summary of webinar out of UK on Nutanix and Microsoft goodness

1. Converged Infrastructure
Solutions from
Microsoft and Nutanix
Clive Watson
Hybrid Cloud Solution
Specialist at Microsoft
Matt Northam
Converged Infrastructure
Specialist at Nutanix

2. CIO Concerns
Deliver
uncompromised
performance with
minimal impact on
budgets

3. IT Challenges
Budget Alloca-on on New Technology
versus Old Technology (Enterprise Strategy Group)

4. Stability and predictability
..

5. Business requires more agility
..

6. Why the Microsoft
Cloud Platform?
CUSTOMER
DATACENTER
SERVICE
PROVIDER
MICROSOFT
AZURE
CONSISTENT
PLATFORM
• Global scale
• Enterprise-grade
• Comprehensive
• Hybrid cloud
• People-centered
experiences

7. Windows Server
Microsoft Azure
High-performance storage on
industry-standard hardware
Software-defined compute,
storage, and networking
Multitenant self-
service
environments with
isolation
Policy-based
automation
Application elasticity
Microsoft learnings in your datacenter

8. Power of Azure with the control of the
datacenter
Microsoft Private Cloud
(on premises | hosted)
Microsoft Azure

9. Power of Azure with the control of the
datacenter
Microsoft Private Cloud
(on premises | hosted)
Microsoft Azure

10. Microsoft Private Cloud
(on-premises | hosted)
Power of Azure with the control of the
datacenter
Microsoft Azure Stack
(on-premises | hosted)
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft Private Cloud
(on-premises/hosted)
Microsoft Azure Stack
(on premises | hosted)

11. Introducing the Microsoft Azure Stack
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Private Cloud
(on-premises/hosted)
Microsoft Azure Stack
(on premises | hosted)
App innovation

12. Invisible Infrastructure for
Microsoft Environments

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Challenges in Today’s Datacenter
SANDAS
Infrastructure silos remain, even after initial wave of virtualization
Overprovisioning for performance
Complex data protection and
disaster recovery
Difficulty scaling as applications
grow

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Resilience
Intensive Performance
& High Scalability
Hybrid Cloud Readiness
Infrastructure Demands
Increasing Microsoft Application Capabilities
§ Multi-hypervisor
support
§ Elastic data fabric
§ REST APIs for
extensibility
§ High performance
platform
§ Linear scalability
§ VM centric
§ Data locality
§ Data replication
across the cluster
High Availability
• Increasing Virtualization
• Unstructured Data in DB
• Increased Mailbox Size
Cloud Ready
Microsoft Applications are Evolving

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Nutanix Enables Microsoft Vision of the Cloud
Web-Scale Converged Infrastructure
• Fast performance in fraction the space
• Linear, predictable scale-out
• One platform for all
VMCaliber Operations
• Meet SLAs & cost effective DR
• VM and Infrastructure insight
• Non-disruptive operations
Eco-System Integration
• Certified turnkey infrastructure
• Minimal manual intervention
• Flexibility for customization

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Xtreme Computing Platform: Web-Scale Design
ü Storage IO is serviced
by local SSDs
ü Storage & Compute
together
Software-defined approach

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What’s In
• Software-based
• Smart software, commodity HW
• Scale one x86 server at a time
• Highly distributed, but local storage
• Heavily automated
What’s Out
• Vanity hardware
• Islands of storage
• Unused, overprovisioned resources
• North-south network traffic
• Low productivity tasks
Built on the Benefits of Web-Scale

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Deliver Predictable Performance, Economics and Growth
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§ Start small and scale linearly--adding performance and capacity
§ Get excellent performance with intelligent 8ering of data (flash, disk, remote)
§ Incorporate latest hardware without having to perform a fork liA upgrade
ü Consolidate mul8ple workloads without working about overprovisioning
ü Get excellent price/performance allowing you to keep costs low
ü Do away with complex and disrup8ve upgrades
Capacity/NumberofMailboxes/Users

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Simplify Deployment and Management
§ 100% software-defined architecture
§ Installs in less than 1 day
§ Single intuitive console with VM-centric insight and REST APIs
ü Rapid Time To Value
ü Zero-touch infrastructure
ü Extensible manageability
ü Full HyperV Cluster setup from Prism GUI

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Enterprise Applications
We es-mated that the Nutanix-based MicrosoE Private Cloud Solu-on
would be five -mes faster than a standalone server op-on, but in prac-ce
it is 100 -mes faster.
Tenant A Tenant N
VMs Databases Web Sites VMs Databases Web Sites
SCALE
Windows Azure Pack
REST
...
Partnership Highlights/ Programs
• MicrosoA Private Cloud Fast Track
• Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 HW Cer8fied
• Simplified install and mgmt for Hyper-V, SCOM
• System Center Alliance
• Silver Datacenter Competency
• 8 MTC’s WW- Paris, UK, NYC, Atlanta, Irvine,
Reston, Toronto, Boston
• Premier Support Agreement with TAM
• Pla[orm Moderniza8on Alliance
Hybrid Cloud Solu8ons
Private to Public
Microsoft Azure

