HOW TO CLOUD ENABLE

VSPHERE WITH RIGHTSCALE

Panelists

• Rishi Vaish

• VP of Product, RightScale

• Utpal Thakrar

• Senior Product Manager

POLLS #1 AND #2

2

Agenda

• Introduction to RightScale

• From Virtualization to Cloud

• How to get to Cloud with RightScale

• Deep Dive on Cloud Enabling VMware

Who is RightScale?

Self-Service Cloud Analytics

RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management

Cloud Management

Design

Virtualized

Environments

Public

Clouds

Other

Services

Private

Clouds

Automate

Multi-Cloud Orchestration

Operate Deploy Report Optimize

NIST Definition of Cloud

Cloud

On-Demand Self-Service

Broaad Network Access

Resource Pooling

Rapid Elasticity

Monitored Service

Cloud Enabling vSphere

Cloud RightScale Cloud

Appliance for vSphere

vCenter Server™

ESXi

VMware® vSphere®

RigthScale SaaS Platform

How RightScale Does It

RightScale Cloud

Appliance for vSphere

vCenter Server™

ESXi

VMware® vSphere®

RigthScale SaaS Platform

Monitored Service On-Demand Self Service

Rapid Elasticity

Broad Network Access

Resource Pooling ✔

✔

✔

✔ ✔

POLL #3

8

● Built with the goal of

“Cloudifying” vSphere

● Simple, Stateless,

Fault-tolerant

● No inbound

connectivity required

● No vSphere Admin

access required

● Works with vSphere

5.1 or 5.5

High-level schematic for RCA-V

On-premises

Private

Clouds

RightScale Cloud Portfolio Management

Corporate Firewall

RightScale Cloud

Appliance for vSphere

vCenter Server™

ESXi

VMware® vSphere®

Public

Clouds

RIghtScale Cloud Appliance Benefits

Cloudify vSphere Add cloud capabilities to vSphere

resources

Portability Create and move portable workloads across clouds

and vSphere

Single pane of glass Manage cloud and virtualized environments from

one management console and REST API

Co-existence Leverage RightScale in parallel with vCenter,

vSphere admins can use familiar tools

Self-Service/DevOps Provide self-service access to automate workload

provisioning

Cloudify vSphere

• Define standard instance

sizes for easy self-service

• Control what tenants or

groups can share which

resource pools

• Provide controlled self-

service access to vSphere

resources

• Meter usage and provide

chargeback and showback

• Provide consistent

governance for use of

vSphere and cloud

resources

Extend vSphere with Cloud-Like Features

RightScale

• Standard instance sizes

• Multi-tenancy governance

• Self-service access

• Metering/Billing

• Monitoring

• Audit trails

VMware®

vSphere®

• Sharing of HW

resources

• Load balance across

hosts

• vMotion, DRS

• Scale up and down on a

host

Demo

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• Documentation available at: http://support.rightscale.com/09-

Clouds/VMware

• Download, deploy and configure RCA-V (cloud appliance)

• Upload RightImages (or your own bundled Images)

• Register the cloud endpoint on RightScale dashboard

• Discover images, instance types

• Create Multi-Cloud Image (MCI) out of the Images

• Register them in the ServerTemplate of your choice

How to get started with RCA-V?

Q&A

Get the White Paper

From Virtualization to Cloud: Leveraging vSphere, AWS, and Other

Clouds www.rightscale.com/vsphere-whitepaper

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