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NetApp FlexPod is a converged infrastructure solution that lets customers reduce the deployment time and total cost of infrastructure by half! This is the CiscoLive session slide deck that provided an overview of this popular solution.
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Why Converged Infrastructure?
1. Faster time to solution
2. Reduced total cost
3. Simplified IT
4. Reduced Risk
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Top Converged System drivers, IDC, March 2013
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FlexPod® Converged InfrastructureValidated, Flexible, Unified Platform
Unified management Policy-based automation &
Service Profiles Self-integrating components
Programmable infrastructure Abstraction of bare metal
server elements Open API for automation
Unified fabric Virtualization awareness High performance I/O End-to-End FCoE
Cisco Unified Computing System NetApp FAS with Clustered ONTAP
Unified storage Virtualize storage into pools Non-disruptive operations
Intelligent data management Built-in storage efficiency Integrated data protection
Clustered Data ONTAP Next Generation Vaulting Quality of Service (QoS) Enhanced Windows Support
Reduce Deployment Time, Space Expense
Speeds time to deployment, simplifies IT, reduces risk and reduces total cost
Efficiency across stack– Advanced server design
– Unified fabric
– Unified Storage FlexPod reduces deployment
time, Footprint by up to 50%!
FlexPod leads in Flexibility: Scales and Flexes
Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations
Scale up or down with minimal disruption
Common structure for support and management
100s of users
1000s of users
FlexPod®
FlexPod Scales: Entry-level to Service Providers
Develop and Test
Starting Out
Data Protection and Backup
More Computing andLess Storage
Less Computing andMore Storage
Deploy Entry System; Then Scale Up
VDI
Higher PerformanceBlades and More IOPS
IOPS
CPU
CapacityMemory
ProductionBalanced Infrastructure
FlexPod Flexes: Based on Use
FlexPod Validated ApplicationsGrowing Portfolio of Popular Business Workloads
VMware® (vSphere™, View™) Microsoft® (Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint® Hyper-V™) Oracle® (Oracle RAC, JD Edwards, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM Server) Citrix XenDesktop SAP® applications Red Hat Enterprise Linux®
Secure Multi-Tenancy
Validated workloads
Performance-balanced server, network, and storage components
VMwareView
MSExchange
MSSharePoint
MS SQLServer
Hyper-V Oracle VM VMware vSphere®
Secure Separation Security options
VM and Bare-metal options
RedHatXenServer
Unified Management and Orchestration
Server
Network
Storage
Virtualization
1500 users
Storage Pool
Network Pool
Compute Pool
Service profiles
Service Catalog
Medium-sized virtual machine 50 GB, high perf, hourly backup, daily
DR Red Hat Linux® Physical server
100 GB, daily backup, weekly DR Microsoft® Windows®
Cloud Orchestration
Tools
APIs
APIs
Virtualization
Server and network admin
Storage admin
openstackT
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Open Ecosystem of Orchestration Partners
Multiple management consoles
FlexPod Cooperative SupportVendor Coordination Speeds Problem Resolution
Coordinated support between NetApp, Cisco, VMware with a Cooperative Support Lab
Formal processes in place to expedite cross-company escalations when necessary
98% of support cases do not require escalations to other partners/vendors
Hypervisor / OS
Applications
VMware
Microsoft® Redhat
Citrix
SAP®
Citrix
Oracle®
Microsoft
VMware®
FlexPod®
Global FlexPod Partner NetworkAssembling & Delivering FlexPod around the World
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• Ensure fast and expert implementation of FlexPod
• 62 FlexPod Premium Partners• Elite FlexPod certification and
specialized practices• Virtualization practices and
wide range of competencies• Over 900 FlexPod partners
• Certified to resell NetApp storage and Cisco UCS and Nexus
FlexPod Premium Coverage
Typical Gains with FlexPod
Infrastructure efficiency
Power and cooling
Management
Provisioning
Backup and recovery
TCO
Consolidate servers 10:1Use 50% less storage
80% fewer cables and ports
25%-50% less
Manage 10x-20x more per FTE
25% to 50% savings
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FlexPod Expanding its Success
“FlexPod is one of the most complete private cloud
architectures available.” (IDC)
New naming & categorization– FlexPod Express, FlexPod
Datacenter New FlexPod Unified Financing 2500+ FlexPod customers 70+ public references Customers in 35 countries
FlexPod – Summary/Next StepsNew validated designs for data protection, business
applications and non-disruptive operations
Expanding platform – Mid-sized to Enterprise & Service Providers
More Reference Architectures - 16 new designs this year New Unified FlexPod Financing program New iPad app on iTunes App store For more information: NetApp.com/FlexPod
– Also new community page FlexPodCommunity.com
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