The Road to Advanced Virtualization & the Foundation for Private Cloud Barb Goldworm President & Chief Analyst barbgoldworm@focusonsystems.com 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 1
Barb Goldworm President & chief analyst, FOCUS, LLC (www.focusonsystems.com), analyst firm focused on virtualization, cloud, systems, storage, & transformational technologies 30 years in technical, marketing & analyst roles with IBM, StorageTek, Novell, Enterprise Management Associates &multiple successful startups, started with virtualization late 1970s, built 1 st ESD (electronic SW Distribution) solution late 1980s Expert Columnist/Speaker since 1990s NetworkWorld, ComputerWorld SNWOnline, IDG, TechTarget SearchServerVirtualization, Information Week, Network Computing, Ziff-Davis Author: 100s of research reports, surveys, white papers, columns, Wiley book Blade Servers & Virtualization Conference Keynote Speaker/Chair/Advisory Board: Chair/Advisor: Interop : Virtualization, Desktop Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Summit: Private Cloud, Cloud Connect: Private & Hybrid Cloud, Comdex, Data Center Insights, Blade Systems Insights, Server Blade Summit Judge: Best of VMworld, Product of the Year Keynote speaker: Interop, Tech Target Data Center Decisions, Storage Decisions, IT Sessions, Avnet Road2Virtualization, Road2Storage Optimization, VirtualPath & StoragePath Universities, Avnet/Cisco The Way Forward, Educomm CIO Summit 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 2
Agenda Introduction State of virtualization & cloud Adoption, trends, drivers, terms, benefits, pain points What is Cloud The Road to Cloud Virtualization and Cloud management landscape Advancing virtualization Infrastructure optimization for virtualization/cloud Workload automation & monitoring Performance, capacity management & cost visibility Automated provisioning, self-service, service catalogs &cloud stacks Microsoft solutions Windows Server 2012 & Hyper V 3.0 Systems Center 2012 Infrastructure considerations Conclusions and recommendations 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 3
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Poll Question Which of the following best describes your attitude and progress towards private cloud? We already have a private cloud We are currently implementing a private cloud We are actively researching/evaluating private cloud We have not started but plan to start within 12 months We have concerns and/or fears around private cloud, and are not actively pursuing
State of Virtualization & Cloud Adoption, trends, drivers, terms, benefits, pain points 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 6
State of the Industry: Virtualization 90% of organizations over 100 have server virtualization 50-60% server workload virtualized SMBs started later but virtualize faster 75% of all x86 workloads will be virtualized by 2015 Multi-hypervisor world: 2 hypervisors = 50%, 3 = 30%, 1 hypervisor = 5% Organizations not investing in management tools beyond what comes with hypervisor Most of the world is here (some virtual infrastructure) 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 7
10x increase in private cloud deployments in 2012 (Gartner) Private cloud benefits more agility than cost Hybrid still rare but plans are affecting architecture and vendor selection today Choices: Virt platforms, cloud mgmt vendors, cloud stacks, Private PaaS Hosted private clouds growing State of the Industry: Private Cloud Much of the world is trying to get here (cloud) 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 8
State of the Industry: Virtualization -> Cloud Cloud fever/cloud washing Confusion Virtualization vs. cloud Between SaaS, IaaS, PaaS Virtualization success = economics of consolidation Optimization and agility increasingly important Cloud drivers = agility, optimization, & economics Virtualization + optimization + agility = cloud 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 9
Big Cloud Plans Private Cloud Plans Public Cloud Plans No plans 19% Don't know 10% Already using 17% Already using, and planning to expand usage 15% No plans 24% Don't know 12% Already using 18% Already using, and planning to expand usage 12% Interested/ considering 25% Plan to use within the next 12 months 14% Interested/ considering 24% Plan to use within the next 12 months 10% Source: FOCUS Interop Survey Sept 2011 Source: FOCUS Interop Survey Sept 2011 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 10
Actual Benefits Achieved Increased utilization of resources Reduced space/power/cooling Reduced TCO of servers Increased ROI of servers Improved IT agility Reduced provisioning time Improved disaster recovery plan Improved server manageability Increased availability Improved response to users Reduction in storage hardware Improved app. service levels Enabled true DR plan for 1st time Improved application mgmt Improved desktop mgmt Desktop consolidation Improved desktop data security Source: FOCUS Research Series Managing the Virtual Environment 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 11
