This document discusses the Dell EMC VxRAIL appliance, which is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution based on VMware's software-defined storage. It is a preconfigured appliance that can be easily deployed and managed. The appliance uses VMware Virtual SAN for the storage software and can be scaled out by adding additional nodes in a cluster. It offers various configurations to meet different use cases with options for all-flash or hybrid nodes. The document highlights key features of Virtual SAN like quality of service, management tools, deduplication and compression. It also outlines the simplified lifecycle management through automated configuration and non-disruptive scaling of the appliance cluster.
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Dell EMC VxRAIL Appliance
based on VMware SDS
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Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager
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Karel Rudišar
Systems Engineer, VMware Inc.
krudisar@vmware.com
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VMware Based Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure (HCI) Solution
Karel Rudišar
Systems Engineer, VMware Inc.
krudisar@vmware.com
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Radically
Simple
>100
Pre-Certified Ready
Nodes to Match
Existing Infrastructure
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Integrated SW stack
<1ms
Latency with all-flash
systems
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IOPS per node
$1/GB
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Virtual SAN
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17. VMware Virtual SAN
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Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage for VMs
• Software-defined storage optimized for VMs
• Hypervisor-converged architecture
• Runs on any standard x86 server
• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore
• Delivers enterprise-level scalability and
performance
• Managed through per-VM storage policies
• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack
Overview
Virtual SAN Datastore
…
vSphere + Virtual SAN
VM VM VMVM VM VM
18. VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Ready For All vSphere Workloads
VMware vSphere + Virtual SAN
End User
Computing Test/Dev
ROBOStagingManagementDMZ
Business
Critical Apps DR / DA
Best storage for VMs
Optimized for vSphere
Enterprise-class resiliency
Business critical app ready
19. Virtual SAN Quality of Service
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• Complete visibility into IOPS consumed per
VM/Virtual Disk
• 1 Click-to-configure limit
• Eliminate noisy neighbor issues
• Granularly manage performance SLAs:
independent of VM provisioning order
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vSphere + Virtual
SAN
vSphere & Virtual SAN
20. Enhanced Virtual SAN Management with New Health Service
Built-in performance monitoring
Health and performance APIs and SDK
Storage capacity reporting
And many more health checks…
Performance Monitoring Capacity Monitoring
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21. Virtual SAN - Usability & Manageability : Health Check Plugin
Overview
• SNMP support, custom scripts, emails via VC alarms
• Performance Monitoring – Web client integrated
• Cluster wide summary of VM availability
• Event based alarm triggers
• Detailed Space Reporting (account for dedup etc)
• Proactive rebalance from UI (Health and actions)
• Alarms on performance threshold breach
• Integrate performance data in support bundle
Benefits
• Fully integrated operational management
Fully integrated operational management, which are natively part of the vSphere Web Client
22. Deduplication and Compression for Space Efficiency
• Nearline deduplication and compression per disk group level.
– Will be called “Space Efficiency”
• Space Efficiency enabled on a cluster level
• Deduplicated when de-staging from cache tier to capacity tier
– Fixed block length deduplication (4KB Blocks)
• Compressed after deduplication
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Beta
esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03
vmdk vmdk
vSphere & Virtual SAN
vmdk
All Flash Only
23. CONFIGURATIONS TO MATCH ANY USE CASE
ALL FLASH NODES HYBRID NODES
256GB 512GB
Copper Optical
12 16 20 24 28
7.6TB 11.4TB 15.2TB 19TB
Copper Optical
6 12 16 20
64GB 128GB 192GB 256GB 512GB
3.6TB 4.8TB 6TB 10TB8TB
Nodes are homogenous within an appliance,
appliances can be mixed in a cluster
Nodes are homogenous within an appliance,
appliances can be mixed in a cluster
Cores
Memory
Storage
Network
24. CONFIGURES vCenter Server, ESXi
host and Virtual SAN for all nodes
ONBOARD Pre-Installation Validation
5 MIN
Add a new
Appliance
OVER 200
Automated config
tasks & workflows
15 MIN
Power-on to
provisioning VMs
SIMPLIFIED LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT
25. NO MORE FORKLIFT MIGRATIONS
VM
10GbE
ADD NEW APPLIANCE TO CLUSTER
VMOTION WORKLOAD TO NEW APPLIANCE
REMOVE OLD APPLIANCE
NON-DISRUPTIVELY on premise up to the Cloud
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