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Cloud Solutions with vCloud Director
Notes from the Field
James Charter
Practice Lead, Virtualization Services
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• About Long View Systems
• Solution Areas
• vCloud Director & Converged Infrastructure
• Case 1 – Public Service Provider
• Case 2 – Private Development Cloud
• Lessons Learned
• How Can We Help?
Agenda
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• One of North America’s largest IT Services/Solutions organizations
• Focused on end-to-end, operational IT Infrastructure
• Industry leading expertise in key technology innovations and best practices
• Extensive project experience (complete lifecycle) with SMB to enterprise corporations
• A people-focused corporate culture dedicated to “Being the Best”
About Long View Systems
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Quick Stats
What we do • North American IT Services/ Solutions organization
focused on: • Infrastructure Services • Managed IT • Cloud • End User Computing Solutions • Procurement • IT Outsourcing
Key Statistics • Calgary (CDN HQ), Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton,
Denver (USA HQ), Houston, Dallas, Phoenix • 2011 expansion plans for US East-Coast
• Largest and Fastest Growing IT Solutions Company 10 to 800+ employees, $2M to $200M+ in 10 years • 600+ employees are technical today • 2011 total headcount trending to 1000+
• Privately owned and debt free, focused organic growth in leading technology areas
2011 expansion offices
Current offices
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Strategic Partners
• VMware Premier Solution Provider (Canada/US)
• Cisco Gold Partner
• EMC Velocity Solution Provider Partner
• VCE Certified to Sell and Deliver Vblock
• HP Converged Infrastructure Elite Partner
• NetApp Star Partner
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What we do – Virtualization
ASSESSMENTS: • Environment Health Checks • Full Technology Assessments • Operational Readiness Assessments • Business cases and ROI analysis
PLANNING AND DESIGN: • Architect and Design Solutions • Proof of Concepts and Pilots • Disaster Recovery Planning • Solution Strategies and Roadmaps
SOLUTIONS: • Converged Infrastructure • Private Cloud / Infrastructure as-a-Service • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure • Application Virtualization Infrastructure and
Packaging
MANAGEMENT AND OPTIMIZATION: • Backup and Recovery • Performance and Capacity Management • Availability, Monitoring and Alerting
solutions • Systems Automation, Provisioning and
Capacity Allocation
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Two use cases with different requirements and success criteria
• Public Service Provider
• Private Development Cloud
• Built with vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 5
• Each solution built with a different Converged Infrastructure as the ‘Cloud Engine’
Why vSphere 5 and vCloud Director 1.5?
• We had some usage requirements that could only be met with the new features offered in both products
• The scalability offered by the new products offers more agility
vCloud Director & Converged Infrastructure
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Long View Public Cloud Offering – OnDemand Environment (ODE)
Hosted Services for clients:
• Looking for additional resources off premise
• Who no longer wish to own IT Assets
• Want to be able to turn up or turn down services as business needs change
Requirements: Scalable, Secure, Adaptive, Repeatable
Scalable
• Expandable as additional capacity is required.
• Build in Pods
Case 1 – Public Service Provider
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Secure
• Multi-tenant, with tenant isolation across the infrastructure
Adaptive
• Architecture that can support future offerings and technologies that may not be exclusively virtual (including new hardware) within the same fabric
Repeatable
• Pod/Block approach to capacity/expansion, repeatable across geographic locations – Canada and the US
Case 1 – Public Service Provider
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How did we build it?
FlexPod Architecture (NetApp, Cisco, VMware)
Cisco Networking and Compute
NetApp Unified Storage (FAS3200 series) via NFS
Space savings via De-Duplication on the Volumes
Two Tiers of Disk
VMware Virtualization – vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 4.1*
Case 1 – Public Service Provider
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Case 1 – Public Service Provider
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Private Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS) Development Environment
Client looking for a new way to enable development and decrease the time to deliver new products to the business. Current model is based on a combination of traditional virtualization and physical platforms.
Requirements: Scalable, Consistent, Responsive
Scalable
• Capable of hosting 1000’s of VM’s
• Capable of hosting many projects concurrently within their own security boundary (Organizations)
Case 2 – Private Development Cloud
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Consistent
• Share re-useable components (master templates) to create standardized offerings. Share these components across projects (Organizations).
Responsive
• Create a framework where development platforms (groups of related VM’s - vApps) can be quickly provisioned (Linked Clones).
• Scale and provide consistent performance for workloads.
Case 2 – Private Development Cloud
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How did we build it?
V (VMware) + C (Cisco) + E (EMC) to create a Reference Architecture
Cisco Networking and Compute
EMC Unified Storage on VNX via NFS
• FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) – Using Two Types of Disk
• FAST Cache (Enables Flash Drives to used for Array Cache)
VMware Virtualization – vCloud Director 1.5 on vSphere 5.0
Case 2 – Private Development Cloud
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Case 2 – Private Development Cloud
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1. Monitoring and Predictive Tools!
• vCloud Director introduces new levels of abstraction, so our methods of monitoring and troubleshooting have to change
• Leverage vCenter Operations and CapacityIQ
• Leverage advanced reporting for your storage platform
• Understand you environment! Set yourself up for success!
Lessons Learned
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2. Understand Your Requirements
• IaaS often involves process change, engage with the business an co-develop process together.
• Interface with the business to determine what is required in the Catalogs
Lessons Learned
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3. Plan, Plan, Plan, Test, Test, Test
• Take the time to plan out your environment, and then validate it with extensive testing and create an environment baseline
• Test your environment as it grows using the same testing and measure it against your baseline.
Lessons Learned (Continued)
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4. Leverage Native VMware technologies to reduce overhead on common processes
• VAAI – Use a compliant array to reduce host overhead for storage tasks
• vShield Endpoint – Use with compliant Anti-Virus product to offload antivirus processing from the guest
Lessons Learned (Continued)
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Gartner, predicts that “20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets by 2012.”
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061511-gartner-private-clouds.html?page=2
Parting Thoughts
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Interested in moving forward with your own Cloud Initiative?
• Drop by the Long View table, tell us your story, and talk with one of our experts
• Ask to have one of our Account team book a meeting to discuss your requirements
Contact us
Email: [email protected]
How Can We Help?
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James Charter Practice Lead, Virtualization Main: 403.515.6900 Direct: 403.515.3331 Email: [email protected]
Thank You