orchestrating virtual infrastructures with hp operations orchestration
DESCRIPTION
HP Operations Orchestration provides a heterogeneous automation platform for orchestrating the configuration and management of the most popular virtual infrastructures, including VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. This session will explore common virtualization use cases that leverage process automation not only within the virtual layer, but also within the underlying physical layer. We’ll deliver a live product demonstration to show you how Operations Orchestration can coordinate many of the complex tasks involved in provisioning and managing virtual infrastructures, and we’ll explain the value you get from integrations to other HP automation systems such as HP Server Automation and HP Storage Essentials.TRANSCRIPT
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Orchestrating virtual infrastructures with HP Operations Orchestration
Muneer Mubashir
Sr. Product Manager
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Agenda
– Virtualization Management Challenges
– Using HP Operations Orchestration to Automate Virtual Infrastructures –Some Use Cases
– Demonstration
– Customer Success Stories
– Implementing OO in Virtual Environments
– Benefits and Summary
– Q and A
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Challenges with Virtualization
– Increasing IT
service complexity
– Increasing IT
visibility
challenges
– Service change
and provisioning
complexity
Thin clients
VirtualNetwork
VirtualServer
VirtualStorage
Virtualized IT service
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V V V
V V V
Hypervisor
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Managing Virtual Infrastructure
– 79% of organizations deploy virtualization technology in heterogeneous
environments
– On average, an organization uses 11 different platforms, technologies
and vendors for management
– 50% of organizations use only the virtualization vendor’s management
tool
– 67% of organizations maintain multiple departments for delivery and
support functions
– Only 30% of companies are completely satisfied with their deployment
of virtualization technology*
* Virtualization and Management Trends, Forecasts, and Recommendations- Enterprise Management Associates Research Report, 2008
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Room for Improvement
– 34% of organizations report a lack of internal skills required to manage
virtualization
– 40% of organizations say they don’t have the necessary resources to
implement virtualization
– Management responsibilities proliferate with the tools – resulting in
disconnected silos, VM sprawl, and an inability to tap virtualization’s full
potential
The paradox: Increased management costs cut into the potential savings that companies seek to achieve by moving to virtualization in the first place!
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Virtualization Automation Challenges
• Audit best practice compliance of physical & virtual devices
• Define and keep standards up to date with best practices
Standardization, compliance challenges
Manage change across IT service
Create VM
Provision/patch OS
Provision App
Provision storage
Configure App
Configure network
Configure thin clients
Work with change mgmt process, CMDB
• Coordinate change process
• Ensure consistent and error-free change process
Manage increased rate of change
More, FasterChanges6 minutes to provision server, 6+ hours to provision server, storage, network ****
“By year-end 2010, at least 50% of the automation and workflow management tasks in support of virtual
server infrastructures will be supported by evolving run book automation (RBA)-based tools.”
- Gartner, 26 November 2008, Research ID Number: G00151938
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Using HP Operations Orchestration to Automate Virtual Infrastructure
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HP Operations Orchestration
– The industry-leading solution for IT Process Automation and Runbook
Automation
– Provides a scalable and auditable process automation platform through
workflow execution
– Flexible authoring environment enables rapid time-to-value through drag-
and-wire visual interface
– Out-of-box content library contains 4000+ flows and operations that can
be leveraged on day 1
• Includes targeted content for automating VMware, Citrix Xen, and Microsoft Hyper-V
virtual infrastructure
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Operations Orchestration “Flows”
– Automate operational
procedures and routine tasks
to reduce costs
– Execute in guided visual mode
or launch flows in “headless”
mode
– Seamlessly integrate with
other tools and processes
within the datacenter
– View complete audit trails,
reports and trends for all
automated processes
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Flexible Flow Authoring Environment
– OO Studio provides an
easy-to-use visual IDE for
creating/editing workflows
– Intuitive drag-and-wire
paradigm allows for rapid
prototyping and workflow
development
– Extensive content library
provides thousands of flows
and operations out-of-the-
box
– Visual flow debugger
assures correctness and
accelerates time to value
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Use Case Example: Virtual ProvisioningOO orchestrates the entire build: weeks to hours
Public
create virtual filersconfigure networkinginstall VMware ESX on hosts
two bare-metal hosts
register hosts in Virtual Centercreate a cluster from these hostscreate and configure networkingon the ESX hosts
connect hosts to networkand storage
clone and configurevirtual machines
enable and configure resourcepools and high availability
ESX ESX
connect guest operating systems to antivirus and software updates
