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Resistance is Futile:
Tommy Trogden
Director – Global Product Marketing
Twitter: @vTexan
Blog: www.vTexan.com
Datacenter Automation is here!Embrace it !
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My Asks…..
• Don’t be Quiet or Shy !!• Instagram that yo ! • Tweet it out ! #ATXVMUG
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Automate all things !! – it’s The Future !
The TruthThe LightThe way !
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It’s about Disruption !
It’s about disrupting your
thinking…. your teams
thinking…..and not ignoring
change !
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So much FREE Training ! (Podcasts)
vBrownbag Lists of Podcasts• VCDX Series• VCP6-DT Series• Intro to VVOLS• HowTo: Docker++ (coreOS) w/Scott_Lowe• Setting up Network Services w/Puppet• PowerShell Desired State Configuration
The Cloud Cast• Masters, Minions and Pods – Kubernetes• Streaming Analytics for Distributed Apps• Container-Centric Application Deployments• Moving DevOps forward with CI:CD• Understanding CoreOS• Understanding Git and GitHUB
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It’s also a social new world- EMBRACE IT!
• It’s about: • Passion • Learning • Collaboration• Sharing stories and knowledge• Community• Comfortable being uncomfortable• Recognizing those that contribute
• It’s NOT about:• Speeds• Feeds• “retweeting” for the sake of it• Closed Minded• “I have a LinkedIn Account”
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THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND….
If you don’t like
change…you’re
going to like
irrelevance even
less.
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HOW MUCH DISRUPTION? 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 ?
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• Hybrid Cloud – Built on CI
• Integrated Service Management
• 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
IT is at an inflection point
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THE NEW FACE OF ITEMC ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUD
Self-Service Portal
Multi-Cloud Management
Application Provisioning
Integrated Chargeback
Self-Service Data Protection
Expandable Service Catalog
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IT’S NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY
Let’s start with the Basics/Fundamentals
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WHAT’S YOUR VM LIFECYCLE PROCESS?
Request
Placement
Approval
ProvisionPost-Provision
Management
Decommission
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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 ?
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THE PLACEMENT:
• First big decisions “where do I place it”
• What is the performance requirements?
• What is the SLA?
• Test/Dev?
• Production ?
• Can it scale?
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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?
• Can it scale?
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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?
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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?
• Can it scale?
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THE MANAGEMENT PROCESS:
• Do you:– Handle End User Controls?
– Reconfiguring RAM?
– Reconfiguring CPU?
• Snapshot Management?
• Capacity Management ?
• Can your current process scale?
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THE DECOMMISSION:
• Do you: – Have a VM Sprawl?
– Have a VM lease policy?
– Archive your VM’s?
• Are you:– Migrating data down storage tiers?
• Can You:– Sustain Your business the way you do it today?
• Can it scale?
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WHAT’S YOUR VM LIFECYCLE PROCESS?
Request
Placement
Approval
ProvisionPost-Provision
Management
Decommission
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THE FOUNDATION….POOLED RESOURCES, AUTOMATION & SELF-SERVICE
Self-Service & Automation
Virtualized Infrastructure
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Self-Service & Automation
WHAT ADDITIONAL PIECES ARE NEEDED?
Software-Defined Storage
Virtualized Infrastructure
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Operational Management
FinancialTransparency
Self-Service & Automation
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT & FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Virtualized Infrastructure
Software-Defined Storage
WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED?
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Operational Management
FinancialTransparency
Self-Service & Automation
“HYBRID READY” – EMBRACE PUBLIC CLOUD !
EMC Cloud Service Providers
Virtualized Infrastructure
Software-Defined Storage
WHAT PIECES ARE NEEDED?
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ENABLES SELF-SERVICE IT
Self Service Portal
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
VM
OS
PaaS
AaaS
Backup Policy & Retention Choice
Storage Choice
Platinum
Gold
Automation & Service Level Selection
Daily Backup with 1 Year Retention
On-Demand Restore
Platinum
Gold
Silver
Public Cloud
High Availability for Workloads
Automated Disaster Recovery
Automation Enables Anything-As-A-Service
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AUTOMATES EVERYDAY TASKSCREATING A NEW BACKUP SERVICE LEVEL FOR CLOUD USERS…
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WHERE DO THE
APPLICATIONS AND
SERVICES COME FROM?
WHAT’S IN MY SERVICE
CATALOG?
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BUILDING YOUR BLUEPRINTSWHAT GOES INTO PUBLISHING A NEW APPLICATION?
Customer Provided Media and Licensing
Customer Defined and Configured VM Templates
Customer-specific application settings
Application Business Policies(Security, Chargeback, etc)
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ENTERPRISE HYBRID CLOUDDESIGN AND DEPLOY YOUR OWN COMPLEX APPLICATIONS WITH APPDIRECTOR
Accelerate Application Development & Deployment
Easily standardize your cloud application software stack
Download blueprints from the Cloud Application Marketplace
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IMPORTING APPLICATION TEMPLATESUSING VMWARE SOLUTION EXCHANGE TO JUMPSTART YOUR CATALOG
Import the Application Definition into AppDirector
Configure the Application in AppDirector for your use case
Deploy from AppDirector into vCAC as a service to deploy
Application Director is integrated into the Portal
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PROVISIONING NEXT-GEN APPLICATIONSPROVISIONING CLOUD FOUNDRY APPLICATIONS IN THE HYBRID CLOUD
Run Pivotal Cloud Foundry environment in the Hybrid Cloud
Push Cloud Foundry applications between local & remote instances
Easily scale your Cloud Foundry applications
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NEW SOLUTIONS/APPLICATION DEVPROVISIONING HADOOP CLUSTERS MADE EASY!
Deploy Hadoop clusters right from the service catalog
Expand and contract the size of your clusters simply
Easily monitor the status of your clusters and nodes
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WHAT ELSE CAN GO INTO THE SERVICE CATALOG?
Can it be scripted?
Does it have an API?
Is it repeatable?
Are there any Plug-ins?
The SKY is the Limit