Achieving unprecedented efficiency and agility through convergenceSteve Stover, Senior Director, Product Planning & ManagementAaron Prince, Senior Technical Marketer
Global MarketingConfidential2
We have too many interoperability issues.
It takes too long to design, procure, deploy integrate & configure new infrastructure.
Our application performance & availability can be inconsistent and poor.
My power, cooling & other operational costs are too high.
We have too many tools required to manage the infrastructure.
I’m tired of juggling multiple points of contact for support.
The day-to-day challenges for IT data center infrastructure teams
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Storage
Server
Network
Virtual infrastructure
Enabling a simpler IT operational model
Challenge Solution
Converged infrastructure
Server
Storage
Network
Virtualization
Tasks
Policies & Visibility
Speed up routine tasks and free up experts
IT is seeking an optimized approach versus today’s choices
Dell’s approach is:Proprietary choices are:
Spectrum of choices for converged solutions
Inflexible
Incomplete
Complex
Expensive
Intuitive
Flexible
Comprehensive
orDell overcomes these limitations
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An IP path towards converged infrastructure• Dell is #1 in industry satisfaction for 12G servers
• Dell is #1 in storage for virtualized environments
• Dell ranks #3 in 40 GbE switch revenue
2008
2009
Jan 2008EqualLogic, the industry’s leading iSCSI storage vendor, acquired
Mar 2008PowerEdge M1000e, world’s most power efficient blade servers for past three generations
Mar 200911G servers with industry’s 1st embedded management
Dec 2011Dell Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter launched
Apr 2011vStart 100 pre-integrated converged infrastructure system launched
Feb 2011Compellent, an industry leader in unified storage, acquired
Feb 201212G servers with 2nd gen embedded mgmt & vStart for Private Cloud & SharePoint launched
Aug 2011Force10, a networking leader acquired; vStart 50 launched
Gartner recommendation: “Shortlist Dell for converged infrastructure (CI) solutions…”*
*Dell's Data Center Strategy: From Chassis to Fabric-Based System, Gartner Research, June 2012
2010
2011
2012
Jun 2012M420, EQL BladeArray, Force10 MXL, & vStart 1000 launched
Aug 2012vStart for VDI launched
Sept 2012Acquired Quest Software
Acquisitions
IT Innovation
The Dell Active Infrastructure strategy Infrastructure agility, efficiency and quality for apps, VDI & private clouds
Solution reference architecturesOptimized solutions for private cloud, VDI and apps
Modular infrastructureGeneral-purpose infrastructure stacks, connected with merged SAN and Ethernet fabrics
Converged management
Unified infrastructure ops & resource management
Delivery modelsPre-integrated systems as pre-engineered or customized reference architectures
Rapidly respond
Improve IT service quality
Maximize efficiency
Most comprehensive end-to-end solution
core
Dell Softwar
e
• Security: Sonicwall, SecureWorks• Data protection: AppAssure & vRanger• Performance and availability: Foglight
Dell Services
• Cloud, virtualization & app migration consulting
• Data center and app modernization• Dell enterprise public cloud
IT admin experience
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Active System
Manager
distributed
Dell Active Infrastructure
End-user Experience
View
XenDesktopLync
ExchangeSharePoint
Business unit
experience
IT S
erv
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An integrated virtualized foundation for VDI, private cloud and apps
Pre-integrated Systems
• VMware ESX and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization
Private CloudEnterprise Applications
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
vStart• vStart 1000• vStart 200• vStart 100• vStart 50
Active System• Active System 800
Modularity(DIY) Active System
Matrix
Platform Reference
Architectures
Active System Manager
M1000e Blades
I/O Aggregat
or
Dell Storage
Active Solutions
Most flexible portfolio
Dell Active System Results-driven innovation
Intelligent orchestration that is intuitive
Intuitive
Modular, scalable systems that are flexible
Flexible
Systems-level efficiency that is comprehensive
Comprehensive
Support
Rapidlyrespond
Seamlessly
scale
Improve efficiency
and quality
• Industry’s only ¼ height blade server
• Blade I/O Aggregator optimized for virtualization
• Active System Manager automates and streamlines steps
• Purpose built, end-to-end design
• Unified support
75%
2.3X
fewer steps from“power on toproduction”
more computenodes per rack
45%better systemperformance
per watt
Deployment
Management
Hypervisor
Network
Storage
Compute
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
justin giardina
cto, iland
19 years architecting, deploying and managing infrastructure.
while my team and I are responsible for all technical aspects of iland’s operations and cloud service offerings, I consider myself a network geek at heart.
member of VMware Technical Advisory Board and vExpert.
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PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
iland cloud servicesBuild, manage, and scale a virtual datacenter in minutes, on your terms
disaster recoveryRobust cloud-based continuity solutions to meet any recovery objective
testing and developmentDevelop, test, train, and demo services faster and under budget
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iland pod design - overview
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
VMware vCloud Director
VMwarevShield
VMware vCenter Server
VMware vSphere
User Portals
Virtual DatacenterVirtual Datacenter
SecurityCatalogs
Pod
provider challenge
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
we also need100 VMs!
i need 3 new custom servers!
business going viral, we need 3 more servers!
pod is outof capacity!
as a cloud service provider, we need
network andhardware agility!
why a month?
