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This document summarizes an event hosted by Assyrus Srl about the evolution of enterprise storage. It discusses VMware Virtual SAN, a hyperconverged storage solution that aggregates locally attached storage from ESXi hosts. It also covers Microsoft Storage Spaces, which allows storage to be created from various types of internal and attached disks. The document provides examples of how Dell has implemented and supported both Virtual SAN and Storage Spaces on its PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage enclosures to provide hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
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- 1. 6 Maggio 2016 Andrea Mauro IT Director – Assyrus Srl http://assyrus.it Evento Dell-Assyrus sull'evoluzione dello storage enterprise
- 3. 3 VMware Virtual SAN • Storage scale out architecture built into the hypervisor • Aggregates locally attached storage from each ESXi host in a cluster • Dynamic capacity and performance scalability • Flash optimized storage solution • Fully integrated with vSphere and interoperable: – vMotion, DRS, HA, VDP, VR … • VM-centric data operations vSphere + Virtual SAN Hard disksHard disks SSD SSD Hard disks SSD … Virtual SAN Shared Datastore • Hypervisor-Converged storage platform
- 4. 4 Management Clusters Use Cases Backup and DR Target DMZ / Isolated Tier 2 / Tier 3 Test / Dev / Staging Private cloud Virtual Desktop ROBO VDI Site A Site B vSphere VSAN
- 5. 5 Two Ways to Build a Virtual SAN Node Completely Hardware Independent 1. Virtual SAN Ready Node …with multiple options available at GA + 30 Preconfigured server ready to use Virtual SAN… 2. Build Your Own …using the Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide* Choose individual components … Flash: SSD or PCIe SAS/NL-SAS/ SATA HDDs Any Server on vSphere Hardware Compatibility List HBA/RAID Controller
- 7. 7 Microsoft SDS : Past , Present and Future Dependent on Traditional Storage • Relied on 3rd party SAN vendors 1st wave SDS • Introduction to Storage Spaces • “Remote File solution for Hyper-V using shared JBOD • Introducied Scale Out File Server ( SOFS) • RDMA and Multichannel • SAN independence Storage Spaces Direct • Remote File solution for Hyper-V using shared nothing hardware • Unlock use of DAS • Reduce Cost Software Storage Bus • SATA and NVMe • Node Fault Tolerance • Health Services Storage Spaces Enhancements • Scalable pools • Data Rebalancing Pre Windows 2012 Windows 2012 Windows 2012 R2 Windows 2016 2nd wave SDS • Storage Tiering • WriteBack Cache (WBC) • Scale Out File Server improvements • SMB Direct Improvements • Volume Rebalancing • Multiple instances • JBOD monitoring
- 8. 8 Dell’s Journey With Storage Spaces Sept 2012: Windows 2012 Release: Understanding the technology and feedback to Microsoft Oct 2013: Windows 2012 R2 Release Internal testing and active feedback to Microsoft Nov 2013: Worked closely with Microsoft in developing JBOD monitoring feature Feb 2014: Support Storage Spaces using PowerVault MD1200 and MD1220 May 2014: Support Storage Spaces using PowerVault MD3060e End-End VDI solution using PowerVault MD1220 Sept 2014: Additional Hardware Support with 12Gbps SAS . Select PowerEdge servers , PowerVault MD1400 and MD1420 Oct 2014: Launch Cloud Platform System (CPS) Powered by Dell Journey Continues…
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- 10. 10 Private Cloud Backup & archival Validated & tested solution blocks VDI Hyper-V Worldwide installation services and total solution support SQL SMB3 & RDMA Sizing & performance guidance Standard management with MS System Center, iDRAC, OpenManage Validated and tested solution blocks for reliable SOFS operation Pre-defined SKUs for 2x2, 2x3, 2x4, 3x3 and 4x4 SOFS configurations Award winning, industry standard 13th Generation Dell Enterprise PowerEdge servers and PowerVault JBODs Low cost compute and networking with C-servers, FX, Blades, PowerConnect & Force 10 RDMA solutions using iWarp and RoCE Workload optimized turnkey solutions & Reference Architectures (Private Cloud & VDI) Launching June2015 Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS)
- 11. 11 DSMS as a Building Block for Storage Solutions Customer- a la carte • Sizing guidance & Best Practices • Deployment Guide • Best-in-class components • System Center integration Fast Track Solutions • Validated configuration • Simple setup • High availability • Easy scalability Reference Architectures • Verified configuration • Deployment guide • Scalable & Customizable Partner & Dell Services • Best-in-class components • Professional expertise and custom solution development • Microsoft compatibility • System Center integration Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces
- 12. 12 Traditional & New IT supporting software defined infrastructure $0.09 Cost / Order per Minute 28.4 ms Average disk latency 5,640 IOPs 1x R720XD w/ 2.5” HDD 48TB total storage 1.62 ms Average disk latency 98,694 IOPs 1x R730XD w/ 1.8” SDD & 3.5” 94.7% lower response times 16.5x greater I/O performance The Value • Storage spaces uses any mix of drives in a storage pool. Combining HDD’s and SSD’s in the same pool using storage tiers can move “Hot” data files to SSD storage. Write-back caches speeds random writes to SSDs or other storage as needed. • 18x 1.8” SSDs density drives increased performance beyond traditional 2.5” • SanDisk DAS Cache for database big data-optimized Hadoop | Cloudera workload-ready Oracle | SAP | Microsoft cloud-ready Azure | VMware | OpenStack Converged infrastructure-ready VMware | Microsoft Future-Ready Enterprise software-defined SDN | SDS | SDDC 70TB total storage software-defined SDN | SDS | SDDC workload-ready Oracle | SAP | Microsoft
- 13. 13 Storage Spaces Direct Scale for Technical Preview 2 Minimum of four servers Maximum of twelve servers Maximum of 240 disk devices in a single pool Simple expansion Add node(s) and expand pool Rebalance for capacity Scale-OutFile Server Hyper-V Clusters SMB3 StorageNetworkFabric Shared JBOD Storage Internal Disks
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- 19. 19 Dell PowerEdge VRTX Current environment Complex, Inefficient, Rigid Simple, Efficient, Versatile Consolidation, virtualization capable Optimal size, acoustics & power Easy to manage Affordable Versatile and scalable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IlDQnIMrk
- 20. 20 Dell PowerEdge VRTX LCD Display Panel Up to 4 PowerEdge M-Series Servers Internal low latency, fast storage Shared Storage 25 x 2.5” or 12 x 3.5” (expandable) 8 External PCIe Slots Hot Plug Redundant PSUs Remote Management Ports Locking Front Cover Shared DVD KVM Ports Hot Plug Redundan t Blowers8 RJ45 NIC ports
- 21. 21 Dell PowerEdge FX Density and shared infrastructure efficiency BLADES Simplicity and cost benefits RACKS The 2U high rack-based FX2 converged infrastructure enclosure can host different blocks of compute and storage resources – depending on workload needs.
