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Key vSAN Use Cases with Customer Case Studies

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Today’s Agenda

1 Overview of HCI & vSAN

2 Evolution of vSAN Workload Adoption

3 Customer Case Studies

4 Future of vSAN & HCI

5 Q & A

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Overview of vSAN & HCI



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HCI is the Fastest Growing Storage Segment

Source: Wikibon Server SAN Research Project, 2016

Switch to efficient,

server economics

Extend simple server

management to storage

Unlock affordable

server-side flash

Hyperscale

HCI(Server SAN)

Traditional

Storage

2012 2026

0

$10B

$20B

$30B

$40B

$50B

Total Storage Market $60B



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HCI Powered by VMware vSAN and vSphere

Runs on any standard x86 server

Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore

Delivers enterprise-grade scale and performance

Managed through per-VM storage policies

Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

vSphere vSAN

vSAN DatastoreVMworld 2017 Content: N

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vSAN Adoption

Q1'14 Q2'14 Q3'14 Q4'14 Q1'15 Q2'15 Q3'15 Q4'15 Q1'16 Q2'16 Q3'16 Q4'16 Q1'18

vSAN Customer Adoption

150% YoY bookings growth

10,000 Customers

Fastest since ESX

At VMworld Las Vegas



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vSAN – By Industry

RETAIL

AIRLINES EDUCATION

HEALTHCARE MANUFACTURING

MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY



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vSAN – By Industry

GOVERNMENT / PUBLIC SECTOR

FINANCIAL SERVICES

CLOUD PROVIDERS

OIL, GAS & POWER

TELCO

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES



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Evolution of vSAN Workload Adoption



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Evolution of vSAN Workload Adoption

Business-Critical Apps Virtual Desktops (VDI)

VMware Cloudon AWS (VMC)

DR / DAManagement Clusters

Databases (SQL/Oracle)

Data Center on Wheels Containers

ROBOvSAN



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Native Hypervisor Integration and Cost Savings are the key drivers for selecting vSAN

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What are the top 3 reasons you selected VMware vSAN?

79%

54%

42%

32%

31%

15%

13%

1%

8%

Native Integration with vSphere & vCenter

Simpler Management & Operational Cost Savings

Initial Investment Cost Savings

Avoided a SAN upgrade

Faster Storage Performance

Reseller recommendation

Choice of Server Platform

Investment Protection with Public Cloud

Other



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Customers Deploy vSAN Across a Variety of Use Cases

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64%

45%

31%

28%

21%

11%

Business Critical Applications and Databases(SAP, MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL etc.)

Management Infrastructure

Business Continuity and Disaster RecoveryInfrastructure

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Intelligent Edge and Remote Office/Branch Office(ROBO)

Other

What use cases are you currently using vSAN for?



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Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

High performance, easy to scale virtual desktop infrastructure without cost of traditional storage



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Challenges for VDICommon Customer Challenges with Traditional Storage Architectures for VDI

• Time consuming processes

• No automation = slow reaction

• Multiple components, vendors

Complex Administration

• Large arrays waste capex

• Risk of overprovisioning

• Painful, costly growth

Specialized, Expensive HW

Storage

AdminDesktop

Admin

VI

Admin

Compromised User Experience

• Poorly sized for IOPS spikes

• Apps demand low latency

• Constrained scalability



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Unified Workspace with HorizonModern Storage with vSAN

Eliminating Desktop Virtualization Roadblocks

▪ Streamline desktop management,

reduce costs, and maintain compliance

▪ Great end user experience across

devices, locations, and connections

▪ Optimized for the software-defined data

center

▪ Simple vSphere storage optimized for

virtual desktops

▪ Flash-accelerated with all-flash and

hybrid configurations

▪ Building-block approach scales linearly:

scale-out or scale-up

▪ vSAN for Desktop licensing or including

in Horizon Advanced/Enterprise



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vSAN Eliminates Complex VDI Planning

Performance as Needed

• Flash eliminates IOPS concerns leading to more concurrent users, faster recomposing of desktops, etc.

