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What's New in vSAN 6.6: Technical Deep Dive
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VMware vSAN 6.6.1: What’s New Technical
Sept 2017
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HCI is the Fastest Growing Storage Segment
Hyperscale
HCI and
Server SAN
Traditional
Storage
2012 2026 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
$8.6 B
$4.4B
$2.8B
$1.5B
$.5B
0
$10B
$20B
$30B
$40B
$50B
Total Storage Market
Source: Gartner Forecast Analysis: Integrated Systems Worldwide, 1Q17 UpdateSource: Wikibon Server SAN Research Project, 2016
$60B
$6.4B
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
2017We are here
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VMware vSAN Delivers a Native vSphere Architecture
Runs on any standard x86 server
Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore
Delivers enterprise-grade scale and performance
Managed through per-VM storage policies
Deeply integrated with the VMware stack
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Supporting a Broad Variety of Use Cases
Business Critical Apps Virtual Desktops (VDI)
DR / DA
Cloud Native AppsDatabases
(SQL/Oracle)
ROBOManagement
Clusters
ContainersvSAN
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VMware Customers Trust Their Infrastructure to vSAN
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vSAN Customers
Countries Deployed
Critical Apps on All-Flash
>10,000 >100 83%
Leading HCI Vendor#1
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Turnkey
Appliance
Dell EMC VxRail
HCI appliances
Certified
Platforms
vSAN Ready Node
pre-certified servers
Your company can deploy HCIin the manner that best suits its needs
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vSAN – Enabling the Modern Data Center
All-flash6.2
Hybrid5.5
Cross-cloud6.5
10,000Customers
H1 2017
Native security
Enhanced stretched clusters
Higher performance
Moderninfrastructure
6.6
H1 2016
Compression
Deduplication
Erasure coding
Quality of service
H2 2016
AWS announcement
Container support cloud
Native apps
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Rapid Pace of Innovation: vSAN 6.6 Biggest Release Ever!20+ New Major vSAN Features
3/2014
v5.5
• Distributed RAID• Per-VM SPBM• Set and change FTT via
policy• In-kernel hyper-
convergence engine• RVC and Observer
3/2015
v6.0
• All-flash architecture• Perf improvements (4x
IOPS)• 64-node support• High density storage
blades• Fault domain awareness• Scalable snapshots and
clones• Disk enclosure
management
8/2015
v6.1
• Windows Failover Clustering
• Oracle RAC support• HW checksum and
encryption• 2-node ROBO mode• UltraDIMM and NVMe
support• Stretch clusters• 5 min RPO (vSphere Rep) • SMP-FT support• Health Check, vROps,
LogInsight
2/2016
v6.2
• IPv6 support• Software checksum• Nearline dedup and
compression on all-flash
• Erasure coding on all-flash
• Qos: IOPS limits• Performance
monitoring service
10/2016
v6.5
• iSCSI• 2-Node direct connect• PowerCLI• Public APIs and SDK• 512e support• All-Flash to all editions
• Native encryption for data-at-rest• Compliance certifications• Resilient management independent of vCenter• Degraded Disk Handling v2.0 (DDHv2)• Smart repairs and enhanced rebalancing• Intelligent rebuilds using partial repairs• Certified file service & data protection solutions• Stretched clusters with local failure protection• Site affinity for stretched clusters• 1-click witness change for Stretched Cluster• vSAN Management Pack for vRealize• Enhanced vSAN SDK and PowerCLI• Simple networking with Unicast • vSAN Cloud Analytics with real-time support
notification and recommendations• vSAN Config Assist with 1-click hardware
lifecycle management• Extended vSAN Health Services• vSAN Easy Install with 1-click fixes• Up to 50% greater IOPS for all-flash with
optimized checksum and dedupe• Support for new next-gen workloads• vSAN for Photon in Photon Platform 1.1• Day 0 support for latest flash technologies• Expanded caching tier choice• Docker Volume Driver 1.1
4/2017
v6.6
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Introducing vSAN 6.6.1
Native
Security
Enhanced
Stretched
Clusters
Intelligent
Operations
Optimized
Performance
In vSphere 6.5 U1
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vSAN 6.6: Native Security, Greater Savings and Higher Performance
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Lower TCO
Efficiency at scale
Pro-active cloud analytics
Intelligent operations
Native HCI security
Evolve Without Risk
Resilient management
Intelligent rebuilds
Scale to Tomorrow
Optimized performance
Next-gen apps
Latest hardware support
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Evolve without Risk Through Native Securityand Smart Availability
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Secure Data with vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Datastore level, data-at-rest encryption for all objects on vSAN Datastore
• Enabled at cluster level, supporting hybrid, all-flash, and stretched clusters
• No need for self encrypting drives (SEDs), reducing cost and complexity
• Works with all vSAN features, including deduplication and compression
• Integrates with KMIP compliant key management technologies, including SafeNet, Hytrust, Thales, Vormetric, etc.
