Dell EMC VxRack
System SDDC
Turnkey hyper-converged infrastructure
system for VMware Cloud Foundation
Technical Overview Sessions
Section Title
Topics
Speaker
VxRack SDDC Introduction: Market and Business
Positioning (Internal and Partner Ready)
Market Overview
VxRack Positioning
VMware Cloud Foundation
General Sales Guidance
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
Cloud Foundation overview and
Architecture
SDDC Manager Overview
Workload Domain Overview
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
Management Domain Overview
Lifecycle Management Overview
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
HW Architecture Overview
Networking architecture
Services and Support Options
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
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Technical Fundamentals
Section 2
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Integrated compute, storage, and networking powered by VMware Cloud Foundation
Turnkey VMware SDDC platform
Built-in networking
Fully integrated rack-scale hyper-converged
Simplified data center operational
experience
Start small, grow BIG
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Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation
Natively integrating the best of VMware’s industry leading virtual computing software
• Designed for optimized
VMware experience
• Simple management of
compute, storage and
networking
• Fully integrated SDDC
infrastructure platform
• One standard for both
on-prem and public clouds
Cloud Foundation
Management and Automation
vSphere
Compute
NSX
vSAN
Network
Storage
SDDC Manager - Automated Lifecycle Management
Private Cloud
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Public Cloud
Well known integrated VxRack SDDC stack
Inside the next generation hyper-converged SDDC platform
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vSphere
vSAN
NSX
SDDC Manager
Server
consolidation
Lowers storage
capex costs
Micro-segmentation
Automated build-up
& configuration
Maximize
application
uptime
Simpler storage
operations
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Automated network
operations
Customizable Software Options
Horizon Suite Add-on
3
Horizon Suite Add-on
Horizon
• New options and packages
App Volumes
vRealize Suite
2
vRealize Suite Add-on
• VMware SDDC Manager automates deployment
and internally integrates vRealize Operations and
vRealize Log Insight
• vRealize Automation and vRealize Business can
be externally integrated
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VMware Cloud Foundation
(required)
•
•
•
•
•
vRealize Automation
vRealize Business
Log Insight
vRealize Operations
VMware Cloud
Foundation
SDDC Manager
NSX Adv or Ent
vSAN Adv or Ent
vSphere Ent. Plus
Required
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• Horizon Suite Enterprise minus vSphere and
Virtual SAN
Cloud Foundation
Perpetual licenses
Premier-level support
Components can be upgraded independently
Customer can transfer existing licenses
Bring your own vCenter
– One per SDDC Manager instance
VMware Cloud Foundation- facilitates private cloud
vRealize Suite
•
Unified SDDC Platform
External
Integration
• vSphere, Virtual SAN, NSX
• SDDC Manager (+HMS)
•
Integrated Components
vRealize
Business for
Cloud
vRealize
Automation
vRealize Suite
Integrated
Components
Horizon Suite
vRealize Log
Insight
vRealize
Operations
Horizon View
App
Volumes
• vRealize Operations
• vRealize Log Insight
• VMware Horizon (VDI Workload Domains)
SDDC Manager
•
External Integration
Cloud
Foundation
• vRealize Automation / Business for Cloud
• VMware Integrated OpenStack
• Photon Controller
VMware
vSphere
Physical Hardware
(VxRack SDDC)
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Hardware Management Services
VMware
NSX
VMware Virtual
SAN
Private cloud
VMware SDDC Manager
• Centralized Access / Single-Point-Management for
the SDDC
–
Used inconjunction with existing product UIs (i.e.
