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Donald Schubot, RackspaceNathan Wheat, AWS

External Datastores for VMware Cloud on AWS? Yes Please!

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Agenda

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• Overview of VMware Cloud on AWS

• Native Storage Options for VMware Cloud on AWS

• Cloud Volumes Service for VMware Cloud on AWS

• Customer Driven Use Cases

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VMware Cloud on AWSOverview

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For some customers, hybrid is the preferred operating model

Customers are seeking an integrated and hybrid approach

As customers move to the

cloud, they are looking for

ways to get the best of both

worlds without buying new

hardware, refactoring or re-

platforming and leveraging

existing investments, skillsets,

and tools.

On-Premises Public Cloud

§ Scale faster

§ Reduce costs

§ Establish global footprint

§ Pay-as-you-go

§ Access broader range

of services

§ Use familiar tools

and processes

§ Leverage existing

investments

§ Maintain unique hardware

configurations

§ Have granular control over

placement of

apps and data

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VMware Cloud on AWSService Overview

Service Providers, Cloud Management, ISV ecosystem Service Highlights

• VMware SDDC running on AWS bare metal

• Sold, operated and supported by VMware & its partners

• Support for containers & VMs

• On-demand capacity & flexible consumption

• Full operational consistency with on-premises SDDC

• Seamless workload portability and hybrid operations

• Global AWS footprint, reach, availability

• Direct access to native AWS services

VMware CloudTM on AWSPowered by VMware Cloud Foundation

Private Cloud Amazon Web Services

Powered by VMware

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Use Cases

Data Center Extension

Disaster Recovery

Cloud Migrations

Application Modernization

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Comparing the cost/effort layers

Management

Application

Operating System

Hypervisor

Storage

Servers

SAN

Networking

Power & Cooling

Facilities

Real Estate

On Premises

Management

Application

Operating System

VMware Cloud on AWS

VMC on AWS

illustrative

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0

400

800

1200

Sto

rag

e (

TB

)

Virtual Machines (3000)

Cumulative Storage for all VMs

90th

80th

All VMs 90th percentile 80th percentile

Cluster size vs. scope of VMs

vSphere nodes required 3 year Reserved cost

53% 58%

* Actual customer example

The Case for Hybrid Storage

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Native Storage Options for VMware Cloud on AWS

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Item Available

CPU Broadwell

Sockets per Host 2

Cores per Socket 18

Cores per Host 36

Memory 512 GB

SSD devices per Host

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SSD capacity per device

1,788 GB

NICs ENA

i3.Metal Physical Host Configuration

Local NVMe devices

Assigned to vSANBoot Device

EBS Volume

AWS KMS

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Item Available

CPU Skylake-SP

Sockets per Host 2

Cores per Socket 24

Cores per Host 48

Memory 768 GB

Storage EBS GP2

NICs ENA

r5.Metal Physical Host Configuration

EBS Volumes

Assigned to vSANBoot Device

EBS Volume

AWS KMS

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7.4

3.7

2.5

10.7

5.04.0

0

5

10

15

FTT0 FTT1 FTT2

Raw Usable

5.64.9

8.0

7.0

0.0

5.0

10.0

Raid-5 Raid-6

Raw Usable

Raid-1 (Mirroring) Raid-5/6 (Erasure Coding)

i3.Metal Usable Capacity per nodeAssuming Site Disaster Tolerance of None

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4.7

6.3

7.8

9.410.9

6.5

8.7

10.9

13.1

15.3

0.0

5.0

10.0

15.0

20.0

15TB 20TB 25TB 30TB 35TB

Raw Usable

7.2

9.5

12

14.4

16.8

10

13.5

16.8

20

23.5

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

15TB 20TB 25TB 30TB 35TB

Raw Usable

Raid-1 (Mirroring) Raid-5 (Erasure Coding)

