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Software Defined DatacenterRaising the Bar for Delivering IT as a Service
Dan Wofford – Staff Systems Engineer
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VMware’s Customers are on a Journey
Abstract. Pool. Automate. Empower.
CapEx Savings thru
Consolidation
OpEx Saving thru
Automation
Game Change thru
IT as a Service
IT Production Business Production IT as a Service
Phase III
Phase II
Phase I
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VMware’s Customers are on a Journey
Abstract. Pool. Automate. Empower.
CapEx Savings thru
Consolidation
OpEx Saving thru
Automation
Game Change thru
IT as a Service
IT Production Business Production IT as a Service
2010:42%
2011:57%
2012:65%
Projected2014:80%
2009:29%
On average, how virtualized is the market?
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VMware’s Customers are on a Journey
Abstract. Pool. Automate. Empower.
CapEx Savings thru
Consolidation
OpEx Saving thru
Automation
Game Change thru
IT as a Service
IT Production Business Production IT as a Service
2010:42%
2011:57%
2012:65%
Projected2014:80%
2009:29%
• IT Labor Costs:
• Hardware Maintenance:
• Tier 1 App Downtime:
• Time to Build & Provision New Apps:
33%
50%
40%
50%
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Phase III
Phase IIPhase I
IT Behavior Shifts from Cost Reduction to Investment
53% Reinvest in New Apps & Services
66%Reinvest in New Apps & Services
46% Reduce Budget
51% Reduce Budget
41% Reduce Budget
53% Reinvest in New Apps & Services
IT Production Business Production IT as a Service
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$1,8005 days, 2 minutes
$3002 minutes
$10,00010 weeks
Enterprise storage
VLAN networks
Firewall, load-balancer
IDS, security, monitoring
Availability
PresentPast
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Virtualization Simplifies Provisioning of VMs, But …
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WHAT IF…The same principles that transformed a single layer of the data center…
Abstract. Pool. Automate.
and delivered unprecedented value for customers…
were applied to the entire data center?
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The Software-defined Datacenter: IT-as-a-Service DNA
Software-defined Datacenter:
All infrastructure is virtualized and delivered as a service, and the control of this datacenter is entirely driven by software.
Standardised. Holistic. Adaptive. Automated. Resilient.
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Software-Defined Datacenters Simplify Process
5 days, 2 minutes 3 minutes
VDC
Future
Software-defined Datacenter Services
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Consume All Infrastructure Services Through One Object
vApp Catalogs
Web-based access
Infrastructure can be
provisioned in a matter of minutes
The demand for infrastructure is delivered as portable images
The supply of infrastructure is delivered completely as virtual datacenters
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VMware vCloud Director
vCenter Automation Center – New Multi-tenant Resource Abstractions
Secure Private Cloud
Organisation: Marketing Organisation: Finance
Organisation VDCs CatalogsOrganisation VDCs Catalogs
VMware vSphere
VMware vCenter Server
Resource Pools Datastores Port Groups
(Go
ld)
(Bro
nze
)
Provider Virtual Datacenters
(Sil
ver)
Users & Policies Users & Policies
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Logical view of VXLAN
VLAN: 200
Lo
gical N
etwo
rk
VXLAN: Dev
• Foundation for elastic portable VDC’s
• On demand networks without physical network configuration
Overview
• Ability to create a large number of isolated logical networks
• Flexible IP subnet management
• API to authoritatively program the logical network
• Maintain visibility and control for network admins with existing tools
Benefits
VXLAN
Distributed Switch
Distributed Switch
Redundant vShield Edges
VLAN: 100
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Software Defined Storage: Architecting For Today & Tomorrow
Software Defined Storage
Virtual FlashVirtual
VolumesDistributed
Storage
Storage Policy Based Management
VMFS NFS
vSphere services – Snapshots, Clones, Replication, Thin Provisioning
Automation for all apps across all types of storage
Hard disks
SSD Hard disks
SSD
SAN/NAS
Enhance SAN/NASEnable Scale Out
DAS (Server Disks)
Storage Partner
Data Services
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VMware vCloud Suite Delivers The Software-defined Datacenter
Based On Virtualization
• Delivered by VMware vSphere
Recasting all datacenter services as software
• Compute, storage, network
• Security, Availability
• Automation and Management
vCloud Suite: Complete offering delivering the Software-defined Datacenter
Productivity InnovationReliability
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How Do I Know Where to Start?
What technology do I use?
How do I operate in this new world?
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Cloud SolutionC
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WHAT TECHNOLOGY DO I USE?
Software Technology & Architecture
Clo
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HOW DO I OPERATE IN THIS NEW WORLD?
IT Business Management
People & Organisation
Processes & Control
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Cloud Solution Within a Cloud Capability Model
Reactive Proactive Innovative
Clo
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Infr
astr
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ture
WHAT TECHNOLOGY DO I USE?
Software Technology & Architecture
Clo
ud
Op
s
HOW DO I OPERATE IN THIS NEW WORLD?
IT Business Management
People & Organisation
Processes & Control
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Reactive Proactive Innovative
IT as a broker of computing resources across multiple cloud
environments
“Service Broker”
From IT silos to standardised virtual
infrastructure
Cloud Capability - Reactive to Innovative
IT as a strategic partner in driving
business differentiation
Expand automation of core processes
Fully integrate a cloud Center of Excellence
Integrate management of third-party clouds to expand your service broker role
Implement a consumption-based financial model to support chargeback
“Partner”
Develop an IT-owned self-service model
Begin to automate core processes
Define cloud processes and IT roles
Introduce processes to define service components’ costs
“Standardise”
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Next Steps to Cloud
Align business needs with IT
capability
Create roles and skills necessary to ensure
company-wide adoption and the accountability framework and policies
for stakeholder collaboration
Streamline and automate
processes to achieve
business agility
Establish an enterprise
architecture for new IT
infrastructure
Design and deploy technology
infrastructure from virtualization to
cloud
Take the cloud readiness
self-assessment!
Strategy Process Architecture Technology People & Governance