Next Generation Software-Defined Storage

Editor's Notes

• #4: Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure. Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability. Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter. Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality. Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
• #5: Slide objective: Deliver a crystal clear message of the value of SvSAN vs a physical SAN as a simple summary after the Dave and Larry video or on its own if the video is not shown. Link statement: “I trust the message from the video is clearly understood. In summary, a Physical SAN is costly, complex and a single point of failure; whereas SvSAN is affordable, simple and highly available.”. Key messages to deliver: A physical SAN adds a 3rd piece of highly complex and costly infrastructure to the deployment. By leveraging the internal disk of a server SvSAN delivers a more affordable, simple and highly available solution. Built from the ground up for lean IT spaces.
• #6: Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure. Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability. Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter. Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality. Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
• #9: Storage link aggregation – Team multiple network links to aggregate network bandwidth for SvSAN mirror traffic vCenter Dashboard – centalized monitoring vCenter event forwarding – centralized monitoring Microsoft System Center Operation Manager Management Pack – Centralized monitoring Cisco UCS Director integration – Centralized management Heterogeneous storage – the ability to use any storage type Monitoring options – SNMP & SMTP (email) events – Centralized management
• #19: Working sets are driven by the workload, the applications driving the workload, and the VMs that they run on. Whether the persistent storage is local, shared, or distributed, it really doesn’t matter from the perspective of how the VMs see it. The size will be largely the same. Working sets are always relate to a time period. However, it’s a continuum. And there will be cycles in the data activity over time. Working set will comprise of reads and writes. The amount of each is important to know because reads and writes have different characteristics, and demand different things from your storage system. Working set size refers to an amount, or capacity, but what and how many I/Os it took to make up that capacity will vary due to ever changing block sizes. Working set sizes evolve as workloads change.
• #24: I/Os 27,887,207 Read 16,732,160 Write 44,619,367 Total
• #26: Current 300GB 15k SAS $579 (652611-B21) Total $8,106   New SSD $1,439 (816909-B21) Total $1,439 2TB 7.2k $1,059 (765455-B21) Total $4,236   Total old drives $8,106 Total new drives $5,675   Total saving per server $2,431 Total saving per site (2 servers) $4,862   Total sites saving $10,696,400