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AirXpress vs Encompass
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Agenda
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Encompass Demo
Introductions vs & Q&A
AirXpress Output
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Introductions
Getting to Know : Dean Durman
Quick Facts
• Time at Dell: 13 Years
• Born in: Ghettos of Johannesburg,
• Living in: 5yrs in Oz - St Ives
• Language(s): English, Afrikaans and Zulu
• Family: Jacqui and Jaiden
Work Experience
• 3M – Sys Admin
• IBM - Presales
• Dell – TSR, SC, ASE
Personal Brand Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me
• No Excuses – Make it Glorious. • I was athletics champ in High School

• Live, Love and laugh • Had a life altering encounter with death and survived
• Courage, Integrity and Diligence to tell the tale.
• No.11 of 11 (7 sisters & 4 brothers)
Call Me If… Favorites & Hobbies

• You feeling down and just need to talk • Favorite Movie: GLADIATOR
• You enjoy good spicy braai • Favorite Meal: Homemade Fish curry
• You require PCoE assistance • Hobbies: Playing Guitar , Chess
• Sport Tennis – took Gold in my first ever tournament.
Your Mate… Vinay Kothamasi
Quick Facts
• Marathahalli (Bengaluru) to Melbourne (VIC)

• Family: Sindhu & Vismai
• Migrated to Australia in 2018
• 3.5Yrs with PSS ANZ + 9Yrs with PSS AMER (India
COE) + 2Yrs as EMC CLARiiON Tech Support Eng.
• B.Tech in Electronics & Communications
Interests
• Cricket (RCB), Music – 90’s classics, Love Cars Live
Cars, WWE, Binge on OTTs
Personal Brand Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me

• 180 Nights in a Call Center & Worked Night Shifts for a
• Be Positive, Be Curious and Be You decade
• Help Me Help You • Tableau Certified Dev (once a Plan B)
• I don’t remember the question, but my answer is Biryani
Call Me If… Bucket List
• You’ve Netflix recommendations • Great AUS Road trip

• Chat over a Beer, Coffee & Sandwich • Travel to USA, Europe
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Internal Use - Confidential
What is Live Optics?
Live Optics is free, industry-standard software you can use to quickly and easily collect, visualize and
share performance and configuration data about your IT environment and workloads.
COLLECT.. VISUALIZE.. SHARE

Sign up for free at liveoptics.com and The Live Optics online analytics engine then If you choose, you can securely share data
download the Live Optics collector desktop measures, analyzes and blends your characteristics with your team, trusted
application. workload characteristics. advisors, hardware or software vendors,
Choose between server, workloads, View your data in the interactive web or anonymously with the entire Live
storage, data protection, or file systems and portal, from system-level aggregate values Optics user community.
start securely and remotely collecting your to individual node details. Export to ready-
data in a few simple steps. to-present PowerPoints, or analyze raw
data in Excel.
Server & Cloud Workloads Storage Data Protection File
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Encompass: Customer-Insight Driven
✓ Mitigate Risk
✓ Your Data and Operational
Metrics
✓ Workload Insights that Drive
Infrastructure Design
✓ Operational Model Review
✓ Capital Efficiency Analysis to
Future State Design

Executive Summary
Data Analysis – What We Analyzed
• Data for patterns that may provide direction for workload placement between
• HCI and 3-Tier infrastructure solutions.
Data Insights – What We Discovered

• Between 8-11% of virtual workloads drive disproportionate amounts of infrastructure
resources.
• On average these workloads drive 20% of compute, 28% of memory and 57% of
storage in infrastructure resources.
Assumptions – What We Think We Know

• We assume the 8-10% these workloads should be isolated to drive greater utilization and
efficiency
Workload Solution Hypothesis – What We’re Working On Next?

• We hypothesize what platform, HCI or all 3-Tier would be the optimal customer
configuration.

How Do We Get Started?
1. Customer needs to run a basic assessment tool, low touch!
• Live Optics Takes 5 minutes of a customer’s
VMware admin’s time
2. We take that data and review it internally
• Encompass used take 1-2 weeks
• AirXpres takes 1-2 Days
3. High level HCI and 3 Tier output to review, collaborate and refine
with your customer.
and it’s free!

