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Cisco and NetApp Confidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute. Fall Announcement Mike Harding [email protected]

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This Fall, FlexPod, the #1 Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure, is releasing new validated designs for large multi-tenant Clouds and enterprise Business Continuity, and is enhancing the ways to automate FlexPod management. Also for the first time since program inception, FlexPod is expanding the Cooperative Support program to include Citrix.

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Cisco and NetApp Confidential. For Internal Use Only. Do Not Distribute.

Fall Announcement

Mike Harding

[email protected]

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• Coming off great Summer

- Expanded platform now with Big Data

- 60+ articles, 3M social media impressions

• Customer growth

- 2800+ total customers

- 372 new customers this qtr

- 117% more than last year

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FlexPod Business Continues to Grow

FQ1-2013 FQ1-20140

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

Total FlexPod Cus-tomers

NetApp fiscal quarters ending July2

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FlexPod #1 in Integrated Infrastructure

• Worldwide leader in Integrated Infrastructure*- Shared IT infrastructure platform for enterprises and

service providers

- Includes major converged infrastructure platforms

• FlexPod #1 in Revenue*• The most cost efficient and flexible

solution on the market

* Source: IDC, Worldwide Integrated Infrastructure and Platforms Tracker, Q2-2013

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What’s new with FlexPod this Fall FlexPod for the Cloud

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• 2 new validated designs• FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco Virtualized Multiservice

Data Center 2.3 Cloud Management for the Service Provider and Enterprise Data Center

- FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp MetroCluster softwareValidated Multisite Continuous Availability for FlexPod

• Cooperative Support expanding to include Citrix• Management News- Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform on FlexPod

- UCS Director 4.1 New enhancements for Data ONTAP

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• FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco Virtualized Multiservice Data Center 2.3

• FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp MetroCluster software

New Validated Designs

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FlexPod Datacenter with Cisco Virtualized Multiservice Data Center 2.3Cloud Management for Service Provider and Enterprise Data Centers

• Cisco VMDC is a network blueprint and guide for cloud deployments

- Multi-service/multi-tenant, End-to-end architecture

- Network, compute, storage, orchestration

• For service providers or enterprises acting as service providers

• FlexPod solution value with VMDC

- Significant FlexPod content within guide

- NetApp Workflow Automation automates storage provisioning and allocation

• VMDC 2.3 Validated Design published Sept 30

- Supports clustered Data ONTAP for non-disruptive operations

• NetApp WFA Implementation Guide due out Nov 22

- Storage automation for service catalogues; Tech info, Workflows

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FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp MetroCluster softwareValidated Multisite Continuous Availability for FlexPod

• MetroCluster completes hypervisor-based site failover, ensuring data is seamlessly available at the failover site via synchronous replication

• Horizontal, differentiated solution with wide appeal

- Over 2/3 of enterprise apps are business critical

• MetroCluster enhances the FlexPod offering

- Adds Business Continuance to FlexPod solutions

- Enables zero data loss and near zero downtime for virtualized environments

• Validated Design due out Nov 18

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New FlexPod Program Enhancements

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Cooperative Support Expansion – Citrix

• Extending simplified support for more workload vendors, now including Citrix

• Three-way effort between NetApp, Cisco and Citrix

• Citrix being added to joint escalation procedures

• To become part of Cooperative Support Lab

Green = Cooperative supportBlue = Coordination via TSA.net

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Cooperative Support Lab

Cooperative Support Workflow: Citrix Example

Customer must have appropriate support entitlements

CustomerOpens casewith Citrix

Citrix Case 123

Suspects Cisco®component mightbe cause of issue

Cisco Case # ABC

If issue isolated to Ciscocomponent

If issue is determined to be related to multiple components

If issue isolated to Citrixcomponents

Citrix works with customer to resolve issue

Utilize Cooperative Support Lab for FlexPod® customer reproductions

Case Resolved

Customer agrees to

close Citrix and

Cisco case(s)

AllVendor Cases Closed

Citrix and Cisco work jointly with customer through resolution

If appropriate, cases with other vendors might need to be opened

Citrix collects customer entitlement information and initiates engagement with Cisco

Cisco works with customer to resolve issue; Citrix available for consultation

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform (RHEL-OSP) on FlexPod

Published as a NetApp Technical ReportDescription of how to use OpenStack features in conjunction with FlexPod

Unified ArchitectureKeep VM images, objects, and application data on the same shared, fault-tolerant, & efficient data center infrastructure

Secure Multi-tenancyKeep tenants secure and isolated

Service AutomationAutomate management and expose control through OpenStack tools

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Cisco UCS Director 4.1With Enhancements for FlexPod

On-Demand

Automated Delivery

Policy-Driven Provisioning

Secure Container

VMsComputeNetwork Storage

UCS Director

Domain Managers

OS and Virtual

Machines

FAS

cDOT

Nexus

Fabric

UCS Compute

Tenant

BTenant

CTenant

A

Virtualized and Bare-Metal

Compute and Hypervisor

B CA

Network and Services

VM VM BareMetal

Single Pane of Glass

End-to-End Automation and

Lifecycle Management

Enhanced support for

NetApp clustered data

ONTAP

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Resources and Summary

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Recent Customer Wins

Customer Results

• Toyota Tsusho Africa used FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud to decrease hardware footprint and power requirements by 85 percent

• Group Mutuel, Swiss healthcare provider, deployed FlexPod to double application speed, reduced provisioning times from days to hours, four to twelve-fold reduction in restoration time, zero downtime across more than 500 servers for three years.

• UK Logistics company used FlexPod to reduce downtime to practically zero, server deployment to 20 minutes, energy reduced by 55 percent

• Kazakhtelecom deployed a FlexPod cloud infrastructure for easier deployment, high data availability, improved scalability and price/performance

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FlexPod Fall – Summary & New ResourcesNew validated designs support Journey to the Cloud

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• Two new FlexPod validated designs – VMDC, MetroCluster

• FlexPod Cooperative Support expanded to include Citrix

• FlexPod management – new OpenStack TR, UCS-D version

• Updated collateral, sales tools, new success stories

• FlexPod #1 Integrated Infrastructure news

• For more information:- Community page: FlexPodCommunity.com

- Updated web page: NetApp.com/FlexPod

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Thank You