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FlexPod® SolidFire® (SF) is well suited for customers like you who
are looking to solve their next-generation data center problems or
to broaden the use of their existing infrastructure to support new
workloads that demand scale-out flexibility and QoS performance
guarantees. This white paper provides guidance on best use case
solutions. It is intended for an audience that is interested in the
business value of FlexPod SF.
FlexPod SF: A Solution Built for the Next-Generation Digital Data CenterSeptember 2017
Is Your IT Environment Impacting Your Business?
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Table of Contents Executive Overview ..............................................................................................3
Issues and Trends in IT That Pertain to FlexPod SolidFire (FlexPod SF) ..........3
FlexPod SF Solution .............................................................................................4
Data Fabric Focused on Converged Systems ................................................4
Portfolio of FlexPod Systems with SolidFire Storage ......................................5
Customer Value with FlexPod SF ...................................................................6
Customer Reference – Safelite .......................................................................7
Customer Reference – Web-Hosting Provider 1&1.........................................8
Customer Reference – DARZ (Daten sind wertvoller als Geld) ......................10
Business Benefits of FlexPod SF ......................................................................11
Proven Value ...............................................................................................11
Respond with Agility ....................................................................................11
Reduce Risk ................................................................................................11
Scale Performance Without Disruption ........................................................11
Enable Large-Scale Consolidation ...............................................................12
Provide Consistent and Balanced Delivery of Applications ...........................12
Competitive Differentiators ...........................................................................12
Cisco NetApp Advantage ............................................................................12
FlexPod SF Use Cases .......................................................................................13
Mixed Workloads with Server Virtualization ..................................................13
Service Providers .........................................................................................13
DevOps .......................................................................................................13
FlexPod SF Worldwide Support ........................................................................14
Summary .............................................................................................................14
More Information About FlexPod SF ................................................................15
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Executive OverviewIssues and Trends in IT That Pertain to FlexPod SolidFire (FlexPod SF)
Your IT organization is under tremendous pressure, with limited time, skills, and
budget. How can you harness today’s wealth of data and apply it to create new
value across your entire IT organization? Building a data-centric organization is no
small undertaking, because IT services are increasingly distributed, dynamic,
and diverse.
To thrive in this environment requires a holistic approach to data insight, access, and
control that is secure, efficient, and future-proof, and that gives your IT department
freedom of choice.
NetApp delivers a Data Fabric built for the data-centric world to address the
tremendous amount of data that is extremely difficult to manage. NetApp® Data
Fabric enables you to seamlessly liberate, integrate, and unleash the full potential
of your data across IT environments, whether they are on-premises or in public or
hybrid cloud.
NetApp is the leader in data insight, access, and control for hybrid cloud
environments, offering global organizations the ability to manage and share data
across on-premises, hybrid and public clouds. NetApp, together with its partners,
has a full range of enterprise-class solutions to modernize your infrastructure, build
next-generation data centers, and harness the power of hybrid clouds to accelerate
your application of data.
FlexPod SF, jointly developed by NetApp and Cisco, is a fully Data Fabric-ready
platform built for the future of digital IT that is changing the landscape of digital
infrastructure. With FlexPod SF, you can realize the full business potential of a
next-generation storage infrastructure, with Cisco Nexus® and UCS®, that is fully
equipped for a changing IT landscape and increasing customer demands. FlexPod
SF is a cutting-edge, integrated, validated, and fully tested infrastructure solution
with storage, compute, networking, and virtualization that delivers the proven
performance, agility, and value that your digital enterprise requires.
■■ Distributed. Stored in multiple locations and multiple cloud locations.
■■ Dynamic. An influx of constantly changing data that requires you to know where the data is, where it’s coming from, and that you are working from the single source of truth.
■■ Diverse. Structured, unstructured, machine learning, and streaming. Generated within your organization as well as sourced from outside.
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1 IDC Press Release, IDC Q1 2017 Worldwide Converged Systems Tracker, Doc #prUS42519317, June 22, 2017
FlexPod SF Solution
Data Fabric Focused on Converged Systems
NetApp is delivering a Data Fabric-ready CI platform built on SolidFire for the data-
centric world. With FlexPod SF, you can seamlessly integrate and unleash the full
potential of your data across environments, whether on premises or in a
hybrid cloud.
FlexPod SF is an infrastructure platform that combines innovative technologies from
NetApp and Cisco with virtualization and your choice of management layers. It’s a
powerful, fully converged platform for enterprise applications such as database, ERP,
and CRM, and workloads like VDI, along with DevOps workflows. FlexPod SF can
be deployed as an on-premises private cloud, as either IaaS or PaaS, for hosting
SaaS applications, and for standalone virtualized application deployments. FlexPod
SF is composed of Cisco UCS compute and Nexus switches, and NetApp
SolidFire storage.
