Monthly Business and Product Webinar

February 2017
Selling ABS
Rohit Goyal, Product Marketing Manager
Mike McGhee, Technical Marketing Engineer
Agenda

Why we built ABS

What is ABS and Features
ABS Use Cases
Demo

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Server Virtualization Market

Non-virtualized
25%
Virtualized
75%

May 2016*
*Gartner Says Worldwide Server Virtualization Market Is Reaching Its Peak http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/3315817
Storage Landscape

Legacy Infrastructure Public Cloud

Newer Vendors with Legacy Stack Other Hyperconverged Solutions

Legacy Infrastructure Challenges

Outdated Technology

Inherent Complexity

Inefficient Silos
Cloud Infrastructure Meets Non-virtualized Workloads

ASE DB2
Cloud

ABS Non-virtualized
Workloads
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Unified Platforms
Enterprise for All Enterprise Workloads
Workloads

ASE DB2
Windows Server

Single Nutanix Fabric Across All Workloads

ABS Designed for the Enterprise Cloud

Non-virtualized Servers
What is ABS?

Exposes storage through

direct block-level iSCSI
access

ABS enables high availability,

iSCSI iSCSI
scalability, and performance
to non-virtualized Oracle,
SQL, and IBM DB2 workloads

Nutanix Nodes

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Comprehensive Client Support

RHEL 6, 7
Oracle Linux 6, 7
CentOS 6, 7
Supported Client
Windows 2008 R2
OS Windows 2012 R2
Non-virtualized AIX 7.1, 7.2 on POWER
Servers SLES 11, 12

AHV
Certified Certified for
for

NetWeaver
Distributed Data Services

Compression Deduplication Erasure Coding

Inline and post-process Global deduplication across Storage optimization,
compression the entire cluster keeping resiliency
unchanged
Inline: Data compressed as Inline fingerprinting with
written post-process deduplication Optimized availability (fast
rebuild)
Post-process: Compressed
when data migrated to Uses the power of the entire
cold tier cluster
Built-in High Availability

Hardware
Self-healing from disk failures
Redundancy of key components

Node
Node failure resiliency
iSCSI Non-disruptive upgrades

Data
Tunable redundancy (RF2 & RF3)
Transparent consistency checks
Snapshots and Clones

Site
Multi-site replication (Async)
Cloud connect
Distributed Storage Fabric
Secure by Design

Initiator Target
One-way
CHAP

Two-way
CHAP

Smaller attack surface through a hardened platform

Automated remediation with built-in STIGs

Shipped factory secure, pen tested

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Built for the Enterprise Cloud
Simplicity
Deploy in a few clicks
Integrated multi-site
management
VM-admin friendly workflows
Scalability Performance
Understand capacity Increase I/O performance
utilization instantly with data one hop away
Expand cluster with online Increase read/write speed
resize with data pinning
Assign more storage for Boost throughput with dual
Apps with no downtime 40GbE raw bandwidth
Scale based on business
demands
Simplify Deployments

Optimized Storage

1. Start with 2U of rack space

2. Up to 92TB raw capacity
3. Up to 4:1 capacity savings

2U

Simplicity as you scale

Scale-out Capacity and Performance

Advantages
Seamlessly add new nodes
based on performance or
capacity requirements
Automated path
management
Expand volume groups
across multiple nodes
Automatically rebalance
New Node controller performance
Real time load analysis

Distributed
Distributed
Storage
Storage
Fabric Fabric
ABS and Oracle Performance

Certified
for

Mix OLTP and OLAP Workloads

iSCSI

200,000+ Random Oracle IO in 2U

Licensing Strategy

ABS is available with

Acropolis Pro and Ultimate Editions
Pro enables space savings with Erasure
Coding, Compression, and Deduplication

Ultimate delivers a comprehensive cloud

experience (includes all Pro features)
ABS Use Cases
Use Case: Server Investment Protection

Ideal for existing server investment when storage is being retired but servers
are out of synch and are not ready for retirement yet

Utilize bare-metal server performance to run workloads while receiving scale-

out high-performance storage from Nutanix

Legacy and bare metal applications that cannot be virtualized can still receive
first class treatment on storage until applications are rewritten
Use Case: Simplifying Dev/Test to Production

iSCSI

ABS

Development QA Staging Production

Development & QA Staging & Production

Connect VMs to local database Detach database from VM and
Utilize local iSCSI resources attach to non-virtualized server
No need to move database
Resources

Datasheet: http://go.nutanix.com/rs/031-GVQ-112/images/nutanix-
acropolis-block-services.pdf
Blogs:
http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Putting-Acropolis-
Block-Services-ABS-through-its-Paces/ba-p/11433
http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/NEXT-2016-Solutions-
Demo-MCS-AHV-SQL-AHV-ABS-Oracle-RAC/ba-p/11231
http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Ten-Things-you-need-to-
know-about-Nutanix-Acropolis-Block/ba-p/14969
http://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/What-s-New-in-Acropolis-
4-7/ba-p/11215
Best Practice Guide: ABS - https://www.nutanix.com/go/acropolis-block-
services-scale-out-storage.html

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DEMO
Thank You