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Converged Infrastructure Solutions Future Directions

Shehab Mohareb Senior Systems Engineer

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Key takeaways

• A good understanding on what makes up a VxBlock System

• What benefits are customers enjoying with their VxBlock Systems

• What workloads and use cases are driving VxBlock Systems deployments

• What the future holds for Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure


Agenda

• The market landscape

• VxBlock and Vblock Systems overview

• Why VxBlock and Vblock Systems

• What’s new, and where is Dell EMC Converged Infrastructure heading


There is a huge shift to a “Buy” model

In 2017 Traditional IT

Infrastructure Market is

expected to grow at ~4%

SOURCE: IDC 12/16

While the Converged

Infrastructure 5 yr CAGR is

expected to grow at ~10%

Within Converged Infrastructure, the Integrated

Infrastructure is the largest, with Dell EMC being #1

In 2016, Dell EMC was #1

in Converged Infrastructure

Dell EMC gained market share in 2016

Dell EMC

66%

Vendor 2

<30%

Integrated Infrastructure


Next 15 years Business-centric

Cloud-native apps

Systems of engagement and insight

Streams of data and analytics

Internet of Everything

Last 15 years IT-centric

Traditional applications

Systems of record

Transactional data and reporting

Internet

Why this movement?

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In 12 months, >50% of customers will

run more than 10 applications on all-

flash configurations

35% of customers already have an all-

flash strategy

All-flash

source: IDC 11/16 - All-flash array adoption

Workloads / Use cases

27% Private cloud

23% Public cloud

-4% Traditional data center

source: Cloud: IDC 12/16 – WW network forecast / Apps: 451 Research 06/16 Servers and CI

2015-20 CAGR

Cloud

By 2018, >50% of ERP, VDI, CRM,

BI, analytics will be running on CI

Network

source: IDC 12/16 – Network forecast

WW Ethernet switch revenue forecast

100GbE

100MbE/1000MbE

10GbE

40GbE

Infrastructure spend

source: ESG 06/16 – Converged Continues to gain IT traction

Converged Infrastructure Usage

32% currently use a

Converged Infrastructure

56% are planning to use a

Converged Infrastructure

12% have no plans to move to

a Converged Infrastructure



#1 Converged

Systems


FOX SPORTS

VxBlock Systems are trusted around the world


Storage Network Virtualization

Converged Operations

Compute

4.6X More applications

deployed

96% Reduction in

downtime

4.4X Faster time-to-

market

41% Less time keeping

lights on

Converged systems deliver real business outcomes

Source: IDC doc#255798, The Business Value of EMC Vblock Systems, May 2015


What is a VxBlock System? Simplifying all aspects of IT

Supported Sustained Engineered Manufactured Managed

As one product

* For network virtualization, VxBlock Systems offer a choice of VMware VDS and/or NSX and/or Cisco ACI. Vblock Systems support Cisco N1Kv

Compute

Network*

Storage

Virtualization

Management

Cisco

Dell EMC

VMware


VxBlock Systems architectural view

Storage

Network

Compute

Management

Virtualization 1

2

3

4

5 Customer

core network


Storage

Customer core

network

F

E

X

Compute

Intel Servers

Fabric interconnects

10G Eth*

8/16G FC

Network

10G FCoE

Nexus MDS

VMAX XtremIO

VNX/Unity

Storage

Switch

Servers

Intel CPUs

Cores

Memory 64-768GB

Virtual NIC

Bandwidth

4/8/16 connections

Nexus 5K/9K

MDS 9148 or Director class

Up to 512 servers

Multiple Cisco UCS domains

All EMC models

Ethernet Management

Virtualization

VMware

*Note: VxBlock and Vblock Systems 540, with XtremIO, also supports 40Gb Ethernet

VxBlock Systems component view


Extending the value beyond the components

Tes Compute

Network Storage

Virtualization

Release

Certification Matrix

Manufactured

and

Tested

Hardened Roadmaps

Use Cases

Collaboration

Support

Team

Management


VxBlock Systems family #1 in converged systems, powering the modern data center

VxBlock Systems

540

XtremIO

superb efficiency

VDI / test and dev

VxBlock Systems

350

Unity All Flash & Hybrid

general purpose workloads

midrange scale

VxBlock Systems

740

VMAX All Flash

large scale

multi-workload consolidation

rich data services / availability

VxBlock Systems

240

VNX5200

small scale

general purpose

Dell EMC Converged

Technology

Extensions

storage or

expansion compute

modules


Dell EMC Converged Technology Extensions Adding greater flexibility with proven technology

Add general purpose compute, GPU cluster, DAS-based HDFS cluster(s)

Add general purpose storage with multi-array storage combinations (VNX/Unity/XtremIO/ VMAX) for added capacity/performance and new use cases including Isilon options

Add fabric extensions for shared and scalable resources with a Vscale Architecture

Cisco

Compute

Dell EMC

Storage

Fabric

Extensions


Breadth of integrated data protection The right level of protection for each business application

10% of data

60% of value

VPLEX

RPO: 0

RTO: 0

Business Continuity

20% of data

20% of value

RecoverPoint

RPO: 0–hours

RTO: minutes–hours

Replication

100%

of data

Avamar and

Data Domain

RPO: 1 day

RTO: hours–days

Daily Backup (and archive)


Vscale architecture

• Scales out data centers

• Shares and orchestrates resources

• Combines converged, hyper-converged, and legacy systems

• Cisco UCS, Rack mount Servers,

LAN/SAN Switching and Security

• Cisco:

• ASAP Data Center Architecture

compliant

• Spine-and-leaf networking

• ACI software-defined networking

• UCS Director automation


Workload flexibility

DATABASES AND BUSINESS APPS

VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

CLOUD AND VIRTUAL SERVERS APP

APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING

INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

BIG DATA ANALYTICS

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Currently released

Support for

Unity 350F, 450F, 550F, 650F

Support for the new

XtremIO

Support for

VMAX 950

vSphere 6.5

UCSM 3.1

Tech Extension updates

(next gen all-flash + Isilon all-flash)


Making the simple, simpler: offering improved flexibility, increased scalability and

simplified/automated updates…it’s all going to be possible

Imagine if you could…

Multiple storage array options in one system

Choice of servers (rack or blades)

Mix and match compute, network and storage

Single “scalable” platform

Integrated Isilon option

CISCO-based compute options - 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G or 100G

Central multi-system management appliance

Open source engineered operational experience

Real-time configuration access Proactive support options


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Converged Infrastructure Solutions Future Directions€¦ · By 2018, >50% of ERP, VDI, CRM, BI, analytics will be running on CI Network source: IDC 12/16 – Network forecast WW