Symantec’s Real-World Experience with a VMware

Software-Defined Data Center

Jeremiah Cornelius, VMware

Jason Puig, Symantec

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Summary – Today’s Session

• Symantec Granite Labs is a large scale implementation of a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

– Based on VMware and Symantec technologies

– 250,000 VMs deployed, 27,000 under management today with 3,800 users

– 15-month implementation

– Have saved 32,000 Symantec IT staff hours

– While delivering better quality to end-users, in less time

• Are Symantec’s experiences applicable to your company?

– Why did SDDC make sense?

– What did they implement?

– What were the results and lessons learned?

Agenda

Why a Cloud Lab in an SDDC?

Cloud Based Labs: The ultimate challenge

Demo

Metrics / Lessons

Q&A

IT Drivers and the Software-Defined Data Center

IT Pressures – a Constant Over the Decades

“Are you getting the maximum efficiency out of your infrastructure?”

“How quickly can IT respond to LOB requests?”

• Legislative Compliance • Risk Reduction – SLAs & Business Continuity • Security – Corp Assets & IP

2008 2012 FUTURE

25% 60% >90%

Adoption Has Enabled Agility

WEEKS

DAYS/

HOURS

MINUTES/

SECONDS

Storage/ Availability Servers Networking Security Management/

Monitoring

2008 2012 FUTURE

SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATACENTER SERVICES

VDC

WEEKS

DAYS/

HOURS

MINUTES/

SECONDS

Driven by Infrastructure

SOFTWARE-DEFINED

DATACENTER

All infrastructure is virtualized and

delivered as a service, and the

control of this datacenter is

entirely automated by software.

Abstract. Pool. Automate.

MANAGEMENT

Physical Infrastructure

(Server, Storage, Network)

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

SOFTWARE-DEFINED

NETWORKING &

SECURITY

SOFTWARE-DEFINED

STORAGE &

AVAILABILITY

EXTENSIBILITY

VIRTUALIZATION

VMware vSphere

VMware vCloud Director

VMware vCenter

Orchestrator

VMware vCloud

APIs VMware vCloud

Automation Center

VMware vFabric

Application

Director

VMware vCenter

Operations

Mngmnt. Suite

VMware vCloud

Connector VMware vCloud Networking &

Security

VMware vCenter Site Recovery

Manager

Getting to The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)

VMware vCloud Suite

MANAGEMENT

Physical Infrastructure

(Server, Storage, Network)

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

SOFTWARE-DEFINED

NETWORKING &

SECURITY

SOFTWARE-DEFINED

STORAGE &

AVAILABILITY

EXTENSIBILITY

VIRTUALIZATION

VMware vSphere

VMware vCloud Director

VMware vCenter

Orchestrator

VMware vCloud

APIs VMware vCloud

Automation Center

VMware vFabric

Application

Director

VMware vCenter

Operations

Mngmnt. Suite

VMware vCloud

Connector VMware vCloud Networking &

Security

VMware vCenter Site Recovery

Manager

Symantec and the SDDC Storage &

Availability

Solutions

Security and

Compliance

Solutions

“At the endpoint and beyond”

Anti-virus and Malware

Virtual Server Hardening (vSphere)

Data Loss Prevention

Threat Correlation

Content Filtering

Legal & Regulatory Compliance

Managed Security

“Always on, always available”

Backup & Recovery

High Availability

Application Availability

Clustering

Archiving

Storage Management and Reporting

Dynamic Multi-pathing

Network Virtualization

1. Decouple

Physical

Virtual

2. Reproduce 3. Automate

Network Operations

Cloud Operations

Hardware independence

Operational benefits of virtualization

No change to network from end host perspective

Virtual

Physical

Why a Cloud Lab in an SDDC?

• Cost

– Single shared pool of networking, storage, and compute resources.

– Reduced administration

– Reduced integration costs

• Agility

– Data Centers available in minutes instead of days or weeks.

– Abstraction of hardware at all layers allows flexibility and reduced downtime.

– Faster turn around when implementing new solutions

– Reduce provisioning effort allowing employees to focus on their primary job - helping customers.

– Removing the burden of managing labs from engineers and trainers.

– Helps to break down barriers between departments and reduces silos

• Governance

– Secured within the Symantec Firewall / Private Enterprise Cloud

– Complete oversight into the datacenter topologies allow for improved control.

Cloud Based Labs: The ultimate challenge.

• Legacy Labs

Cloud Based Labs: The ultimate challenge.

• Legacy Labs

• Lab Complexity

• Dynamic Workloads

• “Hands On” / Self Service Required

• Scale

• Security / Protection

• Multiple Geographies

• Virtual on Virtual

• Hybrid Physical and Virtual Provisioning

• Cost

What we Deployed

• vCloud Suite

– vCloud Director

– vSphere

– vCNS

– vCenter Orchestrator

• NetBackup

• Endpoint Protection

• IT Management Suite

– Deployment Solution

– Asset Management Suite

– Service Desk

• Application HA

• 7xxx Core Switching

• UCS Blades

• FAS6240

• FAS6280

Demo

Metrics / Lessons Learned

• Cost

– Single shared pool of networking, storage, and compute resources.

• Explosive adoption, over 3,800 employees have used the solution since launch. Average over 2,000 active users every month.

• Over 250,000 virtual machines deployed since launch.

• Over 27,000 virtual machines under management

• Unified library of over 700 lab topologies within our Software Defined Data Center

– Reduced administration

• While fewer admins are needed, they need to be cross functional and understand the latest virtualization trends.

• Choosing the right vendors who understand cloud

– Reduced integration costs

• Cloud integration is complex, use as many integrated solutions as you can which are proven to work together. Symantec is seeing the savings in the ability to leverage integrations across the cloud.

• Agility

– Software Defined Data Centers available in minutes instead of weeks or months

• Average Provisioning Time: 14 Minutes, completely changes the way employees work.

– Abstraction of hardware at all layers allows flexibility and reduced downtime.

• Multiple hardware transitions since inception, zero user impact.

• Orchestration is a must

– Faster turn around when implementing new solutions

• Our entire cloud topology is actually stored in an SDDC vApp inside of the cloud, allowing for on the fly testing of new solutions even with the cloud itself.

– Reduce provisioning effort allowing employees to refocus their actual jobs - helping customers.

• Saved over 11,000 weeks of effort

– Removing the burden of managing labs from engineers and trainers.

• Transitioned to Cloud Operations

– Helps to break down barriers between departments and reduces silos

• Over 700 shared labs covering most Symantec product lines currently available

• Support Services, Training, and Engineering are finally able to share… everything.

Metrics / Lessons Learned

• Governance

– Secured within the Symantec Firewall / Private Enterprise Cloud

– Complete oversight into the datacenter topologies allow for improved control.

• Auditing of topologies to reduce human error.

• Ensure proper security is in place prior to allowing deployment.

Metrics / Lessons Learned

Future

• Unparalleled Cloud Integration with Symantec Products

• Incorporate enhancements to virtual networking (Nicera)

• Reference Architectures

Visit the VMware and Symantec booths.

Talk to us about how we can help your organization get to IT-as-a-Service, and a Software-Defined Data Center

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Symantec’s Real-World Experience with a VMware

Software-Defined Data Center

Jeremiah Cornelius, VMware

Jason Puig, Symantec

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