Modern hyperconverged infrastructure Karel Rudišar Systems Engineer, Vmware Inc.
2 What Is Hyper-Converged Infrastructure? - The Ideal Architecture for SDDC Management SDDC Compute Networking Storage Simplicity Cost Scalability Performance Open Systems / Traditional Infrastructure Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
3 Building Block for the Software-Defined Data Center
4 VMware Hyperconverged Solutions - Primary Pillars of Value Radically Simple Infrastructure for the Data Center Radically Simple 1 integrated software stack >100 pre-certified Ready Nodes Highest Performance Over 100,000 IOPs per node <1 ms latency with all-flash systems Lowest Cost 50% lower TCO Up to 14x greater storage efficiency with dedupe and more Ready for Any App, Any Scale 6,000,000 IOPs per cluster 1 platform for critical apps, Openstack and Containers
5 Resiliency To Rack, Host, Network or Disk Failures Automated and controlled through VM-level policy Virtual SAN Datastore Zero data loss and zero downtime despite hardware failures: Disk Host Network Rack Interoperable with vsphere HA and Maintenance Mode Rack A Rack B Rack C
6 Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack vsphere Virtual Desktop Data Protection vmotion vsphere HA DRS Storage vmotion VMware Horizon View Snapshots Linked Clones vsphere Data Protection vsphere Replication Fault Tolerance Cloud Ops and Automation Disaster Recovery Storage Policy-Based Management vrealize Operations vrealize Automation Site Recovery Manager IaaS Site A Site B
VMware Virtual SAN 6.2 Ready For All vsphere Workloads Best storage for VMs Business Critical Apps End User Computing DR / DA Test/Dev Optimized for vsphere DMZ Management Staging ROBO Enterprise-class resiliency VMware vsphere + Virtual SAN Business critical app ready
8 Tiered All-Flash and Hybrid Options All-Flash Hybrid SSD PCIe NVMe Caching SSD PCIe NVMe Writes cached first, Reads from capacity tier Read and Write Cache Virtual SAN Capacity Tier Flash Devices Reads primarily from capacity tier Data Persistence Capacity Tier SAS / NL-SAS / SATA 100K IOPS per Host + sub-millisecond latency 40K IOPS per Host
9 Virtual SAN : Stretched Clusters FD3 Witness VM Overview Site-level protection Active-Active Topology Architecture is based on Fault Domains Automated failover in case of site failures vsphere + Virtual SAN SSD HDD SSD HDD Benefits Disaster avoidance Planned maintenance Zero RPO FD1 FD2
10 Recap: Hyper-Converged, Software-Driven Architecture Intelligence in software Single layer of compute, networking and storage software Elastic Scaling Software Hardware agnostic Convergence of physical storage on commodity x86 hardware Building block approach Hardware Scale-Out Model on Hyper-Converged Solution
EMC VxRail 4-Node Appliance NODE 1 NODE 2 NODE 3 NODE 4
EMC VxRail Appliance 76 TB RAW FLASH FLASH OPTIMIZED - DEDUPE & COMPRESSION - ERASURE CODING 112 CPU CORES 2 RACK UNITS
Always On Approach 10GbE VM ADD NEW APPLIANCE TO CLUSTER VMOTION WORKLOAD TO NEW APPLIANCE REMOVE OLD APPLIANCE NON-DISRUPTIVELY
Start Small Scale On Demand 3,200VMs 1,600VMs 800VMs Up to 200VMs 400VMs
15 Vmware Based Hyperconverged Solutions - Solid Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) Foundation Any Application Software Defined DC SDS vnetwork Security SDS vnetwork Security Commodity Servers HD Drives, Flash, NVMe Commodity Switches
16 Any Device Business Mobility Apps, Devices, Content Any Application Traditional Apps APP APP APP APP APP APP Cloud-Native Apps Common Management and Networking Unified Hybrid Cloud One Cloud Managed vcloud Air Network Private Your Private Cloud Public vcloud Air Software-Defined Data Center Virtualized Compute, Storage, Networking Build-Your-Own Converged Infrastructure Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Next Steps? Hands On Labs HOL-SDC1608 Virtual SAN Assessment Reference Architectures Validated Designs Virtual SAN Ready Nodes Hardware Compatibility List
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