Moving towards a software defined future can be daunting.  We look at the choices available to you, how to comprehensively manage the combined technologies and why integrated systems provide the best platform for the shift to software defined.

1. Modular Infrastructure as a
foundation of the Software
Defined Data Center
Session MT19

2. Introduction

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Definition: What is a Software-defined Data Center (SDDC)?
SDDC is an IT infrastructure that extends virtualization
concepts such as abstraction, pooling, and automation to
all of the data center’s resources and services in order to
achieve IT as a service (ITaaS). In a software-defined
data center, all elements of the infrastructure —
compute, storage and networking – are virtualized,
automated and maintained by software allowing IT to be
delivered as a service. A software-defined data center is
the foundation of an organization that is Future Ready.
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SDDC - build or buy?
• SDDC is typically evolutionary, not revolutionary
• SDDC is typically and extension of existing virtual
infrastructure and leverages existing structured
infrastructure
• ‘Build’ helps existing IT evolve and mature
organically based on unique business demands
• ‘Buy’ simplifies greenfield implementation with
one-approach-fits-all approach to SDDC
• ‘Buy’ speeds time to value, decision benefits from
close economic examination and ROI analysis

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Why transition to a software-defined world?
• Investment protection
• Mature technology
• Ease of deployment
• Performance–
dedicated processing
• Capacity efficiency
• Deployment flexibility
• Low acquisition cost
• Comprehensive
systems mgmt.
at all levels
• Open source
• Building block
architectures
• New IT service models
Traditional data
center needs
Cloud Native data
center needs
PowerEdge
Modular
Infrastructure
with integrated
networking
& storage
Typical config: Discrete servers &
storage, consolidated networking &
separate management
Typical config: Consolidated
servers, server-based storage &
networking & integrated management
Ideal Transition platform

6. SDDC Roadblocks

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Overwhelming vendor choice

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Does everything work together?
Yes, but…
Interoperability relies on critical elements
• Hypervisor functionality
• Orchestration
• Staff and knowledge
• Simplicity of hardware management
Effective planning and testing is critical!

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Hold on… This is going to
be really expensive, right?
Do I have to re-invest in new infrastructure to make this work?
Does this mean working with new vendors?
Competing vendors all claim to have superior tactical solutions
Market is evolving rapidly, new innovations are evolving, what is the right
direction?
Can my software, staff and business keep up? (training costs)

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If the software manages everything,
why is hardware still important?
Orchestration of software and hardware
Deployment (both new deployment & disaster recovery)
Workload characterization
Power consumption controls
Seamless, agent free management
True configuration choice
Modularity is critical
Existing workload capacity (DPAK)

11. How to get there

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First Steps
Breaking down cost vs features vs traditional IT
Workload audit - Eliminating cost through better server
management, automation, power and cooling
Unifying staff resources

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How to get there - What’s wanted/needed
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Treat compute, storage and
networking as workloads
Identify relevant infrastructure
stacks and cohabitation
strategy
Simplify management, staffing
and introduce self service
Use Automation, self healing,
flexibility and modularity to
guide your hardware choices

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What's Needed = efficient enterprise systems
management
Superior customer benefit
• Spend less time maintaining and
more time innovating
• Leverage existing IT
investments and easily integrate
new resources
• Utilize a single interface to
manage infrastructure and
applications
• Increase responsiveness to
evolving business needs
Automate and capture repetitive, manual
tasks for greater agility and efficiency
Flexibility with an open architectural
approach to IT management solutions
Provide a converged user experience,
simplifying management across the
data center

15. Why Modular?

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Modular innovation or White box simplicity?
FX Architecture
PowerEdge VRTX
M1000E Blades
PowerEdge Cloud Servers
vs.

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The white box trap
 Firmware updates
 Granular power management
 Systems management
 Orchestration integration
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OpEx
CapEx

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More control of system power usage at
the component level
• Granular control of CPU, memory, storage,
PCIe, and fans available
• More easily determine the components needing
adjustments
• Determine headroom to add components –
even while running an application
• Plan management tasks with job scheduling
• Receive notifications through iDRAC
Accurate power monitoring within 1%
• Highly accurate energy reporting can help
ensure the utility drop is right sized
• Improved performance under a power cap
Dell OpenManage Power Center
• Measure and Manage Power Usage
• Create and Implement Multiple Policies
• Reduce consumption during low-load hours
• Maximize allocation of existing resources
• Simplify cost optimization
• Mitigate risk
Subsystem monitoring and power control
“Our conclusion is that this solution, even when implemented in a small
scale, offers us the potential of monitoring energy consumption and
temperature dissipation, allows us to control energy use and prepares us for
the future: we can limit the overall energy consumption of the equipment at
certain critical periods, for example”.
Rogerio Gelamo,
Technology Division Manager for Telefônica/Vivo

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Dell EMC advantages versus white box server management
• Automated firmware
updates – on ALL
components
• Automated
deployment
• No agents to update
• Embedded diagnostic
tools
• Predictive failure
• Two factor
authentication
• SupportAssist
(interact with Dell
support directly
from iDRAC)
• Phone home
automated issue
escalation
• Capacity planning
and equipment
placement
• Cooling analysis
• Graph power use
in AMPs and
Watts, and the
thermals of
components
• HTML 5 user
interface (no Java!)
• Access at server via
smart phone or
laptop
• Configure a server
from a USB drive
• Rollback to previous
firmware versions
Time Savings Convenience Security/Support Power Use

