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Ravi ChalakaSr. Director, Solutions Marketing

Ravi ChalakaSr. Director, Solutions Marketing

Accelerating and Simplifying Storage for vSphere and VMware View

Accelerating and Simplifying Storage for vSphere and VMware View

Traditional

Data Center EvolutionData Center Evolution

Well Understood High Performance Low Utilization

and High Cost

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Traditional Virtualization Cloud

Consolidation, Flexibility & Low TCO

Pay for what you use

Storage

Network

Servers

Apps

While 57% of organizations have already deployed virtualization, 49% plan to do so - according to an ESG survey in 2009

Storage complexity & performance is one of the major limitation

Challenges with Data Center EvolutionChallenges with Data Center Evolution

Low Utilization and high Cost


Storage

Network

Servers

Apps

Security concern & application performance

Traditional Virtualization Cloud

Only 46% of virtualization users currently run “Tier 1 applications” due to user concerns - ESG survey in 2009

Top Challenges related Storage for Virtual Server EnvironmentsTop Challenges related Storage for Virtual Server Environments

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Performance

Complexity & Cost

What if You Could …?What if You Could …?

…provide expected user experience for all business critical applications

…simplify scaling storage for VMware vSphere deployments

… deliver horsepower to support millions of random I/Os for 100’s of VMs running mixed workloads

…attain lowest TCO for network storage

…accelerate VMware deployments for higher ROI


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Traditional Storage Architectures have Limited CapabilitiesTraditional Storage Architectures have Limited Capabilities

Traditional storage… … uses manually-intensive operations and makes dynamic environment

difficult to support … is unable to deliver high random I/O performance required by real-

world VMware vSphere mixed workloads … requires specialized storage skills to support SLAs … requires high costs to scale


PhysicalEnvironment

VirtualEnvironment

Why is the problem so hard to fix?Why is the problem so hard to fix?

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• It’s complex • Complexity exponentially

increases with number of VMware servers

It’s uncertain:• How's performance going

to degrade with 8-10 VMs on single disk I/O queue?

• What if we use RDM instead & later run out of LUNs?

It’s costly:• Expanding touch points

require too many FC SAN specialists

Network

Storage

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VMVM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM


VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN

HBAs VMFSHBAs

HBAsVMFS

VMFS

RDM IO Queue LUN IDs MultipathRDM

RDMIO Queue

IO QueueMultipath

MultipathLUN IDs

LUN IDs

FC Switches Zones MultipathFC Directors


33% of FC SAN users are considering changing protocols - Global Virtual Server Survey by Forrester Research, Inc.

VMware Storage OptionsVMware Storage Options


LocalStorage

NFS(For NAS)

NetworkStorage

VMFS(For SAN)

RDM(For SAN)

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Storage Options ComparedStorage Options Compared

VMware over SAN

VMware over NAS

VMFS RDM NFSMost common Yes No No

Enables VMware functions Yes No Yes

High scalability per system No No Yes

Avoid manually intensive operations No No Yes

Sustained Performance No Yes Yes

Recommended for 1000s of VMs No Yes Yes

Storage system enabled data protection No Yes Yes

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Provisioning Storage with SAN vs. NFSProvisioning Storage with SAN vs. NFS

• Set up LUN• Set up RAID set• Assign LUN to VMFS• Virtualize LUN• Assign virtual LUNs to VMs• Thin provision virtual LUNs• Set up FC or iSCSI multi-pathing

• Set up FC switch zones• Set up FC switch hard zones• Set up duplicate SAN & Zones for load balancing & change mgt.• Use Storage

• Set up NFS datastore on NAS• Assign to vCenter • Add network switch• Use Storage

NFS StorageSAN Storage


Capacity Expansion is Simpler with NFSCapacity Expansion is Simpler with NFS

• Increase storage on SAN side

• Increase datastore size

• Including underlying partition

• Rescan each VM connected

individual LUNs to SAN storage

• Resume IO to LUN

• Use newly provisioned storage

• Increase storage on NFS side• Refresh each VM’s storage• Use newly provisioned storage

NFS StorageSAN Storage

Data Center Modernization and Gearing up for cloudData Center Modernization and Gearing up for cloud

NFS is much Simpler than SAN

But is NFS suited for VMware?



