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MTI VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURE
One of the biggest shifts in IT is the move to
server virtualisation - it continues to have a
profound impact on how we today look at
both storage provisioning and networking.
Equally as businesses continue to adopt
new fl exible and agile IT strategies, the past
limitations of functionality and integration
with other systems are always in the
forefront.
What if there was a proven referenced architecture from leading technology vendors covering Compute, Storage, Networking and Virtualisation for the data centre? Well there is and it provides choice without complexity. These infrastructure architectures are designed to help IT accelerate the transition from traditional models to virtualised and automated service oriented data center architecture. This proven infrastructure is called VSPEX.
WHAT IS VSPEX?
VSPEX is the next generation of virtualised infrastructure solutions from EMC and its ecosystem technology alliances. VSPEX Proven Infrastructure brings together best of breed components in fl exible, pre-validated, and easy to install confi gurations that deliver predictable performance. VSPEX provides a customer’s complete virtualisation solution, while allowing for a choice selection of compute, storage and virtualisation technologies that fi t their needs and current environments, securely.
In order for organisations to be “cloud-enabled” - that is for them to be ready to place their data or run their applications in the Cloud, adoption of datacentre virtualisation is a must. The virtualised datacentre will be the model of the future that will enable rapid connection to private, hybrid or public cloud resources with the minimum re-engineering of existing solutions. VSPEX is designed to allow a variety of choice while de-risking and shortening deployment times by delivering pre-validated tested reference architecture. The end result of this is a solution that scales to known capacities and can be deployed in a rapid and reliable manner.
WHY MTI VSPEX?
MTI VSPEX accelerates your IT transformation, it’s built to enable choice, drive simplicity and increase effi ciency and lower the risk any new architecture investment may inherit.
With MTI VSPEX, you can:
Keep IT Simple.
Deploy, manage, provision, and
protect your infrastructure - quickly and easily.
Boost Effi ciency.
Get optimised performance for
higher availability, better storage utilisation, and faster backups.
Stay Flexible
Choose the right option for your business
needs, and scale as you grow.
HALLMARKS OF SUCCESS
25 years in business
establishing credibility and
substance ‘nobody knows storage better than MTI’
Produced 44 patents in RAID and fault tolerance
,
underlining the strength of technical expertise born of this heritage
Unique company
with over 200 people dedicated to
storage, cloud storage, data centre management, security and managed services
World class partners
, including EMC, VMware & Cisco
EMC Velocity² Signature Solution Centre Partner
(the
highest partner status possible)
Strong fi nancial standing and reserves
, with major US
equity funding, support MTI’s double digit growth and profi tability
EMC 2011 Partner of the Year
MTI VSPEX SOLUTIONS | 2
BENEFITS OF MTI VSPEX WITH EMC & CISCO
SIMPLE IT TRANSFORMATION:
Simplifi ed management by facilitating Virtual Machine
(VM) mobility with dynamic server profi le confi guration (VDX product line)
Pre-qualifi ed solutions with hypervisor vendors for VDI,
VM scaling/mobility and disaster avoidance
EFFICIENT:
Accelerate deployment with certifi ed networking
solutions by EMC
Lower risk - EMC validated for interoperability,
performance and compatibility
Easily scale your deployment to respond to expanding
business needs
FLEXIBLE:
Hypervisor agnostic networking which adapts easily to
wide range of application workloads (e.g. Exchange, SharePoint, etc.)
Reliable, scalable, and fl exible network architecture
for supporting the most demanding business applications in virtualised environments
Application
Hypervisor
X86 Server
Network Storage & Next
Generation Backup
The MTI VSPEX platform is designed to host a huge variety of applications found within businesses in all vertical sectors. Effi ciency through integration, MTI holds an agnostic view when it comes to advising on a virtualisation technology, holding strong partnerships with Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. MTI can assist with Virtualisation of the data centre, desktop and server environment regardless of where you currently are with your strategy.
All MTI VSPEX Solutions are built on Cisco Unifi ed Computing System. UCS is a next generation data centre platform that unites compute, network, storage access and virtualisation into a cohesive system designed to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) and increase scalability by integrating the different components into a platform that can be managed as a single unit.
Cisco UCS has been shown to reduce infrastructure
capital expenditures (CapEx) by 20-40% and operating
expenses (OpEx) by up to 40% and can be deployed
more quickly than traditional server platforms.
Cisco Unifi ed Fabric, the industry’s highest density network fabric for data centre applications, delivers end-to-end network fabric at half the cost of competitive systems and with twice the scalability of any competitive alternative. Cisco Unifi ed Management, a framework of award winning solutions for IT service creation and self-service capabilities, enables IT to operate more effi ciently. Cisco solutions simplify the deployment and operation of networking, computing, applications and cloud services in the data centre, supporting open, third party integration with Cisco’s ecosystem of storage, virtualisation, application, and management solution partners.
MTI VSPEX with EMC ensures fast, low-risk deployment, making VSPEX an easy on-ramp to any cloud. Because of EMC’s deep collaboration with VSPEX’s best-of-breed technology providers, your business gains optimised performance with increased application availability, hardware utilization and productivity. VSPEX offers choice at every layer of the solution; choose the network, server, and hypervisor that your environment requires alongside EMC’s Next Generation Backup and recovery systems.
