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

1. Retrofit SDS
   1. SDS in name only
   2. Not Scale Out or pay as you grow
   3. Can’t do Hyperconverged
2. Vertically Integrated
   1. Ease of Use
   2. Managed by VM Admin
   3. Optimize resources at signal platform level
   4. Homogenous VM and heterogeneous workload
3. General Purpose
   1. Flexibility, performance, efficiency paramount
   2. Managed by VM/Storage admin
   3. Optimize resources across Data Center
   4. 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