- 22. 22 Dell PowerEdge FX Rear view of FX2s enclosure 1Gb passthru IO shown, 10Gb SFP+ & FN IO Aggregator options available 4 FC630 server blocks in a fully loaded FX2 enclosure each with 8 1.8” SSDs
- 25. 25 VDI
- 26. 26 2U vs 24U rack space occupied New IT supporting software defined infrastructure 72% more users The Value 400 vs 232 supported users – power user profile • Horizon View VDI is about delivering performance and responsiveness to support massively scalable solutions. • Huge rack space savings • FX delivers modularity, density, scalability, and better economics for VDI • Less servers equals cost savings on power and headcount required to manage $123 Cost/user big data-optimized Hadoop | Cloudera workload-ready Oracle | SAP | Microsoft cloud-ready Azure | VMware | OpenStack virtual infrastructure-ready VMware | Microsoft Future-Ready Enterprise software-defined SDN | SDS | SDDC 4x B200m2 w/ NetApp 3200 4x FC430 W/ 2x FD332 92% less rack space software-defined SDN | SDS | SDDC Converged infrastructure- ready VMware | Microsoft
- 27. 27 Configurability Availability Expandability, I/O, Storage • 4half width or8quarterwidth configurations • Optional IOaggregator, 8:1 cabling simplification • Choice ofchassisorrackbasedmanagement • Choice ofentry-level orswitched configuration • Redundant hot-plug PSUs (1100 or 1600W) • Redundant hot-plug cooling fans • Redundant out-of-band management fabric • iDRAC on every node • Entry “Express” and advanced “Enterprise” levels of chassis-level management • Front KVM access; LCD Display; USB; • Upto2pass-thrumodules.1Gband10Gb capable • Upto8PCIeGen3I/Oexpansion slots(low profile/half length) PowerEdge FX2 Enclosure Overview • The Dell FX2 is a new 2U rack-based hybrid computing platform that provides a greater dimension of functional flexibility along with a higher density of processing power. It combines the density of blades with the advantages of rack-based systems. Benefits • Its modular design lets it hold varying sized building blocks of resources that can be any combination of compute nodes and storage nodes configured in a number of variations, depending on the intended use of the platform and the amount of resource needed.
- 28. 28 PowerEdge R730xd Overview A mainstream 2S/2U rack server that offers highly dense, flexible storage options – including in-box storage tiering and an industry leading cost effective 100TB storage footprint for future scale out storage. Designed for the scale out storage efficiency demanded by today’s XaaS providers, Hadoop / Big Data users and co-location hosting. Performance Availability Expandability, I/O, Storage • 2S Intel Xeon Haswell processors (14 cores max each CPU; 28 total max cores) • 24 DIMM slots supporting up to 1.5 TB memory • Up to 4 optional NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs provide extremely high IOPS over standard drives to reduce I/O bottlenecks • High performance PEC9 and dual PERC capability on 24 drive configuration • Redundant power supply units (PSU’s) • Hot plug and swappable PSU’s, HDDs and fans • Dual SD card option for Failsafe Hypervisors • iDRAC8 Express or Enterprise with Lifecycle Controller, OpenManage • OpenManage Mobile access • Up to 24 x 2.5” HDD + 2 x 2.5” (rear) or 16 x 3.5” HDD + 2 x 2.5” (rear) or 12 x 3.5” or 18 x 1.8” + 8 x 3.5” • Up to 4 optional NVMe Express Flash PCIe SSDs • Dell Fluid Cache support • Choice of RAID options including dual PERC option for even higher perforrnance • 6 x PCIe Gen3 expansion slots and 1 dedicated PCIe lane for RAID • SNA: 4 x 1GbE, 2 x 10GbE, 2 x 40GbE (post launch) Targeted Workloads • Great database server with 1M+ IOPS in a 24 drive, dual PERC configuration • The best NAS / file server with integrated caching /tiering capabilities • Excellent Collaboration, UCC, SharePoint, and Exchange server in low cost, high capacity local drive configurations Benefits • Best scale out storage • Best $/GB in a 2U form factor • Easy lifecycle manageability with intuitive management tools
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