

• 16TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 4 cores

• Virtual Memory: 16GB

• Disk: 1x16TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 16TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730xd server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to multiple MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 246MB/s single stream and 995MB/s with 64 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below:

DD VE 3.0 (16TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730xd

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 169 0.61 478 1.72 8 NFS 2x10GbE 284 1.02 523 1.88 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 197 0.71 796 2.87 64

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 55 0.20 59 0.21 8 NFS 2x10GbE 49 0.18 60 0.21 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 41 0.15 64 0.23 64

32TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of a 32TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R730xd server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 48TB DD VE on Dell R730xd server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R730xd server

• 32TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 4 cores

• Virtual Memory: 24GB

• Disk: 2x16TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 32TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730xd server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to multiple MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 251MB/s single stream and 2,216MB/s with 64 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below:

DD VE 3.0 (32TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730xd

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 166 0.60 540 1.94 8 NFS 2x10GbE 309 1.11 622 2.24 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 201 0.72 1773 6.38 64

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 69 0.25 83 0.30 8 NFS 2x10GbE 58 0.21 88 0.32 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 58 0.21 90 0.32 64

48TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of a 48TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R730xd server.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 48TB DD VE on Dell R730xd server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R730xd server

• 48TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 4 cores

• Virtual Memory: 32GB

• Disk: 4x12TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 48TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730xd server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to multiple MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 247MB/s single stream and 3,667MB/s with 64 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below:

DD VE 3.0 (48TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730xd

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 171 0.62 549 1.98 8 NFS 2x10GbE 308 1.11 611 2.20 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 198 0.71 2934 10.56 64

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 101 0.36 145 0.52 8 NFS 2x10GbE 65 0.23 141 0.51 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 73 0.26 138 0.50 64

96TB DD VE ON DELL POWEREDGE R730XD SERVER SOLUTION This section summarizes the testing of a 96TB Data Domain Virtual Edition configuration running on a Dell PowerEdge R730xd server. This configuration supports the Data Domain Cloud Tier option.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS The configuration details of the pre-tested 96TB DD VE on Dell R730xd server were:

• Dell PowerEdge R730xd server

• 96TB DD VE capacity

• DD VE 3.0

• VMware ESXi6.0, Hyper-V

• Virtual CPU: 1 Socket with 8 cores

• Virtual Memory: 64GB

• Disk: 6x16TB Data Disk (on DAS) with 7200RPM SAS drives, RAID5

• Ports: 2x 10Gbe VMXNET3 vNICs

TEST RESULTS 96TB DD VE Dell PowerEdge R730xd server configuration testing was done using Perflow/SWIFT for single stream and multiple streams to multiple MTrees. Peak write performance observed for this configuration was as high as 256MB/s single stream and 5,857MB/s with 64 streams using the DD Boost protocol. However, in the real world you should expect to see sustained performance similar to the chart below:

DD VE 3.0 (96TB) on Dell PowerEdge R730xd

Sustained Throughput

Single-S Write Multi- Stream Write

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 242 0.87 872 3.14 8 NFS 2x10GbE 307 1.11 980 3.53 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 205 0.74 4686 16.87 64

Single-S Read Multi- Stream Read

Min Protocol Network MB/s TB/Hr MB/s TB/Hr Streams CIFS 2x10GbE 150 0.54 263 0.95 8 NFS 2x10GbE 164 0.59 263 0.95 8 DD Boost 2x10GbE 112 0.40 260 0.94 64

DD VE CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES DD VE uses virtual hardware version 9. It is recommended not to upgrade virtual hardware version. The chart below shows the DD VE configuration best practice requirements.

CPU settings except reservation and limit must not be changed. Memory settings except memory size and reservation must not be changed. DD VE requires “Reserve all guest memory (All locked)” option checked. DD VE uses open source Vmtools version 10.0.0.

VMWARE NETWORK CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES Below are some Do’s and Don’ts of VMware networking for Data Domain Virtual Edition:

• To the extent possible separate the VM Kernel port group traffic and DD VE port group traffic. Possibly onto different physical NICs of the ESXi host. This prevents VM Kernerl control traffic from being impacted at peak DD VE traffic times.

• The same rule applies to vmNICs, separate traffic so that one can effectively utilize all the physical interfaces. This helps to even out the traffic distribution amongst the interfaces so that some are not overloaded whilst others are idle.

• Please be aware that there are automatic rollbacks that are performed on ESXi when a configuration is not valid. For example on a distributed switch changing MTU to invalid number, or changing parameters of teaming, traffic shaping that are invalid, then automatic rollback of the configuration may occur.

• To disable automatic rollback on VMware infrastructure, please refer to the following link.

• For more information on VMware Networking policies, please refer to the following link.

• For more information on VMware MAC address management, please refer to the following link.

• For more information on VMware network best practices, please refer to the following link.

• For more information on VMware packet capturing, please refer to the following link.

HYPER-V CONFIGURATION BEST PRACTICES Below are some Do’s and Don’ts of Microsoft Hyper-V configuration.

• To the extent possible separate the Hyper-V port group traffic and DD VE port group traffic. Possibly onto different physical NICs of the Hyper-V host. This prevents Hyper-V Kernel control traffic from being impacted at peak DD VE traffic times.

CONCLUSION & CUSTOMER BENEFITS Dell EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition running on Dell PowerEdge servers offers a unique value to customers by allowing them to use DD VE software on pre-certified Dell’s PowerEdge Servers. This combination gives customers cost optimized, flexible one-stop sales and support for their virtualized data protection. Data Domain Virtual Edition with a qualified Dell Server allows for two best of breed products to be brought together for customers who prefer software solutions for their infrastructure deployed in a standard non- proprietary hardware for data protection.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES Dell PowerEdge R530 Specification Sheet

Dell PowerEdge R730 Specification Sheet

Back to Basics: Data Domain Systems overview Video with slides

Data Domain SISL Scaling Architecture – A Detailed Review white paper

Data Domain Replicator – A Detailed Review white paper

Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture – A Detailed Review white paper

Data Domain SMT Integrating Replication as a Service (RaaS) Solution Brief white paper

Data Domain Virtual Edition Overview – Lightboard Video

Why you Should be Looking at EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition – ESG Analyst Video

Data Domain Data Invulnerability Architecture – Lightboard Video

A Hands On Look at EMC Data Domain Virtual Edition - ESG Analyst Video

Why Data Domain – Business Value paper

Why DD Boost – Business Value paper

Why Data Domain Secure Multi-tenancy – Business Value paper