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
• 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.