Dell EMC CPSD & Splunk
Keith Quebodeaux, Principal Architect-CPSD Specialists
Alex Rodriguez, Sr. Mgr. CPSD Specialists
1 1 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Why Dell EMC for Splunk?
• EMC and Splunk partnership with co-investment – Dedicated Splunk Alliances Team – Dell EMC “Splunk Ninjas” › Over 35 global resources › Same training as Splunk internal sales and systems engineers – Dell EMC and Splunk events › Splunk .conf › Splunk Live › Splunk partner conferences › Dell EMC Forum
• Dell EMC-Splunk joint validation and certification – Vxblock 540 and XtremIO – VxRack Flex and ScaleIO – VxRail – Isilon – DSSD
2 2 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. WHY DELL EMC - DAS PRESENTS CHALLENGES
Dedicated Infrastructure SPLUNK DAS ENVIRONMENT 1 • Silo that only runs Splunk Compromised Availability • SSDs & servers fail 1x 1x 2 • Index rebuilds can take hours to days Lack of Enterprise Data Protection • No Snapshots or Compliance 3 • DR limited to Multisite Clustering 2x 2x Poor Storage Efficiency 4 • Indexer Clustering Increases Overhead Non-Optimized Growth 3x 3x • Fixed compute to storage ratio 5 • Servers must maintain storage symmetry Management complexity 6 • Multiple management points
3 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Why Splunk?
FAST TIME-TO-VALUE
ONE PLATFORM, MULTIPLE USE CASES
VISIBILITY ACROSS STACK, NOT JUST SILOS
ASK ANY QUESTION OF DATA
ANY DATA, ANY SOURCE OR DEPLOYMENT MODEL
4 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Converged Systems DELL EMC HAS THE BROADEST CI PORTFOLIO IN THE INDUSTRY
ENGINEERED MANUFACTURED MANAGED SUPPORTED SUSTAINED
AS ONE PRODUCT
5 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Converged infrastructure transforms IT
COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION
MORE APPLICATIONS A FASTER TIME- 4.6X DEPLOYED TO- MARKET 4.4X
REDUCTION IN LESS TIME KEEPING 96% DOWNTIME LIGHTS ON 41%
CONVERGED OPERATIONS
Source: IDC doc#255798, The Business Value of EMC Vblock Systems, May 2015
6 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Use cases dictate solution approaches
Easy to Use Scale Small to Big Scalability Low Cost Software Defined Rich Data Services Start Small & Grow Lowest TCO at Scale TCO GB-TB Ingest/Day 100sGB-PB Ingest/Day TBs-PB Ingest/Day Hyper-Converged Hyper-Converged Traditional Appliances at Rack-Scale Converged
7 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. WHY DELL EMC CPSD FOR SPLUNK OPTIMIZED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BIG & FAST DATA
Optimized Shared Cost-Effective & Powerful Data Storage & Tiering Flexible Scale-Out Services
Hot & Warm Data Deployed Encyption & Index File On XtremIO or Security Compression ScaleIO, VxRail
Cold & Frozen Data Deployed Scale-Out Capacity & Snapshots For Deduplication Of On Isilon Compute Independently Or Backups Clustered Indexes As Converged Platform
8 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Dell EMC VxBlock and Vblock Systems PROVEN AND TRUSTED
Best-in-class hardware and software
Modular design for data center scale
“Engineered system” experience
9 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. DELL EMC VxBLOCK 540 & SPLUNK ALL-FLASH INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HOT & WARM DATA
High-Speed Search Search Heads Powerful Data Accelerate SuperSparse Services & Rare Searches Indexers
Self-Encrypting Index File Flash Drives Compression
Scale-Out Flash For I/O-Bound Data In-Memory Data Dedupe Clustered Copy Services Index Copies >1M IOPS & <1ms Latencies
10 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Dell EMC VxRack System 1000
Built-in networking Fully integrated rack-scale fabric
Simple to manage, upgrade and sustain
Start small, Grow BIG
Software-defined for workload flexibility
11 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. VxRail™ hyper-converged appliance Exclusive partnership between Dell EMC and VMware
VIRTUAL DESKTOPS SERVER WORKLOADS HYBRID CLOUD DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE Deploy hundreds of desktops Standardize and consolidate Seamless backup and replication to Manage and Orchestrate across locations in minutes on one appliance infrastructure for all the cloud with no downtime remote/departmental workloads
MULTIPLE CONFIGS NON-DISRUPTIVE DATA SERVICES INTEGRATED and SCALE POINTS SDDC SCALE OUT FOR EFFICIENCY REPLICATION
12 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. DELL EMC HYPERCONVERGED & SPLUNK CONVERGED ARCHITECTURE FOR HOT & WARM DATA
Converged Splunk Search Heads Shared Capacity & Architecture Performance VxRail and VxRack Flex Indexers Remove Silos & Increase ROI On DAS Capacity & No Single Point Of Failure
5K IOPS 5K IOPS 5K IOPS 5K IOPS 5K IOPS 1 TB 1 TB 1 TB 1 TB 1 TB 25K IOPS & 5TB
13 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Splunk Validation on VxRail All Flash
• 3Q2016 VxRail All Flash Validated for Splunk
• Meets or Exceeds Splunk Reference Hardware
• Tested Single Instance and Distributed Splunk Deployment
• Distributed Test Environment – 2 Forwarders – 2 Indexers – 1 Search Head – 1 Control VM – All Nodes Virtualized
14 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. DELL EMC ISILON STE & SPLUNK LOW-COST & SECURE SCALE-OUT FOR COLD DATA
Search Heads Consolidate, Protect & Secure Cold Data Indexers
High-Speed Ingest Self-Encrypting SmartLock Protects & Long-Term Retention With Drives Cold & Frozen Data Native HDFS Integration
Snapshots IQ SmartDedupe For Scale-Out Capacity For Backups Clustered Indexes Up To 50PB Of Highly Available Capacity
15 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Dell EMC Splunk Applications
Free on Splunkbase to drive insight of converged platforms
• Dell
• Dell EMC
• Isilon
• Health
• OneFS Audit
• XtremIO
• VNX
• Cisco
16 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Resources
• DellEMC.com/EMC.com
• VCE.com
• EMC Community Network
• BigDataBeard.com (Dell EMC Splunk Ninja External Blog)
• .conf 2015 and 2016 Recorded Sessions
• Dell EMC Splunk Ninjas (Dell EMC Account Manager)
• Splunkbase
17 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc. Q & A 19 © Copyright 2016 Dell Inc.