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VPLEX Continuous Availability for Modern Datacenter
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AgendaVPLEX Overview & Use Cases
VPLEX for Modern Datacenter
Management & Monitoring
VPLEX Customer Success Story
VPLEX Generational Upgrade
Q&A
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VPLEX For The Modern Datacenter
Ensures businesses stay up
Available
Creates a flexible data infrastructure
Agile
Seamless data mobility for optimal resource utilization
Multi-site or Local mirroring
Enables faster Tech Refresh to All-Flash arrays
Accelerate
Time to value reduced from months to days
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Availability: Keep Data Always-On
• Metro protects from complete site failure
• Active-active datacenters
• Increases resource utilization
• Local mirroring ensures uptime through disk/array failures
VPLEX Local VPLEX Metro
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Agility: Move With The Business
Seamlessly move and tier workloads across hybrid, mid-range or high-end flash
Load balancing between storage tiers
Data mobility to the cloud
Datacenter move or consolidation
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VPLEX: Proven And Reliable
Transforming the businessWe help organizations modernize datacenters and optimize IT resources utilization
> 9200 Install Base
> 215 million Run hours
> 50%of Fortune 500
Companies
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VPLEX VS6: New Generation Platform Built for All-Flash Data Infrastructure
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VS6 & VS2 Platform Comparison
Note: VS2 with GeoSynchrony 5.5 is the reference for all comparisons
Built for all-flash modernized datacenter
VS6 VS2
Processor Intel Dual 6-Core CPU/director Intel Single 4-Core CPU/director
DRAM Capacity 128 GB/director 36 GB/director
Front End & Back End Connectivity 16 Gb/s FC 8 Gb/s FC
WAN (FC) Communication 16 Gb/s FC 8 Gb/s FC
Intra-cluster communication Infiniband, 40 Gb/s 8 Gb/s FC
Rack Density 20 RU for Single/Dual, 25 RU for Quad 22 RU for Single/Dual, 34 RU for Quad
4.2 X
3.5 X
2 X
2 X
5 X
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• “All you can eat” price per engine– Add as many Dell EMC AF arrays as needed – No limitation on capacity – All HW and SW included
• For EMC all-flash storage– All DellEMC AF arrays– Available with both VS6 and VS2
• Simple to quote and simple to order
• Add engines depending on load
• No change in functionality and performancecharacteristics
VPLEX For All FlashOptimal VPLEX Solution for Dell EMC All Flash Storage
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Operational Efficiency And Usability Enhancements
SW Upgrade Process Improvement
Minimize applications impact with smooth transfer of
virtual volumes between directors
Performance Diagnostics Improvement
New tool for front-end performance diagnostics
Operational Procedure Improvement
Generational Upgrade VS2 to VS6
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VPLEX SW Upgrade Improvement Non-Disruptive Upgrade (NDU) improvement
New: Reduced I/O pause for Hosts
• Disable FE ports of Director A
• Eliminate Director A from all cache operations
• Smoother I/O hand-off to Director B
• Proceed with S/W upgrade
Current: Long I/O pause for Hosts
• Force Director A down
• Time consuming Failure Recovery on Director B
• Abrupt ownership transfer of virtual volumes to Director B
• Proceed with S/W upgrade
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VPLEX Front-End Performance DiagnosticsContinuous Collection of Front-End (FE) I/O Statistics
Virtual volumes
• No impact on Hosts IOPS
• FE I/O trace sampling
• Gain insight of FE I/O profile
Shortens time to performance problem resolution
• Filter on specific object of interest
–Virtual volumes–Host initiator ports –VPLEX FE ports
• Accelerate identification of problem areas
• Port overload
• Busy volumes
• Load balance to eliminate congestion
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VPLEX Target Code Delivers Faster Time To Quality
• VS2 Platform: – GeoSynchrony 5.4.1 Patch 3– GeoSynchrony 5.5.2 Patch 2
• VS6 Platform: – GeoSynchrony 6.0 Patch 1
