achieving efficiencies through software-defined storage
DESCRIPTION
Software-defined storage can help address storage growth in budget-challenged environments. This provides an overview of software-defined storage and Dell's strategy to address these storage business challenges—from hypervisor-based and open-source offers, to self-service provisioning and orchestration of traditional storage. More atTRANSCRIPT
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Achieving efficiencies through software-defined storage (SDS)
Session MT8
Dell World 2014
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Storage industry trends
Budget constraints continue
Growth in unstructured data
Technology dramatically
changing traditional
storage architectures
Seeking to build upon virtualization for
incremental efficiency
Need to leverage data to make better business
decisions
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The Optimized Enterprise, future-ready IT
Key enablers
• Service oriented infrastructure and workload automation
• Flexible modular platforms
•Enable service-centric IT
• Increase business agility
Key benefits
Optimized enterprise; future-ready IT
Servers
Storage
Storage
Networking
Servers
Software-defined infrastructure
The Software-defined Enterprise
Networking
Best-of-breed systems
System of systems
Fully integrated & software-driven
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SDS is an emerging paradigm
Storage software
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SAN solution
Decouples the basic elements of a storage system Traditional / physical
Multiple implementations
Hyper-converged
Software-only Virtual appliance
Physical appliance
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SDS is an emerging paradigm
Decouples the basic elements of a storage system
Multiple implementations
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Physical appliance
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SDS is an emerging paradigm
- a technology that decouples the basic elements of a storage system
Hyper Converged
Virtualize CPU
Virtualize Storage
Virtualize CPU
Virtualize Storage
VM VM VM VM
Scalable CPU
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SAN
Converged Solution
Multiple implementations
Hyper-converged
Software-only Virtual appliance
Physical appliance
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Customer expectations
Data Services: Management, automation and orchestration
Flexibility
Cost
Scalability
Reliability
Decouples the basic elements of a storage system
SDS is an emerging paradigm
Multiple implementations
Hyper-converged
Software-only Virtual appliance
Physical appliance
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Businesses seek to enhance data center efficiency Evolve current IT, embrace new IT Evolve current IT, embrace new IT
Customer-driven path
There is no one-size-fit-all solution
Server-side storage
External SANs
Appliances
Converged solutions
Scalable solutions for
private cloud & XaaS
Software-driven solutions
Hyper Converged
Physical to virtual to software-defined
New IT Current IT
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Evolve current IT
Embrace new IT
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Dell software-defined storage strategy Broadest, most aggressive approach keeps your options open
1 Evolve your IT with enhanced flexibility and orchestration
Best computing platform • Modern, single storage stack • Industry-standards, open approach • Broadest partner ecosystem
Our platform
Your path
2 Deploy web-scale converged appliances
3 Deliver XaaS faster and more efficiently with hypervisor-integrated and open source solutions
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Modern storage stack to evolve IT with enhanced flexibility & orchestration
Data mobility
Abstraction
Industry Standard HW
Automation
Server to Storage
Compute
• Next-generation abstraction • Software-Defined Abstraction for improved
flexibility
• Next-generation orchestration • Integration into orchestration frameworks
(Openstack, VMware, Microsoft, Dell ASM) • Restful APIs • MultiTenancy and Quality of Service
• Next-generation data mobility
• Federation- data movement across arrays
Fluid Cache/Server Storage Pool
Industry leading automated intelligent data placement
Transparent movement of data across servers, arrays, drives
Ground-up storage virtualization abstracts data from underlying HW
Leverages Industry Standard HW
Storage
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Differentiated partner solutions Web-scale converged appliances that deliver XaaS faster & more efficiently
Enterprise-class
infrastructure
Optimized hardware and
monitoring
Appliances and bundled
solutions
End to end solution
architectures
Global services and
support
Storage Spaces
VSAN, EVO:RAIL
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Dell software-defined storage portfolio
