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Resistance is Futile:
Tommy Trogden
Director – Global Product Marketing
Twitter: @vTexan
Blog: www.vTexan.com
Datacenter Automation is here!
Embrace it !
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My Asks…..
• Don’t be Quiet or Shy !!
• Instagram that yo !
• Tweet it out ! #ATXVMUG
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It’s also a social new world- EMBRACE IT!
• It’s about:
• Passion
• Learning
• Collaboration
• Sharing stories and knowledge
• Community
• Comfortable being uncomfortable
• Recognizing those that contribute
• It’s NOT about:
• Speeds
• Feeds
• “retweeting” for the sake of it
• Closed Minded
• “I have a LinkedIn Account”
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HOW MUCH DISRUPTION? QUICK POLL !!
• How many people in the audience have
a Smart Phone?
• How many people in the audience have
a tablet of some sort?
• How many people in the audience have
a laptop?
• How many of you have used ALL 3
today already ?
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• Hybrid Cloud – Built on CI
• Integrated Service Management
• Full cost transparent to BU
• Time to market & Value driven
• Captive Services
• Siloed & Isolated Infrastructure
• No cost transparency
• Inefficient Scale out model
• Non-Recoverable Engineering time
IT Inflection
Point
Current Path
Builder of
Components
Broker of
Services
IT is at an inflection point
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3 DISRUPTIONS TO OUR BUSINESS
CLOUDFLASH
CONVERGED
INFRASTRUCTURE
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THE NEW FACE OF IT
EMC ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUD
Self-Service
Portal
Multi-Cloud
Management
Application
Provisioning
Integrated
Chargeback
Self-Service
Data Protection
Expandable
Service Catalog
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IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Let’s start with the
Basics/Fundamentals
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WHAT’S YOUR VM LIFECYCLE PROCESS?
Request
Placement
Approval
Provision
Post-Provision
Management
Decommission
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THE REQUEST:
• Do you have a service catalog defined?
• First step in the process “Hey, I need a VM”
• How are these requests being done today?
• Is it a Change Management Process?
• Can it scale ?
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THE PLACEMENT:
• First big decisions “where do I place it”
• What is the performance requirements?
• What is the SLA?
• Test/Dev?
• Production ?
• Can it scale?
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THE APPROVAL:
• Who makes up the approval process?
• Is it a group?
• Change Advisory Board?
• Do you have a Tiered approval process?
• Is the process automated?
• Can it scale?
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THE PROVISION:
• Don’t “Deploy from Template”
• Does it need to pull IP Information ?
• Does it need to be added to AD?
• Hyper-V? Xen/KVM?
• Does it need to be a clone of a DB?
• Deploy to public cloud?
• Is it Automated today?
• Can it scale?
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THE POST-PROVISION
• Do you need application installation scripts?
• What apps need to be packaged with this?
• Would there be value in Automating this?
• Puppet/Chef or vCO Workflows?
• Does your current process scale?
• Can it scale?
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THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS:
• Do you:
– Handle End User Controls?
– Reconfiguring RAM?
– Reconfiguring CPU?
• Snapshot Management?
• Capacity Management ?
• Can your current process scale?
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THE DECOMMISSION:
• Do you:
– Have a VM Sprawl?
– Have a VM lease policy?
– Archive your VM’s?
• Are you:
– Migrating data down storage tiers?
• Can You:
– Sustain Your business the way you do it today?
• Can it scale?
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WHAT’S YOUR VM LIFECYCLE PROCESS?
Request
Placement
Approval
Provision
Post-Provision
Management
Decommission
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OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!
HARDWARE SOFTWARE SERVICES
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THE FOUNDATION….
POOLED RESOURCES, AUTOMATION & SELF-SERVICE
Self-Service & Automation
Virtualized Infrastructure
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Self-Service & Automation
WHAT ADDITIONAL PIECES ARE NEEDED?
Software-Defined Storage
Virtualized Infrastructure
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Operational
Management
Financial
Transparency
Self-Service & Automation
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Virtualized Infrastructure
Software-Defined Storage
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?
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Operational
Management
Financial
Transparency
Self-Service & Automation
“HYBRID READY” – EMBRACE PUBLIC CLOUD !
EMC Cloud
Service Providers
Virtualized Infrastructure
Software-Defined Storage
WHAT PIECES ARE NEEDED?
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ENABLES SELF-SERVICE IT
Self Service Portal
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
PaaSAaaS
Backup Policy &
Retention Choice
Storage Choice
Platinum
Gold
Automation & Service Level Selection
Daily Backup with 1 Year
Retention
On-Demand Restore
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Public
Cloud
High Availability for Workloads
Automated Disaster Recovery
Automation Enables
Anything-As-A-Service
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AUTOMATES EVERYDAY TASKS
CREATING A NEW BACKUP SERVICE LEVEL FOR CLOUD USERS…
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WHERE DO THE
APPLICATIONS AND
SERVICES COME FROM?
WHAT’S IN MY SERVICE
CATALOG?
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BUILDING YOUR BLUEPRINTS
WHAT GOES INTO PUBLISHING A NEW APPLICATION?
Customer Provided Media
and Licensing
Customer Defined and
Configured VM Templates
Customer-specific
application settings
Application Business Policies
(Security, Chargeback, etc)
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ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUD
DESIGN AND DEPLOY YOUR OWN COMPLEX APPLICATIONS WITH APPDIRECTOR
Accelerate Application
Development & Deployment
Easily standardize your cloud
application software stack
Download blueprints from the
Cloud Application Marketplace
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IMPORTING APPLICATION TEMPLATES
USING VMWARE SOLUTION EXCHANGE TO JUMPSTART YOUR CATALOG
Import the Application
Definition into AppDirector
Configure the Application in
AppDirector for your use case
Deploy from AppDirector into
vCAC as a service to deploy
Application Director is
integrated into the Portal
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PROVISIONING NEXT-GEN APPLICATIONS
PROVISIONING CLOUD FOUNDRY APPLICATIONS IN THE HYBRID CLOUD
Run Pivotal Cloud Foundry
environment in the Hybrid Cloud
Push Cloud Foundry applications
between local & remote instances
Easily scale your Cloud Foundry
applications
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NEW SOLUTIONS/APPLICATION DEV
PROVISIONING HADOOP CLUSTERS MADE EASY!
Deploy Hadoop clusters right
from the service catalog
Expand and contract the size of
your clusters simply
Easily monitor the status of your
clusters and nodes
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WHAT ELSE CAN GO INTO THE SERVICE CATALOG?
Can it be
scripted?
Does it have an
API?
Is it repeatable?
Are there any
Plug-ins?
The SKY
is the
Limit
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SUMMARY
• Resistance iS futile !
• If you don’t like change….
• AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS !
• Participate in the community!