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Nathan Slater & Zane Allcorn
05/07/2013
VCE: A FOUNDATION FOR IT TRANSFORMATION
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COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK
STORAGE COMPUTE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION APPLICATION
New Software Investments
New Hardware Investments
Maintaining Operations Cost
SUPPORT TEAMS
VIRTUALIZATION
70% 20% 10%
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TODAY’S IT
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VBLOCK ADDRESSES IT CHALLENGES
Management and Operational Complexity
Environmental and Facilities Costs
Vendor Management Investment Lifecycle Protection (TCO)
Speed to Deliver
SLAs and High Availability for Mission-critical Apps
Vblock Systems simplify and speed time to deployment and ongoing operations.
Maintaining IT Operations: physical and logical design, interoperability, roadmap planning, new feature adoption, upgrades, patches, change management, performance envelopes, compliance.
Business Challenges Operational Challenges Financial Challenges
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API Enabled, Converged Management
Integrated Protection and Workload Mobility Solutions
Best-of-breed Technology
Pre-engineered, Pre-validated, Pre-tested
Application Optimization
Life Cycle System Assurance
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VCE DIFFERENTIATION
Customer Experience Fastest Time to Business
Highest Availability
Lowest TCO
Converged Management
Lowest Risk
Highest Performance
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STORAGE NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION
CONVERGED OPERATIONS
COMPUTE
5X FASTER DEPLOYMENT
4X LESS STAFF RESOURCE TIME
83X BETTER AVAILABILITY
3X LOWER COST
IDC White Paper, April 2012, Case Studies of 5 VCE Customers
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VCE CUSTOMER RESULTS
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GARTNER NAMES VCE THE CLEAR LEADER IN INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS
Integrated Infrastructure
Systems
Integrated Workload Systems
Integrated Reference
Architectures
Integrated Systems Market
38%
27%
35%
Source: Gartner – Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems, 1Q11-2Q12, 30 Nov 2012 G00239623; 6 quarters Integrated Systems spend within the most recent 4 quarters was $3.6B
Integrated Infrastructure Systems Market Share
24%
15% Dell 2%
IBM 1%
57% VCE
HP
Hitachi
Other 1%
Server, shared-storage, and network hardware integrated to provide shared compute infrastructure
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Vblock™ Systems Management Software
NEW
VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 100
VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 300
VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 700
VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 200
NEW NEW
Modular Design
NEW
Applications and Solutions Validation
VBLOCK SYSTEMS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO
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VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 100
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A “right-sized” system to meet capacity, workload, and space requirements
§ Brings the power and benefits of the Vblock System family into a value-focused solution
§ Delivers core IT services for distributed and mid-sized datacenters
INTRODUCING VBLOCK SYSTEM 100
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DISTRIBUTED MID-SIZE DATACENTER
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 DEPLOYMENTS
VBLOCK SYSTEM 100
NEW
Dev/test and co-location datacenter support
Core IT services (File/print, domain services)
ROBO for Vblock 300 and Vblock 700 customers
(Healthcare, Manufacturing)
Local instance business applications (e.g., VDI, SharePoint, Exchange)
Core mix-workload infrastructure for mid-size datacenters
Business applications with data segregation requirements
(eDiscovery, eArchive…)
Dev/test and co-location datacenter support
Core IT services (File/print, domain services)
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 USE CASES
Enterprise Remote Office/Branch Office Vblock System 300, Vblock System 700
Business Applications