Enabling customers to choose the right enterprise-class solution
Dell Offering
XC Appliance Powered by Nutanix SW
Dell VSAN Ready Nodes + Dell Engineered solutions
for VMware EVO:RAIL
Validated PE 720 + MD JBOD + Nexenta SW
Dell Servers + MD JBOD + MS Storage Spaces
PowerEdge servers + RedHat Inktank Ceph +
Openstack
Value prop
Highly scalable converged appliance
supports multiple hypervisors
Converged appliance based on VMware vSphere/ PowerEdge for non-mission
critical workloads
Cost optimized software-based file storage
on PowerEdge
Cheap and deep storage based on Windows Server/
PowerEdge for non-mission critical workloads
Massively scalable opensource storage on
PowerEdge for advanced Openstack cloud
environments
Benefits
• Easy management • Predictable granular
scalability • High performance with
auto-tiering and caching
• Familiar/easy management for VMware administrators
• Moderate scalability
• High capacity file storage • Scalable with PowerVault
MD JBODs • Rich feature set incl. HA
over long distances
• Scalable with PowerVault MD JBODs
• Familiar mgmt for Windows administrators
• Massively scalable • Strong ties into
OpenStack • Self-service with
OpenStack
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Value of SDS varies by business objective Performance-intensive workloads
• Mission-critical
Price-Performance workloads
• Business-critical
Cost-optimized workloads
• Non-mission-critical & hosting
Databases & ERP
• Oracle
• SAP
• SQL Server
Unified communications, Server virtualization, VDI • Exchange, Lync • VMware, Citrix, Hyper-V
Backup/DR, Content & Hosting • Archive • Hosting
Microsoft Storage Spaces
FluidCache
SC Series
PS Series
MD Series
Investment protection Mature technology Pervasive IT skillset Ease of deployment Dedicated performance Capacity efficiency
Evolve Current IT
Deployment flexibility Scale-out scalability OpenSource Hyperconverged simplicity New service model
Embrace New IT
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Workload-optimized solutions for any enterprise The Dell Storage portfolio.
Workload-optimized solutions for any size enterprise
High performance
storage
Multi-protocol, enterprise
SC& FS
Series
Easy-to-use virtualized
storage
Unified, virtualized IP
PS & FS Series
Affordable, entry level storage
Modular disk
storage
MD & NX Series
Data Protection solutions
Tape Storage
ML & TL Series
PowerEdge Servers
Dell Networking
Dell Software
Dell Services
Nutanix Nexenta
VSAN, EVO:RAIL Storage Spaces RedHat Ceph
Software Defined Storage
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Thank you
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Offer summary
Dell Offering
XC Appliance Powered by Nutanix SW
Dell’s VSAN Ready Nodes, Dell Engineered solutions for
VMware EVO:RAIL
Validated PE 720 + MD JBOD + Nexenta SW
Most Dell Servers + MD JBOD + MS Storage Spaces
PowerEdge servers + RedHat Inktank Ceph +
Openstack
Value Proposition
Hyper converged; Fast time to value; Pay-as-you-grow;
Hypervisor agnostic; Simplified data center
Hyper converged; Familiar and easy
management for VMware administrators;
Build on VMware investments
Highly flexible feature-rich software-based file storage
built on opensource ZFS
Free feature in the OS w/ no additional licensing cost; Familiar management for Windows administrators; Build on MS investments
Opensource technology that is designed for highly
scalable environments with strong ties into
Openstack
Primary use case
High performance VDI where simple highly linear
scalability is required
SMB storage for VMware: Small virtualization and Test&Dev workloads for
VMware
Cheap and deep file storage; Storage for Low-end private
Cloud /Hosting
Small-Medium hosting/cloud service providers using
Hyper-V; Cheap and deep storage for Test&Dev; Small
file server
Advanced private cloud, public cloud users
looking to add cost-effective massively
scalable storage to their environment
Other use cases
Departmental Virtualization, Multi-
hypervisor Private Cloud Low-end VDI Backup & Archiving
Generalized Hyper-V workloads
Low-end VDI and Private Cloud for Microsoft
Scalable Object store
Enterprise-class infrastructure | Optimized hardware and monitoring | Appliances and bundled solutions | End to end solution architectures |
Global services and support
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Dell XC Series Web-Scale Converged Appliances Powered by software
Converged storage and compute
The solution
• Dell PowerEdge servers with Nutanix SW • Bundles for multiple virtualized workload types • Dell Installation & Implementation • ProSupport w/ Collaborative Nutanix SW Support
Target Markets
• Simple, scalable & high performance for VDI • Virtualized applications in mid and large-size
enterprises, including branch offices • Multi-hypervisor environments and migrations
Highly distributed, shared nothing software
High performance x86 hardware
Massive and linear scale-out architecture
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