Optimize your virtualization and cloud deployments with Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSISANs

1. Optimize your virtualization and
cloud deployments with
Dell EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI SANs
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2. Today’s agenda
Virtualization and storage for the
virtual era
Dell & VMware® continuing strong
engineering partnership
Advanced platform integration
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3. IT best practice trend:
Consolidation of servers through virtualization
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Server Server Server Server
Backup Servers
File Servers
Application Servers
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Shares Logs Logs
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Stores Stores DNS Domain
• More efficient resource utilization
• Reduced physical footprint Lower TCO
Increased Flexibility
• Lower power and cooling costs
Reduced Complexity
• Improved IT agility and resiliency
• Fewer points of management
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4. Natural best practice extension:
Storage consolidation
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Backup Servers
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File Servers
File Servers
Application Servers
Application Servers
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SAN spare spare
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Shares Logs
Logs Logs
Logs
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AD Domain
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Space
Backups AD / Dom
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Backups
• More efficient resource utilization • Higher availability
• Fewer points of management • Better backup and restore
• Simplified provisioning • Improved data protection
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5. Common IT experiences with traditional SAN
storage designs in a virtual environment
• Storage objects are bound to physical
resources
– Statically configured and operated
– Individual islands of storage within the SAN
– Performance and capacity resources
not easily reallocated
• Can be difficult and costly to operate
– Specialized training and staff
– Planned outages for upgrades and migrations
• Enterprise features typically require additional
software licenses
– High acquisition and software support costs
– Costs continue to increase as the environment grows
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6. Why virtualized iSCSI storage is important to
virtual infrastructures
• Simplifies storage networking
– Uses affordable hardware and
existing infrastructure
– Utilizes ubiquitous networking knowledge
• Enhances consolidation ROI
– Simplifies virtual server deployments iSCSI AN
Fabric
– Reduces acquisition, deployment and
ongoing management costs
• Enables a simple virtualized storage
architecture
– Natively supports virtualization primitives
– Allows scalable, flexible networked storage
grid implementations
– Load balances across SAN resources
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7. EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI scale-out architecture
Classic frame-based SAN EqualLogic virtualized iSCSI
architecture scale-out SAN architecture
Fixed storage
expandability, performance
and I/O
Performance
Performance
Cache Controller
Number of disks
Disk Drives configured in RAID sets
Number of disks
• Purchaser must • Buy only resources needed for initial
– Estimate frame size to support deployment
requirements over the product life cycle
• Non-disruptively expand as capacity /
• Results in performance needs arise
– Greater upfront cost due to over- – New resources automatically applied to
provisioning pre-existing workloads
– Disruptive and costly upgrades due to – No downtime, no forklift upgrades
under-provisioning as capacity grows
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8. Seamless SAN expansion
Continuous software advancements at no additional cost
Single Multi-Generational SAN
PS3000 Series
PS100 Series PS3000 Series PS5000 Series PS4000 Series PS6000 Series PS6010 Series PS6010XVS
PS6000 XVS
AD / Dom
Hybrid
Single Multi-Generational SAN Arrays
10GbE
Continuous Advancements of ASM/ME for Hyper-V™
All-inclusive Firmware & Software SAN Headquarters
VMware vStorage
Auto-Snapshot Manager/ Vmware®
vCenter Edition (ASM/VE)
Core Data Auto-Snapshot Thin Site Recovery Manager
Protection Manager/Microsoft Provisioning
Edition (ASM/ME)
2004 2011