vSphere Web Client, vR Ops/LI Console)
• View, monitor & configure hardware and software
components
• Abstract & aggregate resources into “Workload
Domains”
• Includes SDDC Lifecycle management (patches
and upgrades)
SDDC Manager UI
Hardware
Management
Service
Public Cloud
APIs
Workflow Services Engine
Physical
Resource
Manager
Virtual
Resource
Manager
VMware SDDC Manager
Virtual Appliance
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Hardware Management Services
• SDDC Manager responsible for discovery,
bootstrap, & monitoring of hardware
– Both In-Band and Out-Of-Band management (OOB)
SDDC
Manager UI
SDDC Manager Virtual
Appliance
• OOB Management agents run on the management
switch of each physical rack
• Accessed through the SDDC Manager
Hardware Management
Services
• VMware provided plugins
–
Additional plugins created by hardware partners
Management Switch
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Configure
Manage
Infrastructure Services VM (ISVM)
Management Domain
• Cloud Foundation System Services
–
–
Distributed Datastore Service
Distributed Coordination Service
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vR Ops
vCenter
PSC2
PSC1
• Minimum 4 nodes in each rack
Four configured by default
Powers the three virtual appliances
Provides redundancy and availability
Leverage DRS Anti-Affinity rules to separate
Runs in Management Domain
Add additional management cluster nodes if desired
LCM 2
Log
Insight
• Ensures health and accessibility of Cloud
Foundation Services
–
–
–
–
–
–
LCM 1
SDDC
MGR
Management Cluster
ISVM 01
ISVM 02
Management Domain
ISVM 03
Scalable and flexible heterogeneous workloads
Easily managed with the SDDC Manager
Minimum of 4 nodes per rack required for
Management Domain
Pools of virtualized resources
VI
Workload
Domain
VI
Workload
Domain
VI Workload
Domain
VDI Workload
Domain
VDI Workload
Domain
Expansion
VDI Workload
Domain
VI Workload Domain
Management
Domain
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Management
Domain
Management
Domain
Standardized, modular, scalable
Common management services
Automated policy based provisioning
Integrated Network Management
• SDDC Manager automatically configures hosts
and switches by accessing them through
Hardware Management Services (HMS)
–
Network admins do not need to access ToR/spine
switches and issue switch-specific commands
• HMS is a software agent running on the
management switch’s Cumulus OS and
manages qualified hardware in-band and out-ofband
–
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SDDC Manager
Virtual Appliance
Hardware
Management
Services
Cisco plug-in for HSM configures switch ports,
VLANs, and VXLANs using Cisco API
• SDDC Manager configures NSX-based
networking and micro-segmentation security
–
SDDC
Manager UI
VxRack SDDC does not support Cisco ACI
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Management Switch
Discover
Configure
Manage
Monitor
Integrated software components
• vRealize Log Insight
– Centralized log aggregation and analysis with
search and filter
– Federated deployment architecture for
redundancy and scalability
• vRealize Operations
– Performance/Health monitoring and capacity
planning for the SDDC
– Custom dashboards, capacity modeling,
customized alerting
• Run in the Management Domain
–
Deployed by SDDC Manager
• Monitor all workload domains from a single
federated instance
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Lifecycle Manager (LCM)
• Built into SDDC manager
–
–
–
Automatic notification
Download and schedule updates
View, monitor, and track status
• Components:
–
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Stores patch / upgrade bundles
LCM 2
Casandra
LCM Backup Repository
›
–
LCM 1
LCM Repository
›
–
SDDC
MGR
Temp store used during patch/upgrade
ISVM 01
ISVM 02
Database
›
Casandra DB running on ISVMs
›
Update status and history
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Management Domain
ISVM 03
VxRack SDDC Lifecycle Management
• VxRack SDDC’s Life Cycle Management (LCM) is controlled by
VMware Cloud Foundation’s release software bundle contents
–
–
Software bundle is dependent on server and switch hardware
VMware defines qualified hardware and software combinations
• VxRack SDDC’s factory installation procedures include bare metal
imaging of servers and switches using VMware Cloud Foundation’s
VMware Imaging Appliance (VIA) and software bundles from
VMware download site
–
VxRack SDDC applies the software bundle for Dell servers and Cisco
ToR/spine switches
• SDDC Manager’s Life Cycle Management (LCM) feature
automatically installs updates using software updates from VMware
download site
–
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Summary of available
updates
SDDC Manager’s LCM does not update firmware for servers and
switches.
