Virtualization: The Automated Data CentreRoger Parrish

A/NZ Territory SE Manager

VMware Australia and New Zealand

Agenda

Vision – VMware Enables Datacenter Automation

VMware Solutions for IT Service Delivery

VMware Solutions for Business Continuity

WorkloadsDataResourcesIdentities

Prov

isio

ning

Optimization

Availability

2010-2016

Policies

Services

Service levels and service agility up

Automated

Virtualizing the Data Center: From Sprawl to Real-Time Infrastructure

2007

Sprawled

2008-2012

Hardware costs downFlexibility up

Virtualized

From “Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything,” Thomas Bittman, Gartner, November 2007.

Capacity On Demand

Hypervisor

Management

Virtual Infrastructure

VMware Leads the Way in the Automated Datacenter

AutomateSeparate Consolidate Aggregate

Self-Managing Datacenter

Server Consolidation

Test and Development

Computing Clouds

Hypervisor Hypervisor

Management

Hypervisor

Management

Virtual Infrastructure

Automation

Liberate

CapEx Savings

OpEx Savings

Business Agility

Virtual Machines Enable Datacenter Automation…

Sprawled Consolidated

Physical Systems Virtual Machines

+OVF

Automated

IT Services

Virtual Machines are Standardized Software

Containers

…And Improve the Efficiency of IT Management

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Improvessubstantially

Improvessomewhat

No impact Makes it slightlyworse / morecomplicated

Don'tKnow/Refused

Does virtualization help you improve how you manage and deliver services in your IT environment?

N = 102

Source: 2007 IDC VM Infrastructure MCS, 2007

Virtualization Platform

VirtualInfrastructure

Automation

Resource Mgt Availability Mobility

Desktop Management

IT Service Delivery

Business Continuity

Security

The Virtual Infrastructure Stack Today

Lifecycle ManagerLab ManagerStage Manager

2008: The Year of Automation

Automation = Business Agility

• Automate IT processes• Create resource pools• Capacity on-demand

Virtual Infrastructure

Management & Automation

Hypervisor

BusinessContinuity

IT Service Delivery

Site Recovery Manager

Agenda

Vision – VMware Enables Datacenter Automation

VMware Solutions for IT Service Delivery

VMware Solutions for Business Continuity

Pain Points for the Infrastructure Administrator

Lack of Visibility and Tracking Who owns what?What virtual machines have been created? What virtual machines have changed; who changed them?How long will virtual machines be in use?

Hard to Maintain Control Who can deploy what into the environment?Are random virtual machines being deployed without approval?Are virtual machines being placed in the appropriate places?Are we removing virtual machines that are no longer needed?

Wasting Time on Manual and Repetitive TasksIs time spent adding business value?Are lots of manual steps leading to errors?What is your defined process if you have one-off deployments?

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Request for VM

Provisioning

DeleteArchive

Intelligent Placement

Route for Approval

VMware Lifecycle Manager

Automated Deployment

VM Tracking

Policy & Control

Decommission

Lifecycle Manager Summary

Feature Benefit

Establishes a catalog and associated deployment policies

Ensures compliance with corporate IT policies and standards

Provides a consistent process for requesting and approving VMs

Prevents VM sprawl

Serves as the “system of record” for all VM requests and deployments

Enables systematic tracking and auditing

Typical Lab Infrastructure is an IT Headache

Server sprawl – under desks, in closets

Aging, cast-off hardware

Dirty systems – inability to maintain “clean state”

Users and IT bogged down in provisioning requests

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VMware Lab Manager: Automating Lab Infrastructure and Operations

Self Service Provisioning

Image Library of Virtual Machine Configurations

IT in Control of Policy and Quotas

Setup, capture, storage and sharing of multi-VM configurations using a shared pool of resources

Lab Users and IT Bogged Down In Provisioning Requests

Dev

Dev

IT3

days

1 min

BEFORE Lab Manager

AFTER Lab Manager

Lab Manager Features and BenefitsFeature User Benefit VI Admin Benefit

Self-service portal for on-demand provisioning

Eliminates delays, accelerates project completion; easy to use

Eliminates time- consuming manual tasks; frees up time for value-add work

Image library for managing multi-VM configurations

Pristine copies of target environments every time

Reduces server sprawl and VM sprawl in labs

LiveLink for capturing and sharing environments

Improves software quality; facilitates troubleshooting; accelerates time to market

Lowers storage consumption; minimizes fire-drills

Stage Manager Targets Release Management

Risk of production downtime is reduced by splitting pre-production processes into discrete stages.

Release Management Stages

Homegrown or packaged application

software

Integration

Assembleapplication

components in the target environment

Testing

Verify successful

integration ofcomponents

Staging

Perf. tuning and

testing

UAT

Useracceptance

testing

Production

Stage Manager Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit

Pushbutton promotion, cloning, archiving through intuitive user interface

Accelerate the completion of requests for changes to production systems

Maintains configuration consistency throughout IT service lifecycle – even cloning directly from production

Ensure all environments are exact replicas, mitigating risk of errors and potential downtime

Agenda

Vision – VMware Enables Datacenter Automation

VMware Solutions for IT Service Delivery

VMware Solutions for Business Continuity

Building Disaster Recovery Solutions

Infrastructure> Hardware > Network> Storage

Management> Processes> Updates> Testing

Data> Application > Operating system> Configuration

Challenges of Traditional Disaster Recovery

Complex recovery processes and infrastructure

Dependent on perfect training, documentation, and execution

Failure to meet continuity

requirements

> Recovery takes days to weeks

> Recovery tests often fail

> Significant IT time and resources consumed

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Simplifies and automates disaster recovery processes:

Setup, testing, failover

Turns manual recovery runbooks into automated recovery plans

Provides central management of recovery plans from VirtualCenter

Works with VMware Infrastructure to make disaster recovery rapid, reliable, manageable, affordable

Introducing VMware Site Recovery Manager

Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure to deliver advanced disaster recovery management and automation

Automation = Business Agility

Virtual Infrastructure

Management & Automation

Hypervisor

What It Means for You

Increase ROIAutomate previously manual tasks

Increase responsiveness to the business

Accelerate the rate of IT change while maintaining predictability and control

Minimize risk and improve compliance with IT/business policy

Manage IT Service delivery across IT and business functions

Thank you