VxRack FLEX Technical Deep Dive: Building Hyper-converged Solutions at Rackscale Kiewiet Kritzinger DELL EMC CPSD Snr varchitect
Introduction to hyper-converged
Focus on innovation, not IT integration IT INTEGRATION BUSINESS INNOVATION Consumes valuables time and resources Go Faster Invest in Areas that Differentiate Build Buy 4
Integration requires time And comes with risk BUILD 5
Converged drives innovation And lowers risk BUY 6
Systems design shift SERVERS + STORAGE Virtualization Moore s Law High Speed Ethernet Software Defined Storage Flash Media THEN TRENDS 7
Systems design shift Hyper-converged SERVERS HYPER-CONVERGED Powered by Intel Xeon Processors SAN STORAGE THEN NOW 8
Systems design shift Software defined Powered by Intel Xeon Processors SERVERS FAST NETWORK SAN STORAGE THEN VIRTUAL SAN NOW 9
Drivers for adoption Lower TCO Speed and Agility HYPER-CONVERGED Scale Easily Operational Simplicity Integrated storage & compute Scale out efficiently CAPEX and OPEX savings 10
Lower TCO with hyper-converged 11 of 24 SERVERS SAN STORAGE Tech Refresh CAPEX Cycles Forklift Upgrades Over Provisioning TRADITIONAL SAN UP TO 30% LESS No Silos Pay-as-you-Grow No Migrations Scale on Demand HYPER-CONVERGED
Different consumption models REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE STAND-ALONE APPLIANCES RACK-SCALE SYSTEMS Build from Components Buy Experience Buy Experience DEPLOY FASTER, IMPROVE AGILITY, SIMPLIFY IT 12
Needs determine which model REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE STAND-ALONE APPLIANCES RACK-SCALE SYSTEMS Maximum Flexibility Engineering validated Highly skilled IT Staff For ROBO, Small Data Centers, and Edge Easy to Use Low Cost Entry Start Small & Grow For Large, Core Data Centers Scale Small to Big Integrated Networking Lowest TCO at Scale Build from Components Buy Experience Buy Experience DEPLOY FASTER, IMPROVE AGILITY, SIMPLIFY IT 13
What if you need rack-scale? INTEGRATED NETWORKING SIMPLIFIES RACK EXPANSION Delivers superior performance at scale Eliminates IT silos Scale out efficiently to many nodes Designed for present and future growth 14
VxRack System 1000 overview
VXRACK SYSTEM 1000 HYPER-CONVERGED AT RACK SCALE Dell EMC VxRack System with SDDC Dell EMC VxRack System with FLEX Cloud Foundation Unified SDDC Multi-Hypervisor (vsphere, KVM, Hyper-V, etc.) Foundation for IAAS @ scale Traditional and Cloud-Native Apps 16
Dell EMC VxRack System 1000 Powered by Intel Xeon Processors Built-in networking Fully integrated rack-scale fabric Simple to manage, upgrade and sustain Start small, Grow BIG Software-defined for workload flexibility HYPER-CONVERGED SYSTEM OPTIMIZED FOR AGILITY AND OPEX SAVINGS 17
Scale on demand Powered by Intel Xeon Processors Scale out efficiently (100 s of nodes) Pay as you grow (linear predictable costs) No more forklift upgrades Eliminate complex migrations Start small (Min 4 nodes) Integrated networking simplifies multi-rack expansion Benefits: Faster time to market with new service and applications Greater agility to promote innovation and business growth Realize ROI faster over do it yourself 18
VxRack System with FLEX overview
VxRack FLEX overview Key features and capabilities Powered by Intel Xeon Processors Leverages EMC ScaleIO Virtualizes the server s direct-attached storage into a shared network-based storage pool-similar to SAN storage Creates a flexible foundation for delivering IaaS at scale that can support a wide range of use cases supporting enterprise and modern applications (separately or in combination) Makes it easy to achieve extreme scale 1000+ nodes Capable of supporting multiple hypervisors, OS and media 20
