Presented on May 28th, 2015 at TechDays Netherlands in The Hague: The rise of virtualization and new applications has created pressure on IT departments to develop, deliver and maintain an application & storage infrastructure that is not only high performing, but also simple to manage, VM-centric and highly scalable. In this technical session, we'll discuss how to create the ideal infrastructure for Hyper-V and virtualized Windows applications, that is always available and literally invisible to the application teams. We will also explore a real world Windows Azure Pack deployment of the European Service Provider Synergics during this technical session. One of the Synergics’ architects will explain and demonstrate how they deployed a scalable, easy-to-manage cloud based on Windows Azure Pack.

2. How to deploy a Private Cloud
Based on WAP and Nutanix

3. Why are you here
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci’s saying reminds us that the era of IT complexity must end.
Introduction Why we deployed Azure Pack
How did we deploy Azure Pack Key takeaways

4. Synergics
Who are we

5. Tom Van Gramberen
@tomvangramberen
tom@synergics.be
Solutions Architect

6. Our vision
We help growth companies to improve their
competitive position by aligning IT and business both at
strategic (innovate), tactical (transform) as
operational level (manage).
Manage
Transform
Innovate

7. Cloud OS
Flexible development
Unified DevOps & management
Common identity & security
Integrated virtualization
Complete data platform
On premise
SynergicsAzure
One
consistent
platform
Managed Cloud

8. Nutanix
An introduction

9. Infrastructure roadblocks
Inherent complexity
Forklift scale-up
Battle bottlenecks
What slows IT down

10. Web-Scale data centers
Simple, Scalable, Predictable
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Design goals
• Hyper convergence x86 servers
• All intelligence in software
• Distributed everything
• Always on & self healing systems
• Automated with API’s and rich analysis

11. Hyper convergence
Integrated compute and storage
for virtualized environments
Servers
Network
SAN

12. Web-Scale converged architecture

13. Nutanix hyper converged architecture
Under the covers (Part 1)

14. Nutanix hyper converged architecture
Under the covers (Part 2)
NDFS
SMB 3.0
SSD / HDD / Cloud
REST API
Caching
TieringSnapshots
PowerShell
Clones
Compression
HTML5 UI De-duplication
ODX TRIM

15. Configuration Health Risk Efficiency
HTML5 UI
PRISM

16. Scalable & Available
Scale-out control plane
No single-point of failure
Scale-out data plane
Nutanix PRISM Nutanix Distributed File System
Data
protection
System
resilience
Data reduction
Intelligent data
tiering
Analytics &
Monitoring
Infrastructure
monitoring

17. PRISM
Demo

18. NOS upgrade
Video

19. NOS upgrade
A 1-click experience

20. Azure Pack

21. Azure Pack
Why we did it

22. What customers want
Controlled Self-
service
People-centric IT
Data control Flexible, Hybrid
offerings

23. Our past ..
What we had

24. .. ?? ..
What we needed
Scalability
Business Continuity
Clear overview of costs & usage
Easy and fast deployment
Self service
Hybrid solution

25. Azure
Pack
.. and present
What we do now
Nutanix compute/storage & Hyper-V 3.0
Microsoft Cloud OS with System Center 2012 R2
WAP Admin portal WAP Tenant portal
Synergics data centers
Tenant
Mngmnt
Plans Auto-
mation
Billing
IT Admin
Websites Databases
Virtual
Machines
Tenants

26. A flexible offering
Managed Hybrid Cloud
On premise
SynergicsAzure
One
consistent
platform
Custom
resources
Physical
servers
Beyond
Azure Pack

27. WAP in a Box
Truely Hybrid
Microsoft
Azure
Synergics
Managed Cloud
Customers
WAP in a Box
VPNVPN
ExpressRoute

28. WAP in a Box
Truely Hybrid
Single point-
of-contact
24/7 support
desk
Synergics
managed
cloud
Use, not
maintain
Keep
ownership of
data
Synergics
certified
expertise
Easy to scale

29. Azure Pack
How we did it

30. Design decisions
• Dedicated vs. Shared hardware
• Network Isolation
• Software Defined Networking (NVGRE)
• Fabric VM infrastructure
• High availability, scaling & security
• Nutanix specifics

31. Dedicated vs Shared
Hardware
Shared
nodes

32. Dedicated vs Shared
Hardware
Grow into
POD design

33. Networking
Isolate
traffic

34. Network isolation
SDN (NVGRE)
Use
NVGRE

35. Fabric infrastructure
Using SQL Server for
• Virtual Machine Manager
• Windows Azure Pack
• System Center Operations Manager
Use SQL Server AlwaysOn availability groups
Take care with back in time recovery
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn832926.aspx
High available databases

36. Fabric infrastructure
• Split public vs. privileged services
• Security !!
• No Express deployments
• Proof of Concepts only
The basics

37. Fabric infrastructure
Go distributed & Go scalable

38. Fabric infrastructure
Authentication & Optional providers

39. Nutanix specific
• Enable Jumbo Frames
• Only connect 10 GbE interfaces
• Have 1 domain controller away from Nutanix
• Domain join Nutanix nodes using the script
• setup_hyperv.py setup_hosts
• Use SQL Server AlwaysOn for the database backend
• Add Hyper-V hosts and storage to SCVMM using the script
• setup_hyperv.py setup_scvmm

40. Azure Pack
Demo

41. Conclusion

42. Key takeaways
• Automation, Integration, Convergence Agility
• DevOps / Public Cloud couldn’t happen without it
• Requires APIs and simple interfaces -> PowerShell & REST
• Web-Scale = Easy
• Nutanix + Windows Azure Pack can make it easy
• Full Reference Architecture available
• We are here to help you
• Nutanix brings Web-Scale convergence
• Windows Azure Pack provides a Private Cloud foundation
• Synergics shares experience and delivers services

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