What is Air ?
• AIR is a data-driven analysis for Optical Prime projects to educate and inform
customers about their environments.
• AIR reports both physical and virtual environments configurations and performance and
identify high potential problems.
• The report is downloadable for each Optical Prime project in the form of a PowerPoint deck
accompanied with an Excel report for further details.
What is Air Extended or AirX?

• It’s targeted towards environments with less than 1000 VMS.
• Merging both Encompass and AIR reports.
• Incorporating AI to draw insights from the customer’s performance data and create mock-up
slides with possible HCI and 3Tier solutions.
• Utilizing data-driven analysis of the customer’s workloads allowing you to have an elevated
conversations with your customers about their environments.

The AirX Experience
• Live Optics AIR Extended Report can be requested in Live Optics – no ticket in DASH required.
• AirX will maintain valuable insights similar to Encompass report.
• Utilize rule-based automation inside Live Optics to identify competitive storage, data protection software, out-of-date software & OS’s,
produced in PPT and Excel formats.
• PSS VxRail Sizing Service: A full-service deliverable option with real sizing solution based on real data.
• IO Distribution Slide using “Standard & Outlier performance”: Leverage the “Robots and Welders” concept, focused on VM
performance, not resource consumption.
• Data Filtering in Live Optics Assessments: Allows users to distil data relevant to specific physical clusters or workloads and export data
specific to those selections (VM-level data filter in planning).
• A full integration and migration of Encompass into Live Optics for a one-stop data source.
• Support and engagement with Encompass Champions and Live Optics Technology Advisory Boards for field direction and input.
• These groups have been/will continue to be critical to outlining the strategy above and identifying areas of improvement.
• We will continue to lean on these groups heavily going forward.

Side by Side Comparison
Feature AirX Notes
Physical Overview ✓ 
Virtual Overview ✓ ✓
Resource Distribution ✓ ✓
Performance Distribution ✓ 
Licensing Cluster Breakdown ✓ ✓
Identification of Competitive Storage ✓ 
Identification of Data Protection Software ✓ 
Identification of End-of-Life Software ✓ ✓

Feature AirX Notes
Sample Design Concepts ✓ ✓

Sample KPIs  ✓
Filter VMs by Cluster ✓ ✓
Filter VMs by OS ✓ ✓
Pivot Tables ✓ ✓
RVTools Data  ✓ This can be completed manually
TAM Data  ✓
Note: Users can submit a ticket to PSS for requests requiring RVTools, TAM or Pivot Tables

Feature AirX Notes
Cloud Pricing ✓ 
Data Protection Analysis ✓  2H FY22
VxRail Sizing ✓ 
VxBlock Sizing ✓  Future AIR release
GetModern Sizing ✓  Future AIR release
Restricted - Confidential
Note: Check the Live Optics roadmap for schedule updates
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Demo

Sample Output
AIR
Automated Insights Report
Project:
Project ID:
Project Owner:
Created by:
Created:
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Physical
Physical Overview
Server CPU Memory Capacity Network IOPS
Total Servers: 3 Total Cores: 60 Total Memory (TB): 0.56 Used (TB): 29.9 Ports: 18 Peak IOPS: 3,398
Clusters: 1 Peak CPU: 20.6 GHz Peak Used (TB): 0.28 Free (TB): 4.97 Peak Bandwidth: 0.33 95th% IOPS: 915
Net CPU: 143.4 GHz Total (TB): 34.87 (gigabits/sec)
Current Environment Operating Systems

Vendor Model Count VMware
Dell Inc. PowerEdge M630 (VRTX) 3 ESXi 6.5 3
Virtual
Virtual Overview
Hosts CPU & Memory VM Storage VM Details Average VM Physical Util
Total Hosts: 3 Total Sockets: 6 Provisioned (TB): 22.93 Total VMs: 53 vCPU: 2 Avg CPU: 18.67%
Clusters: 1 Total Cores: 60 Consumed (TB): 18.94 vCPUs: 101 vRAM (GB): 7 Avg RAM: 49.99%
Avg Cluster Size: 3 Total RAM (TB): 0.56 vRAM (TB): 0.38 Used Storage (GB): 366 * Point in time snapshot
VM/Physical: 18:1
Current Environment VM Profiling