• Kernel embedded optimizes I/O path

• No overprovisioning

• Server economics

• Scale-as-you-go

• Reduce OpEx with automation and familiar tools

• Space-efficiency like deduplication/ compression

Low Cost

$

Predictable Scaling

• Linear performance scaling

• Non-disruptive, granular scaling – 1 node at a time

• Agility of rapid provisioning based on app and desktop demands

Rapid Provisioning



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Use Case

• BYOD to thousands of students with ”GPU” support for Office/Web work, Creative

work (Adobe, Autodesk), Engineering (SolidWorks) & Game Design (Maya, Unity)

• >1500 Desktops, 100+TB

“VDI Complete is a turnkey offering for virtual

desktop infrastructure that contains all the

elements necessary to implement VDI.” –

CRN Magazine

Public University with 27000+ students: “VDI Complete” on All-Flash vSAN

Challenges

• Policy of supporting “BYOD” for students to access wide variety of apps for classwork

• VDI required to level the playing field providing consistent experience for students

• Scalable and performant storage required for supporting thousands of desktops

• VDI solution was fragmented, complicated and expensive with multiple vendors for

server, app virtualization, hardware, graphics & thin client apps

• GPU and advanced graphics support required for increased consolidation ratios

Benefits

• Significant CapEx Savings starting with $8/user (start small, grow as you go)

• 50% VDI Performance Improvement with NVIDIA GPU

• Simplified Management; Flexibility in scaling, no more forklift upgrades

Infrastructure

• Dell EMC “VDI Complete” Solutions Powered by VMware Horizon

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• Initial Infrastructure to support 1000 GPU desktops and GPU accelerated RDS farm

• Growing to 2000 desktops and 2000 concurrent WorkSpace One sessions within 12 months

• Expected growth to 3000+ desktops and 5000+ Workspace One sessions by 2019

• 2000 Student Pilot

• GPU Accelerated Apps with new NVDIA cards on Dell R730XD

VM / Desktop and App Virtualization

Wyse and OptiPlex Endpoints

Hardware Infrastructure

Graphics

www.dell.com/vdicompletesolutions

End to end desktop and

application virtualization

solutions including

optional endpoints and

graphics capability

Plans for Future Growth

Best of breed

Dell Technologies

portfolio products



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http://www.dell.com/vdicompletesolutions

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Tier-1 Business Critical Applications



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Typical Applications and Common Requirements

OLTP

Performance

Need consistent performance

Guarantee low latencies

Provide ease of scaling without overprovisioning

AvailabilityMinimize downtime

Assure low RPO/RTO

Simplify maintenance/migration

ScaleReduce planning and guesswork

Eliminate overprovisioning

Reduce disruption



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67%

38%

26%

21%

18%

15%

10%

9%

7%

3%

Microsoft SQL Server

MySQL Databases

Microsoft Exchange Server

VMware Horizon

Oracle Databases

Microsoft SharePoint

Citrix XenDesktop

NoSQL databases (Cassandra, etc.)

SAP

Hadoop and other big data applications

Databases and Exchange are Most Frequently Run Apps

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What applications do you run on vSAN today?



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Average No. of Hosts per vSAN Cluster

HCI Deployments Expected to Significantly Grow in Size!

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vSAN Provides a Single Platform for all of the Enterprise Applications

Support for all key business critical apps like Microsoft Exchange, SQL

Server, SharePoint, Oracle, and SAP; including clustering technologies

All-Flash vSAN delivering millions of IOPS, sub-millisecond latencies

Scale-up and scale-out architecture

Software-defined encryption for enhanced security; Stretched clusters for

active-active metro availability

All existing backup and DR tools work seamlessly

Tested and Validated including Reference Architecture papers on

http://storagehub.vmware.com

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Use Case

• Replaced NetApp Flex Pod with multiple vSAN on Cisco C220 vSAN

ReadyNodes™

• Using vSAN in 3 site model with SRM and NSX for failover, resiliency and resource

