Be a VDI hero with NutanixFrancis O’HaireDirector, Technology & StrategyDataSolutions

Evolution of Enterprise Infrastructure

Scale-Out

Scale-Up

Server

App

Storage

Server

App

Storage

1990s Today

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Server Server

Virtualization

App App

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

BUYPurchase in big increments, incur prediction risk, overprovision

MANAGEMultiple management panes, manual operations

DEPLOYDeployment takes weeks to months --complex, big footprint

SCALEDifficult to grow quickly

SUPPORTMulti-hop support, lack of end-to-end visibility, firefighting

Complexity at Every Step

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

Server Server

Virtualization

App App

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

How Should Infrastructure Be Delivered?

Privacy and control without significant overhead

Predictable capacity growth with consumption-based pricing

No specialized skills required to operate

Provisioning in hours, not days or weeks

Secure Scale-out

SimpleAgile

The Solution: 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

Built for the Cloud Era

Infrastructure for Private Cloud

Data Backup

Disaster Recovery

Seamless App Mobility Secure

Scale-out

Simple

Agile

…

How We Built It: Web-Scale Engineering

Off-the-shelf x86 servers

All intelligence in software

Scale-out architecture

Self-healing systems

Rich automation and analytics

X86X86X86

Scalable Distributed System Design

Hypervisor Hypervisor

CVM CVM

Nutanix Controller VM(one per node)

CVMVM VM VM VM VM VM

Tier 1 Workloads(running on all nodes)

VM VM VM

Hypervisor

Distributed Storage Fabric

Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication Locality Tiering Erasure Coding Resilience

Node 1 Node 2 Node N

X86 X86 X86

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

5-YearROI

510%PaybackPeriod

7.5Months

5-Year TCOSavings

58%

Management of NutanixEnvironment

71%Less Time

UnplannedDowntime

98%Fewer Occurrences

Deploymentof Storage

85%Faster

Key Performance Improvements

Business Value

Business Benefits

Make Virtualization Invisible

Make Storage Invisible

Beyond Hyperconvergence

Virtualization

App App

Storage Services

Evolution of Enterprise Infrastructure

Storage services ‘forced fit’ into virtualization layer (e.g., clones, snapshots) – tightly coupling data to hypervisor

Data storage is managed using LUNs. Lack of VM awareness adds complexityStorage

ControllerStorage

ControllerStorage

ControllerStorage

Controller

Server Server

Storage Controller

Storage Controller

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

• 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

Broad Ecosystem Support

Guest Operating Systems

Windows Server

Applications and

Technology

Nutanix Acropolis

Nutanix Prism

Turnkey infrastructure platform that converges compute, storage and virtualization to run any application, at any scale

Comprehensive management solution that radically simplifies datacenter storage and virtualization operations

The Nutanix Solution

Simple

SecureScalable

Nutanix Acropolis

Nutanix Acropolis

Enterprise Storage

Virtualization SecurityInfrastructure Resilience

Data Protection

Any Runtime

No Lock-InNo Forklift

Nutanix Prism

Nutanix Prism

One-Click Operational Insights

One-Click Infrastructure Management

One-Click Remediation

Consumer-Grade Design

IntuitiveBeautifulInsightful

Nutanix Solutions for Enterprises

VDI

Branch Office

Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

Big Data

Private & Hybrid Clouds

Collaboration and UC

Enterprise Applications

Predictable Economics and GrowthVM

s

Footprint Reduction

Up to

Less Power and Space

Legacy

Fully documented reference architecture

1,000 Hosted Virtual Desktop (VDI) • Windows 7 Enterprise x64• 10x Nutanix NX-3000 nodes• 1,000 HVD in 6U of space

1,000 Hosted Shared Desktop (HSD)• RDS with Windows Server • 6x Nutanix NX-3000 nodes• 1,000 HSD in 4U of space

Validated Solution with Citrix and Nutanix

Fully documented reference architecture

1,000 Hosted Virtual Desktop (VDI) • Windows 7 Enterprise x64• 10x Nutanix NX-3000 nodes• 1,000 HVD in 6U of space

1,000 Hosted Shared Desktop (HSD)• RDS with Windows Server • 6x Nutanix NX-3000 nodes • 1,000 HSD in 4U of space

Validated Solution with Citrix and Nutanix

Shadow Clones

Studio Integration

• Provisioning Support for Nutanix AHV Platform

– Full integration with Citrix Provisioning SDK

– Full provisioning workflow within Studio

– Feature Toggle: when Nutanix plug-in DLL presents, Studio will display Nutanix AHV as one of the connection options

Studio Integration

• Pool/Dedicated VM

• PvD Support

• Limitations– MCS support only

Nutanix InstantOn VDI for Citrix

Affordable Nutanix platform with Citrix XenDesktop for nearly any size business.

• Starting as little as €375 per user

• Scales from 300 to 1000s of users

• Deploy and configure in 4 hours

• Make the hypervisor invisible

• Fully validated and Citrix Ready

• http://www.nutanix.com/instanton/

Citrix Lifecycle Management & Nutanix

• CLM is part of Citrix Cloud

• Nutanix-supplied blueprint offers rapid deployment of XenDesktop to Acropolis infrastructure

• Also take advantage of features like “Update Service” and “Smart Scale”

The Best IT Infrastructure IsYou Can’t See

Thank You