Storage Transformation in Modern Data CentersIztok Sitar, Sr. Solutions Engineer

19.10.2017

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Digital

Transformation

Security

Transformation

Workforce

Transformation

IT

Transformation

Security

Transformation

Workforce

Transformation

Transforming the businessWe help organizations reinvent themselves and realize their digital future.

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12%

41% 42%

5%

Stage 1 - Legacy Stage 2 - Emerging Stage 3 - Evolving Stage 4 - Transformed

Adoption of Modern

Data Center PillarsAdoption of Modern IT

Processes

Focus on Business and

IT Alignment

Dell EMC 2017

IT Transformation Maturity Study

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Flash

Cloud-enabled

Scale-out

Software-defined

Trust

IT TransformationModern Architectural Attributes

Reduce costs

Consistent and predictable performance

Scale as you grow

Manage with fewer resources

Automate provisioning and business agility

Programmable data services

Policy driven service delivery

Data and application mobility

Encrypt at rest and in flight

Integrated data protection

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Transforming to a cloud operating modelBenefits of adopting a hybrid cloud

Single control point

Automation

Metering

Self-service

Capacity management

Monitoring & reporting

Built-in security

Service-level choice

On-prem Off-premHybrid cloud

Hybrid cloud

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NEW TECHNOLOGY

ADOPTION AND IT TRANSFORMATION

Less CostlyLess riskyMore agile More efficientFaster Simpler

Dell EMC’s unmatched portfolio

Software

definedFlash

Cloud

enabledScale out

Protection &

trust

X86

Servers

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Hyper-converged becoming new normal

Companies are already

embracing HCI

>60% will adopt HCI by 2017

Source: 451 Research, December 2016

Main drivers:

Modernization ScalabilitySimplicityAgility

Dell EMC has fastest-growing HCI portfolio: VxRail, VxRack, XC Series

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Dell EMC VxRail hyper-converged applianceExclusive partnership between Dell EMC and VMware

Virtual desktopsDeploy hundreds of desktops

in minutes on one appliance

Hybrid cloudSeamless backup and replication to

the cloud

Server workloadsStandardize and consolidate

infrastructure for all

remote/departmental workloads

Distributed enterpriseManage and Orchestrate across locations

with no downtime

Non-disruptive

SDDC scale out

Integrated

data protection

Data efficiency

services

Multiple configuration

& scale points

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INDUSTRY'S #1

Midrange Portfolio

HCIStorage

XC SERIES

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Why Dell EMC Midrange Storage?

Storage Efficiency Guarantee

StorageReview Editors Choice

Simplicity•Setup in <10 min

•Configure in 15 min

•CloudIQ Analytics

Performance•400K+ IOPS

•Sub-ms latency

•Active/Active

Efficiency•Lowest $/GB

•Compr & Dedupe

•4 to 1 Guarantee

Extensibility•Future-proof

•DIP upgrades

•Online migration

Dependability•Decades of experience

•Proven 5 9’s reliability

•3 Year Money Back

• 50,000+ systems sold to over 26,000 global customers.

• Over 5 Exabyte capacity used.

• $4.5B invested in Dell EMC storage technology. Predictive Analytics and Health Scoring

SPEED INTO IT TRANSFORMATIONEcosystem Integration

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SC Series: Versatile Midrange Solution

ALL HDD ALL FLASH

All-Flash, Hybrid

or All HDD

Design to fit

most budgetsEnterprise class

capabilities

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SC Series Family

Memory/Proc.16GB

4c/2.5GHz

32GB

6c/1.7GHz

128GB

8c/2.4GHz

256GB

2x 8c/2.5GHz

512GB

2x 8c/3.2GHz

Network I/OIntegrated

FC, iSCSI, SASModular FC, iSCSI, SAS

More modular

FC, iSCSI

Most modular

FC, iSCSI, FCoE

Data reduction N/A Compression Dedupe + Compression

Multi-array Repl. (SCv2) Replication (SC, multi-hop), federation, DR / Business Continuity

Tiering Single Tier Full auto-tiering (1-3 tiers), 0-100% flash (Hybrid)

Management Dell Storage Manager, 3rd-party integrations, Openstack, QoS, VVols

Architecture Dynamic RAID tiering, “thin” methods, snapshots, virtualized page pool

SC7020

3PB500 drives

SC9000

3PB1024 drives

SC5020

2PB222 drives

SCv2000/2020

672TB168 drives

SCv3000/3020

1PB*

222 drives

* SCv3xxx max capacity may be increased to 2PB using 4MB page sizes.

