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Solutions from Lenovo for Implementing a VMware based Software Defined Datacenter

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Outline

• Data Center and Cloud Evolution

• Software Defined Technologies

• Lenovo and VMware joint offerings

• Lenovo XClarityTM portfolio for on-prem infrastructure management

• Overview VMware vSphere® Integrated Containers (VIC)

• Lenovo XClarityTM integration offerings for VMware Demo



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Did You Know…?

• 10% of VMware vSAN® deployments are on Lenovo™ hardware

• The largest vSANdeployment in the world is on Lenovo hardware

• The worlds largest Intel® Xeon® Scalable supercomputing cluster is based on Lenovo™



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Industry Evolution

Wave1:

Converged

Software Defined InfrastructureVirtualize ServerVirtualize Server and

Storage

Acquired as single entity

Faster deployment Moves storage into server IT Agility - virtualizes server, storage, network, and public cloud

resources

Management

Servers

Storage

Networking

Wave 2:

Hyper ConvergedWave 3:

Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI)

Acquired as discrete parts

Hard to deploy

Traditional

Management

Servers

Storage

Networking

Management

Servers

Storage

Networking

++

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ftw

are

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fin

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Serv

ices Management

Servers

SDS

SDN

+

++

Rapid time-to-deploymentEase of management

IT Agility

Value

Continuous and dynamic

Applications / Workloads

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Software Defined Datacenter is the new Cloud model

compute Storage NetworkStandard x86 Specialized x86 Specialized HW & SW

Server Virtualization

(ESXi / Hyper V)Storage Virtualization

(SDS / HCI)Network Virtualization

(SDN / NFV)

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Policy based management

Cloud Automation

Cloud Operations

Unified Hardware Management

Virtual Resource Management

1. Business vs technology focused

2. Simplifies Service delivery

3. Agile and Automated



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SDI Stack Layers

HCI

SDS

SDN

NFV

Converged

Modular Scalable

Infrastructure

Hybrid Cloud

Management

Software-defined

Security

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Market

Shift

2017 Lenovo Restricted. All rights reserved.



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Physical

Software

Defined

Lenovo Software Defined Strategy

Software

Defined

Physical

SDS

SDS

Server

Integrated Appliances

HyperConverged

Hypervisor

/ Container SDS

Server

Who: Application, workload focused

Value

• Simple to buy

• Simple to scale

Integrated Systems

SDN / NFV

Switch

Hypervisor

/ Container SDS

Server

Integrated

Who: Enterprise IT, Private/Hybrid Clouds

Value

• Simple to buy

• Simple to scale

• Time to Value

• Supported as a single system

• Interoperability maintained by LenovoLenovo Confidential 2017



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Designed For Future Defined Datacenter

Lenovo ThinkAgile™

Agility

• Agility of public cloud on

most reliable infrastructure

• Scale from single cluster

to multiple racks

• 80% faster Time to Value

vs. traditional setup

Simplicity

• Planning via Automation tools

• Deployed by industry experts

• Manage via intuitive

management tools

Transformative Experience

• Arrives pre integrated - connect

to network and power

• Onsite deployment and training

• ThinkAgile™ Advantage - Single

point of support for entire stack




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Lenovo VMware Solutions

ThinkAgile™ VX Series

Appliance

vSAN and VCF Ready

NodesLenovo VCF

Build Your Own

• Use Lenovo/VMware certified

HW configurations

• Integration done by customer

• Self installed and maintained

Focus on your business not on

infrastructure

• Lenovo Tested, Qualified, Proven

• Built and tested by Lenovo with only vSAN

certified components.

• Lenovo Delivered, Installed, Configured

• Professional Services leave you with a

hyperconverged solution that is ready to go

• Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage

• Backed by a direct line to 2nd level support

that won’t hand you offvSAN Ready Node available today

VCF planned Q3/Q4

Available Q4 2017Available

Reference Architecture



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10©2017 Lenovo. All rights reserved.

ThinkAgile: Simpler to deploy – easier to scale

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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series powered by VMware vSAN v6.6.

Focus on building your business rather than just

building your infrastructure.

Ready to deploy – factory

tested and qualified

Built on ThinkSystem

#1 in reliability

Lenovo ThinkAgile Advantage

Support you can count on

White glove Professional ServicesFlexible configurations #1 customer satisfaction

Shipping: 4Q2017



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112016 Lenovo Internal. All rights reserved.

VX Series – Customer Value

Focus on business not on infrastructure

• Factory tested, Qualified and proven by Lenovo

• White glove Professional Services installation

Reliable, Flexible, Scalable

• Proven reliability from ThinkSystem Servers

• Flexible configurations

• Scale by simply adding nodes

Think Trust. Think Reliability. Think Availability.