BUSTEDVMware supported NFS since ESX 3.0

A single NFS system can reach 194K IOPS

NFS is the fastest growing VMware storage

No difference in NFS vs. VMFS loads

8 datastores is default, configurable to 64

Some file systems are 256TB - 16X greater

True in ESX but false in vSphere 4

VMware masks NFS. Windows doesn’t know it is using NFS

Myths About NFS StorageMyths About NFS Storage

MYTHSVMware doesn’t support all functions of NFS

NFS is too slow

No one uses NFS for VMware

NFS CPU load is heavier

VMware limited to 8 NFS datastores

NFS datastores limited to 16TB

NFS thin provisioned VMDKs auto-rehydrate when moved

Windows VMs can’t use NFS

“VMware is making NFS mainstream and BlueArc is one of the best at NFS” – Tony Asaro, Sr. Analyst, INI Group

Data Center EvolutionData Center Evolution

VMware Supports NFS for Enterprise

But what about Performance?


Real World VMware Environment Requires I/O Operations (IOPS)

Real World VMware Environment Requires I/O Operations (IOPS)

Email, OLTP, Web apps with 1000s of files generate 1000s of random I/O


Network Storage

Virtualization

Email

VDI

OLAP

OLTP Web

Backup

R&D

Bus Intel

Creative

Virtualization

Email

Backup

OLAP

OLTPVDI

Web

R&D

Bus Intel

Creative

Virtualization

Email

Backup

OLAP

OLTPVDI

Web

R&D

Bus Intel

Creative

Virtualization

Email

Backup

OLAP

OLTPVDI

Web

R&D

Bus Intel

Creative More Virtual Machines

mean exponential increase in random I/Os

IOPS (I/O Operations per sec) is more critical than I/O throughput

ESX 4.x can drive over 300,000 IOPS

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Not All NFS (NAS) Systems are EqualNot All NFS (NAS) Systems are Equal

Shortcomings of traditional NAS– Some file systems limit NFS datastores to 16TB

– Manually-intensive storage tiering

– Scalability requires more NFS servers

– Software-based NFS severely limits IOPS performance


Highest Performing NAS Server in the Industry

6th Generation Product

Proven in the most demanding environments

Headquarters in San Jose, CA

Patented Silicon based Accelerated Architecture


BlueArc – Not Your Typical NAS VendorBlueArc – Not Your Typical NAS Vendor

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BlueArc Silicon Accelerated ArchitectureBlueArc Silicon Accelerated Architecture

Generations

1st & 2nd 3rd

4th

5th

• 140 MBps• 140 MBps

• 400 MBps• 50,000 IOPs• 400 MBps• 50,000 IOPs

• 800 MBps• 100,000 IOPs• 800 MBps• 100,000 IOPs

Industry Leadership

Proven doubling of performance with every generation of high end platform

• 1900 MBps• 200,000 IOPs • 1900 MBps• 200,000 IOPs

BlueArc NAS Platforms Increased Capacity At All LevelsBlueArc NAS Platforms Increased Capacity At All Levels


Mercury 50 Mercury 100 Titan 3100

Product Class Mid-range Mid-range High End

Cluster Nodes 2 Up to 4 Up to 8

Max Storage Capacity 4 PB 8 PB 8 PB

Max File System Size 256 TB 256 TB 256 TB

NFS Throughput 700 MB/s 1100 MB/s 1200 MB/s

Performance (Ops/Sec -1 node ) 40,137 SPECsfs 2008 72,921 SPECsfs 2008 96,428 SPECsfs ‘97

Storage Options Multiple options from several manufacturers are available with each platform

Sotfware / File Services All software and file system options (NFS, CIFS, iSCSI) available

Titan 3200

High End

Up to 8

16 PB

256 TB

194,909 SPECsfs ‘97

1500 MB/s

What is SPECsfs?What is SPECsfs?

Standard Performance Evaluation Corp (SPEC) publishes benchmark

“SPECsfs2008” is a storage server benchmark that measures IOPS– Results posted in SPECsfs.org

website– Results are peer-reviewed by a

committee– Includes full disclosure of

– Tested system components– Conditions– A uniform workload


Mercury100 (2)

FAS6080 (2)

Mercury 50 (2)

Mercury 100 (1)

FAS3160 (2P)

FAS3160 (2)

IQ5400 (10)

Mercury 50 (1)

FAS3140 (2P)

FAS3140 (2)

40K 80K 120K 160KIOPS

“SPECsfs2008” BenchmarksCompetitive Comparison

(by number of nodes)

