2014 dallas sept vmware user group conference - datacenter automation

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Resistance is Futile:

Tommy TrogdenCloud Architect and Application SE ManagerTwitter: @vTexanBlog: www.vTexan.com

Datacenter Automation is here!Embrace it !

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Automate all things !! – it’s The Future !

The TruthThe LightThe way !

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It’s not about feeds and speeds, it’s not about whose HBA chipset is faster…it’s about automation….it’s about Orchestration….it’s about compounding workflows !

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It’s also recognizing that it’s going to take work

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It’s going to require you to read a book

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The world has changed…and moved on – THANK GOD !

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Many Industries Face Structural Change

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Other traditional industries facing changes as well….

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Think about this for a second….

..If you don’t like change…you’re going to like irrelevance even less.

What the IT world is starting to realize…and if they haven’t…they are about to

is:

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Cloud…changes…EVERYTHING !!

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Paying Attention? Quick Poll !!

• How many people in the audience have a Smart Phone?• How many people in the audience

have a tablet of some sort?• How many people in the audience

have a laptop?• How many of you have used ALL 3

today already ?

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What Apps can you not live without?

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We have reached the inflection point• Hybrid Services

• Hybrid – Public – SAAS• Built on Converged Infra• Integrated Service Management• Automated, Orchestrated,

efficient• Full cost transparent to BU• Time to market & Value driven

• Captive Services• Siloed & Isolated Infrastructure• No cost transparency• Inefficient Scale out model• Non-Recoverable Engineering

time

IT Inflection Point

Current Path

Builder of Components

Broker of Services

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How do you get started ?

Let’s start with the Basics/Fundamentals

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What’s your VM Lifecycle Process?

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The Request:• Do you have a service catalog defined?• First step in the process “Hey, I need a VM”• How are these requests being done today?• Is it a Change Management Process?• Can it scale ?

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The Placement:• First big decisions “where do I place it”• What is the performance requirements?• What is the SLA?• Test/Dev?• Production ?

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The Approval:

• Who makes up the approval process?• Is it a group?• Change Advisory Board?• Do you have a Tiered approval

process?• Is the process automated?

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The Provision:

• Don’t “Deploy from Template”• Does it need to pull IP Information ?• Does it need to be added to AD?• Hyper-V? Xen/KVM?• Does it need to be a clone of a DB?• Deploy to public cloud?• Is it Automated today? • Can it scale?

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The Post-Provision

• Do you need application installation scripts?• What apps need to be packaged with this?• Would there be value in Automating this?• Puppet/Chef or vCO Workflows?• Does your current process scale?

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The Management Process:

• How do you handle End User Controls?• Reconfiguring RAM?, CPU? • Snapshot Management?• Capacity Management ?• Can your current process scale?

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The Decommission:

• Do you have a VM Sprawl?• Do you have a VM lease policy?• Do you archive your VM’s?• Storage Migrations down tiers?• Can the way you do it today, be

sustained?

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Your VM Lifecycle Process

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Summary

• Embrace Automation / Orchestration • If you don’t like change….• Understand that the world is changing

!• READ/READ/READ !• Automate/Orchestrate • Develop a VM LifeCycle policy.

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?Questions…Comments…Snide remarks?

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Thanks for hosting vBeers last night !