NetApp and VMware vVol Demo

hi this is Graham Smith from net up and I'm here at vmworld Ameer with a vm volume demonstration so let's start by what is the problem we're trying to solve so prior to virtualization application administrators had more control over the storage they had application granular management of storage virtualization brings many benefits but it created a layer of abstraction called the data store where the virtual disks themselves cannot be managed separately so working with vmware we've created something called vm volumes where we now provide the administrator's back the ability to configure virtual disks just like lee had in the prior two virtualization this is basically application granular management so looking at the architecture and the ESX servers see these vm volumes through what's called protocol endpoints these are other luns or mount points in NFS the vm volumes are contained within storage containers for NetApp these are within a V server and volumes within the V server and the V volumes themselves are either LUNs or files in NFS and are tracked by a unique ID taking a look at the ecosystem so we obviously have the Nano controllers and on top of that vSphere credits and virtual machines with virtual disks the vasa vendor provided here on the end dark-blue it's really the brains of the effort it's providing the information of the storage capabilities up to NSX what is the ability of the storage replication deduplication etc so take a look at that in more detail here so I can set efficiencies I can set Layton sees those are exposed up these vCenter and yeah virtual administrator now can create storage profiles here we're going to create some profiles for gold silver and bronze gold of course as high-performance replication etc the virtual administrator can now create these virtual machines and place these virtual machines in the right containers actually the vasa provider is doing that automatically if we need to change the compliance or something goes wrong with compliance the vasa provider will actually automatically adjust okay so let's take a look at the demo itself so net up is actually a design reference partner for the VM volume project we have very early builds of VC r6r also using early builds of on top itself so what you'll see in this demonstration is not something you'll expect in the data centre soon so let's take a look at our system here we see we have version 6 of vSphere this is obviously a pre-release build we have storage providers already configured here there's basically one per V server in a net up the cluster modes configuration and now we'll take a look that's the actual data store capability profiles that have been exported by the the vasa vendor provider are you then that up vendor provider so you see we have two a gold and a silver profiles and on the gold we'll see we have several capabilities been exported to snapshots deduplication replication we're gonna take a look at the actual storage objects that are providing those here as well so wait for the system to refresh and we see we have two an NFS on a nice cozy container there let's take a look at the silver as well so we'll see actually the same two storage containers providing those and on the summary so we have snapshots and deduplication on but not replication okay so now let's go and configure some profiles or VM storage profiles so what we'll do first we'll just click Add we're gonna create a new profile here I'm gonna have this one for just the general purpose storage it's not for anything too critical so give it that a name I'll call it general so I can refer to it later you see here there's a rule sets guidelines they're the import was kind enough to put net up down there which is kind of cool anyway so we're configuring our rule set here we see we've added deduplication and set that on for this case and it's gonna then see what sort of storage I can match that ability and we'll see here we have the NFS container that was exported up through the vasa provider so we know we have matching storage so let's go and configure a second one here and here I'm gonna have this for business critical applications and add more abilities in that rule set let's go through that's again we'll choose our provider here this is the net up provider so I'm going to set snapshots I'm gonna set them every minute which should give us very good protection and I'm also going to set deduplication and replication on here so what we'll see is we're gonna do the matching there and once that finishes will complete it will seen we now have a second profile for business critical applications ok so now we've got our profiles configured let's go and configure a virtual a new virtual machine so we're just gonna go through always that this is the new web client so we're just gonna go through here picking my data center let's choose a new virtual machine I'm gonna give this a name of course I'm gonna call it test vivo okay so then we'll pick which server I want to have this startup on let's pick this guy okay so now we're in the storage selection so here I'm gonna pick the general storage profile and it's then I'm gonna check which of the configured data stores I have that ability I'm gonna pick this guy the container and go click Next I see I want to be compatible with es x51 and above this is gonna be a Linux installation so I'll pick that and then we got the opportunity to go and customize the hardware here so see we have a or 16 gig hard drive are gonna make that a little smaller and I'm actually gonna add a second hard drive here because I just want to show something so cool feature of the ability to match two different virtual disks in a virtual machine two different storage profiles so here I'm gonna go browse I'm gonna go back to up here you see the VM storage profiles I can select our business-critical applications again it's gonna see which data stores have that capability click on my container again and click Next and now I'm ready to complete so let's start off the virtual machine creation and it succeeded great okay so let's go to our new virtual machine and power this guy on so before we can open the console we need to have it actually finished its power on and then we can open the console and check that it actually booted all right so let's start the console this opens up another browser page of course a new web client and we say yes that's the install CD forum bunju okay so let's go to our machine and actually let's take a snapshot so I've installed the u.s. I wanna make a snapshot copy of that pretty much the same workflow as older versions ordered say current versions of Easter you're gonna give the snapshot a name I can queue us the memory the VMS memory etc and then we'll see the snapshotting actually go through and this is actually going to be pretty quick one of the things with the vm volumes is that the snapshots are actually offloaded to the net up array so we're actually here using net up abilities to actually do this snapshot so it's significantly faster than driving this as a the previous versions of VMware snapshots let's take a look at the manage snapshots and we'll see that yes indeed we do have our our new snapshot there when it was taken exactly what you'd expect to see okay so now I have my virtual machine configured just the way I want it it's all installed let's take a clone of this so just want to talk through the workflow for cloning and see how that works with AVM volumes so I'm going to give my clone a name here clone vivo of course I'll pick a compute resource and now we'll select the storage we want to clone into here you'll see actually the UVM storage profiles have come up again I can pick either the business-critical or general in this case I'm gonna clone into this container and you'll see actually a quick warning there that the snapshots from the original VM are not going to be copied over when we do the clone so that's fine so let's finish and start the clone and we'll see actually how quick this is so Rho D up to 94% this just like snapshots is because the cloning operation is being offloaded to the net up storage controllers which are obviously very quick quick at cloning so we see we've completed this I'm gonna go in and take a quick look at the summaries see if this was configured the way I actually wanted it and then as I do this I realize actually I want to go back I want to actually show how I can edit this virtual machine and add yet another virtual disc so let's start the edits and I'm gonna go through and click add on another virtual disc okay and before I create that let's choose a storage revolver in a container okay so just browse for which one okay I'm gonna stay with general but this time I'm gonna put it into the net up container rather than the the previous container and we see we've just very quickly created a virtual disc so let's recap the value propositions of vm granular management and vm volumes so i can narrow to quality of service at a virtual disk layer provide SLO guarantees for tier 1 applications uncut performance limits of the lower tier applications I can do snapshotting at a virtual dis level set that scheduling uniquely decide how long I want to retain those snapshots uniquely in the future we're working on technologies that allow replication at a previous level and of course with thousands of objects in the the infrastructure it's very important that we make this simple to manage so we're working very closely with VMware to make that very easy to manage not only thousands of VMs but tens of thousands of these virtual disk objects management by storage based policy management thank you for watching this video and if you're at vmworld in a mere thank you for attending and good day thank you you

Channel: Graham Smith

Views: 9,255

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Keywords: NetApp, VMware, VMworld, vSphere, vvol, vm, volumes, datacenter, storage, clone, snapshot, Cluster-Mode

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Length: 12min 20sec (740 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 17 2012