Automation

Moving faster in the digital business age

[Name and title]

[Date of Presentation]

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Business demands

Improved service with faster

time to market
“Configuration and change
Increased security and management of networking gear
compliance remains primarily a labor-intensive,
manual process... These suboptimal
Better utilization of IT resources network practices result in
for more strategic projects downtime, reduce security, degrade
application performance, and waste
human and capital resources.”

Andrew Lerner
Research Director
Gartner
So what’s getting in the way?

Inconsistent tooling Manual processes Complex physical

infrastructure

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Q: How can I deliver faster, higher quality
networking and security services to my business?

A: Virtualization, standardization, and automation.

What is Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC)?

Software Intelligence in software

Compute Operational model of VM for data center
Storage
Automated provisioning and configuration
Network

Data center virtualization layer

Hardware Pooled compute, network, and storage capacity

Compute Vendor independent, best price/performance/service
Storage
Network
Simplified configuration and management
What is NSX?
VM VM VM VM VM VM
APP APP APP Virtual networks
VM VM VM VM VM VM
Network virtualization
is at the core of the
Software-Defined Data “Network platform”
Center approach
Network and security
services now in the
hypervisor

Virtualization layer

Network,
storage,
compute
The solution: network virtualization and automation

VM VM
APP
VM VM

Consistent virtualization Automated, standardized Virtualized infrastructure

tools processes and security controls

Inconsistent tooling Manual processes Complex physical infrastructure

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Automation use cases

IT Automating IT Developer Cloud Multi-Tenant

Infrastructure
 IT Automating IT
Traditional infrastructure provisioning

Ticketing extends across multiple roles

Day two 6
1 3 change
User requests
new app NetOps CloudOps

2
Manual Final delivery can
Request work streams take several
generates a weeks
ticket
4 5

SecOps Admin

7 Change restarts entire process

IT Automating IT
Eliminating time and complexity with automation

Benefits

Accelerate workload
deployment
vRe a liz e

NETWORKING Avoid risk from human errors

SECURITY

IT
Cloud management vRealize Automation Compliance and auditability
platform Blueprint
Faster, cost efficient
delivery of IT services to
academic departments

Automated deployments
and centralized application
management
Automation use cases

IT Automating IT Developer Cloud Multi-Tenant

Infrastructure
Developer Cloud
Today: Infrastructure limitations bring delays and risks

1
Challenges
PUBLIC
Slow time-to-deliver

Rogue Not secured

develope High costs
r Not connected

Complexity

Uneven security and

compliance
2

Costly
Good citizen
developer Time intensive
Developer Cloud
Consistent, SaaS-based delivery approach using standard APIs

Benefits

Agile development
Heat Terraform

API
Continuous deployment
NETWORKING
SECURITY

Developer Infrastructure OpenStack Infrastructure as code

templates APIs
Consistent security
Developer Cloud
Consistent, SaaS-based delivery approach using infrastructure as code

Benefits

Consistent configuration
Puppet

Chef Ease of replication

Ansible NETWORKING
SECURITY

DevOps Configuration Configuration Faster deployments

NSX API
templates management tools
Use of existing toolsets
Challenging the status quo of
traditional network operations

New service- and customer-oriented

infrastructure positions firm
for future growth
Automation use cases

IT Automating IT Developer Cloud Multi-Tenant

Infrastructure
Multi-Tenant Infrastructure
Traditional managed services cloud models limit scalability
Dedicated tenant Multiple cloud instances
cloud environments
Challenges
TENANT A

Costly to scale

Inefficient resource utilization

Complex to upgrade, secure

TENANT B
IT Organization or
Service Provider

TENANT C

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Multi-Tenant Infrastructure Single-cloud instance

Realizing new service opportunities

TENANT A

Service Catalog Service provider model

Opportunities
Virtual Machines
Network virtualization Cost efficiencies
Security services
TENANT A Security for provider and
consumer

“Zero Touch” service model

TENANT A

IT Organization
or Service
Provider

Provider Tenants 19
Differentiated service
offerings while providing
greater protection for
multi-tenant clients

Leveraging NSX to bring higher

levels of service to cloud clients
Automation
Moving faster in the digital business age

IT Automating IT Developer Cloud Multi-Tenant Infrastructure

• Accelerated, self- • API-driven development • Cost efficiencies
serve deployments and deployment
• Compliance and • Infrastructure treated as • “Zero Touch” service
auditability code and templated model
• IT staff can focus on • End-to-end automation • Security applied to
strategic projects across DevOps lifecycle provider and tenant
Where to get started
Automate IT
provisioning
Read the “Making the Business Case for
Virtualized Networks” whitepaper
Read Automate IT Solution Brief
NSX and vRealize HoL and exploration
API-driven
development and
deployment
“With the help of VMware solutions, we’ve
transformed an extremely inconsistent service
process into an experience that’s the
equivalent of going into McDonald’s and
ordering a Big Mac.
Brian Pietrewicz, Director of Computing Platforms,  
University of New Mexico