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Next-Generation Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Support for Any Application on Any Cloud At Any Scale
Prasad Radhakrishnan
ASEAN Datacenter Compute Solutions , Cisco Systems

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IT Admins - Earlier

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IT Admins - Today ?
Superhero

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Cisco HyperFlex - The Stepping Stone to :
Any App Any Cloud Any Scale

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Cisco Hyperflex – Engineered on UCS
Engineered on Cisco UCS
The Ideal System for Hyperconvergence
Integrated, High Performance
Network Fabric
Programmable Automation
of all Hardware
Wide Array of Rack and Blade Form Factors
Complete
Hyperconvergence
Unified Compute and
Network Infrastructure

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Cisco Hyperflex – Engineered on UCS
Cisco HX Data Platform
Data Services and Storage Optimization
Cisco HyperFlex
Next Gen
Data Platform
Designed for
Distributed Storage
Complete
Hyperconvergence
Unified Compute and
Network Infrastructure

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Cisco Hyperflex – Engineered on UCS
Cisco HX Data Platform
Data Services and Storage Optimization
Cisco HyperFlex
Next Gen
Data Platform
Designed for
Distributed Storage
Complete
Hyperconvergence
Unified Compute and
Network Infrastructure
Part of a Complete
Data Center Strategy
Elastic and Secure at
Enterprise Scale
CloudCenter
AppDynamics
Security
UCS
Intersight
Tetration
ACI

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Independent Scaling and
Scale Out Architecture
Scale with diskless racks or blades
No HX licenses needed
Enterprise Storage Features
Snapshots / Near Instant Clones
Inline dedupe & compression
No licenses
Unified Architecture
Connect to existing SAN storage
Multiprotocol support including FC & iSCSI
Great for VM migration / backup
Integrated Networking
Simplified networking
Choice of 10 / 40 GB Bandwidth
Guarantee performance
Single support
HyperFlex Delivers Real Business Benefits

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HyperFlex Delivers Real Business Benefits

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HyperFlex Delivers Real Business Benefits
Accelerated
Deployment
Increased
Utilization
Lower
Mgmt Cost
Less Space
and Power
Annual
Business
Growth

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>2400+
New Hyperflex
Customers

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Recent feature improvements
Native 40GbE
All Flash
Native Replication
Encryption at Rest
NVMe Caching HX Connect UI
HX Edge
vSphere 6.5
More compute only nodes
Increased ScaleM5 Generation Servers
HX ToolsSmart Licensing
Enhanced Smart Call Home
Filesystem Performance
REST APIs
Intersight
External Storage
Oracle
SQL
Exchange
CVDs
Citrix
UC TRC

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Distributed
Apps and IT
Physical and Virtual
Sprawl, IoT,
Microservices
Traditional
Management
Building a Monster to
Manage the Monster
Human
Limitations
Scale, Speed, Complexity in
Modern Data Centers is
Unmanageable
Automated Automatic
Infrastructure Management Challenges

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Intersight : Manage Anywhere & Everywhere
Cisco
Intersight
Cloud Based Management
Global / Multi-site / Datacenter / Edge
Real time analytics & Machine Learning
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Monitoring

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User Benefits
SaaS
Delivered
Intuitive Experience
Enhanced
Support
Proactive
Guidance
Secure and
Extensible

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Increased Capacity - 64 Node Cluster
• More CPU and Memory
• More Storage capacity
• More performance
32 Storage + Compute Nodes 32 Compute
Nodes

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Increased Resiliency
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
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HYPERVISOR
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CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
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HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
CONTROLLER
HYPERVISOR
VMVMVM
LAZ: On
Zone01Zone02Zone03Zone04
Cluster State: Online

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Increased Availability - Stretched Cluster
Site-B
VM VM VM VM
VM VM VM VM
Site-A
Witness Server
• Single stretched cluster across 2 sites
• Active – Active
• Non disruptive rolling upgrade
• Recover from local failure or site
failure
• Witness server – to handle split brain

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Increased Choice of Workloads
Integrated Management
Complete Hyperconvergence
Hyper-V , Vmware & Containers
VM VM VM VM VM VM
HyperFlex Data Platform
Enterprise workloads, Validated
solutions
Vmware vCenter

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Google + Cisco : Hybrid Container in a Box
Flexibility &
Speed of
innovation
Secure and
Compliant
Enterprise-
class
support
Optimize your cloud with Cisco and Google to achieve
unprecedented business agility and investment protection
Best of both Worlds = +

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Increased Choice of Cloud
Public
Cloud
COST
Data
Center
Private
Cloud

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Cisco HyperFlex – Be the Superhero !
Any App
Any Cloud
Any Scale