Increase Your availability by running VPLEX Target Code
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VPLEX Ecosystem Management & Monitoring AppSync, Storage M&R for VPLEX, Cloud Array
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VPLEX Eco-System Continues To Expand
Hosts & Clusters Versions
Array Support
Key Additions
Added
10 more & 3rd Party
Added
AppSync3.0 with VPLEX 6.0.x
Cluster Witness Support with
KVM
Added
5 more
OS,Volume Managers, HA Clusters
Dell EMC
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iCDM Enabled By AppSyncVPLEX Leveraging AppSync 3.x to Efficiently Create & Manage Data Copies
• Seamless copy data service for VPLEX – AppSync manages copies in the underlying array – Application integrated workflow for
› Oracle, SQL Server, Microsoft Exchange, VMware data-stores, File-systems
• Configurations supported– Local – Metro: User indicates which leg to snap
• Mounts copy at a LUN level or at a virtual volume level
• Supports XtremIO & Unity arrays under VPLEX
• Support for VMAX All Flash coming soon (June’17)
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AppSync Architecture
APPSYNC
TCP Port 443
UAT/DevMount hosts
SNAP
PROD
TCP PortsUnix: 22
Windows: 10004
VMAX, Unity,
XtremIO
1 2 3• Specify copy
criteria
• Create copy
• Consume copy
1
2
3
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AppSync Copy Management For VPLEXAppSync
1 • Production SQL host, LRMC191 with User Databases
• Use database vmax-dr1 for source to create copy
• Show workflow to have LRMC190, mount host, for copy data consumption
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AppSync Copy Management For VPLEX1
• Specify copy creation
• Copy type: Snap• Configure storage
option
• Select storage option
• AppSync shows that the copy just created is not yet mounted
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AppSync Copy Management For VPLEX1
2
Snap of vmax_dr1 mounted as VPLEX virtual volume• Select a Mount option• VPLEX mount option
• Show result, lmrc190
• VPLEX Unisphere shows the snap
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AppSync Copy Management For VPLEX31 2
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EMC Storage Monitoring & Reporting For VPLEXEnabled by ViPR SRM
Utilization Views multiple VPLEX clusters
Reporting & Trending
Visualize Analyze Optimize
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ViPR SRM, VPLEX Storage M&R & UnisphereFunctionality Comparison
Full ViPR SRM
Datacenter level reporting & trending End-to-End Topology View Chargeback
Long duration Performance reporting & trendingAcross multiple VPLEX clustersDashboard for VPLEX alerts
5 minutes of Performance reporting & trending
Storage M&R for VPLEX
Unispherefor VPLEX
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VPLEX Storage M&R 4.1 - Overview
View of multiple VPLEX clusters
• Show performance dashboard • FE & BE Bandwidth KB/s• FE & BE Throughput (IOPs) • Show processor & Heap utilization
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Component Views & Trending
Example:
• Virtual Volume Performance Metrics – Read/Write Bandwidth– Read/Write Latency– Throughput– Per Director– Baseline (gray), pattern
over last 4 weeks
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View Of VPLEX Directors & Metrics
Additional metrics:• Average I/O request size • FE Queued/Active Operations • Aborts and more
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VPLEX Storage M&R: Customizable Personal View
Click on the push-pin icon to build personal dashboard
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Configure Report Schedules & NotificationsVPLEX Storage M&R
• Select the wrench icon tool to Schedule or Email report
• Select the report icon tool for report format
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Cloud Mobility With VPLEX Add Public Cloud to your Data Center
Use Case• Save on primary storage usage by moving cold
data to cost effective cloud storage• No host disruption and continuous access to
dataApplications
• Oracle and IBM DB2 have in built features to partition old data that can be moved to cloud
• Save less frequently used archive mailboxes to the cloud
• Big data generators like splunk can push older data to the cloud
