Dell EMC XC and Nutanix:Bringing the Simplicity and Power of the Cloud to On-Premises IT
Nutanix Acropolis Explained
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Make Cloud Invisible
Make Virtualization Invisible
Make Storage Invisible
Acropolis
Prism
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Nutanix Software for Dell EMC XC Platform
Acro
polis
Hyper-VESXi AHV
App Mobility Fabric (AMF)Workload Mobility | Extensibility | Always-On | API’s
Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF)Webscale Core | Enterprise Data Services | Resiliency
AWS Azure
One-Click Provisioning
Prism
One-Click Remediation
One-Click Upgrades
One-Click Planning
ContainersBareMetal
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Make Cloud Invisible
Make Virtualization Invisible
Make Storage Invisible
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Challenges with 3-Tier Architecture
HYPERVISORHBA firmwareLong-distance data access
ArchitectureController CPU overloadedCache saturationLUN designDisk hotspotsDifficult expansionQueue depth
Complicated Management
Port oversubscriptionZoning \ Masking \ Skills
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Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric
Virtual Storage Control Virtual Storage Control
Flash HDD
• Data Locality• Tiering and Caching• Compression• Deduplication• Shadow Clones• Snapshots & Clones• Pinning (VFM)
• Converged Backups• Integrated DR• Cloud Connect• Metro Availability• 3rd party Backup
Solutions
• Tunable Redundancy• Data Path Redundancy• Data Integrity Checks• Availability Domains
• Data at Rest Encryption
• Nutanix Security DL• Cluster Shield• Two-factor
Authentication
Enterprise Storage Data Protection Resiliency Security
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Intelligent Tiering
Overview
Benefit
• Optimized performance leveraging multiple tiers of storage
• Intelligent placement of data and continuous monitoring of access patterns
• Reduced administrative overheads • Dynamically balanced based on
performance vs capacity
Feature
SSD
SSD
Map
Redu
ce
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Data Locality – Write IO
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Reduced latency
• Increased performance for BCA’s
• Data written locally to where compute is running -
Replicated for resiliency (RF)
• Completely distributed model (Webscale)Node 1Guest
VM1
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 2GuestVM 2
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 3GuestVM 3
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
ack received
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Data Locality – Read IO
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Reduced latency
• Increased performance for BCA’s
• No administrative intervention required
• All reads occur locally to where the VM is running
• Integrated with hypervisor
• Intelligent tiering utilizes RAM, SSD and HDDNode 1Guest
VM1
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 2GuestVM 2
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 3GuestVM 3
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
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Data Locality – VM Migration
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Consistent performance and availability• Integration with hypervisor feature set
• After migration the CVM will take ownership of the migrated VM
• All IO Requests served locally• Previously written data will be forwarded
to source CVM and localized
Node 1
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 2
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 3
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
GuestVM
1
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Availability - Host
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Platform resiliency – Compute and Storage
• Support for Hypervisor HA featureset
• Self-healing\Resilient architecture
• Integration into hypervisor availability feature-set
Node 1Guest
VM1
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 2
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
Node 3
Hypervisor
CVM
Storage
GuestVM
1
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Intelligent Disk Balancing
Real-time balancing of storage within the cluster/nodes Supports heterogeneous and homogenous node types (Compute heavy/Storage heavy) Uniform distribution of data Leverages MapReduce framework Requires no manual intervention
This process is done both during runtime with node/disk placement as well as back ground Curator process
Larger aka “Storage Heavy” nodes will have larger capacities and hence hold more data
After disk balancing has run the utilization will be uniform
NDFS
Hypervisor Hypervisor Hypervisor
VM 1 VM N VM 1 VM N VM 1 VM N
Storage Storage StorageCVM CVM CVM
35% 35%35%
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Tunable Redundancy
Overview
Benefit
• Configure different levels of fault tolerance for
different applications in the same cluster dynamically
• RF-3 offers protection against two simultaneous disk,
node and NIC failures
• Increased resiliency
• Switch between RF-2 and RF-3
• Replication set at the container level
• Self-healing – No administrative intervention required.
