SC Series: Virtualization and

Ecosystem Integrations

Darin Schmitz
Storage Applications Engineering
Midrange and Entry Solutions Group
What’s New with the SC Series

New Dell EMC SC5020 Hybrid Array  45% more IOPS

 4X more memory
 2X max capacity (2PB)
 3X bandwidth (12Gb SAS)
 3U all-in-one format (30 drives)
Optimized for Economics and Efficiency
Major upgrade to popular SC4020

* Dell internal analysis, April 2017. Net effective capacity after 5:1 data reduction including 5 years of 7x24x4hour on-site support as compared to
other midrange storage from major-vendors when using the same mix of SSD and HDD capacity . Customer’s price may vary based on a variety of
2 circumstances
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Overview

• Storage management in a VMware vSphere environment can be easier and seamless

• Storage Center integrations:

– Simplify daily management
– Better line of sight to performance and capacity utilization
– Online data protection and recovery with application consistency
– High availability and disaster recovery management and execution

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Agenda

• Dell Storage Integration Tools for VMware (DSITV) • VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols)

• Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plug-in (VSWP) • Replay Manager (RM)

• vRealize Operations Manager Management Pack • vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

• Dell Storage Manager Data Collector (DSM) • Live Volume/vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC)

• Dell Storage API PowerShell SDK • Dell EMC ViPR Suite & PowerPath for SC Series

• vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)

• vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)

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Management
Integrations
Dell Storage Integration Tools for VMware (DSITV)

• Single point of integration for vSphere

– vSphere API for Storage Awareness (VASA 1.0 Provider)
– VMware vSphere Web Client Plug-in
– Replay Manager OVF
DSITV
• Deployed as an OVF appliance

• Simplifies rollout of Storage Center integrations and upgrades

DSM

SC Series

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 Dell Storage vSphere Web Client Plug-in

• For use with vSphere 5.5 and later Web Client

• Basic and advanced Dell SC Series storage
management from within vSphere UI
– Add, extend, and delete volumes, datastores, and RDMs
– Add, recover data from, and expire array based snapshots
– Add, modify, delete async/sync replications and Live
Volumes
– Create vSphere host and cluster objects in DSM
– View raw storage utilization and performance statistics
– FluidFS support

• DSITV appliance free download from Dell

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 vRealize Operations Manager Management
Pack VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite
• VMware vR Ops: 92 77 36
– Holistic and automated monitoring Health Risk Efficiency
– Covers entire datacenter environment
– Reduce problem solving Manage
efforts by 40%
– Up to 10x more VMs/administrator
Data Center Infrastructure
– Extensible plug-in architecture
Performance Capacity Configuration
• Dell Storage vR Ops Management
Pack:
App App
– Extends vR Ops investment and insight
to Dell Storage native objects and data OS OS
– Free download from Dell App App
OS OS
VMs Storage Switches Servers
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 Dell Storage Manager Data Collector (DSM)

• Central integration point for statistics and API interface

used by other tools

• DSM integrates with VMware vCenter Server to

aggregate storage statistics and provide in-depth
reporting

• Live Volume automatic failover tiebreaker service

• VASA 1.0 Provider for VM Storage Policies

• VASA 2.0 Provider for VVol support

• Deploy on Windows or Linux platforms

Ease the complexity with advanced reporting, charting and automated provisioning
Simple configuration, just add a vCenter name and credentials into DSM

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APIs
 Dell Storage API PowerShell SDK
SC Series
• 105 Storage Center specific PowerShell
cmdlets in former PSCS
• 1,391 Storage Center specific PowerShell
cmdlets in DSM API
• Combine with vSphere PowerCLI to
automate Storage Center and vSphere
workflows
• Provides day to day management
consistency and efficiency for
environments of all sizes

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 vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
• Uses industry standard T10 spec
Storage- Without
• Reduce host and fabric utilization: related
processes
– CPU utilization
– Memory utilization SC Series
Host
– IO between Host and Array
– Time to complete tasks
– Complexity when managing
thinly provisioned storage

• Four Primitives: With Storage-

– Block Zeroing related
processes
– Copy Offload
– Hardware Assisted Locking SC Series
– Thin Provisioning Host
› Unmap
› Stun

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 vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
Copy Offload Block Zeroing HW-Assisted Locking

• Relies on SAN to • Relies on SAN to • SAN manages locking

copy datastores and zero EZT VMDKs of datastores when
volumes • 94% reduction in time metadata changes
• 52% reduction in time • 99% reduction in I/O
• 64% reduction in I/O

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copy copy 00000000000000000

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 vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI)
Thin Provisioning: UNMAP Thin Provisioning: Stun

VMware free space recovery Prevents kernel panic before array

reaches 100% utilization

V V V V V V V V

V V
V V 100% 95%
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 vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA)
• VASA 1.0 provides insight to vSphere about the capabilities of the storage array
– 23 separate reported storage capabilities (strings)
– Tiering, RAID level, drive performance, and replication
– Supports VM Storage Policies for simple SLA validation
– Or returns VASA string for reference

• VASA 2.0 enables VVol and Storage Policy Based Management support
– Bundled with DSM

Without VM storage policies With VM storage policies

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 VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols)

• No more volumes or VMFS

• View VMs directly from DSM
• Per virtual disk metrics in DSM vSphere
VASA 2
• Per VM data protection policies
• Granular Storage Policy-Based Management
• Managed from vCenter just like before Data Services

SC Series
• Easy & Efficient

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 VVol Architecture and Components
VASA
vCenter Server Storage Policy Management
Provider

vSphere DSM

Protocol Endpoint

VMX VMX
VMDK VSWAP VMDK VSWAP

Storage Container SC Series

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Snapshots and
Replication
 Replay Manager