— Eric Sheppard, IDC Research Director, Enterprise Storage & Converged Systems.
“Converged systems have become an important source of innovation and growth for the data-center infrastructure market. These solutions represent a conduit for the key technologies driving much-needed data-center modernization and efficiencies such as flash, software-defined infrastructure, and private cloud platforms.” 1
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Portfolio of FlexPod Systems with SolidFire Storage
FlexPod reimagines converged infrastructure by changing the landscape and
building for the future with a portfolio of FlexPod systems. Now, with the new
FlexPod SF, the FlexPod platform can address the needs of cloud and virtualization
buyers, as well as traditional infrastructure buyers. With FlexPod SF you can achieve
the full business potential of an all-flash storage architecture, equipped and ready
for your changing IT environment and set of demands. FlexPod SF broadens the
FlexPod portfolio by supporting new workloads that demand scale-out flexibility,
robust automation, and guaranteed performance through Quality of
Service (QoS).
FlexPod SF is the first converged infrastructure solution delivered on an all-Cisco
hardware platform powered by Cisco software and NetApp SolidFire Element® OS.
FlexPod SF is an integrated, validated, and fully tested infrastructure solution that
features storage, compute, networking, and virtualization with the performance,
agility, and value required for today’s digital enterprise.
FlexPod Reimagines Converged Infrastructure
The FlexPod PortfolioA prevalidated, flexible platform that features:
FlexPod Express
Remote office or branch office, retail, small and midsize business, and edge
FlexPod Datacenter
Enterprise apps, unified infrastructure, and virtualization
FlexPod Select
Big Data and Analytics
FlexPod SF
Next-Generation Data Center
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Customer Value with FlexPod SF
In many data centers, infrastructure is virtualized along a continuum from partial to complete. The
questions to ask today are “How can I better manage my infrastructure? What processes can
I automate? How can I build elasticity into my storage environment? How can I provide mixed-
workload applications to end users, no matter what their role is in the organization?”
The next-generation data center built on the FlexPod SF converged infrastructure helps you
transition your old data center from inefficient silos of technology to unified, dynamic environments
and resource pools, whether on premises or in public clouds. With its focus on service and
resource optimization, FlexPod SF allows you to shift time and budget from maintaining silos of
systems to innovating revenue-generating services.
Next-generation data center end users
■■ Cloud architects oversee a company’s cloud computing strategy, including cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and application monitoring.
■■ DevOps teams require agile, scale-up and scale-down capabilities that can be provisioned on demand, improving code development processes and enabling developers and IT operations to work together collaboratively and effectively. Connecting development and operations teams to automate and standardize the development process in the next-generation data center means faster time to innovation, accelerated time to market, improved deployment quality, better operational efficiency, and more time to focus on your core business goals.
■■ Line-of-business leaders focus on families of products or services and are responsible for large application programs that contain a number of integrated capabilities and tie into databases and database management systems. Their foremost requirement is a need for a highly available and predictable environment that can meet their business needs and corporate goals. At many organizations, line-of-business managers and staff make decisions to move mission-critical and often sensitive data to the cloud, and they may perform local installations without the knowledge of the corporate IT department, creating a “shadow IT.” The next-generation data center allows corporate IT to better serve these lines of business with applications that require predictable SLAs, reducing risk, gaining control, and ensuring better use of inefficient silos of resources.
Customer Value with FlexPod SFThe proven delivery of FlexPod for next-generation data center cloud architectures:
Next-Generation Data Center End Users
■■ Cloud Architects
■■ DevOps
■■ Line of Business
Next-Generation Data Center Mixed Workloads
■■ Web native apps
■■ Scale-out database
■■ End-user computing
Next-Generation Data Center Businesses
■■ Service Provider
■■ Next-Gen Enterprise
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Next-generation data center mixed workloads
■■ Web native applications require an environment to accelerate the delivery of cloud and enterprise applications and services to their end users. Many of these applications have unpredictable network traffic patterns, erratic data bursting, and inconsistent resource requirements. By providing an environment built on FlexPod SF, IT is able to provide a platform that can dynamically scale the infrastructure to handle these application behaviors and to serve the right application resources at the right time with predictable, scalable, and agile storage infrastructure.
