VMworld 2014 STO2197 - Storage DRS: Deep Dive and Best Practices

Speaker: Mustafa Uysal - Senior Staff Engineer, VMware

Storage DRS takes out the pain of storage management in vSphere environments by automatically placing virtual disks to suitable datastores and by providing continuous remediation of potential space outages and IO bottlenecks before they occur. However, the complexity of storage deployments today are daunting with a variety of features that interact with each other and large set of potential configurations options in the storage and hosts. In addition, virtual machines come in all sorts and shapes making use of a rich set of feature set available in the vSphere platform. In this session, we will describe best practices in Storage DRS, focusing on the complex deployment scenarios where multiple features interact. We will describe these practices using actual customer use cases and going over scenarios in detail describing how Storage DRS helps solve actual storage management problems. This session will also provide a preview of some of the upcoming Storage DRS features such as I/O reservations, interop with advanced storage array features (deduce and thin provisioning), and improved interop with other vSphere storage solutions.