VMworld 2013
Aidan Dalgleish, VMware
David Hill, VMware
Kamau Wanguhu, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
ERP in the cloud for public sector | James Norman | March 2016
Presentation on 'ERP in the cloud for public sector' by James Norman, EMC UK, at the Local Digital Futures - Working as One: Platforms & Sharing event held on 4 March 2016 in London.
Virtualization allows operating systems and applications to run in virtual machines across physical hardware. This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization products from the datacenter to the desktop, including server, presentation, application, and desktop virtualization. It highlights benefits like accelerated provisioning, reduced costs, increased availability, and improved agility. It also provides examples of how organizations have benefited and reduced costs through server consolidation and eliminating application conflicts using virtualization.
The document discusses Software Defined Environments (SDE) which provide an approach to automating IT infrastructure through software. An SDE abstracts and virtualizes infrastructure resources, allowing applications to automatically define their requirements. This enables infrastructure that is simplified, adaptive, and responsive to changing business needs. SDEs provide agility, efficiency, and performance for modern workloads through fully programmable, integrated, and elastic resources available on demand. The document outlines how SDEs benefit both infrastructure operators and application developers by improving IT economics, security, and the speed of deploying new solutions.
Presentation at Impact 2012 Mumbai:
This IBM PureSystems presentation was presented by Amol B Mahamuni, Program Director ISL, IBM PureApplication System Product Management
Time, as they say, is money. By automating your infrastructure and application delivery, you can help save your organization a lot of both.
Join cloud networking pros for this online workshop and live Q&A and see how the Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite:
• Automates delivery of unified infrastructure designed to meet each of your application’s needs
• Reduces the complexity and manual provisioning of virtual network services
• Reduces the number of tools required to support cloud environments
Engage with Cisco experts, ask your questions, and see what it takes to make infrastructure automation a reality. Register now.
Sincerely,
Robb Boyd, TechWiseTV
Technology you can use from geeks you can trust.
www.cisco.com/go/techwisetv
Converged Everything, Converged Infrastructure delivering business value and ...
Converged Infrastructure solutions for Cloud create business value for many customers worldwide by shortening and simplifying the path to infrastructure adoption, and time to productivity. In this session hear Alan Watson, NetApp Alliances Business Development Manager, Julian Datta, Microsoft Private Cloud Channel Development Manager and Andrew Gunyon, Cisco Data Centre Sales Manager discuss the value of very well integrated software and converged infrastructure. Hear them share their experiences, along with the latest developments in FlexPod Converged Infrastructure.
This document provides an overview of software-defined storage (SDS) concepts and discusses several SDS solutions from major vendors. It defines SDS and explains how adding a control layer allows for visibility, communication, and allocation of storage resources. Benefits highlighted include efficiency, automation, flexibility, scalability, reliability and cost savings. Specific SDS products are then profiled from vendors such as EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp, VMware, Coraid, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi, Pivot3, and RedHat.
Virtustream Enterprise Cloud provides an enterprise-class cloud built for mission-critical applications with improved efficiency and application-level service level agreements (SLAs). It offers a consumption-based pricing model for substantial cost savings. The platform is designed for mission-critical and input/output intensive applications along with full managed services including application expertise.
This document discusses IBM's monitoring and event management solutions including IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Event Management, and IBM Business Service Management. It provides an agenda for the Nordic Pulse conference on May 28-29 including presentations on new technologies, IBM monitoring solutions, customer examples, and more. Specific topics covered include IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboards, IBM SmartCloud Monitoring, IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management, benefits of analytics, and solutions for monitoring workloads in cloud environments.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere environments
Learn how to gain velocity and agility within your VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment. View this webcast and learn how to: Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi. Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting thousands of VMs across the data center. Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers. For more information on Hitachi Solutions for VMware visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/applications/vmware/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_vmw
This document provides an overview of Oracle's cloud computing strategy. It discusses how Oracle aims to make cloud computing fully enterprise-grade by supporting both public and private clouds. It also describes Oracle's PaaS platform, which provides products to build public or private application platforms as a cloud service. Finally, it outlines how enterprises can evolve their current IT infrastructure to incorporate more cloud-like characteristics over time through grid computing, virtualization, self-service access, and internal chargeback for resources used.
MT125 Virtustream Enterprise Cloud: Purpose Built to Run Mission Critical App...
General-purpose public clouds try to be all things to all people. But do you really want to bet your business on them?
Attend this session to learn about Virtustream Enterprise Cloud, designed and built for mission-critical enterprise applications. Transform your entire IT estate with an enterprise-class cloud that’s used by many Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations.
The Cloud Enabled Datacenter - Smarter Business 2013
With Cloud Enabled Datacenter projects, clients are
cutting IT expense and complexity through optimization
techniques and technologies, all this while improving
efficiency of service delivery. We will discuss how
your organization can exploit key technologies like
orchestration to manage the changing demands of your
end user communities. Presenter: Glenda Lyon, World Wide Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, Business Development, IBM. Mer från dagen på http://bit.ly/sb13se
Software defined data centers (SDDC) enable organizations to radically shift how they consume IT services by offering unprecedented flexibility, efficiency, and automation. SDDCs bestow capabilities to propel organizations towards business growth. They are more agile, secure, and flexible than conventional hardware-centric data centers. SDDCs virtualize infrastructure components like storage, networking, and computing and implement them through software-defined policies rather than hardware dependencies. This allows for more flexible consumption and management of data center services.
Vblock Infrastructure Packages — integrated best-of-breed packages from VMwar...
IT is undergoing a transformation. The current ‘accidental architecture’ of IT today increases procurement, management costs, and complexity while making it difficult to meet customer service level agreements. This makes IT less responsive to the business and creates the perception of IT being a cost center. IT is now moving towards a ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
While the need for a new IT model has never been more clear, navigating the path to that model has never been more complicated. The benefits of private clouds are capturing the collective imagination of IT architects and IT consumers in organizations of all sizes around the world. The realities of outdated technologies, rampant incremental approaches, and the absence of a compelling end-state architecture are impeding adoption by customers.
This new ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
By harnessing the power of virtualization, private clouds place considerable business benefits within reach.
Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, are putting you on a new road to greater efficiency, control and choice. A faster road to unprecedented IT agility and unbounded business opportunities. With the Virtual Compute Environment’s Vblock experience.
