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Dell EMC Unity:

Virtualization & Application Integration
The Dell EMC Midrange Family
Dell EMC Unity
600/650F
SC7020F
Dell EMC Unity
SC5020F SC9000 500/550F

SC5020 Dell EMC Unity

400/450F

SC7020

SCv3000/3020 Dell EMC Unity 300/350F

SC Series Dell EMC Unity

COMMON TOOLS FOR MANAGEMENT, MOBILITY & PROTECTION

POWERPATH AVAMAR
RECOVERPOINT
NETWORKER

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Our customer commitment

“Because our combination is very complementary… we are fully

committed to, supporting and investing in both Dell EMC Unity
and Dell EMC SC.”

Michael Dell

https://www.emc.com/en‐us/company/our‐commitment/letter‐to‐customers‐and‐partners.htm

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Industry’s #1 Midrange Portfolio

SC SERIES DELL EMC UNITY

INTELLIGENT EFFICIENCY INLINE EFFICIENCY

POST-PROCESS DATA REDUCTION INLINE DATA REDUCTION

FEDERATED UNIFIED
DATA MOBILITY ACROSS MULTIPLE SYSTEMS UNIFIED FILE & BLOCK DATA

BEST ECONOMICS INTEGRATED HYBRID CLOUD

LOW ENTRY PRICE - LOWEST $ / GB UNIFIED CLOUD TIERING

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Why Do We Virtualize?

• Efficiency
– Centralized management
– Consolidate many underutilized systems
› Saves power, cooling, floor/rack space, etc.

• Flexibility
– Run and test with multiple operating systems (or versions)
– Deploy applications quickly and efficiently, with isolation

• Protection
– Backing up or replicating at a VM level simplifies and speeds disaster recovery

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What Does Virtualization Cost?

• Complexity
– Virtualization is another technology to learn and maintain
– Heterogeneous environments may require learning multiple interfaces

• Scale
– Virtualization enables computing at scale
– Can lead to a proliferation of virtual machines, which must be managed

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How Can We Help?

By providing full-featured virtualization integration

which is thoughtfully designed to make your life
easier.

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Agenda

• Why?

• VMware
– Block
– File
– Virtual Volumes

• Microsoft
– Hyper-V

• OpenStack
– Cinder
– Manila

• Questions

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VMware
VMware – Dedicated Virtualization

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VMware - Evolving History of Storage Integration

• Block datastores
– Driven by SCSI device limitations
– Enhanced by VAAI in ESX 4 (2009)

• NFS datastores
– Allowed storage on NFS servers
– Enhanced by VAAI in ESX 5 (2011), requires an ESX plugin

• Virtual Volumes
– Introduced with VASA 2 in vSphere 6.0 (2015)
– Driven by two challenges: scaling and granularity

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ESXi Storage
ESXi Server

VMFS Datastore NFS Datastore VVOL Datastore

vDisk vDisk vDisk vDisk vDisk vDisk

SCSI VAAI NFS VAAI SCSI NFS VASA

Read ATS Create Snap Read Create/Delete
Write XCOPY Delete Clone Write Bind/Unbind
ZERO Read Stats ATS Snap
Write Clone/Migrate
PE

File File vVol

VASA
vVol
LUN File System VVOL Datastore Provider

Unity Array

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What’s new in VMware vSphere?

• VMFS6
– Introduced in vSphere 6.5
– Supports automatic space reclamation (UNMAP)
– Support for creating VMFS6 datastores in Dell EMC Unity 4.3*
› *Supported using the VSI plugin, CLI, and REST API – GUI support planned
– No conversion, only migration (using storage vMotion)

• vSphere 6.7
– Fully supported by Dell EMC Unity

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VMware Integrations

• How can we make using vCenter with Dell EMC Unity a seamless
experience?
– vCenter Discovery
– Virtual Storage Integrator
– EMC Storage Analytics
– Storage Replication Adapter
– And more …

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VMware Integration – vCenter Discovery

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VMware Integration – Virtual Storage Integrator

• Provides a single management interface for Dell EMC storage within the vSphere environment
– Implemented as a VMware vCenter plug-in

• Use Cases
– Provision file, block, or Virtual Volume storage for use in VMware virtual environments
– Activate advanced storage array features from within vSphere
› clones, snapshots, compression, …
– View detailed storage properties from within vSphere

• Supports other Dell EMC platforms in addition to Dell EMC Unity

– AppSync, RecoverPoint, PowerPath, VMAX, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX, XtremIO

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Datastore Creation Using VSI

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VMware Integration – EMC Storage Analytics

• Management Pack for VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps)

which enables Dell EMC storage monitoring
• Use Cases
– Storage performance and capacity monitoring through predictive analytics
– Troubleshooting and optimization through alerting and recommended actions
– Inventory management and reporting

• Supports other Dell EMC platforms in addition to Dell EMC Unity

– Avamar, Isilon, RP4VMs, ScaleIO, VMAX, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX, XtremIO

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Monitoring With ESA

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VMware Integration – Storage Replication Adapter

• Enables VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to implement disaster

recovery for VMware virtual machines using Dell EMC storage platforms
• Use Cases
– Discover VMware storage resources backed by Dell EMC storage devices that
are protected by array-based data replication features for inclusion in a failover
plan
– Initiate a test failover and observe results without bringing down any systems
– Failover a VMware environment and replicated Dell EMC storage to minimize
downtime in the event of a disaster

• Supports other Dell EMC platforms in addition to Dell EMC Unity

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Microsoft
Microsoft – A (Slightly) Different Take

• Hyper-V is integrated into Windows

– Different requirements than stand-alone virtualization
– Same requirement for copying (large) files efficiently

