Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec and Microsoft Lorenzo Galelli Sr. Principal Technical Product Manager Virtualization Solutions Symantec lgalelli@symantec.com Twitter : @Virtually_LG Blog : http://virtuallylg.wordpress.com
Is VMware really losing market share to the growing competition? 2
Competitive Growing competition Landscape for VMware in the virtualization market space Hypervisor War Native Technology Incumbents & Startups Microsoft continues Hyper-V growth, catching up to VMware Virtualization Wars: Vmware vs. Hyper-V: Which is Right For Your Virtual Environment? SMB 3.0 brings enterprise-class storage to Hyper-V deployments Windows Storage Spaces and ReFS: Is it time to ditch RAID for good? EMC XtremeSF: Delivering Next Generation Storage Performance for SQL Server Running SQL Server on all-flash crushes storage latency, enabling 3-5x better transactional thoughput and dramatically simplifies operations PureStorage 3
So is it really Enterprise Ready? Almost, so what are the real challenges? Enterprise. lets make it so.. Ehem.. 4
Challenges in Windows Hyper-V Environments Application Uptime VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM App App App App App App App App App App App IO Bottlenecks VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Increasing VM (& app) consolidation ratio Storage growth, Increasing LUN sizes Storage Efficiency Create, delete, migrate of VMs & storage Maximize Application Availability Storage Pooling I/O Performance Application uptime Cost-effective VM/application centric storage management Leverage Flash and improve latency and throughput in physical/virtual Maximize Application uptime Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 5
Enabling Enterprise Storage features with Hyper-V 6
Microsoft Infrastructure-as-a-Service Storage Vision 2x Increased throughput 5x Increased capacity Dramatically lowering the costs and effort of delivering IaaS storage services Disaggregated compute and storage Independent manage and scale at each layer Industry standard servers, networking and storage Inexpensive networks Inexpensive shared JBOD storage 3x Reduced cost 6x Reduction in servers Hyper-V Clusters SMB Scale-Out File Server Clusters Storage Spaces Virtualization and Resiliency Shared JBOD Storage PowerShell & SCVMM 2012 R2 Management 7
Microsoft Comparison with Hardware Array Enterprise-Grade Capabilities Traditional Storage with FC/iSCSI Storage Array Storage Tiering Data deduplication RAID resiliency groups Pooling of disks High availability Persistent write-back cache Copy offload Snapshots with File Server & Storage Spaces Data deduplication (enhanced with R2) Flexible resiliency options (enhanced with R2) Pooling of disks Continuous availability Persistent write-back cache (new with R2) SMB copy offload Snapshots Windows Storage Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014
Microsoft Storage Pools Capabilities Pooling of disks Flexible resilient storage spaces Native data striping Enclosure awareness with certified hardware Parallelized rebuild utilizes spare pool capacity Data Integrity Scanner Periodic background scan detects latent corruptions, auto-corrects where possible Integration with both NTFS and ReFS Thin Provisioning Deduplication Storage Spaces Mirror Space Mirror Space Mirror Space Parity Space Physical Disks from Shared SAS JBODs Storage Pools 9
Symantec Storage Foundation Windows v/s Microsoft Storage Pools Storage Foundation for Windows Microsoft Storage Pools Storage Protocol Support Supports FC, iscsi, SAS, SSDs Use the existing SAN or new DAS infrastructure with equal easy Install & Upgrade Application data stored in a SFW Dynamic disk is forward compatible. Data stored with SFW 5.x/6.x can be directly accessed after upgrade. Enclosure Awareness Application data can be mirrored across arrays to protect from enclosure failures. Grow/shrink of volumes are done respecting the array boundaries. Storage Migration Migrate application data from one enclosure online no vendor specific support required. Storage Protocol Support Supports only SAS based storage. Does not support FC or iscsi http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822938.aspx Install & Upgrade Disks added to Storage Pools get formatted. Existing data gets lost Costly and complex way to preserve existing data 1. New disks added to a storage pool. 2. Xcopy data from the original disks Enclosure Awareness Complex and limited protection from array failures. Storage Migration Depend on ODX support from array vendors to do online storage migration. 10
Symantec Storage Management for Hyper-V Virtual Machines Storage Foundation Storage Pools Storage Pools on Windows Storage Pools created under the FailOver Cluster Volume as a unit-of-failover VHDs stored on resilient volume Seamless integration into Ecosystem Failover Cluster aware storage pooling Integrated with native management workflows (FoC Mgr, SCVMM, Hyper-v Mgr, Server Mgr) Supporting all native Hyper-V VM capabilities ( e.g. Live/Quick Migration) Live Migrate Hyper-V Virtual Machine VHDs would lie on SFW Volumes Coexist with CSV 1 VM mapped to SFW Volume(s). Architecture VM 1 VM 2 FoC Cluster SFW SFW SFW Vmdell-12 Vmdell-13 Vmdell-15 SFW Storage Pools Cluster Shared Volume Advanced Storage Capabilities Protect from Storage hardware failures Vendor independent Live Storage Migration Capacity Monitoring Site aware storage management Data VHDs Boot VHDs 11
