Vxrail Technical Deck PDF

VxRail Appliances
Technical Overview
David Beraia
Senior Systems Engineer
David.Beraia@Dell.com
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VMware Software-Defined Data Center
The Architecture of a Modern Data Center
Traditional Cloud Native

Applications APP APP APP Applications
Cloud Management
Cloud Automation Cloud Operations Cloud Business
vRealize Suite
Compute Virtualization Software Defined Storage Network Virtualization
vSphere vSAN NSX
Software-Defined Data Center

VxRail VxRack SDDC
Dell Customer
What is inside VxRail?
A full suite of software capabilities to support workloads from edge to core to cloud
POWERED BY VXRAIL HCI DATA PROTECTION

VMWARE vSAN SYSTEM SOFTWARE OPTIONS
Flexible vSAN Licensing VxRail Manager RecoverPoint for VMs

vSphere Ready* New
VxRail ACE** VMware vSphere
vCenter Server Private and RESTful APIs Replication
vRealize Log Insight Automation & orchestration services

Backend services and private
downstream connectors
*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses

Dell Customer
© Copyright 2019 Dell Inc. **Early Access available as of June 2019, General Availability in Q4 2019
VxRail Hyper-converged, Self-contained Infrastructure
What is in a node?
Processor RAM Redundant power Network GPU (V Series) All-flash or hybrid

& cooling Connectivity disk packs
(10Gbps/25Gbps)
Dell Customer
VxRail Configuration Flexibility for Your Workload
G, E, P, S, V Series based on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge servers
Storage
Processor NVMe Cache Drives: 1600GB
Cache SSDs: 400GB, 800GB, 1600GB
Choice of 40 Intel® Scalable® processors SSDs (SAS & SATA) : 1.92TB, 3.84TB
4 to 56 cores per system HDDs: 1.2TB, 1.8TB, 2.4TB (10K)
2.0TB 4.0TB (7.2K)
RAM Base networking

straight
24 DIMM slots SFP28, SFP+, RJ45
2x 25GbE
16GB RDIMM 4x 10GbE
32GB RDIMM 2x 10GbE
64GB LRDIMM 4x1GBE (auto negotiate)
128GB LRDMIM Optional add-on NICs
Power supply GPUs

1100W 100-240V AC NVIDIA
1600W, 2000W, 2400W 200-240V AC Note: GPU SW & drivers
1100W 48V DC sold separately
Dell Customer
VxRail on latest generation Dell EMC servers
G Series E Series P Series V Series S Series
S Series Nodes
Performance
Compute dense Low profile Memory Dense VDI optimized Storage dense
optimized
G560/F E560/F/N P570/F P580N V570/F S570
Supporting latest generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers based on Intel® Xeon® Gen 1 and 2 Processor Scalable Family
Higher core counts, faster clock frequency, more memory channels, faster memory, higher endurance and redundant boot devices
2000W or 2400W 1100W or 1600W 1100W or 1600W 1600W 2000W 1100W
10GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE 10GbE or 25GbE
Optane & NVMe Optane & NVMe Optane & NVMe NVMe cache Mixed-use SAS Hybrid Only
cache cache cache NVMe capacity cache Mixed-use SAS
Mixed-use SAS Mixed-use SAS Mixed-use SAS FC HBA FC HBA cache
cache cache cache Dual Socket Only FC HBA
FC HBA FC HBA GPUs- P40,
GPU- T4 RTX6000, V100, T4,
M10
Dell Customer
Scale how you need, when you need it
Minimizes risk and enables pay as you grow
START WITH WHAT YOU NEED SCALE OUT SCALE UP
Minimize risk by closely Add as few a one node to Incrementally add storage
matching your requirements increase performance and capacity as data grows
Dell Customer
Continuously Modernize
Evergreen clusters simplify tech refresh—no forklift migrations
10GbE
VM
Add new appliance to cluster

vMotion workload to new appliance
Remove old appliance
Non-disruptively
Dell Customer
vSAN and Data Services
Details
In-kernel vSAN makes VxRail More Efficient
TYPICAL HCI VxRAIL WITH vSAN
Storage VM
(per server)
vSphere vSphere / vSAN
Storage VM consumes resources 2x CPU and 3x memory efficiency

