Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud with FlexPod
Transcript of Accelerate Your Journey to the Cloud with FlexPod
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Data Center Design Is Evolving
A flexible and efficient foundation is essential
Apps
Servers
Network
Storage
Shared IT InfrastructureTraditional Approach
Internal Cloud
Services
Zones of VirtualizationApplication-
Based Silos
External Cloud
Services
Management Management
August
1, 2011
Network Appliance Confidential and Proprietary
Anywhere, any time, any application, from virtually any platform
File System APIs
NFS
CIFS iSCSI
FC
Governance
&
Compliance
Unified Storage Simplifies Your
Architecture
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Efficiency is Built In
Virtual Clones (FlexClone®)
Save up to 80% using
writable virtual copies; only
changed data uses capacity
Thin Replication
Save up to 95%
capacity with our disk-
to-disk data protection
Snapshot™
Copies
Save 80% capacity;
only changed data uses
storage
Double Parity RAID
(RAID-DP™)
Use up to 46% less
capacity versus mirrored
data or RAID10
Deduplication
Reclaim up to 95%
capacity for full backups;
45% on average
Thin Provisioning
(FlexVol®)
Liberate 20% to 33%
of your capacity
Save95%
Save80%
Save33%
Save80%
Save95%
Save46%
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Introducing FlexPod
Benefits
Low-risk standardized shared infrastructure
supporting a wide range of environments
Highest possible data center efficiency
IT flexibility, providing business agility: scale
out or up, but manage resource pools
Features
Complete data center in a single rack
Performance-matched stack
Step-by-step deployment guides
Solutions guide for multiple environments
Multiple classes of computing and storage
supported in a single FlexPod
Centralized management: NetApp
OnCommand and Cisco® UCS Manager
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Cisco UCS B-Series
Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp FAS
10 GE and FCoE
Complete Bundle
Shared infrastructure for wide range of
environments and applications
Standardized InfrastructureThe Proven Approach
Application-
Based Silos
External
Cloud Services
Zones of
Virtualization
ITaaS(Internal Cloud)
Standardized shared
infrastructure for the journey
Standardized FlexPod:
scale out with right-sized FlexPods
Or base foundation:
scale up within FlexPod
Scale with your business
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Jointly Validated for Safe Deployment
www.imaginevirtuallyanything.com
The only validated secure multi-
tenancy architecture
Recent enhancements:
- Profile of multiple workloads
Exchange 2010
SQL Server®
SharePoint®
vCloud Director
- Built-in backup and DR design
- Updated with vShield Zones and Cisco® SAFE security framework
- Enabled for third-party orchestration
Tested on site at NetApp RTP
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FlexPod for VMware
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VMware vSphereVMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
VMware vCenter Standard
Cisco® Unified Fabric2 Cisco Nexus® 5548 with fabric services
(per 3 FlexPod configurations)
2 Cisco Nexus 1010 and 1000V
Cisco UCS Platform2 Cisco UCS 6120XP Fabric Interconnect
3 Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis
9 Cisco UCS B-250 M2 plus VIC
6 Cisco UCS B-200 M2 plus VIC
NetApp FAS3210A4 NetApp DS2246 450-GB SAS shelves
2 256-GB flash cache
2 10-Gbps IP interfaces
4 4-Gbps Fibre Channel interfaces
NetApp complete bundle
Two classes of computing
supporting dense memory and
general virtualized workloads
1 Rack Data Center Solution30 Westmere CPUs (180 cores)
2 TB server memory (up to 4 TB)
40-Gbps interconnect (4x 10 GE)
512-GB SSD storage cache
42 TB storage
1 Enterprise IT InfrastructureFor an organization of 1500 users
with a mixed workload of:
VMware View 4.5 (MS Windows 7)
MS Exchange 2010
MS SharePoint 2010
MS SQL Server 2008 R2
Plus headroom for more applications
Flex with ConfidenceValidated Infrastructure
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Develop
and Test
Starting
Out
Data
Protection
and
Backup
More Computing and
Less Storage
Less Computing and
More Storage
Deploy Entry System;
Then Scale Up
VDI
Higher-Performance
Blades and More IOPS
Production
Infrastructure
IOPS
CPU
CapacityMemory
Production
Balanced
Infrastructure
Scale Out with FlexPod
for VMware
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1500 3000 4500
Scale out with standard and
proven configurations
– Predictable and highly efficient
• Capacity and performance
• Floor space, power, and
cooling
– Or scale up within a FlexPod
Benefits
– Reduce effort for architecture,
design, deployment, and testing
– Reduce infrastructure deployment
cycle time by up to 50%
– Manage resource pools, not
individual systems
• Storage, computing, and
networking
FlexPod for VMware Features
Single, best-in-class, shared vision with investment protection
– Unified 10 GE fabric across virtualized storage, computing, and networking
resources
– Centrally manage pools with open management
– 10 GE today, 40 GE tomorrow, and 100 GE in the future
Standardized, proven, flexible, and highly scalable
– Virtualize 20 physical servers or 50,000*
– Same scalable architecture, same operational procedures, and same tools
– Versatile infrastructure for virtualization: ITaaS and cloud
– Solutions guide provides the designs for different use cases
– Step-by-step Cisco® Validated Design deployment guide and deployment
services
Exceptional data center efficiency and support for virtualization
– Highest virtual machine density through dense memory Cisco UCS B250 servers
– Server virtualization with storage and network efficiency
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*Proven 50,000 VDI installation
Our Heritage: People, Process, Technology
Founded in 1992
HQ in New York
>430 Employees
Certified Woman-Owned Business
Key technology partners include:
NetApp
VMware
Cisco
IBM
Microsoft
Infrastructure
Solutions
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Asset
Management
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Services
Keys for Cloud Infrastructure
Virtual Infrastructure• Stable, Predictable, & Scalable
• Server and Storage Optimization
Management & Insight• Capacity Trending
• Event Correlation
Security Built for Virtualization• Move beyond “air gap” security solutions
• Security portable with workloads
Automation & Orchestration• Self service provisioning
• Adaptive Infrastructure
Data Center Infrastructure
• Leverage existing infrastructure
• “Best Practices” storage management Deduplication
Multi-tenancy
Tiering
Instant recovery
Data protection
• Fully integrated virtual infrastructure (FlexPod)
• Journey.VM – Cloud enablement infrastructure
End User Computing
• Users want more – the same
experience, regardless of device or
access method
• New security challenges related to
remote access by different devices
• Persona management
Cloud Brokerage
• Location independence
Remote data center / office
DR site
Capacity on-demand
IT growth & elasticity
• Initial cloud candidates
Windows 7
VDI
Test dev
Existing client-facing applications
Siwel’s Cloud Enablement Solutions
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Reduce
Risks
Virtual Infrastructure Optimization• vSphere Best Practice Deployments
• Server, Storage, and Network Tuning
• Tier-1 Application virtualization
Resource Management• Proactive Capacity Management
• Ecosystem Monitoring & Response
Security Amplification for Cloud• Virtualization aware security solutions
• Optimized and portable VM security
Automation Solutions• Catalog based self-service frameworks