■■ The database is often the weakest link in supporting enterprise applications. Heavy transaction loads drain the infrastructure resources, and scaling the database infrastructure typically demands significant application changes. Databases deployed on FlexPod SF can scale up instantly with the appropriate resources without any changes to the applications or database traffic, and it’s also easy to manage
connections to databases and applications.
Next-generation data center businesses
■■ These businesses can be categorized as service providers, telco, and next-generation enterprises, either cloud native or in on-premises virtualized enterprise environments. Infrastructure buyers in these businesses need to simplify and modernize their infrastructure and offer time to value while also supporting next-generation applications with enterprise applications and services. FlexPod SF enables your enterprise to scale and accelerate business performance, while minimizing risk and complexity.
Customer Reference – Safelite®
Safelite is an automotive glass and claims management company based in
Columbus, OH. Their business goal was to double their claims revenue and triple
their call volume within three years by offering superior claims management-as-a-
service to insurance companies. The FlexPod SolidFire solution hosting a remote
desktop application improved Safelite’s performance for an excellent customer
experience and ease of use, while delivering exponential scale-out technology for
agile growth.
FlexPod SF was deployed for the remote desktop project with 4,000 seats. The
project will eventually be 8,000 seats with scale-as-you-grow multitenant SolidFire
storage. This configuration will also be the building block for consolidating seven
disparate storage systems down to one in Safelite’s primary data center and for
the disaster recovery (DR) data center. High-performance compute, combined with
next-generation storage with SolidFire, is the foundation for Safelite’s differentiation
through a state-of-the-art claims processing center.
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Benefits of FlexPod SF architecture for Safelite:
■■ Efficient granular scale. Node-based scaling means that Safelite can purchase what is needed, when it’s needed, and in smaller increments, unlike other solutions in the market.
■■ Consistent user experience. Safelite administrators can easily set dependable
minimum performance for a group of users, protecting VDI desktops from affecting
others. Having workloads in a multitenant highly secure environment on the same
FlexPod instance means doing more than VDI without affecting other workloads in
the same infrastructure.
■■ True global efficiencies. Safelite can cluster up to 100 nodes with consistent
efficiency. For VDI, desktop customers can expect efficiency ratios within the
range of 10:1 to 25:1.
■■ Simplicity of administration. By using the “no data locality” feature, Safelite
administrators don’t have to decide on which node and disk a volume LUN should
be provisioned. SolidFire manages the data placement with intelligent automated
data placement that optimizes distribution and protection of data across the
nodes in the cluster, and reduces risk by eliminating common errors.
Customer Reference – Web-Hosting Provider 1&1
As one of the world’s leading web-hosting providers, 1&1 makes serving adaptable
solutions to its customers a top priority. It serves Austria, Canada, France, Germany,
Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, the UK, and the United States.The company deployed
its 1&1 Cloud Server on NetApp SolidFire storage, eliminating performance lag
issues while giving customers unprecedented flexibility in choosing the type of cloud
needed to support their business.
1&1’s cloud solution was originally built on a traditional storage architecture from
a number of vendors. As part of this cloud offering, customers chose among
performance tiers, with each tier having a different architecture and price point,
rather than having access to a single solution with guaranteed performance. As
1&1 grew, it became clear that they needed to look beyond traditional storage. All-
flash, solid-state was the obvious choice to replace and consolidate the existing
cloud storage infrastructure. The company selected SolidFire as the only storage
technology that enables them to control performance levels for each and every
workload with zero disruption to customers. With compression technology, 1&1
could see significant cost benefits over other solutions. Additionally, with NetApp
Solidfire, each application has the resources it requires without impacting the
performance of other applications.
Business benefits that 1&1 realized include guaranteed performance for all of
their customers, reduced storage infrastructure complexity, improved flexibility
and performance for all cloud customers, and ability to easily scale out storage
infrastructure.
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2 Netapp.com/us/media/cs-solid-fire-1-1.pdf
— Javier Salcedo Gadea, Head of Product Management Cloud at 1&1.
“Compared to the 1,000 server configurations that could previously be delivered in 10 minutes, thanks to SolidFire’s platform, 1&1 can now offer its customers 2 million server configurations delivered in 55 seconds, which is clearly a massive improvement for us and our users. And with state-of-the-art, solid-state storage, they never need to worry about performance, availability, or reliability.” 2
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Netapp.com/us/products/storage-systems/all-flash-array/solidfire-web-scale.aspx
Customer Reference – DARZ (Daten sind wertvoller als Geld)
DARZ helps customers drive digital transformation with an innovative container-as-
a-service (CaaS) offering that drives digital transformation through DevOps. With
their Docker and CaaS offering, DARZ helps customers tap into DevOps agility to
accelerate innovation and transform their businesses.
