Converged Infrastructure Solutions from Microsoft and Nutanix

Clive Watson Hybrid Cloud Solution Specialist at Microsoft

Matt Northam Converged Infrastructure Specialist at Nutanix

CIO Concerns

Deliver uncompromised performance with minimal impact on budgets

IT Challenges

BudgetAlloca-ononNewTechnologyversusOldTechnology(EnterpriseStrategyGroup)

Stability and predictability

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Business requires more agility

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Why the Microsoft Cloud Platform?

CUSTOMER DATACENTER

SERVICE PROVIDER

MICROSOFT AZURE

CONSISTENT PLATFORM

•  Global scale •  Enterprise-grade •  Comprehensive •  Hybrid cloud •  People-centered

experiences

Windows Server

Microsoft Azure

High-performance storage on industry-standard hardware

Software-defined compute, storage, and networking

Multitenant self-service environments with isolation

Policy-based automation

Application elasticity

Microsoft learnings in your datacenter

Power of Azure with the control of the datacenter

Microsoft Private Cloud (on premises | hosted)

Microsoft Azure

Power of Azure with the control of the datacenter

Microsoft Private Cloud (on premises | hosted)

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Private Cloud (on-premises | hosted)

Power of Azure with the control of the datacenter

Microsoft Azure Stack (on-premises | hosted)

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure Microsoft Private Cloud (on-premises/hosted)

Microsoft Azure Stack (on premises | hosted)

Introducing the Microsoft Azure Stack

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Private Cloud (on-premises/hosted)

Microsoft Azure Stack (on premises | hosted)

App innovation

Invisible Infrastructure for Microsoft Environments

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Challenges in Today’s Datacenter

SAN DAS

Infrastructure silos remain, even after initial wave of virtualization

Overprovisioning for performance

Complex data protection and disaster recovery

Difficulty scaling as applications grow

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Resilience Intensive Performance

& High Scalability Hybrid Cloud Readiness

Infrastructure Demands

Increasing Microsoft Application Capabilities

§  Multi-hypervisor support

§  Elastic data fabric §  REST APIs for

extensibility

§  High performance platform

§  Linear scalability

§  VM centric §  Data locality §  Data replication

across the cluster

High Availability •  Increasing Virtualization •  Unstructured Data in DB •  Increased Mailbox Size

Cloud Ready

Microsoft Applications are Evolving

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Nutanix Enables Microsoft Vision of the Cloud

Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure •  Fast performance in fraction the space •  Linear, predictable scale-out • One platform for all

VMCaliber Operations • Meet SLAs & cost effective DR • VM and Infrastructure insight • Non-disruptive operations

Eco-System Integration • Certified turnkey infrastructure • Minimal manual intervention •  Flexibility for customization

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Xtreme Computing Platform: Web-Scale Design

ü  Storage IO is serviced by local SSDs

ü  Storage & Compute together

Software-defined approach

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What’s In •  Software-based

•  Smart software, commodity HW •  Scale one x86 server at a time •  Highly distributed, but local storage •  Heavily automated

What’s Out •  Vanity hardware •  Islands of storage •  Unused, overprovisioned resources •  North-south network traffic •  Low productivity tasks

Built on the Benefits of Web-Scale

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Deliver Predictable Performance, Economics and Growth

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§  Startsmallandscalelinearly--addingperformanceandcapacity§  Getexcellentperformancewithintelligent8eringofdata(flash,disk,remote)§  IncorporatelatesthardwarewithouthavingtoperformaforkliAupgrade

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Simplify Deployment and Management

§  100% software-defined architecture §  Installs in less than 1 day §  Single intuitive console with VM-centric insight and REST APIs

ü  Rapid Time To Value ü  Zero-touch infrastructure ü  Extensible manageability ü  Full HyperV Cluster setup from Prism GUI

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Enterprise Applications

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TenantA TenantNVMs Databases WebSites VMs Databases WebSites

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WindowsAzurePack

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PartnershipHighlights/Programs• MicrosoAPrivateCloudFastTrack• WindowsServer2012and2012R2HWCer8fied•  SimplifiedinstallandmgmtforHyper-V,SCOM•  SystemCenterAlliance•  SilverDatacenterCompetency•  8MTC’sWW-Paris,UK,NYC,Atlanta,Irvine,Reston,Toronto,Boston

