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1 Your World is Hybrid: vsphere Virtual Volumes: The Time is Now Nick Dyer Principal Systems Engineer, UK

2 A Brief History of 3PAR, Nimble & VMware VVols Design partnership between HPE and VMware Virtual Volumes VMworld VVol introduced with HPE as 1 of 5 original design partners VVol Beta 3PAR 1 of 3 partners ready on Beta Day 1 Nimble Tech Preview Nimble tech preview released VVol 2.0 GA with vsphere 6.5 3PAR & Nimble ready on Day 1 Aug 2011 Jul 2014 Jun 2015 Nov 2016 May 2012 Mar 2015 Mar 2016 Today 3PAR Reference Platform 3PAR selected as the FC reference platform VVol GA with vsphere 6.0 3PAR 1 of 4 partners ready Nimble GA Nimble releases VVol support Continued development 3PAR, Nimble and VMware continue working to develop and refine VVols

3 Why did VMware create a new storage architecture? Todays exercise: Challenges in external storage architectures LUN Centric storage preallocated into silos No Visibility cannot see inside VMFS volume Poor Efficiency typically overprovisioning LUNs Increased Administration must always go to storage admin Difficult Reclamation space reclamation is a manual process Hardware Centric must use vendor tools & plug-ins Long Provisioning time consuming manual requests Data Services array data services not aligned with VMs Key take-away: There are many hidden challenges with traditional external storage architectures in vsphere which decrease efficiency and increase management

4 vsphere Virtual Volumes Integration Framework for VM-Aware Storage Storage Policy Management by SPBM vsphere VVols Storage Array VASA Provider VVol VVol VVol VVol VVol VVol No File System; virtual disks are natively represented on arrays Vendor Specific VASA Provider matched to storage array Extends vsphere Storage Policy-Based Management to the storage ecosystem SPBM uses array native capabilities on a VM granular storage Supports existing storage I/O protocols (FC, iscsi, NFS) Based on T10 industry standards Industry-wide initiative supported by all major storage vendors Included with vsphere at no additional cost VVol enabled Storage Cluster

5 Array Capabilities and Storage Policies Storage Policy Management by SPBM vsphere PE 10PB Storage Array VVols VVol Datastore PE VASA Provider VVol VVol VVol VVol VVol VVol Storage Container VASA Provider Development Test\Dev Encryption Deduplication Replication Performance Staging Availability Data Protection Capacity HDD Production Security Availability Data Protection Performance All Flash Encrypted Snapshots Data Protection Encrypted Storage Capabilities to Storage Policies Storage Admin creates Storage Containers, selecting size limit capabilities VI Admin registers VP VP presents Storage Containers and associated capabilities to vsphere VI Admin authors VM Storage Polices based on presented capabilities to match expected VM needs VI Admin assigns policies as VMs are provisioned Storage policies determine selection of datastore QoS VVol enabled Storage Cluster Disk Type

6 How VVols transforms storage in vsphere VMFS LUN-Centric Siloed storage pools, array services aligned to LUNs Static Pre-allocated storage, over- provisioned resources Complex Complicated management using vendor specific tools Time-consuming Longer provisioning, manual space reclamation VVols VM-Centric No siloed storage pools, array services aligned to VMs Dynamic Dynamically allocated storage, using only what is needed Simple Simplified management using vsphere interfaces Effortless Instant provisioning, automatic space reclamation

7 Example Storage Policy [Nimble] Protection schedule by minute, hour, daily or weekly Can set local and remote snapshot retention policies Choose replication partner and frequency Option to delete replicas from partner when source deleted

8 New in vsphere 6.5 VASA Replication Model - APIs SRA command VASA API PowerCLI Synchronize syncreplicationgroup Sync-SpbmReplicationGroup Failover TestFailover failoverreplicationgroup testfailoverreplicationgroupstart testfailoverreplicationgroupstop Start-SpbmReplicationFailover Start-SpbmReplicationPrepareFailover Start-SpbmReplicationTestFailover Stop-SpbmReplicationTestFailover Reprotect reversereplicategroup Start-SpbmReplicationReverse Replication discovery queryreplicationpeer queryfaultdomain queryreplicationgroup querypointintimereplica Get-SpbmFaultDomain Get-SpbmReplicationGroup Get-SpbmReplicationPair 10

Recovery and Cloning Nimble vcenter Plugin Snapshot based recovery Choose from all available snapshots Local VM Recovery In-place restore of VM Cloned as a new VM Local Virtual Disk

9 Recovery and Cloning Nimble vcenter Plugin Snapshot based recovery Choose from all available snapshots Local VM Recovery In-place restore of VM Cloned as a new VM Local Virtual Disk Recovery In-place restore of virtual disk Cloned as a new disk to same VM Cloned as a new disk to different VM Remote VM Recovery Cloned as new VM at remote site No need to stop replication

10 Top Reasons Customers will want to Start Using VVols Now 1. Don t have to go all in 2. Get early experience 3. Get your disk space back 4. Available in all vsphere editions 5. Let the array do the heavy lifting 6. Start using SPBM now 7. Snapshots don t suck anymore 8. Easier for IT Generalists 9. One architecture to rule them all Available You Get One Easier Let Start Snapshots The the early your VM don t architecture using for array is disk VVol to IT now don t SPBM all go a all unit in experience space vsphere the now suck Generalists to with rule of heavy anymore storage back them VVols editions lifting all Because You It s An No Don t and array more longer can wait get need architecture in it s use the over-provisioning left have until all a to darkness VVols out, purpose about be the to a get wait not last storage alongside the started built bind a hours VM, I/O or no of minute. manual feature, engine, using for admin, them more VMFS, I/O -the intensive NFS, LUNs fully How space array nothing same easy manage iscsi, long features reclamation, migration the SPBM to snapshot did license, VM Fiber storage you are that is now using wait keep will more VSAN deletions from Channel, a replace to first within your powerful Storage users switch class who array vsphere VMFS commit, have from cares? vmotion, and citizen thin been one ESX has plus VVols and day better take to your array your ESXi possibly visibility enjoying backups provides has time or from VM-level into automatically will a with unified storage complete vsphere it visibility storage Client faster to resources architecture Web Client? than across vsphere protocols has

11 Thank you For HPE and Channel Partner internal use only 13

Nimble Tech Preview Nimble tech preview released. VVol 2.0 GA with vsphere 6.5 3PAR & Nimble ready on Day 1

Nimble Tech Preview Nimble tech preview released. VVol 2.0 GA with vsphere 6.5 3PAR & Nimble ready on Day 1 A Brief History of 3PAR, Nimble & VMware VVols Design partnership between HPE and VMware Virtual Volumes VMworld VVol introduced with HPE as 1 of 5 original design partners VVol Beta 3PAR 1 of 3 partners