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

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

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3 Prism 3

4 Enterprise-grade Engineering Consumer-grade Design 4

5 5 One-click Infrastructure Management Storage Management Cluster Management VM Management Network Management One-click Remediation Proactive Alert Analysis Service Impact Analysis Intelligent Root Cause Analysis Remediation Advisor (future) One-click Operational Insights Capacity Behavior Trends Capacity Optimization Advisor What-if Analysis Customizable Dashboards

6 Management - Prism Feature Overview Scale-Out Control plane Unified view of cluster and hypervisor health Detailed summary of cluster/vm Performance Benefit Simplifies day-to-day operations Reduces complexity Hypervisor agnostic 6

7 Rich and Insightful Analytics Configuration Health Risk Efficiency 7

8 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: Starter Single site management Multiple site management Prism Pro Single site management Multiple site management Advanced VM operations 8

9 Management Prism Starter Feature Overview Manage multiple clusters across multiple locations from a single pane of glass Benefit Aggregate health and usage data across multiple clusters Single sign-on for all clusters Simplified workflows Greater Analytics 9

10 Management Prism Starter Feature 10

11 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 11

12 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 12

13 Prism Search What is it? Search-centric management Contextual results with oneclick actions Search history and shortcuts Support for auto-complete, auto-correction, synonyms Support for regular expressions Debugging performance/availability Example: Hosts with lops <1000 Benefits: Consumer-centric management Simple to use with zero learning curve 13

14 Management Pulse Feature Overview Collection of diagnostic system-data to Dell / Nutanix Support teams Deliver proactive, context-aware support for Dell XC Appliance Benefit Timely issue identification and rectification Proactive support for Hardware and support 14

15 Management 1 Click Upgrade Feature Overview Simplified NOS + Hypervisor and Disk Firmware upgrade Zero Downtime and impact CVM Automating feature guarantees VM Connectivity Seems familiar? Benefit Simplified upgradability Reduced management intervention Binaries QA d before release 15

16 Management API s and Extensibility Feature Overview GUI ncli PowerShell Cmdlets Allow remote API calls from 3 rd Party sources Remote orchestration Configure & Manage Nutanix Clusters using API s Benefit Nutanix REST API Automated Service provisioning supporting industry scripting Automatically generated wrappers around Nutanix REST API 16

17 Multi-Hypervisor Support Feature Overview Acropolis Hypervisor agnostic Support for hypervisor feature sets Installation completed at factory Ability to automate installation of nodes using Foundation Toolset No agents/plugins required Benefit Microsoft Hyper-V Time to value <60minutes Fast deployment times Unified management for all platforms 17

18 Dynamic Cluster Expansion Feature Overview Expansion of cluster in 2 Clicks Nodes dynamically discovered using self-discovery process Support for heterogeneous configurations Benefit Incremental scale-out based on usage Zero downtime required Dynamic rebalancing of resources 18

19 Dell Openmanage Enterprise Feature Overview Simplify, Automate and optimize IT Operations Intelligent agent-free embedded management Integration with MS SCOM Benefit Automated policy-based operations and scheduling Reduced TCO and overheads Infrastructure lifecycle management and compliance 19

20 Licensing Tiers Acropolis Prism Enterprise Storage Infrastructure Resiliency Starter Pro Ultimate Starter Pro Cluster Management Single Site Management Multi Site Management One-click Operational Insights Data Protection Security Proactive Alert Analysis Prism search Customizable dashboard One-click Planning Virtualization Management Element Management Prism Central StarterManagement Capacity behavior analytics Expansion recommendation Efficiency evaluation 20

21 Pricing Structure Unit Per managed node Type Subscription only, entitle the license for the term Support is covered in Acropolis support Term 1-year is the minimum term of purchase and renewal + 60-day free license 21

22 Dell EMC XC Series customers across all industries Financial Services Healthcare Retail Public Sector 1,000+ XC customers 10,000+ XC nodes shipped 40 countries Energy Technology Education Manufacturing 22

23 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 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 Risk mitigation Highly resilient architecture Reduces downtime Fewer downtime events and interoperability issues Non-disruptive upgrades improve system and application availability Business agility Shorter development cycles for applications and services Faster response to changing business conditions Deploy infrastructure on demand 23

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