Data paths are inefficient Native vMotion and DRS
Management must be bolted on Simple, single management pane
Coarse storage management Per-VM management and polices
Dell Customer
VxRail is Architected for Efficiency
Advantages of kernel integration versus VSA
Technical advantages: vSAN code

Virtual Virtual
is in the vSphere kernel
Storage
Appliance
Storage
Appliance
• No need to install Virtual Storage Appliances (VSA)
• CPU utilization <10%
• No reserved memory required
vSphere vSphere vSphere + Virtual SAN • Provides the shortest path for I/O
• Seamlessly handles VM migrations
... ...
Operational advantages: vSAN is
Other solutions need
Virtual Storage Appliance
Virtual SAN is
Embedded in vSphere
built with and for vSphere Storage
on each host Policy Based Management
• No new management console
• No planning out or carving up disk pools
• Virtual SAN self-tunes to keep policy compliance
Dell Customer
vSAN—what it is, and what it’s not
It’s not a distributed file system, it’s an VMDK Object
object store! raid-1
raid-0 raid-0
• Object tree with branches

stripe-1a stripe-2a
• Each object has multiple components stripe-1b stripe-2b
• You can view it as “distributed RAID” using 3

Mirror Copy Mirror Copy
techniques: ESXi Host ESXi Host

– Striping (RAID-0)
– Mirroring (RAID-1)
witness
– Erasure coding (RAID 5 3+1 and RAID 6 4+2)
• Data is distributed based on policy

Dell Customer
Virtual SAN Distributed RAID Concepts
• Virtual SAN components are chunks of objects distributed

across multiple hosts in a cluster in order to tolerate Virtual SAN Datastore
simultaneous failures and meet performance

requirements. replica-1 RAID1
replica-2
• Virtual SAN utilizes a distributed RAID architecture to disk group disk group disk group disk group
distribute data across the cluster.
• Components are distributed with the use of three main

HDD HDD HDD HDD
techniques:
– Striping (RAID0)
– Mirroring (RAID1)
– Erasure Coding (RAID 5 3+1 and RAID 6 4+2)
Virtual SAN Virtual SAN Virtual SAN Virtual SAN
network network network network
• The number of component replicas and copies created is Each host: 5 disk groups max. Each disk group: 1
based on the object policy definition. SSD + 1 to 7 HDDs
Dell Customer
Distributed Cache: Better than Data Locality
Virtual SAN I/O flow:

• VM reads & writes are distributed to all hosts holding
replicas
• Balances space and IO utilization of the storage
• If one host is busy, the others can still service IO requests
• Miniscule network latency typically between 5 and 50
microseconds will be observed
• vMotion, DRS, HA, etc. cause NO change to IO flow and
no additional overhead
Key facts:
1. vSAN IO delivered from more than one location
2. 10 GbE network is much faster than even SSDs
The SDDC and SDS is about abstraction, pooling, and automation. It

should perform to policy specs automatically without worrying about
placement of individual components.
Virtual SAN delivers on this goal.

Distributed IO
Dell Customer
Advantages of Objects…Policies
Storage Policy
A storage platform designed for policies Wizard
• Per VM, per VMDK level of service virtual disk

• Application gets exactly what it needs
Higher availability Datastore
SPBM Profile
• Per object quorum
vSAN object
manager
Better scalability
• Per VM locking, no issues as #VMs grows components
• No global namespace transactions
Dell Customer
Simply Manage by Policies
vSphere Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM) configuration
Dell Customer
Validating Policy Compliance
Dell Customer
Validating Data Placement
Dell Customer
Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE)
Addresses fears of media theft

• Configured for entire cluster
vSphere + vSAN
• Works with both all-flash and hybrid
• Works with dedupe and compression
• Compliance with FIPS 140-2 Level 1, AES
SSD SSD SSD
256
• Key management using KMIP-compliant
KMS vendors (can’t be in the cluster that
is being encrypted)
vSAN Datastore
Dell Customer
vSphere 6.5 Encryption
Addresses fears of rogue admin

