VMware vSAN 7

What’s New Technical

A technical overview of new
features and enhancements

Iheb Marzougui
Senior Solution Engineer NALE
April 2020

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Cloud is a Journey
Not a Destination

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Modern Software-Defined Architectures
Transitioning from hardware based solutions to software

Traditional Hyper-Converged

Remove dependencies from

Compute
Silo hardware feature sets

Network Simplified management

Silo Management Framework
• Decrease TCO
• Increases agility
Storage
Silo
+
Deliver to apps based on
what is actually needed

Apply same principles used

for compute requirements to
storage
Limited to Hybrid-Cloud
A necessity for SDDC!
Datacenter Ready

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There Are Clear Steps to Evolve to Building a True Hybrid Cloud

Public cloud Private cloud

Build a True
Hybrid-Cloud
Consume as
a Service
Modernize with
Hyper-Converged
Server Infrastructure
Virtualization

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vSAN – A Foundational Element of Private and Public Clouds

Core HCI Full Stack HCI Hybrid Cloud

vSAN + vSphere VMware Cloud Foundation VMware Cloud on AWS

Kubernetes

Managed Service
vRealize NSX

SDDC Mgr. Kubernetes

vSphere vSAN
vRealize NSX

On-prem.
vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN

Core Cloud Comprehensive Scale Infrastructure

Capabilities Private Cloud on Demand

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The Power
of Choice
On-premises or the cloud
VxRail or vSAN ReadyNodes
™

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Achieve the Same Outcome with Multiple Consumption Models
On-premises or the public cloud

On-premises Public Cloud

Self Managed VMware Managed

Customer asset Subscription – No HW/SW ownership

SDDC Mgr. Kubernetes SDDC Mgr. Kubernetes Kubernetes

vRealize NSX vRealize NSX vRealize NSX

vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN

VMware Cloud VMware Cloud VMware Cloud

Foundation on Dell EMC on AWS

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The Power of Choice
On-premises, self-managed consumption models for vSAN

Full Stack HCI

VMware Cloud Foundation

SDDC Mgr. Kubernetes

vRealize NSX

VxRail ReadyNode™
vSphere vSAN

Turnkey deployment 15 server vendors

Configurable BYO or purchase
licensing with platform
Tight Integration
Fully loaded Vendor support

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Letting Software
do the Work
Policy-based management

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Modern Object-Based Storage for vSphere
vSAN objects and components

Object
700GB
The vSAN datastore is an
FTT=1 object store
RAID-1
Each object made up of one
RAID-1
or more components

Data (components) are

distributed across cluster
based on VM storage policy

C1 C2 C3 C1
C2
Assign storage policy to
W C3
Components
Replica Replica
many VMs, single VM, or
single VMDK
Copy of Witness Copy of
Object Component Object

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Deliver Performance and Protection Based on Application Needs
Granular storage policy based management (SPBM)

Define storage protection

and performance outcomes
Storage Policy Definition
Policy Rules Value
Assign policy to:
Kubernetes Site Disaster None – Standard
Storage Classes Tolerance Cluster
• Many VMs
Failures to 1 Failure – RAID-5 • Single VM
Tolerate (Erasure Coding)
• VMDK of VM
Number of disk
stripes per object
1 • VMDKs for container
persistent volumes
IOPS Limits 1000

Managed in vCenter
vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN
Simple and scalable

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Modernize your HCI
with vSAN 7
Enhancement

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Modernize your HCI with vSAN 7
Key Product Enhancements

Simpler Lifecycle Native File Enhanced Cloud

Management Services Native Storage
Increase reliability and Unified management of Expanded data services
reduce number of tools block and file storage enabling more use cases

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Lifecycle Management at Scale – A Simpler Approach
vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) – Unified software and firmware management

Desired Uses desired-state model for

vmware.com Vendor
State all lifecycle operations
Drift • Monitors compliance “drift”
• Remediates back to desired
vSphere Lifecycle Manager(vLCM) Vendor plugins
state
Base image Vendor Addon Firmware & Drivers Addon
ESXi/vSAN Drivers BIOS
I/O Controllers Built to manage hosts at
Storage devices
NICs cluster level
BMC
1 2 3 4
Desired • Hypervisor
Image
• Drivers
Apply Image across cluster
• Firmware

