Rapid Time to Market I can deploy my

Rapid Time to Market I can deploy my application in five minutes. One-click Simplicity I don’t spend time on low-level infrastructure management. Fractional IT Consumption I use and pay for just what I need, only when I need it. Continuous Innovation My infrastructure gets better on a regular basis.

Public Cloud Private Cloud Distributed Cloud • Scalable and elastic • Predictable and secure • Dispersed and small • Cloud-native applications • Performance sensitive • ROBO, Edge and Io. T applications • Mission-critical applications

Application Automation Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Networking Storage

Server Data Protection Storage

VM VM VM Block: Sheet metal with redundant power Distributed Storage Fabric. SSD, (Single. HDD, Pool) 10 Gbe) Node: Server (CPU, RAM, VM

Node Hyper-V Controller VM Storage Node VM

Thin Provisioning Compression Deduplication Erasure Coding Zero Detection Copy Avoidance Reclamation (TRIM) 10100101 10101010 10100101 101010100101 1010

Virtualization Server Data Protection Networking Storage

Cluster External IP SMB Server Nutanix Cluster Prism CVM 1 CVM 2 CVM 3 CVM 4 SMI-S Provider VSS Agent SMB shares Host 1 Failover Cluster IP Host 2 Host 3 Hyper-V Failover Cluster Host 4 High Availability Live Migration

Virtual NICs SMB Communication Internal Virtual Switch “Internal. Switch” External Virtual Switch “External. Switch” Network Team (Switch Independent, Dynamic)

Non-disruptive conversion https: //docs. microsoft. com/en-us/system-center/vmm/network-switch#convert-virtual-switch-to-logical-switch

Node Hyper-V Controller VM Storage Node VM

Hours Archiving Minutes Snapshots Back Up Near Zero Async Replication Support for the Entire Data Protection Spectrum Metro Availability

Protection Domain 1 Protection Domain 2 Pro DC 1 Pro tec tio tec t ion Do Azure ec Prot ma in 2 n. D om ain 4 DC 2 n 3 mai Do tion

One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Networking Storage

One-Click Infrastructure Management • Provisioning of storage, VMs, networking policies and data protection • Cluster scale-out, Scale-in Operational Insights • Behavior based alerting • Intelligent remediation • Consumer-grade search and dashboards Planning • Capacity planning • One-click infrastructure optimization • Just-in-time forecasting Application Automation and Orchestration • Self-service provisioning • App deployment and governance • Multi-cloud visibility and control App Mobility • Migration of Application and VMs across infrastructure • Hypervisor conversion • Archiving of data to cloud

What-if analysis with recommended hardware

Real time VM performance data Behavior Learning Predictions Alerts Behavior bands

Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Networking Storage

Simple.

Calm Application Lifecycle Automation Self-Service and Governance Hybrid Cloud Management

Application Automation Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Networking Storage

Business Critical Applications VDI Remote and Branch Office Messaging, Collaboration and UC Dev/Test Big Data Server Virtualization and Private Cloud

• Application of Best Practices • Simplicity: 1 -Click Experience • High Performance Expectations • Choice: Migrations from any Source • Requires Significant DBA Time • Flexibility: Migrate DB HA Clusters • “Lift & Shift” Migrations Don’t Consolidate, Change HA Architecture, or Re-Platform DBs • Innovation: Transform DB Servers PAIN POINTS • Standardization: Best Practice Builds WHAT ADMINISTRATORS WANT

• Application-level SQL Migrations • Any-Source (Physical, Virtual, Cloud) • SQL Best Practices Application

SQL SQL Sizing Security Config Data Perf Data Design Template. Best Practice Storage Design Network SQL

Design of VM configuration • • • Most optimal VM NIC(s) SCSI controllers Dynamically determine best drive layout based on (read/write IOPS, DB-size, CPU & RAM) NTFS optimizations i. e. block size Xplorer version used for pre-sales design & sizing with integration into Sizer Future - Optimized RAM & CPU recommendations Deployment • Configure max memory of SQL server • Instant file initialization • Initialize trace flags Data Migration • • Dynamically determine # DB files per DB Determine the location of DB files Rebalance the data across DB files @ SQL level Recreate indexes

Application Automation Multi-cloud Management One-Click Operations Virtualization Server Data Protection Networking Storage

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