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VMworld Europe 2014: Virtual SAN Best Practices and Use CasesVMworld
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on VMware Virtual SAN. It discusses key features of Virtual SAN including its software-defined storage approach and hybrid storage using SSD and HDD. Several use cases are reviewed like virtual desktop infrastructure, remote office/branch office, and DMZ/isolated environments. Best practices are also covered for various use cases around sizing, policies, and ready nodes. The document aims to introduce attendees to Virtual SAN capabilities and considerations for different deployment scenarios.
VMware: Enabling Software-Defined Storage Using Virtual SAN (Technical Decisi...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage solution that is built into vSphere and pools flash-based devices and magnetic disks from standard servers into a shared datastore. It delivers high performance, is highly resilient with zero data loss even during hardware failures, and provides a simplified storage management experience through storage policies applied at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and business critical applications through its scale, performance, integration with VMware technologies, and interoperability with solutions such as Horizon View, vSphere Replication, and OpenStack.
Virtual SAN allows storage to be managed through application-centric policies rather than static device-centric configurations. It abstracts and aggregates storage capacity into flexible VM-centric pools. Storage services are automated through policies that can be applied dynamically based on application needs for capacity, performance, and availability. Virtual SAN simplifies storage management by provisioning appropriate storage service levels for each VM from a single, self-tuning datastore.
VMworld 2014: Advanced SQL Server on vSphere Techniques and Best PracticesVMworld
This document provides an overview of advanced SQL Server techniques and best practices when running SQL Server in a virtualized environment on vSphere. It covers topics such as storage configuration including VMFS, block alignment, and I/O profiling. Networking techniques like jumbo frames and guest tuning are discussed. The document also reviews memory management and optimization, CPU sizing considerations, workload consolidation strategies, and high availability options for SQL Server on vSphere.
VMworld Europe 2014: Storage DRS - Deep Dive and Best PracticesVMworld
This document discusses new features in VMware vSphere 6.0 related to storage management and optimization. It introduces Storage DRS which helps balance storage resource utilization across datastores and hosts. New features like IO reservations allow minimum guaranteed performance levels for VMs. Storage DRS also integrates with storage array technologies like thin provisioning, deduplication, auto-tiering, and replication to improve storage efficiency and availability. The document provides best practices for deploying Storage DRS to maximize its benefits.
VMworld Europe 2014: Advanced SQL Server on vSphere Techniques and Best Pract...VMworld
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on virtualizing SQL Server workloads on VMware vSphere. The presentation will cover designing SQL Server virtual machines for performance in production environments, consolidating multiple SQL Server workloads, and ensuring SQL Server availability using vSphere features. It emphasizes understanding the workload, optimizing for storage and network performance, avoiding swapping, using large memory pages, and accounting for NUMA when configuring SQL Server virtual machines.
This document summarizes a 10-day training session on installing, configuring, and managing Dell PowerEdge blade server and VMware software. The training covers blade server components, installation and setup, storage configuration, iDRAC and CMC management, virtualization with VMware vSphere and vCenter, and installing Windows and Linux operating systems on virtual machines. The goal is to provide hands-on instruction on administering Dell blade server hardware and virtualization platforms.
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtualizing Databases Doing IT Right – The SequelVMworld
This document provides disclaimers and information about upcoming product features that may change. It states that any new features discussed are not commitments and are subject to change based on technical feasibility and market demand. Pricing and packaging for new technologies have not been determined. The document then introduces two speakers and their backgrounds working with databases and virtualization.
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtual SAN Best Practices and Use CasesVMworld
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on VMware Virtual SAN. It discusses key features of Virtual SAN including its software-defined storage approach and hybrid storage using SSD and HDD. Several use cases are reviewed like virtual desktop infrastructure, remote office/branch office, and DMZ/isolated environments. Best practices are also covered for various use cases around sizing, policies, and ready nodes. The document aims to introduce attendees to Virtual SAN capabilities and considerations for different deployment scenarios.
VMware: Enabling Software-Defined Storage Using Virtual SAN (Technical Decisi...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN is a software-defined storage solution that is built into vSphere and pools flash-based devices and magnetic disks from standard servers into a shared datastore. It delivers high performance, is highly resilient with zero data loss even during hardware failures, and provides a simplified storage management experience through storage policies applied at the virtual machine level. Virtual SAN supports a variety of use cases including virtual desktop infrastructure, test/development environments, and business critical applications through its scale, performance, integration with VMware technologies, and interoperability with solutions such as Horizon View, vSphere Replication, and OpenStack.
Virtual SAN allows storage to be managed through application-centric policies rather than static device-centric configurations. It abstracts and aggregates storage capacity into flexible VM-centric pools. Storage services are automated through policies that can be applied dynamically based on application needs for capacity, performance, and availability. Virtual SAN simplifies storage management by provisioning appropriate storage service levels for each VM from a single, self-tuning datastore.
VMworld 2014: Advanced SQL Server on vSphere Techniques and Best PracticesVMworld
This document provides an overview of advanced SQL Server techniques and best practices when running SQL Server in a virtualized environment on vSphere. It covers topics such as storage configuration including VMFS, block alignment, and I/O profiling. Networking techniques like jumbo frames and guest tuning are discussed. The document also reviews memory management and optimization, CPU sizing considerations, workload consolidation strategies, and high availability options for SQL Server on vSphere.
VMworld Europe 2014: Storage DRS - Deep Dive and Best PracticesVMworld
This document discusses new features in VMware vSphere 6.0 related to storage management and optimization. It introduces Storage DRS which helps balance storage resource utilization across datastores and hosts. New features like IO reservations allow minimum guaranteed performance levels for VMs. Storage DRS also integrates with storage array technologies like thin provisioning, deduplication, auto-tiering, and replication to improve storage efficiency and availability. The document provides best practices for deploying Storage DRS to maximize its benefits.
