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Bjarne MadsenHyperFlex Technical Specialist

12-4-2018

Cisco HyperFlex Multicloud Platform

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Speed, economics, simplicity for any

application

Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Cloud Like Resource

Model

Speed and Simplicity

Common platform across data center

Predictable, reliable performance

Pay as you grow

Pay-as-you-grow Economics with Resource Scaling

On-Demand

Streamlined Operations

Cloud like simplified management and

orchestration

Overcome Infrastructure Challenges


HyperFlex Architectural DifferentiatorsHardware and Software Engineered Together

Complete Hyperconvergence with Integrated Network Fabric

Unified Network Infrastructure

Guaranteed QoS with low latency

Pre-integrated UCS Rack and Blades + Cisco HX Data Platform

Single point of support backed by world class Cisco TAC Support

CloudCenter

AppDynamics CWOMSecurity

UCS

Intersight

Tetration

ACI

Hypervisor Choice

ESXi and Hyper-V

Next Gen Distributed Data Platform

Enterprise Scale

Performance without hot spots

Extremely consistent IO

Simplified Policy Based Management

Simplified operations across compute, storage and network

Hyperflex


Cloud based centralized management

Seamless integration of Converged & Hyperconverged

Independent Scaling of Compute & Capacity

HyperFlex Product Differentiation

High Performance & Scalable Data Platform

#1 Performing HCI platform

Enterprise Class Data Services & Storage

Optimization

Integrated Dedup & Compression w/ no performance penalty

Deployment Automation & Simplicity

Out-of-the-box service profiles, install/upgrade automation, automated cluster scaling

Integrated High Performance Network Fabric

10G/40G VIC/FabricFactory installed, integrated

networking, fabric QoS

Data Protection, High Availability & Resiliency

Native replication, backup/DR, Stretch Cluster, Availability Zones,

Fault tolerant HA architecture

Architected to Optimize Across Hardware, Software, Networking and Management.Integrated Solution with Single Point of Support

Broad RangeOf Supported Workloads

ROBO(Branch, IOT)

VSI(app/web)

VDI(Citrix, Horizon)

Databases(Oracle, SQL)

Mission Critical & ERP(SAP)

Analytics(Splunk)

Cloud-Native Apps(Docker, Kubernetes)

Cost optimization through Compute-only node support

Consistent , Low latency performance

Investment protection of existing storage and compute investment

3X Lower TCO, 3X Higher VM Density, 64 node scale, linear scale

out performance

Collaboration(UC, HCS)

Intersight

Monitoring, Telemetry, Analytics, Policy, Orchestration, Proactive TAC, HX Cluster management

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M U L T I C L O U D P L A T F O R M

#1 PERFORMANCE

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#1 in Performance and consistency

1st Hyperconverged system to pass stringent SAP SD

Benchmarkhttps://www.cisco.com/c/dam/global/fr_fr/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/cisco-hyperflex-

certifiee-sap-benchmark-dec-2017.pdf

Highest performance and consistency for the most mission critical enterprise

applications

Log structured file system with dynamic data distribution

Purpose built for HCI

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/global/fr_fr/products/hyperconverged-infrastructure/cisco-hyperflex-certifiee-sap-benchmark-dec-2017.pdf

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What’s New in HyperFlex


Any App

Any Cloud

Any Scale


HyperFlex Platform Evolution

• Multi-Hypervisor

• Advanced Data Protection, Higher

Scale, Capacity options

• Hybrid-cloud Ready, Multi-cloud

Enabled

• Cisco Intersight Managed

• Enterprise Apps++

+HV

• Performance for

Enterprise Apps

• Data protection, Native

Replication

• Security, Encryption

• Edge/IoT

• Data Distributed, Flash Friendly

Foundation

• Turnkey Install, Easy

Operations

• Tightly coupled with VMware

HX

2.0

HX

1.0

HX

3.0


Any App. Any Cloud. Any Scale.

