WHITE PAPER: Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX. The Proven Solution For Building Cloud Services

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1 WHITE PAPER: Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX The Proven Solution For Building Cloud Services

2 Build, Manage and Protect Your Cloud with the VSPEX Certified Egenera Cloud Suite Today, organizations are accelerating their usage of cloud computing as the delivery mechanism for IT services. This includes both private clouds that are giving internal users self-service access to shared infrastructure resources, or public clouds that are being used to provide easy access to external compute and software services. In the past year, cloud computing has advanced as early adopters move from test and development workloads to deployment of more enterprise and business critical applications. As that has occurred, uptime, service levels and operational simplicity have become more critical. Companies are confronting the challenge of evolving their existing, legacy IT infrastructure into an agile, automated cloud. EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure was designed as a converged infrastructure package that tackles this exacting challenge and helps companies with their journey to the cloud. EMC VSPEX includes cloud-certified solutions to deliver easy to deploy and simple to manage as a Service solutions. Fast Growth in Cloud Services Research firm IDC reports that data center managers expect to allocate nearly 50% of their budgets to running services in the cloud (public and private) by Driving this transition is the need to provide users with more immediate access to computing resources, and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) through greater automation and elasticity of services. Additionally, IDC tracked converged infrastructure as a $16B industry in 2010 growing to $64B by Of that, approximately 50% is associated with software, 30% services and 20% hardware value. (IDC Directions 2012) Gartner reports that worldwide spending on public cloud services is growing at over 28% per year with cloud spending in the US at $60B USD by The fastest growing segment of cloud computing is Cloud Management, which over the next 5 years, Gartner expects to grow at over 40% CAGR. The Egenera Cloud Suite is a converged infrastructure and cloud management and brokering platform that makes its easier for customers to transition to the cloud and to build, manage and protect applications running across public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Both service providers and enterprises are building their cloud services using Egenera Cloud Suite. They rely on it to deliver: The highest levels of availability to meet stringent service level agreements (SLAs) The ability to incorporate both physical and virtual servers to support the most performance-intensive applications, including those that are not easily virtualized An open solution, which supports servers from all the major hardware vendors and server virtualization from the leading providers Verifiable, N+1 disaster recovery capability that is easy to implement and test Support for business and mission-critical applications as well as test, development and less-demanding environments.

3 Now there are even more reasons to trust your cloud service to Egenera: it is EMC VSPEX Labs Validated. This designation is a result of Egenera Cloud Suite having passed rigorous testing for functionality and compliance with EMC VSPEX. VSPEX pre-validated and modular architectures are built with proven bestof-breed technologies to create complete virtualization solutions that enable informed decisions in the hypervisor, compute and networking layers. VSPEX infrastructures accelerate IT transformation by enabling faster deployments, greater flexibility, increased efficiency, and lower risk. Both service providers and enterprises will benefit as Egenera Cloud Suite + EMC VSPEX makes it easier to design, request, provision, protect and manage IT as a service. Egenera VSPEX Reference Architecture and Benefits The Egenera solution for EMC VSPEX features Egenera cloud and infrastructure management software to simplify the building and deployment of cloud services for enterprises and service providers. It enables self-service consumption of physical or virtual server resources, simple creation of solutions for end-user workloads, high availability, chargeback and billing services, and automated infrastructure management that reduces costs for both enterprises and service providers. Virtualized Applications ERP Database Cloud PAN Manager Software by Egenera Management Services Server Definition Management On-Demand Provisioning Automated Management Disaster Recovery High Availability Integrated Virtual Server Management Foundation Services App OS Hardware IO Visualization Stateless Environment Intelligent Fabric CPU CPU CPU Industry Standard Storage Pool Industry Standard Networking Pool Industry Standard Processing Pool This solution uses the EMC VNX5300 array and VMware vsphere 5 to provide storage and server hardware consolidation. The virtualized infrastructure is centrally managed, allowing efficient deployment and management of a scalable number of virtual machines and associated shared storage. Due to the open nature of Egenera software, companies can choose from a wide range of server technology and networking hardware. Server capacity is provided in generic terms for required minimums of CPU, memory and network interfaces. 3 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

