2. The NetApp and VMware Global Alliance
Tens of thousands of joint customers
Virtualization Escalation Team for joint support
Reference platform for iSCSI and NFS
All NetApp products are VMware certified
Deep engineering-level collaboration
Actively engaged across all levels
Mutual global partners
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3. Business Critical Apps is Next Wave of
Virtualization
67%
47%
42%
34%
28%
53%
38%
43%
APR 2011
25%
MS Exchange
MS
SharePoint
28%
MS SQL
Oracle
Middleware
25%
Oracle DB
18%
JAN 2010
SAP
Source: VMware customer survey, VMware vSphere customer install base, January 2010, sample size 1038
Data: Total number of instances of that workload deployed in your organization and the percentage of those instances that are virtualized
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4
4. Preference for NetApp Gains Momentum
Forrester Global Virtual Server Environment Surveys
Storage Choices for Virtual Server Environments
Preference for NetApp grows strongly from 24% in 2008 to 38% in 2010
NetApp and EMC lead all others
2008
2010
―Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments‖, Forrester Research Inc., January 15, 2009
―Storage Choices For Virtual Server Environments, Q1, 2011‖, Forrester Research Inc., March 15, 2011
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5. Best Storage for Virtualized Environments
Best-in-Class Data Protection
The Most Efficient Storage
The Most Flexible IT Infrastructure
9
6. Instantaneous, Storage-Efficient Backup
The Problem
NetApp Snapshot™ Solution
Tape is slow, complex
Backups built-in to the storage
Streaming backups take too long
Instantaneous backup and recovery
Recoveries are slow
Low storage overhead
Recovery points are limited
Frequent, application consistent
CPU Utilization
CPU Utilization
Storage Pool
Traditional Backup Is NOT Practical
Fast, Affordable, and Simple
Backup and Restores
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7. Data Protection Against Any Failure
VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
VMware HA
MetroCluster
SnapMirror
Snapshot
copies
Building 1
SnapVault
Building 2
DR Site
Issue
NetApp
User error :
Instant backups; end-user recovery
Data corruption:
Instantaneous restores
System or site failure:
Transparent failover
Regional disasters:
Recover in minutes
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8. Secure Multi-Tenancy
Industry’s only end-to-end secure multi-tenancy solution
HR Apps
vSphere™
•
• vShield Zones
• vCenter™
BU Apps Core Apps
VMware VMware VMware
Securely isolate shared compute,
network, and storage resources
Consistent QoS at each layer
Manage each resource pool
independently as a dynamic asset
• Nexus 1000V
• Nexus 2000/5000/7000
• UCS
• 10GbE
Reduce risk and cost while
boosting IT agility
A Cisco Validated Design
Security audited by ICSA Labs
• MultiStore®
• NetApp Data Motion™
• NFS/iSCSI
PCI compliant
HR BU APP
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9. Best Storage for Virtualized Environments
Best-in-Class Data Protection
The Most Efficient Storage
The Most Flexible IT Infrastructure
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10. ONTAP Platform: Designed for Efficiency
Low-cost components
SATA drives
RAID-DP®
Flash Cache
Data reduction
Dedupe
Compression
Thin Replication
Increased utilization
Thin Provisioning
Unified architecture
$
Data Growth
SATA/ RAID-DP
Snapshot™ Technology
Thin Provisioning
Cloning
Deduplication
Compression
Flash Cache
Storage
Fewer full copies
FlexClone®
Deduped backup
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11. VSC Simplifies Management
Overview
End to end storage
management capabilities
for VMware admin
New unified plug-in
VI Admin
VM lifecycle management
VM
Lifecycle
Discover / View
Provision / Clone
Patch / Optimize
Backup / Recovery / DR
Cleanup
Setup
Datastore
discovery
Optimize host
settings
View controller
health
Deploy
Provision
datastores
Create rapid
clones
VAAI
Misalignment
detection
Automation
Storage Pool
Policies
Storage Admin
Maintain
Redeploy VMs
from template
View utilization
Resize datastores
H/W assist lock
Protect
Fast, efficient
backups
Rapidly restore
Automatic
replication
Decommission
Unregister VMs
Detach from hosts
Destroy storage
objects
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12. Virtualization Guarantee Program
50
―During the see an
―We now research
phase of your83%
average of next
storage purchasing
reductions in
cycle, ask each
redundant data
vendor ifVMware®
on our it offers a
capacity savings or
system.‖
utilization guarantee.‖
Jonathan Davis, Duke Institute
Gartner Inc. Nov 2008 April Adams
for Genome Sciences and
Capacity Savings and Storage
Policy
Utilization Guarantees: What's
Included, and Are They Worth
Considering?
