VMworld 2013: Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage
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The document outlines VMware's vision for software-defined storage (SDS), highlighting its innovations and product announcements such as VMware Virtual SAN, Virtual Volumes, and Virsto. It emphasizes the need for enhanced efficiency in storage management, addressing customer pain points related to configuration, performance, and provisioning times. By leveraging SDS, VMware aims to align storage resources with application requirements through policy-driven management and virtualization technologies.
VMworld 2013: Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage
- 1. Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage Alberto Farronato, VMware Vijay Ramachandran, VMware STO5715-S #STO5715S
- 2. 2 Confidential Agenda VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage Product announcements Overviews • VMware Virtual SAN • Virtual Volumes • Virsto Summary and call to action
- 3. 3 Confidential Virtualization Changed The Storage Workload OS App Physical Virtual Infrastructure • 1:1 app to datastore • Predictable, static workload • 1:1 QoS to datastore • N:1 app to datastore • Random, mobile workload • N:1 QoS to datastore HypervisorOS App VMotion
- 4. 4 Confidential Applications And Storage Are Becoming Increasingly Diverse Virtual Storage Arrays vSphere Hybrid Arrays Object / BLOB Traditional Applications • Traditional enterprise storage • HW-based resiliency, QoS Next Gen Cloud Apps • Scale out, DAS • Application specific storage All SSD Arrays Server-side Flash
- 5. 5 Confidential Customer Pain Points With Storage Configuring takes too much guesswork Management is manual and siloed Provisioning takes weeks Performance degrades with time Lack of end-to-end visibility Troubleshooting is hard Overprovisioning for performance Management inefficiencies New opportunities with DAS How do we break silos? How do we match the right storage to the applications? How do we increase efficiency?
- 6. 6 Confidential The Virtualization Platform Opens Up New Opportunities The virtualization platform • Has Inherent knowledge of application • Has global view of infrastructure • Is hardware agnostic Hypervisor abstracts the plumbing and match the right storage to the app vSphere BLOB
- 7. 7 Confidential SDS Is the Next-step in VMware’s Storage Innovation Software-Defined Storage vSphere Today Software-defined Storage vSphere Physical App App App • VMFS • VAAI • VAS • S-VMotion • S-DRS • VADP • vSphere Replication vSphere Data Services
- 8. 8 Confidential Software-Defined Data Center Software-Defined Storage Software-Defined Storage Brings The Operational Model Of Compute To Storage All infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service, and the control of this data center is entirely automated by software Heterogeneous storage resources are abstracted into logical pools, consumed and managed through app-centric policy-based automation
- 9. 9 Confidential BLOB vSphere Policy-Driven Control Plane Matches The Right Storage To The App Policy-Driven Control Plane Policy-Driven Control Plane: Intelligent placement Auto-provisioning of app- centric data services Ongoing remediation of service levels Backup VM Storage Policy Capacity Performance Availability … App-centric Data Services: Extensible framework for integration of third-party data services
- 10. 10 Confidential vSphere Virtual Data Plane Provides Abstraction and Integration Virtual Data Plane BLOB SAN & NAS Converged Infrastructure Pool External storage Pool All SSD DAS Virtual Data Plane: Pooling of heterogeneous resources VM-centric storage operations Virtualization platform awareness of native HW capabilities
- 11. 11 Confidential VMware Approach To Software-Defined Storage vSphere App-centric Data Services Policy-Driven Control Plane Virtual Data Plane External storage Pool Converged Infrastructure Pool Backup VM Storage Policy Capacity Performance Availability … BLOB
- 12. 12 Confidential Driving Storage Innovation With Our Partner Ecosystem Software-Defined Storage Virtual Data Plane App-centric Data Services Policy-Driven Control Plane BLOB
- 13. 13 Confidential VMware Software-Defined Storage – Product Announcements Virtual SAN Converged Infrastructure VirstoVirtual Volumes vSphere Flash Read Cache VVols External Storage App-centric Data Services Now available Now Available as Public Beta (GA target H1 2014) Tech Preview, Partner Demos Now available with vSphere 5.5
- 14. 14 Confidential Agenda VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage Product announcements Overviews • VMware Virtual SAN • Virtual Volumes • Virsto Summary and call to action
- 15. 15 Confidential Introducing VMware Virtual SAN (VSAN) vSphere VSAN Hard disks SSD ……………. Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD VSAN Datastore VMware vCenter Server Product Overview • Scale out Storage built into the hypervisor • Clusters ESX host attached storage • Flash-optimized converged compute + storage solution • Software solution - Uses industry standard components • vSphere integrated management
- 16. 16 Confidential Introducing Virtual SAN (VSAN) vSphere VSAN Hard disks SSD ……………. Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD VSAN Datastore VMware vCenter Server Features • Dynamic and capacity performance scaling • Shared storage properties • High Performance – Flash based read & write cache • High Resiliency – Distributed RAID; No single points of failure • VM-Centric management • Automated SLA management
- 17. 17 Confidential Today: Profile-driven Storage Management Provision VM using profiles Match VM profiles to Datastore Tags vSphere ……………. Create/Discover Datastore tags based on storage tiers Placement based on pre-defined profiles/buckets Availability = 99.99% Back up = daily Storage capacity = 10 TB Performance = Hiigh Availability = 99.9% Storage capacity = 10 TB Performance = Med I/O Place VMs on Datastores with matching profiles
- 18. 18 Confidential VSAN: Radically Simple Storage For Virtual Machines Instantly provision VM using policies Each VM maintains its unique policy in the VSAN datastore vSphere VSAN Hard disks SSD ……………. Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD VSAN Datastore Create policies on a per-VM basis VSAN ensures policy compliance throughout VM lifecycle VM-centric, policy-based storage management
