In this presentation by SolidFire's vExpert Jeramiah Dooley, you will learn about how consolidating workloads onto a single platform can be the crucial missing step as VMware customers transition from a legacy architecture into a Software Defined Data Center. Storage has become the boat anchor of the modern, virtualized data center. Up until recently it has been slow, unpredictable, inflexible, required far too much operational overhead and was sized, deployed and managed using methods created in the 1980s. Worst of all, storage capacity and performance are often still locked together in fixed ratios, making it inevitable that even the best run storage environment will be wasteful and inefficient as you consolidate your applications. But it doesn’t have to be this way. The technology and know-how exists to have storage be a predictable, flexible, and easily managed part of an overall virtualized platform designed to provide the performance and availability that today’s end user workloads demand.

1. Hello

2. The All-Flash Array for the
Next Generation Data Center

3. Introductions
Jeramiah Dooley, Field Architect
jeramiah.dooley@solidfire.com
@jdooley_clt
blog.vmforsp.com

4. SolidFire Solutions Architects
• Aaron Delp, @aarondelp
• Aaron Patten, @Jedimt
• Chris Merz, @merzdba
• Gabriel Chapman, @Bacon_Is_King
• Josh Atwell, @Josh_Atwell

6. What Are We Talking About Today?
• Storage in Today’s Enterprise
• Four Stages of Change
– Workload Consolidation?
– AHHH!!! WORKLOAD CONSOLIDATION!
– Oh Wait, Cool…
– How Do I Get Started?
• What Does Tomorrow Look Like?

7. Why Does Everyone Hate Storage?

8. Why Does Everyone Hate Storage?
• Inflexible
• Inefficient
• Ineffective
• Unsustainable
• How Did We Let This Happen?

9. Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models
Best of
Breed
Appliance

10. Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models
Best of
Breed
Appliance
As a Service

11. Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models
Best of
Breed
Appliance
As a Service
Converged
Infrastructure

12. Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models
Best of
Breed
Appliance
As a Service
Hyper
Converged
Converged
Infrastructure

13. Modern Infrastructure Consumption Models
Best of
Breed
Appliance
As a Service
Software on
Commodity
Hardware
Hyper
Converged
Converged
Infrastructure

14. The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum
Best of Breed
Appliance
Hyper
Converged
As a Service
Software on
Commodity
Hardware
Converged
Infrastructure

15. The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum
Best of Breed
Appliance
Hyper
Converged
As a Service
Software on
Commodity
Hardware
Converged
Infrastructure
Ease of ImplementationEasier Harder
Degree of Vendor Lock-InMore Lock-In Less Lock-In
Implementation FlexibilityLess Flexible More Flexible
Cost EfficiencyAt Small Scale At Large Scale

16. The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum
SMB / Startups
Best of Breed
Appliance
Hyper
Converged
As a Service
Software on
Commodity
Hardware
Converged
Infrastructure
Ease of ImplementationEasier Harder
Degree of Vendor Lock-InMore Lock-In Less Lock-In
Implementation FlexibilityLess Flexible More Flexible
Cost EfficiencyAt Small Scale At Large Scale

17. The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum
SMB / Startups Large Enterprise
Best of Breed
Appliance
Hyper
Converged
As a Service
Software on
Commodity
Hardware
Converged
Infrastructure
Ease of ImplementationEasier Harder
Degree of Vendor Lock-InMore Lock-In Less Lock-In
Implementation FlexibilityLess Flexible More Flexible
Cost EfficiencyAt Small Scale At Large Scale

18. The Infrastructure Consumption Continuum
SMB / Startups Large Enterprise Hyperscale / SP
Best of Breed
Appliance
Hyper
Converged
As a Service
Software on
Commodity
Hardware
Converged
Infrastructure
Ease of ImplementationEasier Harder
Degree of Vendor Lock-InMore Lock-In Less Lock-In
Implementation FlexibilityLess Flexible More Flexible
Cost EfficiencyAt Small Scale At Large Scale

