vcenter orchestrator - overview

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vCenter Orchestrator - Overview

June 2011

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Virtualization & Cloud Management: VMware Approach

Infrastructure & Operations Management

Application Management

End-User Computing Management

End User Computing IT Business Management

Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud Virtualized Infrastructure

Availability & Performance

CapacityCompliance &

Security

Configuration

Discovery & Mapping

Application Performance

vAppPackaging

Business Continuity

Administration Deployment

Provisioning

Updating

Asset Management

Request Fulfillment

Chargeback

Service Desk

• VMware Cloud Director• vSphere• vCloud Director• vSphere

Cloud Applications

VMware Management Solutions

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What People Expect from the Cloud

Consumers

• Self-service

• Flexibility and granularity in choices

• Instant gratification

Providers

• Reduced CapEx

• Reduced OpEx

• Leverage existing infrastructure and systems wherever possible

• Highly adaptive to the needs of customers and the business

• Maintain control and compliance of increasingly dynamic environment

• Easy to deploy

Your CloudOptimized IT production

for business consumption

Reliable, Scalable, Secure

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Fundamental IT Challenge

Infrastructure Team Operations Team

Our customers are expecting increasingly faster delivery times.

I have complex environments to set-up but customers have no tolerance for errors or delays.

We used to own the servers running our apps. Now we don’t know if the apps can get the resources they need to run well.

Faster Service Execution at Lower Cost

We’ve spent a fortune on monitoring tools. Why are our end users still the first to know about performance problems and why do they take so long to solve?

Forget rapid provisioning and decommissioning…

… I’m expected to deliver AND support higher loads but cannot hire any new staff!

vCenter Orchestrator helps automate the Cloud

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vCO Value Proposition

Key Value

Integrate VMware’s cloud stack into customers’ environments and IT processes

Reduce IT OpEx

Ensure consistent and rapid execution of IT services and transition to “IT as a Service” model

Included with vCenter and covers 100% of its API

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Teams Involved

Quality

Deployment Time

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Proof Point

Full Stack SAP Provisioning

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What Is vCenter Orchestrator?

• Create, edit and execute workflows

• Administer the solution• Included with vCenter

• Integrate VMware stack to customer’s domain

• OOTB workflows• Decoupled from

Platform releases

• Allow partners and users to develop content

• Provide marketplace for hosting that content

vSphere


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vCenter Orchestrator - Overview

Mark Carroll Twitter: @vmmark

[email protected] Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmmark

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Key Use Case

Applications, VMs & Management Systems

• Application/VM provisioning, configuration & monitoring

VMware vCloud Director

• Cloud resources manager

VMware vSphere & vCenter

• Virtual infrastructure layer

Cisco UCS/UCS Manager

• Physical layer

CMDB, Configuration, Service Deck, etc.

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Sample vCO Use Case: Setting up the vCloud Infrastructure

Setup Org and User

Approximately 75 runtime parameters consolidated to 6

Gets user information from Active Directory customer record

Uses combination of site-wide configuration and local configuration

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One Example of a Next-Gen Architecture (Partner) OPP Arch

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IT Asset Mgmt

Business Service Mgmt

Configuration Management / CMDB

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VMware vCenter

Operations (vCO)

Analytics

vCenter Orchestrator

VMware vCloud /

VMware Configuration Manager /

EMC Ionix UIM

VMware Service Manager

(vSM) – Service Catalog,

VMware Service Manager (vSM) -

ITSM Suite

VMware vCenter

Operations (vCO)

VMware Configuration Manager /

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(vSM) Portal,

VMware vCloud Director / EMC UIM

vBlock (Cisco UCS, Cisco Nexus, EMC / NetApp Storage)VMware vCloud /

EMC UIM

EMC Symmetrix (VMAX / DMX / FAST)

EMC Symmetrix SRDM / VMware

Site Recovery Manager

VMware vCenter Chargeback

VMware CapacityIQ /

EMC UIM

Compliance

Cisco Nexus

DC Model

Policy Rules


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VMware Configuration

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VMware vCenter Operations

(vCOPs), Service Manager,

Hyperic, Application Discovery

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Other Common Use Cases

Maintenance & Administration

Backup & restore operations

System upgrades & migrations

Continuous compliance

Triage & Remediation

Validate and/or create incidents

Incident enrichment

Complex remediation flows

Miscellaneous

System installations & patching

Report collection & dispatching

Other routine tasks

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• Windows XP• Windows 7

WorkflowDesigner

• SOAP• REST

Web ServiceAccess

WorkflowOperator

• IE 8+• Firefox 3+

Product Architecture

• Oracle• MS SQL Server

vCODatabase

DirectoryServices

Workflow LibraryWorkflow Library

Webview LibraryWebview Library

Workflow Engine

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vCO Access Points

Management Systems

IT Infrastructure

vCO Platform

vCO Plug-Ins

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vCO Workflow Designer

Leverage OOTB actions from many plug-ins:•vCenter•vCenter Update Manager•vCloud Director

•Cisco UCS•Microsoft AD•Radware•Uptime Systems

•FTP•HTTP-REST•JDBC•POP3•SMTP•SOAP•SSH•Telnet•XML

• Drag and drop actions• Conditional logic• Pause, wait until,

counters, etc.• Exception handling• Etc.