Microsoft Hyper-V

Container FlexVolumeSupport

New Enterprise Application Validation

Application Performance Monitoring

Application Placement

Cloud Mobility

IaaS and Private Cloud

64 Node & Capacity Scaling w/ HA

Stretch Clusters

Cloud-Deployed w/ Intersight


Intelligent

Centralized

Management

Multicloud Platform

Cisco

Intersight

Adaptive

InfrastructureHybrid/

All Flash

Integrated high

speed networking

10G/40G

HX Edge

for ROBO

Self-Encrypting

Drives (SED)

NVMe

Drives

Cloud-Scale

Data PlatformLog Structured

File System

Dynamic

Data Distribution

Native

Replication

Compute-only

scaling

Virtualization and

Cloud Native

Optimized

VMware ESXi

Enterprise &

Hybrid AppsROBO VSI VDI Collab. Databases

Flexible

Multicloud

Services CloudCenter

for HyperFlex

Multicloud App

ManagementEnd-to

-End

Security

Micro-

Segmentation

& Policies

ACI/

Tetration

Large Form

Factor Drives

(LFF)

Intel Coldstream

(3DXPoint)

Stretch

Cluster

64 node

scale

Logical

Availability ZonesK8s Persistent

Volumes

Cisco Container

Platform

Microsoft Hyper-V

Mission Critical

& ERPAnalytics

Cloud-Native

Applications

App Performance

Monitoring

AppDynamics

for HyperFlex

Application

Placement

Workload Optimization Mgr

for HyperFlex

HX Cloud Deployment

Network

Security

ASAv

Firepower

FTD

Stealthwatch

New With HX 3.0


Cisco HyperFlex 3.0Adaptive Infrastructure& Cloud Scale Data Platform

Large Form

Factor Drives

(LFF)

Intel Coldstream

(3DXPoint)

Stretch

Cluster64 node

scale

Logical

Availability Zones

K8s Persistent

Volumes


Elastic Scaling Options in HX 3.0

Scale with availability

Without compromising simplicity

Up to 64 Node clusters

Hybrid & All Flash

Flexible drive capacity options

LFF HDD Support

S C A L I N G W I T H R E S I L I E N C Y

S C A L E T O L A R G E N O D E C O U N T

C O S T - E F F E C T I V E C A P A C I T Y S C A L I N G

HX 3.0


HX Capacity Scaling Options

1 . 8 T B H D D O P T I O N L F F S U P P O R T

• 1.8TB 10Krpm SFF HDD

• Lower overall $/GB, similar performance

• Support for M4 & M5

• Supported in 220 and 240 models

• For high capacity use cases, lower $/GB

• M5 240 support only

• 6 & 8TB 7.2Krpm LFF HDD support

• Upto 96TB raw capacity per node

HX 3.0


Intel Optane Support

I N T E L O P T A N E S U P P O R T

• Caching drive option available with HX 3.0

• Available on M5 only

• All Flash only configurations

• Part number: HX-NVMEXP-I375

• 375G drive capacity, 3D XPoint™

• Advantages:

• Higher Endurance: 20.5PBW (~ 30DWPD)

• Higher drive level performance

HX 3.0

Intel® Optane™ SSD DC P4800X Series(Formerly known as Cold Stream)

(Specs)

https://ark.intel.com/products/97161/Intel-Optane-SSD-DC-P4800X-Series-375GB-2_5in-PCIe-x4-20nm-3D-XPoint


• 64 node clusters

Support for up to 64 node clusters (32 HX converged, 32 compute-only)

• New limits applicable for Hybrid & All Flash clusters

• M4 & M5 node support with mixing of M4 & M5 nodes within a cluster

• Same rules for compute-only nodes still apply

Node Scaling Options in HXDP 3.0

H X D A T A P L A T F O R M

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

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Up to 32 HX nodes

Up to 32 compute nodes

IOVisor

IOVisor

HX 3.0


Automated Availability Zones

Up to 32 HX

nodes

Up to 32 compute nodes

64 Node Scale with Resiliency Cloud Scale Data Platform

64 Node & Capacity Scalability

IOVisor IOVisor

IOVisor IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

Availability

Grp 3

Availability

Grp 2

Availability

Grp 1

HX 3.0


• Cluster Scale With High Availability

• Increased resiliency without added manageability overhead

• How does it work?