•  PremierSupportAgreementwithTAM•  Pla[ormModerniza8onAlliance HybridCloudSolu8ons

PrivatetoPublic

Microsoft Azure

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Web-Scale Microsoft SQL Server

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MSSQLVMs

OperationalIntelligence

DataIntegration

ServiceInteraction

UsersUsers

DesktopsDesktops Applications/DataApplications/Data ServersServers

ExternalSourcesExternalSources

Transactional Databases (OLTP) §  Localized I/O for low latency

random operations §  SSD for indexes and key database

files §  Ability to automatically tier data

depending on usage

Analytical Databases (OLAP/DSS) §  Local read I/O for high-performance

queries and reporting §  Abundant sequential write and read

throughput §  Scalable performance and capacity

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Accelerating Time to Market with Efficient Development Operations

VM clones

Give developers their own high performance environment

Master / production

VM

Quickly spin up local or remote VM clones for QA testing

VM clones or replicas

Benefit from a VM-centric approach to development and testing.

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Deploying Microsoft Exchange with Nutanix

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ExchangeVMs

MailInteraction

DataIntegration

ServiceInteraction

UsersUsers

DesktopsDesktops Applications/DataApplications/Data ServersServers

ExternalSourcesExternalSources

§ Run all exchange roles on a single Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform

§ Benefit from compression & deduplication optimizing capacity

§ Increased availability for virtualized Exchange utilizing HA and DRS along with Database Availability Groups (DAGs)

§ MS ESRP for Exchange – only HCI solution, 24000 mailboxes in 16U.

§ Best practices for Exchange on HyperV, vSphere and Acropolis.

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Microsoft Exchange On Nutanix Invisible Infrastructure

•  Database Availability Groups – Microsoft Exchange 2010 and 2013 •  Provides mailbox resiliency and can be used as the primary protection mechanism.

Secondary (also for

compliance)

DR site

For litigation/ in-place hold

VM clones

Immutable copy

Primary copy

Secondary copy

DAG replication

Primary site

C: DB Logs

3000 mailboxes/ 2 rack unit

(8150)

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Hybrid Cloud Vision with Microsoft Azure

Private Cloud Back-Up DR Workload Portability

Phased Approach From Private to Public

System Center

On-prem “Azure” Available Now Connect to Azure Public Cloud

Azure Pack Microsoft Azure

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Nutanix Solution for Private Cloud Fast Track

Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform •  Turnkey Private Cloud using Hyper-V

•  Converges compute and storage

Software Defined Infrastructure •  Linearly scale -- 3 to 100s of nodes

• Mix and match nodes in a cluster

Integration with Microsoft Stack •  Leverage Windows Azure Pack •  Nutanix Windows PowerShell toolkit

2U space for 4 nodes

Including storage runs Windows Server 2012 R2

with Hyper-V

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Nutanix + Windows Azure Pack

Simple.

TenantA TenantNVMs Databases WebSites VMs Databases WebSites

SCALE

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Nutanix Prism APIs and Integration

Custom run book •  Event triggered run book interfacing using Nutanix PowerShell commandlets and REST APIs •  Example application: Provision new container for new Tenant

Custom resource provider •  Native integration into Admin and Tenant portal via C# and PowerShell/REST •  Example application:

– Clone VM/Template using NDFS Quick Clone

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•  Single node NOS instance running on cloud. Each cloud NOSinstanceismanagedasaremotesite.–  CloudNOSinstancecanbecreatedintheregionofchoice.–  Cloud disk backed by azure blob store is aaached to the instance for

storingdata.

•  Connec8vity to the cloud instance can be VPN or SSH tunnelbased.

•  Dedupop8mizedfordatatransferandrestore.•  Endtoendreplica8onandsnapshotretrieval.

Backup to Azure Design

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SinglenodeNutanixcluster

NUTANIXCVM

CloudDisk

Remote Snapshots

Backup to Azure - Architecture

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Nutanix Solutions for Microsoft Environments

VDI

Branch Office

Disaster Recovery

Enterprise Applications

Private & Hybrid Clouds

Microsoft Applications

Want to learn more?

http://futuredecoded.microsoft.com

http://aka.ms/TDI_Workshops

http://aka.ms/HybridWebinarUK

t-anhill@Microsoft.commnortham@Nutanix.com

http://www.nutanix.com/microsoft/