VMworld 2013: Practicing What We Preach: VMware IT on vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCloud Automation Center
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VMware's implementation of the vCloud Automation Center and vCenter Operations Management Suite has resulted in a yearly savings of $6 million, a 20% improvement in developer productivity, and an 80% reduction in cost per VM. The initiative aimed to automate workload provisioning and streamline infrastructure management, drastically reducing provisioning time by 95%. Key takeaways emphasize the extensibility of the vCloud Suite in creating robust cloud automation solutions and the significance of reducing provisioning time for cost savings.
VMworld 2013: Practicing What We Preach: VMware IT on vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCloud Automation Center
- 1. Practicing What We Preach: VMware IT on vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCloud Automation Center Shreekant Ankala, VMware Sreekanth Indireddy, VMware Prafull Kumar, VMware VCM4952 #VCM4952
- 2. 2 Highlights Save $6 Million per year Improve Developer Productivity by 20% Reduce cost per VM by 80% Reduce Provisioning time by 95% The bottom line …
- 3. 3 Session Goals – How to … Reduce Cost beyond Virtualization • Automate Workload Provisioning – Leverage vCAC • Management – Lease Model Understand New Paradigm of Instance Refreshes • Just re-provision! Dramatically reduce Problem Resolution • Monitor from the outset • Leverage vCenter Operations Manager to provide end to end views!
- 4. 4 Our Group Team : 30+ DevOps engineers Customer : 600+ developers Role : 16 different dev/test environments, 130+ app components each. Infrastructure footprint : • ~4000 non-production servers • ~500 production servers • ~290 physical hosts • ~4 Petabytes of storage Enterprise Application Portfolio SaaS 65 IT tools 50 Business 100 Total 215
- 5. 5 Before… Enterprise App Development Project – up to 9 months 20 Steps - 3 to 5 Weeks! Request for Dev/Test Infrastructure Verification Hardware Setup Build VMs – new or clone DNS Entries Install, Setup, Configure Workload Database Refresh Latest Code Deployment Load Balancer Entries Web Server Configuration Firewall Changes External Interface & Integration PPM Tasks Workload Monitoring Setup Security – VM access control Functional Testing Environmental Testing ProductionDev Test UAT Stage Load Test
- 6. 6 Complexity Varies Ops requirements for this App… …are different than Ops requirements for this App Complete SDLC EnvironmentOne off App. App Web DB
- 7. 7 So What Do We Need to Address? Provisioning • Slow process – 4 weeks • Unreliable – new issues every time! • Project schedule risk High infrastructure costs • High CAPEX and OPEX Developer frustration • Difficult problem resolution – more than 2 days per issue
- 8. 8 IT Project Goals Transition to Private Cloud Automate the Process
- 9. 9 vCenter Orchestrator VMware Application Director Dev Test UAT Stage Mgmt. Cloud Providers App Blueprints (130+) VMware vCloud Director VMware vCloud Automation Center Access Control Provisioning Policies Service Catalog vCAC Workflows Cloud Administrator Blueprint Manager AppOps Engineer OneCloud IaaS Software Defined Data Center Deployment Plans Automation and Management – Based on vCloud vCloud Suite
- 10. 10 Cloud Automation and Management - Extensibility Load Balancer (F5/vShield) IPAM (Men & Mice) LDAP (Lotus) Config (GIT Repo) Other 3rd Party Plug-Ins Configure vCAC Service Catalogs and Policies Configure Monitor Agents and Collector Feeds Export App D Services and Blueprints Export Provision and De-provision Workflows Export App D Update Harness Container VMware / Non-VMware Components Plug-In Mgmt. Service Profile and Provision Tasks/Services Mgmt. Provisioned Workloads Unified Asset Inventory Provisioned Workloads Monitoring Mgmt. Provisioned Workloads Monitoring Provision/ De-provisioning Audits Extension 3rd party components Private Cloud IaaS Software-defined Data Center vCloud Suite …
- 11. 11 Extensions SOAP SOAPRESTREST vC Ops vCloud Automation Center vCloud Director IPAM (MEN & MICE) Load Balancer (F5 / vShield) vFabric Application Director (now part of vCAC Enterprise) Log Insight SNMP REST End Consumer & Approval Mgmt Cloud Admin Cloud Apps Admin SOAP vCenter Orchestrator Web UI ... … AQMP Cloud Apps Admin … … Cloud Automation and Management - Architecture
- 12. 12 Cloud Automation & Mgmt. Platform: Lifecycle Diagram Extension vCloud Director Application Director vCenter Orchestrator vCloud Automation Center Build Configure Phase Provision Phase Monitor & Manage Phase
- 13. 13 vCloud Automation Center Capabilities Following are the capabilities used by VMware IT Self Service Portal Service Catalog Management Policy Management & Role based Access Request & Approval Management Blueprint Access Controls Single & Multi Machine Blueprints Machine Provisioning & Deprovisioning Lease Management Virtual & vCloud Deployments vCO Integrations
- 14. 14 VMware Application Director (now part of vCAC Enterprise) Application Installation and Configuration Instructions (Services/ Components) VM Templates Dependency
- 15. 15 VMware Application Director Cloud Provider (vCAC or vCD) VM1 VM2 VM3 Guest Cust Copy Files Install Web Start Web Guest Cust Copy Files Install App Start App Guest Cust Copy Files Install DB Config DB Start DB Config App Config Web OneCloud IaaS Software Defined Data Center
- 16. 16 VMware Application Director Some of the systems blueprinted using VMware Application Director are..
