VPLEX

Continuous Availability and

Non-Disruptive Data Mobility
 Agenda
Unplanned downtime and data mobility challenges
Solution: VPLEX in the stack
Continuous Availability
Zero RPO/RTO in the event of a disaster
Non-disruptive Data Mobility
Tech Refresh
Workload balancing

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 Dell EMC Data Protection Continuum
Availability, Replication, Backup & Archive

Complete portfolio to meet any data protection requirement

Availability
Replication Snapshot Backup Archive

Zero Seconds Minutes Hours

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 Data mobility: an operational challenge
Storage silos cannot keep up with changing business needs

Business Storage
Agility Resulting in
Silos
Application downtime

Poor IT resource utilization

Tech Refresh Load balancing

Migration service costs

Months for Tech Refresh

Risk of things going wrong

D/c Moves Maintenance

Consolidation

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 Unplanned downtime
Catastrophic events cause severe business disruption

Resulting in
Application downtime

Lost productivity

Reputation

Revenue impact

Stress for IT staff

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 Where do you stand?

Operational
Disaster resilience
data mobility
What are the disasters you want to How long did the last tech refresh
protect against? take? What was the opex?

What is your RPO/RTO tolerance? How do you balance performance

across multiple storage tiers?
How does the story of a data center
disaster end?

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 VPLEX For The Modern Datacenter
Supporting every step of your datacenter modernization

Always-On Agile Accelerate

Active-Active datacenters or Seamless data mobility for Time to value cut down
Local mirroring optimal resource utilization from months to days

Creates an flexible storage infrastructure Enables faster Tech Refresh and

Delivers highest availability for across the hybrid cloud, so that you can workload consolidation to All-Flash
business-critical all-flash workloads rapidly respond to business needs

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 VPLEX: Trusted and Proven Technology

>8,000+
Clusters deployed Recent milestone

1
Exabyte of
data behind

VPLEX
>150 Million+
run hours Seven 9s
Availability on target code

>50%
of Global Fortune 500 Companies
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 Simultaneous R/W access
To the same LUN on two arrays, locally or over distance

Stretched clusters over distance

Virtual volume

Other clusters supported: MC ServiceGuard,

HACMP, PowerHA, Veritas Cluster Server, etc.

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Launched in Q316: VPLEX VS6 and
VPLEX For All-Flash

VPLEX

2X IOPS and 1.2~1.5X Future Ready

1/3rd latency Scale Architecture

Next generation VPLEX For All-Flash

Hardware and Software All inclusive appliance

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 Built for flash hardware: VS6

VS6 VS2
2X IOPS
Intel Haswell 4.2x Intel Westmere Scales to multiple all-flash systems
Processor
Dual 6-Core CPU /director Single 4-Core CPU
/director 1/3rd the latency
70% improvement
DRAM Capacity 128 GB /director 3.5x 36 GB /director
12000 volumes
1.2X for Local
Front End / Back End 16 Gb/s FC 2.0x 8 Gb/s FC 1.5X for Metro

Interconnect Infiniband, 40 Gb/s 5.0x 8 Gb/s FC

WAN (FC) 16 Gb/s FC 2.0x 8 Gb/s FC

Note: VS2 with GeoSynchrony 5.5 is the reference for all comparisons

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 Built for flash software: GeoSynchrony 6.0
Re-architected for new multi-core h/w
Solid foundation with over 150M run hours

Flash optimized
UNMAP support for thin provisioning
Full iCDM support

Future Ready
Designed for maximum availability
Over seven 9s on current target code

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 VPLEX For All-Flash
Optimal VPLEX solution for Dell EMC all-flash storage

All you can eat licensing

Add as many Dell EMC AF arrays as needed
No limitation on capacity
All HW and SW included

For EMC all-flash storage

VMAX AF, XtremIO, Unity AF
Available with both VS6 and VS2

Simple to quote and simple to order

Add engines depending on load
No change in functionality and performance
characteristics
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 Customer choice comes standard
VPLEX For All-
VPLEX
Flash

Per frame for UNITY Unlimited use with:

and VNX
UNITY AF
Per X-Brick for
XtremIO XtremIO

Per capacity for any VMAX AF

system Hybrid arrays are licensed as
standard VPLEX

Single, Dual and Quad configurations of VS6 and VS2

supported on both models
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VPLEX Use Cases
 Continuous availability
Seven 9s of application availability

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 Site failure without VPLEX

DOWN PASSIVE

Downtime/Data loss

Hours lost in

- Decision making
- Fail over
- Application restart

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 Active-Active Datacenters With VPLEX

ACTIVE ACTIVE

Stretched host clusters

Simultaneous R/W
at both the sites

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 Site failure With VPLEX
Automatic and transparent failover

ACTIVE ACTIVE

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 When the site is back up

ACTIVE ACTIVE

Stretched host clusters

Simultaneous R/W
at both the sites

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 VPLEX Metro - Always on data access
Uninterruptible Power Supply for your data that extends
across datacenters

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 Intelligent Data mobility
For Agile Infrastructure

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Data Mobility Use Cases
 A traditional tech refresh
can cause months of planning,
downtime and
will be expensive.