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Web-Scale Microsoft SQL Server
SCALE
SCALE
MSSQL VMs
Operational
Intelligence
Data Integration
Service
Interaction
UsersUsers
DesktopsDesktops Applications/DataApplications/Data ServersServers
External SourcesExternal Sources
Transactional Databases (OLTP)
§ Localized I/O for low latency
random operations
§ SSD for indexes and key database
files
§ Ability to automatically tier data
depending on usage
Analytical Databases (OLAP/DSS)
§ Local read I/O for high-performance
queries and reporting
§ Abundant sequential write and read
throughput
§ Scalable performance and capacity

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Accelerating Time to Market with Efficient Development
Operations
VM
clones
Give developers their own high
performance environment
Master /
production
VM
Quickly spin up local or remote
VM clones for QA testing
VM
clones or
replicas
Benefit from a VM-centric
approach to development and
testing.

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Deploying Microsoft Exchange with Nutanix
SCALE
SCALE
Exchange VMs
Mail
Interaction
Data Integration
Service
Interaction
UsersUsers
DesktopsDesktops Applications/DataApplications/Data ServersServers
External SourcesExternal Sources
§ Run all exchange roles on a single
Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform
§ Benefit from compression &
deduplication optimizing capacity
§ Increased availability for virtualized
Exchange utilizing HA and DRS
along with Database Availability
Groups (DAGs)
§ MS ESRP for Exchange – only HCI
solution, 24000 mailboxes in 16U.
§ Best practices for Exchange on
HyperV, vSphere and Acropolis.

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Microsoft Exchange On Nutanix Invisible Infrastructure
• Database Availability Groups – Microsoft Exchange 2010 and 2013
• Provides mailbox resiliency and can be used as the primary protection mechanism.
Secondary
(also for
compliance)
DR site
For litigation/
in-place hold
VM
clones
Immutable
copy
Primary
copy
Secondary
copy
DAG
replication
Primary site
C: DB Logs
3000
mailboxes/
2 rack unit
(8150)

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Hybrid Cloud Vision with Microsoft Azure
Private Cloud Back-Up DR
Wo
Port
Phased Approach From Private to Public
System Center
On-prem “Azure”
Available Now Connect to Azure Public Cloud
Azure Pack
MicrosoftAzure

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Nutanix Solution for Private Cloud Fast Track
Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform
• Turnkey Private Cloud using Hyper-V
• Converges compute and storage
Software Defined Infrastructure
• Linearly scale -- 3 to 100s of nodes
• Mix and match nodes in a cluster
Integration with Microsoft Stack
• Leverage Windows Azure Pack
• Nutanix Windows PowerShell toolkit
2U space
for 4 nodes
Including storage runs
Windows Server 2012 R2
with Hyper-V

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Nutanix + Windows Azure Pack
Simple.
Tenant A Tenant N
VMs Databases Web Sites VMs Databases Web Sites
SCALE
Windows Azure PackREST
...

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Nutanix Prism APIs and Integration
Custom run book
• Event triggered run book interfacing using Nutanix PowerShell commandlets and REST APIs
• Example application: Provision new container for new Tenant
Custom resource provider
• Native integration into Admin and Tenant portal via C# and PowerShell/REST
• Example application:
– Clone VM/Template using NDFS Quick Clone

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• Single node NOS instance running on cloud. Each cloud NOS
instance is managed as a remote site.
– Cloud NOS instance can be created in the region of choice.
– Cloud disk backed by azure blob store is aaached to the instance for
storing data.
• Connec8vity to the cloud instance can be VPN or SSH tunnel
based.
• Dedup op8mized for data transfer and restore.
• End to end replica8on and snapshot retrieval.
Backup to Azure Design

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Single node Nutanix
cluster
NUTANI
X CVM
Cl
ou
d
Di
sk
Remote
Snapshots
Backup to Azure - Architecture

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Nutanix Solutions for Microsoft Environments
VDI
Branch
Office
Disaster
Recovery
Enterprise
Applications
Private &
Hybrid Clouds
Microsoft
Applications

32. Want to learn more?
http://futuredecoded.microsoft.com
http://aka.ms/TDI_Workshops
http://aka.ms/HybridWebinarUK
t-anhill@Microsoft.com
mnortham@Nutanix.com
http://www.nutanix.com/microsoft/