Cloudify to Reach the Next Level 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 12
The Road from Virtualization to Private Cloud From Virtualization to Private Cloud Virtualized Infrastructure Infrastructure optimized for virtualization Automated, policy-based dynamic resource management Usage based cost visibility chargeback/showback Self-service provisioning Service Catalog Source: FOCUS, LLC 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 13
So What s a Cloud? Cloud Computing is a way of doing computing Enterprise Private Cloud Operated and solely for an organization, typically within the firewall Bridging Hybrid Cloud Composition of 2 or more interoperable clouds, enabling data and application portability Hosted Private Cloud Operated and tailored solely for an organization, typically within the firewall, hosted by a CSP Cloud Service Providers (CSP) Public Cloud Accessible over the Internet for general consumption 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 14
NIST Definition of Cloud 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 15
The Roads to Private Cloud Private cloud: virtualized, optimized, and automated operates as self-managing, virtual infrastructure with self service portal and service catalog Virtual Infrastructure Public Cloud 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 16
Virtualization=> Cloud Management Virtualization management now morphed/merged into cloud Base requirements visibility, discovery, mapping, monitoring, provisioning, automation/orchestration Orchestration may cross private/public/hybrid Workload/performance mgmt required for agility, real-time responsiveness and availability, troubleshooting, root cause analysis Capacity planning & resource optimization required to achieve cloudlike efficiency and elasticity Configuration mgmt/automated provisioning standardization, image management, and automation for efficiency and agility Infrastructure optimization compute, network, & storage, scalability, converged infrastructure/virtual I/O mobility must include fabric of networking and storage Cloudstacks, portals, catalogs, orchestration PaaS gaining traction to integrate development 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 17
Public Lessons for Private Cloud IT as a service provider, users as service consumers Must be easy to consume or users go public Define a service once (apps, drivers, hw, tools, mgmt and policies), then deploy whenever/wherever Standardization, automation are key Break the IT silos and integrate - servers, storage, networking, security, desktops, applications, mobile Start small but consider scale requirements Consider cost visibility as throttle before self service Optimize for today, plan for tomorrow Embrace the paradigm shift! CIO/IT should be the strategic advisor for ALL computing private, public, hybrid 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 18
Considerations: Public vs. Private Pros Cons Public Cost efficiencies Lack of control No investment Security concerns Risk of new paradigm Hybrid Private Customization Ongoing operations Complete control Distraction from Biz 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 19
Cloud Landscape Public Private Servers Vendor list is not exhaustive 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com Desktops 20
Cloud Impact Embrace the paradigm shift to Cloud everywhere as appropriate Private cloud: virtualized, optimized, and automated operates as self-managing, self-service, virtual infrastructure Public Cloud: email, document sharing, word processing, web portals, web apps, SaaS apps, mobile apps 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com Integration across data center silos Servers, storage, networking, security, desktops, applications, mobile CIO/IT becomes the strategic advisor for ALL computing 21 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
State of virtualization & cloud Virtualization and Private Cloud Landscape Overview 22 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
Virtualization & Management Landscape VMware ESX/ESXi, vcenter, HA, DRS, DPM, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Site Recovery Manager, Workstation, Player, ACE, Fusion, View Manager, View Composer, ThinApp, AppSpeed, RTO, vcenter Server Heartbeat, Chargeback, SpringSource, Hyperic, vshield, TriCypher, vcloud Director, Request Manager, vcenter Operations (vcops), Navigator, Chargeback, Configuration Manager (Integrien, ConfigureSoft, FastScale, VMware vcloud Connector, Virtual Storage Appliance, App Performance Manager (AppSpeed+ Hyperic), AppDirector, IT Busines Management Suite (Digital Fuel), CloudFoundry, Wanova, Nicira Microsoft Hyper-V, Windows Server 2012, 2008 R2 SP1, App-V Application Virtualization (SoftGrid), Remote Desktop Services/Terminal Services, MED-V Enterprise Desktop Virtualization (Kidaro), Systems Center 2012, VMM, Operations Manager, Configuration Manager, System Center 2012, Orchestrator (Opalis), AppController (Concero Self-Service Portal), Service Manager, Azure Citrix XenServer, XenDesktop, XenApp hosted and streamed, Provisioning Server, Citrix Delivery Center, Desktop Studio, Desktop Director, VMLogix, NetScaler, Branch Repeater, CloudGateway, CloudBridge, CloudStack, CloudPortal, AppDNA Apptitude OpenSource (KVM/Xen) Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV-M and RHEV-H) RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Novell SUSE, Oracle VM 23 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