Vblock System 100
Messaging ERP
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure Health care
Manufacturing Apps
Vblock System 100
Datacenter Vblock System 100
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 100: RIGHT-SIZED…
Enterprise Remote Office/Branch Office Vblock System 300, Vblock System 700
Business Applications
Vblock System 100
Messaging ERP
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure Health care
Manufacturing Apps
Vblock System 100
Datacenter Vblock System 100
… Compute resources, with up to 8 servers per Vblock System 100
… IOPS of 720 to 6K that is well optimized for intensive I/O workloads
... Drives for recovering more usable storage of up to 16TB
… For VDI use cases that support 50 to 200 users
… For messaging use cases to support up to 10K mailboxes
… For collaborative work spaces to support up to 400 SharePoint users
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 BUILDING BLOCKS
Integrated cloud building-block platform § Pre-defined fixed configurations § “Right-sized” to meet capacity, workload,
and space requirements
Ships with fixed configurations and limited options
Best-of-breed equipment from Cisco, EMC, and VMware
§ Cisco C220 Servers* § Cisco 3750 Network Switches § EMC VNXe Storage § VMware vSphere
*A Vblock System 100 DX server can support up to a maximum of 50% bare-metal installation and must have minimum 3 servers configured as VMware ESXi hosts
EMC VNXe 31xx/33xx Cisco Catalyst
3750x Cisco UCS C220 M3
VMware vSphere
VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 100
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 100 COMPONENTS
VIRTUALIZATION COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
2 Models: BX, DX
BX: 3–4x C220 M3
DX: 3–8x C220 M3
2x Catalyst 3750-X Ethernet (iSCSI & NFS)
Nexus 1000v Essentials*
BX: 1x VNXe 3150 Dual (2x1Gbps+2x10Gbps/SP)
DX: 1x VNXe 3300 Dual (4x1Gbps+2x10Gbps/SP)
vSphere
Model BX is delivered in a 24U cabinet and the DX in a 42U cabinet
Logical Advanced Management Pod (LAMP) to host all of software used to manage the system
Infrastructure Management Tools
vSphere Enterprise Plus 5.x
VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations
* To be delivered in a Future System 100 refresh
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Technical Decision Maker Deck
VCE Product Management
VBLOCK™ SYSTEM 200
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INTRODUCING VBLOCK SYSTEM 200
A “right-sized” system to meet capacity, workload, and space requirements
§ Brings the power and benefits of the Vblock System family into a value-focused solution
§ Delivers core IT services for distributed and mid-sized datacenters
§ Efficiently handle mixed workload requirements VBLOCK SYSTEM 200
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 DEPLOYMENTS
DISTRIBUTED MID-SIZE DATACENTER
NEW
Dev/test and co-location datacenter support
Core IT services (File/print, domain services)
ROBO for Vblock 300 and Vblock 700 customers
(Healthcare, Manufacturing)
Local instance business applications (e.g., VDI, SharePoint, Exchange)
Core mix-workload infrastructure for mid-size datacenters
Business applications with data segregation requirements
(eDiscovery, eArchive…)
Dev/test and co-location datacenter support
Core IT services (File/print, domain services)
VBLOCK SYSTEM 200
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 USE CASES
Business Applications
Messaging ERP
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure Health care
Manufacturing Apps
Enterprise Remote Office/Branch Office Vblock System 300, Vblock System 700
Vblock System 200 Vblock System 200
Data Center Vblock System 200
Business Applications
Messaging ERP
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
IT Dev/Test Co-Lo Datacenter
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Business Applications
Messaging ERP
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure Health care
Manufacturing Apps
Enterprise Remote Office/Branch Office Vblock System 300, Vblock System 700
Vblock System 200 Vblock System 200
Data Center Vblock System 200
Business Applications
Messaging ERP
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure Health care
Manufacturing Apps
Business Applications
Messaging ERP
Unified Comm and Collaboration
On Vblock Systems