optimization between three sites

• Mission-critical video applications, media processing, encoding/transcoding of files,

on-air databases and video playback applications• Multi-million dollar advertising platforms for

marque sports events like Superbowl 2017

• Services supported by vSAN: Fox Sports 1, Fox

Sports 2, FBC, FX, On-demand portal

Mission-critical Ad Platforms Running on vSAN All-Flash

Key Drivers

• Improving broadcast resiliency and availability

• Support high performance video workloads

• Simplify support, physical deployment and ‘never-ending’ scale dependencies

• Reduce real estate and power consumption

Results

• Database performance issues eliminated; scale-out throughput enabling massive

video performance

• Improved architectural resiliency

• Higher capacity with less power, real estate consumption

• Fine tune capacity needs and scale incrementally



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Use Case

• Run thousands of financial modeling & stock trading apps that require high IOPS &

sub-millisecond latency response times

• Applications require “consistent” sub- millisecond latencies in order to meet SLAs

“We want to standardize on “All NVMe

platforms” in our datacenter and vSAN on

Dell with P3700 is the right step to do that”

- IT Director

Leading Investment Banking Firm runs Stock Trading & Financial Apps on All Flash vSAN

Challenges

• Unable to meet SLAs for stock trading apps on traditional SAN

• Financial Applications were ”sluggish” due to high and inconsistent latencies on

traditional storage

• Traditional SAN was too expensive with low consolidation ratios for financial apps

Benefits

• SDDC Initiative to go 100% HCI was fulfilled by vSAN

• Early Adopters of vSAN All Flash over NVMe (Intel P3700) to benefit from consistent

and sub-millisecond response times and consistently high IOPS for financial apps

• 30% cheaper than traditional storage

• Plan to move to “All NVMe Servers” soon

Hardware

• Dell Blades & Rack Servers with Intel P3700 NVMe managing up to 750TB



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Use Case

• Tier-1 Apps (GE Centricity EMR, PM, PACS), Siemens Soarian Clinicals

• SQL Server and Oracle databases

• VDI with Citrix

• Cisco UCS C-Series

“The more applications we migrate to vSAN

the more departments are requesting to be

on it…”

- Chad Elliott, Network Systems Consultant

Healthcare Provider in IndianaTier-1 Healthcare Apps and Databases

Key Drivers

• Aging SAN reaching end of life; too expensive to upgrade

• SAN overload causing database latency, application crashes, delays accessing

patient records, slow reporting

• Did not want to introduce new vendors in the mix

Results

• 6x Faster Reporting: Database latency reduced from 200ms to <1ms

• 50x More IOPS: 900 IOPS on old SAN, 53,000 on vSAN

• 90% Less Time to Manage: tasks took 1/10th the time it took on old NetApp SAN

• 50% More Consolidation: previously 40 sessions/server, now 60Case StudyInfographic



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http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/customers/VMware-UnionHospital-15Q2-Infographic-EN.pdf?src=WWW_customers_VMware-UnionHospital-15Q2-Infographic-EN.pdf

Customer Case Study: Union HospitalAccelerating Performance For Tier-1 Applications

Before: SAN overload, latency issues, application crashes

200 ms Avg. 30 min

After: Dramatic improvement in end-user experience

<1 ms Avg. 5 min

900 IOPS

53,000 IOPS

Avg. 30 Sec

Avg. 5-10 Sec

Applications: GE Healthcare Apps, Siemens Soarians, Oracle DB, SQL Server, VDI on Citrix



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Use Case

• Large scale e-commerce applications, external websites, booking applications

• Two 16 node production clusters and several smaller pre-production 4 nodes

• Separate DR site with management cluster using vSAN and Log Insight

• Dell FX2:830C blade platform

• Other VMware solutions: vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, NSX, LogInsight

Large Scale Commercial and Customer-facing Applications

Key Drivers

• Cost Reduction

• Simplification

• Pipeline automation with a build and destroy continuous delivery model with

disposable servers

• Rapid spin up and premising cloud workloads to reduce cost

Results

• Minimal rack footprint – extreme convergence 88cores, 1TB RAM, 9.6TB All-Flash per U

• Out-of-the-box Performance: 103K IOPS with 16K block non-sequential reads, 20%

writes; <5ms latency (with deduplication/compression turned on)

• Storage Savings: went from 65G of space down to 2G of space per VM



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Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO)



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What is a Remote Office or a Branch Office (ROBO)?