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Schedule when to
apply
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Demo – SDDC Initial
System Configuration
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Powered by VMware Cloud
Foundation
SDDC Manager Detail
VMware SDDC Manager centralized management
Centralized SDDC management
• SDDC Deploy, Configure, Manage
• Physical Resource Management
• Workload Domain Management
• Lifecycle management
Customers can also use vSphere, vSAN and NSX UI for even more granular control
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VMware SDDC Manager hardware management
Physical Resource Management
• Racks, Switches, and Hosts
–
–
–
Configuration
Health
Event reporting with alerts
Physical Server View
showing Node 4 (N4)
Hot Links to vSphere Web
Client
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VMware SDDC Manager virtual domains
Fully Automated
Workload Domain
Creation
Workload Domain Management
• Virtual Infrastructure
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
Summary of Physical
Resources and
Workload Domains
Summary of available,
used and free capacity
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VMware SDDC Manager
Lifecycle Management
• Notification
• Download / Schedule
• Components
–
–
–
–
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vSphere
Virtual SAN
NSX
SDDC Manager & related
components
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Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Powered by VMware Cloud
Foundation
Workload Domains Detail
Types of Domains
Minimum of 4 nodes per rack required for
Management Domain
• Dedicated vSphere Cluster
–
Automated provisioning through SDDC Manager
• Three types:
1. Management
2. Virtual Infrastructure
3. Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
VI
Workload
Domain
VI
Workload
Domain
• Multiple workload domains run in parallel
–
Each with dedicated vCenter Server
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VDI Workload
Domain
Expansion
VDI Workload
VDI Workload
Domain
Domain
VI Workload Domain
Management
Domain
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VI Workload
Domain
Management
Domain
Management
Domain
Management Domain
•
Special purpose workload domain
• Hosts Cloud Foundation Infrastructure components:
• vCenter Servers, PSCs, NSX Managers, SDDC
Manager, LCM, ISVM, vR Ops, vR LI)
•
First four nodes in every rack
• Four hosts to facilitate VSAN maintenance
• Nodes in racks 2-8 are for back up purposes
•
•
Not used for user workloads
vCe
nter
NSX
Man
ager
AppAppVolu
Volu
Vie
mesmes
w
SQL
vCe
nter
NSX
Man
ager
Com
pose vCe
nter
Virtual Infrastructure
Log
Insight
LCM
Reposi
tory
vCente
r
ISVM
(1)
NSX
Ctrl (1)
Virtual Desktop
VROP
S
LCM
Backup
NSX
Manag
er
VRM
PSC
PSC
ISVM
(2)
NSX
Ctrl (2)
ISVM
(3)
NSX
Ctrl (3)
Cloud XYZ
Infrastructure
VMs
vRack-ResourcePool-Mgmt
Virtual Distributed Switch
Automatically created by SDDC Manager during
“Bring-Up”
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
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w w
ConCon
nectnect
AD
NSX
Man
ager
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vSphere
Cluster +
Virtual SAN
Workload Domains
• Virtual Infrastructure (VI) :
›
Dedicated vSphere cluster
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI):
›
Dedicated vSphere cluster + virtual desktop
infrastructure
• User specifies capacity, performance and
availability parameters
• SDDC Manager automates deployment:
›
vSphere (PSC, vCenter, ESXi), VSAN, NSX, Horizon,
App Volumes
• Ability to create, expand, and delete
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Workload Domain attributes
Management Cluster
PSC
vCenter
Server
PSC
vCenter
Server
NSX
Manager
Workload VMs
nsx-ctl-01
nsx-ctl-01
nsx-ctl-01
vCenter
Server
Log Insight
NSX
Manager
Workload VMs
nsx-ctl-01
nsx-ctl-01
nsx-ctl-01
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
ESXi
Workload Domain 1
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vRealize
Operations
