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VPLEX Continuous Availability for Modern Datacenter

AgendaVPLEX Overview & Use Cases

VPLEX for Modern Datacenter

Management & Monitoring

VPLEX Customer Success Story

VPLEX Generational Upgrade

Q&A

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VPLEX For The Modern Datacenter

Ensures businesses stay up

Available

Creates a flexible data infrastructure

Agile

Seamless data mobility for optimal resource utilization

Multi-site or Local mirroring

Enables faster Tech Refresh to All-Flash arrays

Accelerate

Time to value reduced from months to days


Availability: Keep Data Always-On

• Metro protects from complete site failure

• Active-active datacenters

• Increases resource utilization

• Local mirroring ensures uptime through disk/array failures

VPLEX Local VPLEX Metro


Agility: Move With The Business

Seamlessly move and tier workloads across hybrid, mid-range or high-end flash

Load balancing between storage tiers

Data mobility to the cloud

Datacenter move or consolidation


VPLEX: Proven And Reliable

Transforming the businessWe help organizations modernize datacenters and optimize IT resources utilization

> 9200 Install Base

> 215 million Run hours

> 50%of Fortune 500

Companies


VPLEX VS6: New Generation Platform Built for All-Flash Data Infrastructure


VS6 & VS2 Platform Comparison

Note: VS2 with GeoSynchrony 5.5 is the reference for all comparisons

Built for all-flash modernized datacenter

VS6 VS2

Processor Intel Dual 6-Core CPU/director Intel Single 4-Core CPU/director

DRAM Capacity 128 GB/director 36 GB/director

Front End & Back End Connectivity 16 Gb/s FC 8 Gb/s FC

WAN (FC) Communication 16 Gb/s FC 8 Gb/s FC

Intra-cluster communication Infiniband, 40 Gb/s 8 Gb/s FC

Rack Density 20 RU for Single/Dual, 25 RU for Quad 22 RU for Single/Dual, 34 RU for Quad

4.2 X

3.5 X

2 X

2 X

5 X


• “All you can eat” price per engine– Add as many Dell EMC AF arrays as needed – No limitation on capacity – All HW and SW included

• For EMC all-flash storage– All DellEMC AF arrays– Available with both VS6 and VS2

• Simple to quote and simple to order

• Add engines depending on load

• No change in functionality and performancecharacteristics

VPLEX For All FlashOptimal VPLEX Solution for Dell EMC All Flash Storage


Operational Efficiency And Usability Enhancements

SW Upgrade Process Improvement

Minimize applications impact with smooth transfer of

virtual volumes between directors

Performance Diagnostics Improvement

New tool for front-end performance diagnostics

Operational Procedure Improvement

Generational Upgrade VS2 to VS6


VPLEX SW Upgrade Improvement Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) improvement

New: Reduced I/O pause for Hosts

• Disable FE ports of Director A

• Eliminate Director A from all cache operations

• Smoother I/O hand-off to Director B

• Proceed with S/W upgrade

Current: Long I/O pause for Hosts

• Force Director A down

• Time consuming Failure Recovery on Director B

• Abrupt ownership transfer of virtual volumes to Director B

• Proceed with S/W upgrade

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VPLEX Front-End Performance DiagnosticsContinuous Collection of Front-End (FE) I/O Statistics

Virtual volumes

• No impact on Hosts IOPS

• FE I/O trace sampling

• Gain insight of FE I/O profile

Shortens time to performance problem resolution

• Filter on specific object of interest

–Virtual volumes–Host initiator ports –VPLEX FE ports

• Accelerate identification of problem areas

• Port overload

• Busy volumes

• Load balance to eliminate congestion


VPLEX Target Code Delivers Faster Time To Quality

• VS2 Platform: – GeoSynchrony 5.4.1 Patch 3– GeoSynchrony 5.5.2 Patch 2

• VS6 Platform: – GeoSynchrony 6.0 Patch 1

Increase Your availability by running VPLEX Target Code

VPLEX Ecosystem Management & Monitoring AppSync, Storage M&R for VPLEX, Cloud Array


