Building an Internal Cloud that is ready

for the external Cloud

Luca ZERMINIANI,
Senior Systems Engineer, VMware Italy
Athens, February 2010

© 2009 VMware Inc. All rights reserved

 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
 Summary

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From physical ….

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…. to virtual …

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…. to the dynamic infrastructure …

Computing
Platform Focus
Infrastructure Abstraction
Storage

Network
The draw is saving money, but after a
year or so, surveys show that adopters
believe the key is agility.
Flexible
Tom Bittman, Gartner
Dynamic

Fast

The building block for the

datacenter

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…. to the private cloud !

Simplified mgmt
thru abstraction
Highly On-demand
efficient scale

The private cloud is the best place to

run any existing application

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Private clouds, the best place to run tier 1 app’s

 Decrease infrastructure cost for Server HW

Consolidation
 Save space and energy in the datacenter
 Archive consolidation ratios of 5:1 to 10:1
 Scale physical infrastructure on demand

 Minimize planned downtime

Availability
 Reduce recovery timer for server failure down
to zero
 Build cross site disaster recovery solutions
 Increase overall availability
 Use redundant infrastructure immediately
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Private clouds, the best place to run tier 1 app’s

 Scale infrastructure as needed

Manageability
 Gain flexibility through workload mobility
 Move Apps during hardware maintenance
 Reduce management cost per app

 Ensure appropriate resource assignment

Quality of Service
 Continuously monitor SLAs
 React proactive and fast to issues
 Dynamic scale resource as application needs
grow

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Tier 1 apps on vSphere

% of customers running apps in production on VMware

56% 53%
50%

36% 41% 34%

24% 27%

MS MS MS Oracle Oracle IBM IBM SAP

Exchange SQL SharePoint Middleware DB WebSphere DB2
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)

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Average Oracle DB Fits Easily in a VM

vSphere vSphere vSphere vSphere

8 vCPU 255 GB 300,000 IOPS 30 Gb/s

Oracle DB
2 – 4 CPU Oracle DB
6% utilized 4 – 8 GB
Oracle DB Oracle DB
50% utilized
2,000 IOPS 2 Mb/s

CPU Memory Disk IO Network IO

Source: VMware Capacity Planner analysis of > 700,000 servers in customer production environments

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What is needed to build a cloud service ?
vCenter
Family

vCloud API
Management Planning / Optimization / Controle
Tools
vCenter
Server

Management Resources / Policies / Monitoring

Services

To enable clouds the key is the

portability of the application
Application Availability / Security / Scalability
Services
ESX

Infrastructure vCompute / vStorage / vNetwork

Services

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The application portability is the key

INFO
OVF
VM + = VM

Virtual Description of VM OVF Virtual

Machine properties Machine

The Open Virtualization Format (OVF)

is an industries standard, to ensure
cross platform VM portability

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vApp the virtual application

APP
 Business apps consist of multiple
VM’s and form a vAPP
 vAPP’s are treated as the
management container

vAPP

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Managing applications in a self healing cloud datacenter

An issue
App with
is back
anto
App arises
normal

Applications
Management
Management
monitors the
dynamically assigns
Management

resources
more resources
Application Server

vSphere

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Linking clouds together

Hybrid
Cloud
vApp
vApp vApp
vApp vApp

Private

vCloud API
Redwood
Public
vCenter
Plugin

Cloud Cloud

Security - Portability – Unified Management

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Delivering the cloud computing stack

Software Applications
as a Service
SaaS

Platform Application Server

as a Service
PaaS

Infrastructure vSphere
as a Service
IaaS

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Flavors of clouds

Infrastructure
Disaster as a Service
Recovery

High
vCloud Express
VMware
performance Private
vSphere based cloud offerings
Training
computing Cheap
On Community
demand
resources infrastructure
for
Clouds
non critical
Higher
Scale
Link
Cloud
Use private
spare
on
availability
demand,
resources
capacity
corporate
i.e. for public
apps
atlower
lower
forclouds
for services
HPC
trainings
cost
cost

http://www.vmware.com/appliances/services/vcloud-express.html

Remote
private
Community Test / Dev
Cloud
Clouds

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Recap

Private Public
Cloud Cloud
 The best place to  Bridging the gap  Easy on demand
run any app between different capacity
clouds
 Works with what  Pay per use
you have today  Ensuring security  Helps you to scale
 Helps you to  Single pane of easily
reassign resources glass
 Multiple offerings
and scale easily
to fit different
needs

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Only VMware …

is the world’s most trusted virtualization platform

virtualizes the entire fabric of the datacenter,

delivering ultimate flexibility
89% of all virtualized applications
in the
paves the world run computing,
path to cloud on VMware.with a common
platform from desktop
Gartner, through
December the datacenter out to
2008
public clouds

brings the broadest set of ecosystem partners,

extending the value of your investment

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Thank You – Grazie - Efharisto
Building an Internal Cloud that is ready for the external Cloud

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