Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for Microsoft Environments 5/27/2018 1:57 AM BRK3364 Nutanix Enterprise Cloud for Microsoft Environments Mike McGhee Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Cloud Has Reset IT Expectations 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Cloud Has Reset IT Expectations Rapid Time to Market I can deploy my application in five minutes. Fractional IT Consumption I use and pay for just what I need, only when I need it. One-click Simplicity I don’t spend time on low-level infrastructure management. Continuous Innovation My infrastructure gets better on a regular basis. © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Not a Single Cloud Anymore Public Cloud Private Cloud Distributed Cloud Scalable and elastic Cloud-native applications Predictable and secure Performance sensitive Mission-critical applications Dispersed and small ROBO, Edge and IoT applications
Foundation for Enterprise Clouds Application Automation Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Storage Networking
Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) Server Data Protection Storage © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Distributed Storage Fabric (Single Pool) 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Starts with HCI VM VM VM VM VM VM VM Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor CVM Block: Sheet metal with redundant power iSCSI, NFS, SMB Node: Server (CPU, RAM, SSD, HDD, 10Gbe) Distributed Storage Fabric (Single Pool) © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Why Nutanix HCI? Start small Grow incrementally Grow heterogeneously 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Why Nutanix HCI? Start small 3 nodes Grow incrementally 1 node at a time Grow heterogeneously Match application compute/storage needs Unlimited scale 32 node clusters common © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Data Locality Write 1 local copy Prefer reading from local copy Distribute replicas to any other node Prefer reading from local copy Local SSD Remote SSD Local HDD Remote HDD Re-localize based on access patterns Node Node Node Hyper-V Controller VM Storage VM Hyper-V Hyper-V Controller VM Controller VM Storage Storage
Storage Efficiency Thin Provisioning Compression Deduplication Erasure Coding Zero Detection Copy Avoidance Reclamation (TRIM) 10100101 10101010
Nutanix with Hyper-V and Windows Server 2016 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Nutanix with Hyper-V and Windows Server 2016 Virtualization Server Data Protection Storage Networking © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Hyper-V Failover Cluster 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Nutanix and Hyper-V SMB Server Cluster External IP Nutanix Cluster Prism SMI-S Provider CVM 1 CVM 2 CVM 3 CVM 4 VSS Agent SMB shares Host 1 Host 2 Host 3 Host 4 High Availability Failover Cluster IP Hyper-V Failover Cluster Live Migration © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Discrete Device Assignment (DDA) PCI-Passthrough of devices to Virtual Machines Better Performance Nutanix: consistent configuration
SMB Secure Negotiation 5/27/2018 1:57 AM SMB Secure Negotiation Secure Negotiation with Server 2016 is required Cannot be disabled Kerberos is enabled by default for Nutanix with Server 2016 © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Default Network Configuration 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Default Network Configuration Virtual NICs Virtual Machine Virtual Machine N... SMB Communication CVM Internal CVM External Host Internal Host External Internal Virtual Switch “InternalSwitch” External Virtual Switch “ExternalSwitch” Network Team (Switch Independent, Dynamic) 10Gbe 10Gbe © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Converting Standard Switches 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Converting Standard Switches SCVMM 2016 Convert from standard to logical switch Logical switch and uplink port profiles must match existing host settings Non-disruptive conversion https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/vmm/network-switch#convert-virtual-switch-to-logical-switch © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Data Path Resiliency SMB Transparent Failover Route injection VM Node Hyper-V Controller VM Storage VM Hyper-V Hyper-V Controller VM Controller VM Storage Storage
Nutanix Data Protection Hours Minutes Near Zero Async Replication Metro Availability Archiving Snapshots Back Up Support for the Entire Data Protection Spectrum
