The document discusses Cisco's HyperFlex, a hyperconverged infrastructure solution. It highlights how HyperFlex allows independent scaling of computing and storage, network automation capabilities as it is built on Cisco UCS technology, and offers fixed costs and licensing. HyperFlex creates a "datacenter-in-a-box" that reduces integration efforts and provides a simple management experience integrated with VMware vCenter.

1. Cisco
Connect
Moscow, 2017
Your Time
Is Now

2. Transformation
of IT platform
design
Infrastructure
Alexander Weinbacher
Storage Specialist, Cisco Systems
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Create an iphone-like experience in the DC

4. The IT challenge...
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Natalia
Online Marketing Manager
Instant online project: 20TB, Webserver, Analytics engine
Dmitry
Infrastructure Manager
Renewed Storage, Servers 18 months ago
to make it „Cloud Ready“
Alexander
IT Engineer, has to make it work
Works late nights and weekends

5. How to simplify the Data Center
Converged HyperConvergedTraditional
5-6 SW stacks to manage
6 different legacy hardwares
Complexity of a SAN
1 SW stack to manage
Standard x86hardware
Ethernet only
less SW stacks to manage
6 different legacy hardwares
Pre-configured
Complexity of a SAN

6. Fixed modules
+ At fixed cost
+ You knowthe performance
+ You knowthe storage space
+ You knowthe bandwidth
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= Easy to plan
= Easy cost control
Grow your Datacenter in a predictable way!

7. Cisco HYPERFLEX
Hyperconverged
Infrastructure from Cisco
A Datacenter-in-a-box
Launched March 2, 2016
1000+ customer orders
worldwide!
84 customers in Central
Europe!
Built on Cisco UCS
technology
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8. It is a Cisco UCS product
1 Complete
Hyperconvergence
Unified Compute and
Network Infrastructure Wide Array of Rack and Blade Form Factors
Integrated, High Performance Network
Fabric
Programmable Automation of all
Hardware
Engineered on Cisco UCS
The Ideal System for Hyperconvergence

9. HyperFlex Differentiation
Break
Down Silos
Indepentent Scaling
Storage -Computing
Networking
Integration
AdaptableEfficientAgile
Deploy the Entire System Faster, Not Just Computing and
Storage
Flexibility: Increase Computing for VDI, Analytics etc.
Manage in the Same Way You Manage Your UCS Blade Servers,
Rack Servers and Converged Infrastructure Solutions

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How it works in reality

11. Scale Out and Distributed File System
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM
Start with as few as
three nodes
Hyperconverged Data
Platform installs in
minutes
Add Servers, One or
More at a Time
Linearly Scale
Compute, Storage
Performance and
Capacity
Distribute and
rebalance data across
servers automatically
Retire older
servers
HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM
CONTROLLER
VMHYPERVISOR
VM VM VM

12. Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity
Compute
Nodes
HC -
Nodes
HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHX DATA PLATFORM
Scale Compute
Scale Storage Capacity
IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor

13. Data Reduction without impacting performance
Inline Deduplication
20-30% space savings
Inline Compression
30–50% Space Savings
No Special Hardware
No Performance Impact

14. Fast and Flexible Native Snapshots for backups
§ Pointer-Based Snapshots
§ Space Efficient
§ Fast creations and deletions
§ Fine-grained or coarse grained
§ VM-Level or VM Folder Level
§ VAAI integrated
§ Quiesced and Crash-consistent
§ Use vCenter Snapshot Manager
§ Policy based
§ Schedules, Retention period

15. Fully integrated into Vmware vCenter
§100% vCenter Based Management
§Extends virtualization management seamlessly
§No switching between management consoles
§View storage alerts/alarms alongside with ESX alerts/alarms
§Command line interface for automation

16. Variety of Common Use Cases
• Agile provisioning
• Frequent
iterations
• Instant cloning
and snapshots
TEST &
DEVELOPMENT
• Low upfront costs
• Consistent
performance
• Predictable
scaling
VIRTUAL DESKTOP
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Reduce
operational
complexity
• Adaptive Scaling
• Always-on
resiliency
SERVER
VIRTUALIZATION
• Simple
deployment
• Centralized
management
• No “fly-and-fix”
missions
LARGE REMOTE
/BRANCH OFFICE

17. Summary
Scale Storage and Computing
independently
Network Automation (it is a UCS!)
Fixed cost for known
space/performance
Simple, flat licensing
Datacenter-in-a-box -little
integration efforts!
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