Nutanix (Hyper Converge

Infrastructure)
 Traditional Architecture
Problems

• In Large IT company, Skill set may be

Scale-out distributed for each tier.
Servers
• It was difficult to identify where is actual
problem for e.g one path is not
responding in fiber or fc card port
shutdown due to firmware update.

• Three different vendors to be followed for

any trouble shooting
Storage
• Updates and upgrade to be done for each
Network item individually, sometime failure
happens due to incompatible firmware.

• Admin has to take three different console

SAN to assign storage LUN or other admin
activity for troubleshooting.
The Nutanix Choice: Invisible Infrastructure

… … Apps
VMware, MSFT, ESXi Hyper-V AHV
CVM
Virtual
Redhat Infra

NetApp, EMC

Brocade, Cisco Nutanix

Physical
Infra
Qlogic, Emulex
HP, Dell, Cisco

Cisco, Arista, Cisco, Arista, Brocade,

Brocade, Avaya Avaya
 Customers Require a Single View Into Cost and Compliance
Compute
Network

Security
&
Databas
Storage

es
&
 Virtual Networking

VM VM VM
• Based on Open vSwitch
eth0 eth0 eth0 Managed • Fully distributed (Vmware add lic.)
automatically
• Virtual Networks w/vLANs
tap0 tap1 tap2
• IP Address Management (DHCP)
tag:11 tag:9
• Bond / Link Aggregation
br0 br1
• Network Visualization
bond0 bond1
Managed by • Nutanix Flow Networking

the user
eth0 eth1 eth2 eth3

Fully
Fully distributed
distributed networking,
networking, based
based on
on open
open standards,
standards, simplifies
simplifies
deployment
deployment and
and ensures
ensures configuration
configuration consistency
consistency
Network connectivity chart and live traffic flow
Rich Flow Visualization to Aid in Policy Authoring

Prism

“Show me all flows for my application”

“We’ve detected
VLAN 10 VLAN 11 VLAN 12 these flows”
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Nutanix Storage connectivity

• Per-vdisk storage multipathing

• Better load distribution during

CVM maintenance windows

• Can be used to dynamically

eliminate storage host-spots
Data Availability

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Data Locality

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Full Stack Comparison
AHV when combined with Acropolis and Prism
creates a comprehensive virtualization platform that
Prism Manageme is much more than an alternate hypervisor
nt
Calm • Factory Secured / Self-healing
• Native Networking with Microsegmentation
• Cross Hypervisor DR / Migration
ADFS • RBAC
AFS • Multi-cloud Support w/Calm
Storage • HA / Scalable / Multi-site Management
ABS • Operational Insights with Predictive Analytics
ACS • Capacity Planning & Reporting
• VM, File, Block, Container Services
• Native Backup, Replication, DR
AHV • Certified Citrix Ready
Virtualization • Microsoft Validated
Networking
Flow
 Migration: Xtract VM

vCenter

 Agentless migrations ESX VM VM AHV

Cluster AHV
VMCluster
Inventory
 Near-zero downtime
ESX Xtrac
Xtrac
 Retain network Cluster
VM
tt
AHV
configurations AHV
AHV
AHV
VM Cluster
ESX √
 Auto AHV IO driver insertion
Cluster
VM

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Cross-Hypervisor Backup and DR

AHV

Benefits
• Enjoy hypervisor choice while using integrated backup and DR
• All the benefits of Nutanix async remote replication technologies
• Automatic migration of configuration and VM conversion
 Why Nutanix
Sr.No Key Points Dell EMC VX RAIL Nutanix VxFlex HPE Simplevity

1 Scalability of node for future expansion 64 Unlimited 1024 64

2 Auto Tiering Not supported Supported Supported Not Supported

3 De-dupe and compression Supported with all Flash Supported with inline and data at rest Only compression Supported with all Flash

Lowest hardware will be baseline for entire

4 Hardware compatibility on expansion Lowest hardware will be baseline for entire cluster Independent performance of each hardware Independent performance of each hardware cluster

Single console to manage, Server, Storage and

5 network Supported Supported Not supported Not Supported

Write first on local storage and then

6 Data Write Technique write on distributed storage distribute copy on other node write on distributed storage Write through RAID card
7 Fast VM Cloning Not supported Supported Not supported Supported

Native File services as part of Nutanix cluster

8 File Services With Third Party (NFS, CIFS & SMB) With Third Party With Third Party
9 One-Click upgrade of updates/upgrades Supported Supported Not supported Not Supported
10 Supported Hypervisor VMware hypervisor agnostic hypervisor agnostic VMware and Microsoft

Based on Hypervisor Cluster we select for HCI

11 Overheads for HCI 32 GB Ram And 10% CPU 32GB RAM and 8 Core CPU as this is SDS 114GB RAM and 4 Core
12 Failover Resource on Mixed hypervisor Not supported Supported Not supported Not Supported

Read/Write Cache Read/Write Cache

13 Flash Purpose Write Cache Storage Tier Storage Tier Write Cache
14 Snapshot Scope Local local + Remote Local Local

Backup software as per the Hypervisor

15 Backup Function VDR Vm to be installed inbuilt (Local + remote) compatibility matrix inbuilt (Local + remote)

NearSync to remote clusters: 1-15 minutes*

Async to remote clusters: 1 hour
AWS/Azure Cloud: 1 hour NearSync to remote clusters: 1-15 minutes*
16 Backup Frequency SRM to be procured DR Software to be procure for Hyper visor Async to remote clusters: 1 hour
17 FW Upgrade Execution Rolling Upgrade (1-by-1) 1-click To be done for each item Rolling Upgrade (1-by-1)
18 Single HW/SW Support Single point of contact Single point of contact supported required for each line item supported required for each line item
19 Predictive Analytics VMware vsom to be considered Full Supported with Prism Not supported with multi Hypervisor VMware vsom to be considered
20 Failover connectivity 10G,25G,..100G 10G,25G 10G,25G,..100G 10G,25G,..100G

ESXi, Vsphere, VSOM and Dell Hard and Storage

21 Product Brief (All product of Dell) AOS, AHV + Storage ( All product of Nutanix ) VxFlex Ready Node + hypervisor Vmware/Microsoft Hypervisor + HP Hardware
In case of Vmware following are required to match Nutanix:

vSphere Operation manager

VMware NSX
Enterprise plus license
vSAN

Benefit of Vmware

Vmware ESXi can virtualise memory and CPU where as in Nutanix only
CPU can be virtualised
Thank you

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