Vmware Management and

Automation

David Hanacek
Sr. Systems Engineer
Agenda

Vision VMware Enables Datacenter Automation

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The Holy Grail: Business Agility
The ability to rapidly respond to changing
conditions while minimizing risk to the business.
CE CI CE
O O O

CEO CIO CFO

We need to be We need to be We need to
responsive to responsive AND minimize cost and
changes in the minimize risk risk, and ensure
market compliance

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IT

? We need to
create, deliver
and maintain
flexible IT services

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 The Promise of Business Agility

Speed of change Control

Scalability Predictability
Automation
Automation Consistency
Efficiency

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 Virtualizing the Data Center:
From Sprawl to Real-Time Infrastructure

Sprawled Virtualized Automated

Policies

Optimization

Availability
Workloads

Provisioning
Data
Resources
Identities
Hardware Service
costs down levels and
Flexibility up service
agility up Services

2007 2008-2012 2010-2016

From Virtualization Changes Virtually Everything, Thomas Bittman, Gartner, November 2007.
 Virtual Machines Enable Datacenter Automation

Sprawled Consolidated Automated

Virtual Machines are

Standardized Software
Containers
+
OVF

Physical Systems Virtual Machines IT Services

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The Automated Virtual Datacenter

Developers IT Infrastructure
QADevelopers
engineers IT
Operations
Infrastructure
Admins
QA engineers Operations Admins

Dev and QA Staging Production

Lab Manager Stage Manager

Site Recovery Site Recovery

Site Recovery Manager
Manager Manager
(Failover site) (Failover site)
(Failover site) (Failover site)
Lifecycle Manager

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool

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 IT Service Delivery
Request
Request

Decommission Create
Create

Policy
Policy&
&
Governance
Governance
Track Deploy
Deploy
Track

Update
Update
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Pain Points Prior to Lifecycle Manager
Was that VM
Was that VM
approved?
Can I delete approved?
Can I delete
this VM?
this VM?
When was
When was
this VM
Is that VM still this VM
Is that VM still created?
in use? created?
in use?

How much
How much Does that VM meet
does this Does that VM meet
does this our standards?
VM cost? our standards?
VM cost?

Who
Who owns Who
Who owns changed
this VM? changed
this VM? this VM?
this VM?
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Establish a Standardized Service Catalog
Reduce infrastructure complexity
Ensure compliance with configuration standards

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 System of Record for Virtual Infrastructure

BEFORE Lifecycle Manager AFTER Lifecycle Manager

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Lifecycle Manager is Deployed Across the Datacenter

Infrastructure
Infrastructure
Admins
Admins

Dev and QA Staging Production

Lifecycle Manager
Overwhelming provisioning burden
Tracking
Noand control
visibility VMcontrol
and lifecycle
of with consistent
resources approval mechanisms
and processes
VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool

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 Typical Lab Infrastructure is an IT Headache

Server sprawl under desks, in closets

Aging, cast-off hardware
Dirty systems inability to maintain clean state
Users and IT bogged down in provisioning requests

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VMware Lab Manager
Self Service Provisioning
Image Library of Virtual Machine Configurations
IT in Control of Policy and Quotas

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Lab Manager is Deployed in the Lab

Developers Infrastructure
QADevelopers
engineers Infrastructure
Admins
QA engineers Admins

Dev and QA Staging Production

Lab Manager
Long lead times
Long lead times
Dirty systems
Dirtyprovisioning
Rapid systems

of multi-tier
transient lab
environments

Lifecycle Manager

Tracking and control VM lifecycle with consistent approval mechanisms

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool

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Stage Manager Targets Release Management

Release Management
Stages
Integration Testing Staging UAT Production
Homegrown
Assemble Verify Perf. tuning User
or packaged application successful and acceptance
application components integration of
components
testing testing
in the target
software environment

Risk of production downtime is reduced by splitting

pre-production processes into discrete stages.

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Without Stage Manager
Integration Testing Staging UAT Production

Many shadow instances of the application for each stage.

Leads to server sprawl, configuration drift, lack of coordination, and
inability to implement changes accurately into production.

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 With Stage Manager
Integration Testing Staging UAT Production

VMware
Stage Manager

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource
Resource Pool Resource Pool
Pool

Run IT service configurations as virtual machines.

Streamline pre-production operations.
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 Pushbutton Promotion Toward and Into Production
Integration Testing Staging UAT Production

VMware
Stage Manager

promote promote promote promote

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource
Resource Pool Resource Pool
Pool

Effortless transition of IT service configurations between stages

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Stage Manager is Deployed Across Staging & Production

Developers IT Infrastructure
QADevelopers
engineers IT
Operations Infrastructure
Admins
QA engineers Operations Admins

Dev and QA Staging Production

Lab Manager
Long lead times visibility into app statusStage Manager
Long lead times No No visibility into app status
Dirty systems Inability to coordinate changes
Dirtyprovisioning
Rapid systems Inability to an
Transition coordinate changes
IT service through integration and staging into production
Drifting systems
Drifting systems
of multi-tier
transient lab
environments
Lifecycle Manager

Tracking and control VM lifecycle with consistent approval mechanisms

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool

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 Traditional Disaster Recovery Challenges
Dependent Failure to meet
Complex
Complex Dependenton on
perfect continuity
recovery
recovery perfecttraining,
training,
processes documentation, requirements
processesand
and documentation,
infrastructure and
andexecution
execution
infrastructure
Recovery takes
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?? Recovery tests
?? often fail
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?? and resources
?? consumed

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Introducing VMware Site Recovery Manager
Site Recovery Manager leverages VMware Infrastructure to deliver
advanced disaster recovery management and automation

Simplifies and automates disaster

recovery workflows:
Setup, testing, failover
Turns manual recovery runbooks
into automated recovery plans
Provides central management of
recovery plans from VirtualCenter

Works with VMware Infrastructure

to make disaster recovery rapid,
reliable, manageable, affordable

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Site Recovery Manager: Key Components
Production Disaster Recovery

Site Recovery
Site Manager Site
VirtualCenter Recovery Recovery VirtualCenter
Manager Manager

Virtual Machines Virtual Machines

Protected
virtual machines
VMware Infrastructure VMware Infrastructure

Servers Servers

Storage Storage

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Site Recovery Manager is Deployed in Production

Developers IT Infrastructure
QADevelopers
engineers IT
Operations
Infrastructure
Admins
QA engineers Operations Admins

Dev and QA Staging Production

Lab Manager Stage Manager

Site Recovery Site Recovery

Site Recovery Manager
Manager Manager
(Failover site) (Failover site)
(Failover site) (Failover site)
Lifecycle Manager

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool

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Virtual Datacenter Infrastructure Workloads

Developers IT Infrastructure
QADevelopers
engineers IT
Operations
Infrastructure
Admins
QA engineers Operations Admins

Dev and QA Staging Production

X
Lab Manager Stage Manager

Site Recovery Site Recovery

Site Recovery Manager
Manager Manager
(Failover site) (Failover site)
(Failover site) (Failover site)
Lifecycle Manager
VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool Resource Pool

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