2015 apr - vmug conference - Datacenter Automation - Disruption

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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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Who am I?


Who am I?



Automate all things !! – it’s The Future !

The TruthThe LightThe way !



It’s about Disruption !

It’s about disrupting your

thinking…. your teams

thinking…..and not ignoring

change !


It’s going to require you to read books!!


So much FREE Training ! (Podcasts)

vBrownbag Lists of Podcasts• VCDX Series• VCP6-DT Series• Intro to VVOLS• HowTo: Docker++ (coreOS) w/Scott_Lowe• Setting up Network Services w/Puppet• PowerShell Desired State Configuration

The Cloud Cast• Masters, Minions and Pods – Kubernetes• Streaming Analytics for Distributed Apps• Container-Centric Application Deployments• Moving DevOps forward with CI:CD• Understanding CoreOS• Understanding Git and GitHUB


SO MANY Podcasts !!


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”


INNOVATION DRIVES OPPORTUNITY


MANY INDUSTRIES FACE DISRUPTION !


THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND….

If you don’t like

change…you’re

going to like

irrelevance even

less.


CLOUD….DISRUPTS…EVERYTHING


HOW MUCH DISRUPTION? QUICK POLL !!

• How many people in the audience have

a Smart Phone?


a tablet of some sort?


a laptop?

• How many of you have used ALL 3

today already ?


WHAT APPS CAN YOU NOT LIVE WITHOUT?


• 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


3 DISRUPTIONS TO OUR BUSINESS

CLOUDFLASH

CONVERGEDINFRASTRUCTURE



CONVERGED + PORTAL= FUTURE !


THE NEW FACE OF ITEMC ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUD

Self-Service Portal

Multi-Cloud Management

Application Provisioning

Integrated Chargeback

Self-Service Data Protection

Expandable Service Catalog


HOW DO WE GET AHEAD ? – AUTOMATION!


IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY

Let’s start with the Basics/Fundamentals


WHAT’S YOUR VM LIFECYCLE PROCESS?

Request

Placement

Approval

ProvisionPost-Provision

Management

Decommission


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 ?


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?


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?


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?


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?


THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS:

• Do you:– Handle End User Controls?

– Reconfiguring RAM?

– Reconfiguring CPU?

• Snapshot Management?

• Capacity Management ?

• Can your current process scale?


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?


WHAT’S YOUR VM LIFECYCLE PROCESS?

Request

Placement

Approval

ProvisionPost-Provision

Management

Decommission


OTHER THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!

HARDWARE SOFTWARE SERVICES


THE FOUNDATION….POOLED RESOURCES, AUTOMATION & SELF-SERVICE

Self-Service & Automation

Virtualized Infrastructure



WHAT ADDITIONAL PIECES ARE NEEDED?

Software-Defined Storage



Operational Management

FinancialTransparency


OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY



WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?


Operational Management

FinancialTransparency


“HYBRID READY” – EMBRACE PUBLIC CLOUD !

EMC Cloud Service Providers



WHAT PIECES ARE NEEDED?


WHAT WILL THIS DO FOR MY

ORGANIZATION?


ENABLES SELF-SERVICE IT

Self Service Portal

VM

OS

VM

OS

VM

OS

VM

OS

PaaS

AaaS

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


AUTOMATES EVERYDAY TASKSCREATING A NEW BACKUP SERVICE LEVEL FOR CLOUD USERS…


WHERE DO THE

APPLICATIONS AND

SERVICES COME FROM?

WHAT’S IN MY SERVICE

CATALOG?


BUILDING YOUR BLUEPRINTSWHAT 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)


ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUDDESIGN 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


IMPORTING APPLICATION TEMPLATESUSING 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


PROVISIONING NEXT-GEN APPLICATIONSPROVISIONING 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


NEW SOLUTIONS/APPLICATION DEVPROVISIONING 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


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


SUMMARY

• Resistance iS futile !

• If you don’t like change….

• AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS !

• Participate in the community!