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1 Microsoft Applications on Nutanix Lukas Lundell Sachin Chheda Chris Brown #nextconf #AW105

2 Agenda Why MS Exchange or any vbca on Nutanix Exchange Solution Design Methodology SharePoint and Unified Communications Advantages of Acropolis Q&A 2

3 Agenda Why MS Exchange or any vbca on Nutanix Exchange Solution Design Methodology SharePoint and Unified Communications Advantages of Acropolis Q&A 3

Why MS Apps or any Critical Apps on Nutanix

infrastructure BC/DR, Security & Compliance Self

complexity = Reduced OPEX Fewer Silos = Reduced CAPEX/OPEX Better

4 Why MS Apps or any Critical Apps on Nutanix Performance/Availability/Scalability Highly available, Self healing infrastructure BC/DR, Security & Compliance Self auditing/remediating infrastructure Common DR procedure Cost 4 Less complexity = Reduced OPEX Fewer Silos = Reduced CAPEX/OPEX Better utilization of resources = Less waste Start small & scale if/when required (No guesswork!) On-Premises vs. the Cloud

5 Agenda Why MS Exchange or any vbca on Nutanix Exchange Solution Design Methodology SharePoint and Unified Communications Advantages of Acropolis Q&A 5

6 Design Methodology Sizing within recommended maximums: <24 CPU cores <96GB RAM 6

7 Design Methodology (cont.) Key point #1: Virtualization of Exchange is a well understood, fairly common solution to this problem (scalability). 7

8 Design Methodology (cont.) Hypervisor Agnostic & Fully Supported on. AHV Key point #1: Virtualization of Exchange is a well understood, fairly common solution to this problem (scalability). 8

9 Design Methodology (cont.) Key point #2: Virtualization adds complexity 9

10 Design Methodology (cont.) Virtualization adds complexity or does it? VMware vcenter Server VMware Update Manager Platform Services Controller vsphere Web Client Distributed Switches Multipathing Shared Storage e.g.: RAID/LUNS Patching / Upgrades Datastores & Storage Protocols Virtual Machine Storage Configuration Hardware Compatibility Lists (HCL) Interoperability Matrix AHV Key point #2: Customers now have additional choices.ahv has all the advantages of virtualization without the complexity! 10

11 Design Methodology (cont.) Key point #3: Virtualization adds cost and risk 11

12 Design Methodology (cont.) Virtualization adds cost & increases risk or does it? AHV AHV & management is Free with Nutanix Risk is reduced thanks too: Built in highly available management stack Highly resilient Distributed Storage Fabric Self healing capabilities Intuitive HTML 5 user interface Non disruptive, one-click rolling upgrades Risk is dramatically reduced vs legacy hypervisors Key point #3: Virtualization with Nutanix / AHV does NOT add cost in fact the reduction in complexity actually reduces risk & OPEX while AHV is free. 12

13 Design Methodology (cont.) 13 Key point #4: Scale out rather than scale up & do not exceed the guidelines (24 cores and 96GB RAM)

14 Design Methodology (cont.) DAG1 DAG2 Mgmt VMs DAG1 DAG2 Mgmt VMs Key point #4: Scale out rather than scale up & do not exceed the sizing guidelines (24 cores & 96GB RAM) NX-8150 Up to 44 pcores (Broadwell) Up to 1.5TB RAM 4 x SSD & 20 x HDD Or 24x SSD In Just 2RU! 14

15 Design Methodology (cont.) 15 Key point #5: Try to align with Preferred Architect (Multiple-DAG configuration with Multiple DB copies and a lagged copy)

16 Design Methodology (cont.) Nutanix Recommends. MS Preferred Architecture w/ Multi-DAG solutions 1 Active Copy 1 Passive Copy 1 Lagged Copy (optional) Or Commvault Intellisnap Key point #5: Nutanix closely aligns with Preferred Architecture with 1 Active, 1 Passive & 1 Lagged Copy 16

17 Design Methodology (summary) Key point #1: Virtualization of Exchange is a well understood, fairly common solution to this problem (scalability). Key point #2: AHV has all the advantages of virtualization without the complexity! Key point #3: Virtualization with Nutanix / AHV does NOT add cost in fact the reduction in complexity actually reduces OPEX while AHV is free. Key point #4: Scale out rather than scale up & do not exceed the guidelines (24 cores and 96GB RAM) Key point #5: Nutanix closely aligns with MS Preferred Architecture with 1 Active, 1 Passive & 1 Lagged Copy 17

Bonus: Sizing For Microsoft Exchange But because

536GB + 15803 + 581 + 1150GB = 18TB Dedupe* 2.

