MT41 Dell EMC VMAX: Ask the Experts
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The document presents a session on Dell EMC VMAX All Flash technology, focusing on its capabilities for modernizing storage infrastructure, improving application performance, and simplifying management. Key features include low latency response times, efficient data compression, and the ability to scale while maintaining high throughput. Additionally, it highlights the cost savings and performance benefits realized by enterprises through flash assessments and infrastructure transformations.
MT41 Dell EMC VMAX: Ask the Experts
- 1. MT41 VMAX All Flash Modernizing Your Infrastructure @scottdelandy @kewittmer
- 2. 2 Session Abstract Dell EMC VMAX: Modernizing Your Infrastructure with VMAX All Flash Dell EMC VMAX All Flash continues to modernize, automate, and transform the ways organizations are deploying, provisioning, protecting, and managing storage infrastructure and services. This informative session will introduce attendees to the latest addition to the Dell EMC VMAX All Flash family to provide enterprise-class capabilities across a wider range of application types and sizes. Attendees will also learn about the latest VMAX software enhancements and their applied use cases.
- 3. 3 VMAX All Flash for your core business applications • Affordable economics, from 10s of TBs to multi-PBs • Start small and easily grow • Multi-controller array provides performance and availability SCALE UP & OUT • Predictable <1ms response times for low latency apps • Consistent high throughput for very large block I/Os • Inline data compression HIGH PERFORMANCE • Simple, application integrated copies • Space efficient, zero impact app snapshots managed by DBAs • Radically reduce time to backup, test and deploy new apps COPY DATA MANAGEMENT • Multi-site SRDF replication for zero App RPO/RTO • Proven non disruptive HW and SW upgrades • Host clustering integration PROVEN DR & APP AVAILBILITY
- 4. 4 VMAX 250F technology refresh example Legacy 9 bay array (338TB) *results based on EMC Flash Assessment analysis of 9 Bay VMAX compared to VMAX 250F with similar usable capacity $94K ANNUAL SAVINGS 93% LESS POWER AND COOLING 2:1 COMPRESSION EFFECIENCY 10X MORE PERFORMANCE 92% FLOOR SPACE REDUCTION
- 5. 5 VMAX All Flash increases database license ROI Source: EMC Customer Case Study DatabaseCPUUtilization Before EMC All Flash After EMC All Flash 33% CPU Utilization 2X More ROI 66% CPU Utilization Underutilized Licensed CPU Due To Storage I/O Waits Reduced storage latency increases CPU utilization More DB transactions Higher CPU efficiency Fewer physical CPU cores Lower DB licensing costs
- 6. Flash Assessment Proposal to Refresh HP3PAR V400 with VMAX 250F
- 7. 7 VMAX 250F Flash Assessment example HP 3PAR V400 # of Drives 480 Total Capacity 189 TB # of Tiles 2 Rack Units 64 # of Tiers 2 Power 12.6 kW Annual Energy $ $29,731 Workload IOPS 14,615* Response Time 5ms* VMAX 250F 1xV-Brick/1TB Cache #Drives/Type 36/3.84TB Total Capacity 204 TB # Tiles 1 Rack Units 10 # of Tiers 1 Power 1.7 kW Annual Energy $ $3,907 Workload IOPS 300,000** Response Time 0.8ms** **Peak IOPS, Average (RRM 8K blocks) based on Sizer models Current Environment Proposed Environment Flash Assessments Provide A Highly Accurate Way to Determine Savings and ROI *Average performance results based on 24 hour workload analysis
- 8. 8 Solution Summary − Key Performance Indicators 189 TB Usable 13 ms Response Time Power: 12.6 kW Cooling: 43K BTU/Hour 19,082 IOPs* C U R R E N T E N V I R O N M E N T E M C V M A X A L L - F L A S H P R O P O S E D 204 TB Effective (@ 2:1 Reduction) < 0.8 ms Response Time Power: 1.7 kW Cooling: 6K BTU/Hour 300K IOPs* Operational Management • Zero config work, Zero tuning, Zero engineering • Always ON and INLINE data services Operational Management • Manual Perf tuning, storage engineering • No ability for data reduction • Reactive storage tiering *RRM 8K blocks 3PAR V400 VMAX 250F 2 Rack(s) 1 Rack ANNUAL ENERGY SAVINGS $26K LESS LATENCY 94% SPACE EFFECIENCY 2:1 LESS POWER AND COOLING 87% LESS FLOOR SPACE 50% MORE PERFORMANCE 16x
- 9. 9 Solution Summary − Space Efficiency Estimate 200GB 150GB 100GB 50GB 250GB TOTAL REQUIRED SAVINGS 2:1 savings based on MiTREND analysis 1 1.4 1.8 2.2 2.6 3 Database SW Dev Virtualization Mixed File Exchange Typical compression ratios by app VMAX In Line Compression Total space savings incudes Compression, Virtual Provisioning, and Snapshot pointer based copies
- 10. VMAX Overview What’s behind the white light?
