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Scaleio & Vsan Software-Defined SCALEIO & VSAN SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE – THE REVOLUTION IS HERE! CHRISTIAN SCHLÖSSER SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER SDS, DELL EMC [email protected] GLOBAL SPONSORS GLOBAL SPONSORS Software-Defined Storage is Top of Mind for Storage Leaders 48% of storage leaders are actively investigating or piloting SDS solutions Currently evaluating SDS 20 in a POC or a Actively nonproduction 9 Not doing investigating environment anything 36% 14 currently Broad production 38% deployment 7 Limited production deployment 16 (specific use cases) 10 2015 Plan to investigate SDS 14 Full deployment within 12 to 24 months 14 2014 7% Piloting Limited 12% deployment 0 5 10 15 20 7% Percentage of Respondents Source: Top Five Use Cases of Software-Defined Storage, Gartner, April 2016 2 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. SDS will grow at over 23% CAGR REVENUE PROJECTIONS Hyperscale Server SAN Storage Traditional Enterprise Storage (SAN, NAS + DAS) Enterprise Server SAN and HCI 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 The traditional storage model based on islands of proprietary code supporting proprietary data services and proprietary management tools will not be a significant part of this interconnected computing beyond 2020.1 1 Wikibon Premium Report: Server SAN 2012-2026, David Floyer, 15 July 2015 3 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Software-Defined Storage (SDS) Delivers… INFRASTRUCTURE WEB-SCALE PERPETUAL SIMPLIFICATION EFFICENCY LIFECYCLE • Standardize using x86 • Simplify deployment • No data migrations… servers & Ethernet with minimal variation Ever! • Deploy, operate, of components • Simplify storage and refresh in an • Consolidate everything lifecycle with perpetual automated fashion on Flash or Hybrid software using software • On-demand growth • Rolling upgrades… • Allocate and balance with incremental Get rid of your forklift resources based upon expansion upgrades! each application’s need 4 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. 3 different types of SDS in the market today Type 1: Retrofit SDS Type 2: Vertically Integrated Type 3: General Purpose (Horizontal) VM VM VM VM VM VM Cluster 1 Cluster 2 Cluster 3 VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM vSphere vSphere Other VM/OS vSphere vSphere Other VM/OS vSphere vSphere Other VM/OS Fibre Channel VM SSD SSD SSD SSD HDD HDD X86. SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD SSD X86. Ethernet x86. SAN Ethernet Ethernet Ethernet SDS in name only, SAN in disguise Ease of use paramount, fully integrated w/ VM Flexibility and perf. paramount, SAN replacement Not Scale-out, not pay-as-you-grow model Managed by VM admin Managed by storage/server admin Cannot do Hyperconverged Optimize resources at single platform level Optimize resources across data center Homogeneous VM and heterogeneous workload Heterogeneous VM/OS, heterogeneous workload 5 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Modernization of the Data Center Being Fueled by HCI Traditional 3-Tiered Architecture Hyper-Converged Complex and Separate Silos Infrastructure Lower total costs Virtualizatio n Unified Management Greater agility and scale Virtualization Compute | Storage | Network Simplified management Server + Storage Network Servers Externa Networking and Blades l Hardware Storag Built on Industry-Standard e Servers and Switches 6 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. HCI Powered by VMware vSAN Runs on any standard x86 server Pools SSDs/HDDs into a shared datastore vSphere vSAN Delivers enterprise- grade security, scale and Managed by vCenter performance Managed through per-VM storage policies vSAN Storage Deeply integrated with the VMware stack Internal Use - Confidential © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 7 You are Already Just a Step Away from HCI Build on the virtualization foundation and expertise you already have Traditional Hyper-Converged vSphere Infrastructure Infrastructure No risk of new VMware SDDC 3rd Party VMware SDDC 3rd Party solution ecosystem Solutions Ecosystem Solutions Ecosystem No risk of new vSphere vSphere vSAN software installation Managed by vCenter Managed by vCenter No risk of new management tool No risk of new + server vendor Storage ++Networking Servers Optional Internal Use - Confidential © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 9 Simplify Security and Compliance Needs with Native HCI Encryption Meet key compliance and security requirements Simple per-cluster Deploy on all-flash encryption vSAN or hybrid systems Protect against unwanted Storage access or drive theft Secure with leading KMIP Hardware independence compliant key managers provides choice Flexibility to deploy on flash hardware of choice, including existing drives Built for Use with storage compliance efficiency features Lower cost by eliminating need for costly self- encrypting drives Simplified management