Cisco HyperFlex 3.0

1. Jonathan Gorlin, Aaron Kapacinskas, Robert Quimbey, Michael Zimmerman
HyperFlex Product Team
May 24, 2018
Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale.
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0

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Year In Review
HyperFlex 3.0 Platform
Hyper-V
Stretched Cluster
Kubernetes
Q&A
Duate –
No Multicloud
platform in intro
Better agenda slide
Soccer theme

3. 3
Customer Success ToolsReady for Biz. Critical
Cisco Hyperconvergence Journey So Far…
All Flash SED Enterprise
Workloads
Profiler,
Sizer
Edge RBAC LocalizationConnect UI Native
Replication/DR
Scale
Fastest Growing HCI
2600+New Customers
#1 15CVDs, Ref.
Architetures
25White papers,
Soln. Guides
VDI, VSI, SQL, Oracle, SAP,
Exchange, Splunk, Veeam, …
in Performance
and consistency
Pumping Innovations with Rapid Pace
M5 Skylake

4. HyperFlex Platform Evolution
• Multi-Hypervisor
• Advanced Data Protection, Higher
Scale, Capacity options
• Hybrid-cloud Ready, Multi-cloud
Enabled
• Cisco Intersight Managed
• Enterprise Apps++
+
HV
• Performance for
Enterprise Apps
• Data protection, Native
Replication
• Security, Encryption
• Edge/IoT
• Data Distributed, Flash Friendly
Foundation
• Turnkey Install, Easy
Operations
• Tightly coupled with VMware
HX
2.0
HX
1.0
HX
3.0

5. Adaptive Multicloud Simple
Multicloud Platform

6. Any App Any Scale
Multicloud Platform
Any Cloud

7. Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale.
Microsoft Hyper-V
Enterprise Kubernetes
Containers
Missions Critical
Applications
Application
Performance
Monitoring
Cisco-Google Hybrid
Cloud Solution
Multi-Hypervisor,
Multi-Cloud
IaaS and Private Cloud
Intelligent Workload
Placement
64 Node & Capacity
Scaling
Stretched Clusters
Large Form Factors
Cisco Intersight
Deploy and Manage

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Hyper-V

9. Microsoft Hyper-V Support
Integrated Management
• Manage Hyper-V hosts from familiar SCVMM, Hyper-V manager,
and PowerShell
• Automate HX operations using HX REST API
• Leverage HX Connect UI (HTML5) for HX management
Enterprise workloads, Validated solutions
• Citrix VDI deployment (XenDesktop and XenApp)
• Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint etc.
• Oracle & other mission critical apps
• Backup vendor integrations
Industry Leading Foundation
• Log Structured Filesystem & Data services designed for HCI
• Highly scalable, resilient, scale-out SMB3 file server protocol
• Fully Data distributed, No Data locality
Windows Server with Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2016 Datacenter
• HX220 M5 and HX240 M5: Hybrid-Flash & All-Flash
• Microsoft native failover clustering, checkpoint (snapshots), replica
support, AD support
CRTL
VM
CRTL
VM
CRTL
VM
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
HyperFlex Data Platform

10. Hyperconverged Scale Out and
Distributed File System
Start with as Few
as Three Nodes
Hyperconverged
Data Platform
Installs in
Minutes
Network Fabric
Policy Configures
QoS Settings
HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER

11. Hyperconverged Scale Out and
Distributed File System
Start with as Few
as Three Nodes
Hyperconverged
Data Platform
Installs in
Minutes
Add Servers,
One or More at a
Time
Network Fabric
Policy Configures
QoS Settings
Distribute and
Rebalance Data
Across Servers
Automatically
Retire Older
Servers
HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

12. DATASTORE DATASTORE
• Stripe blocks of a file across servers
• Replicate one or two additional copies to
other servers
• Handle entire server or disk failures
• Restore back to original number of
copies
• Rebalance VMs and data post
replacement
• Rolling software upgrades
Non-Disruptive Operations
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
File.vmdk
D1 E1A1 B1 C1B2 A2 A3C2 C3 D2D3 E2E3 D1E1 B3 B3
EDCBA

13. Capacity and Network Utilization
DATASTORE
HYPERVISOR
1 2 3
Balanced Space Utilization
No Data Migration on VM Migration
Less Stress on Network
• HX balances space utilization: no data migration required following a VM migration
CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM

