Are you new to Nutanix? Jump into this introductory product session to learn the fundamentals of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud software and its key capabilities. A couple Nutanix experts will demonstrate how Nutanix delivers a complete cloud “stack” with the server, storage virtualization and network resources to run any application. Learn the basics of hyperconverged infrastructure, and understand how to deploy Nutanix in your datacenter or branch/remote office.

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NF101: NUTANIX 101
Martijn Bosschaart – Sr. Systems Architect
Matt Northam – Sr. Systems Engineer

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technology
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new
product
features
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or
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customer
or
market
acceptance
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product
features
or
technology;
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software
to
interoperate
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different
hardware
platforms;
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form,
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delays
in
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formation
of,
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strategic
partnerships
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possibility
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receive
anticipated
results
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partnerships;
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acceleration
of
adoption
of,
competing
solutions,
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public
cloud
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in
industry
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competitive
dynamics
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customer
demand;
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3. The Nutanix Solution
Native
Cloud
Services
to seamlessly expand
on-premises infrastructure
Consumer-­‐grade
application
and
infrastructure
management
solution
that
radically simplifies datacenter
operations across clouds
Prism
Turnkey
infrastructure
platform
that
converges compute, storage,
networking and virtualization
Acropolis
Application
automation
and
lifecycle
management
for
Nutanix infrastructure
and
Public
Clouds
Calm
Xi
Cloud
Services
by
NutanixTM

4. Distributed Storage Fabric
Web-Scale Core | Compression | Dedupe | Tiering | Resiliency | Data Protection
App Mobility Fabric
Workload mobility | Extensibility | No Lock-in | Always On | API
ESXi Hyper-V
Acropolis
One-click Infrastructure
Management
One-click Operational
Insights
One-click Remediation
Prism
AHV
Beyond Hyperconvergence and Choice
TWO PRODUCT FAMILIES: NUTANIX PRISM AND NUTANIX ACROPOLIS
XenServer
AWS Azure
Google
Cloud
Xi
Cloud
Services
CALM

5. The Nutanix Experience
Evaluate with
Community
Edition
Test with
X-­‐Ray
Size with
Sizer
Deploy with
Foundation
Migrate with
Xtract
Extend with
Xi
One Click

6. Scalable, Distributed System Design
User Workloads Nutanix Controller VM
Hypervisor
Node
1 Node
2 Node
N
Server
Distributed
Storage
Fabric
ü Hybrid, All Flash, NVMe, ??? ü Dedupe, Compression, EC-X
ü Turbo Mode ü Data Protection & DR
Hypervisor
Server
Hypervisor
Server
ü Resiliency (RF2, RF3)ü Enterprise-grade Storage

7. Seamless Application and Data Mobility
Hypervisor
Node
1 Node
2 Node
N
Server
App
Mobility
Fabric
ü Calm ü NGT
ü Cross-Hypervisor DR/Backup ü Cloud Connect
Hypervisor
Server
Hypervisor
Server
ü Hypervisor Conversionü SSP ü Xtract-VM and DB
ü X-Ray
ü Sizer
Public Clouds

8. Anatomy of A Write IO
Storage Storage
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Controller VM Controller VM
Node
Guest VM
Hypervisor
Controller VM
Storage
Node Node
PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY
• Data is written locally
• Replicated on other nodes for high availability (parallel)
• Replicas are spread across cluster for high performance

9. Anatomy of a Read IO
Storage Storage
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Controller VM Controller VM
Node
Guest VM
Hypervisor
Controller VM
Storage
Node Node
PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY
• Data is read locally
• Remote access only if data is not locally present

10. vMotion/ADS/DRS
SEAMLESS VM MIGRATION
• vMotion activity due to resource constraints or maintenance
• Metadata service can access data from anywhere
• Locality improves over time
Storage Storage
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Controller VM Controller VM
Node
Guest VM
Hypervisor
Controller VM
Storage
Node Node

11. Failure Scenarios
Storage Storage
Hypervisor Hypervisor
Controller VM Controller VM
Node
Guest VM
Hypervisor
Controller VM
Storage
Node Node
WHAT IS IT
• Continue to access data through CVM failures
• Hypervisor routing is updated automatically to use another CVM
BENEFITS
• High availability during software upgrades and failures

12. Tunable Redundancy
WHAT IS IT
• Configure different levels of fault
tolerance for different applications
dynamically
• Works with EC-X (Erasure Coding)
for capacity savings
POINTS OF DIFFERENTIATION
• Software-defined. No prior
understanding of storage required
• RF=3 offers protection against two
simultaneous disk, node or NIC failures
• Switch between RF=2 and RF=3
• Replication set at the container level
CPU
Memory
RF=2 Container
RF=3 Container
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory

13. Simplifying the Infrastructure & Management Stack
Full-Stack Management

14. Prism Central : Scalable Management Console
Public CloudsPrivate Clouds Distributed Clouds
Prism Central

15. Multi-Cluster Operations Customised Dashboards
Machine Intelligence
Shipping
PrismPro
Calm - Blueprints
Shipping
One-click
Planning
Instant
Search
Save Time – Get Things Done in Minutes

16. Acropolis File Services (AFS)
What
• NFSv4 support for AFS (Obelix.*)
• Native AV support for AFS (ICAP)
(Obelix.*)
• Native Backup and Auditing (Obelix.*)
Benefits
• Service both Windows (SMB) and Linux file
share use cases from Nutanix cluster.
• Simplified file services
• Single name space
• Automated scale-out
• No requirement for dedicated infrastructure
• Replace NAS appliances for any use case
• * - To be confirmed

17. Acropolis Block Services (ABS)
iSCSI iSCSI
Non-virtualized Servers
Nutanix Nodes
WHAT IS IT
• Exposes storage through
direct block-level iSCSI access
BENEFITS
• High Availability and
Scalability for non-virtualized
workloads

18. Calm
Provision
Configure
Scale
Upgrade
Delete
Blueprint
• App
Lifecycle
Management
• Self
Service
and
Governance
• Hybrid
Cloud
Management

19. Xi Cloud Services Provide Platform Extension
Nutanix
Images
VM
Storage,
ABS,
AFS
Nutanix
Virtual
Networks
Nutanix
images
VM
Storage,
ABS,
AFS
Nutanix
Virtual
Networks
Nutanix
Enterprise
Cloud
OS
Private

20. 4.7
Hyper-V
Prism
Deduplication
Innovating at the Speed of the Cloud
vSphere Support
Scale-out storage KVM Support
Multi-cluster
Management
Native
Virtualization with
AHV
Backup to AWS
AHV VM High Availability
Backup to Azure
VM Flash Mode
Erasure Coding
Product
Launch
2.5 3.0
3.5
4.0
4.1
4.5
4.6Major New Features in the
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
Platform
VM-centric Backup + DR
Non-disruptive Upgrades
Compression
5.0
4x Faster Performance
Hypervisor Conversion
Prism Pro with X-Fit
Block Services
Container Support
File Services
Self Service
Portal
What-if
Analysis
AHV Dynamic
Scheduling
5.1
A/F and Hybrid Mix
SSMS
AVH GPU
UCS-B
PC – Multi & 1-click
XenServer
Prism Alert Policies
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 20172016
5.5
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Thank You
Martijn Bosschaart Martijn@nutanix.com
Matt Northam mnortham@nutanix.com