Async Replication Replication support between Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016: DR and Migration scenarios Backup to Azure: Cloud Connect Azure DC 2 Protection Domain 1 Protection Domain 2 Protection Domain 3 Protection Domain 4 DC 1
One-Click Operations One-Click Operations Virtualization Server 5/27/2018 1:57 AM One-Click Operations One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Storage Networking © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Operational Simplicity One-Click Infrastructure Management Application Automation and Orchestration Provisioning of storage, VMs, networking policies and data protection Cluster scale-out, Scale-in Self-service provisioning App deployment and governance Multi-cloud visibility and control Operational Insights Planning App Mobility Behavior based alerting Intelligent remediation Consumer-grade search and dashboards Capacity planning One-click infrastructure optimization Just-in-time forecasting Migration of Application and VMs across infrastructure Hypervisor conversion Archiving of data to cloud
Upgrading from Server 2012 R2 to 2016
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Forecasting and Planning Runway based on current consumption What-if analysis with recommended hardware
Real time VM performance data VM Behavior Learning Detect VMs which are: Overprovisioned, Constrained, Inactive, Bully Real time VM performance data Behavior Learning Predictions Alerts Behavior bands
Nutanix and Microsoft Management 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Nutanix and Microsoft Management Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Storage Networking © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
SCVMM 2016: SMI-S Simplified share registration 5/27/2018 1:57 AM SCVMM 2016: SMI-S Simplified share registration Storage classifications Cloud placement © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Nutanix SCOM 2016 Management Pack 2.0 Single MP for both software and hardware Leverages Nutanix REST APIs and Prism alerts
Operations Management Suite (OMS) Comtrade OMS solution for Nutanix
DPM 2016: Third Party SMB Support Starting with DPM 2016 UR1 and Windows Server 2016 UR1 VM (Image) level backup from the hypervisor is supported Supported with Resilient Change Tracking (RCT)
Windows Azure Pack Modular Scalable Fast Track Certified Full RA Available Simple.
Calm Nutanix Calm Application Lifecycle Automation Self-Service and Governance Hybrid Cloud Management
Application Automation 5/27/2018 1:57 AM Application Automation Application Automation Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Storage Networking © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Built to support all workloads Business Critical Applications VDI Remote and Branch Office Messaging, Collaboration and UC Dev/Test Big Data Server Virtualization and Private Cloud
Microsoft Exchange ESRP with Real World Design No CPU or RAM overcommit Multirole server <= 24 cpu, 96GB RAM CPU threshold <= 80% Supports AD GC 50K users in 10 rack units (RU)
WHAT ADMINISTRATORS WANT Microsoft SQL Server Challenges with Migrating Database Servers Application of Best Practices High Performance Expectations Requires Significant DBA Time “Lift & Shift” Migrations Don’t Consolidate, Change HA Architecture, or Re-Platform DBs Simplicity: 1-Click Experience Choice: Migrations from any Source Flexibility: Migrate DB HA Clusters Innovation: Transform DB Servers Standardization: Best Practice Builds PAIN POINTS WHAT ADMINISTRATORS WANT
Xtract for Databases What is Xtract? Application-level SQL Migrations Any-Source (Physical, Virtual, Cloud) SQL Best Practices Application
Xtract Process SQL SQL SQL SQL Design Template Sizing Security Best Practice Config Data Perf Data Storage Design Network
Automatic Application of Best Practices Most optimal VM NIC(s) SCSI controllers Dynamically determine best drive layout based on (read/write IOPS, DB-size, CPU & RAM) NTFS optimizations i.e. block size Xplorer version used for pre-sales design & sizing with integration into Sizer Future - Optimized RAM & CPU recommendations Design of VM configuration Configure max memory of SQL server Instant file initialization Initialize trace flags Deployment Dynamically determine # DB files per DB Determine the location of DB files Rebalance the data across DB files @ SQL level Recreate indexes Data Migration
5/27/2018 1:57 AM Xtract Demo © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
Foundation for Enterprise Clouds Application Automation Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Storage Networking
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