14. Continuous Data Optimization
BEFORE
InlineDeduplication
20–30% space savings
InlineCompression
30–50% space savings
No Special Hardware
No Performance Impact
No Config lock-in
No Additional License
Log-Structured File System Yields More Efficient Data Optimization
Lower Cost

15. ReadyClone PowerShell Script
• Declare source VM, Clone Name, and # of Clones
• HyperFlex Clone is nearly instantaneous, 2-5s per clone due to
registering it
in Hyper-V
Powershell ReadyClone

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Demo
ReadyClone & Offline Data Transfer (ODX)

17. Download Remote Server Admin tools for Windows 10 to remotely manage
Server Core
• Hyper-V Manager
• Management at local Hypervisor granularity
• SCVMM
• Management at cluster and beyond
• PowerShell
• All Windows Management has extensions in Powershell
• Failover Cluster Manager
• Enables VM failover and Hypervisor Clustering
• STCLI / HX Connect
• Manager Storage Cluster, services, and hardware
Management Options

18. Adding HX Share in SCVMM

19. Automation / Orchestration Multi-SiteOperations
HyperconvergedRemote / Branch / Edge Performance
Purpose built Management Tools

20. One Interface, One API
Cisco Intersight

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Demo
Intersight and HX HyperV

22. Production VM Checkpoint – It just works
• WMI in Host, VSS in Guest (Linux too!)
• No longer snapshots the Host and then the Guest
• Uses differential avhdx disk for new writes.
• Many backup applications will remove the checkpoint after backup complete.
• Avhdx files consolidated into vhdx files.
• RCT & MRT files persist CBT for both live migration and host crash
Windows 2016 Production Checkpoint

23. Data Protection with Hyper-V
1 Add SCVMM | HX Cluster 1
Create backup job & select HX1
Host & VM SQL 1
2
3
Windows Server 2016
Production Checkpoint via WMI
4
VSS writer in “Guest
VM” SQL1 gets
invoked.
5
For VHDX sql-share-1
• aVHDX (child file) 1 gets
created
• PrimaryVHDX becomes
read-only
• All rights go into aVHDX till
the backup job is completed
6
For subsequent
backups, backup
vendor leverages
Resilient Change
Tracking by Hyper-V
Cisco C240 M5
Backup
Server
Backup
Repository
Cloud
Connect
Availability
Console
Veeam Availability Suite
Backup & Restore 9.5
SCVMM | HyperFlex Cluster 1
HX1
HX2
HX3
HX4
HX5
HX6
VM SQL 1
VHDX
sql-share-1

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Stretched Cluster & DR

25. What is a Stretched Cluster?
VM VM VM VM
VM
VM VM VM VM
VM
Single Cluster
3rd site
Witness Server
1. A stretched cluster is a single cluster with nodes geographically
distributed
2. Storage is mirrored across each sites
1. Sites need to be connected overlow latencynetwork
4. Geo-failover (VM) is like failover in a single cluster
5. “Split-Brain”:Conditionwhen nodes on either sites cannot see
each other
• Network failure
• Site failure
6. “Witness” : An entityhosted on a 3rd site responsible for
decidingthe which site survive after a split-brain

26. HyperFlex Stretched Cluster Use Case
Active-Active Disaster Recovery solution for Mission Critical workloads with
extremely high uptime (near Zero RTO) and no data loss(Zero RPO)
• The DR site could be a data-center across the street
• The DR site could be few 100 kms apart
• No need for a DR orchestration tool
HX Data Platform
App DB App DB
Site-A Site-B
Synchronous Replication

27. HyperFlex Stretched Cluster
ZERO RPO, NEAR ZERO RTO
Site-B
VM VM VM VM
VM VM VM VM
Site-A
3rd site
Configuration Support
 Single Stretched Cluster across
2 sites
 Symmetric Configuration
 Site to host a “Witness Server”
(small VM)
 8 +8 nodes on each site
IO Path
 Active-Active sites – VMs
Active on each site
 VM Read IOs served locally
 VM Write IOs Sync-Writes
across sites
 2x copies on each site
HA Operations
 Recover from a Site failure
 Recover from a Local failure
 Failover of VM
 vMotion of VM
 Split Brain handling
Management
 Cross site Cluster creation
 Non disruptive online rolling
upgrade
 Site awareness in HX Connect
 Site specific Alarm and Events
on a single Dashboard
Witness Server