On-Demand Production Infrastructure delivered Just In Time By Shane Guthrie o...
This document discusses just-in-time IT infrastructure provisioning using commodity resource pools. It advocates allocating resources on demand to accomplish production tasks by leveraging massive investments in compute, storage, and network infrastructure from various service providers. This approach aims to reduce costs and spread risks across production participants by only paying for consumed resources. The document also describes how abstraction of infrastructure through virtualization and programmatic interfaces can facilitate heterogeneous, multi-vendor provisioning driven by workflow tools through a centralized exchange point.
Gain Insights, Make Decisions, and Take Action Across a Streamlined and Autom...
This document provides an overview and summary of vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations solutions. It begins with an agenda and discusses how these solutions can help organizations address challenges around accelerating service delivery times, gaining insights across hybrid cloud environments, and ensuring quality of service. New features of vRealize Automation 6.2 like enhanced integration with vRealize Operations and an admin-friendly CLI are highlighted. The document also reviews the key capabilities and benefits of vRealize Operations for intelligent operations, predictive analytics, compliance management, and visibility across private and public clouds.
VMworld 2013: VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern Applicat...
VMworld 2013
Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs
Becky Smith, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
This document provides an overview of enterprise cloud transformation best practices. It discusses key aspects of cloud maturity models, alignment of IT and business strategy, agile cloud development practices, and software defined networking (SDN). Specific topics covered include virtualization maturity, cloud brokerage, application lifecycles, and network functions virtualization. Examples from AT&T and Virtela are given to illustrate real-world SDN implementations.
Whitepaper factors to consider commercial infrastructure management vendors
The document discusses five key factors to consider when selecting an infrastructure management vendor: 1) ease of management, 2) a unified platform, 3) analytics and reporting capabilities, 4) depth of infrastructure management, and 5) enabling monitoring as a service. It then evaluates CA Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) against these five factors, finding that CA UIM supports simplified deployment and management without custom scripts, provides a single unified view of the IT environment, offers advanced built-in analytics for issue identification and resolution, monitors a broad range of modern technologies, and enables managed service providers to offer monitoring as a service through multi-tenancy.
Lessons Learned during IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Deployment at a Large Tel...
IBM presented lessons learned from deploying SmartCloud Orchestrator at a large telecommunications provider to automate cloud service delivery. Key challenges included managing a multi-region infrastructure, publishing self-service catalogs, and automating application deployments. The solution involved using OpenStack regions with IBM additions to provide a unified interface and orchestrate deployments across regions. Processes were modeled to provision resources and deploy application stacks through reusable patterns.
The document discusses CSC's Agility Platform and how it helps customers accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud. The platform provides tools to consolidate workloads, improve efficiency, accelerate development cycles, and optimize IT service management. Case studies are presented showing how the platform helped a bank reduce costs by $100M/year, an insurance company save $15M over 3 years, and a government agency reduce build times by 83%. The platform provides capabilities for application release automation, cloud governance, and consuming cloud services through the software development lifecycle.
VMWorld 2004 - Justifying the transition from Physical to Virtual
The document summarizes a presentation on justifying the transition from a physical to virtual Intel server environment. It outlines CNA's current physical server environment with low utilization. Implementing VMware virtualization could save over $2 million over 5 years by reducing TCO by 66% through server consolidation and faster provisioning. A proof of concept showed 22 applications could run virtually. Future phases would virtualize 350 NT4 servers, standardize images, and potentially move UNIX workloads to a Windows virtual environment for even greater cost savings.
VMworld 2013: Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management with vCloud...
VMworld 2013
Amjad Afanah, VMware
Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Enterprise data centres have traditionally used servers and storage that typically scale only to a few nodes. Even small capacity or performance scales required large installation increments or worse, required replicating the existing IT infrastructure, which is prohibitive in terms of cost and space. An important impediment was that as storage capacity increased, system performance and efficiency suffered. In addition, IT budgets came under pressure and created high entry barriers to scale for enterprise class data centres. However, virtualization and cloud platforms are changing that. IT departments can now linearly scale to several server and storage nodes rapidly, for capacity and performance without compromising on efficiency and to keep costs under control. This helps save space via hardware consolidation, improves productivity, and derives a competitive advantage through increased availability, lean administration, and fast deployment times.
VMworld Recap summarizes announcements from VMworld including:
- Updates to vRealize Automation to simplify deployment, enhance authentication, and allow blueprint modeling with a graphical design canvas.
- vRealize Business improvements to provide single-pane-of-glass cost analysis across clouds and more granular cost reporting.
- New starter kits that bundle vRealize Suite licenses, professional services, and training to help customers automate cloud management.
Whitepaper factors to consider when selecting an open source infrastructure ...
The document discusses five key factors to consider when selecting an open source infrastructure management vendor: 1) Ease of management in terms of deployment, configuration, and ongoing administration requirements. 2) Ability to provide a unified view and management of the entire IT environment. 3) Support for advanced analytics and reporting to help rapidly identify and resolve issues. 4) Capabilities to monitor modern infrastructure types including physical, virtual, cloud, applications, and databases. 5) Ability to support a lower total cost of ownership by providing out-of-the-box monitoring configurations and avoiding custom scripting requirements. The document uses CA Unified Infrastructure Management as an example that meets these five factors with capabilities like simplified deployment, a single unified dashboard, integrated analytics
Enterprise DevOps is different then DevOps in startups and smaller companies. This session how AWS/CSC address this. How AWS IaaS level automation via CloudFormation, UserData, Console, APIS and some PaaS OpsWorks/Beanstalk is complimented by CSC Agility Platform. CSC Agility adds application compliance and security to the AWS infrastructure compliance and security. CSC Agility allows for the creation of architecture blueprints for predefined application offerings.
The document discusses Oracle's Virtual Compute Appliance, a converged infrastructure system that integrates compute, storage, and networking resources. It allows rapid deployment of applications through pre-configured templates and simplifies management. Key benefits include accelerated provisioning of up to 83% faster through templates, reduced IT complexity through automated management, and lower costs through features like integrated patching and virtualization technologies. A case study highlights how one company reduced capital expenditures by 50% and deployment times by up to 7x using the appliance.
