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Vblock Infrastructure Packages:Accelerating Deployment of the Private

Cloud

Andrew Scannell

Business Development Manager EMEA

Virtualization & Private Cloud


IT is undergoing a transformation… The need for a new IT model has never been more clear…

• Today’s IT architecture increases procurement, management costs, and complexity

• IT is now moving towards a service based consumption model (Private Cloud)

• This new model requires a new way of thinking about both the underlying technology and the way IT is delivered for customer success

…navigating the path to that model has never been more complicated


IT ProductionIT Production Business ProductionBusiness ProductionLower Costs Improve Quality Of Service

% VirtualizedDevelopment,

Test & IT Owned

Applications

Development, Test & IT Owned

Applications

The Journey to the Private Cloud

15%

30%

50%

85%

95%

IT-as-a-ServiceIT-as-a-ServiceImprove Agility


IT ProductionIT Production Business ProductionBusiness Production IT-As-A-ServiceIT-As-A-ServiceLower Costs Improve Quality Of Service Improve Agility

The Journey to the Private Cloud

15%

30%

50%

95%

85%

Mission Critical

Applications

Mission Critical

Applications


Accelerating Virtualization…Accelerate IT Standardization and Simplification

Enable Virtualization at Scale—Simplify IT

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Database Virtual Desktops Email Custom Web


Vblock Infrastructure Packages A New Way of Delivering IT

Rapid deployment model of virtualized infrastructure

Pre-integrated and validated solutions reduce total cost of ownership

Service-level driven through predictable performance and operational characteristics

Improved compliance/security and reduced risk

ComputeCompute

NetworkNetwork

VirtualizationVirtualization

StorageStorage

Vblock Infrastructure Packages

Solution Packages

Accelerate Time to Results—Reduce TCO

Operating Systems

Operating Systems

ApplicationsApplications

InformationInformation


Vblock Infrastructure Packages:O/S and Application Support

• Vblock accelerates virtualization of applications by standardizing IT infrastructure and IT processes

• Broad range of O/S support• Over 300 Enterprise

Applications explicitly supported

• Vblock tested applications– SAP Netweaver & ECC v6– VMware View 3.5 & 4– Exchange– SharePoint– Oracle

Accelerate Virtualization, Standardize IT infrastructure


Vblock Infrastructure Packages Accelerating the Journey to Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud

Benefits: Improve business

responsiveness

Reduce risk and operating expenses

Support and manage Service-Level Agreements

• Seamless integration with existing Management & Security frameworks

Ensure security and minimize risk with certification paths

Secure, Extensible, SLA-driven, Infrastructure


Architectural Principles• ‘Units’ of IT infrastructure with 'matched' performance, operational

characteristics and discrete of power, space and cooling

• Repeatable design patterns facilitate rapid deployment, integration and scalability

• Built to contain, manage and mitigate failure scenarios in hardware and software environments

• Designed from the 'Facilities to the Workload' to be scaled for the highest efficiencies in virtualization and workload re-platforming

• Extensible security, management and orchestration frameworks based on industry standard tools, APIs and methods

Design Selection Assembly Result


Predictable Performance, Capacity & Capability

• Predictable and granular SLA measurement and assurance

• Deterministic space and weight:floor tiles become unit of capacity planning

• Consistent power and cooling (KWh/BTUs) per unit

• Pre-determined capacity and scalability

• Uniform workload distribution and mobility

• Deterministic fault and security isolation

n * Floor Tiles

Heat dissipated

Predictable ‘Facilities to Workload’ Impact


Vblock Performance• Components are selected to

maximize performance, efficiency (density) & capabilities

• Limited choice reduces systems complexity & performance variance

• CPU chosen to enable features without compromising performance– DRS/HA, Fault Tolerant VM’s

• Balanced system characteristics to meet specific scaling & performance objectives– Storage sub-systems, Disk & CPU


Vblock Infrastructure Packages FamilyInfrastructure Options for Pervasive Virtualization & Private Cloud

Performance/ ScalePerformance/ Scale

Vblock 2Large-scale, Public, Private &

Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

Vblock 1Scalable, Private Cloud

Infrastructure

Vblock 0Entry-level “Cloud in a rack”

Infrastructure

Cap

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ilit

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ap

ab

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y

10’s 100’s 1,000’s 10,000’s


VblockVblock

Vblock FoundationVblock Foundation

Vblock Infrastructure Packages ArchitectureVirtualized, Virtualization Aware, Virtualization Optimized

Multi-Tenancy

Multi-Tenancy

High-Availability

High-Availability

SecuritySecurity Management &

Orchestration

Management &

Orchestration

Applications & Operating SystemsApplications & Operating Systems

Service-TieringService-Tiering

VMware vSphere 4VMware vSphere 4 EMC Unified Storage

EMC Unified Storage

Cisco Unified Computing System

Cisco Unified Computing System

PerformancePerformance

Systems Managemen

t & Monitoring

Systems Managemen

t & Monitoring


Vblock Open Management FrameworkSingle Point of Management, Extensible Integration Framework

• Unified Vblock Management Interface

Consolidated view into all Vblock infrastructure

Single integration point • IT self-service portal

Mini service catalog and dashboard for self-provisioning

• Policy-based management

Fine-grained tracking, traceability, reproducibility

System-wide compliance and remediation

• Automated discovery and deployment

Unified Vblock Element Management

Provides Vblock Self-Service Portal, Service Profile Catalog, Policy Based Management, Unified Provisioning, Config and Change, Configuration Compliance Analysis, Infrastructure Recovery (DR)

Enterprise Systems Management

PlatformsConfiguration and Compliance Events

Availability and Performance Events

Example: EMC Ionix UIM

Vblock

vCenterUCS Manager

SymmetrixManagement Console

orNavisphere

Vblock

vCenterUCS Manager

SymmetrixManagement Console

orNavisphere

Vblock

vCenterUCS Manager

SymmetrixManagement Console orNavisphere

Enterprise Monitoring Platforms


IT Requirements

# VMs

Disk Capacity (MB)

SynchronousReplication

Fault Tolerant?

Security Policy

Etc…

Policy Driven IT Infrastructure…

• Templates ensure repeatable, compliant IT processes– IT defines storage, server, fabric and application and OS configuration

policies to meet the business SLAs

• Resources rapidly assigned according to IT policies and SLA reducing time to application availability

• Reduces configuration error and non-compliance

Storage Template

Compute Template

Fabric Template

Application Template

Define Map Deploy

Reduce downtime and risk, Improve compliance


Policy Driven Infrastructure Enables Private Cloud

• Enables business requirements to translate to IT resources– Business owner inputs application, uptime, number of users,

business continuity, backup, and security requirements– Resources are rapidly assigned according to user

specification reducing time to application availability

IT Requirements

# VMs

Disk Capacity (MB)

SynchronousReplication

Fault Tolerant

Security Policy

Etc…

Business Requirements

Application

Operating System

# Users

SLA (Gold, Silver, Bronze)

Etc…

Storage Template

Compute Template

Fabric Template

Application Template

Define Map DeployTranslate

Enable choice and flexibility, retain control


Vblock Infrastructure PackagesAccelerating The journey to Private Cloud

EFFICIENCYAccelerate Infrastructure Virtualization

CONTROLStandardize infrastructure, stream-line IT process

CHOICEDeliver private cloud efficiencies and flexibility


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making the case for standardized infrastructure packages - de-risk, speed up 'time to...

Technology

virtualization of applications

accelerating virtualization

pervasive virtualization

private cloud benefits

new model

service lowercosts

enterprise applications

owned applications