1. FlexPod as a Competitive Edge
How Moffatt & Nichol boosted data center performance while cutting overhead
Shawn McCullough, Director of IT, Moffatt & Nichol
Mark Melvin – VP, CTO, ePlus
Patrick Rogers – VP, Data Center Platforms, NetApp
Cisco Live! Orlando, 2013
Session # BRKPCS-2027
2. 2
What If You Could…
Accelerate business response
instead of being the critical path
Focus on IT innovation
instead of keeping things running
Quickly support all new opportunities
even opportunities not yet identified
Do it all with one architecture
for any workload
4. 4
FlexPod Innovations in Data Center Technology
Unified
Management
Programmable
Infrastructure
Unified
Fabric
Policy-based automation and service profiles
Self-integrating components
Abstraction of bare metal server elements
Open API for automation
Orchestration through industry standard tools
Virtualization awareness
Scalability without complexity
High-performance I/O
Cisco Unified Computing System
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
Virtualize storage into pools
Nondisruptive data motion
Unified Storage
Intelligent
Data Management
Built-in storage efficiency
Integrated data protection
5. 5
Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp Clustered
Data ONTAP
Cisco®
UCS Servers and
UCS Manager
FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
Virtualization
App AppAppApp
AppApp
Bare Metal
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
6. 6
Leading US-based global
infrastructure advisor
Engineering, planning,
design, and economic
analysis of waterfront and
transportation infrastructure
28 global offices
Headquarters in Long Beach,
California
7. 7
IT Challenges:
• Manage and store large amounts of data safely and
securely
• Support daily project development and delivery globally
• Meet deadlines without downtime
• Replace aging infrastructure (tape-based backup and
DR)
8. 8
IT Solution:
• Integrated FlexPod environment running
processing-intensive applications
• Workloads consolidated on FlexPod:
high-end engineering applications,
Exchange, SQL server, and more.
• NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault for
data protection and disaster recovery
10. 10
Solution results:
• Reduced daily backup of project data - 300GB to 50 GB
• Improved data recovery from hours to minutes
• Savings of up to $10,000 per remote office
• Cut administrative costs by 15% while boosting operation
performance and business continuity
• Helped keep projects on schedule and maximize employee
productivity
• Modular, scalable FlexPod architecture that grows with the
company
11. 11
FlexPod -- Breakthroughs for Your Business
Get to market faster
FreePort-McMoRan transformed SAP
infrastructure to expand copper production
by 1B lbs/yr
Continuous operations
Sauber F1 completed all technology
refreshes in two weeks with no downtime
Cut costs in half
Computacenter uses 90% less storage for
virtual environments
Avoid building
a new data center
Loughborough University reduced 50-60
racks to just 8
12. 12
Find Out About FlexPod
Visit the NetApp stand (#711) and Cisco
booth to speak with our experts
Visit the Cisco Live! NOC. FlexPod is used to
run the Cisco Live! data center workloads
Download the Moffatt & Nichol success story
from netapp.com
Visit http://www.netapp.com/flexpod
Visit http://www.moffattnichol.com
Visit http://www.eplus.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
Key Point: What would be the ideal value IT could bringWhat if IT could be used to make the company respond faster to new opportunities initiatives instead of being the critical path item that slows completionWhat if your IT staff could spend their time on high value IT innovation, evaluating and adding new technologies instead of spending most of their time mundane tasks trequired to keep the environment runningWhat if you could build an iT environment that supported applications and initiatives not even being considered today.What if you could do this not for just one part of the business but for the entire business and for any workload. Transition:This requires a new approach to data center design.
Key Point: NetApp and Cisco have introduced critical capabilities to make this data center vision a realityTransitionSo how do these technologies deliver the advanced data center functionality….
Key Points: The technologies from Cisco and NetApp transform the physical infrastructure into dynamic pools of data center resources creating a shared virtualized infratructure that is flexible and efficient but still retains control and security of a dedicated environmentBuild 1 – Cisco and NetApp technology enables physical devices to be virtualized and abstracted as dynamic resources pool. These resource pools span multiple physical devices to 1000’s of servers and Petabytes of storage. Workloads can by dynamically and non-disruptively moved in the environment. The abstracted environment supports both bare metal and hyper-visor based deployments. Including multiple varieties of hypervisors. Build 2 – Resources are provisioned logically based on service catalogs. The application environments are isolated in this share virtual environment both to ensure data security and service level control while still enabling resources to be dynamically shared across those environments. Something we call Secure-multitenancyTransitionThis environment is ideal for a cloud infrastructure but not all companies are ready to move all of their environment to a cloud….