Empowering Private Cloud with Next Generation Infrastructure Martin Ip, Head of Advanced Solutions and Services Macroview Telecom
People Media Healthcare Govt Business Private Hybrid Public & more Connecting People and Businesses with the World of Many Clouds
The Challenge 1. Grow revenue 2. Lower overall operating costs 3. Acquire/retain customers 4. Drive new market offering or business practices 5. Improve workforce productivity Business Goals 1. Improve IT efficiency 2. Streamline/improve business processes 3. Increase IT resources to drive business innovation 4. Improve customer management capabilities IT Initiatives Raising the productivity of employees whose jobs can't be automated is the next great performance challenge. McKinsey & Company, The 21st Century Organization, 2005
Where is your Business on the Journey? Public Cloud Hybrid Cloud Automation Private Cloud Consolidation Virtualization
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Private Cloud Private Cloud Phase 4 Open Cloud Private Cloud Private Cloud Virtual Private Cloud Inter-Cloud Stand-Alone Data Centers Public Cloud PRESENT Public Cloud Public Cloud #1 Public Cloud #2 6 2009 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Business Need Business Need Applications Applications Servers Network Ethernet, FC, IB Storage Silo Silo Silo Project-Based Vertical Decisions Servers Virtualization-Aware Network Virtualization-Aware Unified Fabric Virtualized Storage Virtualized Dynamic Infrastructure Service-Based Holistic Decision
CLOUD REQUIREMENTS Powering Cloud Computing Infrastructure Capabilities Matter More Than Ever IDEAL INFRASTRUCTURE Low Cost Operations Infrastructure as a Service Self Service Consumption Model Elastic Resource Allocation Simplified management Lower service provisioning cost Integrated compute, network, and storage resources Physical resources deployed through API s and policies Rapid scalability of virtual and physical Automated deployment 2012 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Shared Pools of Resources Virtualization optimized Resource abstraction
FlexPod Benefits Cisco UCS B-Series Cisco UCS Manager Cisco Nexus Family Switches NetApp FAS 10 GE and FCoE Complete Bundle Shared infrastructure for wide range of environments and applications Low-risk standardized shared infrastructure supporting a wide range of environments Highest possible data center efficiency IT flexibility, providing business agility: scale out or up, but manage resource pools Features Complete data center in a single rack Unified Architecture for any scale Step-by-step deployment guides Solutions guide for multiple environments Centralized management: NetApp OnCommand and Cisco UCS Manager Cooperative support model
Data Center Interconnection
Virtualized Multi-Tenancy Data Center (VMDC) Secure Multi-Tenancy Design Complete isolation between tenant environments Dedicated virtualized resources per tenant s organization
Standard, pre-validated, best-in-class infrastructure building blocks Flexible: One platform scales to fit many environments and mixed workloads Add applications and workload Scale up and out Simplified management and repeatable deployments Design and sizing guides Services: Facilitate deployment of different environments Cisco UCS B-Series Blade Servers and UCS Manager Cisco Nexus 5000 Family Switches NetApp FAS 10GE and FCoE 12
The Use of Standard VDC Container
Operation & Management Workflow based on Containers
Virtual Admins Server Admins Storage Admins Network Admins Challenges: Many groups Many human interfaces Manual steps Business Application Requirements Create VLANs IT Planning Update Trunks Add Users and Groups Create Network Policies Setup VDC Create UCS Service Profiles Define Cost Models Configure SAN Zoning Approvals Result: High latency Setup Servers Bare metal Provisioning (PXE Boot with ESXi 4.1) Configure Servers Create Storage Resources (LUNs and Volumes) Create VLAN Add VLAN to Service Profile Create IP space Create vfilers Add vfilers to Group Map NetApp LUN Create Storage Policy UCS Blade Power On Register Host Node Send Complete Notifications Weeks
End-to-End Automation Unified policy-driven provisioning Model-based automation no need for scripting Ongoing lifecycle management Key-Summary Turn-Key Solution Ready to Use in Hours Unified, integrated and out-of-the-box solution Seamless physical and Virtual resource pooling Hypervisor agnostic Virtualization Manager Compute Manager A B Virtualization Compute C Customers are increasingly buying compute, network, storage, and virtualization as a single, converged system Single Panel-of-Glass for End-to-End Management and Automation Network Manage Storage Manager A Tenant A B Network Tenant B Storage C Tenant C
Solutions Overview End Users IT Admins IT Operations Mobile Platform CloudGenie Self Service Console ID & Access Manager OS Provisioning Admin Console Policy Manager Database Dashboard Resource Pools Event Manager Cisco UCS Director Physical Infrastructure Compute Network Storage Customer Choice Virtual Infrastructure Self-Service Infrastructure Policy-Driven Lifecycle Management
Compute Manual Resource Request Automated Resource Request I Need Stuff Self-Service Network Storage Automation delivers: Speed Consistency
Workflow Service Status Comprehensive Operational Views for IT Operations
Simple and Easy to Deploy Flexibility Integrated Compute Stacks A single, integrated, out-of-the-box solution Install in the morning, provision in the afternoon Model-based orchestration eliminates need for scripting FlexPod TM Vblock VSPEX End-to-End Functionality Support for both virtual and physical infrastructures Multi-vendor public cloud support Hypervisor agnostic Single pane of glass management, automation and orchestration Self-service, integrated monitoring and chargeback Includes task library with over 400+ tasks for easy drag and drop workflow creation
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