VxRack FLEX components Powered by Intel Xeon Processors Hardware VxRack servers (each with 24 drives) Cisco Nexus 9K top of rack leaf switches Cisco Nexus 3K access switches Cisco Nexus 3K management network switches VxRack Controller Software Hypervisor VMware vsphere 5.5 or 6.0 Bare metal option provides support for other hyper-visors and OS (see slide 14) ScaleIO 2.0 provides software defined storage Management Software ScaleIO GUI Vmware vcenter VxRack Manager Bare Metal Option 21
VxRack FLEX details FIRST RACK SECOND RACK Top of Rack Switches Spine Switches System Controllers Top of Rack Switches Expansion Nodes Expansion Nodes Configuration with 4 Nodes 42RU 22
New VxRack FLEX Nodes High Density High Capacity Maximize storage flexibility and rack density Virtualized workloads, HPC, databases, file/print PowerEdge R630 All-flash and hybrid PowerEdge R730xd All-flash and hybrid Maximize storage efficiency MS Exchange, collaboration, large databases Up to 38.4 TB/node Up to 46 TB/node 23
VxRack FLEX enclosure configurations Dell PowerEdge R630 Name CPU Memory SSD/ node HDD/ node DAS cache Total # of cores /node High-density: all-flash 2x IE5-2697v4 512 10x1.6TB None No 36 High-density: cached high 2x E5-2680v4 768 2x800GB 8x1.2TB Yes 28 High-density: cached entry 2x E5-2650v4 256 2x800GB 8x1.2TB Yes 24 24 High-density Flash: dense SSD-high capacity High-Density Flash: Dense SSD-mid capacity High-density: storage only all-flash High-density: storage only cached High-density: storage only max HDD High-density: storage only Flash dense SSD- high capacity High-density: storage only Flash- dense SSD- mid capacity 2x E5-2680v4 512 10x3.84TB None No 28 2x E5-2680v4 512 10x1.92TB None No 28 2x E5-2620v4 64 10x1.6TB None No 16 2x E5-2620v4 64 2x800GB 8x1.2TB Yes 16 2x E5-2620v4 64 None 10x1.2TB No 16 2x E5-2620v4 64 10x3.84TB None No 16 2x E5-2620v4 64 10x1.92TB None No 16 Node type:1u1n NIC/node:4x10GbE+BMC Boot/node:64GB SATADOM
VxRack FLEX enclosure configurations Dell Poweredge R730xd Name CPU Memory SSD/ node HDD/ node DAS cache Total # of cores /node Capacity cached: high 2x E5-2680v4 512 2x800GB 22x1.2TB Yes 28 Capacity cached: medium 2x E5-2650v4 256 2x800GB 22x1.2TB Yes 24 Capacity mixed: SSD/HDD 2x E5-2680v4 256 6x800GB 18x1.2TB Yes 28 Capacity all-flash: dense SSD 2x E5-2680v4 512 24x1.92TB None No 28 Storage only: cached 1 1x E5-2620v4 64 2x800GB 22x1.2TB Yes 8 Storage only: mixed SSD/HDD Storage only: max capacity HDD CapacityaAll-Flash: dense SSD- 1x E5-2650v4 64 6x800GB 18x1.2TB Yes 12 1x E5-2620v4 64 None 24x1.2TB No 8 1x E5-2650v4 64 24x1.92TB None No 12 25 Node type:2u1n NIC/node:4x10GbE+BMC Boot/node:64GB SATADOM
EMC ScaleIO Software Defined for the enterprise
EMC ScaleIO Software Software-defined, scale out block storage Powered by Intel Xeon Processors Choose from 3 consumption models ScaleIO Software; ScaleIO Ready Node; VxRack System FLEX Utilize industry standard x86 hardware for block storage Use your own; Pre-configured server and software bundle; Fully engineered, hyper-converged system with SDS and networking Run storage and applications on the same servers Experience flexible, scalable performance and capacity on demand Scale to 1000+ nodes; Performance scales linearly Choose your operating system, hypervisor and media OS HYPERVISORS CLOUD MEDIA HDDs SSDs PCIe Flash 27
ScaleIO components Application(s) PRESENTATION LAYER C S SDC: ScaleIO Data Client SDS: ScaleIO Data Server ScaleIO Data Client (SDC) DATA SERVER MDM: Metadata Manager ScaleIO Data Server (SDS) ScaleIO Metadata Manager (MDM) 28
VxRack FLEX modular architecture RAM RAM RAM CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU CPU Local Disk (SSD) Local Disk (HDD) Local Disk (SSD) Local Disk (HDD) Local Disk (SSD) Local Disk (HDD) Modular Design ScaleIO SDS (Virtualized Storage Array) Simple form factor servers Local storage presented as shared storage Software defined storage array ScaleIO SDS (Virtualized Storage Array) Extensible scale Add nodes to incrementally scale the infrastructure (100 s of ScaleIO nodes) Automatically balances storage resources Node types (performance, hybrid, storage only) can be mixed 29