Virtualization for Cloud 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 24
2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com Virtualization/Cloud Management 032112
The Road to Cloud - challenges, considerations, tools Infrastructure optimization 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 26
Virtualization to Cloud Phases & Challenges V A L U E Stall Points New Delivery/ Business Model B C 4) IT as a Service/Private Cloud New Technology 3) Management and Automation Performance 2) Infrastructure optimization Tool Overload A Performance Storage Networking 1) Server virtualization /consolidation TIME 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 27
Obstacles Obstacles in the road from virtualization to private/ hybrid cloud Lack of self-service portal / Service catalog 7% Other 20% Virtualization not far enough along 20% Storage and network infrastructure not Lack of automation ready/ optimized and policy-based 25% mgmt 28% Source: FOCUS HP Brighttalk webinar Feb 2012 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 28
The Road to Cloud - challenges, considerations, tools Workload automation, Monitoring & Performance Management 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 29
VM Workload Management Thresholds and actions Workload balancing Storage load balancing Power management integration option Preventive Maintenance HA Failover Capacity on demand Cloudbursting 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 30
Physical infrastructure monitoring has been a mature market Virtualization/cloud requires new monitoring components for hypervisors, multi-hypervisor and multi-environment clouds Parameters and thresholds are now different Virtual CPU, memory, disk space Server workloads and desktop workloads Pooled resources and VDCs Monitoring the Virtual /Cloud World Hardware to VMs to clouds to applications. 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 31
Enterprise Strategy Group performance study cited by MS Hyper-V Enterprise readiness/performance Claims Hyper-V best-in-class virtualization of Windows SharePoint Services Exchange Server 2010 SQL Server 2008 Virtualizing MS Apps http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/solution-business-apps.aspx 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 32
Performance Monitoring & Management Features Automated discovery of components and relationships (P + V +C) Visualization & Usability customizable dashboards Monitoring vs management Datastore - flexibility, import/export, reporting, ad hoc query/reporting Breadth and depth cross vendor, tiers (apps, VMs, hypervisor, server, storage, networking, DT) + drill down with detailed metrics Thresholds and Alerting granularity and flexibility of responses Policy-based responses/actions Recommendations knowledge base One-click actions Real-time monitoring and management Trending historical analysis Integration with other tools (virt, cloud, desktop, ESM ) Root cause analysis & correlation engine Business and services views Scalability 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 33
The Road to Cloud - challenges, considerations, tools Capacity management & Cost visibility 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 34
Capacity Management: The Economics of Workload Density High Cost Risk Cost Critical Production Workloads Non-Critical Production Workloads Batch & Dev/Test Workloads Low Low Overprovisioning Density (Consolidation Ratio) Underprovisioning High 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 35
Capacity Management Features Application and infrastructure discovery & monitoring Profiling VM resources Understanding resource interdependencies Capacity Modeling (CPU, Mem, I/O) - what if analysis Capacity Management (CPU, Mem, I/O) Business Policy Overlay Point in time versus trending intelligence Candidacy analysis Physical, virtual, Cloud Reporting standard and ad hoc Accounting/ chargeback /cost visibility tie-in Storage capacity Advanced analytics 36 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
Chargeback Considerations Chargeback vs cost visibility (showback) X86 chargeback was by Server, SW, MB, & ports Now need per application or per user Should include VM (% of HW, OS and app SW, power, backup/dr and mgmt SW), storage and networking Excel, capacity tools, simple chargeback model, high-end chargeback Service level tie-in Service providers and cloud vendors as models Path to consumption based pricing for cloud 37 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
