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Hyperconverged Infrastructure:

The How-To and Why Now?

Arif Goelammohamed

Solutions ArchitectArif Goelmhd

Solutions Architect

@agoelammohamed

Simplify IT with Hyperconvergence

Agenda:

1. SimpliVity Overview2. The Problem3. The Solution4. Demo

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Founded in 2009 in Boston, MA: 3.5 years of development

All code purpose built and “home grown”

Pioneer in Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

Mission: To Simplify IT

Premier investors:

SimpliVity Overview

Hyper Growth in 2014

• 500% year-over-year revenue growth

• Massive global expansion: resellers in 50

countries, employees in 18

• More than 50% of sales outside of U.S.

• 400+ employees worldwide, 270%

year-over-year growth

• More than 1,500 systems deployed

• 300+ customers

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$9B

$6B

$3B

100908070605040302010099

Profits

Sources: SEC filings; Vise 2005, appendix III

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

400M

200M

Monthly Active Users

Source: Facebook announcements

Customers are asking for Cloud Economics…

…but is that reasonable for the Enterprise?

Web 2.0 and Enterprises Run Their IT Fundamentally Differently

Enterprise Apps rely

on Infrastructure for

Enterprise Capabilities

Web 2.0 Enterprise

One/few custom “Super Apps”;

is the business

Infrastructure:

Raw and “Dumb”

Resources

“Super Apps” Provide

their own Enterprise

Capabilities

Hundreds of Apps in

support of the business

Infrastructure:

Enterprise-Grade


1. Protection & Availability

2. Performance

3. Data Efficiency

(deduplication,

compression,

optimization) across all

media, locations and the

data lifecycle

4. Global Unified

Management

at the VM-level

The Technology Can’t Keep Up

Performance Data Protection

Data Efficiency Global Unified Management

Virtualization Changed Everything

Data is Exploding

2013

4.4ZB

2020

44ZB

Performance is Lagging

DiskCapacity

DiskPerformance

I/O GAP

Traditional Shared

Storage Array

Traditional Shared

Storage Array

Local Storage

ESXi

VMWindowsWindows

Local Storage

ESXi

VMVM

VMVM

VM

Local Storage

ESXi

VM WindowsWindows

Local Storage

ESXi

VM WindowsWindows

Local Storage

ESXi

VMWindowsWindows

Local Storage

ESXi

VM linuxlinuxVM VM VM

WAN Optimization

Deduplicated

Disk Backup Appliance

Cloud Gateway SSD Array

SSD Cache

SSDSSD SSDSSD

SSDSSD SSDSSD

Public Cloud

Data Protection Apps

1.Data Protection2.Data Efficiency3.Performance4.Global Unified

Management



Remote

Datacenter

Leading to Massive Complexity

Imagine your World…

Management

Orchestration

Hypervisor

The Hyperconverged

Future Is Now

All IT infrastructure

below the hypervisor

Deployed Anywhere

Will run on

x86 Resources

Legacy IT Infrastructure

Storage cachingCloud gatewayWAN optimization

Backup appliance

SSD array

HA shared storage

Storage switch

Servers

Data Protection

Apps

…with SimpliVity

OmniStack™

& Data Virtualization Platform™

Powered by

Remote

Datacenter

Cloud Gateway

OmniCube

SSDSSD

OmniCube

ESXi

Local Storage

SSDSSD

ESXi

Local Storage

ESXi

Local Storage

SSDSSD

ESXi

VM VM VM

VM VM VM

Public Cloud

OmniCube

ESXi

VMVM

VMVM

VM

VMVM

VMVM

VM

Traditional Shared

Storage Array

SSDSSD


SSD Cache

SSD Array

Deduplicated

Disk Backup Appliance

WAN Optimization

OmniCube

SSDSSD SSDSSD

ESXi

VM VM

VM VMSVT SVTSVT

Traditional Shared

Storage Array

SSDSSD SSDSSD

SVT



1. Data Protection2. Data Efficiency3. Performance4. Global Unified

Management

Cloud Economics

1. Low Cost

2. x86 Resources

3. Scale-out

The Best ofBoth Worlds

SimpliVity’s Innovations

Data Virtualization Platform

Dedupe, Compress, Optimize

At Inception

Once and Forever: Primary,

Backup, Archive, WAN, Cloud

Across All Tiers: DRAM,

Flash, HDD

Globally

OmniStack

Accelerator™

Accelerated Data Efficiency

VM Centricity & Mobility

Global Federation

Single Pane of Glass

VMware vCenter

One Administrator, Globally

Global Unified Management

Single Shared Scale-Out

Resource Pool

Native Data Protection

Native WAN Optimization

Reduced Energy Footprint

Speed of Deployment

Simple Ordering (one SKU!)

3x TCO Savings

vs

Hyperconvergence

Evolution of Convergence

Servers + VMware

Storage Switch

HA Shared Storage

SSD Array

Backup Appliance

WAN Optimization

Cloud Gateway

Storage Caching

Backup Apps

Legacy Stack Convergence 2.0Partial Convergence

Converge only storage and server

18 MONTHS in development

Convergence 3.0Hyperconvergence


Hyperconverge

entire stack


Convergence 1.0Integrated Systems



1. Data Protection2. Data Efficiency3. Performance4. Global Unified

Management

Pre-integrated

storage and

server

Cloud Economics

1. Low Cost

2. x86 Resources

3. Scale-out

SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform

App 3 App 4

HDD

SSD

DRAM

X86 CPU

ESXi

ALL DATA WRITTEN/REGISTERED TO VIRTUALIZATION

PLATFORM

ONLY UNIQUE DATA WRITTEN TO HDD

DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER

PRESENTATION LAYER

DATA VIRTUALIZATION

PLATFORM

“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”



PRESENTATION LAYER

HDD

SSD

DRAM

X86 CPU

ESXiApp 4App 3

“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”



PRESENTATION LAYER

HDD

SSD

DRAM

X86 CPU

ESXiApp 4App 3

Global Unified Management

San Francisco

HDD

SSD

DRAM

X86 CPU

ESXi


PRESENTATION LAYER

New York

ESXi


PRESENTATION LAYER

Local, Full VM Backup Remote Full VM Backup

Fast Application Restore from Full

VM Backup

All data is deduplicated and compressedto minimize data flow across geography

App 4

App 3

App 5

CPU 8 - 24 cores 16 – 24 cores 24 cores

Memory* 71 – 455 GB 128 – 412 GB 267 – 651 GB

Capacity* 5 – 10 TB 20 – 40 TB 15 – 30 TB

Size 2RU 2RU 2RU

Common

Features

Global Dedupe, Compression, Optimization, High Availability, Redundant Power, VM-centric

Policy-based Backup/Recovery/DR, Replication, VM Mobility,

Integrated Management via vCenter * Usable

CN-2200

SimpliVity OmniCubeTM Product Family

Use Cases

Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) 1

Data Protection 2

Tech Refresh 3

Test / Dev / QA 4

Data Migration 5

Data Center Consolidation6

Mission-Critical Applications7

Emerging Enterprise8

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)9

Cloud10

Why does Hyperconvergence Matter?

“Decisions for technology investments have migrated from the data

center to the boardroom, shifting from technology capabilities to Business Outcomes.”– Forrester

Reduce Cycle Time

Go to MarketFaster


Reduce Cost

IncreaseEmployee Productivity

Increase Operational Efficiency

14.7

18.4

20.5

21.6

24.8

20.5

3x CAPEX & OPEX

Splunk>

Questions?

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