Cisco Hyperflex 3.0: Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale
Cisco Hyperflex 3.0: Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale
Cisco Hyperflex 3.0: Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale
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Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale.
No Multicloud
platform in intro
Better agenda slide
Soccer theme
Year In Review
Hyper-V
Stretched Cluster
Kubernetes
Q&A
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Cisco Hyperconvergence Journey So Far…
Pumping Innovations with Rapid Pace
All Flash SED Enterprise Profiler, Edge Connect UI Native Scale RBAC Localization M5 Skylake
Workloads Sizer Replication/DR
Fastest Growing HCI Ready for Biz. Critical Customer Success Tools
2600+ #1
in Performance
15
CVDs, Ref.
25
White papers,
New Customers
and consistency Architetures Soln. Guides
VDI, VSI, SQL, Oracle, SAP,
Exchange, Splunk, Veeam, …
3
HyperFlex Platform Evolution
HX
3.0
HV
HX +
2.0
HX
1.0
• Multi-Hypervisor
• Performance for • Advanced Data Protection, Higher
• Data Distributed, Flash Friendly Enterprise Apps Scale, Capacity options
Foundation • Data protection, Native • Hybrid-cloud Ready, Multi-cloud
• Turnkey Install, Easy Replication Enabled
Operations • Security, Encryption • Cisco Intersight Managed
• Tightly coupled with VMware • Edge/IoT • Enterprise Apps++
Multicloud Platform
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Microsoft Hyper-V Support
Enterprise workloads, Validated solutions
• Citrix VDI deployment (XenDesktop and XenApp)
• Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint etc.
• Oracle & other mission critical apps
• Backup vendor integrations
Integrated Management
• Manage Hyper-V hosts from familiar SCVMM, Hyper-V manager,
and PowerShell
• Automate HX operations using HX REST API
• Leverage HX Connect UI (HTML5) for HX management
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER
HYPERCONVERGED
HYPERCONVERGED
DATAHYPERCONVERGED
PLATFORM
DATA PLATFORM
DATA PLATFORM
Start with as Few Hyperconverged Network Fabric Add Servers, Distribute and Retire Older
as Three Nodes Data Platform Policy Configures One or More at a Rebalance Data Servers
Installs in QoS Settings Time Across Servers
Minutes Automatically
Non-Disruptive Operations
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
DATASTORE DATASTORE
File.vmdk A B C D E
A1 B2 C2 D3 E1 B1 A2 C3 E3 D1 C1 A3 D2 E2 B3 D1 E1 B3
VM VM VM
DATASTORE
1 2 3
BEFORE
No Special Hardware
No Performance Impact
Inline Compression Inline Deduplication No Config lock-in
No Additional License
30–50% space savings 20–30% space savings Lower Cost
Powershell ReadyClone
ReadyClone PowerShell Script
• Declare source VM, Clone Name, and # of Clones
• HyperFlex Clone is nearly instantaneous, 2-5s per clone due to
registering it
in Hyper-V
Demo
ReadyClone & Offline Data Transfer (ODX)
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Management Options
Download Remote Server Admin tools for Windows 10 to remotely manage
Server Core
• Hyper-V Manager
• Management at local Hypervisor granularity
• SCVMM
• Management at cluster and beyond
• PowerShell
• All Windows Management has extensions in Powershell
• STCLI / HX Connect
• Manager Storage Cluster, services, and hardware
Adding HX Share in SCVMM
Purpose built Management Tools
Cisco Intersight
Demo
Intersight and HX HyperV
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Windows 2016 Production Checkpoint
Production VM Checkpoint – It just works
• WMI in Host, VSS in Guest (Linux too!)
• No longer snapshots the Host and then the Guest
• Uses differential avhdx disk for new writes.
• Many backup applications will remove the checkpoint after backup complete.
• Avhdx files consolidated into vhdx files.
• RCT & MRT files persist CBT for both live migration and host crash
Data Protection with Hyper-V
VM SQL 1
VHDX
sql-share-1 HX1
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What is a Stretched Cluster?
3rd site
Witness Server
VM VM
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM
Single Cluster
1. A stretched cluster is a single cluster with nodes geographically 4. Geo-failover (VM) is like failover in a single cluster
distributed
5. “Split-Brain”: Condition when nodes on either sites cannot see
2. Storage is mirrored across each sites each other
• Network failure
1. Sites need to be connected over low latency network • Site failure
6. “Witness” : An entity hosted on a 3rd site responsible for
deciding the which site survive after a split-brain
HyperFlex Stretched Cluster Use Case
Active-Active Disaster Recovery solution for Mission Critical workloads with
extremely high uptime (near Zero RTO) and no data loss(Zero RPO)
App DB App DB
HX Data Platform
Synchronous Replication
Site-A Site-B
HyperFlex Stretched Cluster
ZERO RPO, NEAR ZERO RTO
Configuration Support Management
3rd site Single Stretched Cluster across Cross site Cluster creation
2 sites Non disruptive online rolling
Witness Server Symmetric Configuration upgrade
VM VM VM VM Site to host a “Witness Server” Site awareness in HX Connect
(small VM) Site specific Alarm and Events
8 +8 nodes on each site on a single Dashboard
Site-B
IO Path HA Operations
Active-Active sites – VMs
VM VM VM VM Active on each site Recover from a Site failure
VM Read IOs served locally Recover from a Local failure
VM Write IOs Sync-Writes Failover of VM
across sites vMotion of VM
2x copies on each site Split Brain handling
Site-A
Stretched Cluster Demo
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HyperFlex Disaster Recovery
Setup
Create a Replication VLAN Assign a name Create one of more Protection Groups
Input the network parameters Provide remote site credentials Provide a replication interval
Set the Replication bandwidth Map Datastores Select VM consistent
One time setup Supports a single site pairing
HyperFlex Replication & Disaster Recovery
Overview
Business
Business Service
Service App Web App Web Failover
DB DB
Identify failover network You can mix clusters with HX240 & Use the HX Maximum
requirements (vSwitch,vLAN, HX220 but be aware of capacity Bandwidth setting to
PortGroups, IPs, DNS) limits Limit use of scarce WAN bandwidth
Limit perf impact on primary I/O of
the two clusters
Identify VM or Protection Groups Number of nodes and type can be Use a secure tunnel over the
different on each site ( All-Flash to WAN if concerned about data
Prioritize VMs based on RPO & WAN Hybrid replication) security.
considerations MTU is 1500 and cannot be
For optimal usage of resources changed through the UI.
VMs load order consider Active-Active Cluster
Replication of cloned VMs will take Need to plan for the storage
up more space at destination than capacity based on the number of
at source. VMs to be protected
HyperFlex
Elastic Scaling
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HX 3.0
HX 3.0
• 1.8TB 10Krpm SFF HDD • For high capacity use cases, lower $/GB
• Lower overall $/GB, similar performance • M5 240 support only
• Support for M4 & M5 • 6 & 8TB 7.2Krpm LFF HDD support
• Supported in 220 and 240 models • Upto 96TB raw capacity per node
64 Node Scale with Resiliency HX 3.0
IOVisor IOVisor
IOVisor IOVisor
Up to 32 HX Up to 32 compute nodes
nodes
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Cisco & Google Hybrid Cloud Solution Announced
Oct. 2017
GOAL
Consistent Development
Experience
Cisco Google
Container Kubernetes
Platform Engine
Tools
Multicloud Platform