Net app virtualization preso

Editor's Notes

• #17: Key points:The storage efficiency capabilities of ONTAP are second to none, delivering substantial savings to both Capex and Opex.Script:Storage efficiency is something lots of people talk about, so I’d like to take a minute to show you what’s so different about our approach. To us, storage efficiency is not a feature, it is a way of designing—it’s a commitment to a long-termtechnology agenda where we exploit every possible opportunity to drive the cost per gigabyte down.There are multiple agendas we employ. We design for using the lowest cost components (like SATA drives) and we provide either a performance acceleration or a reliability profile to those SATA drives which is very, very different than what the raw building block can do. So combination of SATA with software innovation in the brain like RAID Dual-Parity, while being able to apply Flash as a technology for performance acceleration, suddenly leads to an endpoint where, for half the cost, you get double the capacity for the same performance.When you talk about getting different results “twice as much for half the cost” is a great example.We also employ a variety of data reduction techniques, whether it is primary level dedupe, compression, or others--there are a variety of data reduction techniques that reduce the amount of data on the disk and traveling over the network. We also go after your raw utilization, where, if you have a bucket, you can force more into it. You can apply thin provisioning, you can apply the fact that with a unified architecture you don’t have stranded assets in the various silos that drives overall utilization up.And finally, you can make fewer copies. One of the biggest cost drivers in the storage infrastructure is the fact that every time a primary copy of data is created, roughly about 20 to 25 copies of that data get created--whether it’s test and development copies, backup copies, or disaster recovery copies--these are full copies of data, and they all require raw storage. So if you can eliminate any of those copies, by providing those copies to the applications in a virtualized environment, you reduce the cost of storage.So storage efficiency is a way of thinking. We are seeking every single way in which we can drive the dollar per effective gigabyte down. Our recent market share gains are proof that customers like you are seeing these kinds of results, and coming back for more. They get familiar with our storage efficiency story, and they begin to realize that they can apply us in more applications, because they can get benefit of the lower dollar per gigabyte. That’s what an mature storage operating system can do.
• #20: Goal of Slide: Highlight NetApp’s SMVI technology for data protection for your VMware environment. Key Points:SnapManager® for Virtual Infrastructure works with VMware vCenter, automating and simplifying management of backup and restore operations. Your VMware administrators now have an easy-to-use management tool to create application-consistent backups for their virtual machines. Additionally, they can instantly recover a datastore, VM, VMDK, or an individual file within a VM guest.Enhance your disaster recovery operations: SnapManager for Virtual Infrastructure can be used to trigger SnapMirror® updates upon backup completion, enabling your latest backup copies to reside at a secondary site.SMVI allows you to:Eliminate backup windows via near-instantaneous, application-consistent, Snapshot™ copies. Automate and simplify backup management for your VMware® environments. Restore datastores, VMs, VMDKs, or guest OS files rapidly in the event of failure. Enable VMware administrators to manage backup and recovery.
• #26: vSphere 5 is certified on Data ONTAP, FAS, V-Series for NFS, FC, FCoE, & iSCSI. VAAI for SAN and NFS are available now. VASA Provider in Beta.Virtual Storage Console plugs into vCenter 5 for VM lifecycle management. NetApp SRA available for SRM 5.vShield 5 integrates with NetApp’s Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) solution.vCO Plug-in offers intelligent policy-based provisioning from Storage Service Catalog forvCD 1.5.Snap Creator delivers intelligent policy-based vApp backup and recovery for vCD 1.5
• #27: Goal of slide: Illustrate how NetApp has unique value in provisioning capabilities, to match the provisioning capabilities that VMware brings to the servers.Key Points:Most businesses highly value an IT infrastructure that can quickly respond to change, and that can quickly take advantage of new applications and capabilities. So the ability to rapidly move through test, development, and deployment activities is very important.Traditional storage systems struggle to support rapid rollouts. Test, dev, and deployment activities typically revolve around generating physical copies of data or VMs, which takes both time and disk space.NetApp uniquely enables instant virtual copies, which do not require any data to be copied and are much faster than alternative approaches. The FAS3070 VeriTest study indicated that it takes 7 seconds to clone a LUN on NetApp, and 27 minutes to clone a LUN on EMC CLARiiON (check).With the ability to create instant virtual copies, test, dev, and deployment activities for virtualized servers can be substantially accelerated.Notes: Comparison of cloning times is from a VeriTest study of NetApp FAS3070 versus EMC CX3-80. See the full report at http://www.lionbridge.com/competitive_analysis/reports/netapp/NetApp_FAS3070_vs_EMC_CX3-80_Performance_and_Usability.pdf
