VMUGIT User Conference 2014 The Next Level in Web Scale IT Architectures is Here "Raymon Epping and Matt Northam, Nutanix"

1. [session title]
Raymon Epping
Matt Northam

2. Performance
Capacity
Performance
Capacity
4 nodes=100k
IOPS
8 nodes=200k
IOPS
40 nodes=1M IOPS
Cost
Cost
Cost
Cost
#PRISM
IT Challenges:
 Performance
 Complexity
 Capacity
 Innovation
Business Drivers:
 CapEx
 OpEx
 Agility
ESX
Virtualization benefits:
 HA / DRS / vMotion
 FT
 SRM..
SAN
Storage Evolution:
 Flash
 Hybrid
 All flash
 Software
ESX ESX
Linear Scale Out
Rolling Upgrades
3.5  4.0  3.5
MapReduce
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24 31 13
75 22 02
Enterprise Features:
 Compression
 Dedupe
 HA / DR
CVM CVM CVM
RESTFul API
EUC Apps
Big
Data
Futures:
 GPU
 NVME
 PCIe 4.0
VCAC HadoopOpenStack
EC2
Bringing Webscale IT to the enterprise
Uncomprimisingly Simple

3. Core Principles of Web-Scale IT
Strategy
• Use off-the-shelf hardware
• Software eatshardware
• Scaling out is #1
• Efficiencyis #2
• Culture as important as infrastructure
HealthChecks
• Auto remediationof nodes
• Detect and adjust to node
• Auto include nodes once they have been
fixed (but rate limit remediation)
DesignforFailures
• No single point of failure - killing any
process is legitimate
• Minimize manual intervention
• Rolling upgrades are the norm
• Survive wide-ranging (rack, DC) failures
Dashboardsand Metrics
• Single view of the entire system
• SLAhits/misses
• Cluster and node health
• Performanceand utilization

4. What Is Web-Scale IT?
A system and methodology for designing, deploying and managing infrastructure
at any scale
BenefitsIngredients
Infrastructure Strategy
• Intelligence in software layer
• Linear, predictable scale-out
• Fractional consumption
People and Process
• Culture as important as tech
• Launch first, optimize later
• No technology religion
System Design
• Non-disruptive rolling upgrades
• No single point of failure
• Minimal manual intervention
Business
Agility
Rapid Scale Cost
Efficiency
Radical Simplicity

5. DATA FABRIC
Integrated Data Protection
MapReduce Deduplication
Tunable Redundancy
Availability Domains
CONTROLFABRIC
Prism Central
Cluster Health
One-click NOS Upgrades
PowerShell Cmdlets
Powerful Management,
Analytics and Automation
Better Performance,
Availability and Scale
What’s New in NOS 4.0?

6. Integrated Data Protection
Unlimited local snapshots on primary cluster
with Time Stream
One-click restore and state recovery
WAN-optimized replication for DR
Works with ESXi and Hyper-V
Schedule, manage and use local and
remote snapshots and replication for
backup and disaster recovery from
Prism
vdisk Local Snapshots
Remote Snapshots
DR Cluster
Primary Cluster
Local Off-Cluster
backups
On-Site Secondary
Veeam Integration

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MapReduce Deduplication
Distributed across all nodes  low overhead,
scale-out
Complements real-time perf dedup
Global dedup across entire cluster
Post-process, cluster-wide
deduplication capability that increases the
effective capacity of a cluster
Before
After
Distributed Deduplication

8. Multicluster Management Simplified
Summary view of different
clusters
Aggregate visibilityacross
clusters
Quick navigationbetween
clusters

9. Cluster Health
Monitor health of VMs, nodes and disks
Automatic health checks
Convergence is a unique advantage
Enables self-service troubleshootingand
rapid resolution
Quick investigation - grouping, filtering and
hierarchy navigation
Get comprehensive, end-to-endvisibility
of the health of a cluster
Quickly identify, troubleshoot and resolve
issues across the infrastructure stackCluster Health
Health checks suite runs in the background

10. One-click NOS Upgrade
Parallel
Upgrades
Serial Reboots
Done in minutes with zero touch
No downtime while upgrade happens
Nodes upgraded in parallel
Automatic sequencing of reboots
Automatically upgrade NOS on Nutanix
clusters non-disruptively with no manual
intervention

11. As simple as…

12. Windows PowerShell Cmdlets
GUI nCLI
Nutanix REST API
PowerShell
Cmdlets
Automatically generated wrappers around
Nutanix REST API
No need for Windows PowerShell users to
learn a new CLI
Configure and manage Nutanix clusters
using PowerShell scripts

13. Tunable Resilience
Software-defined
RF-3 offers protection against two
simultaneous disk, node and NIC failures
Switch between RF-2 and RF-3
Replication set at the container level
Configure different levelsof fault tolerance
for different applications in the same cluster
dynamically
RF-2 Container
RF-3 Container

14. Availability Domains
V1: Intelligent placement of replicas to
protect against failure of block
Requires minimum of 3 blocks for block
awareness
Place data intelligently to across availability
domain boundaries
Appliance Appliance Appliance

15. Hardware portfolio

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NX-10x0
- Branch offices
Compute: E5-2620, 12 cores / 2.0 GHz
Memory: 64 GB or 128 GB
Storage: 400 GB SSD, 4x 1 TB HDDs
Density: up to 50 virtual machines
NX-30x0
- VDI and Generic server VM’s
Compute: E5-2680v2, 20 cores / 2.8 GHz
Memory: 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB
Storage: 2x 400 GB SSD, 4x 1 TB HDDs
Density: up to 50 virtual machines
NX-60x0
- High demand / capacity
Compute: E5-2680v2, 20 cores / 2.8 GHz
Memory: 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB
Storage: 2x 400 GB SSD, 4x 4 TB HDDs
Density: up to 115 virtual machines
NX-70x0
- Intensive video applications
Compute: E5-2680v2, 20 cores / 2.8 GHz
Memory: 128 GB or 256 GB
GPU: Up to 2x GRID K1, 3x GRID K2, 1x APEX
Density: K1: 8-64, K2 vSGA: 6-48, vDGA: 6

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Questions?

18. Nutanix - Resources
Nutanix Datasheets and Technical Guides
 http://www.nutanix.com/resources
Nutanix Blog
 http://www.nutanix.com/blog/
The Nutanix Bible
 http://stevenpoitras.com/the-nutanix-bible
Josh Odgers Blog
 http://www.joshodgers.com
Michael Webster’sBlog
 http://longwhiteclouds.com
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