Virtualization 101 provides an overview of virtualization and the VMware product suite. It begins with an introduction to virtualization and its benefits such as cost reduction and increased efficiency. It then discusses VMware's position as the market leader in virtualization and its core virtualization products, including vSphere Hypervisor. vSphere Hypervisor is VMware's free hypervisor that allows users to quickly partition a physical server into multiple virtual machines. The document provides installation and setup instructions for vSphere Hypervisor and explains how to create and manage virtual machines. It aims to give attendees a fundamental understanding of virtualization and how to get started with VMware's virtualization technology.
VMworld 2013: Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware’s Internal Pri...
VMworld 2013
Thirumalesh Reddy, VMware
Padmaja Vrudhula, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
VMworld 2015: Take Virtualization to the Next Level vSphere with Operations M...
vSphere with Operations Management takes virtualization to the next level by providing enhanced visibility, automation, and intelligence for virtualized environments. It combines vSphere with vRealize Operations for unified monitoring, capacity planning, and predictive analytics. Key innovations in vSphere 6 include increased scale, long-distance vMotion, multi-processor fault tolerance, and NVIDIA GRID vGPU support. vRealize Operations Insight adds log analytics and application dependency mapping. The solution helps customers optimize resources, reduce costs, and improve availability.
VMworld 2013: SDDC IT Operations Transformation: Multi-customer Lessons Learned
VMworld 2013
Bjoern Brundert, VMware
Valentin Hamburger, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
vCloud Automation Center and Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Better PaaS Solution (VM...
David Benedict - Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Cornelia Davis - Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
Vipul Shah - Director of Product Management, VMware
vCloud Automation Center provides powerful capabilities for policy-based orchestration of complex infrastructure and application deployments. A Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Pivotal CF, built on the open-source Cloud Foundry, presents a set of abstractions and capabilities that focus on the application implementation and the run-time services it will leverage.
The value of a PaaS installation is equally driven by the set of application-centric capabilities provided, such as performance monitoring or logging, and by the set of services that can easily be integrated into an application; exposing the offerings in the vCloud Automation Center services catalog for leverage by apps deployed into Pivotal CF allows an enterprise faster time to value. And a vCloud Automation Center user can model system deployments, automating infrastructure provisioning and software deployments; this modeling is equally valuable even when the targets of the orchestrations are the PaaS abstractions of applications and services.
These products are very complementary and we’ll show you how. Understand how the combined vCloud Automation Center / Pivotal CF solutions provide the basis for a comprehensive PaaS solution. See a demo of and roadmap for the integrated solution. Learn how to use vCloud Automation Center to model applications for deployment into Pivotal CF and how to draw vCloud Automation Center services into Pivotal CF.
After a brief overview of both products, we will describe the capabilities and derived value of the joint solution that will have early access availability at the time of the conference.
1. This document provides an overview and agenda for a presentation on vSphere 6.x host resource deep dive topics including compute, storage, and network.
2. It introduces the presenters, Niels Hagoort and Frank Denneman, and provides background on their expertise.
3. The document outlines the topics to be covered under each section, including NUMA, CPU cache, DIMM configuration, I/O queue placement, driver considerations, RSS and NetQueue scaling for networking.
This document provides an overview of troubleshooting tools and techniques for Horizon. It begins with introductions and disclaimers. It then covers defining problems, identifying symptoms, gathering additional information, determining possible causes, identifying the root cause, resolving problems, and documenting solutions. Common troubleshooting tools are discussed, including ESXCLI commands, vSphere CLI commands, and log file locations and contents. Methods for collecting log files from Horizon components like desktops, clients, and servers are also provided.
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Family OverviewHitachi Vantara
Hitachi offers Unified Compute Platform (UCP) solutions that integrate compute, storage, and networking resources to enable faster deployment of cloud infrastructure and more efficient IT operations. UCP solutions combine Hitachi blade servers and storage with networking from Brocade or Cisco. They provide automated management of resources and can support various applications and workloads, including virtualization, private clouds, databases, and data warehousing. UCP solutions aim to reduce costs, complexity, and risk for organizations compared to component-based infrastructure approaches.
IBM PureApplication System provides a simplified and optimized application platform built for private cloud. It arrives ready to deploy with pre-integrated and pre-optimized IBM software, virtualized across the stack for efficiency. Patterns of expertise capture proven best practices learned from client engagements to enable efficient and repeatable application deployments.
Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is a technology that seeks to reduce the burden of storage administration while increasing overall storage utilization. SDS aims to make storage application-aware, enabling server administrators, application managers, and developers to provision storage in a policy-driven, automated self-service manner.
These slides - based on the webinar featuring Jim Miller, senior analyst at EMA - cover:
- Challenges of procuring and managing storage in large enterprise deployments
- Key functional capabilities needed to deliver the benefits of SDS to the enterprise
- Highlights of the nine vendors included in this study and how their solution fits into best practices for network monitoring
The nine SDS vendors that will be covered are:
1. Atlantis Computing
2. Citrix
3. DataCore
4. EMC
5. HP
6. IBM
7. Nexenta
8. Symantec
9. VMware
Presentation on 'ERP in the cloud for public sector' by James Norman, EMC UK, at the Local Digital Futures - Working as One: Platforms & Sharing event held on 4 March 2016 in London.
Virtualization allows operating systems and applications to run in virtual machines across physical hardware. This document discusses Microsoft's virtualization products from the datacenter to the desktop, including server, presentation, application, and desktop virtualization. It highlights benefits like accelerated provisioning, reduced costs, increased availability, and improved agility. It also provides examples of how organizations have benefited and reduced costs through server consolidation and eliminating application conflicts using virtualization.
Software Defined Environment - IBM Point of ViewClaude Riousset
The document discusses Software Defined Environments (SDE) which provide an approach to automating IT infrastructure through software. An SDE abstracts and virtualizes infrastructure resources, allowing applications to automatically define their requirements. This enables infrastructure that is simplified, adaptive, and responsive to changing business needs. SDEs provide agility, efficiency, and performance for modern workloads through fully programmable, integrated, and elastic resources available on demand. The document outlines how SDEs benefit both infrastructure operators and application developers by improving IT economics, security, and the speed of deploying new solutions.
Presentation at Impact 2012 Mumbai:
This IBM PureSystems presentation was presented by Amol B Mahamuni, Program Director ISL, IBM PureApplication System Product Management
Time, as they say, is money. By automating your infrastructure and application delivery, you can help save your organization a lot of both.