How SFW helped Hyper-V win over VMware Business Objective VMware based Solution Provide a low cost scale-out virtualization solution Provide DR with least RPO Protect against array failures Drawbacks with Competing Solution Costly Hypervisor : Storage : Replication : DR Orchestration : Or vmsc Certified : VMWare EMC Array (VMAX) SRDF license Site Recovery Manager (SRM) VPLEX/SVC/NetApp/Dell SFW + Hyper-V based solution Winning Points with SFW + Hyper-V Create a Stretched Cluster (Campus Cluster) with FoC and SFW No separate Replication product required No separate Orchestration required No certified solution required Hyper-V less costly than VMWare 12
Enabling Enterprise use of SSD with Hyper-V 13
Symantec SFW SmartIO v/s Tiered Storage & Write-Back-Caching SmartIO Tiered Storage & WBC IO Performance Physical : 3x improvement in IO performance under a true OLTP workload - TPCe Virtual : 2.5x improvement in IO performance when SQL hosted inside Hyper-V VMs (each running TPCe) Failure Protection If the PCIe SSD fails, application data is not lost as the data is written to the HDD. In case of Clustered environment, a node loss would not result into application data lost Live Migration Support LM will continue to work as VM data is always available on all nodes of the cluster IO Performance ( Work in Progress) ( Most of the numbers shown by Microsoft are not OLTP type workloads) Failure Protection In the PCIe SSD fails there is application data lost. If the SSD is mirrored the IO performance is not predictable. In case of a node failure, if the data resides on PCIe SSD, that data will not be available on the other nodes. Write Back Caching is not cluster aware Live Migration Support Can Storage Tiering & Write-Back-Caching support VM Live Migration? 14
SmartIO: SSD as a Cache Details VM VM Block Level Read Cache Intelligently cache reads. Write-Through Cache no data-loss in case of SSD failures. Will work in a clustered environment DataVHDs DataVHDs DataVHDs DataVHDs Deployment Enabled for all volumes No application reconfiguration required transparent & seamless integration SFWVol SFWVol SFWVol SSD Operations SSD Online Enable/Disable cache One Default cache for all volumes Read Cache User can create a separate Volume specific Cache. Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 15
SmartIO: SQL Consolidation Details VM VM Address IO logjam due to SQL or VM consolidation Multiple databases in a single SQL instance. Multiple SQL instances on a single physical server DataVHDs DataVHDs DataVHDs DataVHDs Single instance SQL hosted inside Hyper-V Virtual Machines Improve SQL IO Performance in a clustered Environment Internal (PCIe) SSD drives used as storage cannot be used as shared storage Large SQL databases with SmartIO cache on internal SSDs could be used in a clustered environment. SFWVol SFWVol SFWVol SSD SSD Read Cache Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 16
SmartIO :Cost Performance Analysis TPCe Configuration : 4VM with SQL SSD size: 1.2 TB Database of 160k customer. OLTP workload of 50 users (per VM). Increase in Performance: 2.5x TPCe Configuration : 4 SQL instances on single server. SSD size 1.2 TB. Database of 160k customer OLTP workload of 50 users (per SQL instance) Increase in Performance: 3x Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 17
SSD as Storage Details Auto discovery FusionIO & Intel in-built support for autodiscovery CLI to tag a device as SSD Single instance SQL database Log files on the SSD Lot of sequential writes and reads better on SSD Indexes on SSD Lot of random reads better on SSD Global Failover Protecting from Failures Mirror it with HDD. Make it the preferred read plex HDD plex could be a Shared disk in case of cluster DR Single node VCS cluster (supports non-scsi devices) VVR Replication, SRL on SSD Production Sync/Asynch replication over LAN/WAN DR Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 18
Storage Management for Hyper-V Virtual Machines Cost Effective & Resilient Storage Pooling for Hyper-V Simplified Storage Services Seamless Integration with Ecosystem Advanced Storage Capabilities Wizard driven storage provisioning & management VHDs on resilient storage volumes. Online grow and shrink of volumes VSS aware snapshots Failover Cluster aware storage pooling Integrated with native management workflows (FoC Mgr, SCVMM, Hyper-v Mgr, Server Mgr) Supporting all native Hyper-V VM capabilities ( e.g. Live/Quick Migration) Protect from Storage hardware failures Vendor independent Live Storage Migration Capacity Monitoring Site aware storage management Cost Effective & Resilient VM specific storage services Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 19
Enterprise Availability for Hyper-V with Symantec 20