• Hyper-V consumes storage via Windows Server

– NTFS over SCSI (FC/iSCSI)
– CIFS for network attached storage

• Hyper-V allows integration with storage

– UNMAP
– ODX

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Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)

• Introduced in Windows Server 2012

– SCSI commands used by NTFS and Hyper-V

• Two-stage operation
– Populate Token
› Returns a token which names a representation of data (ROD)
› ROD can include multiple segments
– Write Using Token
› Copies the data described by the passed token to destination ROD
› Can be issued by different host than PT

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Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)

Token
Populate Write Using
Token Result
Token Token

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ODX Efficiency

• Environment:
– Windows 2012 R2
– Unity 500 array
– Copy 50 GB file between two LUs
Copy Time: 14:24 Copy Time: 1:07

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OpenStack
OpenStack – New Kid on the Block

Horizon (Cliff)
Dashboard
Keystone Heat
Nova Glance Cinder Manila Neutron Trove

Compute image store Volume service File service networking database

Identity Orchestration

Ceilometer telemetry service

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OpenStack Message Flow

• Nova (compute service) generates volume or file requests

• Volume requests go to Cinder
– Cinder routes request to appropriate plugin for underlying storage
– Cinder plugin converts API requests to storage-specific commands

• File requests go to Manila

– Manila routes request to appropriate plugin for underlying file storage
– Manila plugin converts API requests to storage-specific commands

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Dell EMC Unity OpenStack Support

• OpenStack Storage Services provide plugin APIs

– Allows storage vendors to provide optimized support

• Dell EMC provides Cinder and Manila plugins for Unity (and VNX)
– Dell EMC plugins are open source and freely downloadable via OpenStack

• What’s New?
– Support for Pike and Queens releases
– QoS support for Volumes (Pike and later)
– IPv6 support (Queens and later)
– Use thin clones when cloning Volumes (Queens and later)

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Dell EMC Unity Cinder Support
• Key Features
– FC & iSCSI
– Thin Provisioning
– FAST VP, FAST Cache
– Performance Optimizations
– Pool-Aware Scheduler
– Fabric Manager
– Manage/Un-Manage Volume
– Initiator Auto Registration
– Quality of Service
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• Cinder Operations Support
– Create, Delete, Extend Volume
– Attach/Detach Volume
– Create/Delete Snapshot
– List Volumes, List Snapshots
– Copy Image to Volume, Copy
Volume to Image
– Clone Volume, Create Volume from
Snapshot
Dell EMC Unity Manila Support
• Key Features
– SMB & NFS
– Flat & vLAN Network Support
– Performance Optimizations
– Pool-Aware Scheduler
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• Manila Operations Support
– Create, Delete, Extend Share
– Create/Delete Snapshot
– Create Share from Snapshot
– List Shares, List Snapshots
– Allow Access to Share
Endgame
What Did We Skip?

• RP4VMs
– RecoverPoint replication and recovery

• AppSync
– Application-consistent VM snapshots

• Avamar
– Backup and recovery to Avamar

• EMC Storage Integrator (ESI)

– Managing and monitoring Dell EMC storage from Microsoft Windows

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Recap

• Virtualization allows us to use resources more efficiently

– VMware provides dedicated, industry-leading virtualization
– Hyper-V provides virtualization for Microsoft environments
– OpenStack provides an open source environment for virtualization

• Dell EMC Unity provides integrations to make virtualization seamless

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More Information

• Download the Unity VSA

– https://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/unity-vsa.htm

• Whitepapers
– https://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h15091-dell-emc-unity-virtualization-integration.pdf
– https://www.emc.com/collateral/whitepaper/h16391-dellemc-unity-storage-vmware-vsphere.pdf
– https://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/h16764-unity-350f-storage-with-vmware-horizon-view-vdi.pdf

• Unity
– https://www.dellemc.com/en-us/documentation/unity-family.htm

• VAAI NAS plugin

– https://download.emc.com/downloads/DL85581_vStorage_APIs_for_Array_Integration_(VAAI)_Plug-
in_3.0.1.zip?source=OLS

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Other Midrange & Entry Solutions Activities
• Technical Breakout sessions
Session Title Day Time Day Time
Dell EMC Unity: Update & Architectural Overview Mon 8:30 AM Wed 8:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Performance Best Practices Tue 8:30 AM Thu 10:00 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Performance Analysis & Troubleshooting Mon 3:00 PM Wed 1:30 PM
Dell EMC Unity: NAS & File Capabilities Tue 12:00 PM Thu 8:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Mon 12:00 PM Wed 3:00 PM
Dell EMC Unity: Virtualization & Application Integration Tue 1:30 PM Thu 1:00 PM
Dell EMC Unity: Built-In Hybrid Cloud & Software Defined Capabilities Mon 1:30 PM Wed 12:00 PM
Dell EMC SC Series: Update & Architectural Overview Mon 12:00 PM Wed 1:30 PM
Dell EMC SC Series: Performance Best Practices Tue 12:00 PM Thu 10:00 AM
Dell EMC SC Series: Performance Analysis & Troubleshooting Tue 8:30 AM Thu 11:30 AM
Dell EMC SC Series: Multi-Array Federation Mon 3:00 PM Wed 8:30 AM
Dell EMC SC Series: Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Tue 1:30 PM Thu 1:00 PM
Dell EMC SC Series: Virtualization & Application Integration Mon 8:30 AM Wed 3:00 PM
Dell EMC Unity & SC Series: Migration from VNX and PS Tue 3:00 PM Thu 11:30 AM
Dell EMC Entry Level Storage Update Mon 8:30 AM Tue 3:00 PM

• Plus:
– Dell EMC Unity & SC Series Hands-on-Labs running all day, everyday.
– Solutions Expo Hall Booth #325: 8 Kiosks and Equipment on display.
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