Luca OrtolanTrainer and Presales at Systematika
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Powered by VMware vSAN
Luca OrtolanTrainer and Presales at Systematika
Raul Arisi Chief Marketing Officer at Sinthera
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
+ +
vSphere vSAN
Traditional vSphere Infrastructure
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Optional
vSphere
+Storage Networking Servers
VMware SDDC
Solutions
3rd Party
Ecosystem
VMware SDDC
Solutions
3rd Party
Ecosystem
Managed by vCenter Managed by vCenter
Admin Time Admin Time
HyperconvergenceIntegrated compute and
storage for virtualized environments
Scale-out Servers
Storage Network
SAN
vSAN overview
Enterprise Storage in a Native vSphere Architecture
vSphere
HD/SSDHD/SSDSSD SSD
vSAN
SSD
3-64
vSAN Aggregated Datastore
HD/SSD
vSAN Requirements
– Not every node in a vSAN cluster needs local storage.
– Hosts with no local storage can still use the distributed datastore.
Server on
vSphere HCL
1 Gb or 10 Gb NIC
SAS/SATA: RAID
controller must work in
passthrough or HBA mode.
PCI/SAS/SATA SSDAt least 1
of each
PCI/SAS/SATA HD/SSD
Cache
Data
Network
Controller
Delivering Performance and Protection • Granular Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
SDDC: Vmware Cloud Foundation
vSphere vSAN NSX
Private cloud Public cloud
End-to-End Solutions
• NSX
• vRealize Ops
• Horizon
• vRealize Automation
• vCenter
• Log Insight
• vCloud Air
• Site Recovery Manager
• VMware Cloud Foundation
Native vSphere Experience
• vMotion
• Storage vMotion
• Policy-Based Management
• Fault Tolerance
• vSphere Replication
• Data Protection
• Snapshots
• HA
• DRS
Extend with Software Ecosystem
5x Larger Hardware Choice
Deploy Confidently with Proven Data Center Solutions
HCI Powered by
VMware vSAN
Virtual SAN Seamlessly Integrates with VMware Stack
Ideal for VMware Environments
Business Critical Apps Virtual Desktops (VDI)
DR / DA
Cloud Native AppsDatabases (SQL/Oracle)
ROBOManagement
Clusters
ContainersvSAN
vSAN for VMware Horizon
Ideal for VMware Environments
Ideal for VMware Environments
vSAN for VMware Horizon
Ideal for VMware Environments
vSAN for VMware Horizon
HCI: The Fastest Growing Storage Market
30%Hyper-Converged IntegratedSystems CAGR
3XFaster than Overall IntegratedSystems Market
36%Of Overall External Storage Market*
30%CAGR
$8.1B
$7.3B
$6.2B
$5.0B
$3.7B
$2.2B
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Source: IDC Converged System Tracker, Q3’2017* Gartner Forecast – Integrated Systems Worldwide 1Q17 Update
and Worldwide External Storage System Forecast, 2Q17 Update
vSAN Adoption
vSAN Customer Adoption
150% Year Over Year Bookings Growth
>15,000 Customers
More than top three competitors combined
Wide Range of Workloads
What applications do you run on vSAN today?
VMware Horizon
Citrix Xen Desktop
Microsoft SQL Sever
MySQL Databases
Oracle Databases
SAP
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft Exchange Server
NoSQL Databases (Cassandra, etc.)
Hadoop and Other Big Data Applications
VDI
Databases
Microsoft Applications
New Use Cases
Source: TechValidate survey of 316 users of vSAN
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XenDesktop on vSAN All Flash
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• Cooperative Bank
• Main focus on Sud-Tirol (IT, A)
• 12 B€ of managed capital
– 100% Milk produced in Trentino
– 50% Yogurt
– 70.000 Famlies
• VDI Infrastructure Renwal
– 2.100 VDI Citrix
– High Availability for VDI
– Various SLA
• Customer Business • Customer Needs
Customer Profile
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Solution
• 2 vSAN Stretched Cluster All Flash
– 1 Management Cluster
• 2+2
– 2 Desktop Cluster
• Phase 1: 9+9, 70TB (COMPLETED)
• Phase 2: 6+6 45TB (ON GOING)
• Server DELL R640 (1U)
– Intel Xeon Gold 6150 2.7G, 18C/36T
– 768 GB RAM
– 2 X 800 GB NVMe Cache Disk
– 4 X 1,92 TB SSD Read Intensive
• Thin Client for Customer
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Reference Architecture
https://storagehub.vmware.c
om/t/vmware-vsan/xenapp-
and-xendesktop-7-12-on-
vsan-6-5-all-flash/
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Cluster General Purpose
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• Public Administration
– Security Provider for other PA
– IT services for Government
– Print Money
• Storage Upgrade
– Near 100% utilization
– 12-16 Months to have a new storage
• Business Continuity
• Customer Business • Customer Needs
Customer Profile
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Solution
• 3 vSAN Stretched Cluster Hybrid
– 1 Production Cluster
• 10+10, 80TB
– 2 Test&Dev/PreProd• Cluster 1: 6+6, 45TB
• Cluster 2: 6+6, 45TB
• Server DELL R740 (2U)
– Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 2.4GHz
– 512 GB RAM
– 2 X 800 GB SSD MU Cache Disk
– 14 X 1,8 TB 10K RPM SAS Disk
• Up and running since March 2017
• Experienced real DR in production in August 2017
ROMEROME
FOGGIA
vSAN traffic
ISL
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2 Node for Branch Offices
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• Hypermarket / supermarket chain with 63retail locations in northern Italy.
