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Node-O-Rama Digital Transformation Technology Will Move from the Realm of IT Is a Balancing Act to Become Inherent Across the Business Node-o-rama Digital transformation Technology will move from the realm of IT is a balancing act to become inherent across the business From “status quo” to “embracing change” Last 15 years Next 15 years IT-centric Business-centric Systems of engagement Systems of record and insight Strategic partnerships will matter Traditional applications Cloud-native apps “Optimize” mode “Invest” mode IT transformation Digital transformation Transactional data Streams of data and and reporting analytics IT INVESTMENTS $ INVESTMENTS IT Traditional Cloud-native applications applications Internet Internet of Everything 2000 TIME 2030 2 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. New applications are producing more data than ever More Pace of New DATA CHANGE TECHNOLOGIES 44 ZB New applications are Old storage technologies They also can’t support creating more data – can’t keep up with the new technologies that 44 ZB will live in the pace of change enable innovative datacenter by 2020, services according to IDC1 1 https://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm 3 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Scaling to tomorrow’s business needs Many are choosing software-defined storage (SDS) solutions for hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI). It delivers simpler, streamlined, scalable storage that is: At a fraction of the high-performance cost of traditional, storage flash-optimized hyper-converged built for any application 4 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. SDS + Hardware = Success But “software defined” means Choosing the right technology hardware matters more than ever. Storage performance and ROI depend Reliable designs heavily on the performance and reliability of the hardware – that comes High-performance from a trusted partner who has your needs in mind. Integrated building blocks Easy to purchase Easy to deploy 5 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Are you facing any of these challenges? Configuring new Takes too long to Hard to locate the infrastructure can configure, test and source of a problem, be complex validate making it hard to know who to call for help 6 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Dell EMC Ready Nodes Software defined storage building blocks Dell EMC Ready Nodes Dell EMC Ready Nodes are pre-configured and validated building blocks that provide: Confidence of known good configurations Convenience of saving you time With solution-level customer support 8 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Why Dell EMC Ready Nodes? 3 Reasons Known good Convenient time Unified Sales and configurations savings Technical Support Dell EMC Ready Nodes are Each Ready Node includes Option of a single point of built on Dell EMC PowerEdge just the right amount of CPU, contact for sales and technical Servers -- pre-configured, memory, network I/O support for the entire solution – tested and certified to run controllers, HDDs and SSDs the server and software vSAN, ScaleIO, Microsoft best suited for the workload, Storage Spaces Direct or SAP so you don’t have to spend HANA time finding and testing the optimal configuration 9 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Benefits of Dell EMC Ready Nodes Reduce Reduce risk Save time complexity 1 2 3 • Ready nodes are jointly tested • Easy deployment with factory- • Streamlined solution-level and certified turnkey tested, pre-configured, and support configurations pre-tested • Quickly and easily scale as • Years of collaboration with • Faster configuration, fewer you grow software partners update steps, reduced time for maintenance, troubleshooting • Thousands of hours of testing and resolution 10 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Dell EMC Ready Nodes Configurations Ready Node Building Block Value Confidence. Convenience. Customer support. NEW! Microsoft Storage Now global! ScaleIO SAP HANA Scale-up SAP HANA Edge Ready vSAN Ready Nodes Spaces Direct Ready Ready Nodes Ready Nodes Nodes Nodes Tight integration of software Reliably configured, easy-to- Scalable, high-performance Fast deployment of new First-to-market integrated and choice of hardware, deploy building block with multi-hypervisor building block instances and modular solution bringing enterprise- reconfigurable over lifecycle world-class support scalability without disruption class SAP capabilities to mid- to small-sized budgets Dell EMC PowerEdge 14g! Dell EMC PowerEdge R730xd Dell EMC PowerEdge R630, Dell EMC PowerEdge R930 Dell EMC PowerEdge R730 R640, R740, R740xd, FX2 with R730xd FC430, FC630 All flash, hybrid 24x 2.5″ SSD plus 8x NVMe 16x 2.5″ drives, 8x 3.5″ drives All HDD, all flash, hybrid All flash, hybrid • VMware-certified • Error-proof ordering—always • NEW! Over 650 validated • SAP certified • SAP certified configurations a validated configuration configurations • Appliance experience • Appliance