• Per VM level setting
• No benefit from vSAN Dedupe & vSphere + vSAN
Compression
• In-flight (over the wire)
• Key management using KMIP-compliant SSD SSD SSD
KMS vendors (can’t be in the cluster that
is being encrypted)
vSAN Datastore
Dell Customer
Which Encryption Should I Use?
Each solves a unique challenges with trade-offs
• vSphere Encryption vSAN Encryption
vSphere + vSAN
vSphere + vSAN
Addresses Addresses
fears of fears of SSD SSD SSD
SSD SSD SSD rogue media theft

admin
vSAN Datastore vSAN Datastore
• Per VM level setting • Applied to entire datastore (all or none)

• No benefit from dedupe & compression • Allows dedupe & compression
• In-flight (over the wire) • At rest encryption
Both require use of a supported external key management server (KMS) that cannot be in VxRail cluster being encrypted
Dell Customer
Erasure Coding
Overview
• Single parity protection (RAID5-like)
and double parity protection (RAID6-like). RAID-5
Single parity can tolerate 1 failure and
dual parity can tolerate 2 failures
parity data data data
• Single parity will be 3+1 & requires data parity data data
minimum of 4 nodes data data parity data
data data data parity
• Dual parity will be 4+2 & requires
ESXi Host ESXi Host ESXi Host ESXi Host
minimum of 6 nodes
• Dynamically change the configuration RAID-6
to other parity levels through SPBM
• Parity is distributed across nodes
• All-flash only parity parity data data data data
data data parity parity data data
Benefits data data data data parity parity
• >30% storage saving for FTT=1 ESXi Host ESXi Host ESXi Host ESXi Host ESXi Host ESXi Host
(RAID1 vs RAID5)
• >50% storage saving for FTT=2
Dell Customer
Benefits of Erasure Coding
20 19.2
18 50% more
usable capacity
• Erasure coding 16
than RAID-1 14.4 33% more
14
enables an increase 12.8
Capacity in TB
12
up to 50% in usable 10 9.6
capacity when 8
compared to mirroring 6
4
2
0
Raw Capacity Usable with Usable with Usable with
Mirroring FTT=1 Erasure code Erasure code
RAID 5 3+1 RAID 6 4+2
Overhead assumptions excluded to simplify comparison for illustration purpose.
Dell Customer
Storage Efficiency
Cost savings through De-duplication and Compression
OVERVIEW
• Inline Compression & De-dupe to provide average storage
ABC ABCD ABCDE saving ratio of ~50% and more
VM1 VM 2 VM 3 • Enable/disable per cluster
Inline De-dupe • De-dupe is applied on a per disk group basis
• Data gets de-duped first and then compressed
• All-flash only
…
ABCDE
BENEFITS
SSD SSD SSD • Better cost of ownership through De-dupe and
Compression (greater effective capacity for lower $/GB)
• Operational efficiency of managing less storage
• Best experience is to turn on day 1
Virtual SAN Datastore
Dell Customer
VxRail Hybrid vs. All-Flash Capacity
Raw, usable, and effective capacity comparison
VxRail Storage vSAN vSAN Usable Dedupe & Compress Raw Capacity Useable Effective
Type Protection Capacity Ratio @30% TB Capacity Capacity
Level TB TB
Hybrid FFT=1 50% N/A 40 20 N/A

HDD MAX 40TB
All flash EC-1 75% 1 : 1.4 40 30.1 43
SSD40TB
EC1 PROVIDES >2X EFFECTIVE CAPACITY COMPARED TO FTT1
Hybrid FFT=2 33% N/A 40 13.2 N/A

HDD MAX 40TB
All flash EC-2 67% 1 : 1.4 40 26.7 38.1
SSD 40TB
EC1 PROVIDES ~3X EFFECTIVE CAPACITY COMPARED TO FTT2

Note: Overhead assumptions excluded to simplify comparison for illustration purpose.
Dell Customer
Dedupe and Compression
• Dedupe and Compression are enabled on a cluster level (all

flash only)
• Dedupe domain is disk group

– This implementation minimizes CPU and network overhead
– Avoids the requirement of a global lookup table for fingerprints
• Deduplication happens when de-staging from cache tier to

capacity tier
– No latency impact on writes
• Fixed block length deduplication (4KB Blocks), increases

chances of finding duplicate blocks
▪ Dedup metadata consumes between 3 and 5% of usable capacity
• Data is compressed after deduplication, but only if compression

results in less than 2KB
– This can result in endurance increase
Dell Customer
Data Protection
VxRail Protection to Meet any RPO/RTO
STRETCHED
VR
CLUSTERS
RECOVERPOINT FOR VMS
Optional:
DP Suite + DDVE or IDPA
Complementary Protection Levels Based on Need
Continuous Synchronous Asynchronous Point-in-Time Backup and

