Own your Cloud Experience - TechUG · 2018-09-06 · Lenovo SDI Portfolio: Choose your Path to Cloud Modular Scaling ThinkAgile CP Series Composable Resources Platform Services ThinkAgile

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Own your Cloud Experience

Grant Amos | August 2018


IT services increasingly delivered through Clouds

Source:*IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2018 Predictions, Doc #US42014717, Oct 2017 .** Rightscale 2018 State of the Cloud Report

✓ Agility

✓ Rapid deployment

✓ Ease of Use

✓ Minimal management

“47% of enterprises reclaimed apps

from public cloud in last 12 months”

– IDCBUT….


Technology

Silos

Domain

Specialists

Traditional IT Operations prevent Cloud delivery

• Specialized Skills Required

• Process Bottlenecks

• Complex Configurations

• Cross-Functional Coordination

• Multiplex Troubleshooting

• Brittle Implementation

• Difficult to Support

…so this is

what

I need my IT

to deliver

Network

Team

Compute

Team

Storage

Team

Network

Configuration

Compute

ConfigurationStorage

Configuration

Switch hardware

Network design

Physical connectivity

VLAN provisioning

Subnet provisioning

Firewall configuration

Network services

Storage hardware

Storage design

Pool configuration

Volume provisioning

Service-level mgmt

Snapshot configuration

Replication/DR

Server hardware

Cluster Design

Hypervisor deployment

Cluster configuration

VM provisioning

Container provisioning

Application topology

Cluster interfaces

Cluster IP mgmt

VM interfaces

VM IP mgmt

Container interfaces

Container IP mgmt

Cluster connectivity

Cluster access

VM connectivity

VM access

Container connectivity

Container access

Controller interfaces

Controller IP mgmt

SAN interfaces

SAN IP/WWN mgmt

Target interfaces

Target IP/WWN mgmt

Controller connectivity

Controller access

SAN connectivity

SAN access

Volume connectivity

Volume access

Server attachment

Clustered storage

VM attachment

VM storage

Container storage

Application storage

Server boot storage

Cluster volume mounts

VM volume mounts

Container volume mounts

Application mounts

Backup configuration

High Operational Costs

Heavy Overhead

Slow Delivery

High-risk Outcomes

Application

Owner

I need to test

my new

E-commerce

System


Application needs drive cloud deployment choices

Businesses have many paths to the cloud

Re-engineering

Applications

to native cloud

architectures

Ground-up

Assembly &

Customization

from open-source

elements

Integrating

Building Blocks

from

vendor-supported

components

Vendor-supported

All-in-One

On-Premises

Cloud Platforms

Technical

Complexity

Turnkey

Simplicity


Lenovo can help across any cloud journey

Simplified

Hyperscale

Systems

Certified Nodes

HCI Appliances

Turnkey Cloud

Systems

Specialized Turnkey

Software-Defined Infrastructure

Hyperscale

Public Cloud

Providers

Service Providers

& Businesses

evolving into

Cloud Providers

SDI Foundations

to Simplify and

Optimize


ThinkAgile CP..”now takes the (HCI) journey

to the next phase by treating compute,

storage and networking resources as

hardware resource pools, that can be

provisioned and managed via a software-as-

a-service portal, in an automated and

application centric fashion.”

CPDelivers a premium cloud experience, safely behind your firewall, with better cost containment than public cloud

Own Your Cloud Experience


✓ Rapid Application Delivery with Turn-key, End-to-end Automation

✓ Easy to Manage Use Generalist, free up the specialists

✓ Simple to ScaleIndependently Grow Compute, Storage, Network

✓ Low Maintenance Fully Automated Code Updates of Entire Stack

CPDelivers a premium cloud experience, safely behind your firewall, with better cost containment than public cloud

Own Your Cloud Experience


ThinkAgile CP Own your Cloud Experience

Independently

Scalable

Capacity

Cloud Controller

SaaS-based management• Manage from Anywhere

• On-premise option*

• Multi-site, Single Pane of Glass

Multi-tenant• Physical and Logical Tenancy

• Network Micro-segmentation

• Block-level Storage Isolation

• Container Support

• Role Based Access Control

Turnkey Experience• End-to-end Automation

• Built-in Application Marketplace

• Integrated Live Support & Update

• Simple Data Management

• Zero-touch Lifecycle Management

Software-defined Agility

Multi-site

Connectivity

Availability

Data ProtectionCP


Cloud Portal










ThinkAgile CP Delivers Speed & Simplicity

Cloud

Platform

Turnkey

Composable

Private Cloud

Cloud Experience

In Your Own

Data Center

Easy to

Deploy, Operate,

and Maintain

Simple Management

Automatically

Assemble

Application Resources

Allocate Pooled

Resources

to Tenants

Assign Capacity

to

Common Pools

Modular Scaling

Software-Defined

Infrastructure

Application-driven Composability

16

Demonstrations

Demonstration

• In breaks

• At end of day

• Via Webex

• At your site



17

QUESTIONS


ThinkAgile CP Series

2nd Level Overview

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reserved.


The only solution to

offer all of this in one

package

• Turnkey – “Cloud-in-a-box” with everything, including single phone call support, or chat support

Nothing else to buy, integrate, or troubleshoot

CP Own Your Cloud ExperienceDelivers a premium cloud experience, safely behind your firewall, with better cost containment than public cloud

• Simplicity of the Cloud –App server deployment with just a few mouse clicks

Use generalists and free up valuable specialists

• Security – Behind customer firewalls. Micro segmentation deployed via easy app-centric interface

No added licensing cost. No expert required.

