PROACT SYNC 2013 - Breakout - De voordelen van een FlexPod converged datacenter infrastructure volgens analist Forrester

Forrester: De voordelen van

FlexPod Converged Datacenter Infrastructure

Geert van Teylingen

Strategy and Consulting Benelux

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NetApp & Cisco, unieke “start” van een relatie

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Addressing Cost and Operational Pressures Enterprises Are Adopting New IT Approaches

Cloud services

SaaS, PaaS, IaaS

Public, private, hybrid

Open source

Low cost per functionality,

developer familiarity

Converged systems

Consolidation, integration,

performance

Reduced management

costs

Growing Cost of

Mgmt and Admin

Source IDC, 2012

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Vision for the Data Center and ‘Cloud’

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Management

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically (software) defined shared infrastructure

Quickly deploy and destroy apps to meet changing business needs

Centrally orchestrated with self-service extensions

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Prevalidated flexible, unified platform

Cisco Unified Computing System™

Programmable infrastructure

Unified management

Cisco Nexus® switches

Unified fabric

NetApp® FAS with

clustered Data ONTAP®

Unified storage

Intelligent data management and

integrated data protection

FlexPod Converged Infrastructure

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Speed up time to

deployment, simplify IT,

and reduce risk and cost

Shorter Time to Market

for growing business

needs

Faster Implementation with FlexPod

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FlexPod is the Fast

Forward Button for IT

infrastructure and services

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Cisco Nexus®

Family Switches

NetApp clustered

Data ONTAP

Cisco® UCS Servers and

UCS Manager

Pool resources

Single server pool/storage pool

Service profiles for consistent

policy-based Cisco UCS®

deployments

Abstract resources

Virtualized servers and storage

Stateless computing

Dynamic scalability; app and

data mobility

Consume resources

Service catalogs

Rapid resource provisioning in

accordance with SLAs

Open APIs for self-service/user-

driven resource consumption

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

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

Virtualization

App App App App

App App

Bare Metal

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Manage as a Single Infrastructure

Server

Network

Storage

Virtualization

100s of

management

points

Multiple

management

consoles

100s of

management

points

100s of

management

points

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Manage as a Single Infrastructure

Server

Network

Storage

Virtualization

Multiple

management

consoles

FlexPod

Storage

Pool

Network

Pool

Compute

Pool

Abstracted resource pools Unified element

managers

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Unified Management and Orchestration

Server

Network

Storage

Virtualization

Multiple

management

consoles 1500 users

Storage

Pool

Network

Pool

Compute

Pool

Service

profiles

APIs

APIs

Virtualization

Server and network

admin

Storage admin

Open Ecosystem of Orchestration Partners

Single Point of Integration

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Cloud Orchestration

Tools

openstackTM

Cisco UCS®

Director

(formerly Cloupia)

Service Catalog

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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with minimal disruption

Common structure for support and management

FlexPod Scales with Size of Organization

100s of users

1,000s of

users

FlexPod®

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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

IOPS

CPU

Capacity Memory

Production

Balanced Infrastructure

Customized Sizing with FlexPod

Flexes for Different Uses and Performance Profiles

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FlexPod Value and

Customer Success Stories

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FlexPod Reality: Sauber F1 Team

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“The Total Economic Impact of NetApp’s and Cisco’s FlexPod Data Center Platform”

Published January 2013

Forrester Total Economic Impact Study

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“The Total Economic Impact of NetApp’s and Cisco’s FlexPod Data Center Platform”

Published January 2013

Forrester Total Economic Impact Study

Objectives

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120% risk-adjusted ROI

Payback within 9 months

Benefits and savings of $858k over 3 years from:

Low cost

acquisition,

less planning, preparation, migration

Automated provisioning and management

Cost avoidance for NOT replacing hardware (consolidation)

Storage Efficiency

Combined deduplication, thin provisioning, thin backup, thin cloning, …

Reduced power and cooling OpEx

Reduced risk

Increased flexibility

Forrester Total Economic Impact Study

Key Findings

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Infrastructure efficiency

Power and cooling

Management

Provisioning

Backup and recovery

TCO

Consolidate servers 10:1

Use 50% less storage

80% fewer cables and ports

25%–50% less

Manage 10x–20x more per FTE

25%–50% savings

Minutes vs Hours

Minutes vs Days

Typical Gains with FlexPod

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FlexPod Reality: ProAct Case Study

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What is YOUR ROI?

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www.proact.nl/flexpod

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