NetApp ONTAP Select Basics:

Architecture, Performance, Value

Yves WEISSER
Consulting Solution Architect

Session 4112

@YvosPivo
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Agenda

1) NetApp® ONTAP® Select Value

§ SDDS, Data Fabric, edge to core to cloud

2) Getting Started with ONTAP Select

§ ONTAP Select and ONTAP Deploy
§ ONTAP Select VM size and licensing

3) Designing an ONTAP Select Cluster

§ DAS versus vNAS

4) Important Aspects of ONTAP Select

§ HA overview

5) Closing Thoughts

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NetApp ONTAP Select
Value and Use Cases

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NetApp ONTAP Select Value

Taking advantage of
Modernize
the Data Fabric
your
datacenter

Extreme edge

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NetApp ONTAP Select Use Cases

Ruggedized ROBO Data center Cloud IaaS

Satisfy unique space Manage remote offices Deploy software- Deliver enterprise
constraints for tactical and retail locations defined storage as part data services on
and emergency consistently with a of core infrastructure infrastructure as a
response or mobile cost-effective, easy-to- or for departmental service, such as
data centers. deploy SDS solution. storage. IBM Cloud.

Edge Core Cloud

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Getting Started with
NetApp ONTAP Select

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NetApp ONTAP Select Setup Tool–ONTAP Deploy

§ A utility VM that supports the Deploy Auto- vCenter

installation and licensing of NetApp® GUI mation plugin
ONTAP® Select clusters
§ Download from the NetApp support site
§ Contains the image of ONTAP Select REST API
Business License
§ 3 ways to interact with ONTAP Deploy logic
Mediator
server
ASUP

§ GUI–simplify the installation for novice users

and small environments
§ vCenter plug in–simplify the installation for the
virtualization administrator and IT generalists
§ REST API for large-scale automated Virtualization platform
workflows

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DEMO

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vCenter Plugin Overview

§ Target
§ IT generalist/VM admins
§ VMware accounts
§ Simplify–operate
storage in an
environment they
know
§ Select integrated into
vCenter
§ All Select
configurations
supported

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NetApp ONTAP Deploy–Best Practices
§ Backup the NetApp® ONTAP® Deploy database and keep a copy in a separate location
§ After any change in configuration, a new backup should be taken
§ VMware Snapshot copies of the ONTAP Deploy VM work as well

§ ONTAP Deploy must be available when:

§ It is the mediator for two-node clusters
§ It is used as a Capacity Pool license manager

§ ONTAP Deploy is backwards compatible with ONTAP Select

§ Update ONTAP Deploy before updating ONTAP Select

§ ONTAP Select updates are done the same way as on NetApp FAS/AFF:
§ However, the ONTAP Select code is a separate binary because it is compiled differently than the
ONTAP for FAS/AFF

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NetApp ONTAP Deploy–What You Need To Know
Keep in mind Recommendation

NetApp® ONTAP® Deploy cannot discover / import Make sure you have a backup of the ONTAP
an existing ONTAP Select cluster Deploy database

Cannot change the ONTAP Deploy VM IP address Create a new ONTAP Deploy VM and restore the
after setup database

Only one ONTAP Deploy vCenter plug-in per Use a centralized Deploy per vCenter, or use
vCenter server linked vCenter servers

Restoring the ONTAP Deploy database requires

Keep a copy of the ONTAP Deploy VM (VMware
the same version of ONTAP Deploy as when the
NetApp Snapshot™ copies or binary)
backup was taken

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NetApp ONTAP Select
Features and Licensing

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NetApp ONTAP Select Product / Feature Matrix

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NetApp ONTAP Select Licensing

Choose Capacity Pools when: Choose Capacity Tiers when:

§ Uses prefer a cloud-like § Users prefer a perpetual-licensing

subscription model on premises model
§ Planning is difficult and user needs § User have a direct relation
the flexibility between software and hardware
§ Resources are consumed
dynamically from enterprise-wide
pools

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Capacity Tiers and Capacity Pools–What You Need To Know
Capacity Tiers Capacity Pools

Perpetual versus time-limited Perpetual Time-limited

Service / support Separate and time-limited Included and co-termed

License SN Tied to a NetApp® ONTAP® Tied to an ONTAP Deploy instance

Select node

Unique within an ONTAP Deploy Globally unique

License portability instance

License types Standard, Premium, and Standard, Premium, and Premium

Premium XL XL

Eval to production conversion Yes No

ONTAP Select VM size increases Yes No

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Designing a NetApp ONTAP Select
Cluster

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NetApp ONTAP Select Deployment Models

DAS vNAS
External array
NVME SSD
Any ESXi-based
HDD (FC, iSCSI, HCI, vSAN
NFS)

SW RAID HW ANY VMWare

NetApp®
RAID HW RAID HCL External
HCI vSAN
Array

AFF personality Similar to FAS Virtual storage appliance

Inline SE on
by default
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vNAS example:
ONTAP Select on HCI
Where is my efficiency ?