• Provide IT infrastructure for local applicationin supermarket
• Reduce costs and provisioning time
• Customer Business • Customer Needs
Customer Profile
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Solution
• 3 Site started as Pilot in 2017
• Expanding year over yeartargeting 2020-2021 for allthe stores
vSphere vSAN
vSphere vSAN
vSphere vSAN
vSphere vSAN
Supermarket A
Cluster 2
Supermarket B
Cluster 3
Hypermarket C
Cluster 4
Data Center
Cluster 1
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Industrial Plants
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• Automotive supplyer based in Italy
• Merged in 2016 with a Chines Patner
• More than 20 Industrial Plants distribuitedall over the world
• Standardize IT across the countries
• Create a «blueprint» for industrial plantshardware independent
• Reduce costs of infrastructure and reduce time to set-up a new Plan
• Started with 2 Business Critical plants in Cina in 2018, moving to complete all the plants in 2020
• Customer Business • Customer Needs
Customer Profile
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Premiere production plant
• 2 weeks for production ready
• Standardized architecture
– hardware independent
– Copy & past design
• Cost decrease
• Easy to scale and expand
• 2Y global deployment plan
• IT resilience aligned with industrial continuity plan
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Reference Architecture
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Accommodate Next-gen Apps using Shared-nothing Architectures
Ensures data resides on the same host VM runs
For next-gen apps that provide built-in app resiliency
• Hadoop
• Splunk
• Cassandra
VMs run with FTT=0 for space efficiency
https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/splunk-on-vmware-vsan/
https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/datastax-enterprise-on-
vmware-vsan-tm-6-7-all-flash-for-production/
HadoopData Node
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
HadoopData Node
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Splunk reference Architecture
Splunk software helps to create hidden value from ever growing machine data. These workloads need massive storage capacity and the infrastructure needs to be flexible, scalable, and provides linear performance increase with scaling.
VxRAIL powered by VMware vSAN provides the above requirements for running these big data workloads on top of cost-effective x86 hardware and software.
Splunk VMs Number
of VMs
vCPU per
VM
Memory (GB) per
VM
Total
Storage per
VM
Indexer 37 30 192 10 TB
Search Head 2 32 64 500 GB
License
Master 1 2 12 200 GB
Deployment
Server 1 4 12 200 GB
Search Head
Deployer 1 2 8 200 GB
Monitoring
Console 1 8 32 200 GB
Cluster Master 1 8 32 200 GB
Enterprise
Security
Search Head 1 68 128 1 TB
https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/splunk-on-vmware-vsan/
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Cloud Native Application
Persistent Volume provisioning and management for Kubernetes
Prescriptive policy based control using SPBM
Volumes presented as First Class Disks (FCD) in vCenter
Easy to assign requirements
• vSAN admin creates SPBM policy
• Developer consumes with storage class
vSphere vSAN
Container Storage Interface - vSphere
Persistent
volumes
K8s Pods
VMDKs for
VMs & CNS
CNS control plane
Storage
Class
Storage
Policy
Dev
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MongoDB Reference Architecture
MongoDB: Total database size: ~217GB
ConfigurationFour shards: each shard has around 54GB dataFour replica sets: each replica set has one Primary, one Secondary, and one ArbiterData is durable by using JournalingPersistent Storage by vSphere Cloud Provider:Use StorageClass for dynamic provisioning
Kubernetes nodes:4 working nodes4 standby workers1 master node
VM configuration:OS: Photon OS 1.0VM RAM: 32GBVM vCPU: 8Disk Configuration (every node VM)Replica set (Primary or Secondary): 2 X 250GBReplica set (Arbiter): 1 X 20GBConfiguration Server: 1 x 20GB
https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2017/06/13/recipe-vmware-vsan-persistent-storage-mongodb-containers/
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Oracle on vSAN Reference Architecture
https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2018/10/24/oracle-database-on-all-flash-vsan-6-7-reference-architecture/
vSAN helps in maintaining storage separation between Oracle Clusters and other Clusters
Integrations between VCF and vRealize Operations and vRealize Log Insight help to prove certified documentations to Oracle Audit
ORACLE RAC supported both on single cluster and stretched cluster
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My SQL on vSAN Reference Architecture
https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/mysql-on-vmware-vsan-6-7-all-flash/
vSAN is optimized for modern all-flash storage with near-linear scalability, deduplication and compression for storage efficiency, compression, erasure coding capabilities and hardware fault tolerance that lower TCO while delivering mission-critical performance for MySQL workload.
In this reference architecture, we deployed both a single instance configuration and a group replication configuration for MySQL database running on a vSAN all-flash cluster.
We validated single VM scaling performance in the SysBench multi-threading test, and scale out performance for different MySQL virtual machine count. The test result showed a close-to-linearity performance capability for vSAN all-flash.
We also validated vSAN SPBM offering with data services for MySQL database. With vSAN all-flash deduplication and compression and erasure coding, users can choose to improve space efficiency with minimized performance impact. Stripe width setting allows user to possibly improve performance with more evenly distributed MySQL virtual disk objects. What’s more, it is recommended to use CPU offloaded checksum feature to ensure MySQL data integrity on the vSAN level.
We proved that vSAN offers resiliency and high availability to Tier-1 application with running workload and guarantees business continuity of MySQL workloads.
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SAP HANA on vSAN Reference Architecture
vSAN is the only HCI solution allowing to use all socket presents in the hardware to run HANA VMs
VMware vSphere HA delivers a vSphere built-in high availability solution, which can be used to protect SAP HANA. VMware HA provides uniform, cost-effective failover protection against hardware and operating system outages and works with a vSAN data
https://storagehub.vmware.com/t/vmware-vsan/sap-hana-on-hyperconverged-infrastructure-hci-solutions-powered-by-vmware-vsan-tm/
Luca Ortolan
Trainer and Presales
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4874428