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vCenter Orchestrator – Roadmap*

vCO 5.x• Accelerate Time to Value: simplified installation and

configuration, support open source OS and DB, support vCO as an appliance, IPv6 certification

• Improve VI and Cloud admin productivity: launch workflows from next generation vSphere client

• Facilitate Content Development: modernized user interface, detachable windows, and fewer clicks

vCO 5.x• Accelerate Time to Value: simplified installation and

configuration, support open source OS and DB, support vCO as an appliance, IPv6 certification

• Improve VI and Cloud admin productivity: launch workflows from next generation vSphere client

• Facilitate Content Development: modernized user interface, detachable windows, and fewer clicks

• Cisco UCS Manager• VMware vCloud Director

• Cisco UCS Manager• VMware vCloud Director • BMC Atrium CMDB

• BMC Remedy ITSM• Cisco Nexus 1000V• Dell Equallogic• EMC Unified Infrastructure

Manager• HP ServiceManager• NetApp Provisioning Mgr• SNMP• VMware RabbitMQ• VMware vCloud Director 1.5• VMware vSphere 5.0• VMware vShield Manager

• BMC Atrium CMDB• BMC Remedy ITSM• Cisco Nexus 1000V• Dell Equallogic• EMC Unified Infrastructure

Manager• HP ServiceManager• NetApp Provisioning Mgr• SNMP• VMware RabbitMQ• VMware vCloud Director 1.5• VMware vSphere 5.0• VMware vShield Manager

• HTTP/REST• Microsoft Active

Directory• VMware Update

Manager• SOAP

• HTTP/REST• Microsoft Active

Directory• VMware Update

Manager• SOAP

• VMware vCenter Configuration Manager

• VMware vCenter Operations

• VMware Site Recovery Manager

• And more…

• VMware vCenter Configuration Manager

• VMware vCenter Operations

• VMware Site Recovery Manager

• And more…

vCO 4.2• Additional out of the box vSphere

workflows• Defect fixes• Plug-in SDK

vCO 4.2• Additional out of the box vSphere

workflows• Defect fixes• Plug-in SDK

• F5 Networks BigIP• HP uCMDB• InfoBlox NIOS• Juniper VPN Appliance• Microsoft PowerShell• Service-Now• SQL• VMware Service Manager• VMware vFabric Hyperic• VMware View• VMware VIX• VMware Zimbra

• F5 Networks BigIP• HP uCMDB• InfoBlox NIOS• Juniper VPN Appliance• Microsoft PowerShell• Service-Now• SQL• VMware Service Manager• VMware vFabric Hyperic• VMware View• VMware VIX• VMware Zimbra

* Subject to change

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Questions?


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Backup Slides

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vCenter Orchestrator Overview

Features

Drag-&-drop design

• Create powerful workflows easily by drop-&-dragging pre-built actions

Cloud scalability

• Execute hundreds of workflows in parallel to meet Cloud scale

Flexible triggers

• Launch workflows from user interface, web browser, schedule, event, and API

Automate VMware

• 100% coverage of vSphere and vCloud Director APIs

• Unmatched VMware content

Included with vSphere

• Included with vSphere at no extra cost

• Installed with vCenter

Key Benefits

• Reduce IT OpEx and total cost of ownership of VMware solutions

• Integrate VMware solutions into your IT environment and processes

• Automate your cloud and accelerate transition to “IT as a Service” model

vSphere

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Quick Facts: VMware vSphere Plug-in

Versions Supported: VMware vSphere 4.0 and above

Technology: vSphere API

Licensing: Included with vCenter Server

Basic InfoBasic Info

VM: start, stop, clone, register, rename, change RAM, migrate, etc.

Hosts: add host to cluster, remove, shut down, reboot, etc.

Administration: create a cluster, delete unused datastore files, etc.

Supported ActionsSupported Actions

100% coverage of vCenter operations

Automate complex operations on VMs and hosts (e.g. find orphaned VMs, migrate VMs from across vCenter servers)

Automate general administrative tasks around vCenter

Key Use CasesKey Use Cases

vCenter

vSphere

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Quick Facts: VMware vCloud Director Plug-in

Versions Supported: VMware vCloud Director 1.0 and above

Technology: REST (vCloud API and vCloud “Admin” API)

Licensing: Included with vCloud Director


Provisioning: create an organization, create a catalog, create a vDC, power on a vApp, etc.