- 18. 18 Resource Monitoring Infrastructure Monitoring Network Monitoring Challenges of Workload Monitoring Multiple Monitoring tools Many Dashboards Difficult to correlate and analyze No Single view Workloads Workloads
- 19. 19 vCenter Operations Management Suite Capabilities Following are the capabilities used by VMware IT Proactive Monitoring Graphical view of current & historical states Calculates the range of normal behavior Correlation of change events Heat map to identify resource bottlenecks Detailed Health and Workload views Proactive Smart Alerts and Faults Optimize/Consolidate resource usage Capacity Analysis and Reporting Monitor virtual, cloud, physical infrastructure
- 20. 20 Extensibility EMC Smarts Adapter EMC Symmetrix Adapter HP BAC Adapter HP OpenView Adapter IBM Tivoli Monitoring Microsoft SCOM Adapter NetApp Adapter Oracle Manager Adapter SAP Adapter VMware Hyperic Adapter VMware vCenter Adapter Generic Adapters e.g. Port/SNMP/SQL/Text File Capacity Planning Future Trends Predict the future needs of the IT Capacity requirements Faster root cause analysis Real time trends of key performance indicators View immediate issues using Health drill-down to data center, cluster, host and virtual machine level vCenter Operations Management Suite features
- 21. 21 IT Monitoring Features Monitor Dev, Test, Load or Production environment Workload Monitoring Monitor application layers e.g. Portal, SOA, EBS Layer Level Monitoring View metrics from vCops, Log Insight in single Graph Metrics Correlation Real time monitoring of Key performance Indicators Real time view Log InsightHyperic vCenter Operations Management Suite Allows user to create new dashboard for the required metrics Create New Dashboards Drill down to resource level from aggregated view Drill down
- 22. 22 IT Monitoring Dashboard Metrics Correlation Application Layer Metric Source System Chart Types Drilldown
- 23. 23 Monitoring Solution vCenter Operations Management Hyperic Log Insight Test Workload UAT Workload Load Test Workload Production Workload Collect Workload SNMP Metrics Monitoring Adapter Layer Repository Service Aggregation Framework REST Services
- 24. 24 Results Phase 1 Phase 2 Cycle Time Hours per dev/test instance 172 36 Today Phase 1 Phase 2 VMs Transitioned # of Non-production VMs Phase 1 Phase 2 AppOpps team # of Engineers Goal – 4000 2,800 2,200 Goal - 5 Start - 27 22 Reduced provision time 95% (4 weeks to 36 hours) Improved productivity of 600 developers 20% Reduced IT operations costs $1.5M /year Able to say “yes” to developer requests Reduced the cost of a VM/month 80% ($133 to $20) Reduced infrastructure costs $4.5M/year Start – 4 weeks Goal – 24 hours Today Today
- 25. 25 Key Takeaways vCloud Suite is highly extensible to build robust cloud automation solutions. Automate, Manage and Monitor your cloud effectively using vCloud Suite. Reducing provisioning time and improving agility will lead to huge cost savings.
- 26. 26 Learn More About vCAC and vC Ops Breakout Sessions: • How to Troubleshoot VM Performance, Wed. 10-11, Marriott, Yerba Buena, Salon 7 (VCM5169) • How to Manage vSphere and Hybrid Cloud, Tuesday 11:30-12:30 Moscone West, Room 2011 (VCM5811) • Automating the Software Defined Data Center: How to Get Started, Wed. 10- 11, Moscone West, 3007 • VMware and Puppet: How to Plan, Deploy and Manage: Tue. 5:30-6:30 Marriott, Yerba Buena Level, Salon 7 (VCM5271) Hands on Labs: VMware vCenter Log Insight • HOL-SDC-1313 vCloud Suite Use Cases - Infrastructure Provisioning (IaaS) • HOL-SDC-1314 vCloud Suite Use Cases - Application Provisioning (PaaS) Group Discussion: • Cloud Operations Tuesday, 11-12 or 5-6 Moscone West Alcove 2 • Cloud Automation Wed, 2-3, Moscone West Alcove 2
- 27. 27 Other VMware Activities Related to This Session HOL: HOL-SDC-1301 Applied Cloud Operations HOL-SDC-1313 vCloud Suite Use Cases - Infrastructure Provisioning (IaaS) HOL-SDC-1314 vCloud Suite Use Cases Application Provisioning (PaaS) Group Discussions: VCM1002-GD, VCM1004-GD Cloud Operations with Hicham Mourad or Sam McBride VCM1003-GD Cloud Automation with Naomi Sullivan
- 28. THANK YOU
- 30. Practicing What We Preach: VMware IT on vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCloud Automation Center Shreekant Ankala, VMware Sreekanth Indireddy, VMware Prafull Kumar, VMware VCM4952 #VCM4952