Dell EMC Unity: Architectural Overview Ji Hong Product Technologist Midrange & Entry Solutions Group
Introduction
What s New with Dell EMC Unity 650F 550F 450F 350F Optimized for All-Flash Performance & Simplicity Up to 40% more cores; 2X the memory 4 new Broadwell based All-Flash models New 80 drive 3U enclosure 4X file power with 256TB file system Compression for file AppSync integration, snapshots & thin clones for icdm Dynamic Pools 3
Flexible Deployment Options ALL-FLASH PURPOSE-BUILT FOR PERFORMANCE, SCALE AND FLEXIBILITY CONVERGED FOR FASTER DEPLOYMENTS AND A ONE-STOP SOLUTION VIRTUAL FOR SOFTWARE DEFINED, REMOTE OFFICE AND TEST/DEV 4
Unified Architecture Taking a Look at How Dell EMC Unity Works
Building From the Bottom Up Advanced Data Services Dell EMC Unity Architecture Hardware Overview 6
Hardware Overview
Hardware Overview Disk Processor Enclosure (DPE) Two storage processors (SPA and SPB), Dual-active controllers Both storage processors (SP) can host resources and service I/O In failover case, all services on one SP get moved to peer SP SPB SPA 8
System Management Connectivity Base ports on DPE SPB SPA 2x Management and Service ports per SP (shown in red) Management (1Gb/s) Connectivity to Unisphere user interface Configured with IPv4 and/or IPv6 address One management address for both controllers Service (1Gb/s) For troubleshooting purposes if management port is not available Serial over LAN capability for console access 9
Front-End Connectivity Base ports on DPE SPB SPA 2x CNA ports per SP (shown in red) 8Gb / 16Gb FC (FC connectivity) 10GbE Optical or TwinAx (iscsi and/or File connectivity) 1GbE Base-T RJ45 (iscsi and/or File connectivity) 2x 10GbE Base-T RJ45 ports per SP (shown in yellow) iscsi and/or File connectivity 10
Back-End Connectivity Base ports on DPE SPB SPA 2x 12Gb SAS ports per SP (shown in red) For drive enclosure connectivity Up to 500 drives with two SAS ports Additional drive counts available by adding more SAS ports 11
Optional Additional Connectivity Optional ports on DPE SPB SPA 2x I/O Module slots per SP (shown in red) 12 Front-End Optional Connectivity Options 16Gb FC (4-port) o MM or SM 1GbE Base-T (4-port) 10GbE Base-T (4-port) 10GbE Optical (4-port) 10GbE Optical w/ iscsi offload (2-port) Back-End Optional Connectivity Options 12Gb SAS (4-port)
DPE Cabling 6 Cables for Minimum Setup: 2 Power Cables (Black/Grey) 2 Management Cables (Green) 2 Front-End Cables (Blue) 13
Storage Processor (SP) Fans M.2 SSD Battery Backup Unit (BBU) DIMMs I/O Modules Power Supply 14
Dell EMC Unity Drive Support Overview 12Gb DRIVE TYPE SUPPORTED CAPACITIES 12 Drive DPE (3.5 ) 15 Drive DAE (3.5 ) 25 Drive DPE / DAE (2.5 ) SSDs for FAST Cache 200GB, 400GB, 800GB SSD for FAST VP 200GB, 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB 400GB, 800GB, 1.6TB, 3.2TB, SSDs for only All FLASH Pool 3.84TB (AFA), 7.68TB (AFA), 15.36TB (AFA) 15K RPM SAS 600GB 10K RPM SAS 600GB, 1.2TB, 1.8TB 7.2K RPM NL-SAS 2TB, 4TB, 6TB Flash drives are formatted to 520 byte sector size SAS and NL-SAS drives uses 4KB sector size 15
Dell EMC Unity Architecture
Unified Storage Pool (Hybrid) Private LUN Private LUN Storage Pool RAID Group RAID Group 17
Unified Architecture All Storage Resources from the Same Pool Consistency Group Storage Pool NAS Server LUN LUN VVOL VVOL VVOL VVOL VVOL VVOL LUN VMware VMFS Datastore Storage Pool 18
Dell EMC Unity Architecture Diagram Protocol End Points Dual-active controllers Data synchronized between SPs over CMI interconnect VMDK/VHD Replication Redundant front-end paths Unified data services for all storage objects Unified Control Path Unified Svcs Block (Thick/Thin LUNs) File System (64-bit) Unified Pool VVols Multicore optimizations Distribute load across cores Active/active back-end Multicore Architecture Cache FAST Cache RAID CMI Direct SAS connections to all drives Back End 19
Dell EMC Unity Multi-Pathing for File Protocols SPB LACP SPA LACP NAS Server LACP provides physical link aggregation Multiple physical interfaces accessed via single logical interface Provides redundancy in case of single path failure Potentially improve performance by spreading traffic across multiple ports 20