Central Site

Remote Office Branch Office

• It is NOT a data center, corporate headquarters, or primary

corporate facility

• Standard set of infrastructure configuration that is typically

repeatable

• In many industries, often a key part of the business (such as retail

stores, manufacturing plants, etc.)

• Limited Number of Workloads (such as Active Directory Services,

DNS, File services, VDI, Point of Sale applications at stores,

CRM, etc.)



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Distributed Locations

Typical Challenges with ROBO Infrastructure

• Scale: Many small sites across

remote locations; need to add

more seamlessly as business

grows

• No IT admins in the remote sites

• Low bandwidth connection to central data center

• Frequent network issues with little support

• Limited budgets

• Specialized hardware and

management/business

continuity solutions are cost

prohibitive

Network Connectivity Limited IT Budgets



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• Avg. hosts per site 3

• Avg. number of VMs per site 6

• Majority stores have <5TB storage

Simplicity and Operational Savings of Managing ROBO locations at Central Data Center

vSphere + vSAN

vSphere + vSAN

vSphere + vSAN

vSphere + vSAN

vSphere + vSAN

vCenter



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Why vSAN for ROBO?✓ No need for dedicated storage

appliance: get shared storage

with flexible hardware choices

✓ Consolidation and power/cooling

savings

✓ Managed through central

vCenter

✓ Flexible Licensing: Per VM or

per CPU

✓ Automation and built-in health

monitoring

2-Node vSAN: Very Small ROBOs

3-Node vSAN: Medium ROBOs

4-Node vSAN: Large ROBOs/ Regional Data Centers

Low TCO + High Availability + Centralized Management



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Use Case

• VMware environment powering critical lines of business including manufacturing,

distribution, pharmacies, customer loyalty programs

• vSAN 3 Node Hybrid for ROBO across 1200 retail stores worldwide on Lenovo

System X servers

• vSAN All-Flash for Tier-1 workloads like OLTP/SQL

• vSAN All-Flash for VDI (Full Clones)

• 32 All-Flash nodes split across 4 clusters managing 1.2 PB capacity

• Dell R730XD + Intel P3700 NVMe on 40G Network for Data Center Apps

America’s largest supermarket chain runs Tier-1 Applications and worldwide ROBO infrastructure on vSAN

Challenges

• High cost of fiber-channel SAN

• Legacy 3-tier architecture made it difficult to adopt new technologies like NVMe fast

enough to remain competitive

Benefits

• 20% lower cost for all-flash HCI with latest NVMe technology

• 10x reduction in footprint compared to traditional SAN

• Scalable, simple, fast ROBO solution – critical for driving customer satisfaction

and making retail stores competitive

• America’s largest supermarket chain by

revenue, second-largest general retailer, and

twenty-third largest company

• Fortune 500 Brand



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Data Center on Wheels

vSAN on Compact Form Factors



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Use Case

• vSAN cluster on the train: collect and store live metrics – engine performance, fuel

efficiency, live traffic/weather data etc. on the vSAN datastore

• Run analytics engine to determine shortest path

• Law requires electricity on train to be shut down daily so vSAN cluster has to be

restarted everyday and yet ensure the analytics SLAs are met

• Compact UCS B-Series Blades

vSAN INSIDE a high speed train provides storage for running real time analytics

Challenges

• Each high speed train runs “12 hours” every day

• Run an analytics engine on top of “compact storage” within the train to collect “live

metrics of engine efficiency & other factors” to determine shortest route

• Storage performance and “small form factor” critical for real-time decisions

• Strict requirements of power efficiency

Benefits

• vSAN allows for small & efficient form factor on UCS Blades

• Operational simplicity for daily use on the train

• Moving to all-flash provided better OVA and analytics performance



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Use Case

• Tactical mobile computing system using VMware HCI

• Converged module is a small 12 pound cube that “fits in a duffel bag”

