1. Hyper-Converged Technology a User's Perspective

2. SFX Overview St Francis Xavier College is located in Florey, ACT
SFX is a systemic catholic college catering for years 7 to 12 students.
Enrolment is approximately 1200 students
The college runs a full 1 to 1 program with
iPads for years 7 & 8
Laptops for years 9 to 12

3. Goals for the Server Upgrade
Reduce complexity
Provide improved performance
Have quality external support
Integrate with the current backup system
Minimise down time during the upgrade
Achieve 5 years of trouble free use

4. Key Considerations Resources – Compute, Memory, Storage Network
Simplicity – simple to install and maintain
Support – readily available high level support
Simple, robust snapshots at VM level

5. Compute-Memory-Network
Compute refers to the processing power
Old system used 5% of 115 GHz
Memory refers to Random Access Memory
Old system used 200 GB of 280 Gb – 70%
Network refers to connectivity
Old system had dual 10 Gb Ethernet links with utilisation less than 5 % at peak loads

6. The Old System

7. DeDuplication Statisitics
Storage
Current RAW Storage
Provisioned
28.24
Used
10.83
38%
Free
17.41
62%
The problem with the old system was that the storage consisted of 6 distinct data stores which were too small for the larger VMs.
DeDuplication Statisitics
TYPE TB
DDR
Space required DB
0.8 3
0.27
EXCHANGE
0.6
2.5
0.24
FILE-Data 4
1.6
FILE-images 1
contains video and pictures and will grow over time
VSI
1.4 5
0.28
VIDEO
1.7
ClickView needs to be included
BACKUP
11.7
IGNORE as Veeam will go to a QNAP
11.00
6.59
Nutanix useable
21.51
3.24
‘ times current requirements in ONE DataStore

8. Options Converged Server / SAN approach
Dell servers with Dell SC4020 SAN
Dell servers with Nimble SAN
Hyper-Converged Web-Scaled System ( as used by Amazon / Google )
Nutanix
Simplivity ( not really Web-Scale compliant as it requires a controller card per node )

9. What is Hyper-Converged?
A Hyper-Converged solution combines servers and storage into a single appliance.

10. What is Web-Scale ? Web-Scale consists of 5 major concepts
Hyper-convergence on x86 servers
All intelligence in software
100% software defined
Distributed everything
Cluster-wide data and services
Self-healing system
API-driven automation and analytics

11. Dell Converged Concept

12. Nutanix Hyper Converged Concept

13. Simplivity Hyper-Converged Concept

14. Cost Comparison
Storage
Compute
Memory
Total Price TB
Sockets
GHz
ex GST
Nutanix 4 Node NX-1065-G5
21.51 8
134.4
768
$ 140,000.00
5yr warranty & support
Dell with Dell Storage
27.6 4
105.6
Dell with Nimble Storage
22.44
$ 162,000.00
Simplivity
3yr wnty on refurb equipment ????
22.7 6
124.8
852
$ 182,000.00
Note: All solutions included hardware, support, switches ,UPS and install / configure charges.

15. Nutanix Architecture

16. Nutanix Data Storage

17. Nutanix Data Resilience

18. SFX Current Tier 1 Data on Nutanix

19. SFX vSphere Data Stores

20. SFX Nutanix Performance

21. Hypervisors Nutanix supports three hypervisors
vSphere
Hyper-V
AHV ( native )
SFX currently has 2+ years of vSphere licensing but will move to AHV once Veeam fully supports AHV. This will save the college $12k annually.

22. Prisim Hypervisor Integration

23. Has Nutanix met the Server Upgrade Goals ?
Nutanix has significantly reduce complexity
System performance has exceeded my expectations.
Nutanix has the best support I have ever experienced
Nutanix works seamlessly with Veeam & vmware
Upgrading to Nutanix was quick, simple and stress free
Achieve 5 years of trouble free use – not a single Nutanix issue after 18 months

24. Any Negatives ?
Server rack no longer looks impressive
???

25. Live Demonstration

26. Q & A