Hyperconverged Infrastructure Deep Dive: The What, How-To and Why Now? - Giampiero Petrosi, Solutions Architect, Simplivity

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The Best of Both Worlds:
x86 Cloud Economics with Enterprise Capabilities
Giampiero Petrosi – giampiero.petrosi@simplivity.com
Novembre 2015

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Founded in 2009 in Boston, MA:
3.5 years of development
All code purpose built and “home grown”
Pioneer in Hyperconverged
Infrastructure
Mission: To Simplify IT
Premier investors:
SimpliVity Overview
Hyper Growth in 2015
• 250% year-over-year sales growth in Q2 2015
• Massive global expansion: resellers in 60
countries, employees in 21
• More than 50% of sales outside of U.S.
• 600+ employees worldwide
• More than 2,500 systems deployed
• 550+ customers

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Our Customers >2500 Systems shipped … globally, across all customer segments
OtherGlobal 2000 Healthcare Financial
Services
Leading
Indian Bank
Leading
Consulting Firm
TOP 5
Global:
Retail
Telecom
Oil & Gas
Media &
Entertainment
Consumer
Leading Luxury Brand
Top 5 Global
Consumer Electronics
Government &
Higher Education
Top 5 US
Government Agency

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Evolution of Convergence
Servers + VMware
Storage Switch
HA Shared Storage
SSD Array
Backup Appliance
WAN Optimization
Cloud Gateway
Storage Caching
Backup Apps
Legacy Stack Convergence 2.0
Partial Convergence
Converge only
storage and
server
Convergence 3.0
Hyperconvergence
The Best of
Both Worlds
Hyperconverge
entire stack
Convergence 1.0
Integrated Systems
Enterprise
Capabilities
1. Data Protection
2. Data Efficiency
3. Performance
4. Global Unified
Management
Pre-integrated
storage and
server
Cloud
Economics
1. Low Cost
2. x86 Resources
3. Scale-out

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Remote
Datacenter
Cloud Gateway
OmniCube
SSDSSD
OmniCube
ESXi
Local Storage
SSDSSD
ESXi
Local Storage
ESXi
Local Storage
SSDSSD
ESXi
VM VM VM
VM VM VM
Public Cloud
OmniCube
ESXi
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
Traditional Shared
Storage Array
SSDSSD
Data Protection Apps
SSD Cache
SSD Array
Deduplicated
Disk Backup Appliance
WAN Optimization
OmniCube
SSDSSD SSDSSD
ESXi
VM VM
VM VMSVT SVTSVT
Traditional Shared
Storage Array
SSDSSD SSDSSD
SVT
Data Protection Apps
Enterprise
Capabilities
1. Data Protection
2. Data Efficiency
3. Performance
4. Global Unified
Management
Cloud
Economics
1. Low Cost
2. x86 Resources
3. Scale-out
The Best of
Both Worlds

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Servers
Storage switch
HA shared storage
Cloud gateway
SSD array
Management
Orchestration
Hypervisor
The Future
All IT infrastructure
below the hypervisor
Anywhere:
Public Cloud, Private Cloud, ROBO
Legacy IT Infrastructure
3x TCO Reduction
Powered by
OmniStack
Data Virtualization Platform
Storage caching
Backup appliance
WAN optimization
Data Protection Apps
The Best of Both Worlds:
Enterprise Capabilities with Cloud Economics
Any x86 Platform
Vision

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OMNISTACK DATA VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM
Management Choice
Native VM Tools, Orchestration & Automation, REST
SimpliVity Vision
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Accelerated
Data Efficiency
DVP Foundation
Accelerated
Data Efficiency
Global Unified
Management
DVP Foundation
Accelerated
Data Efficiency
Global Unified
Management
Built-in Data
Protection
DVP Foundation
Accelerated
Data Efficiency
Global Unified
Management
Built-in Data
Protection
SimpliVity Object Store
DVP Foundation
Accelerated
Data Efficiency
Global Unified
Management
Built-in Data
Protection
SimpliVity Object Store
SimpliVity File System
DVP Foundation
x86 Choice
Any Server
Server and OS Virtualization Choice
Server and OS
Virtualization Choice
Cloud Choice
Any Cloud Service Provider

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SimpliVity’s Architecture:
OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform
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SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform
App 3 App 4
HDD
SSD
DRAM
X86 CPU
HyperVisor
ALL DATA WRITTEN/REGISTERED TO VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM
ONLY UNIQUE DATA WRITTEN TO HDD
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
DATA VIRTUALIZATION PLATFORM
“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

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SimpliVity’s Data Virtualization Platform
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
HDD
SSD
DRAM
X86 CPU
HyperVisor
App 4App 3
“The best IO is the one you don’t have to do.”

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Global Unified Management
San Francisco
HDD
SSD
DRAM
X86 CPU
HyperVisor
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
New York
HyperVisor
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
Local, Full VM Backup Remote Full VM Backup
Fast Application
Restore from Full
VM Backup
All data is deduplicated and compressed
to minimize data flow across geography
App
4
App
3
App
5

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Global Unified Management from Single Pane of Glass: VMware vCenter
San Francisco
New York
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
DATA MANAGEMENT LAYER
PRESENTATION LAYER
Public Cloud
SVT

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Scale-Out and Open Architecture
Servers
SSDSSD
ESXi
VM
VM
VM VM
ESXi
SSDSSD
ESXi
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
ESXi
VM
VM
VM VM
SSDSSD
ESXi
VM
VM
VM VM
SVTSVT
VM VM VM
VM SVTSVT
ESXi
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
SSDSSD
Public Cloud
SVT
10GbE

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VM-Centricity Of All Operations for IT
• Solve the IO and Data Mobility
by only transferring unique data
globally at At VM-level
granularity
• VM centricity of all operations
• Backup
• Clone
• Move
• Restore
Easy to create workflows for protecting, restoring, creating multiple production Dev/test
copies, recovering to DR.