ScaleIO Key Benefits MASSIVE SCALABILITY SUPREME ELASTICITY EXTREME PERFORMANCE UNPARALLELED FLEXIBILITY Proof Points ATTAIN 8x better performance than TRADITIONAL SAN Scales To 1k+ NODES EFFICIENCY 50 % Over Traditional SAN Up to 30-60 % TCO Savings What Others Have to Say 30 COMPELLING ECONOMICS we've never seen any HA shared storage perform as fast as ScaleIO has in our lab. ScaleIO has shattered records in every situation so far, pushing our testing infrastructure to its limits. - StorageReview (Feb 2016)
Management
Management suite Dell EMC Vision Intelligent Operations VMware vcenter Server EMC ScaleIO Architecture-awareness, inventory, health monitoring, RCM compliance Provision, place, and manage virtualized hosts and servers Configure protection domains, storage volumes and pools Dell EMC VxRack System with FLEX Management Tools 32
Verify system inventory Architecture-Aware monitoring and management Functions Discover Physical Components Nodes by type Switches Racks Discover software-defined resources Compute clusters SDS: Storage pools and volumes VLANs Workload Fingerprinting Benefits Always know system status, components, and relationships Dell EMC Vision Dashboard: Inventory and Related Components 33
Daily operation Monitor Health of system and related component level Functions Operational visibility: Health monitoring Key performance indicators (metrics) Launch EMS Collect and export logs Troubleshoot Share with Dell EMC Support Export meta data Collaborate Escalate Benefits Proactively manage resources and quickly resolve issues Dell EMC Vision Dashboard: System Overview Health Heat Map: System View Logs Health Heat Map and KPIs: Nodes Health Heat Map and KPIs: Switches 34
Manage RCM compliance Auditing, reporting, and downloading releases for upgrades Functions Instant system audits validate Dell EMC System compliance with Release Certification Matrix Establishes baselines for converged infrastructure Provides a standard-based means to audit baselines Benefits Ensures system stability and optimization with lower OPEX Assess needs for upgrades; pinpoints drift from compliance Dell EMC Vision Dashboard: RCM Compliance Management Compliance Score Compliance Report Compliance Report Details 35
Configure components Automated changes across components and systems Functions Single interface to interact with Dell EMC Systems and their components MSM API for shell commands provides a set of RESTful resources for retrieving and changing settings Examples: Configure switch VLANs Configure NTP across components Benefits Reduces manual labor to make changes and manage settings No need for separate login credentials, IP addresses, and syntax to make configuration changes across multiple components Dell EMC Vision Shell Commands 36
Modify storage resources Area network management Functions Access ScaleIO SDS ScaleIO native GUI vcenter Plug-in Monitor storage details Define storage volumes and pools Benefits Easily reconfigure storage as workload demands change ScaleIO Plug-In to VMware vcenter Dashboard 37
Deploy/operate virtualized computing Allocate virtualization host resources across nodes Functions Deploy, configure, and automate: ESXi host resources vmotion VM high availability VMware Update Manager VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler Benefits Simple, automated control over the virtual environment VMware vcenter Dashboard 38
EMC HCI - for your next phase of innovation Lower TCO Speed and Agility Scale Easily Operational Simplicity 39