Join cloud networking pros for this online workshop and live Q&A and see how the Cisco ONE Enterprise Cloud Suite:
• Automates delivery of unified infrastructure designed to meet each of your application’s needs
• Reduces the complexity and manual provisioning of virtual network services
• Reduces the number of tools required to support cloud environments
Engage with Cisco experts, ask your questions, and see what it takes to make infrastructure automation a reality. Register now.
Sincerely,
Robb Boyd, TechWiseTV
Technology you can use from geeks you can trust.
www.cisco.com/go/techwisetv
Converged Everything, Converged Infrastructure delivering business value and ...NetAppUK
Converged Infrastructure solutions for Cloud create business value for many customers worldwide by shortening and simplifying the path to infrastructure adoption, and time to productivity. In this session hear Alan Watson, NetApp Alliances Business Development Manager, Julian Datta, Microsoft Private Cloud Channel Development Manager and Andrew Gunyon, Cisco Data Centre Sales Manager discuss the value of very well integrated software and converged infrastructure. Hear them share their experiences, along with the latest developments in FlexPod Converged Infrastructure.
This document provides an overview of software-defined storage (SDS) concepts and discusses several SDS solutions from major vendors. It defines SDS and explains how adding a control layer allows for visibility, communication, and allocation of storage resources. Benefits highlighted include efficiency, automation, flexibility, scalability, reliability and cost savings. Specific SDS products are then profiled from vendors such as EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp, VMware, Coraid, DataCore, Dell, Hitachi, Pivot3, and RedHat.
Virtustream Enterprise Cloud provides an enterprise-class cloud built for mission-critical applications with improved efficiency and application-level service level agreements (SLAs). It offers a consumption-based pricing model for substantial cost savings. The platform is designed for mission-critical and input/output intensive applications along with full managed services including application expertise.
IBM Monitoring and Event Management SolutionsIBM Danmark
This document discusses IBM's monitoring and event management solutions including IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Event Management, and IBM Business Service Management. It provides an agenda for the Nordic Pulse conference on May 28-29 including presentations on new technologies, IBM monitoring solutions, customer examples, and more. Specific topics covered include IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboards, IBM SmartCloud Monitoring, IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management, benefits of analytics, and solutions for monitoring workloads in cloud environments.
Comprehensive and Simplified Management for VMware vSphere environmentsHitachi Vantara
Learn how to gain velocity and agility within your VMware vSphere environments while reducing costs and simplifying the management of your server, network and storage infrastructure. You will also learn how to leverage a unified, converged infrastructure to more quickly deploy business-critical workloads within a private cloud environment. View this webcast and learn how to: Increase IT efficiency and gain business velocity by leveraging a unified and converged infrastructure solution from Hitachi. Enable both physical and virtual infrastructure consolidation while supporting thousands of VMs across the data center. Achieve cost reductions through automation and orchestration of your VMware vSphere environment across server, network and storage tiers. For more information on Hitachi Solutions for VMware visit: http://www.hds.com/solutions/applications/vmware/?WT.ac=us_mg_sol_vmw
This document provides an overview of Oracle's cloud computing strategy. It discusses how Oracle aims to make cloud computing fully enterprise-grade by supporting both public and private clouds. It also describes Oracle's PaaS platform, which provides products to build public or private application platforms as a cloud service. Finally, it outlines how enterprises can evolve their current IT infrastructure to incorporate more cloud-like characteristics over time through grid computing, virtualization, self-service access, and internal chargeback for resources used.
MT125 Virtustream Enterprise Cloud: Purpose Built to Run Mission Critical App...Dell EMC World
General-purpose public clouds try to be all things to all people. But do you really want to bet your business on them?
Attend this session to learn about Virtustream Enterprise Cloud, designed and built for mission-critical enterprise applications. Transform your entire IT estate with an enterprise-class cloud that’s used by many Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations.
The Cloud Enabled Datacenter - Smarter Business 2013IBM Sverige
With Cloud Enabled Datacenter projects, clients are
cutting IT expense and complexity through optimization
techniques and technologies, all this while improving
efficiency of service delivery. We will discuss how
your organization can exploit key technologies like
orchestration to manage the changing demands of your
end user communities. Presenter: Glenda Lyon, World Wide Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure, Business Development, IBM. Mer från dagen på http://bit.ly/sb13se
Software defined data centers (SDDC) enable organizations to radically shift how they consume IT services by offering unprecedented flexibility, efficiency, and automation. SDDCs bestow capabilities to propel organizations towards business growth. They are more agile, secure, and flexible than conventional hardware-centric data centers. SDDCs virtualize infrastructure components like storage, networking, and computing and implement them through software-defined policies rather than hardware dependencies. This allows for more flexible consumption and management of data center services.
Vblock Infrastructure Packages — integrated best-of-breed packages from VMwar...Eric Sloof
IT is undergoing a transformation. The current ‘accidental architecture’ of IT today increases procurement, management costs, and complexity while making it difficult to meet customer service level agreements. This makes IT less responsive to the business and creates the perception of IT being a cost center. IT is now moving towards a ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
While the need for a new IT model has never been more clear, navigating the path to that model has never been more complicated. The benefits of private clouds are capturing the collective imagination of IT architects and IT consumers in organizations of all sizes around the world. The realities of outdated technologies, rampant incremental approaches, and the absence of a compelling end-state architecture are impeding adoption by customers.
This new ‘private cloud’ model, which is a new model for delivering IT as a service, whether that service is provided internally (IT today), externally (service provider), or in combination. This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success.
By harnessing the power of virtualization, private clouds place considerable business benefits within reach.
Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, are putting you on a new road to greater efficiency, control and choice. A faster road to unprecedented IT agility and unbounded business opportunities. With the Virtual Compute Environment’s Vblock experience.
On-Demand Production Infrastructure delivered Just In Time By Shane Guthrie o...ETCenter
This document discusses just-in-time IT infrastructure provisioning using commodity resource pools. It advocates allocating resources on demand to accomplish production tasks by leveraging massive investments in compute, storage, and network infrastructure from various service providers. This approach aims to reduce costs and spread risks across production participants by only paying for consumed resources. The document also describes how abstraction of infrastructure through virtualization and programmatic interfaces can facilitate heterogeneous, multi-vendor provisioning driven by workflow tools through a centralized exchange point.
