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EMC CUSTOMER UPDATE 12 juni 2012 – Fort Voordorp

VPLEX Update - Één datacenter, twee locaties, altijd beschikbaar

Gerrit Lutke Schipholt


Onderwerpen

Virtualisatie met VPLEX

What‘s new? (V5.1 van GeoSynchrony)

Case study met Oracle RAC

Samenvatting


Have the exact same information

In two separate locations

Accessible at the same time

World‘s only solution that enables users to:


Why Distribute Your Data Center?

Increased availability – Both DCs serve production workloads while providing

resiliency for the other

Increased asset utilization – Passive DCs are expensive, normally with idle

resources

Increased performance (locality of data access)

– Data does not have to be read from the ‗Production‘ site as the same data is R/W accessible at both sites


Disaster Recovery Backup and Offsite Replication

High Availability Application restart with limited disruption

Continuous Availability Application continues with no disruption (Zero Downtime)


VPLEX Family Overview

What is it?

A hardware and software virtualization platform

Implemented as a SAN-based solution

Enables local and distributed federation

What is unique?

Federated AccessAnywhere

High-availability, scale-out cluster architecture

Unique technology enables workforce collaboration over distance


VPLEX Family of Products

Within a data center

VPLEX Local VPLEX Metro

Federated AccessAnywhere at

synchronous distances

VPLEX Geo

Federated AccessAnywhere at

asynchronous distances

Single, dual, or quad engines

VS1 VS2

VPLEX between Vblocks


GeoSynchrony 5.1: Operating System

• Read caching • Write caching/vaulting • Consistency Groups • Enhanced performance and scale


• Share – Distributed volumes

– Remote volumes

• Tune – Back-end load balancing

• Provision – Encapsulation

– Volume aggregation – Volume and access management

• Protect Mirroring (local and remote) Host Cross-Cluster Connect Three-site protection (high

availability and disaster recovery)

• RecoverPoint Splitter for VPLEX – CDP, CRR, CLR for VPLEX Local

– CDP, CRR, CLR for VPLEX Metro

VPLEX Storage Services

• VSI Plug-in • VPLEX Witness • VPLEX VASA provider

VPLEX Toolkit

• Mobility Central • VPLEX Element Manager API

• Task-based navigation

• Rebuild and performance monitoring

• Serviceability improvements

VPLEX Management Console


1. vMSC: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007545 2. HA KB (pre 5.0): http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1026692 3. vMotion KB (pre 5.0): http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1021215

Bringing Mobility and Availability to VMware Environments Combining VMware HA / vMotion with VPLEX Metro

VPLEX Metro is officially supported on the VMware HCL via

vMSC (Metro Stretch Cluster) starting vSphere 5.0

Knowledge Base Articles

vMotion support up to 10 msec vSphere HA rewrite

Other vSphere 5.0 changes

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007545




VPLEX and RecoverPoint Available for VPLEX Local and VPLEX Metro

Local point-in-time copies on VPLEX virtual volumes

– Efficient backup

– Point-in-time protection and operational recovery

Application integrated point-in-time protection

Protected from unintended changes with zero RPO

High-availability for site-level disasters, recovery for regional disasters

Site 1 Site 2

Site 3

VPLEX WITNESS

Federated AccessAnywhere Active Active

Copy

RecoverPoint

S VPLEX RecoverPoint Splitter

S


Federated Data Access With VPLEX Metro

Site B - Active Site A - Active

Active-Active Data Access


Utilize resources at both sites

Move and share data non-disruptively


Site B - Active Site A - Active


Connectivity Options Between VPLEX Clusters

VPLEX Metro

– Fibre Channel

– IP*

VPLEX Geo

– UDT over IP

*VS2 only


VPLEX Ecosystem and Partners

VPLEX

HP, Sun, Microsoft, Linux, IBM Oracle, VMware, Microsoft

Brocade, Cisco

Brocade, Cisco

HP, Sun, Hitachi, 3PAR, IBM, EMC

VPLEX

HP, Sun, Microsoft, Linux, IBM Oracle, VMware, Microsoft

Brocade, Cisco

Brocade, Cisco

HP, Sun, Hitachi, 3PAR, IBM, EMC


VPLEX: Availability From The Ground Up

COM interfaces provide inter-director communication for scalable I/O processing and distributed deployment

4 front-end 8 Gb/s FC ports per director

4 back-end 8 Gb/s FC ports per director

Large distributed cache maintains locality information, enabling fast cache read performance

Dual quad core processors

Host & Array Ports

Core Core

Core Core

Core Core

Core Core

Host & Array Ports

Core Core

Core Core

Core Core

Core Core

Front End Back End Front End Back End

Engine Director A Director B

Distributed Cache

Distributed Cache

Inter-Cluster COM

B A

Intra-Cluster COM

B A

Inter-Cluster COM

B A

Intra-Cluster COM

B A

Up to 4 engines (8 directors) per VPLEX Cluster

2 directors per VPLEX Engine


VPLEX Management Interfaces

Web-based GUI

– VPLEX Management Console

– Supports storage viewing and provisioning

▪ Local

▪ Distributed

– Online help

CLI

– Comprehensive

– Supports full configuration, provisioning, and advanced system management capabilities


