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Serge Maskalik, Sr. Director HCX R&D, VMwareSimon Kofkin-Hansen, CTO Hybrid Cloud, IBM

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The IBM | VMware strategic partnership

is designed to provide a security-rich,

compatible hybrid cloud solution, leading to an

improved user experience for its clients.



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— A diverse set of platforms and incompatibility can raise costs and complexity

— The need for compatible environments with seamless workload portability

Challenges of hybrid cloud computing

Challenges – prior to 2016 Challenges – resolved in 2016 Challenges – resolved in 2017

— Inelastic consumption

— Heterogeneous tools

— Complex networking

— No common authentication

— No common governance

— No common security model

— Multi-tenant limitations

— Workload compatibility

— Elastic, cloud consumption

— Common management

— Seamless networking

— Common authentication, security

and governance

— One-stop support model

— Simplified, migration-capable

networking

— Loosely coupled interconnectivity

— Faster, easier migrations

— More secure, trusted connections



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Hybrid cloud services: Simplifying hybrid cloud adoption

Hybridity

Migration

Enterprise

data centers

VM

VMVM

VM

VM

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VMVM

VM

VM

Other clouds

VMware on

IBM Cloud

Hybrid cloud services

(HCX)

—Security-rich point-to-point interconnectivity around the world

—Loosely coupled interconnectivity provided through software-defined network (SDN)

topologies to other clouds and data centers

— Integrated capabilities designed to provide faster, security-rich, movement of workloads,

using well-known industry methodologies, vMotion and vSphere Replication



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What are hybrid cloud services?

HCX – Hybridity

— Seamless extension of the data

center landscape with unified

management and support

HCX – Migration

— Faster, security-rich infrastructure

— Migration from on-premises to the cloud

• Loosely coupled interconnectivity

provided through software-

defined network topologies

• WAN optimized with

deterministic network routing

• Multiple faster, security-rich,

more reliable connections to

cloud and data centers

• Greater ease of use through

integrated console

• Bidirectional workload mobility

• Industry standard vMotion and

vSphere Replication



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HCX – Hybridity

Site A

Internet

Private line

Hybridity

Site B

Features

— WAN-optimized, compressed, deduplicated connectivity

— Automatic setup of hybrid connectivity to the cloud

— Security-rich Suite B encrypted with error-correcting code (ECC)

— Layer 2 extension with no need for an on-site NSX network

— Traffic steering and quality of service

— Existing NSX security configurations, including microsegmentation, can be imported

— Traffic load balancing overlay, enforced through policy

— Graphical user interface (GUI) to deploy and import network setup information

Benefits

— Bring your own IP (BYOIP) resolved

— Greater ease of use

— High-performance, security-rich, reliable and low latency link to the cloud

— Simplified and automated setup in minutes

— VLAN/Layer 2 extension without large-scale, on-premises SDN overhaul

— Up to 5 Gbps performance over L2 stretch

— Automatic detection and action on link failures, brownouts and congestions

— Multisite connectivity

— High-performance SD-WAN overlay on top of internet or multi-protocol label

switching (MPLS)/private line



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HCX – Loosely coupled interconnectivity

VM

VMVM

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VM

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— Cross-VMware version compatibility across v5.1, 5.5 and 6.x

— One virtual machine (VM) installation needed to establish connectivity

— No need for NSX deployment within the source data center



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• Helps ensure data centers are loosely integrated into globally available coverage of the VMware platform and IBM Cloud services

Helps ensure data centers are loosely integrated into globally available coverage of the VMware platform and IBM Cloud services

Combining IBM Cloud Foundation and HCX



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Technology Deep Dive



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Migrate Workloads in Bulk

• Utilizes replication to migrate

• Source VM remains online during

replication

• When replica is ready, can

schedule switchover or complete

immediately

• Great for mass-migration of VMs • Backwards compatible to ESX 5.1!

