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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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Virtual Architecture - Abstraction

Traditional Architecture Virtual Architecture

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Distributed Services – Pooling & Automation

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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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Museum of Past IT Decisions

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Orchestrated “Cloud” Solution: Adoption

CMDB

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Orchestrated “Cloud” Solution: Ownership

CMDB

!!

!

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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

ud

Infr

astr

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ture

WHAT TECHNOLOGY DO I USE?

Software Technology & Architecture

Clo

ud

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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

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Thank You

Questions?