2014 Dallas Sept VMware User Group Conference - Datacenter Automation
-
Upload
tommy-trogden -
Category
Education
-
view
190 -
download
1
description
Transcript of 2014 Dallas Sept VMware User Group Conference - Datacenter Automation
1
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Resistance is Futile:
Tommy TrogdenCloud Architect and Application SE ManagerTwitter: @vTexanBlog: www.vTexan.com
Datacenter Automation is here!Embrace it !
2
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
3
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Automate all things !! – it’s The Future !
The TruthThe LightThe way !
4
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
5
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
It’s not about feeds and speeds, it’s not about whose HBA chipset is faster…it’s about automation….it’s about Orchestration….it’s about compounding workflows !
6
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
It’s also recognizing that it’s going to take work
7
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
It’s going to require you to read a book
8
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The world has changed…and moved on – THANK GOD !
9
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Many Industries Face Structural Change
10
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Other traditional industries facing changes as well….
11
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Think about this for a second….
..If you don’t like change…you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
What the IT world is starting to realize…and if they haven’t…they are about to
is:
12
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Cloud…changes…EVERYTHING !!
13
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
14
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Paying Attention? Quick Poll !!
• How many people in the audience have a Smart Phone?• How many people in the audience
have a tablet of some sort?• How many people in the audience
have a laptop?• How many of you have used ALL 3
today already ?
15
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
What Apps can you not live without?
16
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
We have reached the inflection point• Hybrid Services
• Hybrid – Public – SAAS• Built on Converged Infra• Integrated Service Management• Automated, Orchestrated,
efficient• Full cost transparent to BU• Time to market & Value driven
• Captive Services• Siloed & Isolated Infrastructure• No cost transparency• Inefficient Scale out model• Non-Recoverable Engineering
time
IT Inflection Point
Current Path
Builder of Components
Broker of Services
17
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
How do you get started ?
Let’s start with the Basics/Fundamentals
18
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
What’s your VM Lifecycle Process?
19
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Request:• Do you have a service catalog defined?• First step in the process “Hey, I need a VM”• How are these requests being done today?• Is it a Change Management Process?• Can it scale ?
20
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Placement:• First big decisions “where do I place it”• What is the performance requirements?• What is the SLA?• Test/Dev?• Production ?
21
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Approval:
• Who makes up the approval process?• Is it a group?• Change Advisory Board?• Do you have a Tiered approval
process?• Is the process automated?
22
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Provision:
• Don’t “Deploy from Template”• Does it need to pull IP Information ?• Does it need to be added to AD?• Hyper-V? Xen/KVM?• Does it need to be a clone of a DB?• Deploy to public cloud?• Is it Automated today? • Can it scale?
23
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Post-Provision
• Do you need application installation scripts?• What apps need to be packaged with this?• Would there be value in Automating this?• Puppet/Chef or vCO Workflows?• Does your current process scale?
24
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Management Process:
• How do you handle End User Controls?• Reconfiguring RAM?, CPU? • Snapshot Management?• Capacity Management ?• Can your current process scale?
25
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
The Decommission:
• Do you have a VM Sprawl?• Do you have a VM lease policy?• Do you archive your VM’s?• Storage Migrations down tiers?• Can the way you do it today, be
sustained?
26
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Your VM Lifecycle Process
27
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Summary
• Embrace Automation / Orchestration • If you don’t like change….• Understand that the world is changing
!• READ/READ/READ !• Automate/Orchestrate • Develop a VM LifeCycle policy.
28
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
?Questions…Comments…Snide remarks?
29
Twitter= @vTexan Blog= vTexan.Com
Thanks for hosting vBeers last night !