Use NetApp for your virtual environments, and we
guarantee* you will use less storage
50% less with NetApp systems
35% less on your existing systems
* For terms and conditions go to
netapp.com/guarantee
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13. Best Storage for Virtualized Environments
Best-in-Class Data Protection
The Most Efficient Storage
The Most Flexible IT Infrastructure
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14. Comprehensive Integration
VMware vCloud Director
VMware vCloud Director
vShield 5
Secure resource &
data isolation
vCloud Director 1.5
vDC
vDC
vDC
vDC
Datastore provisioning
(vCO plug-in for NetApp)
vCloud backup & recovery
VMware vCenter Server
vSphere 5 VAAI
vCenter 5 Plug-ins
Monitoring & host configuration
Provisioning & cloning
Backup & recovery
OnCommand Insight tools
OnCommand Chargeback
DR failover/failback w/ SRM 5
VASA Provider
Storage topology & capabilities
Events and alarms
SDRS guidance on capacity
VMware
vSphere
Full Copy
Block Zero
HW Assist Locking
Hole Punching
Thin Provisioning Suspend
vSphere 5
Storage I/O Control (SIOC)
Multi-pathing (ALUA)
Storage Array Type Plug-in
(SATP)
Path Selection Policy (PSP)
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15. Be Agile with Instant Storage Provisioning
Traditional Storage Provisioning for VMs
Full
capacity
NetApp Provisioning for VMs
―The FlexClone®
feature allows our
DBAs to establish
new development
and test
environments in
minutes instead of
days.‖
- Mark Tuttle
Sr. Engineering Mgr.
AutoTrader.com
Minimal
capacity
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16. Application Mobility
Primary Site
Secondary Site
APP APP
OS
OS
APP APP
APP
APP
OS
OS
OS
OS
Use Case
Solution
Host load balancing or maintenance
VMware vMotion
Datastore capacity management
VMware Storage vMotion
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17. Application Mobility
Primary Site
Secondary Site
APP APP
OS
OS
APP APP
APP
APP
OS OS
OS
OS
Use Case
Solution
Host load balancing or maintenance
VMware vMotion
Datastore capacity management
VMware Storage vMotion
Array balancing, maintenance or refresh
NetApp Data Motion
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18. OnCommand Insight Balance
Raises IT intelligence with KPIs
Reduce costs by using storage and servers
more efficiently in shared infrastructures
– Predict and troubleshoot resource contention,
hot spots, and bottlenecks
– Optimize workload for efficient use of
resources
– Plan capacity to enable constant operation at
the best possible performance level for the
lowest cost
– Manage infrastructure service supporting
applications
Performance Capacity Analytics Provide Intelligence Instead of Data
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19. Save Time and Money
Resolve issues quickly
VM
Server
Storage
App
Map service health
Get intelligence, not just data points
Leverage key performance indicators
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20. The Broadest Range of Unified Storage
Fabric-attached storage family
Unified storage—CIFS, NFS, FC, FCoE, and iSCSI
Tiered storage from mission critical to archival
Common software, interface, and management tools
Support for heterogeneous storage with V-Series
Data ONTAP®: Foundation of the Storage Pool
FAS2000s
FAS3000s
FAS6000s
V-Series
HP EMC HDS
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22. Summary: Key NetApp Differentiators
The most efficient, flexible foundation for VMware
Be fast and efficient
–
Save 50% on storage in virtual environments – guaranteed
–
Deduplicate primary data – even on 100 TB volumes
–
Clone and provision thousands of VMs in minutes
–
Improve performance by 50% without adding storage tiers
Automate application availability
–
Use one solution for instant backup; restore; cost-effective
DR
–
Eliminate downtime; migrate data and apps non-disruptively
Align to and accelerate the business
–
