Below is a summary of the session “NetApp HCI. Ready for NEXT. Enterprise-Scale Hyper Converged Infrastructure.”  This is an interesting product and I look forward to learning more.

NetApp HCI Architecture

• Integrated Data Services
• Data Fabric Services
• 3^rd party services
• VMware vCenter
• Solidfire Element OS
• VMware ESXi

NetApp HCI Appliance

• Chassis or nodes
• 4 nodes per chassis
• Compute or storage nodes
• Minimum
  • 2 chassis, 6 nodes
  • 4 storage, 2 compute
  • 2 expansion slots

Provides Granular Control at VM Level with and without VVOLS.  Scale Compute and storage independently.

Compute Node

• 3 different sizes
  • 16 – 36 cores for VMware
  • 384GB -768 GB memory
  • 4x 10/25 GbE and 2x 1Gbe for networking

Storage Node

• 3 different sizes
  • 8 – 18 cores
  • 1x240GB MLC boot device
  • 4x 10/25 GbE and 2x 1Gbe for networking
  • SSD 6x480GB, 6x960GB, 6×1.92TB

NetApp Deployment Engine

• Rack and Stack to Ready for VMs
• HCI plugin to vCenter
• Lightweight management VM
• Proactive support with Active IQ

Storage Deployment via API.

Checkbox in the UI which shows the commands and can be exported.

NetApp ONTAP Select

• vNAS on NetApp HCI
• leverage single platform for block access and NAS File
• Dynamically add capacity