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SS1734 How It Works Storwize and

VMware Virtual Volumes

Carlos Fuente
Distinguished Engineer
IBM Systems Hursley, UK

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Technical University/Symposia materials may not be reproduced in whole or in part without the prior written permission of IBM.

Session objectives

Background to VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes


Overview of IBM Spectrum Virtualize solution for Virtual Volumes
Understand IBM Spectrum Control Base edition and options for policy based
management

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Background to vSphere Virtual Volumes

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vSphere 5.5 Servers and Storage

VCVA

VM2

vCenter
Virtual
Appliance

VM3

VM1
ESX1

ESX2

Datastore
Datastore

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vSphere 5.5 Data Layout

VM2

VM3
config

VM1

swap
vmdk
config

config

swap
vmdk

swap
vmdk

VMFS
datastore

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Why VMFS in 2003?

Provide flexible storage provisioning to match the dynamic and flexible virtual
server provisioning

Avoid multiple day cycles in requesting and configuring storage


system LUN to a server
Provide Copy Services functions (snapshot, clone, migration) at the scope of a
virtual machine
Same problems that IBM SAN Volume Controller was addressing at the time!
BUT this flexibility came at a cost:

Storage Systems only see datastore containing mixture of data from


many servers

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Why Virtual Volumes in 2015?

Storage Systems have become much more


flexible and capable

Following lead of systems like SVC and


Storwize
Leading to next generation of softwaredefined storage
Customers want to use enterprise-class
features from their storage systems

Uniformity with the rest of their nonVMware infrastructure


Better performance
More flexibility in choice of vendor and
solution
Better model to match storage features to an
applications needs
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Overview of SVC / Storwize solution

Solution components
Datastores, storage containers, and child pools
vmdks, VVols and Volumes
Copy Services

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SVC/Storwize VVol solution overview

There are 3 elements required for an


SVC VVol installation
vSphere 6.0 installation

Requires future version of IBM Spectrum


Control Base Edition

SVC/Storwize running 7.5.0 software

Adds functionality for VVols

VCVA

VASA 2.0

Including vCenter Virtual Appliance


management console and ESXi Servers

VASA Provider for SVC/Storwize

ESXi

SCSI
I/O

VASA Provider
Spectrum Control
Base Edition

Management
VVOL enablement

SVC + Storwize family


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Virtualize your Infrastructure

Single VASA Provider installation can provide Virtual Volumes support for your
entire infrastructure!

Storwize

Virtual Storage
Infrastructure

SAN Volume Controller

Storage Hypervisor

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Child Pools SVC/Storwize 7.4

Capacities
Used 15GiB
Free 50GiB

Silver1 : ChildPool1
Capacities

Silver1

Used 1.5TiB
Free 4TiB

New feature conceived for VVol support


Dedicates defined Total quota within an existing pool to
hold volumes (including VVols)
Otherwise behaves like a conventional storage pool

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VMware admin view of child pools

Child pool can be same as a


volume providing a VMFS
datastore

Capacity is dedicated to
VMware admin
Taken from a parent
storage pool of a specific
defined class
Other options possible

See later

VM admin sees datastore that


maps to Storwize child pool
that the storage admin has
given to VMware

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Virtual Machines and vdisks

2 Virtual Machines
6 VVols

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Virtual Machine disks in gory detail

1 volume for system disk

1 thin provisioned volume for


Vmware
configuration information
(~100MiB)

1 volume for swap space


* Plan is to hide VVols from storage admin view
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FlashCopy operations

Snapshot

Point in time image of


Virtual Machine

Clone

Create a new instance


of Virtual Machine
Migrate

Relocate compute or
storage for Virtual
Machine

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Snapshot viewed from SVC

System Disk snapshot


VVol

Memory snapshot
VVol

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What can Virtual Volumes manage

Policy-Based
Management

VM admin

Selection of Storage Class


Snapshots, Clones
Migration between classes of
storage

Storage admin
Allocation of Storage and Quota
Migration within a pool
IO throttling at VM level
Cache mode
Easy Tier
Load balancing across IO groups

Future

Metro Mirror and Global Mirror

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More Internal Details!

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Defining ESX hosts

Virtual Volume enabled vSphere


ESX hosts must be identified using
new host type
Enables new SCSI behaviour
VMware have defined for VVols

SCSI term

VMware term

Administrative LUN

Protocol Endpoint

Subsidiary LUN

Virtual Volume (VVol)

VVOL

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Protocol End-point design

SVC/Storwize system presents


between 2 and 8 protocol endpoints

Based on number of nodes in


the system
VVol is associated with one of the
protocol end-points when it is
created

PE 0300h
PE 0301h

Node 1

Node 2

Based on volume preferred


node
VMware can map VVol to ESX
host
Protocol End-point advertises
SCSI access through all SVC
nodes (2 to 8) at all times

1 node Active/Optimized
others Active/Non-optimized

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Protocol End-point and IO group rebalancing

movevdisk command can be used


to update preferred node for a
VVol at any time
Storwize initiates rebind operation

Notifies VMware
management stack that a
better path exists for that
VVol

PE 0300h
PE 0301h

Node 1

Node 2

VMware multi-pathing driver


updates association
IO is supported on old and new
Protocol Endpoints throughout

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Spectrum Control Base and Policy Based Management

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Viewing Storage in Spectrum Control Base

Storage
available to a
cloud admin

3 storage
systems
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Defining Storage Policy in Spectrum Control

Policy
Definitions

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Defining Storage Policy in Spectrum Control

Policy
Definitions
Policy
Definitions

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Range of management strategies

VM admin: I want a 100GiB system disk for my VM


VMware admin defines more
Make it!

1TiB quota
Encrypted
Thin-Provisioned

I want thin!

I want encrypted and thin!

Thin, Thick, or Compressed


1TiB quota
Encrypted
Thin, Thick, or
Compressed

1TiB quota
Encrypted

1TiB quota
Un-encrypted

Storage admin defines more


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Defining Policy in vCenter

VMware admin can define policies


for the types of storage they need

1-time configuration step


VMware will show the datastores
that are compatible with the defined
policy

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Using Policy in vCenter

Use Policy Definition when need to


create Virtual Machine System Disk

Can filter to find datastores that


support policy
Policy definition is passed
through to control options
within datastore
Or can just use default with any
datastore:

VVols No Requirements
Policy

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Session take-aways

Start planning for deploying vSphere 6 with VVols for your VMware environment
What storage is provided to your VMware environment?

How many storage systems?


How many classes of storage?
How is the storage consumed?

How many datastores?


What allocation polices are used today?
Thick, thin, compressed

How do VMware admins choose the right storage?

Choose which datastore and allocation type?


Do they choose differently per application class?
Think about how you want to use policies between the storage infrastructure
and VMware infrastructure!

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Backup Probably DELETE ME

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VMadmin view of pools 3 different names


Datastore == Carlos Datastore
Storage Container == vvol container

Child Pool == vvol_child_pool

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VVol/VASA Provider meta-data

SVC provides a new meta-data service to VASA provider to host

VVol key-value pairs

Some IBM-specific VASA Provider meta-data


(similar to XIV model)
Hosted on small amount of storage in ordinary storage pool

Thin provisioned disk to be efficient

Can be mirrored to second pool to ensure is not impacted by single pool


failure

e.g. stretched system deployments

SVC provides filesystem interface to make data access flexible


Access to manipulate filesystem contents provided in-band via configuration
node

Same channel as for other management tasks VP sends

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