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Chin Boon Ping

Solutions Consultant, Malaysia,

Dell EMC

VxRail:Best practices for managing and protecting business critical workloads

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Why HCI? Everybody wants this

BUY


But nobody has time for this

BUILD


Modern converged systems

BlocksRacksAppliances

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors


Use cases dictate solution approach

Scale Small to Big

Flexible

Lowest TCO at Scale

Hyper-converged

at rack-scale

Easy to Use

Software-Defined

Start Small & Grow

Hyper-converged

appliance

Tier 1 Workloads

Rich Data Services

TCO

Traditional

converged


Hyper-converged systems design

Storage

+

Servers

Then Now

Software

Defined Storage

Moore’s Law

Virtualization

High Speed

Ethernet

Flash Media


Hyper-converged systems design

+

Servers

Storage

Hyper-converged

Traditional

Software-defined

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors


Hyper-converged systems drivers and outcomes

Compelling

economics

Faster time to

value

Operational

simplicity

Flexible

deployment

Linear scale out


UP TO

30%LESS

STORAGE

SERVERS

Tech refresh

CAPEX cycles

Forklift upgrades

Over provisioning

No silos

Pay-as-you-Grow

No migrations

Scale on demand

SAN

Traditional SAN Hyper-converged


Hyper-converged changes economics

CAPEX

Traditional SAN Hyper-converged

Initia

l $

Initia

l $

Scale

incrementally

Add servers

and disks

Add nodes


Different consumption models

Deploy faster, improve agility, simplify IT

Reference

architecture

Stand-alone

appliances

Rack-scale

systems

Build from

components

Buy experience Buy experience


Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged appliance

Virtual DesktopsDeploy hundreds of desktops

in minutes on one appliance

Hybrid cloudSeamless backup & replication to the

cloud

Server workloadsStandardize & consolidate

infrastructure for all

remote/departmental workloads

Distributed enterpriseManage & orchestrate across locations

with no downtime

Non-disruptive

SDDC scale out

Integrated

data protection

Data efficiency

services

Multiple configs

& scale points

Powered by Intel®

Xeon® Processors


Meet VxRail 4.0

2X MORE FLASH STORAGE

250X MORE CONFIGURATIONS

40% MORE CPU PERFORMANCE

25% LESS EXPENSIVEENTRY POINT

• Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers

• Intel Broadwell Processors

• Addresses more use cases –

storage heavy, graphics

intensive, and ROBO

• 3-node entry point

• One click software upgrades

WHAT’S NEW

Compared to previous generation appliances


In-kernel VSAN makes VxRail more efficient

vSphere

Storage VM(per server)

Typical HCI VxRail with VSAN

vSphere / VSAN

Storage VM consumes resources

Data paths are inefficient

Management must be bolted on

Coarse storage management

2x CPU and 3x memory efficiency

Native vMotion and DRS

Simple, single management pane

Per-VM management and polices


• Data protection requirements include more than

backup and recovery

• Multiple data protection solutions are causing silos

and costly management

• Rapid growth of virtualization is causing

VM sprawl

• Application administrators are responsible

for the protection of their applications

Virtualization challenges

Local protection options


• Defines the number of hosts,

disk or network failures a

storage object can tolerate.

• For “n” failures tolerated,

“n+1” copies of the object are

created and “2n+1” host

contributing storage are

required!

Number of failures to tolerate

esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03 esxi-04

Virtual SAN Policy: “Number of failures to tolerate = 1”

vmdk

~50% of I/O

vmdk witness

~50% of I/O

raid-1


4-node

Dell EMC VxRail

Appliance

hcia-01 hcia-02 hcia-03 hcia-04

vmdk

VSAN network

vmdk witness

raid-1


4-node Dell EMC

VxRail —

HDD failure & self

healing

candidates


vmdk

VSAN network

vmdk witness

raid-1


4-node Dell EMC

VxRail—SSD

failure & self

healing

candidates


vmdk

VSAN network

vmdk witness

raid-1


4-node Dell EMC

VxRail — host

failure & self

healing

candidates


vmdk

VSAN network

vmdk witness

raid-1


Overview

• Intelligent grouping of hosts

across location (racks/rooms)

• Ensure that data replicas are

stored in different fault domains

Benefits

• Data integrity is maintained

even in the event of the failure

of a rack or room

• A copy of the data is always

stored in a different fault domain

Fault domains


OVERVIEW

• Single parity protection (RAID5-like) and double parity

protection (RAID6-like). Single parity can tolerate 1 failure and

dual parity can tolerate 2 failures

• Single parity will be 3+1 and requires minimum

of 4 nodes

• Dual parity will be 4+2 and requires minimum

of 6 nodes

• Dynamically change the config to other parity

levels through SPBM

• Parity is distributed across nodes

• All-flash only

BENEFITS

• >30% storage saving for FTT=1 (RAID1 vs. RAID5)

• >50% storage saving for FTT=2

Erasure codingProvide storage efficiency for FTT=1 and FTT=2

Virtual SAN Datastore

SSD SSD SSD

VSAN network

SSD

Disaster recovery protection options


OVERVIEW

• Data protection and disaster recovery within the same

site and across sites

• Data center migration

• Replication engine for VMware Site Recovery Manager Air™

and VMware vCloud Air™ Disaster Recovery

• Replication engine for VMware Site Recovery Manager

BENEFITS

• Integration with vSphere Web Client eases administration

and monitoring

• Protect nearly any virtual machine regardless of Operating System

(OS) and applications

• Only changes are replicated, which improves efficiency

and reduces network utilization

• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) configurable from 5 minutes

to 24 hours on a per-virtual machine basis

vSphere Replication (VDP) – included in VxRailIntegrated replication

But what if we need

more granularity,

optimized WAN performance,

one-to-many replication, … ?