• Lenovo XClarity Management

• Single point of contact for support with the ThinkAgile Advantage



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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series

Easy To Size

ThinkAgile Design

Automation

Easy To DeployFactory Integration

ThinkAgile Advantage

Easy To MaintainSingle Point of Contact

XClarity Management

Lenovo Confidential 2017



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ThinkAgile Design Automation

Measurecompute & storage

workloadsusing an agent-less collector

Analyzeworkload demands &

existing hardware assets(age, power, space, cooling)

Decidefrom ThinkAgile solution

designs optimized for

your IT requirements

Fast and Simple

• Workload sizing

• Capacity planning

• Optimized design

• Quote & Order




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ThinkAgile Advantage – Single Point of Support

ThinkAgile Advantage

Support Team

Single contact for end-to-

end case management

Scalable & adaptable as

additional products are

added

ThinkAgile Advantage offers our customers a superior, single point of contact support experience

• Proactive solutions-oriented customer experience provides end to end case management owned by Lenovo

• Dedicated Lenovo phone number and case management system

• Proactive E2E support experience with quick access to Lenovo engineering and third-party SW support

Networking

Compute

Storage

SoftwareSimplified warranty

entitlement

Lenovo phone

number tailored to

ThinkAgile

24x7 availability

Solution-level

support for

ThinkAgile

Lenovo problem

isolation with IBM

parts/onsite support

Improved access to

Lenovo PE &

Development

Optimum customer

experience for

complex solutions




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XClarity Reduces Management Complexity and Cost

• Simplify hardware systems management

• Accelerate system provisioning

• Integrate systems into software environments1. www.principledtechnologies.com/Lenovo/XClarity_Administrator_management_comparison_0615.pdf

2. www.principledtechnologies.com/Lenovo/XClarity_Administrator_management_comparison_0915.pdf

Asset Management

Configuration Management

Firmware Management

OS & Hypervisor Installation

Event Management

Energy Management

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http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Lenovo/XClarity_Administrator_management_comparison_0615.pdf

http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Lenovo/XClarity_Administrator_management_comparison_0915.pdf


Lenovo and VMware® SDDC

Orchestration PlatformVMworld 2017 Content: Not fo


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Lenovo XClarity Integrators

OMS

Virtualization resource

management

Foundation infrastructure

management

Private & hybrid cloud

services management

Business and service level

management

Scripting tools and

orchestration engines

Infrastructure

management

Operations &

service level

management

Orchestration

& workflow

management

Change, configuration,

and capacity management

Availability, performance,

and incident management

Future

Featured Integrations

vCenter

System

Center

Virtual

Machine

Manager

vRealize

Automation

vRealize

Orchestrator

vRealize Log

Insight

CloudFormsSAP IT

Operations

Analytics

(SAP)

System

Center

Configuration

Manager

System

Center

Operations

Manager

vRealize

Operations

(Blue

Medora)

Ansible

Azure

Stack

Splunk

Enterprise

AIOPS

(MoogSoft)

No Integrator

Required

2017 Lenovo Internal. All rights reserved.



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XClarity Integrators in VMware Solution Exchange

v1.3

v1.0.1

V2.0

v5.1

N/A

v1.1

V1.2

Link



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https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/company/lenovo

https://marketplace.vmware.com/vsx/company/lenovo


XClarity Integrator for VMware vRealize Orchestrator

https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/documents/LNVO-VMRO

• Coordinate physical

server provisioning

features of Lenovo

XClarity Pro with

broader vRealize

Orchestrator

workflows



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https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/gb/en/documents/LNVO-VMRO


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G7052 VLAG

SDDC Mgmt

SDDC Compute

Node Details

ACAC

DC

AC

DC

AC

550w550w

1GbE ESXi Mgmt, & VM Data+ IMM Connections - VL600

Statically assigned IPs

IMM

vmnic0 vmnic1

BCM5719 – vmnic0-vmnic3

NIC teaming on Compute ClusterdvSwitch0

vmk0

10GbE VM FabricActive-Active NIC TeamInternet Routable - VL600All other IPs DHCP / Static as desired

10GbE Services FabricActive-Active NIC TeamVSAN - VL900 - Routable, taggedVMotion - VL6xx - Non-routable, Static IPs

vmnic4 vmnic6

vmnic5 vmnic710gbE NICsSDDC Compute nodes 1-3 – Intel x520SDDC Mgmt Nodes 4-6 – Intel x710

vSwitch 1 / dvSwitch 1vmk1

vSwitch 2 / dvSwitch 2vmk2

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Compute Cluster Nodes

Management Cluster Nodes

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

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300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

