6 Step’s to Private Cloud Rob Gee Datacentre Architect
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About Logicalis Group
Over $1.2 billion in revenues Operations in Europe, USA, Latin America
and Asia Pacific Almost 3,000 employees worldwide Over 6,000 corporate and public sector customers Strong global partnerships with technology leaders
- Cisco Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp and CA technologies
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre and cloud services; and managed services
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Logicalis Australia At a Glance
Offices across eastern seaboard (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane)
Circa $80M revenue
Strong services mix – 49% in FY12
220 staff in Australia and Malaysia (back-office)
Strategy based on leading with differentiated solutions that address business challenges
Logicalis Partner Capabilities • Cisco Gold Partner
– Advanced Data Centre Architecture – Advanced Borderless Architecture – Advanced Collaboration Architecture – Cloud Builder Partner – Managed Services Master
• NetApp Gold Partner – Advanced Support Partner – Cloud Builder Partner
• EMC • Citrix
– Gold Partner – Citrix Cloud Partner
• Microsoft & VMware Partner’s
Improve business processes
1 Lower overall cost structure
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Improve or simplify IT infrastructure
Building a more secure IT environment
Business intelligence
Energy-efficient IT infrastructure
Finding the right talent to meet ICT priorities
Harnessing ICT to gain competitive advantage
CIO / ICT priorities in 2013?
What is your perspective of Cloud Computing?
“Once upon a time, there were six blind men. The blind men wished to know what an elephant looked like. The six blind men all perceived one aspect of the elephant and were each right in their own way, but none of them knew what the whole elephant really looked like.”
Your definition of something may depend on your perspective…
It’s like a rope!
It’s like a wall!
It’s like a fan!
It’s like a snake!
It’s like a spear!
It’s virtualization!
It’s automation!
It’s statelessness!
It’s on-demand computing!
Cloud Computing
It’s a self-service portal!
Its “Anything as a Service” (XaaS)!
“Once upon a time, there were six IT people. The IT people wished to know what cloud computing looked like.
The six IT people all perceived one aspect of the cloud and were each right in their own way, but none of them knew what the whole cloud really looked like.”
Elephant
It’s like tree!
Infrastructure Challenges Islands of technology: Implemented in a complex and fragmented nature Hardware & Software out of Support Unpredictable & spiraling support costs
Capacity breaks everything Productivity/efficiency challenges Complex architecture only meant to be temporary No “Uniform Scale”
‘Stand Up Infrastructure Cost Training
Professional Services Staff Resource
Blades/Servers Network Ports Storage Media
Cables Transceivers Management
Full technology shift Services protocol change
Addition of secondary technology
No Concept of ‘Uniform Scale’
Within the component technology and the ‘stack’
Creates Cost Prohibitive ‘Break Points’
(Further Challenged by higher density technologies such as VDI)
$ No Uniform Scale
Options ?
• Bolt on Aftermarket Extension’s
• Marginal Gain (if any)
• Increased Management and Cost
• Refresh Infrastructure
• Same Service • Same Challenges • Maybe Different
Badge
• Move to a Cloud Model
• Defined SLA’s • Validated
Infrastructure • Reduce Cost /
Service Improvement
• Delivered via “As a Service” models
6 Steps to Private Cloud
1# Standardise
& Simply
2# IO
Consolidation
3#
Storage Efficiency
4#
Automation
5#
Uniform Scale
6#
Orchestration & Management
Tape Backup
NAS (File Based)
SAN (Block Based)
Blade Arrays
Blade Centre
Modules
Rack Optimised Computing
IP Top of Rack FCP
Top of Rack
LAN/WAN How do I Automate this? & How much is wasted?
Core Network Typical Chassis Based
(6509)
Top of Rack Switching IP - 1U 48 Ports
(3750/4948) FC – 1U 24 Ports
SAN
Block I/O, Speed High Throughput DB
IBM DS/EMC/HDS/HP
NAS Oracle DB/File Services
iSCSI More Storage less cost
Traditional Data Centre: Waste
Converged Datacenter Model
Tape Backup
LAN/WAN End to End Unified Fabric
Total Network Collapse
Lose Native FC Network
Completely Collapse Infrastructure
Improve Transactions per
kW
Increase I/O Utilisation
Less Power
Less Cooling
Less Cabling
Blade Arrays
Blade Arrays
1# Standardise and Simplify
Critical Vendor Choice – Time to be strategic….
Data Storage for a Particular Purpose (SAN/NAS)?
Multiple Points of Backup and Data Protection
Multiple Points of Management & Control
Can you Workflow, Automate and Orchestrate so many vendor products??