R5.Metal Usable Capacity per nodeAssuming Site Disaster Tolerance of None

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Cluster Storage Limits

Host Type Host Count R1 (FTT-1) R1 (FTT-2) R5 (FTT-1) R6 (FTT-2)

i3.metal 16 80TB 64TB 128TB 112TB

r5.metal (Max 35TB / host) 16 244.8TB N/A 376TB N/A

$0.36-$0.62*Price per GB

*12 or 36 month VMware Cloud on AWS reservation pricing for US-East-1

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Moving to VMware Cloud on AWS

Customer Challenges

“We only need 30 hosts for compute but 50 hosts for storage”Food Services Company

“We want to move to VMware Cloud on AWS but need Petabytes of storage”

Media Company

“We want to use VMware Cloud on AWS for cost effective DR but have massive

storage requirements”Financial Services Company

“Our environment has tons of large databases but the compute is very small”

International Construction Company

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Cloud Volumes Service for VMware Cloud on AWS

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Accessible Across Clusters

Adding Cloud Volumes Service to an SDDC

Local NVMe devices

Assigned to vSANBoot Device

EBS Volume

External Datastores

Cloud Volumes Service

vsanDatastore / WorkloadDatastore

ds01 / ds02 / ds03

Cluster Level Configuration

SDDC Level Configuration

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Architecture: Cloud Volumes Service for VMware Cloud on AWS

Geo-Adjacent Data Center

DX

Connectivity

172.30.0.0/22 10.30.0.0/16

Private VIF

eBGPManaged Storage

NetworkAWS Backbone

Network

Compute

Storage

NetworkSDDC

VMware Cloud on AWS

CGW

Network A

Network B

MGW

Router

NFS Exports NFS Datastores

Cloud Volumes Service

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Real World Performance Benchmarks

Test Config Host Count IOPS Throughput Latency

4k-70%rd-100%random 3 129k 500 Mb/s 2.1 ms

4k-70%rd-100%random 15 202k 800 Mb/s 1.8 ms

4k-100%rd-100%random

15 365k 1.45 Gb/s 2.3 ms

$.10/GB

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Global Availability

Available Regions

US West (Oregon)

US East (N. Virginia)

Europe (London)

Europe (Frankfurt)

Asia Pacific (Sydney)

Europe (Ireland)

US West (N. California)

Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

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Use Cases for Cloud Volumes Service for VMware Cloud on AWS

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Use Case 1: Storage Heavy Workloads

Petabyte Scale

Does not replace vSAN

3 Different Performance Tiers Available

Mix and Match Storage Tiers based on need and Performance

Extreme Storage is less per GB than VSAN when compute is not needed

Database Virtual Machine

OS Drive120GB

Database50TB

Backup100TB

ds03Extreme

ds01Standard

ds01Standard

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Use Case 2: Pilot Light Disaster Recovery Site

• Use HCX Disaster Recovery for Replication and Failover

• Keep Core Services Running in VMware Cloud on AWS on vSAN

• Scale to full production for testing or at disaster declaration by adding on-demand hosts

• Minimal vSAN rebalance times allows faster scalability both up and down

• Scale down post-testing or keep production in VMware Cloud on AWS and convert to subscription rates

Scale up

Pilot Light Services

Scale down

vSAN Cloud Volumes Service

On-Prem Datacenter / Rackspace DC

vSAN Cloud Volumes Service

Scaled for Test / Production

HCX Disaster Recovery

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Use Case 3: Protecting from an Availability Zone Failure

Cloud Volume Service sits outside the AWS Region

Re-Zone the same Datastores to another SDDC

No Data Replication needed to protect against AZ failure

Script Registration of VMs for shorter RTO

AWS Availability

Zone AAWS Availability

Zone B

VMC SDDC 1

AWS Region

…

…

…

…

Cloud Volumes Service

VMC SDDC 2

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Use Case 4: Custom sizing for pCPU Application Licensing

Configure only the CPUs you Need (applied cluster wide)

Reduce per-core application licensing costs

Connect to Cloud Volumes Service Datastores to augment the storage to meet application needs

Storage is available for access by all clusters

Regular Cluster “Custom” Cluster

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