Prism is the control plane that simplifies datacenter operations by providing a single pane of glass to manage compute, storage and virtualization and offering rich automation and operational insights.
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Turnkey infrastructure platform
that converges compute, storage and
virtualization to run any application, at any
scale
Comprehensive management solution that
radically simplifies datacenter operations
The Nutanix Solution
Nutanix Prism
Nutanix Acropolis
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What is it?
• Self-service access to IT resources
• IT sets policies and provides access to tenants
• Tenants deploy applications without IT intervention
• Developers/tenants empowered to get AWS like experience
Components
• Admin Portal – Create projects, Set policies, Assign users etc.
• Tenant Portal – Deploy and monitor applications
Self-Service Portal
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VM Management for ESXi
• Fundamental to mixed hypervisor
support
• Single management GUI for AHV and
ESXi
• Use Prism for common use cases
– VM Create
– VM Update
– VM Delete
– VM Power On/Off Operations
– Launch console
– Clone
• Does not displace vCenter
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Virtual Network Management – Network Visualization
• Map end-to-end VM-Network
connectivity
• Visually rich view of how VMs
are connected to network
• Instantly identify and fix VLAN
misconfigurations
• Filter by Applications, Users,
VMs, VLANs to quickly fix
issues
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Actionable Capacity Forecasting
What is it?
• Detailed capacity trends
• Intelligent
recommendations
• Powered by patent
pending
X-Fit algorithm
Benefits:
• Enables pay as you grow
capacity expansion
• Eliminates guesswork
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3 4 vCPU, 4GB, CPU intensive
2 2 vCPU, 8GB, IO intensive
4 vCPU, 8GB, memory intensive
VDI
XenApp
Exchange
SQL Server
Splunk
What-if Analysis
• What-if for a pre-defined workload type
• What-if for a group of VMs with different
configurations and behaviors
• What-if for an expected demand change
of existing running workloads.
• What-if for increasing the runway
• What-if for new Infrastructure
What customers get
Ensure the capacity expansion to meet the future workload growth.
50% More of current consumption
Machine-learned
behavior
What-if analysis Recommendation
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Customizable Dashboards Enhancements
What is it?
• Live dashboards for at-a-glance
view of the entire infrastructure
• Build and customize from
pre-defined widgets
• Customize charts, alerts, perf.
metrics amongst others
Benefits:
• Monitor everything from storage to
apps from home screen
• Reduce mean time to restore from
failures
• Different views for different
employees
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Prism Search Enhancements
What is it?
• Search-centric management
• Contextual results with one-click
actions
• Search history and shortcuts
• Support for auto-complete, auto-
correction, synonyms
• Support for regular expressions
• Debugging
performance/availability
• Example: “Hosts with iops
<1000”
Bennefits
• Consumer-centric management
• Simple to use with zero learning
curve
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Now, let’s talk about the actual products that Nutanix offers. There are two foundational products in the Nutanix solution - Nutanix Acropolis, and Nutanix Prism.
Acropolis is the data fabric that natively converges compute, storage and virtualization to run any application at any scale.
Prism is the control plane that simplifies datacenter operations by providing a single pane of glass to manage compute, storage and virtualization and offering rich automation and operational insights.
Prism brings simplicity to infrastructure management, and features innovative One-Click technology that streamlines time-consuming IT tasks
One-Click Infrastructure Management - Nutanix Prism gives administrators an easy way to manage virtual environments running on Acropolis. It simplifies and streamlines common workflows for hypervisor and virtual machine (VM) management, from VM creation and migration to virtual network setup and hypervisor upgrades. Rather than replicating the full set of features found in other virtualization solutions, virtualization management in Prism has been designed for an uncluttered, consumer-grade experience.
One-click Operational Insight - Prism provides rich insights about day-to-day operations of the datacenter. Prism is powered by advanced machine learning technology with built-in heuristics and business intelligence to easily and quickly mine large volumes of system data and generate actionable insights for optimizing all aspects of infrastructure performance.
One-Click Remediation - Nutanix Prism reduces mean time to resolution significantly by proactively analyzing trends and predict when certain failures can occur. In addition to that Prism also provides customized recommendations to resolve issues with a single click. Instead of showing individual alerts, Prism intelligently maps alerts to specific services and shows the errors impact on applications, helping IT admins gain more confidence about how their applications are running.
Higher service quality
Improved IT productivity
Better business agility
Higher service quality
Improved IT productivity
Better business agility
Create projects
Create/add user groups
Assign resources
Assign actions
Run Show-back reports
Deploy applications
Monitor applications
Monitor resource usage
Create projects
Create/add user groups
Assign resources
Assign actions
Run Show-back reports
Deploy applications
Monitor applications
Monitor resource usage
Vlan misconfiguration
Connectivity information
Higher service quality
Improved IT productivity
Better business agility
Visual – screenshots of runway and scale-out recommendation
Forecast of CPU, memory, and storage capacity runway (time remaining)
Based on machine-learned consumption behavior from running workloads
Detail trend of hosts (in CPU and memory) and containers (in storage) level
Recommendation of appropriate scale out options (node types and numbers)
Planning of the expansion based on existing and new workload demands.
Simplified demand definition by selecting
a pre-defined workload type
appropriate VM types and numbers from a VM configuration and behavior catalogue
an adjustment of existing running workloads.
Higher service quality
Improved IT productivity
Better business agility
Visual – screenshots of home page and widget configuration
Creation and customization a dashboard by dragging and dropping widgets
Pre-defined and customizable widgets for charting, alerts, cluster status, capacity runway, and top resource utilization top.
Out-of-the box home dashboard for 360° view of the Nutanix clusters.
Visual – screenshot of a search with its result
Keywords based search with auto-complete and instant result
Contextual results, showing configuration, charts, alerts, appropriate actions, and help contents
Saved and recent search shortcuts for quick access
Prism brings simplicity to infrastructure management, and features innovative One-Click technology that streamlines time-consuming IT tasks
One-Click Infrastructure Management - Nutanix Prism gives administrators an easy way to manage virtual environments running on Acropolis. It simplifies and streamlines common workflows for hypervisor and virtual machine (VM) management, from VM creation and migration to virtual network setup and hypervisor upgrades. Rather than replicating the full set of features found in other virtualization solutions, virtualization management in Prism has been designed for an uncluttered, consumer-grade experience.
One-click Operational Insight - Prism provides rich insights about day-to-day operations of the datacenter. Prism is powered by advanced machine learning technology with built-in heuristics and business intelligence to easily and quickly mine large volumes of system data and generate actionable insights for optimizing all aspects of infrastructure performance.
One-Click Remediation - Nutanix Prism reduces mean time to resolution significantly by proactively analyzing trends and predict when certain failures can occur. In addition to that Prism also provides customized recommendations to resolve issues with a single click. Instead of showing individual alerts, Prism intelligently maps alerts to specific services and shows the errors impact on applications, helping IT admins gain more confidence about how their applications are running.