Journey to Enterprise Cloud: Making Datacenter Infrastructure InvisibleBinny Gill, Chief Architect

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Business Is IT…and depends on it

more than ever before...

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first… then… now

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first… then… now

Changing Role of IT

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What Business Needs From IT

Fractional Consumption

Effortless Security and Governance

Invisible Operations

Instant Delivery

Frictionless

Tailored SLAs for Every App

Balance Owning and Renting

Proximity and Data Residency

Choice and Freedom from Lock-in

Control

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Towards Enterprise Cloud

Enterprise Cloud

Full-stack Infrastructure

Services

Zero-click Operations

Flexible Consumption

Integrated Security and

Control

App Mobility

Make Cloud Invisible

Make Virtualization Invisible

Make Storage Invisible

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The Foundation: Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Integrated, scale-out compute and storage

Virtualization

App App

Virtualization

App App

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Server Server

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

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Doing it right: Web-Scale Engineering

Off-the-shelf x86 servers

All intelligence in software

Scale-out architecture

Self-healing systems

Rich automation and analytics

X86X86X86

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Scalable Distributed System Design

VM VM VM CVM

Hypervisor

VM VM VM CVM

Hypervisor

Tier 1 Workloads(running on all nodes)

Nutanix Controller VM(one per node)

VM VM VM CVM

Hypervisor

Distributed Storage Fabric

Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication Locality Tiering Erasure Coding Resilience

Node 1 Node 2 Node N

X86 X86 X86

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Infrastructure Lifecycle Benefits

Pay as You Grow -buy only what you need, and stop expensive overprovisioning

RapidDeployment – set up in minutes for fast time to value

Simplified Management -single pane of glass to manage all infrastructure

Incremental Scalability - scale on demand in minutes, with zero downtime

One-stop Support – expert support for complete infrastructure stack

BUY DEPLOY MANAGE SCALE SUPPORT

Make Cloud Invisible

Make Virtualization Invisible

Make Storage Invisible

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Solution to the Virtualization Problem

Built-in Virtualization and Integrated Management

Virtualization

App App

Storage Services

Storage Services

Virtualization

App App

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Server Server

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

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• Turnkey solution

• Single pane of glass

• Single vendor support

• High automation

Simplicity• Scales in step with the

cluster

• Complements pay-as-you-grow economics

Scalability

Benefits of Built-in Virtualization

• Security built into development lifecycle

• Certified security baseline (STIG)

• Automated validation and self-healing

Security

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HP, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo

Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade

Qlogic, Emulex

EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell, HDS

Cisco, Brocade

VMware, Microsoft

Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade

VMware, Microsoft

Simplifying the Infrastructure Stack Further

Network

Scale out compute and storage

Virtualization

Network

Virtualization

Compute

SAN Fabric

Storage

…

…AHV

Nutanix

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HP, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo

Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade

Qlogic, Emulex

EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell, HDS

Cisco, Brocade

VMware, Microsoft

Simplifying the Consumption Layer

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Make Cloud Invisible

Make Virtualization Invisible

Make Storage Invisible

Hyper-VESXi AHV Containers

DellCommodity

AWS Azure

Lenovo

App Mobility Fabric

Distributed Storage Fabric

Prism 1-Click Services App Store

Open

Platform

Towards Enterprise Cloud

Binny Gilltwitter: @binnygill

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