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Hyper-convergence: The leading edge of virtualization
Toronto VMUG February 2015
Daemon Behr
Solution Engineer
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Agenda
• Introductions
• Converged Infrastructure Landscape
• Nutanix vs EVO:RAIL
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Introductions
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Canada’s top IT infrastructure specialists.
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Top tier technical talent.
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• Engineers average 15 years of experience
• World-class experts from some of the leading organizations in the industry
• Dedicated PMO, finance, sales and operations teams
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An integrator of emerging technologies.
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We are not…
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• Traditional infrastructure usually is a result of building a network in isolation, a storage environment in isolation, and then bolting a virtualization environment
• Converged infrastructure is created when all are designed or specified with close ties
What is converged infrastructure?
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Converged Infrastructure
Converged Infrastructure Landscape
• Storage led options from EMC (VSPEX) and NetApp (FlexPod)
• Single Vendor offerings, like Cisco UCS + Invicta
• Integrated block offerings, like VCE vBlocks
• SAN-free environments like VSAN
• Converged VMware offerings, like EVO:RAIL, Nutanix
• Reducing risk by providing combined architectures
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• Build from scratch
• Reference designs vs validated designs
• Validated designs are huge – hundreds of steps to implement
• How do you scale?
• How do you scale and stay within supported bounds of the reference design?
Storage-led Convergence
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• Dell Storage and Dell Compute
• Dell VRTX
• Cisco UCS + Cisco Invicta Storage
• HP Servers + Lefthand Storage
Single vendor offerings
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• EMC vBlock
• VSAN Ready Nodes
• EVO:RAIL Offerings
• Dell XC
• Nutanix
Converged Offerings
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
- Alan Perlis [first recipient of the Turing award]
• Single company doesn’t mean single product
• Circular dependencies of firmware, drivers, OS
• How do you expand?
• How do you lifecycle components?
• How do you maintain it all?
Complexity
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Maintenance and Upgrades
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It took
30 years to
repaint the Golden Gate
Bridge..
Now, it never Stops being
painted
• We show value through experience, not through being the people who do tedious stuff
• Quick infrastructure implementation means we can more quickly move on to business infrastructure transformation, moving your workloads onto the platform
Our view of convergence
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• Linear scale-out compute and storage
• Not just VMware (like EVO:RAIL)
• Hyper-V, KVM
• Strong support organization, through Nutanix Pulse
Market leader in Hyperconvergence
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• “We only run VMware”
• .. Well, except for those few Hyper-V boxes
• .. And the KVM ones
Diversity is important
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What is Nutanix?
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• Managed virtualization infrastructure
• Tight integration with VMware
• Clustered file system across all nodes
• SSD/HDD tiering
• Now partnered with Dell, to run on servers with an enterprise class heritage
• Build clusters of Nutanix systems as large as your vSphere clusters, or larger
• Start with 3 nodes, grow to up to 48, one node at a time
• Scale out storage at the same time you scale out compute
Start small, grow big
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• Options for “Compute heavy” and “Storage Heavy” nodes
• Start small, grow big
• Node types can be mixed in a cluster
• Grow as you need – capacity on demand
• No need to size compute, no need to size SAN
Scale out with Nutanix
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• VMware VSAN has come leaps and bounds since its original try as the VSA
• Nutanix has always been miles ahead of VSA’s functionality
• Nutanix NDFS includes many enterprise level SAN features, such as ILM tiering, scale out to eliminate controller IO bottlenecks, phone home for disk replacement
• No need to architect SAN separately from compute – as you grow compute with Nutanix, the SAN grows too
No SAN?
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• Early days for EVO:RAIL, this will change
• Nutanix is Tier 1 ready. EVO:RAIL right now is Tier 2 only
• Nutanix can grow one node at a time, vs 4 right now for EVO:RAIL
• Nutanix supports every VMware license, EVO:RAIL requires Enterprise Plus
• Nutanix supports 48 nodes, EVO:RAIL supports 16
Nutanix vs EVO:RAIL
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• Validated designs are all they sell
• Simple management and support
• One-click, non-disruptive upgrades
• Single source of documentation
• No need to worry about VMware HCL – if it isn’t on there, Nutanix doesn’t have it
Why Nutanix for converged?
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What is right for you?
• There is no slam-dunk solution that works for every company
• The right solution depends on size, desire to change, historic growth, growth plans, and features desired (which leads to budget)
It depends..
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• You know your business requirements best, but how many virtualization environments do you implement per month?
• Look for the “V” in Value Added Reseller – our engineering team, over 80 staff, work with sales, and validate every solution sold. We make it work the way we said it was going to work
• A “V” VAR’s technical resources can quickly translate your business requirements into technical specifications, saving you time, and reducing risk
Working with a VAR vs DIY
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Read our blog post about using Uses, Considerations, and Recommendations for VMware vSAN by Dan Sylvester, Manager,
Technical Pre-Sales, Western Canada.
http://blog.scalar.ca/Blog/bid/102964/Uses-Considerations-and-Recommendations-for-VMware-vSAN
What’s Next?
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