VSPEX with VPLEX

Private Cloud Solution

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Limitations To Your Success

Massive Data Growth
Increasing Requirements for Application
Access, Availability and Flexibility
Escalating Costs 70% on Maintenance
Infrastructure Shift Physical to Virtual
Storage Management Problems.
Monitoring , Alerting and Awareness
IT Budget Spend
30
70

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Backup and Recovery

Backup Windows
Application Consistent Recovery
Granular Recovery
Backup Silos

Paths To Cloud Infrastructure

Build Your Own

EMC VSPEX

VCE VBLOCK

Simpler, Faster, Lower TCO

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EMC VSPEX
SIMPLE. EFFICIENT. FLEXIBLE.
Applications
Virtualization

x86 Server
Network
EMC Storage

Proven By EMC
Private Cloud
End User Computing
Virtualized Applications
Packaged By Partners
Leveraging Customer Existing Infrastructure
Focused on Vendor Choice

EMC Backup

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The VSPEX Family

PRIVATE CLOUD
50

100

125

250

END
END USER
USER COMPUTING
COMPUTING
500

VIRTUAL MACHINES

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250

500

1000

APPLICATION
APPLICATION SPECIFIC
SPECIFIC VSPEX
VSPEX

2000

VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

VSPEX - Private Cloud Architectures

Simple

Choice of Server & Network Vendor

Application Storage Wizards in Unisphere VNXe/VNX

Tight integration of storage & backup with Hypervisors
Proven & Documented for repeatable deployment

Efficient
50VM VNXe3150 | NetWorker | Data Domain DD160
100VM VNXe3300 | Avamar Business Edition
125VM
250VM
500VM

VNX5300 | VPLEX * | Avamar | Data Domain DD640

VNX5500 | Avamar | Data Domain DD670
VNX5700 | Avamar | Data Domain DD860

* VMware vSphere Only

Leverage Hypervisors High Availability

Optimized Storage for Virtual Environments ESI
EMC FAST Cache and FAST VP on VNX for Performance
VNX Integration with System Center

Flexible

Multiple VSPEX Reference Architectures to pick from

Scale Apps flexibly and non-disruptively
Choice of Hypervisor, Server, & Network
Optional add on such as XtremCache

VSPEX with EMC XtremSW Cache + XtremSF

To boost performance of your Applications

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VSPEX with VPLEX

Delivering Continuous Proven Infrastructure Operations

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

APP

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

OS

VMs, Applications and Data can be moved

between multiple arrays in a data center, or
across arrays in 2 data centers
Allowing for the SAME information to be READ /
WRITE accessible at the SAME time in two
SEPARATE locations
Zero Downtime & Elimination of Boundaries
Applications kept online 24 x 7 x 365

VPLEX
VPLEX
Distributed
Distributed
Volume
Volume

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Flexible Performance Profile You Choose

Continuous Availability, Performance + Usage

VPLEX: MOBILITY & AVAILABILITY

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The
The SAME
SAME information
information is
is read/writeable
read/writeable
in
in TWO
TWO locations
locations at
at the
the SAME
SAME time
time

AVAILABILITY

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MOBILITY

Unplanned
Downtime

Infinite
Flexibility

Background Traditional Data Protection

Active Passive Data Access
Information read / write accessible only
from one site at a time
Upon a failure, data available at the second
site
Failover and failback and application restart
is a manual process often not invoked
Array Replication

Moving applications for load balancing or

infrastructure maintenance is disruptive

Manual Invocation

Active Failure Domain

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Passive Failure Domain

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The Case for Continuous Availability

What is Continuous Availability?
REDUCED
REDUCED

Complexity
Complexity
DATA
DATA
Mobility
Mobility
HIGHER
HIGHER
Utilization
Utilization
Automation
Automation

Technology
Technology
Non-disruptive
Refresh
Non-disruptive
Refresh

HIGH
HIGH

Availability
Availability
Application
Application
Availability
Availability
ZERO
ZERO
Downtime
Downtime

Simplification
Simplification Operational
Operational
Efficiency
Efficiency

Migrations
Migrations

ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ACTIVE
ZERO
ZERO
RTO
RTO // RPO
RPO

24/7
24/7

365
365 DAYS
DAYS

Non-disruptive
Non-disruptive
Operations
Operations

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Understanding the Cost Discussion

5%
10%

Disasters*

5%

Unscheduled events/failures*

11%

Scheduled events

85%

85%

Average coast of unplanned data center outages per hour**

Total
$505K/hr

* Data from Quorum DR report; Symantec data center managers study; Dunn & Bradstreet Fortune 500 study
** USA Today Survey (May 2011) computed from 41 benchmarked data centers

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Continuous Availability with VPLEX

Non-disruptive Mobility
between arrays in a
datacenter
Cluster Servers

VPLEX

Data Mobility

Non-disruptive Mobility Non-disruptive Mobility

between arrays over
between data center
distance
and public cloud
Stretched Clusters