VPLEX Eco-System Continues To Expand

Hosts & Clusters Versions

Array Support

Key Additions

Added

10 more & 3rd Party

Added

AppSync3.0 with VPLEX 6.0.x

Cluster Witness Support with

KVM

Added

5 more

OS,Volume Managers, HA Clusters

Dell EMC


iCDM Enabled By AppSyncVPLEX Leveraging AppSync 3.x to Efficiently Create & Manage Data Copies

• Seamless copy data service for VPLEX – AppSync manages copies in the underlying array – Application integrated workflow for

› Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, VMware data-stores, File-systems

• Configurations supported– Local – Metro: User indicates which leg to snap

• Mounts copy at a LUN level or at a virtual volume level

• Supports XtremIO & Unity arrays under VPLEX

• Support for VMAX All Flash coming soon (June’17)


AppSync Architecture

APPSYNC

TCP Port 443

UAT/DevMount hosts

SNAP

PROD

TCP PortsUnix: 22

Windows: 10004

VMAX, Unity,

XtremIO

1 2 3• Specify copy

criteria

• Create copy

• Consume copy

1

2

3


AppSync Copy Management For VPLEXAppSync

1 • Production SQL host, LRMC191 with User Databases

• Use database vmax-dr1 for source to create copy

• Show workflow to have LRMC190, mount host, for copy data consumption


AppSync Copy Management For VPLEX1

• Specify copy creation

• Copy type: Snap• Configure storage

option

• Select storage option

• AppSync shows that the copy just created is not yet mounted


AppSync Copy Management For VPLEX1

2

Snap of vmax_dr1 mounted as VPLEX virtual volume• Select a Mount option• VPLEX mount option

• Show result, lmrc190

• VPLEX Unisphere shows the snap


AppSync Copy Management For VPLEX31 2


EMC Storage Monitoring & Reporting For VPLEXEnabled by ViPR SRM

Utilization Views multiple VPLEX clusters

Reporting & Trending

Visualize Analyze Optimize


ViPR SRM, VPLEX Storage M&R & UnisphereFunctionality Comparison

Full ViPR SRM

Datacenter level reporting & trending End-to-End Topology View Chargeback

Long duration Performance reporting & trendingAcross multiple VPLEX clustersDashboard for VPLEX alerts

5 minutes of Performance reporting & trending

Storage M&R for VPLEX

Unispherefor VPLEX


VPLEX Storage M&R 4.1 - Overview

View of multiple VPLEX clusters

• Show performance dashboard • FE & BE Bandwidth KB/s• FE & BE Throughput (IOPs) • Show processor & Heap utilization


Component Views & Trending

Example:

• Virtual Volume Performance Metrics – Read/Write Bandwidth– Read/Write Latency– Throughput– Per Director– Baseline (gray), pattern

over last 4 weeks


View Of VPLEX Directors & Metrics

Additional metrics:• Average I/O request size • FE Queued/Active Operations • Aborts and more


VPLEX Storage M&R: Customizable Personal View

Click on the push-pin icon to build personal dashboard


Configure Report Schedules & NotificationsVPLEX Storage M&R

• Select the wrench icon tool to Schedule or Email report

• Select the report icon tool for report format


Cloud Mobility With VPLEX Add Public Cloud to your Data Center

Use Case• Save on primary storage usage by moving cold

data to cost effective cloud storage• No host disruption and continuous access to

dataApplications

• Oracle and IBM DB2 have in built features to partition old data that can be moved to cloud

• Save less frequently used archive mailboxes to the cloud

• Big data generators like splunk can push older data to the cloud

Hot Data Cold Data

VPLEX Customer Success StorySociete Generale


• Societe Generale, founded in 1864 in France

• One of Europe’s largest financial services today

• Serving 31 million customers in 67 countries • French Retail Banking

• International Retail Banking

• Financial Services

• Corporate & Investment Banking

• Private Banking

• Asset Management

• Security Services


VPLEX Enabled IT Infrastructure

• VPLEX VS6 Metro • 1.5 PB XtremIO• Host OS:

