Breakout session tijdens Proact's SYNC 2013. De voordelen van een FlexPod converged datacenter infrastructure volgens analist Forrester Geert van Teylingen Strategy and Consulting Benelux

1. Forrester: De voordelen van
FlexPod Converged Datacenter Infrastructure
Geert van Teylingen
Strategy and Consulting Benelux

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NetApp & Cisco, unieke “start” van een relatie
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Addressing Cost and Operational Pressures
Enterprises Are Adopting New IT Approaches
 Cloud services
 SaaS, PaaS, IaaS
 Public, private, hybrid
 Open source
 Low cost per functionality,
developer familiarity
 Converged systems
 Consolidation, integration,
performance
 Reduced management
costs
Growing Cost of
Mgmt and Admin
Source IDC, 2012

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Vision for the Data Center and ‘Cloud’
Storage Pool
Compute Pool
Applications
Fabric Pool
Management
 Elastically scale
resources non-
disruptively
 Apps deployed on
logically (software)
defined shared
infrastructure
 Quickly deploy and
destroy apps to meet
changing business
needs
 Centrally
orchestrated with
self-service
extensions
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Prevalidated flexible, unified platform
 Cisco Unified Computing System™
 Programmable infrastructure
 Unified management
 Cisco Nexus® switches
 Unified fabric
 NetApp® FAS with
clustered Data ONTAP®
 Unified storage
 Intelligent data management and
integrated data protection
FlexPod Converged Infrastructure
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 Speed up time to
deployment, simplify IT,
and reduce risk and cost
 Shorter Time to Market
for growing business
needs
Faster Implementation with FlexPod
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 FlexPod is the Fast
Forward Button for IT
infrastructure and services

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Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp clustered
Data ONTAP
Cisco®
UCS Servers and
UCS Manager
Pool resources
 Single server pool/storage pool
 Service profiles for consistent
policy-based Cisco UCS®
deployments
Abstract resources
 Virtualized servers and storage
 Stateless computing
 Dynamic scalability; app and
data mobility
Consume resources
 Service catalogs
 Rapid resource provisioning in
accordance with SLAs
 Open APIs for self-service/user-
driven resource consumption
FlexPod: Next-Generation Integrated Infrastructure
Flexible Architecture for Virtualized Environments
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
Virtualization
App AppAppApp
AppApp
Bare Metal

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Manage as a Single Infrastructure
Server
Network
Storage
Virtualization
100s of
management
points
Multiple
management
consoles
100s of
management
points
100s of
management
points
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Manage as a Single Infrastructure
Server
Network
Storage
Virtualization
Multiple
management
consoles
FlexPod
Storage
Pool
Network
Pool
Compute
Pool
Abstracted resource pools
Unified element
managers
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Unified Management and Orchestration
Server
Network
Storage
Virtualization
Multiple
management
consoles
1500 users
Storage
Pool
Network
Pool
Compute
Pool
Service
profiles
APIs
APIs
Virtualization
Server and network
admin
Storage admin
Open Ecosystem of Orchestration Partners
Single Point of Integration
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Cloud Orchestration
Tools
openstackTM
Cisco UCS®
Director
(formerly Cloupia)
Service Catalog

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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations
Scale up or down with minimal disruption
Common structure for support and management
FlexPod Scales with Size of Organization
100s of users
1,000s of
users
FlexPod®
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Develop
and Test
Starting Out
Data Protection
and Backup
More Computing and
Less Storage
Less Computing and
More Storage
Deploy Entry System;
Then Scale Up
VDI
Higher Performance
Blades and More IOPS
IOPS
CPU
Capacity
Memory
Production
Balanced Infrastructure
Customized Sizing with FlexPod
Flexes for Different Uses and Performance Profiles
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FlexPod Value and
Customer Success Stories

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FlexPod Reality: Sauber F1 Team
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“The Total Economic Impact of NetApp’s and Cisco’s FlexPod Data Center Platform”
Published January 2013
Forrester Total Economic Impact Study

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“The Total Economic Impact of NetApp’s and Cisco’s FlexPod Data Center Platform”
Published January 2013
Forrester Total Economic Impact Study
Objectives

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 120% risk-adjusted ROI
 Payback within 9 months
 Benefits and savings of $858k over 3 years from:
 Low cost
 acquisition,
 less planning, preparation, migration
 Automated provisioning and management
 Cost avoidance for NOT replacing hardware (consolidation)
 Storage Efficiency
 Combined deduplication, thin provisioning, thin backup, thin cloning, …
 Reduced power and cooling OpEx
 Reduced risk
 Increased flexibility
Forrester Total Economic Impact Study
Key Findings

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Infrastructure efficiency
Power and cooling
Management
Provisioning
Backup and recovery
TCO
Consolidate servers 10:1
Use 50% less storage
80% fewer cables and ports
25%–50% less
Manage 10x–20x more per FTE
25%–50% savings
Minutes vs Hours
Minutes vs Days
Typical Gains with FlexPod
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FlexPod Reality: ProAct Case Study
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What is YOUR ROI?
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www.proact.nl/flexpod

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Thank You
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