with a single cluster-wide key to manage and change Internal Use - Confidential © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 11 Site Protection for 50% Less than Traditional Evolve Lower Scale to Solutions with Enhanced Stretched Clusters without Risk TCO Tomorrow Greater availability with 3rd site for witness local and site protection 50% lower costs compared to leading external storage solutions RAID-1 Simplified operations with RAID-6 RAID-6 policy-based management for non-disruptive changes Cluster Cluster Increased flexibility with vSphere vSAN granular per-VM policies and 1-click witness replacement 5ms RTT, 10GbE Internal Use - Confidential © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 1212 Data Protection Solutions available for VMware vSAN Dell EMC is the first partner solution certified with “VMware Ready for vSAN” VMware Solutions “VMware Ready for vSAN” Partner Solutions Site Recovery Manager Avamar; NetWorker; RecoverPoint for VMs; Data Domain vSphere Replication Other 3rd party solutions Internal Use - Confidential © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Customers Are Transforming the Data Center with vSAN Largest Global Renowned Airline in Direct Pizza Chain Europe Selling Giant Challenges Challenges Challenges • High cost of buying and maintaining SAN • Complex, heterogeneous environment • High CapEx and support/maintenance costs • SAN not flexible enough • Meet demanding performance needs of • User complaints of slowness/performance billing and reservation systems • Performance lacking for smaller arrays • Costly and complex to scale Solution Solution • Line of business applications and SQL • Primary storage for online ordering systems Solution databases on vSAN and databases • 800TB-1PB across multiple clusters • All-Flash VDI with Horizon and vSAN solution • 300+ stores across Europe and Middle East • All-Flash for latency sensitive workloads • Shared storage for remote offices • Tier-1 OLTP applications like mission- critical billing and reservation systems on vSAN Results Results • Simplicity: small team of generalists can • Simplified day-to-day management manage compute and storage provisioning • 20x performance improvement: Application • 40% Cost Savings over traditional arrays Results task times reduced from 20mins < 1min • Less power and rack space • Less siloed, more productive teams • Over 50% acquisition cost savings over SAN • Lean and efficient day-to-day operations • Grow easily without downtime • Easy to scale: grow with unpredictable airline business Internal Use - Confidential © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 14 What was once considered web-scale is being reported by today’s enterprises ACTUAL ENTERPRISE SAME AMOUNT OF AS OF 2010 CUSTOMERS DATA AS FB BUT… 30PB 60K 10PB 100PB MULTIPLE In ESX of Oracle Storage Arrays Data Servers environment alone 20PB 100PB COMPLEX 2016 2016 0 0 SAN Infrastructure ZERO ZERO Limited Storage SAN 4PB growth year 7PB growth LIFECYCLE Arrays Infrastructure over year each year 16 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. ScaleIO brings the power of SDS to data centers Software-defined storage which applies the principles of server virtualization to standard x86 server local disks, creating a flexible, scalable, enterprise-class block storage solution. Abstract Pool Automate Abstracts the local storage Pools all of the storage Automatically allocates and out of each server, including resources together, leaving balances resources based HDD, SDD and All-Flash no resources stranded upon each application’s need 17 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Change how you build your Data Center with ScaleIO Standardize your infrastructure with these building blocks Software-Defined Standard x86 Software Ethernet Storage Hardware Network Escape the cycle of complexity. Begin operating with ruthless efficiency. 18 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Transform the Storage Lifecycle From This… $$$$$$$$$ Weeks Weeks Weeks 3-5 Years Months Configure Order & delivery Installation Useful life Data migration and setup Expansions $$$$ $$$$$$$$$ Weeks Weeks Weeks 3-5 Years Configure Order & delivery Installation Useful life and setup To This!!! Min. Days Min. Reclaimed Time Perpetual Reclaimed Cost Configure Order and Installation Useful life delivery and setup Expansions $ 19 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Start Operating with Ruthless Efficiency ScaleIO 5-year cost of operations per organization Faster storage Total: $2.83 Million deployments 3.0 $41,800 50% Lower cost 2.5 $639,800 2.0 Total: $1.40 Million $1,022,500 1.5 $1,600 Faster application $157,500 $79,000 1.0 $498,400 development cycle $430,400 $38,500 $M per organization per $M 0.5 $290,200 $618,500 $418,000 0 Without ScaleIO With ScaleIO Unplanned downtime productivity cost Lower TCO Ongoing support staff time cost Ongoing management staff time cost Initial deployment staff time cost Ongoing cost of maintenance
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