• #28: Goal of Slide: Introduce two technologies from VMware and NetApp that deliver non-disruptive data mobility.Key Points:VMware’s Storage vMotion enables live migration of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays. VMware Storage vMotion lets you relocate virtual machine disk files between and across shared storage locations while maintaining continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity. Storage vMotion allows Virtual Admins to mange VM performance and storage utilization.NetApp’s Data Motion lets you easily and quickly migrate data across multiple storage systems while maintaining continuous access to your applications. The result is that you can keep your shared storage infrastructure running as you add capacity, update infrastructure technology, and balance performance.NetApp Data Motion integrates three proven NetApp software technologies—MultiStore®, SnapMirror®, and Provisioning Manager—to provide live data migration for virtual environments. You are now able to keep your clients and applications connected to their data regardless of where that data physically resides.You can now implement a truly multi-tenant storage infrastructure with the highest possible service levels since traditional planned downtime will be a thing of the past. Scheduling routine maintenance, software upgrades, and technology refresh will be greatly simplified since individual hardware outages do not affect data availability. This is particularly important for virtual server environments and for IT as a Service offerings in which mobility and 24x7 availability are considered as table stakes.
• #29: Goal of Slide: introduce topic of data mobility and NetApp’s Data Motion.Note: Data Motion’s support for all environments and all configurations is evolving. Please check latest technical content for Data Motion before presenting details to customers.Key Points:NetApp’s Data Motion lets you easily and quickly migrate data across multiple storage systems while maintaining continuous access to your applications. The result is that you can keep your shared storage infrastructure running as you add capacity, update infrastructure technology, and balance performance.NetApp Data Motion integrates three proven NetApp software technologies—MultiStore®, SnapMirror®, and Provisioning Manager—to provide live data migration for virtual environments. You are now able to keep your clients and applications connected to their data regardless of where that data physically resides.Business needsNo planned downtime forStorage capacity expansionScheduled maintenance outagesTechnology refreshSoftware upgradesImproved SLA flexibilityDynamic load balancingAdjustable storage tiersApplication transparencyPerformanceTransaction integrityAllows live migration of the secure multitenant containers from one system to another.This solution combines Provisioning Manager, MultiStore, SnapMirror to migrate vFilers from one system to another.Available in Data ONTAP 7.3.3
• #30: Joint solution that maintains application performance during long distance VM migrations Combines Cisco IP network, NetApp FAS with FlexCache, and VMware VMotion/Storage vMotion Leverages FlexCache to create local copies of remote dataIdeal for application migrations, technology updates and hardware maintenanceNetApp advantages:Simplest (IP, NFS-based)Broadest platform supportMost storage-efficientJointly validated
• #31: Goal of Slide: As storage administrators and IT managers use Insight Balance, they typically leverage it to predict and resolve performance problems, optimize workloads, plan capacity to provide the best possible performance level for the lowest cost, and manage the infrastructure service supporting the applications. In the next several slides we will examine these use cases.
• #40: Key features of vCloud Director:Abstraction and pooling of hardware resources into service offeringsAutomation and management to build internal and external cloudsVirtual datacentersSupport for multi-tenant environmentsInfrastructure service catalogSelf-service portal interfaceAutomation and orchestration with VMware vCenter Orchestrator™ and 3rd party partnersOpen standards: vCloud APIs, Open Virtualization Format
• #41: Customer data is isolated but still provide movement of tenants when needed for load balancing, operational reasons, etc.
