1. Presenter Name
Date
Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure
Innovare la tua azienda. La nostra sfida.
Lan & Wan Solution Soluzioni Informatiche per Reti Locali e Geografiche
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Company Mission
Nutanix Introduction
Deliver
Uncompromisingly
Simple Converged
Datacenter Infrastructure
Solutions Leveraging Web-
Scale Technologies
Company Facts
Over 10.000 systems in last 5 years
Headquartered in San Jose, CA
~800 employees, valued $2B+
800+ customers in 33 countries
(mid to large enterprises, gov’t, SPs)
$50B+ market opportunity
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• Enhance agility
• Shift focus from keeping
lights on to Innovation
• Increase productivity and
control costs
Business imperatives driving IT
4. 4
Nutanix believes Happy IT drives business success
• Beautiful integrated design
• Intuitive to setup and use
• Best possible user
experience
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Challenges With Existing Datacenter Architecture
Multiple components
1. Inherent Complexity
2. Forklift scale-up to grow
3. Battle Bottlenecks
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Web-Scale Converged IT Infrastructure
Web-Scale Design Goals
•Hyperconvergence on x86 server
nodes
•All intelligence in software
•Distributed Everything
•Self Healing
•Automated with API’s and Data
Analysis
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Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
Any app, any size, any hypervisor
Enterprise Storage
Snapshots, clones,
replication, compression,
thin provisioning ,
deduplication
Data Management
Data locality, tiering,
balancing, tunable
resilience
Hypervisor Agnostic
vSphere, KVM,
Hyper-V
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Nutanix has You Covered
RTORPO Nutanix
Minutes Minutes Time Stream
Hours Hours Cloud Connect
Near -zero Minutes Metro Availability
Minutes Minutes Remote
Replication
Minor
incidents
Major
incident
s
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Enterprise Infrastructure With Web-Scale Virtues
• Simplicity
• Agility
• Rapid scale
Public Cloud
Web-scale infrastructure with
all of the benefits of the cloud
Uncompromising Simplicity
Speed of Business
Unmatched TCO
• SLAs
• Privacy and control
• Better long-term TCO
Legacy Infrastructure
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Nutanix Key Value Proposition
Rapid, risk- free scale
Scale datacenters one server at a time with zero downtime
Predictable performance
Fast and linear performance at any scale
Low TCO
No more IT silos 40-60% management savings
Business agility
Fastest time to value. Pre-validated solutions.
Uncompromisingly simple
30 to 60 minute deployment. No storage expertise required.
Rapid and seamless scalability
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Full Platform Portfolio
Meeting Different Price/Performance Requirements
“Our System was up and
running in 30 minutes!”
–Ken Farley, Gunner IT
Download Customer Success Story
Balanced resources
for branch office,
retail stores, &
remote offices
Power and space
savings up to 80%
Single management
interface
NX-1000
Fastest
performance for
compute-intensive
workloads (e.g.
VDI)
Expanded flash
capacity for large
working sets
Highest supported
VM density
NX-3000
Ideal for data-
intense applications
3x more storage
and 2x server flash
capacity than
general purpose
offering
Full range of CPU
offerings to
accommodate
multiple workloads
NX-6000
Tailored for Tier 1
business critical
workloads such as
Microsoft SQL
Server, Exchange,
SharePoint, SAP, and
Oracle
Flexible configs
including CPU, SSD,
Memory & 10GbE
connectivity
4x more SSD
accommodates a
much larger active
data set
NX-9000 for All-Flash
NX-8000
GPU and PCoIP
offload seamlessly
integrates graphics
intensive users in
VDI deployments
Ideal for any user
currently running
workstations with
GPU cards
installed
NX-7000
NX-9000
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CONTACTS
Tel. +39 049 8843198 DIGIT (5)
contacts@lanewan.it
www.lanewan.it
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Notas del editor
Successful businesses (like for example Google, Amazon, Starbucks and Ebay) have found a way to get IT to be more Agile (quicker time to value, implement new projects faster), tighten security (virtual desktop infrastructure, neutralize BYOCloud) and increase productivity (predictable investment calculations, lower TCO, automate datacenter operations, pay as you grow).
However, many IT organizations still struggle to achieve these three goals. Why?
Purpose of the Slide:
Talk about the big challenges enterprise customers face today. Establish a baseline that everyone can agree to.