Advanced Data Services
Advanced Data Services EFFICIENCY /PROTECTION Compression (Block)* Native Async Replication (Block and File) Native Sync Replication (Block) Data at Rest Encryption CTA Support *Introduced Q4 16 in Dell EMC UnityOE 4.1 Update SIMPLE NDU Upgrades Data-in-Place Conversions* CloudIQ* Native SAN Copy Import* VNX to Dell EMC Unity Native File Import (NFS)* VNX to Dell EMC Unity FLEXIBLE Unified Snapshots Host I/O Limits Absolute and Density Based Burst Limits* CEE Support* 22 For more information, see support.emc.com for related documentation
Platform Updates
Hardware/Platform Updates Four New All-Flash Models Dell EMC Unity 350F, 450F, 550F, 650F Utilizing same 2U chassis as existing models Faster CPU (Broadwell based) More memory across comparable models 650F 550F 450F 350F ALL FLASH 24
Hardware/Platform Updates New All-Flash model system limits Platform Unity 350F Unity 450F Unity 550F Unity 650F Form Factor 2U 2U 2U 2U Storage Processors 2 2 2 2 Processor (per SP) Memory (per SP) Intel E5-2603v4 6-core, 1.7GHz 48GB (3x 16GB) @ 1866MHz Intel E5-2630v4 10-core, 2.2GHz 64GB (4x 16GB) @ 2133MHz Intel E5-2660v4 14-core, 2.0GHz 128GB (4x 32GB) @ 2400MHz Intel E5-2680v4 14-core, 2.4GHz 256GB (4x 64GB) @ 2400MHz Max Drive Count 150 250 500 1000 Max Capacity (PB) 2.4 4.0 8.0 16.0 Max I/O Modules 4 4 4 4 25
Hardware/Platform Updates 80-Drive Dense DAE 3U size enclosure with 80x 2.5 drive slots Installable in EMC standard rack or customer rack Cable management arms (CMA) in back of the enclosure; doesn t take up additional space Supported on all Dell EMC Unity physical systems Supports all available 2.5 drives (Flash, SAS) Up to 1.2PB raw capacity in 3U 26
Expandable Dynamic Pools Maximize performance & efficiently save space and budget TRADITIONAL POOL DYNAMIC POOL + + + + Flash drives RAID Widths & Spares Flash drives as needed ADD SINGLE DRIVE TO POOL FASTER REBUILD TIME HIGHER SPACE UTILIZATION SIMPLER AND LOWER TCO Distributed sparing and flexible pool size 27
Storage Pools Storage Pool Private LUN Private LUN RAID Group RAID Group 28
Dynamic Pools - Architecture In a Dynamic Pool, drives are partitioned into drive extents which are grouped into RAID extents across multiple drives Ensures redundancy by making sure a RAID extent does not contain two drive extents from a particular drive Spare space automatically configured to meet sparing requirements No need for hot spares of unused drives RAID groups within Dynamic Pools are collections of RAID extents and are partitioned up to create the private LUNS of slices for pool allocations Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3 Drive 4 Drive 5 Drive 6 D1 DE 1 D1 DE 2 D1 DE 3 D1 DE 4 D1 DE 5 D1 DE 6 Spare D2 DE 1 D2 DE 2 D2 DE 3 D2 DE 4 D2 DE 5 D2 DE 6 Spare D3 DE 1 D3 DE 2 D3 DE 3 D3 DE 4 D3 DE 5 D3 DE 6 Spare D4 DE 1 D4 DE 2 D4 DE 3 D4 DE 4 D4 DE 5 D4 DE 6 Spare D5 DE 1 D5 DE 2 D5 DE 3 D5 DE 4 D5 DE 5 D5 DE 6 Spare D6 DE 1 D6 DE 2 D6 DE 3 D6 DE 4 D6 DE 5 D6 DE 6 Spare 29
Dynamic Pools - Architecture Supported RAID Levels and Minimum Drive Count Dynamic Pools support the following RAID levels RAID 5 RAID 6 RAID 1/0 Different size drives can be mixed in a Dynamic Pool Minimum number of drives when creating a Pool: For more information: Dell EMC Unity All Flash: Flash Technology Deep Dive Thur @ 1:00PM RAID Level RAID Width Minimum Number of Drives How it is Calculated RAID 5 4+1 6 (4+1)+ 1 Extra Drive RAID 6 4+2 7 (4+2)+ 1 Extra Drive RAID 1/0 1+1 3 (1+1)+ 1 Extra Drive 30
Dell EMC Unity Thin Clones A Thin Clone is a read-write copy of a Thin Block resource which shares blocks with the parent object Includes LUNs, LUNs within Consistency Groups, and VMFS Datastores Supported on all Dell EMC Unity models and Dell EMC UnityVSA (Professional and Community version) All data services remain available on the parent objects on creation of the Thin Clone Create Thin Clone from Attached Read-Only or Unattached Snapshots User is be able to: Create, refresh, view, modify and delete a Thin Clone 31