Feature
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
RF-2 Container
RF-3 Container
Memory Memory Memory Memory
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RAID-5, RAID-6, RAID-DP on Disks
Erasure Coding across Nodes
Optimizes availability (fast rebuilds)Utilizes the entire cluster100 TB usable is now 150 TB
Bottlenecked by single diskConstrained by disk geometryHot spares waste space
Next-Gen Storage Optimizations
NEWOLD
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Acropolis File Services
• What: • On-demand software solution to serve billions of files• Turnkey solution that can run on the same platforms as the VMs • Centralized management using Prism• Scale storage and performance independently
• Why:• Eliminate another datacenter silo and all associated complexity• Simpler infrastructure stack with reduced TCO
VM Services
VM & File
SMB
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In-Guest iSCSI Support
Virtual Machine
OS
Hypervisor
NDSF
NFS, SMB3, iSCSI
• Improved supportability for MS Exchange deployments
• SQL Server Clustering Support• Volume Group: Set of vDisks
• One-Click Provisioning: create Volume Group and attach to VM
• Access Control: VMs can only see their volumes
Virtual Machine
OS
NDSF
iSCSI Initiator
iSCSI
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From Mainstream to Any Workload
Single Nutanix Fabric Across All Workloads
ASE DB2
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Bare Metal forHigh Performance Databases
Microsoft SQL ServerOracle Databases
• Majority of databases can be virtualized
• But there are times when you might not virtualize
• Licensing costs
• Virtualized limits for max DB size (Server Maximums)
Need: Support bare metal workloads with scale-out high-performance and
highly available storage from Nutanix
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Bare Metal for 3-Tier Applications
Run your 3-tier App entirely on Nutanix
Repurpose Nutanix for bare metal DBs• Utilize Nutanix better • Protect server investment
High Performance & Highly Available• Better price-performance than purpose built All
Flash systems
Eliminates traditional Block Storage Complexity• Simple Operations
Web Servers
App Server
s
iSCSI
ABS
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Protection Offerings
Overview
• Integrated protection solutions to allow
recoverability from minor to major incidents
(Site Failure)
• Increased resiliency
• Reduced complexity
• Lower administrative overheads
Feature
NutanixRTORPO
Minutes
Hours
Minutes
Near Zero
Minutes
Hours
Minutes
Minutes
Time Stream
Cloud Connect
Remote Rep
Metro Avalability
Benefit
Minorincidents
Majorincidents
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Local Snapshots (Time Stream) RPO: minutes
RTO: minutes
Use CasesProtection against Guest OS corruptionSnapshot VM environmentsSelf-Service File Level Restore
Points of differentiationVM granularityNo performance impactVM and application level consistency Lower $ / GB with storage heavy/only
nodes
vdisk Local VM-Centric Snapshots
Primary
Cluster
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
CPU
Memory
NutanixSnapshots have
byte-level Resolution
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Feature Overview
Benefit
• Self-service recovery without Admin intervention
• Easy to setup and manage• Viable backup solution for mid sized
customers and Tier-2 workloads
• Simplification of data recoverability process
• Item level recovery of independent files from VM Snapshots
• Self-Service capabilities
Self Service File Restore
VMT1VM
T2VMT3
VMT3VM T4
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Metro AvailabilitySynchronous Replication
Overview
Benefit
• Geographic distributed High Availability – covers the
entire infrastructure stack
• Covers entire infrastructure stack
• Leverage existing network
• Deploy in minutes through Nutanix Prism
• Mix and match models to workloads
• Support near-zero RPO/RTO’s
• Increased availability leveraging VMware feature-set
Feature
Sync
Primary DC Secondary DC
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Native Disaster RecoveryAsynchronous Replication
Overview
Benefit
• Flexible n-way protection
• Simultaneous bi-dir replication between sites
• N-way master-master model
• VM and application level crash consistency
• Space efficient; sub-block level snapshots
• Application and VM Crash Consistent
• Simplified DR Operations
• Reduced administrative overheads
Feature
Protection Domain B
Protection Domain A
Many to Many
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Cloud ConnectFeature• Hybrid cloud solution from
Nutanix• Integration with Azure and AWS
Benefit• Easy to setup and manage• WAN optimized replication• Interop ability with Nutanix DR
portfolio
Use Cases:• Archiving• Backup
AWSCluster 1AWSCluster 2
AWSCluster 5AWSCluster 5
AWSCluster 3
AWSCluster 4
North CaliforniaNorth Virginia Ireland Tokyo
New York DC Tokyo DC
One Large Cluster
One Large Cluster
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Security Development Framework
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Security incorporated throughout entire
development process
• Fully automated testing along with threat modeling
mitigates security exposure
• Machine readable STIG allows consumption by
automated assessment tools for faster validation
and accreditation
Assess
Measure
ReportTest
Update
Repeat
Nutanix Security
Development Lifecycle (SecDL)
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Baseline Automation and Self Remediation
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Detect deviation from security baseline and apply automatic remediation
• Runs on a customer configured interval (hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly)
• Checks for compliance to the security baseline (STIGs)
• Corrects misconfigurations of security states (self-heals!)
• Master-less implementation• Ensures strict compliance to security
standards thought systems development lifecycle
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Security Certifications
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Broad set of certifications for government, financial
services and healthcare
• Compliance with strictest international standards
• Assurance of security standards in organizations'
information infrastructure
• Compliance with the strictest standards
• Insure products meet their criteria, perform as
expected,
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Security – 2 Factor Authentication
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Additional layer of security for administrative login
• two-factor authentication via client certificate and
username/password
• Increased security and unauthorized access
prevention
• Used in conjunction with cluster-shield to provide
further levels of hardening
Something You
Have
Something You
Know
+
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Security – Cluster Shield
Feature Overview
Benefit
• Security measures to mitigate against security
breaches
• Restrict access to a Nutanix cluster by disabling
interactive shell logins automatically
• Regulatory compliance
• Reduce the risk of unauthorized access to Nutanix
system management facilities.