VMworld Europe 2014: Advanced SQL Server on vSphere Techniques and Best Pract...VMworld
This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on virtualizing SQL Server workloads on VMware vSphere. The presentation will cover designing SQL Server virtual machines for performance in production environments, consolidating multiple SQL Server workloads, and ensuring SQL Server availability using vSphere features. It emphasizes understanding the workload, optimizing for storage and network performance, avoiding swapping, using large memory pages, and accounting for NUMA when configuring SQL Server virtual machines.
This document summarizes a 10-day training session on installing, configuring, and managing Dell PowerEdge blade server and VMware software. The training covers blade server components, installation and setup, storage configuration, iDRAC and CMC management, virtualization with VMware vSphere and vCenter, and installing Windows and Linux operating systems on virtual machines. The goal is to provide hands-on instruction on administering Dell blade server hardware and virtualization platforms.
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtualizing Databases Doing IT Right – The SequelVMworld
This document provides disclaimers and information about upcoming product features that may change. It states that any new features discussed are not commitments and are subject to change based on technical feasibility and market demand. Pricing and packaging for new technologies have not been determined. The document then introduces two speakers and their backgrounds working with databases and virtualization.
24 Hours of PASS, Summit Preview Session: Virtual SQL Server CPUsDavid Klee
This document discusses virtual CPUs and CPU architecture. It begins by explaining how hypervisor resource queues work and how requests for CPU, memory, storage and networking are placed in queues. It then covers physical CPU architecture including cores, sockets, NUMA and memory locality. It discusses how virtual CPUs are scheduled by the hypervisor and ways to measure scheduling pressure. Finally, it provides recommendations for right-sizing virtual machines and balancing workloads to reduce scheduling delays.
VMworld 2013
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2015: Conducting a Successful Virtual SAN Proof of ConceptVMworld
In this session, Cormac Hogan and Julienne Pham of VMware take a comprehensive look at the setup, policy management, failure handling, and monitoring tools needed to perform a successful Proof of Concept. This session empowered attendees to go and implement their own VSAN POCs.
VMworld 2014: Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way!VMworld
Virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers can provide benefits like increased availability and scalability. However, there are some safety considerations to take into account, such as preventing "USN rollback" which occurs when a domain controller's state is reverted, like after restoring from a snapshot. New features in Windows Server 2012 and VMware vSphere help address this, such as the VM Generation ID which changes when the domain controller state is modified, triggering safety mechanisms to isolate changes. Proper configuration following best practices is important for successfully virtualizing Active Directory.
Varrow Q4 Lunch & Learn Presentation - Virtualizing Business Critical Applica...Andrew Miller
This document provides a summary of a presentation on virtualizing tier one applications. The presentation covered the top 10 myths about virtualizing business critical applications and provided best practices for virtualizing mission critical applications. It also discussed real world tools for monitoring virtualized environments like Confio IgniteVM and vCenter Operations. The presentation aimed to show that virtualizing tier one applications is possible and discussed strategies for virtualizing SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange environments.
The have no fear guide to virtualizing databasesSolarWinds
When it comes to a successful database virtualization journey, there are things you must know before you start. In this presentation you will:
-Review terms and concepts for VMware, by far the most common virtualization platform
-Examine how to use vSphere (the VMware admin console)
-Explore the differences between virtual and physical host metrics a
-Learn to overcome the shortcomings of virtualizing your database environment
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtual SAN Architecture Deep DiveVMworld
This document provides an overview of Virtual SAN (VSAN) including:
- VSAN aggregates local flash and HDDs across ESXi hosts into a shared datastore for VMs. It provides software-defined storage that is integrated with VMware's stack.
- VSAN's goals are to provide compelling TCO through reduced CAPEX/OPEX and be the software-defined storage for all VMware products through strong integration.
- The document discusses VSAN architecture, deployment, scaling, performance, resiliency, and management.
The document discusses trends in enterprise storage technologies. It notes that server virtualization is driving 40% annual growth in storage requirements, doubling storage infrastructure every two years. It outlines different types of storage technologies including DAS, NAS, SAN, and unified storage. It also discusses trends toward flash storage, caching techniques using SSDs and PCIe cards, and new storage architectures such as hyperconverged infrastructure and composable infrastructure.
VMworld Europe 2014: Customer Panel - Going Beyond Server VirtualizationVMworld
This document provides an overview of new VMware technologies for small and midsize businesses and outlines the agenda for the presentation, including:
1. Solutions beyond server virtualization
2. A customer panel discussing how they virtualized, automated, and connected their infrastructure
3. A question and answer session
4. Next steps
The presentation notes that 65 million servers worldwide are already virtualized and that VMware aims to simplify IT for small and midsize businesses through automating management, enabling connectivity and access from any device, and virtualizing servers and desktops.
Virtualizing Tier One Applications - VarrowAndrew Miller
This document provides best practices for virtualizing mission critical applications like Exchange and SQL Server. It discusses the top 10 myths about virtualizing business critical applications and provides the truths. It then discusses best practices for virtualizing Exchange, including starting simple, licensing, storage configuration, and high availability options. For SQL Server, it covers starting simple, licensing, storage configuration, migrating, and database best practices. It also discusses tools that can be used for database performance analysis when virtualized like Confio IgniteVM and vCenter Operations.
VMworld 2013: Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices to Suit Your Storage ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sachin Manpathak, VMware
Mustafa Uysal, VMware
Sunil Muralidhar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
This document summarizes an event hosted by Assyrus Srl about the evolution of enterprise storage. It discusses VMware Virtual SAN, a hyperconverged storage solution that aggregates locally attached storage from ESXi hosts. It also covers Microsoft Storage Spaces, which allows storage to be created from various types of internal and attached disks. The document provides examples of how Dell has implemented and supported both Virtual SAN and Storage Spaces on its PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage enclosures to provide hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
VMworld Europe 2014: A Blueprint for Disaster Recovery of Business Critical A...VMworld
This presentation discussed disaster recovery solutions for business critical applications using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). SRM supports various replication technologies including vSphere Replication, array-based replication, and application-consistent replication options like Oracle Data Guard. SRM automates the failover and failback of virtual machines in protection groups between sites using recovery plans. A demo showed configuring an SAP environment for disaster recovery with SRM and vSphere Replication, including performing a test failover recovery. Another section demonstrated using SRM for a planned migration of VMs from an on-premises data center to a cloud provider.