• #47: Goal of the Slide: Provide overview of FlexPodKey Points:FlexPod is about an integrated infrastructure building block for all virtualization solutions that is backed by an integrated sales and support process and delivered by your favorite system integrator.Proven and highly scalable infrastructure – this is based on all the environments we have built together including: large scale VDI, our own engineering development labs, and the integration and knowledge we have from the Secure Multi-Tenancy (SMT) infrastructure as a Service architecture.FlexPod for VMware is a virtualized infrastructure foundation that supports a wide range of applications and existing Cisco Validated Design.The FlexPod supports the journey from consolidation, virtualization, shared infrastructure through to ITaaS – with a wide number of existing CVDs being supported on the FlexPod – deployment details will be provided in updates to these CVDs.We have chosen FAS3240A based on price performance and fit for wide range of customers.Primary positioning is all about simplicity at the C-Level.A lower level discussion is that the storage array can be substituted with smaller (or larger) systems, but the FlexPod retains it’s integrity and single architecture.
• #48: Goal of the Slide: Provide detailed components of FlexPodKey Points:This is the FlexPod reference BoM. We have chosen FAS3210A and matched it to appropriate compute to support 1,500 users for these four popular workloads simultaneously: virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and SQL Server—and it provides sufficient headroom for additional applications.The storage array can be substituted with larger (or smaller) systems, likewise the blades configuration can be tuned to specific workload requirements, but the FlexPod retains its integrity and single architecture.Scale up by either using a standard FlexPod each time or by scaling individual resources. However, regardless of the number of FlexPods or the capacity in each layer of the infrastructure, it’s always managed as pooled resources, not individual FlexPods.Note Nexus 5548 – latest Nexus series switch offering 10GbE, FC / FCoE and fabric servicesVIC = Virtual Interface Card (M81KR) - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10280/data_sheet_c78-525049.htmlValue Proposition Low Risk – Proven and Detailed Deployment Guides, for a wide range of applications Efficiency – Highest possible efficiency Flexible – Scale Up/Scale Out
• #49: Goal of the Slide: Demonstrate the FLEXibility of FlexPodKey Points:The FlexPod is not a fix configuration. It provides an excellent starting point as shared infrastructure for organizations that want to run mixed workloads. The starting point is the MS Productivity Applications, but the FlexPod architecture allows different resources to be scaled while maintaining the same design and implementations.The initial sizing guide covers the MS Applications (VDI Windows 7, MS Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, MS SQL 2008) and over time will cover many different applications.
• #53: VMW View ?VDI = same costs, more secure, easy to roll out patches and updates, same SLAsBalance perf, user exp, costsPoint: Validate for the partner that the opportunities to make money with virtual desktop are increasing and discussing some of the key drivers and market dynamics that are happening in this space. WIIFY: Every virtual desktop opportunity brings with it a requirement for enterprise storage which represents a net-new opportunity for the partner.Notes:Opportunities for desktop virtualization are expanding past POCs for a myriad of reasons and this is validated by what we are seeing with SW vendors and with the market dynamics.As virtual desktop opportunities expand it also creates new requirement for the customer and a net-new opportunity for partners to sell storage. Since cost (specifically storage cost) is one of the inhibitors to desktop virtualization NetApp storage efficiencies play extremely well in desktop virtualization environments (e.g., dedupe, thin provisioning, Flash Cache, WAFL…) so we are well positioned to capitalize on these opportunitiesVirtual desktop is growing beyond the early adopters. The huge market growth that Analysts predicted last year is happening this year. A lot of that is due to economy, but also due to a maturity of technology in the virtual desktop space.Windows 7 migration is a big driver for virtual desktops. Many organizations skipped Vista and now must move up to Win7. Customers will either upgrade the traditional way, which includes signing up for another HW refresh cycle, or they’ll bite the bullet and move to virtual desktops. For those that have been on the fence, Win7 gives them a good reason to virtualize the desktop. So timing is good. All the vendors are banking that Win7 migration will be a key part of their desktop virt strategy.Over 90 million copies of Win7 sold. VMware View 4.5 is soon to be released probably at VMWorld. Expect to see key messaging from VMware around “cost per seat”, “end user experience”, and PCoIP.Microsoft owns the desktop space so no surprise to see them getting aggressive with virtual desktop. Their stated enterprise strategy is Citrix XenDesktop on Hyper-V. MS also has solutions to accommodate SMB customersWe are seeing key technology from other third party vendors that , integrate, overlap and/or co-exist with Citrix, VMware and MS solutions. Specifically solutions from Quest, Desktone, and Dynamic Ops. Good news is that NetApp partners with these guys also.
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