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Workload Domain 2
Capability or Setting
VMware Cloud
Foundation Setting
*DRS
Enabled - Automatic
*Network IO Control
Enabled – Default
Configuration
*LACP
Enabled – VDS and
Physical Switch
*Syslog
Enabled – Configure for
Log Insight
NTP
Enabled – Configured
during initial startup
DNS
Enabled – Configured
during initial startup
Redundant SSO Instances
Centralized Monitoring
Dedicated vCenter Server
Common VSAN, HA, and DRS policies
Workload Domains storage performance &
availability options
Development
Stripe Width 1
Flash reserve 0%
Object space
Reservation 40%
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Standard
Stripe Width 1
Flash reserve 0%
Object space
Reservation 70%
High
Stripe Width 3
Flash reserve 0%
Object space
Reservation 100%
VSAN
FD
vSphere HA
Max Size
FTT=0, three
host minimum
No
No
Cluster Maximum
Normal
Availability
FTT=1, four host
minimum
No
Enabled, % based
Admission Control
Cluster Maximum
High Availability
FTT=2, five host
minimum
No
Enabled, % based
Admission Control
Max hosts
available in one
rack
Option
VSAN FTT
Low Availability
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FTT=0
FTT=1
FTT=2
Workload Domain Creation – Virtual Infrastructure
Performance &
Availability Settings
Name / Organization
Size
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Network Settings
Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain components
Management Domain
vCenter & NSX Manager Run
in Management Domain
• vSphere Cluster (min of 3 hosts)
–
–
–
–
Dedicated vCenter Server per Workload Domain
Shared SSO domain with PSCs in Management
Domain
Size dynamically calculated based on user inputs
Can be expanded later
vCenter
Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain
NSX
Transport
Zone
Hybrid and All-Flash
Two disk groups per host
One VSAN datastore per workload domain
V
M
NSX Logical
switch
V
M
• Virtual SAN
–
–
–
NSX Edge
NSX
CTL 01
V
M
V
M
V
M
V
M
NSX
CTL 02
NSX
CTL 03
Management
Corporate
Virtual
Distributed
Switch
vMotion
VSAN
• VMware NSX
–
–
NSX Manager Deployed in the Management Domain
NSX Controller Cluster deployed in Workload Domain
VXLAN
VTEP
vSphere
Cluster
ESXi-01
VTEP
ESXi-02
VTEP
ESXi-03
…
Virtual SAN
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NSX
Manager
External Network
Workload Domain creation – Virtual Desktop
Desktop Settings
VDI Name, Linked
Clones, Access
Images
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VDI Workload Domain components
Management Domain
•
vCenter & NSX Manager
and Horizon View
Components Run in the
Management Domain
All VI Workload Domain Components
NSX
Manager
AppAppVolumes
Volumes
View
vCenter
•
View
View
Connect
Connect
SQL
Compose
Plus VMware Horizon:
•
•
•
•
Horizon Composer
Redundant Horizon Connection Servers
Redundant Horizon Security Servers
Two modes:
•
Reserve Resources - to allow manual creation of VDI with
Citrix Xen Desktop for example
•
Deploy Desktop: Use Horizon View to create VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Workload Domain
NSX
Transport
Zone
VDI
NSX Logical
switch
VDI
NSX Edge
NSX
CTL 01
VDI
VDI
NSX
CTL 02
• Optional components:
•
Active Directory Server
•
AppVolumes Servers
VDI
VDI
NSX
CTL 03
Management
Corporate
Virtual
Distributed
Switch
vMotion
VSAN
•
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AD
Option to link to corporate Active Directory (AD)
domain (production) or to deploy a new AD
domain (testing/POC)
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VXLAN
VTEP
vSphere
Cluster
ESXi-01
VTEP
ESXi-02
VTEP
ESXi-03
…
Virtual SAN
External Network
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Demo – SDDC Manager
Workload Domain Creation
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Dell EMC VxRack
System SDDC
Turnkey hyper-converged infrastructure
system for VMware Cloud Foundation
Technical Overview Sessions
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Topics
Speaker
VxRack SDDC Introduction: Market and Business
Positioning (Internal and Partner Ready)