This is a ppt from Open Source Bridge that Thomas used for his session. This basically educates on why redundant power and back up power is so critical, and why you should always back up your info.
This document discusses handling massive writes for online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. It begins with an introduction and overview of the topics to be covered, including terminology, differences between massive reads versus writes, and potential solutions using relational databases, NoSQL databases, and code optimizations. Specific solutions discussed for massive writes include using memory, fast disks, caching, column-oriented databases, SQL tuning, database partitioning, reading from slaves, and sharding or splitting data across multiple databases. The document provides pros and cons of each approach and examples of performance improvements observed.
Virtual SAN 5.5 provides a technical deep dive into VMware's Virtual SAN software-defined storage technology. Key points include:
- Virtual SAN runs on standard x86 servers and provides a policy-based management framework and high performance flash architecture.
- It delivers scale of up to 32 hosts, 3,200 VMs, 4.4 petabytes, and 2 million IOPS.
- Virtual SAN is integrated with VMware technologies like vMotion, vSphere HA, and vSphere replication and simplifies storage management.
- It offers flexible configurations, granular scaling, and reduces both capital and operating expenses for improved total cost of ownership.
Windows Server 2012 Deep-Dive - EPC GroupEPC Group
Windows Server 2012 provides enterprise-class features on less expensive hardware. It delivers increased performance and scale through capabilities like Storage Spaces, SMB Direct, and failover clustering. It also offers continuous application availability, simplified manageability, and an improved hybrid cloud experience. [/SUMMARY]
VMworld 2013: Lowering TCO for Virtual Desktops with VMware View and VMware V...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Jad Chamcham, VMware
Narasimha Krishnakumar, VMware, view, vsan, tco
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Red Hat Ceph Storage Acceleration Utilizing Flash Technology Red_Hat_Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage can utilize flash technology to accelerate applications in three ways: 1) use all flash storage for highest performance, 2) use a hybrid configuration with performance critical data on flash tier and colder data on HDD tier, or 3) utilize host caching of critical data on flash. Benchmark results showed that using NVMe SSDs in Ceph provided much higher performance than SATA SSDs, with speed increases of up to 8x for some workloads. However, testing also showed that Ceph may not be well-suited for OLTP MySQL workloads due to small random reads/writes, as local SSD storage outperformed the Ceph cluster. Proper Linux tuning is also needed to maximize SSD performance within
24 Hours of PASS, Summit Preview Session: Virtual SQL Server CPUsDavid Klee
This document discusses virtual CPUs and CPU architecture. It begins by explaining how hypervisor resource queues work and how requests for CPU, memory, storage and networking are placed in queues. It then covers physical CPU architecture including cores, sockets, NUMA and memory locality. It discusses how virtual CPUs are scheduled by the hypervisor and ways to measure scheduling pressure. Finally, it provides recommendations for right-sizing virtual machines and balancing workloads to reduce scheduling delays.
VMworld 2013
Christos Karamanolis, VMware
Kiran Madnani, VMware
James Streit, Thomson Reuters
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2015: Conducting a Successful Virtual SAN Proof of ConceptVMworld
In this session, Cormac Hogan and Julienne Pham of VMware take a comprehensive look at the setup, policy management, failure handling, and monitoring tools needed to perform a successful Proof of Concept. This session empowered attendees to go and implement their own VSAN POCs.
VMworld 2014: Virtualize Active Directory, the Right Way!VMworld
Virtualizing Active Directory domain controllers can provide benefits like increased availability and scalability. However, there are some safety considerations to take into account, such as preventing "USN rollback" which occurs when a domain controller's state is reverted, like after restoring from a snapshot. New features in Windows Server 2012 and VMware vSphere help address this, such as the VM Generation ID which changes when the domain controller state is modified, triggering safety mechanisms to isolate changes. Proper configuration following best practices is important for successfully virtualizing Active Directory.
Varrow Q4 Lunch & Learn Presentation - Virtualizing Business Critical Applica...Andrew Miller
This document provides a summary of a presentation on virtualizing tier one applications. The presentation covered the top 10 myths about virtualizing business critical applications and provided best practices for virtualizing mission critical applications. It also discussed real world tools for monitoring virtualized environments like Confio IgniteVM and vCenter Operations. The presentation aimed to show that virtualizing tier one applications is possible and discussed strategies for virtualizing SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange environments.
The have no fear guide to virtualizing databasesSolarWinds
When it comes to a successful database virtualization journey, there are things you must know before you start. In this presentation you will:
-Review terms and concepts for VMware, by far the most common virtualization platform
-Examine how to use vSphere (the VMware admin console)
-Explore the differences between virtual and physical host metrics a
-Learn to overcome the shortcomings of virtualizing your database environment
VMworld Europe 2014: Virtual SAN Architecture Deep DiveVMworld
This document provides an overview of Virtual SAN (VSAN) including:
- VSAN aggregates local flash and HDDs across ESXi hosts into a shared datastore for VMs. It provides software-defined storage that is integrated with VMware's stack.
- VSAN's goals are to provide compelling TCO through reduced CAPEX/OPEX and be the software-defined storage for all VMware products through strong integration.
- The document discusses VSAN architecture, deployment, scaling, performance, resiliency, and management.
The document discusses trends in enterprise storage technologies. It notes that server virtualization is driving 40% annual growth in storage requirements, doubling storage infrastructure every two years. It outlines different types of storage technologies including DAS, NAS, SAN, and unified storage. It also discusses trends toward flash storage, caching techniques using SSDs and PCIe cards, and new storage architectures such as hyperconverged infrastructure and composable infrastructure.