Application availability a key requirement for virtualization of critical apps 451 Research TheInfoPro Servers and Virtualization Wave 13, October 2013 21
VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012 Overview Application Health detection inside virtual machine Cluster service in host takes remedial action Independent of Guest Clustering No need for clustering in guest Windows Server 2012 Required As both host and guest OS Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V integration services on guest Installed by default Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014
Coordinated recovery with Hyper-V Role and Microsoft Failover Cluster Details Coordinated handoff to Failover Cluster Resource Policies VM level recovery and failover for resource faults. Granular level settings per VM Utilizing Microsoft Heartbeat service within Failover Cluster Leverage heartbeat service for communication of faulted applications. Can be enabled and disabled from within ApplicationHA for maintenance of application. Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014
Providing application resilience with Microsoft FOC and Symantec ApplicationHA Symantec ApplicationHA protect application components Microsoft Failover Cluster protect infrastructure components App Components Application Resources OS VM Hyper-V Server Site VM1 VM2 VMx c1 c1 c1 c3 c2 c3 c2 c2 c4 VM Heartbeat Service OS OS OS Microsoft Failover Cluster Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 24
Coordinated recovery between ApplicationHA and Microsoft Failover Cluster App monitoring Show health status VM1 VM1 VM2 VM1 VM2 Detect app failures SQL SQL IIS SQL IIS Coordinated recovery Restart applications Trigger Failover Cluster for further recovery Integration via VM Heartbeat Service OS Application HA OS Failover Cluster Microsoft Hyper-V Application HA OS Application HA OS Failover Cluster Microsoft Hyper-V Protects against wide range of failures Infrastructure failures VM is up but app is down VM recovers after a server failure but app doesn t App is up but not functional Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 25
Coordinated recovery between ApplicationHA and Failover Cluster Details Deep understanding of the apps App specific modules start, stop, recover apps Eg: SQL DB instances, FileStream, Analysis, Storage mount points, dependencies Functional testing based on SQL queries Customizable recovery behavior App or VM restart limit In-guest remediation only - Enable/Disable App Heartbeat Turn off remediation during planned maintenance - Enter/Exit Maintenance mode VM1 ApplicationHA App OS Agent Pack EXCH SQL Application HA Failover Cluster Microsoft Hyper-V 26
Platform and Application Coverage ApplicationHA Guest Platform Support includes Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2 (all x64) Wizard driven auto discovery of applications include Custom Application SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2012 Exchange Server 2010 IIS 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 8.5 Sharepoint 2010 Oracle Database 11gR2, 12c FileShare PrintShare Can also leverage Symantec Cluster Server agents More applications on more platforms to be added in future releases Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014
Coordinated recovery between ApplicationHA and Microsoft Failover Cluster Details Simple Application Configuration Wizards Deployed from web browser of from Veritas Operations Manager Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014
Visualize and control apps from web browser - Screenshot Application Status Application Operation Detailed Monitoring Application Settings 29
Applications Working Together Drives Your Business! Coordination between application tiers drives the business service for its organizations and for its customers Reduce operational headaches Orchestrated start/stop order. Auto Fault remediation to reduce siloed management headaches. 2 Audit Log 3 2 1 Business Application Web Service Message Service Database 30
Should it take hours to recover from a failed service? Limited automation with different protection tools for each tier 00:00 Database faces an outage, automatically recovered on standby node 00:01 Service fails, customers lose access to balance enquiry website 00:05 Monitoring software detects outage, creates ticket 00:10 Help desk starts processing ticket, finds service owner 00:20 Service owner starts troubleshooting: are web servers OK? 00:30 Locate the virtualization admin: troubleshoot VM layer 00:45 Virtualization admin: Web Servers OK, not my problem, check DB 00:50 Look up dependencies, service is using CustomerInfo database 01:00 Pull up the DBA: Is the database working OK? 01:15 DBA: DB all clear, my databases are all well protected! 01:30 Continue troubleshooting: DB OK, Web OK, is BusinessLogic App OK? 01:40 BusinessLogic Application not touched in ages, what s the password? 02:00 Oh no, the Application is pointing to the failed DB server 02:10 Reset the Application to point to the active DB server 02:15 Check if website is accessible Yes? You re sure? PHEW! Virtual Business Services Lab SYMANTEC VISION 2014
