2. Reasons for the cloud
• Agility – Able to quickly change course and rapidly iterate
• Scalability – Highly scalable although not unlimited
• Flexibility – Able to quickly spin up new resources and different services with
minimal planning
• Automation and ease is a big driver
3. Top Cloud Challenges
• Security across clouds
• Lack of expertise has
accelerated
• Managing Cloud spend has
consistently been a problem
• Monitoring and Management
Complexity
State of the Cloud Report 2022
4. Cloud is just IaaS
• It is normally what is thought of first
• Cloud can mean IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS
• Hybrid cloud transformation can end up spanning all
areas
6. What are the keys to a successful Hybrid Cloud?
• Automation across clouds
• Building block services offered on premises like the cloud
• Allowing applications to be easily deployed whether on private or public cloud
• Planning
7. Deploying to the cloud provides greater availability
• User still responsible for architecting for uptime
• Multi zone, backups, testing, all things done on premises mostly still need
to be planned for in the cloud
8. • Where is it cheapest to run my
application?
• Must consider overall application footprint
and interactions
• Data gravity can play a large role
Price Agility
• Business agility is the largest concern not
price
• Need to be able to deploy rapidly
• Place workload where best suited
Normally a compromise between the two and must be constantly managed
9. Challenges of
going Hybrid
• The challenges are the same for
any size organization
• Many of the biggest obstacles
are before ever moving an app
• Dependency mapping is critical
especially when it comes to
operations and spend
11. Migrations
• Migration planning is time
consuming
• Can you use native tools or
will need third party to be able
to migrate
• Testing of application
performance and operation
• Post migration analysis
• 2021 State of the Cloud report
showed 72% of enterprises
brought some applications
back on premises
12. People
• Personnel can be the biggest key to hybrid cloud success
• Automation is a journey not an endpoint
• How will people be organized?
13. Datacenter Management
• Managing multiple technologies can be cumbersome
• Datacenter sprawl can be costly
• Is shifting workloads to the cloud to lessen datacenter footprint?
• Shifting to cloud shifts how you pay not necessarily how much
• HCI solves many datacenter complexity issues
Insight Cloud and Datacenter Transformation Whitepaper
15. Elastic vs Static
• Elastic workloads can expand and contract regularly
• Static workloads stay the same or grow at a consistent rate
• When evaluating an application as a whole it can be both
16. Data Gravity
• Data Gravity refers to the fact that
large amounts of data attract
applications towards them
• Applications tend to need to be close
to the data.
• Applications and data spanning
clouds can be costly.
18. Application refactoring
• Re-architecting applications to better fit the cloud
• This could be migrating to using cloud native virtualization or containerizing
applications
• Around 40% of all cloud migrations fail, why?
• Refactoring a single application can take months to completely move if
planning and testing is done right
• IHS study found that 74% of 350 Global firms repatriated workloads after not
seeing business savings
20. How Nutanix helps
• Cloud like agility and flexibility
• Simplified management
• Ability to provision and lifecycle manage resources across clouds
• Cost optimization across clouds
• Ability to rapidly deploy new services
• Ability to accelerate cloud adoption
21. PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD
Ultimate Goal
Seamless Hybrid Cloud Experience
NUTANIX CLOUD PLATFORM
NUTANIX CLOUD PLATFORM
Modernize your Infrastructure
Secure your Environment
Consolidate your Data
Ensure Business Continuity
VDI Database Enterprise Apps Cloud Native ROBO & Edge Dev & Test Analytics
Automate Operations
CISCO
26. ✓ Snapshots ✓ Clones ✓ Unified Cache ✓ Data Reduction
✓ Locality ✓ Tiering ✓ Disk Balancing ✓ Resilience
Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric
Node 1
Hypervisor
Node 2
Hypervisor
Node N
Hypervisor
Files & Objects shared benefits
Simple
• Single click simplicity
• Single pane of glass
• No more silos
Flexible
• Scale up and out
• Non-disruptive growth and upgrades
• Flexible infrastructure
Intelligent
• ML driven load balancing and
problem remediation
• APIs for Automation
• Deep data intelligence
NFS / SMB S3
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28. Hybrid Cloud with NC2 on AWS
• Use AWS or Azure spend on Bare Metal nodes
• Migration without refactoring
• Simplified operations between clouds
• Direct Access to other AWS or Azure Services
• Better management of sizing and oversubscription for
predictable performance
• License Mobility across clouds
• Cross Cloud Disaster Recovery
These aren’t reasons to not move to the cloud they are operational and architectural decisions that need to be taken into account when moving to the cloud.