- 11. 11 VMAX 250F/FX VMAX 450F/FX New Member of VMAX All Flash Family VMAX 850F/FX Q316 Same HYPERMAX code for all VMAX All Flash systems VMAX All Flash family expands with the 250F First in EMC with Intel Broadwell CPUs First in EMC with 15TB flash drives Expand to 4 Controllers 100 SSDs 1PB Effective Capacity in 10U
- 12. 12 What’s Inside? CREATED IN CORK,IRELAND MANUFACTURING BY THE SIMPLY DELL EMC VMAX All Flash – what’s inside?
- 13. 13 VMAX 250F/FX configuration options • Up to 2 V-Bricks per system – Redundant dual director engine design – V-Bricks added in single increments • 2 DAEs per V-Brick (12Gb SAS) – 50 x 2.5” flash drives per V-Brick – RAID 5 (3+1) or RAID 6 (6+2) • Port cards in pairs per V-Brick (x4) – Each 4x 16Gb FC or 10Gb iSCSI – eNAS 1/10Gb options • 10U per V-Brick – 20U per system, 2 systems per rack – <600 lb. (w/o rack), <5 kVA Start small 1 V-Brick, 2 controllers 11TB to ~460TB in 10U Get bigger 2 V-Brick, 4 controllers ~920TB in 20U Massive density in 1 rack 2 VMAX Systems 4 V-Bricks, 8 controllers Up to 1.84PB in 40U Remainder of rack can be used for another 250F or server, network components
- 14. 14 VMAX All Flash: True NDU • Absolutely no component downtime or data service compromise for a HYPERMAX OS upgrade • No maintenance windows required, <10 seconds to upgrade OS entire array • True active-active-active… No Failover or Failback or LUN ownership switching DOWNTIME COST $1.8 million per day $45,000 per hour $750 per minute Source: Enterprise Management Associates “Thank you VMAX for giving me back my weeks ends” “VMAX NDU is the gold standard for upgrades” “Nobody knows its happening, It just works”
- 15. 15 THE XPECT More Program Three core user benefits LIFETIME* MAINTENANCE PRICE PROTECTION LIFETIME* FLASH ENDURANCE PROTECTION 3 YEARS 3-YEAR* MONEY- BACK WARRANTY XPECT MORE * Requires paid Premium Support, ESRS connection, etc. – details on emc.com
- 16. 16 VMAX All Flash software packages “F” PACKAGE • HYPERMAX OS • Thin Provisioning • Inline Compression • Non-Disruptive Migration • Virtual Volumes • QOS: Host IO Limits • Embedded Unisphere, Solutions Enabler, SMI-S, REST APIs • TimeFinder SnapVX • AppSync iCDM Starter Bundle VMAX 250F / 450F / 850F Enterprise software for the modern data center “FX” PACKAGE • All “F” package items, plus: • Data Encryption (D@RE) • SRDF/S, SRDF/A, SRDF multi site • SRDF/Metro • Embedded NAS (File) • Unisphere 360 • PowerPath (75 Hosts) • CloudArray Enabler • ViPR Suite (SRM and Controller) VMAX 250FX / 450FX / 850FX
- 17. VMAX All Flash Common Use Cases Cool capabilities to simplify the life of the app owner
- 18. 21 Common core database management challenges IT spends a lot of time & resources maintaining core environments
- 19. 22 VMAX All Flash DSA “Database Storage Analyzer” Aligned insight for databases and VMAX storage 50% less time troubleshooting database and storage issues • Extend Oracle landscape view into underlying storage • Reports DB performance, dashboards, and correlations • Identify if bottlenecks are on the Database or Storage side • Reduce Troubleshooting Time and eliminate finger pointing VMAX Plug-In for Oracle Enterprise Manager VMAX Plug-In for System Center Ops Manager • Extend OS, hypervisor and storage view into 1 interface • Reports end to end state, health, performance details
- 20. 23 Simplified diagnostics with VMAX DSA Q: Why is DB response time so high limiting transactions per minute? DB response time peaks at +6ms VMAX All Flash response time <1ms DB CPU time in high average (+5ms)A: VMAX Database Storage Analytics
- 21. 24 VMAX All Flash Copy Data Management 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% More than 20 copies 16 to 20 copies 11 to 15 copies 6 to 10 copies 5 or fewer “82% of DBA’s maintain more than 10 DB copies” Source: Data Management Survey for EMC, November, 2015 Q: What are the typical number of physical copies of a given production instance that are made for the purpose of test/development, QA, DR testing, data warehouse loading, reporting, etc.? Development Test/Dev, QA, Training, Continuous Integration Operations Sandbox, Patching, tuning, production simulation Data Analytics Reporting, BI, Analytics, ad hoc queries Data Protection Backup, DR copies, Logical corruption checkpointsMAKING COPIES
- 22. 25 VMAX All Flash SnapVX for Oracle NEW LOCAL REPLICATION DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE AND SCALE 9 AM 10 AM 11 AM 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM NOON BACKUP TEST/DEV MAINT SNAP SNAP DEV SNAP TRAINING SNAP TRAINING SNAP TRAINING QA SNAP SNAP SNAP PRO D’ QA’ DEV’ CHECKPOINTS 0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000 50,000 Read IOPS Write IOPS Aggregate IOPS OLTP Workload Before and After Snapshots Creation OLTP Baseline OLTP Workload and Snapshot Creation Create 1,000’s of copies with minimal additional capacity Awesome performance enabling read/write access for processing AppSynch to integrate apps/DB’s making copies super easy to use DB Admin
