HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE Adam Savage

A Brief history of the data centre The Mainframe Natively converged CPU, memory and storage Had redundancy built-in Proprietary & Expensive Lack of flexibility and scalability

Node 2Node NNode 1 Evolution of the datacenter Application C1C2

C1C2 Node 2Node NNode 1 Evolution of the datacenter Hypervisor VM Flash New C2 New C1

Complexity Every Step of the Way BUY Purchase in big increments, incur prediction risk, overprovision MANAGE Multiple management panes, manual operations DEPLOY Deployment takes weeks to months -- complex, big footprint GROW Difficult to scale quickly SUPPORT Multi-hop support, lack of end-to-end visibility, firefighting

Node 2Node NNode 1 Evolution of the datacenter Hypervisor VM CVM Local (Flash + HDD) Single Storage Pool Natively Supports  Snapshots  Clones  Compression  De-duplication

NUTANIX INC. – CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY Scale Out Architecture NDFS Pooled resources 10Gbps Ethernet NDFS SINGLE NODE Compute:16 Cores Storage: Flash: 800GB SSD HDD: 4TB Controller: Nutanix Storage controller

Why Nutanix?

How does vMotion/DRS work? Hypervisor Nutanix Controller VM Hypervisor Nutanix Controller VM Hypervisor Nutanix Controller VM VM ABC data VM DEF data VM GHI data

How does vSphere High Availability (HA) work? Hypervisor Nutanix Controller VM Hypervisor Nutanix Controller VM Hypervisor Nutanix Controller VM VM ABC data VM DEF data VM GHI data VM ABC data

Why Nutanix? Don’t rely on network performance for reads or initial writes (just redundancy copying) RAID is a thing of the past – Imagine we striped and mirrored all of our hosts via RAID 0+1 – Rely on network to read and write data – Now try to grow your environment

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