Software Defined Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Insights From the Field

Software Defined Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Insights From the Field About the Speakers Scott D. Lowe, vExpert Seth Knox Partner a...
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Software Defined Storage and Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Insights From the Field

About the Speakers

Scott D. Lowe, vExpert

Seth Knox

Partner and Co-Founder ActualTech Media

VP of Product Marketing Atlantis

Introduction

1,267 Respondents

53 Countries

48 U.S. States

The Hypervisor Landscape Hypervisor Status Current 61%

58%

60%

Future

50% 40%

40% 30%

30%

29% 25%

20% 10%

16%

14% 14% 10%

9% 4%

10% 9%

9%

11% 9%

4%

9% 4%

5%

0% VMware vSphere 4.x

VMware vSphere 5.x

VMware vSphere 6.x

Microsoft Microsoft Citrix Hyper-V – Hyper-V – XenServer 5.x Server 2008 or Server 2012 or R2 R2

Citrix XenServer 6.x

KVM

Oracle

Docker containers

We will not be using any hypervisors or container tools

The Storage Capacity Picture Overall Storage Capacity 0.00% We have no shared storage at this location

Less than 5 TB

5.00%

10.00%

4%

20.00%

25.00%

18% 7%

9% 11%

5 TB to 10 TB

10%

12%

10 TB to 20 TB

10% 16%

20 TB to 50 TB

11%

12%

50 TB to 100 TB

11%

11%

100 TB to 200 TB

200 TB to 500 TB

9%

500 TB to 1 PB

9%

More than 1 PB

15.00%

7% 8% 7%

10%

8% Primary Location

Aggregated Remote Locations

30.00%

Annual Data Growth Outlook Data Growth 20%

18%

16%

14%

12%

10%

19.1% 16.3%

8%

12.6%

6%

10.6% 4%

9.8%

7.7% 5.9%

2%

4.6%

4.6% 1.6%

1.5% 0% 0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

40%

45%

50%

1.3%

0.9%

0.8%

1.2%

0.7%

0.4%

0.4%

55%

60%

65%

70%

75%

80%

85%

0.0% 90%

0.1% 95%

0.2% 100%

Types of Storage in Use 80 75% 70

60 55% 50

40

30 21%

21%

20

16%

10

0 Disk-based storage array

Hybrid storage array

All flash storage array

Software defined storage system

Hyperconverged infrastructure

The Future State of Storage

Hybrid storage array

53%

Disk-based storage array

53%

0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

38%

6%

56%

All flash storage array

35%

5%

60%

Software defined storage system

35%

4%

61%

Hyperconverged infrastructure

40%

7%

28%

19%

30.00% Will stay the same

40.00%

50.00%

Will be decommissioned

60.00% We will add more

70.00%

80.00%

90.00%

100.00%

Technology Adoption Plans Which technologies are you most likely to adopt?

49%

50

44%

45 40

38%

35

32%

30

26% 25 20 15 10 5 0

Software defined storage

Hyperconverged infrastructure

All flash array

Cloud-based storage services

Traditional SAN/NAS/Shared Storage

Use of Flash 70%

62% 60%

50%

What percentage of your datacenter storage is currently Flash or Solid State Based?

40%

30%

20%

20%

13% 10%

5% 1% 0%

0% to 10%

10% to 20%

20% to 50%

More than 50% but less than 100%

100%

SDS and HCI Performance Our software defined storage/hyperconverged infrastructure solution is as fast as an all flash system 14%

Our software defined storage/hyperconverged infrastructure solution is about as fast as our disk-based SAN 34% Our software defined storage/hyperconverged infrastructure solution is faster than our disk-based SAN 36%

Our software defined storage/hyperconverged infrastructure solution is slower than our disk-based SAN 16%

SDS or HCI Adoption Definite 2%

Very likely 13%

What is the likelihood for your company to adopt software defined storage or hyperconverged infrastructure within the next 2 to 3 years?

No chance 6%

Not likely 26%

Possible 53%

Software Defined Storage: Cost Experience What has been your experience in each of the following areas following your adoption of software defined storage? 37%

Power and cooling costs: SDS

46%

35%

Data center space: SDS

41%

23%

49%

Performance: SDS

40%

19%

Personnel cost: SDS

25%

55%

34%

Acquisition cost: SDS

0%

10%

11%

56%

24%

Support cost: SDS

17%

22%

41% 20%

30%

40% Better

50% No change

Worse

25% 60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Cost Experience What has been your experience in each of the following areas following your adoption of hyperconverged infrastructure?