Dell EMC Unity Thin Clones Benefits Space savings Space consumed by Thin Clone is only changed data Reduce the cost for application test and development environments Can apply data services to Thin Clones: Host Access Host I/O Limits (QoS) Manual/Scheduled Snapshots Replication Creates a full LUN copy on the target side For more information: Dell EMC Unity Data Protection & Copy Management Options Wed @ 12:00PM 32
Snapshot Shipping Extends Asynchronous Replication to support shipping of snapshots along with the primary storage resource Both user-created and scheduled snapshots can be replicated Supported for all primary resources that support Asynchronous Replication: LUNs Consistency Groups File Systems VMware VMFS and NFS Datastores 33
Snapshot Shipping Benefits Destination can have a different retention policy Extended retention periods for compliance (i.e. IRS, HIPAA, etc.) Cost Efficient Replicated snapshots can be deleted from the source system Resiliency Provides the user the ability to store the snapshots in a different fault domain For more information: Dell EMC Unity Data Protection & Copy Management Options Wed @ 12:00PM 34
Dell EMC Unity Compression for File Dell EMC Unity Compression Dell EMC UnityOE 4.2 adds support for compression on the following storage resources: Thin File Systems Thin VMware NFS Datastores Compression enabled on Thin File Systems and Thin VMware NFS Datastores created while running the Dell EMC UnityOE 4.2 Inline Space Savings No Additional License Required Lower TCO of Your Storage Solution Improve Utilization of Flash Capacity Writes Logged and Held in Cache Data Written to Flash Only Once Compression is Included with Base System License for Dell EMC Unity OE 4.1 and up 35
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Related Sessions for SC and Dell EMC Unity Series Session Title Dell EMC Unity & SC Series: Midrange Storage Portfolio Overview CloudIQ: Cloud-Based Storage Analytics for Dell EMC Unity and SC Series Dell EMC Unity All-Flash: What s New Dell EMC Unity: Architectural Overview Dell EMC Unity: Best Practices For Best Performance Dell EMC Unity: Performance Analysis Deep Dive Dell EMC Unity: Next Generation NAS & File Capabilities Dell EMC Unity: Data Protection & Copy Management Options Dell EMC Unity: Virtualization & Cloud Integration Dell EMC Unity: Migration From VNX Dell EMC Unity: Using Dell EMC UnityVSA In Converged Environments Dell EMC Unity All Flash: Flash Technology Deep Dive SC Series: What's New SC Series: Architectural Overview SC Series: Performance Best Practices SC Series: Affordable Data Mobility & Business Continuity With Multi-Array Federation SC Series: Virtualization & Ecosystem Integrations Day/Time Mon @ 12:00 PM + Wed @ 01:30 PM Mon @ 04:30 PM + Wed @ 08:30 AM Tue @ 03:00 PM + Wed @ 01:30 PM Mon @ 01:30 PM + Thu @ 08:30 AM Wed @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 10:00 AM Wed @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 01:00 PM Mon @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 11:30 AM Mon @ 08:30 AM + Wed @ 12:00 PM Mon @ 12:00 PM Tue @ 08:30 AM Mon @ 08:30 AM Mon @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 01:00 PM Mon @ 04:30 PM + Tue @ 03:00 PM Mon @ 01:30 PM + Tue @ 03:00 PM Mon @ 04:30 PM + Thu. @ 01:00 PM Mon @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 01:00 PM Wed @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 08:30 AM 37
Hands on Labs for SC and Dell EMC Unity Series Self-Paced Day/Time Dell EMC Unity CloudIQ Event Correlation & Analytics Dell EMC Unity Simplified Storage Management & Administration Dell EMC Unity VMware vsphere Integration Dell EMC Unity Configuring Snapshots & Replication Monday: 8:30AM 9:00PM Tuesday: 7:00AM 5:30PM Wednesday: 7:00AM 5:00PM Thursday: 7:00AM 2:00PM SC Series: Introduction to SC Series and Dell Storage Manager Guided Dell EMC Unity CloudIQ Event Correlation & Analytics (Registration required and limited availability) Day/Time Tuesday: 1:30PM 2:30PM Thursday: 8:30AM 9:30AM 38
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