ScaleIO Overview

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Problem: Traditional Storage Arrays
The old way

Deployment Management Refresh

•  Takes up to months to procure, •  Siloes of unused storage •  Need forklift upgrades every
deploy and provision storage 3-5 years
•  Multiple arrays to manage
•  Overprovisioning •  Large data migrations
•  Performance hotspots
•  High CAPEX

Traditional

SDS

Time

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Solution: ScaleIO Software-Defined Storage
Combining storage virtualization with web-scale efficiencies

Deployment Management Refresh

•  Deploy in minutes! •  “Abstract, Pool, Automate” - for •  Rolling server upgrades
Storage!
•  Start small, no •  No large data migrations.
overprovisioning •  Data center scale, no silos Ever!

•  Standard x86 servers and •  HCI or traditional SAN •  Superior TCO

Ethernet

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 Life without ScaleIO
Host
file-system
application(s)
(bare metal)
semantics
file-system
block
semantics
vol. manager

block dev.
drivers

mostly
unutilized, DAS
contain OS
files
HBA NIC/IB

External
Storage
Subsystem
switch switch
Fabric HBA

switch

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 ScaleIO Data Client (SDC)
application(s) Host
file-system
semantics
Exposes ScaleIO
file-system shared block volumes
block
semantics to the application
vol. manager
Access to OS partition may still
be done “regularly”
block dev.
drivers SDC ScaleIO data client (SDC) is a
block device driver
ScaleIO
DAS protocol

HBA NIC/IB

ScaleIO protocol: proprietary

External
block storage and metadata
Storage

switch switch
protocol overSubsystem
TCP/IP.
Fabric It is NOT iSCSI due to ScaleIO’s
HBA

switch distributed nature.

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 ScaleIO Data Server (SDS)
application(s) Host
Owns local storage
file-system SDS that contributes to the
block
semantics ScaleIO storage pool
vol. manager
ScaleIO data server (SDS) is a
daemon / service
block dev.
drivers

Space ScaleIO
allocated to DAS protocol
ScaleIO
HBA NIC/IB

External
Storage
Subsystem
switch switch
Fabric HBA

switch

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 ScaleIO Data Server (SDS)
application(s) Host
Owns local storage
file-system SDS that contributes to the
block
semantics ScaleIO storage pool
vol. manager
ScaleIO data server (SDS) is a
daemon / service
block dev.
drivers

Space ScaleIO
allocated to DAS protocol
ScaleIO
HBA
Local storage could NIC/IB
be dedicated
disks, partitions
within a disk, or External
even files Storage
Subsystem
switch switch
Fabric HBA

switch

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 SDC & SDS in the same host
application(s) Host
file-system An SDC and an SDS can live
semantics
file-system SDS
together.
block
semantics
vol. manager
SDC serves the I/O requests of
the resident host applications.
block dev.
SDC
drivers SDS serves the I/O requests of
various SDCs.
Space ScaleIO
allocated to DAS protocol
ScaleIO
HBA NIC/IB

External
Storage
Subsystem
switch switch
Fabric HBA

switch

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ScaleIO Building Blocks

x86
ScaleIO Data Client (SDC) Operating Systems
•  Manages connection to
SDC •  Microsoft Windows
ScaleIO’s pool of storage
•  Linux
ScaleIO Data Server (SDS) Deployed on… Hypervisors
•  Consumes local storage and
SDS
presents it to SDCs •  VMware ESX
•  HyperV
MDM Metadata Manager (MDM) •  Xen
•  Coordinates and monitors
storage Platforms
•  OpenStack
•  Mesos
•  Docker

And more…

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ScaleIO Building Blocks (2)

Deployment and management components

•  ScaleIO Gateway
•  Performs installation and configuration checks; acts as an endpoint for API calls and passes them to MDM

•  ScaleIO Lightweight Installation Agent

•  Receives packages from gateway, installs them on its local host

•  ScaleIO Graphical User Interface (GUI)

•  ScaleIO Command Line Interface (CLI)

•  All of these components do coexist along with SDS, SDC, MDM

Orchestration and deployment

•  ScaleIO Advanced Management Services (AMS)

•  Extended interface for ScaleIO GUI
•  Manages and installs ScaleIO; must exist outside of ScaleIO system

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Three ways to consume
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System
with FLEX
Software-defined maximum flexibility Lowest risk, highest value, lowest TCO
Ultra Scale-Out SDS Scale-Out Block Storage Turnkey Software-Defined IaaS
•  Software only •  Dell PowerEdge servers tuned, •  Fully productized platform
•  Complete flexibility optimized and validated for •  VCE factory integrated and
ScaleIO logically configured
•  End user supplies server
•  Hyper-converged or Storage •  VCE support and lifecycle
•  End user supplies switch only assurance
•  End user supplies rack
•  All-flash configurations

Build Buy
Maintain Consume

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ScaleIO Deployment
Configurations
ScaleIO Configurations: 2-Layer Server SAN

Ethernet access PCIe/SCSI bus access

•  SDS nodes
app
dedicated to
SDS SDC serving storage
•  Operationally
app separated
SDS SDC
•  Drop-in
replacement for
app block storage
SDS SDC
ETHERNET •  Any x86 OS, any
combination of
app
SDS SDC operating
systems and
hypervisors is
app possible
SDS SDC

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ScaleIO Configurations: Converged
Ethernet access PCIe/SCSI bus access

vSphere Cluster HyperV Cluster

•  Both SDS and
app SDC SDC app SDC on the
SDS SDS
same node
•  CPU and
app
SDC SDC
app memory efficient;
SDS SDS more resources
for compute
SDC
app
SDC
app •  Can serve
SDS
ETHERNET SDS different
hypervisor
SDC
app
SDC
app clusters with one
SDS SDS storage cluster

SDC SDC
app app
SDS SDS

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ScaleIO Configurations: Hybrid

Ethernet access PCIe/SCSI bus access

•  One ScaleIO
app SDC SDC app cluster
SDS SDS •  SDS-only, SDC-
only, and SDS
app
SDC SDC
app +SDC nodes all
SDS SDS possible
•  Scale storage
SDC
app app and compute
SDS
ETHERNET SDC independently

app
SDS SDC

app
SDS
SDC

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