VMworld Europe 2014: Customer Panel - Going Beyond Server VirtualizationVMworld
This document provides an overview of new VMware technologies for small and midsize businesses and outlines the agenda for the presentation, including:
1. Solutions beyond server virtualization
2. A customer panel discussing how they virtualized, automated, and connected their infrastructure
3. A question and answer session
4. Next steps
The presentation notes that 65 million servers worldwide are already virtualized and that VMware aims to simplify IT for small and midsize businesses through automating management, enabling connectivity and access from any device, and virtualizing servers and desktops.
Virtualizing Tier One Applications - VarrowAndrew Miller
This document provides best practices for virtualizing mission critical applications like Exchange and SQL Server. It discusses the top 10 myths about virtualizing business critical applications and provides the truths. It then discusses best practices for virtualizing Exchange, including starting simple, licensing, storage configuration, and high availability options. For SQL Server, it covers starting simple, licensing, storage configuration, migrating, and database best practices. It also discusses tools that can be used for database performance analysis when virtualized like Confio IgniteVM and vCenter Operations.
VMworld 2013: Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices to Suit Your Storage ...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Sachin Manpathak, VMware
Mustafa Uysal, VMware
Sunil Muralidhar, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
This document summarizes an event hosted by Assyrus Srl about the evolution of enterprise storage. It discusses VMware Virtual SAN, a hyperconverged storage solution that aggregates locally attached storage from ESXi hosts. It also covers Microsoft Storage Spaces, which allows storage to be created from various types of internal and attached disks. The document provides examples of how Dell has implemented and supported both Virtual SAN and Storage Spaces on its PowerEdge servers and PowerVault storage enclosures to provide hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
VMworld Europe 2014: A Blueprint for Disaster Recovery of Business Critical A...VMworld
This presentation discussed disaster recovery solutions for business critical applications using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). SRM supports various replication technologies including vSphere Replication, array-based replication, and application-consistent replication options like Oracle Data Guard. SRM automates the failover and failback of virtual machines in protection groups between sites using recovery plans. A demo showed configuring an SAP environment for disaster recovery with SRM and vSphere Replication, including performing a test failover recovery. Another section demonstrated using SRM for a planned migration of VMs from an on-premises data center to a cloud provider.
This is a ppt from Open Source Bridge that Thomas used for his session. This basically educates on why redundant power and back up power is so critical, and why you should always back up your info.
This document discusses handling massive writes for online transaction processing (OLTP) systems. It begins with an introduction and overview of the topics to be covered, including terminology, differences between massive reads versus writes, and potential solutions using relational databases, NoSQL databases, and code optimizations. Specific solutions discussed for massive writes include using memory, fast disks, caching, column-oriented databases, SQL tuning, database partitioning, reading from slaves, and sharding or splitting data across multiple databases. The document provides pros and cons of each approach and examples of performance improvements observed.
Virtual SAN 5.5 provides a technical deep dive into VMware's Virtual SAN software-defined storage technology. Key points include:
- Virtual SAN runs on standard x86 servers and provides a policy-based management framework and high performance flash architecture.
- It delivers scale of up to 32 hosts, 3,200 VMs, 4.4 petabytes, and 2 million IOPS.
- Virtual SAN is integrated with VMware technologies like vMotion, vSphere HA, and vSphere replication and simplifies storage management.
- It offers flexible configurations, granular scaling, and reduces both capital and operating expenses for improved total cost of ownership.
Windows Server 2012 Deep-Dive - EPC GroupEPC Group
Windows Server 2012 provides enterprise-class features on less expensive hardware. It delivers increased performance and scale through capabilities like Storage Spaces, SMB Direct, and failover clustering. It also offers continuous application availability, simplified manageability, and an improved hybrid cloud experience. [/SUMMARY]
VMworld 2013: Lowering TCO for Virtual Desktops with VMware View and VMware V...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Jad Chamcham, VMware
Narasimha Krishnakumar, VMware, view, vsan, tco
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Red Hat Ceph Storage Acceleration Utilizing Flash Technology Red_Hat_Storage
Red Hat Ceph Storage can utilize flash technology to accelerate applications in three ways: 1) use all flash storage for highest performance, 2) use a hybrid configuration with performance critical data on flash tier and colder data on HDD tier, or 3) utilize host caching of critical data on flash. Benchmark results showed that using NVMe SSDs in Ceph provided much higher performance than SATA SSDs, with speed increases of up to 8x for some workloads. However, testing also showed that Ceph may not be well-suited for OLTP MySQL workloads due to small random reads/writes, as local SSD storage outperformed the Ceph cluster. Proper Linux tuning is also needed to maximize SSD performance within
Accelerate Your Migration to "Application-Centric" Storage-as-a-Service from ...VMware
This document summarizes a presentation by VMware and IndonesianCloud about accelerating migration to storage-as-a-service using VMware vCloud and Virtual SAN. It discusses IndonesianCloud's past issues with a traditional storage platform and how Virtual SAN addressed their needs for cost efficiency, operational simplicity, reliability, and scalability. Specifically, Virtual SAN allowed them to match competitors' storage prices, simplify operations through policy-based management and per-VM services, improve reliability through a scale-out design that accommodates failures, and easily scale capacity and performance by adding servers. IndonesianCloud deployed a Virtual SAN platform using SuperMicro servers with SSDs and HDDs to provide storage as a service.
Virtual SAN (VSAN) is a hypervisor-converged storage solution from VMware that radically simplifies storage. It pools server-attached flash, SSD, and HDD storage and manages it through storage policies from the vSphere client. VSAN is integrated with vSphere and provides high performance, resilience against hardware failures, and linear scalability. It can reduce both capital and operating expenses compared to traditional external storage arrays.
This document provides an overview of VMware Virtual SAN 6.0, including:
- Virtual SAN can be deployed with a hybrid or all-flash architecture to provide high performance.
