Modern IT Infrastructure Mythbusters

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 Digital Businesses Face Economic Stress

Digital Budget Fast Pace

Transformation Constraints of Technology

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Empowering Digital Transformation

Its our recognition that if you go to bed as

an industrial company, youre going to
wake up as a
software company.

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Chairman & CEO, GE

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 VMwares view of Modern Infrastructure
Private Cloud Public Cloud

Management and Automation vRealize Suite

VMware Cloud
Compute Storage Network
vSphere
Virtualization vSAN
Virtualization NSX
Virtualization Foundation
Automated Lifecycle
SDDC Management
Manager Unified SDDC Platform

Unified SDDC Platform for the Hybrid Cloud

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Transforming to a Modern Datacentermay make you think twice

This is all great, where

am I getting the $$

Status quo works

Do I even have the
and works really
correct skillsets
well!

Too much change is Will I really notice

not a good thing any difference

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Myth 1: Integrated Solutions & Build
Your Own Deliver The Same Results
 Infrastructure
As-a-Service

Demand for technologies that

simplify infrastructure is high

But, bringing them

Network
Datacenter
Trends Containerized
together is hard
Virtualization Apps

Point solutions
Complicated integration
Vendor lock-in
Hyper-Converged Public
Infrastructure Clouds

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 Simplicity Starts From Standardization and Integration

Standardized Cloud Design Seamless Integration Simplified Operations

Compute

Storage
Cloud Foundation
Network

Lifecycle

Cloud Foundation automates the Engineered solution that integrates Includes unique lifecycle management that
deployment standardized data center compute, storage, and network automates day 0 to 2 operations of the
design based VMware best practices virtualization into single platform cloud infrastructure

Highly scalable and repeatable Complete interoperability across all cloud Delivers the fastest and easiest way to
design infrastructure services deploy cloud infrastructure

6-8x faster time to market, 2x more

productivty, and 30-40% in TCO savings
Cloud Foundation Redefines the Enterprise Path to the Hybrid
Cloud

From To

Piece parts Integrated

Complex planning and architecture Standardized and repeatable

High management overhead Automated and simple operations

Incompatible public and private clouds Common platform across clouds

Different silos for CNA and VMs Single platform for VMs and containers
Myth 2: MI will Eliminate IT Admin
Jobs like Classic Storage or Network
 On the Contrary, MI consolidates IT Teams, making them more
productive

MI makes you There is more IT work to do now Focus on more strategic projects
Hyper-Converge your IT team then ever before!

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More than 50% of Customers Improved IT Staff Productivity

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Approx 50% of Customers Can Shift Focus to Strategic Projects

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Myth 3: MI Will Cost Me an Arm and a Leg
 MI Can Help Reduce Your TCO In the Long Term

Compute Storage Network Lifecycle Operations

Management Management
20:1 server Up to 50% lower Up to 60% reduction Up to 80% time savings Up to 75% reduction in
consolidation ratio storage TCO in networking costs with automated buildup unplanned downtime; 20%
& config increase in performance

Up to 40% in TCO savings

Up to 2x more productive
Up to 8x faster time to market

Traditional: deployments with server virtualization only, DIY infrastructure

Source: VMware Analysis Data based off of early field customer deployments (i.e: One Cloud) and internal analysis and testing 12
VMware Cloud Foundation in practice - Customer case study
VMware One Cloud significantly reduced the number of man-hours with Cloud Foundation
Traditional VMware Cloud Foundation
Architecture Assess, Design and Pilot

Data Center Operations Installation

Operational Configuration Pre-Planning

Network Configuration

Storage Configuration 86+ Days 4.5 Days

Automation Configuration

SDDC Configuration

Environment QA Validation

Total Time
1 day = 8 man-hours
Numbers provided by One Cloud early field trial deployment

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Myth 4: MI Leads to Lock In
Eliminates Openness
Leverage Existing Eco-system with confidence!

Native vSphere Experience Extend with Software Ecosystem

vMotion vSphere Replication
Storage vMotion Data Protection Software Defined
Policy-Based Snapshots
Management HA
Approach
Fault Tolerance DRS

End-to-End Solutions Larger Hardware Choice

vRealize Ops vCenter
Horizon vRealize Log Insight
vRealize Site Recovery Manager
Automation
 Available Consumption Options

Private Cloud Public Cloud

Software Deployment Integrated Systems Cloud Service Providers

Qualified
VMware Cloud

Available Now
Foundation

vSAN Ready Dell EMC

Nodes: VxRack SDDC

Qualified
Starting 2017
Networking: PRIMEFLEX
Deployment
Options

Assembled and Image Pre-assembled and

Purchased as-a-service
by customer (with help imaged at the factory,
of partner or PSO) arrives ready to run
Myth 5: Over Simplifying
Compromises Performance
Over Simplifying can Help Improve Performance
Performance
& Availability

Cost
Transparency
Intelligent
Operations

Virtualization
Capacity Compute | Storage | Network
Planning
Topology
Analysis

Server + Storage Network

Network
Management Log Data
Storage Analysis
Management
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Conclusion
Myth 1: Integrated Solutions & Build Your Own
Deliver The Same Results

Myth 2: MI will Eliminate IT Admin Jobs like Classic

Storage or Network

Myth 3: MI Will Cost Me an Arm and a Leg

Myth 4: MI Leads to Lock In Eliminates Openness

Myth 5: Over Simplifying Compromises Performance

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