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February 23, 2012 - Seattle, WA

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March 13, 2012 - Washington DC, DC

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March 13, 2012 - Scottsdale, AZ

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March 15, 2012 - Phoenix, AZ

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March 15, 2012 - Austin, TX

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March 27, 2012 - Dallas, TX

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April 1, 2012 - Denver, CO

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April 5, 2012 - San Diego, CA

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April 11, 2012 - Silicon Valley, CA

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April 12, 2012 - Garden Grove, CA

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April 19, 2012 - Newport, RI

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April 22, 2012 - Austin, TX

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Radically Simpler Building Block
for High Octane Virtualization Performance

“Nutanix makes our virtualization projects easier with a single building block that contains everything I need for an enterprise virtualization deployment, all without the cost and headache of a SAN.”

- Neil Ferguson, Technology Director
Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe

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The Nutanix Mission

Nutanix enables you to virtualize your datacenter without requiring a SAN. Our mission is to make virtualization simple by eliminating the need for network storage while still delivering the enterprise-class performance, scalability and data management features you need.

Nutanix Complete Cluster's converged compute and storage architecture delivers a purpose-built building block for virtualization. It is a hardware and software solution that provides complete server and storage capabilities that you need to run virtual machines and store their data. This building block approach allows you to start with what you need now and add additional blocks as your needs grow to scale-out a single system.

Less time and money spent on network storage means faster ROI for your virtualization initiatives and better use of your IT resources.

Radically Simplified IT and Dramatically Lower TCO

Compute + Storage Together: Out-of-the-box capabilities get you up and running in 30 minutes. Scaling out is equally easy.

40-60% CAPEX Reduction: Elimination of expensive network storage results in immediate 40-60% reduction in CAPEX, while providing highly advanced shared-storage capabilities.

Top-Down VM Management: Clear visibility across compute and storage resources streamlines management tasks for administrative efficiency.

Reduced Datacenter Footprint: Shrinking to a smaller, more efficient converged architecture for server and storage translates to measurable OPEX reduction in administration, power and cooling costs.

Enterprise-Class Data Management

Capacity Optimization: Zero-overhead cloning and thin provisioning provide 10x-50x data reduction.

Converged Backups: Instant backup and recovery of VM data on the cluster eliminates the need for external backup appliances.

Performance and Scalability: Local solid-state drives (with data tiering to hard disks) provide high performance at low cost; scale-out architecture enables grow-as-you-go virtualization.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Highly fault tolerant architecture ensures VM availability in case of local failures or site-wide disaster.

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The Technology

Nutanix's key innovation is the company's patent-pending distributed system software that provides a converged and scale-out storage layer, is designed specifically for virtualization, and is optimized from the ground up to make use of flash SSDs in its core architecture. This converged architecture approach, pioneered by Google and innovated by Nutanix, makes big leaps in datacenter performance and efficiency possible. Nutanix envisions datacenters that are much smaller and faster than those with SAN-based architectures, yet simpler and more cost-effective to set up, scale, and sustain.

How It Works

Nutanix Complete Cluster is a scale-out cluster of high-performance nodes (servers), each running a standard hypervisor and complete with processors, memory and local storage (SSDs and hard disks). Each node runs virtual machines just like a standard virtual machine host.

Local storage from all nodes is virtualized into a unified pool by Nutanix Scale-out Converged Storage (SOCS). A VM can write data anywhere in the cluster and is not limited by the storage local to the node where it is running. In effect, SOCS acts like an advanced SAN that uses local SSDs and disks from all the nodes to store its data, i.e. virtual machines running on the cluster write data to SOCS as if they were writing to a SAN. SOCS is VM-aware and provides advanced data management features for virtual machines. It brings data closer to VMs by storing it locally on the cluster, resulting in higher performance at a lower cost.

Nutanix Complete Cluster can horizontally scale from a few nodes to a large number of nodes, enabling organizations to grow their infrastructure incrementally.

Designed For Virtualization

Nutanix Complete Cluster runs a standard hypervisor (VMware ESXi) and supports standard virtualization features, including high availability and live VM migration.

When building your VMs, Nutanix Scale-Out Converged Storage provides shared storage for these virtual machines in the form of virtual disks (vDisks). A vDisk can span one or more nodes in the cluster, depending on its capacity and Cluster RAID properties. A vDisk is always mounted locally on a VM - as the VM moves from one node to another, its vDisks also move instantly (and transparently). This is enabled by SOCS' distributed metadata service that provides global data access across the cluster.

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  • What You Buy
  • CAPEX
  • Performance
  • Virtualization Features
  • Scalability
  • Data Management
  • Availability
  • Datacenter Footprint
  • Manageability

Traditional Server and
Network Storage

Nutanix Complete Cluster

Multiple servers and network storage (SAN/NAS)
Nutanix Complete Block
40-60% lower CAPEX
Limited by network bandwidth, controller throughput and disk IOPS
- Power of locally attached Fusion-io ioDrive
- Scale-out performance
Support for all enterprise virtualization features
Support for all enterprise virtualization features
- Limited number of storage controllers

- Requires big system purchase
- Practically unlimited scale-out

- Compact building block for incremental growth
Low-end offerings
have limited features,
Enterprise-class offerings
are expensive
Enterprise-class
features at an
affordable price point
- Server failures are tolerated
- Storage controller failure may cause downtime
- Can tolerate multiple server and controller failures
2x - 5x smaller datacenter

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Nutanix Complete Block Technical Specifications

The Nutanix Complete Cluster is delivered via a compact, but powerful Nutanix Complete Block. Each Complete Block is mountable on a standard 19'' rack with 3-4 industry standard x86 server nodes. Each node runs a standard hypervisor and is complete with processors, memory and local storage (SSDs and hard disks).

