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Commodity IT New Opportunities Business Impact IT

Business as usual

Low value add

Time consuming

Core Business Apps

High Potential for value add

Require more focus

Analytics

Social Media feeds

“What could we be doing?”

Business Value

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Commodity IT

Business as usual

Low value add

Time consuming

Core Business Apps

High Potential for value add

Require more focus

Analytics

Social Media feeds

“What could we be doing?”

New Opportunities Business Impact IT

Business Value

63% Run*

21% Grow*

16% Transform*

Economic Challenge

Faced by IT

2

1

3 Operational disruptions

System performance and scalability

Audio & Video Systems of Record

Collaborative Networks

Personal Devices

Audio and Video

Kilobyte Megabyte

Terrabyte Gigabyte

Exabyte Petabyte

Yottabyte Zettabyte

Data growth 2010 - 2015 800% Growth (Gartner)

High impact innovation

Efficiency

Automation

Non Disruptive Operations

Accurate measurement of Storage value

No disruptions for upgrades or replacements, scale as required

Bring applications and products to market quicker

Save over 50% on operational expenditure Save Money

Make Money

Avoid Losing Money

Network

Storage

Server

Available Resources

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FAS3270FAS3270

+ +

NetApp® FAS Cisco Nexus® Cisco UCS®

Configuration and Connectivity Best Practices

FlexPod Datacenter Solutions

Performance-balanced server, network, and storage components

Secure Multi-Tenancy

VMware Horizon View

MS Exchange

MS SharePoint

MS SQL Server

Hyper-V Red Hat VMware vSphere®

Secure Separation

11

Advanced Server Design

•  High computing/memory density •  Manage multiple enclosures and

servers with a single interface

Unparalleled Infrastructure Efficiency

Unified Fabric

•  Eliminates the need for multiple sets of adapters, cables, and switches

•  80% reduction in ports and cabling

•  Native deduplication, thin provisioning, compression, data protection and more

•  Use 50% less storage

Unified Storage Shrink your data

center footprint by 50% or more

IOPS

CPU

Capacity Memory

Production Balanced Infrastructure

Develop and Test

Starting Out Data Protection and Backup

More Computing and Less Storage

Less Computing and More Storage

Deploy Entry System; Then Scale Up

VDI

Higher Performance Blades and More IOPS

FlexPod Sizing Tools Enable Flexibility Flexing for Different Uses, Performance Profiles

FlexPod Scales with Size of Organization From Mid-Sized to Enterprise and Service Providers

100s of Users

1,000s of Users

Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with minimal disruption

Common structure for support and management

14

Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP

Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager

FlexPod: Next-Generation Integrated Infrastructure Flexible Architecture for Shared Virtualized Environments

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

Virtualization

App App App App

App App

Bare Metal

FlexPod Management and Orchestration Open Ecosystem of Management Partners

1500 users

Service Profiles

Service Catalog

Cloud Orchestration Tools

APIs

APIs

Server and Network Admin

Storage Admin

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Single Pain of Glass

End-to-End

Automation and Lifecycle Management

Enhanced Support

for NetApp® Clustered Data ONTAP®

OS and Virtual

Machines

UCS Compute

Nexus Fabric

FAS cDOT

Domain Managers

A B C

A B C

Tenants

Network and Services

Fire Wall

Compute and Hypervisor

Virtualized and Bare Metal

A B C

On-Demand Automated Delivery

Cisco UCS Director Specific Support for FlexPod – Easy to Use Orchestration

17

UCS™ Director

Secure Container

Network Compute VMs Storage

Policy-driven Provisioning

17

FlexPod Validated Designs

Config Advisor

19

FlexPod Cooperative Support Purpose-Built for Best-in-Class Solution

Direct Access

Coordinated Support Solution

FlexPod Expertise

FlexPod Cooperative Support An Ecosystem of Technology Partners

Green = Cooperative Support Partners Blue = Ecosystem partner support via TSANet.org

FlexPod®

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> 50% Faster

Many Weeks or Months

FlexPod Helps IT Accelerate Business

Service Request

Design and Size

DC Planning Procure Detailed

Design Deploy Test

Service Available

Traditional

With FlexPod®

•  Reference BOM •  Validated design •  Precise deployment •  Standard test plan

DC Planning Procure Deploy Test

Preprovisioned FlexPod •  Rapid deployment of applications •  Shared pools meet most requirements