Gain end-to-end visibility and analysis from a single console
that that integrates with VMware and orchestration solutions
–
Empower VI admins with advanced storage capabilities that
can be executed from a single VMware console
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24. Jointly Enabling Cloud Services
Joint cloud solution
from VMware and
NetApp
VMware vCloud Director
Catalogs
Virtual Datacenter 1 (Gold)
VMware
vCenter Server
Security
Virtual Datacenter n (Silver)
VMware
vShield
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware
vSphere
VMware
vSphere
VMware
vSphere
®
NetApp OnCommand™ Management Suite
Service
Catalog
Policy
Infrastructure
Service
Measurement
Service
Analytics
NetApp Backup & Recovery
VMware vCenter Orchestrator
User Portals
vSphere 5, vCenter 5,
vCloud Director 1.5,
vShield 5
Policy-based resource
automation and
orchestration
Validated reference
architecture
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25. Secure Multi-Tenancy
VMware
vShield Edge
VMware vCloud Director
Org vDCs
VMware vCloud Director
Provider vDCs
Org 1
Org 2
Org 3
Org 4
VMware
vShield Zones
vDCs
vDCs
VMware vSphere
vDCs
End-to-end secure
resource and data
isolation
vShield Edge
provides perimeter
security enforcement
and isolation for
each tenant
MultiStore provides
data isolation for
security and QoS
Cisco Nexus
Unified Fabric
NetApp Unified Storage
with MultiStore™
Org 1,2
Org 3 Org 4
Automated
chargeback for
private, public, and
hybrid clouds
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26. Intelligent Policy-based Provisioning
VMware
vCloud Director
Tenants
VM
VM
VM
VM
Cloud
Admin
VMware vSphere
VM
Datastore
VM
Disk Storage
NetApp Storage System
VM
VM
VM
VMware vCenter
Orchestrator and vCO
Plug-in for NetApp
Automates rapid provisioning
of infrastructure resources
and virtual datacenters
Enables pre-defined
service levels from a single
pane of glass
Provisions services levels
with NetApp Storage
Service Catalog
Deploys new space-efficient
VMs and vApps instantly
41
27. Intelligent Policy-based Data Protection
Integrated Data Protection
vApps
Org 1 vDC
Preserves the cloud
architecture
Enables fast, space-efficient,
point-in-time backup copies
Provider vDC
Retains tenant service levels,
even if ported to another
cloud infrastructure
Provides granular-level backup
and recovery of the cloud,
including vApps, Org vDCs,
VMs, and datastores
Org 2 vDC
Org 3 vDC
Provider vDC
VMware
VMware
vCenter Server vCenter Server
VMware
vSphere
VMware
vSphere
Org 4 vDC
Provider vDC
VMware
vCenter Server
VMware
vSphere
Cloud
Admin
Integrates with advanced
replication and retention policies
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28. Cloud Benefits are Real
Deliver 24x7 business and education
services
Satisfy requests within hours
Provision servers/storage in minutes
Use 80% less capacity for VMware
datastores
Save 7TB with deduplication
―With VMware cloud infrastructure and
management on NetApp, we were able to
move to a secure private cloud that offers
unprecedented flexibility to expand in any
direction, fluidly move resources, and
quickly provision services.‖
Daniel Morgenstern, manager,
Windows and Virtualization, Franklin
University IT
Deliver predictable monthly costs
Meet stringent business continuity and
disaster recovery service levels
Provide anywhere, anytime access
Increase reliability
―Customers can choose to keep some
applications onsite, some in a public
cloud, and some on the Zumasys platform
with portability between locations. With
this solution, we can provide a more
flexible and affordable path to the cloud
for our customers.‖
Paul Giobbi, president, Zumasys
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30. VMware on FlexPod
Presized, validated data center base
Supports 1,500 users and 4 workloads
®
VMware , vSphere™
and vCenter™
–
VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
–
Microsoft® Exchange/SharePoint®/SQL®
