Making IT Infrastructure Invisible Michael Berthiaume Systems Engineer Nutanix VCDX # 84
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Let s take a trip on the to.. 1989 3 RAID invented at UC Berkeley
Let s take a trip on the to.. 1993 Fibre Channel becomes ANSI standard Microsoft releases Windows NT Client/Server era takes off! 4
Let s take a trip on the to.. 1995 5 Worlds first Network Attached Storage device for Open Systems released by EMC
Let s take a trip on the to.. 1999 Storage Area Networks hit the market and a new acronym SAN is introduced to IT professionals. 6
Let s take a trip on the to.. 2001 VMware ESX is Born! 7
Let s take a trip on the to.. 2003 VMware acquired for $625 million USD 8
Let s take a trip on the to.. 2006 VI 3.0 released along with killer feature DRS 9
What s next for the data center? Invisible 10
Legacy Infrastructure Is Not Invisible 1. Inherent Complexity 2. Inefficient Silos 3. Forklift Scaling 11
12 Web-Scale Datacenters Are Simple, Scalable & Invisible
13 Web-Scale Datacenters Are Simple, Scalable & Invisible
Design Principles For Invisible Infrastructure 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 14
A brief history of the data center.. 1987-1989 RAID was invented (UCAL Berkeley) 1993 Fibre Channel approved as ANSI standard 1993 Microsoft releases Windows NT Client/Server era takes off! 1995 EMC invents first Network Attached Storage 1998- Google was founded 1999 The term SAN becomes the latest TLA in IT s alphabet soup 2001 VMware ESX was born! 2003 vmotion was released GAME CHANGER! 2003 EMC purchased the majority of VMware for $625 million 2003 Google File System (GFS) introduced to the public 2006 DRS is introduced as killer app in VI 3.0 15
The Next Wave of IT DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM (NDFS) Apache Zookeeper Paxos Algorithms 16
Ingredients for Invisible Infrastructure Massive and linear Single- Node Scale-Out Architecture with Truly Distributed Data and Control Plane No Reliance on: Hypervisor components, 3 rd Party Management, or Proprietary Hardware Data-Locality, Optimized for Performance and No Hotspots, Support Central Storage Functions (HA,DRS) Independent Upgrade and Hardware Refresh Cycles, No More Forklift Upgrades 17
A brief history of the data center The final chapter 1987-1989 RAID was invented (UCAL Berkeley) 1993 Fibre Channel approved as ANSI standard 1993 Microsoft releases Windows NT Client/Server era takes off! 1995 EMC invents first Network Attached Storage 1998- Google was founded 1999 The term SAN becomes the latest TLA in IT s alphabet soup 2001 VMware ESX was born! 2003 vmotion was released GAME CHANGER! 2003 EMC purchased the majority of VMware for $625 million 2003 Google File System (GFS) introduced to the public 2006 DRS is introduced as killer app in VI 3.0 2009 Nutanix Founded by lead GFS Developers 18
About Nutanix Make datacenter infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus on applications and services 1700 customers Over 70 countries 6 continents Founded in 2009 $300M+ sales run rate 1300+ employees 19
Hyperconvergence Solves the Data Problem Scaleout Servers Storage Network SAN Converged compute and storage for virtualized environments 20
Nutanix Web-Scale Architecture Tier 1 Workloads (running on all nodes) Nutanix Controller VM (one per node) VM VM VM CVM VM VM VM CVM VM VM VM CVM Workload Mobility and Hypervisor Choice ESXi AHV X86 Hyper -V Acropolis App Mobility Fabric ESXi AHV X86 Hyper -V ESXi AHV X86 Hyper -V Node 1 Node 2 Node N Eliminates SAN and NAS arrays Local + Remote (Flash + HDD) Distributed Storage Fabric Intelligent tiering, VM-centric management and more Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication Locality Tiering DR Resilience 21
Broad Customer Adoption Financial Services Healthcare Retail Public Sector Energy Technology Education Manufacturing 22
Clear Market Leadership IDC declares Nutanix dominant leader in hyper-converged assessment with 52% market share Highlights 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. 23
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. 24
Predictable Linear Scale-out Pay as you grow VMs (VDI Desktops) 900 800 700 600 500 400 300 300 500 Number of Nodes Scale incrementally one node at a time Protect infrastructure investment by eliminating forklift upgrades Predictably scale compute, storage & performance as needed 25 NUTANIX INC. CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY
Nutanix Solutions for Enterprises Enterprise Databases Business Applications Private & Hybrid Clouds VDI 26 Big Data Unified Comm Branch Office Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
27 Footprint Reduction with Nutanix
Consumer-Grade Design Hypervisor Environment Storage Performance Alerting Summary Consumer-Grade Design Virtualization Summary Policy Actions 28 28
29 Consumer-Grade Design
One-Click, Non-Disruptive Upgrades I still can t believe how easy Prism makes these types of upgrades! Jon Dubois EUC Engineer, Care New England 30
Broad Ecosystem Support Applications and Technology Guest Operating Systems Windows Server Hardware and Runtime 31
The Nutanix Choice: Invisible Infrastructure VMware, MSFT, Redhat NetApp, EMC Cisco, Brocade Qlogic, Emulex HP, IBM, Cisco VMware, MSFT, Redhat NetApp, EMC Nutanix Cisco, Brocade Qlogic, Emulex HP, Dell, Cisco Cisco, Arista, Juniper Cisco, Arista, Juniper 32
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