Role of Hyperconvergence and Web-Scale in the Enterprise Datacenter

Lukas Lundell, Global Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Making Infrastructure Invisible

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Introduction

Email: lukas@nutanix.com

Twitter: @LukasLundell

Web: LukasLundell.com

Current: Global Director of Solutions Engineering, Nutanix

Background: Datacenter Architect for Accenture’s R&D group, Accenture Technology Labs. Designed, built, and managed Tier 3 and Tier 4 datacenters and associated infrastructure for federal government, retail, and financial services clients.

Lukas M. Lundell

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About Nutanix

1750+ customers

Over 70 countries

6 continents

Make datacenter infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to

focus on applications and services

Founded in 2009

91 Net Promoter Score

1100+ employees

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Gartner Magic Quadrant Integrated Systems 2015

Strengths • Nutanix is a complete infrastructure solutions

company, providing its customers flexibility in

their choice of hypervisors and cloud usage

• Nutanix has gained market credibility and

established a worldwide presence

• The Acropolis scale-out architecture, along with

the ability to scale compute and storage

independently, enables users to grow Nutanix

deployments incrementally to meet application

needs.

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Hyperconverged Market Share Leader

52% market share

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Nutanix has been a key player in the

emergence of the hyperconverged market

and was early to demonstrate demand for

the technology.”

Leading position in mindshare, as well as

market share.”

Nutanix systems have diversified from

targeted or specialized workloads like VDI

to Tier 1 applications and highly virtualized

general business workloads like SAP,

Oracle, Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server,

SharePoint, Splunk, and Unified

Communications.”

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Challenges with Legacy Infrastructure

Cisco, Arista, Brocade, Avaya

HP, Dell, Cisco

NetApp, EMC

Qlogic, Emulex

VMware, MSFT, Redhat

Brocade, Cisco

…

SAN/NAS

Storage

Network

Centralized Storage

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Web-Scale: Design Point for Invisible

Design Principles

• Unbranded x86 servers: fail-fast systems

• No special purpose appliances

• All intelligence and services in software

• Extensive automation and rich analytics

• Distributed everything

Benefits

• Linear, predictable scale-out

• Always-on systems

• Fast innovation in software

• Operational simplicity

• Lower TCO

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Storage

Network

SAN

Scale-out

Servers

Hyperconvergence Solves the Storage Problem

Converged

compute and storage for

virtualized environments

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High Density Virtualization Clustering simplified

4 Independent Compute/Storage Nodes

Storage

8x 800GB SSDs

16x 1TB HDDs

4x virtualized storage controllers

4 Nodes in 2U

Compute 4x Independent server compute nodes 8x Intel CPUs (80 cores) Up to 2TB of RAM Dual 10Gbit Ethernet

* Data based on NX-3461

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Nutanix Web-Scale Architecture

Eliminates

SAN and NAS

arrays

Tier 1 Workloads (running on all nodes)

Nutanix Controller VM (one per node)

Node 2

VM VM VM CVM

X86

Node N

VM VM VM CVM

X86

Node 1

VM VM VM CVM

X86

Local + Remote (Flash + HDD)

Distributed Storage Fabric

intelligent tiering, VM-centric management and more…

Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication

ESXi

Acropolis App Mobility Fabric

AHV Hyper-

V ESXi AHV

Hyper-

V ESXi AHV

Hyper-

V

Workload

Mobility and

Hypervisor

Choice

Locality Tiering DR Resilience

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Converged

compute and

storage

All

intelligence in

software

Distributed

everything

Self-healing

system

Web-scale Converged Infrastructure

Automation

and Rich

Analytics

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Transforming Enterprise Datacenters

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Benefits of Web-scale: Predictable Scale V

irtu

al M

ach

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Number of Nutanix Nodes

The Nutanix Distributed File System performance scales linearly as new blocks and nodes are added to the cluster. These new nodes are self-discovered with the Avahi protocol and added to the cluster with zero downtime. Nutanix delivers a simple model for scaling your OpenStack deployment.