By simplifying the container-storage interaction through the Docker volume set of
commands, the NetApp Docker Volume Plugin makes managing persistent data in
a Docker environment easy. With NetApp SolidFire, DARZ delivers fast, predictable
performance and can guarantee minimum, maximum, and burst performance levels
for each volume, silencing noisy neighbors and optimizing the cloud experience
for each of its tenants. The SolidFire scale-out architecture helps DARZ customers
expand systems nondisruptively and with instant resource availability, without
affecting service or interrupting the development cycle. Also, with a lean, flexible,
containerized environment, their customers can shorten test cycles, accelerate
development, and deploy new products faster.
With SolidFire, DARZ was able to:
■■ Accelerate development and shorten test cycles to deploy new products faster
■■ Simplify container/storage interactions for easier data management
■■ Enable secure multicloud sourcing from hyperscale public clouds such as Amazon Web Services and IBM SoftLayer
■■ Guarantee performance for an improved cloud experience for tenants
■■ Achieve nondisruptive system expansion with instant resource ability for an uninterrupted development cycle
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Proven Value
The highly flexible FlexPod SF solution enables you to align your business expenses
with business growth by reducing the initial capital expenditures. It delivers controlled
performance at reduced, cloudlike operating costs. When it’s necessary to scale out,
you can quickly and easily deploy without disruption. This solution also reduces the
need for specialized skills, saving time and helping reduce administrative overhead
costs. The solution’s management improves operation efficiency to give you the best
support possible for unpredictable environments.
Respond with Agility
Business can be unpredictable, and your IT organization needs to respond rapidly to
changing demands, without disrupting your business. By simplifying IT management
with automation and orchestration, FlexPod SF can be managed through the
VMware vCenter plug-in, Microsoft PowerShell, storage policy based management
(SPBM), and the VMware vRealize Suite. With these choices, IT can manage and
accelerate their deployments to reduce opportunities for human error, which can
cause delays or downtime. Additionally, the use of other management platforms
through the open API reduces management complexity in the environment.
Reduce Risk
FlexPod SF reduces risk because the solution has been tested and validated with a
Cisco Validated Design. This includes Cisco UCS blade servers to support virtualized
and nonvirtualized applications; Cisco UCS fabric interconnects to provide a single
point of management and connectivity for the computing domain; and Cisco Nexus
switches with support for 3.6Tbps of bandwidth to support the NetApp SolidFire
storage cluster for flexible scale-out capacity and performance.
Scale Performance Without Disruption
Dynamic programmability and the capability to add storage components
nondisruptively allows you to scale performance and capacity with no impact to
your applications. This increases quality of service (QoS) and leads to greater user
satisfaction, without the need to migrate data or interrupt I/O processing. FlexPod
solutions deliver 89% less unplanned downtime because there is no single point
of failure at any level of the infrastructure. The fully redundant and scalable fabric
provides seamless, hardware-based failover if any component fails at the physical or
virtual layer.
Business Benefits of FlexPod SF
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Enable Large-Scale Consolidation
With a high-performance infrastructure, you can consolidate more applications onto a single
FlexPod SF solution, with a balance of precise control and flexibility to meet your changing
business needs. The QoS capabilities inherent in SolidFire all-flash arrays eliminate 93% of storage
performance issues and remove “noisy neighbors”—virtual machines that monopolize storage I/O,
preventing other virtual machines from accessing their data and greatly slowing I/O performance.
This solution also accelerates time to value and innovation with faster and more consistent
response times across all your applications.
Provide Consistent and Balanced Delivery of Applications
FlexPod SF enables adoption of an integrated new data-center technology without slowing key
mission-critical business applications. You can scale your storage cluster incrementally and
seamlessly, and current applications can continue to run even as the business grows. IT can
essentially guarantee service-level agreements (SLAs) for applications, workloads, and tenants
across the infrastructure with confidence.
Competitive Differentiators
With FlexPod SF, IT can support multiple applications, clients, and tenants with the only granular-
scale, all-flash storage solution that delivers guaranteed QoS, combined with high-performance
Cisco UCS application servers that have more than 120 world-record benchmarks. The robust
combination of NetApp SolidFire Storage and Cisco UCS provides a resilient design with no single
point of failure at any level: compute, storage, or network. The SolidFire storage fabric scales and
recovers from node failure without disrupting running applications. The platform has APIs for 100%
programmable infrastructure to preserve business agility to automate every aspect of provisioning,
management, and reporting.
