Software Defined Datacenter (high level)

Software Defined Datacenter
Raising the Bar for Delivering IT as a Service
Dan Wofford – Staff Systems Engineer
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VMware’s Customers are on a Journey
Phase III
Phase II
Phase I
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CapEx Savings
thru
Consolidation
OpEx Saving
thru
Automation
Game Change
thru
IT as a Service
Abstract. Pool.
Automate.
Empower.
IT Production
Business Production
IT as a Service
VMware’s Customers are on a Journey
On average, how virtualized is the market?
2011:
57%
2009:
29%
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2012:
65%
Projected
2014:
80%
2010:
42%
CapEx Savings
thru
Consolidation
OpEx Saving
thru
Automation
Game Change
thru
IT as a Service
Abstract. Pool.
Automate.
Empower.
IT Production
Business Production
IT as a Service
VMware’s Customers are on a Journey
33%
2011:
57%
2009:
29%
CapEx Savings
thru
Consolidation
2010:
42%
2012:
65%
Projected
2014:
80%
50%
40%
OpEx Saving
thru
Automation
Game Change
thru
IT as a Service
50%
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Abstract. Pool.
Automate.
Empower.
IT Production
Business Production
IT as a Service
IT Behavior Shifts from Cost Reduction to Investment
Phase III
Phase II
Phase I
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66%
53%
53%
Reinvest in New
Apps & Services
Reinvest in New
Apps & Services
46%
51%
41%
Reduce Budget
Reduce Budget
Reduce Budget
IT Production
Business Production
IT as a Service
Reinvest in New
Apps & Services
Virtual Architecture - Abstraction
Traditional Architecture
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Virtual Architecture
Distributed Services – Pooling & Automation
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Virtualization Simplifies Provisioning of VMs, But …
Past
Enterprise
storage
Present
VLAN
networks
+
$10,000
10 weeks
$300
$1,800
2 minutes
5 days,
2 minutes
Firewall,
load-balancer
IDS, security,
monitoring
Availability
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Museum of Past IT Decisions
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Orchestrated “Cloud” Solution: Adoption
CMDB
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Orchestrated “Cloud” Solution: Ownership
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CMDB
!
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The same principles that transformed a single layer
of the data center…
Abstract.
Pool.
Automate.
and delivered unprecedented value for customers…
were applied to the entire data center?
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The Software-defined Datacenter: IT-as-a-Service DNA
Software-defined Datacenter:
All infrastructure is virtualized and
delivered as a service, and the
control of this datacenter is
entirely driven by software.
Standardised.
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Holistic.
Adaptive.
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Automated.
Resilient.
Software-Defined Datacenters Simplify Process
Future
VDC
Software-defined Datacenter Services
5 days, 2 minutes
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Consume All Infrastructure Services Through One Object
vApp Catalogs
Web-based
access
The demand for infrastructure is
delivered as portable images
Infrastructure
can be
provisioned
in a matter
of minutes
The supply of infrastructure is delivered
completely as virtual datacenters
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vCenter Automation Center – New Multi-tenant Resource
Abstractions
VMware vCloud Director
Organisation: Marketing
Users & Policies
Organisation: Finance
Organisation VDCs
Catalogs
Users & Policies
Organisation VDCs
(Gold)
(Silver)
(Bronze)
Provider Virtual Datacenters
VMware vCenter Server
Resource Pools
Datastores
VMware vSphere
Secure Private Cloud
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Port Groups
Catalogs
Logical view of VXLAN
Logical Network
Overview
• Foundation for elastic portable VDC’s
VXLAN: Dev
• On demand networks without physical
network configuration
Benefits
Redundant
vShield Edges
• Ability to create a large number of
isolated logical networks
• Flexible IP subnet management
• API to authoritatively program the
logical network
VXLAN
Distributed
Switch
VLAN: 100
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Switch
VLAN: 200
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• Maintain visibility and control for
network admins with existing tools
Software Defined Storage: Architecting For Today & Tomorrow
Automation for all
apps across all
types of storage
Software Defined Storage
Storage Policy Based Management
Storage Partner
vSphere services – Snapshots, Clones, Replication, Thin Provisioning
Virtual
Volumes
Virtual Flash
VMFS
NFS
Distributed
Storage
Enable
Scale Out DAS
(Server Disks)
Enhance SAN/NAS
SSD Hard
disks
SAN/NAS
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SSD Hard
disks
Data Services
VMware vCloud Suite Delivers The Software-defined Datacenter
Productivity
Reliability
Innovation
 Based On Virtualization
• Delivered by VMware vSphere
 Recasting all datacenter services
as software
• Compute, storage, network
• Security, Availability
• Automation and Management
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How Do I Know Where to Start?
How do I operate in
this new world?
What technology do I use?
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Cloud Solution
IT Business
Management
People &
Organisation
Processes
& Control
Software Technology
& Architecture
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Cloud Solution Within a Cloud Capability Model
Reactive
Proactive
Innovative
IT Business
Management
People &
Organisation
Processes
& Control
Software Technology
& Architecture
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Cloud Capability - Reactive to Innovative
Reactive
Proactive
Innovative
“Standardise”
“Service Broker”
“Partner”
From IT silos to
standardised virtual
infrastructure
IT as a broker of
computing resources
across multiple cloud
environments
IT as a strategic
partner in driving
business
differentiation
 Develop an IT-owned
self-service model
 Begin to automate core processes
 Define cloud processes and
IT roles
 Introduce processes to define
service components’ costs
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 Expand automation of core processes
 Fully integrate a cloud Center of
Excellence
 Integrate management of third-party
clouds to expand your service broker
role
 Implement a consumption-based
financial model to support chargeback
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Next Steps to Cloud
Strategy
Align business
needs with IT
capability
Process
Streamline and
automate
processes to
achieve
business agility
Architecture
Establish an
enterprise
architecture for
new IT
infrastructure
Technology
Design and deploy
technology
infrastructure from
virtualization to
cloud
People &
Governance
Create roles and skills
necessary to ensure
company-wide adoption
and the accountability
framework and policies
for stakeholder
collaboration
Take the cloud
readiness selfassessment!
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Thank You
Questions?
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