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HCI Management: Current and Future

Shannon Zhao, VMware

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HCI Management

From Integrated Management to Self-Driving Operations

Complete

Lifecycle

Complete

InfrastructureHW/SW Stack Easy

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HETEROGENOUS HARDWARE RESOURCE POOL e.g. GPUs, Large Storage/Memory, Higher Performance Storage

Large Memory Servers

ManagementDomain

SDDC Manager

vSphere, vSAN, NSX

WLD for HPC

-GPU enabled hosts

-Large/Storage Memory

WLD for Container Apps

-CAAS platform

-NSX-T

Automated Deployment and complete lifecycle management

vRealize

Made Easy with VMware Cloud Foundation

SDDC ManagerLifecycle managed

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Easily add new or existing hosts in bulk

Guided UI based workflow

Built-in pre-checks and recommendations

Simplifies new vSAN deployment with no existing vCenter

Configuration steps built into VCSA installer

Easy Install

Cluster Quickstart

Easy, Guided Approach for Deployment and ExpansionDeploy and extend vSAN environments with guided workflows

Cluster Quickstart

vSAN Easy Install

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Frontend activity (VM)

Backend activity (vSAN)

Historical data

Status and history of used and free capacity

Dedup and Compression savings and history

Capacity Monitoring

Performance Monitoring

Integrated Capacity and Performance MonitoringvCenter based capacity and performance metrics for vSAN

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Full Stack HCI Management

Analytics with vR Ops

• Monitoring

• Event history

• Alerting

• Insight / Trending

vR Ops within vCenter for single management pane

Log Analytics with Log Insight

• Log aggregation

• Log data mining, intelligence

• Root cause analysis

vR Ops and vR Log Insight integration with vSAN

vRealize Operations

Cluster

vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN vSphere vSAN

ClusterCluster

vR Ops within vCenter vRealize Log Insight

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vSAN Mobile

Clusters Overview

Full featured vSAN health checks, performance and capacity monitoring

Keep informed by push notification in the phone

Available on iOS and Android as VMware Fling

Monitoring of vSAN clusters on the go

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- Reduced Mean time to resolution (MTTR)

- Auditing/Prove innocence

- Not easy to track what happened

- No visibility of transient or periodic errors in history

- Not easy to find evidence among VC events/tasks

Challenges

Benefits

vSAN Health Check with historyTroubleshooting made easier

Roadm

ap

Forward Looking

1 day ago

Current

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Built-in profiling in vSAN

Understand IO behavior and pattern of selected VMs

Enable better support & performance insight

IO stats and patterns for VMs are difficult to uncover

q Workload assessment

q Sizing, capacity planning

q Performance tuning

Challenge and Use cases

What it does

VM IO InsightWorkload I/O statistics and patterns

vSphere vSAN

Roadm

ap

vSAN Support Insight

• R/W ratio

• Sequential/Random IO

• IO size distribution

• IOPS/Latency/Tptdistro

• IO change rate

• …

Forward Looking

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• Magna constantly learn and take action on vSAN configs

to meet performance goal

• Longer-term: Coordinate optimization actions across SDDC stack dynamically

• Dynamic apps, infra need to adapt constantly

• Not scalable: Labor- and hardware-intensive to maintain performance goal

Challenge

What it does

Project Magna: vSAN Self-TuningLeveraging Reinforcement Learning to Dynamically Optimize Performance

Set KPI/Goal

Learn

Env dynamics

Take

Actions

Monitor

Benefit

vSphere vSAN

Tech Preview

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Transforming vSphere into the App Platform of the Future

Project Pacific: Rearchitecting vSphere with Native Kubernetes

vSphere

Supervisor Kubernetes Cluster

vCenter

ESXiCluster

Networking Storage

Kubernetes cluster

Virtual

machinesNative

pods

Developer IT Operator

vSphere with Native Kubernetes | App-focused Management | Dev & IT Ops Collaboration

Improved Economics | Control at Scale | Increased Velocity

App

TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW

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Data Management for Stateful Cloud Native Applications

Persistent Volume

provisioning and management for Kubernetes

Prescriptive policy based control using SPBM

Volumes presented as First Class Disks (FCD) in vCenter

Easy to assign requirements

• vSAN admin creates SPBM policy

• Developer consumes with storage class

Cloud Native Storage Control Plane for Kubernetes

vSphere vSAN

Container Storage Interface - vSphere

Kubernetes

Persistent volumes

K8s Pods

VMDKs for VMs & CNS

CNS control plane

Storage

Class

Storage

Policy

Dev

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