The Road to Cloud - challenges, considerations, tools Automated Provisioning: Life Cycle Management 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 38
Automated Provisioning Life Cycle Management Plan, provision, police, put to bed Policies and products Provisioning management Optimization of resource usage Control for virtual sprawl Configuration and change control Automation of administrative tasks Workflow orchestration across systems 39 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
Life Cycle Management Provisioning Features Migration P2V, V2V, V2P Templates, cloning OS and Application Streaming User Profile/Personalization/Virtualization Automated policy-based provisioning Workflow orchestration Lab management Service management Self- service provisioning Service Catalog 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 40
Automation automate single task/process Automation & Orchestration Orchestration orchestrate workflows, multiple automated steps Origins in virtual lab automation Built for dev/test now leveraged for cloud Builds on VM monitoring, management, lifecycle management Automate VM lifecycle from creation to decomission Policy-based for design, provisioning, monitoring and enforcement Beyond scripting to be maintainable in an ongoing dynamic environment, requires real-time config management Add self service front-end to automated back-end workflow 41 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
VM Life Cycle Management Configuration/Change Control Features VM sprawl management Automatic infrastructure and VM,vApp Discovery Inventory Configuration Mgt Change Mgt and Compliance Auditing Application and OS image and patch management Retiring/ Decommissioning VMs 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 42
The Road to Cloud - challenges, considerations, tools Self-service provisioning, service catalogs 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 43
Self Service Provisioning & Service Catalogs Menu of services available via self-service portal for IT service consumers Typically front-end Web-based listing of services, products and pricing delivered by back-end IT infrastructure Policy based back-end triggers orchestration/ automation of service provisioning steps Standardizes offerings and their implementations Integration with provisioning, change management, service desk, CMDBs Enterprise App Store (including mobile) 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 44
Microsoft Solutions Systems Center 2012 Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V 3.0 45 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com
MS Cloud Solutions 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 46
MS Windows Server 2012 Built from the Cloud Up." Private clouds manage compute, storage, & networking as pooled, logical resources just as public clouds do Platform for MS public Azure Cloud &MS private clouds Public - Hosts Bing, Xbox Live, Windows Live, Office 365, and Dynamics CRM Up to 64 virtual machine, 1 TB of virtual memory Also New Share-Nothing Live Migration- mirrored writes of the VM and its data to both the existing storage and destination storage Upgraded DirectAccess - route through one DirectAccess server & handle requests for access from Windows 8, XP, MacOS, and Linux or mobile devices. pushes policy objects into AD Added PowerShell 2400 management interface to System Center 2012 with Command Lets. Systems Center 2012 self service across public/private, Hyper-V, vsphere, XenServer, Azure 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 47
Microsoft Private Cloud 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 48
Systems Center 2012 features On prem and cloud VMs & move bw them VMs, cloud resources, fabric Self service and orchestration improvements Infrastructure and app performance awareness Private Hyper-V, vsphere, XenServer Public Azure Advisor gathers and analyzes historical data Intune deploys updates and reports, supports ipads, iphones, Android SCCM mobile devices through connector to ActiveSync (no agent for ipads, iphones, Android) SCCM and InTune will become integrated continuum 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 49
Systems Center 2012 components Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 - services for creating & managing clouds, updating/deploying VMs & apps. Resource pooling App Controller 2012 - self-service portal for app owner requests to private cloud. Service templates. invokes VMM 2012, Windows Azure Service Manager 2012- automated IT service management, workflow process with human approvals. Invokes Orchestrator Configuration Manager 2012 user-centric app config, mgmt and delivery (inventorying, updating, orchestrating, delivery), local, VDI, apps (App-V or PS), mobile (Windows Phones, Symbian, ios, Android), update/patch (MS, 3rd-party apps, HW drivers, BIOS), Windows, Linux Orchestrator 2012 - automate interactions among other management tools such as VMM 2012 and Service Manager. Operations Manager 2012 - monitor VMs, applications, and other aspects of private cloud, initiate actions to fix problems 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 50
