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Data Center Innovation Day

Prasad RadhakrishnanData Centre Solutions Lead, Cisco SystemsOct 2018

Transform DC with Flexible Infrastructure Platform

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Performance , Control & Safety !

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“Flexible IT”

On Premise Datacenter

Application & Infrastructure Automation

Security

Public Cloud

Others

Server Storage Network

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Common Management Policy Across Data Centers

Pay-as-you-grow Economics with Resource Scaling On-Demand

Speed and Simplicity Cloud-Like On-Premises

Expand this Simplified Approachto More Use Cases

We Want to Simplify More

Power More Workloads

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure Cloud like resource model

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Speed and Simplicity

Common platform across data center

Predictable, reliable performance

Pay as you grow

Pay-as-you-grow Economics with Resource Scaling On-

Demand

Streamlined Operations

Cloud like simplified management and

orchestration

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Unified Network and Management Advanced File System

Complete Next-Gen Data Platform

Integrating into Existing and Future Infrastructures

Requirements for Next Generation Hyperconvergence

Convergence on aCommon Platform

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Cisco HyperFlex : HCI Engineered on UCS

Complete Hyperconvergence

Unified Compute and Network Infrastructure

Next Gen Data Platform

Designed for Distributed Storage

Part of a Complete Data Center Strategy

Elastic and Secure at Enterprise Scale

CloudCenter

AppDynamics

CWOM

SecurityUCS

Intersight

Tetration

ACI

Cisco HX Data Platform

Data Services and Storage Optimization

Cisco HyperFlex

UCS – Completely integrated compute + network

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Hyperconverged Scale Out and Distributed File System

Start with as Few as Three Nodes

Hyperconverged Data Platform

Installs in Minutes

Network Fabric Policy Configures

QoS Settings

Retire Older Servers

Hypervisor Controller Hypervisor Controller

Add Servers, One or More at a

Time

Hypervisor Controller

Distribute and Rebalance Data Across Servers Automatically

Hypervisor ControllerHypervisor Controller

H Y P E R C O N V E R G E D D A T A P L A T F O R M

Balanced Space UtilizationNo Data Migration on VM Migration

Less Stress on Network

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• Remove infrastructure silo

• Simplified management

• Single support model

• Modular and Scalable

• Business Continuity

• Improve TCO

• Cloud Economics – Pay as you grow

HyperFlex – Simplify Infrastructure & OperationsInfrastructure Management

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Simplified Operations Across DC & Branch Operations

Automation Analytics Proactive TAC Recommendation Engine

Branch 1 Branch 2 Datacenter Branch 4 Branch 5

Simplified Compute and Storage Management Across Sites

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Cisco HyperFlex Architectural DifferentiatorsHardware and Software Engineered Together

Complete Hyperconvergence with Integrated Network Fabric• Unified Network Infrastructure

• Guaranteed QoS with low latency

Cisco HyperFlex System

Independent Scaling

• Use diskless UCS rack/blade servers

• No additional HyperFlex licenses

Unified Architecture

• Connect to existing storage

• Ideal for tiered storage architecture , migration , backup etc

Enterprise Storage Features

• Snapshots , Dedupe , Compression

• No performance impact , no licenses

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Unmatched Performance

https://research.esg-global.com/downloadfile/ciscoucs?shortCode=ESG-Technical-Valida

SQL as a workload

HyperFlex

Vendor A Vendor B

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HyperFlex - Continuous Innovation

Hyper-V Kubernetes

Containers

Stretch

Clusters

Greater Scale

with Resiliency

EasyVDI

For Citrix

Application

Performance

Monitoring

Cloud

Storage

Analytics

Native DR

Enhancements

AI/ML

Workloads

IaaS & Cloud

Mobility

SAP

Modernization All NVMe

All Flash SED

Profiler &

Sizer

Edge

Scale

Connect UI

Enterprise

Workloads

Native

Replication/DR

M5 Skylake40G NW

PlatformWorkloads

Business CriticalityEase of Use

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Introducing All NVMe HyperFlex

All NVMe with 40 GbE Integrated Fabric Networking

NVMe Optane Cache, NVMeCapacity (up to 32TB/Node )

15

RAS with Intel VMD for Hot-Plug, Surprise Removal etc.

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A Chain Is Only As Strong As Its Weakest Link

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HyperFlex Native Data Security

Secure Platform

Regulatory Compliance

Data-at-Rest Protection

Data-At-Rest Encryption thru Self-Encrypting Drives

Enterprise Key Management Support

Vulnerability Assessments and Hardening

Role-Based Access Control and Auditing

Certifications Starting with FIPS, Common Criteria*

Compliance for Data Privacy (HIPAA, PCI-DSS etc.)

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HyperFlex End-to-End Platform Security

Advance Malware Protection (AMP)

HyperFlex Data at Rest Drive Encryption

Application Data and Storage Network

Threat Detection (Stealthwatch)

Next-gen Firewalls (NGFWs)

Intrusion Protection (NGIPs)

Cloud and Edge

Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance

(ASAv)

Next-Gen Virtual Firewalls

(NGFWv)

Policy

Micro-segmentation and Policy

ACI and Tetration

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Agile provisioning

Frequent iterations

Instant cloning and snapshots

Low upfront costs

Consistent performance

Predictable scaling

Reduce operational complexity

Adaptive scaling

Always-on resiliency

Simple deployment

Centralized management

No “fly-and-fix”

missions

Consistent, low-latency

High IOPS

All-flash nodes

Simple & seamless customer experience

Enterprise grade container storage

Cloud native development on prem

Primary Workloads

ROBO & Edge

Server Virtualization

Test and Development

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Databases & ERP

Containers

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Bring together the technologies to simplify the Multicloud experience with

• Unmatched performance with a best in class Azurestack platform

• Complete hyperconvergence with unmatched performance for highest workload density & improved TCO

• End to end security & broad solution ecosystem