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© 2018 Virtustream, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

• About Virtustream

• Design

• Build

• Operate

• Customer experience

• Questions

Agenda

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The Virtustream Value

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ECONOMICS

• True consumption pricing

• Public cloud pricing power

• µVM workload optimization

drives ~40% savings*

Built to address the challenges of mission-critical applications

TECHNOLOGY

• xStream Management Platform

• Designed specifically for

enterprise workloads

• Security and compliance for

regulated markets

AUTOMATION

• Integrated application

automation

• Programmatic on-boarding

and migration

• Complete platform APIs

SERVICES

• Cloud advisory services

• Application migration and

management services

• SAP, Oracle, Microsoft,

Guidewire, BlackBaud, etc.

* Based on Virtustream internal research



Virtustream –Different by Design

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Virtustream –Different by Design

• Require ongoing staff or partners to configure,

secure, and manage

• 99.9% availability SLA at infrastructure level only

• No application SLAs

• Fully managed, end to end solution

• 99.999% availability SLAs at infrastructure level

• Performance and availability SLA at application

level available

Hyperscale:

Assemble & ManageVirtustream:

Consume as a Service

Virtustream delivers the least complexity and highest value, reducing the

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Virtustream History

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2009

2015

2016

2017

2018

Creates Virtustream Enterprise Cloud

on VMware

Acquired by EMC which is acquired by Dell

Delivers Dell EMC-based Enterprise Cloud

Evolves Virtustream Enterprise Cloud

on Dell servers and Dell EMC storage



Virtustream with VCF

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Customer

VMware

environments

Virtustream Enterprise Cloud for

mission-critical applications & those

requiring vendor certification

Fully managed by Virtustream with

enterprise-class storage from Dell EMC

Virtustream Ops xStream platform

Security Svcs App Mgmt

Virtustream directly

configures networking for

Virtustream Enterprise

Cloud environment

Customer

cloud

environments

Diverse applications



Design



Design Challenges

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Compute Performance

Storage Performance

Cost

Availability



Physical Constraints

• Power & cooling – kWh / Rack

• Power cost – $ / kWh

• Rack height – Rack Units

Preferences

• Redundancy

• Flexibility

• Capacity

• Cost

• Consistency

Vendor Guidelines

• Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCLs)

• Configuration minimums & maximums

Restrictions

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PowerEdge r740



Processor

• Bandwidth - core*GHz

• Parallelism - threads

Servers - Learning from µVM

Memory

• Capacity – GB

• Speed – MHz

• Bandwidth

Network

• Bandwidth – Gbps

• Latency – ms

Storage

• Bandwidth – IOPS,

GB/s

• Capacity – TB

• Latency

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Virtustream µVM - 9 Years of Experience

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Processor

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Cumulative Distribution by vCPU

vCPU Total Cumulative % of vCPU Cumulative % of Memory

Goals

• Maximize workload coverage

• Minimize core count

• Minimize $ / (core*GHz)

• Maximize system board utilization

• Maximize core*GHz (yield)

Cumulative % of

How many of

Intel Xeon Gold

6126

2 x 24T

Intel Xeon Gold

6126

2 x 12C



Memory

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Cumulative Distribution by 32GB DIMM

Number of VMs Cumulative % of vCPU Cumulative % of Memory

Goals

• Maximize workload coverage

• Maximize memory performance

• Minimize $ / GB

• Maximize system board utilization

• Maximize GB (yield)

768 GB

2-Socket

384 GB

2-Socket



Customer Experience

• vMotion times

• vSAN performance

• East-West bandwidth

Infrastructure

• Switch utilization (ports)

• $ / GBps

• Redundancy

Research

• Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

• Best practices & recommendations

• Lab testing & feedback

Network

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Estimated vMotion Times

Cumulative % of VM 10 Gbps 25 Gbps 40 Gbps

Under

0.01s



Customer Experience

• vSAN performance

• Write IO per second (IOPS)