Market Overview
VxRack Positioning
VMware Cloud Foundation
General Sales Guidance
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
Cloud Foundation overview and
Architecture
SDDC Manager Overview
Workload Domain Overview
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
Management Domain Overview
Lifecycle Management Overview
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
HW Architecture Overview
Networking architecture
Services and Support Options
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Management Domain & Cluster
Management Domain
• vSphere Cluster
–
–
–
–
Virtual Distributed Switch
All disks claimed by Virtual SAN
HA/DRS enabled
Min of 4 hosts, in same rack, for added redundancy
• Hosts Cloud Foundation Infrastructure VMs
–
Management Domain
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Dedicated Resource Pool
Virtual Distributed Switch
• Should not be used for user workloads, can be used
for additional Management Components
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
• Automatically created during “Bring-Up”
1st Four Nodes
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Management Domain
vSphere Hosts (ESXi)
Management Domain
•
•
•
First 4 hosts in rack assigned to management cluster
Cluster automatically configured during bring-up
vSphere HA/DRS enabled
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
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Management Domain
vSAN
Management Domain
•
•
Internal disks on all hosts auto claimed by Virtual
SAN
Two disk groups per hosts
•
•
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1 x SSD + 4 x Capacity Drives (HDD/SSD) each
Disk Groups from all hosts aggregated into single
VSAN datastore shared across cluster
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Management Domain
Virtual Distributed Switch
Management Domain
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
•
•
•
Single VDS created for Management Cluster
Portgroups configured based on VLAN information
entered during bring-up
Different functional networks configured in the VDS
as well as on the physical switches
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ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
ESXi04
Management Domain
Infrastructure Services VM
Management Domain
•
•
•
Provides real time configuration info consistency
for in process tasks
Provides a clustered datastore for system inventory
data
One VM per host
•
DRS Anti-Affinity Rules to keep on separate
hosts
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Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
ESXi04
Workload Domains
vCenter Server / Platform Services Controller
Management Domain
•
•
Single vCenter Server Instance (appliance)
•
Availability provided by vSphere HA
Two PSCs
•
Single SSO Domain: “vsphere.local”
•
Shared by all Workload Domains
•
Optional: Can add external AD as identity
store
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Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
ESXi04
Workload Domain
SDDC Manager
Management Domain
•
•
•
Hosts the SDDC Manager
Availability provided by vSphere HA
VRM = Virtual Rack Manager
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
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Lifecycle Management
Lifecycle Manager VMs
Management Domain
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
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Workload Domain
vRealize Log Insight
Management Domain
Collect and process log events for every device in
the rack including servers, switches, and PDUs
In a multi rack setup, multiple vRealize Log
instances are federated for redundancy and
scalability
Includes pre-installed Content packs for Cloud
Foundation, NSX and Horizon View
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Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
1st Four Nodes
ESXi04
Workload Domain
vRealize Operations
Management Domain
• Monitor both the physical and virtual components
through a single interface.
