Don Frame Gina Hefner
Don Frame and Gina Hefner
July 28, 2016
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Don Frame Gina Hefner
Hyperconvergence: Reducing Costs and Complexity in the Data Center
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Hyperconverged and software-defined technologies help IT address the challenges while empowering businesses to take advantage of the opportunities.
IT Business Challenges IT Business OpportunitiesRapidly Provision New Services
Better Manage Risk
Provide Predictable IT Costs
Legacy Systems Inflexible and Complex
Siloed Systems Hard to Protect and Manage
Pressing Need to Reduce Cost
IT is required to find new ways to rapidly deliver applications and services that elevate IT to focus on the business.
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Infrastructure Evolution
• Easy to acquire• Faster deployment • Easy to acquire
• IT agility• Faster deployment • Easy to acquire
• Lowest cost• IT agility• Faster deployment • Easy to acquire
TraditionalInfrastructure(since 1995)
ConvergedInfrastructure(since 2010)
HyperconvergedInfrastructure(since 2014)
Software-definedInfrastructure(evolving)
Inflection point:Server virtualization becomes mainstream
Inflection point:Storage virtualization adoption accelerates
Inflection point:Network virtualization adoption accelerates
Market inflection point
that drives a technology
evolution
As IT departments look for lower costs, IT agility, and faster deployments of capability, they will transform their infrastructure from traditional to converged to hyperconverged and beyond.
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What Is a Hyperconverged Infrastructure?
HYPERCONVERGED
Hyperconverged infrastructure tightly integrates compute, storage, and virtualization into a single data center appliance. The end result is dynamic capacity that helps you meet diverse needs with unified simplicity,
reducing the cost of building and supporting next-generation IT.
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Why Public Sector Organizations Need A Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Faster to deploy
Higher performance
Easier to scale
Stronger data protection
Higher availability
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How Does the Public Sector Benefit?
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More predictable
Worry-free transitions
Ideal match
Minimize IT operational workload
Rock-solid availability
Reduced capex and opex
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Hyperconverged Key Workloads
IT infrastructureVDICloudVirtualized data centerVideo surveillance
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Big data2Database3Collaboration4
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What Is a Software-defined Infrastructure?
Basic capacity:
• Server• Storage• Compute
What are the benefits?
• Flexibility• Simplicity• Cost-effective scaling • Easier automation• Reduced need for specialized IT skill sets
SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER
Software-defined server
Software-defined compute
Software-defined storage
Software-defined security
Software-defined
automation
Software-defined
monitoring
SOFTWARE-DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE
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What Is an Appliance-centric Infrastructure?
• Single-vendor solution
• Single pane management across SW and HW
• Software already loaded and tested
• Turnkey installation
• Easy scalability
• Includes integrated services like data deduplication and protection
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Five Myths About Hyperconvergence
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Hyperconvergence drops long-term IT costs dramatically, reducing everything from power bills to support costs.
Hyperconvergence will dramatically drive up IT costs1
Even with hyperconvergence deployed, SAN still has a critical role in your evolving data center.Hyperconvergence means the end of SAN 2
Hyperconvergence delivers a unified data center platform that makes it easier to manage information governance.
Hyperconvergence will create additional IT silos inside my data center3
Hyperconvergence is the right choice for lots of high-capacity compute program needs.Hyperconvergence is only best for VDI4
You can still build the data center solutions that fit your specific needs.
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Lenovo Solutions for Hyperconvergence
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Lenovo System x3650 M5 Rack-mount Servers Powered by DataCore Software
These systems offer the following advantages: • Applications run faster and uninterrupted• Pool online storage and protect data• Centralize and automate storage management
The net result is better performance and availability for databases, VDI, and other virtualized applications.
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SimpliVity OmniStack with Lenovo System x3650 M5 Rack-mount Servers
Combines eight to 12 core data center functions such as:
• Replication• Cloud gateway• Caching• WAN optimization• Real-time deduplication
• Hypervisor• Compute• Storage• Network switching• Backup
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Lenovo System x3250 M5 with StorMagic SvSAN
Benefits:• Enhanced performance• Affordable price point and TCO• Suitable for SME and ROBO with larger
application requirements• Compact 1U servers• Groundbreaking storage density• IMM2 management with FoD
The StorMagic SvSAN solution leverages powerful Lenovo System x and ThinkServer® servers for optimal reliability, scalability, and performance
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#1 Hyperconvergence – 52% market share1
Leader in Integrated Systems – Gartner MQ2
Only hyperconverged solution supporting all major hypervisors
#1 in x86 reliability4
#1 customer satisfaction5
Most #1 world-record benchmarks onperformance systems5
1. IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems 2014 Vendor Assessment
2. Gartner 2015 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems
3. ITIC 2015-2016 Global Server Hardware, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/itic_2015_reliability_wp.pdf
4. TBR Customer Satisfaction Survey, Aug 2015, http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/white-papers/tbr_x86servers_top_csat_2q15_wp.pdf
5. Intel world records as of Oct 29, http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-e7-v3/xeon-e7-v3-world-record.html© 2016 Lenovo. All rights reserved.
History of Innovation and Customer Focus
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Lenovo Converged HX Series for Appliance-centric Hyperconvergence
• Lenovo HX3000 Series– Designed for compute-heavy workloads, this
solution is ideal for VDI, web server, light databases, and smaller virtualization workloads.
• Lenovo HX5000 Series– Designed for storage-heavy workloads, this
solution can help with workloads that have large capacity needs, file servers, backup, Hadoop, and disaster recovery deployments (DR).
• Lenovo HX7000 Series– Designed for high performance, this solution can
provide significant benefits for larger databases, MS SQL, Exchange, Oracle, and other I/O-intensive workloads.
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Simplifies Hardware Systems Management
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Lenovo XClarity Administrator
NETWORK-BASED AUTO-DISCOVERY OF NEW SYSTEMS
REAL-TIME MONITORING, FAULT DETECTION, ALERT HANDLING
POLICY-BASED FIRMWARE LEVEL COMPLIANCE
SERVER CONFIGURATION PATTERNS
OS AND HYPERVISOR INSTALLATION TO BARE
METAL SERVER
• VIRTUAL APPLIANCE• WEB-BASED GRAPHICAL USER
INTERFACE• REST APIs• POWERSHELL
Pool of Managed Lenovo Hardware Systems
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Why Lenovo?
• High performance with Intel® Xeon® processors
• Best-of-breed interoperability
• The compute, storage, networking, solutions, and services capabilities that meet the diverse needs of data centers and mobile devices
• Most rigorous security process in the industry with end-to-end control over our global supply chain
• Lenovo ranked #1 in reliability with the lowest downtime of any x86 servers in the industry
• Lenovo ranked #1 in customer satisfaction
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Greater choice of hyperconverged platforms and business partners
Confidence in deploying on world-class hardware from a leading vendor
Dramatic reduction in cost and complexity of data centers
Global infrastructure with domestic support
How Organizations Benefit
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