AE foyer: From Server Virtualization to Hybrid Cloud

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From server virtualizationto hybrid cloud

How to benefit froma successful implementation

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Matthias PyckPrincipal Consultant ALM & Cloud


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Introduction

SETTING THE SCENE



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From server virtualization to Hybrid Cloud

Matthias Pyck

Principal Consultant, AE

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The question is:

What is clouding? The question is:

Who cares?!


To Cloud Or Not To Cloud?

That Is NOT The Question!


Goals

Having better insight of the Cloud & the challenges

Understand the drivers, trends & consequences of virtualization

Share our vision and experience with Private & Hybrid Cloud

Harvest ideas, examples & technology possibilities

Retain some do’s & don’ts

Feel free to ask your questions as session progresses


Agenda

Trends – Food for Thought

Are we “Clouding”?

How to get in the “Cloud”?

Q&A


2014 CIO Technology Priorities (Gartner)

Source: Gartner


Clouding or Cloudy? (Gartner)

Source: Gartner


The Hypes of 2012 (Gartner)


The Hypes of 2013 (Gartner)


The “Enlightened”

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Provides elastic infrastructure (often virtual)

Composed by servers, network & storage components

Software as a Service (SaaS) Service provider delivers Applications

Merely modern web based user interfaces (html5, ajax, …)

Compliant with most of the current devices (pc, tablet, phone, …)

Cloud/Web platforms Technologies to provide programmatic access to functionality on the Cloud/Web

(technology, business, community, …)

Also related to Provisioning, Storage & Computer power


Those “Crystalizing”

Platform as a Service (PaaS) Offers (middleware) services through which applications can be structured &

integrated (e.g. identity & access management, portal functionalities, integration

capabilities, …).

Private Cloud Computing Organization completely isolated from others

Real Time Infrastructure (RTI) SLA driven, dynamic allocation and optimization of IT resources

Elasticity, functionality and dynamic optimization and tuning of the runtime

environment based on policies and principles

Elastic Multi-tenancy A common computer environment with logical isolation of the different

applications (tenants)


Challenge : Diversity for Disruption

Cloud Services

Skill shifts

Reducedbudgets

24/7

Shorterdevelopment

times

Complexitygrowth

Faster change cycles


The Critical Success Factors

Source: Gartner 2014


Agenda




Q&A


Are You Already in Cloud Computing Model?

<You are> if the answer is “Yes” to the following 4 questions:

Do you think about your resources (servers, storage, networking) in a pooled

fashion rather than as individual entities?

Can you provide elasticity in services and applications, so that they can expand

with demand and contract when it goes away?

Can you track usage so that you can show back or charge back to users, or user

departments, the compute power they are using?

Have your end users self provisioning capabilities?


Typical Current Situation


Real Numbers (Overview)


Real Numbers (Zoom)


The Real Process


The Real Assets


N° of participants for server intake


TCO is a lot more than Purchase price


Operational Debt defined (by Gartner)

Not adopting infrastructure and operations standards due to a lack of architectural blueprints resulting in higher costs of technical support as well as potentially lower service quality, as sufficient resources may be unable to be spread across heterogeneous environments.

Continuing to perform manual operations and not implement automated workflows that could result in higher personnel costs.

Downplaying capacity planning, which could result in unnecessary hardware, software or services procurement, plus new labor costs to support the new infrastructure.

Neglecting to document the infrastructure because of lack of resources resulting in increased mean time to diagnose potential problems.

Failing to invest in training and education that could result in poorly performed work due to low morale issues.


Agenda




Q&A


Today A multitude of variations in set-up

Setting up infrastructure is primarily manually, undocumented and only in the minds of the people

Large number of people involved in installations

Diverse application & infrastructure portfolio Diversity of infrastructure components (hardware, networking, storage, ...) Diversity of middleware Diversity of frameworks Diversity of …

Who knows what is true and what is running?

A problem of repeatability in the design and deployment of infrastructure components across environments around

A problem of predictability: nothing is what it seems to be

Do we make best use of our hardware, licenses and facilities?

A call that the Cloud will resolve all our problems

High Operational Debt


Were we want to get

Infrastructural consistency across environment & applications

(Dev, QA, …, Prod)

Very fast (de)provisioning (hours versus days) of infrastructure & operations

Reduce operational debt

SLA based Service models in place:

Serviced

Self-Service

Automated Serviced (elasticity)

Pay for the time a server is required.

Freedom of Location

Cloud provider

Outsource Partnerships

Software stack in line with the market (example: JBoss common, weblogic rare)


Vision

Server Virtualization

Industrialized Operations

Private Cloud

Self Service

Serviced -Automated Serviced

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Server virtualization Industrialized Operations

Assess current situation

Define Industrialized

Automated (de)provisioning

Infrastructure as Data• the data which identifies & defines is the documentation

Critical success factors• Simplification• Standardization (HW & SW)

Aligned with current monitoring, back-up, DRP

Prepare & Present Business Case

CAPEX & OPEX

ROI

Roadmap / Implementation Plan

Implement


Today’s issues addressed by phase 1



Very fast (de) provisioning (hours versus days) of infrastructure & operations



Serviced

Self-Service



Freedom of Location

Cloud provider




Industrialized Operations Private Cloud

Look at alternatives for facilities & HW €?

Select / Investigate Cloud Model that implements your

strategic direction in terms of applications and technologies

Think IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, …

Based on selected Cloud Model:

Adapt Integrated Server Backup

Adapt Integrated Monitoring

Adapt DRP

Decide & implement base service model(s)

Serviced

Self-servicing








Serviced

Self-Service



Freedom of Location

Cloud provider




Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud

Implement platform release management Imbed in the organization as a regular exercise Align with application lifecycle management Re-evaluate / reconsider previous choices

Determine & show the price € Resources are not unlimited

• Why not sharing resources?• Why not reusing resources?

Why are you getting an invoice when you have no clients? Not all applications need massive gold @ all moments

Automate bendable infrastructure SLA based automation Get the things ‘hybrid” (aka “Go external when cheaper”)

• Private Cloud = covering the base demand• Public Cloud = getting the work done at peak moments

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Serviced

Self-Service



Freedom of Location

Cloud provider




Getting started

AssessDeliver

Implementation Roadmap & ROI

Deliver Project Plan -Activities to implement Roadmap

Execute

Roadmap Timeline1. Assessment - Where are we? Where do we want to be?• Alignment with long term vision• Inventory of inefficiencies/complaints and their root causes• Who is involved in the server setup process• What process is involved when setting up a server? • Inventory of current software & hardware stack + facilities• License strategy & costs• Analyze data according to the AE model

2. Recommendations and Strategy3. Get a GO for next step

1. Collect real evidence: facts and figures2. Establish business case ROI

Establish implementation Plan


Take aways : AE research example 1

Don’t forget to involve the application guys !

Design & technological change needed for elasticity


Take aways : AE research example 2

Cloud performance might be less than expected


The question is:

What is clouding? The question is:

Who dares?!


Help us help you!

Free assessment of your environment Horizontal view: your FTE (workload) estimates

• Excel spreadsheet (“FTE estimates”)

• +/- exhaustive list of tasks within categories

• Infrastructure, Platform, Software (applications) & Process

Vertical view: your server infrastructure composition

• Excel spreadsheet (“Facts & Figures”)

What’s in for you? Anonymous benchmark against consolidated data

Starting point for improvement track business case

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