Dell XC powered by Nutanix

Willem Essenstam – Nutanix

Dell OEM Alliance Engineer

Introducing Dell XC Series Web-scale Converged Appliances

Dell XC Series 2.1 Powered by:

Bringing simplicity, scale and efficiency to enterprises through web-scale converged infrastructure

Partnership launched in June 2014 XC 1.0 announced Nov. ‘14 – XC 2.0 announced Feb. ’15Dell Installation & ImplementationJoint support through Dell ProSupport w/assist from Nutanix

Dell is teaming with a Leader, Nutanix delivering XC Series

Nutanix is Leader in Gartner MQ for Integrated Systems

ONLY hyperconverged Leader and remains most visionary YTY

Complete infrastructure co. providing customers flexibility of choice of hypervisors and cloud usage

Gained market credibility and established a worldwide presence

The Acropolis scale-out architecture along with the ability to scale compute & storage independently, enables users to grow Nutanix deployments incrementally to meet application needs

1750 customers

Over 70 countries

6 continents

Founded in 2009

1100+ employees

IDC declares Nutanix dominant leader in hyper-

converged assessment with 52% market share! 1H 2014

“The company is taking advantage of its early success and

customer knowledge to a continued shift into larger

organizations, new geographic markets, and additional mission-

critical workloads.”

“Leading position in mindshare, as well as market share.”

“Nutanix systems have diversified from targeted or specialized

workloads like VDI to Tier 1 applications and highly virtualized

general business workloads like SAP, Oracle, Microsoft

Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint, Splunk, and Unified

Communications.”

Web-scale Hyper-converged Infrastructure

Traditional Infrastructure Web-scale Converged Infrastructure

Compute Storage

Savings are HUGE with Dell XC powered by Nutanix software

Results based on separate interviews conducted by IDC with multiple Dell XC and Nutanix customers

Demographics:

World-wide companies (<100 to 18,000+ employees)

IT staff: 2 to 1500 – Apps: 12 to 1500

Industries: Healthcare, Financial, Manufacturing, Govt., Retail, SP

Various virtual workloads

Neither Dell or Nutanix influence findings in any way

“We’re now more proactive with Nutanix because I can predict more easily how

I want to change my infrastructure …. This means that 80% of my time is

proactive; before, it was like 40%. We’re doing projects and other work with

this saved time and creating business value.”

- IT ManagerDownload full report here…

Dell XC Web-scale Converged Appliance powered by Nutanix

delivers business value

Performance

Complexity

Cost

Innovation

One management GUI - Prism

No finger pointing – Dell ProSupport

Only basic admin training

One-click upgrades

Pay as you grow – node by node

Huge OPEX savings

Predictable, linear scaling

Built-in tiering, data locality

Different nodes in same cluster

Faster time to value

Hyper-converged - compute & storage in appliance

Hypervisor agnostic – No lock-in

All robust storage services included

Resources shared across cluster

Need more compute/storage? – Add a node!

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International Formula 1 Racing team

• Physical rack space savings of ~40%

• Reduced administration time by 50%

• Improved decision making by quicker VDI application performance

• Simple installation and dismantle trackside –Quick time to value

Benefits

• Performance and scalability challenges

• Administrator bandwidth reached

• Existing NetApp SAN resiliency issues

• Slow decision making, limited value for trackside team

Challenges

“So, many thanks to you all for enabling us to improve the services to our trackside users whilst at the same time saving approximately $150,000 in shipping costs.”

- Customer quote

International Restaurant Chain and DistributorGlobal brand presence in 30 US states and 11 countries

• 70% reduction in space (68RUs to 20RUs)

• 400% SQL performance bump post POC

• Nutanix CEO meeting with CIO

• Reference call with existing Nutanix customer with similar deployment

Reasons for XC

• Aged traditional 3-tier environment needed refreshing

• SQL performance challenges

• Vendor component reliability concerns

• Server/storage sprawl in datacenter

Challenges

Single Pane for Global Cluster Management

Manage, Automate & Gain Intelligence through Prism Control Plane

Configuration Health Risk Efficiency

Vision

Kundecase – Handelshøyskolen BI

Hans Petter Malme

8. sept. 2015

Handelshøyskolen BI• Nøkkeltall:

• 20.000 studenter

• 850 ansatte

• Representert i Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Trondheim og Shanghai (Kina)

• En av 70 handelshøyskoler i verden som har “Triple Crown” status

• Flere digitaliseringsprosjekter på gang

Bakgrunn

• DigiEx

• Assement senter

• Dell XC VDI appliance infrastruktur

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• 3. stk Dell XC 630

• Ca 10 TB lagring

• Cisco 10 G/b nettverk

• Microsoft Hyper-V

• Dell Wyse vWorkspace

• Wyse tynnklienter

Hvorfor valgte vi……..• Dell Wyse vWorkspace

• Enklere lisensmodell

• Ett konsoll

• Rapportering og overvåkning

• Ett support punkt, DELL.

• Ny fuksjonalitet for ansatte og studenter, on / off site

• Nutanix

• Hyper konvergert

• Lagring

• Nettverk

• Skalering

Erfaringer hittil• Litt startvansker

• Firmware

• Velge mellom to supportspor

• Fungerende supportapperat, 24/7

• Dell

• Nutanix

• Administrasjon

• Ett konsol ( Dell Wyse vWorkspace )

• Nutanix, Web

• Gjennomførte eksamner

• Gode erfaringer

Denne høsten• Nytt “assessment center”

• Etablerer egen lokasjon for gjennomføring

• Tynnklient

• Bærbart

• BYOD ?

• Via. App portal

• Eksamen i Shanghai ?

• Vurdere videre terminalløsning

• Studenter

• Ansatte

Takk for oppmerksoheten……

husk at det aldri er for sent med videreutdanning !