–
Plus headroom for multiple applications
®
Cisco UCS B-Series
and UCS Manager
®
Cisco Nexus Family
switches: Cisco Nexus
1000V
Flexibility to support multiple classes
of computing and storage in a
single FlexPod™
Proven results
–
®
NetApp FAS
10 GE and FCoE
Reduce capital expenses by up to 60%
–
Cut energy costs by up to 80%
–
50% more efficient data storage
Three Industry Leaders,
One Architecture
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31. VMware on FlexPod Components
VMware vSphere
vSphere™ Enterprise Plus
vCenter™ Standard
Cisco Unified Fabric
2 Nexus 5548s with Fabric Service
(per 3 FlexPod™ Configurations)
2 Nexus 1010s and Nexus 1000v
Cisco UCS
2 Fabric Interconnect 6120s
3 B-Series 5108 Chassis
9 B-Series B250M2s + VIC
6 B-Series B200M2s + VIC
NetApp FAS3210A
4 DS2246 450GB SAS Shelves
2 256GB Flash Caches
2 10Gbps IP Interfaces
4 4Gbps FC Interfaces
NetApp® Complete Bundle
One Rack DC Solution
30 Westmere CPUs (180 Cores)
2TB Server Memory (Up to 4TB)
40Gbps Interconnect (4 x 10GbE)
512GB SSD Storage Cache
42TB Storage
One Enterprise IT Infrastructure
Catering for an organization of 1,500 users
with a mixed workload of:
VMware® View 4.5 (Windows® 7)
MS Exchange 2010
MS SharePoint® 2010
MS SQL® Server 2008R2
Headroom for more applications
Two classes of compute supporting
dense memory and general virtualized
workloads
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32. Flex with Confidence
Dev/Test
VDI
More compute
Less storage
Higher performance
blades, more IOPS
Starting Out
DP/Backup
CPU
Memory
Capacity
IOPS
Entry system
Then scale up
Production
Balanced
Infrastructure
Less compute
More storage
48
33. Cooperative Support Model
Working together to resolve issues quickly
Customer*
Directly Contacts Vendor Suspected of Problem
Enhanced
Customer
Support
Experience
Cross-Company
Cooperation
VMware
Support
Problem
Resolved
Cisco
Support
NetApp
Support
Case Escalation
NetApp
Engineering
Cisco
Engineering
Problem
Resolved
VMware
Engineering
*Valid customer support contracts
with all 3 companies are required
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34. ExamWorks Achieves 3x Hypergrowth
While Shrinking Costs $1.5M
Business Impact
Enhance functionality; gain competitive
edge
Scale for three times the number of sites
Reduce risk by ensuring compliance with
HIPAA and URAC accreditation
Headquartered in
Atlanta, Georgia,
ExamWorks is a fastgrowing independent
medical examination
(IME) and review
company.
Increased Flexibility
Achieve 5-nines availability of critical apps
Provision overnight vs. in 1 year
Increased Efficiency
Avoid >$1.5M in IT expenditures
Support >2k employees with 3 racks/4
FTEs vs. 15 racks/25 FTEs
50
36. Desktop Virtualization is Here
Growing beyond early adopters
Windows 7 migration
Microsoft gets serious about VDI
VMware View 5 is ready
Citrix XenDesktop on vSphere or XenServer
52
38. Lower Costs with NetApp
Pooled
Desktops
90% Less
Dedicated
Desktops
No Change
No change
Storage for virtual
desktops starting at
around $50 per seat
95% Less
90% Less
User Data
No change
35% Less
Non-optimized Storage
Desktop Virtualization
Desktop Virtualization on NetApp
54
39. Storage Impact on Desktop Performance
Read data block
from disk
Disk
55
40. NetApp Eliminates Boot and Logon Storms
Boot time decreases 47%
Storage workload decreases 50%
Performance increases 71%
Read data block
from disk
Disk
Flash Cache
Users aren’t affected during simultaneous boot or log on
56
41. Size for Performance and Capacity
Dedupe-aware
Flash Cache
$$
Write I/O
Optimization
Performance (IOPS)
16000
Peak
Load
$$
$$
$$
$$
8000
Steady
State
$$
$$
$$
$$
Deduplication
$$
$$
10
20
Sized for capacity
30
Sized for performance
Capacity (TB)
57
42. Solving the VDI Performance Challenge
Customer example
Previous Storage
Regional bank running
1000+ View desktops
with major performance
issues directly related
to storage
NetApp Solution
300 Disks