Reduce the Points of Management…
Reduce Cost & Increase Agility
2# Drive Down I/O Consolidation
Chassis Mgmt
Fibre Channel Blade Switch Mgmt
Ethernet Blade Switch Mgmt
Ethernet Switch Mgmt
FC Switch Mgmt
Provide Hypervisor Visibility and/or Pass Through
• Reduce Cables
• Native 10Gbps – Not for Bandwidth, I/O Consolidation and Simplification (10 Cables to 1)
• Cloud Style Infrastructure Should Provide ALL Protocols
• Reduce Modules/Ancillary Components
• Reduce Switchports
Reduce Cost & Increase Utilisation
Virtual Clones Save up to 80% using writable virtual copies; only changed data uses capacity
Thin Replication Save up to 95% capacity with our disk-to-disk data protection
Snapshot Copies Save 80% capacity; only changed data uses storage
Storage Tiering Better use of EFD, SAS & SATA disks
Deduplication Reclaim up to 95% capacity for full backups; 45% on average
Thin Provisioning Liberate 20% to 33% of your capacity
3# Storage Efficiency Reduce Cost & Increase Efficiency
4# Automation
Does to Hardware as Hypervisors do to Operating Systems
Infrastructure Re-Purpose Daily/Nightly Tasks
All Compute Attributes Configurable from a Single GUI
Openly Configurable via API Rapid Scale, Instant Provision Cloud/IaaS Ready Rapid Provisioning
No Assembly Required!!
SAN LAN
Chassis-9/Blade-2
Server Name: LS-A UUID: 56 4d cd 3f 59 5b 61… MAC : 08:00:69:02:01:FC WWN: 5080020000075740 Boot Order: SAN, LAN
Chassis-1/Blade-5
Reduce Cost & Decrease Time to Market
5# Uniform Scale
1 Management Entity 1 IP Address
LAN
SAN/NAS
Scale Out SATA
Rack
Like
Sca
le
Blad
e Fo
rm Fa
ctor
Reduce Cost & Provide Linear Scalability
‘Stand Up Infrastructure Cost Training
Professional Services Staff Resource
Blades/Servers Network Ports Storage Media
Cables Transceivers Management
Full technology shift Services protocol change
Addition of secondary technology
No Concept of ‘Uniform Scale’
Within the component technology and the ‘stack’
Creates Cost Prohibitive ‘Break Points’
(Further Challenged by higher density technologies such as VDI)
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No Uniform Scale
Uniform Scale $
6# Orchestration & Management
Self-service Delivery
Policy Driven Provisioning
Cisco UCS Director Unified Service Delivery
Secure Cloud
Container
VMs vCompute vNetwork Storage
Tenant
B Tenant
C Tenant
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Model-based Management
Virtual Platform
Storage
Network
Compute
Spend more time innovating
Virtual Machines &
Compute
Storage
Networking
A Simple Design That Scales At Multiple Layers
Tape Backup
NAS (File Based)
SAN (Block Based)
Blade Arrays
Blade Centre
Modules
Rack Optimised Computing
IP Top of Rack FCP
Top of Rack
LAN/WAN How do I Automate this? & How much is wasted?
Core Network Typical Chassis Based
(6509)
Top of Rack Switching IP - 1U 48 Ports
(3750/4948) FC – 1U 24 Ports
SAN
Block I/O, Speed High Throughput DB
IBM DS/EMC/HDS/HP
NAS Oracle DB/File Services
iSCSI More Storage less cost
Traditional Data Centre: Waste
Converged Datacenter Model
Tape Backup
LAN/WAN End to End Unified Fabric
Total Network Collapse
Lose Native FC Network
Completely Collapse Infrastructure
Improve Transactions per
kW
Increase I/O Utilisation
Less Power
Less Cooling
Less Cabling
Blade Arrays
Blade Arrays
Virtualised at 5 Layers
Operating System Virtualisation For consolidation, workload management business continuity and
Disaster Recovery
Compute Hardware Virtualisation For infrastructure re-purpose and rapid provision
Storage Virtualisation Allows multiple protocol support and high efficiencies
I/O Virtualisation / Unified Fabric Any protocol > Any wire
Data Centre Virtualisation 1 Virtual Data Centre physically split over multiple sites
Cisco Validated Design’s (CVD’s)
Secure Multi-Tenancy
• FlexPod (NetApp)
• VSPEX (EMC)
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Microsoft Exchange
Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SQL Server
• Step-by-step instructions for repeatable high-quality deployments
• 30+ Validated Designs
• Co-operative Support Model
• Logicalis Cloud (LVPDC)
Converged Datacenter Marketplace Hy
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FlexPod Vblock VSPEX CloudMatrix vStart
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PureFlex
Market Leaders Others
2,100 customers since launch in December 2009 (initially known as SMT)
1,000 systems since launch in November 2009
Launched in January 2011
Launched in April 2011
Launched in April 2012
Launched in April 2012
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