Relax with Hyperflex Alexander Weinbacher Hyperconvergence Sales Central Europe 31.3.2016
The Market
Cisco s Storage Strategy Operational Simplicity Applications Traditional Emerging + VM VM VM VM VM APP Operations Mode 1 Mode 2 + Infrastructure Array-Based Server-Based + 3 Simplified Consumption Cisco UCS Director Storage Orchestration UCS Manager Storage Profiles 2 Optimization for Server-based Storage UCS Hyperconverged Solutions UCS Software-Defined Storage Solutions 1 Comprehensive Array Storage Integration Cisco Integrated Infrastructure Solutions
Market Shifting Towards Server-Based Ecosystem $45,000 $40,000 $35,000 Surf the new wave together!!! $30,000 $25,000 $20,000 $15,000 $10,000 Traditional Network Storage Hyper Converged Infrastructure $5,000 $0 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 ~$1B ~$15B Source: Wikibon Server SAN Research 2014
Big trends always start small LINUX Server Virtualisation Unified Storage Netapp Hyperconvergence
Applications Drive Architecture Diversity FREESTANDING INFRASTRUCTURE INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT APPS Mainstream Business Applications OLTP, ERP, Database, Collaboration Virtualized Applications Desktop Virtualization Production Cloud Virtual HyperFlex Only VDI Branch/Remote Big Data Industrial Grid Test/Dev DevOps Cloud EDA Infrastructure Attributes A La Carte Design Servers, Networking, SAN Pre-Engineered with App Sizing Platform Level Automation Flexible Resource Ratios Appliance Model Fixed Resource ratios Storage Virtualization Bare Metal Disk-optimized Rack Mount Servers
What is Hyperconvergence?
To create an iphone-like experience for Datacenters
Traditional NAS Hybrid Storage All Flash Storage What is Hyperconvergence? + + + + On-Demand Agile Efficient Simple 1-3yr Planned Large Footprint Inefficient Complex Traditional Approach SERVERS APP APP APP APP CPU CPU MEM MEM STORAGE HYPERVISOR CPU CPU MEM MEM Cisco HyperFlex includes all networking components! APP APP APP Hyperconvergence HYPERCONVERGENCE APP APP APP + + + + + + + On-Demand Agile Efficient Simple Scalable Enterprise Ready Cost Effective NO LEGACY STORAGE CONTRUCTS Vendor E Vendor N Vendor P
Build your Datacenter in a predictable way! Fixed modules + At fixed cost + You know the performance + You know the storage space + You know the bandwidth --------------------------------------- = Easy to plan = Easy cost control
Primary Customers Benefits for Hyperconvergence Expected and realized benefits span across the infrastructure lifecycle: Deployment Operations Scalability Improve scalabilty Improve operational efficiency Accelerate deployment time Reduce costs Reduce effort/cost for infrastructure tasks Improve backup/recovery and/or disaster recovery Increase agility of VM provisioning Improve service and support Allow for redeployment of staff to more critical tasks Benefit Expected vs. Benefits Realized (Multiple Responses) 11% 11% 14% 16% 23% 23% 28% 28% 32% 34% 31% 34% 31% 34% 37% 42% 43% 48% Current Adopters (Benefits Realized, N=127) Planned Adopters (Benefits Expected, N=219) Reduce training required 5% 9% Source: ActualTech Media s 2015 State of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market Survey Source: ActualTech Media s 2015 State of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market Survey
Why go with Cisco? Q3 2015 IDC Converged Systems Tracker Lenovo 5.3% HP 19.8% Others 3.1% DELL 5.1% Cisco 49% ~$1.5B business for Cisco today FlexPod & VCE combined account for 49% of revenue market share - UCS Rolling 4 qtr revenue for market is $6.3B Hitachi 3.2% NetApp, VCE and HP only vendors experiencing YoY growth EMC 14.6% IDC, Q32015 Converged Systems Tracker
Relax with Hyperflex
Cisco Management is Common Denominator and Key Differentiator Simple, Centralized Management with UCS Manager and UCS Central Current offerings Automation with UCS Director New Offering Telemetry with UCS Performance Manager Current offerings Fourth Generation UCS HyperFlex Systems UCS M-Series Modular Servers UCS C3160 UCS MINI UCS B-SERIES INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE HYPERCONVERGED SCALE OUT Edge One System, One Management Model Core Data Center Cloud
