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Dell EMC XC and Nutanix: Bringing the Simplicity and Power of the Cloud to On-Premises IT Nutanix Acropolis Explained

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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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App Mobility Fabric – Enabling Choice

ACROPOLIS

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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