2M-IT Nutanix HCI project

1. Speaker: Juha Rouhiainen
2M-IT Oy Team Leader, Data Center Team
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2M-IT

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ABOUT US SINCE 1.3.2018
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3. 2M-IT Oy´s starting point
Maarianhamina
Vaasa
Joensuu
Kuopio
Oulu
Kajaani
Rovaniemi
Kemi
Helsinki
Pori
Turku
Kokkola
KYM
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LP
PS
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KAI
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HUS
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VS
Tampere
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Lappeenranta
Savonlinna
Mikkeli
Seinäjoki
EK
ES
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EP
KS
PH
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Lahti
Kotka
Jyväskylä
KL
Espoo
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Regions
Health care districts
Turnover
Personnel
Hometown Helsinki
80 million €
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4. Medbit Oy
Government owned, nonprofit company
Owned by 29 municipalities or their federations
Turnover 2017 57 M€, personnel 260
The six largest owners:
The Hospital District of Southwest Finland
The Hospital District of Satakunta
The Hospital District of Vaasa
City of Pori
City of Rauma
City of Salo
Medi-IT Oy
Government owned, nonprofit company
Owned by 8 hospital districts and City of Espoo
Turnover 2017 29 M€, personnel 170
Owners:
Carea
Eksote
The Hospital District of Central Finland
PHHYKY
The Hospital District of Eastern Savonia
The Hospital District of Southern Savonia
The Hospital District of Tavastia
The Hospital District of Southern Ostrobothnia
City of Espoo
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5. Our most
important
strategic
strength
Customer
experience

6. HCI project
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7. HCI project background (2016 to date)
 In the beginning:
 Dispersed technology architectures (EMC, Dell, NetApp and Cisco...)
 Isolated resources for managing IT infrastructure
 3rd party resources needed
 Capacity was running out on some systems
 Vendor maintenance was running out on some systems
 Nutanix pilot project started October 2016
 Statistics: about 1700 virtual machines, 6 datacenters, more than 1PB
of data, about 500 applications.
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8. HCI project goals
 New solution that would be highly virtualised and enable
seamless expansion of resources (scale-out)
 One support organisation able to support all geographic areas
 Support 2M-IT growth plan economically (pay as you grow) and
with low risks (technology maturity)
 Support different applications, both clinical data and traditional
ones, with single technology platfrom
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9. Why Nutanix?
Decision was made by IT professional team after careful
investigation
 Most mature technology
 Open architecture (no vendor locks)
 Support for mission critical, active-active IT architecture (data
protection)
 Very quick as-is migration
 Empowering in-house support team
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10. Experiences so far
(18 months of production)
 Initial purchase early 2017, planned for 1/3 of total capacity:
 Almost 2/3 of total capacity was fitted (2x performance)
 None of the expansions or upgrades required downtime (almost 100% uptime)
 A very quick migration (just 3 weeks), during July-August 2017.
 Expansion late 2017:
 All the 1700 virtual machines now run over Nutanix Platform, about 60% with
Metro clustering enabled for them.
 Next step is use to use Acropolis Block Services for un-virtualised resources
(merely Oracle databases).
 Zero downtime caused by IT operations
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11. Return of Investment
 This platform replaced separate IT environment worth:
 4 whole racks with 6 rack units per datacenter
 Reduced power and cooling consumption with -80%
 Reduced external consulting days
 There is no extra, unused capacity in the system:
 Utilisation constantly between 70% to 80%
 Growth plan 100% aligned to 2M-IT ICT perspective:
 All the new datacenter sites can be operated similarly by one team
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THANK YOU!
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