STO3054BE What’s New in VMware vSAN 6.6 & …...Michael Haag Vahid Fereydouny STO3054BE #VMworld...

Michael HaagVahid Fereydouny

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What’s New in VMware vSAN 6.6 & 6.6.1

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Contents

1 What’s New with HCI Momentum

2 What’s New in VMware vSAN 6.6 and 6.6.1

3 VMworld 2017 Announcements




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What’s New with HCI Momentum

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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 2021

$10.7 B

$4.4B

$2.8B

$1.5B

$0.5B

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

$8.7B

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

$6.4B




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Blistering Pace of vSAN Adoption

Q1'14 Q2'14 Q3'14 Q4'14 Q1'15 Q2'15 Q3'15 Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Q1'18 Q2'18

vSAN Customer Adoption

150% YoY bookings growth

Industry verticals use vSAN

100%

Software run-rate Q4’16

$300M

Recent industry awards

10,000 Customers

Fastest since ESX with nearly

*

* Switched to Dell Technologies fiscal calendar. Q4’16 ended Dec 31, 2016. Q1’18 ended May 5, 2017

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vSAN is Trusted for Business-Critical Applications

What use cases are you using vSAN for today?(Total Responses = 318)

Source: TechValidate Customer Survey, 2017

Business Critical

Applications

Management Infrastructure

Disaster Recovery Infrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

(VDI)

Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)

44%

32% 28%

21%

65%




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What’s New in VMware vSAN 6.6 & 6.6.1

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Enabling the Modern Data Center with vSAN

All Flash6.2

Hybrid5.5

Cross Cloud6.5

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Native Security

Always-On Protection

Enhanced Stretched

Clusters

Cloud Analytics

Intelligent Operations

Higher Performance

ModernInfrastructure

6.6.x

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 Device 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.

(vSphere 6.5 EP02 Patch)

4/2017

v6.6.1



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Always-on protection

First native HCI security

Best site protection for 50% less

50% higherflash performance

Modernizing Infrastructure with vSAN 6.6

Evolvewithout Risk

Lower TCO

Scale to Tomorrow

Proven extensibility

Pro-active cloud analytics

Intelligent operations

Ready for next-gen apps

Latest hardware support

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Evolve without risk through native securityand smart availability




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Simplify Security and Compliance Needswith Native HCI Encryption

Hardware

independence

Deploy on all-flash

or hybrid systems

Use with storage

efficiency features

Simple per-cluster

encryption

Built for

compliance

Secure with leading

KMIP key managers

vSAN Storage

Meet compliance and security requirements

Protect against unwanted access or drive theft

Deploy on flash hardware of choice

Eliminate need for costly self-encrypting drives

Single cluster-wide key to manage and change

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow

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DEMO

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Always-on Protection with Enhanced Availability

Maximize availability with intelligent, flexible rebuildsNew partial rebuilds and rapid recovery with smart, efficient rebuilds

Intelligent and proactive handling of failing storage devicesSmart drive monitoring identifies failing drives and proactively evacuates data

Maintain operations with a robust, redundant control planeResilient management independent of vCenter Server with direct-node management

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow




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Lower TCO with Efficiency at Scale and Intelligent Operations




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Accelerate deployments with configuration checks and 1-click fixes

Reduce time up to 80%* on hardware lifecycle management

Simplify monitoring with more comprehensive vSAN Health Services

Lower Operational Costs Up to 80%with Intelligent Operations

17© 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow

Comprehensive monitoring with

enhanced Health services

vSAN Easy Install

with 1-click fixes

* Source: VMware Internal Analysis. Comparison against vSAN 6.5 upgrade time.

1-click controller hardware

lifecycle management



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80% Simpler Upgrades with vSphere Update Manager Integration

Simplifies upgrades and patching

HCL-aware recommendations for patches, upgrades and drivers

Checks and only upgrades to the highest level of HCL compatibility

Automates VUM baseline creation, scanning and delivery of updates

Custom Baseline

Update to 6.6.1 Update drivers

Update to 6.6.1

Custom Baseline

Update drivers

Remain at 6.2

VUM

HCL Database

Release Catalog

vmware.com

Custom Baseline




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Lower Risk with Easy Storage Device Serviceability with Blinking Lights

Simplify hardware lifecycle management

and reduce operational time

Deliver a more predictable hardware

experience

Automated, 1-click process for identifying the right drive

Lower the risk of human errors




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Optimize Performance with Cloud-based Performance Analytics

Specify one of three predefined areas

of focus for benchmarks (IOPS,

Throughput, Latency)

Integration into HCIBench

Sends test output automatically to

VMware cloud for analysis

Provides results of analysis in UI

Detects issues and suggests

remediation steps with specific KB

NEvSAN 6.6.1

vSphere vSAN

HCIBench

Analysis

Detect issues

Visible to GSS

Feedback

Site results

Links to KBs

vSAN Cloud Analytics

VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program




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DEMO

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Manage HCI at Scale with vRealize Operations 6.6

Aggregate cluster statistics

Cluster specific statistics

Prebuilt vSAN dashboards with multi-

site visibility and analytics

Fully integrated natively into vRealize Operations 6.6

Easily customize to expose data you

want to see

Display vSAN and non-vSAN

metrics together

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow




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Respond Faster when Deployed at Scale