Sometimes the most cost effective thing to do is not migrate an application at all.
Data Egress costs will come to $30M / year by 2025 on top of their yearly $65M deal per year w/AWS
Greg is now going to touch on another IDC study comparing public cloud with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.
Sometimes the most cost effective thing to do is not migrate an application at all.
Use Resources you have to help you manage more efficiently:
Capacity Alerts: Set alerts when capacity runway starts to get low. This can help you purchase
Capacity Planning
X-Play
Under and Over provisioned resources
Using what you have leads to better utilization of resources
Provide DBaaS for your business units
Quickly provision Databases including Oracle RAC and SQL AAG with performance best practices built in
Database patch management
Efficient data copy management
Deploy SQL AAG and Postgres clusters across clouds with Nutanix Clusters
Nutanix Clusters provides a seamless extension of Nutanix on premises datacenter to public clouds, keeping the same one-click operations and management via Prism. Our first release is focused on AWS, with Azure coming soon after.
Nutanix Clusters are spun up in the customer’s existing cloud provider accounts so they can maximize their existing investments with including VPNs, direct connects, credits and discounts.
Native integrations with cloud services allows for better networking performance and easy application migration across multiple clouds, without a need to re-architect or re-platform applications
Customer use cases where Nutanix Clusters is gaining customer interest:
On Demand Capacity
Multi-cloud or hybrid management
Cloud Migration for legacy apps
Data Center consolidation
Cloud services
Disaster Recovery
Solving these challenges with our scale-out architecture, purpose-built for virtualization and cloud environments. Built for multi-cloud world, minimal complexity, with visibility into storage as well as VM analytics, providing governance and control
Start with 3 nodes and scale out – pay-as-you-grow architecture, not rip and replace
Additional storage controller added with every node – all the intelligence is in the software, not the hardware
Self-healing
Non disruptive upgrades
Easy model to use AWS spend on baremetal instances.
You can speed the time to value without having to refactor certain applications. Databases that have been performance tuned for on premises can be moved to the cloud quickly and easily increasing time to value. For Hybrid cloud it means you can use the same tool with Era to be able to automate the deployment of instances quickly and easily, while possibly saving costs by moving to a database like Postgres and using Postgres as a Service for your business units. You will also get the same high availability in the cloud that you get on premises as Nutanix Clusters is built so even if a rack goes down in AWS the rest of your cluster will still be running and we will automatically spawn a new host for the cluster.
You can simplify operations between clouds by being able to use the same security constructs the same management interfaces. Day 2 operations would look identical between Private and Public clouds easing management.
With Clusters having direct access to AWS networks, not using any overlays, it means you will have native speed for access to AWS native applications. This means for ephemeral applications that resource usage could vary widely you could use AWS native services to take advantage of the scalability of the cloud for those services while your predictable workloads are on Clusters. This decreases latency. This gives you the best of breed in the cloud, highly predictable performance plus scalability.
With Clusters you can resource manage your instances much more granularly then native public cloud services, you control your oversubscription rate and the size of each of your VMs granularly which leads to less microwaste of resources. Better performance through dedicated local storage access.
With Beam for Security and Cost modeling across clouds, Era being able to provision to Clusters in the cloud and on prem, KPS being able to give you Containers as a service Anywhere and a platform you already know. This gives you a way to start realizing value in the cloud while while being able to take the time to make sure you are successful in your cloud migration.