Remediate drift Modular framework supports

vendor firmware plugins
vSphere vSAN
• Dell
• HPE
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Integrated File Services Managed through vCenter
Native file services for vSAN

Traditional File Shares Cloud Native Provision vSAN cluster

capacity for file shares

Supports NFS v4.1 & v3

Supports quotas for file

vSphere vSAN shares

Suited for Cloud Native &

traditional workloads on
vSAN

vSAN Datastore
Works with common
vSAN/vSphere services

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 Continued Integration of Cloud Native Storage in vSphere and vSAN
Extension and integration of K8s running on vSphere and vSAN

Kubernetes Offer file-based persistent

K8s Pods
volumes on vSAN
CSI
Support for vVols
Persistent
Volumes Storage
Class Enable persistent volume
encryption and snapshots
CNS Control Plane
File & block
Supports volume resizing
File Block
interfaces
SPBM (adjustable) Tag based (fixed) Supports a mix of tooling
vSAN vVols VMFS/NFS
Storage • Wavefront
Policy
• Prometheus
Any architecture
• vR Ops

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CNS Management Using Tools You Already Know
Integrated management of container volumes into vCenter

vCenter

Summary Monitor Configure Permissions Hosts VMs Datastores Networks Easy direct access to volume
Utilization Container providers: Kubernetes properties
Storage Overview REAPPLY POLICY Add filter
Security app cassandra release cassandra Single UI for multiple
vSAN
orchestrators
Skyline Health Volume Name Label Compliance Volume ID Capacity
pvc-b9ed2ff0-6e8a-4ba9-aeab-9c0452f3b063
Virtual Objects
Physical Disks pvc-b9ed2ff0-... SEE ALL
Basics
Compliant ea6a45f4...
Kubernetes objects
8.0 GB Filter based on K8s
pvc-b9ed2ff0-... SEE ALL Compliant b96a484... 8.0 GB
Resyncing Objects
pvc-b9ed2ff0-... SEE
metadata, as defined by
Proactive Tests TypeALL Compliant
BLOCK666a45f4... 8.0 GB
Capacity pvc-b9ed2ff0-... SEE ALLID
Volume Compliant 066a26e9... 8.0 GB
ea6a45f4-21d3-46bd-af86-8578
developers
Performance VMs k8s-worker03
Cloud Native Datastore vsanDatastore Manage container volumes
Container Volumes storage Policy Default Storage Policy like VM objects
Compliance Status Compliant
• Policy adjustments and
Health Status Accessible
status
• Object health

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Additional Enhancements
Improving efficiency, flexibility, and
ease-of-use

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Enhancements for
Stretched Cluster and 2-
Node Topologies

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Improved Resilience with Stretched Cluster and 2-Node Topologies
Immediate repair operation after a witness host appliance is replaced

vCenter

Configure Permissions Hosts

“Replace Witness” workflow
Stretched Cluster CHANGE Immediate will now invoke an immediate
Status Enabled
Resync/Repair metadata repair to regain
Preferred fault domain Preferred compliance
Witness host witness-2 witness-2

Applies to stretched cluster

and 2-node topologies
3rd site for
witness
Minimizes interruption with
site-level protection

ISL

Preferred Site Secondary Site

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Intelligent Capacity Management for Stretched Cluster Topologies
Stretched Cluster I/O redirect based on imbalance of capacity across sites

Prevents capacity imbalance

to impact VM uptime in
FTT=1
Not Compliant
stretched clusters
RAID-1
Redirects active I/O to the
site with available capacity

Allows for VMs to continue

Rep Rep
non-disruptively in capacity
VM I/O
ISL
Marked as strained conditions
Continues “Absent”
Site Site
Capacity Preferred Site Secondary Site Capacity Assumes rebalancing within
site has taken place

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Operations and
Management
Enhancements

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Unified Cloud Analytics for your VMware Powered Environments
VMware Skyline integration with vSphere Health and vSAN Health