With VPLEX, non-disruptive

migrations can save time, money
and eliminate
downtime and risk.

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 Tech Refresh: weekend killer
Purchase and Migration Weekend 1 Batch A Weekend 2 Batch B Weekend 3 Batch C Weekend 4 Batch D Completed
Install New Planning Outage & Outage & Outage & Outage & Data Storage
Storage Data Copy Data Copy Data Copy Copy Refresh

Timeline M i g r a t i o n T i m e

Expensive professional Non-reversibility

services engagement

Disruptive to applications Wastes employee

time

Remediation required Long time to value

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 New Migration Strategy with VPLEX
Non-Disruptive tech refresh During Working Hours

Purchase and Completed

Install New Storage
Storage Refresh

Timeline Migration Time

Save money Eliminate risk

Non-disruptive Save employee time

migrations FOREVER

No remediation Faster Time to Value

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 With VPLEX: Online Tech Refresh
No host disruption

1. New array is brought in

2. VPLEX discovers new array and devices

3. VPLEX mirrors storage

4. I/O is automatically and non-disruptively

directed to the new array

5. Once the new array is fully replicated the

old array can be removed without disruption

6. The old device can be removed from

VPLEX and rolled out of the data center

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 Non-disruptive load balancing

Migrate Application/Data
Across storage arrays
Across data centers
All non-disruptively

Improve performance & scale

Accomplish during business hours
Perform scheduled maintenance without
downtime
Improve asset utilization
Site A Site B
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 Cloud Mobility with VPLEX
Move cold data to cost effective cloud storage
No host disruption and continuous access to data

Applications
Oracle and IBM DB2 have in built features to partition
old data

Hot Cold Save less frequently used archive mailboxes to the

cloud
High data volume applications like splunk can push
cold data to the Cloud

PUBLIC PRIVATE

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 iCDM Support
Enabled by AppSync 3.0

ACTIVE ACTIVE

Leverage EMC iCDM to

efficiently create and
manage data copies

Locally

and across data centers

Support for VMAX and

UNITY coming soon
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 VPLEX delivers

Tech Refresh Service level changes Load balancing

Continuous Availability Intelligent Data Mobility

Within a datacenter Across Datacenters

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 70
Integration with EMC Ecosystem
65
60 ViPR
55
UNITY Automation of data

50
VMAX
Simplified
provisioning
services
VMware
(VPLEX Integrated Array

45
XtremIO
Services-VIAS)
Deep integration for
stretched clusters and DR
40
CloudArray VPLEX
35 Oracle RAC
Continuous availability with
30
Dell EMC and 3rd
party platforms
continuous protection and DR

10 RecoverPoint
5
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 Best in class support

Technical staff available around the globe

Backed by best in class Professional Services

Solution design
Migration services

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 Continuous Continuous
Availability Data Protection

0 Recovery
+
Downtime

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 VPLEX & RecoverPoint
Disaster proof business continuity

VPLEX Metro
Across Data Centers
Synchronous (10ms RTT)
Distances
VPLEX Local
Within A Data Center

RecoverPoint
Operational Recovery And 3rd
Site Protection For Extended
Distances

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 EMC RecoverPoint Overview
Enables Operational AND Disaster Recovery to Any Point in Time

Provides data replication for storage (Block level)

LUNs
Enables continuous data protection (CDP) for point-
in-time (PiT) recovery
Concurrent local and remote replication, sync/async
Heterogeneous array platforms support (EMC
XTREMIO, VMAX, UNITY and third-party arrays via
VPLEX)
Integrated with VMware Site Recovery Manager

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 Recover to ANY point in time

Provides DVR-like, ANY point-in-time access to data

3:27PM
8AM 10AM 12PM 2PM 4PM 6PM 8PM 10PM 12AM

CONTINUOUS 1 Min

8AM 1PM 6PM 11PM

2+
SNAPSHOTS Hrs

12AM 12AM
12+
Hrs
BACKUP

DATA CORRUPTION OCCURS AT 3:28pm

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 Two-site continuous availability with local protection

Local Protection on both

sides Of VPLEX Metro
A B
Production Site Production Redundant operational
Site
VPLEX Metro
Continuous Availability
recovery for applications

VPLEX VPLEX Remote and local Protection

RecoverPoint RecoverPoint
Local Replication Local Replication Recovery To Any Point In Time

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 MetroPoint topology
Continuous Availability with built-in Disaster Recovery
C
DR Site
Single DR Copy

A Disaster Recovery
B
Production Site Production
Site
Automatic Switchover
VPLEX Metro
Continuous Availability

VPLEX VPLEX
CDP On Both Sides Of Metro

RecoverPoint RecoverPoint
Operational Recovery Operational Recovery
Remote And Local Protection

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