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Stretched Cluster Demo

29. 1 Pair SitesConfigure Network Create Protection Group
 Create a Replication VLAN
 Input the network parameters
 Set the Replicationbandwidth
 One time setup
 Assign a name
 Provide remote site credentials
 Map Datastores
 Supports a single site pairing
 Create one of more Protection Groups
 Provide a replicationinterval
 Select VM consistent
2 3
HyperFlex Disaster Recovery
Setup

30. HyperFlex Replication & Disaster Recovery
Overview
 Point-to-Point(1-to-1)Replication
 Different number of Cluster nodes
on each site
 Replicate between HX220 and
HX240 Clusters
 Replicate between AFand Hybrid
Supported Configuration
 Recover from the Snapshot copy
 Supports plannedand unplanned
recovery
 Active – Active and Active-Passive DR via
bi-directional replication
 Support for Failover, Fast Failback& Test
Recovery
Underlying Technology Disaster Recovery
 Snapshot based, PeriodicReplication
 Scale-out,performant,reliable and network
optimized
 VM CentricReplication
 PIT (latest)image for Recovery
 Flexible RPO of 5mins to 24 hours
 HTML 5 based , REST API & CLI based
operations and monitoring
DB
WebApp
Long Distance Replication
on WAN
HX Data Platform
DB
App
HX Data Platform
Business
Service
Business
Service
FailoverWeb

31. VMWare
 Identify failover network
requirements (vSwitch,vLAN,
PortGroups, IPs, DNS)
 Identify VM or Protection Groups
 Prioritize VMs based on RPO & WAN
considerations
 VMs load order
 Replication of cloned VMs will take
up more space at destination than
at source.
Network
 Use the HX Maximum
Bandwidth setting to
 Limit use of scarce WAN bandwidth
 Limit perf impact on primary I/O of
the two clusters
 Use a secure tunnel over the
WAN if concerned about data
security.
 MTU is 1500 and cannot be
changed through the UI.
HX Models
 You can mix clusters with HX240 &
HX220 but be aware of capacity
limits
 Number of nodes and type can be
different on each site ( All-Flash to
Hybrid replication)
 For optimal usage of resources
consider Active-Active Cluster
 Need to plan for the storage
capacity based on the number of
VMs to be protected
HyperFlex Disaster Recovery
Checklist

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HyperFlex
Elastic Scaling

33. Elastic Scaling Options in HX 3.0
Scale with availability
Without compromising simplicity
Up to 64 Node clusters
Hybrid & All Flash
Flexible drive capacity options
LFF HDD Support
HX 3.0

34. Intel Optane Support
I N T E L O P T A N E S U P P O R T
• Caching drive option available with
HX 3.0
• Available on M5 only
• All Flash only configurations
• Part number: HX-NVMEXP-I375
• 375G drive capacity, 3D
XPoint™
• Advantages:
• Higher Endurance: 20.5PBW (~
30DWPD)
• Higher drive level performance
HX 3.0
Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series
(Formerly known as Cold Stream)
(Specs)

35. HX Capacity Scaling Options
1 . 8 T B H D D O P T I O N L F F S U P P O R T
• 1.8TB 10Krpm SFF HDD
• Lower overall $/GB, similar performance
• Support for M4 & M5
• Supported in 220 and 240 models
• For high capacity use cases, lower $/GB
• M5 240 support only
• 6 & 8TB 7.2Krpm LFF HDD support
• Upto 96TB raw capacity per node
HX 3.0

36. Automated Availability Zones
Up to 32 HX
nodes
Up to 32 compute nodes
64 Node Scale with Resiliency
Cloud Scale Data Platform
64 Node & Capacity Scalability
IOVisor IOVisor
IOVisor IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
Availability
Grp 3
Availability
Grp 2
Availability
Grp 1
HX 3.0

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Kubernetes

38. Consistent Development
Experience
Cisco
HyperFlex
Google
Cloud Platform
Cisco
Container
Platform
Google
Kubernetes
Engine
Cisco & Google Hybrid Cloud Solution
Connectivity Security
Tools
Announced
Oct. 2017
Public CloudPrivate Cloud
GOAL

39. Any App Any Cloud Any Scale
Multicloud Platform

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