This basically turned into a VSAN & EVO SDDC presentation — improvements in VSAN 6.1 are quite impressive.
- Presenters
- Charles Fan, VMware, Inc
- Mike Feld, CTO, Baystate Health, VertitechIT
- Changing world of storage – in Google, Facebook, etc. datacenter see same hardware used for storage, network, and compute
- Flash is pushing storage hardware to be redone – can’t handle flash.
- <Lost track for a bit to schedule a VCE briefing>
- Now walking through VSAN Ready Nodes
- If that’s not easy enough, you can do EVO:Rail
- Lots of benefits – up to 50% TCO savings, up to 7M IOPs, scale up or out
- 2000+ Customers – lots of logos on the slide.
- Breakdown with graphs about how VSAN saves up to 50% CapEx
- Top Use Cases for VSAN – VDI, Business Critical Applications, IT Operations, Remote IT (ROBO)
- Customer Case Study running VSAN….
- Bay state Health – Springfield, MA, 2nd largest hospital system in MA, 1 MM patients annually, 12,000 employees, EMR = Cerner, Datacenters = 3
- Lancaster General Health – Lancaster, PA, Member of UPenn Health System, 630 Beds, EMR = EPIC (HIMMS Stage 7 Acute Card Ward), Datacenters = 2
- What’s new in VSAN 6.1
- Enterprise Availability & Data Protection
- Stretched Cluster with RPO = 0, metro-distance
- 5 minute RPO vSphere Replication
- Support for SMP-FT
- Support for Oracle RAC and Microsoft MSCS
- Advanced Management & Troubleshooting
- Health-check plugin for HW monitoring, compliance
- vRealize Operation integration for capacity planning and root-cause analysis
- Support cloud-native apps
- New hardware options
- 2-node clusters for ROBO
- New SSD HW Options
- Intel NVMe
- Diablo Ultra DIMM
- Enterprise Availability & Data Protection
- Beta Preview: Maximize Space Efficiency and Data Integrity
- Big Feature 1 = Erasure Coding
- Big Feature 2 = Deduplication
- Looking at anywhere from 1.5X – 16X capacity increases
- http://vmware.com/go/vsanbeta
- Wikibon long-term project of storage market
- Showing the wikibon graphic projecting the storage market over the next 10 years
- Showing most storage moving to be server-based or served from the cloud
- 64 node, 6,400 VM’s, 4.2M IOPs, 500 TB – running live on the show floor (HCI Zone)
- Encryption – currently a partnership with HyTrust or can do Self-Encrypting Drives (may be somewhat higher cost)
- Roadmap = encryption coming in the product later.
- Question – what’s the difference between EVO:Rack and EVO:SDDC? EVO:SDDC replaces the codename of EVO:Rack with a bit more than was announced as part of EVO:Rack last year.