Cloud Readiness 101: Analyzing and Visualizing Your IT Infrastructure

Francie Tanner - panagenda

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Agenda

• Getting started• Introduction• What can you expect from this session?• What is The Cloud and why are companies “moving there”?

• Making your infrastructure transformation a success• Key factors identified and explained• User activity analysis - who uses what and how?• Application design analysis - identifying scope and feasibility constraints

• Summary: Infrastructure as a whole

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Introduction

• Francie Tanner, Director, Americas• Over 17 years experience in IBM Lotus consulting• Managing, architecting, and supporting

10 – 100'000 user environments• Experienced Lotus instructor and speaker• CH -> US -> AI -> US -> ?

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What can you expect from this session?

• Managing Infrastructure changes as a whole

• Understanding how moving to the cloud is best approached in an IBM ICS environment

• Ways to identify and measure critical success factors involved, in order to be able to calculate expected effort

• Samples of environment and application analysis

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What is cloud= someone else’s computer

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XPages

IBM Connections

HTML5

IBM Notes

• What exactly is the cloud and why are companies moving there?

• Why?• Costs – CAPEX vs OPEX• Flexibility, Integration, Scalability• Easier Upgrades• Speed (?)

• How?• That is what this session is all about• There is no “Move to cloud”–button …• “Adapting a Cloud strategy” is a key driving factor for many

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Getting started

Getting startedEvolution of IT projects: From static projects …

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Getting startedEvolution of IT: Classic 18 – 24 month upgrade project

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Project

Stable StableChange

Getting startedEvolution of IT projects: … to ongoing agile transformation!

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Getting startedAgility is the key to success

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Continuous Change

One goal? More like many moving targets!

XPages

IBM Connections

HTML5

IBM Notes

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Continuous Change

Getting startedAgility is the key to sucess

Agenda

Making Your Move a Success

Key factors identified and explained

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Key factors identified and explained

• Clarifying why you do it and for whom• Understand the motivators of your stakeholders

Management / Governance, Technical, Business• Why you do it has a big influence on setting your goal

and how you measure success

• User Activity Analysis• Demand Characteristics

• Usage - Reads, Writes, Users• Load - Transactions, CPU, Memory, …• Availability / Reliability / Performance

• Geographies / Topologies• Bandwidth - demand vs. availability

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• Application Design Analysis• Cross Linkage of Mail, Apps and Business Processes• Dependencies

• Features & Functions e.g. Telephony integration, Archiving, …• Interfaces -Fax, Files, Printers, data in a text file on some server …

• Tying those findings to organizational structures• Has its foundation in user activity• Evaluate infrastructure utilization by cost center rather than technical by user

or DB• Identify areas with special significance

• e.g. databases which are mainly used by VIPs• activity benchmarks across departments

Key factors identified and explained

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Increasing

Consulting

Demand

Decreasing

Risk for

Customer & IBM

Making Your Move a Success

User Activity Analysis

Who uses what and how

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User Activity AnalysisWhat can user activity tell you?

• Read vs. Write traffic

• Mail vs. Apps

• Transactions - Server load

• High impact users & apps

• Excessive usage

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What happens when moving to the cloud ...

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What happens when moving to the cloud ...

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On premise

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What happens when moving...

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Off premise

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What happens when moving...

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Off premise

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Traffic jam

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User Activity Analysis

• Users• How many, where are they – session concurrency• When do they use resources – data center location• What kind of connectivity do they have• How much do they read vs write

• Resources – Servers, Clients, Apps• Rich clients, iNotes, plugins, browser• How many Apps, where are they• Server power consumed and required• Bandwidth to/from servers

• View selection formula: SELECT FORM = "Activity"• Add columns that are interesting in your scenario

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User Activity AnalysisHow to get the data without 3rd party tools

• DB Activity: LOG.NSF – documents with form type “Activity”

• View selection formula: SELECT FORM = "Activity"• Add columns that are interesting in your scenario

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• DB Activity: LOG.NSF – database activity details

• Note there is a 1400 activity entry maximum per database (FIFO)• There is also a 64K size limit for the user activity• More details in IBM Technote #1086245

User Activity AnalysisHow to get the data without 3rd party tools

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• DB Activity: CATALOG.NSF– related information, different focus– Full text index details– Replication information– ACL overview

Note: Domino does not distinguishbetween user, server ormaintenance tasks activity at this level

User Activity AnalysisHow to get the data without 3rd party tools

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• User Activity: LOG.NSF basic information is easy to extract

• File → Export → Comma Separated Value• Combine results of multiple servers in spreadsheet calculation

software

User Activity AnalysisHow to get the data without 3rd party tools

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User Activity AnalysisDEMO: Activity analysis example

Application Design Analysis

Scope and feasibility constraints

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Application Design Analysis

• Why does application design analysis matter• Dependencies on hardware (e.g. dongle, mobile phone, etc.) or

software (e.g. DLL on windows machine)• Standard applications (Mail, Teamrooms) often migratable with

very low effort• Design complexity and code type may make

transformation extremely complex

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Application Design Analysis

• Geography and Topology considerations

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Application Design Analysis

• Possible destinations• Web application (e.g. XPages)• Mobile application• Notes browser plugin• Hybrid• ...

Infrastructure as a Whole

Understanding the big picture

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Understanding the big Picture

• Combining usage and design analysis is essential

• Organizational considerations• Who owns and “will pay” for migrating an application?• Combination with HR data

• Compare efficiency of infrastructure consolidation vs transformation• Hard numbers are much easier to deal with than guesstimates

• IBM Domino Doublecheck is a great foundation

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Questions?