Vendor Model Count Powered On VMs 41 OS Versions 6 derived OS types
Powered Off VMs 12 VM HW Versions 1
Dell Inc. PowerEdge M630 (VRTX) 3
Guest iSCSI Present 0
T-Shirt Sizes 15 different vCPU/vRAM VMs combinations

Unique VMs 4 unique vCPU/vRAM VMs
WINDOWS LINUX
Windows Server 2016 17 Generic Linux 8

Windows Server 2012 16 Debian 3
Windows Server 2008 8
Windows 10 1
Configuration
VM Resource Distribution
Average Storage
VM Profile VM Count Total vCPU Total RAM (GB) Storage (TB) Average vCPU Average RAM (GB)
Provisioned (GB)
STANDARD 48 83 306 7 2 6 145
OUTLIER 5 18 88 16 4 18 3,300
> 4 vCPU
ier
> 16 GB RAM
> 2,348 Storage
Thresholds are based on 95% calculations
Please refer to the excel report for information about individual VM performance
VM Overprovisioning – Capacity
Virtual
Over-Provisioning plots both Provisioned and used resources per VM, sorted by the free resources. To learn more about how to read this chart see our blog.
Capacity Provisioned Capacity (GB) Used Capacity (GB)

7000
6000
5000
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
VM Overprovisioning – vCPU
Configuration
Peak vCPU Provisioned vCPU Used vCPU Used vCPU Unavailable

10
Average vCPU Provisioned vCPU Used vCPU Used vCPU Unavailable

10
VM Overprovisioning – Memory
Configuration
Peak Memory Provisioned Memory (GB) Used Memory (GB) Used Memory (GB) Unavailable
25
20
15
10
Average Memory Provisioned Memory (GB) Used Memory (GB) Used Memory (GB) Unavailable
25
20
15
10
Performance
VM IO Distribution
VM Peak Read VM Peak Write VM Peak Read VM Peak Write
VM Profile VM Peak IOPS VM Peak MB/s Read/Write Ratio
IOPS IOPS MB/s MB/s
STANDARD 1,840 1,241 1,327 147 142 54
33/67
[VM Name] FS02 FS02 FS02 FS02 FS02 kbcprtg01
OUTLIER 6,374 6,374 768 501 320 229

45/55
[VM Name] SmartLibrary SmartLibrary WSUS03 SEQTA2020 WSUS03 SEQTA2020
Above values are the VMs with the highest achieved value and the associated VM Name
> 2505 Peak IOPS
> 169 Peak Read MB/s
> 79 Peak Write MB/s
Thresholds are based on 95% calculations
Please refer to the excel report for information about individual VM performance
Performance
VM IO / Bandwidth Distribution
Total # VMs VM with < 5 IOPS Peak MB/s Peak IOPS Avg I/O size
501 6374
53 16 0
SEQTA2020 SmartLibrary
IO Distribution
Virtual
VM Sizing Intelligence
OS versions
• 6 derived OS types
T Shirt Sizes
• 15 different vCPU/vRAM combinations
Unique VMs
• 4 unique vCPU/vRAM combinations
Summary
Summary Insights
End-of-life Software
• 8 VMs with deprecated OS versions were detected
Storage Disk Vendors

• Dell-Storage
Cloud Pricing
Cloud
Cloud Pricing
Over-Provisioning
This table shows the existing vCPU, Memory, and virtual disk storage as observed in the environment, and estimates what the provisioned values would be in for the different
public cloud providers. The percentages shown are the increases over the existing environment that would be required to fit into the public cloud instances.
vCPU Memory (GB) Storage (GB)
On-Prem 101 394 23,480.4
AWS 110 (+8.9%) 442 (+12.2%) 23,480.4*
Azure 110 (+8.9%) 446 (+13.2%) 23,480.4
GCP 110 (+8.9%) 516 (+31.0%) 23,480.4*
*AWS and GCP charge per GB of used disk space rather than a fixed price as Azure does.
Pricing is based on Australia region list pricing
Cloud
Cloud Pricing Price Comparison

