Making infrastructure an invisible resourceSudheesh Nair SVP of WW Sales & BD, NutanixTwitter @Sudheenair

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Let’s talk about change

• IT spending is down

• On-Premises SW Cos are dead

• Sky is falling!

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Re-imagine, reinvent

• Threat = Opportunity

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Businesses revolve around IT capabilities

• IT is touching end-users directly, like never before

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What changed for businesses?

• CIO’s are now business leaders, because businesses are IT centric

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Focus on what’s important

• Certain things are supposed to just work!

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• So you can do, what you really want to do.

Get work done, it’s as simple as that

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On-premises infrastructure is anything but simple

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Power Generation

Transmission methods

Land permits

People

Lamp/light type

Location

When to use

Hard drives

Flash

CPU

Server

Storage

Network

NFS/CIFS

FC/iSCSI

LUNs

Hypervisor

Design

Monetization

Business

Apps/UI

Why cloud is compelling

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SDDC isn’t just for Google and their ilk

Hybrid/private Cloud

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On-PremisesPublic cloud

Fractional consumption

Only when you need it

Unlimited scalability

Manage/provision

Focus on your business

Cost

Privacy/Security

Flexibility

Accountability

Latest technology

Accountability/Control

Authority/responsibility

Flexibility

Innovation

Security

Opex/People

Chained to legacy

Limited scalability

Not your business

Stepped growth

Migration friendly

One-throat 2 choke

But not every business is Google…

What Nutanix does

What Nutanix does

Can’t leave business processes behind

Centralized:- Data protection- Security- Management- Load sharing- Staff, schedules

• Incomplete Hyper-convergence does more harm than good

SAN isn’t without its virtues

• Customers want the cake and eat it too

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Technology without design, is useless in Enterprise DC

• Left-brain• Snapshot, Cloning• Compression, De-dupe• Async & Sync DR• Thin provisioning• N-Way scale• Mixed cluster• Protection domains• Multi-Hypervisor support• Encryption• Performance

• Right-brain• Online upgrades• Global management• Predictive analytics• Visualization• Provisioning• Orchestration• Proactive support

MapReduce for Scaling OperationsMassively Parallel Disk RecoveryMassively Parallel Data Rebalancing (when machines are added or removed)Massively Parallel Data Tiering Algorithms… and so on.

Self-describing {Storage, Service}protobuf’s for backward compatibility of dataprotobuf’s for versioning APIs, services

NoSQLMetadata must scale with the clusterLock-less operations for metadata updateSQL

Architecture matters

10G

bps

Eth

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ND

FS

SINGLE NODECompute: Up to 20 CoresStorage: Flash: 800GB SSD HDD: 4TB Controller: Nutanix controller VM

Scale-out or shell-out?

Built-in Analytics

Public-cloud integration

VDI

Remote/ Branch Office

Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

Enterprise Applications

Private & Hybrid Clouds

Microsoft Applications

Hypervisors supported:

Broad use-case support

Thank You

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DesignConsumer-grade, HTML5, Multi-device, Flat (vs. Skeuomorphic)Sensible animationsDriven by intuition

OrchestrationGoing deep w/ OpenStack, Committee, Working on BoardIntegration w/ VMware (vCAC), Microsoft (SCVMM)VM level decision making

AutomationPuppet/Chef-basedCluster-wide decision makingCombines intelligence and actions

Design matters

Resource Virtualization ✔ ✔ ✔

Resource Scheduling ✔ ✔

No fully baked options

Update Management ✔ ✔

Clone VMs ✔ ✔

Live Migration ✔ ✔

Host Profiles ✔ ✔

VM Site Failover ✔ ✔

High Availability ✔ ✔

Distributed Switch ✔ ✖

Storage DRS ✔ ✖

Storage I/O Control ✔ ✖

Network I/O Control ✔ ✖

Storage Migration ✔ ✖

Hypervisor comparisons

Resource Virtualization ✔ ✔ ✔

Resource Scheduling ✔ ✔ ✔

Update Management ✔ ✔ ✔

Clone VMs ✔ ✔ ✔

Live Migration ✔ ✔ ✔

Host Profiles ✔ ✔ ✔

VM Site Failover ✔ ✔ ✔

High Availability ✔ ✔ ✔

Distributed Switch ✔ ✖ ✔

Storage DRS ✔ ✖ ✖

Storage I/O Control ✔ ✖ ✖

Network I/O Control ✔ ✖ ✖

Storage Migration ✔ ✖ ✖

Enterprise features

Nutanix Prism gives administrators an easy way to manage virtual environments based on KVM on Nutanix infrastructure

First truly distributed control plane for virtualization in the enterprise. Built with web-scale technologies.

High availability for always-on management during planned maintenance or unplanned disruption

Easy to set up and use. VM-centric workflows and rich automation deliver simple lifecycle management

What?

Why? Prism simplifies and streamlines commonly used workflows for hypervisor and virtual machine management. This reduces the learning curve for administrators who are new to virtualization or are not skilled in managing KVM

DifferentiationSimple Available Distributed

All-in-one dashboard

Operations

• Standardize configuration of hosts within a cluster based on user-provided information. E.g., automatic vswitch provisioning, mounting container on every node

• Setup and configure virtual networks

• Create and delete virtual machines

• Clone new VMs from base VM

• Determine initial placement of virtual machines based on resource availability

• Configure VMs after provisioning

• Configure the network in the provisioned VM - DHCP management across cluster, dynamic IP assigned to a VM for the life of the VM

• Monitor and report key metrics for both VMs and the infrastructure (hypervisor, physical nodes)

• Easily add and remove nodes

• Upgrade NOS, hypervisor and firmware in a Nutanix cluster

• Put hosts in maintenance mode

• Live migrate VMs across nodes

• Rapidly create snapshots and clones of VMs

Setup Provisioning

Features are necessary