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Vision for Application Mobility
Non-Nutanix Nutanix Nutanix Cloud
1-click app migrationSizerFoundation
In-place hypervisor conversionCross-hypervisor DRHigh AvailabilityResource Scheduling
Cloud Connect• Backup to the cloud• DR to the cloud• Cloud migration
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Nutanix Self Service (Asterix)
What is it?
• Self-service access to IT resources
• IT sets policies and provides access to tenants
• Tenants deploy applications without IT intervention
• Developers/tenants empowered to get AWS like experience
Components
• Admin Portal – Create projects, Set policies, Assign users etc.
• Tenant Portal – Deploy and monitor applications
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Self-service Admin Portal
Create Projects
Create/Add User
Groups
Assign Actions
Assign Resources
Show Back
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Self-Service – Tenant Capabilities
Deploy Applications (VM CRUD)
Monitor Applications
Monitor Resource
Usage
• Role based access with AD integration• VM User role• VM View role
• Catalog items • VM Template• vDisk• Images from Docker hub• App templates in the future
• Monitor deployed applications
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Hyperconvergence is stepping stone to On-Premises Cloud
Integrated Compute & Storage
Backup & DR Services
VM Storage
Hyperconverged Infrastructure
2011
File Services
Native Virtualization
Multi-hypervisor Support
Hybrid-cloud Services
Machine Intelligence
Systems & Ops Mgmt.
Cloud-like
2014+
On-Premises Cloud
Cloud Automation
Self Service
Network Segmentation
Object Storage
Application Ecosystem
Container Services
2016+
Block Services
Network Visualization
Application Mobility
Dell EMC XC Series with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform enables a True Future-ready Datacenter!
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Data Path Redundancy l l lTunable Redundancy Factor 2 2 or 3 2 or 3Availability Domains l l
Resilience
CoreData
Services
Starter Pro UltimateCluster size 12 Unlimited UnlimitedvSphere & Hyper-V Support l l lHeterogeneous Clusters l l lMapReduce Tiering l l lInline Compression l l lInline Performance Deduplication l l l
MapReduce Compression l lMapReduce Deduplication l lAcropolis Support | l l
Software Editions
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Prism Element l l lPulse l l lCluster Health l l lOne-click Upgrades l l lPrism Central l lRest APIs l l
VMCaliber Snapshots l l lVMCaliber Clones l l l1-1 Replication & DisasterRecovery l l l
Bi-directional Replication & DR l l lOnline Cluster Grow/Shrink l l lTime Stream l l
VSS Integration l l
Cloud Connect l lMultiple Site DR(1-to many, many-to 1)1 l
Metro Availability lCluster Shield lClient Authentication l
Data Protection
Mgmt & Analytics
Software EditionsStarter Pro Ultimate
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Nutanix Features Across the Editions
Resilience
CoreData Services
Data protection
Mgmt & Analytics
Starter Pro Pro Ultimate
MapReduce Compression
MapReduce Deduplication
Tunable Redundancy 2 or 3Availability domain
Cluster ShieldClient Authentication
Time StreamVSS & SRA* Integration
Multiple Site DR
Rest APIs
Unlimited Cluster Size Unlimited Cluster Size
Metro AvailabilityCloud Connect
Data At Rest Encryption
Acropolis File Services
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Licensing Tiers
AcropolisPro UltimateStarter
Enterprise Storage
Infrastructure Resiliency
Data Protection
Security
Virtualization
ManagementElement
Management Central Management
PrismStarter Pro
Cluster Management
Single Site Management ✔ ✔Multi Site Management ✔ ✔
One-click Operational Insights
✔Prism search ✔
Prism Starter
Customizable dashboard
✔
✔
One-click Planning
Capacity behavior analytics ✔Expansion recommendation ✔Efficiency evaluation ✔
Proactive Alert Analysis
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Dell EMC XC Series customers across all industries
EducationEnergy
Public Sector
Manufacturing
RetailHealthcare
Technology
Financial Services
1,000+ XC customers 10,000+ XC nodes shipped 40 countries
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Benefits of Dell EMC XC Series powered by Nutanix
Infrastructure and operational costs• Industry-standard hardware• Avoid over-provisioning• Pay as you grow scalability• Less rack space, power, cooling
• Highly resilient architecture • Reduces downtime• Fewer downtime events and
interoperability issues• Non-disruptive upgrades improve
system and application availability
Risk mitigation
Improved IT productivity• Faster and easier to deploy• Less complex skills needed to
manage• Fewer resources for admin to learn
decreasing training and cross-train
Business agility• Shorter development cycles for
applications and services • Faster response to changing
business conditions• Deploy infrastructure on demand