Archive
Availability Replication Replication Replication Recovery
Zero Seconds Minutes Years
Dell Customer
Advantages of RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
• Disaster Recovery and Operational Recovery with VM-level granularity
• Integrated Management & Orchestration with VMware’s vCenter GUI
• Delivers cost effective proprietary snapshot replication to AWS S3
• Performs parallel replication to on-premises and cloud
• Any point-in-time protection per VM
• Sync/Async concurrent replication to local & remote copies
• Software Only - Hypervisor based replication solution
• Storage agnostic (including VSAN)
• Snap-based replication to S3 with low RPO & RTO and full in-cloud DR
orchestration
Dell Customer
Any Point in Time (PIT) Recovery
Provides DVR-like, ANY Point-In-Time access to data

Minimize RPO & RTO
3:27PM
8AM 10AM 12PM 2PM 4PM 6PM 8PM 10PM 12AM
CONTINUOUS 1 Min
8AM 1PM 6PM 11PM

2+
Hrs
SNAPSHOTS
12AM 12+ 12AM

Hrs
BACKUP
DATA CORRUPTION OCCURS AT 3:28pm
Dell Customer
3
RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines Architecture
Production Site Disaster Recovery Site
vCenter vCenter
Plugin Plugin
vRPA vRPA vRPA vRPA
Splitter
1
VMware WAN Splitter
VMware 1
ESXi ESXi
Deduplication
Compression
Encryption
vSAN/ SAN/ NAS/ vSAN/ SAN/ NAS/

DAS/ iSCSI/ FC/ VVOL DAS/ iSCSI/ FC/ VVOL
Dell Customer
RecoverPoint For VMs - Scale
Number of vRPA Cluster per VC 50
Number of Protected VMs per VC

Enhanced Compression
8K (WAN + Journal)
Number of Consistency Groups per vRPA
Cluster 256 Each RPVM System
contains between 1-5
Number of Protected VMs per vRPA Cluster vRPA Clusters
1K
Each vRPA Cluster can be
Number of vCenters and ESXi Clusters connected to 64 ESXi
registered with each vRPA Cluster
5 hosts
Journal Space: 10GB –

Number of ESXi Clusters registered with each 10TB
vRPA Cluster 8
Dell Customer
Protect Against Any Hardware Failure
vSAN is designed to ensure data is never lost in case of failures

• Simple to set up via policy
• Delivered on per VM basis
• Zero data loss in case of disk,
network or host failures
• Ensures zero downtime from disk
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or network failures
• Interoperable with vSphere HA and
maintenance mode
Dell Customer
What you now know about 3-node configurations…
Only FTT=1 data protection

Trade off of lower entry
Other data protection options require
point for reduced capabilities additional nodes
and protection
No self healing for node failures
When a node fails there are no
additional nodes on which to rebuild
Unprotected upgrade
There are no spare nodes that can host
the workload while a node is upgraded
Every node participates in data protection for all Unprotected maintenance

VMs, either with copy of the objects or as witness When performing maintenance only
one copy of data is available
Dell Customer
Minimum of 4 nodes for Best Protection
• Why start with 4 nodes?

– Provides full re-protection when a node is lost – Virtual SAN can then tolerate
another failure
– This is true for the following cases:
▪ Maintenance mode – full data migration/full protection
▪ Rebuild components on failure when FTT=1
– Another use case is rolling upgrades – full data migration/full protection – no
risk if a failure occurs during an upgrade
• If you want VMs to remain highly available during failure, maintenance or
upgrades, buffered capacity and a minimum 4 nodes are needed by
vSAN
Dell Customer
Number of Failures To Tolerate (FTT)
Protecting against esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03 esxi-04

hardware level failures ~50% of I/O ~50% of I/O
• Defines the number of hosts, disk, or network failures a storage RAID-1

object can tolerate
• Failure Tolerance Method

– Mirrors (full copies)
– Erasure coding (distributed RAID)
• Witness for availability