18 Bonus: Sizing For Microsoft Exchange But because IOPS is not an issue. Its even easier. 9-18TB w/ RF2 1. Capacity Compression NX8150- G5 Erasure Coding 536GB GB = 18TB Dedupe* 2. Compute NX8150- G5 Max >1200 SpecInt Socket = >600 SpecInt GB RAM 3. N % CPU Util & 96Gb RAM Add one node to enable HA / Self Healing / Non Disruptive Maintenance / Upgrades

19 Agenda Why MS Exchange or any vbca on Nutanix Exchange Solution Design Methodology SharePoint and Unified Communications Advantages of Acropolis Q&A 19

20 UC: Why on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Traditional UC Challenges: 1. Performance (latency) 2. Resource contention 3. Scalability 4. Shadow IT 5. UC project time to value 20 Reduce traditional PSTN/POTS connections Reduce amount of physical equipment & licensing

21 UC: Why on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Performance: Nutanix data locality à Local flash access Resource Contention: Nutanix Web-scale Architecture à No noisy neighbors Scalability: 1-click goodness 21

UC: Why on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

22 UC: Why on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Performance: Nutanix Data Locality à Local Flash Access Resource Contention: Nutanix Distributed Architecture à No noisy neighbors Scalability: 1-click goodness Shadow IT: Nutanix Simplicity and TTV will avoid that application owners deploy their own stack UC Project Time To Value: Nutanix allows efficient utilization and consolidation of multiple workloads

23 UC: Sizing and recommendations 23 Sizing is vcpu driven first. Recording storage second. Most apps have 100% CPU reservations / 1:1 core to vcpu mapping Use RF2 w/ Erasure Coding & Compression for voice recording center Watch for Contact Center (Call Center) and recording as this increases IOPS and vcpu requirements Use NX-1065 for most deployments <1000 users Use NX-3060 for most deployments >1000 users. No hard requirement whatever fits. Do not be afraid to run UC in existing DSF clusters with mixed workloads! Follow vendor guides and relevant Nutanix UC Best Practice Guide for: Cisco UC, MS Lync, Avaya Aura + IP Office

SharePoint: Why on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud If leaning toward cloud: How mission critical is your deployment? Are all features and functionality available?

24 SharePoint: Why on Nutanix Enterprise Cloud If leaning toward cloud: How mission critical is your deployment? Are all features and functionality available? Gaps exist between Office 365 and On-Premises Custom code or Web Parts? Can SharePoint be consolidated with other workloads How do you manage DR for SharePoint today Nutanix can also simplify this Are you leveraging Remote BLOB storage 24 Response time requirements may suit Nutanix storage heavy nodes

Small deployments Consolidate within larger environments Caching and

25 SharePoint: Advantages of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Large deployments Scale Out Web Front End, Application and Search components Small deployments Consolidate within larger environments Caching and storage tiering Automated tiering ideal for storage management EC-X for archive 25

SharePoint: Advantages of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Disaster Recovery Native SharePoint methods leveraging database mirroring or AAG Native Nutanix data protection

26 SharePoint: Advantages of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Disaster Recovery Native SharePoint methods leveraging database mirroring or AAG Native Nutanix data protection without need of maintaining a failover or stretched farm 26 Can be complicated >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AHV DR Cluster to save on licensing Storage replication for BLOB data

27 Agenda Why MS Exchange or any vbca on Nutanix Exchange Solution Design Methodology SharePoint and Unified Communications Advantages of Acropolis Q&A 27

Advantages of Distributed Storage Fabric 28 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability New data is written to the Oplog (SSD) Meaning less

28 Advantages of Distributed Storage Fabric 28 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability New data is written to the Oplog (SSD) Meaning less CPU WAIT per write I/O Making more efficient use of the MSR Servers CPU Allowing more Users per pcore OR more Messages/Day per user Lower impact in the event of DAG failover

Advantages of Distributed Storage Fabric 29 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability ADSF provides several complimentary data

29 Advantages of Distributed Storage Fabric 29 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability ADSF provides several complimentary data reduction technologies to provide typically greater usable capacity than RAW while protecting from node/drive failures: Inline compression EC-X Deduplication

30 Advantages of Distributed Storage Fabric 30 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability DSF provides increased resiliency by making the infrastructure invisible to the application. Disk drive failures are made invisible Fully Automated / Low Impact Self healing Non Disruptive Upgrades Abstraction from hardware layer Automated recovery from node failures Proactive HW monitoring & ability to migrate apps before an outage

31 Advantages of Distributed Storage Fabric 31 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability DSF improves the performance by reducing unnecessary overheads from the MS application servers: Fewer passive copies managed by Exchange All but removed the requirement to reseed databases Less CPU/RAM required per server for DAG and more available resources to service end users New data and Most frequently accessed data served by SSD

32 Advantages of Nutanix ADSF 32 CPU Efficiencies Data Reduction Data Resiliency Performance Scalability Simple repeatable models for scaling MS Applications: Low entry cost Increase capacity on the fly Increase number of users on the fly Pay as you grow model

33 Questions

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Nutanix Tech Note. Virtualizing Microsoft Applications on Web-Scale Infrastructure

Nutanix Tech Note. Virtualizing Microsoft Applications on Web-Scale Infrastructure Nutanix Tech Note Virtualizing Microsoft Applications on Web-Scale Infrastructure The increase in virtualization of critical applications has brought significant attention to compute and storage infrastructure.