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ONTAP Select on NetApp HCI (vNAS example)
Aggregate-level deduplication with Cluster-level (global) deduplication
OTS with HCI
dedup boundary dedup boundary

cl1_n1 cl1_n2 cl1_n1 cl1_n2

aggr1 aggr1
aggr1 aggr1
plex0 plex1
plex0 plex1

aggr2 aggr2
aggr2 aggr2
plex1 plex0
plex1 plex0

commodity compute commodity compute

NetApp HCI

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DAS
HW RAID vs SW RAID

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 Software RAID versus Hardware RAID–DAS Configurations
NetApp® ONTAP® Select
with Hardware RAID
ONTAP Select managed
VM system disks

Boot Core NVRAM root

data data data ONTAP Select
vol1 vol2 vol3
software

Virtual disks
Hypervisor
Storage pool

LUN RAID
controller
RAID group

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 Software RAID versus Hardware RAID–DAS Configurations
ONTAP Select with software RAID
NetApp® ONTAP® Select
SSD
with Hardware RAID
ONTAP Select managed VM system disks ONTAP Select managed
VM system disks

Boot Core NVRAM root

data data data ONTAP Select data data parity spare
vol1 vol2 Boot Core NVRAM data data parity spare
vol3
software root root parity spare

Virtual disks Virtual disks

Hypervisor Storage
Storage pool RDM RDM RDM RDM
pool

LUN RAID Host bus

controller adapter
RAID group

NVMe or

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 Software RAID versus Hardware RAID–DAS Configurations
ONTAP Select with software RAID
NetApp® ONTAP® Select
SSD Full NVMe
with Hardware RAID
ONTAP Select managed VM system disks ONTAP Select managed VM system disks ONTAP Select managed
VM system disks

Boot Core NVRAM root

data data data ONTAP Select data data parity spare data data parity spare
vol1 vol2 Boot Core NVRAM data data parity spare Boot Core NVRAM data data parity spare
vol3
software root root parity spare root root parity spare

Virtual disks Virtual disks Virtual disks

Hypervisor Storage Storage
Storage pool RDM RDM RDM RDM
pool pool
LUN RAID Host bus
controller adapter
RAID group

NVMe or NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe NVMe

Passthrough / DirectPath I/O devices are different than RDMs in a few critical ways:
§ Total number of passthrough devices is host limited (16 max)
§ Adding passthrough devices requires a host reboot
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 Performance – NVME vs. SSD for NVRAM
64k SeqWrite Throughput vs 8k RndWrite Throughput vs
Latency Latency
16000 20000

14000 18000
16000
12000
14000
LATENCY (ΜS)

LATENCY (ΜS)
10000 12000
8000 10000

6000 8000
6000
4000
4000
2000 2000
0 0
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
THROUGHPUT (MB/S) THROUGHPUT (MB/S)

SSD NVRAM v10 NVME NVRAM v15 SSD NVRAM v10 NVME NVRAM v15

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Important Aspects of NetApp ONTAP
Select
HA with RAID Synchronous Mirroring

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NetApp ONTAP Select HA–All Configurations
§ NetApp® ONTAP® Select HA is identical for DAS § Large clusters are based on multiple, discrete HA
and vNAS pairs
§ Synchronous disk-to-disk replication for resiliency § Identical to FAS/AFF clusters

ONTAP Select on DAS vNAS with external array vNAS with HCI
(NetApp HCI, vSAN, third-party HCI
stacks)

Network

NVRAM Mirroring NVRAM NVRAM Mirroring NVRAM NVRAM Mirroring NVRAM

RAID mirror RAID mirror RAID mirror

DAS DAS
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ONTAP Select HA–Two-Node Clusters ONTAP Data
DEPLOY center 1
§ Built on a NetApp® ONTAP®
HA model
§ Requires the use of the ONTAP
Deploy VM as a mediator iSCSI mediator traffic
Maximum latency:
§ Mediator can be in a remote data 125 ms RTT
center Minimum bandwidth:
5Mb/s
§ One mediator can be shared
between multiple 2-node clusters

§ Synchronous replication
between HA nodes
§ Two copies of user data HA HA

§ Supports ONTAP NDO and

DAS
NDU operations
§ 60-second takeover guarantee
Data
§ Requires at least 4 x 1Gb center 2
ports or 1 x 10Gb port
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NetApp ONTAP Select
MetroCluster SDS
§ Built on a NetApp ONTAP® two-node HA model
Data center 1 Data center 2 § Requires the use of the ONTAP Deploy VM as a mediator
§ Mediator must be in a third location
§ Premium license is required

§ Synchronous replication between 2 sites

§ 0 RPO
NSX VXLAN-V NSX VXLAN-V
Metro/campus § 60-second takeover guarantee
network
§ No dedicated networking infrastructure is
required
VM § Internal and external port groups must connect to the same
upstream switch
Location 3 § 1Gb and 10Gb are supported
mediator § Up to 5ms RTT mean latency and 5ms RTT jitter for a
maximum total of 10ms
NetApp® MetroCluster® SDS network:
5ms RTT / 5ms jitter § Over 200m and up to approximately 10KM
maximum latency 10ms
10km distance between nodes § Requires two separate hosts
§ DAS (HDD or SSD) OR external storage

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Performance

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Performance–Cluster Size Impact on Performance
(AFFp medium VM with hardware RAID)

MiB/s at peak

NetApp® ONTAP® Select Multiplication

Medium VM Medium VM factor
Medium VM (HA)
(single node) Green / RED

64 KB sequential read 1425 MB/s @ 5.63 ms 1438 MB/s @ 1.48 ms x 1.01

64 kb sequential write 592 MB/s @ 11.82 ms 788 MB/s @ 4.2 ms x 1.33

8 kb random read 420 MB/s @ 2.43 ms 453 MB/s @ 4.94 ms x 1.09

8 KB random write 193 MB/s @ 5.16 ms 273 MB/s @ 7.33 ms x 1.41

8 KB, 50% random read/write 294 MB/s @ 3.43 ms 366 MB/s @ 7.56 ms x 1.24

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Key Takeaways

§ The NetApp® ONTAP® Select evaluation is free for 90 days. There are NO
restrictions in terms of VM size, cluster size, capacity, or performance.
§ Single-node evaluation clusters are extremely easy to install.
§ Performance is hardware dependent.

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