– Mirroring uses witnesses for performance and availability vmdk vmdk witness
recognition
Default Virtual SAN Policy: “Number of failures to tolerate = 1”
– For “n” failures tolerated, “n+1” copies of the object are
created and “2n+1” hosts contributing storage are required Mirroring Concept—Failure Tolerance Method
– Erasure coding does not require a witness
Dell Customer
How Many Nodes are Needed?
With VxRail a node is equivalent to a host
Number of failures Minimum Hosts +

Mirror copies Witnesses
to tolerate hosts maintenance
0 1 0 1 host n/a
1 2 1 3 hosts 4 hosts
Number of failures Minimum Hosts +

Erasure coding
to tolerate hosts maintenance
1 RAID 5 4 hosts 5 hosts
2 RAID 6 6 hosts 7 hosts
Dell Customer
VxRail Failure Scenarios
Cache Drive Failure Back
Single Site, FTT =1, FTM = Mirror
Components * Copy components

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Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group Disk Group
If a cache drive fails, then the whole disk group fails.

vSAN will copy the missing components to a different disk group.
*example of component layout
Dell Customer
© Copyright 2019 Dell Inc. vSAN status:
Capacity Drive Failure Back

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If a capacity drive fails, vSAN will copy the missing components to a different drive.

Dell Customer
Node Failure with VM / No Component Back
Restart VMs
Components * Components *
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If a host fails, vSphere HA will restart the VMs on a different host.

Dell Customer
Node Failure with Component Back
Components *
w Copy components
If a host, that doesn‘t run any VMs, but contains vSAN components fails,
then vSAN will copy the missing components to a new host.

Dell Customer
Onboard NIC Failure Back
Copy components
Components *
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If the onboard NIC fails, then the host fails and vSAN will copy the missing components to a
new host.

Dell Customer
VxRail – Single Site Back
Single Site, FTT =1, FTM = Erasure Coding
Components *
On the following Slides you will see the scenarios of a Single Site with FTT = 1 and FTM = EC

Dell Customer
Cache Drive Failure Back
Components * Recreate components
If a cache drive fails, then the whole disk group fails. vSAN will recreate the missing components at
a different disk group.
Dell Customer
Capacity Drive Failure Back
If a capacity drive fails - vSAN will immideatly recreate the missing components to a different drive.

Dell Customer
Node Failure with VM / No Component Back

Restart VMs
Components * Components*
If a host fails, vSphere HA will restart the VMs on a different host.

Dell Customer
Node Failure with Component Back
If a host, which contains vSAN components, but doesn‘t run any VMs fails, vSAN will recreate the
missing components to a different host.

Dell Customer
Onboard NIC Failure Back
If the Onboard NIC fails, the Host fails - vSAN will recreate the missing components to a new host.

Dell Customer
VxRail – Stretched Cluster Back
Stretched Cluster, PFTT = 1, SFTT = 1, FTM = Mirror

SITE A SITE B
LINK
STRETCHED VSPHERE CLUSTER (DRS + HA)
On the following Slides you will see the scenarios of a Stretched Cluster
with PFTT = 1, SFTT = 1 and FTM = Mirror
Dell Customer
Site Failure Back

Restart VMs in the
remaining site
LINK
No Storage Failover
If a whole site fails all VMs are restarted in the remaining site using vSphere HA.
vSAN Data is still 100% protected due to SFTT=1.
Dell Customer
© Copyright 2019 Dell Inc. vSAN:
Node Failure Back
Restart VMs on the

remaining hosts
Copy missing components
LINK
If a Node fails all VMs on this are restarted on the remaining hosts using vSphere HA.
vSAN will copy missing components to remaining hosts.
Dell Customer
Witness Failure Back
VMs continue to work – no failure
LINK
If the witness fails vCenter will issue an error / warning but VMs will continue to work
normally.
Dell Customer
VxRail Link Failure Back
Restart VMs on the preferred site
LINK

*preferred site
If the link between the data sites fails, the Witness will create a cluster with the preferred
site and continue working. VMs from unpreferred site will restart on the preferred site.
Dell Customer
Witness Link Failure Back
VMs continue to work – no failure
LINK
If a link to the witness fails, vCenter will issue an error / warning but VMs will continue to
work normally.
Dell Customer
VxRail – Absent / Degraded Back
Single Site, FTT=1, FTM = Mirror
Components *
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On the following slides you will see an explanation of Absent & Degraded Status
in a Single Site scenario with FTT = 1 and FTM = Mirror

Dell Customer
VxRail – Reboot Host Back
Single Site, FTT=1, FTM = Mirror Choose between:
Components * Node needs more than 60min Nodes sucessfully reboots

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Host unavailable
The host will be unavailable. Running VMs will restart on a other host using HA.
Data will be declared as „Absent“ (see unplug drive).

