VMware Private

Cloud Solution
Knowledge Transfer Workshop

©2019 VMware, Inc.

Agenda ​Introductions and Workshop Objectives

​Private Cloud Conceptual Design

​Solution Set Scope

​Private Cloud Logical Design

​VCF vRealize Automation Deployment Design Session

​Adoption for Private Cloud Consultant:

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​Next Steps
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customer, use the Delivery
Reference Guide to obtain the
correct Knowledge Transfer Content
for this engagement based upon
the specific products include in the
Solution Builder engagement file.
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Introductions and Workshop Objectives
​Participant introductions
• What experience do you have?
• Why are you attending this workshop?
PS Consultant: Please fill out these bullet
• What do you expect to achieve? points to provide scope and expectations of this
workshop.
​Expectations of the workshop
• Outcomes expected of workshop

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Private Cloud
Solution Focus

INFRASTRUCTURE BUSINESS DIGITAL

PROVIDER PARTNER ENTERPRISE

Hybrid Cloud XaaS Digital Convergence

Private Cloud PaaS Third Platform

Virtual Infrastructure IaaS DevOps

CONSUMER IDENTITY APPS DESKTOP MOBILITY

CYBERSECURITY INSIGHT PROTECT CONTROL

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Private Cloud
Conceptual Diagram

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Solution Set Scope
The table below lists the scope of the engagement in the context of the VMware
journey model. These are the IT Capabilities that have been determined as the focus
for this engagement

IT Capabilities in Scope
Automate workload provisioning
Provide a self-service portal for IT users

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Solution Set Scope
The table below lists the scope of the engagement in the context of the VMware
journey model. These are the IT Problems that have been determined as the focus for
this engagement

IT Problems in Scope
Quality issues due to manual workload configuration
No unified approach to automation
Long workload delivery times
Infrastructure poses a roadblock for developers
Configuration drifts causing unexpected downtime and failure
Lack of unified catalog for applications and services
Lack of standardization
Lack of a shared approach between development and operations
Perception of slow IT reaction times
Lack of a standardized toolchain across the organization

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Solution Set Scope
The table below lists the scope of the engagement in the context of the VMware
journey model. These are the IT Problems that have been determined as the focus for
this engagement

IT Problems in Scope
Developers not able to replicate problematic environments
Application deployments are not standardized
Shadow IT
Complex application and development lifecycles
Poor IT financial visibility
Regulatory compliance causing constraints

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Private Cloud
Logical Diagram

PSO Consultant: Insert

appropriate logical
diagrams based on the
current solution. Review
the diagram, covering each
component and its function

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Engagement Scope - Technical
This specific engagement by VMware Professional Services included the following components
of the Private Cloud. This Solution Design content will only refer to these components.

Technology Components Version

VCF vRealize Automation Deployment 7.6.x

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VMware Cloud Foundation
3.8 vRealize Automation
7.6.x

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Product Overview
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 vRealize
Automation 7.6.x

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Technology Is Transforming Every Industry

Analytics-driven Connected and Mobile and secure

precision farming data-driven healthcare financial services
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Business and IT – Finding the Right Balance

​Business Wants To ​IT Needs To

Roll out new applications to Control costs and increase

market faster efficiency

Respond quickly to new Provide choice and respond

customer demands quickly

Innovate with new technology Ensure security and

to beat competitors compliance

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Need to Modernize, But No One Solution Solves Everything
Each environment offers a unique set of advantages

​PRIVATE CLOUD ​PUBLIC CLOUD

Cost optimized for data intensive apps Flexible, low upfront commitment

Enterprise IT governance Agile and easily scalable

Data locality and control Built for new class of apps

Leverages existing tools and operations Rich developer services

Ideal solution for the edge Fully managed and automated

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 Hybrid Cloud is the Preferred Enterprise Strategy
Combining the best of both worlds into a single strategy

Public Cloud Only 21% 71% 4% Private Cloud Only

Hybrid

Source: RightScale 2018 State of the Cloud Report

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Our Vision
A digital foundation built on VMware

Empower
Any Device
Digital
Workspaces

Transform Any Application

Networking Traditional Apps Cloud-Native Apps SaaS Apps
and Security

Edge Computing

Integrate VMware Cloud

Public
Clouds Foundation
Hybrid Clouds
Public Clouds
Any Cloud Common Common Intrinsic
Infrastructure Operations Security
Modernize
Data Centers Telecommunications
Cloud

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VMware Cloud Foundation

​Integrated software defined cloud

VMware Cloud platform
Foundation
Intrinsic Security

Cloud Management ​Simplest to deploy and operate

​Built-in intrinsic security

Compute Storage Network

​Supports traditional and new workloads
Lifecycle Automation

​Enables path to hybrid cloud

Private Cloud Public Cloud

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 Delivering Best in Class Software Defined Technologies
Based on enterprise-ready, market leading capabilities

VMware Cloud Foundation

Comput Storag Networkin Cloud Lifecycle

e e g Manageme Automation
nt

Industry leading server HCI based shared storage Create entire networks in Automate application Easily deploy and manage
virtualization technology that delivers consistent software, embedded in the provisioning through a a complete private cloud
for you to run, manage, performance and simple hypervisor layer, unified self service catalog through built in lifecycle
connect, and secure your operations from cloud to abstracted from the and hands off intelligent automation for all day 0 to
applications edge underlying physical operations day 2 operations
hardware
Intrinsic Security