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Solutions

Solutions by *Use Case* and *Industry*

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Nutanix Use Cases

Desktop Virtualization

Server Virtualization + Private Cloud

Big Data

Backup & Disaster Recovery

Enterprise Branch or

Mobile Office

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Nutanix Use Cases

Unified Communications

Enterprise Applications

Emerging Technologies

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SAP & Nutanix

Nutanix is the first hyperconverged system certified for SAP.

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Lenovo & Nutanix

Partnering to bring invisible infrastructure to datacenters across the world.

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Broad Customer Adoption

Public Sector

Manufacturing

Retail

Education

Healthcare

Technology

Financial Services

Energy

Whats .NEXT?

Nutanix’s vision for the future of enterprise computing

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Make Cloud Invisible

Make Virtualization Invisible

Make Storage Invisible

Invisible Infrastructure

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Acro

polis

App Mobility Fabric

Distributed Storage Fabric

Workload mobility | Extensibility | No Lock-in | Always On | API

VMware

ESXi

Microsoft

Hyper-V AWS

Containers

(future) Azure

• Intelligent, VM-centric storage

• Built-in hypervisor

• Integrated virtualization

• Fully supported by Nutanix

Web-Scale Core | Compression | Dedupe | Tiering | Resiliency | Data Protection

Turnkey compute, storage and

virtualization from Nutanix

Acropolis

Hypervisor

(future)

What is Acropolis?

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Flexibility of Many,

Simplicity of One Homogeneous to

Heterogeneous

Application Optimizations Next-Gen Storage

Optimization with EC-X

• Configure-to-Order (CTO)

• Nutanix Sizer

• Multiple hardware platforms

• All-flash node NX-9000

• Native multi-protocol with new

iSCSI Support (Exchange)

• VM pinning to flash (Oracle)

• Erasure Coding

What’s new in Distributed Storage Fabric

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Integrated Virtualization

• Built for Nutanix

• VM placement, migration,

conversion, etc.

• Integrated DR and HA

• Support for wide range of VM-

based apps

• Seamless path to container-based

technologies

• Move towards a Hybrid-cloud

architecture

• Rich APIs for integration

Acro

polis

App Mobility Fabric

Distributed Storage Fabric

Workload mobility | Extensibility | No Lock-in | Always On | API

VMware

ESXi Acropolis

Hypervisor

Microsoft

Hyper-V AWS

Containers

(future) Azure

Performance | Compression | Dedupe | Tiering | Resiliency | Data Protection

Application Mobility Fabric

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• Host Profiles: Standardize configuration of hosts within a cluster based on user-provided information

• Virtual Networking: Setup and configure VLAN-backed virtual networks spanning the cluster. Use built-in IP

management

• Upgrades: Rolling Hypervisor upgrade in a Nutanix cluster

• Maintenance Mode: Put hosts into maintenance mode for upgrades and host removals

• Scaling: Easily add and remove nodes in minutes

• VM Operations: Create, delete, update, power, pause/resume VMs, access via remote console

• Resource Scheduling: Determine initial placement of VMs based on CPU and memory availability

• Migration: Live migrate VMs across nodes

• Snapshots and Clones: Rapidly create efficient snapshots and clones of VMs

• IP Management: Assign dynamic IP addresses to a VM at creation for the life of the VM

• Analytics: Monitor and report key metrics for VMs and infrastructure, including hypervisor and nodes

Hypervisor

VM

Acropolis Hypervisor

Acropolis provides a simple VM and hypervisor management solution built on the same distributed systems as NDFS.

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Nutanix Prism

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Easy to use Web-services and APIs

Nutanix Support

Industry-leading Customer Satisfaction and Support.

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9.7

Customer Satisfaction

45+

Spare Parts Depots

+91 Net Promoter

Score

“Follow the Sun” support

24x7x365

70

Countries

12

Languages

6 Support

Centers

20 K

Cases per year

20 K+

Servers Supported

Support Centers

Parts Depots

Bangalore

San Jose

Durham

Amsterdam Tokyo

Sydney

Support That Delivers

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Q&A

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Q&A

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