• add more capacity to current pod (compute, switches, routers)
• order custom hardware and provision
Customer
Customer
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
transforming cloud services with convergence
Dell Active Infrastructure
5X faster infrastructuredeployments
37% reduced OpEx
25% reduction in provisioning errors
Rapid time-to-value with seamless scalability
Amplified IT productivity with generalists, not specialists
Streamlines auditing processes for improved service quality
Dell Active System OverviewAn integrated offering that is intuitive, flexible, and comprehensive
M1000e blade chassis
Fibre Channel switches (3rd party or Dell)
EqualLogic/Compellent/FS*
iSCSISAN
Corenetworking
services
Core storage/data mgmt services
Server/virtualization/
CI admin
Top-of-Rack switch (3rd party or DellForce10)
traditional or distributed core
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Modular Infrastructure• Leading power & cooling efficiency &
compute density • Open systems - 2S/4S blades
Simplified Chassis IOM• 10 GbE intra-chassis, east-west traffic• Simplified PowerEdge M I/O Aggregator
Converged Fabric• DCB for iSCSI and FCoE
Converged Management• Unified operations for infrastructure
teams
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5 End-to-end experience• End-to-end design, test, & validation• Single point of accountability
Dell A
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Active SystemManager
FCSAN
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I/O Aggregators
Chassis
Blade packs
Storage packs
Options
Blade packs are 8, 16, 24 or 32Half-height M620 w/ 128GB RAM
each
46/56/104/155Terabyte Storage Pack
VMware or Microsoft Management IntegrationsS4810 top-of-rack Ethernet switches
Memory/storage capacityIT Consulting services
One or two (with up to 32 blades in the base configuration across two chassis)
Dell Active System 800Flexible choice and easy to configure
PowerEdge M I/O AggregatorPlug-n-play connectivity for M1000e blade chassis
Link aggregatio
n group
Top of Rack switch
(including 3rd party)
Server admin
Simple and easy way for server or virtual admins to connect blade servers
• Clean physical separation between network and server administrators
• Zero touch, automated configuration
• No networking complexities such as spanning tree
• Virtualization drives simple I/O module connectivity
No compromises on performance: intra-chassis, east-west 10 GbE traffic with low latencyFaster Deployments
M1000eblade chassis
Top of Rack switch
(including 3rd party)
Link aggregatio
n group
Network admin
VLT or MLAG
Dual IOAs
Most intuitive unified management Active System Manager
Discover and inventory of infrastructure
Automated template-based provisioning
Lifecycle management of infrastructure
Guided user workflows & multi-level views of topology
Centralized infrastructure management
Scaling pre-integrated systems
40GbE high density core
Horizontal TOR scaling
Adding additional capacity to existing
system
Vertical scaling Horizontal EOR scaling
Adding additional vStart racks to your existing
vStart 200
Connecting through an EOR switch mode
Open U slots
Hub
vStart 200 vStart 100
vStart 50Distribution
layer
Connecting pre-integrated systems to the data center core fabric
Leaf layer
Spine layer
Distributed core benefits
• Massively scalable, leaf/spine architecture
• Fabric capacity scales to 160 Tbps (theoretical)
• Line-rate, non-blocking performance
• Highly resilient design• Low power systems boost
energy efficiency at scale
10/40GbE Force10 spine and leaf architecture
In a 10GbE fabric with spine switches supporting 128 ports, the vStart leaf switches can seamlessly scale to over 5,000 physical servers
Virtual Resource DefinitionsSize pre-integrated system capacity using your VM definition
*Raw capacity; usable capacity is dependent on the RAID configuration
Configuration CPU Memory Storage* Power LAN/SAN
vStart 50 (base) 32 cores 128GB 7.2TB 2830W 4/4Gb
vStart 100 (base) 48 cores 288GB 14.4TB 3603W 4/4Gb
vStart 200 (base) 96 cores 576GB 28.8TB 6421W 4/4Gb
vStart 1000 (8 node) 128 cores 1TB 31.8TB 6501W 10/8Gb
vStart 1000 (16 node) 256 cores 2TB 57.6TB 9553W 10/8Gb
vStart 1000 (24 node) 384 cores 3TB 89.4TB 13,796W 10/8Gb
vStart 1000 (32 node) 512 Cores 4TB 115.2TB 16,848W 10/8Gb
Active System 800 (8 node)
128 cores 1TB 46.8TB 6501W 10/10Gb
Active System 800 (16 node)
256 cores 2TB 57.6TB 9553W 10/10Gb
Active System 800 (24 node)
384 cores 3TB 104.4TB 13,796W 10/10Gb
Active System 800 (32 node)
512 Cores 4TB 115.2TB 16,848W 10/10Gb
Customer:• Hudson Country, a large US regional
government body
Challenge: • Virtualization initiative to improve
operating efficiency and provide cloud computing resources to end users in a disaster scenario
Pain Points: • Poor performance• Fragmented support experience• Overpriced• Incomplete solution to provision
virtual desktop on demand
Outcomes:• 5-fold faster time to value with pre-
cabled, validated virtualization system• Able to provide virtual servers and
desktops in minutes• 75% reduction in physical server footprint• 50% less power and cooling required• 33% less administration time with
integrated management consoles
Dell pre-integrated systemPrivate cloud deployment for VDI
“We were able to get the vStart solution up and running in just two business days with assistance from Dell Deployment Services.”
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