Gain Insights, Make Decisions, and Take Action Across a Streamlined and Autom...Arraya Solutions
This document provides an overview and summary of vRealize Automation and vRealize Operations solutions. It begins with an agenda and discusses how these solutions can help organizations address challenges around accelerating service delivery times, gaining insights across hybrid cloud environments, and ensuring quality of service. New features of vRealize Automation 6.2 like enhanced integration with vRealize Operations and an admin-friendly CLI are highlighted. The document also reviews the key capabilities and benefits of vRealize Operations for intelligent operations, predictive analytics, compliance management, and visibility across private and public clouds.
VMworld 2013: VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy & Manage Modern Applicat...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Nigel Kersten, Puppet Labs
Becky Smith, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
This document provides an overview of enterprise cloud transformation best practices. It discusses key aspects of cloud maturity models, alignment of IT and business strategy, agile cloud development practices, and software defined networking (SDN). Specific topics covered include virtualization maturity, cloud brokerage, application lifecycles, and network functions virtualization. Examples from AT&T and Virtela are given to illustrate real-world SDN implementations.
Whitepaper factors to consider commercial infrastructure management vendorsapprize360
The document discusses five key factors to consider when selecting an infrastructure management vendor: 1) ease of management, 2) a unified platform, 3) analytics and reporting capabilities, 4) depth of infrastructure management, and 5) enabling monitoring as a service. It then evaluates CA Unified Infrastructure Management (UIM) against these five factors, finding that CA UIM supports simplified deployment and management without custom scripts, provides a single unified view of the IT environment, offers advanced built-in analytics for issue identification and resolution, monitors a broad range of modern technologies, and enables managed service providers to offer monitoring as a service through multi-tenancy.
Lessons Learned during IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator Deployment at a Large Tel...Eduardo Patrocinio
IBM presented lessons learned from deploying SmartCloud Orchestrator at a large telecommunications provider to automate cloud service delivery. Key challenges included managing a multi-region infrastructure, publishing self-service catalogs, and automating application deployments. The solution involved using OpenStack regions with IBM additions to provide a unified interface and orchestrate deployments across regions. Processes were modeled to provision resources and deploy application stacks through reusable patterns.
The document discusses CSC's Agility Platform and how it helps customers accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud. The platform provides tools to consolidate workloads, improve efficiency, accelerate development cycles, and optimize IT service management. Case studies are presented showing how the platform helped a bank reduce costs by $100M/year, an insurance company save $15M over 3 years, and a government agency reduce build times by 83%. The platform provides capabilities for application release automation, cloud governance, and consuming cloud services through the software development lifecycle.
VMWorld 2004 - Justifying the transition from Physical to VirtualDavid Kent
The document summarizes a presentation on justifying the transition from a physical to virtual Intel server environment. It outlines CNA's current physical server environment with low utilization. Implementing VMware virtualization could save over $2 million over 5 years by reducing TCO by 66% through server consolidation and faster provisioning. A proof of concept showed 22 applications could run virtually. Future phases would virtualize 350 NT4 servers, standardize images, and potentially move UNIX workloads to a Windows virtual environment for even greater cost savings.
VMworld 2013: Best Practices for Application Lifecycle Management with vCloud...VMworld
VMworld 2013
Amjad Afanah, VMware
Rajesh Khazanchi, VMware
Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare
Enterprise data centres have traditionally used servers and storage that typically scale only to a few nodes. Even small capacity or performance scales required large installation increments or worse, required replicating the existing IT infrastructure, which is prohibitive in terms of cost and space. An important impediment was that as storage capacity increased, system performance and efficiency suffered. In addition, IT budgets came under pressure and created high entry barriers to scale for enterprise class data centres. However, virtualization and cloud platforms are changing that. IT departments can now linearly scale to several server and storage nodes rapidly, for capacity and performance without compromising on efficiency and to keep costs under control. This helps save space via hardware consolidation, improves productivity, and derives a competitive advantage through increased availability, lean administration, and fast deployment times.
VMworld Recap summarizes announcements from VMworld including:
- Updates to vRealize Automation to simplify deployment, enhance authentication, and allow blueprint modeling with a graphical design canvas.
- vRealize Business improvements to provide single-pane-of-glass cost analysis across clouds and more granular cost reporting.
- New starter kits that bundle vRealize Suite licenses, professional services, and training to help customers automate cloud management.
Whitepaper factors to consider when selecting an open source infrastructure ...apprize360
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VMworld 2013: Moving Enterprise Application Dev/Test to VMware’s Internal Pri...VMworld
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vCloud Automation Center and Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Better PaaS Solution (VM...VMware Tanzu
David Benedict - Member of Technical Staff, VMware
Cornelia Davis - Platform Engineer, Cloud Foundry, Pivotal
Vipul Shah - Director of Product Management, VMware
vCloud Automation Center provides powerful capabilities for policy-based orchestration of complex infrastructure and application deployments. A Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Pivotal CF, built on the open-source Cloud Foundry, presents a set of abstractions and capabilities that focus on the application implementation and the run-time services it will leverage.
The value of a PaaS installation is equally driven by the set of application-centric capabilities provided, such as performance monitoring or logging, and by the set of services that can easily be integrated into an application; exposing the offerings in the vCloud Automation Center services catalog for leverage by apps deployed into Pivotal CF allows an enterprise faster time to value. And a vCloud Automation Center user can model system deployments, automating infrastructure provisioning and software deployments; this modeling is equally valuable even when the targets of the orchestrations are the PaaS abstractions of applications and services.
These products are very complementary and we’ll show you how. Understand how the combined vCloud Automation Center / Pivotal CF solutions provide the basis for a comprehensive PaaS solution. See a demo of and roadmap for the integrated solution. Learn how to use vCloud Automation Center to model applications for deployment into Pivotal CF and how to draw vCloud Automation Center services into Pivotal CF.
After a brief overview of both products, we will describe the capabilities and derived value of the joint solution that will have early access availability at the time of the conference.
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VMworld 2015: Site Recovery Manager and Policy Based DR Deep Dive with Engine...VMworld
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- Maximize with FME: Understand how FME handles coordinate systems, including a brief summary of the 3 main reprojectors
- Custom Coordinate Systems: Learn how to work with FME and coordinate systems beyond what is natively supported
- Look Ahead: Gain insights into where FME is headed with coordinate systems in the future
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UiPath Community Day Kraków: Devs4Devs ConferenceUiPathCommunity
We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner!
