Journey to the HyperConverged Agile Infrastructure WEBINAR Journey to the HyperConverged Agile Infrastructure March 28, 2017 Kathy Rekers CDW Field Solutions Architect

Platform Architectures

Challenges and Goals Platform 2 Platform 3 NETWORK SERVERS STORAGE Platform 3 Silo Innovate Maintain Many of today’s business applications are not “Cloud ready”

Journey to Agile Integrated Infrastructure Modern Data Center Environment: Elastic, Scalable, Efficient, Fast Traditional IT Private Cloud Off Premise Cloud Native Apps Core Apps Elastic Capability Cloud Core Apps Elastic Capa-city Cloud Native Apps Servers Storage Networking Power & Cooling AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Virtualization & Converged Infrastructure Orchestration & Automation Flash Burst Flexible Self Service On Premise Hosted Private Cloud Public Cloud

All Flash Storage Cost of Flash per IOP is far less than spinning disk solutions Cost of Flash per TB can be less than spinning disk solutions given the efficiencies many storage vendors use on all flash arrays Cost of raw flash per TB expected to be comparable or less than spinning disk within the next 12 months Flash brings most value to random workloads, and can bring a whole new level of user experience to today’s demanding applications Flash

Benefits of Flash Storage Arrays Concerns around data layout and constant performance tuning are eliminated, simplifying planning, implementation and management of the storage tier Datacenter resources in rack space, power and cooling are drastically less than spinning disk solutions Many vendors are now optimizing their storage Operating Systems to take advantage of Flash, while keeping all of the enterprise capabilities IT relies on every day, such as snap shots, clones and replication Flash

The overall infrastructure problem – not solved… While we have a much faster storage tier now, the pain points associated with planning, installing and managing a multi-tier infrastructure are still there We still have to use the “Crystal Ball” to predict what our multi-year growth will look like to ensure we have a storage platform that will scale as needed We still have multiple management points, constant construction, and have likely created yet another silo with our flash storage array… Flash

HyperConverged Infrastructure Significant departure from the 3 tier infrastructure model Software defined resources built on commodity hardware – appliances with set compute, network and storage resources End result functions the same as a shared resource infrastructure But one of the biggest causes for pain points in today’s datacenter, the monolithic storage array, is eliminated Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Converged vs. HyperConverged Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Converged Infrastructure: Built on traditional 3 tier infrastructure components Packaged and sold as a solution with cooperative support Upgrades may be packaged as a single upgrade, instead of upgrading each component Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Built on entirely software defined components Sold in appliances which are clustered together for a scale out model Upgrade entire software stack including storage and hypervisor

Software Defined Storage The Software Defined Storage creates a large pool of shared storage using the disks in each appliance. As data comes in, it protects it across two or more of the appliances, meaning that a whole appliance can fail, or be removed, without data loss. Management of SDS is greatly simplified compared to traditional storage arrays. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Virtual Shared Storage Pool VMs Storage Each Appliance is responsible for running Virtual Machines, Networking and Storage. Since all layers of the infrastructure are combined into one cluster of appliances, it is considered “Hyper-Converged” Snapshots, Clones Replication, Encryption Dedup, Compression

Granular Scale as Needed Scale up vs. Scale out Traditional storage arrays scale up, which places demands on the planning and acquisition to ensure the right product is selected. The acquisition ends up being a large capital purchase to support multiple years of growth. Software Defined Storage can scale out, meaning you only need to purchase what you need for the current project. As capacity and workload grow, SDS scales with additional nodes to meet the demands. Scale Up Workload Time Buy up front to match projections Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Scale Out Add as needed to match workload

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Faster Time to Value Pools Policies Profiles Boot from SAN Traditional Infrastructures take potentially months of planning prior to even an install, and can take weeks to even months to install. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Switch Configuration Zoning WWNs Controller Configuration HA Cluster RAID Tiering LUNs Masking As Hyper-Converged solutions can be sized to current needs, reducing planning time, installs typically take days or even hours.

Simplified Operations Traditional Infrastructures need multiple tools to manage the multitude of layers they are built with. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Trouble shooting Provisioning Upgrades Refreshes Provisioning! As Hyper-Convergence collapses the many layers into a scale-out appliance model, management is drastically simplified as well.

Granular Failure Domain and Availability Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Use Cases VDI: Easily scale to meet demands of increasing desktops. ROBO: Datacenter-in-a-box with simple implementation. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Datacenter: Consistent and predictable cost, effort and performance to scale environment as needed, project by project, while providing the performance and data protection for: Enterprise Applications Private Cloud Big Data Collaboration

Hyper Converged Before/After Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Hyper Converged Infrastructure Compared

Orchestration Orchestration Most customers in this region work are NOT looking for self service portals and chargeback models (true private cloud). There are tremendous benefits to automating tasks to ensure standardized processes which reduce errors and make IT more responsive to the business. Orchestration Consider the complexities of automating tasks in a traditional infrastructure – in reality, automation is very inherent in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, as resources are software defined, and ALL resources are virtualized.

Large Insurance Company Hyper Converged For General Virtual Workload All Flash for Core Oracle Databases Scale Out NAS for Unstructured

Healthcare Organizations Converged Infrastructure on All Flash for Epic Hyper Converged For VDI And General Virtual Workload Scale Out NAS for Unstructured

Online Content Provider Converged Infrastructure for Application and Dev Environment Orchestration to Provide Self Service Portal AWS/Azure for Content, Application and Dev Environment

Discuss Infrastructure Discuss Potential Solutions Lab and Demos Next Steps Datacenter Workshop Discuss Infrastructure Discuss Potential Solutions Lab and Demos Funded Virtualization Assessment

Field Solutions Architect WEBINAR Thank you! March 28, 2017 Kathy Rekers CDW Field Solutions Architect