Hot Data Cold Data
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VPLEX Customer Success StorySociete Generale
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• Societe Generale, founded in 1864 in France
• One of Europe’s largest financial services today
• Serving 31 million customers in 67 countries • French Retail Banking
• International Retail Banking
• Financial Services
• Corporate & Investment Banking
• Private Banking
• Asset Management
• Security Services
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VPLEX Enabled IT Infrastructure
• VPLEX VS6 Metro • 1.5 PB XtremIO• Host OS:
– Windows, Linux, Solaris, ESX • Database: Oracle, MS SQL• Automation: Scripts, RESTAPI
VPLEX VS6 Metro
Paris DC1 Paris DC2
VPLEX VS2 Metro
Room1 Room2
• VPLEX VS2 Metro • EMC VMAX2, VMAX3, VNX• Host OS:
– Windows, Linux, AIX, ESX • Database: Oracle, MS SQL• Automation: ViPR
MetroPoint
North Area DCParis DC
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Dell EMC And Société Générale PartnershipVPLEX transforming the business
VPLEX Provided Société Générale “Continuous Availability, Increased Agility and Accelerated Tech-refreshes”
Simplification
• Tech refresh made easy– No hosts downtime– Easy Compatibility
Matrix– Reduced from 18
months to 3 months
Better Utilization
• Backend rebalancing – Meet business demand
based on SLAs– Optimal capacity,
performance– Optimize TCO with data
life cycle management
Efficient Data Replication
• Active/Active datacenters – No host resources
required– Optimized WAN
bandwidth utilization with low latency
– Tunable data resync
Continuous Availability
• Zero downtime – Protection against
array outages– Applications continue
without any impact
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VPLEX Generational Upgrade OverviewVS2 to VS6 Generational Upgrade
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VPLEX Generational Upgrade Requirements VS2 to VS6 Upgrade
• VS2 and VS6 clusters must have the same software version which is
– VPLEX GeoSynchrony® 6.0.1.x
• The distance between clusters can be up to 100 meters apart
• Same number of engines – Single VS2 Single VS6 – Dual VS2 Dual VS6 – Quad VS2 Quad VS6
• Required upgrade kit with– Local COM I/O Fiber Channel modules
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VPLEX Generational Upgrade Principles VS2 to VS6 upgrade
No host I/O disruption
Upgrade one director at a time
No re-zoning required
Transfer the front-end, back-end port WWNs from the VS2 cluster
Script drive procedure
Automated to minimize errors
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VPLEX Generational Upgrade Multi-phase Process
Interview
Preparation
Post-upgrade
Pre-check
Transfer I/O
1
2
3
4
5
Confirm information
VS2 system validation
Apply VS2 configurationto VS6
Validate VS6 cluster healthEnable VS2 for reuse
One director at a time
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Quad Or Dual Engine Upgrade
Server Hosts
Storage Arrays
Director B
Director A Director A
Director B
VS2 VS6
• Up to 100m between clusters• No Rezoning needed
Same WWN• VS6 port preparation • Run upgrade-manager on
VS2, up to the transfer I/O phase
• Add VS6 FE/BE/WAN cables, and FC LCOM cables VS2 to VS6 (all cables at once)
• Fail a VS2• Bring up VS6 replacement• Repeat• Remove VS2 cables• Post-upgrade steps
Procedure Steps
SAN
SAN
Only One engine is shown with wiring; Imagine dual or quad engine clusterEach Director connects to both FC switches in the VS2 rackOnly 1 connection is shown in the illustration
FC switch in VS2 cluster
IB cables of VS6 engine
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Server Hosts
Storage Arrays
Director B
Director A Director A
Director B
VS2 VS6
• Up to 100m between clusters• No Rezoning needed
Same WWN• VS6 ports preparation• Run upgrade-manager on VS2,
up to the transfer I/O phase• Add VS6 FE/BE/WAN cables• Fail VS2 Director A • Add LCOM FC cabling VS2 to
VS6• Bring up VS6 Director A• Fail VS2 Director B• Bring up VS6 Director B• Remove VS2 cables• Post-upgrade steps
SAN
SAN
Procedure Steps Single Engine Upgrade
IB cables of VS6 engine
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Q & A
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