56 Disks
Reboot operations
4 to 5 hour outage
10 minute outage
Boot storms
VDI servers are
non-responsive
Non-existent
Login storm
Logins staggered
4 second login
Better Performance AND Lower Cost
58
Key points:The storage efficiency capabilities of ONTAP are second to none, delivering substantial savings to both Capex and Opex.Script:Storage efficiency is something lots of people talk about, so I’d like to take a minute to show you what’s so different about our approach. To us, storage efficiency is not a feature, it is a way of designing—it’s a commitment to a long-termtechnology agenda where we exploit every possible opportunity to drive the cost per gigabyte down.There are multiple agendas we employ. We design for using the lowest cost components (like SATA drives) and we provide either a performance acceleration or a reliability profile to those SATA drives which is very, very different than what the raw building block can do. So combination of SATA with software innovation in the brain like RAID Dual-Parity, while being able to apply Flash as a technology for performance acceleration, suddenly leads to an endpoint where, for half the cost, you get double the capacity for the same performance.When you talk about getting different results “twice as much for half the cost” is a great example.We also employ a variety of data reduction techniques, whether it is primary level dedupe, compression, or others--there are a variety of data reduction techniques that reduce the amount of data on the disk and traveling over the network. We also go after your raw utilization, where, if you have a bucket, you can force more into it. You can apply thin provisioning, you can apply the fact that with a unified architecture you don’t have stranded assets in the various silos that drives overall utilization up.And finally, you can make fewer copies. One of the biggest cost drivers in the storage infrastructure is the fact that every time a primary copy of data is created, roughly about 20 to 25 copies of that data get created--whether it’s test and development copies, backup copies, or disaster recovery copies--these are full copies of data, and they all require raw storage. So if you can eliminate any of those copies, by providing those copies to the applications in a virtualized environment, you reduce the cost of storage.So storage efficiency is a way of thinking. We are seeking every single way in which we can drive the dollar per effective gigabyte down. Our recent market share gains are proof that customers like you are seeing these kinds of results, and coming back for more. They get familiar with our storage efficiency story, and they begin to realize that they can apply us in more applications, because they can get benefit of the lower dollar per gigabyte. That’s what an mature storage operating system can do.
Goal of Slide: Highlight NetApp’s SMVI technology for data protection for your VMware environment. Key Points:SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure works with VMware vCenter, automating and simplifying management of backup and restore operations. Your VMware administrators now have an easy-to-use management tool to create application-consistent backups for their virtual machines. Additionally, they can instantly recover a datastore, VM, VMDK, or an individual file within a VM guest.Enhance your disaster recovery operations: SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure can be used to trigger SnapMirror® updates upon backup completion, enabling your latest backup copies to reside at a secondary site.SMVI allows you to:Eliminate backup windows via near-instantaneous, application-consistent, Snapshot™ copies. Automate and simplify backup management for your VMware® environments. Restore datastores, VMs, VMDKs, or guest OS files rapidly in the event of failure. Enable VMware administrators to manage backup and recovery.