TargetON-PREMISES

Replication-based migration with WAN Acceleration

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Large VM replicating to target site while remaining online in on-prem environment

Target DCON-PREMISES

At user-selected time, the VM is powered off on-prem, power on the target DC for low down-time switchover

Active

Powered off

Active

Replicating



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Zero Downtime Moves for Critical Workloads

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Seamlessly Migrate VMs Across Infrastructure Boundaries

• Deliver vMotion between on-premise and target DCs

• Bi-directional, no vendor lock-in

• Compatible with vSphere 5.5+ (no upgrade required)

• Works across trust domain boundaries + multi-tenancy

• Provides live and cold migration support from UI and API for VMs

Overview

Key Use Case: Application Migration

Benefits• Migrate workloads into cloud without impact to app owner

• Bring back your workload at will, anytime!

• Disaster avoidance by quickly migrating VMs to the target site

Benefits

Target DC

SDDC

vSphere

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Extend Your Datacenter into IBM Cloud

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• Extend your DC; integrate resources

• Enable existing apps across DCs; no need to re-design even if VMs moved off-prem

• No need to upgrade vSphere on-prem to stretch networks

• NSX is not required, but secuiry policy migration is possible if NSX is used on premise

Benefits

• Quickly stretch one or many L2 networks

• Seamlessly move VMs and keep same IP and MAC

• Egress path optimization; no traffic tromboning

• vMotion-aware Proximity Routing

• MTU emulation over the WAN

• Elephant/mice traffic engineering / fairness

Overview

CustomerData Center



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Hybrid Pipeline for Migration

CONFIDENTIAL 14

Direct Connect

On-premise Datacenters

WAN Edge Fabric • WAN Optimization: Compression, De-Dup• Intelligent Routing• Strong Suite B Encryption

Hybridity/Migration Fabric

Network Extension & Mobility Services• Secure Migration Proxies • High-throughput L2 stretching

IBM Cloud Instance



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“Build It Yourself” ComparisonHCX

Includes:Build It Yourself

With:

Hardware (OTV, etc)

EnhancedWorkloadPortability

Legacy DR solutions(low downtime migrations)

SD-WANCompression, De-DupIntelligent Routing, TE

SD-WAN Startups

vSphere 6.xvSphere 5.1

vSphere 5.5Only HCX

Securely proxy vMotion//Replication

Abstract and Protect ESX Only HCX

vMotion & Replicate between Different version

Proximity RoutingElephant/Mice flow detection

vMotion+vR Aware

L2 Between the DCI HCX

Build It With VMware:

HCX

Only HCX

HCX



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Scenario:

— ACME corporation, based in Mexico, wants to expand into Canada and Europe.

— HCX has already deployed IBM Cloud Foundation instances in Toronto and Paris.

— Now it wants to extend its on-premises network in Mexico into these data centers and begin

moving its workloads into the company’s new Canadian and European headquarters.

Demonstration

Demonstration:

— Show setup and connectivity within the console

— Show the HCX integrated tooling into the vCenter console

— Demonstrate migration features

— Network topology deploymentMigration

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Benefits of

VMware HCX

on IBM Cloud

IBM Differentiation

— Access the entire suite of IBM Cloud services, including cognitive

capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT)

and deep learning tools.

Compatibility

— Obtain full compatibility with vCenter on and off premises.

— Gain workload portability, putting you in charge of where your

environments reside.

— Continue using your existing staff, tools and infrastructure.

Flexibility

— Expand, even globally, as your needs grow.

— Manage virtually everything from a single console.

Cloud economics

— Achieve predictable and simplified budgeting with cloud economics.

— Pay for only what you use with the cloud operating expense

(Opex) model

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— Choose your first workload and discover how IBM

and VMware can help you set up a world-class hybrid

environment.

— IBM is looking for clients to conduct proof of concepts

(PoC), sites where it can deploy and demonstrate the

service within their environments.

Let’s get started

— The POC criteria are:

— Willingness to be a design partner

— Willingness to be a reference

— Must deploy vSphere v5.1, 5.5 or 6.x

— Deploy any number of integrations, cloud to cloud

or on premises to cloud, during initial proof-of-

concept (PoC) phase

— Destination can be VMware Cloud Foundation

(VCF) or vCenter as a Service (VCS) offerings on

IBM Cloud

— Sufficient internet throughput speeds required to

demonstrate capabilities

— No-charge 30-day usage prior to service turned into

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