arraya solutions: enhance data center efficiency, boost microsoft application performance

Arraya Solutions Confidential

ARRAYA SOLUTIONS, INC. 15 Years and CountingRyan BennerDirector, Cisco Practice

Chris MeehanDirector, Microsoft Practice

CISCO AND MICROSOFT – BETTER TOGETHERENHANCE DATA CENTER EFFICIENCY, BOOST MICROSOFT APPLICATION PERFORMANCE

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CISCO AND MICROSOFT – BETTER TOGETHER

Cisco and Microsoft offer flexible, open, and innovative solutions. By using Cisco data center solutions for your Microsoft workloads, private cloud solutions, and Windows Server with Hyper-V, you can:

Respond rapidly to changing business needs

Scale the data center while avoiding complexity

Accelerate your transition to private cloud and hybrid cloud environments


AGENDA

UCS for Microsoft Workloads

SQL Server Update

Microsoft Management for UCS

Microsoft Private Cloud

Go Hybrid with Cisco InterCloud

Our Offer for You


CISCO UNIFIED COMPUTING SYSTEM

30,000+ UNIQUE UCS CUSTOMERS

#2 WW Market Share in x86 Blades

More Than 75% of all Fortune 500 Customers Have Invested in UCS

90 World Record Performance Benchmarks to Date


THE NEXT-GENERATION DATA CENTER PLATFORMThat Unifies Computing, Networking, Storage Access, And Virtualization Resources Into A Cohesive System


STRONG PORTFOLIO OF CISCO/MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS

Solution Details Partners Why UCS CVD?

VDI • XenDesktop 5.x• With HyperV 2008 R1

• Extended Memory• Blade Density• Ease of Scale• Integrated, with Storage

Yes

Business Analytics & DW

• SQL Server FastTrack 2012• SQL Server 2008 FastTrack• OLTP with SQL Server 2012

• Integrated solution with Storage

• Extended Memory• Seamless Scalability w/

service profiles

Yes

Private Cloud with Hyper V

• HyperV FastTrack w/ EMC • Management integration – N1kv, VIC

• Integration with SC2012• Integration with Win

Server 2012

White Paper

Microsoft Applications

• SQL Server 2012 Fast Track DW• Exchange 2010 • Sharepoint 2010

• Ease of Scale• Extended Memory• Stateless servers for

improved HA• Unified Fabric

Yes

Management integration

• SC 2012 Ops Manager Mgmt Pack

• SC 2012 Orchestrator Mgmt Pack

• SC 2012 VMM Manager• Cisco commandlet library built

on powershell

• Automate UCS management

• Improve predictability and reduce manual errors with UCS integration pack

• Reduce delivery time

Yes


CURRENT UCS COMPUTE PORTFOLIOPerformance Optimized for Bare Metal, Virtualized, and Cloud Applications


CURRENT UCS BLADE COMPARISON

Model B22 M3 B200 M3 B420 M3 B260 M4 B460 M4

Sockets 2 2 4 2 4

Processor Xeon E5-2400 Xeon E5-2600v2 Xeon E5-4600 Xeon E7 v2 Xeon E7 v2

# DIMM’s 12 24 48 48 96

Max Memory 384 GB 768 GB 1.5 TB 1.5 TB 3 TB

Internal Drives 2 2 4 2 4

Mez I/O Slots 2 2 3 3 6

I/O Throughput 80 Gbps 80 Gbps 160 Gbps 160 Gbps 320 Gbps


CISCO IS ADDING FLASH MEMORY TO UCS


UCS INVICTA SERIES


THE UCS INVICTA CONQUERS THREE BUSINESS OBJECTIVES

Workload Acceleration

Fast I/O

High Bandwidth

Low Latency

Data Reduction

Eliminate Redundant Data

Efficient Storage Utilization

Data Center Efficiency

Reduce Energy Consumption

Reduce Floor Space Consumption

Reduce Management Overhead


INVICTA ACCELERATES ALL WORKLOADS


STRONG PORTFOLIO OF CISCO/MICROSOFT SOLUTIONS

Solution Details Partners Why UCS CVD?

VDI • XenDesktop 5.x• With HyperV 2008 R1

• Extended Memory• Blade Density• Ease of Scale• Integrated, with Storage

Yes

Business Analytics & DW

• SQL Server FastTrack 2012• SQL Server 2008 FastTrack• OLTP with SQL Server 2012

• Integrated solution with Storage

• Extended Memory• Seamless Scalability w/

service profiles

Yes

Private Cloud with Hyper V

• HyperV FastTrack w/ EMC • Management integration – N1kv, VIC

• Integration with SC2012• Integration with Win

Server 2012

White Paper

Microsoft Applications

• SQL Server 2012 Fast Track DW• Exchange 2010 • Sharepoint 2010

• Ease of Scale• Extended Memory• Stateless servers for

improved HA• Unified Fabric

Yes

Management integration

• SC 2012 Ops Manager Mgmt Pack

• SC 2012 Orchestrator Mgmt Pack

• SC 2012 VMM Manager• Cisco commandlet library built

on powershell

• Automate UCS management

• Improve predictability and reduce manual errors with UCS integration pack

• Reduce delivery time

Yes


SQL SERVER UPDATE

Important Dates

Todays SQL Challenges

New Features of Modern Day SQL

Benefits of SQL on UCS


IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

SQL Server 2000 End of Lifeextended support expired on

4/9/2013

SQL Server 2005 End of Lifeextended support expires on

4/12/2016

Windows Server 2003 End of Life

extended support expires on 7/14/2015


TODAYS CHALLENGES

Increasing Demand and Complexity

Business Insight and Analytics

Data Security

Availability and Continuity

Manageability


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Managed Azure Backups

Resource Governor

Incremental Statistics

Delayed Durability

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Hyper-V Virtualization

SQL Azure

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Hyper-V Service Templates


SQL SERVER ON UCS.. BETTER TOGETHER

Processing Power

Physical Memory

Flexible

Scalability


UCS MANAGEMENT WITH SYSTEM CENTER


Application Controller

• Manage services through intuitive interface using standard templates

• Create, manage and move services using web-based interface with customized view by role