- Virtual SAN is embedded in the vSphere kernel for simple management and integration.
- Virtual SAN 6.0 provides 4x performance, 2x scale, and new features like snapshots and encryption.
- Case studies show Virtual SAN can reduce storage costs by 60% and management time by 90%.
NexentaStor is enterprise-class unified storage software that runs on standard hardware, providing block and file storage capabilities. It offers superior storage management functionality focused on virtualized environments at 70-80% cost savings compared to proprietary storage. NexentaStor provides features such as unlimited file sizes, snapshots, replication, and end-to-end data integrity.
In this webinar join experts from Storage Switzerland and Tegile to discover if the All-Flash Data Center can become reality. We will explore the return on investment that All-Flash systems can deliver, like increase user and virtual machine densities, lower drive counts and simpler storage architectures. We will also look at some of the methods that All-Flash systems employ to deliver an acceptable cost per GB like thin provisioning, clones, deduplication and compression. Finally we will take one last look at disk, does it have a role in the All-Flash Data Center and if it does what should that role be?
Ceph Day San Jose - Red Hat Storage Acceleration Utlizing Flash TechnologyCeph Community
The document discusses three ways to accelerate application performance with flash storage using Ceph software defined storage: 1) utilizing all flash storage to maximize performance, 2) using a hybrid configuration with flash and HDDs to balance performance and capacity, and 3) using all HDD storage for maximum capacity but lowest performance. It also examines using NVMe SSDs versus SATA SSDs, and how to optimize Linux settings and Ceph configuration to improve flash performance for applications.
Webinar: Overcoming the Storage Challenges Cassandra and Couchbase CreateStorage Switzerland
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. But this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. Storage in the broad sense. In-memory databases perform well when there is enough memory available. However, when data sets get too large and they need to access storage, application performance degrades dramatically. Moreover, even if enough memory is available, persistent client requests can bring the servers to their knees.
Join Storage Switzerland and Plexistor where you will learn:
1. What is Cassandra and Couchbase?
2. Why organizations are adopting them?
3. What are the storage challenges they create?
4. How organizations attempt to workaround these challenges.
5. How to design a solution to these challenges instead of a workaround.
- The document introduces an innovative solution called centralized storage caching to close the growing performance gap between servers and disk-based storage.
- The solution involves using a scalable caching appliance to keep frequently accessed data in a large central memory pool for fast access without disk operations.
- This centralized caching approach is said to dramatically improve data throughput and access times while complementing existing storage infrastructure.
Revolutionary Storage for Modern Databases, Applications and Infrastrcturesabnees
Sanjay Sabnis presented on next generation storage solutions for modern big data applications. He discussed how NVMe storage provides significantly higher performance than SATA, with speeds over 6x faster for reads and over 40x faster for writes. Pavilion Data offers an all-NVMe rack scale storage array that provides 120GB/s of throughput with DAS-level latency. This solution can meet the performance and scalability demands of big data workloads like MongoDB, Splunk, and containerized applications.
VMworld 2014: Databases in a Virtualized WorldViolin Memory
Application sprawl, server sprawl and a world of different databases presents a challenge to any modern database administrator. In this presentation you will learn how a modern architecture model can help you improve performance and cut costs.
The document discusses Oracle's Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance. It aims to fundamentally change how databases are protected by pushing database changes in real-time instead of periodic backups. This minimizes impact on production databases and ensures zero data loss. It stores database changes efficiently on disk and can restore databases to any point in time using these deltas. It also creates space-efficient "virtual" full backups without requiring full backups. This enables long retention of backup history with minimal storage.
This document summarizes Parallels Cloud Server (PCS), a cloud infrastructure solution that provides high availability and scalable storage at low cost. PCS uses existing server hardware to deliver cloud storage that is cost-effective, high performance, hot-pluggable, failure tolerant, and elastic. It allows storage to grow on demand without idle resources. The solution includes metadata and chunk servers that store and manage data across nodes. A new WHMCS module also makes it easy for resellers to provision and manage PCS from their WHMCS control panel. PCS maximizes profits by delivering cloud services from underutilized storage resources with high density virtual machines and containers at the lowest possible cost.
Big Data LDN 2016: Kick Start your Big Data project with Hyperconverged Infra...Matt Stubbs
This document discusses how hyperconverged infrastructure from Nutanix can help kick start big data projects. It provides an overview of Nutanix's capabilities including its web-scale design principles, use of open source technologies like Cassandra and Zookeeper, ability to provide local flash storage, data locality, automatic disk balancing, snapshots, compression and erasure coding. It also discusses how Nutanix can help simplify management and provide analytics. Specific big data workloads that can benefit including Hadoop, NoSQL, Splunk and databases are also covered.
Presentation architecting a cloud infrastructuresolarisyourep
This document provides an agenda and overview for a session on architecting a cloud infrastructure. The agenda includes introductions, gathering requirements, sizing and scaling, host design, vCenter design, cluster design, networking and storage considerations. It emphasizes the importance of gathering requirements from customers and conceptualizing the design based on those requirements. It also discusses various design considerations and best practices for each component of a cloud infrastructure.
Presentation architecting a cloud infrastructurexKinAnx
This document provides an agenda and overview for a session on architecting a cloud infrastructure. The agenda includes introductions, gathering requirements, sizing and scaling, host design, vCenter design, cluster design, networking and storage considerations. It emphasizes the importance of gathering requirements from customers and conceptualizing the design based on those requirements. It also discusses various design considerations and best practices for each component of a cloud infrastructure.
Accelerate Your Sales with Application-Centric Storage-as-a-Service Using VMw...VMware
VMware Virtual SAN 6.0 provides major enhancements including 4x higher performance, 2x greater scale, and new enterprise data services. It allows for up to 90,000 IOPS per host, scaling to 64 nodes with 200 VMs per host and 62TB maximum virtual disk sizes. Virtual SAN 6.0 also delivers high performance snapshots and clones, rack awareness, and hardware-based checksum and encryption. It provides broader hardware support including expanded support for blades. Virtual SAN 6.0 is ready to support business critical applications with an all-flash architecture providing data persistence on SSD and intelligent caching.
