Nimble Storage: VMware VVol Management

hello everyone my name is John bus art I'm an HP e-business transformation Center engineer for Ingram Micro help support servers blade systems storage as well as networking technology solutions from HPE in my videos what I like to do is show you a slide from a popular PowerPoint and then demonstrate to you what that means within a management interface today we're going to continue on with HP's nimble storage solution we're going to look at the solution in relation to what VMware v valves is all about VMware View mouse is supposed to be overtime a replacement for VMFS and NFS they're really allows VMware's vSphere environment directly talk with a storage solution but so the way I usually like to describe this is this today we'll say we have a vmfs volume or presenting that to a VM our environment we have a whole bunch of virtual machines that are running on it then we're taking array based snapshots but Monday it comes along that we want to recover a virtual machine to a known good state so if I go into the storage snapshots and I want to recover that volume but I'm going to recover all the virtual machines that exist on that volume but so what do we do to kind of circumvent that is we clone that volume and then we represent it to the VMware environment then we have to put three signature process it takes a real lot to actually get back to the virtual machine and recover it inside the environment right so we can look at it in that fashion but we could also look at it from a VM or side of things so so obviously with a VMware virtual machine we take a VMware based snapshot of that virtual machine but what happens under the cover of that virtual machine when we do so well you've got a VMDK file for the virtual hard drive a delta file is created every single time we create a snapshot in there pirate that delta file interjects performance issues within a virtual machine you latency can i ops and things like that can cause problems so generally speaking within a VMware environment you want to take a snapshot of a virtual machine but we want to get rid of that snapshot as soon as possible so VMware vivos kind of helps him in both of these scenarios so with all that being said let's kind of explore this management interface okay here's my nimble storage solution so just to get our heads wrapped around the way we currently do things with maybes vmfs volume if I go under manage and data storage I have this volume presented to a VMware environment as the name implies but I have no insight to any of the virtual machines that are running on this volume if I want to understand what Valiant virtual machines are running on this volume I would go inside VMware vSphere I'm going to the datastore context and I'd select that that volume as it's presented to the VM or environment and that I could see the virtual machines so let's talk about V valves now V valves are implemented within a nimble environment through their folders ISO folders just kind of a management context moving organizational context so I'm going to quickly create a folder and just show you what it does and then we'll kind of get rid of this and we'll go to the V Valls piece but at any rate we'll click a plus sign we'll just call this our folder leave it in the default pool the management type we're going to leave it set at none but we can see what we're going to be looking at in a little bit all right how much space we leave it as oh no limit and we'll click create now obviously there are some metrics around performance I can set within a context all right now I can go into the folder and now we could just create a regular volume as we do for anything they do within production that will leave it in the folder we'll select performance policy and all this we kind of went through in the basic nimble administration video we'll select our snapshot schedule give it access to a system then of course we should always use the chat but I'm not doing that for these videos we'll click create and now we have our volume now if I go up the tree here we'll go to the default context we could see that volume exists within that folder right if I select the folder we can see that exists within this folder so again this folder I can set I opt limits and throughput let me since I felt like it so let's get rid of this it set this offline and we'll delete it then we'll get rid of the folder as well alright so let's go create a folder for V vowels so I'll click the plus sign we'll call this our giveaw folder alright leave it in a default pool this time for management type we're gonna select BM our virtual volumes movie vowels then we're gonna select the vCenter that we were working with which is this guy here right what's our space limit right so you don't necessarily want vmware and to have that the entire storage system so this time we'll just set alone terabyte limit but of course you've got these performance metrics and limitations so we can click create and that really all there is to presenting of evals from VMware environment through animal storage system that's that's all the configuration the next side of things we need to go into the VMware environment and discover the setting and then actually bring it online inside the VM or environment so sometimes it takes a little bit so you might have to rescan a couple times in order to be able to find it but by going over into the vSphere environment I'm not gonna do this a couple different ways I can go over to the data store can right-click on the data store and then go to storage and do new data store but you can see we can see that the different types of evals is on the bottom click next and we're not discovering our folder yet but we can are seeing a 3-part folder that's available to us so so V Val's isn't just limited to nimel obviously 3par and other storage systems that are out there have the ability to use v vowels as well so let's just click cancel here and another way to actually find these is through right on the cluster then going in the storage but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna rescan the storage maybe that'll help it get discovered a little quicker let's hurry scan is completed so let's go see if we can find this guy you date a store Vivah we'll click Next and there is our meat off from our nimble storage system will call this nimble and you will reason why I'm calling this manual because we've manually created this video I'll you can certainly use the vCenter plugin the nimble vCenter plugin to be able to create this volume I'm gonna do that know a little bit some we're gonna click Next it could appears that it to