FlexPod Data Center SolutionWhat’s New for Spring 2013!

2

FlexPod® Converged InfrastructurePrevalidated, Flexible, Unified Platform

Unified management Policy-based automation & Service Profiles Self-integrating components

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

Unified fabric Virtualization awareness Scalability without complexity High performance I/O

Cisco Unified Computing System

NetApp FAS with Clustered ONTAP

Unified storage Virtualize storage into pools Non-disruptive data motion

Intelligent data management Built-in storage efficiency Integrated data protection

3

Traditional Deployment

Faster Implementation with FlexPod®

IT moving to Converged Infrastructure to speed time to deployment, simplify IT, reduce risk and reduce cost

FlexPod platform brings benefits to growing portfolio of business applications

FlexPod is the Fast Forward button for IT infrastructure!

> 50% Faster

Many Weeks or Months

Service Request

Design and Size

DC Planning

ProcureDetailedDesign

Deploy Test

Service Available

DC Planning

Procure Deploy Test

Service Available

Deployment with FlexPod

4

Consistent architecture from entry to large configurations

Scale up or down with minimal disruption

Common structure for support and management

The FlexPod Solution Family

100s of users

1000s of users

FlexPod®

5

FlexPod Pre-validated ApplicationsExpanding Business-Critical Workload Support

VMware® (vSphere™, View™)

Microsoft® (Exchange, SQL Server®, SharePoint® Hyper-V™)

Oracle® (Oracle RAC, JD Edwards, Oracle Linux, Oracle VM Server)

Citrix XenDesktop

SAP® applications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux®

Secure Multi-Tenancy

Validated workloads

Performance-balanced server, network, and storage components

VMwareView

MSExchange

MSSharePoint

MS SQLServer

Hyper-V Oracle VM VMware vSphere®

Secure SeparationOptional securityBare-metal OS

RedHat

New/Enhanced Designs for Biz-critical Apps!

6

Develop and Test

Starting Out

Data Protection and Backup

More Computing andLess Storage

Less Computing andMore Storage

Deploy Entry System; Then Scale Up

VDI

Higher PerformanceBlades and More IOPS

IOPS

CPU

CapacityMemory

ProductionBalanced Infrastructure

Customized Pod Sizing with FlexPod

7

Incident resolution initiated

Cisco®

First-LineSupport

*Valid customer support contracts with all three companies required

Cooperative Support Model Process

Customer*

NetApp®

First-LineSupport

VMware®

First-LineSupport

Cisco Support Escalation or Engineering

Problem analysis begins

Coordinated engineering escalation process

Collaborated cross-company engineering and development efforts

NetApp Support Escalation or Engineering

Vmware Support

Escalation or Engineering

Vendor engagement and ownership through resolution

If Development or Engineering Escalation Required

Collaborative engagement

8

New FlexPod Reference Architectures FlexPod platform updates

FlexPod with Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches for IP-Based Storage

VMware reference architectures VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPod

Microsoft reference architectures ExpressPod with Windows Server 2012 FlexPod with Microsoft Private Cloud

Oracle reference architectures Oracle on FlexPod with VMware vSphere Oracle on FlexPod with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Oracle on FlexPod with Oracle Linux Oracle on FlexPod with Oracle VM

New

9

VMware vSphere 5.1 on FlexPodReference Architecture update

Key component updates Updated server virtualization with

vSphere 5.1 Converged compute & network fabric

w/ UCS Manager 2.1 Newest Clustered Data ONTAP 8.1.2 Latest NetApp mid-range storage

platform -- FAS 3250

Designed to provide overall platform validation for use with a wide range of applications and workloads

VMware vSphere 5.1

Cisco Nexus® Family of Switches

NetApp® StorageClustered Data ONTAP 8.1.2OnCommand™ Software Validated on FAS3250

Cisco UCS™ B-Series or C-Series and Cisco UCS Manager 2.1

New

10

FlexPod with Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches for IP-Based Storage

Adds high-end data center switch – Nexus 7000 series

FlexPod now supporting the leading unified fabric core routers

Valuable to large enterprises and SPs for greater networking scalability, throughput, availability and advanced capabilities (ex. ISSU, OTV/LISP, FabricPath) not available in the Nexus 5000

VMware vSphere 5.1

Cisco Nexus® 7000 Series Switches

NetApp® StorageClustered Data ONTAP 8.1.2OnCommand™ Software Validated on FAS3250

Cisco UCS™ B-Series or C-Series and Cisco UCS Manager 2.1

New

11

FlexPod with Microsoft Private CloudMicrosoft Private Cloud Fast Track 3.0 Validated

* NetApp 50% Storage Guarantee http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/infrastructure/virtualization/guarantee.html

Converged infrastructure platform from NetApp and Cisco for Microsoft Private Cloud: Deep integration with Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1

Reduced Risk: pre-validated HW accelerates and simplifies deployment

Lower Cost: compute, network, storage and private cloud in a turnkey platform

More Efficient: Virtualize infrastructure and automate workflows with integrated management and orchestration.

Flexibility to Scale: Add or change servers and storage as needed, without breaking support. Most scalable Hyper-V platform

Cisco® UCS™ Blade and Rack Servers and UCS Manager

Cisco Nexus® Family Switches

NetApp® FASStorage Systems

New

12

Newest Oracle Reference ArchitecturesExpanding support for Oracle workloads

Brings FlexPod converged infrastructure benefits to Oracle business-critical workloads

4 new architectures in all Oracle on FlexPod with VMware FlexPod with Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne FlexPod with Oracle Linux FlexPod with Oracle VM

Oracle value: Increased performance, availability Includes: Oracle Database 11g R2 RAC on Oracle Linux

(RHEL), Bare-metal or VM as indicated, up to 4 RAC nodes tested

New

13

Over Two Years of FlexPod Success

“FlexPod is one of the most complete private cloud

architectures available.” (IDC)

• IDC 2011 white paper, “Accelerating Converged Infrastructure with the FlexPod Datacenter Solution and the Support Alliance”

http://media.netapp.com/documents/ar-accelerating-converged-infrastructure.pdf

2500+ FlexPod customers, 70+ public references Customers in 35 countries

How IT is using FlexPod– Virtualized Workloads – 90%

– VXI/VDI – 10-20%

– Microsoft Apps – 50-60%

– Oracle and SAP – 20-30%

14

Forrester Total Economic Impact StudyPublished January, 2013

Research to quantify FlexPod financial benefits Based on Analyst interviews of Customers VDI and Microsoft business app workloads Key Findings

Benefits & savings of $858k over 3 years 120% risk-adjusted ROI Savings in areas of: Labor from automated

provisioning and automated management, Hardware consolidation, Data storage efficiency, and Reduced power & cooling

14

15

FlexPod SummaryTransform your Data Center with FlexPod

Use a Converged Infrastructure to…

Focus IT spending on innovation

Rapidly respond to business needs

Maintain stringent service levels

Learn more at NetApp.com/FlexPod