FLASHSTACK™️CISCO INTERSIGHT INTEGRATIONYOUR DATA CENTRIC ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION

Craig Waters | FlashStack Technical Director, Pure Storage Inc. @cswaters1

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DevOps Hybrid

M icroservices

IMPACT OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Applications are the new business drivers.

Multicloudis the new DC paradigm.

Developersare the new customers.

LoBPublic

Virtualized

ITOn Prem

Workload locations

Application evolution

Management and operations

Bare-Metal

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TOO MANY PARTS, MOVING TOO FAST

Edge Data center

Multicloud

Risk of silos Manual processes Limited visibility

Customer needs

Seamless data center extension to edge and clouds

Operational simplicity and automation

DevOps friendly

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CHALLENGES WE’RE ADDRESSING

Distributed

apps and IT

Physical and virtual sprawl, IoT, microservices

Traditional management

“Building a monster to manage the monster”

Human limitations

Scale, speed, complexity that make modern data centers

unmanageable

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STRATEGY FOR NEXT-GENERATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

Connect everything Have machines manage machines

Create actionable insight

Use the cloudCombine insightwith automation

Analyze the telemetry

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PURE1PURE STORAGE

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GLOBAL SENSOR

NETWORK

REAL-TIME

SCANNINGDATA LAKE AI ENGINE

>20,000CLOUD-CONNECTED

ARRAYS

>TRILLIONDATAPOINTS / DAY

>7 PBTELEMETRY DATA

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WHAT IF I UPGRADE HW?

HOW WILL PERFORMANCE & CAPACITY GROW?

HOW CAN I OPTIMIZE RESOURCE

UTILIZATION?

WORKLOAD PLANNER

POWERED BY WORKLOAD DNA

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PREDICT THE FUTUREEFFORTLESS PERFORMANCE AND CAPACITY SIZING

HOW WILL PERFORMAN

CE & CAPACITY GROW?

• REDUCE RISK BY FORECASTING WHEN CAPACITY OR PERFORMANCE UPGRADES ARE NEEDED

• INCREASE RESOURCE UTILIZATION BY IDENTIFYING UNDER-USED SYSTEMS

• GET VISIBILITY OF CHANGES AS NEW WORKLOADS ARE DEPLOYED

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HARDWARE UPGRADE SIMULATIONMODEL CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE CHANGES

WHAT IF I UPGRADE HW?

• AVOID OVER PROVISIONING BY SIZING BASED ON YOUR CONSUMPTION TRENDS

• REDUCE RESPONSE TIME TO BUSINESS CHANGES

• SUPPORT STORAGE INVESTMENT DECISIONS WITH AI GENERATED MODELS

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PREDICTIVE & PROACTIVE SUPPORTWE’LL SOLVE ISSUES BEFORE THEY IMPACT YOU

FINGERPRINTEACH KNOWN ISSUE

(NOW 100s)

SEARCH EACH ARRAYIN REAL-TIME FOR

ISSUES

MATCH!

YOU ARE NOTIFIED

SUPPORT NOTIFIED,TICKET OPENED

> >!

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• QUICKLY IDENTIFY TOP VMS WITH LATENCY ISSUES

• FIND THE PROBLEMATIC VM QUICKLY CORRELATED WITH A VOLUME

• GET COMPLETE VISIBILITY OF LATENCY, BANDWIDTH, AND IOPS

VM ANALYTICSFULL STACK PERFORMANCE METRICS

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>_ REST

VM ANALYTICS

META WORKLOAD S I MULATION

P ERFORMANCE AN ALYTICS

GLOBAL DASHBOARD

ACTIVECLUSTER MONITORING PREDICTIVE

SUPPORT

MOBILE DASHBOARD

SUPPORT CASES

S N APSHOT CATALOG

FULL STACK AN ALYTICS

AI -DRIVEN MAN AGEMENT

P REDICTIVE S UPPORT EXP ANDED

ARRAY VIEW

APIs

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INTERSIGHTFLASHSTACK™️

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CISCO INTERSIGHT DEVICE CONNECTOR

KEY FEATURES

- All FlashArray/Purity versions fully supported

- FlashArray Inventory completeness

- Active Management via Cisco Intersight

- Fixed Workflows/tasks at GA.

In tersight Assist Virtual Appliance

FLASHARRA

Y

FlashArray Device Connector

Roadmap Subject to

Change

BETA PROGRAM

- Open to all existing Essentials SaaS customers

- Not open to customers using Intersight VM

- Open to 90 day evaluation customers via new registration

- Likely open for between 8-12 weeks.

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INTERSIGHT ACTIVE MANAGEMENTFLASHARRAY ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION

TASKS

- Volume (Create/Resize/Copy/Destroy)

- Host (Create/Delete/Connect/Disconnect [Volume/WWN/IQN])

- HostGroup (Create/Delete/Connect/Disconnect [Volume/Host/Protection Group])

- Protection Group (Create/Delete/A dd/Remove [Host/Target/Volume])

- Snapshots (Create/Restore/Schedule/Disable/ Destroy)

- Pod (Create/Delete/Move In/Out [Volume], A dd/Remove [FlashA rray])

- VolumeGroup (Create/Delete/Move In/Out [Volume])

WORKFLOWS

1. Create VMFS Datastore

2. Delete VMFS Datastore

3. Resize VMFS Datastore

4. A dd Host to Pure Storage FlashA rray

5. Delete host from Pure Storage FlashA rray

6. Create/Delete/Rename Pure Storage FlashA rray HostGroup

7. Remove Pure Storage FlashA rray Host from HostGroup

8. vSphere OVF deployment.

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