both these hosts will click Next again and then finish all right now that this is completed I'm one of the things I'd like to point out before we go look inside the storage systems is if I select the storage context and let's look at our our nimble of volume here for our AF 40 and let's go look under files we can see this vsphere each a file that's not related to any virtual machine it's just there for a che failed over abilities within a VMware environment so let's go look at our nimble storage system for our nimble manual of eval that we created let's go into the folder we can see again we see an H a volume kind of created in there so it's an interesting type of context so let's create a virtual machine Oh within this Vivah environment so let's go back over to our clusters and I think I have a windows 2019 system here that we can clone right click clone this virtual machine we'll just call it England well click Next and select this cluster neck again and then we'll find our new nimble V vol volume creating click next next and then finish well sports on the sheet made will be clone so obviously cloning virtual machine is going to take a little time I'm gonna fast-forward a little things so I don't keep you guys hanging around watching dead space in this video okay that clone is completed let's go take a look inside our nimble storage system up here you see our records our sale so it's refresh them and now we've got a couple extra volumes that are created in this folder and we can see this file here and they're always about 4 gigs in size this would be your configuration information the BIOS information and stuff like that would be contained with this obviously this is always thinly provisioned and this would be your VMDK so let's go back inside our vSphere environment let's power on that virtual machine ok so what happens when you power on a virtual machine in a VMFS environment there's always a swap file that's created for the virtual machine that's what happens inside a a eval environment so sleep open up a console see if this guy is fully booted up there it is and then over here we'll do a refresh and now we can see there's a swap volume created right so now right click and then we'll shut down the guest OS click yes now that that virtual machines turned off let's decide our example storage yeah we'll do a refresh you can see that swap file is vanished ok so that's kind of the manual process for creating evals within a new most system the far easier process is actually to create a volume of eval section through the nimble plugin so if I go up to cluster and we'll right-click go down to nimble actions now you see I can create an eval data store so let's do that at this context we're gonna select the storage system we want to use use the f40 that we've been using we're gonna click Next now we're gonna give it a name and we'll call this some plugin plugin min believe all and we're presenting it to this cluster so lousy that ESX servers will click Next how much space do we want to use we'll do two terabytes this time obviously this will all be thin and then we're not going to send any performance criteria and we're just going to click create you see it's been successfully submitted and down here we can see the process rolling on through okay we're done scanning so if we look under volumes and see the plug-in simple view though and then what we'll do is we're gonna migrate that virtual machine we're working with on over to that so let's right-click select migrate will change the storage only so next now notice all my volumes that are not be vowels are listed as incompatible storage anything videos would be involved I can migrate this virtual machine so migrating in but you're not gonna get out and click Next finish this shouldn't take too long cuz it's on the same storage system okay so let's migrate it on over let's take a look at the backend storage let the refresh here we have this new plugin Vivah and then we could see eh-eh information as well as figuration information and the VMDK alright so let's power this machine up so then she's powered on I'll open up a console to this guide we look back in the storage again and then we can do a refresh if you want to you will see that the swap file exists again all right this machine's booted up let's login and let's create a file I'll put a little bit of information in our file now I'm doing this so I could take a VMware snapshot of this virtual machine let's let's go inside EMR let's right-click let's go up to snap shots and we'll click take a snapshot and just leave the name as it stands and we'll click OK see the snapshots getting created down here okay now that our snapshots have been created let's go take a look at what we can see within the storage system so again our table records our stay let's refresh this again now you can see another volume of sorts for the snapshot so let's go inside the virtual machine and let's go get rid of our file and we'll empty out of the recycle bin all right oops maybe I wanted to recover that file so let's close out of this I'm gonna click on the virtual machine the part of this guy off hard clip yes yeah well right-click on the virtual machine will go to snapshots and then we'll revert the last snapshot look like yes let's open up the console okay then we can see we're back in our environment and our file is back up there again these snapshots because of storage beasts they don't have necessarily have an impact on performance within an environment all right the last piece I'll kind of show you is is what is this vivo look like on the back end certainly we've been looking at what it looks like on the front end so here we'll look and our plugin and we can see we have something fairly typical as far as a che and and our virtual machine family looks a lot like a VMFS from this perspective and over here under virtual machines you can see our virtual machine so I hope you found this video informative and please stay tuned for more videos

Channel: Ingram Micro, HPE and the BTC / Solution Center.

Views: 1,340

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: HPE, Hewlett, Packard, Enterprise, Nimble, VMware, VVol, Ingram, Micro, Ingram Micro, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Storage, SAN, Shared, IM, Jon Busshart, Jon, Busshart, iSCSI, Fiber, Fibre, AF, HF, Hybrid, Solution, Center, Solution Center, Business, Transformation, BTC, vSphere, vCenter, Management, Demo, Demonstration, Volume, Creation, Virtual Volumes, Plugin, Block

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Length: 17min 32sec (1052 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 27 2020