Power and cooling costs: HCI

50%

Data center space: HCI

51%

34%

16%

31%

18%

59%

Performance: HCI

35%

32%

Personnel cost: HCI

Support cost: HCI

31%

Acquisition cost: HCI

32% 0%

10%

6%

43%

25%

45%

24%

36% 20%

30%

40% Better

50% No change

Worse

33% 60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

SDS and HCI: Comparing Cost Experiences Power and cooling costs Data center space

SDS

System performance

SDS

SDS

Acquisition cost

Support cost

SDS

Personnel cost

What has been your experience in each of the following areas following your adoption of SDS and HCI?

16%

34%

50%

HCI

17%

46%

37%

23%

41%

35%

18%

31%

51%

HCI

25%

56%

19%

0%

10%

33%

36%

32%

HCI

25%

41%

34%

SDS

24%

45%

31%

HCI

22%

55%

24%

SDS

25%

43%

32%

HCI

6%

35%

59%

HCI

11%

40%

49%

20%

30%

40%

50% Better

No change

60% Worse

70%

80%

90%

100%

SDS and HCI: Comparing Cost Experiences Power and cooling costs Data center space

SDS

System Performance

SDS

SDS

Acquisition cost

Support cost

SDS

Personnel cost

What has been your experience in each of the following areas following your adoption of SDS and HCI? Atlantis Respondents Only 32%

36%

32%

28%

28%

44%

25%

33%

42%

HCI

33%

25%

42%

HCI

8%

40%

52%

33%

25%

42%

24%

40%

36%

SDS

32%

40%

28%

HCI

28%

20%

52%

SDS

17%

42%

42%

HCI

10%

20%

30%

8%

25%

67%

HCI 0%

0%

33%

67%

HCI

40%

50% Better

No change

60% Worse

70%

80%

90%

100%

SDS and HCI Adoption Immediately 1%

6 to 12 months 14%

Uncertain 27%

In what timeframe do you believe you might begin a transition to software defined storage or hyperconverged infrastructure?

3 to 6 months 3%

12 to 18 months 27%

24 to 36 months 10%

18 to 24 months 18%

Adoption Decision Criteria What are your key decision criteria around your adoption of Software Defined Storage or Hyperconverged Infrastructure? 100%

90%

20%

80%

45%

44%

42%

36%

33%

17%

17%

14%

53%

55%

33%

31%

13%

31%

60%

70% 72%

68%

68%

60% 52% 50%

40%

54% 47%

30%

48%

57%

59%

54%

50%

56%

49%

36%

20% 25%

28%

28% 28%

10%

0%

14%

3%

4%

4%

5%

Performance

High availability

Cost

Scalability

8%

8%

9%

10%

11%

Hardware support

Replication

Hypervisor support

Data reduction

Complexity

Not important

Somewhat important

24%

30%

38%

13%

Single point of Hybrid cloud support Very important

Form factor

Server brand

REST API

All flash Stretched configurations cluster (AKA metro cluster)

Thoughts on Form Factor I prefer a software only solution that I can install on my own choice of hardware 18%

Which statement best describes your thoughts on form factor?

I am looking at both kinds of solutions to meet different needs 57%

I prefer an appliance-based solution that includes software and hardware integrated into an appliance 25%

Use Cases 1078

Virtual machine storage (server virtualization)

1011

Test and Development

1000

Database Datacenter consolidation (i.e. replace shared storage)

929

File and print

925 920

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Private Cloud

915

General business applications

912 836

Server-Based Computing (i.e. Citrix XenApp)

809

Big Data

795

Analytics

781

Remote office/branch office (ROBO) ERP

771

Dedicated application infrastructure

768 759

Containers 0

200

400

600

800

1000

Use Cases What primary use cases do you use or wish to use Software Defined Storage or Hyperconverged Infrastructure to address? 44%

Server-Based Computing

56%

Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)

46%

54%

Virtual server storage

47%

53%

Dedicated application infrastructure

47%

53%

Datacenter consolidation

47%

53%

49%

Big Data

51%

Database

50%

50%

Private Cloud

50%

50%

ERP

51%

49%

General business applications

53%

47%

Remote office/branch office (ROBO)

53%

47%

Containers

54%

46%

Analytics

54%

46%

Test and Development

54%

46%

56%

File and print 0%

10%

20%

30%

44% 40%

Software Defined Storage

50% Hyperconverged Infrastructure

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Wrap Up

Atlantis and ActualTech Media have partnered to bring you a hyperconverged infrastructure and software defined storage educational resource

http://community.atlantiscomputing.com/building-modern-data-center-book