We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too!
Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇
08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30')
09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10')
Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath
Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner
09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30')
Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA
Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25')
Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company
Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company
10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30')
Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner
10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15')
10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45')
Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath
11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45')
Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager
12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr)
13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30')
Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance
13:50 Communications Mining - focus on AI capabilities (30')
Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai
14:20 Polish MVP panel: Insights on MVP award achievements and career profiling
Mitigating the Impact of State Management in Cloud Stream Processing SystemsScyllaDB
Stream processing is a crucial component of modern data infrastructure, but constructing an efficient and scalable stream processing system can be challenging. Decoupling compute and storage architecture has emerged as an effective solution to these challenges, but it can introduce high latency issues, especially when dealing with complex continuous queries that necessitate managing extra-large internal states.
In this talk, we focus on addressing the high latency issues associated with S3 storage in stream processing systems that employ a decoupled compute and storage architecture. We delve into the root causes of latency in this context and explore various techniques to minimize the impact of S3 latency on stream processing performance. Our proposed approach is to implement a tiered storage mechanism that leverages a blend of high-performance and low-cost storage tiers to reduce data movement between the compute and storage layers while maintaining efficient processing.
Throughout the talk, we will present experimental results that demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in mitigating the impact of S3 latency on stream processing. By the end of the talk, attendees will have gained insights into how to optimize their stream processing systems for reduced latency and improved cost-efficiency.
Kief Morris rethinks the infrastructure code delivery lifecycle, advocating for a shift towards composable infrastructure systems. We should shift to designing around deployable components rather than code modules, use more useful levels of abstraction, and drive design and deployment from applications rather than bottom-up, monolithic architecture and delivery.
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Definition
Software-defined data center is an
architectural approach to IT infrastructure
that extends virtualization concepts such as
abstraction, pooling and automation to all of
the data center’s resources to achieve IT as
a service.
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Definition
Software-defined data center is an
architectural approach to IT infrastructure
that extends virtualization concepts such as
abstraction, pooling and automation to all of
the data center’s resources to achieve IT as
a service.
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Top 5 Value Drivers – Why Is SDDC Attractive Now?
Dramatic Sustainable Cost Reduction
• Realize 40-75% cost reduction at full SDDC
(~75% CapEx / ~56% OpEx reductions.)
Organizational Efficiencies
• “New” Skillsets and headcount optimizations are required and allow much
more to be done by much fewer, more cross-functional staff
Datacenter Agility and Efficiency
• High levels of automation and self-service drive a much more agile datacenter
environment and greatly reduce time to market of services and applications
Operational Efficiencies
• Simplified, consolidated, and heterogeneous management and orchestration
toolsets allow for a fully-realized service-oriented organization
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SDDC Quandary
Must introduce complexity to provide simplicity
A SDDC is an architecture for your infrastructure. This adds a
layer of complexity in the form of technology and automation that
simplifies the provisioning process for end-users
By incurring upfront costs, you reduce long term operating costs
Apps
Compute
Network
Storage
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Software-Defined Data Center
Standardized ResourcesAvailabilityManagement
Pooled ResourcesAutomation
Security Policy Self-Service
vSphere (vCenter/ESX)Site Recovery
Manager
vCenter Operations
Management Suite
vCenter Orchestrator AMQP (RabbitMQ) vCloud Director and
vCloud API
vCloud
Connector
Nicira
vCloud Automation Center
vFabric Application DirectorvCloud Networking and Security
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Software-Defined Data Center
Standardized ResourcesAvailabilityManagement
Pooled ResourcesAutomation
Security Policy Self-Service
Site Recovery
Manager
vCenter Operations
Management Suite
vCenter Orchestrator AMQP (RabbitMQ) vCloud Director and
vCloud API
vCloud
Connector
NSX
vCloud Automation Center
vFabric Application DirectorvCloud Networking and Security
• Virtualized Compute
• VDS
• Storage Profiles
• VMware HA
• VADP
(backup/restore)
• vCenter Operations
• Configuration Manager
• Infrastructure Navigator
• Hyperic
• Chargeback Manager
• Edge, Load Balancing, VPN
• App Firewall
• VXLAN
• Service Insertion Framework
• Virtual Datacenters
• vApp and Metadata
• Catalog
• IaaS• PaaS
• Workload Mobility
• Extended Network
• Catalog Sync
Monitoring, Compliance, Remediation, Reporting
vSphere (vCenter/ESX)
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Identify Design Inputs
There are a number of application use
cases. First and foremost are production
applications which must be ported from a
legacy environment. Migration of these
applications are critical to the success of
the project.
The development teams are interested in
being able to quickly spin up self-
contained application pods to allow for
continuous testing without impacting other
resources on the network.
Currently no provisions have been made
for additional hardware for the pilot. The
available hardware consists of a number
of blade server systems and a few legacy
storage array systems. Application I/O
profiles are not known and they would like
a flexible way to control or ensure storage
performance. They would like to minimize
the capacity required and in turn the costs
of the storage.
The existing networking infrastructure is
limited to a range of VLANs.
The company’s current operating model
consists of separate IT teams for each
major business unit. As part of ongoing
research into the cloud computing model,
the project sponsor has secured funding to
pilot an implementation. The main project
initiative is to standardize operations
centrally and provide an IaaS offering to
supplement existing IT processes.
After discussing with the current BU
stakeholders, they have identified a need
for access to separate, dedicated
environments to host their primary
production applications. In addition, they
would like sandbox execution
environments that scale as their
computing needs grow.
Metering of the environment is desired in
order to provide usage reports back to the
end consumers. A later stage will involve
integration of the metering system with the
system that handles invoice processing for
a complete chargeback model.
The provisioning process in most business
units takes anywhere from 3 days to 2
weeks due to the number of approvals
needed, application dependencies, and
integration with additional systems.
Complete automation of the provisioning
process is a key driver for the new
centralized model.
While this is a pilot, architecture of the
system should follow recommended
proven practices within the industry.
17. 1818
Identify Design Inputs
There are a number of application use
cases. First and foremost are production
applications which must be ported from a
legacy environment. Migration of these
applications are critical to the success of
the project.
The development teams are interested in
being able to quickly spin up
self-contained application
pods to allow for continuous testing
without impacting other resources on the
network.