vSphere 5 is certified on Data ONTAP, FAS, V-Series for NFS, FC, FCoE, & iSCSI. VAAI for SAN and NFS are available now. VASA Provider in Beta.Virtual Storage Console plugs into vCenter 5 for VM lifecycle management. NetApp SRA available for SRM 5.vShield 5 integrates with NetApp’s Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) solution.vCO Plug-in offers intelligent policy-based provisioning from Storage Service Catalog forvCD 1.5.Snap Creator delivers intelligent policy-based vApp backup and recovery for vCD 1.5
Goal of slide: Illustrate how NetApp has unique value in provisioning capabilities, to match the provisioning capabilities that VMware brings to the servers.Key Points:Most businesses highly value an IT infrastructure that can quickly respond to change, and that can quickly take advantage of new applications and capabilities. So the ability to rapidly move through test, development, and deployment activities is very important.Traditional storage systems struggle to support rapid rollouts. Test, dev, and deployment activities typically revolve around generating physical copies of data or VMs, which takes both time and disk space.NetApp uniquely enables instant virtual copies, which do not require any data to be copied and are much faster than alternative approaches. The FAS3070 VeriTest study indicated that it takes 7 seconds to clone a LUN on NetApp, and 27 minutes to clone a LUN on EMC CLARiiON (check).With the ability to create instant virtual copies, test, dev, and deployment activities for virtualized servers can be substantially accelerated.Notes: Comparison of cloning times is from a VeriTest study of NetApp FAS3070 versus EMC CX3-80. See the full report at http://www.lionbridge.com/competitive_analysis/reports/netapp/NetApp_FAS3070_vs_EMC_CX3-80_Performance_and_Usability.pdf
Goal of Slide: Introduce two technologies from VMware and NetApp that deliver non-disruptive data mobility.Key Points:VMware’s Storage vMotion enables live migration of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays. VMware Storage vMotion lets you relocate virtual machine disk files between and across shared storage locations while maintaining continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity. Storage vMotion allows Virtual Admins to mange VM performance and storage utilization.NetApp’s Data Motion lets you easily and quickly migrate data across multiple storage systems while maintaining continuous access to your applications. The result is that you can keep your shared storage infrastructure running as you add capacity, update infrastructure technology, and balance performance.NetApp Data Motion integrates three proven NetApp software technologies—MultiStore®, SnapMirror®, and Provisioning Manager—to provide live data migration for virtual environments. You are now able to keep your clients and applications connected to their data regardless of where that data physically resides.You can now implement a truly multi-tenant storage infrastructure with the highest possible service levels since traditional planned downtime will be a thing of the past. Scheduling routine maintenance, software upgrades, and technology refresh will be greatly simplified since individual hardware outages do not affect data availability. This is particularly important for virtual server environments and for IT as a Service offerings in which mobility and 24x7 availability are considered as table stakes.
Goal of Slide: introduce topic of data mobility and NetApp’s Data Motion.Note: Data Motion’s support for all environments and all configurations is evolving. Please check latest technical content for Data Motion before presenting details to customers.Key Points:NetApp’s Data Motion lets you easily and quickly migrate data across multiple storage systems while maintaining continuous access to your applications. The result is that you can keep your shared storage infrastructure running as you add capacity, update infrastructure technology, and balance performance.NetApp Data Motion integrates three proven NetApp software technologies—MultiStore®, SnapMirror®, and Provisioning Manager—to provide live data migration for virtual environments. You are now able to keep your clients and applications connected to their data regardless of where that data physically resides.Business needsNo planned downtime forStorage capacity expansionScheduled maintenance outagesTechnology refreshSoftware upgradesImproved SLA flexibilityDynamic load balancingAdjustable storage tiersApplication transparencyPerformanceTransaction integrityAllows live migration of the secure multitenant containers from one system to another.This solution combines Provisioning Manager, MultiStore, SnapMirror to migrate vFilers from one system to another.Available in Data ONTAP 7.3.3
Joint solution that maintains application performance during long distance VM migrations Combines Cisco IP network, NetApp FAS with FlexCache, and VMware VMotion/Storage vMotion Leverages FlexCache to create local copies of remote dataIdeal for application migrations, technology updates and hardware maintenanceNetApp advantages:Simplest (IP, NFS-based)Broadest platform supportMost storage-efficientJointly validated
Goal of Slide: As storage administrators and IT managers use Insight Balance, they typically leverage it to predict and resolve performance problems, optimize workloads, plan capacity to provide the best possible performance level for the lowest cost, and manage the infrastructure service supporting the applications. In the next several slides we will examine these use cases.
Key features of vCloud Director:Abstraction and pooling of hardware resources into service offeringsAutomation and management to build internal and external cloudsVirtual datacentersSupport for multi-tenant environmentsInfrastructure service catalogSelf-service portal interfaceAutomation and orchestration with VMware vCenter Orchestrator™ and 3rd party partnersOpen standards: vCloud APIs, Open Virtualization Format
Customer data is isolated but still provide movement of tenants when needed for load balancing, operational reasons, etc.