Application
Hypervisor
X86 Server
Network
WHAT ARE THE ELEMENTS IN MTI VSPEX?
Storage & Next Generation
Private Cloud Solutions
MTI VSPEX SOLUTIONS | 3
MTI VSPEX PROVEN INFRASTRUCTURES
Customers Choice of Server Customers Choice of Networking
Microsoft Hyper-V
50VM VNXe3150 | NetWorker & Data Domain 160 100VM VNXe3300 | Avamar & Data Domain 640
Customers Choice of Server Customers Choice of Networking
VMware vSphere 5.0
50VM VNXe3150 | NetWorker & Data Domain 160 100VM VNXe3300 | Avamar & Data Domain 640 125VM VNX5300 | Avamar & Data Domain 640 250VM VNX5500 | Avamar & Data Domain 670
Private Cloud Solutions
Windows Server 2008 R2Customers Choice of Server Customers Choice of Networking
Citrix XenDesktop 5.6 250VDI VNXe3300 | Avamar 500VDI VNX5300 | Avamar 1000VDI VNX5300 | Avamar 2000VDI VNX5500 | Avamar
Customers Choice of Server Customers Choice of Networking
VMware View 5.1 250VDI VNXe3300 | Avamar 500VDI VNX5300 | Avamar 1000VDI VNX5300 | Avamar 2000VDI VNX5500 | Avamar
End User Computing Solutions
nd User C
Comp
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S l t
EMC & CISCO COMPONENTS IN MTI VSPEX
50 100 125
250 2 x Nexus 5548UP 10 x B200M3 VMware vSphere VNX5500 EMC Avamar &DataDomain DD670 2 x Nexus 5548UP 5 x C220M3 VMware vSphere VNX5300 EMC Avamar &DataDomain DD640 2 x Nexus 5548UP 4 x C220M3 VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-v VNXe3350 EMC Avamar &DataDomain DD640 2 x Nexus 3048 3 x C220M3 VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-v VNXe3150 EMC NetWorker & DataDomain DD160
Cisco Networking Cisco Servers Hypervisors EMC Storage EMC Backup
500 1000
2 x Nexus 5548UP VMware vSphere 2 x Nexus 5548UP 5 x C220M3 VMware vSphere 2 x Nexus 3048 5 x C260M2 VMware vSphere Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View
Cisco Networking Cisco Servers Hypervisors Desktop EMC Array & virtualization EMC Backup Net orking Cisco Ser ers H per isors Desktop EMC A
End User Computing Solutions
nd User C
Comp
C
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S l t
1000
Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View 20 x B230M2
2 x B200M3
VNX5300 EMC Avamar VNX5300 EMC Avamar VNX5500 EMC Avamar
The above diagrams show the currently available VSPEX Proven infrastructure. All VSPEX Reference Architectures consist of a customers’ choice of hypervisor (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V) and a choice of physical server and
network, coupled with EMC Storage and Backup. On the left side are the Private Cloud Solutions which enable customers to consolidate aging infrastructures onto a more agile and responsive platform.
Above is a representative sample of those reference architectures with the Cisco model numbers and quantities of the Cisco product designed into those reference architectures. MTI can integrate Cisco technology using the VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Reference Architectures to ensure that the solutions is as responsive and performant as possible.
ABOUT MTI TECHNOLOGY
For more than twenty years, MTI has been developing comprehensive experience in the design, deployment and support of datacentre-based solutions for a wide range of EMEA-based customers. Datacentre infrastructure provides the core of corporate IT operations and effective procurement and management of datacentre technology is fundamental to an IT organisation being able to deliver services that benefi t their business. MTI is the best possible partner to provide VSPEX confi gurations to customers looking for the best return on their infrastructure investment.
NEXT STEPS
MTI is proud to showcase our VSPEX Proven Infrastructure in our EMC Velocity Signature Solutions Center. Contact us today and book a workshop and discover how MTI VSPEX can help you transform your IT infrastructure.
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MTI SERVICES FOR VSPEX
At MTI we pride ourselves on delivering bespoke data centre solutions to meet all business requirements. MTI uses its own highly qualifi ed teams of technical consultants, infrastructure specialists and support engineers to provide unrivalled standards of expertise, experience, service capability and customer delivery. Not only do we design, implement and maintain all proven infrastructures we can also offer 4 levels of managed services, each aligned to the ITIL framework and each with a defi ned Service Level Agreement. Benefi ts include:
Cost and time savings
Provides access to current & future technology
Negates requirement for expensive training
Addresses any gaps in lack of in house expertise
LEVEL 4 | COMPLETE LEVEL 3 | MANAGE
LEVEL 2 | ANALYSE LEVEL 1 | MONITOR
Remote Support
Manage
Analyse
Monitor Dedicated Onsite Team
Full operations Management Incident
Management
Problem Management
Change Management
Performance Management Capacity
Management
Reporting Management
Service Request Management Continual
Service Improvement Escalation
Management Event
Management Monitoring
Remote Infrastructure Management
RIM + Onsite
