2. 1
Core HyperGrid beliefs
• IT should be consumed, not purchased
• IT consumption should be seamless across Cloud or on-premises
• A workload should run anywhere, anytime or on any infrastructure
• Developers are the main influencers of buying decisions around IT
infrastructure and tools
• CIO’s want governance and control for IT OPS and flexibility and agility
for Developers
3. 2
Reduce operational costs
93%
Lack necessary skills
52%
Needs more agile
infrastructure
87%
CIOs under pressure to innovate but face headwinds
Source: Harvey Nash CIO survey 2015
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4. “Traditional infrastructure is oppressive”
Do-it-Yourself
Traditional
Infrastructure
Converged
Infrastructure
Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure
Reduces Cost and Risk
Reduces Time to Deploy and complexity
Increases Efficiency, Scale and Agility
Performance Gains
Complex
Inflexible
Blended I/O
No Application Control
5. 4
Costly / fully loaded rates
and management
Data Locality
Lock in
IT Ops
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Shared Platform
Performance
6. 5
DevOps adopted to accelerate innovation
Planning to use
Continuous
Integration and
Deployment
54%
Less Than 1 Week to
Push New Code to
Production
68%
Percent of workloads
deployed in a cloud
10% 20% 30% 40%
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Source: Harvey Nash CIO survey 2015, Atlassian survey
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7. 6PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
IT Ops
Cloud
Serviceticket
Managerapproval
Storageadmin
Virtualizationadmin
Network
admin
Weeks to Months!
What happens today
?
APPAPP
Instantaneous!
APPAPP
8. 7
Simplified, Predictable HyperConverged Platform
7
Affordable.
Less Infrastructure & Lower TCO.
Simple.
Scaling and Management.
Powerful.
All-Flash User Experience.
9. 8
Start Small – Building Block Approach
4 x Flash Converged Nodes (FCN’s) per Block
All-Flash HyperConverged.
2U
4 Nodes
Per Block
Up to 112
Compute
Cores
Up to 92TB
All-Flash
Storage
1. Avg. Server VM = 4GB RAM, 2 vCPUs, 100 GB VHDXs
Configurable Per 4 Node Block
Compute Cores 48 | 64 | 80 | 112
Compute RAM 256 to 4TB (64GB to 1TB per node)
Network 8 | 16 x 10GbE (Data), 4 x 1GbE (Mngt)
SSD Capacity eMLC SSD – 23TB | 46TB | 92TB
Storage IOPS 200,000+ - 8k Random
10. 9
The difference between
Tradition and All-Flash
Hyper-converged.
75%Less
Space | Power | Cooling1
5X
Faster VMs
65%
Lower Cost VM1
All-FlashHCI
Breakthrough VM Density, Performance, Cost
TraditionalInfrastructure
1: Full Stack Cost - Includes All Required Compute, Storage, Hypervisor and VDI Software.
VCE Vblock 340. Avg. Desktop VM = VSI Login Medium Desktops.
1,500VMs @ $1,7081
11. 10
Integrated Virtual Controller
Solution Intelligence:
VM aware for I/O Tagging, I/O Smoothing and
Block level optimization
Simple configuration:
End to End I/O management with no more
iSCSI or FC
SCSI Block Kernel Device:
Hypervisor integration
High performance with lowest overhead.
Simple, Light weight and powerful
12. 11
Parallel Flash I/O – Inline Erasure Encoding
Inline Erasure Encoding
Divides I/O instead of Multiplies (Replicates)
Configurable Fault Tolerance to N+X nodes
N Data Fragments + X Parity Fragments
Automated Self-Healing
50% reduction in I/O, CPU, RAM, Network
Increased Performance Whilst
Reducing Infrastructure by 50%.
15. 14
Analytics and Management
Understanding Workloads
End to End environment monitoring
Real time and Historic data
Monitor
I/O
Latency
Throughput
CPU Usage
Memory Usage
Bandwidth Usage
Identify Hot Spot’s
Live Migration
SC-VMM/SC-OM
16. 15
QoS – Performance where it matters
Are all workloads equal?
Protocol Isolated I/O per VM
Performance classification per VM
No more ‘Fair Use Policy’
No more ‘Noisy Neighbor’
Guaranteed IOPS per VM
18. 17
Three models for HCIaaS consumption
What’s
included
Consumption
• Benchmark app usage
• Meter monthly, true up
annually; minimum 1
year contract
• Scale up and down
• All inclusive hardware,
software and support
Subscription
• 3-year renewable
contract “all-in” for
software, hardware and
support
• Scale up and down
• No forklift upgrades
Partner MSP
• Services delivered by
MSP running HCIaaS
• 1 to 3-year renewable
contracts
• Scale up and down
• No forklift upgrades
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24. 23
2016 Forrester Wave rates HyperGrid as Strong Performer
• Recognized for emerging
market leadership
• Rated among the top 5 HCI
vendors in a space with large
number of players
• Ranked higher than VMWare,
EMC, HPE, Cisco and others
Source: The Forrester Wave™: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), Q3 2016
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