• Zero-Touch Lifecycle Management – Automated process updates entire stack

Eliminates support matrices, labor, and risk associated with code updates

• Virtual Data Centers – Secure multitenancy. Ability to segment resources.

Group and fence off specific resources as required by business units

• Clusterless – “clean sheet of paper” design (no baggage) eliminates clusters and file systems

Delivers excellent performance at scale. Less hardware lost to system overhead

• Scalability – Scale storage and compute independently

Simple scale-up of pools. Buy what you need, when you need it. No trapped resources.

Integrated encryption-at-rest, integrated data compression & deduplication

• Application Marketplace – Curated app store: certified, hardened, vendor tested templates

Implement and deploy new applications and services on-demand in minutes

• Management Efficiency – One portal for everything

Easily manage multiple systems, multiple sites, integrated data protection


ThinkAgile Cloud Platform Infrastructure

Network

Interconnects

+

Compute Blocks

+

Storage Blocks

Stack

End-to-end

Integrated Software

Appliances

Adaptive Overlay Network

Spark Hypervisor

Elastic Block Flash

Customer

Data Center

Network

1U

2U

2U


Cloud Controller

Unique & Different

CONFIGURE

• Bring online w/o expert

• No manual network configuration below customer network

• No virtual switch expertise required

• No need for storage management

• Single interface for all configuration & management

DESIGN POINT

• Blank-sheet design (no baggage) to deliver a cloud experience in your own data center:

Flexibility, ownership, security, performance, labor efficiency, real cost savings

ThinkAgile CP

Own your Cloud Experience

USE

• Lower system overhead – more of what you buy is available to the apps

• Performance at scale enabled by Adaptive Overlay Network, clusterless design, no file system overhead

• Application Marketplace

• Integrated Data Protection

SUSTAIN

• Fully automated updates of the entire stack

• Simplicity of capacity adds (auto discovery)

• Independently scale storage pool and compute pool

• Support the way YOU want it: Secure chat, or voice support, or email, for the entire stack


Cloudistics Web-based Cloud management

Provides cloud management

from a single portal.

▪ Automatic Updates

▪ Multi-tenancy

▪ Analytics

▪ 2 Factor Authentication

▪ HTML 5 - Portable

Network

Storage

Compute


Cloudistics Application Marketplace

Cloudistics Application Marketplace

makes it EASY to deploy and

manage software applications and

services.

▪ Implement and deploy new applications and

services on-demand in minutes

▪ Support multi-tiered, multi-tenancy on demand

▪ Flexible & scalable provisioning at will, as your

needs require


Optional Slides for Introduction

to ThinkAgile CP


What is “Cloud”?

• An IT Delivery & Consumption Model to provide infrastructure resources, applications and services on-demand or by subscription.

• An IT Operating Model that can easily adapt to meet changing application and service requirements

• a Place– A cloud environment can be anywhere… in your data center, in someone else’s, or both

• Server Virtualization– Virtualizing a data center does not deliver a cloud consumption or operating model, but

it is often one of many steps.

– Server virtualization is only one form of compute resources. Cloud could also provide container and bare-metal compute resources.

• Hyper-converged Infrastructure– Combining infrastructure components with seamless integration can be a large building

block toward a cloud model, but still requires many additional capabilities

Cloud

is

Cloud

is Not


Private Cloud Operating Models Have Evolved

One cloud model supports mixed workloads, but not optimized for all

Single Cloud Multi-Cloud

Workloads run on multiple siloed clouds to meet unique needs of each workload

Bridged

Multi-Cloud

Requires automation to link workloads and data across multiple cloud environments

Hybrid Cloud

Common integrated software platform spans cloud environments, with no conversion required and provides seamless workload elasticity

Lenovo Confidential


What if…

You could have total control of your applications and data in a cloud?

Your application infrastructure got the advantages of public cloud securely in your data center?

If complex infrastructure operations were automated for you?

You could overcome the barriers to cloud adoption with a single platform?

Your application users could get a premium cloud experience and IT could accelerate time to value?

You could deploy enterprise applications as easily as installing a mobile app?

SECURITY CONTROL EASY

AUTOMATION ONE PLATFORM ThinkAgile Experience

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Lenovo SDI Portfolio: Choose your Path to Cloud

Modular

Scaling

ThinkAgile

CP

Series

Composable

Resources

Platform

Services

ThinkAgile

SXM

On-Demand

Self-Service

End-to-End

Automation

Integrated

Infrastructure

Integrated

Software ThinkAgile

VXAppliance

ThinkAgile

HXApplianceCertified

HardwareThinkAgile VXCertified Node

ThinkAgile HXCertified Node

ThinkAgile MXCertified Node

Building Blocks Turnkey

Cloud

Model

Simplicity

Ag

ilit

y

HCI-ready HCI Cloud

coupled compute+storage

prescribed

resource

offerings

build your

own cloud

using

VMware

vRealize

Suite(Operations,

Automation,

Insight)

build your own

Integration & Networking

build your

own cloud

using

VMware

vRealize

Suite(Operations,

Automation,

Insight)

build your

own cloud

using

Nutanix

Prism

Central

&

Calm

build your

own cloud

using

Nutanix

Prism

Central

&

Calm

build your own

cloud

using

custom

tools

&

automation

VMware

vSphere

+ vSAN

Nutanix

Acropolis

MicrosoftWindows Server

+ WSSD

100% turn-key

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Own your Cloud Experience - TechUG · 2018-09-06 · Lenovo SDI Portfolio: Choose your Path to Cloud Modular Scaling ThinkAgile CP Series Composable Resources Platform Services ThinkAgile