Orchestrating virtual infrastructures with HP Operations Orchestration

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Orchestrating virtual infrastructures with HP Operations Orchestration

Muneer Mubashir

Sr. Product Manager

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Agenda

– Virtualization Management Challenges

– Using HP Operations Orchestration to Automate Virtual Infrastructures –Some Use Cases

– Demonstration

– Customer Success Stories

– Implementing OO in Virtual Environments

– Benefits and Summary

– Q and A

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Challenges with Virtualization

– Increasing IT

service complexity

– Increasing IT

visibility

challenges

– Service change

and provisioning

complexity

Thin clients

VirtualNetwork

VirtualServer

VirtualStorage

Virtualized IT service

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Hypervisor

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Managing Virtual Infrastructure

– 79% of organizations deploy virtualization technology in heterogeneous

environments

– On average, an organization uses 11 different platforms, technologies

and vendors for management

– 50% of organizations use only the virtualization vendor’s management

tool

– 67% of organizations maintain multiple departments for delivery and

support functions

– Only 30% of companies are completely satisfied with their deployment

of virtualization technology*

* Virtualization and Management Trends, Forecasts, and Recommendations- Enterprise Management Associates Research Report, 2008

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Room for Improvement

– 34% of organizations report a lack of internal skills required to manage

virtualization

– 40% of organizations say they don’t have the necessary resources to

implement virtualization

– Management responsibilities proliferate with the tools – resulting in

disconnected silos, VM sprawl, and an inability to tap virtualization’s full

potential

The paradox: Increased management costs cut into the potential savings that companies seek to achieve by moving to virtualization in the first place!

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Virtualization Automation Challenges

• Audit best practice compliance of physical & virtual devices

• Define and keep standards up to date with best practices

Standardization, compliance challenges

Manage change across IT service

Create VM

Provision/patch OS

Provision App

Provision storage

Configure App

Configure network

Configure thin clients

Work with change mgmt process, CMDB

• Coordinate change process

• Ensure consistent and error-free change process

Manage increased rate of change

More, FasterChanges6 minutes to provision server, 6+ hours to provision server, storage, network ****

“By year-end 2010, at least 50% of the automation and workflow management tasks in support of virtual

server infrastructures will be supported by evolving run book automation (RBA)-based tools.”

- Gartner, 26 November 2008, Research ID Number: G00151938

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Using HP Operations Orchestration to Automate Virtual Infrastructure

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HP Operations Orchestration

– The industry-leading solution for IT Process Automation and Runbook

Automation

– Provides a scalable and auditable process automation platform through

workflow execution

– Flexible authoring environment enables rapid time-to-value through drag-

and-wire visual interface

– Out-of-box content library contains 4000+ flows and operations that can

be leveraged on day 1

• Includes targeted content for automating VMware, Citrix Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V

virtual infrastructure

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Operations Orchestration “Flows”

– Automate operational

procedures and routine tasks

to reduce costs

– Execute in guided visual mode

or launch flows in “headless”

mode

– Seamlessly integrate with

other tools and processes

within the datacenter

– View complete audit trails,

reports and trends for all

automated processes

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Flexible Flow Authoring Environment

– OO Studio provides an

easy-to-use visual IDE for

creating/editing workflows

– Intuitive drag-and-wire

paradigm allows for rapid

prototyping and workflow

development

– Extensive content library

provides thousands of flows

and operations out-of-the-

box

– Visual flow debugger

assures correctness and

accelerates time to value

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Use Case Example: Virtual ProvisioningOO orchestrates the entire build: weeks to hours

Public

create virtual filersconfigure networkinginstall VMware ESX on hosts

two bare-metal hosts

register hosts in Virtual Centercreate a cluster from these hostscreate and configure networkingon the ESX hosts

connect hosts to networkand storage

clone and configurevirtual machines

enable and configure resourcepools and high availability

ESX ESX

connect guest operating systems to antivirus and software updates

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Product Demonstration

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Customer Success Story

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Customer: Global Telecom and Infrastructure Services Provider

Customer Success

Challenge

–Success of the business relies on agile provisioning and management of virtual infrastructure for clients

–Bare-metal provisioning requires multiple handoffs between IT silos

–Manual provisioning is error-prone and not auditable

Solution

–Implemented a self-service web front-end for clients to request, modify, and manage the virtual data center