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Extensively Tested to Ensure Interoperability and Resiliency
Components
Interoperability

VMware
Hardened Validated
Design Resilience with
Security and Designs Guided Implementation
Compliance

Management
Resiliency at Scale
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What’s New
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 vRealize
Automation 7.6

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Cloud Foundation Software Building Blocks…
Automated Deployment and Life Cycle Management of the full SDDC

+ + +
Compute Storage Network Management

vSphere vSAN NSX-V vRealize Suite new

NSX-T new

VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 now includes full life cycle management patching and upgrades of NSX-T and vRealize components from within the SDDC
Manager

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vRealize LifeCycle Manager Integration into SDDC Manager

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​VMware Cloud Foundation

• Cloud Foundation 3.7 introduced vRealize Suite LCM deployment

from within SDDC Manager
• Cloud Foundation 3.8 now utilizes the SDDC Manager UI to update
and patch vRealize Components deployed from the SDDC Manager
driven by vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager to update:
• vRealize Suite LifeCycle Manager
• vRealize Log Insight
• vRealize Operations
• vRealize Automation

• vRealize component state is maintained for a non-disruptive

upgrade
• Automated post-upgrade validation checks
• Upgrade process automates configuration and snapshot removal

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vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager

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Automated Lifecycle Management and Operations for vRealize (Day 0 to Day 2)

vRealize Suite LCM

vRealize Automation

vRealize Operations
SDDC Manager vRealize LCM
vRealize Log Insight

Installation Configuration Day 2 Scale Upgrade

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vRealize Automation Architecture
VMware Cloud Foundation

​vRealize Automation version 7.6

​Deployed in accordance with VMware

Validated Designs

• HA configuration with NSX ESG load

balancer

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 Deploying vRealize Automation
Simplified and Automated Deployment of vRA

• Complete Pre-
reqs
• Provide Windows
OVA & Certificate
• Input Hostnames
• Input Service
Accounts
• Select Network
• Review and Wait
• vRSLCM
Completes
Configuration
• Connect to
Workload
Domains

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vRealize Automation 7.6
What’s New

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What’s New in vRealize Automation 7.6
Enhancing SDDC integration and management

​vRealize
​Custom Form
​NSX Integration Orchestrator
Enhancements
User Experience

​Configure NSX-T and ​HTML 5 Client ​DataGrid

NSX-V for different functionality Enhancements
clusters w/ single Enhancements
vCenter Server ​Additional Form
​Enhanced Design, Elements
​On-demand private Run, Content
networking support Management and
Troubleshooting

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NSX Integration Enhancements

• vCenter endpoints
can be associate it
with both an NSX-V
endpoint and NSX-T
endpoint.

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NSX Integration Enhancements

• Can create an NSX-V-

specific or NSX-T-
specific reservation
depending upon the
compute resources
selected when
configuring the
reservation.

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NSX Integration Enhancements

• Build Private NSX-V

network profiles

• Provision On-demand
NSX-V private networks

• Helps with migration

from NSX-V to NSX-T

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vRealize Orchestrator Enhancements

• Build, Import, Edit, Debug

and Execute workflows
from the HTML5 interface

• Create, update and use in

workflows configuration
elements. No need to copy
paste same resource in all
workflows

• Compare and restore

different versions of the
same workflow side by
side

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vRealize Orchestrator Enhancements

• Enhanced Dashboard

• Enhanced Permissions
for Web Client

• Improvements in
workflow run
troubleshooting

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Custom Form Enhancements

• Custom Form New

Generic Elements

• Muti-Value Picker:
Multiple selection
component for
complex objects

• Dual List Selector

• Link component

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Custom Form Enhancements

• Custom Form DataGrid

Enhancements:
• Make disks defined
in Blueprint read-
only in the form
• Cell validations
• Trigger refresh of
data grid dependent
field when
add/remove/edit
rows
• Support for Regular
Expressions

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Miscellaneous Bug Fixes and Improvements

Enhanced Workflow Outputs

• Ability to reuse the outputs
from each subscription and
pass data between the
Workflows subscriptions in the
same state.

Enhanced XaaS Functionality

• Change owner of XaaS
provisioned resource
• Show Dynamic Types Based
Objects in Hierarchy
• Clean Up XaaS Provisioned
resources that don’t exist in
vRO

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Architecture
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 vRealize
Automation 7.6

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vRealize Automation Install, Configure and Upgrade
​VMware Cloud Foundation

​Deployed by SDDC Manager SDDC Gather

Manager requirements
from admin
​Deployed on-demand (user initiated after bring-up)
Invoke deploy vRA
workflow
​Leverages vRSLCM:
• SDDC Manager Deploys vRSLCM (if not already vRSLCM API
deployed)
• Calls vRSLCM APIs to deploy vRealize vRSLCM

Automation
ESG
​Use SDDC Manager to optionally configure
workload domains as vRA endpoints.
​vRA versions are upgradeable though SDDC VRA IWS IMS DEM SQL

Manager (driven by vRealize Suite LCM)

vRealize Automation

Management Workload Domain

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vRealize Automation Architecture
VMware Cloud Foundation

​vRealize Automation version 7.6

​Deployed in accordance with VMware

Validated Designs

• HA configuration with NSX ESG load

balancer

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Technical Walk Through
VMware Cloud Foundation 3.8 vRealize
Automation 7.6.x

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Deploying vRealize Automation from VMware Cloud
Foundation
​Deploying vRealize Automation Video

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