Cisco Connect Ottawa 2018 data center - protecting your data with Cisco hyper flex and the Cisco storage ecosystem

1. Cisco Connect Ottawa
Canada • 2 October 2018
Protecting your Data
Cisco HyperFlex and the Cisco Storage Ecosystem

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The Amount of Data Stored
Worldwide
2000
2002
2010
2015
2016
2025
3
4.5
1.2
7.9
16.1
163
Exabytes
Exabytes
Zetabytes
Zetabytes
Zetabytes
Zetabytes
Brontobyte
Yottabyte

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100x=10 Days?
100TB Over Gb/E=10 Days
We Are Having The Wrong
Discussion
Lets Talk About Restore

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• Reduced backup and recovery time (Always On)
• Instant VM recovery
• Access to data in 2nd tier for analytics and Dev/Test
• Hybrid Cloud / Multi Cloud
• Data explosion – Text -> pics and movies, IoT, Hadoop, …
• Enhanced compression and deduplication
• Self service
Key drivers for changing DP solutions

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Agenda
• Cisco storage platforms
• The Hyperflex file system
• Data protection in Cisco
Hyperflex
• Cisco storage ecosystem

6. Cisco Storage Platforms

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Enterprise Performance
Cisco UCS M5 Portfolio
Performance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications
Cloud Scale Intensive/Mission Critical
C240 M5
56 Cores – 20% more cores per socket
100% more memory
80% more NVMe drives
C220 M5
56 Cores – 20% more cores per socket
100% more memory
80% more NVMe drives
B200 M5
100% more memory
55% more storage – 20.5TB
Double the GPU support
S3260
Ideal Capacity-Optimized
Platform for Large Object Storage
at Scale
(Purley Skylake refresh targeting
Q4’CY17)
C480 M5
Triple the number of GPUs
63% more drive bays
94% more NVMe support
B480 M5
Quadruple the number of GPUs
80% more storage – 39TB
20% better memory bandwidth

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Cisco UCS C220 M5 backplane options
Cisco UCS® C220 M5 x 10-HDD backplane
Maximum density and performance
Up to 10 x 2.5-inch 12-Gbps HDDs or SSDs
(up to 2 NVMe PCIe SSDs)
Cisco UCS C220 M5 x 4-HDD backplane
Cost -optimized storage
Up to 4 x 3.5-inch 12-Gbps HDDs
(up to 2 NVMe PCIe SSDs)
Cisco UCS C220 M5 NVMe-optimized backplane
Maximum NVMe capability
Up to 10 x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe SSDs
Post-FCS

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Cisco UCS C240 M5 backplane options
Cisco UCS® C240 M5 x 24-HDD backplane
Maximum storage expandability and performance
Up to 24 x 2.5-inch 12-Gbps HDDs or SSDs and optional 2
rear hot-swappable 2.5-inch drives (up to 4 NVMe PCIe SSDs)
Cisco UCS C240 M5 x 12-HDD backplane
Maximum storage capacity
Up to 12 x 3.5-inch 12-Gbps HDDs and optional 2 rear
hot-swappable 2.5-inch drives (up to 4 NVMe PCIe SSDs)
Cisco UCS C240 M5 NVMe-optimized backplane
Maximum NVMe capability
Up to 8 x 2.5-inch NVMe PCIe SSDs and up to 16 SAS and SATA SSDs
and HDDs (and optional 2 rear hot-swappable NVMe PCIe SSDs)
Cisco UCS C240 M5 x 8-HDD backplane
Cost-effective 2RU server
Up to 8 x 2.5-inch 12-Gbps HDDs or SSDs and optional
2 rear hot-swappable 2.5-inch drives (up to 4 NVMe
PCIe SSDs) and optional media drive
Post-FCS

