The Software Defined Storage Revolution is Here: Discover Your Options
Here are some of the highlights of this session I attended
3 different types of SDS
- Retrofit SDS
- SDS in name only
- Not Scale Out or pay as you grow
- Can’t do Hyperconverged
- Vertically Integrated
- Ease of Use
- Managed by VM Admin
- Optimize resources at signal platform level
- Homogenous VM and heterogeneous workload
- General Purpose
- Flexibility, performance, efficiency paramount
- Managed by VM/Storage admin
- Optimize resources across Data Center
- Heterogeneous VM/OS, heterogeneous workload
VMware vSAN Design Point
- VM-Centric management
- Integrated with vCenter
- x86 Server independent
vSAN Feature Progress
- Native Security
- Always-On Protection
- Enhanced Stretched Clusters
- Cloud Analytics
- Intelligent Operations
- Higher Performance
- VUM Integration
vSAN Deployment Options
- Dell EMC VxRail Appliance
- VMware vSAN Ready Nodes
Dell EMC ScaleIO
- Abstract – Pool – Automate
- Abstract the local storage out of each server including, HDD, SSD and NVMe
- Pools all the storage resources together, leaving no resources standard
- Automatically allocates and balances resources based upon each application need
- ScaleIO Data Client and Data server running on any x86 server
- SDC servers the I/O request of the resident host application
- Block driver
- Installed in the hypervisor kernel
- Deploy ScaleIO your way
- Traditional Two-layer server and storage
- One layer co-resident
- Modern and traditional mixed
- Consume ScaleIO Your Way
- Build
- ScaleIO software
- Buy and Build
- ScaleIO ready Node
- Buy
- VxRack System FLEX
- ScaleIO is ideal for
- Array Consolidation
- Private Cloud
- OpenStack/DevOps/Containers
- Build
- SDC servers the I/O request of the resident host application