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Introduction to

VMware Cloud Foundation

Klaus Kremser

Solution Architect ALPS

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“It’s our recognition that if you go to bed as

an industrial company, you’re going to

Jeff ImmeltChairman & CEO, GE

Empowering Digital Transformation

wake up as a software company.”

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Digital Transformation is Driving New IT Requirements

What are your end users looking for?

Greater agility

Greater rate of innovation

Lower costs

Greater security

Faster response time

Support for new application development

Higher productivity and work ethics

Avoid being in the press

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What are the main drivers in moving to the cloud?

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Source: “Making Private and Hybrid Cloud Work,” Thomas Bittman. Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure and Operations Management Conference, December 2015.

66%

12%

10%

7%

5%

Agility/

Speed

Improve Quality

of Service

Business

Alignment

Defend IT

Reduce Costs

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The Challenges of Current IT Solutions

Complexity driven by legacy infrastructure

Resource intensive

Expensive

Vendor lock-in

Management silos

Uncontrollable costs

Private Data Center Public Service Providers

IT Resources

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The New End State: Hybrid Cloud

Private Cloud

Management and Automation

Modernize Datacenter• Modernize Infrastructure through a software

defined approach

• Automate IT with Cloud Management Platform

Integrate Public Clouds• Common operational model

Storage Virtualization

ComputeVirtualization

NetworkVirtualization

Public Cloud

Building the Cloud is Often

the Bottleneck




Introducing VMware Cloud Foundation

Management and Automation vRealize Suite

Unified SDDC Platform for the Hybrid Cloud




Automated Lifecycle Management




SDDC Manager

vSphere vSAN NSX

VMware Cloud

FoundationUnified SDDC Platform

Private Cloud Public Cloud

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SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

What Cloud Foundation DeliversUnified SDDC Platform for the Hybrid Cloud

Private Cloud Public Cloud

Overview

• Unifies vSphere, vSAN, NSX, and SDDC

Manager into a single integrated platform with

automated lifecycle management

• Available on prem or as-a-service

Benefits

• Makes building a private cloud easy and fast

• Makes hybrid cloud real

• Freedom to run any app, anywhere

• Better TCO

Server Virtualization Integrated Platform

VMware vSphere VMware Cloud Foundation

Provision Cloud Infrastructure Like You Provision VMsEasy to consume platform that delivers the entire SDDC

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Automated lifecycle management

StorageCompute NetworkingvSAN NSXvSphere

SDDC Manager

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vSANNSX

ESX vCenter

SDDC ManagerConfiguration

Patching and Upgrades

Deployment

Policy BasedProvisioning

Automates the entire lifecycle management of cloud infrastructure stack

Making the Private Cloud Easy with the SDDC Manager

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VMware Cloud Foundation in practice - Customer case studyVMware One Cloud significantly reduced the number of man-hours with Cloud Foundation

1 day = 8 man-hoursNumbers provided by One Cloud early field trial deployment

Traditional

Architecture Assess, Design and Pilot


Data Center Operations Installation

Operational Configuration Pre-Planning

Network Configuration

Storage Configuration

Automation Configuration

SDDC Configuration

Environment QA Validation

Total Time

86+ Days 4.5 Days

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Scalable Infrastructure for Heterogeneous Workloads

Standardized, modular, scalable

Common management services

Single pool of virtualized resources

Policy-based provisioning

Database

Workload

Domain

VDI Workload Domain

Workload Domain

SDDC Manager

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Example: Creating a Virtual Infrastructure Workload Domain

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VMware Cloud Foundation – Private Cloud

Name / Organization

Size

Performance &

Availability Settings

Network Settings

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Lifecycle Management: Software bundles, no piecemeal upgrades

VMware Cloud FoundationManagement Software

SDDC

Update Bundle• Published on an as-needed basis

• Contains patches and hotfixes

• Typically addresses security

issues and bugs

SDDC

Upgrade

Bundle

• Published quarterly, follows a train model

• Contains upgrade versions of

component SW

• Typically contains new functionality

SDDC Upgrade/

Update Bundle• Pre-defined software bundle

• Specific versions of component software

• Pre-validated and integration tested

• Published by VMware

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SDDC Manager Lifecycle Automation Extends Across Entire VMware Stack