PeaSoup, a VMware vCloud Air Network partner, adopted Virtual SAN to address challenges with traditional storage including
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Next Generation Software-Defined Storage
1. Announcing SvSAN 6
Next Generation Software-Defined Storage
Unprecedented Flexibility, Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT
John Glendenning – SVP Sales & Marketing
Luke Pruen – Technical Services Director
4. 4
SvSAN: No More Physical SAN
Costly & Complex
Single point of failure
Affordable & Simple
Highly available
5. SvSAN: How it works and what you get
Key benefits are:
• Lowering costs by eliminating physical SANs
and deploy on only 2 servers whilst not
compromising performance.
• Improved management and support though
rapid deployment and centralized
management.
• High availability out-of the box whilst
eliminating a physical SAN single point of
failure.
SvSAN turns the internal/direct attached disk of 2 servers
into highly available shared storage
6. SvSAN 6: The Perfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges
6
StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility,
Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT
Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Always meet your
application demands
I/O Performance statistics
Crucial I/O statistics now at your finger-tips to better
understand your workloads.
Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade
Deploy and upgrade multiple VSAs through a single
wizard and Out-of-the-box Experience
PowerShell Auto-script generation
Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically
generate a custom PowerShell script.
SSD Read/Write caching
Enable hybrid storage configurations combining the performance
of SDDs with the capacity of HDDs.
Memory-based read caching
Blazing fast for most common reads. Modes: most
frequently used, read ahead and data pinning.
Intelligent auto-tiering
Data dynamically moved between storage tiers depending on
frequency of access.
7. SvSAN 6: The Perfect Antidote to Solving Your IT Challenges
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StorMagic SvSAN 6 delivers unprecedented Flexibility,
Efficiency and Performance to modernize your IT
Automatically tier the ideal
balance of disk, flash and
memory
Tune for raw performance,
high capacity and the
smallest footprint
Configure for today’s needs
and easily adapt for future
demands
Leverage advanced storage
auto-tiering to configure the
lightest server and storage
footprint
Reduce CAPEX and OPEX
through a smaller footprint,
lower MTBF and centralized
management
Reduce space, power and
cooling to contribute to your
green credentials
Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Always meet your
application demands
Configure for Increased IOPS
and reduced latency to meet
the SLAs for performance
sensitive applications
Remove dependency on
costly and complex storage
arrays
Protect your mission critical
services with out-of-the-box
high availability
8. SvSAN 6: Standard & Advanced Editions
Synchronous Mirroring/High Availability ✔
Stretched/Metro Cluster Support ✔
Volume Migration ✔
VSA Restore
1
✔
VMware vSphere Storage API (VAAI) Support ✔
Centralized management and monitoring ✔
Remote shared quorum ✔
I/O performance statistics ✔
Multiple VSA GUI deployment & upgrade ✔
PowerShell Shell script generation ✔
SSD Caching -
Memory-based caching - most frequently used mode -
Memory-based caching - read ahead mode -
Memory-based caching - data pinning mode -
Intelligent automated tiering -
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
✔
1 Vmware vSphere only
Increased Capacity
• 2TB
• 6TB (increased from 4TB)
• 12TB (increased from 8TB)
• Unlimited TB (increased from 16TB)
Availability
• General Availability - Calendar Q3
• Tech Preview available soon
Promotion
• Announced at the end of the webinar
12. SvSAN: Meeting and Exceeding Customer Expectations
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“Our old storage platform was a poor fit, troubling us with low performance and
reliability issues - so we chose SvSAN. We're happy with SvSAN and will be
deploying SvSAN in other projects.”
Will Turner
Merit Network
“Previously we had a Dell Physical SAN but when our support ran out we looked
at other options. We looked at other virtual SAN solutions, but unlike the others
StorMagic SvSAN ticked all our boxes: low support cost, low outlay cost and
reliability. We’re very happy with StorMagic SvSAN and are now looking at
deployment into our other offices.”
Barry Nelson, I.T. Manager
Adam Equipment Company
“We were looking to modernize our IT infrastructure, but with a small IT budget
to invest in new solutions. We needed a solution that worked within our existing
VMware environment and provided highly available storage.
StorMagic SvSAN eliminated single points of failure and displayed good
performance.”
Jan Valenta, Network Administrator
Technické služby města Mostu a.s.
13. SvSAN 6: The Perfect Storm
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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Intel Xeon Cores
2-16
(Hyper-threaded)
Intel Xeon Cores
2-24
(Hyper-threaded)
Intel Xeon Cores
2-24
(Hyper-threaded)
Intel Xeon Cores
2-30
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
99c
SSD price per GB
68c
SSD price per GB
55c
SSD price per GB
39c
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon
Computerworld article (http://bit.ly/1RqPSeS)
SvSAN Workloads
1-16
SvSAN Workloads
1-24
SvSAN Workloads
1-24
SvSAN Workloads
1-30
Max HD capacity
3TB
Max HD capacity
5TB
Max HD capacity
8TB
Max HD capacity
10TB
Intel Xeon Cores
2-44
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
24c
SvSAN Workloads
1-44
Max HD capacity
16TB
14. SvSANSvSAN 6 Standard
SvSAN 6: More for less and widening the reach
14
SvSAN 6 Advanced
Intel Xeon Cores
2-44
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
24c
SvSAN Workloads
1-44
Max HD capacity
16TB
Performance & Capacity
Cost
Quantity of
VMs
Cost of 2 Server
SvSAN Solution
$5000
$10,000
$15,000
$20,000
5 10 20 40
15. SvSAN 6: More from less
15
Intel Xeon Cores
2-44
(Hyper-threaded)
