How does software defined storage expand the landscape and lead us more and more to the software defined datacentre and how does this affect the Cloud? In this webinar Novosco’s experts Mal Toner and Myles Gray will focus on VMware’s vSAN and how it delivers not only software defined storage but, along with vSphere’s capabilities, offers customers a path towards the software defined data centre.

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Introducing Novosco

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Agenda
- What is Software Define Storage
- Why Software Define Storage
- Workload that benefit from Software Define Storage
- Focus on VMware
- vSAN and what it offers
- vSAN Editions
- vSAN Gotchas from the coal face
- Novosco Single Tenant Cloud

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Software Defined Storage
SDS is often as the
“abstraction of typical storage controller functions
away from storage hardware and move them into
software”

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Challenges with Storage Today

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Why Software Defined Storage
- Flexible construction of services
- SDS spans the boundaries between servers and storage
- Data services can be executed in servers or storage
- This has potential impacts on security and reliability
- Separation of control and data planes
- SDS builds on Virtualisation of the Data Path
- Data Path Virtualisation alone is not SDS

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Why Software Defined Storage
- Deployment Simplicity
- Storage service interface
- Expresses Requirements for the Cloud/DC/Storage/Data
Administrator
- Receives Service Levels from the Cloud/DC/Storage/Data
Administrator
- Automates the matching of services to requirements

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Software Defined Storage Value
- Works with standard hardware as well as specialized
hardware
- Works with scale out or scale up architectures
- Enables incremental building of storage/data services
solutions
- Includes pooling of resources
- Includes Service Level Management (metadata tagging)
- Large grain “Labels” for your storage/data containers
- Fine Grain “Knobs” on individual data objects

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Software Defined Storage Value
- Enables dis-aggregation of storage and data
services
- Includes self-service interface that supports
provisioning
- May include policy based management automation
- Simplifies management of scale

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VMware Storage Innovations

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VMware Vision

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VMware Software-Defined Storage

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vSAN Editions
ROBO Editions licensed per VM Max 25 VM’s per ROBO site

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Considerations for vSAN