Unleash Your Virtualization Potential
with the Power and Simplicity of
Nutanix Complete Cluster
- George Crump, Founding Analyst
storage-switzerland.com
Private Cloud
Delivering Virtualized Infrastructure as a Service
Whether you’re virtualizing to consolidate your servers in your core datacenter, moving beyond HQ to virtualize regional/branch offices, or want a faster way to provide testing and development environments to your developer, having a virtualized infrastructure backbone that can deploy and scale in lock-step with your virtualization needs is critical in enabling the on-demand provisioning benefits of a Private Cloud.
Nutanix Complete Cluster delivers a radically simple converged virtualization appliance that deploys in under 30 minutes, is easy to manage by consolidating compute and storage into a single management console, and delivers 5-10x the price/performance of traditional alternatives.
As your needs grow, Nutanix's innovative scale-out capabilities, inspired by the Google File System, protect your investment by enabling grow-as-you-go expansion of your deployment without requiring redesign. Simply add a single high-performance node or a full block of four nodes to grow at the rate that makes sense for your business.
Slash Your Virtualized Datacenter TCO
- 40-60% CAPEX reduction by eliminating the need for costly SAN/NAS
- Ongoing OPEX savings from simplified infrastructure that delivers predictable performance scale-out in a single converged virtualization appliance
- 200-500% datacenter footprint reduction with compact 2U virtualized datacenter building block
Seamless Enterprise Virtualization Support
- Built-in hypervisor (VMware ESXi) with full support for vMotion(TM), High Availability (HA), and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS)
- Industry-leading data management features that include fast VM cloning, capacity optimization, and converged backup for instant backup and recovery of virtual machines without requiring external backup appliances
- Grow-as-you-go scale-out cluster architecture enables you to effortlessly handle new virtualization needs without re-sizing or re-architecting
“This is exactly what the VDI industry
has been waiting for.”
- Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth,
Best of vmworld Judges
End User Computing
Delivering Virtualized Applications and Desktops
Have you virtualized your Citrix XenApp farm yet? Are you considering virtual desktops, but worried about the user experience or the cost of the infrastructure?
Nutanix Complete Cluster delivers a turnkey solution for all your application and desktop virtualization needs in a radically simpler converged virtualization appliance that arrives ready to plug-and-play. High performance Fusion-io ioDrives and a scale-out architecture inspired by the Google File System guarantee high performance that will scale with your needs as you go from a hundred to a thousand users.
By merging over 20TB of enterprise storage with four x86 servers into a single building block, the need for a separate SAN is removed, saving 40-60% in CAPEX over traditional server and SAN options. Don’t let the compact 2U size fool you, as a single Nutanix Complete Block, delivers enough horsepower to run two to three hundred virtual desktops, making it the lowest cost per desktop infrastructure option on the market with enterprise features like high availability, storage auto-tiering, snapshots, and more.
Whether you’re delivering applications or full desktops to your end users, you can depend on the Nutanix Complete Cluster to deliver the predictable performance you need at a price that will make your ROI justification to the CFO a breeze.
Scalable High-Performance Application Publishing and Desktop Virtualization
- Out-of-the-box appliance experience: start provisioning Citrix XenApp instance or virtual desktops in less than 30 min after you plug in the Nutanix solution without having to deal with the headache of a SAN
- High I/O per desktop or application session for a great user experience, from task workers to power users
- Scalability from hundreds to thousands of Citrix XenApp sessions or virtual desktops so you can grow your deployment easily as your needs grow with zero redesign and a single system to manage
TCO Savings with Grow-As-You-Go Building Block
- Lower CAPEX than physical desktops with SAN-less architecture for VDI
- Avoid overprovisioning expensive storage to get the remote application performance you need
- Fast provisioning of virtual desktops using Nutanix FastClone
Disaster Recovery
Have you been stalling on your disaster recovery project due to lack of time or budget? Nutanix Complete Cluster offers a radically simple all-in-one virtualized datacenter solution at your remote site to complement your existing primary site's traditional server and network storage deployment. Data can be replicated from your primary site on to a Nutanix Complete Cluster to provide you with full DR capabilities.
Rapid Deployment
- Complete virtualized datacenter in a compact, building block package
- Out-of-the-box experience offers deployment simplicity without complexity of network storage
- Integrated with existing traditional server and network storage at primary site
Lowest Enterprise-class DR TCO
- Converged compute and storage in Nutanix Complete Cluster enables 40-60% CAPEX savings by removing costly network storage
- Grow-as-you-go scale-out architecture delivers investment protection as your primary site growth impacts DR requirements
- Enterprise-class capacity optimization features ensure your total storage costs are minimized over time
Big Data
Following in Google’s Footsteps for Big Data Analytics
You may not be Google, but your company wants to make sense of massive amounts of data that come in highly varied structures (text, images etc.) and you're wondering how Hadoop can help. More importantly, you're wondering how much all the infrastructure will cost you and how you'll convince your CFO.
Nutanix' CTO, Mohit Aron, architected the Google File System to enable Google to take on their own big data challenge with converged server and storage appliances and a scale-out architecture. He's built on this experience with the Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS), a scale-out file system purpose-built for virtualization to help you store, analyze and manage big data while bringing the virtues of OS and storage isolation that Hadoop alone cannot provide.
Nutanix Complete Cluster delivers the first Big Data-friendly appliance for a powerful new approach that’s the next best thing to having your own Google datacenter.
Make Big Data a Small Problem
- Nutanix Complete Cluster provides an appliance model for radically simpler management and lower CAPEX by eliminating the cost and complexity of purchasing and balancing separate servers, networking and storage
- Inspired by the Google File System, NDFS delivers fault tolerance, high performance, scalability and reliability in a platform designed for massive scale-out to tackle your biggest data challenges
- Enterprise-class capacity optimization features ensure your total data storage costs are minimized over time
Performance and Scalability
- Easily store and analyze massive amounts of data in a cost-effective manner with the power of four Fusion-io ioDrives in every 2U appliance
- Heat-Optimized Tiering of data between local SSDs and hard disks for high performance
- Plug-and-play scale-out capabilities to grow with your needs without re-architecting entire infrastructure
