Install & Running An EMC VNX VSA v2.0

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Install & Run the EMC

VNX Virtual Storage
Appliance (VSA)

Simon Seagrave
EMC vSpecialist Technical
Enablement Team & Blogger
Kiwi_Si
simon.seagrave@emc.com
Goal of this session

Overview: Gain a high-level overview of the EMC VNX including
the core components that make up the overall solution
Simplicity: In this session I want to show you how Simple and
Quick it is to have your very own fully functioning EMC Virtual
Storage Appliance (VSA) up and running in your own VMware
vSphere lab environment.
Cost Effective: Running a fully featured VSA in your lab doesnt
have to be expensive, with the EMC VNX VSA being a fully
functional and FREE way to become familiar with the VNX VSA
including the easy to use management interface, Unisphere.
How To: Learn how to install, configure, and run the VNX VSA in
your vSphere lab environment.
Other Cool Things: We will also look at how easy it is to integrate
the EMC VNX VSI plug-in (also free) into the VMware vCenter
Server which provides a more detailed views into the VNX VSA.
In this session I want to show and demonstrate to you the following:
The VNX Virtual Storage appliance is not for
production use and as such is not supported by
EMC.
Not Restricted
Some Emulation

Though great for a vSphere lab!
The Small Print
What is a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)?
Traditional Physical Traditional Virtual
EMC VNX
VSA
What is a Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)?
EMC VSA Shared vSphere Lab Storage
EMC VSA Play with VMware Coolness!
vMotion
High Availability (HA)
Fault Tolerance (FT)
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS)

Why would you want to run the EMC
VNX VSA in your lab?
Common Reasons
Product assessment
Career development
Certification & Education
Cheap fully featured shared
storage
Local disk only available
Easy first steps into
virtualisation when paired with
VMware ESX/ESXi

The EMC VNX VSA shouldnt be confused
with VMwares new VSA offering
But first some VNX basics
#1 SAN Platform
Fastest-Growing in NAS
Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
Built for the most demanding virtual environments
CLARiiON
3X
faster
3X
more
efficient
3X
easier

Raising
the bar in
unified
storage

Celerra
What is a EMC VNX Storage Appliance?
Its about having choices.
AND/OR
EMC VNX For businesses of all sizes
EMC
Unisphere
VNXe3100 VNX7500 VNX5700 VNXe3300 VNX5100 VNX5500 VNX5300
Affordable. Simple. Efficient. Powerful.
VNX Series Models
Simple. Efficient. Powerful.

VNX5100 VNX5300 VNX5500 VNX5700 VNX7500
Form factor 4U 4U7U 4U7U 5U8U 5U8U
Number of drives 75 125 250 500 1,000
Drive types 3.5 Flash, SAS, and NL-SAS and 2.5 SAS
File system
modules
I/O slots per X-
Blade
n/a 3 4 4 5
X-Blades n/a 1 or 2 1, 2, or 3 2, 3, or 4 28
Memory n/a
6 GB/blade 12 GB/blade 12 GB/blade 24 GB/blade
12 GB 36 GB 48 GB 192 GB
Protocols n/a NFS, CIFS, MPFS, pNFS
Storage
Pool
modules
Storage Processors 2
I/O ports per SP 4 Fibre Channel ports, 2 back-end SAS ports n/a n/a
I/O slots per SP n/a 2 2 5 5
Memory 8 GB 16 GB 24 GB 36 GB 48 GB
Protocols Fibre Channel Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI
VNX: Modular Unified and Gateway
Leverage existing storage investment
Scale performance and capacity
Shared storage
Add to existing block implementation
File: NFS (including pNFS), CIFS, MPFS
Object: REST, SOAP
GATEWAY
Servers
Gateway
Fibre
Channel SAN
VNX series Symmetrix CLARiiON
File
Object
Software. Simple. Powerful.
VNX Storage Processor
Block services
Flexible RAID options (10,3,5,6) provide optimal
performance AND protection
RAID Groups and Virtual Pools
Administration/management
Through storage processor Ethernet ports
Aggregated to single file/block view in Unisphere
Single point of management/control
High availability Active/Active controller
failover option
Connects to Hosts via FC, FCoE, iSCSI for
flexibility of connection
Connects to storage via 4 lane 6Gbit SAS for
up to 24Gb/SAS bus (6x prior generation)
Dedicated processing for block services
VNX
H A R D WA R E
Storage Processors
Private
Network
Administrator
FC/iSCSI
SAN
Unisphere
VNX series
VNX X-Blades
Up to eight independent file servers contained in
a single system
Scale by adding enclosures: 2 X-Blades per X-Blade
enclosure
Managed as one, high-performance, high-
availability server
Connects data to the network
VNX operating environment for file
No performance impact after failover
Concurrent Network File System (NFS), Common Internet
File System (CIFS), File Transfer Protocol file access,
MPFS/pNFS
Hot-pluggable
Flexible N-to-M failover options
Continues to operate even if control station fails
No internal disks in the Gateway
Run the worlds most mature NAS operating system
X-Blade
X-Blade
X-Blade
X-Blade
Control Station
Control Station
X-Blade Enclosure
VNX, Symmetrix
or CLARiiON
Network
H A R D WA R E
VNX Control Station
Installation
Administration/management
Through X-Blade and Storage Processor Ethernet
ports
Configuration changes
Monitoring and diagnostics
Heartbeat pulse of X-Blade
Monitors and manages X-Blade failover
Enterprise Linux-based (RHEL 5)
Initiates communications with X-Blades for
greater security
Single point of management/control
Failover redundancy option
Secure management and control for VNX for file
Control Station
Control Station
H A R D WA R E
VNX series
Control Station
Private
Network
Administrator
Unisphere
VNX System Architecture
LCC LCC
Flash drives
SAS drives
SPS SPS
Power Supply
Power Supply
LAN
Near-Line SAS drives
VNX SP
Failover
Clients Oracle servers Exchange servers
VNX Unified Storage
Application servers
SAN
Failover
VNX X-Blade
VNX SP
VNX OE FILE
VNX OE BLOCK
Virtual servers

