VCE-training-5.pdf

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Applications

• Demonstrate a rapid deployment and sustainable operation of Vblock infrastructure with key customer applications

• Take advantage of pre‐integrated and validated components to show value add• Provide automation for applications best practice’s provisioning and deployment on 

Vblock through integration with VCE and non VCE management tools  

Cloud and cloud infrastructure management 

• With Unified Infrastructure Manager and vCenter Service director

• Deliver management  through virtual appliance

SD Benchmark: Standard Application Benchmarks test the hardware and database performance of SAP applications and componentsECM :SAP eCloudManagerUIM: Unified Infrastructure Manager for Vblock Platform

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• This slide is not intended to be read but you may want to pick a few items to highlight.  The first purpose of the slide is to highlight the fact that  desktop management is an overwhelming task for IT organizations today. • The second  and main purpose of the slide is to point out the infrastructure pain points. Planning and deploying a virtual desktop environment has its own set of challenges. The focus of this presentation will be on the infrastructure. We emphasize three key pain points that a Vblock Solution for VMware View addresses.

• We need virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) now vs. in the 12+ weeks it takes to do the validation testing• Most VDI deployments today require IT managers to call several different companies when they have support issues• We have learned from our research that many companies lack the in house skills needed to architect a VDI deployment

• Taking a look at this slide I’m sure a lot of the items here really resonate with you and your IT teams?• Do any specific pain points stand out for your team?This is a good opportunity to start the a dialog and get a feel for the customer pain points to help frame the rest of the presentation

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Vblock™ FastPath Desktop Virtualization Platform truly helps you:Automation facilitates rapid deployment of infrastructure and desktopsEnterprise‐class solution scaling to 1000s of usersPrice transparency improves financial outlooks

Get it right, the first time: Concept – PoC and PoC to ProductionTest different use case / scenarios and gold images in minutesProduction roll‐out with confidence

Support: Simple, Seamless, Smart

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Automates desktop and application managementEnables rapid deploymentScales at Enterprise‐classReduces costs multifoldImproves security through desktop centralizationDelivers high availabilityRapid provisioning of infrastructure and desktopsSimplified procurement with transparent pricingEnhanced securityModular and scalable virtual desktop growthResilient and validated architectureSeamless support extended to VMware View™

Transparent price structureFaster Proof of Concept, rapid deploymentBetter TCOOne call, One answer for Vblock infrastructure and VMware ViewSupport cost included in above

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http://www.vce.com/pdf/solutions/vce‐case‐study‐banco‐azteca.pdf

http://www.marketwire.com/press‐release/banco‐azteca‐chooses‐vce‐to‐drive‐its‐vmware‐view‐desktop‐virtualization‐project‐1554665.htm

As one of Latin America's leading banking institutions, Banco Azteca serves 15 million customers and has 1,400 branches. To improve information security and streamline bank IT processes, Banco Azteca began an IT upgrade to adopt desktop virtualization with VMware View. With VMware View, it is possible to move proprietary data that traditionally is stored on desktops and laptops to a secure, central location. In addition virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) based on VMware View saves money and better supports mobile workers.In recent years, Banco Azteca pursued several VDI projects that were unsuccessful because of problems with vendor collaboration and technology integration. Issues integrating different servers, storage, virtualization and other pieces delayed VDI implementation.Recently, Banco Azteca reviewed VDI options again and initiated a competitive face‐off between VCE and another supplier, asking each company to deliver a pilot deployment to 500 users in less than two months. Even though the competition already had a two‐month lead, VCE agreed to participate.A VCE Professional Services team selected the Vblock platform and VMware View™ for the project, which included assessment, design, configuration and implementation.In the end, Banco Azteca selected VCE due to:The team's speed, quality and commitment to project success ‐‐ VCE Professional Services completed the pilot in only five weeks, while the competition was still developing its proof‐of‐concept after 10 weeksThe product's ability to scale up to 5,000 virtual desktops ‐‐ with the Vblock platform and VMware View, Banco Azteca will reach its goal of delivering thousands of virtual desktops far more quickly than it had expectedVCE's advanced VDI tools and converged architecture ‐‐ the VCE system is built around pre‐tested and pre‐integrated solutions, making it easy to optimize for the bank's desktop configuration requirementsBecause of the pilot's success, Banco Azteca has requested proposals for three additional Vblock Infrastructure Platforms ‐‐ two supporting operations outside of Mexico and one to support an additional 2,000 VDI seats in Mexico."At VCE, we're 100% committed to customer success," said Tim Page, SVP Global Sales at VCE. "We were confident in our capabilities, and proud that we delivered twice as quickly as the competition. We were able to quickly demonstrate how to transform IT infrastructure so that businesses can focus on what's most important ‐‐ growing their business.""A Vblock platform with VMware View™ is the foundation of our Desktop Virtualization deployment and the possibilities for future improvements are exciting," said Raul Hidalgo, Infrastructure Manager at Banco Azteca. "It will give us much more agility as we expand into new markets and offer new lines of business since less physical infrastructure will be required."

