VMware Technology Day 2016

Three Key Tenets for Implementing a Cloud Management

Platform to Develop a Hybrid Cloud Strategy
By Lee Poh Wah, Chief Partner Solutions

Strategist, VMware ASEAN

2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved.

Client-Server Era

Mobile-Cloud Era

Bai Chay Bridge

Defining the Challenges

New expectations

and the prior responsibilities

Create competitive advantage

Run global infrastructure

Be strategic

Stay secure

Faster
More agile

More control
Quickly adopt
technology

Boost
innovation

Avoid legacy
debt

More efficient

Drive operational
excellence
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Evolving IT from a Builder of Services to a Broker of Services

Broker
Broker of IT Services
of IT Services

Multiplatform

Hybrid

Multi-provider

Cloud Management Platform

Integrated automation, operations, and business

End-User Computing
Applications
SOFTWARE-DEFINED DATA CENTER

Cloud Management Platform

Automation

Compute

Operations

Network

Network
Physical

Extensibility

Storage
Hybrid Cloud
(Private / Public)

Virtualized Infrastructure

Compute

Business

Storage
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How VMware Cloud Management Platform works

Insight Decision Action

Cloud Business
Cloud Cost Profiles

Benchmark Data

Business Insight

Decision

Cloud
Automation

Action

Ops Insight

Cloud
Operations
Structured Data
Metrics

Alerts

Events

Unstructured Big Data

Logs

Messages

Key Tenets for the New Operating IT Model

VMwares Approach to a CMP enabling a SDDC

Automate everything in the SDDC and at scale

Automate everything for not just initial provisioning but full lifecycle management

Enable self-service and collaboration

Provide tools to enable convergence and sharing across IT silos and more
efficiency

Continuous optimization and remediation

Use operations data and analytics to drive automated optimization and
remediation
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Automating is Key to a Scalable and Sustainable SDDC

SDDC requires a new management paradigm
Explosive Growth

New SDDC objects

Management scope expands across
virtual and physical

Prodigious Level of Automation

Logical construct of users and resources

Policy-based life cycle management
Self-service capabilities
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1. Define
Define Business Groups to enable automation for LOBs

Create
Business Groups

Consumer (LOB)
(Tenant Admin)

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1. Define
Allocate budget to Business Groups to enable automation for LOBs

Allocate budget
$66,000
$12,000
$36,000
$36,000
$6,000
$36,000
$66,000
$30,000

Provider
(Infra Owner)

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2. Create
Policies based on the class of service

Provider
(Fabric Admin)

Allocate Compute, N/W, Storage

to Gold Tier Reservation
Select
Gold Tier

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2. Create
Blueprints to enable self-service provisioning
Provider
(Infra Architect)

IaaS

PaaS

Consumer (LOB)
(App Architect)

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3. Request & Deploy

Catalog of blueprints to enable self-service provisioning

Service Price
Consumer (LOB)
(End users of Business
Group)
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4. Meter
Analysis of best fit to optimize cost/performance balance

Proactive analysis of
capacity and budget trends

Consumer (LOB)
(Tenant Admin)

Provider
(Infra Owner)

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5. Monitor Enable Collaboration and Self-Service

After instantiating app, self-service of day-to-day operations lifecycle tasks
Take action to remediate
simple issues

Consumer (LOB)
(Tenant Admin)

Self-service portal to
monitor app health

Virtual Memory is
demanding more memory
than the configured limit

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5. Monitor
Collaboration across SDDC (compute, n/w, storage) to resolve problems

Provider
(Compute, Storage,
Network Admins)

Correlated across n/w,

storage, compute

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Enable Collaboration and Self-Service

Meeting Cloud SLAs? Which Tier is down, who is impacted?
Which business is
impacted?

Provider
(Compute, Storage,
Network Admins)

Business Group (4 of 4)

Is this a Tier 1 service?

Reservation Policy (4 of 4)

Reservation (8 of 8)

Which objects are impacted?

Virtual Machines (20 of 20)

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Integrated OS and App Monitoring in Hybrid Cloud

vCloud Air

Microsoft Azure

EP Ops Agents

Amazon Web Services

vCloud Air Network

Log Insight Agents

On-Premises Datacenter
Internet

vRealize Operations Manager

vRealize Log Insight

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5. Monitor
Monitor public cloud workloads (AWS, vCloud Air, and more)

Provider
(Compute, Storage,
Network Admins)

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6. Manage
Analyze cloud options depending on requirements

Consumer (LOB)
(BU Controller or
App Dev)

Provider
(Infra Owner)

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6. Manage
Reclaim unused capacity to improve utilization levels
Understand existing cost of waste

Provider
(Infra Owner)

Provider
(Compute, Storage,
Network Admins)

Reclaim VMs

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Service Lifecycle Management with CMP

1

DEFINE
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MANAGE

CREATE

Embrace management of
a hybrid cloud

Empower LOB to make

choices
3

REQUEST
AND DEPLOY

MONITOR

Establish a sustainable
and scalable cloud

METER
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Coverage Map
sample of supported Hybrid Cloud and Heterogeneous Environments
Compute

Network

Storage

NSX

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The Cloud Management Platform Customer Journey

Workloads

(Volume and Type)

Cap-Ex

+ Op-Ex

+ Agility
Automated IT to IaaS

DevOps-Ready IT

Intelligent
Operations
Managed
Virtualization

vSphere
+ vSOM

vRealize Suite Std

vRealize Suite Adv

Pre-Cloud

vRealize Suite Ent

+ vRealize Code Stream

SDDC / Hybrid Cloud

High Virtualization
(a tech leapfrogger)

App and Infrastructure Delivery Automation

Streamlined and Automated Data Center Operations

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So Where Should I Start?

Automation

Evolving IT from a Builder of Services to a Broker of

Services
Automate everything in SDDC and at Scale
Enable Self-service and collaboration

Service
Cost

Cloud
Management
Platform

Service
Agility

Continuous optimization and remediation

Re-evaluate your Cloud Objectives:

Who is the cloud for? Are you embracing hybrid cloud from start?
Are you thinking beyond the immediate basic IaaS?
Are the financial dimensions of the cloud being considered?

Business

Service
Optimization

Operations

Engage your VMware Account Manager on your

Cloud Strategy:
Assess CMP capabilities that are required to support objectives
Identify your technology gaps and build a joint roadmap
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