• Management “Packs” for Cloud Foundation, NSX, and
Horizon View installed and configured automatically
Log Insight
VROPS
LCM
Repository
LCM Backup
VRM
vCenter
PSC
PSC
ISVM (1)
ISVM (2)
ISVM (3)
Virtual Distributed Switch
ESXi01
ESXi02
ESXi03
Virtual SAN Datastore
• Provides capacity modeling and monitoring
1st Four Nodes
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VMware Cloud Foundation
Lifecycle Management
SDDC Manager lifecycle automation extends
across entire VMware stack
Virtual Desktop
Cloud Ops
Horizon
vRealize
Operations
Log Insight
Cloud Automation and IT
Financial Mgmt
vRealize Automation
vRealize Business
Integrated OpenStack
VMware Cloud Foundation
vSphere
Virtual SAN
Internally Integrated
(LCM)
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NSX
Externally Integrated
(no LCM)
Lifecycle Manager
• Built into SDDC manager
–
–
–
Update Notification
Download and schedule
View, monitor, track update history
• Cloud Foundation Supports:
–
–
–
–
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vSphere (PSC, vCenter Server, ESXi)
vSAN
NSX
SDDC Manager (HMS, LCM, and related components)
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Automatic Notification of
available updates
Lifecycle Manager
Software Updates
• Download available updates
• Status bar shows download progress
• Schedule when updates get applied
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View updates and download
when you are ready
Lifecycle Manager
Summary of available
updates
Applying Updates
• Choose the Workload Domains to be updated
–
Update/Upgrade Management Domain first
• Schedule date and time to apply the update
• One update active at a time
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Schedule when to apply
Lifecycle Manager
Handling Dependencies
• If an update is dependent on another update,
it displays PREVIOUS UPDATE REQUIRED
• Dependent downloads are downloaded along
with selected bundle
• Once the dependency update is installed, the
UPDATE bundle on becomes available.
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Notification of a
dependency bundle
Lifecycle Manager
Monitoring Update Status
• Click VIEW UPDATE DETAILS to display the Update
Status.
• The Update Status page displays:
–
–
Resources within the domain being updated
Update progress
›
Total number of tasks
›
Tasks completed
• If update fails
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–
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Failure message displayed
Restart the update once the failure has been resolved
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View/Monitor update
progress
Lifecycle Manager
View update history
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Demo – SDDC Manager
Lifecycle Management
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Dell EMC VxRack
System SDDC
Turnkey hyper-converged infrastructure
system for VMware Cloud Foundation
Technical Overview Sessions
Section Title
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Topics
Speaker
VxRack SDDC Introduction: Market and Business
Positioning (Internal and Partner Ready)
Market Overview
VxRack Positioning
VMware Cloud Foundation
General Sales Guidance
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
Cloud Foundation overview and
Architecture
SDDC Manager Overview
Workload Domain Overview
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
Management Domain Overview
Lifecycle Management Overview
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
VxRack SDDC Technical Product and Architecture
Review (Internal and Partner Ready)
HW Architecture Overview
Networking architecture
Services and Support Options
How-To Demos
Sr. Consultant Engineer VxRail
and VxRack SDDC Tech
Marketing – Jason Marques
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
The Hardware Components Behind
the Software
Physical components inside the VxRack
VxRack SDDC
Redundant
Power
8 to 24 Dell EMC
PowerEdge
(Hybrid or Flash
storage)
Management
Switch
48 x 1Gbps
Redundant