• Capacity needs

Infrastructure

• Server utilization

• Cost $ / TB

• Cache endurance

Research

• Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

• Best practices & recommendations

• Lab testing & feedback

Storage

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Storage by Tenant

Used GB Capacity Cumulative % of Used Cumulative % of Capacity

50TB



Design

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✔ Compute Performance µVM

✔ Storage Performance Delivering SLAs

✔ Cost Acquisition and Operations

✔ Availability Enterprise-class



Build



Build Challenges

18

Planning Space, Power, Cooling

Physical Build

Platform Installation

Platform Testing



Space, Power, Cooling

• Forecasting

• Data center partnerships

• Project management

Physical Build

Physical Build

• Elevations tooling

• Cut-sheet generation

• Build teams

• Serialize cables

• Barcode scanners

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Servers

• Discovery

• Cable validation

• iDRAC configuration

• Firmware

• Hardware testing

• Base imaging

Logical Build

Network

• Zero-touch provisioning

• Configuration automation

• Firmware

• Network flow testing automation

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Build Summary

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✔ Planning Space, Power, Cooling Partnerships & Practices

✔ Capacity Planning Monitoring and Data Platform

✔ Platform InstallationNetwork Bare Metal Deployment

Server Bare Metal Deployment

✔ Platform TestingAutomation: Servers, Network

Flow Testing



Operate



Operate Challenges

23

Monitoring

Capacity Planning

Lifecycle Management

Break/Fix (Support)



Data Collection

• Hardware events

• VMware metrics

• Network activity

Re-Sourcing

• Derived metrics

• Aggregations

Consumers

• SRE

• Engineering

• Software

Monitoring Platform

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Operate Summary

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✔ Monitoring

Monitoring and Data Platform

✔ Capacity Planning

✔ Lifecycle Management Lifecycle Automation

✔ Break/Fix (Support) Dell Partnership

VMware Partnership



Customer Experience



Virtustream & VMware Cloud Foundation

ECONOMICS

• Consumption-based

• SLA protection

TECHNOLOGY

• Enterprise-class performance

• Enterprise-class availability

AUTOMATION

• Provisioning

• Expansion / contraction

SERVICES

• Lifecycle management

• Operational support

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Questions



Appendix


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Cumulative Distribution by 32GB DIMM

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R² = 0.7055

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Tenant Storage Capacity to vMEM



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Tenant Storage Capacity to vMEM



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Tenant Storage Capacity to vCPU



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10,000

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Tenant Storage Capacity to vCPU



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Storage by Tenant

Used GB Capacity Cumulative % of Used Cumulative % of Capacity

50 TB

(Used)



• Dedicated server

• Dedicated storage

• Dedicated vLANs

• Dedicated management Edge gateway

• Two dedicated VRFs (management, public)

Isolation

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Inactive

Active

Assigned Available

Validated

Scrubbed



Virtustream

• Hardware monitoring

• Server maintenance

• Server firmware

• Hardware support

• ESXi deployment

• Capacity management

• Lifecycle management

Responsibilities

Customer

• VMware operations

• Application operations

• Edge router / firewall management (“public”)

• Virtual network management

• Capacity requests

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vCenter Server

• Connected to your management network

• Integrated with your directory service

• Cloud admin role

NSX Manager

• Tier 0 vRouter connected to your “public” network

• Up to 8 Gbps north-south traffic

Initial Capacity (Cluster)

• 4 Hypervisors (servers)

• 192 vCPUs (96 cores, 192 threads)

• 3 TB memory

• 53 TB storage (raw)

• 21 TB storage (with redundancy and allocation margin)

VMware Software Defined Data Center

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Redundant Power

• Dual power supplies

• Dual power feeds (A/B)

• Full power of server available

Redundant Networking

• Dual Top of Rack (ToR) switches

• Dual spine switches

• Dual edge network devices

• Dual network cards in servers

• Dual ports per network card

Capacity Assurance

• Failed servers replaced with hot spares

Enterprise Features

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