Cloud Migration and Portability Best Practices
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The document outlines a framework for cloud migration and portability, including decision-making processes, use cases, and strategies for businesses. It emphasizes the importance of assessing business impact, managing workloads across multiple cloud environments, and leveraging existing investments for optimized costs. It also provides insights into common challenges, technical considerations, and support from RightScale for effective cloud management.
Cloud Migration and Portability Best Practices
- 1. HOW RIGHTSCALE DOES IT: CLOUD MIGRATION AND PORTABILITY
- 2. • Brian Adler Director, Enterprise Architecture RightScale Panelist 1
- 3. • Decision-Making Framework for Portability & Migration • Common Use Cases for Portability • How RightScale Helps • Business & Technical Considerations • Real Customer Examples • Wrap-Up Agenda 2
- 4. Broker Cloud Services with RightScale Self-Service Cloud Analytics Universal Cloud Management Platform Cloud Management Multi-Cloud Orchestration 3 Governance Public Clouds Private Clouds Virtual Servers Bare Metal Servers
- 5. 13% 22% 17% 31% Public Cloud Private Cloud Enterprise Respondents with 1000+ VMs in Cloud 2015 2016 More Workloads Are Moving to Cloud Source: RightScale 2016 State of the Cloud Report
- 6. 1. Operate anywhere 2. Leverage existing investments 3. Optimize costs 4. Access unique capabilities 5. Create resilient architectures 6. Maintain vendor leverage 7. Future-proof your cloud strategy 8. Multi-cloud happens Multi-Cloud Is a Given 5
- 7. • Migration • Data center consolidation • Cloud-first strategy • Increased agility • DevOps initiatives • Cost reduction • Portability • Least expensive cloud • Support global regions with different providers • Avoid vendor lock-in; negotiating leverage • High availability, disaster recovery Drivers for Cloud Migration and Portability 6
- 8. But It’s Not All Rainbows and Unicorns vSphere AWS or other clouds Greenfield workloads Migrated workloads
- 9. Resource Pools Public Cloud 1 Requirements Filters Performance Cost Compliance Geo-location Security Match Application Requirements to Clouds Vendors Existing DC App 1 App 2 Application Portfolio App 1 App 2 App 3 App n … App 4 App 5 Public Cloud 2 Hosted Private Internal Private Virtualized App 3 App 4 App 5 App 6 App 7 8
- 10. Assess Business Impact to Establish Priority 9 REFACTOR DON’T MIGRATE HOLD OFF QUICK WINS Technical Fit BusinessImpact App 1 App 7 App 3 App 12 App 4 App 6 App 2 App 5 App 8 App 11 App 10 App 9
- 11. Three Strategies for Existing Workloads 10 Manage Natively Migrate Once Make Portable
- 12. Apply the Right Strategy 11 REFACTOR DON’T MIGRATE HOLD OFF QUICK WINS Technical Fit BusinessImpact App 1 App 7 App 3 App 12 App 4 App 6 App 2 App 5 App 8 App 11 App 10 App 9 Manage Natively Migrate Once Make Portable Manage Natively Make Portable
- 13. 5 Use Cases for Portability • Most Common • Best-venue approach • Geography, Cost, Features • Lifecycle approach • Dev/Test vs. Staging/Production • Spiky vs. steady-state • Disaster Recovery • Less Common • Split-tier architectures • Cloud-bursting
- 15. Two Options for Portability 14 AWS Azure Google CloudStack OpenStack vSphere Multi-Cloud Image Configuration Scripts Containers ServerTemplate Portability • Script-based • Scripts that configure appropriately for each cloud • Container-based • Deploy code via Docker containers • Combo of both • Use scripts to configure Docker hosts and containers to deploy code
- 16. Application Templates 15 Load Balancers App Servers Master DB Slave DB Replicate > DNS Configure a system: Cloud Application Template (CAT) Configure a server: • ServerTemplates (portable) • Docker container (portable) • AMI • CloudFormation • VM template
- 17. Approaches for Cloud Selection in Self-Service 16 User chooses cloud based on allowed options Requirements dictate cloud choice Cost dictates cloud choice
- 18. ASSESSING YOUR PORTFOLIO FOR MIGRATION
- 19. Cloud-Suitability Scoring Criteria Business Considerations Cost/ROI Vendor Relationships Licensing Workload variability OPEX vs. CAPEX Migration Costs Agility Workload reuse Speed-to-market Level of changes Existing vendor relationships Lock-in avoidance IP-Locked MAC-Locked Licensing servers (FlexNet, FlexLM) w/ restricted IP Pools