NAS Nodes Compared for PerformanceNAS Nodes Compared for Performance

0

10

20

120

600,000 SPECsfs IOPS Configuration

3Nodes

8Nodes

10Nodes

129 Nodes

18Nodes

Mercury 100

Titan 3200

NetApp6080

Other NAS Servers

NetApp3170

High-End

Mid-Range

Traditional NAS Sprawl

Consolidate dozens of traditional NAS to fewer

BlueArc NAS systems

BlueArc NAS

No More NAS System SprawlNo More NAS System Sprawl



BlueArc is the Optimal Architecture for New Generation Data Centers

VMware Endorses NFS

NFS known for Simplicity

World’s Fastest mid-range NAS* at 73K IOPS per Node

Scale without NAS Sprawl

BlueArc NFS Storage For VMwareServers

Storage



VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN

Network

Std NICs NFS

IP Network

* BlueArc Mercury 100 SPECsfs test results

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Starbreeze Studios AB – A Major Video Game DeveloperStarbreeze Studios AB – A Major Video Game Developer

Explosive data growth I/O performance bottlenecks,

lower developer productivity System sprawl – adding

systems as quickly as possible to keep up

More sys admin time to manage environment

Backups beginning to exceed backup window

Challenges

Consolidated to 32 servers and 3 storage systems using VMware + BlueArc

Eliminated manually intensive tasks freeing up sys admin time

Results

Jon Johansson - “BlueArc’s performance over NFS is just fantastic no matter the size of the virtual server or the number of virtual servers. We

managed to cut build delivery times by up to 67%.”

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Helphire Group – Giles Ogram Sr. Engineer

• “They were able to offer us the performance and also the storage capacity that we required and that’s why we went with BlueArc.”

• “Since migrating our virtual machines onto BlueArc storage, they are able to do snapshots and restores seventy-five percent quicker than on our previous SAN infrastructure.”

• “…on our previous SAN, they would take nearly forty to fifty minutes to clone and deploy a machine from a template. On a BlueArc system, it’s ten minutes at the most.”

• “With the implementation of Mercury, we were able to get the cost per terabyte down considerably.”

• “…more than happy to recommend BlueArc products to anybody that wants to get more performance for less money.”

BlueArc Products for VMware SolutionBlueArc Products for VMware Solution

Mercury™ – Mid-Range Storage System Titan™ – High-End Storage System SiliconFS™ – Intelligent File System JetCenter™ – vCenter integrated Backup Manager JetClone™ – Space Efficient Writeable Snapshots JetMirror™ – High Speed Object Replication Data Migrator™ – Policy based data migration Cluster Name Space™ – Global name space file system Storage Virtualization – Virtualized storage & file system VMware Certified – Platforms & Software are ESX certified


NEW

NEW

NEW

Simplifying Snapshot Backup & RestoreSimplifying Snapshot Backup & Restore


BlueArc JetCenter allows VM Admins to easily protect or clone data

NEW


JetClone: Space Efficient and Flexible ClonesJetClone: Space Efficient and Flexible Clones

Rapid creation of writable snapshots– Uses same source data as an existing

volume

– Make many copies for testing Highly space-efficient read/write volumes

– Contain only pointers to shared blocks from the original container file - Reduces disk space

– User adds only the unique data to a clone

More flexible

– Clone only container files, not whole file system

– A single FS holds thousands of container files

VMDK-1 VMDK-2

VMDK-1’ VMDK-2’

VMDK-1’

VMDK-1’

VMDK-1’

VMDK-2’

VMDK-2’

VMDK-2’

VMDK-3

VMDK-3’

VMDK-3’

VMDK-3’

VMDK-3’

VMDK-1’4TB

BlueArc 256 TB File System (aggregate )

NEW


Policy-Based Data MigratorPolicy-Based Data Migrator

VMware Server Infrastructure

NAS Cluster

Tier 1High Performance

Disks

Tier 2High Capacity

Disks

Tier 3Existing NAS

Improves performance by moving infrequently accessed data off high performance storage tier

Conserves disk space on expensive high-performance tier

Transparent data migration and recall between tiers

Automates migration process with rules based policy engine

Integrates third-party NAS servers with Cross Volume Links

Seamless migration of files across storage tiers eases management and cuts costs

Tier 0Solid State

Drives

Modernize your Data Center withModernize your Data Center with

Fastest NFS Storage,

Simpler than SAN


Now You Can…Now You Can…

…provide expected user experience for all business critical applications

…simplify scaling storage for VMware deployments

… deliver horsepower to support millions of random I/Os for 100’s of VMs running mixed workloads

…attain lowest TCO for network storage

…accelerate VMware deployments for higher ROI


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