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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

John Nicholson, VMware

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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


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

© 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. Confidential – Not for Distribution

(vSphere 6.5 EP02 Patch)

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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


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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LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow





Status: Partial repair completed



Replica Replica Replica ReplicaReplicaW




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LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow





Status: New host added. Full repair completed



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


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


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


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


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


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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