VPLEX
Continuous Availability and
Non-Disruptive Data Mobility
Agenda
Unplanned downtime and data mobility challenges
Solution: VPLEX in the stack
Continuous Availability
Zero RPO/RTO in the event of a disaster
Non-disruptive Data Mobility
Tech Refresh
Workload balancing
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Dell EMC Data Protection Continuum
Availability, Replication, Backup & Archive
Complete portfolio to meet any data protection requirement
Availability
Replication Snapshot Backup Archive
Zero Seconds Minutes Hours
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Data mobility: an operational challenge
Storage silos cannot keep up with changing business needs
Business Storage
Agility Resulting in
Silos
Application downtime
Poor IT resource utilization
Tech Refresh Load balancing
Migration service costs
Months for Tech Refresh
Risk of things going wrong
D/c Moves Maintenance
Consolidation
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Unplanned downtime
Catastrophic events cause severe business disruption
Resulting in
Application downtime
Lost productivity
Reputation
Revenue impact
Stress for IT staff
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Where do you stand?
Operational
Disaster resilience
data mobility
What are the disasters you want to How long did the last tech refresh
protect against? take? What was the opex?
What is your RPO/RTO tolerance? How do you balance performance
across multiple storage tiers?
How does the story of a data center
disaster end?
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VPLEX For The Modern Datacenter
Supporting every step of your datacenter modernization
Always-On Agile Accelerate
Active-Active datacenters or Seamless data mobility for Time to value cut down
Local mirroring optimal resource utilization from months to days
Creates an flexible storage infrastructure Enables faster Tech Refresh and
Delivers highest availability for across the hybrid cloud, so that you can workload consolidation to All-Flash
business-critical all-flash workloads rapidly respond to business needs
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VPLEX: Trusted and Proven Technology
>8,000+
Clusters deployed Recent milestone
1
Exabyte of
data behind
VPLEX
>150 Million+
run hours Seven 9s
Availability on target code
>50%
of Global Fortune 500 Companies
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Simultaneous R/W access
To the same LUN on two arrays, locally or over distance
Stretched clusters over distance
Virtual volume
Other clusters supported: MC ServiceGuard,
HACMP, PowerHA, Veritas Cluster Server, etc.
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Launched in Q316: VPLEX VS6 and
VPLEX For All-Flash
VPLEX
2X IOPS and 1.2~1.5X Future Ready
1/3rd latency Scale Architecture
Next generation VPLEX For All-Flash
Hardware and Software All inclusive appliance
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Built for flash hardware: VS6
VS6 VS2
2X IOPS
Intel Haswell 4.2x Intel Westmere Scales to multiple all-flash systems
Processor
Dual 6-Core CPU /director Single 4-Core CPU
/director 1/3rd the latency
70% improvement
DRAM Capacity 128 GB /director 3.5x 36 GB /director
12000 volumes
1.2X for Local
Front End / Back End 16 Gb/s FC 2.0x 8 Gb/s FC 1.5X for Metro
Interconnect Infiniband, 40 Gb/s 5.0x 8 Gb/s FC
WAN (FC) 16 Gb/s FC 2.0x 8 Gb/s FC
Note: VS2 with GeoSynchrony 5.5 is the reference for all comparisons
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Built for flash software: GeoSynchrony 6.0
Re-architected for new multi-core h/w
Solid foundation with over 150M run hours
Flash optimized
UNMAP support for thin provisioning
Full iCDM support
Future Ready
Designed for maximum availability
Over seven 9s on current target code
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VPLEX For All-Flash
Optimal VPLEX solution for Dell EMC all-flash storage
All you can eat licensing
Add as many Dell EMC AF arrays as needed
No limitation on capacity
All HW and SW included
For EMC all-flash storage
VMAX AF, XtremIO, Unity AF
Available with both VS6 and VS2
Simple to quote and simple to order
Add engines depending on load
No change in functionality and performance
characteristics
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Customer choice comes standard
VPLEX For All-
VPLEX
Flash
Per frame for UNITY Unlimited use with:
and VNX
UNITY AF
Per X-Brick for
XtremIO XtremIO
Per capacity for any VMAX AF
system Hybrid arrays are licensed as
standard VPLEX
Single, Dual and Quad configurations of VS6 and VS2
supported on both models
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VPLEX Use Cases
Continuous availability
Seven 9s of application availability
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Site failure without VPLEX
DOWN PASSIVE
Downtime/Data loss
Hours lost in
- Decision making
- Fail over
- Application restart
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Active-Active Datacenters With VPLEX
ACTIVE ACTIVE
Stretched host clusters
Simultaneous R/W
at both the sites
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Site failure With VPLEX
Automatic and transparent failover
ACTIVE ACTIVE
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When the site is back up
ACTIVE ACTIVE
Stretched host clusters
Simultaneous R/W
at both the sites
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VPLEX Metro - Always on data access
Uninterruptible Power Supply for your data that extends
across datacenters
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Intelligent Data mobility
For Agile Infrastructure
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Data Mobility Use Cases
A traditional tech refresh
can cause months of planning,
downtime and
will be expensive.