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9. PS Series comprehensive data management
All-inclusive with no additional costs
Base Advanced
software features software features
Management Storage Virtualization Server Management integration
 Instant on ‘set-up’ manager  Complete SAN virtualization  VSS and VDS Providers
 Group manager  Thin provisioning  Automatic MPIO Connection
 Rapid provisioning  Auto-load balancing Management
 Roles-based management  Automatic storage pools &  Auto-Snapshot Manager/
tiering Microsoft® Edition
 Exchange™, SQL Server and
Data Protection and Availability  Array evacuation
Windows™ file systems data,
 RAID 5, 6, 10, and 50 now including MSCS
 Automatic RAID placement Data Protection and Recovery  Host Integration Tools for
 Multi-path IO support VMware® New
 Writeable snapshots
 Datastore Manager
 Multi-volume snapshots
 Auto-Snapshot Manager/
Maintenance  Instant restore / cloning VMware® Edition
 Phone home  Multi-way replication for disaster  Desktop Deployment Utility
 Enclosure monitoring system recovery
 MPIO for VMware® ESX 4.1
 Performance monitoring  VMware® SRM Storage Adapter
Multi-Group Monitoring  DR for the virtual data center
 SAN HeadQuarters (SAN HQ)  Host Integration Tools for Linux
event & performance monitoring
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10. Today’s agenda
Virtualization and storage for the
virtual era
Dell & VMware® continuing strong
engineering partnership
Advanced platform integration
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11. Dell | VMware relationship
A Powerful Partnership—Significant collaboration on
technology and business development for years
Dell’s OEM of Launched the VMWare ESX First Mission Dell ships first Dell delivers Support for Host
ESX Virtualization available on Critical workload virtualization Business ready vStorage APIs Integration
consulting mainstream virtualized within optimized Configurations for Array Tools
First vendor to service practice PowerEdge Dell IT platform and Integration for VMware
support platforms embedded mgmt Virtualized released
vMotion with ESXi SQL and Exchange
reference
Support for configurations
VMware created
Site
Recovery
Manager (SRM) 2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
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12. Today’s agenda
Virtualization and storage for the
virtual era
Dell & VMware® continuing strong
engineering partnership
Advanced platform integration
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13. Accelerate your storage performance for
VMware Deployments
Dell™ EqualLogic™ offerings
help you:
• Simplify provisioning
• Optimize storage and
VMware® performance
• Scale without complexity
• Automate management
tasks
• Deliver outstanding data
responsiveness
• Build effective business
continuity strategies
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14. Key VMware features enabled by Dell EqualLogic
 Movement of workloads Virtual Servers
– Migration of running
virtual machines without interruption
 Balancing workloads
– Optimized resource usage for your
workloads
 High availability
– Re-hosting and restart of virtual
desktop in case of server failure
 Server-less backup
– Independent of production servers
 Scalable online backup and recovery Switched
– SAN-based snapshots of virtual datasets 1Gb / 10Gb Ethernet
 Disaster recovery
– Integrated SAN-based replication
 Rapid virtual machine provisioning PS Series Array
and improved performance
– SAN offloading of storage tasks through
advance hypervisor integration
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15. Dell EqualLogic Host Integration Tools /
VMware Edition (HIT/VE)
Virtual-Appliance based software for streamlined storage management,
VDI deployments and protection of your virtual datacenter
EqualLogic Datastore Streamlined deployment of
Manager SAN storage for VMs
Auto Snapshot Manager v3.0
Automated, hypervisor-aware
VM protection
Virtual Desktop Deployment Streamlined, space-efficient
Tool virtual desktop provisioning
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16. HIT/VE-
EqualLogic Datastore Manager
Fast and efficient storage integration &
management of EqualLogic storage in
VMware® environments
 Create, expand, and monitor datastores
 Simple and quick; takes only a few
minutes
 Flexibility to grow storage with
changing needs
Simplify storage provisioning and monitoring for vSphere
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17. HIT/VE-
Auto-Snapshot Manager/VMware Edition v3.0
Provides efficient and scalable hypervisor-
aware snapshots to automate VM protection
and recovery.