VPLEX

VPLEX
Metro

VPLEX

Stretched Clusters

VPLEX

VPLEX
Metro

VPLEX
Public
Cloud

Data Mobility

Data Mobility

Apps and data remain available if an array or datacenter fails

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Why CA Within a VSPEX Environment

Non-disruptively load
balance Missioncritical applications

Non-disruptive Mobility
in private and public
clouds

VSPEX
VPLEX
VSPEX

VSPEX

VPLEX

VPLEX

Public
vCloud

Scale VMware clusters

for performance and
lower operational
costs
vMotion
HA

VSPEX
VPLEX

DRS
FT

VSPEX
VPLEX

VPLEX Metro
VSPEX

VNX5300

VNX5300

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VNX5300

VNX5300

Private
Cloud VPLEX

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Winning Use Cases for VPLEX

Extend Clusters
over Distance

Non-Disruptive
Tech Refresh

RAC

Performance
Optimization
VSPEX

VSPEX

VPLEX

VPLEX

LUN
A(V)

LUN
B(V)
A

LUN
C(V)
B

LUN
A

LUN
B

LUN
C

VPLEX

VSPEX

VSPEX

VPLEX

VPLEX

Migration

VNX 5300

VNX 5700

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VMware VPLEX-VSPEX CA Architecture

Virtual

VMware vMotion

Virtual

VMware
VMware

VMware HA

VMware
VMware

VMware DRS
VMware FT

VSPEX

VPLEX

VPLEX Metro

VPLEX

VSPEX

vMotion across datacenters for nondisruptive load balancing,

maintenance, and workload relocation
Automatic failover and restart - no
manual intervention needed
VMware DRS for full utilization of
resources across domains

Active-Active
Active-Active CA
CA Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Certified

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Time for the Next Tech Refresh

Meeting with App owners
to plan downtime
Expensive
services
Heres where Ill
Spend my weekends

Race to
Monday

Migration!

Server
remediation
Risky

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New Migration Strategy with VPLEX

Use
Case

NON-DISRUPTIVE PROCESS
No application downtime
VSPEX
VPLEX

LUN
B(V)
B

LUN
C(V)
C

LUN
A

LUN
B

LUN
C

h
iitth
W
W
X
EX
LE
PL
V
VP

re
e
or
effo
B
X
Be E
X
E
L
PL
VP
V

Batch A
Purchase and Schedule
Install VPLEX Maintenanc
e
Timeline

Purchase and
Install New
Storage
Timeline

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Migrations occur during WORKING hours

REDUCES time and cost of migrations

Race
to
Mond
ay

LUN
A(V)
A

LIMIT RISK Fully reversible

Batch B
Scheduled
Maintenanc
e

Batch C
Scheduled
Maintenanc
e

All
Storage
Virtualize
d

Purchase
and Install
New
Storage

Completed
Storage
Refresh

Non-Disruptive
Data MOBILITY
During Working Hours

Migration Weekend 1 Batch A Weekend 2 Batch B Weekend 3 Batch C

Planning
Outage &
Outage &
Outage &
Data Copy
Data Copy
Data Copy

Migration Time

Weekend 4
Remediation

Completed
Storage
Refresh

Migration Time

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Mobility and Performance Optimization

Load balance applications across

arrays
VSPEX

VSPEX

VPLEX

VPLEX

VPLEX

Increase performance and scale

better resource utilization
Non-disruptive scheduled
maintenance

VNX5300

VNX5300

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VNX5300

VNX5300

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EMC Unisphere for Simple Management

Smarter management, greater automation, faster results
Manage it all VNX, VPLEX, CLARiiON, and Celerrafrom a common interface

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SRM Suite VPLEX Report Pack

Dashboard and Reports

Main Reports List:

Directors Health: Frontend and
Backend IOPS,Bandwidth and
Status
Virtual Volumes Health:
locality, read/write/iops, status
Storage Volumes Health
Capacity Planning and
Trending
Global Dashboard

Polled Metrics:

Arrays: model, name, status

Directors: cpu, bytes in/out,

exchange bytes, IOPS,
serial#, health, model,

Clusters: Health, connectivity,

VirtualVolume: latency,
read/write/ aborts/status,

Extents, Ports,

Supported Models:
All VPLEX 5.X
Only CLI Access required

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Reduced platform
migration outages to
ZERO

Migrated 250 live systems

with zero downtime

Saved over $500K during

data center migration
Created 100% uptime for
critical applications

Avoiding $180K in missed

revenue per day with billing
system availability

Downtime approaching zero

Increased performance by
5X

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Completed migrations
94% FASTER with zero
downtime

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VSPEX with VPLEX Summary

Increase Application Availability
Increase Business Agility

Reducing Costs
Transform Backup and Recovery
Enabling Cloud Infrastructure

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