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Highly Available Management of vSAN Using ESXi Host Client
ESX Host Client
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Administer vSAN cluster in the event that vCenter server is offline
• Monitor critical health status and details
• Make configuration changes
• Available in HTML5 host client, and CLI using ESXCLI
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Enhanced Rebalancing Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
• Achieves better balance by splitting large components during redistribution
• Smarter component placement decisions reduces overhead, resulting in faster recovery times
• Improved visibility in rebalancing status in Health Services
• New customizable “throttling” of resync activity using slider bar
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Smart, Efficient Repairs Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Two methods for repairs of offline components reappearing after 60 minutes.
• Calculates cost of methods of repair at time host comes back online
• Will choose most efficient method, and cancel other action
• Significant improvement in speed and efficiency of component repairs
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Partial Repairs Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• More resilient repair process
• Repairs as many components as possible even if not enough resources to ensure fullcompliance
• Remaining components will be repaired as soon as enough resources are available
• Works in non-stretched and stretched clusters
Replica
Status: Two host failures
Configured policy: FTT2
Effective compliance: FTT0
Replica Replica WW
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Partial Repairs Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• More resilient repair process
• Repairs as many components as possible even if not enough resources to ensure fullcompliance
• Remaining components will be repaired as soon as enough resources are available
• Works in non-stretched and stretched clusters
Status: Partial repair completed
Configured policy: FTT2
Effective compliance: FTT1
Replica Replica Replica ReplicaReplicaW
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Partial Repairs Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• More resilient repair process
• Repairs as many components as possible even if not enough resources to ensure fullcompliance
• Remaining components will be repaired as soon as enough resources are available
• Works in non-stretched and stretched clusters
Status: New host added. Full repair completed
Configured policy: FTT2
Effective compliance: FTT2
Replica ReplicaReplica ReplicaWW
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Health Monitoring –vSAN Degraded Device Handling Enhancements Evolve
without RiskLowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Smarter intelligence in detecting impending drive failures
• If replica exists, components on suspect device marked as “absent” with standard repair process
• If last replica, proactive evacuation of components occurs on suspect device
• Any evacuation failures will be shown in UI
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Health Monitoring –Decommissioning Host Improvements Evolve
without RiskLowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Conducts a precheck for free space prior to maintenance mode decommissioning
• Dialog and report shown prior to entering maintenance mode
• Decommission check occurs for disk and disk group removals
• Increased granularity for faster, more efficient decommissioning
• Reduced amount of temporary space during decommissioning effort
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Lower TCO with Efficiency at Scale and Intelligent Operations
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Low Cost Local and Remote Protection for Stretched Clusters
vSphere vSAN
ClusterCluster
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
5ms RTT, 10GbE
• Redundancy locally andacross sites
• With site failure, vSAN maintains availability with local redundancy in surviving site
• No change in stretched cluster configuration steps
• Optimized site locality logic to minimize I/O traffic across sites
RAID-6
3rd site for
witness
RAID-6
RAID-1
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Increase Flexibilitywith Site Affinity for Stretched Clusters
vSphere vSAN
ClusterCluster
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• User can specify single site location of VM’s components if site level protection is unnecessary
• Policy driven using SPBM
• Reduces network and storage requirements
• Ideal for solutions that already use application redundancy (Exchange DAGs, SQL Availability groups, etc.)
3rd site for
witness
RAID-6
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Simplified Effort toChange Witness Host for Stretched Cluster
Cluster
vSphere vSAN
Cluster
vSphere vSAN
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
Witness
Witness
• Easy replacement of witness host in stretched cluster environments
• Reduces potential time stretched cluster configuration may be without a witness
• UI driven. Eliminates need for manual steps or scripting
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Simplified, Cloud-friendly Networking with Unicast
• Multicast no longer used
• Easier configurations for single site and stretched clusters
• vSAN changes over to unicast when cluster upgrade to 6.6 completes
• No compromises in CPU utilization
• Little effect on network traffic when using unicast over multicast
vSphere vSAN
Multicast
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
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New vSAN Cloud AnalyticsDelivers Proactive Guidance
Performance diagnostics to verify expected performance and report anomalies if encountered
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Cloud-based health checks for easy, online known issue detection tied to relevant support notices (KBs)
• New analytics framework results in:
– Identified and relevant issues showing up immediately as health check notifications
– Continuous updates with cloud model—no need to wait for subsequent vSAN releases
• Reduce troubleshooting with prescriptive, environment specific analytics
checks/
KBs
VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program
vSAN Cloud Analytics
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Management at Scalewith vSAN API and PowerCLI Evolve
without RiskLowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
vSAN SDK update
• Host level vSAN APIs can monitor/query cluster level information
• S.M.A.R.T drive data available in API
• New Managed Objects for cluster or host level management tasks
PowerCLI enhancements
• vSAN view cmdlets
• vSAN upgrade cmdlets
• vSAN performance cmdlets
• vSAN iSCSI cmdlets
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
vSAN API
vSAN APIvSAN APIvSAN API
SDKsPower
CLICLI
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Intelligent, AutomatedOperations with vSAN Easy Install Evolve
without RiskLowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Provides easy way to bootstrap
new vCenter Server (VCSA) on a
single host
• vSAN configuration steps built into
VCSA installer workflows
• Simplifies process of building out
new environmentvSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
VCSA
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Intelligent, AutomatedOperations with vSAN Config Assist Evolve
without RiskLowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Simplify HCI Management with prescriptive one-click controller firmware and driver upgrades
• HCL aware. Pulls correct OEM firmware and drivers for selected controllers from participating vendors including Dell, Lenovo, Fujitsu, and SuperMicro
• Validate and remediate software configuration settings for vSAN
• Configuration wizards validate vSAN settings and ensure best practice compliance
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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VMware Update Manager (VUM) Integration
• Simplifies upgrades and patching by verifying hardware compatibility
• Creates HCL aware baseline recommendations, scanning for critical patches or required drivers
• Will only upgrade to the highest level of HCL compatibility
• Automates VUM baseline creation, scanning and delivery of update packages and ISOs.