 Integrated VM-level, SAN-based snapshots
for scalable data protection
 VM-aware snapshots for consistent recovery
 Automated scheduling
 Failover and failback capabilities integrated
with SAN-based replication to ensure
business continuity
Enable efficient data protection for virtualized datacenters
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18. HIT/VE-
Virtual Desktop Deployment Tool
Template Streamline VDI provisioning and
VMs
optimize storage footprint for cost
efficiency
DemoXP
Replica
Template  Integrates with VMware® View
Volume
 Employs Template Volumes and Thin
Clones to optimize storage capacity
requirements
Replica
DemoXP
viewASM
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DemoXP
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DemoXP
viewASM
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viewASM
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 Automates pool creation, VM
registration, patch and update
Replica Replica
management
Replica
DemoXP
viewASM
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DemoXP
viewASM
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Streamline VDI provisioning while optimizing storage
capacity
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19. Hardware acceleration features
Dell EqualLogic integration with vStorage APIs for Array
Integration (VAAI)
Support for VAAI offers… Enabling fast and efficient…
• Hardware Assisted • Migration of virtual machines
Locking
Replace LUN locking with • Deployment of VMs from
single block locks for templates
better granularity • Cloning of VMs and templates
• Full copy
Leverage native array • VMFS clustered locking and
copy capability metadata operations for VM
• Block Zeroing files
Eliminate repetitive host • Writes to thin and fully
writes with optimized provisioned virtual disks
array commands
• Creation of fault-tolerent VMs
Save time, drastically reduce network traffic,
lower server overheads
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20. VAAI Integration- Hardware assisted locking
• A number of VMFS operations cause the file system to temporarily
become locked for exclusive write use by one of the ESX nodes,
including:
– moving a VM with vMotion;
– creating a new VM or deploying a VM from a template;
– powering a VM on or off;
– creating a template;
– creating or deleting a file, including VM snapshots.
• This VAAI feature uses atomic_test_and_set (ATS) which allows the ESX
servers to offload the management of the required locks to the storage
and avoids locking the entire VMFS volume.
Normal VMware Enhanced VMware
Locking (No ATS) Locking (With ATS)
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21. VAAI Integration- Full copy
Optimized cloning, storage vMotion with VAAI
• VMFS directs storage to move
data directly
– Much less time!
– Up to 72% reduction*
– Dramatic reduction in load on:
– Network
– Servers
†Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in May 2010 comparing Dell EqualLogic
21 Firmware v. 4.3 to Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 5.0. Actual performance will vary based
on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.”

22. Dell EqualLogic Firmware Version 5.0 with
Accelerate vStorage APIs
VMware the performance of VMware
• Reduces time to complete
provisioning scenarios by up to
72%†
• Dramatically reduces SAN
network traffic by up to 95%†
• Reduces host CPU utilization by
up to 75%†
†Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in May 2010 comparing Dell EqualLogic
22 Firmware v. 4.3 to Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 5.0. Actual performance will vary based
on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.”

23. EqualLogic Multipath Extension Module (MEM)
• MEM has a “table of contents” of the data on the group
– Communicates with array to create and maintain this
• Intelligent IO routing
– Establishes direct paths between host and each array for efficient routing
• Fault-tolerant load balancing
– Least queue depth
– Multiple redundant data paths
Simplify multipath configuration while
improving performance and availability
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24. EqualLogic Storage Replication Adapter for
VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Automated DR site failover with PS auto-replication and SRM storage adapter
No additional cost!