- 19. 19 Confidential VSAN - Storage built for the Virtualization Admin
- 21. 21 Confidential VSAN Policy definition
- 22. 22 Confidential VSAN Value and Differentiation vSphere VSAN Hard disks SSD ……………. Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD VSAN Datastore VMware vCenter Server Native to ESX hypervisor - improves resource efficiency and low latency First storage platform architected for VM-level data operations and management Built from ground up using Policy- Driven Management principles vSphere integrated management Natively integrated with Cluster Resource Manager (DRS) Radically Simple Enterprise Storage Significantly lower TCO without compromising performance
- 23. 23 Confidential VSAN Is Uniquely Positioned In The Storage Landscape Performance Capacity High CostLow Cost High End SAN/NAS Mid-Range SAN/NAS Low-End SAN/NAS Scale-out File/ Object VSAN
- 24. 24 Confidential VSAN Delivers The Same VDI Density As An All SSD Array At 25% Of The Cost • View Planner performance testing maximum VDI density on a 3 host scale • Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, CAPEX (includes storage hardware + Software License costs). Additional savings come from reduced Opex through automation. • Virtual SAN configuration: 9 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 1 copy for availability and 10% SSD for performance 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 VDIVMspercluster VSAN All SSD Array $79 $300 $600 $- $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 $600 $700 Virtual SAN Full Clones All SSD Array Linked Clones All SSD Array Full Clones VSAN vs. All SSD $/desktop 288 VMs VSAN cost per desktop is 75% less than All SSD View Planner Benchmark (3 hosts cluster, 36 cores)
- 25. 25 Confidential Virtual SAN Reduces The Cost Of Storage For VDI And Enables Granular Predictable Scaling Storagecostperdesktop Number of desktops • Compared to external storage at scale • Estimated based on 2013 street pricing, Capex (includes storage hardware + Software License costs) • Additional savings come from reduced Opex through automation • Virtual SAN configuration: 9 VMs per core, with 40GB per VM, 2 copies for availability and 10% SSD for performance Virtual SAN External Storage
- 26. 26 Confidential • It’s free • It’s as easy as installing vSphere • It gives you the chance to win an iPad! Register for Virtual SAN Beta Now!
- 27. 27 Confidential Deep Dive Sessions Virtual SAN STO5391 VMware Virtual SAN STO5027 VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices STO4973 VMware Virtual SAN Customer Panel Discussion
- 28. 28 Confidential Agenda VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage Product announcements Overviews • VMware Virtual SAN • Virtual Volumes • Virsto Summary and call to action
- 29. 29 Confidential Policy Based Management with Virtual Volumes VMware vSphere vVOL Instantly provision VM using policies Each VM maintains its unique policy in the datastore Create policies on a per-VM basis VVOL-enabled storage systems ensures policy compliance throughout VM lifecycle
- 30. 30 Confidential VMDKs as Native Objects on Storage Systems VMware vSphere VMDKs as native objects on storage systems VMware vSphere vVOL Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De- duplication
- 31. 31 Confidential Virtual Volumes VMware vSphere vVOL Replication Snapshots Caching Encryption De- duplication Solution • Existing SAN/NAS systems become VM-aware • Native representation of VMDKs on SAN/NAS • New API for data operations at VMDK granularity Value • Snapshots, replications and other operations at VM granularity on external storage • VM level storage SLA enforcement • Works with existing SAN/NAS storage systems
- 32. 33 Confidential VM requirements captured in a profile
- 33. 35 Confidential Broad industry support for VVOL Visit these vendor booths for a demo of VVOL And many more…
- 34. 39 Confidential Agenda VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage Product announcements Overviews • VMware Virtual SAN • Virtual Volumes • Virsto Summary and call to action
- 35. 40 Confidential Introducing Virsto VMware vSphere Solution • Software-only solution to deliver predictable performance in existing SAN systems • Delivers highly performant VM- centric data services • Virtual Appliance form factor Value • Lower cost of SAN • Faster storage provisioning • Better SAN utilization • Faster Data Services Virsto
- 36. 42 Confidential Virsto Performance Consistency Virsto on Mid-range storage for MS SQL
- 37. 43 Confidential 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 IOPS Number of Snapshots Virsto Total Virsto Read Virsto Write Snapshot Performance with Virsto
- 38. 44 Confidential VMware Approach To Software-Defined Storage vSphere App-centric Data Services Policy-Driven Control Plane Virtual Data Plane External storage Pool Converged Infrastructure Pool Backup VM Storage Policy Capacity Performance Availability … BLOB
- 39. 46 Confidential VMware Software-Defined Storage – Product Announcements Virtual SAN Converged Infrastructure VirstoVirtual Volumes vSphere Flash Read Cache vVols External Storage App-centric Data Services Now available Now Available as Public Beta (GA target H1 2014) Tech Preview, Partner Demo Now available with vSphere 5.5
- 40. 47 Confidential Deep Dive Sessions Virtual SAN STO5391 VMware Virtual SAN STO5027 VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices Virtual Volumes STO7449 Tech Preview: Accelerating data operations Using VMware VVols and Storage Profile Based Management vSphere Read Cache STO5588 vSphere Flash Read Cache Technical Overview Virsto STO5359 VMware Virsto Technical Overview: Optimizing Your SAN Infrastructure for VDI and Virtual Datacenter Environments
- 41. 48 Confidential Speaker Contacts Alberto Farronato Storage Product Marketing [email protected] @alberto_f Vijay Ramachandran Storage Product Management [email protected] @vijay_ram
- 42. THANK YOU
- 44. Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the Evolution of Enterprise Storage Alberto Farronato, VMware Vijay Ramachandran, VMware STO5715-S #STO5715S