Cisco Hyperflex Cisco appliance: HW, SW, support from Cisco Scale Storage and Computing independently Network Integration UCS-M! Full ACI integration soon Simple flat licensing VMware vsphere preinstalled
Cisco HyperFlex Configurations HX220c Nodes HX240c Nodes HX240c + B200 for HF Hybrid Nodes HyperFlex Smallest footprint HyperFlex Capacity-heavy HyperFlex Scale Compute independently
Variety of Common Use Cases VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE SERVER VIRTUALIZATION TEST & DEVELOPMENT LARGE REMOTE /BRANCH OFFICE Low upfront costs Consistent performance Predictable scaling Reduce operational complexity Adaptive Scaling Always-on resiliency Agile provisioning Frequent iterations Instant cloning and snapshots Simple deployment Centralized management No fly-and-fix missions
Solution Details
Scale Out and Distributed File System VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERCONVERGED DATA HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORM DATA HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORM DATA HYPERCONVERGED PLATFORM DATA PLATFORM Start with as few as three nodes Hyperconverged Data Platform installs in minutes Add Servers, One or More at a Time Linearly Scale Compute, Storage Performance and Capacity Distribute and rebalance data across servers automatically Retire older servers
IOVisor Enables Uniform IO Distribution IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER DATASTORE Avoid controller hot spots Leverage cache across all SSDs in the cluster
Non-disruptive Operations VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER VM DATASTORE DATASTORE File.vmdk A B C D E A 1 B 2 C 2 D 3 E 1 B 1 A 2 C 3 E 3 D 1 C 1 A 3 D 2 E 2 B 3 D 1 E 1 B 3 Stripeblocks of a file across servers Replicate one or two additional copies to other servers Handle entire server or disk failures Restore back to original number of copies Rebalance VM s and data post replacement Rolling software upgrades
Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity Compute Nodes IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor Scale Compute HYPERCONVERGED DATA HX DATA PLATFORM HC - Nodes Scale Storage Capacity
Data Reduction without impacting performance Inline Deduplication 20-30% space savings Inline Compression 30 50% Space Savings No Special Hardware No Performance Impact
Redirect-on-Write Snapshots for backups Pointer-Based Snapshots Space Efficient Fast creations and deletions Fine-grained or coarse grained VM-Level or VM Folder Level VAAI integrated Quiesced and Crash-consistent Use vcenter Snapshot Manager Policy based Schedules, Retention period
Native VM Clones for Rapid Provisioning Pointer-Based Writeable Clones VM-level granularity VAAI integrated Batch creation GUI Apply unique names Use customization spec to apply IP
Fully integrated in VMware 100% vcenter Based Management Extends virtualization management seamlessly No switching between management consoles View storage alerts/alarms alongside with ESX alerts/alarms Command line interface for automation
Fast and Easy Installation STEP 0 VMware and HX Data Performance Software Installed on Servers at Factory/Reseller Before Shipping to Customer STEP 1 Rack Up Servers, Power on, and Add to vcenter Drag and Drop Configuration (JSON) File Create, Cluster, and Datastore 60 MINUTES OR LESS Start Provisioning VMs
Cisco HyperFlex with Cisco ACI Diverse Workload Deployments at Enterprise Scale Automated, Application Centric Policy Model Flexible Application Service Policies EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG EPG Web App DB Web App EPG Web App DB App App EPG App App DB Web Web EPG Web Web Web Web App EPG Web App App DB DB EPG HYPERVISOR/ CONTAINER HX CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR/ CONTAINER HX CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR/ CONTAINER HX CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR/ CONTAINER HX CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR/ CONTAINER HX CONTROLLER HX DATA PLATFORM HX DATA PLATFORM HX DATA PLATFORM Simplified Capacity Expansion
Cisco Hyperflex USP Scale Storage and Computing independently Network Automation (it is a UCS!) Fixed cost for known space/performance Simple, flat licensing Datacenter-in-a-box - 1 hour setup time!