- 23. 26 Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Source: Uptime Institute https://journal.uptimeinstitute.com/data-center-outages-incidents-industry-transparency/
- 24. 27 Dell EMC Data Protection Continuum Snapshot Remote Replication Active Active Backup Archive Zero Seconds Minutes Hours data availability data durability Complementary recovery tiers to meet any application’s availability requirement Recovery Time Objectives
- 25. 28 HOURLY RPO between snaps (hours), RTOs in minutes SNAPSHOTS 12AM 6AM 12PM 6PM 12AM DAILY RPO’s between backups (days), RTO’s minutes to hours BACKUPS RTO and RPO is zero…always on availabilityCONTINUOUS AVAILABILITY ACTIVE ACTIVE RPO’s in zero to seconds, RTO’s in minutesREMOTE REPLICATION SYNCH AND ASYNCH Understanding RTO’s and RPO’s MONDAY TUESDAY Recovery Point Objective the maximum targeted period in which data might be lost from an incident Recovery Time Objective the targeted duration of time within which a business process must be restored after an incident TECHNOLOGY RELATIVE RTO/RPO
- 26. 29 SRDF: The remote replication gold standard SYNCHRONOUS REMOTE REPLICTION zero data loss remote mirroring array based with high performance and scale highly scalable, app consistent recovery ASYNCHRONOUS REMOTE REPLICTION extended distance remote replication tunable multi cycle mode for improved RPO remote link resiliency to minimize network issues SRDF METRO ACTIVE ACTIVE REPLICATION active/active replication for transparent RTO/RPO app and cluster integration to automate failover/back enables non-disruptive VMAX migrations 2 SITE, 3 SITE, AND 4 SITE REPLICATION <5 ms latency
- 27. 30 VMAX All Flash SRDF Metro • HA app and cluster integration – Automates failover/back • Delivers always on availability – Instant access for failover/failback • Provides zero data loss – Via synchronous replication • Industry leading ease of use – <2 minutes to configure STRETCH CLUSTERS RTO = 0 RPO = 0 Active-Active remote replication for HA clusters with zero RTO & RPO
- 28. 31 Traditional Database backups Data xfer complete for full backup App out of backup mode Traditional Full App into backup mode App out of backup mode Initiate Data xfer Data xfer complete for inc backup Traditional Incremental Time PerformanceImpact
- 29. 32 Database backups with ProtectPoint Data xfer complete for full backup App out of backup mode Traditional Full App into backup mode App out of backup mode Initiate Data xfer Data xfer complete for inc backup Traditional Incremental App into backup mode Mark PIT App out of backup mode Initiate Data xfer Data xfer complete for full backup ProtectPoint Time PerformanceImpact
- 30. 33 Database backups with ProtectPoint backup servers database server primary storage backup appliancedata domain protectpoint Eliminate infrastructure No application impact Instant access Controlled by app team Eliminates extra copies
- 31. What is the #1 criteria for customers in selecting an infrastructure provider?
- 32. 35 © 2016 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., InstaPoll Research 14% 15% 21% 22% 24% 32% 35% 48% 59% Existing relationship with vendor Pre-qualified solutions / reference architectures Reduction in capital expenditures Ability to leverage existing staff skills Reduction in operational expenditures Ease of Management Total cost of ownership Product features/functionality Service, support & ease of implementation In general, what do you consider to be the most important criteria to your organization when it comes to selecting a data center infrastructure provider? (Percent of respondents, N=201, three responses accepted) Most important criteria when selecting a data center infrastructure provider
- 33. What is the #1 benefit that customers see in the Dell EMC merger?
- 34. 37 Single entity for service and support Broader set of products from a single vendor Ease of vendor management Products compliment vs compete We like their products Companies are a good fit together Will encourage product innovation Other 40.1% 38.0% 31.7% 25.6% 17.4% 18.3% 13.7% 12.0% What do you like about this deal? Source: 451 Research, Impact of the Dell/EMC Announcement
- 35. 38 Check out the booth Come and play in the HoL Join our community network Follow us because we SoMe Cool people to talk to and cool stuff to see Kick the tires, hang with the geeks, learn something new Google “Dell EMC Community Network” and see what’s happening @DellEMCStorage @DellEMC @scottdelandy @kewittmer