SSD price per GB
24c
SvSAN Workloads
1-44
Max HD capacity
16TB
16. SvSAN 6: What’s under the covers?
16
Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Designed for the most
demanding applications
The design principle:
• Leveraging all available storage types
• Designed for virtualization and optimize read/write where it counts
• Based on data from real-world customer environments
• Deliver improved management through extended automation
What you can expect:
• Lower cost servers and storage to save CAPEX
• Lower operating costs to save OPEX
• Smaller footprint with lower power consumption to save OPEX lower CF
• Higher performance for most demanding applications
17. SvSAN 6: All storage is not equal
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Magnetic drives provide poor random performance
• SATA 7.2k rpm 75 – 100 IOPS
• SAS 10k/15k rpm 140 – 210 IOPS
• Lower cost per GB
• Higher cost per IOPS
• Flash and SSDs have good random performance
• SSD/Flash 8.6K to 10 millions IOPS
• Lower cost per IOPS
• High cost per GB compared to magnetic
• Memory has even better performance
• Orders of magnitude faster than Flash/SSD
• Much higher cost per GB compared to SSD/Flash
• Memory is volatile and typical low in capacity
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAM_drive
18. SvSAN 6: The importance of caching
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Virtualized environments suffer from the ‘I/O blender’ effect
• Multiple Virtual Machines sharing a set of disks
• Resulting in predominantly random I/O
• Magnetic drives provide poor random performance
• SSD & Flash storage ideal for workloads but expensive
Working sets of data
• Driven by workloads which are ever changing
• Refers to the amount of data most frequently accessed
• Always related to a time period
• Working sets sizes evolve as workloads change
Caching
• Combat the I/O blender effect without the expense of all Flash or SSD
• Working sets of data can be identified and elevated to cache
19. SvSAN 6: SSD/Flash caching
SSD/Flash Caching
• Significantly Improves overall I/O performance
• Reduces the number of I/Os going directly to disk
• Dynamic cache sizing read/write ratio
Writes operations
• Data is written as variable sized extents
• Extents are merged and coalesced in the background
• Data in cache is flushed to hard disk regularly in small bursts
Read operations
• SvSAN algorithm identifies and promotes data, based on access patterns
• Frequently accessed data blocks are elevated on SSD/Flash
• Least frequently access blocks are aged out
20. SvSAN 6: Memory based caching
Modern servers now have vast amounts of memory
• Additional memory can be used to dramatically improve
storage performance
• Frequently read data is cached in memory
• Read operations are served from memory without ever
accessing a disk drive
Read-ahead mode
• Detects sequential read streams to allow read ahead
• i.e. when this block is read it is highly likely adjacent
blocks will be read
• Enable for targeted workloads
Read Operation
Data Blocks
Data read
from disk
Data pre-fetched
from disk
…
Data not yet requested
Sequential data access
pattern identified
20
Most frequently used mode (default)
• SvSAN algorithm identifies and stores data based on
access patterns
• Frequently accessed data blocks are stored in memory
• Default mode benefits all workloads
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
VM Count)
Boottime(seconds)
Time to Boot VSAs (machines booting simultaneously)
No caching (max)
No caching (avg)
Read data pinned (avg)
Data pinning mode
• Enter learning to create identical access pattern
• Delivers most efficient read performance
• Enable for targeted workloads
21. SvSAN 6: Intelligent automated read caching & tiering
Intelligent read caching algorithm
• All read I/Os are monitored and analyzed
• Most frequently used data – “Hot” data
• Cache tiers are populated based on access frequency
Tiering
• RAM: Most frequently accessed data
• SSD/Flash: Next most frequently accessed data
• HDD: Infrequently accessed data – “Cold” data
Sizing
• Assign cache sizes to meet requirements
• Grow caches as working sets change
• Use any combination of Memory, SSD/Flash and Disk
Play to the strengths
• Play to the strengths of all mediums
• Memory Highest IOPS
• SSD/Flash Magnetic drives providing low price per GB
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22. SvSAN 6: Management
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Multiple VSA GUI deployment
̶ Deploy multiple VSAs through a single wizard
̶ Incremental naming and IP addressing
Automatic PowerShell Shell script generation
̶ Deploy VSAs through a GUI and automatically generate a custom
PowerShell script
̶ Script variables clearly marked to enable easy editing
̶ Scale custom scripts for mass deployments
VSA OOBE (Out-of-box Experience)
̶ Stage VSA deployments on hardware
̶ Configure VSAs when installed onsite
̶ Configure through GUI or scripting
Upgrade multiple VSAs through GUI
- Use a repository for VSA firmware's
- Select multiple VSAs through the StorMagic dashboard for upgrading
- Upgrade VSAs immediately or stage firmware for overnight upgrade
- StorMagic handles VSA health check to not impact environment
23. SvSAN 6: Built on real-world customer data
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Throughput I/Os
Total per day 1TB ~45 Million
Read per day 733GB ~28 Million
Write per day 261GB ~17 Million
Average 12 MB/s 515 per second
Read/Write Ratio 67/33 61/39
0
2,000,000
4,000,000
6,000,000
8,000,000
10,000,000
12,000,000
14,000,000
16,000,000
18,000,000
Block Size Distribution
Write
Read
Count
Block Size
• Example customer daily I/O profile
• Example I/O characteristics:
̶ 1 TB read per day
̶ 200-300 GB written per day
̶ Average read IOPS around 800
̶ Average write IOPS around 200
̶ Occasional peak IOPS up to 3 – 4000
̶ Average read size ~24 KB
̶ Average write size ~27 KB
24. SvSAN 6: Customer data analysis
Real life data
• Real customer data collected and analysed
• Exact data patterns simulated and replayed
• Accurate expectations of caching/tiering
Results
• Average customer would significantly benefit from caching/tiering
• Example customer would greatly benefit from 8GB Memory &
250GB SSD/Flash
• Could see as high as 70% of I/O being satisfied from read cache,
100% from write cache
Benefits
• Lower cost servers, with a small number of large capacity HDDs
• Smaller rack unit servers
• Less disks required to meet capacity and performance
• Less disks mean a significant reduction in Mean Time Between
Failures (MTBF)
25. SvSAN 6: Existing Customer and External Array Comparison
Estimated CAPEX and power
savings over 5 years
1000 sites
$9.2m
2 x Commodity Servers
with SvSAN 6 Advanced
2 x Commodity
Servers with
External Arrays
Storage - 1 x SSD
- 4 x SATA
15 x SAS
Power Saving
on total system
1,176W 1,628W
Capital Saving
per site
$6,836 -
2 x Commodity Servers
with SvSAN 6 Advanced
Commodity Servers
with SvSAN 5.3
Storage - 1 x SSD
- 4 x SATA
12 x SAS
Power Saving
on disk
74W 224W
Capital Saving
per site
$2,546 -
External ArraySvSAN 5.x Customer
Estimated CAPEX and power
savings over 5 years
1000 sites
$4.1m
26. SvSAN 6: Built on Customer Data and a Proven Platform
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Flexibility
Any storage in any server on
vSphere or Hyper-V
Efficiency
Save time, money and reduce
your carbon footprint
Performance
Designed for the most
demanding applications
Proven Platform:
• Deployed globally in 72 countries
• Only company singularly focused on a 2 server solution
• Only 2 server solution with all storage tiers supported
Built on real customer data
• Not in the lab!
