network visibility for your nutanix enviroment

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Network Visibility for your Nutanix Environment

Jason Burns

Staff Solutions Architect - Nutanix

Jason.Burns@Nutanix.com

November 2nd, 2016

Alessandro Barbieri

VP of Product Development – Pluribus Networks

Alessandro.Barbieri@PluribusNetworks.com

The Cloud Era Is Well Underway

“I deployed my application

in five minutes.”

Rapid Time to Market

“No more time spent on low-level

infrastructure management.”

One-Click Simplicity

“I use and pay for just what I

need only when I need it.”

Fractional IT Consumption

“New capabilities are available

on a regular basis.”

Continuous Innovation

Bringing The Cloud To The Enterprise Datacenter

Fractional

Consumption

Invisible

Operations

Instant

Delivery

Frictionless

Tailored SLAs for

Every AppBalance Owning and

Renting

Data Access and

Governance

Choice and Freedom

from Lock-in

Control

Continuous

Innovation

Virtualization

App App

Re-Platforming the Enterprise Datacenter

Integrated, scale-out compute

and storage

Virtualization

App App

Storage

Controller

Storage

Controller

Storage

Controller

Storage

Controller

Server Server

Storage

Controller

Storage

Controller

with built-in virtualization

and management

Hyperconverged >> Enterprise Cloud

Integrated

Compute & Storage

Backup & DR Services

VM Storage

Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

2012

File Services

Native Virtualization

Multi-hypervisor Support

Hybrid-cloud Services

Machine Intelligence

Systems & Ops Mgmt.

HCI++

2014+

Enterprise Cloud

Cloud Automation

Self Service

Network Segmentation

Object Storage

Application Ecosystem

Container Services

2016+

Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

Integrated

Compute & Storage

Backup & DR Services

VM Storage

VxRail

Cisco HyperFlex

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Block Services

Network Visualization

Application Mobility

Eliminate

Complexity…

Integrated Consumer-Grade Management

Intuitive

Beautiful

Insightful

Powering All Workloads and Use Cases

VDI

Data Protection &

Disaster RecoveryBig Data

Enterprise

Applications

Collaboration

and UC

Private &

Hybrid Clouds

Branch

Office

Under The Hoodnutanixbible.com

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Scalable Distributed System Design

VM VM VM CVM

Hypervisor

VM VM VM CVM

Hypervisor

Tier 1 Workloads(running on all nodes)

Nutanix Controller VM(one per node)

VM VM VM CVM

Hypervisor

Distributed Storage Fabric

Snapshots Clones Compression Deduplication

Locality Tiering Erasure Coding Resilience

Node 1 Node 2 Node N

X86 X86 X86

Seamless Application and Data Mobility

Sizer One-click Hypervisor Conversion Cross-Hypervisor DR

Foundation Backup to Public Cloud Cross-Hypervisor Backup

App Mobility Fabric

VM VM VM CVM VM VM VM CVM

ESXi

VM VM VM CVM

ESXi

Node 1 Node 2 Node N

Distributed Storage Fabric

X86 X86 X86

ESXiESXiESXi ESXiESXi

AHV AHV AHV

Clustered Services

Powered By The Network

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Pluribus Visibility for Nutanix

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IT Service Delivery Challenges

Business services are comprised of

applications, infrastructure protocols and

networks

Limited or non existent view of network and

application interaction

Incident diagnosis is reactive and can take

days

Difficult triaging across IT teams, but the

Network usually gets the blame...

No problem prediction before an issue

impacts users at large scale

Increased operational costs, loss of

productivity, revenue impact

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Network

Business service

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Breaking Down “Mean Time To Repair” (MTTR)

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MTTI

Mean time to

identify a problem

MTTK

Mean time to knowledge

Most of the time is spent triaging

an incident across IT groups

MTTF

Mean time

to fix

MTTV

Mean time

to verify

My App is

Slow!!

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Pluribus VCF To Deliver Nutanix Services

Standard, interoperable, scalable,

non-blocking fabric based on open

networking switches

Highly-available, robust L2/L3/VXLAN

control plane (Tolly Tested)

Deployed at scale in mission critical

Enterprise applications

Centralized provisioning, automation

and visibility of multiple switches (no

external controllers/new protocols)

Integrated analytics with Nutanix

services awareness!!

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IP Network

3rd Party Spine Switch

Nutanix Ready Certified

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Nutanix+Pluribus Tools For Rapid Triaging

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My App is

Slow!!

Must be

The network…

Application

Admin

Network

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Admin

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Pluribus VCF Analytics To Reduce MTTK!

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Nutanix-services aware

Application aware

Integrated in the network…

no monitoring infrastructure overhead

Every East-West connection…No

sampling

Always ON =

simple to use

ZERO Config =

simple to deploy

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Pluribus VCF Analytics Powering All Nutanix Use Cases

VDI

Data Protection &

Disaster RecoveryBig Data

Enterprise

Applications

Collaboration

and UC

Private &

Hybrid Clouds

Branch

Office

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Thank You, Questions?

‒ Jason.Burns@Nutanix.com

‒ @bbbburns

‒ Personal Blog: bbbburns.com

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‒ Alessandro.Barbieri@PluribusNetworks.com

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Items of Interest

Optimization & Tuning use cases

Quick Guide

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