Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products have significantly grown in popularity in the last few years, leading many vendors to adopt a hyperconverged approach. VMware is adding to its portfolio a series of products that make its product more suitable to hyperconverged environments. One concern is hyperconverged infrastructures often leave out one of the core services that many IT environments have come to rely on: Shared file services. Since shared file services is not built into most HCI products, it leaves customers with a few choices, each of which come with advantages and disadvantages. Specifically, the customer can choose to provide file services from a VM or purchase a dedicated NAS product to run separate from the HCI environment. There is also the opportunity to integrate the cloud as part of the file services option. There may also be the opportunity to improve or offload the challenges associated with data protection. Is there a third choice that offers the advantages of both but with fewer disadvantages?

1. Do Hyperconverged Environments Need File Services?
On Demand Webinar
In this webinar you will learn:
● Why HCI environments need file services
● File services choices for HCI environments
● Improve file services data protection
● Integrate cloud into file services offerings
For audio playback and Q&A go to:
http://bit.ly/HyperVFile

2. ● Analyst firm focused on storage, cloud
and virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets is gained
through product testing and interaction
with end users and suppliers
● The results of this research can be
found in the articles, videos, webinars,
product analysis and case studies on
our web site:
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Who Is Storage Switzerland?

3. Our Speakers
W. Curtis Preston is a Senior Analyst at Storage
Switzerland. He has been specializing in data
protection for over 20 years, having designed and
implemented backup, DR, and archive systems for
some of the largest companies in the world. He is
the author of O’Reilly’s Backup & Recovery and
Using SANs and NAS.

4. Our Speakers
Fred Pinkett, Sr. Director Product Marketing and
Management, brings to Nasuni extensive Product Marketing
and Management experience in the storage and information
security spaces. Prior to joining Nasuni, Fred was VP of
Product Management for Security Innovation, leading their
application security e-Learning product line. Previously he
was VP of Product Management at Core Security
Technologies, and before that ExaGrid, during the early rapid
growth of the company. He has also held senior positions at
Pedestal Software, Network Associates, RSA Security, and
Banyan. He holds an MBA from Boston College and a
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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» 300 Global Customers
» Over 12 PBs of client data stored
» 160+ TB added weekly
» 2,789 End Points
» Nasuni Deployments in 59 Countries
» 21.4 Billion files stored
» Adding 64 Million more each week
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6. Agenda
As A Service
• Why would HCI products need file services?
• File Services Options
• Pros & Cons of different Approaches
• Public Cloud
• Traditional NAS Filer
• VM running NFS/SMB
• Cloud Caching Appliance VM

7. • Need to share data between VMs
• Need to share data between
locations
• Separation of data from VM image
• Data protection needs of data
vs VM image
Why Would HCI Products Need File
Services?

8. File Services Options
• Public Cloud
• Traditional NAS Filer
• VM running NFS/SMB
• Cloud Caching Appliance VM

9. Pros & Cons Of Different Approaches
As A Service

10. • Unlimited scalability
• Integrated data protection
• Most HCI products do not
have cloud plugin
Public Cloud

11. Traditional NAS Filer
• High performance
• Well tested architecture
• Must maintain separate
infrastructure
• Will need backup system
• Accessible only from one
location if not replicated

12. VM Running NFS/SMB
• Lower acquisition cost than NAS
• Lower performance than NAS
• Which Virtual NAS to use?
• Even more difficult to manage than
NAS
• Large volume even more difficult
to backup in VM

13. Cloud Caching Appliance VM
• Scalability advantages of cloud
• Data protection advantages of NAS
• Versioning to meet backup needs
• Performance advantages of NAS
• Capacity auto-managed
• Predictable monthly recurring cost
• Infrequently accessed data can be moved
to cold storage

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Pain Points for Files
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2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Files Blocks
• Scalability
» Uncontrollable growth, capacity, data migration
• Data Protection
» Backup and DR
• Access
» Global file system, mobile, performance
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Exabytes
Source: IDC

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Performance at the Edge,
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Nasuni + Hyperconverged:
Control and Simplicity
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16. Nasuni + Hyperconverged
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• Nasuni Edge Appliance VM runs on
Hyperconverged system
• Unlimited file capacity in the cloud
- Active files cached in Hyperconverged
system for high performance
- Inactive files do not consume
Hyperconverged capacity
• Built-in data protection to cloud with
continuous versioning
• Access and collaboration across offices
with or without HCI + mobile devices

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18. Do Hyperconverged Environments Need File Services?
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