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Raymon Epping

Matt Northam

Performance

Capacity

Performance

Capacity

4 nodes=100k

IOPS

8 nodes=200k

IOPS

40 nodes=1M IOPS

Cost

Cost

Cost

Cost

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RIS

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IT Challenges:

Performance Complexity

Capacity

Innovation

Business Drivers:

CapEx OpEx

Agility

ESX

Virtualization benefits:

HA / DRS / vMotion FT

SRM..

SAN

Storage Evolution:

Flash Hybrid

All flash

Software

ESX ESX

Linear Scale Out

Rolling Upgrades

3.5 4.0 3.5

MapReduce

08 14 42

24 31 13

75 22 02

Enterprise Features:

Compression

Dedupe

HA / DR

CVM CVM CVM

RESTFul API

EUC AppsBig

Data

Futures:

GPU

NVME

PCIe 4.0

VCAC HadoopOpenStackEC2

Bringing Webscale IT to the enterprise

Uncomprimisingly Simple

Core Principles of Web-Scale IT

Strategy

• Use off-the-shelf hardware

• Software eats hardware

• Scaling out is #1

• Efficiency is #2

• Culture as important as infrastructure

Health Checks

• Auto remediation of nodes

• Detect and adjust to node

• Auto include nodes once they have been fixed (but rate limit remediation)

Design for Failures

• No single point of failure - killing any process is legitimate

• Minimize manual intervention

• Rolling upgrades are the norm

• Survive wide-ranging (rack, DC) failures

Dashboards and Metrics

• Single view of the entire system

• SLA hits/misses

• Cluster and node health

• Performance and utilization

What Is Web-Scale IT?

A system and methodology for designing, deploying and managing infrastructure

at any scale

BenefitsIngredients

Infrastructure Strategy

• Intelligence in software layer

• Linear, predictable scale-out

• Fractional consumption

People and Process

• Culture as important as tech

• Launch first, optimize later

• No technology religion

System Design

• Non-disruptive rolling upgrades

• No single point of failure

• Minimal manual intervention

Business Agility

Rapid Scale Cost Efficiency

Radical Simplicity

DATA FABRIC

Integrated Data Protection

MapReduce Deduplication

Tunable Redundancy

Availability Domains

CONTROL FABRIC

Prism Central

Cluster Health

One-click NOS Upgrades

PowerShell Cmdlets

Powerful Management,

Analytics and Automation

Better Performance,

Availability and Scale

What’s New in NOS 4.0?

Integrated Data Protection

Unlimited local snapshots on primary cluster with Time StreamOne-click restore and state recoveryWAN-optimized replication for DRWorks with ESXi and Hyper-V

Schedule, manage and use local and remote snapshots and replication for backup and disaster recovery from Prism

vdisk Local Snapshots

Remote Snapshots

DR Cluster

Primary Cluster

Local Off-Cluster

backups

On-Site Secondary

Veeam Integration

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MapReduce Deduplication

Distributed across all nodes low overhead, scale-outComplements real-time perf dedupGlobal dedup across entire cluster

Post-process, cluster-wide deduplication capability that increases the effective capacity of a cluster

Before

After

Distributed Deduplication

Multicluster Management Simplified

Summary view of different clusters

Aggregate visibility across clusters

Quick navigation between clusters

Cluster Health

Monitor health of VMs, nodes and disksAutomatic health checksConvergence is a unique advantageEnables self-service troubleshooting and rapid resolutionQuick investigation - grouping, filtering and hierarchy navigation

Get comprehensive, end-to-end visibility of the health of a cluster

Quickly identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues across the infrastructure stackCluster Health

Health checks suite runs in the background

One-click NOS Upgrade

Parallel Upgrades

Serial Reboots

Done in minutes with zero touchNo downtime while upgrade happensNodes upgraded in parallelAutomatic sequencing of reboots

Automatically upgrade NOS on Nutanix clusters non-disruptively with no manual intervention

As simple as…

Windows PowerShell Cmdlets

GUI nCLI

Nutanix REST API

PowerShell

Cmdlets

Automatically generated wrappers around Nutanix REST APINo need for Windows PowerShell users to learn a new CLI

Configure and manage Nutanix clusters using PowerShell scripts

Tunable Resilience

Software-definedRF-3 offers protection against two simultaneous disk, node and NIC failuresSwitch between RF-2 and RF-3Replication set at the container level

Configure different levels of fault tolerancefor different applications in the same cluster dynamically

RF-2 Container

RF-3 Container

Availability Domains

V1: Intelligent placement of replicas to protect against failure of block

Requires minimum of 3 blocks for block awareness

Place data intelligently to across availability domain boundaries

Appliance Appliance Appliance

Hardware portfolio

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NX-10x0

- Branch offices

Compute: E5-2620, 12 cores / 2.0 GHz

Memory: 64 GB or 128 GB

Storage: 400 GB SSD, 4x 1 TB HDDs

Density: up to 50 virtual machines

NX-30x0

- VDI and Generic server VM’s

Compute: E5-2680v2, 20 cores / 2.8 GHz

Memory: 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB

Storage: 2x 400 GB SSD, 4x 1 TB HDDs

Density: up to 50 virtual machines

NX-60x0

- High demand / capacity

Compute: E5-2680v2, 20 cores / 2.8 GHz

Memory: 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB

Storage: 2x 400 GB SSD, 4x 4 TB HDDs

Density: up to 115 virtual machines

NX-70x0

- Intensive video applications

Compute: E5-2680v2, 20 cores / 2.8 GHz

Memory: 128 GB or 256 GB

GPU: Up to 2x GRID K1, 3x GRID K2, 1x APEX

Density: K1: 8-64, K2 vSGA: 6-48, vDGA: 6

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Questions?

Nutanix - ResourcesNutanix Datasheets and Technical Guides

http://www.nutanix.com/resources

Nutanix Blog

http://www.nutanix.com/blog/

The Nutanix Bible

http://stevenpoitras.com/the-nutanix-bible

Josh Odgers Blog

http://www.joshodgers.com

Michael Webster’s Blog

http://longwhiteclouds.com

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