Dell Customer
VxRail – Reboot Host Successful Back
Components * Copy delta

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Host will become available again, vSAN will copy the delta of the data and will continue
working. If DRS is enabled – VMs will be balanced across the nodes.
Dell Customer
VxRail – Reboot Host Wait 60+ Mins Back

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If the host is not coming back within 60min vSAN will declare the host as degraded and will
start to copy data.
Dell Customer
VxRail – Hot Unplug Disk Back
Single Site, FTT=1, FTM = Mirror Choose between:
Components * Wait for 60+ min reinsert drive within 60min

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If you hot unplug a disk, the components on this disk will be marked as „Absent“.
vSAN will wait for 60 mins** for the disk to come back. If not, vSAN will start to rebuild the component.
**default value / possible to change
Dell Customer
VxRail – Plug Back in within 60 Mins Back
Components * Copy delta

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vSAN will copy the delta of the data and will continue working.

Dell Customer
VxRail – Does Not Plug Back in within 60 Mins Back

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vSAN will mark the drive as failed and will copy the missing components to a different drive.

Dell Customer
NDA required
RTS: Q4FY19
SmartFabric Services for VxRail
Autonomous fabric deployment, expansion, and lifecycle management for VxRail
• Form VxRail clusters automatically
• Detect VxRail Appliances during installation and cluster
expansion
• Create multiple VxRail clusters on the same fabric
• Operate networks as HCI user, through VxRail

Manager
• Create switch uplinks and HCI infrastructure VLANs
OS10
Enterprise Edition
• Manage HCIA and fabric switches lifecycle OS10
Dell EMC Z-series SmartFabric Services
• Elastic network provisioning

• Network dynamically responds to VM changes Dell EMC S-series
• Policy-based port profile migration
• Integrated with VMware applications

• Visibility and control through vCenter and vRealize suite
• Enhanced support experience

• World class Dell EMC HCI and fabric services
• Fabric integrated into VxRail services and support experience
Dell Customer
VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail
Flagship Dell Technologies Cloud Platform
on “The integration between VxRail Hyperconverged

appliances and Dell EMC/VMware Cloud stack (like
VMware Cloud Foundation) as a set of integrated
software, provides a roadmap for GraceKennedy to
Only Only optimally run our business-critical applications in

private and public environments.”
VMware Cloud Foundation Jointly engineered
HCI infrastructure offering integrated HCI system with - Nicole Case, Chief Information Officer,
with full stack integration* VMware Cloud Foundation GraceKennedy Financial Group
ONE
Full stack Future proof for Available single point Automated end-to-end Deployment
integration VMware cloud of support lifecycle management flexibility
DellEMC.com/VxRail *Based on internal analysis in April 2019

Dell Customer
VMware Cloud Foundation on VxRail
Operational hub for your hybrid cloud
Virtual Mission Container Machine Data
IoT Modern value-added benefits
Desktops Critical Apps Apps Learning Analytics/Hadoop Integration for faster service delivery
IaaS CaaS PaaS DaaS • Co-engineered with VMware
VMware Cloud Foundation • VxRail unique integrations
on VxRail • Available single point of contact & built-in
Intrinsic Security pro-active dial home support
Cloud Management
vRealize Suite
Modern, consistent operations
Simplest to deploy and operate
Compute Storage Network
• Seamless and automated end to end lifecycle
management
• Standardized VMware SDDC architecture
vSphere vSAN NSX
Modern, consistent infrastructure
Accelerated path to hybrid cloud
VxRail Cloud Platform
• Available network integration, while
VxRail Manager Lifecycle Automation SDDC Manager maintaining customer deployment flexibility
HCI SDDC • Consistent infrastructure across private
cloud, public cloud, and edge for VMs and
containers
Private Cloud Public Cloud Edge
Dell Customer
Optional Add-on Components
Horizon Suite Everything you need to
Horizon 7 App Volumes be hybrid cloud ready
in one solution
vRealize Suite
vRealize vRealize vRealize vRealize Optional components
Business Automation Operations Log Insight
vRealize Suite
vRealize Network VMware PKS Horizon Suite
Insight Ops
Manager
BOSH PKS Harbor VMware PKS
SDDC Manager
VxRail HCI System Software (including VxRail Manager) Core components
SDDC Manager
PSC VxRail (ESXi, vSAN, VxRail HCI System Software)
vCenter NSX
vCenter
NSX
ESXi vSAN HCI HW
vRealize Log Insight*
* Management Domain use only. License required for other workload domains
Dell Customer
Platform for traditional and modern applications
Standardized repeatable infrastructure based on VxRail
Hybrid Connector External API External 3rd Party Software

