Dan Florea Director, Product Management

Alexa, manage my storage: Sci-fi meets storage

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Agenda •  Alexa Demo

•  How to integrate with Alexa

•  Why this is the future

•  3 Storage requirements for Cloud

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ChatOps demo

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•  Self-service—consumerization of infrastructure management •  Agility. Faster access to infrastructure

•  Control. Automated workflows

•  Economics. Zero silos or experts

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Tintri Alexa Skill

Tintri Bot to Amazon Alexa Integration

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Execution

Ticketing System

REST

REST Compute

Lab Lab Command instances

Settings

Inventory User Data

Now Later (thread)

Log

Amazon Alexa

Intent Handler

LEX

Tintri Bot

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API

API

API Traditional Storage

NO API

NO API

WRONG API

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This… •  Alexa, set temperature to 72 degrees

•  Alexa, create a CentOS VM

•  Alexa, snapshot my VM

API abstraction is important

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NOT That… •  Alexa, configure thermostat

circuit switch…

•  Alexa, create a LUN…

•  Alexa, snapshot the LUN that my VM is in…

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Web services: building blocks for enterprise cloud

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Autonomous at Volume vs VM level

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Traditional storage management VM-level Autonomy

Volume

Clo

ud U

ser A

VM VM VM

Clo

ud U

ser B

Clo

ud U

ser C

VM

VM

VM

Cloud User A

Cloud User B

Cloud User C

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Autonomous Operation

Eliminate manual intervention, provide predictable high

performance at scale automatically

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Automation

Automate otherwise manual tasks to save resources, speed processes and eliminate errors

Define Schedule Replicate VM LUN with matching schedule?

LUN has free

space?

Determine storage config

Enough disk left on the LUN?

Reserve space for snapshots

Enough performance left on the LUN?

Storage vMotion Create LUN Zone New LUN Mount Datastore

Enough disk at DR site for the

LUN?

Provision NEW DR LUN

Zone NEW DR LUN

Mount DR Datastore

VM Protected

Configure WAN Acceleration

Define Schedule Replicate VM

VM Protected

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Automate Storage based Value Add Services

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VM operations mapped to Volume actions results in complex, fragile workflows VM-level actions save steps and complexity

Define Schedule Replicate VM LUN with matching schedule?

LUN has free space?

Determine storage config

Enough disk left on the LUN?

Reserve space for snapshots

Enough performance left

on the LUN?

Storage vMotion Create LUN Zone New LUN Mount Datastore

Enough disk at DR site for the

LUN?

Provision NEW DR LUN

Zone NEW DR LUN

Mount DR Datastore

VM Protected

Configure WAN Acceleration

Tintri Traditional Storage Tasks

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Automate Predictability Developer Productivity Business Continuity

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2013 1 system / 10 TB 500 virtual machines total

2017 58 systems / 4+ PB 120K virtual machines / month Central management (TGC)

Manage in 4 hours / week Cloud team freed to reinvent business model

Scale footprint across 8 global data centers and manage centrally

Software development cycle has been cut in half (18 mo. à 9 mo.)

A Fortune 1000 Technology Company

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Operating Ease Developer Productivity Cost Savings

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2015 1 system / 100 TB Virtual servers

2017 48 systems / 3+ PB Complete Nutanix replacement Automation services

Tintri + UCS is 1/3 price of Nutanix with simplified scale

Terminated high-cost IBM managed services contract. Manage with 1 FTE

Time to spin up test environments reduced from 1 month to <1 week

A Global 2000 Biopharmaceutical Company

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Three requirements to automate storage and enable self-service:

Summary

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Core features

Snapshots, cloning, replication Granularity

VM-level operation Abstraction

Clean REST APIs

Thank you