Virtualization to Cloud:Accelerating Efficiency in the Data Center

Hugh Jenkins

Next Generation Compute Solutions

Modular Data Center

Virtualization Pod

Server

Removing Complexity

VDI Solution

Modular / Converg

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10-30 VMs 30-400 VMs 50-750+ VMs 50-5000 VDI 10,000+ VMs

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Today’s Modern Data Center

Physical View

Logical View

End User Expectation

More than a technology challenge…

Public cloud

VIS

Hybrid cloudPrivate cloud

Virtualization

Enabling enterprise private cloud

IT Service Management

Workload LifecycleManagement

InfrastructureManagement

Drive increased business agility and deliver IT as a service

Increase automation and enable rapid workload deployment

Advance converged infrastructure management and operations

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Infrastructure Management

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• Right workloads, right infrastructure, right time

• Rapidly repurpose hardware

• Consolidate to shared resource pool

• Enable green IT by powering down excess capacity

Capacity on Demand for elasticity Refresh Technology and ease migration

• Rapidly retarget workloads

• Efficiency through best-of-breed choices

• Virtualize across physical & virtual

• Controlled migration, gradual decommissioning

• Protect applications against failure

• Don’t dedicate servers/sites to back up role only

• Gain resilience with existing investments

• Eliminate complexity of expensive clusters

Deliver HA/DR for Business Continuity Accelerate Test-Dev Environments

• Automate infrastructure configuration

• Less waste, higher utilization, better scalability

• Rapidly move workloads through Test/Dev/QA

• Accelerate applications rollout to production

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Lifecycle & Service Management

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• Organize business groups

• Identify authorized users

• Provide a service catalog

• Reserve dedicated resources

Streamline provisioning with self-service Identify & reclaim Inactive VMs

• Stop sprawl before it starts

• Filters for pinpointing

• Automate corrective actions

• Monitor progress

• Deploy & manage VDI

• Provision with single console

• Simplify multi-vendor deployments

• Automate and orchestrate VDI tasks

Automate Virtual desktop service delivery Enable Test-Dev Lab Environments

• Self-service portals

• Deploy resource on-demand

• Automate provisioning, minimize admin time

• Shared infrastructure across physical, virtual, cloud

Workload Distribution: Next 5 Years

Traditional Virtualized Private Cloud Public Cloud

Distribution Today

Distribution in 3–5 Years

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