FlexPod® Data Center Platform

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What If You Could…

Accelerate business response instead of being the critical path

Focus on IT innovation instead of keeping things running

Quickly support all new opportunities even opportunities not yet identified

Do it all with one architecture for any workload

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs

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Vision for Data Center Infrastructure

Storage Pool

Compute Pool

Applications

Fabric Pool

Management

Elastically scale resources non-disruptively

Apps deployed on logically defined shared infrastructure

Deploy new apps to meet changing business needs

Centrally orchestrated with self-service extensions

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Key Innovations in Data Center Technology

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Unified Management

Programmable Infrastructure

Unified Fabric

• Policy-based automation & Service Profiles• Self-integrating components

• Abstraction of bare metal server elements• Open API for automation• Orchestration through industry standard tools

• Virtualization awareness• Scalability without complexity• High performance I/O

Cisco Unified Computing System with Intel® Xeon® processors

NetApp Clustered ONTAP

• Virtualize storage into pools • Non-disruptive data motion

Unified Storage

IntelligentData Management

• Built-in storage efficiency• Integrated data protection

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Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp ClusteredData ONTAP

Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager

FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure

Virtualization

App AppAppAppAppApp

Bare Metal

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Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp ClusteredData ONTAP

Cisco® UCS Servers and UCS Manager

Pool resources Single server pool / storage pool Service profiles for consistent policy-based

UCS deployments

Abstract resources Virtualized servers and storage Stateless computing Dynamic scalability; app and

data mobility

Consume resources Service catalogs Rapid resource provisioning in

accordance with SLAs Open APIs for self-service / user-driven

resource consumption

FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

Virtualization

App AppAppAppAppApp

Bare Metal

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Non-Disruptive Operation

Eliminate planned downtime

Non-disruptive workload migration motion

Scale and load balance

Minimize unplanned downtime

Integrated data protection

Recover in minutes instead of hours or days

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualization

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

App AppAppAppAppApp

Bare metal

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Non-Disruptive Operation

Eliminate planned downtime

Non-disruptive workload migration motion

Scale and load balance

Minimize unplanned downtime

Integrated data protection

Recover in minutes instead of hours or days

Virtualized Compute Pool

Virtualization

Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

App AppAppAppAppApp These stayonline!

These can go offline

Bare metal

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Scale in multiple dimensions Scale compute infrastructure to … Single fabric 20 node storage cluster scales to 50PB Manage all resources centrally

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Massive Infrastructure Scalability

Virtualized Compute Pool

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Virtualized Storage Pool

Virtualized Network Pool

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Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with minimal disruption

Common structure for support & management

The FlexPod Solution Family

100’s of users

1000’s of users

FlexPod

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Next Steps

* Visit NetApp’s stand while at Cisco LiveExclusive Diamond Sponsor – Stand D1

* Explore FlexPod on the webhttp://www.netapp.com/flexpod

* Reach out to your local reseller partner or Cisco and NetApp sales teams for more