19. SolidFire Consumption Models
Element
Opera,ng
System
Converged
Infrastructure
Agile
Infrastructure
Best
of
Breed
Appliance
SF
Series
Appliances
As
a
Service
Scale-­‐Out
Infrastructure
Agility
Guaranteed
Quality
of
Service
Complete
System
Automa,on
In-­‐Line
Data
Reduc,on
Self
Healing
High
Availability
SoFware
on
Commodity
Hardware
element

20. High performance storage systems designed for
large scale infrastructure
Industry Leading
Quality of Service (QoS)
Scale-Out Architecture
• 4 – 100 nodes
• 35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity
• 200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS
Simple all inclusive
pricing model Direct Tier 3 Support
for every customer
Industry-standard hardware
• 10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

21. Applying All-Flash in your Data Center
PerformanceLow
Performance and Capacity
(Public / Private
Cloud, IaaS)
High
Cheap and Deep [object / file]
(Backup / Archive / Video Streaming)
Performance at any cost
(Transactional Processing /
Trading Platforms)
#ofApplications

22. Requirements constantly changing
Consumes the most capital and time
Applying All-Flash in your Data Center
PerformanceLow High
Cheap and Deep [object / file]
(Backup / Archive / Video Streaming)
Performance at any cost
(Transactional Processing /
Trading Platforms)
#ofApplications
Performance and Capacity
(Public / Private
Cloud, IaaS)

23. Flash V2 - All Flash Array
Flash V1 PCI Flash
Requirements constantly changing
Consumes the most capital and time
Applying All-Flash in your Data Center
PerformanceLow High
Cheap and Deep [object / file]
(Backup / Archive / Video Streaming)
Performance at any cost
(Transactional Processing /
Trading Platforms)
#ofApplications
Performance and Capacity
(Public / Private
Cloud, IaaS)

24. Flash V2 - All Flash Array
Flash V1 PCI Flash
Flash for the Next Generation Data Center
Requirements constantly changing
Consumes the most capital and time
Applying All-Flash in your Data Center
PerformanceLow High
Cheap and Deep [object / file]
(Backup / Archive / Video Streaming)
Performance at any cost
(Transactional Processing /
Trading Platforms)
#ofApplications
Performance and Capacity
(Public / Private
Cloud, IaaS)

25. Consolidating Workloads
Virtual
Infrastructure
Database
Virtual
Desktop
Cloud
Orchestration

26. Eliminating Application Silos
Virtual
Infrastructure
Database
Virtual
Desktop
Cloud
Orchestration
What if you could run all applications
in a single storage infrastructure?
…with guaranteed performance

27. All-flash storage platform
for the next generation data center.
Scale-Out
Infrastructure Agility
Guaranteed
Quality of Service
Complete
System Automation
In-Line Data
Reduction
Self Healing
High Availability

28. Platform Building Blocks
2405 • 8.6TB effective capacity
• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
4805 • 17TB effective capacity
• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
9605 • 35TB effective capacity
• 50,000 guaranteed IOPS
9010 • 35TB effective capacity
• 75,000 guaranteed IOPS

29. Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration

30. Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration

31. Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration

32. Scale-Out Agility
Performance
Capacity
43.6 TB 250,000 IOPS
60.8 TB 350,000 IOPS
52.2 TB 300,000 IOPS
200,000 IOPS35 TB
Guaranteed Compatibility
between all SolidFire storage nodes
• Future-Proof your storage investment
• Eliminate storage migrations and forklift upgrades
• Never wait 3 years for an upgrade
Linear Scale
of Performance and Capacity
Expand / Contract
without disruption or reconfiguration

33. • Platform Compatibility Guarantee
– Ensures that all future software &
platforms from SolidFire will interoperate
with existing infrastructure
• Unlimited Drive Wear Guarantee
– Eliminate concerns around flash
endurance
– No restrictions on use-case or workload
Never Obsolete
Unparalleled
Investment Protection
No more forklift
upgrades

