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1. Software-defined Storage - The Next Phase in the
Evolution of Enterprise Storage
Alberto Farronato, VMware
Vijay Ramachandran, VMware
STO5715-S
#STO5715S

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Agenda
 VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage
 Product announcements
 Overviews
• VMware Virtual SAN
• Virtual Volumes
• Virsto
 Summary and call to action

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Driving Storage Innovation With Our Partner Ecosystem
Software-Defined Storage
Virtual Data Plane
App-centric Data Services
Policy-Driven Control Plane
BLOB

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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

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Agenda
 VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage
 Product announcements
 Overviews
• VMware Virtual SAN
• Virtual Volumes
• Virsto
 Summary and call to action

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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

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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

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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

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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

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VSAN - Storage built for the Virtualization Admin

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VSAN Datastore

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VSAN Policy definition

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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• 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!

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Deep Dive Sessions
Virtual SAN
STO5391 VMware Virtual SAN
STO5027 VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices
STO4973 VMware Virtual SAN Customer Panel Discussion

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Agenda
 VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage
 Product announcements
 Overviews
• VMware Virtual SAN
• Virtual Volumes
• Virsto
 Summary and call to action

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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

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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

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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

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VM requirements captured in a profile

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Broad industry support for VVOL
Visit these vendor booths for a demo of VVOL
And many more…

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Agenda
 VMware’s vision for Software-Defined Storage
 Product announcements
 Overviews
• VMware Virtual SAN
• Virtual Volumes
• Virsto
 Summary and call to action

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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

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Virsto Performance Consistency
Virsto on Mid-range storage for MS SQL

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500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
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IOPS
Number of Snapshots
Virsto Total
Virsto Read
Virsto Write
Snapshot Performance with Virsto

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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

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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

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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

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Speaker Contacts
Alberto Farronato
Storage Product Marketing
afarronato@vmware.com
@alberto_f
Vijay Ramachandran
Storage Product Management
vijayramachandr@vmware.com
@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