Service Available

X X

DC Planning Procure Deploy Test

Service Available

Manage as a Single Infrastructure

Server

Network

Storage

Virtualization

Hundreds of management

points

Multiple management

consoles

Hundreds of management

points

Hundreds of management

points

Manage as a Single Infrastructure

Server

Network

Storage

Virtualization

Storage pool

Network pool

Compute pool

Abstracted resource pools

Unified element managers

Validated Enterprise Workloads

Horizon View® Microsoft®

Exchange Microsoft

SharePoint® Microsoft

SQL Server ®

•  VMware®, Microsoft ®, SAP®, Red Hat, and Citrix

•  Wide range of resources available: validated design, deployment, and solution guides

•  50+ validated designs

®

Validated Enterprise Workloads

Secure Multi-Tenancy

Performance-balanced server and network and storage components

View®

Microsoft® Exchange

Microsoft SharePoint®

Microsoft SQL Server

®

•  A single system of physical infrastructure •  Isolated resource pools for applications •  Common OS across all layers of the

infrastructure

®

Scale FlexPod

1,500 users 10 applications

FlexPod FlexPod®

Storage Pool

Network Pool

Compute Pool

3,000 users 50 applications

•  Scale-out with standard, repeatable pod configurations −  Or scale individual elements as needed

•  Benefits −  Reduce effort for architecture, design,

deployment, and testing

−  Reduce infrastructure deployment cycle time by up to 50%

−  Manage resource pools, not individual systems

FlexPod Express

§  Low-cost, standardized infrastructure solution

§  Two set configurations §  Small (two Cisco UCS® C-Series Servers, NetApp® FAS2500, and

Cisco Nexus® 3548)

§  Medium (four UCS C-Series Servers, FAS2500, and Nexus 3548)

UCS C-Series Servers

+

Nexus 3548 Switches

+

FAS2500 Controllers

App App App

FlexPod Express—Small Required components (minimum) §  Cisco Nexus® 3548 switches §  Cisco UCS® C220 M3 C-Series

servers §  NetApp® FAS2520 controllers §  VMware vSphere® 5.1U1

Features §  Low cost §  Cooperative support §  Fully redundant §  NetApp Data ONTAP® operating in

7-Mode and clustered Data ONTAP §  Support for 1GbE

Supported protocols §  NFS + CIFS + iSCSI

FlexPod Express—Medium

Required components (minimum) §  Cisco Nexus® 3548 switches §  Cisco UCS® C220 M3 C-Series

servers §  NetApp® FAS2554 controllers §  VMware vSphere® 5.1U1

Features §  Low cost §  Cooperative support §  Fully redundant §  NetApp Data ONTAP® operating in

7-Mode and clustered Data ONTAP §  Support for 1GbE

Supported protocols §  NFS + CIFS + iSCSI

FlexPod Datacenter §  Feature-rich, standardized infrastructure solution

§  Flexible configurations based on customer use cases §  Protocol flexibility

§  Nondisruptive operations and scalability

§  Validations for a variety of workloads and multisite scenarios

App App App

UCS C-Series or B-Series Servers

Cisco Nexus® 5K, 6K, 7K, 9K Switches

NetApp® FAS25xx, 32xx, 62xx, 80xx Controllers

Cisco UCS® Fabric Interconnect and UCS

Manager

FlexPod Datacenter Validated with Cisco Nexus 5000

Validated components §  Cisco Nexus® 5500 switches §  Cisco® C- and B-Series servers §  NetApp® FAS controllers

Features §  Choice of hypervisor or OS §  Cooperative support §  Fully redundant §  Choice of NetApp Data ONTAP® operating in 7-Mode or clustered Data ONTAP §  Support for 1GbE, 10GbE, and 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC)

Supported protocols §  NFS + CIFS + iSCSI + FCoE + FC

FlexPod Datacenter With Nexus 5000 and Clustered Data ONTAP

FlexPod Datacenter With Nexus 5000 and Data ONTAP Operating in 7-Mode

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