Zero to OpenStack cloud in 90 minutes

SOLIDFIRE & AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE Taking you from Zero to Cloud in 90 minutes!

①  The Cloud has Arrived

②  SolidFire’s Abili6es

③  The Agile Infrastructure Approach

④  Going from 0 to Cloud

⑤  Ques6ons

DISCUSSION TOPICS

Cloud Market Growth – Private/Hybrid Cloud

2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014

REVENUE ($M)

SOURCE: IDC, WW Cloud Systems Management SoZware 2015-‐2019 Forecast

$0 $500

$1,000 $1,500 $2,000 $2,500 $3,000 $3,500 $4,000 $4,500 $5,000

$1,4

12

$1,8

33

$2,3

69

$2,9

85 $3

,726

$4,4

82

Work Driving Cloud Adop1on

Workloads Performance Change, Config, Prob Mgmt

KEY USE CASES REVENUE BY MARKET

Workloads Performance Change, Config, Prob Mgmt

47% of Cloud purchases are for workload usage

39% more revenue than any other market

SOURCE: IDC, WW Cloud Systems Management Software 2015-2019 Forecast

An Expanding Cloud Landscape OpenStack,

please!

HOW DOES SOLIDFIRE FIT IN?

We’re getting 4X the performance with SolidFire, from 25,000 IOPS to 100,000 IOPS — with RELIABLE PERFORMANCE and FAST, EASY RECOVERY.”

STEVEN MAY Senior Director of Cloud Opera6ons, Ul6mate SoZware

INDUSTRY LEADING QUALITY OF SERVICE (QoS)

SCALE-‐OUT ARCHITECTURE •  4 – 100 nodes •  35TB – 3.4PB Usable Capacity •  200k – 7.5M Controllable IOPS

SIMPLE ALL INCLUSIVE PRICING MODEL

DIRECT TIER 3 SUPPORT FOR EVERY CUSTOMER

INDUSTRY-‐LEADING HARDWARE •  10 GigE iSCSI, 16/8 Gb FC

High Performance Storage Systems Designed for Cloud & Large Scale Infrastructure

PlaDorm Building Blocks

2405 •  8.6TB effective capacity •  50,000 guaranteed IOPS

4805 •  17TB effective capacity •  50,000 guaranteed IOPS



•  Real-Time Replication •  Integrated Backup and Restore •  Encryption at Rest •  Snapshots and Clones •  Native Multi-tenancy •  Cinder, VAAI, VASA, SIOC, Horizon View, and vCenter Plug-In •  Simultaneous Multiprotocol Support (FC / iSCSI)

All Inclusive Feature Set

AUTOMATED

AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE

Why We Did It

Private Cloud IT as a Service

SoZware Defined Data Center Infrastructure 2.0 Cloud Compu^ng

Next-‐Genera^on Data Center PREDICTABLE SCALABLE AGILE

Customers Have Choices

Convergence brings benefits, and choices…

Hyper-‐Converged

Reference Architecture

Single Vendor Single SKU

THE AGILE INFRASTRUCTURE APPROACH


What Is It?

A series of pre-validated

converged infrastructure

reference designs

Modular design focus at all levels

Built for dynamic

IT-as-a-Service consumption

model

Accelerating time-to-value

for operators & administrators

deploying a functional cloud

infrastructure

Supported by a complete

ecosystem of vendors,

partners & community

What’s In The Stack?

Agile Infrastructure for OpenStack

Agile Infrastructure for OpenStack The AI Advantage

AGILE

AUTOMATED

SCALABLE

PREDICTABLE

EFFICIENT

Modular Design Extreme Density Opera^onal Efficiencies


The Economics

Networking (2) Dell s4810

(2) Dell s55

Storage (5) SolidFire

SF2405 Storage Nodes

Compute (15) Dell R630

Storage Scale Out

Compute Scale Out

•  70 vCPUs per compute node

•  15 compute / 5 storage nodes

•  1.5 CPU over subscrip6on rate

•  40TB capacity / 250,000 guaranteed IOPS

•  50% lower cost •  80% less footprint

•  3.5X IOPS per GB

•  100% API-‐enabled

•  Na6ve Mul6-‐Tenancy

•  Cloud-‐Scale

•  Rapidly respond to business needs

•  Increase infrastructure agility

•  Build for the future!

Large Scale Web Applica6ons

SoZware Development Lifecycle

Databases

Persistent Block Storage


Use Cases

Vendor Approved


Peace of Mind

Vendor Cer6fied

Criteria Reference Designs Converged Hyper-‐Converged

SolidFire AI Nimble SmartStack VCE Vblock FlexPod/VSPEX Nutanix Simplivity

# of Cores 360 360 360 360 360 360

Footprint 27U 29U 84U (48U used) 31U 12U 30U

Solu6on OpenStack/VMware Private Cloud

VMware Server Virtualiza6on



General Purpose Virtualiza6on

General Purpose Virtualiza6on

IOPS/GB 4.2 0.63 1.6 0.13 0.97 0.69

Storage Scaling Scale Out Limited Scale Out Scale Up Scale Up Scale Out Scale Out

Cost Rela6ve to AI 1 1.1 1.5X 1.5X 1.7X 2.2X

•  Nimble SmartStack - CS260 + Cisco •  Vblock – V340, two cabinets, Cisco Nexus switching and UCS

Compute VNX 5500 RAID 6 mix of SSD and HDD •  Flexpod – FAS 3250 w/ Cisco Nexus switching and UCS compute,

Compe^^ve Comparison

•  Nutanix – 3000 series, 4 nodes per 2U chassis, 375K Random IOPS per 50 nodes

•  Simplivity – CN5000 24 Cores per chassis

Note: Cost does not include VMware software licensing


SO HOW DO YOU GO FROM ZERO TO OPENSTACK CLOUD IN 90 MINUTES?

Follow, Deploy, Repeat

1.  Choose your plaqorm 2.  Choose your storage

configura6on 3.  Download automa6on

scripts 4.  Follow the reference

design 5.  Deploy


Best-of-Breed Design

True Scale-Out

No Lock-In

Accelerated Time to Value

Guaranteed Performance


Why It Wins

Summary

①  OpenStack adop6on by the Enterprise is real

②  SolidFire was built with the Cloud in mind

③  Agile Infrastructure simplifies OpenStack cloud deployments, 90 minutes or less

Agile Infrastructure allows you to achieve true outcomes of consolida6on, automa6on, and produc6vity

For more informa6on visit www.solidfire.com/AI

For a copy of the Cisco OpenStack Reference Architecture visit hrp://bit.ly/1GgsSFV

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