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Native Data Protection:
File-Level Restore
1. Restores one or more files
2. Choose any VM backup
3. Restore to any other VM
4. Restores data within seconds
5. File available as a DVD ROM
File-Level Restore enables rapid
recovery of one or more files without
the need for a full VM restore

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Global Unified Management:
Top Workload Viewer
Ease of use troubleshooting with a consolidated view of Top Virtual Machine Contributors
This enables admins to identify the workloads causing spikes to pinpoint performance irregularities
Data center performance charts:
• Throughput
• IOPS
• Latency
VM metrics:
• Reads
• Writes
• Total

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SimpliVity Benefits
1. Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Business Applications
2. Data Efficiency (31:1 as global average)
3. Application Performance Improvements (>50% as global average)
4. Single interface for:
a. Provisioning VMs
b. Protecting VMs
c. Restoring VMs
d. Restarting VMs in DR
e. Cataloguing backups
5. Reduction of recovery time (0 min RTO)
6. Simplify D/R (10 min RPO)
7. Reduction of backup management
8. Reduction of data movement (thanks to global deduplication)
9. Reduction of training
10. Support: single point of contact (HW, SW and hypervisor)
“Before the backup process ran throughout the night. Now every night all of our
production VMs are replicated to the DR site, the process takes less than 15 minutes.”
Chad Lemmer, IT Operations Manager, Wausau Coated

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SimpliVity OmniCube™ Product Family
CPU
Memory*
Capacity*
Size
Common features
CN-1200 CN-2400 CN-3400 CN-5400
8 cores
* usable
8 - 28 cores 8 - 28 cores 8 - 28 cores
50 – 82 GB 71 – 327 GB 156 – 1400 GB 156 – 1400 GB
2 – 4 TB 5 – 10 TB 18 – 36 TB 21 – 43 TB
2U 2U 2U 2U
Global Dedupe, Compression, Optimization, High Availability,
Redundant Power, VM-Centric policy-based Backup/Recovery/DR,
Replication,VM Mobility, Integrated Management via vCenter
Small Remote
Offices
Small to medium
Environments /
Remote Offices
Wide range of use
cases, optimized for
Core Applications
Optimized for highest
performance
Application workloads
Storage
Configuration
2 x 400GB SSD,
4 x 1TB HDD
2 x 400GB SSD,
8 x 1TB HDD
4 x 400GB SSD,
20 x 1TB HDD
4 x 400GB SSD,
20 x 1.2TB HDD

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SimpliVity OmniCube™ Product Family
CPU
Memory*
Capacity*
Size
Common features
CN-1200 CN-2400 CN-3400 CN-5400
8 cores
* usable
8 - 28 cores 8 - 28 cores 8 - 28 cores
50 – 82 GB 71 – 327 GB 156 – 1400 GB 156 – 1400 GB
2 – 4 TB 5 – 10 TB 18 – 36 TB 21 – 43 TB
2U 2U 2U 2U
Global Dedupe, Compression, Optimization, High Availability,
Redundant Power, VM-Centric policy-based Backup/Recovery/DR,
Replication,VM Mobility, Integrated Management via vCenter
Small Remote
Offices
Small to medium
Environments /
Remote Offices
Wide range of use
cases, optimized for
Core Applications
Optimized for highest
performance
Application workloads
Storage
Configuration
2 x 400GB SSD,
4 x 1TB HDD
2 x 400GB SSD,
8 x 1TB HDD
4 x 400GB SSD,
20 x 1TB HDD
4 x 400GB SSD,
20 x 1.2TB HDD

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Enterprise Class Support Team
 Comprehensive Technical Expertise  Proven Experience  Senior Leadership
Industry Leading1 Execution & Satisfaction
 CSAT 9.6 out of 10  96% SLA Achievement  <30 min Avg. Response
Mission Critical Response & Escalation
 Escalation Management  Rapid Coordinated Response  Technical Action Team
One Tier / One Call Access
 Senior Technical Support Engineers  Support Centers in Ireland and US (MA, NC)
Global Accessibility & Capability
 Global Toll Free Numbers  Multi-Language Support  Global On Site Response
Proactive Remote Support Technology
 Automated Health Monitoring  Real-Time Alerts  Remote Diagnostics
Industry Leading Enterprise Class Customer Support

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SimpliVity HyperGuarantee
HyperEfficient 90% capacity savings across all of your storage including
backup.
HyperProtected 60-seconds or less on average for local backup or restore a
1 TB VM.
HyperSimple 3 clicks to backup, restore, clone or move a VM from a
single console.
HyperManageable 60-seconds or less on average to create or update backup
policies for 1000s of VMs across dozens of remote sites
from a single console.
HyperAvailable Add or remove a local or remote SimpliVity system without
downtime, without interruption to local or remote backups,
and without reconfiguration of backup policies or IP
addresses

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Use Cases
Remote Office Branch
Office (ROBO)
1
Data Protection
2
Tech Refresh
3
Test / Dev / QA
4
Data Migration
5
Data Center Consolidation
6
Mission-Critical
Applications7
Continuous Data
Monitoring / Analytics8
Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure (VDI)9
Cloud
10

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