Monthly Public Cloud Pricing Comparison
All running VMs have been priced across all three public cloud providers. This is the comparative monthly cost at a 1-year commitment pricing discount.
AWS $8,866
Azure $6,714
Google $7,295
Cloud
Cloud Pricing Price Comparison

Average Virtual Machine
The Average number of vCPUs and Average Provisioned Memory are used to define Average VM Configuration. See below for estimated monthly price
comparison of Average Virtual Machine by Cloud Provider.
AWS $167.29 vCPUs 1
Azure $126.69 Provisioned Memory 7.43 GB
Google $137.65 Storage 443.03 GB
Cloud
TOP 10 VMs by Price Per Vendor

Price Price Price
AWS Azure Google
USD USD USD
FS01 861.71 FS01 879.45 FS01 655.81
FS02 758.56 FS02 879.45 FS02 580.17
SEQTA2020 455.71 SEQTA2020 610.44 SEQTA2020 369.32
SEQTA 434.32 SEQTA 554.81 SEQTA 342.91
GLOG01 335.27 GLOG01 305.19 GLOG01 263.45
PRN01 250.49 SEQTA-SANDBOX 241.47 PRN01 228.8
TS03 248.54 WSUS03 148.32 TS03 227.37
KBCVeeamProxy01 245.66 MDT02 128.65 KBCVeeamProxy01 225.26
WSUS03 216.17 XPS01 122.4 WSUS03 182.42
SEQTA-SANDBOX 194.32 KBC - vCenter Appliance 94.66 SEQTA-SANDBOX 166.91
Pricing is based on the 1-year offering for each cloud service provider
Cloud
AWS Top T-Shirt Size Count
2%
2% 2% m3.medium - 15 instances
4%
4% m5a.large - 10 instances
28%
6% r5a.large - 8 instances
c5a.large - 6 instances
7% c6g.large - 4 instances
c5a.xlarge - 3 instances
r6g.xlarge - 2 instances
11% c6g.xlarge - 2 instances
r6g.large - 1 instances
19%
c6g.2xlarge - 1 instances
15%
Other - 1 instances
Cloud
Azure Top T-Shirt Size Count
2% 2%
4%
9%
28% DC1s v2 - 15 instances
D2s v4 - 10 instances
F2s v2 - 10 instances
E2 v3 - 9 instances
17%
E4 v3 - 2 instances
19% F1 - 1 instances
19%
Cloud
Google Top T-Shirt Size Count
4% 2%
4%
9%
e2-standard-2 - 18 instances
34%
n1-standard-1 - 16 instances
e2-highmem-2 - 9 instances
17%
e2-highmem-4 - 2 instances
e2-highcpu-2 - 2 instances
30%
Top VMs
Cloud
TOP 10 VMs by vCPU

VM Name vCPU
SEQTA2020 8
PRN01 4
XPS01 4
TS03 4
SEQTA-SANDBOX 4
KBCVeeamProxy01 4
SEQTA 4
GLOG01 4
Eureka 2
TS01 2
Cloud
TOP 10 VMs by Memory

VM Name Memory (GB)
SEQTA-SANDBOX 20
SEQTA 20
FS01 16
SEQTA2020 16
KMAZE1 16
WSUS03 16
KMAZE1-compromised 16
FS02 16
TASS-WEB-PROD 12
TASS-DEV 12
Cloud
TOP 10 VMs by Storage

VM Name Capacity (TB)
FS01 5.88
FS02 5.04
SEQTA 2.5
SEQTA2020 2.16
GLOG01 1.95
WSUS03 0.62
SEQTA-SANDBOX 0.54
WSUS01 0.31
MDT01-Decommissioned 0.29
KBCPRTG 0.29
Cloud
TOP 10 VMs by Peak IOPS

VM Name IOPS
SmartLibrary 6374
kbcadfs03 4501
DC03 3464
GLOG01 1865
FS02 1840
SEQTA2020 1695
FS01 1242
TS01 1184
TS02 1183
WSUS03 1135
Performance data is available for VMware VMs only.
AirXpress Extended Report
PSS Notes and Findings: LO Files Processed
File(s) Used Encompass Engine Version
LiveOptics_1432733_10_15_2021.xlsx AIRXpress Engine: v3.0.0
PSS Notes and Findings:

