vVols and Your Cloud Operating Model with Tristan Todd

Tristan Todd
Field Solution Architect
Pure Storage
vVols and Your Cloud Operating Model
March 2024

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3 Primary Cloud Computing Service Models
IaaS contains the basic building
blocks for cloud IT and typically
provide access to networking
features, computers (virtual or on
dedicated hardware), and data
storage space.
Infrastructure as a Service
provides you with the highest
level of flexibility and
management control over your IT
resources and is most similar to
existing IT resources that many
IT departments and developers
are familiar with today.
PaaS removes the need for
organizations to manage the
underlying infrastructure (usually
hardware and operating systems)
and focuses on the deployment
and management of applications.
Efficiency is enhanced as there is
reduced need to focus on
procurement, capacity planning,
lifecycle maintenance, patching,
or other heavy lifting involved in
running an application.
SaaS delivers a completed SW
service that is run and managed
by the service provider. In most
cases, SaaS refers to end-user
applications.
With a SaaS offering you do not
have to think about how the
service is maintained or how the
underlying infrastructure is
managed; you only need to think
about how you will use that
particular piece of software.
Infrastructure as a Service
IaaS Platform as a Service
PaaS Software as a Service
SaaS

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COMPLEXITY

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MODULAR
CHAOS

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SILOS
ARCHITECTURE
TEAM
INFRA
OPS
TEAM
SW
DEV
TEAM
SECURITY
TEAM
WORKSPACE
TEAM

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VELOCITY

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Analyze storage
request
Performance
Capacity
Data placement
Usage profile
Data protection
Encryption
Data reduction
Backup
Where to deploy
Performance headroom
Capacity headroom
Tier service level
Data path
Device type
Device group
Storage array
Approve and schedule
Change approval
Scheduling
Maintenance windows
Resource reservation
IT admin formats and
deploys new storage
User notification Device type Define LUN to
RAID group
Provision storage
Storage configuration
Request LUN on
storage-area
network (SAN)
Zone and mask
Complete request
IT admin scans
for new LUNs
Face it ...Traditional storage provisioning is terrible
Storage provisioning takes days or even weeks is most large organizations
Example - Traditional Infra Provisioning Is Terrible
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Service provisioning takes days or even weeks in most large organizations

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SCALABILITY

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COSTS

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Why are cloud operating models important?
The meaning of the term “cloud operating model” is evolving from a basic
description of cloud processes to a new vision of using the cloud model in an
adaptive, flexible way, and delivered through public, private, on-premises, hybrid,
and edge deployments.
Part of the cloud operating model vision is defining cloud processes around
business objectives—not preferred technologies or legacy processes. This
viewpoint will require integrating teams and systems, reimagining processes for
greater agility, developing new management structures, and even redefining the
culture within IT teams.

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Why are cloud operating models important?
The meaning of the term “cloud operating model” is evolving from a basic
description of cloud processes to a new vision of using the cloud model in an
adaptive, flexible way, and delivered through public, private, on-premises, hybrid,
and edge deployments.
Part of the cloud operating model vision is defining cloud processes around
business objectives—not preferred technologies or legacy processes. This
viewpoint will require integrating teams and systems, reimagining processes for
greater agility, developing new management structures, and even redefining the
culture within IT teams.
flexible
cloud choice
business outcomes/impacts

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•Deliver service
outcomes and
assurances
Do so without
fixating on
infrastructure,
platform, locale
Deliver against
business SLAs
and CSIs
Flexibility and
scalability are
key
Cloud Service Experience

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•Automation and
Orchestration with
self-service
interaction.
•Visibility and control
of the entire estate,
enabling real-time
decision making
•Automated policy-
driven decisions for
workload placement
and estate
management.
•Support periodic
and seasonal bursts
of performance and
capacity
Cloud Service Ops

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•Cost is based on what
is consumed, not on
what is deployed
•Ability to observe,
compare, report on all
service costs.
•Risk based costs are
born by provider
•Continuous assurance
of scalability, reliability
and performance. BUT,
with penalties for
under-delivery!
Cloud Service Economics

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Notional Cloud Ops Service Diagram
Management
FINANCIAL
COMPLIANCE
GOVERNANCE
SERVICE LEVEL
EVENT
CAPACITY
PERFORMANCE
Automation
SCALING
ANALYTICS
DATA
RECLAMATION
DEV CYCLE
APP
PROVISIONING
INFRA
PROVISIONING
Security
DATA
AVAILABILITY
ISOLATION
THREAT
CONTAINMENT
DATA
ENCRYPTION
Consumption Interface
GUI API CLI
Applications
SaaS
CLIENT
SERVER
3RD PLATFORM
Catalogs
SERVICES
APPS
INFRASTRUCTURE
Active Cloud
Workloads
VIRTUAL
MACHINES
CONTAINERS
Active on-prem
Workloads
VIRTUAL
MACHINES
CONTAINERS
Platform - Abstraction, Pooling, and Tenancy
Compute Network Storage Databases
Physical Resources
Compute Network Storage
IMMUTABLE
SNAPSHOTS

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An example of a layered Cloud Service Model
CMP
Automation /
Orchestration
Platform
• Management
• Catalog Services
• Telemetry/Reporting
• Costing
• Auditing
• Multi-tenancy
• Self Services
• Provisioning
• Scaling/Sizing
SaaS Apps