Top-of-Rack
Switches
48 x 10Gpbs
4 x 40 Gbps
Redundant
Rack Interconnect
Switches
(Multi-Rack
configurations)
32 x 40 Gbps
6
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VxRack SDDC industry standard servers
Dell EMC PowerEdge
Single node, 1U
Max all flash capacity: 15 TB
Dual socket, Up to 18 cores/CPU
Max hybrid capacity: 10 TB HDD
5th generation Intel Xeon E5-2600 Family
2x 100-240VAC 1100W auto-switching PSU
Up to 1,536 GB RAM
Optional Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2
2x 10 GbE SFP+ network ports
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Flexible options to cover many uses cases
VxRack SDDC Node Configurations with Dell PowerEdge R630
CPU
Hybrid
Cores
Memory
2x E5-2680v4
14
384GB
384GB
768GB
768GB
2x
2x
2x
2x
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
2x E5-2643v4
6
2x E5-2680v4
14
2x E5-2695v4
18
2x E5-2699v4
22
768GB
768GB
768GB
768GB
1.5TB
1.5TB
768GB
768GB
1.5TB
1.5TB
768GB
768GB
1.5TB
1.5TB
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
2x
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
800GB
All Flash
SSD cache
Node type: 1U1N
NIC/node: 2x10GbE SFP+ & BMC
Boot/node: 64GB SATADOM
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Max
capacity
8x
8x
8x
8x
6x
6x
8x
8x
8x
8x
8x
8x
8x
8x
6x
6x
6x
6x
TPM
1.2TB
1.2TB
1.2TB
1.2TB
Y
N
Y
N
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
1.92TB
Y
N
Y
N
Y
N
Y
N
Y
N
Y
N
Y
N
Integrated and scalable SDDC architecture
High performance, high density network fabric
Redundant Topof-Rack
switching
Scale out to 8 Racks and
192 nodes per system
Pre-Configured 42U
Cabinets
Easily scale
up to 24
nodes per
rack
Start Small
with 8 node
minimum
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Pre-integrated Cabling
Pre-integrated aggregated
rack interconnect switches
Dell PowerEdge R630
servers with hybrid or
all flash drives
VxRack-scalable SDDC details
Choose either hybrid OR all-flash systems
Management Switch (1)
• Dell S3048-ON
Management Switch (1)
Dell S3048-ON
Top of Rack Switches (2)
Top-of-Rack Switches (2)
• Cisco Nexus 9372PX-E
Cisco Nexus 9372PX-E
Rack interconnect switches (2)
• Cisco Nexus 9332PQ
Expansion nodes
Maximum
42RU
• 24 nodes per rack
• 8 racks per system
Minimum configuration
with 8 nodes
Dell PowerEdge R630
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First rack
Second rack
VxRack SDDC details and rules
No mixing of hybrid and all-flash nodes
Minimum configuration of 8 nodes
per rack
Minimum of 4 nodes per rack
required for Management Domain
Expand system with one or more nodes
Maximum configuration
• 24 nodes per rack
• 8 racks per system
• 192 nodes per system
Configuration Consistency
• No mixing of hybrid and all-flash
within a system or rack
• Same node configuration per rack
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First rack
Second rack
Physical Network Architecture
VMware Cloud Foundation
Data Center Network
 Automated installation and configuration of
physical networking
 Integrates to existing data center network
infrastructure
 Fully uplink compatible to existing
switches: Cisco, Juniper, Brocade…
 L3 or L2 connectivity supported
L3 preferred
 Uses the same network management tools
40 or 10GE Links
MLAG/Channel Capable
Aggregate over 160GE
4
Inter ToR connectivity
For control traffic &
redundancy
ToR Switch A
ToR Switch B
4 x 40GE Ports
48 x 10GE Ports
3
10GE
Management Switch
Server 24
5
2
Rack Interconnect
Switch
…
1GE
Out-of-band
10GE
1
Server 1
1•
ToR ports 1 to 24 to connect hosts. Port 25 to 38: reserved for hosts
2• ToR port 48 for Management switch
3 • ToR ports 39,40,41,42 for Interconnect
4 • ToR ports 43,44,45,46 for uplink connectivity
5 • ToR ports 49 and 50 rack interconnect switches
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Logical Network Design
ToR1 links
ToR2 links
Mgmt switch links
2 x10G
OOB
2 x10G
OOB
(N+1)
x10G
OOB
(N+1)
x10G
Nonroutable
Mgmt VLAN
Corporate
(External)
VLAN
Public Mgmt
VLAN
HMS
ESXi kernel vmknic
VSAN
vMotion
VXLAN
syslog
Core modules
 VRM