1. Please consult your local Encompass Champion regarding capacity
Global View - Microsoft Server VMs
Hosts CPU & Memory Storage VM Details Average VM Physical Utilization

Total Hosts: 3 Total Sockets: 6 Provisioned (TB): 15 (66%) Total
vCPUs:
VMs: 41 (77%)
65 (64%) vCPU: 1.6 (83%) Avg CPU: 19%
50%
Clusters: 1 Total Cores: 60 Consumed (TB): 12 (63%) vRAM (GB): 7 (96%) Avg RAM:
Avg Cluster Size: 3.0 Total RAM (TB): 1 VM Disk: Thick/Thin vRAM (TB):
VM/Physical:
0.3 (75%)
14:1 Used Storage (GB): 300 * Point in time snapshot
Vendor Model Count Powered On VMs: 34

Powered Off VMs: 7
Dell M630 3
OS Versions: 4 derived OS types
VM HW Versions: 1
WINDOWS LINUX OTHER
Server 2008: 1 . .
Server 2008 R2: 7
Server 2012: 16
Server 2016: 17
T-Shirt Sizes: 10 different vCPU/vRAM VMs combinations

Unique VMs: 2 unique vCPU/vRAM VMs
Global View - Microsoft Server VMs

Total Hosts: 3 Total Sockets: 6 Provisioned (TB): 15 (66%) Total VMs: 41 (77%) vCPU: 1.6 (83%) Avg CPU: 19%
Clusters: 1 Total Cores: 60 Consumed (TB): 12 (63%) vCPUs: 65 (64%) vRAM (GB): 7 (96%) Avg RAM: 50%
Avg Cluster Size: 3.0 Total RAM (TB): 0.6 VM Disk: Thick/Thin vRAM (TB): 0.3 (75%) Used Storage (GB):379 (86%)
VM/Physical: 14:1 300 * Point in time snapshot
VM Total Total RAM Average Average RAM Average Storage

VM Profile Storage (TB)
Count vCPU (GB) vCPU (GB) Provisioned (GB)
STANDARD 39 63 262 4 2 7 112
OUTLIER 2 2 32 11 1 16 5,589
VMs Resource Distribution Storage

4.9%
VMs 39 2
28.1%
# vCPUs 63 2
95.1% 71.9%
Memory(GB) 262 32
Used Storage(TB) 3 9
STANDARD OUTLIER STANDARD OUTLIER
Allocated Storage(TB) 4 11
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
STANDARD OUTLIER
Workload Placement Concept: - Microsoft Server VMs
HCI 3-Tier
> 4 vCPU
> 16 GB RAM
Data Protection > 640 GB Storage Data Protection

Hypervisor Direct Application Direct
Standard (HCI) vs Outlier (3-Tier)
VMs 39 2
# vCPUs 63 2
Memory(GB) 262 32
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
STANDARD OUTLIER
Global View - Linux or Other VMs

vCPUs:
VMs: 11 (21%)
35 (35%) vCPU: 3.2 (167%) Avg CPU: 19%
50%
VM/Physical:
0.1 (24%)

Powered Off VMs: 4
Dell M630 3
VM HW Versions: 1
WINDOWS LINUX OTHER
. Debian: 4 Other Linux: 1

Ubuntu: 4
SUSE: 2

Global View - Linux or Other VMs

Avg Cluster Size: 3.0 Total RAM (TB): 0.6 VM Disk: Thick/Thin vRAM (TB): 0.1 (24%) Used Storage (GB):
716 (162%)

STANDARD 8 19 40 2 2 5 319
OUTLIER 3 16 56 5 5 19 1,774
VMs 8 3
27.3% 32.4%
# vCPUs 19 16
72.7% 67.6%
Memory(GB) 40 56
STANDARD OUTLIER STANDARD OUTLIER
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
STANDARD OUTLIER
Workload Placement Concept: - Linux or Other VMs
HCI 3-Tier
> 6 vCPU
> 20 GB RAM
Data Protection > 2,383 GB Storage Data Protection

Hypervisor Direct Application Direct
Standard (HCI) vs Outlier (3-Tier)
VMs 8 3
# vCPUs 19 16
Memory(GB) 40 56
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
STANDARD OUTLIER
Global View - Desktop VMs

vCPUs:
VMs: 1 (2%)
1 (1%) vCPU: 1.0 (52%) Avg CPU: 19%
50%
VM/Physical:
0.0 (1%)

Powered Off VMs: 1
Dell M630 3
VM HW Versions: 1
WINDOWS LINUX OTHER
Windows 10: 1 . .