Cisco NetApp Advantage
FlexPod SF is well suited for any current or new FlexPod customers looking to support tier 1 and
next-generation workloads that demand scale-out flexibility and guaranteed performance. The
value proposition resonates deeply with cloud, virtualization, and application architects.
A Winning Partnership That Stands by You
A Deeper Relationship
■■ 15+ years of partnership
■■ Joint success - over $8B in revenue generated
■■ Trust and credibility within the companies and in the field
■■ 250+ man-years of joint engineering have gone into FlexPod since its inception
Large Co-investments
■■ Over 150 Validated Designs
■■ Jointly co-funded sales desk
■■ Jointly co-funded CPOC
■■ Cooperative support
■■ $10s of millions in channel investments
More Opportunity for You
■■ Mature partner base with exclusive sales and engineering certifications
■■ $10s of millions in rebates paid to partners
■■ Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant
■■ Executive sponsorship through both Cisco and NetApp
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Mixed Workloads with Server Virtualization
Mixed workload use cases on FlexPod SF can be exemplified by a major
manufacturing company that needs to consolidate its various virtualized applications
from LOBs in its overtaxed data center. Operations and support costs are soaring
as the IT infrastructure grows in size and complexity to support the business.
How can the manufacturing firm find a way to manage its costs without hindering
business? How can it support IT evolution, especially with advancements in IOT
and smart machines creating large data pools that need to be managed and
analyzed to support better business decisions? By standardizing on FlexPod SF, the
manufacturing company can successfully run multiple applications securely, with
application-specific requirements in a multi-tenant environment, and can collect data
from various IOT devices leveraging NetApp storage, with smart business analytics.
Service Providers
With an array of cloud offerings such as IaaS, PaaS, hosting SaaS applications,
DevOps sandboxes, managed hosting, and network VPN services, it is increasingly
challenging for a service provider to support its growth in an extremely competitive
environment, while dealing with aging IT infrastructure. In most cases, the service
provider’s assets are underused silos of wasted resources of compute, networking,
and storage. At the same time, other resources are overused and at a point of
collapsing, resulting in SLA failures to customers. Additionally, in the data center,
space, power, and cooling are at full capacity. By deploying FlexPod SF, the service
provider is able to create a data fabric with converged infrastructure to increase data
center efficiency and reduce provisioning times, decreasing time to build internal
IT environments and reducing from weeks to days the time required to deliver new
cloud or managed hosting services to their current and new customers.
DevOps
With DevOps workflow adoption, developers are leading the charge in writing
code that can create, store, manage, modify, protect, analyze, and reuse data at
a scale that was previously unachievable. FlexPod SF was designed for the next-
generation DevOps environment. When code is ready to be pushed out, storage
is often a forgotten, but crucial, piece of the puzzle to implement continuous
integration and deployment. FlexPod SF scale-out infrastructure, self-healing high
availability, guaranteed QoS, complete system automation, and in-line data reduction
are all essential elements for an agile, scalable, automated, and predictable
DevOps environment for better code development, accelerated testing, and faster
deployment.
FlexPod SF Use Cases
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Cisco and NetApp support FlexPod through the FlexPod Cooperative Support Model, so that you
receive a best-in-class experience from NetApp, Cisco, and our ecosystem partners, delivered
through collaborative and coordinated support services. The cooperative support model takes
advantage of the combined global experience, resources, labs, and technical support expertise
of NetApp and Cisco to provide a simplified process for identifying and resolving a customer’s
FlexPod support problem, regardless of where the problem resides.
FlexPod SF, with SolidFire storage, delivers proven performance, proven agility, and proven value.
By standardizing on FlexPod converged infrastructure, you can simplify your traditional data center
applications and your unpredictable environments. With a choice of single-interface management
and automation for all of your deployments, you can be sure that this solution will be up and
running quickly and will continue to run, long into the future, with the solution’s Cisco Validated
Design and our Cooperative Support Model. Now you can truly fuel the digital transformation.
FlexPod SF allows you to run hundreds of applications on a single platform to meet business
demands with simplified management and flexible scaling, in an optimized IT environment with a
trusted best-in-class solution for the digital age.
FlexPod SF Worldwide Support
SummaryWhy should enterprises consider
the FlexPod SF solution?
Support From Top Companies
The Support Ecosystem
FlexPod Cooperative Support
■■ Direct Access Direct support between customer and the experts they need
■■ Coordinated Support Formal communications, training and escalation processes across vendors and partners
■■ FlexPod Expertise A multivendor support lab to simulate and pretest support solutions
VMware
Microsoft
Citrix
Citrix
Applications
Hypervisor/OS
SAP
VMware
Microsoft
Oracle
Red Hat
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