Synergics created the first Multitenant Webscale Hybrid Cloud platform in Belgium based on Nutanix, a simple converged infrastructure (compute and storage), with a CloudOS layer for a Microsoft Azure like experience

1. SYNERGICS
ManagedICTservices
24/06/2014
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Hybrid Cloud
2014
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2. Facts
Facts
2006
Merger of 2 ICT departments

3. Facts
Facts
Started with 5
engineers
35 FTE’s in
different teams
and 2 locations
2 private
datacenters

4. Services
Services

5. Hardware Before
HW Before
Hardware
 Blades & Servers
(HP)
 NFS Storage
(NetApp)
 10G Switching
(Juniper)

6. Hardware Before
HW Before
Support
 Multiple manufacturers
 Multiple suppliers
 Playing all together
“The Blame Game”

7. Hardware Before
HW Before
Pro
 All A-brands
 Qualified people in their domain
 Lots of documentation
Con
 Documentation for 1 product, not for the lot
 Nobody knows all
 What if there is a problem ?
 €€€€€

8. Software Before
SW Before
Software
 VMware
Pro
 Stable
 Features
 Own knowledge
(currently 244 guests, 35 hosts)
Con
 €€€

9. After
After
Hardware and
Software
 Storage and Compute
(Converged)
 NDFS / GFS
 Designed around the
“everything breaks”
 Blocks and nodes
(Scale-Out)
 Hypervisor choice

10. After
After
Pro
 1 manufacturer
(Nutanix)
 1 supplier
(SecureLink)
 1 management interface
 What if there is a problem ?
call SecureLink -> Nutanix -> …
Con
 New

11. Migration
Migration
Phase 1
 from old to new compute
(VMware on HP -> VMware on Nutanix)
 from old to new storage
(storage on NetApp -> storage on Nutanix)

12. Migration
Migration

13. Migration
Migration

14. Migration
Migration
Phase 2
 Hypervisor migration
(VMware -> Hyper-V)
 Offline
 Standard tools
(slow but free)
 3rd party tools
(faster but not free)
 For servers where downtime is allowed go standard,
otherwise go 3rd party

15. Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Nutanix
(Storage and Compute)
Windows Server 2012 R2
(Datacenter core +
Hyper-V role)
Microsoft Azure
Azure Pack
Management Portal Management Portal
System Center App Controller

16. Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Private and Public cloud are not sharing the
same features (yet), but the feature set is
changing rapidly
Price vs Speed vs Services

17. Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Azure Synergics on premise
scalability +++ ++ -
time to market +++ ++ +
legal + ++ +++
services + +++ +
visibility (t+m) + ++ -
price ++ + -

18. Hybrid Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
Use cases
 Web site hosting
 Access Control Service
 Development & Test
 Disaster Recovery site
 Modern Apps (Service Bus)
 IaaS & PaaS Self Service

19. Questions