VUM
Custom Baseline Custom Baseline Custom Baseline
Update to 6.6.1 Update drivers
Update to 6.6.1
Update drivers
Remain at 6.2
NEWvSAN 6.6.1
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
HCL Database
Driver bundles
Release Catalog
Release order
Critical patches
my.vmware.com
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Enhanced Health Monitoring Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• HCL checks include firmware of selected device controllers
• Enhanced alert management to reduce quantity of duplicate alerts
• Ability to skip future health checks for known issues that previously generated alert
• vCenter authority health check verifies host membership consistency against vCenter
• Storage device serviceability for HP Gen 9 servers
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
NEWvSAN 6.6.1
NEWvSAN 6.6.1
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Enhanced Performance Monitoring Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Wider array of metrics collected for easier troubleshooting
• Now includes metrics for vSAN network, resync, iSCSI, and client cache
• Save a defined time range
• Special “verbose mode” to assist in support engagements
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Cloud-connected Performance Diagnostics
vSphere vSAN
• Provides diagnostics for benchmarking & PoCs
• Specify one of three predefined areas of focus for benchmarks:
– Max IOPS
– Max Throughput
– Min Latency
• Integration into HCIBench
• Output automatically sent to cloud for analysis
• Provides results of analysis in UI
• Detects issues and suggests remediation steps by tying to specific KB articles
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
NEWvSAN 6.6.1
HCIBench
vSAN Cloud Analytics
Analysis
Detect issues
Visible to GSS
Feedback
Site results
Links to KBs
VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program
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vSAN Integration with vRealize Operations Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Visibility and analytics to vSAN related metrics
• Fully integrated in vR Ops 6.6
• Prebuilt dashboards
• Easily customize to expose data you want to see
• Display vSAN and non vSAN metrics together
Aggregate cluster statistics
Cluster specific statistics
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Scale to Tomorrow –Power New Applications and Hardware
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vSAN Performance Enhancements Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Reduced overhead of checksum
• Improved deduplication and
compression
• Destaging optimizations
• Object Management improvements
• iSCSI for vSAN performance
improvements
• More accurate cache sizing guidelines
• New vSAN ReadyNode Sizer!
vSphere vSAN
vSAN Datastore
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Expand competitive advantage with Day 1 support of latest flash innovations
Simplify new technology adoption without a major forklift upgrade to infrastructure
Lower costs with higher consolidation ratios
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Scale to Tomorrow with Latest Hardware Innovations
Next-Gen
Servers
Next-Gen Flash
(Intel 3D XPoint
NVMe)
* Source: VMware Internal Analysis based on stated pricing.
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• Day 1 support of latest hardware through industry’s best ecosystem
• Intel Purely Platform
• HPE Apollo and Synergy support
• Support larger caching drive options, including 1.6TB flash drives
• Lower read latencies with vSAN and new 3D XPoint NVMe drives from Inte
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New Apps and Hardware
VMware HCI
vSAN Datastore
Evolvewithout Risk
LowerTCO
Scale toTomorrow
• New reference architectures available for broader set of use cases
– Intersystems Caché
– Hadoop and Big Data
– XenDesktop/XenApp
– Kubernetes
– MongoDB
• Greater container support with native vSAN in Photon 1.1 offering
• Flexibility and choice with the latest hardware
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3 Ways to Find Out for Yourself How vSAN-powered HCI Can Help Your Organization
FREE vSAN
ASSESSMENT
HANDS
ON LABSSTORAGEHUB
RESOURCES
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