– Windows, Linux, Solaris, ESX • Database: Oracle, MS SQL• Automation: Scripts, RESTAPI

VPLEX VS6 Metro

Paris DC1 Paris DC2

VPLEX VS2 Metro

Room1 Room2

• VPLEX VS2 Metro • EMC VMAX2, VMAX3, VNX• Host OS:

– Windows, Linux, AIX, ESX • Database: Oracle, MS SQL• Automation: ViPR

MetroPoint

North Area DCParis DC


Dell EMC And Société Générale PartnershipVPLEX transforming the business

VPLEX Provided Société Générale “Continuous Availability, Increased Agility and Accelerated Tech-refreshes”

Simplification

• Tech refresh made easy– No hosts downtime– Easy Compatibility

Matrix– Reduced from 18

months to 3 months

Better Utilization

• Backend rebalancing – Meet business demand

based on SLAs– Optimal capacity,

performance– Optimize TCO with data

life cycle management

Efficient Data Replication

• Active/Active datacenters – No host resources

required– Optimized WAN

bandwidth utilization with low latency

– Tunable data resync

Continuous Availability

• Zero downtime – Protection against

array outages– Applications continue

without any impact

VPLEX Generational Upgrade OverviewVS2 to VS6 Generational Upgrade


VPLEX Generational Upgrade Requirements VS2 to VS6 Upgrade

• VS2 and VS6 clusters must have the same software version which is

– VPLEX GeoSynchrony® 6.0.1.x

• The distance between clusters can be up to 100 meters apart

• Same number of engines – Single VS2 Single VS6 – Dual VS2 Dual VS6 – Quad VS2 Quad VS6

• Required upgrade kit with– Local COM I/O Fiber Channel modules


VPLEX Generational Upgrade Principles VS2 to VS6 upgrade

No host I/O disruption

Upgrade one director at a time

No re-zoning required

Transfer the front-end, back-end port WWNs from the VS2 cluster

Script drive procedure

Automated to minimize errors


VPLEX Generational Upgrade Multi-phase Process

Interview

Preparation

Post-upgrade

Pre-check

Transfer I/O

1

2

3

4

5

Confirm information

VS2 system validation

Apply VS2 configurationto VS6

Validate VS6 cluster healthEnable VS2 for reuse

One director at a time


Quad Or Dual Engine Upgrade

Server Hosts

Storage Arrays

Director B

Director A Director A

Director B

VS2 VS6

• Up to 100m between clusters• No Rezoning needed

Same WWN• VS6 port preparation • Run upgrade-manager on

VS2, up to the transfer I/O phase

• Add VS6 FE/BE/WAN cables, and FC LCOM cables VS2 to VS6 (all cables at once)

• Fail a VS2• Bring up VS6 replacement• Repeat• Remove VS2 cables• Post-upgrade steps

Procedure Steps

SAN

SAN

Only One engine is shown with wiring; Imagine dual or quad engine clusterEach Director connects to both FC switches in the VS2 rackOnly 1 connection is shown in the illustration

FC switch in VS2 cluster

IB cables of VS6 engine


Server Hosts

Storage Arrays

Director B

Director A Director A

Director B

VS2 VS6

• Up to 100m between clusters• No Rezoning needed

Same WWN• VS6 ports preparation• Run upgrade-manager on VS2,

up to the transfer I/O phase• Add VS6 FE/BE/WAN cables• Fail VS2 Director A • Add LCOM FC cabling VS2 to

VS6• Bring up VS6 Director A• Fail VS2 Director B• Bring up VS6 Director B• Remove VS2 cables• Post-upgrade steps

SAN

SAN

Procedure Steps Single Engine Upgrade

IB cables of VS6 engine


Q & A


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