Currently no provisions have been made
for additional hardware for the pilot. The
available hardware consists of a number
of blade server systems and a few legacy
storage array systems. Application I/O
profiles are not known and they would like
a flexible way to control or ensure storage
performance. They would like to minimize
the capacity required and in turn the costs
of the storage.
The existing networking
infrastructure is limited to
a range of VLANs.
The company’s current operating model
consists of separate IT teams for each
major business unit. As part of ongoing
research into the cloud computing model,
the project sponsor has secured funding to
pilot an implementation. The
MAIN PROJECT
INITIATIVE IS TO
STANDARDIZE
OPERATIONS
CENTRALLY
and provide an IaaS offering to
supplement existing IT processes.
After discussing with the current BU
stakeholders, they have identified a need
for access to separate,
dedicated environments to
host their primary production applications.
In addition, they would like sandbox
execution environments that scale as their
computing needs grow.
Metering of the environment is desired in
order to provide usage reports back to the
end consumers. A later stage will involve
integration of the metering system with the
system that handles invoice processing for
a complete chargeback model.
The provisioning process in most business
units takes anywhere from 3 days to 2
weeks due to the number of approvals
needed, application dependencies, and
integration with additional systems.
Complete
AUTOMATION OF THE
PROVISIONING
PROCESS IS A KEY
driver for the new centralized model.
While this is a pilot, architecture of the
system should follow recommended
proven practices within the industry.
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Business Requirements
B101
B102
B103
B104
B105
B106
B107
B108
B109
B110
System provides separate dedicated environments.
Complete automation of the provisioning process.
System provides metering capabilities for cost reporting.
System leverages shared infrastructure and resource pooling.
System supports a catalog of standardized templates.
System provides differentiated offerings based on cost.
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Constraints
C101
C102
C103
C104
C105
C106
C107
C108
C109
C110
Dell and AMD have been preselected as the platform of choice
Eight 1GbE ports will be used per server
NetApp’s NAS storage will be used
All Tier 2 NAS volumes are de-duplicated
Physical switches will not be configured for QoS
Existing Cisco TOR environment to be used
Limited VLANs available
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Design Considerations
What does the environment look like today?
• How many sites?
• How many potential virtualization candidates?
• Multiple waves?
How will this impact your Design / Project?
• Different Cluster / Datacenter structure
• Within the limits?
• Sizing based on X waves / years?
What are the use cases?
• Server consolidation?
• IaaS?
• Service Level Agreements (SLA)?
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Compute Considerations
How many eggs in one basket?
• Two sockets vs four sockets
• Optimal Memory configurations
• 8GB DIMMs are cheaper than 2 x 4GB
• Triple channel configurations
• Number of DIMM slots might be different per vendor / model
AMD vs Intel
• AMD supports more cores, while Intel generally is faster
• VMmark can be used to make perf comparisons!
TPS vs no TPS
• Using 64-bit Guest OS’es?
• Performance gain
Sweetspot?
• Still seems to be dual socket – 96GB of memory
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Design Considerations
Vendor
AMD vs Intel
Blade vs Rack
• Density increases
• Hot spots
• Costs
• Management
Additional considerations
• Is embedded ESXi available?
• How much local SSD (capacity and IOPS) can it handle?
• Does it have built-in 2x 10 GE ports?
• Does the built-in NIC card have hardware iSCSI capability?
• Management integration
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Where Do We Start?
How many physical Datacenters will there be?
Will each physical DC need a vCenter Server?
For each vCenter, do we need multiple virtual Datacenters?
For each DC, do we need multiple Clusters?
For each Cluster, how many hosts?
Physical DC
vCenter
Datacenter Datacenter
Cluster Cluster
ESXi ESXi ESXi
vCenter
Datacenter
Physical DC vCenter Datacenter Cluster ESXi
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Compute Recap
Think about Performance
Think about Sizing
Considerations on how to scale in the future
SLA’s
BC/DR
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Design Considerations
Protocol Wars!
Multiple Tiers?
• Or even Auto-Tiering, what is the impact?
vSphere Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI)
• Does it impact sizing?
vSphere Storage APIs – Storage Awareness (VASA)
• Will it impact operations?
Thin provisioning?
• Thin, Thick and Eager Zeroed Thick
• vSphere vs Storage Array!
Virtual SAN
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Design Considerations
Can we use Storage DRS?
• Impact on storage array features?
• Impact on sizing?
• Impact on other VMware products like vCloud Director?
Policy-Driven Storage?
• How does it utilize VASA?
Business Continuity Requirements?
• Or possibly in the future?
No more worrying about block sizes with VMFS-5
• When upgrading VMFS-3 to VMFS-5 block size does not change!
Did you know VAAI is T-10 compliant?
• Makes leveraging it easier for lower-end devices
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Software Defined Storage
Software “Defined” Storage – the one remaining piece of the
SDDC story
Much like vCNS and NSX have eliminated manual networking
processes, vSAN eliminates the manual storage processes
Policy driven; defined instead of interpreted
Single data store per cluster
Manage at the VM layer
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The “Classic” Way
In 5.1, previously used storage profiles to “interpret” different
storage capabilities
• No standards
• Manually created
• No service guarantees
• Storage DRS/SIOC could limit some guests to help
• Multiple platforms – outside the VMware interface scope
• Limited integration
Result: Limited portability, significant differences between
platforms, and a lot of continuing manual work on the side of the
storage admin
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The “Modern” Way
Define storage policies
Storage platform adapts your workload to match the policy
Adjust policy on the fly as needed
Guaranteed service levels
Portability
Once again, we are abstracting storage to be a VM property, much
like CPU allocations, RAM capacities, or networking segments
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Designing “Good” Policies
vSAN will allow you to set almost any combination of possible
attributes for a storage policy
What makes a good policy?
• Redundancy
• Failure zones
• Disk striping (RAID)
• Read Cache
What makes a bad policy?
• No redundancy
• Avoid waste!
• Cache reservation on namespace (it’s text!)
• Thickness of namespace (still just text!)
• Stripe width of namespace (getting the hint?)