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Cisco UCS S3260 System Overview
Drives
4 Rows of Hot-Swappable HDD
4TB/6TB/8TB/10TB with up to 2 Rows
of 400GB/800GB/1.6TB/3.2TB SSD
Total Top Load: 56 drives
FAN
8 Hot-Pluggable
Fans
Server Node
Up to (2) Based on Intel V4 CPUs, LSI
12G RAID or Pass-through HBA, Up
to 1024GB DDR4 RAM and NVMe
Optional Second Node
Server Node or Drive Expansion
or PCIe Expansion
Up to (4) 120GB/480GB/1.6TB SSDs
HW RAID, Hot-Plug, OS/Boot
System I/O Controller (SIOC)
Up to (2) Cisco VIC 1300 on Chip
Power Supply
4 Hot-Pluggable PSUs
*Shown with Single Server Node
and IO Expander

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Cisco HyperFlex Architectural Differentiators
Hardware and Software Engineered Together
Complete Hyperconvergence
with Integrated Network Fabric
• Unified Network Infrastructure
• Guaranteed QoS with low latency
Pre-integrated Hardware &
Software
• Single point of support
• Backed by world class Cisco TAC
Support
CloudCenter
AppDynamics, CWOM
Enterprise grade
data services
Data Protection &
High Availability
Tetration
ACI
Hypervisor Choice
ESXi and Hyper-V
Next Gen Distributed
Data Platform
• Enterprise Scale
• Performance without hot spots
• Extremely consistent IO
Simplified Policy Based
Management
• Simplified operations across
compute, storage and network
• Intelligent, adaptive & Cloud
managed with Intersight
Cisco HyperFlex System
w/ UCS compute only nodes

12. The Hyperflex File System

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Inside HX Data Platform Node
DATASTORE / VOLUME
ESXi
HX
CONTROLLER
VM
IO Visor
VAAI
VM VM VM VM VM

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ESXi
VM
DS
IO
Visor
VM VM
NFS
Storage
Controller
VM
Storage
Controller
VM
Storage
Controller
VM
Architecture Matters!
• What is the IO Visor?
• Think ”NFS proxy”
• Datastores presented up from the IO Visor
• Decoupled
• Storage Controller VM + IO Visor
• IO can still be served in case of Storage
Controller VM crash

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Controller Failures
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
120 GB
120 GB
120 GB
120 GB

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Hyperconverged Scale Out and
Distributed File System
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
HX DATA PLATFORMHX DATA PLATFORMHX DATA PLATFORMHX DATA PLATFORM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM

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Independent Scaling of
Compute and Capacity
Scale
Compute
HX Data Platform
Add NodesScale Capacity Within Nodes
HX Data Platform
CONTROLLERHYPERVISORCONTROLLERHYPERVISOR CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR
Non-
HyperFlex
Hosts Can
Connect to
Storage
with IOVisor
VM VMVM VM VMVM VM VMVM VM VMVM
IOVisorIOVisor
IOVisorIOVisor
VM VM VM VM
IOVisorIOVisor
IOVisorIOVisor

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HX UCS Domain
iSCSI/NFS or FC Storage Volume*
HX DATASTORE
FC
• HX Converged node supports mounting external storage
arrays via (NFS, iSCSI, FC) Example uses:
• Storage array must be on Cisco HCL
• VM migration and data transfer
• Co-existence with Existing SAN environment
• Present RDM from FC SAN to VMs
• Use VMware storage vMotion for migrations over
Ethernet
• Use for backup and other application support
• HX Datastore is not exportable outside the HX cluster
Advanced Integration
HX Cluster Support of External SAN

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Dynamic Data Distribution
• HX Data Platform stripes data across all nodes
simultaneously, leveraging cache across all
SSDs for fast writes
• Balanced space utilization: no data migration
required following a VM migration
Systems built on conventional
file systems write locally, then
replicate, creating
performance hotspots
CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR
VM VMVM VM VMVM VM VMVM
HX Data Platform
VM VMVM
CONTROLLERHYPERVISOR CONTROLLER

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Life of a Write IO: Distributed Writes
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
AA’’ A’
ACKA
1. Application writes data (A) to OS
2. VM writes to VMDK on datastore
3. Write intercepted by IOvisor and sent to primary controller for that VMDK segment and
offset
4. Primary data is compressed and committed to WL SSD
5. Simultaneously, data replicated to two other nodes (RF3) and committed to their WL SSD
6. Acknowledgement sent to VM
7. Data is successfully committed and protected
B B’ B’’
CC’’C’
D D’D’’
Write Log Capacity Used
Cache SSD