• Provide comprehensive view of all services and virtual machines with control at each layer

Virtual Machine Manager

• Service-centric approach to application management

Operations Manager

• End-to-end views of application health and topology

Service Delivery & Automation

Application Management

Infrastructure Management

Microsoft System Center 2012 provides an integrated management platform with a robust set of capabilities

Orchestrator

• Process automation that simplifies datacenter management

• Optimize heterogeneous environments with integrated management

• Flexible and reliable datacenter services through orchestrated workflows

Service Manager

• Publish and consume standardized IT service offerings

• Enable self-service requests for private cloud infrastructure

• Process workflows built on industry best practices

• Closed-loop change and release management

Virtual Machine Manager• Pooling and dynamic allocation of

datacenter resources• Flexible delegation with control• Infrastructure self-service enablement• Heterogeneous virtual environment

management• Dynamic optimization of workloads

Operations Manager

• Comprehensive view of datacenters, and private and public clouds

• Monitor services, devices and operations for many computers from a single console

Configuration Manager• Enables device freedom• Provides comprehensive client

management• Integrates mobile, physical and virtual

environments

Data Protection Manager• Unified data protection for windows

servers and clients• Centralized management • Integrates into existing ticketing

systems, workflows and team structures

• Supplies enterprise scale, fault tolerance and reliability


UCS MANAGEMENT WITH OPERATIONS MANAGER

Holistic View of Converged Infrastructure Health Monitor alerts and faults on Chassis, Blades, Fabric

Interconnects, I/O Power Supply, Fan Modules…. Manage multiple UCS domains with single management

pack

Simple and Powerful Visualizations Graphical Views of UCS topology Graphical views of physical and logical entities and

relationships

Rich Alerting and Notifications UCS Alerts are integrated into Operations Manager

alerting and notification channels


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ORCHESTRATOR AND UCS MANAGER HELP AUTOMATE AND STANDARDIZE UCS MANAGEMENT

Automate UCS Management Improve predictability and reduce manual errors Reduce time to delivery and reduce TCO

Deliver scalable and reliable UCS management through orchestrated workflows Deliver consistent service across multiple systems Packaged workflows to automate UCS operations UCS XML API provides a powerful, supported interface

for Orchestrator workflow operations

Provides a graphical runbook designer Built on Cisco UCS manager XML API framework Enables runbook actions designed in orchestrator to

automate management of UCS


CISCO UCS UI EXTENSION FOR SCVMM

Manage your private cloud from a single console Physical, compute virtual infrastructure in one place

Show UCS inventory in SCVMM Launch UCSM GUI from SCVMM Summary status of servers

Basic server functions Service Profile association Launch KVM Change power/server status

Service Profile Template Support Instantiate service profiles View templates


MICROSOFT PRIVATE CLOUD IN ACTION

DEMO


GO HYBRID WITH CISCO INTERCLOUD


CUSTOMERS WANT HYBRID CLOUDS, NOT JUST IAAS


WHY HYBRID CLOUDS? IT’S ALL ABOUT THE WORKLOAD


HYBRID CLOUD CHALLENGESInability to Access Resources Across Any Cloud, with Security and Ease


CISCO’S HYBRID CLOUD APPROACH


CISCO INTERCLOUD FABRIC: SOLUTION OVERVIEW


INTERCLOUD FABRIC DIRECTOR CAPABILITIES

Single Console for management of hybrid cloud workloads Administrator portal and self-service user portal

Migrate Virtual Machines to public cloud or create Virtual Machines from template in a few clicks

Security User groups and provide multi-tenancy support

Users with pre-defined user types and permissions provide role-based access-control

Workload Placement Policies Administrator creates catalogs to be shared with specific users/user groups

Policies to restrict placement of workloads based on max/min number of VMs in a VDC


VM MIGRATION PROCESS


CISCO INTERCLOUD FABRIC VALUE PROPOSITION FOR YOU


CISCO AND MICROSOFT – BETTER TOGETHER

Cisco and Microsoft offer flexible, open, and innovative solutions. By using Cisco data center solutions for your Microsoft workloads, private cloud solutions, and Windows Server with Hyper-V, you can:

Respond rapidly to changing business needs

Scale the data center while avoiding complexity

Accelerate your transition to private cloud and hybrid cloud environments


ARRAYA’S OFFER TO YOU

SQL Server Consolidation Assessment – 50% discount if executed by 9/30/14

Microsoft / Cisco Private Cloud Architectural Design – Free if executed by 9/30/14


ARRAYA SOLUTIONS, INC. 15 Years and CountingRyan BennerDirector, Cisco Practice

Chris MeehanDirector, Microsoft Practice

THANK YOU!

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