External Interfaces e.g. HCX, HLM Integrations Storage
Can be specific to certain e.g. Hytrust, Palo Alto FW
Workload Domains (WLD)
MANAGEMENT DOMAIN
Horizon VDI PKS PKS ML/AI

Software Flexibility vRA NSX-T NSX-T
VMWARE CLOUD FOUNDATION

Products, Versions, App Volumes n n
NFS
v1 on WLD1 v2 on WLD2
3rd party software
Database Desktop IaaS Container Machine Learning

WORKLOAD DOMAIN WORKLOAD DOMAIN WORKLOAD DOMAIN WORKLOAD DOMAINS WORKLOAD DOMAIN
Application Mapped
Infrastructure
Capacity, Performance, Large Memory Servers GPU enabled servers GPU enabled servers
Security/Compliance,
HW requirements Mapping to specific HW infrastructure capabilities
Flexible VxRail CTO

Hardware Choices
Models, Configuration
Mix of VxRail Hardware Resource Pools
e.g. GPUs, Large Storage/Memory, Higher Performance Storage
Dell Customer
Cloud Foundation on VxRail management
Easily deploy, configure, and lifecycle entire end-to-end software and hardware infrastructure stack
SDDC Manager
Patching & Policy based
upgrades
VM
Provisioning • Orchestrates the deployment, configuration, and
SDDC vRealize Suite lifecycle management of vCenter, NSX, and vRealize
Manager Suite above the ESXi and vSAN layers of VxRail
• Unifies multiple VxRail clusters as workload domains
NSX vCenter or as multi-cluster workload domains
Deployment Configuration
VxRail Manager
• Integrated with the SDDC Manager
Patching & Policy based • Used to deploy, configure, and lifecycle manage
upgrades Provisioning ESXi, vSAN & HW firmware.
HCI HW
VxRail • Uses native VxRail Manager deployment processes
Manager • Uses SDDC Manager LCM orchestration framework
ESXi vSAN to execute native VxRail LCM
• Monitors health of hardware components and
Deployment Configuration provides remote service support
Dell Customer
One click full stack automated patches & upgrades
A new way to manage data center infrastructure, including hardware, and not individual components
Dell EMC VMware
Cloud Foundation VxRail Update Support Support VCF Update
Updates
Bundle Repository Repository Bundle SDDC and VxRail
VxRail Updates
Infrastructure Components
Updates
.
Applied per Cluster SDDC Manager
. SDDC Manager
. Update vRealize Suite
Bundle Management
VxRail
Manager Released
VxRail Cluster
NSX
VxRail
Manager
Monitor Update Network
VxRail Cluster
VxRail VI WLD & Reporting Notification PSC
vCenter
Compute
VxRail Manager
HW Firmware
VxRail
Manager
ESXi
VxRail Cluster
Schedule Review VxRail
vSAN
Management
Domain
Updates Updates
Dell Customer
Automated deployment of Horizon on VCF on VxRail
Fast, standardized, repeatable, and scalable deployment of virtual desktops
• VMware Cloud Foundation Horizon

• Horizon Servers
automates deployment of Horizon
• App Volumes
infrastructure
• User Environment Manager (UEM)
• Unified Access Gateways
• Rapid deployment to Horizon Pod
and Block architecture
• Reduce complexity
• Standardize environments Compute Storage Networking