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Life of a Write IO: Destage
AA’’ A’
1. When the active write log of a node is full, the active log becomes the secondary log and
destages
2. Primary data copies are deduplicated
3. Data is then three way written (RF3) to SSD / HDD on 3 separate nodes
4. After all data is successfully committed, data is purged from the secondary log on the caching
SSD
5. In hybrid systems, recent writes are added to the read cache area of the SSD during destage
B B’ B’’
CC’’C’
D D’D’’
Write Log Capacity Used
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
A’A’’AA
BBB’B’’
CC’’C’ D’’ D D’

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HyperFlex Proprietary, Built from Scratch FS
BEFORE
Inline Deduplication
Average 20–30% space savings
Inline Compression
Average 30–50% space savings
No Special Hardware
No Performance Impact
No Config lock-in
No Additional License
Log-Structured File System Yields More Efficient Data Optimization
Helps Lower Cost

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CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
CONTROLLER
VM
IOvisor
VMVM
ESXi
DS
Life of a Read IO
ESXi
Read A
1. Application reads data from OS filesystem
2. VM reads from VMDK on datastore
3. Read intercepted by IOvisor and sent to primary controller for that VMDK segment and offset
a) First check active write log
b) Next check passive write log (the duplicated write log of the other nodes)
c) Look in L1 (DRAM) cache
d) Look in L2 (SSD) cache [Not in AF models]
e) Retrieve from SSD / HDD – copied to L2 [Not in AF models] and L1, decompress & returned to IOvisor
4. Return data to VM
Active WL
Passive WL
L1
L2
SSD (AF) / HDD
(Hybrid)

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HyperFlex All-Flash Performance Consistency
0
200
400
600
800
1,000
1,200
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160
IOPS
VM
Cisco HyperFlex IOPS per VM
Each dot represents a Virtual Machine and its average IOPS over an hour of load
Consistent Performance for All
VMs on the Cluster
Wildly Inconsistent VM
Performance Across the Cluster
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
0 50 100 150
IOPS
VM
Vendor B IOPS per VM

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ESG HCI Performance Testing
Performance to Simplify Business Critical Apps
H Y P E R F L E X V S .
H C I C O M P E T I T I O N
3x higher
VM density
1
3x reduced
read/write latency
2
7:1 reduction
IOPS variability
3
3x better
TCO
Predictable
End User Experience
More workloads
On Hyperconverged
R E A D T H E F U L L E S G R E P O R T
c i s c o . c o m / g o / h y p e r f l e x

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Handling of Wear
Balanced load:
• Improved
performance
• Reduced cost
Unbalanced load:
• Premature need
to replace
• Increased cost
HX All Flash configurations are significantly cheaper (based on 1DWPD data SSDs)
Wear related failures are covered under Cisco HW support contract

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Capacity and Network Utilization
DATASTORE
HYPERVISOR
1 2 3
Balanced Space Utilization
No Data Migration on VM Migration
Less Stress on Network
• HX balances space utilization: no data migration required following a VM
migration
CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
VM VM VM

31. Data Protection in Cisco Hyperflex

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HyperFlex Data Protection
Flexibility to meet business needs
Local
Metro
distance
WAN
distance
Cloud
5mins–24hours
RPO/RTO
Zero
Local High Availability and Stretched Clusters
Synchronous
Replication
In-built Snapshots, Replication & Disaster Recovery
Highly optimized long distance
Async Replication
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Planned Migration,
Disaster Recovery
and Test Recovery
Built-In Snapshots, Replication & Disaster Recovery
Highly optimized long distance
Async Replication
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Planned Migration,
Disaster Recovery
and Test RecoveryHigh Performing VM Centric
Periodic Snapshots
>24hours
Integration with 3rd Party Backup Vendors
Backup & DR
to Cloud
Integrated with HyperFlex Snapshots
Backup, Granular Recovery & Long Term Retention (Cisco Validated Designs)
5mins–24hours