Global View - Desktop VMs

Avg Cluster Size: 3.0 Total RAM (TB): 0.6 VM Disk: Thick/Thin vRAM (TB): 0.0 (1%) Used Storage (GB): 60 (14%)

STANDARD 1 1 4 0 1 4 60
OUTLIER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VMs 1
# vCPUs 1
100.0% Memory(GB) 4 100.0%
Used Storage(TB) 0
STANDARD STANDARD
Allocated Storage(TB) 0
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
STANDARD
US Sample Concepts on Design (Global View)
Number of VMs: 48 Sizing Concept Node Specs (1U)

HCI Estimated Nodes
• AVG vCPU: 2.9 • ~1200 VMs per Pod • 2 CPU (intel 6140)
• AVG RAM: 13.0 • 24 Nodes per pod • 36 Cores per node
• AVG GB: 147.0 • HA - 2 Nodes • 768GB RAM per node 1
• 5 vCPU to Core • NVMe Cache
• ~50 to 1 • SSD Capacity
Number of VMs: 5 Sizing Concept Node Specs (1U)

3-Tier Estimated Nodes
• ~100 VMs per Pod • 2 CPU (intel 4144)
• AVG vCPU: 5.9
• 10 Nodes per pod • 20 Cores per node
• AVG RAM: 51.3
• AVG GB: 2,670.0 • HA - 1 Nodes • 1.5TB RAM per node 1
• 3 vCPU to Core • Storage by Array
• ~10 to 1 (1.05 PB)
xxx RU to 2 3 Nodes to 2 6 Sockets to 4 60 Cores to 56

KPIs x.x x Reduction 1.5 x Reduction 1.5 x Reduction 1.1 x Reduction
95% of VMs have a single/simple support matrix, full asset life cycle management, day-2 operational patching and policies,
and infrastructure automation.
US Sample Concepts on Design (Global View)
Current State Key Data Insight

Total Hosts: 3 All servers are running both
Current State Clusters: 1
Density Avg Cluster Size: 3.0 Microsoft and Red Hat VMs
VM/Physical Ratio: 18:1
HCI Future State Architecture Design

Total Hosts: 3 Total Hosts: 3
Clusters: 1 Clusters: 1
Total Sockets: 6 Microsoft Total Cores: 108
VM/Physical Ratio: 50 to 1 VM/Physical Ratio: 50 to 1
Xx DC Xx Power Xx RHEL Xx Microsoft

Savings KPIs Footprint Savings License License
Savings Reduction Reduction
Single Support, Full asset life cycle management and Infrastructure/Network automation included.
Application Insights
Current Environment
# of VMs 53 FETB 19 TB
10,000
Likely Consumed Capacity by Workload (GB)
9,000
8,000
7,000
6,000
5,000
4,000
3,000
2,000
1,000
0
File System Undefined Powered Off PROD, DB PROD APP DB
OUTLIER 9,093 1,594 3,112
STANDARD 47 4,022 1,348 115 49 11 2
Report Appendix
Current State: ESXi Versions
ESXi Version End of General Support End of Technical Guidance Number of Hosts
Version 5.0 8/24/2018 8/24/2018 0
Version 5.5 9/19/2018 9/19/2020 0
Version 6.0 3/12/2020 3/12/2022 0
Version 6.5 / 6.7 11/15/2021 11/15/2023 3
Version 7 04/02/2025 04/02/2027 0
ESXi Version by Host Count ESXi Version by vDataCenter

