VXRAIL: LEVEL UP WITH NEW CAPABILITIES AND POWERS - PIOTR KARASZEWSKI JAKUB BAŁCHAN - EMC.COM
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VxRail: Level Up with New
Capabilities and Powers
Piotr Karaszewski
Jakub Bałchan
GLOBAL SPONSORS
HCI and CI
Tu r n k e y e xp e r i e n c e
Engineered Manufactured Managed Supported Sustained
APPLIANCES
RACKS
BLOCKS
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VxRail simplifies lifecycle management
Sustained and delivered as a single software update - no more testing, sequencing, and validating
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug
3
BIOS
Data Protection and Backup 4 6 GO FROM
3
SDS
1 1 1 1
ONE GOOD
Hypervisor
Software governance 3 2 4 2 KNOWN
Virtualization Management 1
2
STATE TO
Media Firmware
Components Firmware & Drivers 2 4 THE NEXT
NIC Firmware 2 5
* Example only, not reflective of actual
VxRail software packages Critical Releases Maintenance Releases
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VxRail Manager
Delivers automation, lifecycle management, and
serviceability
• Deploy appliances with ease – over 200 automated Embedded
server
tasks management
• Update all software in single click iDRAC with
Lifecycle
• Monitor using dashboards for health, events, and Controller
physical views
• Maintain with direct access to support, articles, and
community
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Why make a move to hyper-converged?
Speed and Operational Scale for
Agility Simplicity Tomorrow
Faster Deployment Single Interface Start small
Risk-free Use known tools Scale as needed
© 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 5VxRail self-contained hyper-converged infrastructure.
What is in a node?
Redundant power & Network Connectivity All-flash or hybrid
Processor RAM GPU (V Series)
cooling (1Gbps/10Gbps) disk packs
6 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail on
VxRail generational comparison. 14th Gen
PowerEdge
E460 E560 Improvement
More and faster cores 40 @ up to 2.2Ghz 56 @ up to 2.5Ghz 40%
More processing power
88 150 1.7X
(Ghz)
Faster memory 2400Mhz 2666Mhz 11%
More on-board connectivity 2x10GbE RJ45/SFP+ 4x10GbE RJ45/SFP+ 2X
Network connectivity
6 8 33%
expansion
BOSS RAID 1 with 2 x
Improved boot device 1 x 64GB SATADOM More resiliency
240GB SATA M.2
7 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail on 14th Gen PowerEdge excels.
Sustained sub-ms response times and up to 2X more IOPs
Up to 2X
More IOPS
VxRail P470: VxRail P570
217,000 IOPs @ +6 ms 421,000 IOPs @ 1.6 ms
Sustained sub-ms response time
@ up to 80% of CPU Utilization
OLTP 4K
14th Generation
70/30 R/W workload
RAID-5 with Checksum
8 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.What’s new VxRail on 14th Gen PowerEdge servers
V Series Nodes P Series Nodes S Series Nodes E Series Nodes
VDI optimized Performance optimized Storage dense Efficient
V570/F P570/F S570 E560/F
Full platform refresh to Dell EMC 14th Gen PowerEdge servers based on Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family
Higher core counts, faster clock frequency, more memory channels, faster memory, higher endurance and redundant boot devices
2000W PSU 1600W PSU
Up to 3 GPUs Single or dual socket
Quad port Quad port
10GbE onboard 10GbE onboard
8 more capacity drives 8 more capacity drives
Quad port 10GbE onboard Quad port 10GbE onboard
9 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail on
VxRail configuration flexibility for your workload 14th Gen
PowerEdge
E, P, S, V Series based on Dell PowerEdge 14th Generation servers
Storage
Processor Cache SSDs: 400GB, 800GB, 1600GB
Choice of 31 Intel scalable processors SSDs (SAS & SATA) : 1.92TB, 3.84TB
4 to 56 cores per node HDDs: 1.2TB, 2.0TB, 4.0TB
RAM Base networking
straight
24 DIMM slots SFP+ or RJ45
16GB RDIMM 4x 10GbE
32GB RDIMM 4x1GBE (auto negotiate)
64GB LRDIMM Optional add-on NICs
Power supply GPUs
1100W AC / 1600W AC / 2000W AC NVIDIA
1100W 48V DC Note: GPU SW & drivers
sold separately
10 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.Single node scaling and upgrades
Minimizes risk and enables pay as you grow
START WITH WHAT YOU NEED 3-64
Minimize risk by closely nodes
matching your requirements
SCALE OUT Predictable
Add as few a one node to linear pricing
increase performance and capacity by node
Nodes within a chassis must be homogenous
Best for
SCALE UP
unexpected
Incrementally add storage storage
as data grows growth
Populate homogenous drives across all available nodes
11 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail is now powered by vSAN 6.6.
The best technology for the leading virtualization ecosystem
50% 35%
FASTER ALL LATENCY
FLASH REDUCTION
DATA AT REST
ENCRYPTION
NATIVE HCI ENCRYPTION
ENHANCED STRETCHED
CLUSTERS
LOCAL AND SITE PROTECTION
12 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.New in
VxRail 4.5
Data-at-Rest-Encryption (D@RE). with vSAN
6.6
Addresses fears of media theft
• Configured for entire cluster
• Works with both all-flash and hybrid vSphere + vSAN
• Works with dedupe and compression
• Compliance with FIPS 140-2 Level 1, AES 256
• Key management using KMIP-compliant KMS
vendors SSD SSD SSD
vSAN Datastore
13 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.New in
VxRail 4.5
vSphere 6.5 Encryption.