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20,000 very heavy Exchange users on a single Vblock platform4:1 server consolidation ratioImproved overall email performance and productivityLinear scalability of virtualized Exchange Server 2010Application mobility and agility to add more resources as needed

Leverage Full Microsoft Support for VMware vSphereMicrosoft officially supports VMware vSphereVMware ESX was the first hypervisor to be validated under the Microsoft Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP)New Microsoft licensing enables efficient use of vMotion

Increase the Performance of Your Exchange InfrastructureRun Microsoft Exchange on Vblock Platform to exceed the performance of traditional physical infrastructure

Consolidate Exchange Infrastructure with Vblock platformConsolidate multiple Exchange server roles and mailboxes to reduce footprint with a converged infrastructure

Email is a critical communication tool for modern businesses. It often serves not only as the mostefficient way to communicate globally, but also as a repository for business-critical data, processes, and strategies. All these combine to make email an indispensible part of daily business operations. Managing a company's growing email requirements without compromising on the performance, availability of valuable data, or service level agreement, presents a huge challenge for IT departments.

IT departments need an environment that provides them more flexibility and agility so that they quickly meet changing requirements from the business. Server resources are often underutilized and provisioning new servers to meet demands is typically a time‐consuming process.

Many organizations see a business need to allowing users to keep older email in their mailboxes for fast retrieval. This presents a challenge because having more emails in the messaging environment means that each user needs a larger mailbox. Larger mailboxes means that administrators need to allocate more storage to the users in order to satisfy these new business requirements, thereby increasing both capital and operational expenses.

IT professionals are looking for ways to manage the shift in storage requirements associated with a surge in Exchange data. As user mailboxes experience rapid growth, Exchange Server 2010 performance must be balanced with storage and compute power/capacity to achieve acceptable cost and performance metrics. 

Enterprises require simplicity in the integration of Exchange Server 2010 into their existing data center infrastructures with limited production downtime and impact on other applications and services. They require a consistent deployment approach and seek to standardize their infrastructure.

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VCE understands that customers want to drive costs down, increase IT efficiency and increase overall agility. Virtualization is a key enabler in achieving these objectives. This isn’t a new conversation per se but as the deployment of virtualization accelerates, it is important to get it “right.”

Enterprises require simplicity in the integration of Exchange Server 2010 in theirexisting data center infrastructures with no production downtime and impact on other applications and services. By adopting the Vblock platform design approach described in this brief, customers can:• Use a “building block” approach for server and storage design when implementing 

Exchange Server 2010• Minimize the long‐term costs associated with large‐scale storage deployments through 

Vblock platform provisioning and drive types with optimized cost/performance.• Improve overall email performance and productivity

Key Differentiators

As enterprises migrate to virtualized environments for mailbox administration, a new solution is required to

manage larger mailbox sizes and number of users, while maintaining low per‐user mailbox costs. By using the

Vblock platform with Exchange Server 2010, several key differentiators can be realized when comparing a

virtualized Vblock platform environment to a physical environment. These include:

• A single, virtualized environment which provides optimization, flexibility and scalability for mailbox management

• The capability to rapidly provision new mailboxes using Unified Infrastructure Manager (UIM)

• Optimized cost/performance with seamless linear scalability.

• Test Components and Architecture

The test configuration used in this testing was designed to support two database copies for 20,000 very heavy

(defined by Microsoft as .18 OPS) Exchange users on a single Vblock Series 700. The test environment utilizes a

compute, SAN infrastructure, and vSphere virtual mailbox configuration, comprising four virtualized Exchange

servers housed on one physical blade.

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CareCore National, LLCSpecialty Health Benefit ManagementBluffton, S.C.1,200 Employees; 70 Million Patients Under Care

CareCore National Case Study ‐ http://vce.com/pdf/solutions/vce‐case‐study‐carecore.pdf

http://www.vceportal.com/customer_references/casestudy

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This is a comprehensive but obviously not exhaustive list of key drivers for clients to move to Vblock Infrastructure Platforms. In the case of SAP clients their dependence on SAP running at its best is even greater.

SAP has validated SAP software on Vblock Infrastructure Platforms developed by Cisco, EMC and VMware. Vblock platforms combine computing architecture, networking, storage and virtualization infrastructure in pre‐integrated blocks. The validation initiative at a major  global retailer showed that SAP on Vblock platforms have the potential to deliver cloud‐like benefits including faster deployments, greater business agility and increased operational efficiency. By working together, these companies are providing an IT model that gives organizations more flexibility, control and security over their computing environments. 

