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AGENDA
1.Introduction
2.Solution Overview – HyperFlex
3.Case Studies
4.Dashboard Walkthrough
5.Q&A
6.Conclusion
Solution Overview:
HyperFlex
One Architecture for Operational Simplicity
U N IFIED M A N AG EM ENT M O DE L

UCS M ANAGEM ENT CLOUD CENT ER ACI

VM VM VM

HyperFlex UCS UCS

UCS Mini Fourth Gen. UCS
Systems C240 C3000

Mainstream Converged Hyperconverged Software-Defined Scale Out

Computing Infrastructure Infrastructure Storage

EDGE CORE DATA CENTER CLOUD

 Evolving Infrastructure Challenges

Evolving App Multicloud

Complexity
Architectures Reality

Hampers speed, Microservices and Developers demand

security, service distributed applications choice, business
delivery, scale on/off premises demands economics
Data Center Economics
S erver-Related Spend
Overall Spend Distribution WW N ew Server, Power, C ooling, Management,
an d Administration S pending Share
7% 2%
100%
7%
29% 80%

10%
60%

of Overall IT 40%

11%Spent on OpEx
20%
(People, SW, and Facilities)
22% 0%
12%
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
People Software
Energy / Facilities Servers New Server Server Admin Power and Cooling
Networking Storage

Source: IDC #250082, “Worldwide Server, Power and Cooling, and Management
Source: Gartner, Cisco IT, “Data Center Cost Portfolio”
and Administration Spending 2014–2018 Forecast,” August 2014
HCI changes economics

Add servers
and disks

Add nodes
Capex

Scale incrementally
Initial $

Initial $
Traditional SAN Hyper-Converged
Architectural Approaches to Hyperconvergance
Hyb rid Cloud Management

Storage Software HX Data Platform

Vendor B - Compute
Cisco Fabric Computing
Vendor C - Network

Traditional Infrastructure Cisco UCS Foundations Cisco HyperFlex

Siloed Tiers of Compute, Storage and Converged Compute and Multicloud Era Hyperconverged
Networking from separate vendors Networking System Infrastructure
Siloed & Disaggregated Management
 HX Data Platform Overview
+ =
Cisco UCS Servers
Fabric Interconnects
Enterprise Grade
• Robust Data Integrity and
Continuous Availability
• Proactive Auto-support
• Custom built file system
• Inline De-duplication and
Inline Compression
Cisco HX Data Platform
Maximum Simplicity
• Fast Installation and
Configuration
• 100% vCenter based
management
• Rapid VM Cloning
• VM/Folder level Snapshots
Cisco HyperFlex Systems
Economical Scaling
• Scale modularly
• Scale online
• Scale Compute and Storage
independently
• Annual Subscription pricing
Primary HyperFlex Use Cases

Virtual Desktop Server Test and ROBO & Databases

Containers
Infrastructure Virtualization Development Edge & ERP

Low Reduce Agile Simple Consistent, Simple & seamless

upfront operational provisioning deployment low-latency customer
costs complexity experience
Frequent Centralized High IOPS
Consistent Adaptive iterations management
All-flash Enterprise grade
performance scaling
Instant No nodes container storage
Predictable Always-on cloning and “fly-and-fix”
scaling resiliency snapshots missions Cloud native
development on
prem
 Enterprises Run Mission Critical Apps on HyperFlex
Any App

Common HCI apps

Business
Critical Apps

First Generation Cisco

Software Only HCI
HyperFlex
#1 in Validated Virtualization and
Performance Designs Container Options
 Simplified Scaling
Creating Virtual Pools of Shared Resources
Application
View CPU Memory SSD HDD

Virtual
Cache Capacity
Controller

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER HYPERVISOR CONTROLLER

Physical
View Cisco
HX DataHyperFlex
Platform
Hyperconverged Scale Out and
Distributed File System
VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER

HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM HYPERVISOR VM

HYPERCONVERGEDHYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM HYPERCONVERGED
DATA PLATFORM DATA PLATFORM

Linearly Scale Distribute and

Hyperconverged Add Servers, One Compute, Storage Rebalance Data Retire Older
Start With as Few
Data Platform or More at a Time Performance, Across Servers Servers
as Three Nodes
Installs in Minutes and Capacity Automatically
ESG HCI Performance Testing
Performance to Simplify Business Critical Apps
HYPERFLEX VS.
HCI CO MPE TITION 3x better
3x higher
TCO
1
VM density
More workloads
3x reduced
2
read/write latency On Hyperconverged
7:1 reduction
3
IOPS variability Predictable
End User Experience
R E AD T H E F U L L E S G R E P O R T
c i s c o . c o m/ g o / h yp e r f l e x
HyperFlex Product Differentiation
Architected to Optimize Across Hardware, Software, Networking and Management.
Integrated Solution with Single Point of Support

High Performance & Enterprise Class Data Seamless integration of Independent Scaling of
Scalable Data Platform Services & Storage Converged & Compute & Capacity
Optimization Hyperconverged
#1 Performing HCI
platform
Consistent , Low latency
performance
3 X Lower TCO, 3X Higher VM Investment protection of existing Cost optimization through
Integrated Dedup & Compression
D ensity, 64 node scale, linear scale stor age a nd compute investment Compute-only node support
out performance w/ no performance penalty

Deployment Automation & Integrated High Data Protection, High Cloud based centralized
Simplicity Performance Network Availability & Resiliency management
Fabric

Intersight

Out-of-the-box service profiles, 1 0 G/40G V IC/Fabric N a tive replication, backup/DR, Monitoring, Telemetry, Analytics,
insta ll/upgrade automation, Fa ctory installed, integrated Str etch Cluster, Availability Zones, P olicy, Orchestration, Proactive
a utomated cluster scaling networking, fabric QoS Fa ult tolerant HA a rchitecture TAC, HX Cluster management

Broad Range Ana lytics

ROBO V SI VD I Collaboration D a tabases Mission Critical & ERP Cloud-Native Apps
Of Supported ( Or acle, SQL) ( Splunk) ( D ocker, Kubernetes)
( Br anch, IOT) ( a pp/web) ( Citrix, Horizon) ( U C, HCS) ( SAP )
Workloads
Cisco Intersight
Intelligent Centralized Management
Secure and
Policy Based Compliant API Driven,
Telemetry Orchestration DevOps Enabled Connected
and Analytics
TAC

SaaS Actionable
Simplicity Intelligence
Intersight
Case Studies
Rx Retail Chain - HyperFlex
Cures Multisite Management
Client Challenges
• Small Pharma Retail
• 32 locations across South
• Recent Acquisition
• Looking to Centralize and
Virtualize
• Limited Partner
• Multiple locations
The Solution
• HyperFlex 3 C240
• Mentored Install
• Security AMP for End
Point
• Single Server Sites
managed through
Dashboard Walkthrough
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