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Swaroop Dutta
Eric Knauft

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Disclaimer
• This presentation may contain product features that are currently under development.
• This overview of new technology represents no commitment from VMware to deliver these
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VMware vSAN Delivers a Native vSphere Architecture

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 Accelerating Innovation
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All Flash Stretched Cluster Deduplication iSCSI Support
64 Node Cluster Replication: 5min Compression 2-Node Direct
2x Hybrid Speed RPO RAID5/6 Connect
2-node ROBO Quality of Service Large Capacity
Drives

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 Rapid Pace of Innovation: vSAN 6.6 Biggest Release Ever!
20+ New Major vSAN Features

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Native encryption for data-at-rest
•
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Compliance certifications
• Distributed RAID
• Per-VM SPBM
• All-flash architecture
• Perf improvements (4x
• Windows Failover • IPv6 support
• Software checksum
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Resilient management independent of vCenter
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• Set and change FTT via IOPS) • Oracle RAC support • Nearline dedup and • PowerCLI • Smart repairs and enhanced rebalancing
policy • 64-node support • HW checksum and compression on all- •
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Public APIs and SDK •
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Intelligent rebuilds using partial repairs
• In-kernel hyper- • High density storage
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encryption flash 512e support Certified file service & data protection solutions
convergence engine blades • 2-node ROBO mode • Erasure coding on
u bli c • All-Flash to all editions • Stretched clusters with local failure protection
• RVC and Observer • Fault domain awareness • UltraDIMM and NVMe all-flash
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• Scalable snapshots and support • Qos: IOPS limits • 1-click witness change for Stretched Cluster
clones • Stretch clusters
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• Disk enclosure • 5 min RPO (vSphere Rep) monitoring service • Enhanced vSAN SDK and PowerCLI

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management • SMP-FT support • Simple networking with Unicast

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• Health Check, vROps,
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• vSAN Cloud Analytics with real-time support

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LogInsight notification and recommendations

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Extended vSAN Health Services
vSAN Easy Install with 1-click fixes
V • Up to 50% greater IOPS for all-flash with
optimized checksum and dedupe
• Support for new next-gen workloads
• vSAN for Photon in Photon Platform 1.1
• Day 0 support for latest flash technologies
• Expanded caching tier choice
• Docker Volume Driver 1.1

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vSAN 6.6.1

Security & Management Enhanced Operations All-Flash

Availability Optimizations

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✓Firmware/driver auto
✓Encryption
V M ✓Partial Rebuilds ✓Support for Intel Xeon
updates ✓Smart Repairs Scalable
✓Local Failure Protection
for Stretched Clusters ✓Performance Analytics ✓Point Fix ✓All-Flash performance
✓Analytics-based KB ✓What-Ifs
improvements
awareness ✓New Platform Support
✓Resync Throttling
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Secure Data with vSAN Data-at-Rest Encryption

• Datastore level, data-at-rest encryption

tion
for all objects on vSAN Datastore
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• Enabled at cluster o r d
level,
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hybrid, all-flash,
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• Integrates with KMIP compliant key
management technologies, including
SafeNet, Hytrust, Thales, Vormetric, etc.

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Encryption – Details

• Encryption key in memory used to

t i o n in cache tier
encrypt data and then
t r i b u place

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vSAN Performance Enhancements

• Reduced overhead of checksum

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• More accurate cache sizing

guidelines
vSAN Datastore
• New vSAN ReadyNode Sizer!
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Scale to Tomorrow with Latest
Hardware Innovations

• Day 1 support of latest hardware

through industry’s best ecosystem
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• Intel Purely
NEW
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Servers
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VMw new 3D XPoint NVMe drives from Intel

Expand competitive advantage with Day 1 support of latest flash innovations

Simplify new technology adoption without a major forklift upgrade to infrastructure
Lower costs with higher consolidation ratios
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New Apps and Hardware

• New reference architectures

available for broader set of use
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– Intersystems Caché
VMware HCI
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VMw vSAN Datastore • Flexibility and choice with the latest
hardware

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 NEW
vSAN 6.6.1

VMware Update Manager (VUM) Integration

• Simplifies upgrades and patching by

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HCL Release
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Database Catalog d i s
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• Creates
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vmware.com recommendations, scanning for
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Update Update drivers

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• Automates VUM baseline creation,
scanning and delivery of update
packages and ISOs.

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Intelligent, Automated
Operations with vSAN Config Assist

• Simplify HCI Management withtion

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• Configuration wizards validate vSAN
settings and ensure best practice
compliance

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Low Cost Local and
Remote Protection for Stretched Clusters

• Redundancy locally and

3rd site for
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Cluster Cluster

• Optimized site locality logic to

vSphere vSAN
minimize I/O traffic across
5ms RTT, 10GbE sites

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Increase Flexibility
with Site Affinity for Stretched Clusters

• User can specify single site

3rdsite for location of t i o n components
VM’s
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Stretched Cluster Optimizations

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• Network bandwidth is conserved
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Enhanced Rebalancing

• Allows rebalance even when disks

are mostly full by splitting large t i o n
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status in Health Services
• New customizable “throttling” of
resync activity using slider bar
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Component Splitting and Reporting for Enhanced Rebalancing
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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Partial Repairs

Status: Two host failures • More resilient repair process

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Intelligent Rebuilds Using Partial Repairs

Status: Partial repair completed • More resilient repair process

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 Intelligent Rebuilds Using Smart, Efficient Repairs

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Which is Faster? • Significant improvement in speed
and efficiency of component repairs

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Health Monitoring —
Decommissioning Host Improvements

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remaining free space
vSAN Datastore
• Reduced amount of temporary space
during decommissioning effort

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Health Monitoring —
vSAN Degraded Device Handling Enhancements

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vSAN Datastore • Any evacuation failures will be
shown in UI

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New vSAN Cloud Analytics
Delivers Proactive Guidance

vSAN Cloud Analytics

• Cloud-based health checks for easy, online
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known issue detection tied to trelevant
support notices (KBs) stribu
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• New analytics
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or
VMw • Reduce troubleshooting with prescriptive,
environment specific analytics
Performance diagnostics
VMware Customer Experience • All information sent to to verifyanonymized
VMware expected
Improvement Program performance and report
anomalies if encountered

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 NEW
vSAN 6.6.1

Cloud-connected Performance Diagnostics

• Provides diagnostics for

vSAN Cloud Analytics benchmarking & PoCs
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Analysis Feedback
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• Specify one softrthree
of focusorfordibenchmarks:
Detect issues Site results
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• Output automatically sent to cloud for
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• Provides results of analysis in UI

• Detects issues and suggests

remediation steps by tying to specific
KB articles
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vSAN integration with vRealize Operations

Aggregate cluster statistics • Prebuilt vSAN dashboards with

ition and analytics

multi-site visibility
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V Mw • Display vSAN and non vSAN
metrics together

Cluster specific statistics

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