Addresses fears of rogue admin
• Per VM level setting
• No dedupe & compression vSphere + vSAN
• In-flight (over the wire)
• Key management using KMIP-compliant KMS
vendors
SSD SSD SSD
vSAN Datastore
14 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.New in
VxRail 4.5
Stretched clusters with local protection. with vSAN
6.6
• Redundancy locally and across sites
• With site failure, vSAN maintains 3rd site witness
availability with local redundancy in 100Mbps
surviving site 200ms RTT
L3
• No change in stretched cluster
configuration steps
• Optimized site locality logic to
minimize I/O traffic across sites
RAID-1
• RAID 1 of RAID 1/5/6 for all-flash
RAID-1/5/6 RAID-1/5/6
vSAN
• RAID 1 of RAID 1 for hybrid
5ms RTT, 10GbE
15 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.Broad range of VxRail custom BYO use cases
PaaS
Server
IaaS
Workloads
Distributed
VDI
Enterprise
Collaboration
and
Analytics
16 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail for general server workloads
PaaS
• Mix/match nodes and right size CPU, memory,
storage, and network resource requirements
• Guarantee uptime with industry leading data IaaS
Server
Workloads
protection & HA features from Dell EMC & VMware
that meet any RPO/RTO
• Pay as you grow scaling featuring scale out options
with up to 64 nodes in a single cluster Distributed
VDI
Enterprise
• Used for any enterprise workloads supported by
vSphere and vSAN Collaboration
and
Analytics
17 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail for distributed enterprise deployments
PaaS
• Lower cost of entry deployment for each remote
location starting with as little as 3 nodes
• Simple, standard set up and updates can be done IaaS
Server
Workloads
remotely by IT staff
• Tailor compute & capacity needs for each site
• Single management for all appliances
Distributed
VDI
Enterprise
Collaboration
and
Analytics
18 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail for collaboration and analytics
PaaS
• Simple to deploy infrastructure using customer built
environment of their choice
• Support data analytics and collaboration IaaS
Server
Workloads
applications on proven vSphere based hyper-
converged infrastructure
– Hadoop, Hortonworks, Exchange, Sharepoint, Splunk,
etc. Distributed
VDI
• Storage dense infrastructure configuration options Enterprise
coming in a small 2U1N footprint Collaboration
and
Analytics
19 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail for VDI
PaaS
• Overcome the traditionally high CAPEX barrier of
VDI
• Support for high end graphics VDI with enhanced IaaS
Server
Workloads
GPU support as well as general purpose
environments
• Available all flash configuration options easily
handle peak performance requirements (boot Distributed
VDI
storms, etc.) Enterprise
• Low incremental cost and OPEX Collaboration
and
• Deploy hundreds of VDTs in minutes Analytics
• Support for VMware Horizon and Citrix
XenDesktop
20 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail as infrastructure for IaaS
PaaS
• Fully integrated with Cloud Management Platform
software for IaaS
– VMware vRealize Suite Server
IaaS
Workloads
– VMware vCloud Director
• Auto load balancing ensures consistent
performance
Distributed
• Predictable pay-as-you-grow deployment VDI
Enterprise
• Flexible end point solution seamlessly extends
Collaboration
cloud infrastructure resources and
Analytics
21 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.VxRail as infrastructure for PaaS
PaaS
• Flexible and elastic infrastructure used as part of
your pool of underlying IaaS resources
• IT teams can leverage existing VMware skills to IaaS
Server
Workloads
provide a cloud native platform for developers
• Mix and match nodes and right size CPU, memory,
storage, and network resources to meet cloud
native application requirements Distributed
VDI
Enterprise
• Support for a wide variety of the top PaaS
platforms in the marketplace Collaboration
and
Analytics
22 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.What is inside VxRail?
A full suite of capabilities included at no additional charge
POWERED BY LIFECYCLE INCLUDED DATA
VMWARE MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION
vSAN SUPPORT TOOLS OPTIONS
vSAN Enterprise VxRail Manager RecoverPoint for VMs
vCenter Server Secure Remote Support vSphere Replication
vRealize Log Insight vSphere Data Protection
vSphere Ready*
*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses
23 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.Data Protection Suite for VMware.
End to end data protection for VMware based environments
▪ Market-Leading Integration with VMware
▪ Empower vAdmins by providing self-service protection to users
▪ Software-Only Data Protection
▪ Hypervisor based replication for any point-in-time recovery
▪ Backup system scales to 16 TB when configured with DD VE
▪ Shortened Backup Times and Storage Cost Savings
▪ 30x faster image recovery than traditional backups
▪ 10-30x reduction in backup storage
▪ Application Consistency
▪ Across the broadest application landscape
Note: DPS for VMware is licensed separately. Sold via channel partners only.
24 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc.Dell EMC solutions
Driven by requirements and desired experience
Build Buy
Simplify procurement, deployment, and lifecycle Turnkey, single vendor lifecycle assurance
Reduce risk, accelerate time to value, deliver lifecycle assurance
Validated Solutions Engineered Systems Hybrid Cloud Platforms
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