THE TIME-STARVED ADMINISTRATOR’S GUIDE TO SIMPLIFYING THE SERVER ROOMGETTING BACK TO BUSINESS

ABOUT US

Dave Demlow

VP of Product Management

David Davis

vExpert, VCP, CCIE, and Video Training Author

HEROIC DATACENTER ADMINS

Are you the heroic firefighter of the datacenter?

Constantly beating down technology problems as they pop up?

TOO MUCH COMPLEXITY

ServerNetworkStorageHigh AvailabilityAdvanced features you can’t

afford

INCREASING DEMANDS VS. DECREASING BUDGETS

“Do more with less”

vs.

Increased expectations Increased demands

IT Budgets

Expectations and Demand

ANSWER = DATACENTER SIMPLIFICATION

The datacenter MUST be simplified- “do more with less”

Meet technology expectations (like availability)

Provide for increased server and app demands

Decrease the stress on admins

NEW TECH INNOVATIONS CAN HELP

• Virtualization• Hardware commoditization & > Capacity

Hardware• Smarter software

• Scale out storage architecture

• Cloud ready/web scale

HOW IT’S HELPING THE “BIG BOYS”

How do they achieve?Massive scaleMassive efficiencyFractional cost

WHAT IS HYPERCONVERGENCE?

Leverage commodity hardwareFold storage into computeUse virtualizationSmart software with advanced features – data

replication, high availability, etcAll this = ease of management and ease of

scalability

BENEFITS OF HYPERCONVERGENCE

• Storage becomes a building block resource, just like servers

• Less complexity in data center architecture

• Ease of scale and management

• Cost savings• Quicker time to value in initial infrastructure purchase

• No need to significantly overprovision resources at initial buy

• Less cabling, less hardware, less

manpower, less cooling, less rack space• Less need for POC• Lower ongoing costs as new resources are

needed

FEWER VENDORS = SIMPLE SUPPORT MODEL

• Who do you call when something doesn’t work in the datacenter today?

• What if you could have single vendor support – one call to make?

HOW TO SAVE TIME ON COMMON DC TASKS

• Add more memory or CPU to a hungry server

• Add more storage capacity to a SAN LUN

• Troubleshoot slow application performance

HOW TO SAVE TIME ON COMMON DC TASKS

• Implement offsite data replication

• Implement high availability for critical applications (server and storage)

• Implement a private cloud

Built for Midsize Companies

• Simplicity of a single server

• Availability of a virtualized server and SAN

• Scalability of a clustered infrastructure

Q&A TIME!

LIVE PRODUCT DEMO

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HC4000 - Limited Introduction

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HC3 ScaleCare Services

• ScaleCare Support – First Year Included

• ScaleCare Remote Services– Installation – Switch Configuration– VM Migration – Remote VM Replication and Failover

"The tech was prompt and got things going very quickly. I’ve always had great support.I wish it was contagious and would spread to my other vendors.” ~MacAllister Machinery

Q&A TIME!

WHAT ARE YOUR QUESTIONS?

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THANKS FOR ATTENDING!

• To learn more about how hyperconvergence can save you time and simplify your datacenter, visit

www.ScaleComputing.com