1. Hyperconvergence Your Way
November 18, 2018
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2. Hyperconvergence Your Way
Software-based hyperconvergence
Software-only and/or (Un)Appliance delivery
Red Hat or VMware Virtualization
Red Hat saves up to 200% over VMware
Eliminate appliance refresh tax
Eliminate appliance upgrade tax
Run different applications on same cluster without performance penalty

3. VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMS
Maxta at-a-Glance
SOLUTION: Hyperconvergence software that provides choice of hypervisor and hardware while eliminating appliance taxes
SERVER PLATFORMS
CUSTOMERS
VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORMS
COMPANY: Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA with entity in China. Global sales presence. Five OEM partners in Asia

4. The Value of Hyperconvergence
Hypervisor
Traditional IT
VMs
VDs
HBAs
Switches
Protocols
Zoning
RAID
LUNs
Physical Data Services
Storage Arrays
Drives
SANs
Global Namespace
Hypervisor
Hyperconvergence
VMs
VDs
Benefits of Hyperconvergence
Significant Reduction of Cost and Complexity
Consolidated Infrastructure
Increased Scalability
Simplified Management

5. Gartner - Integrated Systems Landscape Evolution

6. Why Hyperconvergence Software?
Storage Arrays
HCI appliances
HCI Software
Complexity
Much simpler to manage
than storage
Much simpler to manage
than storage
Cost
As expensive as storage
Initially and on refresh
Much less expensive than storage and HCI appliances

7. Hyperconvergence : Hardware-Based vs. Software
Multi-Hypervisor Software Solution
Hardware and Hypervisor Independent
No Refresh or
Upgrade Tax
Optimized for Mixed Workloads
Scale Storage and Compute Independently
Multi- hypervisor
Single Hypervisor
vSAN
Hardware-Based
Software

8. How Maxta Delivers Value
Lower CAPEX
(acquisition cost)
Support for Red Hat KVM eliminates VMware Tax
Leverage industry standard, commodity servers
Eliminates “Refresh Tax” of hyperconverged appliances
Lower OPEX
(with automation)
Up and Running in 15 Minutes or Less
Manage VMs and NOT Storage
Web Services Rest API Support
Flexibility
(cloud economics)
Scale compute and storage independently
Add capacity within servers or by adding servers
Run mixed workloads on the same cluster

9. Maxta Hyperconvergence Software
Run Mixed Workloads
...
Only HCI Vendor Supporting Both Hypervisors
One Infrastructure Platform
Maxta – Common Software Layer Across the Datacenter
Widest
Choice of Commodity Servers
...

10. Maxta Software Architecture

11. Application Defined Policies
For Mixed Workloads
Number of Replica Copies
Rebuild Priority
Enable / Disable Striping
Set Node Affinity
Enable / Disable Compression
Rack Awareness

12. Red Hat Virtualization vs VMware vSphere – Pricing
Three Year Total Software Cost for 8x2 socket Servers*
Red Hat Virtualization
VMware vSphere
Hypervisor
Manager
RHVH
RHVM
vSphere Enterprise Plus
vCenter Server Standard
16 * = $34,152.00
$0.00
16 * = $92,837.76
$9,952.36
VMware is 200% more expensive Red Hat Virtualization
Maxta Software Cost is the same for both RHVH and VMware vSphere Virtualization
Hardware Cost is the same for both RHVH and VMware vSphere Virtualization
Per socket:
RHVH =
vSphere Enterprise Plus =
vSphere Essentials Plus =
*Pricing is for budgetary purposes only

13. VMware vSphere to Red Hat Virtualization Migration Process
Simple, guided workflow
Provide VMware environment details
Select VMs to migrate
VMs automatically exported from VMware and imported into RHVH
Provides migration path onto Red Hat Virtualization

14. After Migration Reduce operational and learning costs
Same UI for VMware and RedHat hypervisors
Benefit of Open source economics and feature velocity
Feature parity between the two solutions
Simplified VM-centric management
Efficient snapshots and clones
Capacity optimization features
End-to-end data integrity

15. MxInsight – Maxta Common User Interface
Next Generation UI
Common Management
VMware, Red Hat
Historical & Real-time Reporting
Performance
Capacity
Granular Reporting
Cluster Level
Node/Server Level
VM Level

16. Maxta Gives You Choice: Software or an “Un-Appliance”
YOUR CHOICE
Hyperconvergence Software
Software only
Mix-and-match servers
New and existing
Different brands
Different generations
Day 1 support of new hardware
Pre-Configured (Un)Appliances
Pre-configured servers and Maxta software
Simple ordering
Rapid deployment
15 minutes from zero to VM creation
WITH EITHER DEPLOYMENT MODEL
Choice of VMware or Red Hat virtualization
No refresh tax
Capacity upgrade via adding/swapping storage devices, or adding servers
Mixed workloads on same cluster

17. Who Uses Maxta?

18. United States Air Force
CHALLENGES
Existing shared storage too expensive, slow for virtualization
Running VMs on local disks meant high risk of downtime
Wanted to use existing servers, not deploy costly appliances
Had to dedicate hosts to specific applications
RESULTS
Avoided cost of additional storage with hyperconvergence software
Can now use full set of VMware features for availability: HA, DRS, etc.
Leveraged existing Dell servers with minimal additional investment
15 hosts running mixed workloads (Horizon VDI, internal applications)

19. Oklahoma Wesleyan University
CHALLENGES
Nimble storage array out of capacity with a $30,000 price tag to add more storage
Wanted a solution that was easier to manage than a storage array
Avoid repeating capacity increase issues with with new hyperconverged solution
Did not want repurchase hyperconvergence software when doing a hardware refresh
RESULTS
Avoided cost of additional storage with hyperconvergence software
Bought servers with extra drive slots to increase capacity by just adding more drives
Radically simplified storage management
Perpetual Maxta Software license eliminated repurchasing hyperconvergence software when refreshing hardware

20. Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
Download Freemium Version
3 servers & 24TB capacity
Full Feature Product, Community Support
Visit: go.maxta.com/freemium
Proof of Concept
Maxta hosted
Private cluster
Access over Internet

21. Maxta Advantages Run Mixed Workloads on the Same Cluster
Support for Red Hat KVM eliminates VMware Tax
Scale Compute & Storage Separately
Manage VMs, Not Storage
No Refresh Tax
No Upgrade Tax
No Vendor Lock-In
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22. Hyperconvergence Your Way!
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23. Software Defined Storage vs. Hyperconvergence
SDS
Compute and storage on:
Same servers – OR
Separate servers
Manage storage (LUNs or Volumes)
HCI
Compute and storage on the same server
Manage VMs and NOT Storage