 vCenter
Core modules
 Log Insight
 vRealize
Operations
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NSX Edge(s)
Optional
modules
 NSX Manager
 NSX Controllers
 vRealize
Automation
 Horizon View
(N+2)
x10G
2x
10G
ESXi Host 1 (Post 2nd boot)
ESXi kernel vmknic
2 x10G
ToR2
ToR1
ESXi Host N (Pre 2nd boot)
OOB
Corporate
Network
Logical Switch
Other Physical
Racks
VMs
Dell EMC VxRack SDDC
Single Source Support and Services
VxRack SDDC complete services experience
Pre-deployment
Post-deployment
Technology
Services
Advisory
services
Provide assessments,
guidance, and
expertise
Managed
services
Technology
Services
Design, architect, and
deploy solutions
Migrate and integrate
solutions
Ongoing management
and optimization
World-class seamless support and proactive life cycle assurance
Core
support
Integrated, seamless
support experience
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Plus
support
Enhanced, higher-touch
support option
Premier
support
Holistic, highest-touch
support option
Dell EMC CPSD VxRack SDDC support options
Tiers differ in delivery frequency and dedication of resources
Premier
Support
Plus
Support
Core
Support
Support Onboarding
In Person
In Person
Remote
Trusted Advisor
Dedicated
Designated
-
Weekly
Monthly
-
Operations Review
2 Per Year
1 Per Year
-
Business Review
2 Per Year
1 Per Year
-
On-Site (as needed)
Remote
-
Health Check Report
2 Per Year
1 Per Year
-
Remote Change Support
2 Per Year
1 Per Year
-
Provided
Provided
-*
Service Request Reviews
Technical Consultation
Root-Cause Analysis
* Event report available at discretion of EMC Converged Platforms Division
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Dell EMC integrated support flow
Customer
http://www.vce.com/support
1-877-308-0993
Customer advocacy
Escalation management
Support Center
Cisco
Dell EMC
VMware
Cooperative
Engineering Group
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Field Services
Joint Problem
Re-Creation Labs
Alerts
Platform Support Engineer
Dell EMC services offering
VCE SKU
Description
Scope
Price
HDLG-CABA-00-A01
VCE Handling Service
Per system
$1,758
MNFG-CABA-00-A01
VCE Manufacturing and Factory Assembly Service
Per system
$10,498
PSVC-FLBO-00-A01
VCE VxRack Factory Logical Build Service - Base
Per system
$8,503
PSVC-FLBP-00-A01
VCE VxRack Factory Logical Build Service - Per Cabinet
Per cabinet
$5,369
PSVC-VFDC-00-A01
VCE On-Site Deployment Service for VCE Converged
Infrastructure Systems (VxRack System Core)
Per cabinet
$12,308
PSVC-VFDD-00-A01
On-Site Deployment Service for VCE Converged
Infrastructure Systems (VxRack System Server Add-on)
Every 4 nodes beyond
initial
$2,573
VxRack SDDC requires Dell EMC factory integration (manufacturing and logical build) AND on-site
deployment services in order for delivery as an engineered solution with a single support call.
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VxRack SDDC with VMware Cloud Foundation
A completely integrated VMware HCI solution at rack scale
TURN-KEY
DEPLOYMENT
SIMPLIFIED
MANAGEMENT
ELASTICALLY
SCALABLE
Full SDDC software
suite delivered
pre-integrated on
Dell EMC hardware
Easy deployment,
configuration, and
ongoing operations
management
Built on an scalable,
distributed hyperconverged
architecture
Designed as one by Dell EMC | powered by VMware Cloud Foundation
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How do I get smart?
•
Places to remember and go!
•
•
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VxRack Enablement Center
–
Resources along with details on demos/evaluations,
positioning, quoting, special pricing, FAQs…
–
http://https://www.emc.com/auth/rpage/ec-for-vce-vxracksystems-1000.htm
VxRack Inside EMC
–
Experts Q&A, internal programs and more
–
https://inside.dell.com/community/active/convergedplatforms-division-vce/vxrack
VMware Cloud Foundation Fundamentals
–
–
Free eLearning course for self-paced training
Free Registration
–
http://mylearn.vmware.com/register.cfm?course=320119
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