The Software Driven Datacenter
Three Major Trends are Driving the Evolution of the Datacenter Hardware Costs
Innovation in CPU and Memory. 10000 10 µm CPU process technologies $100 DRAM $/GB 1000 1 µm $75 100 100 nm $50 10 nm 10 $25 1 nm 1 1968 1973 1978 1983 1988 1993 1998 2003 2008 2013 2018 $0 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 Source: Gartner Dataquest, Forecast: DRAM Market Statistics (1Q11)
Leads to More Processing Power per Server Threads Per Socket (2 per core) 35 30 25 20 Maximum Memory in GB 2,500 2,000 1,500 15 10 5 1,000 500 0 2000 2002 2005 2008 2010 2013 0 2000 2002 2005 2007 2009 2010 2011 Source: Forrester Research, The x86 Server Grows Up And Out (October 8, 2010)
at Lower and Lower Cost $25,000 Average Cost Per Virtualized Server $20,000 2013 = $5K $15,000 $10,000 $5,000 $0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2013 Cost Includes the entire server (i.e. CPU, memory, etc.) except for add-on cards. Source: IDC Worldwide Virtualization Tracker, 2010
Three Major Trends are Driving the Evolution of the Datacenter Hardware Costs
The World is Majority Virtualized % Virtualized (of all installed workloads WW) 59% 51% 42% 33% 22% 65% 69% 9% 14% 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 A New Datacenter Architecture Source: IDC Worldwide Virtualization Tracker, 2010
Convergence is Happening on Many Fronts Converged IO Convergence on x86 processors Converged systems
The Result? Hyper-density! In 2014, an average server: 2-CPU 16 core per socket 300 GB RAM 320 VMs Leading to the all-x86, software-driven datacenter
Three Major Trends are Driving the Evolution of the Datacenter Hardware Costs
What We Run on Servers is Also Changing New Types of Interactions New Devices New Frameworks Data Growth & New Data Types New Infrastructures & Platforms
New Architecture Required Existing Architecture Emerging Architecture Apps HW
The Forces at Work Hardware Costs New Architecture and Operating Model for the Datacenter
The New Cloud Architecture and Operating Model From (old world) Static and location-bound To (new world) Elastic and mobile Benefit / Business Goals $100 / year Break: Troubleshoot, Fix Break - Replace <2 min failure recovery Manual operations Intelligent policy mgmt 10,000 VMs : 1 admin
The New Cloud Start Architecture with open source and code Operating Model From (old world) Static and location-bound To add a lot of computer science PhDs (new world) Elastic and mobile to custom-build it for a single application! Benefit / Business Goals $100 / year Break: Troubleshoot, How is Break this - Replace done today? <2 min failure recovery Fix Intelligent policy mgmt Manual operations 10,000 VMs : 1 admin
for a much more diverse application landscape Grid
How is the industry enabling this? Hypervisor Transformation Cluster Transformation Hybrid Cloud Transformation Run a broad diversity of workloads Re-define hardware / software boundary Federate geo-distributed sites and providers
Building Out The Future Datacenter: The Future Virtualization Platform Hypervisor Transformation Cluster Transformation Hybrid Cloud Transformation Server Re-define hardware / software boundary Federate geo-distributed sites and providers
Today, IaaS and PaaS Stand as Separate Environments Grid Infrastructure & Messaging Infrastructure as a Service - Resource Object Models Pooling and QOS PaaS Management Services Services Data Caching Services Infrastructure Infrastructure Platform as a as Service a Service - Resource - Resource Pooling Pooling and and QOS QOS IaaS and PaaS will Blend as Services to Support All Apps
Building Out The Future DC: The DC Building Block Hypervisor Transformation Cluster Transformation Hybrid Transformation Server DC Pod/Cluster Hybrid Cloud
Today s Constraints on Datacenter Consolidation Cluster A Cluster C Cluster B Cluster D Artificial Constraints!
New Software-Driven Storage Infrastructure Emerging to Serve New Apps vsphere Local Disk Scale-out storage Blob Cloud storage
Enabling Dynamic, Workload-aware Networks Provisioning and Automation VDC VDC Extensible, Scale Out Network Virtualization Network Services Performant Scalable Networks
Enabling Scalable, Agile, Virtual Networks 650.555.1212 Networking Telephony Identifier = Location 192.168.10.1 Wireless Telephony VXLAN 192.168.10.1 650.555.1212 Identifier = Location
VXLAN How It Works FE:AA:03:F4 Sender FE:AA:03:F5 Payload Payload Receiver IP VLAN 10 vsphere Payload Physical network A IP Payload vsphere Physical network B IP Payload IP Payload 192.168.1.0/24 VLAN 100 172.168.1.0/24 Key Properties Works with any switching fabric Open standard
Security and Isolation: Physical Virtual Trust Zone Nosy Neighbor Gold Silver Bronze Cloud Infrastructure
Secure Isolation Accomplished Efficiently: Identity Based From: To: Finance HR Finance HR
Building Out The Future Datacenter: The Hybrid Cloud Hypervisor Transformation Cluster Transformation Hybrid Transformation Server DC Pod/Cluster Hybrid Cloud
Scaling Across Datacenters Virtual Data Center
Intelligent Policy Management Will Need to Go Beyond the DC SLA Definitions Availability = 99.99% DR RTO = 1 hour Max Latency = 500 1 hour ms Availability 99.99% DR RTO Back up Daily Performance High I/O Security High 99.99% 1 hour Daily High Gold I/O High? X-Datacenter and X-Cloud Placement Engine Availability DR RTO Back up Performance Security 99.9% 3 hour Weekly Med I/O Med Silver 99.0% None None Low I/O Low Bronze DR plan Back up Anti-virus Cloud Infrastructure Datacenter 1 Datacenter 2 Datacenter 3
Our Current Compliance Infrastructure Assumes Two Worlds The Datacenter The Public Cloud Anti-virus Compliant Authenticated Encrypted Wild Wild West.
New World: Security and Compliance for the Hybrid Cloud
Volume of DC Events & Metrics Require New Statistical Management Techniques Events Security HW Performance How do we leverage all of this data? Admin Actions Availability Usage Data Metrics App Performance Web App
What is the Desired State? Just as all matter can be assembled from a few standard sub-atomic particles so the DC of the future will be assembled from standard components all managed by intelligent, highly automated software