Get most out of your VDI investment with

Nutanix Files

VINCENT VAN ENGELEN MANFRED BUCHMANN

BUSINESS LEAD EMEA SOLUTION ARCHITECT EMEA

STORAGE & AVAILABILITY STORAGE & AVAILABILITY
Single Cloud platform for all workloads & services

VM & Block Services File Services Object Services Back-up Services

Enterprise cloud OS

Public Cloud Private Cloud Distributed Cloud

Enterprise Grade SMB & NFS File Service |3

Simple & Intelligent

NFS/SMB • Deploys In Minutes
• Fully Managed Service
• 1-Click Insights & Recommendations
Scalable
• Pay As you Grow, Pay Only For What Your
Store Files & Folders Store
• PB Scale, Billions Of Files, Large or Small
AF • Grow & Shrink Capacity & Performance As
AF
FILES Needed
S
S Enterprise Class
Enterprise Cloud OS • Standard Interfaces - NFS & SMB
• Secure, Reliable and Resilient
• Support 1000s of Connections
With Consumer Grade Design & Simplicity

• 1-Click Operations
– Single Pane of Glass

– Intuitive UX
– Performance Monitoring

– 1-Click Upgrades
– 1-Click Scaling

– Integrated Alerts & Events

What Customer Are Using Files for
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Modernize ROBO Optimize VDI & Build File Cloud

or Regional DC File Share
Repositories
1. Consolidate File Servers 1. Mgmt Simplicity, Self
Service
2. Need Simple NFS & SMB 1. Windows/SMB Shares
Services 2. Live access for data 2. Scale out Perf & Capacity

3. Reduce Footprint 3. Must be Optimized for 3. Multi Tenant & Secure

4. Many Sites, DR & Capacity 4. Self Healing & Tuning

Replication 4. Built in HA & DR 5. E.g. Backup/Archive
5. No 3 tier Arch Target, Web Content
5. Eg User Profiles, Project
Files, Machine Logs, Tech
Shares, Dept Shares, Doc
Lib Apps, Soft Dev Tools
Nutanix Files Usecases in VDI 6

Departmental
User Profiles/ Shares
Home Directory

Windows Desktops HR

connecting via SMB Protocol

Marketing
Windows Desktops
connecting via SMB Protocol

Sales

EUC
Accounting

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Benefits : Simplify deployments by replacing NAS silos

Consolidate User Profiles

EUC/Frame On-Prem Cluster NAS Filer

No separate NAS to manage

Reduction in operational
complexity

Scale as you go

Improved logon times

Nutanix Files helps organizations like yours |8

Implementation Results

Operational Efficiencies

Business Benefits

Source: IDC Nutanix Business Value Study, US45728719 December 2019

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Reference Architecture with Nutanix Files

Virtual Desktops User Data

Windows OS Image User Apps Standard Apps User Data/Profile

PVS Write Personal

PVS vDisk
Nutanix Files App Layers
Nutanix Files Home Dirs
Cache File vDisk

VV Data Service NFS SMB SMB

Software Defined Distributed Storage Fabric

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Customers Examples
User Profile/Home Dir/Dept Share Use Case

Customer Deployment Details Status

• Standalone Files cluster

• 6000+ users • In production for the last two years
• XenDesktop

• Standalone Files cluster

• 6000+ users • In production for the last 18 months
• XenDesktop • Has expanded footprint multiple times

• 11,000+ users
• Standalone Files cluster • Customer for the last one year

• 3000+ users
• Customer for the last one year
• XenDesktop
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More VDI Customers
Albert Schweitzer ziekenhuis
AVT Technology Solutions LLC
Banque Cantonale
Neuchateloise
Children's Healthcare of
Atlanta
CHS - Professional Services
Corp.
City of York Council
CNES
CRH Swiss Distribution
Daimler North America
Corporation
DataSolutions Ireland
TRILLIONS PROFIT
INTERNATIONAL LTD
United Nations Federal Credit
Union
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DEPARTMENT OF S CA University of Health
KHS/Tane General Hospital
EDUCATION Sciences
DigitalGlobe KINMAX Technology inc. Samuel I. White, PC
KIRIN BUSINESS SYSTEM
EchoStor Technologies SC Johnson USA
COMPANY,LIMITED.
Fabyanske Westra Hart &
KOLON BENIT CO., LTD. SLTN Inter Access
Thomson
ZHO Landing Jeju Development Co. Ltd. SMITH GARDENS, INC.
Groupe RESA Luxoft Swatch Group IT Services
Swinburne University of
Hitachi,Ltd Marshall Health
Technology
Techtronic Industries (Dongguan)
IG Group Moore & Van Allen
Co. Ltd.
IRB Brasil Resseguros S/A. Neteer TIS
JUSTONE SOLUTIONS Recruit Technologies Co.,Ltd. Transat A.T.
Università Ca Foscari US Army Corp of Engineers - USACE ViaWest Hosting
University of Waterloo US Navy CVN IT ZR Systems Group LLC
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Go beyond File storage with Data Driven Insights

Data about Data

Analyze what is stored, how data is
consumed and how it grows overtime

Anomaly Detection
Define & Detect Usage Anomalies,
Receive alerts when they happen

Audit Trials
Easily Search & Filter who
accessed what files and when
Data about Data

Capacity Trends
Data Age
File Size Distribution
File Type Trends
Top Active Users
Top Active Files
Top Permission Denials
File Activity Trends
Audit Trails

Analyze
User Activity
File Activity
Folder Activity
Client Activity

Filter By
Time & Operation

Download Data
JSON & CSV
Anomaly Detection

Define Anomaly & Recipient Analyze Anomaly Alerts, Trends and Triggers
 Storage Services for all use cases

VM & Block Services File Services Object Services Back-up Services

Enterprise cloud OS

Simple Flexible Intelligent

• Single click simplicity • Software defined • Self Healing
• Single pane of glass • Non-disruptive upgrades • Self optimizing
• No more silos ! • Scale-up and Scale-out • Integrated analytics
Public Cloud • Massive scaleCloud
Private for Distributed Cloud
unstructured data and
backup and archive
• Cloud based consumption
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