SDDC Manager
VxRail Manager
• Scale rapidly
Provision Automated
• More time for value-add tasks Install Horizon Configure Infrastructure Horizon
Automated Day
Software Environment 2 Scale
Resources Deployment
•
workload domains
Faster time to value and ROI
Dell Customer
VMware Enterprise PKS on Cloud Foundation on VxRail
Automate and quickly deploy PKS within Cloud Foundation to run container workloads
Wavefront
VMware Enterprise PKS
by VMware
PKS Control Plane

vRealize
Operations
Kubernetes Cluster Kubernetes Cluster
Service
Security
Brokers
vRealize etcd master worker etcd master worker
Log Insight
Container
Registry
vRealize
Network BOSH
Insight
vRealize
Automation
NSX-T
VxRail Cloud Platform
Consistent Infrastructure • Consistent Operations • Intrinsic Security
Dell Customer
Security is more than just firewalls
Cloud Foundation on VxRail - intrinsic security built into every layer of the infrastructure
Networking Compute
Micro-segmentation VM-level encryption
VPN Encrypted vMotion
Secure end user TPM / vTPM 2.0 compatible HW /
Multi-Cloud Security AppDefense* SW + VBS
Traditional Apps Hypervisor/application security*
Comprehensive workload Workload visibility & protection*
security & visibility
powered by Machine
Learning
Storage Management
Containers
Integrated into
Data at rest encryption the full stack Governance
Cluster-level key management Compliance
Hardware agnostic (no self- Change audit
encrypting drives)
Proactive error detection
*AppDefense included in the VMware Cloud

Foundation Platinum edition
Dell Customer

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VxRail Appliances

Integrated Cloud Platform – Automated SDDC

HCI Appliance - Validated SDDC Design

vSAN Ready Nodes

BYO, based on PowerEdge

Private / Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud

Traditional Cloud Native

Compute Virtualization Software Defined Storage Network Virtualization

vSphere vSAN NSX

Software-Defined Data Center

POWERED BY VXRAIL HCI DATA PROTECTION

Flexible vSAN Licensing VxRail Manager RecoverPoint for VMs

vRealize Log Insight Automation & orchestration services

*Compatible with a broad range of customer-supplied vSphere licenses

Processor RAM Redundant power Network GPU (V Series) All-flash or hybrid

RAM Base networking

Power supply GPUs

Add new appliance to cluster

vSphere vSphere / vSAN

Storage VM consumes resources 2x CPU and 3x memory efficiency

Technical advantages: vSAN code

It’s not a distributed file system, it’s an VMDK Object

object store! raid-1

• Object tree with branches

• Each object has multiple components stripe-1b stripe-2b

• You can view it as “distributed RAID” using 3

techniques: ESXi Host ESXi Host

• Data is distributed based on policy

• Virtual SAN components are chunks of objects distributed

simultaneous failures and meet performance

• Components are distributed with the use of three main

Virtual SAN I/O flow:

The SDDC and SDS is about abstraction, pooling, and automation. It

Virtual SAN delivers on this goal.

• Per VM, per VMDK level of service virtual disk

• Per VM locking, no issues as #VMs grows components

• No global namespace transactions

Addresses fears of media theft

Addresses fears of rogue admin

• vSphere Encryption vSAN Encryption

SSD SSD SSD rogue media theft

vSAN Datastore vSAN Datastore

• Per VM level setting • Applied to entire datastore (all or none)

Virtual SAN Datastore

Hybrid FFT=1 50% N/A 40 20 N/A

EC1 PROVIDES >2X EFFECTIVE CAPACITY COMPARED TO FTT1

Hybrid FFT=2 33% N/A 40 13.2 N/A

EC1 PROVIDES ~3X EFFECTIVE CAPACITY COMPARED TO FTT2

• Dedupe and Compression are enabled on a cluster level (all

• Dedupe domain is disk group

• Deduplication happens when de-staging from cache tier to

• Fixed block length deduplication (4KB Blocks), increases

• Data is compressed after deduplication, but only if compression

RECOVERPOINT FOR VMS

Complementary Protection Levels Based on Need

Continuous Synchronous Asynchronous Point-in-Time Backup and

Zero Seconds Minutes Years

• Disaster Recovery and Operational Recovery with VM-level granularity

• Integrated Management & Orchestration with VMware’s vCenter GUI

• Delivers cost effective proprietary snapshot replication to AWS S3

• Performs parallel replication to on-premises and cloud

• Any point-in-time protection per VM

• Sync/Async concurrent replication to local & remote copies