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Dave Wright, SolidFire - SDDC Symposium 2014
1. The 5 Lies People Love to Tell
About the Software Defined
Datacenter
It looks like a box!
It can’t be software
defined!
Dave Wright
CEO & Founder
SolidFire
3. The SolidFire Solution
Scale-out high performance storage systems
designed for large scale infrastructure
Largest and fastest all-SSD storage system
5 – 100 nodes, 60TB – 3.4PB, 7.5M IOPS
Industry-standard hardware, 10 GigE
Rich software-defined feature set
Multi-tenant
Guaranteed QoS / Performance SLAs
Comprehensive REST APIs
Deep OpenStack, CloudStack, and VMware Integration
Complete set of enterprise data services
Software Defined
Storage
^
4. Validated in the
most demanding
Enterprise and
Service Provider
datacenters
Software
Defined
5. “You can’t define the software-defined-datacenter
– it’s just a buzzword like cloud!”
-The Slashdot Crowd
Lie #1
6. Defining the
Software
Defined
Datacenter
A pooled-resource model for datacenter
management that eliminates silos of
compute, storage, and networking created
around individual applications
…with software-based provisioning, control,
and reporting
…that is vendor agnostic to the underlying
compute, storage, and networking resources
…and de-couples application provisioning
from the physical hardware it is using
…turning the datacenter into a resource that
can be programmed like software
7. So what really
matters in the
SDDC?
Vendor-neutral datacenter management
tools that support a wide range of
underlying systems
Extremely simple management and
comprehensive APIs for all infrastructure
elements
Software and systems that are designed
for multi-tenancy
Underlying infrastructure that can deliver a
consistent level of resources and
performance with Guaranteed QoS
8. “Everyone needs a Software Defined Data Center”
-Anyone selling SDDC
Lie #2
9. Most companies
don’t even need
their own “data
center” anymore
SDDC really only matters at scale
Scale where the efficiency of pooled infrastructure
matters
Scale where the up-front complexity of systems
integration pays off in operational savings
Scale where the rate of infrastructure change is a
barrier to progress
…and…
If you aren’t at scale, you probably shouldn’t be
running your own infrastructure anyway
Host it with someone who does
(and they probably have a SDDC)
Define “not at scale”:
Today: Less than 300 virtual machines
Soon: Less than 3000
10. “SDDC is just virtualization. We already do that.”
-Overworked IT Departments
Lie #3
11. Virtualization
was just the
start of the
SDDC
Virtualization showed the power of a pooled model
for compute
Don’t need to dedicated servers to each application
Rapid deployment of new “virtual” machines
VM sizing not tied to physical hardware
…but it didn’t fundamentally change the
management paradigm
Infrastructure still under administrator control
Primarily a manual provisioning model
…and it really only covered compute
Storage systems and networking still managed
separately
Multiple toolsets and teams required to get anything
done
12. “You can’t be ‘software-defined’ if you include
hardware.”
-People trying to sell storage system software
Lie #4
13. “Software-defined”
is about
management, not
a sales model
You can’t have a software defined datacenter
without hardware
Modern storage systems are virtually all
“software-based”, whether sold as software or
bundled with hardware
The storage system should be part of the data
plane, not the control plane
The storage system is the resource to be managed,
not the resource manager
But where do you draw the line for advanced
functionality like snapshots, replication,
deduplication, and backup?
15. Converged
infrastructure can
simplify building a
SDDC, but it’s
neither necessary
nor sufficient
Solutions that integrate compute, storage,
networking hardware with smart management
software can be part of a SDDC
…but it’s not required
…nor does it mean that every converged infrastructure
offering is a SDDC
And there are trade-offs that run counter to the
SDDC
Vendor lock-in to specific infrastructure elements?
Inability to integrate best-of-breed
Many advantages of pre-built converged
infrastructure disappear at larger scales
16. The All Flash Array for the
Next Generation Data Center
Software Defined
Notas do Editor
Solution overview.
Get everyone on the same page here that this is a storage system (HW and SW)
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