Extraordinary performance depends on extraordinary teamwork. Three companies – Microsoft, Cisco and NetApp – have joined forces to drive business transformation through the adoption of Microsoft Private Cloud on FlexPod. Unlike legacy models, FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud is delivered on a reference architecture that enables fully automated provisioning and workload management in hours instead of days or weeks. We will elaborate on how this converged infrastructure solution can be utilized to enable new business strategies.

1. Mark Godfrey
Business Solution Architect - NetApp
Gordon Phillips
Director of Sales – Data Center Microsoft Canada

2. Trends and the Data Center
of the Future

3. The datacenter of the future
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Complete data
platform,
making data a core
element of the
operating system.
Integrated
virtualization,
taking virtualization
beyond servers to the
network, storage, and
apps, for a holistic
management approach.
Common
identity,
helping you extend IT
to the cloud and
extend apps and data
to devices securely.
Flexible
development,
using familiar tools to
quickly build apps and
connect them with
other apps inside or
outside the firewall.
Unified
management,
providing a single pane
of glass to deploy and
manage apps across
multiple clouds.

4. Consolidated
Managed
Virtualized
Cost Efficient
Usage-based
Self-service
Elasticity
Automation
Pooled resources
Optimized
Data Center
+ =
Cloud Attributes
Let's agree that an Optimized Data Center is not yet a Cloud
Private Cloud
Converged
Infrastructure
Reference
Architecture

5. Seamless Cloud Services
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6. …Data Doesn’t Move Easily
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 Data needs to be close to
compute for performance
 Moving data between clouds is
difficult
 Time consuming
 Expensive bandwidth
 Cloud formats are often
incompatible
 Data services are not consistent
Compute is agile,
data is not
Compute
Data

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Connect the Clouds with NetApp

8. Microsoft as a Data Center
“User”

9. 9EntertainmentSurface MOBILE AutomotiveHome

10. What does a Hyper-V
enabled FlexPod do for me?

13. FlexPod For Microsoft Private Cloud
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 Microsoft OS & Management
 Cisco Servers
 Cisco Networking
 NetApp Storage

14. Deployment Guide
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 Designed, tested and documented by NetApp and
Cisco
 Validated by Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track v3
 Documented deployment & configuration of:
 physical cabling
 Compute and storage
 Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center
 Cisco and NetApp software management
components

15. Integration, Validated Designs, Best Practices
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FlexPod:
Performance Balanced
Server, Network, and
Storage Components
Validated
Workloads
Security Options
Bare Metal OS
Hyper-V Red Hat VMware vSphereOracle VM
Secure Multi-TenancySecure Separation
Hypervisors
Orchestration

17. Next Steps

18. Physical
• High Cost
• Legacy
• Support Intensive
Virtual
• Current Stage
• Cost savings, but advanced
features not utilized
• “Good Enough”
• Multiple Support
Organizations
Private
Cloud
• Needed to scale to Public
Cloud
• Significant Value –
Automation, Management,
Scalability, Run Books. Support
• Grow from “Using Servers” to
“Serving Users”
Service
Provider
•Local Data Residency
•Are they based on a
common architecture?
•Can you push to and pull
back ?
Public
Cloud
•Very low cost of service
•Easy to Administer
•Geo-Redundant
•Flexible services
Joint
Investment
(Cisco, NetApp,
Microsoft)
Microsoft
MTC
Visit it in
Mississauga
SHIFT to
Hyper-V
utilizing NetApp
Storage
Controller and
tools

19. Private, Service Provider & Azure
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Microsoft Azure Cloud
Details through NDA only
Microsoft Private
Cloud
Service
Provider
NetApp
FlexPod
SHIFT -Conversion
Physical Virtual

20. Questions?
Thank you for your time
Gordon Phillips
Director of Sales - Data Center Microsoft Canada
Mobile: 403.617.3637
E-Mail: Gordon.Phillips@microsoft.com
@VirtualGord
Mark Godfrey
Business Solutions Architect
Mobile: 647.922.7802
E-Mail: Mark.Godfrey@netapp.com
@CDNmgodfrey