HX nodes grouped into logical “availability groups” (N/A for compute nodes)

HXDP never places 2 copies of the data in the same availability group

Clusters with LAZ can survive > 2 simultaneous node failures without data loss or loss of availability

Tolerate more independent failures

Logical Availability Zones (LAZ)

H X D A T A P L A T F O R M

Availability Grp 1

Availability Grp 2

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

Availability Grp 3

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

HX 3.0


Disaster Avoidance Zero RPO Automated DR Maximum Uptime

HyperFlex Stretched Cluster Cloud Scale Data Platform

Power Mission Critical Apps with

Site-BSite-A

HX Data Platform

DBAPPAPPDB

Synchronous Replication

SSDSSDSSDSSDSSDSSD

HX 3.0


What is a Stretched Cluster?

VM VM VM VM

VM

VM VM VM VM

VM

Single Cluster

3rd site

Witness Server

1. A stretched cluster is a single cluster with nodes

geographically distributed

2. Storage is mirrored across each sites

3. Sites need to be connected over low latency network

4. Geo-failover (VM) is like failover in a single cluster

5. “Split-Brain”: Condition when nodes on either sites cannot

see each other

• Network failure

• Site failure

6. “Witness” : An entity hosted on a 3rd site responsible for

deciding the which site survive after a split-brain

Site -A Site -B

HX 3.0


HyperFlex Stretched Cluster ZERO RPO ! NEAR ZERO RTO!

Site-B

VM VM VM VM

VM VM VM VM

Site-A

3rd site Configuration Support

Single Stretched Cluster across 2 sites

Symmetric Configuration Site to host a “Witness Server”

(small VM)

8 HX nodes on each site

IO Path Active-Active sites – VMs

Active on each site VM Read IOs served locally VM Write IOs Sync-Writes

across sites 2x copies on each site

HA Operations

Recover from a Site failure Recover from a Local failure Failover of VM vMotion of VM Split Brain handling

Management Cross site Cluster creation Non disruptive online rolling

upgrade Site awareness in HX Connect Site specific Alarm and Events

on a single Dashboard

Witness Server

HX 3.0


Cisco HyperFlex 3.0Virtualization and Cloud

Cisco Container

Platform

Microsoft Hyper-V


Microsoft Hyper-V Support

Integrated Management

• Manage Hyper-V hosts from familiar SCVMM, Hyper-V manager, and PowerShell

• Automate HX operations using HX REST API• Leverage HX Connect UI (HTML5) for HX management

Enterprise workloads, Validated solutions• Citrix VDI deployment (XenDesktop and XenApp)

• Microsoft SQL, Exchange, Sharepoint etc.

• Oracle & other mission critical apps

• Backup vendor integrations

Industry Leading Foundation• Log Structured Filesystem & Data services designed for HCI

• Highly scalable, resilient, scale-out SMB3 file server protocol

• Fully Data distributed, No Data locality

Windows Server with Hyper-V• Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

• HX220 M5 and HX240 M5: Hybrid-Flash & All-Flash

• Microsoft native failover clustering, checkpoint (snapshots), replica support, AD support