300G B

1.2TB HDD

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1.2TB HDD 1.2TB HDD

1.2TB HDD

3.84TB SSD

3.84TB SSD

800GB SSD 800GB SSD

3.84TB SSD

3.84TB SSD

1.6TB SSD

1.2TB HDD

Cache Tier: 4x Intel S3710 800GB SSDCapacity Tier: 4x SanDisk 3.84TB SSD

Cache Tier: 2x Intel S3610 1.6TB SSDCapacity Tier: 6x 1.2TB HDD

800GB SSD 800GB SSD

VSAN

Nodes

VSAN Node

Physical

Network

Connectivity



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Lenovo integrated VMware SDDC Model

• VMWare SDDC including– vSphere ESXi 6.5 & VSAN

– vCenter 6 & NSX

– vRealise Log Insights

– vRealise Orchestrator

– vRealise Automation

• Lenovo Automation Add-Ins– xClarity Administrator

– xClarity Integrators

– vRA integrators

• Lenovo HW Base– X3550 M5 Servers

– G8272 Network Switches



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Seamless scaling of

compute or storage

capacity as you grow

using Lenovo

ThinkSystem™ x86

Servers

Leaf/spine switch

architecture with

Lenovo RackSwitch

switches to scale

racks horizontallyAn integrated HW and SW reference architecture,

purpose built for container applications. Easy to

deploy, easy to scale, easy to manage.

• Integrated high speed “IP fabric” with Lenovo switches

capable of delivering fast and predictable performance.

• Integrated container application platform (PaaS) reference

architecture with VMware vSAN/NSX (SDDC) + Integrated

Containers and Lenovo xClarity infrastructure management

• Highly optimized for scalability, performance and value

Lenovo/SDDC/VIC Reference Platform

Managed by Lenovo

xClarity Administrator

software




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Lenovo XClarityTM integration offerings for

VMware Demo

https://vimeo.com/231267279



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https://vimeo.com/231267279




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Containers Explained

VMware Integrated Containers (VIC) Containers Vs VMs



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https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux_atomic_host/7/html/overview_of_containers_in_red_hat_systems/introduction_to_linux_containers


vSphere Integrated Containers

• VMware open source project for providing an enterprise grade container orchestration platform on top of VMware vSphere

• Three main components– VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Engine, a container runtime for vSphere.

– VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Registry, an enterprise-class container registry server that stores and distributes container images (VMware Harbor)

– VMware vSphere Integrated Containers Management Portal, a container management portal. (VMware Admiral)

• By leveraging their existing SDDC, customers can run container-based applications alongside existing virtual machine based workloads in production without having to build out a separate, specialized container infrastructure stack.

https://vmware.github.io/vic-product/



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https://vmware.github.io/vic-product/


VIC Architecture



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Integration with VMware vCenter®



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Virtual networking setup (DVswitches)

VCH container bridge network

Host management network

Software iSCSI (vHBA) network

VCH Public, Client, and Mgmt network



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VCH hosts



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Provisioning..



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Managing your infrastructure with

Lenovo XClarity




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Firmware updates/compliance



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ThinkAgile Design Automation

Measurecompute & storage

workloadsusing an agent-less collector

Analyzeworkload demands &

existing hardware assets(age, power, space, cooling)

Decidefrom ThinkAgile solution

designs optimized for

your IT requirements

Fast and Simple

• Workload sizing

• Capacity planning

• Optimized design

• Quote & Order




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Run Your Workloads, Where Its Best For You

Predictable Workloads

Elastic Workloads

25%

75%

Balance Owning and Renting For

Today’s Enterprise Workloads

Spin up and down resources on the public cloud

Lower costs with private cloud infrastructure

• Some are best in public cloud, some on Premise

• Depends on need – amounts, time, costs

Your % Will Vary – You Choose




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Traditional 3-Tiered ArchitectureComplex and Separate Silos

Evolve without RiskSeamlessly shift to HCIwith minimal changes

Lower TCOReduce CapEx and OpExby 50% or more

Scale to TomorrowReady for new hardware, apps & cloud solutions

Why HCI Powered by Lenovo & VMware vSAN?

Virtualization Compute | Storage | Network

Unified Management

Server + Storage Network

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure-Powered by vSAN & Lenovo

Traditional 3-Tiered Architecture

Complex Separate Silos

Servers

External

Storage

Networking

Virtualization


Purchase in big increments, incur

prediction risk, overprovision

Multiple management panes,

manual operations

Deployment takes weeks --

complex, big footprint

Difficult to scale quickly

Multi-hop support, lack of end-to-end

visibility, firefighting

Performance issues



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