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New SC Platforms for Low-End and All-Flash

50% more IOPS

3x BandwidthIncreased

Capacity

New 3U Format• (30) 2.5” drive slots, or

• (16) 3.5” drive slots

• Dense expansion options

2X Snaps

New Features• Data Progression

• Compression

• SC Federation

• SC Replication

SCv3000/3020

SC5020F

SC7020F

All-Flash only SKU

All Inclusive Software

460TB raw in 3U

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Federated systems

Balance workloads on demand

Disaster recovery

Always in sync: RTO/RPO = 0

LUNLUN

BackupPrimary

SC Series Federated Storage

Data migration

LUN

No need to re-map servers

Virtualized LUN mappings increase flexibility and control

Live Migrate, DSM + Volume Advisor Live Volume

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Intelligent Data Reduction: For All-Flash and Hybrid

HDDs

SSDs

On both SSDs and HDDs

Dedupe & Compression Even on volumes that auto-

tier across media types!

Dedupe + Compression

Compression only

Select by volume Designed for

performance

Cost-reduce

ANY config

Optimize automatically

Targeted

at a sub-

LUN level

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Granular Auto-Tiering (Data Progression)

Achieve simultaneous

performance and cost goals

• Directs ALL incoming writes to Tier 1

drives at fastest RAID levels

• Moves inactive data to lower-cost

drives, space-efficient RAID levels

Enables cost-effective all-flash

and hybrid solutions

• Separates reads from writes

Seamless integration with

Storage Center OS

• Snapshots, Replication

Get the performance you need – while buying fewer of your most expensive drives

Read-intensive

SSD

7.2K HDD

Write-intensive

SSD

Granular page size movement

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

HOT data….Self-optimizing.…COLD data

7.2K HDD

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Unity All-Flash Family

Memory/Proc. Server based 96GB, 6c/1.7GHz 128GB,10c/2.2GHz 256GB,14c/2.0GHz 512GB, 14c/2.4GHz

Protocols iSCSI, NFS, SMB FC, iSCSI, NFS, SMB

Data reduction N/A Inline Efficiency: Compression + Zero Detect* + Deduplication*

Multi-array Snapshot mobility, Replication

Business continuity N/A Sync Replication, RecoverPoint, D@RE (internal & external key manager)

Cloud archive/tier Snapshot and file archive/tier to public/private cloud (policy based)

Management HTML5 Unisphere, CloudIQ, Rest API, Openstack, QoS, Vvols

Architecture Software defined Active/Active, Dynamic pool, Multi-core optimized (MCX), Persistent write cache

Unity 550F

8PB500 drives

Unity 650F

16PB1000 drives

Unity 450F

4PB250 drives

Unity VSA

4 | 10 | 25 | 50TBServer drives

Unity 350F

2.4PB150 drives

*Planned for Q4-2017release – available for free to all

existing Unity All-Flash customers with software upgrade

All software

included

ONLINE DATA-IN PLACE UPGRADE

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All-inclusive Inline Efficiency

Compression Zero Detect* Deduplication*

0000000

0000000

0000000

0000000

0 + & % +

& + + $

# $ + %

@ + % $

+ & %

$

#

@

Inline: Data reduction in memory

before being written to drive

Simple all-inclusive single setting –

set on/off per LUN/filesystem

Estimated 3X data reduction for

virtualized environments

Unified: Data reduction

applicable to both file and block

*Planned for Q4-2017release – available for free to all

existing Unity All-Flash customers with software upgrade

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Forever Snaps: Flexible Low Cost Protection & More

All-Flash

LOCAL REMOTE CLOUD

Fri 6am

Wed 6am

Mon 6am

Fri 11am

Fri 2pm

Thu 12pm

Sun 6am

PROD

Wed 11am

Tue 11am

Mon 11am

Thu 2pm

Tue 3pm

THIN CLONE

QOS QOS

Fri 6am

Wed 6am

Mon 6am

Fri 11am

Fri 2pm

Thu 12pm

Sun 6am

PROD REP

Fri 6am

Wed 6am

Mon 6am

Sun 6am

All-Flash,

Hybrid or VSAPublic

or Private

Local

protection

Test/dev,

Analytics

Disaster

recovery,

Backup

Backup,

Archive

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Dynamic Unified Pool: Flexible Drive Configurations

+ +

DYNAMIC UNIFIED POOL

Unified pool

Minimum 6 drives

Expand with as little

as 1 drive

Parallel rebuild

No separate spare

management

Flexibility

Low entry price

Lower cost of

ownership

Faster rebuilds

Simpler to

manage

BLOCK FILE VVOLS

1.9TB 3.8TB 7.6TB 15.4TB

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