CRTLVM

CRTLVM

CRTLVM

VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM VM

HyperFlex Data Platform


Controller VM Architecture with Hyper-V

SMB Client SMB Client SMB Client

Controller VM

I/Ovisor

StorFSrunningSMB

server

SMBproxy

Controller VM

I/Ovisor

StorFSrunningSMB

server

SMBproxy

Controller VM

I/Ovisor

StorFSrunningSMB

server

SMBproxy

HX Datastore

HyperFlex Data Fabric for Microsoft Hyper-V

App VM

VHDX App VM

VHDX App VM

VHDX

App VM

VHDX App VM

VHDX App VM

VHDX

App VM

VHDX App VM

VHDX App VM

VHDX

SMB file share

Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2016

HX 3.0


Windows Failover Clustering with HyperFlex

Cluster External IPHX

Cluster

SMB Server

HX Connect

REST API

Failover Cluster IP

Windows

Failover

Cluster

Live Migration

High Availability

IP 1Hyper-V 1

User

VMUser

VMUser

VM

CVM

1IP 1

IP 2Hyper-V 2

User

VMUser

VMUser

VM

CVM

2IP 2

IP 3Hyper-V 3

User

VMUser

VMUser

VM

CVM

3IP 3

IP 4Hyper-V 4

User

VMUser

VMUser

VM

CVM

4IP 4

1

2

3

4

5

6

VM Load Balancing or

Dynamic Optimization with SCVMM

VM-level HA, Advanced Resiliency

Virtual Machine Start Order

Host resource protection (from noisy VMs)

Application-level HA, Resiliency

Cloud witness (Azure-based)SCVMM


Executing on Cisco and Google Open Hybrid Cloud Solution

On Prem/Colo Data Center Google Cloud

Google Cloud

Platform

Google Kubernetes

Engine

Existing

ServicesApps | Data

Private Cloud infrastructure

Cisco Container Platform

For HyperFlex

Cloud

Apps

Istio: Hybrid Cloud

Service Management

Consistent

Environment

Networking | Security | Private Cloud Infrastructure | Consumption Management

CSR 1000v, ACI, Stealthwatch Cloud, HyperFlex, Cisco Container Platform, Contiv, CloudCenter,

AppDynamics

HX 3.0


Containerization challenges in a Multicloud World

Multiple Open Source Solutions

• Configure everything to work together

• Support and Services

Hybrid Environments

• VM and container environments with different toolsets

• Different storage and infra backends

Complexity

• Processes and policies

• Distributed micro-services architecture

Networking and Security

• Security and compliance

• Network connectivity, load balancing, service discovery

Source: CNCF Survey, June’2017


Cisco Container Platform for HyperFlex

IaaS

HyperFlex

Compute/Storage

HyperFlex

Network ACI

Nexus 9k standalone

On prem Kubernetes


Container Networking

Contiv/Contiv-ACI, CNI

drivers

Container Storage

HyperFlex Flex driver

Turnkey Kubernetes• Simple & Seamless Day0 &

DayN K8S operations

integrated into HyperFlex

• HyperFlex IaaS

Enterprise Storage • Scale-out, HA Filesystem

• Data protection, efficiency

and resiliency

Enterprise Networking &

Security • Multi-tenant architecture,

Micro-segmentation,

Security policies

Common Platform for

Legacy & Modern Apps• Co-existence of VMs and

containers on same

platform

DevOps Ready IT • Enable developer agility

with IT & security policies

• Avoid Shadow IT

Turnkey Appliance for

Enterprise Kubernetes


Single vendor Support• Fully supported by Cisco

Global TAC

• Single throat to choke for

entire stack


Cisco Container Platform Architecture

• Deploy Kubernetes clusters on

HyperFlex IaaS (VMware)

• Container Networking (Contiv /

ACI)

• Persistent Storage (Flex Driver

• Layer-4 and Layer-7 Load

Balancing

• High Availability

• Authentication with Active

Directory

• Role Based Access Control

• Communication between

containers and external VMs /

BMs

• UI – Harmony Kubernetes, API

• Security (Policies, Encryption)

• Add / remove Kubernetes nodes

• Lifecycle Management (OS

Updates, Kubernetes Upgrades)

• Monitoring (Prometheus)

• Logging (EFK)