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DATASTORE DATASTORE
• Stripe blocks of a file across servers
• Replicate one or two additional copies
to other servers
• Handle entire server or disk failures
• Restore back to original number of
copies
• Rebalance VMs and data post
replacement
• Rolling software upgrades
Non-Disruptive Operations
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
File.vmdk
D1 E1A1 B1 C1B2 A2 A3C2 C3 D2D3 E2E3 D1E1 B3 B3
EDCBA

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Efficient Data Services
Pointer-Based Snapshots
• Space Efficient
• Fast creations and deletions
• VM-Level or VM Folder Level
• VAAI integrated
• vCenter Snapshot Manager
• Schedules, Retention period
Ready Clones
• Batch creation GUI
• Apply unique names
• Use customization spec to apply IP

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• Cluster Scale With High Availability
• Increased resiliency without added
manageability overhead
• How does it work?
• HX nodes grouped into logical
“availability groups” (N/A for compute
nodes)
• HXDP never places 2 copies of the data
in the same availability group
• Clusters with LAZ can survive > 2
simultaneous node failures without
data loss or loss of availability
• Tolerate more independent failures
Logical Availability Zones (LAZ)
H X D A T A P L A T F O R M
Availability
Grp 1
Availability
Grp 2
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
Availability
Grp 3
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor
IOVisor

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LAZ Failure Scenario
Cluster State: Offline
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
Cluster State: Online
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
LAZ: Off
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM

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LAZ Failure Scenario Cluster State: Offline
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
Cluster State: Online
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
LAZ: On
Zone
01
Zone
02
Zone
03
Zone
04
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
Zone
05

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 TCP based reliable transmission
 Protected from network
corruptions
 Robust fault handling
 Crash consistent VM snapshots
 Scale-out Replication streams
 Large IO transfers
 Network QoS
 Minimal impact on Primary IOs
 incremental snapshots
 Compressed data on wire
 Intelligent pattern detection
 Different Primary and Target
side configurations
PerformantReliable Optimized
HyperFlex Data Protection
Built-In Replication for Business Continuity

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1
Pair SitesConfigure Network Set Protection Group
 Create a Replication VLAN
 Input network parameters
 Set Replication bandwidth
 One time setup
 Assign a name
 Provide remote site
credentials
 Map Datastores
 Create Protection Groups
 Provide a replication interval
 Select Crash Consistency
2 3
HyperFlex Data Protection
Built-In Replication : Simple to Setup

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DB
WebApp
Long Distance Replication
HX Data Platform
DB
App
HX Data Platform
Web
HyperFlex Data Protection
Built-In 1-Click Disaster Recovery
Test Recovery Planned Migration Unplanned Failover
 DR Readiness
 Customize DR Test
parameters
 Move VMs across Data
Centers / Clusters
 Re-Protect after Migration
 Recovery VMs after
Disaster
 Re-Protect after Recovery

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Disaster Avoidance Zero RPO Automated DRMaximum Uptime
HyperFlex Stretched Cluster
Cloud Scale Data Platform
Power Mission Critical Apps with
Site-
B
Site-
A
HX Data Platform
DBAPPAPPDB
Synchronous Replication
SSDSSDSSDSSDSSDSSD

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HyperFlex Stretched Cluster
ZERO RPO ! NEAR ZERO RTO!
Site-B
VM VM VM VM
VM VM VM VM
Site-A
3rd site
Configuration Support
 Single Stretched Cluster
across 2 sites
 Symmetric Configuration
 Site to host a “Witness
Server” (small VM)
 8 HX nodes on each site
IO Path
 Active-Active sites – VMs
Active on each site
 VM Read IOs served locally
 VM Write IOs Sync-Writes
across sites
 2x copies on each site
HA Operations
 Recover from a Site failure
 Recover from a Local failure
 Failover of VM
 vMotion of VM
 Split Brain handling
Management
 Cross site Cluster creation
 Non disruptive online rolling
upgrade
 Site awareness in HXConnect
 Site specific Alarm and Events
on a single Dashboard
Witness Server