Goal of the Slide: Provide overview of FlexPodKey Points:FlexPod is about an integrated infrastructure building block for all virtualization solutions that is backed by an integrated sales and support process and delivered by your favorite system integrator.Proven and highly scalable infrastructure – this is based on all the environments we have built together including: large scale VDI, our own engineering development labs, and the integration and knowledge we have from the Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) infrastructure as a Service architecture.FlexPod for VMware is a virtualized infrastructure foundation that supports a wide range of applications and existing Cisco Validated Design.The FlexPod supports the journey from consolidation, virtualization, shared infrastructure through to ITaaS – with a wide number of existing CVDs being supported on the FlexPod – deployment details will be provided in updates to these CVDs.We have chosen FAS3240A based on price performance and fit for wide range of customers.Primary positioning is all about simplicity at the C-Level.A lower level discussion is that the storage array can be substituted with smaller (or larger) systems, but the FlexPod retains it’s integrity and single architecture.
Goal of the Slide: Provide detailed components of FlexPodKey Points:This is the FlexPod reference BoM. We have chosen FAS3210A and matched it to appropriate compute to support 1,500 users for these four popular workloads simultaneously: virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and SQL Server—and it provides sufficient headroom for additional applications.The storage array can be substituted with larger (or smaller) systems, likewise the blades configuration can be tuned to specific workload requirements, but the FlexPod retains its integrity and single architecture.Scale up by either using a standard FlexPod each time or by scaling individual resources. However, regardless of the number of FlexPods or the capacity in each layer of the infrastructure, it’s always managed as pooled resources, not individual FlexPods.Note Nexus 5548 – latest Nexus series switch offering 10GbE, FC / FCoE and fabric servicesVIC = Virtual Interface Card (M81KR) - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-525049.htmlValue Proposition Low Risk – Proven and Detailed Deployment Guides, for a wide range of applications Efficiency – Highest possible efficiency Flexible – Scale Up/Scale Out
Goal of the Slide: Demonstrate the FLEXibility of FlexPodKey Points:The FlexPod is not a fix configuration. It provides an excellent starting point as shared infrastructure for organizations that want to run mixed workloads. The starting point is the MS Productivity Applications, but the FlexPod architecture allows different resources to be scaled while maintaining the same design and implementations.The initial sizing guide covers the MS Applications (VDI Windows 7, MS Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, MS SQL 2008) and over time will cover many different applications.
VMW View ?VDI = same costs, more secure, easy to roll out patches and updates, same SLAsBalance perf, user exp, costsPoint: Validate for the partner that the opportunities to make money with virtual desktop are increasing and discussing some of the key drivers and market dynamics that are happening in this space. WIIFY: Every virtual desktop opportunity brings with it a requirement for enterprise storage which represents a net-new opportunity for the partner.Notes:Opportunities for desktop virtualization are expanding past POCs for a myriad of reasons and this is validated by what we are seeing with SW vendors and with the market dynamics.As virtual desktop opportunities expand it also creates new requirement for the customer and a net-new opportunity for partners to sell storage. Since cost (specifically storage cost) is one of the inhibitors to desktop virtualization NetApp storage efficiencies play extremely well in desktop virtualization environments (e.g., dedupe, thin provisioning, Flash Cache, WAFL…) so we are well positioned to capitalize on these opportunitiesVirtual desktop is growing beyond the early adopters. The huge market growth that Analysts predicted last year is happening this year. A lot of that is due to economy, but also due to a maturity of technology in the virtual desktop space.Windows 7 migration is a big driver for virtual desktops. Many organizations skipped Vista and now must move up to Win7. Customers will either upgrade the traditional way, which includes signing up for another HW refresh cycle, or they’ll bite the bullet and move to virtual desktops. For those that have been on the fence, Win7 gives them a good reason to virtualize the desktop. So timing is good. All the vendors are banking that Win7 migration will be a key part of their desktop virt strategy.Over 90 million copies of Win7 sold. VMware View 4.5 is soon to be released probably at VMWorld. Expect to see key messaging from VMware around “cost per seat”, “end user experience”, and PCoIP.Microsoft owns the desktop space so no surprise to see them getting aggressive with virtual desktop. Their stated enterprise strategy is Citrix XenDesktop on Hyper-V. MS also has solutions to accommodate SMB customersWe are seeing key technology from other third party vendors that , integrate, overlap and/or co-exist with Citrix, VMware and MS solutions. Specifically solutions from Quest, Desktone, and Dynamic Ops. Good news is that NetApp partners with these guys also.