Authorization: create role, create user, share a catalog, etc.

Provider vDC: create provider network, deploy vApp to vDC, etc.


Deploying vCloud Director: add computing capacity, add network resources, create provider vDC, create organization vDC, etc.

Onboarding a Customer

Self-Service Provisioning


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Quick facts: vCenter Update Manager plug-in

Versions Supported: vCenter Update Manager 4.1 and above

Runs on VMware vCenter Orchestrator 4.1 and above

Licensing: Included with vCenter Orchestrator


Scan for compliance, Get & Export compliance report

Create, Update, Filter, Attach, Detach, Remove, Import, Export Baselines

Remediate, Stage, Download, Filter patches


Integrate with patch management framework provided by VMware vCenter Update Manager

Scanning and remediation of ESX/ESXi hosts, virtual machines and appliances against established baselines

Patching and upgrading ESX/ESXi hosts to ensure compliance


vCenter

vSphere

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Quick Facts: Cisco UCS Manager Plug-in

Versions Supported: 1.4 and above

Technology: XML API



Server: boot, reset, turn on locator LED, put into maintenance, etc.

Service profile: create from template, attach SAN, create vNIC, etc.

Hardware: monitor CPU usage, filter unused physical storage, etc.


Deploy UCS blades through association with service profiles

Clone and edit frequently used portions of a service profile

Automate frequently performed administrative tasks


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Quick Facts: Microsoft Active Directory Plug-in

Versions Supported: 2008

Technology: Java JNDI API



Users: enable, disable, add to a usergroup, remove, etc.

Organizations: create and remove organizational units

Administration: create usergroup, create computer in group, etc.


Import an AD user as the administrator of a vCloud organization

Find all users by role in a given vCloud organization

Automate general Microsoft Active Directory administrative tasks


Users

Organization 1 Organization m

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Quick facts: HTTP-REST plug-in

Authentication: OAuth 1.0/2.0, Basic, and Digest

Technology: HTTP/HTTPS



HTTP methods: GET, POST, PUT and DELETE.

Schema: XML Schema Definition (XSD) support

Inventory: browse through REST APIs in vCO Inventory viewer


Integrate with 3rd party management systems that offer a REST interface

Automatically generate workflows from REST APIs

Retrieve information from a Web page via HTTP or HTTPS



3rd-party application

REST API

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Quick facts: SOAP plug-in

Authentication: Basic and Digest

Technology: SOAP 1.1/1.2, WSDL 1.1/2.0



Inventory: browse through target WSDL in vCO Inventory viewer

WSDL elements: simple and complex types (e.g. arrays)

Security: HTTP/SSL


Integrate with 3rd party management systems that offer a SOAP interface

Automatically generate workflows from target system WSDL

Hide the complexity of the underlying SOAP protocol



3rd-party application

WSDL

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Integrations

Existing integrations in vCO v4.1

• Standard protocols: FTP, HTTP-REST, JDBC, POP3, SMTP, SOAP, SSH, Telnet, and XML

• VMware applications: vSphere, vCloud Director, vCenter Update Manager, VIX

• Other vendor applications: Cisco UCS Manager, Microsoft Active Directory

New integrations planned for next 12 months

• Standard protocols: PowerShell, SNMP, SQL

• VMware applications: RabbitMQ, vCenter Chargeback, vCenter Configuration Manager, vCenter vShield Manager, vCenter Service Manager, vFabric Hyperic, Site Recovery Manager, View, Zimbra

• Other vendor applications: BMC Atrium CMDB, BMC Remedy ITSM, Cisco Nexus 1000V, Dell Equallogic, EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager, F5 Networks BigIP, HP ServiceManager, HP uCMDB, Juniper VPN Appliance, Microsoft PowerShell, NetApp Provisioning Manager, Service-Now… and more

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Quick Facts: VMware Chargeback Plug-in


Technology: REST API



Report management: delete all reports for hierarchy, delete scheduled report, etc.

Report execution: generate ad hoc report, schedule report

And more…


Automate the management of Chargeback reports

Allow on-demand report execution and dispatching

Facilitate the integration of Chargeback with billing systems


Coming Soon!

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Quick Facts: VMware vShield Manager Plug-in


Technology: REST API



vShield Manager: Add host, set DNS servers, populate portgroups, etc.

Edge: Add, Delete, Start, Stop, Restart on DHCP, NAT, VPN, etc.

And much more…


Provisioning vShield services: endpoint, network isolation, zones

Automating typical Edge operations

Automate vShield Manager configuration and administrative tasks


Finance

FinanceDevelopment

Development

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