Key Points:
- Datacenters have become increasingly complex over the years. Every part of the infrastructure lifecycle is complex, from buying and deploying to configuring, managing and scaling infrastructure.
- As infrastructure became more complex, IT organizations also became more siloed. You needed storage experts to manage complex network storage and networking experts to manage enterprise network topologies. ITIL processes emerged to deal with the complexity. All this significantly slowed down the pace of IT deployment. Orgs have to trade off doing it right with doing it fast.
- As demand for resources (compute, network, storage) goes up, organizations want to be able to add capacity incrementally and predictably. Scale-up (big iron) infrastructure makes it difficult to scale in small increments when needed.
Purpose: Talk about where and how web-scale IT originated, and what some of the common are between different web-scale data centers
Key Points:
Web companies like Google and Facebook started pushing the limits of existing infrastructure systems and processes in ways that traditional businesses did not. They needed infrastructure that could support their business requirements (rapid application development cycles, scale on demand, cost containment). They tried using existing infrastructure solutions, but quickly realized that legacy infra was a poor fit for their needs.
Over time, these companies developed an alternate approach to IT that enabled them to get past limitations in infrastructure. Some common traits of web-scale IT:
Infrastructure built from commodity server hardware pooled together using intelligent software. This allows customers to start small and scale one server at a time – true scale-out
The software in the system is distributed across all the nodes. You don’t have central metadata servers or name nodes. You don’t see controller bottlenecks
Embarrassingly parallel operations – everything in the system, including storage functions like deduplication and metadata management and system cleanup, is distributed across all nodes. There are no hotspots or bottlenecks, allowing for massive scale
Compute and storage sit very close to each other. Data does not have to go back and forth between storage and compute over a network. Data has gravity, so co-locating storage and compute eliminates network bottlenecks and system slowdown
Heavy automation eliminates the need for expensive, error-prone manual operations. You don’t
Purpose: Nutanix delivers the power of web-scale infrastructure to enterprise customers as a turnkey solutions
Key Points:
What Nutanix does is bring the simplicity, agility and rapid scale that web-scale technologies deliver but as a turnkey enterprise solution
Customers can run their diverse application workloads without having to build custom applications
Customers don’t have to learn how to use Cassandra, map-reduce, etc. The Nutanix solution does all that under the hood
Talk about “controlled disruption” – Nutanix is building the bridge for enterprise IT to embrace web-scale IT without completely overhauling the way they do things
Simplicity – time to value & within one team
Key Points:
At its core, Nutanix eliminates complexity in the datacenter
One of the root causes of complexity is the data storage architecture, specifically the storage network
The Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform gets rid of the SAN and brings compute and storage together for virtualized environments
This approach eliminates network bottlenecks and simplifies the architecture. This is particularly important with flash storage because the network can become a chokepoint for the system
With a Nutanix solution, customers can easily add additional compute and storage by adding nodes on the go
Purpose: Web-scale is not just for web companies. Companies of all sizes can benefit from adopting the principles and technologies of web-scale infrastructure.
Key Points:
There’s a common misconception that web-scale is all about supporting massive amounts of data and millions of concurrent users.
Those are in fact the problems that drove web companies to look for alternatives a few years ago. But at its core, web-scale IT is about simplicity. It is an architectural approach that provides a step-function decrease in costs by eliminating complexity in the data center.
In recent years, this approach is becoming relevant to other businesses as they face similar challenges around business agility, unpredictable growth requirements and increasing cost pressures. It’s a fact that businesses of all sizes can benefit from the advantages that web-scale IT offers.
Key Points:
Nutanix offers versatile building blocks that customers can deploy for a wide range of applications
With the software-defined approach to infrastructure, policies around resilience, data protection, etc. are late-bound in the system
The systems coming out of the factory don’t have rigid restrictions and preset configurations, so customers don’t have to buy different solutions for different workloads.
The Nutanix solution also natively uses read and write caches, intelligent data tiering and data locality to achieve optimal performance automatically for a variety of workloads.
Simplicity
Key Points:
One of the biggest advantages of Nutanix’s scale-out architecture is linear predictability of scale
As you add nodes to a Nutanix cluster, the number of VMs or virtual desktops that can be supported on the cluster grows in a linear, predictable way without limits
This is critical because it significantly simplifies buying decisions for scaling, and allows