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Nutanix
Hyper-converged
Infrastructure
Design Workshop

BENEFITS OVERVIEW
• Accelerate your adoption of the The Infrastructure Modernization Bundle offerings focus on collaborating with the
Nutanix platform by leveraging customer to assess and design virtualization infrastructure to streamline and
experienced consultants accelerate solution deployment, adoption, and to enable business outcomes.
• Lower risk with a comprehensive
design document tailored to your
specific requirements HCI Design Workshop
Workload Migration Storage Consolidation Deployment & Migration
Workshop Workshop Services
• Identify requirements and
considerations to successfully
deploy and manage eth Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform A certified Nutanix consultant will deliver a series of design workshops to ensure
that solution requirements are identified and met the first time while adhering to
• Provides recommendations to Nutanix and industry recommended practices while minimizing cost and
prepare for and plan your complexity.
virtualization infrastructure
platform After the design workshop a customized Nutanix Design document and
• Comprehensive project configuration workbook will be created. This workbook covers conceptual,
documentation and knowledge logical and physical HCI design elements with documented requirements,
transfer constraints, assumptions, design decisions, identified risks and mitigations.

SERVICE SCOPE
Develop the Requirements and Design to Deliver a Nutanix HCI Solution
This fixed outcome service has three (3) different sized scopes depending on
the customer needs:

Note: Design workshops requires key stakeholders from architecture, virtualization and networking
teams to provide requirements and input to the design

Starter Service
For customers who want a basic Infrastructure to accelerate time-to-value when
adopting Nutanix HCI as their virtualization platform

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Design Includes:
• Gather and document solution requirements, constraints, assumptions,
dependencies and decisions in a series of workshops
• Nutanix infrastructure architecture for one production environment at one
physical location, on a single hypervisor
o Limited to general virtualization workloads; business critical and EUC
workload design is provided via workload specific offerings
• Define integration with AD/LDAP and IPAM/DNS environments
• Nutanix and virtualization cluster design
• Virtual networking design including integration with physical network
• Virtual storage design
• Virtual Infrastructure sizing validation based on customer provided workload
details
• Planning for System Functional Validation Testing

Pro Service
For customers looking for a more comprehensive design focusing on migration of
existing workloads and storage, driving adoption, and maximizing the value of
the Nutanix HCI Platform

Design Includes:
• Starter Service
• Design to support the migration of existing workloads and storage into the new
environment
o High level review of existing environment to support sizing
o Detailed migration plans are developed in the Migration Workshop Service
o Detailed migration plans for Databases are developed in the Database
Migration workshop service
• Design for Nutanix Files, Volumes, and Objects
• Virtual Machine Design and planning for specific workloads (SQL, Oracle,
Exchange, Splunk)
• Planning for VM and data protection

Ultimate Service
For customers looking to fully transform their experience with Smart IT
Operations, micro-segmentation, multi-site architectures and disaster recovery
capabilities.

Design Includes:
• Starter and Pro Services
• Current State assessment of elements included in the design
• Support for multiple hypervisors
• Manageability design including X-Play, Prism, Prism Central and 3rd party
integrations
o Design limited to “out of the box” functionality and excluding custom API
or custom script-based integrations
o These functionalities are available as offerings under Cloud and Automation
• Security design including RBAC and system hardening
• Datacenter infrastructure and platform selection
• Security and Compliance Design
• Multi-Site design planning and design

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 • RPO and RTO Requirements Design, including DR and replication
considerations
• Planning for use of Nutanix Flow
o Nutanix Flow configuration details are developed in the Microsegmentation
Design service

DELIVERABLES
• Project Plan
• Project Status Reports
• Requirement Gathering and Design Workshops
• Architecture Requirements and Design Documents
• Configuration workbook
• Design Presentation
• Solution Deployment Guide
• Solution Test Plan
• Project Close Out

TASK
Starter Pro Ultimate
Nutanix Design Workshop Typically Typically Typically
(customer involvement required) 2 days 5 days 5 days
Nutanix Design Workshop Typically Typically Typically
Documentation creation 3 days 5 days 10 days

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Pre-paid fees for services are non-cancellable and non-refundable except as otherwise expressly stated herein, and
Nutanix’s obligations to perform any services in return for any pre-paid fees shall expire twelve (12) months after
receipt of the applicable purchase order. The Client has five (5) days upon delivery of the Services to notify Nutanix
that the Services do not meet the warranty above or are otherwise not accepted. Absent such notification in the
timeline stated in the preceding sentence, the Services shall be deemed accepted.

WARRANTY AND ACCEPTANCE

(a) The Professional Services shall be provided in a professional manner with reasonable care and skill. Your sole
remedy for breach of this warranty shall be reperformance of the Professional Services at no additional cost,
provided that You notify Us of any non-conformity within thirty (30) days of the provision of the non-conforming
Professional Services. A breach of one SOW or Service shall not amount to a breach under any other SOW or
Service. The services and deliverables above are the entire expected scope of this service. Any items not explicitly
included above are outside the scope of this offering.
(b) Limitations and exclusions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, the foregoing warranties are your sole
and exclusive warranties and remedies. Except for the warranties specifically described above, all products and
services are provided “as-is” and all other warranties including but not limited to the implied warranties of
merchantability, acceptable quality, title, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement are expressly
disclaimed.

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