Application Centric Cloud Solutions Fast IT! Stefan Ruoss Business Consultant Fast IT! Datacenter Technology Team
Agenda Bimodal IT DC and Cloud Strategy Cloud ready! Orchestration and Automation Wrap Up 2
Fast IT! Defined. Fast IT! is a new model for IT with a drive for less complexity, more agility, and comprehensive security. It is based upon application-centricity, automation, virtualization, and orchestration. It helps to lead organizations through the transformation into the digital business, enabling to adopt on and drive new business innovations while optimizing the current business models and the existing IT infrastructure.
277X Data created by IoE devices v. end-user 30M New devices connected every week 180B Mobile apps downloaded in 2015 78% Workloads processed in Cloud DCs by 2018 5TB+ of data per person by 2020 4.2B Web filtering blocks per day Data Center and Cloud Power Digital Disruption 4 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Cisco Public
Top Customer Challenges and Initiatives Manage Disruptive IT Business Change Models Promise Cloud Strategy of Cloud Opportunities Data and Organize Application and Analyze Data Explosion! Increased Security Security and Compliance Threats 10101 Cloud Mobile Social Shadow IT DevOps Cloud Flat Budgets Less Deliver than IT-as-a- 1% have Service an Optimized Consistently Cloud Across Strategy Public and Private Clouds Big Data 2X Data IoT/IoE growth /18 mos., Analytics Application Cloud-Scale growth / 2 years Apps 60% Securing of data Data stolen within Within first DC few and hours Across of attack Clouds Bi-Modal IT Hybrid Clouds Data Insights Pervasive Security 5
Bimodal IT Reliable IT Agile IT Getting IT Right Getting IT Fast think marathon Efficient Stable Resilient Optimize on Cost think sprinter Market Driven Dynamic Application Lifecycle Optimized for DevOps Distinct Skills, Processes and Tools required Customers Need Both Modes of Operation 6
Hybrid serves the Bi-Modal Approach Control DC/Private Clouds Security Striking the perfect balance Data Sovereignty Economics Speed Scale Provider Clouds Hybrid Reliable - Fixed workloads IT as a Service Broker Agile - Elastic workloads 7
Key Concepts in Fast IT and Cloud Organize and Orchestrate Automate Compose, manage and automate within or across clouds Ø Model oriented Ø Policy based Reduce complexity, manual labor Ø automated tasks and workflows Ø End-to-End provisioning Converge and Standardize Reduce the number of solution elements Ø standardized building blocks Ø simplification 8
We have seen this before Portal is what type of car to build Orchestration is how to build the car and what variants of it Automation is building the car Software Defined Infrastructure is the logistic allocating the required parts on demand Service Portal Policy based Orchestration Workflow Automation Software Defined Infrastructure 9
Elements Required to Make Cloud Simple Virtualization Across Compute, Network, Storage Portal Service Catalog for On-Demand Services POLICY-DRIVEN Infrastructure Software Defined/ programmable and scalable Hybrid Cloud Open Architecture Support for secure Hybrid Architectures Orchestration Composition and Automation Management of Service Configurations Task and Workflow Automation 10
Infrastructure Silo s! Automation Silo s? Compute Storage Network Security 11
Orchestration Matters Script-based Orchestration Model-based Orchestration 12
Complex IT Processes to Deploy Application Resources Challenges: Manual processes Complex handoffs between teams and domains Static resource allocation Result: Days/weeks/months to deploy IT services High operational cost Rigid silos Infrastructure inefficiency and under utilization 2 IT Planning 1 Define Cost Models Business Application Requirements Add Users and Groups Approvals 6 3 5 4 Server Admins Network Admin Storage Bare- Metal Bare- Metal Setup Servers Create Storage Resources (LUNs and Volumes) Create VLANs Create Network Policies Create IP space Web App Hyper-v Bare metal Provisioning Create VLAN Update Trunks Create UCS Service Profiles Create vfilers Web Web Bare-Metal HYPERVISOR HYPERVISOR Configure Servers Add VLAN to Service Profile Configure SAN Zoning Add vfilers to Group Map Create UCS Blade NetApp LUN Storage Policy Power On 13 DB
Policy: Links Application Language to Infrastructure Application Language Application tier policy and dependencies Security requirements Service level agreement Application performance Compliance Geo dependencies App Common Policy App USC Container Network Service Decouple Policy-Driven Profile Profile Application and policy Infrastructure from Underlying Infrastructure infrastructure Network Language Compute/Storage Language Security Language 14
Policy driven Orchestration and Automation Service Catalog Application Profile/ Containers Compute Network Storage F/W L/B WEB L/B APP DB Policy based request Application Instantiation Create VLANs Update Trunks Create Network Policies Deploy SP from SP Template Create LUN Compute Network with L4-7 Services Storage Workflow Create and Configure IG OS Installation Create Zones and Zonesets Change Boot Order Activate Zoneset Reboot Create PXE Record PXE Verification Blade Power ON Register with vcenter PXE Boot Send Complete Notifications Compute Network Storage Policy defined Infrastructure Quantity Capacity Quality WEB Web App DB APP 2 VMs, High IO 8 VMs, 10 GB 2 VMs, 50 GB DB Web App DB Stateful FW & LB L4-L7 services Stateless FW Connection to Application Storage Storage Web App DB Cache locally Primary Storage IOPS/Mirrored 2 High IOPS Data Mirroring Web Tier App Tier DB Tier 15
Automation and Orchestration Lessons Learned Out of the box automation content is key Both Physical and Virtual infrastructure must be automated Automation must span Technology Silos to be truly effective The Automation and Orchestration platform should allow you to maintain vendor neutrality (no lock-in) Vendor must deliver new and relevant content quickly and reliably Orchestration needs to interface with the organization s tools and processes Expect average OPEX savings of 12-15% with Orchestration, 88% fewer steps 1). Time to Service changes from days/weeks to minutes 1) Principled Technologies, Simplify Server Provisioning with Cisco UCS Director, December 2014. 16
Architectural and Design Considerations Holistic Solution Open Architecture Scalable Business and IT Portal with Catalog Stack Designer/Predefined Templates E2E Workflows physical and virtual HyperVisor agnostic no vendor lock-in Transform IT Service Broker - choice of Cloud Billing/Chargeback Software Defined Application Centric Infrastructure with IT Automation Fixed and Elastic Workloads Security and Compliance Service Governance and Order workflow Policy based Service Profiles Pre-Compliance checks and rollback mechanism Secure DC Extension Automated Configuration and End-to-End Policy Integration Open Building Block Validated Designs Optimized DC and Cloud Strategy Elastic IT (Bimodal) NG Security 17