43. The Cisco Storage Ecosystem

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Hyper Converged
Scale-Out
Storage
Data Intensive
Applications
Array Based
Storage
2018+
Cisco UCS and Storage Solutions Over Time
2009-20142015-2017
VSAN

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Cisco Tested Data Protection Solutions
Data Protection
Use Cases
• Cisco C240 & S3260
configurations tested with IBM SP
Blueprint
• VersaStack attachment
Targeted at Mid-Market &
Above
• Cisco C240 & S3260
configurations tested with
NetBackup

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Jointly Engineered Data Protection Solutions
Data Protection
Use Cases
• Cisco C240 & S3260 appliances
for Commvault media and
communication servers
• Joint engineering
• Targeting virtualized
environments with C240 &
S3260 solutions
• Joint engineering

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Storage Array
• Storage based HA. External Data, Local or external metadata
• If a server has a problem, remaining server can use metadata and
access external data
Backup server with external storage
RAID-XX
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RAID1
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VDBoot
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Index DB and
DeDupe-DB
VD
RAID1
SSD SSD
VDBoot
RAID1
NVM NVM
VD
Index DB and
DeDupe-DB

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• No default HA. Local Data, Local metadata
• If a server has a problem all metadata and data is gone
• Data and metadata replication/copy is required for HA
Backup server with internal storage
RAID60
RAID1
SSD
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SSD
RAID1
NVM NVM
VD
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VD
Boot
1x Data File
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D
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Index DB and
DeDupe-DB
RAID60
RAID1
SSD
H
D
D
H
D
D
H
D
D
H
D
D
H
D
D
H
D
D
H
D
D
H
D
D
SSD
RAID1
NVM NVM
VD
VD
VD
Boot
1x Data File
H
D
D
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D
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D
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D
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Index DB and
DeDupe-DB

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• High availability build in. Protected data and metadata
• If a server has a problem all metadata and data is still fully available
Scale-Out solutions
RAID1
SSD SSD
RAID X
NVM NVM
VD
VD
Boot
Erasure Coding
HDD HDD HDD
HDD HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD HDD HDD
HDD HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD
HDD
HDD HDD HDD
HDD HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD HDD
HDD
HDD
Index DB and
DeDupe-DB
RAID1
SSD SSD
RAID X
NVM NVM
VD
VD
Boot
Index DB and
DeDupe-DB
RAID1
SSD SSD
VDBoot
RAID X
NVM NVM
VD
Index DB and
DeDupe-DB
Replication Replication

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Veeam Availability Solution for Cisco UCS
Solution Includes:
• Veeam Backup and Replication Enterprise PLUS
• Cisco UCS C240 or S3260
• Windows Server 2016 Standard
• 3 years 24x7 support on all components
8TB Solution
• Replication Only
48TB and 72TB Solutions
• Set and forget for the IT generalist
• Centrally managed by UCS tools
• VM’s 100 or less
84TB – 560TB Solution
• Solution for Backup and Storage
• Building block for future expansion
• VM’s 100 – 900
1680TB Solution
• Grow from 3 to as many S3260’s as needed
• Ideal for private cloud, service provider back-ends
* Veeam compression and de-duplication can result in 50% or higher utilization
Reliable Solutions for Virtualized
Environments
8 TB 48 TB 72 TB 84 TB 140 TB 280 TB 560 TB 1680 TB
Size 2U 2U 2U 2U 2U 4U 4U 4U x3
Capacity
*
8 TB 48 TB 72 TB 84 TB 140 TB 280 TB 560 TB 1680 TB
Veeam
Sockets
6 8 10 12 24 46 90 280
Est. VMs NA 70 100 120 225 450 900 2,800
Server C240 C240 C240 S3260 S3260 S3260 S3260 S3260 x3
Service Provider/Large
Enterprise
Commercial/Midsize
Enterprise
RAID RAID6 RAID6 RAID6 RAID6 RAID6 RAID60 RAID60 RAID60

