Post on 20-May-2020
Journey to Enterprise Cloud: Making Datacenter Infrastructure InvisibleBinny Gill, Chief Architect
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Business Is IT…and depends on it
more than ever before...
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first… then… now
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first… then… now
Changing Role of IT
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What Business Needs From IT
Fractional Consumption
Effortless Security and Governance
Invisible Operations
Instant Delivery
Frictionless
Tailored SLAs for Every App
Balance Owning and Renting
Proximity and Data Residency
Choice and Freedom from Lock-in
Control
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Towards Enterprise Cloud
Enterprise Cloud
Full-stack Infrastructure
Services
Zero-click Operations
Flexible Consumption
Integrated Security and
Control
App Mobility
Make Cloud Invisible
Make Virtualization Invisible
Make Storage Invisible
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The Foundation: Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Integrated, scale-out compute and storage
Virtualization
App App
Virtualization
App App
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
Server Server
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
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Doing it right: Web-Scale Engineering
Off-the-shelf x86 servers
All intelligence in software
Scale-out architecture
Self-healing systems
Rich automation and analytics
X86X86X86
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Scalable Distributed System Design
VM VM VM CVM
Hypervisor
VM VM VM CVM
Hypervisor
Tier 1 Workloads(running on all nodes)
Nutanix Controller VM(one per node)
VM VM VM CVM
Hypervisor
Distributed Storage Fabric
Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication Locality Tiering Erasure Coding Resilience
Node 1 Node 2 Node N
X86 X86 X86
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Infrastructure Lifecycle Benefits
Pay as You Grow -buy only what you need, and stop expensive overprovisioning
RapidDeployment – set up in minutes for fast time to value
Simplified Management -single pane of glass to manage all infrastructure
Incremental Scalability - scale on demand in minutes, with zero downtime
One-stop Support – expert support for complete infrastructure stack
BUY DEPLOY MANAGE SCALE SUPPORT
Make Cloud Invisible
Make Virtualization Invisible
Make Storage Invisible
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Solution to the Virtualization Problem
Built-in Virtualization and Integrated Management
Virtualization
App App
Storage Services
Storage Services
Virtualization
App App
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
Server Server
Storage Controller
Storage Controller
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• Turnkey solution
• Single pane of glass
• Single vendor support
• High automation
Simplicity• Scales in step with the
cluster
• Complements pay-as-you-grow economics
Scalability
Benefits of Built-in Virtualization
• Security built into development lifecycle
• Certified security baseline (STIG)
• Automated validation and self-healing
Security
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HP, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo
Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade
Qlogic, Emulex
EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell, HDS
Cisco, Brocade
VMware, Microsoft
Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade
VMware, Microsoft
Simplifying the Infrastructure Stack Further
Network
Scale out compute and storage
Virtualization
Network
Virtualization
Compute
SAN Fabric
Storage
…
…AHV
Nutanix
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HP, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo
Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade
Qlogic, Emulex
EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell, HDS
Cisco, Brocade
VMware, Microsoft
Simplifying the Consumption Layer
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Make Cloud Invisible
Make Virtualization Invisible
Make Storage Invisible
Hyper-VESXi AHV Containers
DellCommodity
AWS Azure
Lenovo
App Mobility Fabric
Distributed Storage Fabric
Prism 1-Click Services App Store
Open
Platform
Towards Enterprise Cloud
Binny Gilltwitter: @binnygill
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