lenovo servers and microsoft azure: the future of the stack

Lenovo Integrated Microsoft Azure Stack

Data Center Group

Oct-2016

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State of the Enterprise

The Average

Enterprise

is

COMPLEX

8 Cloud Services

173 3rd Party Apps

7 Mobile

OS

198 Internally

Developed Apps

8 Data

Analytic

Solutions

11 Device Formats

200 Externally

Developed Apps


State of the Enterprise

The Average

Enterprise

is

COMPLEX

8 Cloud Services

173 3rd Party Apps

7 Mobile

OS

198 Internally

Developed Apps

8 Data

Analytic

Solutions

11 Device Formats

200 Externally

Developed Apps

Building this on

traditional IT is

UNTENABLE


Hybrid Complexity is Scrambling Resources

Infrastructure

Configuration

and

Deployment

Cloud OS and

Tools Stand Up

Operational

Management

Planning and

Implementing

Changes

1. https://www.rightscale.com/lp/state-of-the-

cloud

Lack of

Resources

and

Expertise

Implementing

SecurityManaging

Compliance

Managing

Multiple

Cloud

Services

32%29%

26% 26%

Leads to Major Challenges1Cloud Lifecycle Complexity

Top Challenges Based on Percent of Respondents

https://www.rightscale.com/lp/state-of-the-cloud

5

IT innovation

and new

capabilities

60%

Hardware 10%

Software

20%

Lifecycle or

Maintenance

60%1

Hardware 10%

Software

20%

Where you are today Where you want to be

How to bridge the IT & business gap?

IT innovation 10%

Lifecycle 10%

* http://www.apptio.com/blog/don%E2%80%99t-spend-majority-your-it-budget-new-projects

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Lenovo 1 of 3 Partners for Microsoft Azure Stack

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September 26: Featured in:


Microsoft Azure Stack – On Premise – Hybrid Cloud

• Azure consistent user experience

• Rich personalization

• Highly scalable

• Services marketplace

• Integration across services

• Extensible

Microsoft: “Cloud is a Model not a Place”

• Microsoft will uniquely have both a Public and Private Cloud offering

• Azure Datacenters are in 24 regions WW with 32 total announced

• Azure Stack is an extension of Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-preview-portal-improvements-june-

update/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-preview-portal-improvements-june-update/


Lenovo Integrated Microsoft Azure Stack

Build Applications On-Premise and Burst On

Demand to Azure Cloud

1 of 3

partners

Centralized Hardware Programmability

x3650 – Storage/Compute

Lenovo RackSwitch - ToR

Azure Stack

Hybrid Cloud

Windows Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)

1 of 3

partners

TP2 – Now

TP = Technology

Preview

TP3 – Feb.

2017

Expected

General

Availability

1H2017

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Resilient Foundational Infrastructure• Lenovo hyperconverged systems utilizing on-node storage

• #1 world record performance for virtualized worloads1

• Centralized hardware programmability and management with XClarity


Introducing Lenovo Integrated Microsoft Azure Stack

Unified Cloud Management• Transform data center resources into cloud services

• Build cloud-native applications using on premise deployments

• Access elastic public cloud resources on demand

Engineered, Pre-Integrated End-to-End Solution• Single orderable offering

• “White glove” deployment services

• High Speed ToR Lenovo Switches

• 24x7 single point of contact for Support

1. Top x86 2 socket SPECvirt_sc2013 performance result (http://spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q3/virt_sc2013-20160823-00060-perf.html), top

4 socket SPECvirt_sc2013 performance result (http://spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q2/virt_sc2013-20160615-00053-perf.html), and top

overall SPECvirt_sc2013 performance result (http://spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q3/virt_sc2013-20160830-00062-perf.html)

http://spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q3/virt_sc2013-20160823-00060-perf.html



Feature of WS2016 - to pool storage (SDS)

GA of October 14th 2016

Enables building highly available and scalable

storage systems with local (on-node) storage

1. 3 Node minimum

2. 32 Node current maximum

Storage for Microsoft applications (like SQL

Server) in both native format and virtualized with

Hyper-V

Specifically focused on Hyper-V IaaS

(Infrastructure as a Service) for Service Providers

and Enterprises.

WSSD – Windows Server Software Defined

certification program for S2D solutions

Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D)



Sample Configuration – As Demonstrated at Ignite

With Cables

4 to 16 Nodes

(2 Fault Domains)

Expandable:

• 1 Node at a time

• or in 4-Node pack

• up to 16 Nodes

Field Upgradable

(Services)

• Fault Domain = up to 8

identical nodes

• Up to 2 Fault Domains per

rack (16 Nodes)

• 42U Rack supports up to

16 Nodes

• Up to 4 racks can be

joined ( up to 64 Nodes)

• Factory Integrated• Firmware Best Recipe

• Services based

installation / configuration

With Cables

Nodes 5, 6, 7, 8

Nodes 5-8

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Ignite Demonstration Configuration

CPU: 2x E5-2680 v4 Memory: 256GBNetwork: 4 x 1Gbps and 1 x 10/25GbE Mellanox CX4 (VXLAN and RoCE support)Storage: (Boot – 600GB (Mirrored) Cache – 3,200GB SSD Capacity – 40TB Raw, 20TB Available)

• M1215 Rear SFF HDD RAID (RAID 1, OS boot) • N2215 SAS HBA (LSI SAS3008 12 Gbps) for 14 LFF HDD (cascading)• 2x SFF SAS HDD (600GB), 10x LFF 6Gbps NL SATA (4TB), 4x LFF SATA SSD (800GB)

25U Rack w/PDU’s

TOR Switches:

1x Lenovo RackSwitch G8052

2x Lenovo RackSwitch G8272

4x (or 8, 12, 16) Lenovo x3650 M5

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• Sold, shipped and supported

by Lenovo as a single

unit, pre-configured,

ready to deploy

• Single point of support from Lenovo

• Uniform, tailored support across the

entire solutions (includes hw & sw)

• Best recipe firmware - kept up-to-date

• Predictive Analytics for Storage

Lenovo Confidential: Under embargo until October 17, 2016

Software and Services to deliver a White Glove Experience

Pre-deployment

Onsite Deployment

Post Deployment

• Configuration Services

• discover hosts and storage

• Knowledge transfer

Delivering a white-glove experience

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LENOVO XCLARITY CENTRALIZED HARDWARE

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

External Automation &

Management Tools

Hardware Systems

REST APIs & Integrators

Discovery and inventory

Monitoring

Firmware updates

Configuration

Simplify Lifecycle Management


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Efficiency &

Speed

Why Lenovo Enterprise?

Strategic

Relationships

#1 in Product

Reliability

#1 in Customer

Satisfaction

Innovation &

Commitment

End-to-End

Portfolio

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SummaryLenovo Engineered Solution for Azure Stack

• Why Lenovo!– Lenovo DCG is One of Three hardware partners, and the Only Partner at Ignite With a

Working Demo!

– Azure Stack will only be available as a fully integrated infrastructure solution

• Learn More About Azure Stack!– Open an Azure public cloud account

- Learn how to use Azure Stack software by using Azure public cloud – it’s the same end user experience

- Microsoft link for more information

– Participate in the Microsoft Technology Preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/azure-stack-architecture/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/try/