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Backup &
Replication
Backup Server
Cisco UCS
S/C-Series
Backup from Cisco HyperFlex Snapshot
Backup/Restore
NFS Backend
HyperFlex
VM Snapshots
VMware
Cisco HyperFlex
Veeam leverages HyperFlex Snapshot based Backups to achieve:
• Agentless Application Aware Backup (AD/Exchange/SharePoint/SQL/Oracle/…)
• Minimizes the typical VMware backup API performance impact on production VMs during backup
• Improves RTO and RPO times with technologies like Instant VM Recovery out of Veeam backups
• More than doubles the possible backup speed compared with standard VMware API backups
Veeam’s HyperFlex Snapshot Integration

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HX Native Snapshots & VMware Snapshot challenges
VM snapshot deleteVM snapshot
VMware VM snapshot lifetime
I/O
t
I/O
t
HyperFlex
VM Snapshot
Delete HyperFlex
VM Snapshot
VMware VM Snapshot
will be not used at all

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Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS
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Cisco UCS S3260
• Cisco UCS® & Networking Architecture
• Cisco UCS® C240, S3260, UCS FI, & Nexus
• Software provides Resiliency/Redundancy
• Self-healing and storage efficiency
• Simplified Deployment and Expansion
• Cisco UCS® Management
• Reduced cabling & converged network
• Commvault HyperScale™ includes OS lifecycle
• Highly scalable – Expand seamlessly
• Start with 100 TB and grow to hundreds of PBs
• Scale the bandwidth with every node (10Gbps or
40Gbps)
• Support new workloads and access types

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Commvault ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS
UCS Model Solution ID*
Node Drive
Count
Node
Count
Drive Size1 SW Drive
Size2
Useable2
Capacity
UCS C240
Commvault ScaleProtect C240 87TB 12 3 4 TB 3.64 TB 87 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect C240 130TB 12 3 6 TB 5.46 TB 108 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect C240 174TB 12 3 8 TB 7.28 TB 174 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect C240 218TB 12 3 10 TB 9.10 TB 218 TB
UCS S3260
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 174TB 24 3 4 TB 3.64 TB 174 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 261TB 24 3 6 TB 5.46 TB 261 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 349TB 24 3 8 TB 7.28 TB 349 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 436TB 24 3 10 TB 9.10 TB 436 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 349TB 24 6 4 TB 3.64 TB 349 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 523TB 24 6 6 TB 5.46 TB 523 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 698TB 24 6 8 TB 7.28 TB 698 TB
Commvault ScaleProtect S3260 873TB 24 6 10 TB 9.10 TB 873 TB
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Scaling Blocks
UCS Model Node Drive Count Node Count Drive Size1
Useable2
Capacity
UCS C240
12 3 6 TB 87 TB
12 12 6 TB 348 TB
12 63 6 TB 1,827 TB
12 126 6 TB 3,654 TB
UCS S3260
24 3 10 TB 436 TB
24 12 10 TB 1,744 TB
24 24 10 TB 3,488 TB
24 36 10 TB 5,232 TB
24 63 10 TB 9,156 TB
24 126 10 TB 18,311 TB
Vendor A 1,024 TB
Vendor B 1,728 TB
Vendor C 458 TB
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Summary
Digitization is
Transforming the
world
Future-Ready
Architecture
Enterprise-Class
Data Protection

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• No VM replication used
• Backup destination should / MUST be redundant
VCC/VSI Backup-Only option
Backupstorage Secondarybackupstorage
Copy/Replic
Backupstorage Backupstorage
Backup
Backup
Copy/Replic

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• VMs replicated between vSphere systems
• Backup destination could be redundant
VCC/VSI Backup and Replication option
Backupstorage
Backupstorage Backupstorage
Backup
Backup
VM Replic
VMReplic

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• Scale-Out Backup destination is per default high available
• Streched cluster over multiple DCs is not yet recommended.
Backup with Scale-Out
Scale-OutBackup
storage
Backup
Backup
VM Replic
VMReplic
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
Scale-OutBackup
storage
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
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4
Scale-OutBackup
storage
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
Backup
Backup
VM Replic
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
Scale-OutBackupstorage
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
4
UCS
C3260
!
!
1
2
3
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Copy/Replic
DC1 DC2
DC1 DC2

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Canada • 18 October 2018
Global vision.
Local knowledge.