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Dell EMC XC and Nutanix:Overview and Demo of One-Click Simplicity for Infrastructure Upgrades, Capacity Expansion and “How To” Search

Nutanix Prism Explained


Prism


Enterprise-grade Engineering

Consumer-grade Design


• Storage Management• Cluster Management• VM Management• Network Management

One-click Infrastructure Management

• Proactive Alert Analysis• Service Impact Analysis• Intelligent Root Cause Analysis• Remediation Advisor (future)

One-click Remediation

• Capacity Behavior Trends • Capacity Optimization Advisor • What-if Analysis • Customizable Dashboards

One-click Operational Insights


Management - Prism

Feature Overview

Benefit

• Simplifies day-to-day operations

• Reduces complexity

• Hypervisor agnostic

• Scale-Out Control plane

• Unified view of cluster and hypervisor health

• Detailed summary of cluster/VM Performance


Rich and Insightful Analytics

Configuration Health Risk Efficiency


Introducing Prism Pro

• Prism ships in two editions – Prism Starter and Prism Pro

• Prism starter ships with all editions of Acropolis

• Prism Starter includes all Prism Element and Prism Central functionality

• Prism Pro available as a subscription product

• Prism Pro is Prism Starter + new VM Ops capabilities

• Free trial of Prism Pro available at: https://www.nutanix.com/test-drive-hyperconverged-infrastructure/

Prism

Starter

• Single site management

• Multiple site management

Pro

• Single site management

• Multiple site management

• Advanced VM operations

https://www.nutanix.com/test-drive-hyperconverged-infrastructure/


Management– Prism Starter

Feature Overview

Benefit

• Aggregate health and usage data across multiple

clusters

• Single sign-on for all clusters

• Simplified workflows

• Greater Analytics

• Manage multiple clusters across multiple locations

from a single pane of glass


Management – Prism Starter

Feature


Actionable Capacity Forecasting

What is it?• Detailed capacity trends• Intelligent recommendations • Powered by patent pending

X-Fit algorithm

Benefits:• Enables pay as you grow capacity

expansion• Eliminates guesswork


Customizable Dashboards

What is it?• Live dashboards for at-a-glance

view of the entire infrastructure• Build and customize from

pre-defined widgets• Customize charts, alerts, perf

metrics amongst others

Benefits:• Monitor everything from storage to

apps from home screen• Reduce mean time to restore from

failures• Different views for different

employees


Prism Search

Benefits:• Consumer-centric management • Simple to use with zero learning curve

What is it?• Search-centric management• Contextual results with one-

click actions• Search history and shortcuts• Support for auto-complete,

auto-correction, synonyms• Support for regular

expressions• Debugging

performance/availability• Example: “Hosts with lops

<1000”


Feature Overview

Benefit

• Collection of diagnostic system-data to Dell /

Nutanix Support teams

• Deliver proactive, context-aware support for Dell XC

Appliance

• Timely issue identification and rectification

• Proactive support for Hardware and support

Management – Pulse


Management – 1 Click Upgrade

Feature Overview

Benefit

• Simplified upgradability

• Reduced management intervention

• Binaries QA’d before release

• Simplified NOS + Hypervisor and Disk Firmware

upgrade

• Zero Downtime and impact

• CVM Automating feature guarantees VM

Connectivity

Seems familiar?


Management – API’s and Extensibility

Feature Overview

Benefit

• Automated Service provisioning supporting industry

scripting

• Automatically generated wrappers around Nutanix

REST API

• Allow remote API calls from 3rd Party sources

• Remote orchestration

• Configure & Manage Nutanix Clusters using API’s

GUI nCLI

Nutanix REST API

PowerShell Cmdlets


Multi-Hypervisor Support

Overview

Benefit

• Hypervisor agnostic• Support for hypervisor feature sets• Installation completed at factory• Ability to automate installation of nodes

using “Foundation” Toolset• No agents/plugins required

• Time to value <60minutes• Fast deployment times• Unified management for all platforms

Feature

Acropolis

MicrosoftHyper-V


Dynamic Cluster Expansion

Feature Overview

Benefit

• Expansion of cluster in 2 Clicks• Nodes dynamically discovered

using self-discovery process• Support for heterogeneous

configurations

• Incremental scale-out based on usage • Zero downtime required• Dynamic rebalancing of resources


Feature Overview

Benefit• Automated policy-based operations and scheduling

• Reduced TCO and overheads

• Infrastructure lifecycle management and compliance

• Simplify, Automate and optimize IT Operations

• Intelligent agent-free embedded management

• Integration with MS SCOM

Dell Openmanage Enterprise


Licensing Tiers

AcropolisPro UltimateStarter

Enterprise Storage

Infrastructure Resiliency

Data Protection

Security

Virtualization

ManagementElement

Management Central Management

PrismStarter Pro

Cluster Management

Single Site Management ✔ ✔Multi Site Management ✔ ✔

One-click Operational Insights

✔Prism search ✔

Prism Starter

Customizable dashboard

✔

✔

One-click Planning

Capacity behavior analytics ✔Expansion recommendation ✔Efficiency evaluation ✔

Proactive Alert Analysis


Per managed node

Subscription only, entitle the license for the term Support is covered in Acropolis support

1-year is the minimum term of purchase and renewal + 60-day free license

Pricing Structure

Unit

Type

Term


Dell EMC XC Series customers across all industries

EducationEnergy

Public Sector

Manufacturing

RetailHealthcare

Technology

Financial Services

1,000+ XC customers 10,000+ XC nodes shipped 40 countries


Benefits of Dell EMC XC Series powered by Nutanix

Infrastructure and operational costs• Industry-standard hardware• Avoid over-provisioning• Pay as you grow scalability• Less rack space, power, cooling

• Highly resilient architecture • Reduces downtime• Fewer downtime events and

interoperability issues• Non-disruptive upgrades improve

system and application availability

Risk mitigation

Improved IT productivity• Faster and easier to deploy• Less complex skills needed to

manage• Fewer resources for admin to learn

decreasing training and cross-train

Business agility• Shorter development cycles for

applications and services • Faster response to changing

business conditions• Deploy infrastructure on demand

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