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Virtualization: Reality Check
• 10x lower footprint
• Breakthrough performance and lower TCO
• Fully virtualized data center
• Simpler management
The Promise The Reality
Complexity grows with scale
Siloed storage management
Partial virtualization
Tier 1 workloads sometimesphysical
Infrastructure sprawl
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Complexities of large scale virtualized data center
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XtremIO Fundamentals
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XtremIO: Storage ReinventedSCALE-UP & SCALE-OUT
CONSISTENT & PREDICTABLEINHERENTLY BALANCED
DATA SERVICESINLINE ALL THE TIME
COPY DATA MANAGEMENTINSTANT & HIGH PERFORMANCE
APPLICATION & ECOSYSTEMINTEGRATION & AUTOMATION
Thin
Provisioning
Deduplication
Compression
Flash Data
protection
Encryption
Writeable
Snapshots
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Best Practices for Virtualized Workloads
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Best Practices
• Scaling with consistent outcomes
• Operational agility and efficiency
• Management, monitoring and orchestration
• Protection and availability
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Scaling with Consistent Outcomes
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Multi-dimensional scaling
Active Controller
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Scale-up X-Brick to
138TB raw
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Scale-out a cluster to 4 X-Bricks of
1.1 PB raw
Up to
5.5PBof effective capacity*
*6:1 Data reduction
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Metadata de-staging in scale-up
Dual Controller arrays don’t have enough memory to hold all of the granular metadata in the controller DRAM
So they de-stage most metadata to the array
AND MUST ACCESS THE ARRAY TO RETRIEVE IT AS NEEDED
METADATA
METADATA
METADATA
METADATA
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XtremIO 100% in-memory metadata
XtremIO scales-out. Granular metadata is distributed across controllers in a shared memory fabric.
USER DATA USER DATA USER DATA USER DATA
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Operation Agility and Efficiency
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vStorage APIs for array Integration (VAAI)
XtremIO Cluster
Storage Network
Why VAAI?• vSphere offloads storage intensive tasks to storage tier
• Reduced network traffic between host and storage
• Free up host CPU cycles
• Improved outcomes for VM cloning, vMotion, block
zeroing and volume locking
VAAI primitives• Full copy (XCOPY)
• Hardware assisted locking
• Block zeroing
• Free space reclamation (UNMAP)
VAAI storage
offloading
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Conventional VM Cloning With VAAI XCOPY
XCOPY Command
Storage Array
VM VM
Array offloads the host
Still brute force copy on the array
Massive disc IO and performance hog
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XtremIO efficient VM Cloning with in-memory metadata
Cloning a VM (or 1000s) With XtremIO
in-memory metadata
• Instant VM copies
• Metadata only operation; no storage IOs
• No capacity or performance overhead
XCOPY Command
RAM
FLASH
In-Memory Metadata
Unique Compressed
Data on Flash
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VAAI – free space reclamation (unmap)
XtremIO Cluster
Deleting a VM without VAAI• VM deleted from vCenter, but
storage space still occupied• Manual deletion on storage tier• Increased admin overhead for
high-churn VM environments
Deleting a VM with VAAI• Easy, schedulable UNMAP
command from vCenter• Efficient space utilization and
hands-free operations for high-churn VM environments
• Schedule UNMAP during off-peak hoursVM VM
Storage Network
UNMAPUpgrade
to vSphere 6.5 P1
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Easy Schedulable space reclamation
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Eager Zeroed Thick?
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Deploying a VM from an eager based disk vs thin based disk
https://itzikr.wordpress.com/2016/02/15/faster-cloning-time-or-semi-automated-space-reclamation-
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Agile app infrastructure with inline copy services
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BRUTE FORCE COPIESx
DEV INST 1
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TEST/DEV COPIES HIGH PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION
FREE, FAST DEV/TEST
ANALYTICS COPIES
FIN COPY
OPS COPY
SALES COPY
FREE, FAST ANALYTICS
FIN COPY
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REPORTS
ANALYTICS
TRENDS
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SCALE-OUTPERFORMANCE
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MOREBUSINESS
PRODUCTIVITY
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REPORTS
ANALYTICS
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Concurrent Clones (XCOPY)
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Management, Monitoring and Orchestration
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Integrated management with VSI plugin for vCenter
Manage XtremIO from within
vCenter• Provision new datastores,
extend existing ones
• Monitor XtremIO storage
• Schedule space reclamation
at datastore level
• Take XtremIO snapshots
• Apply XtremIO best practices
with one click
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ESA (vROPS Adapter)
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Easy integrations with REST APIs
APPLICATIONS• Programmable Automation
• HTTP-based Interface
– Automation
– Orchestration
– Query, & provisioning
• Easily integrate with custom workflows and tools
HTTPS
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Simplify orchestration with vRealize Orchestrator
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Protection and Availability
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Disasters comes in many forms…
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Complete Business Continuity CoverageACROSS DATA CENTERS
IN THE DATACENTER
Data Domain, ProtectPoint Technology
IN THE ARRAY
XtremIO Virtual Copies (XVC)
• Heterogeneous
replication
• Sub-minute RPO
• Thousands of PIT’s
• Active/Active
• Continuous
availability
• Zero RPO/RTO
• Logical data corruption protection
• Near zero RTO
• Thousands of PIT copies
• XMS / AppSync Integration
• 20x faster backups
• 10-30x less protection storage
• Eliminates impact on production
VPLEX RecoverPoint
Native Replication
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Hosts Paths monitoringX2
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Granular VM / File restore with AppSync
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XMS / AppSync Integration
X2
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XtremIO Metadata-aware Native Replication
• RPO of <60 seconds
• Faster Recovery
• Thousands of recover points-in-time
• “Fan-in” configurations
• Supports XtremIO High Performance
• Efficient replication - dedupe &
compression aware
Easy Operation Best Protection Scale-out Performance
• Uses XtremIO in-memory snapshots
• Simple and Easy
• Full operational disaster recovery
The most efficient array based replication
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VMware SRM Advanced Parameters
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VMware SRM Advanced Parameters (cntd)
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VMware SRM Point In Time Integration
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Let’s recap
• Scale-out is critical
• In-memory metadata matters
• Hypervisor integrations for large scale
• Smart management and monitoring integrations
• Open APIs
• Recovery and replication
• Accelerated deployments and validated solutions
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