VMUG.IT UserCon 2015 - Nutanix

1. 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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NUTANIX INC. – CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY
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 ScaleVirtualMachines
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

20. Whats .NEXT?
Nutanix’s vision for the future of enterprise computing

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A
Make Cloud Invisible
Make Virtualization Invisible
Make Storage Invisible
Invisible Infrastructure

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Acropolis
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
Acropolis
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

28. 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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Learn more about Nutanix
nutanixbible.com/

31. Q&A

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Q&A

33. Thank You
grazie