How VMware VSAN can Reduce Costs and Simplify your VM Storage

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1 How VMware VSAN can Reduce Costs and Simplify your VM Storage Theresa Miller - vexpert, Citrix CTP, MBA Andy Syrewicze - Technical Evangelist, Microsoft MVP info@altaro.com

2 Our Agenda for Today Introductions Setting the Stage: Where has Storage Been and Where are We Going? VSAN: Cost and Complexity VSAN architectural benefits, toolsets, and use cases Getting Started with VSAN Concluding Thoughts and Q & A 2

3 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN Andy Syrewicze Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter Management (Hyper-V) MVP Technical Evangelist for Altaro Software, providing community support, technical marketing and pre-sales expertise Prior to that I spent the last 13+ years providing technology solutions across several industry verticals including, education, fortune 500 manufacturing, healthcare and professional services working for MSPs and Internal IT Departments My focus has been in Virtualization, Cloud Services and the Microsoft Server Stack, with an emphasis on Hyper-V Hyper-V Blog: VMware Blog: 3

4 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN Theresa Miller vexpert, Citrix CTP, MBA Theresa Miller is an IT professional that has been working as a technical expert in IT for over 20 years, and is the Founder and CEO of 24x7 IT Connection, LLC. She has her MBA, Citrix CTP, and VMware vexpert. Her areas of expertise are Virtualization, Office 365/Exchange, and really most anything IT. Routinely selected to speak at industry events, and for technology webinars, she can also be found talking tech on the Current Status podcast. Blog: 4

5 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN About Altaro Software Altaro is a fast-growing developer of easy to use and affordable backup solutions for small- to mediumsized businesses, specializing in backup for virtualized environments. Virtual Backup trusted by 30,000 SMBs Flagship product: Altaro VM Backup altaro.com/vm-backup 5

6 Setting the Stage 6

7 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN Setting the Stage Where Have We Been with IT Storage Systems? Hypervisor Hypervisor 7

8 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN Setting the Stage What are the Main things that SMBs and SMEs look for from a Virtualization Solution? 8

9 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN Setting the Stage Enter Hyperconvergence! IO Traffic Between Nodes 9

10 VSAN Cost and Complexity 10

11 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN What is VSAN? VSAN is VMware s Hyper-Converged Storage Offering Contained within vsphere. Licensing Starts at the VMware Standard licensing level Provides features such as Flash Read and Write Caching, All-Flash, Erasure Coding, Storage QoS. 2-Node Option Now available with 6.5, which will drive down costs even more for the SMB! 11

12 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN VSAN Reducing Complexity No Disaggregated Storage Reduces Hardware Footprint Reduces number of vendors within environment Additional node installations are simple 12

13 Beating Hyperconverged infrastructure for the SMB with VMware VSAN VSAN Reducing Cost No need to purchase expensive SANs anymore. Better performance than cheap low-end SANs with the addition of just a few flash disks. No Expensive Support Contracts from Storage Vendors With the new two-node option, no need to purchase fabric items such as iscsi, or Fibre Channel switches Cost of ownership is much lower with less administration. 13

14 VSAN Architectural Benefits, Toolsets, and Use Cases 14

15 vsan Use Cases Architectural Benefits of VSAN Simplify Infrastructure Compute and infrastructure managed as one Software Defined storage with existing infrastructure 15

16 vsan Use Cases Architectural Benefits of VSAN Standalone storage and infrastructure may not be performing as needed Did you recently refresh your hardware? 16

17 vsan Use Cases VMWare Tools to Assess VSAN for your Organization Virtual SAN Assessment VSAN TCO and Sizing Calculator 17

18 vsan Use Cases VSAN Use Cases Midsize Educational Institution Just refreshed hardware VDI performance is not as expected Application intensity Leverage existing servers and storage Limited budget 18

19 vsan Use Cases VSAN Use Cases Small Business with Onsite Infrastructure Limited Budget Value Remote Workforce Support all types of applications Reviewing Hyperconverged and VSAN 19

20 vsan Use Cases Other Non-Specific Use Cases Business Class Applications Disaster Recovery App Development 20

21 Getting Started with VSAN 21

22 Getting Started with vsan Basic Requirements Getting Started ESXI 6.0 and vcenter Server 6.0 Managed by the vcenter Server and the vcenter Server Appliance Configured and Monitored by the vsphere webclient Minimum of 3 hosts and max of 64 in a VSAN Cluster Disk and local storage for caching should be configured Networking should be setup in advance All components must be listed on the vsphere Compatibility Guide for VSAN. All other configurations are unsupported. (hardware, drivers, firmware) 22

23 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 23

24 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 24

25 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 25

26 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 26

27 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 27

28 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 28

29 Getting Started with vsan Enable VSAN in VMWare 29

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33 Q & A Questions? Feel Free to Use the Questions Form! 33

34 Thank you for Attending!