Scale IOAS 2014 provides end to end automation and management of a hyper converged scale IO environment. A MS provides a tool kit for deploying factory configured Dell servers, virtualized storage and compute and VM deployment. This video includes an A MS overview and a demo of enhancements in 2014 for managing hyper converged ESX environments. The A MS service can run on a physical or virtual machine when it's initially installed, the administrator provides the information needed for the creation and growth of a scale IO cluster such as IP address ranges for management and internal scale IO communication Dell Poweredge servers ordered to scale.
I already nodes arrive preconfigured to interoperate with AMS and Vsphere six ou three. After they boot A MS can configure IP addresses passwords scale IO cluster membership and physical storage media as data center staff add storage or compute dense servers. They can be rapidly incorporated into the system. This predictable and efficient growth is possible because the information needed for expansion is available in A MS wiring. A new scale I already note is a standardized and documented process. All management ports are placed in the same VL as an A MS server ports carrying scale I traffic are wired to dedicated data switches. The remaining 10 gigabit ports provide network access to compute resources as the system expands.
The same wiring procedures are followed for growth to a maximum size of 1024 nodes. When storage resources are pooled with scale IO and the system is managed with A MS. There is enormous flexibility of virtualized storage and compute using A MS A scale I administrator can export raw block storage to nodes in the system or A MS can create or delete VMFS data stores and map them to some or all of the ESXS A MS can also deploy compute environments consisting of some or all of the hosts in the scale IO cluster, then deploy virtual machines and storage inside of that environment on its own scale. IO is exceptionally powerful software scale IO with A MS provides a lot more A MS saves time.
A brand new scale I already know it can be part of an evenly utilized infrastructure within hours of it. Arriving on the loading dock. A MS saves expertise. There's no scripting testing, firmware configuration or ESX image configuration required. A MS can reduce priority concerns. It provides tested workflows to reduce unplanned events. A MS provides configuration uniformity with A MS storage and compute resources are scaled to demand without operational complexity. Today's demo will cover new features in A MS If you're interested in some of the other features of A MS, you can find more videos on the Dell E MC website or on the scale io youtube channel. Those videos cover initial deployment monitoring and upgrading an A MS managed scale A O system provisioning VMFS, data stores with A MS will be covered today. Provision in compute environments will also be covered.
Finally, A MS native deployment of V MS will be covered. Today's demo will be done on a simulator. So some user interface elements and timing will differ from a production A MS 2014 system. We will begin today's demo by creating a VMFS data store. A MS eliminates the need to provision volumes from the scale A O goey. Then switching to Vsphere to create the data stores scale IO volumes will provide the raw block storage that will house the data stores, volumes reside inside storage pools which are elastic collections of drives distributed across the scale IO cluster. We'll right click on the storage pool to create the data stores. A MS is now asking us to fill in the information needed to create the underlying volumes. We will create three volumes using the base name demo underscore V.
Now, a MS needs to know which ESX hosts will have access to the volumes and the data stores on the volumes. A MS will then map the volumes to the hosts. A MS now provides a default naming convention for the VMFS data stores, this can be modified but will accept the defaults. We can now view the resulting data stores natively inside the A MS gooey. Just as A MS can create a scale IO cluster. A MS can also create an ESX cluster and configure the application networking in the V motion configuration before doing this. However, a MS needs a pool of IP addresses for use with the VM kernel NIX for V motion. Let's define that pool. Now, the pool needs a name, an IP address range and a net mask.
Now we would like to create a new compute environment in A MS 201 4 A compute environment consists of an ESX cluster compute networking and its associated storage. We'll give this compute environment a name and specify the number of compute nodes that we use. We can specify which of the scale I already nodes to use in the compute environment or we can allow a MS to select them for us. Let's use the magic wand to allow A MS to select the nodes for us. Under advanced. We will specify a prefix name for the ESX cluster. The cluster needs storage. We'll specify the storage. Now by selecting the all flash storage pool. Now we need to specify the advanced host level networking parameters.
This system will have a single physical client data nag if you'll recall the red arrows on the back of the Dell Poweredge server. At the beginning of this video. This is where those ports which belong to the compute infrastructure are configured in software. Here, you can specify how teaming and virtual switching will be configured including the option for distributed virtual switches. We will now allow the use of this network port by the compute V MS. We will also allow these network ports to be used by V motion. Note that V motion must be enabled for A MS to do non disruptive software upgrades. All of the parameters needed to create the compute environment have been specified. So we're ready to create the environment while the underlying scale OC cluster continues running, uninterrupted. A MS creates the compute environment.
We can examine these operations in the command monitor. Here, you can see A MS creating the ESX cluster and moving the hosts into the ESX cluster without interrupting access to the hosts underlying storage, which is in use by scale IO. The last thing we will demo today is deployment of a virtualized workload on the compute cluster. We just created, we'll start out by clicking on the resource monitor icon. Here you can see the environment we just created. Let's right. Click on it to deploy a workload. The wizard is asking for a template. We will select the Linux template for deployment. Other templates can of course be added to A S as you need them. We'll give the virtual machines a base name and specify the number of VMS to be created. These VMS must reside on a VM network. We will select the network that was created when we set up the compute environment.
Now that the parameters have been specified, we can deploy the virtual machines as before we can view the status of the operation under the command monitor. Here, you can see the familiar sequence of steps involved with deploying a virtual machine, including deployment from the template customization of the virtual machine mapping volumes and powering it on. Let's wrap up by reviewing the key features of scale A oas 201 4 A MS automates deployment of DELL E MC scale A ready nodes. These nodes are factory configured for ease of installation and are accompanied by documented procedures and support A MS provision storage and compute clusters by automating scale IO setup and compute host configuration.
A MS streamlines consumption of storage and compute resources by providing workflows for ESX data store creation and virtual machine creation. A MS monitors hardware and software providing alerts and log aggregation for the A MS managed system as a whole A MS provides automated workflows to upgrade scale io reducing labor and risk. Finally, A MS is provided at no extra charge to customers who deploy scale IO using scale IO ready notes A MS 2014 streamlines deployment growth and management of a hyper converged scale IO and ESX environment and delivers professional grade scalability and automation to your software defined infrastructure.
