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February 2020

Cisco HyperFlex

Introduction to Hyperconvergence

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Why HCI?

Data Centre Silos

Compute Network Storage

Hypervisor

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• 1c Compute

• 1c Network

• 1c Storage

Ingredients

• Not all solutions are complete

• You want the fabric. You can’t hyperconverge and conveniently leave out bits

• Know what pieces your HCI solution contains before you buy…

Don’t get fooled

Converged InfrastructureH

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Infra

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UCS Manager

Cisco HyperFlexCompute, Network and Storage All-in-One

VMs and

Storage

Network

Fabric

+ VMs Only+ VMs and

Storage

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Demo(Part 1)

“Let’s deploy compute, network, storageand a hypervisor all per best practices”

- Right here and now

Cisco HyperFlex is a Hardware Platform…3.8

TB

Up to 23 drives

HyperFlex SW

HyperFlex software on flash

Memory Cache

High performance memory tier

Fla

sh C

ache

Solid state flash cache tier

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

3.8

TB

HDD or flash capacity tier

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Any App

Any Cloud

Any Scale

Hyperconverged Systems – Where?

Simplicity

Converged Systems

Hyperconverged Systems

Pe

rfo

rma

nce

• Simple IT – Compute, storage and network all-in-one

Why

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HX Data Platform Overview

Hyperconverged Scale Out and Distributed File System

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

Start with 3 nodes Add more as required

Retire older servers

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

…

Software Modules inside a Server

VAAI Plugin offloads snapshots and clone

operations

Controller VMdirectly accesses drives and

network fabric

IOVisor presents NFS to ESX and stripes IO

DATASTORE/VOLUME

CONTROLLER

VMHYPERVISOR

VMVMVMVMVM

HDD

HDD

SDD

SDD

IOVisor

VAAI

True Scale

Independent Scaling of Compute and Capacity

Compute Nodes

Hyper-Converged Nodes

HYPERCONVERGED DATA PLATFORMHX DATA PLATFORM

Scale Compute

Scale Storage Capacity

IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor IOVisor

Balanced space utilization No data migration on VM migration

Less stress on Network

HYPERVISOR

…And Efficient Capacity and Network Utilization

HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR

VM VM

1 2 3

VM

DATASTORE

CONTROLLER CONTROLLER CONTROLLER

DATASTORE DATASTORE

Non-disruptive Operations

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

CONTROLLERVMHYPERVISOR

VM VM VM

• Stripe blocks of a file across servers

• Replicate one or two additional copies to other servers

• Handle entire server or disk failures

• Restore back to original number of copies

• Rebalance VM’s and data post replacement

• Rolling software upgrades

File.vmdk

D1 E1A1 B1 C1B2 A2 A3C2 C3 D2D3 E2E3 D1E1 B3 B3

EDCBA

The Sasquatch…

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Demo(Part 2)

Adding it all up…

Scale-up Storage

HyperFlex Scale-out Storage

Lossless Network Fabric is IMPORTANT

Network IncludedSAN/LAN Not Included

We give you a choice…

Storage + Compute

Compute Only

Where’s the data live?

Striped across NodesLocal to Node

And how is it protected?

Erasure Coding

• Low performance

• High availability

• Consumes less

space

• Best choice for

archival storage

RAID

• Known performance

• Trusted high

availability

• Traditional array

business

Replication

Factor

• High performance

• High availability

• Quick rebuilds

• Best choice for

primary storage

Dedup and Compression ALWAYS

• Inline Deduplication20-30% space savings

• Inline Compression30–50% Space Savings

• No Special Hardware

• No Performance Impact

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