For more information, visit the VMware Lifecycle Portal here.
KBCDC
ESXi 6.5
ESXi 6.5
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
Current State: Hosts by Hardware Generation
3.5
3
3
2.5
# of Hosts 2
1.5
0.5
0
Gen 13
M630
Server Generations
Current State: VM Guests
18 17
Microsoft VMs 16
16
14
12
# of VMs
7
10
8 7
34 6
4
2 1
0
PoweredOff PoweredOn Server 2008 Server 2008 R2 Server 2012 Server 2016
7
Linux VMs 6
6
5
4
# of VMs
4 4
3
7
2
1
1
0
PoweredOff PoweredOn Other Ubuntu (blank)
APJ < 1,000 VMs
APJ Under 1,000 VMs
All Workload HCI Sizing – Option A
APJ < 1,000 VMs
Sample Concepts on Design (Global View)
Proposed Solution / VxRail Cluster
Number of VMs: 53 Sizing Concept Node Specs (2U) Estimated Nodes

HCI • 1x HA Node • 4215R CPU (8C, 3.2GHz)
• AVG vCPU: 2 • 8Cores – 25.6GHz per node
• AVG RAM GB: 7 • All Flash Nodes only
•
• AVG GB (Used): 366 • Dedup/Compression •
1444GB DRAM Memory
2x 400GB WI SAS Cache
5
enabled • 11.5TB capacity per node
(1.92TB SATA SSD Capacity drives)
KPIs
X RU to xx 3 Nodes to 5 6 Sockets to 5 60 Cores to 40
X x Reduction 0 x Reduction 1.2 x Reduction 1.5 x Reduction
95% of VMs have a single/simple support matrix, full asset life cycle management, day-2 operational patching and policies, and
infrastructure automation.
All Workload HCI Sizing - VxRail Solution
APJ < 1,000 VMs
Project ID : 1432733
Recommended Solution: P570F – 5 Nodes (5x 2U1N)

VxRail P570F - 5 Nodes (5 x 2U1N) Socket/DG Node Cluster
CPU Intel 4215R (Silver, 8C, 3.2GHz) 1 Per Socket 1 (8 Cores - 25.6 GHz) 5 (40 Cores - 128 GHz)
Memory 8 GB & 16 GB DIMMs 12 Per Socket (144 GB) 12 (144 GB) 60 (720 GiB)
400 GB WI SAS 1 Per DG 2 10
Cache Endurance Class: D
Performance Class: F
1.92 TB SSD SATA (15.6% excess) 3 Per DG (5.8 TB) 6 (11.5 TB) 30 (57.6 TB)
14 free capacity slots
Storage
Endurance Class: C
Performance Class: E
Network 2 x 25 GbE Ports 10 x 25 GbE Ports
Cluster Capacity
Required Capacity Min #nodes Required Spare/HA Excess Capacity Total Configured
CPU (Cores) N/A N/A N/A N/A 40 @ 3.2 GHz
CPU (GHz) 31.9 2 29.1 67 128
Memory (GiB) 460.9 5 225.3 33.8 720
Raw Storage (TiB) 21.6 5 23.6 7.2 52.4
Usable Storage (TiB) 24.3 N/A N/A 5.4 29.7
HCI – Network Design
APJ < 1,000 VMs
Top Of Rack Switches
External Connectivity
VxRail Nodes* Out-of-Band Switches
*Considering 1 additional node for future expansion
HCI VxRail Solution Summary Project ID : 1432733
VxRail HCI
Node Type VxRail P570F - 5 Nodes (5 x 2U1N) 5 node cluster
25.6GHz per node /

CPU Intel 4215R (Silver 8C, 3.2GHz) CPU
128 GHz Total CPU
Memory 12 DIMMs (8GB and 16GB) – 144GB per node 720GB cluster memory
Raw Capacity 57.53TB
Usable Capacity@100% 32.68TB
Network 2x 25GbE Ports (NDC) 10 x 25GbE Ports
Fault Tolerance Method RAID5(3+1) 1.3 Compression factor
Software Features
vSan vCenter VxRail Manager VxRail ACE
vRealize LogInsight RP4VM vSphere Replication
36 months
Networking ProSupport +
Mission Critical
Top of Rack 2 x 5224F – ON
Professional Support &
Services
Out –of-Band 1 x N3248TE - ON
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All Workload 3 Tier Sizing
APJ < 1,000 VMs
Server & Storage Requirements

