Flex Your Infrastructure Muscle: Chris O'brien

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Flex Your Infrastructure MuscleChris O’Brien


Transitioning from Virtualization to Cloud

• Private cloud: Behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to public• Public cloud: Accessible through service providers for general purchase• Hybrid cloud: Private clouds linked to public clouds

Application-Based Silos

Public CloudZones ofVirtualization

Private Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Workloads moving increasingly toward virtualized cloud infrastructure


FlexPod Data Center Platform

Prevalidated, Flexible Unified Architecture

Features

• Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class converged platform:

• Virtualized and non-virtualized environments

• Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed workloads:

• Add applications and workload

Benefits

• Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet today’s challenges and scale for future needs

• Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with simplified deployments and rapid provisioning of resources

• Reduce risk: Prevalidated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guides

Cisco UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers (and/or C-Series Rack Mount) with Intel® Xeon® processors and Cisco UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp® FASOnCommand™

Software Suite 10GE and optionally FCoE


2010 2011 2012 2013

History of FlexPod

FlexPod for VMware

VMware vSphere built on FlexPod

RHEL built on FlexPod

Secure Separation built on FlexPod

FlexPod(Bare Metal)

FlexPod Validatedwith MS Public Cloud

Entry Level FlexPod

FlexPod ValidatedWith MS Public Cloud 2.0

VMware vSphere built on FlexPod (clustered ONTAP)

VMware vSphere 5.1 built on FlexPod

Nexus 7000 Models


Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with ease

Common structure for support & management

The FlexPod Solution Family


Optimize for Any Workload

One Size Does Not Fit All

Develop and Test

Entry Level Data Protection and Backup

More computing andless storage

Less computing andmore storage

Deploy entry system, then scale up

VDI

Higher performanceblades and more input/output operations per second (IOPS)

IOPS

CPU

CapacityMemory

ProductionBalanced Infrastructure


Reduce Risk with FlexPod

• Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-quality deployments, including these use cases:

• Secure multi-tenancy and secure separation

• VMware® vSphere® and View™

• SAP® applications

• Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint and SQL applications

Prescriptive Deployment Collateral

Wide range of resources available: validated design, deployment, and solution guides

For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/ or www.cisco.com/go/flexpod

http://www.netapp.com/flexpod/

http://www.netapp.com/flexpod/


FlexPod Design

Clustered Data ONTAP

Future Deployment Models

Data ONTAP 7-Mode


FlexPod Data Center Solutions

• VMware® (Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, View™)

• Microsoft® private cloud/Hyper-V™

• Numerous validated application workloads

Performance-balanced server, network, and storage components

Secure Multi-Tenancy

VMwareView

MSExchange

MSSharePoint

MS SQLServer

Hyper-V RedHat VMware vSphere®

Secure Separation


Enterprise Apps

VDI Secure Multi-TenancyMS Apps

Validated Designs

SQL Server®

Exch 2010

Share Point® VDI

Simplify Your Journey to the Cloud

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Cooperative Services and Support

Joint Pathways

Technology

Flex Your Infrastructure Muscle: Chris O'brien