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Hyper converged System & VMware vSAN

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Introduction

Hyper converged infrastructure is defined as a virtual computing


infrastructure solution that seamlessly combines several data center
services in an appliance form factor, which accelerates the speed
and agility of deploying virtualized workloads, reduces complexity,
improves operational efficiency, and lowers costs.
Introduction
Hyper converged infrastructure is characterized by:
 A software-centric design;
 Combine hypervisor, compute, storage, and storage switching
with other IT services, such as data protection in the stack
 A single “building block” appliance that, when combined with
additional building blocks, provides a single, scalable resource
pool; and seamlessly scales in capacity and performance;
 A high degree of automation
 The ability to manage aggregated resources as efficiently as
possible within and across data centers as a single federated
system and through a common toolset
VMware vSAN

Overview
99.9999% Availability
• Software-defined storage optimized
for VMs

VMware vSphere® + Virtual SAN • Hypervisor-converged architecture


… • Runs on any standard x86 server
• Pools HDD/SSD into a shared
SSD Hard disks SSD
Hard disks
SSD
Hard
datastore
disks
• Delivers enterprise-level scalability
and performance
• Managed through per-VM storage
policies
UCPVirtual
HC SAN Datastore • Deeply integrated with the VMware
stack
Virtual SAN Scale Out
esxi- esxi- esxi-
01 02 03

esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03 esxi-04


Virtual SAN Scale Up
esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03

esxi-01 esxi-02 esxi-03


Virtual SAN Is Highly Resilient Against
Hardware Failures
 Simple to set resiliency goals via
policy
 Enforced per VM and per vmdk

vSphere ++
Virtual SAN
 Zero data loss in case of
vSphere Virtual SAN
disk, network or host
failures
 High availability even
during network partitions
 Automatic, distributed
data reconstruction
after failures
 Interoperable with vSphere HA
and Maintenance Mode
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Virtual SAN (VSAN) is NOT a Virtual
Storage Appliance (VSA)
– Virtual SAN is fully integrated with vSphere (ESXi & vCenter)
– Drivers embedded in ESXi
– Kernel modules: most efficient I/O path
• Minimal consumption of CPU and memory
• Specialized I/O scheduling
• Minimal network hops, just one storage and network stack
– Eliminate unnecessary management complexity (appliances)

VSA

Virtual SAN – Not Virtual SAN – Embedded


a VSA into vSphere
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