1. Why does your datacenter need HyperConverged Infrastructure?
GTW 2016
Chittra M
18 March 2016

2. Agenda 1 Traditional Datacenter 2 SDDC 3 Converged Infrastructure 4
What is HyperConverged Infrastructure 5
Who can adopt HCI? 6
HCI solutions available in Market 7
Q & A

3. Traditional Datacenter

4. Traditional datacentre has server, network and storage.
Disadvantages:
Occupies lot of space.
Under utilised resources – storage may not be fully provisioned at all but you land up purchasing the entire system
Messy wiring
Yester year approach

5. Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)

6. The Software-Defined Data Center
Transform storage by aligning it with app demands
Expand virtual compute to all applications
SDDC involves decoupling software from hardware to improve agility, flexibility and efficiency
Abstracting, Pooling and Automating resources to make them more easily consumed
Four key pillars of SDDC…
Expanding compute to all applications…
Virtualize the network to increase speed and efficiency…
Replacing manual approaches to IT management with automation…
Storage has long been a critical piece of every datacenter
Not only does it allow you to store data, but we are transitioning into a data-driven era
Capacity and speed are important
The industry is changing, new competition, new technologies
Hyperconverged infrastructure is one way to implement the SDDC
Virtualize the network for speed and efficiency
Management tools give way to automation

7. Converged Infrastructure

8. Converged Infrastructure
Hardware focussed
Building block approach
Data management challenges still remain. Functionality of traditional storage array migrated into virtualization platform.
Resource ratios are fixed
Usually include only the server and storage
Converged infrastructure is building the physical components together. It is still possible to decouple the server and storage. Mostly it is only the server and storage that is available and network is still the legacy. This is more like assembling everything together in one rack. It does not really provide the benefits of software defined storage
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9. Hyper Converged Infrastructure

10. HyperConverged Infrastructure
Hyper-convergence (hyperconvergence) is a type of infrastructuresystem with a software- centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and other technologies from scratch in a commodity hardware box supported by a single vendor.
HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) on the other hand is prebuilt and provided as one appliance. The server, network and storage are tightly clubbed with each other. Here again we make use of automation, policy based placement of VMs and all the requirement catering for a SDDC

11. Why HyperConvergence? Software focussed Use of commodity x86 hardware
Centralized systems & management
Easy workload migration
Scalability & Efficiency
Easy Automation
Low Cost
Policy driven VMs
Shared resources
Data Protection

12. Who can adopt HyperConvergence?
Modernisizing Technology smoothly
Deploy new green field projects
Multiple kind of storage – SSD/ Flash
Spinning up new applications
Single management system
No more resource challenges
Data efficient backups
Use for test/dev environment
Implementing disaster recovery
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13. VMware EVO Rail

14. Available HCIA Solutions

15. Thank you! Q&A Chittra M VMWare Software India Pvt Ltd
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