Cloud Management
How to Successfully Deploy Your Windows Workloads in the Cloud
RightScale guiding enterprises to cloud success since 2007
Michael Peterson Cloud Integration Engineer RightScale
Justin Fenton Product Marketing RightScale
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Agenda • Cloud industry advancements • Customer migration successes • Windows cloud migration scenarios • RightScale Migration methodologies • Q & A
The cloud grows up
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What a Difference a Year Makes
Open Sourced
Goes OpenStack Launched
Adds Australia
GA
Apr Jun Aug Oct Dec Feb Apr
2012 2013
Launched
Grizzly Released
Hybrid GA
Jun Aug
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What Defines Business Value For You?
Increase Enterprise Agility
Drive Operational Efficiencies
Expand Markets & Capabilities
Increase Investment Flexibility
Faster Time to Market Accelerate Innovation Fail (or Succeed) Fast
Cut Infrastructure Costs Reduce Overprovisioning Increase IT Efficiency
New Geographies New Capabilities Web-Scale Applications
CapEX to OpEX Reduce sunk costs Reduce lock-in
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RightScale: Strong Cloud Exper6se
7 years 10 clouds
5M+ servers Scale apps to 10K+ servers
+ 3M +Coles +Eliza?
Windows migration success
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Real world Windows deployment scenarios Customer Data center transition
Situation Shutting down existing data center, assistance needed in moving on premises workloads to a portfolio of public clouds
Workloads Migrating on premises Windows workloads to AWS with HA/DR in Azure
Results
Improving operational efficiencies and reaching IT objectives around avoiding vendor lock in: ● Moving to an OpEx, pay as you go model ● Risk mitigation with vendor and geographic diversification
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Real world Windows deployment scenarios Customer Leading healthcare vendor
Situation Migrating electronic medical records (EMR) and Dev/Test workloads
Workloads ● Leverage Azure for Dev/Test IaaS environments in the public cloud ● Deploying 17 .NET environments in Rackspace/OpenStack private cloud
Results Increasing workload agility: ● Accelerating innovation cycles with Azure dev/test environments ● Consistent management across public and private cloud portfolio
Windows in the cloud
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Overview of RightScale Windows support
RightScale Server Templates customers have leveraged for migrating their Windows workloads: ● Database Manager for Microsoft SQL:
○ Configures a stand alone or high-safety mirrored pair of database servers. ● Microsoft SQL Server Witness:
○ Configures a SQL Express database server used to provide automatic failover for a high-safety mirrored pair of database servers.
● Microsoft IIS App Server: ○ Configures an IIS web application server for use in a three-tier web architecture.
● Microsoft Active Directory ○ Configures a Microsoft Active Directory server or additional Directory Controllers
Windows OS and SQL Support ● Windows Server 2012 ● Windows Server 2012 w/ SQL 2012 ● Windows Server 2008R2 ● Windows Server 2008R2 w/SQL 2012 ● Windows Server 2008R2 w/ SQL 2008R2
Public cloud support: ● Windows Azure ● AWS ● Rackspace ● Softlayer
Private cloud support: ● OpenStack (KVM) ● Rackspace Private
Cloud (KVM) ● CloudStack
(XenServer, VMware, KVM)
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Evaluating Applications for the Cloud • Business impact
• Should we put this app on the cloud? • What benefits will we get?
• Technical requirements • Can we put this app on the cloud? • How much will migration or build out cost? • Security impacts?
• Choose the quick wins! • High business impact • Appropriate technical requirements
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Segmenting your Application Portfolio
• Segment the application portfolio
• Evaluate against ROI criteria • Business Impact • Technical Fit
• Focus on High ROI applications first
Elastic Web
Traditional
Cloud-Ready
Nightmare
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Segment Your App Portfolio for ROI
• Greenfield • Designed for cloud
Elastic Web Traditional
• Web architecture • Elastic design
• Legacy • Standard
technologies
Cloud-Ready
ROI
Nightmare
• Monolithic • Hairball
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Evaluation Framework Sample App 1 App 2 App 3 App 4 App 5
Business Impact
Demand fluctuation / uncertainty ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Fast time to market ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Time limited ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ …
Technical Requirements Load Balancer: Session Affinity ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Application: Licensing ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Cache: Persistent ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Database: Working set size ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Security: Egress filtering ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ …
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CloudSight Consulting Benefits • Align your cloud strategy with your business objectives.
• Identify target applications for migration to or initial build on cloud.
• Understand unique cloud requirements for your applications.
• Prioritize applications by cloud- readiness.
• Discover cost savings opportunities.
• Select the best-suited IaaS providers -- public or private.
• Design application architectures that reflect cloud best practices.
• Develop an end-to-end plan, from strategy to implementation.
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CloudSight Consulting Packages
CloudSight: Roadmap
CloudSight: Portfolio Plan
How does cloud fit into my corporate strategy and business needs? What does cloud success look like? How do I measure it?
Which applications are best for the cloud? How do I map opportunities against requirements? How do I prioritize?
Which clouds are best for my applications? What are the architectural decisions to consider? How do I migrate?
Roadmap Portfolio Assessment Architecture & Plan Execution
Engineering & Onboarding
How do I best use RightScale to build and deploy my applications?
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High Level Deliverables
CloudSight: Roadmap
Strategic objectives Technical constraints Key success factors
Application Assessment: 20 apps CloudRank Heat Map
Cloud Short List: 2 apps Architecture Requirements Architecture Diagram High-Level Project Plan
Roadmap Portfolio Assessment Architecture & Plan Execution
CloudSight: Portfolio Plan
Engineering & Onboarding
Step-by-step Project Plan Onboarding Scrums Custom Engineering Launch Support
Q/A | Discussion
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Next Steps • Lay out your cloud strategy & determine how you will evaluate success • Identify quick win applications and use cases • Get started - What are you waiting for?
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