4 Solution Benefits Summary Robust cloud solution. IT professionals can confidently deploy a cloud service that enable user self-service consumption of resources Simplicity of solution deployment and use. Enables the IT generalist in the small or medium business (SMB) to deploy cloud services through its ease of use, integration points, and the ability to mask complex tasks Simplified management, lower cost. Simplified and centralized management of server and storage deployment, monitoring, patching, and other normal activities results in lower management overhead, reduced risk, and reduced downtime High availability. Creates highly available, scalable infrastructure that makes the most efficient use of CPU, memory, and storage resources and grows with the needs of your business Storage efficiency. The EMC VNX array features optimized storage efficiency, reduced over-provisioning and simplified storage management Easier backup and recovery. Integration with EMC s next-generation backup solutions for virtual machine and application backup and recovery The validated cloud management solution includes the following component options: Egenera PAN Cloud Director software Egenera PAN Manager software Industry standard blade servers: any combination HP c7000 Bladesystem IBM Bladecenter H NEC Sigmablade system Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX900 system Cisco Nexus 7018 Ethernet switch Cisco MDS 9513 Fiber Channel Switch VMware vsphere 5 EMC Virtual Storage Integrator for VMware EMC VNX Series VNX 5300 VNX FAST Cache EMC Avamar 4 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

5 Design Deploy Manage Protect Cloud Management & Brokering User Potals Services Catalog Security Any storage Any network Any server Any hypervisor This architecture diagram characterizes the infrastructure validated for support of up to 250 virtual machines. VMware vsphere 5 Virtual Servers Physical Servers VM VM VM VM VM VM OS OS Users/ Self-service Portal Choice of Blade Servers 10G Ethernet Single Pane Infrastructure Management 1G Ethernet EMC VNX G Fiber Channel PAN Cloud Suite vcenter Active Directory Domain Name 5 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

6 Egenera VSPEX Components Overview PAN Cloud Director PAN Cloud Director is a complete cloud management platform. The software provides users an easy way to request and consume IT, and gives datacenter operators an out of the box solution to create user accounts, design IT solutions, track usage and arrange for billing and usage reporting. Cloud Director works by abstracting the IT infrastructure and presenting that infrastructure in a digital service catalog. This catalog contains all the components of the data center physical servers, virtual servers, storage, switches, firewalls, hypervisors, operating systems, applications, back up services and more. Users leverage the catalog and the associated design palette to literally drag, drop and connect all the components of the desired IT service. They can also easily configure their services with high availability and disaster recovery options. Once the design is complete, users can deploy their application solutions with the click of a mouse. In this way, solution architects, applications owners and other credentialed users will be able to design, configure and deploy complex, three-tiered solutions. Leveraging Cloud Director capabilities for account management, usage tracking, billing, invoicing and customer support enables organizations to provide cost effective cloud services such as Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Desktop as a Service, Disaster Recovery as a Service and more. 6 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

7 Cloud Director Reviews and Approves Division or BU Lead Products Automated workflows for physical management Configure, price and consumes assets (catalogs) Discover, configure, price and allocate assets (catalogs) Architect/ Application Owner Data Center Operator Orders Cloud Director Hybrid Server (P/V) Asset Inventory Cloud Director Virtual Server Asset Inventory N+1 Failover for physical resources and a Simplified DR strategy Virtual Machine HA Failover Furthermore, unlike other cloud management products, PAN Cloud Director is hypervisor-agnostic (supporting VMware, Hyper-V, Xen and KVM) and, in combination with PAN Manager, is the only product in the market that provides lifecycle management for both physical and virtual resources enabling clouds consisting of a mix of both bare metal and virtual resources. This enables users to secure the IT resources that best match their application needs and budget requirements. User Portals PAN CLOUD DIRECTOR Services Catalogs Security Catalog OS Raw Servers VMs Networks Apps Storage CLIENT A Solution Templates VDI Trading App Webservice Dev & Test Security Accounts Multi-tenancy Firewalls Authentication Availability... Catalog OS Raw Servers VMs Networks Apps Storage CLIENT B Solution Templates VDI Trading App Webservice Dev & Test Security Accounts Multi-tenancy Firewalls Authentication Availability Storage Resource Pool Networks Resource Pool Bare Metal/ Raw Physical Server Pool/ any brand Virtual Server Pool Any Hypervisor Once designed, you can deploy the solution by automatically provisioning physical servers, virtual servers, storage and networking. N+1 high availability and disaster recovery are easily implemented with PAN Manager. PCD then enables you to manage your cloud service and track usage and performance. PAN Cloud Director Summary: Drag and drop infrastructure solution design Real-time pricing, cost modeling and quotation Automated management of application SLAs End-to-end provisioning of IT service Active service monitoring against SLAs Easy updating and patching process Consumption-based chargeback for services 7 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