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Product Demonstration
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Customer Success Story
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Customer: Global Telecom and Infrastructure Services Provider
Customer Success
Challenge
–Success of the business relies on agile provisioning and management of virtual infrastructure for clients
–Bare-metal provisioning requires multiple handoffs between IT silos
–Manual provisioning is error-prone and not auditable
Solution
–Implemented a self-service web front-end for clients to request, modify, and manage the virtual data center
–Automation solution created using combination of HP Operations Orchestration and HP Server Automation
–OO used to orchestrate provisioning, maintenance, and teardown tasks across multiple tools and platforms
Benefits
–Bare-metal provisioning time shrunk from multiple days to 4 hours or less
–Automation also reduced or completely eliminated errors in performing routine maintenance tasks
–OO provided integration platform to other tools and solutions within the virtual data center
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Payment processing services provider
Customer Success
Challenge
–Unmanageable virtual machine sprawl
–Un-timely and inaccurate patching/provisioning of virtual infrastructure
–Inefficient virtual infrastructure audit and compliance process
Solution
–Implemented HP Operations Orchestration to automate the virtual sprawl
–Wrote workflows for provisioning and hardening VMware ESX servers as well as product VM instances in compliance with corporate security best practices
Benefits
–Reduced time for (post-provisioning) hardening tasks per ESX server from over 2 hours to 1 minute
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Leveraging OO for Virtualization
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OO Content Library for Virtualization
– Out-of-box adapters supporting VMware VI3 and VSphere4 APIs (hundreds of distinct operations for automating VMware infrastructure)
– Dozens of virtual machine actions and configuration operations for Microsoft Hyper-V environments
– Numerous folders containing operations to automate Citrix Xen virtual hosts, networks, and storage
– All of the operations listed above can be dragged/dropped into Operations orchestration workflows to accelerate time to value
– Additionally, the OO virtualization accelerator pack provides generic (vendor-agnostic) end-to-end workflows providing out-of-box automation for common VM maintenance tasks• VM power operations
• VM creation and configuration
• VM migration
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Hundreds of Flows and Operations…
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Automate End-to-End VM Provisioning
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Integrate with the Data Center
– OO library includes content and integrations that support numerous commercial tools and platforms • Monitoring (HP OM/OVO, BMC, CA, IBM Tivoli, MSFT,…)
• Ticketing (HP SM/SC/SD, BMC Remedy, CA,…)
• Application and Web Servers (Apache/Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, IIS, Citrix,…)
• Automation and Management Systems (HP Server, Network, Client, Storage Automation)
• Other devices/platforms/infrastructure components− OS Support for Windows, Linux, Unix
− Network gear, load balancers, storage solutions
− Email, commercial databases, printing, web services
– OO also provides numerous protocol adapters and a documented API for building custom integration solutions to internal tools and apps
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Orchestration
– HP Operations Orchestration integration with VMware
Virtual Center Orchestrator (vCO)
• Utilize OO workflow operations that invoke canned vCO workflows and
interpret the results
• Create OO workflows that combine content provided by both HP and
VMware
• Leverage OO’s broad integrations to change and incident management
tools
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Orchestrating Orchestration
OO-vCO integration can become the foundation for broader HP-VMware product integrations
BSA
vCenter
OOvCO
SA
NA
HPCA
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Infrastructure
Mgmt Tools (HP & 3rd pty)
Ticketing Monitoring
VirtualizationProvisioning &
Change Management
OSs Databases
Web / App ServersVirtualization
vCenter Solutions
LCM
Lab Manager
SRM
AppSpeed
CapacityIQ
vSphereNetworking
Config Control
Charge Back
HA vMotion
Storage vMotion
DRS
DPM
DVS
Fault Tolerance
Host Profiles
vShield
Update Manager
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On-Premise Virtual Infrastructure (Internal Cloud)
Amazon EC2(External Cloud)
Orchestrate the Cloud
Leverage available virtual resources
Automate capacity provisioning on demand
Integrate with existing tools and processes
ITSM
BSA/BSM
CMDB
…
EC2 InstancesVirtual Machines
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Summary and Benefits
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Automation of Virtualization ManagementBenefits Summary
Reduce Operational Costs
Improve Quality of Service
– Minimize training and management costs by automating diverse platforms
– Fully realize the benefits of virtualization through improves asset utilization
– Faster change execution and provisioning –accelerated time to market
– Define and enforce a standard implementation practice and policy
– Reduce errors through uniform process for physical and virtual resources
– Automate tasks to reduce or eliminate human error– Enforce the proper sequencing of dependent tasks– Meet aggressive service level agreements through
automation
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Q&A
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