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Dell EMC advantages versus white box server management
• PowerEdge servers can
be monitored through
consoles from HP, IBM,
CA, and Oracle
• Supermicro servers are
limited to monitoring
through IPMI and SNMP
Integration with
Microsoft and VMware
Monitor Servers
from third party consoles
• PowerEdge servers
can be monitored and
managed through
Microsoft and VMware
management tool
• Supermicro does not
have any support of
SCCM, and limited
integration with
System Center 2012 R2
Comprehensive mobile
management
• PowerEdge servers can
be monitored and
managed through a
notebook or a cell
phone
• Supermicro “IPMIview”
supports IPMI tasks
only

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A revolutionary approach to converged
infrastructure for enterprise computing
Simplify management of
increasingly complex data
centers using the flexibility of
FX platforms to standardize
operations for higher
productivity
Easily and rapidly scale your
workloads with an
unprecedented level of
density, allowing more
services using fewer
resources, resulting in overall
lower costs
Tailor infrastructure
precisely, with the right
compute, storage, caching,
and connectivity to meet
specific workload needs
Simplify complexityMaximize efficiencyOptimize workloads
Dell PowerEdge FX2

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Dell named leader in modular servers market
Gartner Servers Magic Quadrant leader for the last 4 consecutive years
Highlights
• “Dell has good portfolio breadth and depth in
modular servers.”
• “Partnerships and acquisitions have strengthened
Dell in networking, storage and security, and the
company has strong operating-system alliances
with Microsoft and Red Hat.”
• “FX2 is the first implementation of a family of
dense, integrated solutions for hyperscale and
Mode 2 agile infrastructures.”
“Dell is in the vanguard of webscale IT servers
via its dense PowerEdge FX2 systems and
the industry experience of its DCS group.”
Source: Title, Publication, Date of issue, . See full report: http://gtnr.it/1FQORY9
“Dell is the second-largest provider of x86-based
servers in the world and has a large global reach
through an extensive partner network.”

23. Why Hyper-converged?

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The Dell EMC Difference
Driven by guiding principles that reduce unnecessary cost and complexityStandards-based No deliberate technology lock in
Open approach No intentionally closed ecosystems
Modular systems No costly monolithic stacks
Flexible scaling No forced constraints or rip-and-replace
Future-ready portfolio No vested interest in legacy systems
End-to-end solutions No siloed viewpoint or hidden agenda

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Dell EMC Hyper-Converged solutions
Dell XC Series
• Jointly engineered by Nutanix and
Dell EMC
• Ideal for Hyper-V or KVM environments
Dell EMC VxRail Appliance Family
• Jointly engineered by VMware and Dell
EMC
• Fully integrated appliance experience
for environments standardized on
VMware

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Dell EMC Hyper-Converged DIY
VSAN Ready Nodes
• New PowerEdge R730xd all-flash
option
• Updated with Broadwell
• Meets the needs of diverse
workloads
ScaleIO Node
• Building block with ScaleIO™
• Scale flexibility and extreme
performance

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Realized value with Dell converged infrastructure
solutions
Engineers access data in
seconds instead of
minutes with hyper-
converged architecture –
Williams F1 Racing
Improve performance by
nearly 90%, while saving
the school system at least
50% of infrastructure
costs– Fulton County
Schools
50% savings on cost of
alternative switching
technology for scalable
IaaS cloud and avoids
vendor lock-in
- U2 Cloud
83% faster
access to business data with
software-defined storage and
converged infrastructure
– Aubert

28. Case Studies/Examples

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Accelerated Technology Labs
• Improve system performance and availability
with reduced data center footprint
• Enable new business offerings faster
“We can ensure higher software availability for our laboratory customers by relying on the
Dell PowerEdge FX and Dell Storage arrays. As a result, they can more reliably use our
software to conduct and manage their testing, sequencing and analysis.”
-Mark Burke, CIO, Accelerated Technology Laboratories
Dell EMC FX and VRTX Modular Infrastructure
40%
Performance
improvement 90min
Server
lauch
time

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Teikyo University
• Accelerate the analysis of patient data
• Enhance patient care with a faster, flexible IT
platform
“We can store everything in our Dell XC web-scale hyper-converged appliances and share the
data between systems. We have increased performance, and we have cut costs down by one-
third.”
-Dr. Tomohiro Sawa, Medical Information Systems Research Center, Teikyo University Hospital
Dell XC Hyper-converged Software defined
deployment
1/2 Deployment
time 1/3 Cost

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The tangible benefits of SDDC
IDC: Quantifying the Business Value of Dell XC Powered by Nutanix Software
Gain business agility with faster service delivery
Minimize and contain cost
Ease maintenance, changes and updates
Improve user experience through standardization
Application optimized infrastructure
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Automate IT processes, saving time and resources
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Top recommendations to ensure SDDC success
1 New processes and culture in place
The right skills and training
Start now; plan ahead! Implement in phases
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4 Ensure compatible technologies
Mitigate vendor lock-in5
“New skills and a
cultural shift in the IT
organization are
needed to ensure this
(SDDC) approach
delivers results for the
business.“
Dave Russell, Gartner*
*Source: Gartner Says the Future of the Data Center is Software-Defined

33. Let’s talk Meet with Dell Account team (AE, SAM, CSE) to
arrange DPACK and modular POC
See demos at the Dell World Expo
• SDDC
• Cloud
and engage with our subject matter experts to
learn more
Attend related sessions:
• MT05: Zero to cloud in 3 hours with Microsoft cloud
• MT152: Designing the most flexible converged
system in the industry to date

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