The global retailer saw a unique opportunity to work with SAP, Cisco, EMC, VMware and an integration team from the Accenture & Cisco Business Group to explore the potential benefits of running SAP software in a virtualized converged infrastructure environment. 

The validation initiative showed that Vblock platforms can indeed result in faster IT deployments, greater IT flexibility and significant improvements in operational efficiency. 

(This is ML’s slide, I am repurposing this)

SAP is a critical communication tool for modern businesses. It often serves not only as the mostefficient way to communicate globally, but also as a repository for business-critical data, processes, and strategies. All these combine to make SAP an indispensible part of daily business operations. Managing a company's growing email requirements without compromising on the performance, availability of valuable data, or service level agreement, presents a huge challenge for IT departments.

IT departments need an environment that provides them more flexibility and agility so that they quickly meetchanging requirements from the business. Server resources are often underutilized and provisioning new servers to meet demands is typically a time‐consuming process.

Many organizations see a business need to allowing users to keep older email in their mailboxes for fastretrieval. This presents a challenge because having more emails in the messaging environment means thateach user needs a larger mailbox. Larger mailboxes means that administrators need to allocate more storageto the users in order to satisfy these new business requirements, thereby increasing both capital andoperational expenses.

Enterprises require simplicity of deploying SAP into their existing data center infrastructures with limited production downtime and impact on other applications and services. They require a consistent deployment approach and seek to standardize their infrastructure.

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Vblock platform helps meet the needs that we discussed earlier in the first few slides. But, among the key benefits are the most important ones for business.

Increased business agilityDynamic and flexible infrastructure with automation and unified management, Address peak operations, Respond to continuous changes in landscape due to rollouts, functional extensions, release changes, process automation. A shared infrastructure  to support multiple applications

Measurable TCO benefits Hardware/Software Investment (up to 19%), Implementation (up to 32%), on Continuous Improvement Projects (up to 25%), Upgrade Projects (up to 26%).

High performance & scalability 

Achieve 50% Performance improvement over non‐virtualized, non Vblock environment!

Enable uninterrupted 24 X 7 operation:  

System uptimes and availability (“Five‐9’s +” availability) directly help improve bottom‐line, and reduce risk of litigation and damage to a company’s reputation due to outages

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Vblock platform is optimized for meeting customers converged infrastructure and next gen datacenter needs. It has Enterprise‐Class Capabilities.   It includes management, performance, security, multi tenancy, high availability and backup.  VCE Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages are optimized for a wide range of virtualized solution deployments. Vblock packages integrate best of breed technology from industry leaders Cisco, EMC, and VMware, backed by VCE's seamless world class support. Each Vblock platform is pre‐built and ready for deployment. The modular design is highly scalable to meet growth needs, provide investment protection, and lower total cost of ownership.

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This slide shows the value of Vblock Infrastructure Platforms which is important to any client but extremely important for SAP infrastructure.

Integrated best of bread technology

• Integrated best of breed technology in Virtualization, Storage, Computing and Networking from industry leaders

• World class seamless support

Vblock Infrastructure Platforms is factory ready for deployment

• Pre-architected, pre-configured and pre-tested. Ready to be deployed, thereby saving significant costs and time to deployment.

• Easy and efficient architecting of SAP infrastructure deployments eliminates weeks of infrastructure scoping and testing.

Highly scalable options

• Scale-out or Scale-up options to meet all of your business growth needs, providing investment protection and lower total cost of ownership.

• IT managers can easily add more virtual desktops as their needs grow by scaling up within a Vblock platform, or out, adding additional Vblock Infrastructure Platforms.

Fully optimized for solution deployments

Vblock Platform is optimized for meeting customers converged infrastructure and next gen datacenter needs. It has Enterprise-Class Capabilities. The second part of the presentation we will highlights the key ones for VDI based solutions. It will includes management, performance,

security, multi tenancy, high availability and backup.

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Vblock Solution for SAP provides up to:• 50% performance improvement over non‐virtualized, non‐Vblock environments• 19% reduction in overall hardware and software investment costs• 32% lower implementation costs• 25% savings in continuously optimized project costs• 36% lower upgrade costs

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An independent TCO analysis published jointly by SAP, Cisco, EMC and VMware illustrated that SAP solutions running on the Vblock architecture can dramatically increase efficiency and reduce capital and operating expenses. Vblock packages integrate best of breed technology from industry leaders Cisco, EMC, and VMware, backed by VCE'sseamless world class support. Each Vblock platform is pre-built and ready for deployment. The modular design is highly scalable to meet growth needs, provide investment protection, and lower total cost of ownership.

Using the results of the TCO study and percentage improvements by each value driver, we estimate SAP on Vblock platform can realize up to 13% TCO savings.  This can mean as much as $5‐6M in annual savings in some cases.

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