When to Select Hyperconverged InfrastructureKEITH TOWNSEND2016 SYDNEY VMUG USER CONFERENCE

IntroductionAbbVie Sr. SAP Infrastructure Architect Founder The CTOAdvisor – www.theCTOadvisor.comTwitter: @CTOAdvisor

Career • IT career began in the mid 90’s • 2 years as a Program Chief Architect at

Lockheed Martin• 2 years as Management Consultant with

PriceWaterhousCoopers (PwC)

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Application centers have the budget and greater input into the buying decision.

What is Hyper-convergence - The collaspe of compute, storage and software into a scale-out appliance.

Virtual Storage Array + Hypervisor + Management Software

Hyper-Converged vs. Converged

Converged systems are engineered stacks Compute Network Storage

Examples Oracle RAC SAP HANA Vblock HPE Converged Systems

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How is Hyper-Converged Different from BYO

Tight H/W & S/W integration performed

Virtual Storage Array + Hypervisor - Management Software

Who are the Hyper Converged Vendors

It’s about requirements

Performance Scale Support

Performance - Originally a VDI dominant use case

- Low latency - Read heavy

- One size doesn’t fits all - Nerd knobs - ERP- In memory data base

Scale

Hyper-converge scales Nutanix – Laregest Deployment 1500 nodes (via @andreleibovici June

2015) Simplivity – Largest deployment is 200 OmniStack systems (Oct

2015) Scale Computing – Largest cluster size is 4

Scale out vs. Scale up Modular design

Can mean fixed configuration Software only options making changes Features such as erasure coding make it a challenge

Support

Software support is baked in Similar consideration to Scale

Simple support model Inefficient approach

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Hyper Converged Converged BYO

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So, when should you select hyper-converged?