- 20. Cloud-Suitability Scoring Criteria Technical Considerations Basics Data/Storage Other OS availability Clustering Tenancy Networking Multicast SSL termination Static and Virtual IP requirements Filesystem/ Storage configurations Database I/O requirements Bandwidth Data movement Scale-down logic Master/Master DB configurations
- 21. Application Assessment Examples 20 REFACTOR DON’T MIGRATE HOLD OFF QUICK WINS Technical Fit BusinessImpact App 6 App 5 App 9 App 5 – Easy App 6 – Medium App 9 – Hard
- 22. • App 5 • Partner lookup directory • Internal user (employee) facing web application • Stateless application • No shared filesystem • No unique network or IP requirements Application Assessment – “Easy” 21
- 23. Application Assessment Examples 22 REFACTOR DON’T MIGRATE HOLD OFF QUICK WINS Technical Fit BusinessImpact App 6 App 5 App 9 App 5 – Easy App 6 – Medium App 9 – Hard
- 24. • App 6 • JBoss application • Multicast used for clustering app servers • Application redesign required to use WKA (well-known addresses) • Unsupported OS (HP-UX) • Required porting to different OS • Stateless application • No shared filesystem • No unique network or IP requirements Application Assessment – “Medium” 23
- 25. Application Assessment Examples 24 REFACTOR DON’T MIGRATE HOLD OFF QUICK WINS Technical Fit BusinessImpact App 6 App 5 App 9 App 5 – Easy App 6 – Medium App 9 – Hard
- 26. • App 9 • Oracle RAC • Multicast required by Oracle grid infrastructure processes • Shared, multi-mountable filesystem required • Virtual IP required for failover • Licensing concerns Application Assessment – “Hard” 25
- 27. Cloud Infrastructure Considerations Technical Considerations • User-controlled IP address space, routing, etc. is possible with many IaaS offerings • Use of VPN functionality can “extend” on-premises datacenter to the cloud securely Network Connectivity Scale-down Logic Master/Master Database configurations • Several IaaS vendors support dedicated links (AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute) • Security, latency, complexity reduced • Varying port speeds (and cost structures) available Physical Connectivity
- 28. Cloud Infrastructure Considerations Technical Considerations • Public Internet (usually) required, thus latency targets can be difficult to achieve • WAN Accelerators can be of great benefit in certain situations Latency Scale-down Logic Master/Master Database configurations • Typical SAN/NAS configurations not available • IaaS vendors provide object storage options (non-POSIX compliant) • Shared filesystems need to be self-implemented • GlusterFS • Ceph • OpenAFS Storage
- 29. Cloud Infrastructure Considerations Technical Considerations Scale-down Logic Master/Master Database configurations • Network • VPC, Virtual Network, Cloud Networks, etc. • Data • At-rest: Some vendors provide encrypted block and/or object storage • In-flight: HTTPS, SSL, TLS, etc. • Third-party tools also available for data at-rest encryption and key management Security
- 30. Migration Tool Realities • AWS VM Import/Export, etc. IaaS Vendor-Supplied Scale-down Logic • Entire industry sprouting up around this use case • Varying approaches • Automation -Storage and networking ignored or reconfigured • Container/Wrapper -VMs run in third-party container -Adds overhead impacting performance • Combination: Automation & Manual -Networking and storage can be duplicated -Scalability questionable for large (dozens to hundreds of VMs) deployments Third-Party Tools
- 31. • Hybrid cloud is the dominant model for enterprises • You have to decide which workloads to move to cloud • Apply a technical filter to identify segments • Apply a business impact filter to identify priority • Apply the appropriate strategy for migration to cloud • Manage Natively • Migrate Once • Make Portable • Portability provides a lot of flexibility and benefits Takeaways 30
- 32. • A Multi-Cloud Platform • Professional Services to Help You Move • Cloud vendors may fund some PS work to migrate apps to their cloud • Managed Services to Keep It Running RightScale Can Help 31
- 33. • Definitive Guide to Cloud Strategy www.rightscale.com/lp/cloud-strategy-guide Q&A 32
- 34. THANK YOU.