• Simplify and automate the protection and recovery

of VMware virtualized applications and services 1.Request Snapshot
• Application and data consistency within and across 2.Pause Transactions
volumes 3.Create consistent Snapshot
• Variety of flexible protection and recovery methods 4.Resume normal operations

• Support for VMFS and RDMs

• Set it and forget it schedule

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 vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM)

• Storage Center certified with vCenter Site vCenter VM VM vCenter

Recovery Manager (SRM) VM VM

SRM VM VM SRM
• Array-based Replication with Storage Center
“Storage Replication Adapter” (SRA)
Coordinated VM
• SRM and Dell Storage Manager integration DSM and storage DSM
failover / failback
provide an easy to manage and robust disaster
recovery solution
• Selectable Snapshot

SC Series SC Series

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 Selectable Snapshot
SRM 3

1 11:48
Primary site DR site
2
SC Series 11:45 78% SC Series

11:30 100%

4 5
View
Volume

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 Live Volume Features
• Synchronous Replication (both HA and
HC modes) Dell Storage
DSM Manager
• Migrate Replication Type
• Live Volume Managed Replication – DR
for Live Volume SC Series SC Series
• VMware vMSC certified Live Live
Volume Volume
• Live Volume with automated HA and DR
Async/Sync Live Volume
for unplanned outages
• Automatic Failover/Recovery of Live Metro Storage Cluster
Volumes for continuous availability of support
VMs quickly and automatically recovered
read/write I/O from unplanned infrastructure outage.
• Continuous uptime designed to handle a
variety of unplanned failure scenarios
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New Integrations
New Management Tools
• SC Series support is being added to the extended family of Dell EMC products
– PowerPath and ViPR enhanced to use SC Series APIs

• Provides administrators management flexibility

• Enables mixing and matching of Dell EMC storage products and services

POWERPATH- VIPR- VPLEX- RECOVERPOINT- AVAMAR NETWORKER- DATA DOMAIN-

FAILOVER & VISUALIZE, ANALYZE AVAILABILITY & CONTINUOUS CENTRALIZED BACKUP PURPOSE BUILT
LOAD BALANCING & AUTOMATE MOBILITY DATA PROTECTION & RECOVERY BACKUP APPLIANCE

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 Resources
• Dell EMC SC Series best practice documents and demonstration videos
– Located on www.dell.com/StorageResources

• Documents
– SC Series Best Practices with VMware vSphere
– SC Series Synchronous Replication & Live Volume Solutions Guide
– SC Series Best Practices with Site Recovery Manager
– Virtualized Microsoft SQL Server with VMware SRM for Recovery
– Dell SC Series Virtual Volumes Best Practices

• Videos
– vSphere Web Client Plug-in
– Site Recovery Manager
– SC Series Integration With VMware VASA
– Solution Pack for vRealize Operations Manager
– Replay Manager Integration with vSphere
– Live Volume Auto Failover
– SC Series VMware vSphere Virtual Volumes

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Related Sessions for SC and Dell EMC Unity Series
Session Title Day/Time
Dell EMC Unity & SC Series: Midrange Storage Portfolio Overview Mon @ 12:00 PM + Wed @ 01:30 PM
CloudIQ: Cloud-Based Storage Analytics for Dell EMC Unity and SC Series Mon @ 04:30 PM + Wed @ 08:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity All-Flash: What’s New Tue @ 03:00 PM + Wed @ 01:30 PM
Dell EMC Unity: Architectural Overview Mon @ 01:30 PM + Thu @ 08:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Best Practices For Best Performance Wed @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 10:00 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Performance Analysis Deep Dive Wed @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 01:00 PM
Dell EMC Unity: Next Generation NAS & File Capabilities Mon @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 11:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Data Protection & Copy Management Options Mon @ 08:30 AM + Wed @ 12:00 PM
Dell EMC Unity: Virtualization & Cloud Integration Mon @ 12:00 PM
Dell EMC Unity: Migration From VNX Tue @ 08:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity: Using Dell EMC UnityVSA In Converged Environments Mon @ 08:30 AM
Dell EMC Unity All Flash: Flash Technology Deep Dive Mon @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 01:00 PM
SC Series: What's New Mon @ 04:30 PM + Tue @ 03:00 PM
SC Series: Architectural Overview Mon @ 01:30 PM + Tue @ 03:00 PM
SC Series: Performance Best Practices Mon @ 04:30 PM + Thu. @ 01:00 PM
SC Series: Affordable Data Mobility & Business Continuity With Multi-Array Federation Mon @ 08:30 AM + Thu @ 01:00 PM
SC Series: Virtualization & Ecosystem Integrations Wed @ 03:00 PM + Thu @ 08:30 AM

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Hands on Labs for SC and Dell EMC Unity Series
Self-Paced Day/Time

Dell EMC Unity CloudIQ – Event Correlation & Analytics

Dell EMC Unity – Simplified Storage Management & Monday: 8:30AM – 9:00PM
Administration
Tuesday: 7:00AM – 5:30PM
Dell EMC Unity – VMware vSphere Integration
Wednesday: 7:00AM – 5:00PM
Dell EMC Unity – Configuring Snapshots & Replication Thursday: 7:00AM – 2:00PM

SC Series: Introduction to SC Series and Dell Storage Manager

Guided Day/Time

Dell EMC Unity CloudIQ – Event Correlation & Analytics Tuesday: 1:30PM – 2:30PM
(Registration required and limited availability) Thursday: 8:30AM – 9:30AM

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