FlexPod® Data Center Platform
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What If You Could…
Accelerate business response instead of being the critical path
Focus on IT innovation instead of keeping things running
Quickly support all new opportunities even opportunities not yet identified
Do it all with one architecture for any workload
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
9
Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs
12
Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs
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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Management
Elastically scale resources non-disruptively
Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure
Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs
Centrally orchestrated with self-service extensions
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Key Innovations in Data Center Technology
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Unified Management
Programmable Infrastructure
Unified Fabric
• Policy-based automation & Service Profiles• Self-integrating components
• Abstraction of bare metal server elements• Open API for automation• Orchestration through industry standard tools
• Virtualization awareness• Scalability without complexity• High performance I/O
Cisco Unified Computing System with Intel® Xeon® processors
NetApp Clustered ONTAP
• Virtualize storage into pools • Non-disruptive data motion
Unified Storage
IntelligentData Management
• Built-in storage efficiency• Integrated data protection
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Cisco Nexus® Family Switches
NetApp ClusteredData ONTAP
Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager
FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure
Virtualization
App AppAppAppAppApp
Bare Metal
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Cisco Nexus® Family Switches
NetApp ClusteredData ONTAP
Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager
Pool resources Single server pool / storage pool Service profiles for consistent policy-based
UCS deployments
Abstract resources Virtualized servers and storage Stateless computing Dynamic scalability; app and
data mobility
Consume resources Service catalogs Rapid resource provisioning in
accordance with SLAs Open APIs for self-service / user-driven
resource consumption
FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
Virtualization
App AppAppAppAppApp
Bare Metal
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Non-Disruptive Operation
Eliminate planned downtime
Non-disruptive workload migration motion
Scale and load balance
Minimize unplanned downtime
Integrated data protection
Recover in minutes instead of hours or days
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualization
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
App AppAppAppAppApp
Bare metal
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Non-Disruptive Operation
Eliminate planned downtime
Non-disruptive workload migration motion
Scale and load balance
Minimize unplanned downtime
Integrated data protection
Recover in minutes instead of hours or days
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualization
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
App AppAppAppAppApp These stayonline!
These can go offline
Bare metal
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Scale in multiple dimensions Scale compute infrastructure to … Single fabric 20 node storage cluster scales to 50PB Manage all resources centrally
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PerformanceOperatio
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Massive Infrastructure Scalability
Virtualized Compute Pool
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Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
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10,000’s
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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations
Scale up or down with minimal disruption
Common structure for support & management
The FlexPod Solution Family
100’s of users
1000’s of users
FlexPod
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Next Steps
* Visit NetApp’s stand while at Cisco LiveExclusive Diamond Sponsor – Stand D1
* Explore FlexPod on the webhttp://www.netapp.com/flexpod
* Reach out to your local reseller partner or Cisco and NetApp sales teams for more
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