Systems Center SP 1 Features Support for deploying and managing Windows Server 2012 & Windows 8 Managing VMs both on-premises and in Azure including Windows 8 & Windows Server 2012 Windows Azure cloud integration, both for virtual machines and for backup Expanded PowerShell support in Configuration Manager. SP1 components (except VMM & App Controller, run on Windows Server 2008 R2 [Release 2], so IT can test now Inclusion of Intune allows IT to use either Configuration Manager or Intune to manage devices(including mobile devices & Windows RT devices) via Exchange ActiveSync DPM support for Windows Azure Online Backup Service to use Azure for backing up to the cloud. Bundled SC licensing - standard (maximum of two VMs) and Datacenter (unlimited number of VMs) 1/18/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 51
MS System Center Advisor Part of Systems Center 2012 Automatically collects information on server configurations, notifies you of known or potential problems and recommends a best practice alternative Connects into Azure knowledge base of best practices and problems Also available under software assurance for Windows Server 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 52
Management Support for Hyper-V Hyper-V Manager built in, free, limited MS Systems Center 2012 Veeam ONE SMB Solarwinds SMB Quest vfoglight and Vkernel vops DynamicOps - large enterprises CiRBA - large enterprises Virsto storage Hypervisor 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 53
Hyper-V 3.0 Network interface card (NIC) teaming Hyper-V Replica - in-the-box, asynchronous, application-consistent VM replication with data compression and encryption Live storage migration, concurrent live migration, share nothing migration Extensible virtual switch & Cisco Systems Nexus 1000V Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) support Predictive Failure (native ECC handling) App Controller update Provider Foundation link to external providers for deployment 1/18/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 54
Hypervisor Wars vsphere 5.1/vCD 2 TB physical RAM 1 TB RAM/VM 32 vcpus Nexus 1000v, VXLAN 2 TB virtual disk max 32 Nodes, 3000 VMs /cluster Live storage migration VSA shared nothing live migration Self service portal AutoDeploy Fault Domain Mgr (new HA) Host replication Dynamic power optimization VMFS (FC, iscsi, FCoE), NFS Storage DRS & SIOC Policy driven storage provisioning Hyper-V 3/SC 2012 4 TB physical RAM 1 TB/VM 64 vcpus Nexus 1000v, IP rewrite, GVRE 64 TB virtual disk max 64 nodes, 8000 VMs /cluster Live storage migration Shared nothing live migration Self-service portal Automated provisioning Failover clustering options Hyper-V Replica Dynamic power optimzation SAN (FC, iscsi), FCoE, NAS 1/18/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 55
Virtualization & Private Clouds: Conclusions 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 56
Server Virtualization Recommendations If you haven t already started virtualizing, start now Evaluate the changing landscape to meet your needs If you ve started and hit VM Stall or VM sprawl, evaluate virtualization mgmt tools. They will be the path to private cloud Look at/optimize the whole virtual infrastructure Server, desktop, storage, networking Consider big picture - RAS, rapid provisioning, power & space, performance, scalability, elasticity, mgmt, security, policies, organizational issues, total costs and ROI Leverage partner experience avoid the potholes in the road 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 57
Evaluation/Decision criteria Heterogeneous environs (servers, storage, OS, hypervisors) Out of the box capabilities Lifecycle workflow automation/integration Automated provisioning Back end templates, controls Self service portal usability Service catalog and admin tools Consumption based pricing/ reporting, chargeback/showback Sprawl, waste reclamation Change control/config mgmt Security and compliance reporting Real time end-to-end performance monitoring of apps and systems Root cause analysis Ongoing resource optimization Resource capacity planning/mgmt Business view/overlay VM through storage performance/capacity mgmt Recommendations, specificity and granularity Ease of remediation Dashboard/reporting customization Standards Scalability 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 58 1/15/2013
Q & A Barb Goldworm - Moderator FOCUS, President, Chief Analyst Bryan Von Axelson Microsoft, Sr. Partner Technology Advisor, SMB&D Cloud Strategy Paul Horn HP, HP/Microsoft Private Cloud BDM, Americas 1/15/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 59
Join Spiceworks, HP and Microsoft on Jan 29, 2013 to learn about reference architectures to ease your journey: HP and Microsoft Reference Architectures for Private Cloud Barb Goldworm, President, Chief Analyst, Barbgoldworm@focusonsystems.com www.focusonsystems.com 1/18/2013 2012 FOCUS - www.focusonsystems.com 60