1. Journey to the HyperConverged Agile Infrastructure
WEBINAR
Journey to the HyperConverged Agile Infrastructure
March 28, 2017
Kathy Rekers
CDW
Field Solutions Architect

2. Platform Architectures

3. Challenges and Goals Platform 2 Platform 3
NETWORK
SERVERS
STORAGE
Platform 3
Silo
Innovate
Maintain
Many of today’s business applications are not “Cloud ready”

4. Journey to Agile Integrated Infrastructure
Modern Data Center Environment: Elastic, Scalable, Efficient, Fast
Traditional IT
Private Cloud
Off Premise
Cloud Native Apps
Core Apps
Elastic Capability
Cloud Core Apps
Elastic Capa-city
Cloud Native Apps
Servers
Storage
Networking
Power & Cooling
AGILE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Hyper-Converged
Infrastructure
Virtualization
& Converged Infrastructure
Orchestration & Automation
Flash
Burst
Flexible
Self Service
On Premise
Hosted Private Cloud
Public Cloud

5. All Flash Storage
Cost of Flash per IOP is far less than spinning disk solutions
Cost of Flash per TB can be less than spinning disk solutions given the efficiencies many storage vendors use on all flash arrays
Cost of raw flash per TB expected to be comparable or less than spinning disk within the next 12 months
Flash brings most value to random workloads, and can bring a whole new level of user experience to today’s demanding applications
Flash

6. Benefits of Flash Storage Arrays
Concerns around data layout and constant performance tuning are eliminated, simplifying planning, implementation and management of the storage tier
Datacenter resources in rack space, power and cooling are drastically less than spinning disk solutions
Many vendors are now optimizing their storage Operating Systems to take advantage of Flash, while keeping all of the enterprise capabilities IT relies on every day, such as snap shots, clones and replication
Flash

7. The overall infrastructure problem – not solved…
While we have a much faster storage tier now, the pain points associated with planning, installing and managing a multi-tier infrastructure are still there
We still have to use the “Crystal Ball” to predict what our multi-year growth will look like to ensure we have a storage platform that will scale as needed
We still have multiple management points, constant construction, and have likely created yet another silo with our flash storage array…
Flash

8. HyperConverged Infrastructure
Significant departure from the 3 tier infrastructure model
Software defined resources built on commodity hardware – appliances with set compute, network and storage resources
End result functions the same as a shared resource infrastructure
But one of the biggest causes for pain points in today’s datacenter, the monolithic storage array, is eliminated
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

9. Converged vs. HyperConverged
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Converged Infrastructure:
Built on traditional 3 tier infrastructure components
Packaged and sold as a solution with cooperative support
Upgrades may be packaged as a single upgrade, instead of upgrading each component
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure:
Built on entirely software defined components
Sold in appliances which are clustered together for a scale out model
Upgrade entire software stack including storage and hypervisor

10. Software Defined Storage
The Software Defined Storage creates a large pool of shared storage using the disks in each appliance. As data comes in, it protects it across two or more of the appliances, meaning that a whole appliance can fail, or be removed, without data loss. Management of SDS is greatly simplified compared to traditional storage arrays.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Virtual
Shared Storage
Pool
VMs
Storage
Each Appliance is responsible for running Virtual Machines, Networking and Storage. Since all layers of the infrastructure are combined into one cluster of appliances, it is considered “Hyper-Converged”
Snapshots, Clones
Replication, Encryption
Dedup, Compression

11. Granular Scale as Needed
Scale up vs. Scale out
Traditional storage arrays scale up, which places demands on the planning and acquisition to ensure the right product is selected. The acquisition ends up being a large capital purchase to support multiple years of growth.
Software Defined Storage can scale out, meaning you only need to purchase what you need for the current project. As capacity and workload grow, SDS scales with additional nodes to meet the demands.
Scale Up
Workload
Time
Buy up front to match projections
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Scale Out
Add as needed to match workload

12. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Faster Time to Value
Pools
Policies
Profiles
Boot from SAN
Traditional Infrastructures take potentially months of planning prior to even an install, and can take weeks to even months to install.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Switch Configuration
Zoning
WWNs
Controller Configuration
HA Cluster
RAID
Tiering
LUNs
Masking
As Hyper-Converged solutions can be sized to current needs, reducing planning time, installs typically take days or even hours.

13. Simplified Operations
Traditional Infrastructures need multiple tools to manage the multitude of layers they are built with.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Trouble shooting
Provisioning
Upgrades
Refreshes
Provisioning!
As Hyper-Convergence collapses the many layers into a scale-out appliance model, management is drastically simplified as well.

14. Granular Failure Domain and Availability
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

15. Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Use Cases
VDI:
Easily scale to meet demands of increasing desktops.
ROBO:
Datacenter-in-a-box with simple implementation.
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Datacenter:
Consistent and predictable cost, effort and performance to scale environment as needed, project by project, while providing the performance and data protection for:
Enterprise Applications
Private Cloud
Big Data
Collaboration

16. Hyper Converged Before/After
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

17. Hyper Converged Infrastructure Compared

18. Orchestration Orchestration
Most customers in this region work are NOT looking for self service portals and chargeback models (true private cloud).
There are tremendous benefits to automating tasks to ensure standardized processes which reduce errors and make IT more responsive to the business.
Orchestration
Consider the complexities of automating tasks in a traditional infrastructure – in reality, automation is very inherent in Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, as resources are software defined, and ALL resources are virtualized.

19. Large Insurance Company
Hyper Converged
For General Virtual Workload
All Flash for
Core Oracle Databases
Scale Out
NAS for
Unstructured

20. Healthcare Organizations
Converged Infrastructure on All Flash for
Epic
Hyper Converged
For VDI
And General Virtual Workload
Scale Out
NAS for
Unstructured

21. Online Content Provider
Converged Infrastructure for
Application and Dev Environment
Orchestration to Provide Self Service Portal
AWS/Azure for Content, Application and Dev Environment

22. Discuss Infrastructure Discuss Potential Solutions Lab and Demos
Next Steps
Datacenter Workshop
Discuss Infrastructure
Discuss Potential Solutions
Lab and Demos
Funded Virtualization Assessment

23. Field Solutions Architect
WEBINAR
Thank you!
March 28, 2017
Kathy Rekers
CDW
Field Solutions Architect