Why Cisco for Cloud? IT Service Delivery, Orchestration and Automation Sascha Merg Technical Lead for Data Center Sales, Cisco Central Europe samerg@cisco.com June 2014
Agenda What is ITaaS and why should we pay attention? How is Cisco positioned for Cloud Management Platforms? What to consider when picking a Public/Hybrid Cloud Partner? Cisco Public 2
Delivering IT Services to Users Customer Expectations App Store Model Transparent and Clear Status Automated Delivery Self Service Immediate Gratification Today s Reality Many different request points Difficult to track status Manual request fulfillment High Touch Model Slow Cisco Public 3
Other 15% Data Centers Today Maintain New Services 23% 77% VMs deployed in minutes, remainder of infrastructure stack provisioned manually Most spend on infrastructure deployment, monitoring, updating, and troubleshooting Limited time to focus on new services Source: IDC, 2011 Unified automation and management shifts IT activities to new, value-add services Organizational effectiveness hinges on IT efficiency Allows IT to better respond to needs of business Cisco Public 4
Challenges: Many groups Many human interfaces Manual steps Virtual Admins Business Application Requirements Create VLANs IT Planning Update Trunks Server Admins Add Users and Groups Create Network Policies Storage Admins Setup VDC Create UCS Service Profiles Define Cost Models Configure SAN Zoning Network Admins Approvals 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 Result: High latency Register Host Node Send Complete Notifications Weeks Cisco Public 5
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Cisco Cloud Management Solutions UCS Director and IAC Cloud Service Providers End Users IT Admins, Developers, Engineers, Architects, etc. Technical Users IT Operations, Infrastructure Admins, etc. Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud Cisco UCS Director Infrastructure Management Virtual Physical Partner Ecosystem Customers may need one or both solutions based on their infrastructure, requirements and cloud maturity Cisco Public 8
UCS Director and IAC Feature Matrix Infrastructure aas Tools for IT Users Private Cloud UCS Director Ease and Complexity of Installation Low Cost and Fast Time to Value Converged Compute/Network/Storage Management Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Out of the box task library for automation Dashboards and Reports on Infrastructure Management Intelligent Automation for Cloud Multi tenancy Support Multi Hypervisor Support Virtual Resource Management Bare Metal Server Deployment Showback/Chargeback Options Northbound Integration (ex: CMDB, Billing, etc) Attractive and Customizable End User Portal Public/Hybrid Cloud Support Autoscaling Application Automation and Orchestration Platform aas Software aas ITaaS (BYOD, VDI, etc) End User Focused Public/Hybrid Cloud Advanced service pricing options Cisco Public 9
Cisco Top Ranked in Strategy in Forrester Wave Source: The Forrester Wave : Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013, November 25, 2013 The Forrester Wave : Private Cloud Solutions, Q4 2013 1. Evaluated private cloud management software Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud (IAC) for cloud management Cisco UCS Director for infrastructure management 2. Strong roadmap, strategic vision, partnerships Received highest score in strategy Top 3 for strong current offering* 3. One of two vendors with: Breadth and depth of functionality, and admin control Intuitive, straightforward, and powerful user interface Low price entry-point supports range of needs The Forrester Wave is copyrighted by Forrester Research, Inc. Forrester and Forrester Wave are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc. The Forrester Wave is a graphical representation of Forrester's call on a market and is plotted using a detailed spreadsheet with exposed scores, weightings, and comments. Forrester does not endorse any vendor, product, or service depicted in the Forrester Wave. Information is based on best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Cisco Public 10 * Note: Evaluation based on software shipping as of April 2013. New software versions have significant enhancements in functionality.
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Cisco UCS Director Turn-Key Solution, i.e. for Vblock/VXPEX Network Secure Cloud Container Compute VMs Policy-Driven Provisioning UCS Director Storage On-Demand Automated Delivery Single Pane of Glass End-to-End Automation and Lifecycle Management Domain Managers OS and Virtual Machines Compute Network VM Virtualized and Bare-Metal Compute and Hypervisor A VM B Bare Metal C Network and Services Storage Tenant A Tenant B Tenant C Cisco Public 12
Management of Converged Infrastructure Data Center Administrators get Converged Management Cisco Public 13
Service Catalog Simple View for Technical Users to Order Services Cisco Public 14
Workflow Creation Drag and Drop tools to create Work Flows No Scripting Cisco Public 15
Dashboards No tool complete without dashboards! Cisco Public 16
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Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud 4.0 Intelligent Automation for Cloud provides these advanced capabilities Best of breed self-service portal and service catalog for Anything as a Service PaaS Accelerator Stack Designer with embedded Puppet/Chef integration Hybrid cloud management across UCSD + Amazon, vcloud and OpenStack Highly extensible network automation (VMDC inside ) Advanced pricing, show back and demand management Advanced multi-tenant and multi-organization management Cisco Public 18
estore ITaaS at Cisco Cisco Public 19
Hybrid Cloud Management Unified Cloud Model via CloudSynch Amazon OpenStack VMware UCSD Cisco Public 20
Open and Secure Hybrid Cloud Cisco InterCloud Fabric VM Manager Integration Provider Cloud API Intg. V M Nexus1000V V M V M vswitch Cisco InterCloud Fabric L2 Virtual Private Cloud V M V M V M N1KV InterCloud Other Tenants Nexus Switching IOS Routing Network Services Secure Hybrid Cloud = Securely Extend Enterprise Private Cloud into Provider Public Cloud Any Hypervisor / Any Provider To and From Public Clouds Commons Services and Capabilities Cisco Public 21
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Why Cisco for Cloud UCS Director and IAC to support private, public and hybrid clouds Intercloud Fabric to allow easy and secure extension of own cloud platform to public clouds Last but not least: Vblock and VSPEX with UCS offer complete configuration and provisioning via APIs Cisco Public 23
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