To scale-out, simply add another Complete Block to the system in a grow-as-you-go manner. Designed for virtualization, the system runs and stores VMs in a radically simple building block that eliminates the need for a costly SAN.

Nutanix Complete Cluster Specifications

Per Node*
(4 nodes per Block) 		Per Block
Compute Dual Intel Xeon X5650 processors
6 cores / 2.66GHz 		8 processors, 48 cores
Storage Capacity 320 GB of PCIe SSD (FusionIO)
300 GB SATA SSD
5 TB of SATA HDDs
(5 x 1 TB; 7200 rpm SATA) 		1.3 TB of PCI-e SSD (FusionIO)
1.2 TB SATA SSDs
20 TB of SATA HDDs
(20 x 1 TB; 7200 rpm SATA)
Memory 48 GB RAM, expandable to 192 GB RAM 192 GB RAM, expandable to 768 GB
Network Connections 1x10GbE, 2x1GbE 4x10GbE, 8x1GbE
High Availability N-way fully fault-tolerant controller fabric
Hypervisor VMware vSphere 5.x
*Each node contains remote lights-out management port

Chassis Specifications

Chassis Dimensions
(stand-alone chassis / package) 		Height: 3.47'' (88mm) / 11.22'' (285mm)
Width: 17.25'' (438mm) / 26.38'' (670mm)
Depth: 26.75'' (679mm) / 39.76'' (1010mm)
Chassis Weight
(stand-alone chassis / package) 		43 lbs (20kg) / 68 lbs (31kg)
Node Weight 7 lbs (3.2kg)
Form Factor 26.75" Depth 2U Rackmount Chassis
Operating Environment Operating Temperature Range: 10-35C* (50-95F*)
Non-Operating Temperature Range -40-70C* (104-158F*)
Humidity Range: 8-90% non-condensing
Non-Operating Humidity Range: 5-95% non-condensing
Power Supply
(Dual power supply per Block) 		AC Input : 1100W Output @ 100-140V, 13.5-9.5A, 50-60HZ; 1400W Output @ 180-240V, 9.5-7.0A, 50-60Hz
DC Output: 1100W: +12V/92A, +5Vsb/4A 1400W: +12V/116A, +5Vsb/4A
With Distributor: +5V: 30A +3.3V: 24A -12V: 0.6A
Power Consumption
(Per Block) 		1000W typical

Next Steps

    Collateral

  • ESG Lab Validation of Nutanix Complete Cluster

    ESG Lab's review documents hands-on testing of the Nutanix Complete Cluster and highlights ease of use and support for enterprise class data management in virtual environments.

  • Large-scale VDI Reference Architecture with Nutanix and VMware View

    Reference architecture provides configuration and test results of a 3,000 virtual desktop configuration using Nutanix and VMware View. Testing on 50 node Nutanix Cluster demonstrates modular grow-as-you go scalability from 300 desktops to 3,000 with user experience performance validated using the VMware Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC) performance tool.

  • Project Colossus White Paper

    White paper detailing the 50-node Project Colossus Scale-out Performance Benchmark that illustrates the power of the Nutanix Distributed File System architecture in enabling linear performance scale-out to deliver 375,000 random write IOPS and over 224 Gbps sequential read bandwidth.

  • Nutanix Complete Cluster Datasheet

    Datasheet with the specifications of the Nutanix Complete Cluster.

  • Nutanix Technical Whitepaper

    White paper detailing the technology behind Nutanix’ scale-out compute and storage infrastructure that enables organizations to effectively virtualize their datacenters without requiring network storage (SAN or NAS).

  • Storage Switzerland Briefing Note

    Analyst note by Storage Switzerland on the advantages of Nutanix’ integrated compute + storage offering for virtualization, declaring Nutanix a “game-changer.”

  • 451 Group Impact Report

    Analyst report by 451 Group about Nutanix’ offering within the context of the data management and virtualization industry.

    Webinars

  • Learn How to Virtualize without a SAN

    Learn how Nutanix' unique architecture allows for high performance and cost-effective virtualization without a SAN

  • Analyst Stephen Foskett Interviews
    Nutanix and Customer, Dewitt Stern

    Peter Emmel, Assistant VP at DeWitt Stern and Tiffany To, Director of Product Marketing at Nutanix speak with Stephen Foskett on how Fusion-io technology combined with the award-winning Nutanix converged compute + storage architecture is enabling virtualization without a SAN for greater simplicity with 10x price/performance of traditional server and storage architectures.

  • Nutanix’s Best of VMworld VDI Webinar

    Learn more about the Nutanix’ award-winning solution for the desktop virtualization use case and how it delivers high-performance VDI in a radically simple building block

  • Nutanix at Tech Field Day 8

    Stephen Foskett’s Tech Field Day panel of independent analysts and bloggers descend on Nutanix headquarters for a technical deep dive

    Customer Success

  • DeWitt Stern Group, Inc. Insurance Brokerage Uses Nutanix for VDI rollout to Migrate to Windows 7 with Repurposed PCs

  • Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe International Law Firm Solves Remote Access Performance Challenges with Nutanix Complete Cluster

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