“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Leonardo da Vinci’s saying reminds us that the era of IT complexity must end.

“ Working together to create optimal business value. ”

InherentComplexity

Lacking Availability

UnpredictableScaling

Business

Agility

Rapid Scale Cost

EfficiencyDesign Goals

• No single point of failure

• No single point of bottleneck

• Always-on (& self healing) systems

• Deep analytics across all SW/HW components

• Interactive visualization of entire datacenters

Fundamental Assumptions

• Unbranded x86 servers: fail-fast systems

• No special purpose appliances

• All intelligence and services in software

• Linear, predictable scale-out

Deliver an uncompromisingly simple web-scale converged platform for the enterprise.

Hypervisor

1. Hypervisor Silos

2. Network Bottlenecks

3. Rigid Architectures

• Fast flash storage hampered by slow network

• Outdated protocols – Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS

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Storage

Controller

Storage

Controller

Switch Switch

• Scale-up storage limits

• Manage LUNs, RAID sets, logical volumes

• Different solutions for different workloads

Software-defined approach with Controller VM per node

Pooled, distributed storage resources across the platform and scale as needed

The Nutanix Web-scale Converge Architecture

Data Protection

Services

Data Reduction

Services

System Resilience

Services

Intelligent Data Tiering

Services

Analytics and

MonitoringInfrastructure

Management

Nutanix Prism Nutanix Distributed File System

Web-Scale Foundation Platform

Scale-out Control Plane Scale-out Data Plane

Distributed (& self

healing) Metadata

Store

VM-centric Core

Data Services

Hardware Interface Hypervisor

Interface

Configuration

Manager

VM VM

Integrated Data Protection

Hypervisor

SCSI Controller

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VM I/O Hypervisor

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VM I/O Hypervisor

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VM I/O...

NDFSODX Trim

Deduplication

Compression

Native Snapshots

Native DR

Replication

Data locality

ILM

No SPOF

HTML5 UI

REST API

PowerShell API

Rich Analytics

Tunable Redundancy

Availability Domains

Azu

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Pack

Customer

Synergics

Managed ServicesMicrosoft

ConsistentPlatform

ONE

Shared

Nutanix

nodes

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Azure Pack Best Practices

+ Nutanix Reference

Architecture

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