8 VxRail Level Up with New Capabilities and...
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VxRail: Level Up with New Capabilities and Powers
Maciej Plona
Dell EMC
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Storage
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Systems design shift
Servers
Then Now
Softwaredefined storage
Moore’s Law
Virtualization
High speedEthernet
Flash media
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2017: HCI goes primetime
>60% customers to adopt HCI by 20171
75% deployments in core data center1
HCI market $1.5B to $6B by 20202
Customers are already modernizing with HCI
Main drivers: simplify operations, start small and scale efficiently, lower TCOStandardized building blocks to help accelerate your on-premises cloud
Why are they embracing HCI?
Dell EMC has fastest-growing HCI portfolio: VxRail, VxRack, XC series 1. 451 Research, December 20162. Gartner Group, October 2016
ScalabilitySimplicityAgility Modernize
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What is inside VxRail?A full suite of capabilities included at no additional charge
• VxRail Manager
• Secure Remote Support
Deployment and support tools
• vSAN Enterprise
• vCenter Server
• vRealize Log Insight
• vSphere Ready*
Powered by VMware vSAN
• RecoverPoint for VMs
• CloudArray
• vSphere Replication
• vSphere Data Protection
Included data protection options
*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses
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VxRail downloadable or auto upgradesFully automated and validated upgrade process for maintenance and major releases
* Upgrades for customers running vSphere Standard Edition or 3-nodes require services support to perform the upgrade
• Upgrade post-checks• Pre/post upgrade hooks
• Execute the automated, non-disruptive, rolling node upgrade
• vMotion and maintenance mode ensure VMs remain available and adhere to fault tolerance setting
• Offline bundle upload• Profile pre-checks• Upgrade pre-checks
• VM protection pre-checks• Alarm pre-checks
• ESXi/CloudVM state pre-checker
• From VxRail Manager • Includes all software
ready to update as needed• VxRail Manager• VCSA and PSC
• vSphere and vSAN
• Firmware
Validationpost-checks
Update the software
Readiness check
Download VxRail software
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VxRail 4.0 overview
2X more flash storage
250X more configurations
40% more CPU performance
25% less expensiveentry point
Compared to previous generation appliances
• Dell PowerEdge servers
• Intel Broadwell processors
• Addresses more use cases—storage-heavy, graphics intensive, and ROBO
• 3-node entry point
• One-click software upgrades
What’s in VxRail 4.0
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Purpose built nodes for multiple use casesVxRail 4.0 models
V Series Nodes
P Series Nodes
G Series Nodes
E Series Nodes
S Series Nodes
General purpose
All-flash or hybridUp to 19.2 TB/node
Entry level
All-flash or hybridUp to 30.7 TB/node
Storage dense
Hybrid onlyUp to 48 TB/node
VDI optimized
All-flash or hybridUp to 46 TB/node
Performance optimized
All-flash or hybridUp to 46 TB/node
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Here’s what you told us
More connectivityCost optimize
$More GPU optionsEnterprise fit
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Greater VDI density
NVIDIA Tesla M10 for increased VDI density for
“office workers”
M60 also available for 2D/3D
Enterprise serviceability
VxRail Manager upgrades, more NICS
for VM traffic
Slash your licensing tax
New single socket hybrid appliances to lower license costs
New since the 4.0 launch
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Dell EMC VDI Complete Solution – Powered by Horizon
Superior end-to-end VDI solution
Simplified sales & support model
Exceptional total cost of ownership
Start small and pay as you grow
Flexible Consumption Model
Cost per seat for as low as
$8 per seat per month**
ONE place to pay ONE hand to shakeONE stop support
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Looking ahead: new VxRail capabilities
All Q2 capabilities PLUS:
vCenter 6.5• Photon OS-based vCSA
vSAN 6.6• iSCSI targets (new in vSAN 6.5)• Data at rest encryption• Enhanced stretched clusters with local protection • Site affinity for stretched clusters• Improved all-flash performance with dedupe & compression• More efficient rebuilds
Enterprise scalability• vAPI and PowerCLI support for lifecycle management
Platform• Expanded network interface cards• Expanded CPU choices
Enhanced enterprise deployment• Flexible object renaming for data center deployments• Guided upgrade for vSphere Standard Edition customers• Improved first run status reporting• Migrations from internal to external vCenters• External ESRS gateway support• Expanded iDRAC support
Q3 2017: vSphere 6.5 code base VxRail 4.5
Q2 2017: vSphere 6.0 code baseVxRail 4.0
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Stretched clusters with local protection
3rd site witness
5ms RTT, 10GbE
vSAN
100Mbps200ms RTTL3
RAID-6 RAID-6
RAID-1
• RAID 1 of RAID1/5/6 for all-flash
• RAID 1 of RAID 1 for hybrid
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Site affinity forstretched clusters
witness
5ms RTT, 10GbE
vSAN
100Mbps200ms RTTL3
EC 3+1(RAID5)
FTT=1(RAID1)
• Protect only critical workloads
• Keep non-critical data in one site– e.g. for dev. QA, staging, etc.
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Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE)
• Configured for entire cluster
• Works with both all-flash and hybrid
• Works with dedupe and compression
• Compliance with FIPS 140-2 Level 1, AES 256
• Key management using KMIP-compliant KMS vendors
vSphere + vSAN
vSAN Datastore
SSD SSD SSD
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Continuously modernize
10GbE
VM
Add new appliance to clustervMotion workload to new appliance
Remove old nodeNon-disruptively