• Tactical systems run Exchange, SharePoint, SQL Server etc. for warfighters in field

• Compact Dell FX2 blades

• Mobile, ruggedized communication solutions for

military forces

“Our new model is small enough to carry on a

Hummer tank, in an overhead compartment.”

- Tom Lynott, Software Engineering Manager

vSAN INSIDE a Rugged, War Tank

Challenges

• Strict requirements of portability, reliability in harsh environments

• Reduce weight, size of tactical mobile computing system deployed in war zones

• Power consumption of SAN was too high for rugged, extreme environments

• Building and managing SAN-based system was too complex for field generalist

Benefits

• 75% Better Portability: reduced size by 85% and weight by 75%

• 90% Faster Deployment: reduced build times from 9 hours to 25 mins

• 10x Faster Performance

• 7x Lower Power Consumption: battery uptime improved from 18 mins to 2 hours



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VMware Cloud on AWS

vSAN as the Primary Storage on the Public Cloud



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AWS Global Infrastructure

VMware Cloud™ on AWSPowered by VMware Cloud Foundation

AWS Global InfrastructureCustomer Datacenter

vSphere vSAN NSX

Operational Management Native AWS Services

Amazon

EC2

Amazon

S3

Amazon

RDS

AWS Direct

Connect

AWS IAMAWS IoT

…

…

…

…

vRealize Suite, vSphere Integrated Containers, ISV ecosystem

vCentervCenter

VMware Cloud on AWS

• ESXi on Dedicated Hardware

• Support for VMs and Containers

• vSAN on Flash and EBS Storage

• Replication and DR Orchestration

• NSX Spanning on-premises and cloud

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Primary Storagefor VMs

Disaster Recoveryto VMC

vSAN Storage

Performance & Resiliency

Enterprise Storage Capabilities

Capacity Optimized Storage

SRM & vSphere Replication

VM Replication

DR Runbooks

Data Center Migration

VMware Integration

Backup / Data Protection

Disaster Recovery

External Storage

Storage and Data Protection on VMware Cloud on AWS

VMCVMC

Storage & AvailabilityEcosystem



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Use Case

• Running containers and storing interactive media content on a scalable storage

platform on AWS

• ROBO solution for Remote Office sites

• Fully orchestrated DRaaS solution for on-prem to cloud

Developing interactive lifestyle media content for television & internet on VMware Cloud on AWS

Challenges

• Meet DevOps tooling SLAs to close gap between private and public cloud

• Disaster Recovery as a Service for Business Continuity

• Go Converged / Hyper-Converged for ROBO sites to reduce cost

Benefits

• Ability to meet strict DevOps SLAs on AWS with vSAN compared to on-prem

• Significant CAPEX reduction with public cloud infrastructure

• Low cost Disaster recovery on cloud model

vSAN Powers Interactive Lifestyle Media in VMware Cloud on AWS

Hardware

• Cisco UCS Servers (on-prem)

• AWS Nitro Hardware (with NVMe)



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Future of vSAN & HCI



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Future of vSAN & HCI

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• Modern apps require extremely high IOPs & microsecond latencies

• vSAN & HCI will evolve to enable high speed NVDIMMs for latency sensitive apps

High Performance Computing

(HPC) & Big Data Adoption

• Customers will increasingly extend on-prem deployments to hybrid cloud with VMC

• Significant customer ramp up expected on VMC

Increased VMC/

Cloud Adoption

HCI Adoption on Next-Gen

Hardware (NVDIMM)

• Big Data & HPC workloads expected to get increasingly virtualized

• Distributed workloads on Hadoop will become a sweet spot for vSAN & HCI

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