Making IT Infrastructure Invisible
Syed Mutahir Ali,
Technology Consultant – Enterprise Solutions Division
ArcPoint Technologies - Pakistan
The Best IT
You Is
Can’t See
Infrastructure
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Evolution of Enterprise Infrastructure
1990s
Today
App
App
App
Server
Server
Storage
Storage
App
Virtualization
Server
Storage
Controller
Storage
Controller
Server
Storage
Controller
Storage
Controller
Storage
Controller
Scale-Out
Storage
Controller
Scale-Up
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Complexity with Legacy Infrastructure
+ Automated operations
+ Self-service provisioning
+ Monitoring and analytics
Virtualization
Compute
Storage Network
Storage
Network
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x Lifecycle complexity
x Resource silos
x Support challenges
x High costs
How Should Infrastructure Be Delivered?
Agile
Provisioning in hours, not
days or weeks
Secure
Privacy and control without
significant overhead
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Simple
No specialized skills required
to operate
Scale-out
Predictable capacity growth
with consumption-based pricing
The Solution: Hyperconverged Infrastructure
App
App
App
Virtualization
Server
Storage
Controller
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Storage
Controller
App
Virtualization
Server
Storage
Controller
Storage
Controller
Storage
Controller
Storage
Controller
Integrated, scale-out
compute and storage
Footprint Reduction
Legacy
Up to
Less Power and Space
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Datacenter Stack
…
…
VMware, MSFT, Redhat
ESX-i
Hyper-V
AHV
Apps
Virtual
Infra
NetApp, EMC
Cisco, Brocade
Nutanix
Qlogic, Emulex
HP, Dell, Cisco
Cisco, Arista, Juniper
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Cisco, Arista, Juniper
Physical
Infra
Integrated Datacenter Management
Prism
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Built for the Cloud Era
Agile
Data Backup
Simple
Disaster Recovery
Seamless App Mobility
Infrastructure for
Private Cloud
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Secure
Scale-out
…
Predictable Economics and Growth
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Scalable Distributed System Design
Tier 1 Workloads
Nutanix Controller VM
(running on all nodes)
(one per node)
Node 1
VM
VM
VM
Node 2
CVM
VM
VM
VM
Node N
VM
CVM
VM
VM
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
X86
X86
X86
Distributed Storage Fabric
 Snapshots
 Locality
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 Clones
 Tiering
 Compression
 Erasure Coding
 Deduplication
 Resilience
CVM
Infrastructure Lifecycle Benefits
BUY
Pay as You Grow buy only what you
need, and stop
expensive
overprovisioning
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DEPLOY
Rapid
Deployment – set
up in minutes for
fast time to value
MANAGE
Simplified
Management single pane of
glass to manage
all infrastructure
SCALE
Incremental
Scalability - scale
on demand in
minutes, with
zero downtime
SUPPORT
One-stop Support
– expert support
for complete
infrastructure
stack
Nutanix Acropolis
Enterprise
Storage
Infrastructure
Resilience
Data Protection
Virtualization
Simple
Nutanix Acropolis
Scalable
Secure
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Security
Nutanix Prism
Any Runtime
Nutanix Prism
No Forklift
No Lock-In
One-Click Infrastructure
Management
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One-Click Operational
Insights
One-Click
Remediation
Consumer-Grade Design
Intuitive
Beautiful
Insightful
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Nutanix: The Enterprise Cloud Company
Make datacenter infrastructure invisible, elevating IT to focus
on applications and services
4,450+ customers
Over 90+ countries
6 continents
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Founded in 2009
2,350+ employees
Thank You