8 PAN Manager Software: Rapid Deployment for Dynamic Scalability PAN Manager lets you build a highly resilient and flexible computing infrastructure on which to host your cloud services. It provisions, manages and protects IT infrastructure with unique virtualization capabilities, powerful management software and policy-based automation. PAN Manager includes N+1 high availability and verifiable disaster recovery as integral parts of the solution. Based on the patented Processing Area Network (PAN) technology, PAN Manager s unique approach works by abstracting IT infrastructure to create manageable resource pools of servers, I/O, networking, and storage. This level of abstraction delivers flexibility and the ability to dynamically move workloads in the event of an outage, resource failure or purely to enable scalability. Using the PAN Manager GUI, individual resources from these pools can be assigned a profile or personality and you can pre-define entire physical, hypervisor host servers, or mixed server configurations (including I/O, network and storage). Each profile contains the application configuration and service level requirements. Unlike products that limit you to virtual machines, PAN Manager provisions both physical servers and/or virtual host servers so you can allocate the ideal resource for any application. By defining a server s profile in software, you can then apply profiles to any resource, allowing workloads to be dynamically allocated on demand. Individual servers, or complete networked environments, can be provisioned as needed in minutes with just a few mouse clicks. N+1 High Availability With PAN Manager s N+1 high availability you can allocate a server to take over the workload from any failed server. This could be a server running a hypervisor (it doesn t matter which one) or it could be a physical server it makes no difference to PAN Manager. All that is required is the CPU and memory resources from that server. This feature allows for automatic and seamless failover from one server to another without manual intervention. 8 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

9 Verifiable Disaster Recovery With the DR functionality built into PAN Manager Enterprise you can failover entire environments, whether that is between racks in the same datacenter or across geographically dispersed datacenters. By having this level of abstraction, the server definitions can quickly be applied to the resources wherever they are located. This also makes it easy to test, and verify, DR plans. As the process can be automated and initiated very quickly, those servers can be running other workloads and applications when not needed for DR, which eliminates the need for expensive idle hardware resources. 9 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX

10 Facilitating Multi-Tenancy and Secure Boundaries with Logical Environment Definitions PAN Manager software includes a feature called LPANs (Logical Processing Area Networks). This allows the computing resources (server, storage, network and more) to be grouped together for one particular customer or for administrative purposes. This enables multi-tenancy, with the ability to host multiple customer environments securely on the same hardware platform and still deliver high availability and DR services. LPANs can specify common failover servers which reduces infrastructure overhead, allowing customers to have high SLAs at lower cost a distinct competitive advantage for cloud providers. Summary Using Egenera software in the VSPEX reference architecture speeds the deployment and simplifies the management of cloud services for both enterprises and service providers. Egenera Cloud Suite provides unmatched flexibility in terms of supporting both physical and virtual servers, different hypervisors and hardware from all of the major server vendors. Its integrated N+1 high availability and verifiable disaster recovery simplify the usually complex process of implementing and testing HA and DR, and reduce costs significantly compared to other approaches. To learn more about Egenera software products please contact the Egenera Team at: info@egenera.com Web: Phone: Egenera Inc., 80 Central Street, Boxborough, MA Headquarters Egenera, Inc. 80 Central Street Boxborough, MA U.S.A. P: info@egenera.com Asia/Pacific Office Egenera, K.K. Shinjuku NS Building 6F, Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku Tokyo Japan P: info-jp@egenera.com Europe/Middle East/ Africa Egenera Ltd Lake Drive Citywest Business Campus Co. Dublin Ireland P: +353 (0) emea@egenera.com Europe/Middle East/ Africa Egenera GmbH Dornhofstrasse Neu Isenburg Germany P: +49 (0) emea@egenera.com Europe/Middle East/ Africa Egenera Ltd. Squires House 205A High Street West Wickham, BR4 0PH United Kingdom P: +44 (0) emea@egenera.com 10 Egenera Cloud Suite for EMC VSPEX