Software-Defined Storage & VMware Virtual SAN 5.5

The Software-Defined Data Center Expand virtual compute to all applications Transform storage by aligning it with app demands Virtualize the network for speed and efficiency Management tools give way to automation 2

The Software-Defined Data Center Transform storage by aligning it with app demands 3

Today s Challenge: Massive Increase in Storage Demand & Complexity Storage Growth Most Pressing Storage Challenges Terabytes Sold 120M 100M 41% YoY Meeting SLA Troubleshooting 31% 42% 80M 60M Data Migrations 28% 40M Time/budget 28% 20M Provisioning 26% M 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Terabytes Sold Management Complexity 24% Source: IDC, Yezhkova, Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems Forecast, November 2013, #244293 Source: IDC, Storage Predictions 2014, January 2014, General Storage QuickPoll, #243511, n=307 4

Storage Market in Midst of Disruption Server Storage Shared Storage New Forms Key Drivers 20-30 years ago 10-15 years ago Today Server flash Falling storage prices Abundant CPU cycles Hypervisor-converged infrastructure Cloud economics 5

The Hypervisor Opens Up New Opportunities The virtualization platform: Knows the needs of all apps in real time vsphere Sits directly in the I/O path Global view of underlying infrastructure Hardware agnostic x86 Servers SAN / NAS Cloud Storage 6

Leveraging The Hypervisor We Can Transform Storage Today Software-defined Storage Automate SLAs via VM-centric policies (Policy-based Control Plane) LUN LUN LUN LUN LUN Replication Hypervisor Converged Pool SAN/NAS Pool Snapshots Object-based Pool VM level Data services (Virtual Data Services) Abstract and pool (Virtualized Data Plane) Array A Array B vsphere x86 Servers SAN / NAS Cloud Object Storage 7

Software-Defined Storage Bringing the efficient operational model of virtualization to storage Policy-driven Control Plane Virtual Data Services Data Protection Mobility Performance Virtual Data Plane Hypervisor-converged Storage pool SAN/NAS Pool Object Storage Pool x86 Servers Virtual SAN SAN / NAS Cloud Object Storage 8

VMware Virtual SAN 5.5 Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage

Virtual SAN: Radically Simple Hypervisor-Converged Storage The Basics vsphere + Virtual SAN Software-defined storage embedded in vsphere Runs on any standard x86 server Pools HDD/flash into a shared datastore SSD Hard disks SSD Hard disks SSD Hard disks Managed through storage policy-based management framework Virtual SAN Shared Datastore High performance through flash acceleration Highly resilient - zero data loss in the event of hardware failures Deeply integrated with the VMware stack 10

Unprecedented Customer Interest And Validation 12,000+ Virtual SAN Beta Participants 95% Beta customers Recommend VSAN 90% Believe VSAN will Impact Storage like vsphere did to Compute Virtual SAN takes VMware a big step closer to the softwaredefined datacenter... Charles Babcock It s really a no-brainer when the hypervisor you want to use also includes this virtualized storage. Ryan Hoenle, IT Director The Doe Fund 11

Unprecedented Customer Interest And Validation Best of Interop Storage Winner and Audience Choice Award Best of TechEd Virtualization Winner

Why Virtual SAN? Radically Simple High Performance Lower TCO Two click Install Single pane of glass Policy-driven Self-tuning Integrated with VMware stack Embedded in vsphere kernel Flash-accelerated Up to 2M IOPs from 32 nodes Granular and linear scaling Server-side economics No large upfront investments Grow-as-you-go Easy to operate with powerful automation No specialized skillset 13

Virtual SAN is Deeply Integrated with VMware Stack Ideal for VMware Environments vsphere Data Protection Virtual Desktop vmotion vsphere HA DRS Storage vmotion Snapshots Linked Clones VDP Advanced vsphere Replication VMware View Cloud Ops and Automation Disaster Recovery Storage Policy-Based Management vcenter Operations Manager vcloud Automation Center Site Recovery Manager IaaS Site A Site B 14

Virtual SAN Is Highly Resilient Against Any Hardware Failure Virtual SAN is Designed to Ensure Data is Never Lost in Case of Failures Simple to set up via policy Delivered on per VM basis vsphere + Virtual SAN Zero data loss in case of disk, network or host failures Ensures zero downtime from disk or network failures Interoperable with vsphere HA and Maintenance Mode 15

Virtual SAN Delivers Enterprise-Grade Scale Maximum Scalability per Virtual SAN Cluster 32 Hosts 2M IOPS 3,200 VMs 4.4 Petabytes Virtual SAN allows us to build out scalable heterogeneous storage infrastructure like the Facebooks and Googles of the world. Virtual SAN allows us to add scale, add resources, while being able to service high performance workloads. Dave Burns VP of Tech Ops, Cincinnati Bell 16

Running a Google-like Datacenter Modular infrastructure. Break-Replace Operations "From a break fix perspective, I think there's a huge difference in what needs to be done when a piece of hardware fails. I can have anyone on my team go back and replace a 1U or 2U servers. essentially modularizing my datacenter and delivering a true Software-Defined Storage architecture." Ryan Hoenle Director of IT, DOE Fund 17

Two Ways to Build a Virtual SAN Node Completely Hardware Independent 1. Virtual SAN Ready Node Preconfigured server ready to use Virtual SAN 2. Build Your Own Choose individual components Any Server on vsphere Hardware Compatibility List SSD or PCIe SAS/NL-SAS/ SATA HDDs HBA/RAID Controller with multiple options available using the Virtual SAN Compatibility Guide* Note: For additional details, please refer to Virtual SAN VMware Compatibility Guide Page Components for Virtual SAN must be chosen from Virtual SAN HCL, using any other components is unsupported 18

Virtual SAN Use Cases Virtual Desktop (VDI) Tier 2 Production Disaster Recovery Target Staging & Test/Dev Site A Site B Handle peak performance requirements (boot, login, read/write storms) Granularly scale from POC to production without huge upfront investments Supports high VDI density Simple to deploy and manage for any vsphere admin through integration with VMware stack High performance and consolidation ratios VM level SLA management via policy Ideal for workloads that require replication RPOs > 15 min and 2/3 daily snapshots Integrated with vsphere Replication and VMware SRM Reduces cost of storage Minimizes data center footprint Rapid storage provisioning and complete automation Reduces cost of storage for non-mission critical workloads Enables Cloud Architect to easily provision storage 19

Using Backup and Disaster Recovery with Virtual SAN Production Site vsphere + Virtual SAN vsphere Data Protection VSAN Datastore Site Recovery Manager vsphere Replication Recovery Site vsphere + Virtual SAN VSAN Datastore Simplification: App-centric data protection, automated DR, managed from vsphere console Lower storage costs Virtual SAN reduces DR storage footprint vsphere Data Protection reduces disk backup storage footprint Lower network costs: vsphere Replication, vsphere Data Protection provide WAN-efficient replication Flexibility: Any virtualized app, any storage Offsite protection: Ensure DR by replicating VMs and backups Automated DR orchestration: SRM interoperability to reduce RTOs and OPEX Backup Datastore Backup Datastore 20

Additional Resources Product Page http://www.vmware.com/products/virtual-san/ VSAN Community https://communities.vmware.com/community/vmtn/vsan VIP Tool vip.vmware.com/salessignup Hands-On-Lab http://vmware.com/go/vsanlab Virtual SAN 60-day Free Evaluation http://www.vmware.com/go/try-vsan-en Software-defined Storage Sales Team sdssales@vmware.com 21

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