Kubernetes-as-a-Service

Setup ManageConsume


Cisco HyperFlex 3.0Intelligent Centralized Management

HX Cloud Deployment


SaaS Simplicity

ActionableIntelligence

Connected

TAC

Secure and

Compliant API Driven,

DevOps Enabled

Policy Based

OrchestrationTelemetry

and Analytics

Intersight

Cisco IntersightIntelligent Centralized Management


Simplified Factory to Branch Deployments

Centralized Cloud-based Deployment

Automation Analytics Proactive TAC Recommendation Engine

Branch 2Branch 1 Branch 3 Branch 4 Branch 5

Cisco Intersight - HyperFlex Cloud Deployment Intelligent Centralized Management


Cisco HyperFlex 3.0Flexible Multi-Cloud Services

App Performance

Monitoring

AppDynamics

for HyperFlex

Application

Placement

Workload Optimization Mgr

for HyperFlex


DecisionEngine

DeploymentEngine

Visibility Engine

WorkloadPlacement

Performance ApplicationMonitoring

Instrumentation

Hybrid Cloud Management

Application Modelling

Cisco CloudCenter

Cisco Workload

Optimization Manager

Cisco HyperFlex

AP P L ICAT ION

Multicloud Infrastructure

HyperFlex Flexible Multicloud Services


HyperFlex Multicloud Bundles

CloudCenter AppDynamics Cisco Workload

Optimization Manager

Easy BundlesFlexible choices

Your Customer Need

Model N-Tier App Once & Deploy on Any Cloud

Policy based Auto-scaling from On-prem to Public

Governance across Cloud environments

Real-time, Unified Application Performance Monitoring

Intelligent Workload Placement

HyperFlexSmartPlay

+

HyperFlexSmartPlaySW Options (at least one or more of the following)

HyperFlex M4 or M5

HX220 or HX240

Hybrid or All Flash

CloudCenter CCO, CCMCloudCenter 100VM (1, 3, 5 yr)

AppDynamics APM Pro 75 Prod and 75 Dev SaaS license (1,3 yr)

CWOM EVAL90 day CWOM evaluation license

+


Clo

ud

and

HyperF

lex

Deployto

5

Dev/QA

CloudCenterApp Architect

Catalog

IT Operations HyperFlex

Multicloud Application ManagementHyperFlex, CloudCenter & AppDynamics

DeployedInstances

Manage Deployed Instances

AppDynamics

7Monitor Performance

Monitor HCI

Consume App Profiles

4

Create App Profiles

2

Publish

App Profile

3

8

1

Deploy on Prem HCI

6• Deploy On Prem HCI

• Create App Profiles

• Publish App Profiles

• Consume App Profiles

• Deploy Applications

• Manage Applications

• Monitor Applications

• Monitor HCI

6

5

4

3

2

1

7

8


Cisco HyperFlex Workloads, Tools and Performance


Enabling Workloads on HX

Simplify end to end sizing and

deployment for new / existing workloads

Pay as you grow cloud economics with

HyperFlex scale out

SIZING

Cisco HyperFlex Pay as you grow scaling

HX Data Platform

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

IOVisor

DEPLOY

GROW

HyperFlex Solution Guides

• End to end validated designs,

best practices for applications

• Prescriptive guidance and

application tuning

• End to end workflows and

integration with 3rd party solns

Sizer - end to end sizing

Profile existing workloads

HyperFlex Sizing ToolsNew & Existing Workloads


HX Tools

• End to End Sizing

• Includes – compute (CPU & Memory), Storage performance and capacity

• Application templates to aid application based sizing

HX Sizer

• OVA deployed in existing environments

• Quantify usage for sizing

• Integration with sizer to automate end to end sizing of environments

HX Workload Profiler

• OVA with benchmarking built on vdbench

• Benchmarking made easy

• Follows industry standard benchmarking practices for a realistic readout

HXBench


Summary


Main Key Differentiators with HyperFlex

Faster Installation, Integrated SDN,high speed, low latency network switching included and configured

Integrated Networking

Inline deduplication and inline compression with no performance caveats or additional cost

Data Reduction without Caveats

Fast, space efficient snapshots and clones, integrated into VMWare

Efficient DataServices

Architecturally built on foundation of Cisco DC Product Portfolio

Part of Complete DC

Strategy

Scale Compute independently from Storage

Independent Scaling


Multicloud Platform

Any App Any ScaleAny Cloud

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