The document introduces the VNX series from EMC, which is optimized storage for virtualized environments. It discusses how the VNX addresses challenges of flat budgets, complexity, data growth and business demands through affordable, simple, efficient and powerful solutions. Key features include automated tiering of data to flash, SAS or nearline SAS drives based on activity level, integration with VMware through APIs and tools, and breaking performance records for NFS and CIFS protocols.

1. INTRODUCING
VNX SERIES
Tyler Britten
Senior vSpecialist– EMC
Email: tyler.britten@emc.com
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2. Enterprise Data & IT: Tougher than Ever
Four central themes facing every decision maker today
Overcome flat budgets
Manage escalating complexity
Cope with relentless data growth
Meet increased business demands
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3. Enterprise Data & IT: Tougher than Ever
Four central themes facing every decision maker today
Affordable
Overcome flat budgets
Simple
Manage escalating complexity
Efficient
Cope with relentless data growth
Powerful
Meet increased business demands
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4. Next Generation Unified Storage
Optimized for today’s virtualized IT
Unisphere™
VNXe3100 VNXe3300 VNX5100 VNX5300 VNX5500 VNX570 VNX750
0 0
Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
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5. Architecture
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6. VNX Modular Architecture—Pools
FLASH 15K SAS Near-Line SAS • Block services provided by
VNX storage processor
• Tiered storage
– Choose storage tiers
• Extreme Performance(Flash),
Performance (SAS), Capacity (NL-
SAS)
Tiered Storage Pool – Choose protection type (RAID
1, 5, 6)
Virtual
RAID Group Blended Storage RAID Group
RAID Group Pool • Pool has to have a single RAID type
– System builds RAID groups
• Tiers are aggregated into
virtual blended storage pool
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7. Solid State
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8. New FLASH 1st Data Strategy
Hot data on fast Flash SSDs—cold data on dense disks
―Hot‖
high activity
Highly active data As data ages, activity
is stored on falls, triggering automatic
Flash SSDs for movement to high
fastest capacity disk drives for
response time lowest cost
Data Activity
FLASH High Cap.
SSD HDD
Movement
Trigger ―Cold‖
low activity
Data Age
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9. The FAST Suite
Highest performance and capacity efficiency—automatically!
Real-time caching
with FAST Cache
• FAST Cache continuously ensures that
the hottest data is served from high
performance FLASH SSDs
• FAST VP (Virtual Pools)* optimizes
storage pools automatically, ensuring
that active data is being served from
High- High- SSDs, while cold data is moved to lower
Flash Performance capacity cost disk tiers
SSD HDD HDD
• Together they deliver a fully automated
FLASH 1st storage strategy for optimal
performance at the lowest cost
attainable
Scheduled optimization • Monitor and Tune the whole system with
with FAST VP the complementary Unisphere QoS
* Not available for VNX5100. Manager and Unisphere Analyzer
FAST SUIT E
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10. FAST VP for Block and File Access
Optimize VNX for minimum TCO
BEFORE AFTER
Pool Automates
movement of hot or cold
LUN 1 Tier 0
blocks
Optimizes
LUN 2 Tier 1 use of high performance and
high capacity drives
Improves
Tier 2
cost and performance
Most activity Neutral activity Least activity
FAST SUIT E
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11. VMware-Integrated
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12. VMware vCenter Management API
EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI)
EMC VSI 4 Plug-in
• Mapping vCenter
Objects
• Self-service
Provisioning
• VM Storage
Optimization
• Centralized Path
Management
• SRDF SRA for SRM
Failback
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13. VMware Aware Storage
EMC Unisphere
• Automatic discovery
• Virtual Machines
• ESX servers
• End-to-end virtual-to-
physical mapping
• Automated virtual
infrastructure reporting
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14. VMware vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI)
Available on ALL EMC Storage Platforms
Block Zero Hardware Assisted Locking
What: 10x less IO for common tasks What: 10x more VMs per datastore
How: Eliminating redundant and repetitive How: stop locking LUNs and start only
write commands – just tell the array to repeat locking blocks.
via SCSI commands
Full Copy
What: Faster VM deployment, clone,
snapshot, and Storage VMotion
How: leveraging array ability to mass copy,
snapshot, and move blocks via SCSI
commands
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15. VNX - Optimized for Virtualization
Seamless virtualization experience and acceleration
VAAI* offload
Storage Unisphere vCenter Server Virtual server
administrator Less net I/O integration administrator
Manage storage and VM
resources in unison
10X More VMs
Faster Manage storage and VM
resources in unison
response
Control offload functions Control offload functions and
and integrated replication integrated replication
* VAAI = VMware vStorage
APIs for Array Integration
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16. Performance
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17. Breaking Performance Records
SPEC sfs NFS Performance
600000
500000
Operations
400000 per Second
(higher
300000 values are
better)
200000
100000
0
6 5 4 3 2 1 0
Operation Latency in seconds (lower values are better)
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18. Breaking Performance Recordsgetting
(…and we’re just
started!)
SPEC sfs CIFS Performance
700000
600000
Operations
500000 per Second
(higher
400000
values are
300000 better)
200000
100000
0
8 6 4 2 0
Operation Latency in seconds (lower values are better)
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19. THANK YOU
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