Building an Internal Cloud that is ready
for the external Cloud
Luca ZERMINIANI,
Agenda
How virtualization is changing IT
Internal clouds – the best platform for any application
Building an internal cloud
Integration of external clouds as datacenter resources
The future of application management
Platform Focus
Infrastructure Abstraction
Computing
…. to the dynamic infrastructure …
The building block for the datacenter Storage Network Flexible Dynamic Fast
The draw is saving money, but after a
year or so, surveys show that adopters
believe the key is agility.
…. to the private cloud !
The private cloud is the best place to
run any existing application
Private clouds, the best place to run tier 1 app’s
Consolidation
Decrease infrastructure cost for Server HW
Save space and energy in the datacenter
Archive consolidation ratios of 5:1 to 10:1
Scale physical infrastructure on demandAvailability
Minimize planned downtime
Reduce recovery timer for server failure down to zero
Build cross site disaster recovery solutions
Increase overall availabilityPrivate clouds, the best place to run tier 1 app’s
Quality of Service
Ensure appropriate resource assignment
Continuously monitor SLAs
React proactive and fast to issues
Dynamic scale resource as application needs growManageability
Scale infrastructure as needed
Gain flexibility through workload mobility
Move Apps during hardware maintenanceTier 1 apps on vSphere
Source: VMware customer survey, September 2008, sample size 1038
Data: Within subset of VMware customers running a specific app, % that have at least one instance of that app in production in a VM
In a recent Gartner poll, 73% of customers claimed to use x86 virtualization for mission critical applications in production
Source: Gartner IOM Conference (June 2008)
“Linux and Windows Server Virtualization Is Picking Up Steam” (ID Number: G00161702)
MS Exchange MS SharePoint MS SQL Oracle Middleware Oracle DB IBM WebSphere
% of customers running apps in production on VMware
What is needed to build a cloud service ?
Infrastructure Services
vCompute / vStorage / vNetwork Availability / Security / Scalability
Application Services
Resources / Policies / Monitoring
Management Services
ESX
vCenter Server
Planning / Optimization / Controle
Management Tools vCenter Family
vClou
d
API
The application portability is the key
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VM
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OVF
VM
INFO
Virtual
Machine
Description of VM
properties
OVF Virtual
Machine
The Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
is an industries standard, to ensure
vAPP
vApp the virtual application
APP
Business apps consist of multiple VM’s and form a vAPPHybrid
Cloud
Linking clouds together
Private
Cloud
vApp vAppPublic
Cloud
vApp vApp vCloud API vCen ter PluginSecurity - Portability – Unified Management
Redw
ood
High
performance
computing
Infrastructure
as a Service
Disaster
Recovery
Flavors of clouds
Test / Dev
Remote
private
Cloud
Private
Cloud
Training
Link private corporate cloudsUse spare capacity for HPC Higher availability at lower costScale on demand, lower costOn demand infrastructure
resources for trainings
Cheap resources for non critical apps
Community
Clouds
Community Clouds i.e. for public services
vCloud Express
VMware vSphere based cloud offerings
Recap
Private
Cloud
The best place to run any app
Works with what you have today
Helps you toreassign resources and scale easily
Public
Cloud
Easy on demand capacity
Pay per use
Helps you to scale easily
Multiple offerings to fit differentneeds