Simplify monitoring with end-to-end visibility

Monitor and automate vSAN with existing tools

Cloud-like automation with enhanced PowerCLI

Streamline management using APIs/SDK

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow

Infrastructure Admin

vSphere vSAN

PowerCLI

cmdlet

vRealize Operations

Management Pack for

vSAN

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Site Protection for 50% Less than TraditionalSolutions with Enhanced Stretched Clusters

Greater availability with local and site protection

50% lower costs compared to legacy solutions

Simplified operations with policy-based management

Non-disruptive changes and new site affinity

Granular per-VM policies

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow

vSphere vSAN

ClusterCluster

3rd site for witness

RAID-1

RAID-6 RAID-6

5ms RTT, 10GbE

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Scale to tomorrow –power new applications and hardware




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Improvements are greater as more data services are used

70R/30W mixed workload with a large working set4 Node Cluster 2 Disk Groups/ Node

Chksm+RS+DD&C

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

-40%-35%-30%-25%-20%

No Chksm

-15%-10%

-5%

0%

-45%

Chksm Chksm+RS

No Checksum Checksum Checksum+R5 Chksm+R5+DD&C

70%

60% More IOPS vs. 6.5with Checksum, RAID5 and Data Services Enabled

40% Lower Latency vs. 6.5with Checksum, RAID5 and Data Services enabled

vSAN 6.6 Offers 60% Better Performance than 6.5




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Expand competitive advantage with Day 0 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)

* Source: VMware Internal Analysis based on stated pricing.

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow

Support larger caching drive options, including 1.6TB flash drives

Lower read latencies with vSAN and new 3D

XPoint NVMe drives from Intel

Day 0 support of latest hardware through industry’s best ecosystem

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Simplify Adoption of Next-Gen Apps

Next-Generation Applications

Evolvewithout Risk

LowerTCO

Scale toTomorrow


Accelerate DevOps support with native vSAN services in Project Hatchway

Streamline infrastructure with

one platform across any application

Accelerate next-gen apps with optimized flash performance

Deploy with confidence using proven reference

architecture

Persistent Container Storage

• Cloning• Snapshots

• Multi-Tenancy• Policy Support

Project Hatchway

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What’s New in vSAN at VMworld 2017

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What’s New at VMworld 2017

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VMware Cloud

for AWS

• vSAN powers AWS hardware

• TP: VMware Site Recovery (DRaaS)

AWS

Project Hatchway

for Containers

• Persistent storage on vSAN

• Docker and Kubernetes

Ecosystem

Offerings

• New Lenovo integrated system

• Expanded Ready for vSAN certs

• New cost-efficient vSAN bundle

• Lower operational costs

Distributed

HCI

Preview: vSAN

Data Protection

• Native, space-efficient snaps

• Scalable, granular snapshots for DP

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Accelerating Distributed IT with HCI

0

1

0

1

1

1

0011

0110

0110

1101

vSphere vSAN

Cost-Effective HCI

Single-Socket Servers

Simple management for faster

time to value and deployment

Lower costs with hardware

choice and server economics

Retail ManufacturingMilitaryHealthcare Oil/Gas

Public CloudsPrivate Data Center




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VMware HCI

Acceleration Kit

vSphere STD

vSAN STD

• <$25K HW/SW solution price

• 25% SW discount

• Unlimited VMs

• 3 Node cluster configuration

• Single-socket servers

Single-Socket Servers

NEW: VMware HCI Acceleration Kit

Distributed IT needsmodern infrastructure

• Flexible, cost-sensitive

• For IT generalists

Native architecture matches vertical needs

• Common management C2E

• Lowest Cost

Hardware choice reduces costs and risks

• vSAN ReadyLabs

• Day 1 support




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vSAN Provides Proven Storage for VMware Cloud on AWS

Overview▪ Run on AWS provided x86 hardware

▪ Pool local devices into a shared

datastore

▪ Deliver enterprise-grade scale and

performance

▪ Manage through:

▪ VMC console (to scale cluster)

▪ VM storage policies

▪ Open ecosystem with ISVs

vSAN Cluster

High Performance Storage

▪ Local NVMe Devices▪ 2 Disk Groups per node

AWS Infrastructure




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Developer Ready Infrastructure: Docker and KubernetesStateful containers with orchestrator of your choice

VMware ESX VMware ESXVMware ESX

Docker API/ Compose Kubernetes API

docker stack deploydocker service create

kubectl createkubectl get pods

Docker Swarm/

DatacenterKubernetes

vSAN VMFS

Infrastructure of choice:

vSphere with vSAN,

VMFS and NFS

Stateful Containers with

Orchestrator of choice:

Docker, Kubernetes

vSAN

Available Now!




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3 Easy Ways to Learn More about vSAN

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• Live at VMworld

• Practical learning of vSAN, VxRail and more

• 24x7 availability online– for free!

vSAN Sizer

vSAN Assessment

New vSAN Tools

• StorageHub.vmware.com

• Reference architectures, off-line demos and more

• Easy search function

• And More!

Storage Hub Technical Library Hands-On Lab

Test drive vSAN

for free today!

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Purnima PadmanabhanVP, Product Cloud Management

Paul FazzoneVP & GMCloud Native

Wed Sept 13th

14:00 – 15:30



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