“The Engine” FlexPodDe ultieme converged data center infrastructure

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Wie zijn wij?

Wessel GansConsulting System Engineer, NetApp

Jan Heijdra Product Sales Specialist DCV, Cisco

Sander Schreven

Pre-Sales Consultant, Proact

Agenda

Infrastructure: Challenges & approach1

The FlexPod© partnership2

An introduction to FlexPod©3

FlexPod & Proact, a winning partnership4

Summary5

Accelerating your journey to an agile cloud!

Transform business: Next-Gen Data Centre

Traditional Data Center

Siloed

Server and Storage Sprawl

Dedicated

Contained

Next-Generation Data Center

Unified

Consolidated

Virtualized

Cloud

Benefits

Better Manageability and Performance

Lower OpEx and CapEx

Increased Utilization and ROI

Dramatically Improved Business Agility

Next Gen Data Centre: Innovation vs Integration

System Suppliers Integrated “Good Enough”

“Best of Breed” Vendors

Innovation Best of Breed

System Integrators Service Providers Integrated Best of Breed You own or rent it

Servers

Network

Storage

Software

Integrated Solutions

NetApp: The Foundation of Agile IT

Applications/Databases

Virtualization

Operating Systems

Infrastructure

Data Management

Multivendor SAN

Cisco UCS MarketMomentum

$1.6 billion revenue run rate

+ 20.000 Customers

#3 market share in x86 blades; #2 in NL & US

+ 2600 Channel Partners

> 64 world record performance benchmarks

A Decade of Joint Innovation

2010 2011 2012

FlexPod for VMware

VMware vSphere built on FlexPod (clustered ONTAP)

FlexPod(Bare Metal)

Entry Level FlexPod

FlexPod Validatedwith MS Public Cloud

Secure Separation built on FlexPod

FlexPod ValidatedWith MS Public Cloud 2.0

RHEL built on FlexPod

VMware vSphere built on FlexPod

A Perfect Compliment

Protocol Support Unified Storage

Industry Leadership Storage

Virtualization FocusLeading Storage

Innovator

Ethernet Expertise10GbE leader

1st FCoE Storage

Open API’s forUnified Management

Unified Fabric

Servers & Networking

1st Virtualized Severs

Ethernet Market Leader

Open API’s forUnified Management

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

Key Innovations in Data Center Technology

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

NetApp Clustered ONTAP• Virtualize storage into pools • Non-disruptive data motionUnified Storage

IntelligentData Management

• Built-in storage efficiency• Integrated data protection

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

Virtualization

App AppAppApp

App

Bare Metal

App

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

Virtualized Storage Pool

CORE

CAPACITY

Familiar Architecture?

Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with minimal disruption

Common structure for support & management

NEW

ExpressPod

NEWData ONTAP™ 8

Clustering

The FlexPod Solution Family

FlexPod Deployment Guide for Virtual Data Centers

20+ Validated workloads

Reduce Risk

FlexPod Prescriptive Deployment

Cisco Validated Design Guide

Deployment Guide Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-quality infrastructure deployment

Solutions Guide

Wide range of FlexPod partners

Joint Roadmap

Operational Guide

Securely Sharing Infrastructure At PROACT

Validated Reference Architectures

Enhanced security

PCI & FISMA certifications

Multi-tenant workload profiling

Manage each resource pool independently

Integrated, tenant-specific backup and DR

Secure separation for a shared IT infrastructure

FlexPod Management Solutions

CIACFree choice

vCloud Director

Proact's focus

OnCommand

The Value of Validated Management Solutions

Management

What to offer

How to deliver

Who’s using what?

Network

Compute

Is it Automation or Management?

ManualResourceRequest

AutomatedResourceRequest

I need stuff

Automation delivers: Speed Consistency

Storage

Management

What to offer

How to deliver

Who’s using what?

Storage

Network

Compute

It’s about Manageability

I need stuff

Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller

Policy-Driven Provisioning

vFiler

Storage VM’sNetwork Compute

Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller

Secure Cloud Container

Self-Service Delivery

Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Management

and Automation

Storage

Network

Compute

TenantB

Tenant C

Tenant A

A B C

Virtualization

Model-basedManagement

• Unified Model-based Management

• Delivering Secure Multi-tenancy StorageManager

NetworkManager

ComputeManager

VMManager

Plug-ins

B CA

Automation & Service Orchestration

PROACT Cloud Services Powered by FlexPod

> 50% Faster

Many Weeks or Months

ServiceRequest

Design and Size

DC Planning

ProcureDetailedDesign

Deploy Test

ServiceAvailable

Traditional

With FlexPod PROACT Consulting PROACT Integration Reference BoM Validated design Precise deployment Standard test plan

PROACT IAAS Rapid deployment of applications Shared pools meet most requirements

ServiceAvailable

X X

DC Planning

Procure Deploy TestService

Available

Benefits Agile service delivery Higher productivity Faster deployment Higher quality Simpler planning

DC Planning

Procure Deploy Test

Simplify Your Journey to the Cloud

PROACT Services and Support

FlexPod®

Validated Data Center Design

Enterprise Apps

VDI Secure Multi-TenancyMS Apps

Validated Designs

SQL Server

®Exch 2010

Share Point® VDI

Joint P

ath

wa

ys

Storage

Servers

Apps

Network Hybrid

Cloud Models

Public Private Enterprise

THE RIGHT CLOUD?DIFFERENTIATORS?

Secure Available Flexible

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Public Private Enterprise

Secure

Available

Flexible

Secure

Available

Flexible

Secure

Available

Flexible

Cloud Models

Buy or buy as a Service?

You host, we host, co-host?

You manage, we manage, co-manage?

HYBRID

PROACT’S HYBRID CLOUD

Software

As aService

Service Management

FlexPod as a

Service

DRas a

Service

Private Enterprise

Storage

as a Service

Backupas a

Service

Infrastructure

as aService

Proact Cloud Portfolio

PROACT’S MCS PORTFOLIO

FlexPod Support

NetAppEngineering

CiscoEngineering

Cooperative Support Model

If Development or Engineering Required

Chartered to resolve interoperability issues

Process alignment for cooperative support

Coordinated real-time engagements for customers on supported products

Customer

Joint Support Lab

PROACTive infrastructure

Hybrid MCS

Service Management

Pay per use

Location independen

t

Orchestration

Converged InfrastructureFlexible Standard

Pan European

24x7 Support

>350 engineers

Migration Services

Application Integration

FlexPod Customers by PROACT

NetApp – Sauber F1

FlexPod Benefits Summary

Data Center Efficiency

Simplify the journey to virtualization and cloud with one platform from three industry leaders

Reduce OpEx and increase resource utilization

Gain transparent integration with existing technology

Gain open integration with third-party management tools

Reduced Risk

Predesigned, validated infrastructure removes guesswork and speeds deployment

Provide proactive, predictive, centralized management

Identify and resolve problems with 24-hours-a-day cooperative support

Business Agility

Flexible platform adapts to a wide range of application workloads and use cases

Flexible infrastructure can grow and scale to meet cloud computing requirements

Why Proact? Delivered as product or as a service, location independent

Experienced Proact engineers and consultants

Proact as one-entry support partner

Thank You