• Benefit immediately whatever the workload
Perfect Storm:
• Continued increase in Intel processor density
• HD Capacity is going through the roof
• Flash prices are dropping through the floor
27. 27
SvSAN 6 Promotion
Free upgrade to SvSAN 6 Advanced
Offer open to all SvSAN 5.3 Orders
Orders placed from 1st May to 31st August 2016 *
Contact us today – sales@stormagic.com
* Upgrade to be redeemed by 31st December 2016
28. 28
Q&A and Next Steps
Learn more
Trial SvSAN
Buy SvSAN Now
Product Options
SvSAN license 2, 4, 8, 16, unlimited TBs
License entitlement 2 mirrored servers
Maintenance and support Platinum - 24x7 / Gold - 9x5
Contact StorMagic
sales@stormagic.com
http://www.stormagic.com/contact/
SvSAN 6 - http://stormagic.com/svsan-v6-launch/
Videos - http://stormagic.com/resources-page/rescources-videos/
http://www.stormagic.com/trial/
SvSAN 6 White Paper - http://stormagic.com/svsan-6/
Resources - http://stormagic.com/resources/
Editor's Notes
Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity
Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure.
Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime
IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability.
Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance
Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter.
Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time
Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality.
Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management
ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
Slide objective:
Deliver a crystal clear message of the value of SvSAN vs a physical SAN as a simple summary after the Dave and Larry video or on its own if the video is not shown.
Link statement:
“I trust the message from the video is clearly understood. In summary, a Physical SAN is costly, complex and a single point of failure; whereas SvSAN is affordable, simple and highly available.”.
Key messages to deliver:
A physical SAN adds a 3rd piece of highly complex and costly infrastructure to the deployment.
By leveraging the internal disk of a server SvSAN delivers a more affordable, simple and highly available solution.
Built from the ground up for lean IT spaces.
Challenge #1 –Reducing cost and complexity
Multi-site enterprises and SME organizations need to keep the IT infrastructure footprint to a minimum with lower storage capacity requirements making the option of external SAN overkill adding unnecessary cost, complexity and a single point of failure.
Challenge #2 –Ensuring application uptime
IT equipment failures lead to application downtime, resulting in loss of revenue, staff productivity and customer service impacting profit and customer satisfaction. Enterprises with ROBO environments will often compromise uptime due to the perceived high cost and complexity of high availability.
Challenge #3 –Delivering application performance
Poor performance associated with accessing data over a high latency, low bandwidth network link could lead to unacceptable processing delays, contributing to a poor customer experience. Traditional applications in verticals such as retail, manufacturing and healthcare are now being joined by the a new breed of IoT applications at the edge of the network where significant processing of data is required away from the datacenter.
Challenge #4 –Minimize deployment time
Reducing the time to deploy an IT solution is an important factor for ROBO environments. Implementation time is directly related to number of sites, solution complexity & site locality.
Challenge #5 –Simplifying and centralizing management
ROBOs lack local skilled IT staff, with organizations preferring to centralize this function at head office or the data center. Maintaining IT infrastructure at remote sites becomes increasingly challenging and impacts the ability to scale and recover from outages.
Storage link aggregation – Team multiple network links to aggregate network bandwidth for SvSAN mirror traffic
vCenter Dashboard – centalized monitoring
vCenter event forwarding – centralized monitoring
Microsoft System Center Operation Manager Management Pack – Centralized monitoring
Cisco UCS Director integration – Centralized management
Heterogeneous storage – the ability to use any storage type
Monitoring options – SNMP & SMTP (email) events – Centralized management
Working sets are driven by the workload, the applications driving the workload, and the VMs that they run on. Whether the persistent storage is local, shared, or distributed, it really doesn’t matter from the perspective of how the VMs see it. The size will be largely the same.
Working sets are always relate to a time period. However, it’s a continuum. And there will be cycles in the data activity over time.
Working set will comprise of reads and writes. The amount of each is important to know because reads and writes have different characteristics, and demand different things from your storage system.
Working set size refers to an amount, or capacity, but what and how many I/Os it took to make up that capacity will vary due to ever changing block sizes.
Working set sizes evolve as workloads change.
I/Os
27,887,207 Read
16,732,160 Write
44,619,367 Total
Current
300GB 15k SAS $579 (652611-B21) Total $8,106
New
SSD $1,439 (816909-B21) Total $1,439
2TB 7.2k $1,059 (765455-B21) Total $4,236
Total old drives $8,106
Total new drives $5,675
Total saving per server $2,431
Total saving per site (2 servers) $4,862
Total sites saving $10,696,400