experience • Multiple form factor options • Support for both new pre- • NEW! Auto-discovery with • Optional VMware vSphere • Provisioned software suite, (1-unit, 2-unit, storage- installed and BYO licensing ESXi deployment virtualization accelerator services heavy, dense) • Single point of contact, • NEW! Single point of • Single point of contact • Single point of contact • Time to market with 14g supported as a Ready Node contact, supported as a support support • NEW! Standardized Ready Node deployment services 12 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. VMware vSAN Runs on any standard x86 server Pools SSDs/HDDs into a shared datastore vSphere vSAN Delivers enterprise- grade security, scale and Managed by vCenter performance Managed through per-VM storage policies vSAN Storage Deeply integrated with the VMware stack © 2017 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. 13 Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes Virtualization, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, management cluster, development platform Easily scale up to 64 nodes Solution benefits VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi, and vSAN • Unified virtualized and hardware resource management • Scale as you need, pay as you grow • Reconfigurable general-purpose building blocks Differentiation • Broad set of tested, certified, and supported configurations • Flash-optimized hybrid or all-flash PowerEdge R740, R740xd, R630, and FX2 servers • For all-flash, integrated compression, Dell EMC OpenManage software integration for deduplication, and erasure coding VMware vCenter Services: Deployment, Integration, ProSupport, ProSupport Plus 14 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. ScaleIO ALL-FLASH SCALE-OUT SOFTWARE-DEFINED TRUSTED • FASTEST Software-Defined block • Most Scalable Block storage • Most Flexible SW defined storage • The MOST Enterprise Class SW storage solution available.* product on the market product in the industry Defined Solution on the Market Storage Review, 2016 • Start small and scale-out to 1000+ • KEY: Hyperconverged &/or • Encryption • Customers deploying all-flash at servers storage-only deployment for • In-flight Checksums true data center scale with greatest flexibility • Never a forklift upgrade! ScaleIO • LDAP • HW Agnostic: Run an ANY x86 • Never a data migration! No SAN or • Can achieve Petabytes of all-flash server and storage media • High Infrastructure Resiliency cluster silos capacity with a highly disruptive • OS/Hypervisor Agnostic: ESX, TCO • Never a disruptive upgrade! Hyper-V, KVM, Bare Metal – ALL at the SAME TIME sharing the SAME RESOURCES! CAPEX OPEX PERFORMANCE AGILITY TTM 15 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Dell EMC ScaleIO Ready Nodes Software-defined block storage, mixed workloads, IaaS, cloud-native applications, distributed enterprise Solution benefits • Enterprise-grade, no-compromise resilience Scale from 3 to 1000+ server nodes across a cluster with no downtime • Quick and easy to deploy • Better support experience ScaleIO software PowerEdge R630 or R730xd servers - Storage only: all-HDD or all-flash Differentiation - Hyper-converged infrastructure: all- • 8 months to payback, 505% five-year ROI flash or hybrid • 50% lower five-year cost of operations Optional management server for • 83% faster storage deployments ScaleIO software versions with • 96% reduced unplanned downtime Advanced Management Services Services: Deployment, Integration, Support Source: Business Value of VxRack and ScaleIO by IDC 16 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Resilience and availability with industry-standard hardware Flexibly create storage pools based on the needs of the deployment. Storage Pools Maximize value by mapping a storage pool to combinations of HDDs and SDDs. Expand dynamically by simply adding additional drives. Administration of storage pools can be controlled through access Multi-tenancy control lists (ACLs) and delegated on a per-pool basis to support hosting scenarios that require tenant isolation. Two optional resiliency modes: mirroring and parity. Hot spares, Resilient Storage background scrubbing and intelligent error correction for continuous service availability. BUILD Fully integrated with failover clustering to enable continuously Continuous Availability available service deployments. Integration with CSVs permits scale- out access to data. Optimal Storage Use Supports thin provisioning to allow maximize capacity use. Trim support permits capacity reclamation when possible. Fully remote and scriptable management through the Windows Operational Simplicity Storage Management API, WMI, and Windows PowerShell. Storage Spaces easily managed through the File Services role in Server Manager. 17 © Copyright 2017 Dell Inc. Dell EMC Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct Ready Nodes Advanced Hyper-V virtualization, private cloud, Microsoft SQL Solution benefits • Reliable configuration, quoting, ordering • Convenient deployment and use—fewer steps,
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