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VSAN- The Future of StorageMay 8nd 2015

Amrith Sundar

Business Development Rep

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Transform storage

by aligning it with app demands

Expand virtual compute to all

applications

Virtualize the network for speed

and efficiency

Managementtools give wayto automation

The Software-Defined Data Center

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Pain Points Of The Traditional Data Center

Device-centric Silos

✖ Static classes of service

✖ Rigid provisioning

✖ Lack of granular control

✖ Frequent data migrations

✖ Time consuming processes

✖ Lack of automation

✖ Slow reaction to request

Complex Processes

VIAdmin

Storage Admin

App Admin

✖ Not commodity

✖ Low utilization

✖ Overprovisioning

Specialized Expensive HW

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A New Approach is Needed: Software-Defined Storage

New Control Plane

From Hardware-centric to App-centric

New Data Plane

From Specialized to Industry Standard Hardware

Software-Defined StorageStorage Today

• Policy-driven automation

• Common across arrays

• Dynamic control

• Server SAN

• Flash accelerated

• Distributed

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VMware® vSphere ® Storage Policy-Based Mgmt

• App-centric storage automation

• Common mgmt across heterogeneous arrays

VMware® Virtual SAN™

• Hyper-converged architecture

• Data persistence delivered from the hypervisor

The VMware Software-Defined Storage VisionTransforming Storage the Way Server Virtualization Transformed Compute

vSphere

Storage Policy-Based Management:

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vSphereStorage Policy-Based Mgmt

Virtual SAN

Capacity

Performance

Availability

2 Failures to tolerate

Object Space Reservation 10 GB

Flash Read Cache10 %

• Intelligent storage placement at scale

• Dynamic adjustments in real time

• Automated policy enforcement

App-centric Control Plane That Across Storage Tiers

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VMware Virtual SAN : Hybrid Architecture

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vSphere + Virtual SAN

…

• Software-defined storage built into vSphere

• Runs on any standard x86 server

• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared datastore

• Managed through per-VM storage policies

• High performance through flash acceleration

• Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event of hardware failures

• Deeply integrated with the VMware stack

Virtual SAN

Hard disksSSDHard disks

SSDHard disks

SSD

Virtual SAN Datastore

Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage Software

Any Questions?