flex your infrastructure muscle: chris o'brien
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Flex Your Infrastructure MuscleChris O’Brien
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Transitioning from Virtualization to Cloud
• Private cloud: Behind the firewall of an enterprise, closed to public• Public cloud: Accessible through service providers for general purchase• Hybrid cloud: Private clouds linked to public clouds
Application-Based Silos
Public CloudZones ofVirtualization
Private Cloud
Storage
Servers
Apps
Network Hybrid
Workloads moving increasingly toward virtualized cloud infrastructure
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FlexPod Data Center Platform
Prevalidated, Flexible Unified Architecture
Features
• Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class converged platform:
• Virtualized and non-virtualized environments
• Flexible: One platform scales up or out to fit many mixed workloads:
• Add applications and workload
Benefits
• Flexibility: Future-proof platform to meet today’s challenges and scale for future needs
• Built-in data center efficiencies: Lower total cost of ownership (TCO) with simplified deployments and rapid provisioning of resources
• Reduce risk: Prevalidated architecture with prescriptive sizing and design guides
Cisco UCS™ B-Series Blade Servers (and/or C-Series Rack Mount) with Intel® Xeon® processors and Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco Nexus® Family Switches
NetApp® FASOnCommand™
Software Suite 10GE and optionally FCoE
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2010 2011 2012 2013
History of FlexPod
FlexPod for VMware
VMware vSphere built on FlexPod
RHEL built on FlexPod
Secure Separation built on FlexPod
FlexPod(Bare Metal)
FlexPod Validatedwith MS Public Cloud
Entry Level FlexPod
FlexPod ValidatedWith MS Public Cloud 2.0
VMware vSphere built on FlexPod (clustered ONTAP)
VMware vSphere 5.1 built on FlexPod
Nexus 7000 Models
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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations
Scale up or down with ease
Common structure for support & management
The FlexPod Solution Family
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Optimize for Any Workload
One Size Does Not Fit All
Develop and Test
Entry Level Data Protection and Backup
More computing andless storage
Less computing andmore storage
Deploy entry system, then scale up
VDI
Higher performanceblades and more input/output operations per second (IOPS)
IOPS
CPU
CapacityMemory
ProductionBalanced Infrastructure
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Reduce Risk with FlexPod
• Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-quality deployments, including these use cases:
• Secure multi-tenancy and secure separation
• VMware® vSphere® and View™
• SAP® applications
• Microsoft® Exchange, SharePoint and SQL applications
Prescriptive Deployment Collateral
Wide range of resources available: validated design, deployment, and solution guides
For more information, visit www.netapp.com/flexpod/ or www.cisco.com/go/flexpod
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FlexPod Design
Clustered Data ONTAP
Future Deployment Models
Data ONTAP 7-Mode
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FlexPod Data Center Solutions
• VMware® (Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint®, View™)
• Microsoft® private cloud/Hyper-V™
• Numerous validated application workloads
Performance-balanced server, network, and storage components
Secure Multi-Tenancy
VMwareView
MSExchange
MSSharePoint
MS SQLServer
Hyper-V RedHat VMware vSphere®
Secure Separation
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Enterprise Apps
VDI Secure Multi-TenancyMS Apps
Validated Designs
SQL Server®
Exch 2010
Share Point® VDI
Simplify Your Journey to the Cloud
Storage
Servers
Apps
Network Hybrid
Cooperative Services and Support
Joint Pathways