Solution Brief_Service Provider
Building Profitable Cloud Services
on a Nutanix Enterprise Cloud
Nutanix for Service Providers
Service providers play an important role in delivering technical expertise and IT
services in a dynamic world. To be successful, service providers of all types must
create cost-effective services that are well differentiated from the public cloud.
However, they face significant infrastructure challenges:
• Difficulty onboarding customers quickly
• Too much time spent managing and troubleshooting infrastructure
• Silos of infrastructure requiring special skills
The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud scales easily with maximum flexibility—simplifying
management without sacrificing security or control. Nutanix enterprise cloud solutions
yield major savings versus traditional infrastructure for improved margins.
UPFRONT COSTS
OPERATIONS COST
30%
DOWNTIME
30%
70%
Nutanix
70%
ONBOARDING TIME
2%
98%
10%
90%
Savings
WHY SERVICE PROVIDERS CHOOSE NUTANIX
Nutanix enterprise cloud solutions streamline service provider infrastructure. Advanced
features—including space-efficient snapshots and clones, storage tiering, data reduction,
and AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor)—combined with a turnkey infrastructure that’s easy to
scale, provide the foundation for a variety of differentiated and cost-effective services.
Service providers choose Nutanix for the following reasons:
• Reduce TCO. Significant savings in both OpEx and CapEx
“We deliver services to
our customers and ultimately
we needed a game changing
technology that could bring
with it a simplified and costeffective hosting environment
to support these services.”
– Edward Evans,
Cloud Operations Executive, UCS Solutions
• Create differentiated and profitable services. A service can start small and
scale out quickly and easily with predictable, linear scaling
• Eliminate downtime. Resilient, self-healing design and one-click non-disruptive upgrades help meet stringent availability SLAs
• Streamline support. Full infrastructure support including servers, storage,
and virtualization with no finger-pointing
In addition, Nutanix offers a wide range of platform options, and hardware can
be easily moved and re-purposed. Close partnerships and detailed reference
architectures simplify deployment and remove risk.
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Solution Brief_Service Provider
DaaS
Mgd. Services DR/DPaaS
Virtualization
IaaS
Saas
VMware, Microsoft
DaaS Mgd. Services DR/DPaaS
Qlogic, Emulex
Compute
VMware
Microsoft
HP, Dell, Cisco, Lenovo
SAN Fabric
IaaS
Saas
Virtualization
AHV
Scale out
compute &
storage
Cisco, Brocade
Nutanix
Storage
EMC, NetApp, HP, Dell, HDS
Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade
Network
Cisco, HP, Arista, Brocade
Network
BENEFITS OF NUTANIX ENTERPRISE CLOUD FOR SERVICE PROVIDERS
Nutanix eliminates the guesswork and removes the constraints created by conventional
IT infrastructure. Taking cues from Amazon, Google, and Facebook, Nutanix combines
compute and storage resources with intelligent software, eliminating the challenges
associated with conventional infrastructure. Benefits include:
“Nutanix enabled us to take an
internal capability and turn it
into a profitable service offering.
By deploying Nutanix, we now
have the ability to offer a true
Private Cloud Server that meets
our rigorous security standards.
Without Nutanix, the team would
have spent most of their time
focusing on deployments. With
Nutanix, we don’t think about
managing hardware and we
can apply our focus where it
really matters, providing secure
solutions to our clients.”
– Robert Mehrer,
Operations Manager, Protected Trust
• Hyperconverged design. Servers, storage networking, storage, virtualization,
and data protection in a single, scalable architecture
• Distributed storage fabric. A single storage pool with data locality for optimized
performance, plus data reduction, data protection, and other advanced features
• Simplified management. Nutanix Prism offers intuitive full-stack management with
one-click operations. Comprehensive REST APIs facilitate automation and software
integration. Powerful analytics support just-in-time infrastructure provisioning
• Security. Nutanix is built with a security-first design, including self-healing secure
baselines that protect customer data
FLEXPRICE PURCHASING PROGRAM
Nutanix FlexPrice helps service providers quickly build differentiated and profitable
services while better aligning costs with business needs. Service providers procure
Nutanix-qualified hardware direct from the manufacturer (facilitated by Nutanix) and
enable Nutanix web-scale software on a flexible subscription basis, lowering up-front
capital costs up to 65%.
DaaS
IaaS
Mgd. Services
NODE 1
VM
VM
VM
Saas
Nutanix controller VM
(one per node)
DR/DPaaS
NODE 2
CVM
VM
VM
NODE N
VM
CVM
VM
VM
VM
CVM
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
HYPERVISOR
HYPERVISOR
HYPERVISOR
X86
X86
X86
ACROPOLIS DISTRUBUTED STORAGE FABRIC
HDD Flash
Linear Scale
Snapshots
Turnkey Block
Locality
Self Healing
Tiering
Data Efficiency
Resilience
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Solution Brief_Service Provider
App
28 days
Storage Runway
PD
Overview
Today
28 days
30
CPU Runway
365 days
25
Memory Runway
365 days
20
Recommendations
View 2 Recommendations
Add New Nodes
Add new nodes to the cluster
will help alleviate the runway
problem. Estimate your
rew hardware here.
28 days
15
10
5
03/10/15
03/21/15
04/02/15
04/14/15
04/25/15
05/07/15
05/18/15
05/30/15
06/10/15
Current Usage
Target Runway
Name
12 Months
Live User Exclusive Data
Shared Data
Existing Workload
06/22/15
07/04/15
Runway Gained by Removing
Current Space Usage
Gain
14.72 TB
5.52 TB
141 Days
NA
KEY BENEFITS BY SERVICE
SERVICE TYPE
SERVICE PROVIDER BENEFITS
SERVICE CONSUMER BENEFITS
Managed Service
Provider (MSP)
Agile, simple-to-configure infrastructure
with less overhead and greater savings
More competitive costs, faster
response to customer needs
Infrastructure as
a Service (IaaS)
Tailor infrastructure on a per-customer
basis with no change to architecture
Distributed architecture and data
locality minimize noisy neighbors
for higher service levels
Desktop as a
Service (DaaS)
Turnkey infrastructure for linear scaling,
no guesswork
Consistent performance at scale;
no impact from boot and login storms
Software as a
Service (SaaS)
Focus on software not infrastructure;
no tuning
More predictable service levels,
higher-quality software
DR/Data Protection
as a Service (DRaaS/
DPaaS)
Scale compute and storage
independently; data reduction
lowers storage costs
Support for any application at any
scale with no performance tuning
T. 855.NUTANIX (855.688.2649) | F. 408.916.4039
info@nutanix.com | www.nutanix.com | @nutanix
Nutanix delivers invisible infrastructure for next-generation enterprise computing, elevating IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business.
The company’s software-driven Xtreme Computing Platform natively converges compute, virtualization and storage into a single solution to drive simplicity in the datacenter.
Using Nutanix, customers benefit from predictable performance, linear scalability and cloud-like infrastructure consumption.
Learn more at www.nutanix.com or follow us on Twitter@nutanix.
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