• Same policy for everything
• A small web server with static content probably doesn’t need a cache reservation,
or much stripe width
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Storage Recap
Size isn’t everything, it’s the performance counts
Understand the nature of your workloads
Consider implications of what technology allows you to do
Don’t overlook business continuity requirements
Design for failure – assume anything can and will fail
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Design Considerations
Physical Consideration
• Number of Sites
• Active/Active Sites
• Latency between sites
• Transport Fabric (L2 or Leaf and Spine)
• Server Cluster locations
Security Considerations
• Isolated zones (Internal, DMZ, External)
• Virtual machine groups
• Isolation between virtual machines
• VPN requirements
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Design Considerations
Connectivity Requirements
• Site spanning of L2 networks
• IP addressing preservation
• Multiple N-S egress locations
• E-W traffic optimizations
• Routing requirements
Access Requirements
• Access to physical hosts on same L2
• Virtual machine IP addressing
• IPv4
• IPv6
• Virtual machine reachability
• Direct
• NAT
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Overlapping IP Addressing/Existing IP Addressing
Design Constraint
Preserve existing network IP
addressing scheme and application
addressing scheme
Re-use IP subnets across tenants or
Zones of Control
What NSX Enables
• No changes to physical infrastructure
• No changes in the configuration of the
application
• Reduced deployment time
• Progressive migration to new
infrastructure without disruption to
application users
• Normalized segmentation and network
configuration
• Troubleshooting benefits/Operational
benefits
Design Solution
• Network overlays provisioned across
hypervisors on separate network domains
• Options for unicast, multicast of hybrid
physical network configurations
• Requires only L3 connectivity (no need for
trunking or VLAN extensions across
network domains)
• Network overlays provisioned across
hypervisors on separate network domains
• NAT implemented as edge service
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Workload Mobility
Design Constraint
Application mobility limited by physical
network topology
• Disjoint L2 domains
• Datacenter Interconnect (DCI)
• VLAN extensions
What NSX Enables
• Removes need for trunking across
disjoint L2 domains
• Removes need of presenting two
network stacks to the hypervisor
• Removes need for extending VLANs
across L3 boundaries using data
plane implementations such as VPLS,
OTV, etc.
• No need for a multicast-capable WAN
• Allows preservation of current network
topology and addressing scheme
• Single management point/integration
point (NSX Controller API), as opposed
to having to orchestrate tasks across
individual network nodes
Design Solution
• Network overlays provisioned across
hypervisors on separate network domains
• L2-bridge gateway services to provide
connectivity for bare-metal applications or
VLAN-backed applications
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Use Case – Providing Security Services to Applications
What NSX Enables
• East-West Firewall services
• North-South perimeter firewall
• High performance, highly scalable in-
kernel firewall service
• Security policies that follows the entire
VM lifecycle
• Centralized management of security
policies with distributed enforcement of
such policies
• Policy definition can be based on
vCenter objects
• Activity Monitoring allows for policy
enforcement based on user identity
Design Constraint
Application mobility imposes security
challenges. Lack of native security
capabilities in the application.
Design Solution
• NSX Manager deployment and
administration of security services
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IP
Transport Network
NSX
Controller Cluster
NorthboundRESTAPI 11.1.1.10
Gateway Service
Appliance/VM
Virtual
NetworkVM1
VM2
VM1
VM2
NSX – How It Works
10.2.2.10
Data Plane Control Plane
VM1VM1
VM2
Cloud
Management
Platform
1 2
Hypervisor
10.1.1.10
VM3
192.168.1.0/24
Corpnet
20.1.1.2
VM3
Corpnet
20.1.1.2
10.97.110.10
VM2
VLAN 9
VM4 VM5
VLAN 9
VM4 VM5
1 2
Existing
DC
Network(s)
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Opportunities for Automation
Full automation Partial automation
Plan and
request
Self-service
portal
Billing and
charge back
Application
configuration
management
User access
provisioning
Service
catalog
Operate and
monitor
Performance
dashboards/
visualization
Incident
management
Automated
scaling
Monitoring
General
infrastructure
Business
continuity
Analytics
and capacity
management
Discovery
and asset
management
Virtualization
platform
management
Physical
resource
management
Application
lifecycle
management
Multi-cloud
management
Provision and
deploy
Application
provisioning
Service
provisioning
Application
orchestration
Security and
compliance
Processes in the operating cycle that can be automated
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Component Integration and Interoperability
Network
Services
External
Systems
vSphere
(vCenter/ESX)
vCenter
Orchestrator
vCenter Operations
Manager
vCenter
Configuration
Manager
vCenter
Infrastructure
Navigator
vCenter Chargeback
Manager
AMQP (RabbitMQ)
vFabric Application
Director
vCloud Automation
Center
vCloud Connector
Site Recovery
Manager
Backups
vCloud Director
Public Cloud
Add more vCenters for
scale
VMware API for Data Protection
(VADP)
Some vendors back
up vCD vApp
No integration with
SRM and vCD
vCNS
Manager
vApp must be off
Network Extension
uses Layer 2 VPN
Topology
Adapter
v0.9.1 Compliant
Service
Insertion
Framework
Collects from vSphere, vCD,
and vCNS Edge
Edge integrated
w/vCD; App not
Customization w/
API/Adapter
Integrated
SQL
vCloud
API
REST
API
vCloudAPI
vCloudAPI
vCloud API
REST
API
VIM API
VIM API
vCloud
API
vCloud API
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Key Takeaways
3
2
1
Understanding of the key design considerations
for SDDC
Understanding of the key components
of an SDDC
Understanding of the key integration points
of SDDC
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Where Do I Go for More Information?
SDDC
• VAPP4679 – Software Defined Datacenter Design Panel for Monster VM’s
• VCM5048 – Automating the Software Defined Data Center: How do I get started
• VSVC7498 – Deploying the Software Defined Data Center today, Customer perspectives
and tips on optimizing VMware environments with SDDC
Software Defined Storage
• STO5638 – Best practices for Software Defined Storage
• STO5027 – VMware Virtual SAN Technical Best Practices
• STO4798 – Software Defined Storage: The VCDX way
Software Defined Networking
• NET5716 – Advanced NSX Architecture
• NET5184 – Designing your next generation data center for Network Virtualization
Cloud
• PHC4750 – How to build a hybrid cloud in less than a day
• PHC5640 – The story behind designing and building a distributed automation framework
for vCloud Hybrid Service
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VMware Architect Community Launch
Join us as we launch the VMware Architect
community for the SDDC
Enjoy drinks, snacks, and conversation with other
champions of SDDC
Intercontinental Hotel
The Pacific terrace
Wednesday 28th August
5PM – 7PM