Skyline Advisor
Premier Customers
Skyline Advisor
Production & Premier
Customers
Skyline Health
All Customers

Key Capabilities
• Advanced troubleshooting
findings
Key Capabilities
• Advanced Reporting
• Cross Product Support
Key Capabilities vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vROps, • Tailored Remediation Plans
Horizon, VVD, VCF
• vSphere & vSAN findings
• Supports v5.5 and up
• Available in vSphere
Client • Automate Logs w/ Log
AssistTM
• Supports v6.7 and up
• Shortens time to resolution

• Cloud-based ID & Access

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Stay Informed on changes to VMware Compatibility Guide for vSAN
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Improved Consistency in VM Capacity Reporting
Accurate VM level space reporting across vCenter UI for vSAN powered VMs

vCenter vCenter
Consistent VM-level capacity
Cluster Level- VMs View VM Summary View usage across vCenter UI and
Name Provisioned Space Used Space CPU APIs
483Mhz used
VM01 18GB 5GB
Memory
VM02 80GB 67GB 2.1GB used Accurately accounts for used
VM03 240GB 128GB
Storage capacity of:
128GB used
• Thin provisioned VMs
• Swap Object
• Namespace Object

vR Ops
Reduces confusion on
capacity consumed by a VM

vSphere vSAN

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Improved Awareness of vSphere Replication Data
Visibility of vSphere Replication objects in vSAN capacity views

vCenter vCenter

Cluster Usage Virtual Object Listing

Name Availability Policy
Easily identify objects
VM
created by and used with
User Objects [Replication] VM01 Default
...
Disk01 vSphere Replication
Rep. Config
vSphere Replication......40GB [Replication] VM02 Default
System Usage Disk01 New vSphere Replication
Rep. Config
object identity type in
“Virtual Objects” listing

To target site
New vSphere Replication
categories for cluster-level
capacity view

vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN

vSphere
Replication

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Hardware, Resilience and
Usage Enhancements

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Increase Efficiency with the Latest Hardware
Support for larger capacity devices

vSAN Host Support for much larger

storage devices
• 32TB physical capacity
• 1PB in logical capacity
(DD&C)

Cache Potential for Improved

deduplication ratios with
larger devices
Capacity 32TB Max
device size Designed to minimize data
movement for support of
Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group
Deduplication
new devices
Domain

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Flexible Serviceability for NVMe Devices Improves Uptime
Native support for planned and unplanned maintenance with NVMe hot plug

Hot plug support for both

vSphere and vSAN

Better TCO through RASM

• Reliability
• Availability
• Serviceability
• Manageability

Minimize host restarts

NVMe

vSAN Cluster
Reduces complexity of steps
to service systems

Select OEM platforms only

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Improved Flexibility for Applications using Shared Disks on vSAN
Removal of Eager Zero Thick (EZT) requirement for shared disk in vSAN

Oracle RAC
Eager Zero Thick (EZT)
requirement eliminated for
VM config
vSAN powering Oracle RAC
on vSAN

Applies to all shared virtual

disks using multi-writer flag
OSR=0
vSphere vSAN (MWF)
MWF
Object Space Reservation
(OSR) storage policy rule set
to 100 is no longer necessary
for shared disks

vSAN Datastore

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Analytics and Automation with vSAN
vSAN integration with the vRealize suite of solutions

vRealize Automation vRealize Operations vRealize Log Insight

vRA vRA vRA
Automation with vRA
• Composable application
delivery
• Consumer Self-service

Analytics with vR Ops

• Monitoring
vR Ops vR LI • Alerting
• Insight/Trending
vSAN API
Log Analytics with
Log Insight
vSphere vSAN
• Log aggregation
• Data mining
• Root cause analysis
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 Takeaways

Simpler Lifecycle Management

Next Generation vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Unified Block and File Storage

New Native File Services for vSAN

Expanded Data Services

Enhanced Cloud Native Storage

Improved Efficiency & Operations

Operations, management & efficiency enhancements

VMware vSAN 7

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More Ways to Find Out About vSAN
Online, self service resources to learn more about vSAN

Free vSAN Hands On Labs TestDrive StorageHub

Assessment Resources

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 Thank You

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