With VPLEX, non-disruptive
migrations can save time, money
and eliminate
downtime and risk.
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Tech Refresh: weekend killer
Purchase and Migration Weekend 1 Batch A Weekend 2 Batch B Weekend 3 Batch C Weekend 4 Batch D Completed
Install New Planning Outage & Outage & Outage & Outage & Data Storage
Storage Data Copy Data Copy Data Copy Copy Refresh
Timeline M i g r a t i o n T i m e
Expensive professional Non-reversibility
services engagement
Disruptive to applications Wastes employee
time
Remediation required Long time to value
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New Migration Strategy with VPLEX
Non-Disruptive tech refresh During Working Hours
Purchase and Completed
Install New Storage
Storage Refresh
Timeline Migration Time
Save money Eliminate risk
Non-disruptive Save employee time
migrations FOREVER
No remediation Faster Time to Value
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With VPLEX: Online Tech Refresh
No host disruption
1. New array is brought in
2. VPLEX discovers new array and devices
3. VPLEX mirrors storage
4. I/O is automatically and non-disruptively
directed to the new array
5. Once the new array is fully replicated the
old array can be removed without disruption
6. The old device can be removed from
VPLEX and rolled out of the data center
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Non-disruptive load balancing
Migrate Application/Data
Across storage arrays
Across data centers
All non-disruptively
Improve performance & scale
Accomplish during business hours
Perform scheduled maintenance without
downtime
Improve asset utilization
Site A Site B
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Cloud Mobility with VPLEX
Move cold data to cost effective cloud storage
No host disruption and continuous access to data
Applications
Oracle and IBM DB2 have in built features to partition
old data
Hot Cold Save less frequently used archive mailboxes to the
cloud
High data volume applications like splunk can push
cold data to the Cloud
PUBLIC PRIVATE
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iCDM Support
Enabled by AppSync 3.0
ACTIVE ACTIVE
Leverage EMC iCDM to
efficiently create and
manage data copies
Locally
and across data centers
Support for VMAX and
UNITY coming soon
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VPLEX delivers
Tech Refresh Service level changes Load balancing
Continuous Availability Intelligent Data Mobility
Within a datacenter Across Datacenters
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70
Integration with EMC Ecosystem
65
60 ViPR
55
UNITY Automation of data
50
VMAX
Simplified
provisioning
services
VMware
(VPLEX Integrated Array
45
XtremIO
Services-VIAS)
Deep integration for
stretched clusters and DR
40
CloudArray VPLEX
35 Oracle RAC
Continuous availability with
30
Dell EMC and 3rd
party platforms
continuous protection and DR
10 RecoverPoint
5
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Best in class support
Technical staff available around the globe
Backed by best in class Professional Services
Solution design
Migration services
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Continuous Continuous
Availability Data Protection
0 Recovery
+
Downtime
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VPLEX & RecoverPoint
Disaster proof business continuity
VPLEX Metro
Across Data Centers
Synchronous (10ms RTT)
Distances
VPLEX Local
Within A Data Center
RecoverPoint
Operational Recovery And 3rd
Site Protection For Extended
Distances
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EMC RecoverPoint Overview
Enables Operational AND Disaster Recovery to Any Point in Time
Provides data replication for storage (Block level)
LUNs
Enables continuous data protection (CDP) for point-
in-time (PiT) recovery
Concurrent local and remote replication, sync/async
Heterogeneous array platforms support (EMC
XTREMIO, VMAX, UNITY and third-party arrays via
VPLEX)
Integrated with VMware Site Recovery Manager
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Recover to ANY point in time
Provides DVR-like, ANY point-in-time access to data
3:27PM
8AM 10AM 12PM 2PM 4PM 6PM 8PM 10PM 12AM
CONTINUOUS 1 Min
8AM 1PM 6PM 11PM
2+
SNAPSHOTS Hrs
12AM 12AM
12+
Hrs
BACKUP
DATA CORRUPTION OCCURS AT 3:28pm
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Two-site continuous availability with local protection
Local Protection on both
sides Of VPLEX Metro
A B
Production Site Production Redundant operational
Site
VPLEX Metro
Continuous Availability
recovery for applications
VPLEX VPLEX Remote and local Protection
RecoverPoint RecoverPoint
Local Replication Local Replication Recovery To Any Point In Time
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MetroPoint topology
Continuous Availability with built-in Disaster Recovery
C
DR Site
Single DR Copy
A Disaster Recovery
B
Production Site Production
Site
Automatic Switchover
VPLEX Metro
Continuous Availability
VPLEX VPLEX
CDP On Both Sides Of Metro
RecoverPoint RecoverPoint
Operational Recovery Operational Recovery
Remote And Local Protection
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