• Affordable enterprise disaster
protection and recovery
• Auto replication coordinates
directly with SRM
Ethernet
Ethernet
Network
Network
• Seamless integration of virtualized
iSCSI SAN further simplifies the
EqualLogic
virtual datacenter
Wide Area Network
Auto-Replication
R1 R2 R3 R4
R1R2R3R4 • All-inclusive feature of EqualLogic
PS Series
Production Site Recovery Site
Enable, streamline and automate
effective business continuity strategies
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25. EqualLogic SAN Headquarters (SAN HQ)
Centralized Event and Performance Monitoring
• Centralized event monitoring
– Single view of alerts
• Monitor multiple PS Groups
– Comprehensive set of predefined reports
– Single-sign on & drill-down to PS Group
Manager
• Historical performance reporting
– Comprehensive set of predefined reports
– Set report parameters based on business
need
• Rich data on IOPS, capacity, latency,
network activity
– Capacity trending
• Experimental analysis including
maximum theoretical IOPS
• Easy to install, easy to use
– Syslog Server for consolidated messages
– Useful navigation – range selection or
point in time views
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26. Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS/PS6010XVS
Intuitive data availability for multi-tiered workloads
Improves performance of multi-tiered, variable IOPS workloads like virtual desktops
Reduces time to boot multiple VMs by up to 76%†
†Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in May 2010 comparing Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 4.3 to Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 5.0 with VMware API for Array Integration. Actual
performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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27. Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS/PS6010XVS
Combining the low-latency SSD with high-performance SAS
SSD Speed & HDD Capacity
• Intelligent placement of data on the appropriate disk
– Automatically analyzes I/O access patterns
– Optimizes response by placing data on the appropriate disks
• Improves performance of multi-tiered, variable IOPS workloads like virtual desktops-
Reduces time to boot multiple VMs by up to 76%†
†Based on testing performed by Dell Labs in May 2010 comparing Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 4.3 to Dell EqualLogic Firmware v. 5.0 with VMware API for Array Integration. Actual
performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability.
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28. Dell EqualLogic PS6000XVS/PS6010XVS
Intelligent tiering of workloads
Server = High-IOPS “hot” data
= Low-IOPS “cool” data
Switched 1 Gb / 10 Gb
VDI Volume Ethernet OLTP DB Volume
PS6000XVS/PS6010XVS
SSD 15K SAS
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29. PS6000XVS with VMware View
• ~1,000 task worker desktops on a single PS6000XVS array
• Performance at ~1,000 desktops
– 8,600 IOPS at peak load
– ~5% performance headroom
– latency well below the 20 ms
• Capacity at ~1,000 desktops
– Gold images and a minimum of 2GB per linked clone delta disk
– ~15% capacity headroom
• With automatic workload tiering, PS6000XVS is optimally balanced
for both capacity and performance in VDI environment
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30. PS6000XVS VDI login storm disk IOPS
90% IOPS handled by
SSD drives
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31. Case Study
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32. Xtium Fast Provisioning Challenge
Needed to deliver SAP CRM “test drive” environments complete with Microsoft SQL Server
databases to enable SAP to provide customers with trial environment at SAAS economics and
timeframes. To meet SAP’s requirements, new test drives needed to be provisioned with in 24 hours,
but “as fast as possible” was desired.
Solution:
• Xtium initially developed a process for cloning and customizing SAP test drive environments
utilizing the built-in VMWare cloning process. Due to the size of the environments, this would
take several hours to complete and placed a load on both hosts and the storage network.
• Xtium upgraded to vSphere 4.1 and Dell Equallogic Firmware 5.0 to enable full copy functionality
provided by the direct integration with the vStorage APIs to improve cloning speed and reduce
the load.
• Immediately reduced both provisioning time and host / network load. Provisioning time was
reduced (reliably) to under an hour, without negative impact.
• Xtium re-wrote provisioning process to utilize Dell Equallogic thin-clone capability to further
reduce provisioning time (minutes) and reduce disk space utilization.
• Xtium is now able to make copies of golden images for SAP customers as well as for virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects with unprecedented speed and efficiency, using minimal
disk space.
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33. Improvement Summary
• 30x faster provisioning of clones for SAP test drive environments (2 minutes vs. several hours)
• 5x faster copies using Xcopy for single instances of SAP test drives and virtual desktops
• 75% reduction of CPU utilization and 95% reduction in SAN network traffic for copy process
using Xcopy
• 90% savings of disk space using thin clones
• 70% more hosted virtual machines (VMs) on fewer physical resources with atomic locking
• 50% fewer volumes to manage
• 72% less time to Storage vMotion VMs
• 76% less time to boot multiple virtual desktops, improving customer service
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