Virtual DesktopHorizon

Cloud OpsOperations

Log Insight

Cloud Automation and IT Financial MgmtvRealize Automation

vRealize Business

Integrated OpenStack

Coming Soon…


SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

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Making the Hybrid Cloud RealExtend Cloud Foundation into the public cloud and consume as a service

Your Infrastructure:

Owned

Private cloud

Others’ Infrastructure:

Operated

Public cloud

Third-Party

Public Clouds

Cloud Foundation

available as-a-service

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Run Your Apps and Workloads Anywhere

100% Owned 100% Operated

Consolidate and MigrateMigrate more of your private cloud

workloads to the public cloud

Reduce and EliminateRun all of your apps and

workloads in the public cloud

Maintain and ExpandRun select apps and workloads

in the public cloud

VMware gives you ultimate cloud flexibility and freedom.

ExpandMaintain MigrateConsolidate Outsource

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Common Platform for the Private and Public Cloud

Deployed on-premise

Qualified hardware

& systems

VMs, apps, & infrastructure

managed by you

Accessed through web portal

Consumed as subscription

VMs & apps managed by you

Infrastructure managed by

VMware (vCloud® Air™) or 3rd

party service providers (VMware

vCloud® Air™ Network)

Private cloud

Web

Public cloud

VMware Cloud FoundationVMware Cloud Foundation

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Build a hybrid cloud with Cloud Foundation

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Softlayer Cloud for VMware Solutions

On Prem Cloud IBM Cloud

Compatible. Stretched. Distributed.

AmsterdamvSphere

Web Client Cloud

Foundation

Workload mobility between clouds

Cloud Foundation

SDDC Manager

vSphere

vSAN

NSX

Dallas

Cloud

Foundation

Sydney

Cloud

Foundation

Public Cloud

Cloud Foundation

SDDC Manager

vSphere

vSAN

NSXStretch Networking

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Public Cloud in Amsterdam

Public Cloud in Dallas

Private cloud in Dallas

Public Cloud in Sydney

Managing Your Hybrid Cloud from a Single Console

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A Universal Workload Platform – Built for Today and The Future

Mission

Critical Apps

Virtual

Desktops

Data Analytics/

HadoopNFV

Container

AppsIoT

Private cloud Public cloud

Horizon vRealizevSphere

Integrated Containers


SDDC Manager

vSANvSphere NSX

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Scales On-Demand, Predictable and Cost Effective

CA

PE

X

Traditional Infrastructure HCI Powered by VMware

Initia

l $

Initia

l $

Scale with

single node

Predictable

outcome

Scale with

full system

Complex

planning

Large upfront purchase

costs

Small upfront costs

Includes storage, network

& compute

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Key Benefits of VMware Cloud Foundation

Makes private cloud easy

Enables true hybrid cloud

Run any app, anywhere

Better TCO

Cloud Foundation

Cloud Foundation

Cloud FoundationPrivate Public

Traditional Cloud Native

$

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Software Deployment Cloud Service Providers

Q3 2016 GA

Starting 2017

Private Cloud Public CloudV

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C

loud

Fo

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nV

Mw

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Pow

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CI

Qualified

vSAN Ready

Nodes:

vSAN Ready Nodes:

Qualified

Networking:

Integrated Systems

VxRack SDDC

Q4 2016

Available VMware Cloud Foundation Consumption Options

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Automated• Automated IT service delivery

• Advanced monitoring and troubleshooting

• Business reporting

Your

Private

Cloud

ModernizedSoftware-Defined Data Center

• Compute virtualization

• Storage virtualization

• Network virtualization

Innovation-Ready• Integrated OpenStack

• Integrated containers

• VMware Photon™ Platform

OpenStack-Ready

API-Driven

Container-Enabled

End Result: Best in class private cloud that is easy to run and ready for any app

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Cloud Management

Platform

Data CenterVMware Cloud Foundation

vRealize Suite

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VM

wa

re V

isio

nOne Integrated Architecture

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VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™

VMware CloudFoundation™

VMwareCross-Cloud

Services™

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VMware Cloud

Management

and Networking

Fully Integrated SDDC Platform

Available Now

New SaaS offerings

Available in 2017

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