Simplify—VPLEX Management Console

Drop-down menus upon mouse hover for faster actions

Common look and feel across EMC

management apps

―Big button‖ pages for simplified navigation


VPLEX + RecoverPoint : 1 + 1 = 3

Load balanced and highly available data centers for Metro with DR protection at independent 3rd site

RP DVR–like operational recovery on VPLEX virtualized storage

RP disaster recovery capability on VPLEX virtualized storage

Federated AcessAnywhere

NYC Cluster A

New Jersey Cluster B

VPLEX WITNESS

Sync Distance

Iowa DR Site

Async Distance

BC Copy DR Copy

VPLEX RecoverPoint


Site A Site B

VPLEX Metro

RecoverPoint CDP Replicas

• High availability and workload mobility

• Create advanced replicas with RP-DPP

• Tight integration with leading applications

Site A Site B

VPLEX Metro

Site C

RecoverPoint CRR

• High availability and regional DR protection

• Leverage RP-CDP for advanced replicas

• Full SRM support between site B & C

VPLEX Metro With RecoverPoint CDP and CRR


Site A RecoverPoint CDP Replicas • Instant operational

recovery with local CDP replicas

• Tight integration with leading applications

Site A Site B

RecoverPoint CRR

• Instant operational recovery at either site with local CDP replicas

• Virtual storage protection against regional disasters

• Full SRM support between site A & B

VPLEX Local With RecoverPoint CDP and CRR


After VPLEX: VPLEX Enables Immediate VMware

Workload Mobility for Multiple Arrays and Sites

VPLEX Enables:

Immediate Data Access

Flexible, On-Demand Workload Mobility

Higher Utilization Across

All Arrays

Simple, Easy Migrations

Other EMC and third-

party arrays

Other EMC and third-

party arrays

Areas For Enhancement

Complex & Disruptive Migration

Valuable CPU Cycles Often Spent On Data Movement

Must Wait For Full Copy Operation To Complete

Complex Zoning/Masking to

Make All Storage Visible


VPLEX and Oracle


Before VPLEX: Typical Config.: Oracle RAC with

Array-Based Replication for Disaster Recovery

ACTIVE PASSIVE

Array-Based Remote

Replication

Areas for Enhancement

Requires full failover and restart at remote site

Recovery Time Objective

(RTO) is long

Complex DR Testing


Mirrored I/O Paths

RAC w/ ASM Host Mirorring

ACTIVE ACTIVE


Valuable CPU Cycles Spent On Host Mirroring

Error-Prone Mngt. of Host Mirroring, Groups, Paths

Complex Cross-Connect SAN

Networking

Before: Typical Approach Using Oracle RAC with ASM Oracle RAC Over Distance with Oracle ASM (Host-Based Mirroring)


After VPLEX: Simplifies Deployment and Management of Oracle RAC Over Distance

VPLEX Witness

ACTIVE ACTIVE RAC

VPLEX Delivers:

High Availability

Configuration &

Management Simplicity

High Performance Replication (no server

CPU cycles)


Valuable CPU Cycles Spent On Host Mirroring

Error-Prone Mngt. of Host Mirroring, Groups, Paths

Complex Cross-Connect SAN

Networking

VPLEX Enables: Storage RPO = 0 & RTO = 0

VPLEX Federated AccessAnywhere Active Active


Distributed Oracle RAC Managed as Local

No ASM mirroring, no host CPU cycles

No configuring failure groups, no path preferences, no quorum disks

Add nodes and storage non-disruptively and simply

All reads done locally (cache)

• Continuous DR testing

• Simplified recovery process

• Storage administration done by the storage administrator

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• Tests Overview

– OLTP workload

– 70% reads / 30% writes

– 2 RAC nodes local

– 2 RAC nodes remote

– VPLEX and RAC interconnect affected by distance

– Increase workload with added nodes (16, 32, 48 & 64 drivers)

– RAC Certified

VPLEX Metro with Oracle Stretch RAC

0

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

1 2 3 4

Distance: 0 km (baseline)

Distance: 100 km (1ms RTT)

Number of RAC Nodes

Tra

nsaction R

ate


Change the Conversation with VPLEX

ZERO SECONDS Exclusive Capability

RELOCATE VM, APP, DATA

STRETCHED RAC RTO & RPO

CLUSTER RESTART

DOWNTIME MAINTENANCE


Samenvatting

VPLEX = Samenvoegen van twee locaties tot één datacenter door:

– Virtualisatie van onderliggende storage

– Access anywhere

– Local R/W

Gecertificeerd door en voor Vmware, vSphere, Oracle en LPAR mobility (AIX)


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