Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Architecture

Compounding effect of your current IT environment inflates the cost of IT

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Devices you support

Activities you perform

Tools you use

Soaring Complexityand OpEx

Educational Institute Challenges

Decentralized Resource Ownership

Seasonally Shifting Resource Demands

Transient User BaseHeavy use of Open

Source

Educational Institute Use Cases

Self Service Catalogue and

Chargeback

Dynamic Resource Provisioning

Automatic Reclamation of VMs

Heterogeneous Hypervisor Support

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Dell VIS Self-Service Creator

Automatic Provisioning

Automated, policy-driven delivery of IT compute resources

Role-based access to resource deployment within dedicated infrastructure pool

Automatically reclaim underutilized or abandoned resources

Multi-vendor solution support across the ecosystem, hardware, hypervisor, mgmt sw

Role-based access for users to manage their resources throughout their lifecycle

Workload Templates

Sprawl Control

Group-based Reservation

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Heterogeneous Ecosystem

Self-service Portal

Pre-packaged process automation workflows, tailor without code changes

Providing IT users the power to deploy and manage their resources while enabling IT to respond faster to business requests and improve control over IT environments.

Tangible Results of VIS Self-Service Creator

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“Self-service provisioning and virtual machine leasing are a central focus of how we take our private clouds to the next

level.  Out of the box, VIS Creator provides a scalable foundation for simplifying and optimizing workload creation

and lifecycle management.”– Matt Brooks, Sr. Enterprise Architect, Dell IT

“Self-service provisioning and virtual machine leasing are a central focus of how we take our private clouds to the next

level.  Out of the box, VIS Creator provides a scalable foundation for simplifying and optimizing workload creation

and lifecycle management.”– Matt Brooks, Sr. Enterprise Architect, Dell IT

ChoiceUsers choose and manage the right-sized resources for their business reducing the need to over provisioning

FlexibilityIntegration into heterogeneous ecosystem and automatically reclaiming abandoned resources saves up to 27% of annual IT budget

AgilityStandard workloads and automated processes reduces the number of tasks by 64% and number of tools by 80%

The Challenges You Face

Improve Service Delivery while Lowering Operational Costs

• Scale and Rate of Change

• Timely Delivery of Systems

• Governance & Compliance

• VM Sprawl

• Multi-Vendor

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Management challenges solved by VIS Self-Service Creator

• Do it yourself ITSimple interface to request IT workload from a pool of available resources gets you up an running in minutes

• Cut IT setup time by hoursAutomated process to deploy a virtual machines

• Easy CustomizationPre-packaged processes can be customized in just hours without any code changes

• Rapid allocation of IT resourcesAllocate and reallocate compute resources dynamically for immediate delivery of the services your business needs

• Flexibility with controlAutomation, governance, and control that allow companies to deploy virtualization beyond initial plans8

Timely Delivery

Governance and Compliance

Scale and Rate of Change

What is Dell VIS Self-Service Creator

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• Automated Service Delivery Platform for Virtual Desktops and Servers

• Policy-based, Automated Provisioning

• Role-based, Self-service portal

• Right-sized, on-demand service delivery

• Controls VM Sprawl by proactively limiting consumption and automatically reclaiming resources

• Role-based control

• Multi-vendor solution support across the ecosystem

VIS Self-Service Creator

Reduce Tasks by 64% Reduce Tools by 80% *

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BeforeWith VIS Self-Service

Creator

11 tasks, 5 tools 4 tasks, 1 tools

Policy Based Self-Service Provisioning• Process automation accelerates service delivery

and reduces operational cost by eliminating:• Multiple tools, multiple people

• Manual processing

• Service lead times

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Delegating self-service empowers users while enforcing governance

Role Based, Self-service Portal

• Initiate new resources and manage existing resources from a easy to use web tool

• Custom catalog of production and development solutions

• Have visibility into costs and usage of resources

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Right-sized Resources at the Right Time• Modify resources on

the fly

• Reduce over-provisioning and unauthorized resource usage

• Ensure resources are deployed on the proper tier of infrastructure

• Raise visibility of resource consumption and associated costs through cost allocation and capacity management

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ResourceReservations

Host orHost Cluster

CostProfile

Storage

Memory

Network

ServiceTiers

MachineQuota

CPU

BusinessGroups

BA

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Identifying and Reclaiming Inactive VMs

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Filter based on user defined criteria

• Unknown Owner• Turned off, or not logged in• Low utilization

Automate corrective actions•Reclamation workflow•Owner notifications•Administrator or Owner actions

Monitor Progress•Reclamation efficiency•Cost Savings

Role Based Visibility and Controls

Control through process not people– Manage access controls for each user, group or service tier

– Carve out resources for particular group even in a shared infrastructure

– Consistent workflows improves consistency

15Request Approval Provision Manage RetireUser Archive

AllocateCost

ApprovalPoliciesSLA

BuildProcess

ReclaimPolicies

BusinessGroups

ServiceTiers

AccessControl

CapacityAllocation

RequisitionPolicies

ProcessAutomation

WorkflowPolicies

LeasePolicies

ArchivePolicies

ResourceLimits

By business group

AcrossInfrastructur

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IT

Flexibility – Management Across the Ecosystem

• Integrates into existing infrastructure– Policies to customize process automation without code changes

– Out-of-the-box plug-ins for the major plays throughout the ecosystems

– SDK tool kit to create custom plug-ins

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Workflow

Plug-insLibrary

Existing Management EcosystemOperationalMonitoringCMDB

AssetManagement

LicenseManagement

WorkOrder

Plug-in SDK

WebServices

SQLAccess

PolicyModification

Extensibility and Ecosystem Integration

Approvals

Existing Processes

RunBooks

Best Practices

Out-of-the box Developer’s ToolkitWorkflow Customization

VIS Self-Service Creator

Extensive support for existing tools

Leverage the knowledge and the tools you already have

– Supports multiple hypervisors

– Supports desktops and servers

– Multiple Image Deployment options

– Integrates with management ecosystem

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Dell VIS Self-Service Creator in Practice

“Self-service provisioning and virtual machine leasing are a central focus of how we take our private clouds to the next level.  Out of the box, VIS Creator provides a scalable foundation for simplifying and optimizing workload creation and lifecycle management.”

– Matt Brooks, Sr. Enterprise Architect, Dell IT

 

“Lifecycle management of virtual workloads is one of the most important elements of evolving and optimizing our private clouds.  VIS Creator gives us on demand, self-service workload provisioning along with scalable orchestration to contain sprawl and right-size capacity with workload leasing and reclamation.”

– Matt Brooks, Sr. Enterprise Architect, Dell IT

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