Virtual Business Service Single logical entity for the multi-tier application Business Application Web server Veritas Operations Manager Virtual Business Service Application Web Server app app app Application Server Database Database 32
Always-on automatic multi-tier protection with Virtual Business Services Business Application Web server 00:00 Database faces an outage 00:00 Website down 00:01 VCS recovers Database; DB OK 00:03 VBS transmits DB recovery to App 00:04 Application reconnects; App OK 00:05 Website Up! Application Database ApplicationHA app app app VCS VCS HA/DR Virtual Business Services Lab SYMANTEC VISION 2014 Configurable reaction to lower tier events Virtual Business Services Automatic fault & recovery communication Virtual Business Services Automatic application protection Veritas Cluster Server
ApplicationHA ApplicationHA Introducing Virtual Business Services for Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual App Tier Virtual Business Services Web Servers Utilize current infrastructure to provide service level orchestration Failover Cluster Hyper-V Standalone Application Server Proactive Service health validation lower operational expenses Database (MS FOC) Overcome operational silos, eliminate availability issues quicker VBS 3-party support is licensed via ApplicationHA. The feature is installed from the VBS 3-party support package, which is available on the ApplicationHA media. 34
Maximize Application Uptime Making Hyper-V Enterprise Ready Application HA Dynamic Multipathing Zero RPO DR solution VM 1 App Monitor Application and remediation hosted inside a Hyper-V VM Visibility and managing application dependencies Support for various applications inbox Single Multipathing solution for multiple array vendors Microsoft WHQL certified Quarterly updated support for new arrays. Campus-level DR for Virtual Machines with Zero RPO Store Virtual Machine data mirrored volumes that are site separated. No extra license for a replication software No replication management. Cost Effective & Resilient VM specific storage services Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 35
Making Hyper-V Enterprise Ready with Symantec 36
Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows 6.1 : Feature List Accelerated Virtualization Storage Optimization Ensure 24x7 Availability GA Resilient Storage for Hyper-V VM specific storage services Protect against array failures Vendor independent Live Storage Migration support Cluster Volume Manager for Hyper-V environment SmartIO for Hyper-V Enable or disable caching per VM basis SmartIO Read Cache based on SSD. Caching independent of SSD vendor Online grow and shrink of cache AppHA for Hyper-V DG storage migration Hyper-V VM storage migration Enclosure storage migration Storage Migration performance Improvements VBS support for FoC Bug fixes/ Hotfixes roll-up Total Customer Experience (TCE) & Manageability Seamless Integration into the Ecosystems Failover Cluster aware storage pooling Integrated with native management workflows (FoC Mgr, SCVMM, Hyper-v Mgr, Server Mgr) Supporting all native Hyper-V VM capabilities ( e.g. Live/Quick Migration) Windows Server 2012 & R2 Support Co-existence across Symantec storage management, HA/DR Hyper-V Virtual Fibre Channel support Building Enterprise Class Hyper-V Solutions with Symantec SYMANTEC VISION 2014 37
Hyper-V Technology Top-5 Reasons to use Symantec in your Hyper-V Environment 1 2 3 4 5 Increase your Storage Utilization & IO Performance VM specific storage services. Move storage around keeping your Hyper-V Guest always online. Online Grow, Shrink Online Subdisk Move. Get 3x IO performance boost using SmartIO Cost Effective Campus DR solution for Virtualization No need for a replication solution synchronous replication using mirroring Reduce cost by consolidating SQL instances SmartIO helps in packing more SQL instances. SmartIO helps in packing more VMs Availability for Mission Critical applications Visibility and health of applications within Hyper-V Integration coordinated recovery with Failover Cluster Reduce Acquisition Cost DMP in the Parent Partition. Hyper-V storage protected from path failures Hyper- V growth at 62% 2011 YoY growth (IDC) and estimated at approximately 27% market share (Gartner) Windows Datacenter can run unlimited instances of VM much cheaper than VMWare Is Hyper- V Enterprise Ready? 38
Other related Vision sessions you should check out. 1280 - OpenStack and Storage Foundation Evolution 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Symantec and Amadeus have a long customer/vendor relationship. But Openstack, the new open source cloud ecosystem, is changing the nature of that relationship. 1708 - Business Critical Virtualization for VMware 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM Virtualization has become an integral part of today's IT world and organizations are adopting virtualization technologies and platforms at an ever-increasing rate. 39
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