Advanced replication with RecoverPoint for VMs

No single point of failure

• Each VM can be replicated by any vRPA

Minimizing bandwidth costs

• Utilize RecoverPoint Compression & Deduplication

• Flexible deployment

• vRPAs can be deployed on separated ESXi

clusters than the protected VMs

Fast recovery time

• No data copying when accessing image

“DVR-like” roll-back

• Fastest image access to the latest point in time

Multi-copy protection

• Concurrent local & remote copies


Local replication

• Target on adjacent appliance

• Scale-up or scale-out

Remote replication

• To any target

(Dell EMC VxRail Appliance or other)

• ROBO DR

Data migration (onboarding to Dell EMC VxRail)

• From any storage

• At VM Level

RP4VM use cases

Any Storage

Source

Target

WAN

Production Recovery

WAN


Scalable policy management for a single

or multiple VMs

Consistency across VMs; set consistency

groups and group sets across ESXs & clusters

Enables zero RPO with synchronous replication

Dynamically switch between Sync & Async

based on available bandwidth

Support vMotion of protected VMs and vRPAs,

and Storage vMotion of protected VMDKs

Support both RDMs and VMDKs

Any permutation of source and target disks

Protection featuresContinues protection while environment grows and changes


Protect a single or multiple virtual machines

Automated protection flow

Right click to

protect VMs

Consistency Group Policy Target VM Journal

Protected!Add to existing or

create a new CGSet RPO

Sync/Async

Replica

Datastore

Journal

Datastore

1 2 3 4

• Automatically discover VMDK/VM configuration

• Automatically create target VM & provision VMDKs and journals

– Target VM pre-seeding is also supported

• Automatically replicate VM HW changes¹ & protect new VMDKs¹,²

Automatic provisioning fits

90% of customers use cases!

¹Can be turned off ²VMDK can be excluded


Perform actions on one or multiple VMs

Advanced recovery orchestration

Customize power-up sequenceSet boot order priority of VMs within a consistency group, and between consistency groups

External scripts and user prompts Set pre/post VM power-up operation

Pre-define network for DRPre-define network setting for recovered environment


Quickly test point-in-time image and directly promote to recover

Automated recovery flow

Select scope

Select image

Testing network

Test copy!

Consistency

group/group

set

Point-in-Time

selection

Use dedicated

or “bubble”

network

Promote

Failover/failback/

production

restore

1 2 3Initiate

image access

Backup/recovery protection options


VMware Data Protection (VDP) – included in VxRail

OVERVIEW

• Integrated backup and restore capability managed

within vCenter

• Encrypted and compressed

applications for offsite backup

• VM, application and file level restore

BENEFITS

• Backup and recovery of VM’s is

point and click using existing tools

• Seamlessly move backups offsite

for retention

• Application aware

• Easily restore VMs or even individual files

Integrated backup and recovery


VDP considerations

Scale limits

• 200 VMs per VDP appliance

• Up to 8TB1 of local post-deduplication storage

• Can be expanded by integrating existing or new Data Domain appliances1

Application integration

• Microsoft SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint agents

• What about Linux, Oracle, LAMP stacks

Physical system support?

• We want everything to be virtualized, but there’s always an exception

Reporting?

• Success, failure, protection coverage—what about broader capacity management, usage

trending, recoverability analysis?

1Requires integration with existing or new customer Data Domain appliances

What about our need for flexibility, scalability, visibility, and broad support for the applications my business runs … ?


Data Protection Suite for VMware

How do you protect your VMs easily?

When you need seamless data protection

When you need efficient backup and recovery

When you need replication

When you need unified analytics and insight


• Align your data protection strategy

across appliances, racks, and blocks

• Enterprise scalability and integration

with the same protection for the

hyper-converged edge that’s trusted

for the largest data center

environments

• Simple, flexible licensing matching the

Dell EMC VxRail – protect what you

use, and scale as you grow

Data Protection Suite + Dell EMC VxRailEnterprise ready

Enhanced data protection options

DPS for VMware

• Granular backup and recovery

• Monitoring and real-time analytics

• Metadata or full-content index search

Data Domain Virtual Edition

• Simple, flexible, cloud-enabled software -

defined protection storage

• Flexible capacity up to 96 TB

• Includes DD Boost, DD Replicator, DD Encryption

chin boon ping - dell · 2020-03-10 · chin boon ping solutions consultant, malaysia, dell emc...

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