–Automation solution created using combination of HP Operations Orchestration and HP Server Automation

–OO used to orchestrate provisioning, maintenance, and teardown tasks across multiple tools and platforms

Benefits

–Bare-metal provisioning time shrunk from multiple days to 4 hours or less

–Automation also reduced or completely eliminated errors in performing routine maintenance tasks

–OO provided integration platform to other tools and solutions within the virtual data center

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Payment processing services provider

Customer Success

Challenge

–Unmanageable virtual machine sprawl

–Un-timely and inaccurate patching/provisioning of virtual infrastructure

–Inefficient virtual infrastructure audit and compliance process

Solution

–Implemented HP Operations Orchestration to automate the virtual sprawl

–Wrote workflows for provisioning and hardening VMware ESX servers as well as product VM instances in compliance with corporate security best practices

Benefits

–Reduced time for (post-provisioning) hardening tasks per ESX server from over 2 hours to 1 minute

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Leveraging OO for Virtualization

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OO Content Library for Virtualization

– Out-of-box adapters supporting VMware VI3 and VSphere4 APIs (hundreds of distinct operations for automating VMware infrastructure)

– Dozens of virtual machine actions and configuration operations for Microsoft Hyper-V environments

– Numerous folders containing operations to automate Citrix Xen virtual hosts, networks, and storage

– All of the operations listed above can be dragged/dropped into Operations orchestration workflows to accelerate time to value

– Additionally, the OO virtualization accelerator pack provides generic (vendor-agnostic) end-to-end workflows providing out-of-box automation for common VM maintenance tasks• VM power operations

• VM creation and configuration

• VM migration

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Hundreds of Flows and Operations…

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Automate End-to-End VM Provisioning

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Integrate with the Data Center

– OO library includes content and integrations that support numerous commercial tools and platforms • Monitoring (HP OM/OVO, BMC, CA, IBM Tivoli, MSFT,…)

• Ticketing (HP SM/SC/SD, BMC Remedy, CA,…)

• Application and Web Servers (Apache/Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS, Citrix,…)

• Automation and Management Systems (HP Server, Network, Client, Storage Automation)

• Other devices/platforms/infrastructure components− OS Support for Windows, Linux, Unix

− Network gear, load balancers, storage solutions

− Email, commercial databases, printing, web services

– OO also provides numerous protocol adapters and a documented API for building custom integration solutions to internal tools and apps

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Orchestration

– HP Operations Orchestration integration with VMware

Virtual Center Orchestrator (vCO)

• Utilize OO workflow operations that invoke canned vCO workflows and

interpret the results

• Create OO workflows that combine content provided by both HP and

VMware

• Leverage OO’s broad integrations to change and incident management

tools

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Orchestrating Orchestration

OO-vCO integration can become the foundation for broader HP-VMware product integrations

BSA

vCenter

OOvCO

SA

NA

HPCA

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Infrastructure

Mgmt Tools (HP & 3rd pty)

Ticketing Monitoring

VirtualizationProvisioning &

Change Management

OSs Databases

Web / App ServersVirtualization

vCenter Solutions

LCM

Lab Manager

SRM

AppSpeed

CapacityIQ

vSphereNetworking

Config Control

Charge Back

HA vMotion

Storage vMotion

DRS

DPM

DVS

Fault Tolerance

Host Profiles

vShield

Update Manager

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On-Premise Virtual Infrastructure (Internal Cloud)

Amazon EC2(External Cloud)

Orchestrate the Cloud

Leverage available virtual resources

Automate capacity provisioning on demand

Integrate with existing tools and processes

ITSM

BSA/BSM

CMDB

…

EC2 InstancesVirtual Machines

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Summary and Benefits

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Automation of Virtualization ManagementBenefits Summary

Reduce Operational Costs

Improve Quality of Service

– Minimize training and management costs by automating diverse platforms

– Fully realize the benefits of virtualization through improves asset utilization

– Faster change execution and provisioning –accelerated time to market

– Define and enforce a standard implementation practice and policy

– Reduce errors through uniform process for physical and virtual resources

– Automate tasks to reduce or eliminate human error– Enforce the proper sequencing of dependent tasks– Meet aggressive service level agreements through

automation

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Q&A

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