• Proposed Solution / Compute
Number of VMs: 53 Sizing Requirements Node Specs (1U) Estimated Nodes

Compute
• AVG vCPU: 2 Peak CPU: 21 GHz • 2x 4208 (8C, 2.1GHz) CPU
• AVG RAM GB: 7 Peak Memory: 287.64 GB • 576GB Memory 3
• AVG GB (Used): 366 Total Memory: 575.35 GB • 12 x 16GB DIMMs
Avg Daily Write: • 2 x 25GbE Connectivity
643.85GB
Vendor and Model Capacity Workload Performance

Storage
DELL - Shared PERC8 Total: 34.87 TB Read %: 72 Avg Read Latency: 2.18ms
Used: 29.90 TB Write%: 28 Avg Write Latency: 1.49ms
Free: 4.97 TB Peak IOPS: 3,398
95th IOPS: 915
KPIs
X RU to 4U 3 Nodes to 3 6 Sockets to 6 60 Cores to 48
X x Reduction 0 x Reduction 0 x Reduction 1.2 x Reduction
3Tier – Network Design
APJ < 1,000 VMs
SERVERS: 3 x R640 - Generic Compute Nodes
Top Of Rack Switches
External Connectivity Out-of-Band Switches
3 Tier Summary Project ID : 1432733
Compute
Node Type 3 x R640 (1U1N)
CPU Dual CPU 4208 (8C, 2.1GHz) 100.8 GHZ total CPU
RAM 12x 16GB DIMMs – 192GB 576GB Total Memory
Raw Capacity Diskless Configuration
Network 2 x 25GbE NDC 6 x 25GbE ports (3x nodes)
Networking PowerStoreT Sizing Concept:
Peak IOPS – 3,398 (from Live Optics)

Top of Rack 2 x S5212F – ON Capacity – 34.87TiB (Total capacity Live Optics)
Read/Write % - 72/28
Out –of-Band 1 x S3048 - ON Block Size – 32KB
(Existing Avg Block Sizes as per Live
Optics are 68.21KB Reads and 66.56KB
Storage Writes).
Model PowerStore 500T 2U 0.86ms Response time
Effective Capacity 50.97 TiBe DRR 4:1
Usable Capacity 12.74 TiB 36 months

ProSupport +
Drives 10 x 1.92TB NVMe Single Drive Failure (8+1) Mission Critical
Professional Support &

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Current Environment Operating Systems

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Current Environment VM Profiling

T-Shirt Sizes 15 different vCPU/vRAM VMs combinations

Windows Server 2016 17 Generic Linux 8

STANDARD 48 83 306 7 2 6 145

> 2,348 Storage

Thresholds are based on 95% calculations

Capacity Provisioned Capacity (GB) Used Capacity (GB)

Peak vCPU Provisioned vCPU Used vCPU Used vCPU Unavailable

Average vCPU Provisioned vCPU Used vCPU Used vCPU Unavailable

OUTLIER 6,374 6,374 768 501 320 229

> 2505 Peak IOPS

> 169 Peak Read MB/s

> 79 Peak Write MB/s

Thresholds are based on 95% calculations

Storage Disk Vendors

vCPU Memory (GB) Storage (GB)

On-Prem 101 394 23,480.4

AWS 110 (+8.9%) 442 (+12.2%) 23,480.4*

Azure 110 (+8.9%) 446 (+13.2%) 23,480.4

GCP 110 (+8.9%) 516 (+31.0%) 23,480.4*

Pricing is based on Australia region list pricing

Cloud Pricing Price Comparison

Pricing is based on Australia region list pricing

Cloud Pricing Price Comparison

AWS $167.29 vCPUs 1

Azure $126.69 Provisioned Memory 7.43 GB

Google $137.65 Storage 443.03 GB

Pricing is based on Australia region list pricing

TOP 10 VMs by Price Per Vendor

FS01 861.71 FS01 879.45 FS01 655.81

FS02 758.56 FS02 879.45 FS02 580.17

SEQTA2020 455.71 SEQTA2020 610.44 SEQTA2020 369.32

SEQTA 434.32 SEQTA 554.81 SEQTA 342.91

GLOG01 335.27 GLOG01 305.19 GLOG01 263.45