FC

iS

FC

iS FCo
E
FCo
E
VNX X-Blade VNX X-Blade
VNX X-Blade
VNX X-Blade
VNX X-Blade VNX X-Blade
VNX X-Blade
10Gb
Enet
10Gb
Enet
Object:
Atmos VE
EMC VNX Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA)
The VNX UBER VSA v1:

Free to download & use
ESX/ESXi & Workstation VSA formats also runs under Fusion
Uses the same code as run in the EMC VNX storage appliances
Fully featured eg: dedupe, replication
Already optimized for performance
New look Unisphere management console
64 bit
One data mover only with v1
Compatible with VSI plugin for VMware vCenter
Simple to install & configure
Not intended for production use

IDEAL FOR A LAB ENVIRONMENT!
Will there be the VNX VSA work with
VMware vSphere 5.0?
YOU BETCHA!
Will there be an iSCSI EMC VNX VSA?
POSSIBLY
/MAYBE
Run Your Own EMC VNX UBER VSA
Download the EMC UBER VNX (NFS/CIFS)
VSA from:
http://nickapedia.com
Whoops!
Temporary Download Link:
http://www.techhead.co.uk/cool-links
Demonstration
- Deploying the VSA OVA

Unisphere Management Interface
The newly released storage management interface Unisphere is included for
free in both the UBER Celerra VSA and the UBER VNX (v1). It is based on
Adobe Flex light weight and good for performance
Quick glance
status view
Check Out The Hardware (Emulated)
Demonstration
- Quick Unisphere Tour &
Configuring the VNX VSA
for vSphere 5 NFS
Connectivity
VMware vCenter Server EMC Unified
Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) Plugin
What can I do with the Unified VSI
plugin?
Provision new NFS, VMFS and RDM storage
Extend existing NFS and VMFS storage
Compress VMs in an NFS datastore
Clone VMs in NFS datastore
Fast Clone support limited to the same
file system
Full Clones support limited to file systems
on same data mover
Integrate with VMware View

Other VSI plugins for vSphere (also free)
Covering EMC storage products including
Symmetrix, VPLEX, VNX, CLARiiON & Celerra
VSI Storage Viewer
VSI Storage Pool Management
VSI Symmetrix SRA Utilities
VSI Path Management Powerpath VE

Visit EMC Powerlink for more information &
downloads
Where can I get the EMC VSI plugins for
VMware vCenter?
Free to download at: http://powerlink.emc.com
Demonstration
- Installing, Configuring &
Using the EMC Unified
VSI plugin for VMware
vCenter
(9.30 Minutes)
EMC VSA Other cool things to try
Replication
EMC VSA Another cool thing to try
Single White Box vSphere Lab

VMware vSphere 5.0
EMC VNX VSA Shared storage
Virtualized ESXi hosts
Nested VMs now x64 OS !
Plenty of great EMC VSI vCenter Plugin
Information Available
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