5 Tenets of Cloud Ops Model Success

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COSTING

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AUTOMATION

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Analyze storage
request
Performance
Capacity
Data placement
Usage profile
Data protection
Encryption
Data reduction
Backup
Where to deploy
Performance headroom
Capacity headroom
Tier service level
Data path
Device type
Device group
Storage array
Approve and schedule
Change approval
Scheduling
Maintenance windows
Resource reservation
IT admin formats and
deploys new storage
User notification Device type Define LUN to
RAID group
Provision storage
Storage configuration
Request LUN on
storage-area
network (SAN)
Zone and mask
Complete request
IT admin scans
for new LUNs
Example - Traditional Infra Provisioning Is Terrible
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Service provisioning takes days or even weeks in most large organizations

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Basing Automation on Self-Service!
Choose what you want
to deploy:
App Server, DB Server,
Load Balancer
Where do you want to
deploy:
Primary DC, AWS, Azure,
DR
What business
classification?
PROD / TEST / DEV /
LAB
What performance
category?
Tier1, Tier2, Tier3
What data protection
level?
Gold, Silver, Bronze
What security
classification?
Level1, Level2, Level3

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User self-
provisions storage
Select
performance
needs
Select
Capacity
Select
protection/backup
Storage
Automatically
Provisions
User Notification
Complete Request
What if it can look like this?
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Self-service storage provisioning taking only minutes
Array
automatically defined
Storage configured

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SECURITY

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Zero Trust Security

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METRICS

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CLOUD NATIVE

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What are vVols?
The storage provider is advertising capabilities that can be used for automating services.
Hi there
vSphere! I’m a Pure Storage
FlashArray™
Do your VMs need some
QoS?
I can snapshot!
I can replicate!
Do you like tags?

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What Are Virtual Volumes
The Quick Overview
vSphere vVols
Storage Policy Based Management
VASA Provider
vVols Storage Array
Flash Array vVols Container
vVols = well-orchestrated system of RDMs
No filesystem (VMFS/NFS)
Pass through UNMAP
Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)
Integrated replication management
VM VM
No more pre-provisioning

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vVols and Storage Policy Based Management (SPBM)

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vVols are Awesome—Reason #2 (vDisk Granularity)
Disk Type SPBM Policy Placement Snapshots Replication QoS
OS Gold Array 1 2 hrs /1 day 4hrs / 1 day 1K iops
DB Silver Array 2 1 hr / 2 day 2 hrs / 1 day 3K iops
Logs Silver Array 2 1 hr / 2 day 2 hrs / 1 day 3K iops
VM

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Benefits of Data Mobility
Make Copy Data a Snap
SQL
C: D: F:
E:
Virtual Volumes
E:
Array Snapshots
C: D: F:
DW
Copy to Volume
F: F:
Pure Storage
Cloud Block Store
F:
Bare Metal
SQL Server

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vVols and Telemetry

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Use vVols In Your Existing Environment
You Can Use vVols with NFS, VMFS, and vSAN
VMFS NFS vSAN vVols
VM VM VM vVols can coexist with other datastore types
Allow for testing without replacing
Can exist on the same array
VM migration via storage vMotion

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vVols Deployment is Easy
Register VASA providers
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Connect protocol endpoint /
mount vVol datastore
02
Create storage policies
(optional)
03
Move VMs!
04

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Outcomes
Cloud experience
• Cloud services should be based on service outcomes and assurances, and not limited to technology assets or specifications.
• Consuming services or service levels that deliver the capabilities needed.
• Having limitless access to those capabilities wherever and whenever they are needed.
• The ability to link technology services to business models that continue to adapt to changing markets.
Cloud operations
• High degree of API-driven automation and cloud native focus, with self-service interaction.
• Visibility and control of the digital estate, enabling real-time decision making, or even automated policy-driven decisions about workload placement and estate management.
management.
• Having the practical ability to move data to where it needs to be, and to flex up consumption of storage when needed most, and flex down when not needed.
Cloud economics
• Optimizing cost by using flexible payment models that are linked to the resources actually used, as opposed to what has been deployed or what is available to use.
• Gaining additional advantage by offloading commercial and operational risk to providers.
• The services consumed should provide continuous assurances of scalability, reliability and performance, with penalties for any under-delivery.

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Summary: Why love your Cloud Service Ops Model?
• Eliminate silos and fiefdoms
• Support flexible scalability
• Business faster through faster IT
• Self-service catalog
• Drive business intelligence through telemetry and observability
• Who cares where (or on what) it runs…as long as it is most cost-effective
• Security must be intrinsic and always a top consideration
• Support legacy apps, support cloud native apps, support SaaS

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vVols - Is this an enabling capability?
Efficiency through automation
Cloud operating model
Intrinsic security & operational rigor
vVols technology roadmap
Org silos are dead or dying
Increased efficiency / scale
Performance and capacity benefits
Let’s unlock value of core feature of
vSphere!

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Pure Storage
is a Leader for
10 Consecutive
Years!*
A Leader in the 2023 Gartner®
Magic Quadrant™ for Primary
Storage
Placed highest for Ability to Execute AND furthest for
Completeness of Vision for the 4th Consecutive Year!
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*This includes 5 years as A Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid State Arrays and now 5 years as A Leader the Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage.

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A Consistent, Modern, Reliable Platform
Scale Up
Unified Block & File
Low Latency
High Performance
to High Capacity
Direct to Flash
Block, File, Object
Consistent APIs
Best data reduction
Highest Sustainability
+
Cloud Native
Kubernetes Data
Management
Supports all
environments
Scale Out
File and Object
High Throughput
High Performance to
High Capacity
Integrated
SaaS Mgt
All Products
Predictive Support
Cloud Operating
Model
and Subscription Services
Cloud
Block
Store

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Some Interesting Resources
What is a cloud operating model?
Adopting an API first approach
Observability versus telemetry versus monitoring
Understanding Technical Debt
World’s Biggest Data Breaches
US OMB Zero Trust Security Model
Uncomplicate Data Services Forever
10 Reasons to use vVols on Pure Storage

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