More predictable design envelope Core Infrastructure
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
IT Dev/Test Co-Lo Datacenter
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200: RIGHT-SIZED…
… Compute resources with choice of CPUs, processor types
… IOPS of up to 10K that is well optimized for intensive I/O workloads
… Drives for recovering more usable storage of up to 100TB
… For VDI use cases that support up to 450 users
… For messaging use cases to support up to 30K Exchange mailboxes
… For collaborative work spaces support of up to 4K SharePoint users
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 BUILDING BLOCKS
Integrated cloud building-block platform § Pre-defined customizable configurations § Core IT infrastructure for mid-range data centers
Configuration flexibility § More configuration flexibility than the Vblock System 100 § Offers maximum compute and storage configuration § Ability to tailor the system to meet customers’ unique needs
Best of breed equipment from Cisco, EMC, and VMware § Cisco C220 Servers* § Cisco 5548UP and 3750 Network Switches § EMC VNX5300 Storage § VMware vSphere
VNX 5300
Nexus 5548UP Catalyst 3750x UCS C220 M3
vSphere
*A Vblock System 200 server can support up to a maximum of 50% bare-metal installation
VBLOCK SYSTEM 200
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 COMPONENTS
VIRTUALIZATION COMPUTE NETWORK STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
4-12 C220 M3 servers VIC-1225 for converged networking NMP or EMC PowerPath/ VE multipath options
2 Nexus 5548UP switches 10G Ethernet for NAS & Uplinks 8G FC connectivity for storage Flexible customer uplink options (copper/optical, 1G/10G) One Catalyst 3750 switch for management Nexus 1000v Advanced and Essentials (optional)
VNX 5300 array Unified is optional but 4U rack space is reserved FAST Cache is mandatory All other software modules are optional
vSphere Logical Advanced Management Pod (LAMP) to host all of software used to manage the platform Infrastructure Management Tools
vSphere Enterprise Plus 5.x
VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 COMPUTE
One or two processors
Three CPU types § E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7GHz, 130w) § E5-2650-L (8 cores, 1.8GHz, 70w) § E5-2643 (4 cores, 3.3GHz, 130w)
Five memory choices (1,600 MHz)* § 64 GB (8 X 8 GB) § 96 GB (8 X 8 GB + 8 X 4 GB) § 128 GB (16 X 8 GB) § 192 GB (8 X 16 GB + 8 X 8 GB) § 256 GB (16 X 16 GB)
VIC-1225 for converged networking
ESXi Enterprise Plus with NMP or PP/VE
Can be deployed as Bare Metal with non-virtualized operating system and application configurations
*Memory options are limited to eight DIMMs when only one processor slot is populated
Cisco UCS C220 M3 rackmount server
*Memory options are limited to eight DIMMs when only one processor slot is populated
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 BASE/MAX CONFIG
Base Max Rackmount Servers 4 12
Unified Eth/SAN Switches 2 x Nexus 5548UP
2 x Nexus 5548UP
Storage Array VNX 5300 VNX 5300
Storage Disk Drives 14–25 14–105
Unified Storage X-Blades 0 2
Management Switches 1 x Catalyst 3750 1 x Catalyst 3750
Enclosure Cabinets 1 1
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VBLOCK SYSTEM 200 NETWORK TOPOLOGY
Can support unified storage (block and file) in the same switch
Ethernet connectivity through Nexus 5548UP series switches
SAN connectivity through the same Nexus 5548UP series switches
Compute (4-12 Cisco UCS C220 servers)
Customer network
Network
Storage (EMC VNX 5300)
IP backup SAN backup & common
services
Transceiver choice*
X-Blade X-Blade
Cisco UCS C220 Server
10 G VIC Eth / F CoE
1 GbE interface (management)
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
(10 GbE/8Gb FC)
Cisco Nexus 5548UP
(10 GbE/8Gb FC)
Storage processor
Disk array enclosure
Disk array enclosure
FC / F CoE interface card
Storage processor
FC / F CoE interface card
Cisco Catalyst 3750-X 48 port switch
Standard Optional
Transceiver choice*
FC
FC
6 Gb SAS
6 Gb SAS
* Customer selectable: 1 GbE, 10 GbE, copper or optical.
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ENABLING CONVERGED OPERATIONS
VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations Software
Customer Choice
Management Tools
OPEN API
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