Planning IT infrastructure goes well beyond day 0 or day 1. How do businesses plan for IT growth integrating with existing infrastructure?

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Infrastructure Planning Just Got Smarter
Marc Trouard-Riolle,
Product Marketing Manager
Harry Yang,
Director, Product Management
Asif Malik,
Technical Director, Firstnet Solutions

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3. Planning & Pre-Deployment
Considerations

4. IT Infrastructures Have Evolved: Has Your Planning & Sizing?
Data Gathering Tools
Sizing Methodology & Accuracy
Flexible Financial Modelling
On-Going Runway Planning
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5. X-Ray: Scenario-Centric Performance Analysis Testing
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 Less Time Setting Up and Executing
Test Plans
 Focused Testing, Realistic Scenarios
 Consistent Test Reproduction with
Fault Injection Scenarios

6. Infrastructure Sizing with Intelligence
 Customizable configurations
 Platform awareness
 Financial modelling
 Rack views
 Scenario BOMs
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7. • BOM (Bill of
Materials)
• Financial Analysis
• Cluster Sizing
• Best Practices
• 1000’s Iterations for Optimal Fit
• 100’s of Compatibility Rules
Trusted Infrastructure Sizing with Intelligence
Scan DeployDesign Migrate
Product Info:
Nutanix NX/SX, OEMs & SW
• Nutanix (NX/SX)
• Dell (XC)
• Lenovo (HX)
• Cisco (UCS)
• HPE (Proliant)
• IBM (coming soon)
Sizing Engine
Workload
Inputs
Optimal
Solution
• Best Practices
• Use Cases & Profiles
• Different profiles
• Workload Modules
• VDI & XenApp
• Server Virt.
• Splunk
• File Services
• SQL Server
Product
Info
Workload Sizing
Modules
• Workload Resources
• Hot/Cold Data Sizing

8. Demo
Sizing
SQL DBs

9. Sizer
Demo

10. Platform Choice & Flexible Consumption
Hypervisors
AHV
ESXi
Hyper-V
XenServer
Go
x86 Power
Processor
EPA
VPA
Purchasing

11. Simplify Onboarding with Xtract for VMs
 One-click experience
 Agentless migrations
 Near-zero downtime
 Retain network configurations
 Auto AHV driver insertion
Scan DeployDesign Migrate
vCenter
AHV
Cluster
VMESX
Cluster
VM
InventoryVM
VMESX
Cluster VM
√VMESX
Cluster VM
AHVVM
VM
AHV
ClusterAHVAHVVM
VM
Xtract

12. SQL
Server
SQL
Server
SQL
Server
Cloud
Virtual
Physical
Database Transformation with Xtract for DBs
SQLSQL
Scan DeployDesign Migrate
Config
Data
Perf
Data
Design
Template
Best
Practice
Sizing
Storage
Design Network
Security
One-click best practice SQL transformation & migration

13. The Power of Intelligence
Know Now and Predict the Future

14. The
consequence
of a wrong
guess

15. Actionable insightMachine data

16. Guesstimate
Too little, too late
Impact business growth

17. Overprovisioned
Inactive Constraint
Excess capacity
High business cost

18. Intelligent (X-FIT)
Cisco, Arista, Brocade, Avaya
ESXi
…
Nutanix
Hyper-VAHV
Simple at Scale Full-stack Visibility
XenServer

19. Actionable Signal Powered by Machine Intelligence
Runway – the time remaining for the cluster to sustain the workloads
CPU
Memory
Storage
Seasonality
Events
Expert
Knowledge

20. Behavior Driven Inefficiency Detection
Inactive VMs
Over
provisioned VMs
Constrained
VMs
Bully VMs

21. Demo
A Life with
Confidence

22. Under the Hood

23. Powered by Patent Pending X-FIT Technology
Trending
Periodic Variation
(Seasonality)
Events Affected
• Compression
• Dedup
• EC-x
• Add/remove nodes
HCI Uniqueness
• Distributed storage
• Capacity reservation
• Snapshots
Self-Learning
for Best Fit
HCI Domain
Knowledge
Optimized
Algorithm
Accurate
Forecast

24. The Power of You
Empower the Business Dynamics

25. Cumbersome manual
processes can’t meet the
dynamics of your
business’ demands

26. Demo
One-click
Planning

27. X-FIT Machine Intelligence
Consumption
Behavior
Current
Configuration
Changed or New
Demand
Situation ReportsJust-in-Time Forecast
Recommendation
Fit Test
Customization
Just-in-Time Forecasting

28. Demo
One-click
Just-in-time
Forecast

29. Which algorithm does X-FIT use?
Does X-FIT use lots of compute resources?
Can X-FIT capture the seasonality?
Is X-FIT all about the algorithm?

30. Asif Malik, Technical Director,
Firstnet Solutions
Customer Experience

31. One More Thing…
Empower Your Daily Operations

32. Noisy data and undetected
abnormalities results in
chasing technical problems

33. Demo
Anomaly
Detection

34. X-Fit into the real-time data
X-FIT Machine Intelligence
Real-time
performance
data
Performance
anomaly
Behavior
learning
Bully
VM
Inefficiency
discovery
Zombie
VM
Resource
constraint
Behavior
band
An anomaly
alert
Predictive
behavior

35. The Smartest Operations Engine Behind the Enterprise Cloud
Service Assurance
Capacity Optimization
Scalable Management
X-FIT
Operations Insights
Prism Pro

36. Summary

37.  Businesses & IT Infrastructures are Dynamic
 Size Infrastructures Based on the Workloads
 Nutanix Tools & Technology Make Your IT Dynamic
Benchmarking Sizing
Application &
Infra-level
Migrations
ManagementX-Ray Sizer
Xtract..
..for VMs
..for DBs
Prism Pro
Infrastructure Planning Just Got Smarter

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Thank You
Marc Trouard-Riolle | marctr@nutanix.com | @mtrouardriolle
Harry Yang | harry.yang@nutanix.com | @cloud_pm
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