34. SolidFire QoS Eliminates of traditional
performance related storage problems - ESG 2015
Guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS)
Dynamically Allocate, Manage and Guarantee
storage performance independent of capacity
Define / enforce Min, Max and Burst settings
for each application / volume

35. Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
Decreased
Performance
Noisy Neighbor

36. Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
Decreased
Performance
Noisy Neighbor
SolidFire QoS in Practice
500 IOPS
1000 IOPS
1200 IOPS
8000 IOPS

37. Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
Boot Storm

38. Eliminating Noisy Neighbor Applications
Boot Storm

39. Consolidate with Guaranteed QoS
Virtual
Infrastructure
Database
Virtual
Desktop
Cloud
Orchestration

40. Consolidate with Guaranteed QoS
• Guarantee storage performance to
every application
• Combine a broad array of
application workloads within a
single storage platform
• Increase application density and
resource utilization
• Respond to demands faster and
with greater agility than ever before

41. Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
2405

42. Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
2405

43. Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
2405

44. Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
2405

45. Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
24054805

46. 24054805
Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
Remove
Remove

47. Storage Platform Resources
Capacity
Performance with QoS
Scale-Out Agility
24054805

48. Self Healing High Availability
SolidFire Helix™
Cluster wide RAID-less data protection
• No single points of failure
• Automatic self-healing – restores
redundancy after failure
• Maintains all QoS settings regardless of
failure condition
• Non-disruptive hardware and software
upgrades
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49. Self Healing High Availability
SolidFire Helix™
Cluster wide RAID-less data protection
• No single points of failure
• Automatic self-healing – restores
redundancy after failure
• Maintains all QoS settings regardless of
failure condition
• Non-disruptive hardware and software
upgrades
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50. VMware & SolidFire
Empowering The Software Defined Datacenter
Leading Scale-Out
All-Flash Storage
Architecture
Strong vSphere
Storage API
Support
SIOC
+
QoS
VAAI
VASA
VVols
API Driven
Automation &
Management
Delivering
Guaranteed
Performance to
Every Application
Tier
1
Apps
vCenter
Plug-in
Storage Policy
Based
Management
End
User
Compu2ng Private
Cloud
Automa2on
Automation | Ops | Orchestrator
PowerShell
SRM
SRA

51. • Real-Time Replication
• Integrated Backup and Restore
• Encryption at Rest
• Snapshots and Clones
• Consistency Group Snapshots
• VLAN tagging / Multi-tenant Networking
• SNMP Monitoring
• VAAI, VASA, VVOLs, SIOC, Horizon View, and vCenter Plug-In
• Simultaneous Multiprotocol Support (FC / iSCSI)
All Inclusive Feature Set

53. Today’s Legacy Enterprise Data Center
Legacy
SAN
Siloed
Applica,on
Storage
Tradi,onal
Compute
1Gb
FC
Flash

54. The Evolution Begins
Siloed
Applica,on
Storage
Tradi,onal
Compute
1Gb
FC
Legacy
SAN
Flash

55. The
Inflec,on
Point
High
Density
Compute
Legacy
SAN
Flash
Siloed
Applica,on
Storage

56. The
Next
Genera,on
Data
Center:
Phase
I
Legacy
SAN
Siloed
Applica,on
Storage

57. The
Next
Genera,on
Data
Center:
Phase
I

58. The Next Generation Data Center: Phase II
Site
A
Site
B
Mul,-­‐direc,onal
Replica,on

59. Next Generation Data Center: Phase III
Site
A
Site
B
Site
C
Cloud
Services

60. Next Generation Data Center: Phase IV
Site
X
Site
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Site
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Site
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Site
X
Site
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Site
X
Site
X
Site
X
Site
X

61. element
The Next Generation Data Center: Complete

62. Closing Thoughts
• Don’t be the apes. The bananas belong to
you, help each other go get them!
• Consolidation is the only way to increase
efficiency to any significant degree
• Architecture matters, but so does
integration

63. Thank You